#468 - One versus Ten Thousand (Part 2)
“Boom! Boom!! ”
“Bang!”
“Clang clang clang!!”
“Kill!!”
“.”
At the first quarter of Hai Shi (around 9:15 PM), under the dense night, the vast tide of soldiers in green and yellow armor were already engaged in a fierce battle.
However, Liang Zhen, as the commanding general, did not charge into the fray, but instead held his horse back, observing the battle situation ahead from a distance.
As planned, the southwest direction was indeed the weakest link in the entire encirclement, with only about six or seven thousand enemies directly facing the Shu army.
Although these six or seven thousand men could still barely organize an effective resistance, the Shu army, after all, numbered nearly fifty thousand. It was estimated that they could break through the defense line in at most two quarters of an hour, after which there would be no further obstacles.
Two quarters of an hour was not enough time for the imperial army's closest reinforcements to arrive, so there was a high probability that there would be no surprises in this battle.
The only thing was that Wei Changtian was nowhere to be found.
Although Wei Changtian had said before going to find Xu Suisui that if he hadn't returned by Hai Shi, they should ignore him and proceed according to plan.
“Do you think Changtian is still in the city?”
Liang Zhen was stunned. “What matter could be so important?”
“I don’t know.”
Shaking his head, Chu Xianping gently pulled on the reins. “However, if something major had happened, the Young Master should have sent me a message, so I estimate that there is nothing too important.”
“General Liang, we should still seize the time to break through according to plan. I believe the Young Master will be fine.”
“Mm.”
Liang Zhen nodded, knowing that pondering about it now was useless.
Back in Yuanzhou, Wei Changtian was able to rescue him and Liang Qin from thousands of troops in such a desperate situation. Surely, he would be even safer now.
No matter how dangerous it was, it couldn't be more dangerous than being surrounded by tens of thousands of people, right?
So, just as Chu Xianping said, it was most important to lead the Shu army out of the encirclement as soon as possible.
Having made up his mind, Liang Zhen no longer worried about Wei Changtian, and immediately issued a series of orders, vowing to end this breakout battle as quickly as possible.
However, what he didn't know was that Wei Changtian's current situation was actually more dangerous than before in Yuanzhou.
And if Wei Changtian didn't deliberately put himself in this dangerous situation, then the Shu army would completely lose the possibility of a successful breakout.
That's right.
Wei Changtian was going to use his own strength to delay the Zhenshan Camp, which was rushing towards the Shu army.
Outside Guanghan City, twelve miles south.
On top of a certain low mountain, or rather, a small earth slope, two figures were overlooking the dark official road below.
The sound of horses' hooves roared from afar, and from a distance, it was an endless stretch of firelight.
In about a hundred breaths, the Zhenshan Camp's cavalry would be the first to arrive here, followed by nearly forty thousand infantrymen.
At that time, Wei Changtian would be alone, facing this entire army.
“Do you have the Qingjue Jade Pendant?”
Still naked from the waist up, Wei Changtian calmly asked Xu Suisui beside him, “Do you need me to give you one?”
“…”
Looking at the man in front of her, whose temperament was now completely different from before, Xu Suisui was stunned for a moment, then silently shook her head.
“No need, I have…”
“Okay.”
Wei Changtian nodded and handed Xu Suisui a dagger. “Later, you find a place to hide, and wait until the battle is over before finding a chance to go down the mountain.”
“If you are still found, then I suggest you commit suicide immediately, so as not to be caught by them and forced to confess.”
“I don’t think you would want to try the interrogation methods of this era.”
“…”
Biting her lip and taking the dagger, Xu Suisui hesitated for a moment before asking in a low voice, “After I trigger the Qingjue Jade Pendant and escape, where should I go to find you?”
“If I can delay long enough, then go to Niutou Mountain.”
“If I can’t delay for too long, then go to Shuzhou City.”
After a pause, Wei Changtian said a third possibility.
“If you can’t find me in Shuzhou City either, then it means I’m dead.”
“Dead?”
Xu Suisui immediately widened her eyes, and the next moment, she took out an ancient jade pendant from her bosom and handed it to Wei Changtian.
“Don’t you have a Qingjue Jade Pendant? Take mine!”
“No need, I have enough points to exchange for one.”
Unexpectedly, Wei Changtian didn't take advantage of her this time.
He just shook his head and explained with a smile, “The Qingjue Jade Pendant teleports you randomly, and it’s hard to say whether they will find you again by then. And my luck has never been good.”
“Then, then do you need anything else?”
Xu Suisui didn't know why she suddenly felt a little moistness in the corners of her eyes. “I still have a lot of points, I can help you exchange for them!”
“A lot of points? Did you just earn them?”
“I…”
“Hahaha, okay, just kidding.”
In Xu Suisui's complicated gaze, Wei Changtian laughed heartily twice, then lowered his head slightly.
“I’m sorry, I’ve been suspecting you all along.”
“Thinking about it now, I’m actually quite ridiculous, like a clown in a circus…”
“No, it’s not!”
Xu Suisui took a step closer with some excitement, eager to say something.
However, Wei Changtian suddenly turned his head at this moment, looking at the vast iron cavalry that had already appeared at the end of the official road.
“Alright, I should go.”
“…”
Xu Suisui knew that Wei Changtian was deliberately not letting her say the rest of her words.
However, just as the latter had already turned and walked a few steps away, she couldn't help but tremble and shout out:
“You should know, you really don’t have to do this!”
“If you don’t go, the result might be better!”
“…”
If you don’t go, the result might be better.
When Xu Suisui shouted this sentence, not knowing what her state of mind was, Wei Changtian's guess about the truth was finally completely verified.
He paused, turning his head back in the night.
“What? You don’t even want to earn system points anymore?”
“I, I don’t care!”
“But I care.”
Suddenly, Wei Changtian's tone became extremely serious.
He looked up at the deep and mysterious sky, and slowly said the last sentence as if he was talking to himself.
“I just don’t want to be a clown, performing a play with a known ending.”
“That would be too boring.”
“…”
Willing to use his own small and humble power to fight against this ordinary destiny.
Under the shadow of the bright river, a few stars sparkled.
In Xu Suisui's dazed gaze, Wei Changtian jumped into the dark night as deep as a dark pool, and appeared on the official road a dozen breaths later.
He just stood there blankly and lonely, waiting for the dust from afar to surge towards him.
Then, at a certain moment, the sky and the earth seemed to be reversed, and hundreds of starlight points suddenly appeared around him.
Hundreds of stars emitted the same color of fluorescent light, it was unknown whether it was the refraction of real starlight, or a series of blade lights mixed with the power of “势”.
Xu Suisui watched all this with teary eyes, watching that small figure transform into a torrent of light under the embrace of countless stars, rushing straight forward.
Like a Milky Way that had broken free from the shackles of the sky...
