12dz Chapter 448 Trophies
Chapter 448 Trophies
"Damn it!"
As a peak seventh-rank martial artist, Xie Cang, with his exceptional body control, managed to maintain the balance of his warhorse and prevent it from falling over thanks to his superb horsemanship.
But just as he steadied his warhorse, Cang Er's attack arrived.
Xie Cang felt the sky suddenly darken before him, and the next moment, Cang Er's huge wings slammed into his body.
"what!"
In an instant, Xie Cang was lifted into the air, flying off the back of his warhorse, and then traced a graceful parabola in the sky before crashing to the ground.
"boom!"
Xie Cang, clad in armor, fell to the ground, kicking up a drop of dust. However, due to the strength of a martial artist's physique, he was not injured.
but……
When Xie Cang turned over and got up, he saw a scene that horrified him.
Just as he was being sent flying by Cang Er, Cang Yi, who had landed, acted swiftly, using his beak, claws, and wings in a matter of breaths to kill all of Xie Cang's dozen or so personal guards.
Seeing his personal guard fall from his horse to the ground with gruesome wounds on his throat and heart, Xie Cang's eyes widened in fury.
These personal guards were all his absolute confidants and his most loyal subordinates.
The fact that all of them were killed by the Azure Feathered Chickens was enough to make Xie Cang's heart bleed.
However, Xie Cang was too preoccupied with his heartache to care, because the two gray-feathered chickens' tiny, beady eyes were already fixed on him.
"I can't die here!"
Ordinary people are willing to live a life of mere survival, let alone a member of a prominent family like Xie Cang.
Knowing he had no chance of defeating the Azure Feathered Chicken, he dared not linger and immediately turned and fled.
"Giggle!"
However, Cang Yi and Cang Er were clearly not going to give Xie Cang a chance to escape. They flapped their wings and quickly caught up with Xie Cang, with Cang Yi being the first to attack.
"Pfft!"
Cang Yi's sharp chicken claws slashed across Xie Cang's back, instantly breaking through the armor protecting Xie Cang's back and leaving a hideous wound.
Immediately afterwards, a cold glint appeared, and Cang Er's beak pecked at the wound in a flash.
"Pfft!"
The sound of flesh tearing through flesh reached Xie Cang, who froze in place, looking down at the chicken beak protruding from his chest. His face was deathly pale, and his eyes were filled with despair and regret.
The despair stemmed from the fact that Souji's chicken beak had pierced his heart, causing him fatal damage.
The regret stems from... my choice to flee to Qingzhou.
When Xie Cang was defeated in Liangzhou, he had many options. He could have returned to the capital and shifted all the blame for the defeat onto Marquis Zhongyong. In that case, even if he was defeated, the court would not punish him too severely.
He could also choose to escape into the vast mountains and eke out a living. Although this would be dangerous, it wouldn't necessarily mean certain death.
However... his final choice was to come to Qingzhou, intending to rely on the defeated troops he had gathered to establish himself as a local tyrant...
Without a doubt, this is a dead end.
But by the time Xie Cang realized it was a dead end, it was already too late!
Looking down at the blood flowing continuously from his chest, Xie Cang's strength kept draining away, and finally... he slowly collapsed to the ground.
Even as he lost consciousness, Xie Cang was still pondering a question: Why are there so many martial artists in Qingzhou, and why are there such strange giant chickens?
Clearly, no one will be able to answer Xie Cang's question; he can only die with this question in his heart.
"Good good!"
Upon seeing Xie Cang fall, Li Qingyun couldn't help but clap his hands and laugh. With Xie Cang dead, even the fleeing routs would be leaderless.
In other words, within the territory of Ding'an County, there will no longer be thousands of defeated soldiers entrenched outside the city and difficult to deal with, as before.
"Congratulations to the county magistrate on the successful suppression of the bandits."
Liu Yi and the other three martial artists recruited by Li Qingyun offered their congratulations at the opportune moment. In fact, the annihilation of the defeated army was a cause for celebration not only for Li Qingyun but also for them.
Even as martial artists, they couldn't help but feel apprehensive when they heard that the army consisted of thousands of soldiers. After all, no matter how powerful a martial artist is, there are limits, and they are far from being able to defeat an army of thousands, let alone the fact that this army included a peak seventh-rank martial artist like Xie Cang.
Moreover, due to the presence of defeated troops outside the city, prices inside the city continued to soar, and even the wealthy could not escape the impact of rising prices.
Therefore, when the defeated army was defeated, the joy in the hearts of Liu Yi and the other three was not much less than that in Li Qingyun.
"Joy and rejoice together!"
Li Qingyun clasped his hands in response, then rode forward. He first glanced at the surrendered soldiers kneeling on the ground, then said to Chen Da, "Brother Chen, please help me control these surrendered soldiers!"
"no problem."
Chen Da nodded. In fact, he had already been taking control of these surrendered soldiers for some time.
Fortunately, these surrendered soldiers had no ulterior motives and genuinely wanted to surrender. Otherwise, it would have been very difficult for Chen's army of about three hundred men to control them.
About half an hour later, all the surrendered soldiers had their armor removed and their weapons thrown on the ground, and were then taken into custody by the Chen family army.
At this moment, Chen Da looked at the armor piled up on the ground like a small mountain and said to Li Qingyun, "Magistrate Li, may we have these armors of the defeated soldiers?"
Although the Chen family army is an army, they didn't have armor before. This is because armor is extremely difficult to make and requires a large number of craftsmen. The number of craftsmen in Chen family village is enough to make armor, but the efficiency is...
A craftsman is lucky if he can forge one suit of armor in a month.
With such low efficiency, it's clearly unrealistic to equip all 300-plus members of Chen's army with armor. Not to mention, even with armor, it would still require routine maintenance and repair.
In short, due to the high cost and extreme difficulty in manufacturing armor, Chen Dao did not equip the men of the Chen family army with armor.
It was precisely because they lacked armor that Chen Da, as the deputy commander of the Chen family army and responsible for leading the army, was so eager to acquire this batch of armor.
If we can capture this batch of armor, the Chen family army's combat strength will definitely be enhanced!
Imagine an army composed entirely of martial artists, clad in armor for protection. Even if there were five thousand troops, let alone three thousand, Chenjia Village might still have a fighting chance!
"no problem!"
Li Qingyun readily agreed, since the defeated army was defeated by the Chen family army, and the spoils of war should naturally belong to them.
To be honest, Li Qingyun was also a little tempted by this batch of armor. There were nearly a thousand surrendered soldiers, and the captured armor and weapons numbered around eight hundred sets, which was a considerable fortune.