The Legend of Zhu San
078: Trap
A trip to Shangyu City would at least take three days of relentless riding.
Zhu San, now in the form of Commander Mao Sheng, rested his troops at nightfall. They also set up tents to rest.
“Commander Sheng .. Your tent has been finished erected. Please Rest.”
A soldier reported to Zhu San and without answering the soldier's words, Zhu San immediately stepped towards the largest tent among the others.
After eating his dinner, Zhu San immediately pulled out a book that he had taken from the library. A book about war strategy.
After finding a strategy that he felt was suitable to use in his plan, Zhu San re-entered the book into the Yinyang Soul Ring.
He then stretched out his body, trying to close his eyes, but his mind kept turning back the explanation he had received from his Grandpa Master.
An explanation of what happened over the past six months since Zhu San was reportedly killed while fighting Tsao Beng and Qiao Bun.
There were at least six Sect Chiefs who would return to their sects, successfully captured by the Black Flow Alliance.
The six Sect Chiefs, four of them were killed along with eight of their disciples who participated in the tournament.
It was because they were unwilling to cooperate with the Black Stream Alliance, to stage a coup.
While the two Sect Chiefs who were from the Neutral Flow, were willing to join. As collateral for their words, four of his students were temporarily detained by the Alliance.
Four months later, a coup of the Black Stream Alliance and four Nobles, successfully pushed back the Liu Empire forces and took control of Shangyu City.
The existence of special soldiers who had high abilities in the Alliance army, became the main factor of their victory.
Those special soldiers were members of the dozens of Black sect members who belonged to the Alliance.
The abilities of those special soldiers, were at least at the level of late stage Beginner Swordsman to intermediate stage swordsman level.
The sixty thousand troops that Emperor Liu Feng had, could not survive the onslaught of sixty thousand soldiers from those rebels.
Fifteen thousand soldiers from the rebels, a special force from the Black Stream Alliance.
A mistake made by Emperor Liu Feng was letting the other six great nobles have their own troops.
Although it is allowed to have its own soldiers, but the number is still limited to fifteen thousand soldiers for every one noble.
Emperor Liu Feng himself had sixty thousand warriors. And when united with the number of soldiers to the six other nobles, the Liu empire had one hundred and fifty thousand soldiers.
A sizeable sum for a small Empire like the Liu Empire, if only they were united.
But ambition and greed have blinded their eyes. Four nobles agreed to a coup with the help of Black School warriors.
After besieging Shangyu City for a month, the rebel forces finally occupied the imperial Capital Liu.
Emperor Liu Feng managed to destroy the encirclement in the north along with his twenty thousand remaining troops.
He immediately headed to Baixan City, the city controlled by Duke Mu Bai, Uncle Zhu San on his mother's side, Mu Rong.
But during that two-week run, the Black Stream Alliance's special forces were led by Tsao Beng and Qiao Bun as well as the Demon Sword Qing Jun and Fire Lord Swordsman Luo San, respectively, keep chasing them.
By bringing in ten Thousand Special Forces, they managed to catch up to Emperor Liu Feng's army. The battle also happened.
But beyond Luo San's expectations, the Fire Sword Sect led by Chairman Xie Bing and the Wind Sword Sect came to his aid as the one-hour battle lasted.
Before long, the Temple Sect of Light of Truth came with a thousand of their members.
The arrival of the three white-flow sects was quite large, making the battle balanced.
In the battle of the leaders, Tsao Beng and Qiao Bun managed to defeat Fu Kuan and Lin Kai.
Both of Zhu San's teachers were defeated in terrible conditions. Their inner energy had been destroyed by Tsao Beng and Qiao Bun.
Despite defeating Fu Kuan and Lin Kai, both suffered serious injuries.
On the other hand, the God of Fire Tread Luo San fought in balance Qin Rui. Both were seriously injured in the duel.
The same thing happened with the Demon Sword Qing Jun who fought in a draw with Zheng An. Both were seriously injured.
That was what made Fire Lord Luo San decide to stop the battle and return to Shangyu city to treat their injuries.
Finally Emperor Liu Feng's army and thousands of members from the three sects, arrived at Baixan City.
They were also very well welcomed by Nobles Mu Bai who had high loyalty to Emperor Liu Feng.
The news of his death is known from Fu Kuan and Lin Kai who faced Tsao Beng and Qiao Bun.
The news was very shocking, at first Fu Kuan and Lin Kai did not want to believe it. However upon seeing the Blue Cloud Sword in Luo San's hands, they finally believed it.
The news of Zhu San's death shocked Baixan City, Zhu Han who was then in Baixan City, felt sad. But he did not want to believe the news of Zhu San's death.
And because in the atmosphere of war, the sadness was immediately sidetracked when Emperor Liu Feng invited all the figures to deliberate.
And they decided, sending someone to ask for help to Songdu City, which was led by Noble Song Yu.
A month later, the Thousand Faces Swordsman who was appointed to depart for Songdu city, had returned with the help of five thousand soldiers .
In addition to bringing in warriors, the Thousand Faces Swordsman also brought news of Zhu San whom he knew from Song Ruo who had arrived in his hometown.
It was just that upon returning to Baixan City the Thousand Faces Swordsman did not find Zhu Han.
After getting word that Zhu Han was returning to Shinzu City, the Thousand Faces Swordsman immediately caught up with him.
He arrived in Shinzu City shortly before the appearance of the Sword King, the teacher of Cong Hai.
While eating in a tavern, Teacher Zhu Han heard that Zhu San had returned to the city.
And he immediately rushed towards his disciple's residence, just as the Sword King killed the guard soldiers who were in charge of guarding the gate.
Zhu San let out a long sigh, the night had reached its peak as he exited his tent.
He sensed that something was strange in the letter they received yesterday. Could it be that the Black Stream Alliance did not know that Chou Bai had been killed?
The quiet night atmosphere, made Zhu San's ears which had extremely sharp hearing, hear the clattering of feet moving closer to their camp.
Zhu San immediately shot into the air a hundred meters tall. He immediately shot towards the source of the sound he had heard.
After drifting a hundred meters from his tent, Zhu San discovered the fact that his army had been surrounded.
“So the letter was a trap for us to leave the city. I must immediately notify the soldiers.”
“AWAS NO ATTACK!”
Zhu San's voice that shouted using his inner power, booming broke the silence of the night.
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