Distant Mountain Battle Song

Chapter 276 Humanoid Bat
Shehuo is the ultimate form of fire; with the protection of Shehuo, ordinary fire will not cause harm.

The hottest part of a flame is always the outer flame, followed by the middle flame, and then the core. The Shehuo (a type of folk performance) is naturally the core of the core, where you can only feel a warm and cozy feeling.

Looking at the fire from inside it is a completely different experience from looking at it from outside. In particular, the exchange and interweaving of energy can be clearly seen here, and one can further understand the essence of Shehuo (a traditional folk performance).

After passing through the burning military camp, we entered the outer wall of the city lord's mansion. There was no one behind the outer wall, and they didn't even realize that the fire had spread. This showed that the fire in the military camp was actually a trap set by someone else.

I thought I would see a conspiracy in the city lord’s mansion, but I didn’t expect this place to become a battlefield. The sound of Chu Xiong’s sword cutting through the wind could be heard clearly by Yun Ce, even in the empty back courtyard.

It seems that the people on the Han side, influenced by Huo Qubing, prefer to use their hands rather than their words or thoughts.

It's obvious that Chu Xiong was taken advantage of, but no one gave him the compensation he deserved, which led to the fight.

In political deals, it's usually the other way around: you offer benefits first, then you get help. That's the so-called "first come, first served" issue. How can someone help others without receiving payment or even a deposit? If you don't lose out in that situation, who will?
The battle in the central courtyard was extremely fierce. Chu Xiong's horse-slaying sword was entirely offensive, without the slightest defensive move, which showed just how intense his anger was.

Taking advantage of everyone's attention being focused on the fight, Yun Ce jumped onto a large, leafy tree. Once on the tree, he realized that it was a yellow fruit tree. This kind of tree blooms in the sweltering summer and bears fruit in the dead of winter. The yellow fruit, especially after experiencing ice and snow, is the most refreshing and delicious.

The fruit on the tree that Yun Ce jumped onto was just ready for harvest.

Recently, Yun Ce has been feeling hot inside, so he picked the best fruit and ate it bite by bite.

Through the gaps in the leaves, he could see very clearly that the man fighting Chu Xiong was a middle-aged man with a long beard, who also wielded a horse-slaying saber. It was obvious that the middle-aged man with the long beard was slightly better at martial arts than Chu Xiong, because Chu Xiong's desperate fighting style of attacking without defending prevented the middle-aged man with the long beard from displaying his exquisite martial arts skills.

Because Chu Xiong was employing a strategy of killing three thousand enemies while losing ten thousand of his own, the long-bearded middle-aged man simply didn't want to trade one of his hands or a leg for Chu Xiong's life. That's why he was forced to retreat repeatedly.

There were quite a few people standing in the courtyard, mostly Tiger Legion soldiers. Without receiving orders, they just stood there like wooden stakes, holding their sabers, showing no intention of helping.

There were also some people who, like him, were just there to watch the show. Perhaps because they were on different sides, the sixteen people stood in seven groups, four or five meters apart, looking both indifferent and wary.

"He Tian, ​​if you don't give me an explanation today, I will lead the Eagle Flying Army to fight your Tiger Legion when I get back."

The long-bearded giant He Tian angrily said, "Chu Xiong, I have already put up with you to the limit. Don't think that I dare not kill you."

Having said that, he raised his sword and clashed head-on with Chu Xiong's slashing horse-slaying sword. A clear metallic clang rang out, and the six-foot-long blades of both horse-slaying swords broke off simultaneously, leaving only blades less than a foot long.

Seeing that Chu Xiong had stopped attacking, panting heavily and leaning on his broken sword, a scholar-like man dressed in white stepped forward and said, "Alright, alright, the fierce battle is over, and the anger should have subsided."

"He Tian, ​​you know your current situation well. Since you've reached a dead end, don't stubbornly resist. Hand over command of the Tiger Legion, and each of our eight families will give you three thousand taels of gold, allowing you to retire in Yongzhou. As for your feud with the Cao family, we'll settle that too. From now on, wouldn't it be better to retire to the countryside and live the life of a wealthy old man?"

He Tian looked at the man in white and said angrily, "Liu Zhengchun, you make it sound nice, but I'm afraid that if I hand over my military power one moment, the next moment will be the day I die a violent death."

Liu Zhengchun retorted angrily, "So you're saying that no matter how much we assure you, you won't believe us?"

Chu Xiong looked at Liu Zhengchun and said, "I heard he has a silent whistle used to command the Tiger Legion. Brother Liu, why don't we join forces to capture He Tian and seize his whistle? What do you think?"

Chu Xiong's suggestion was immediately interrupted by another burly man wearing a fur coat.

"Stop talking nonsense. The whistle is hidden in He Tian's mouth. If we want to get the whistle, we have to catch him first. If he starts blowing the whistle in a critical moment, won't we have to fight the Tiger Legion again?"

Even if we win, capture He Tian, ​​and get the whistle, the Tiger Legion will be finished. All our efforts will be meaningless. Who would do something so unprofitable?

Chu Xiong roared, "Idiot! As long as we get the whistle, we can make countless whistles, and then countless Tiger Legion soldiers. A mere six thousand Tiger Legion soldiers, if they die, they die."

I've also heard that when He Junnian was refining the Soul-Stabilizing Needles, he used a fourth- or fifth-rate folk art from Pingzhou, which could only control mediocre warriors. But if he used a first-rate folk art from Yongzhou, imagine the Tiger Legion, composed entirely of a hundred-man general—that would be truly invincible!

Upon hearing Chu Xiong's words, Yun Ce was so surprised that he forgot to eat the yellow fruit. After a long while, he said to Gouzi, "Can you steal the whistle?"

The dog scanned He Tian for a long time before saying, "The whistle is indeed in He Tian's mouth, but the so-called whistle is actually his two left molars." "What did you say, two molars?"

"That's right, there are holes in the molars, and you can make a sound by blowing air into them. The problem is, we don't know how to make silent sound waves with the molars. There are only two kinds of silent sound waves: one is low-frequency sound waves, which are infrasound waves, and they are commonly used by whales and elephants."

Another type is high-frequency sound waves, also called ultrasound, which are commonly used by bats and dolphins.

"If I can hear the sound waves he blew, I can pinpoint the type of sound and determine its frequency (in Hertz). Then I'll have a way to control the Tiger Army."

Yun Ce asked, "How does he use sound waves to command the battle?"

Dog said, "It's alright, it's just a change in sound waves. Once I know one of them, I can decipher the others. In the end, I can even simulate the sound waves emitted by He Tian and take away the Tiger Legion."

Yun Ce thought for a moment and said, "Among the people standing below, there are nine commanders of a thousand men, and six of them are far more capable than commanders of a thousand men. I can't very well force He Tian at this time, can I?"

Dog said, "I'm just offering suggestions. Whether you accept them or not is up to you. However, I just calculated that if you make a move now, the chances of success are at least 50%."

I suggest you go all out from the start, ideally breaking He Tian's two left molars and destroying his whistle, so he won't interfere with my performance.

Here, I've taken out your meteor hammer for you.

Those people are just babbling on and on without offering any ideas; it's up to you to do it.

Yun Ce slowly and silently wrapped the chain of the chain hammer around his arms, closed his eyes, adjusted his breathing, and then suddenly opened his eyes. As he flew out of the Huangguoshu at full speed, the chain hammer, carrying immense force, smashed towards He Tian. At the same time, Yun Ce shouted, "General Chu, I'm here to lend you a hand."

Just as Yun Ce flew out of the tree, six people reacted immediately. Chu Xiong was closest to He Tian and originally wanted to stop the newcomer. After hearing what the newcomer shouted, he paused for a moment and saw a huge chain hammer fly past him and head straight for He Tian's chest.

He Tian hurriedly tried to block with his broken sword, but with a crack, the broken sword was smashed in half again by the chain hammer. The next moment, the chain hammer slammed heavily into He Tian's chest. He Tian quickly retreated as he was hit by the hammer, but even so, the chain hammer still struck his chest. He tilted his head back, spat out a mouthful of blood, and continued to fly backward.

Having landed a blow, Yun Ce gave He Tian no time to react. He bypassed Chu Xiong and simultaneously launched another chain hammer, its massive head once again slamming down on the still unsteady He Tian.

With nowhere to retreat, He Tian crashed through the railing behind him and tumbled into the flowerbed, barely managing to avoid Yun Ce's hammer. Yun Ce, without touching the ground, hooked the fallen iron chain with his right foot, twisted his legs back and forth, and quickly retrieved the chain hammer. While in mid-air, he split his legs, and the chain hammer regained its power, carrying a gust of wind, and once again smashed down on the fallen He Tian.

Seeing Yun Ce's deadly moves, which forced He Tian to retreat repeatedly, the other eight thousand men, except for Chu Xiong, could not allow Yun Ce to kill He Tian. They put aside their own thoughts and launched an attack on Yun Ce together.

"General Chu, please hold them off for a moment. Once I kill He Tian, ​​we'll split He Tian's whistle equally."

He thought that this was just to scare those people, but to his surprise, Chu Xiong actually shouted, "Fine! Bai Chengfeng, I'll believe you this time."

As he said this, he hurled the broken knife in his hand at Liu Zhengchun, who was the first to pounce. At the same time, he lowered his legs, sat on his back, and thrust his fists at the fur-clad man who was flying towards him with the force of two dragons emerging from the water.

Yun Ce kicked away a flying horse-slaying saber, dodged a spike, and while his body was spinning, he slammed the meteor hammer wrapped around his left leg down heavily on He Tian.

He Tian lowered his head, and the huge hammerhead smashed his helmet, causing his hair inside to fall down immediately. He watched as Yun Ce's Wulong Twisting Pillar rose up again, wrapping the meteor hammer around his arms once more. Panicked, He Tian could no longer hold back, his left cheek bulging out and trembling.

"Accepting, accepting, continue, continue, force him to use more scales, I need more information."

The dog was barking wildly in Yun Ce's mind.

Yun Ce roared and stopped attacking from a distance. Instead, he wrapped the two meteor hammers around his arms, flipped his body, and smashed them down on He Tian with the force of Mount Tai crashing down.

He Tian puffed out his cheeks and desperately raised his arms to block Yun Ce's downing arms. However, what first came into contact with his arms was not Yun Ce's arms, but two huge meteor hammers.

The moment the meteor hammer made contact with his arm, He Tian screamed in pain as Yun Ce kicked him in the chest, sending him flying again.

(End of this chapter)