Playing with fantasy beasts in the martial arts world

Chapter 93 Aunt Scores a Goal
Guo Jing, who was still locked in a stalemate with Jinlun Fawang on the city wall, naturally noticed this as well. After forcing Jinlun Fawang back with a single palm strike, he shouted, "Out of the city! Pursuit!"

At this moment, the city gates were opened wide, and the Xiangyang cavalry, who had been preparing for a long time, led the charge. Then, some trained martial arts practitioners mixed in with the soldiers quickly followed and began to hunt down the nearby fleeing soldiers. When they encountered low-ranking Mongol officers, they concentrated their attacks and killed them without giving them any chance to gather the fleeing soldiers.

Even if all the troops in Xiangyang were to come out, they would have no chance of defeating the Mongol army, even if they had the upper hand.

However, the purpose of going out of the city to pursue and kill the fleeing troops was not to effectively kill the enemy, but to tear a bigger wound on the already defeated army, making the trend of fleeing even more difficult to control within the Mongol army.

In ancient times, when communication and command by generals were not so convenient, the larger the army, the more difficult it was to command effectively. Therefore, in some situations, having more people was not necessarily an advantage.

Li Shimin's 3,000 elite troops defeated Dou Jiande's 100,000-strong army, and Zhu Di's 80,000 troops fought against Emperor Jianwen's 500,000-strong army. These are typical examples of defeating a larger force with a smaller one.

At present, the Mongol side has already collapsed and it will be difficult to recover in a short time. Yang Bamei took the lead and charged ahead, with many Xiangyang defenders following closely behind. Wherever they went, they were unstoppable.

Compared to ordinary martial artists and the garrison of Xiangyang, Yang Bamei was more skilled in military affairs. With her leading the pursuit team, they were able to maneuver freely in the relatively weak areas of the Mongol army, which not only allowed them to come and go as they pleased, but also dealt a significant blow to the morale of the Mongol army and expanded the scale of their rout.

When Yang Bamei and Yang Guo reunited, the Mongol army had already lost ground for fifty miles and retreated to a more distant location to regroup and reorganize. For at least ten days to half a month, they would be unable to launch another large-scale attack on Xiangyang.

However, the Nanyang granary had been mostly burned down, and these ten days to half a month were equally agonizing and urgent for the Mongol army.

Even if they were unwilling to retreat, at most they could organize another large-scale invasion. If they could not take Xiangyang City, they would have no choice but to withdraw and wait for another day.

As the banners of the Mongol army disappeared completely in the distance, cheers rose and fell among the soldiers on the walls of Xiangyang.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the Golden Wheel Monk jumped off the city wall and left.

Only those weaker bandits who joined him in the sneak attack on the city walls mostly left behind corpses, using their lives to repent in hell.

After the Mongol army withdrew, Yang Bamei led her soldiers back to the city. About five or six hundred people had rushed out with her, and now more than four hundred had returned. This does not include those martial arts practitioners who were blinded by rage and did not keep up with the group and were not killed in battle. The casualty rate can be considered very low.

This was largely thanks to Yang Bamei's military skills. Although she was pursuing the enemy outside the city, she deliberately targeted the weakest link, thus achieving good results and causing the enemy to lose their composure, while her own troops suffered minimal losses.

After the enemy retreated, Guo Jing and Huang Rong's work was not over. They needed to direct people to quickly repair the city walls, take stock of the losses, and arrange for the wounded to recuperate at Liu's residence.

It wasn't until nightfall that everyone finally gathered at the Liu residence.

"Guo'er! Miss Long! This time... we really owe you a lot." As soon as they appeared, Guo Jing stepped forward and took Yang Guo's hand, his eyes filled with both relief and gratitude, as well as guilt and self-reproach.

"Hey! I'll explain one last time, I'm not some Dragon Girl! I'm Yang Yanqi, you can also call me Yang Bamei!" Yang Bamei quickly said, waving her hand.

Guo Jing was slightly taken aback, but Huang Rong reacted faster, exclaiming with delight, "Could it be Yang Yanqi, the female commander of Tianbo Mansion?"

Yang Bamei's face lit up with an undisguised, radiant smile: "Um... I haven't been a commander yet, but it is indeed Yang Yanqi of Tianbo Prefecture!"

“Eighth Miss is exceptionally skilled in martial arts and adept at commanding troops. She is certainly capable of leading the troops. If you think highly of this place, why not hang the commander’s flag on the city wall?” Huang Rong immediately made the same judgment as Cha Nan before her.

This is not to say that Huang Rong is inferior to Yang Bamei or that she cannot make the judgments that Yang Bamei could think of; it is simply because they are in different positions.

No matter how clever Huang Rong was, she wasn't entirely clear about the tricks those civil officials played.

After all, Huang Rong's wisdom is still mostly limited to the martial arts world, and her methods of using and training troops are derived from a "Wumu's Legacy".

In reality, he's still a member of the underworld.

"No need! I won't steal the spotlight, but since it's about protecting our country, count me, Yang Yanqi, in." Yang Bamei didn't explain as thoroughly this time, because there were quite a few people present, and if her words were to leak out, it might cause some unforeseen complications.

Often, many people do things openly and honestly, but you just can't say anything about them.

Cha Nan also came over at this moment. He had just recalled all the cotton flowers he had released back into the base space and replaced them with a group of pot elephants to create 'mysterious water'.

Of course, the Iron Fist Ape that was promised to Yang Yanqi was also brought to him. Once Yang Yanqi was ready, he would release the Iron Fist Ape and let Yang Yanqi tame it.

"Someone! Someone come quick! My cousin has been poisoned!" Lu Wushuang's voice suddenly rang out. Everyone turned to look and saw that Cheng Ying, who had been healing someone, suddenly had her lips turn blue and collapsed into Lu Wushuang's arms.

"What's wrong, Junior Sister?" Huang Rong immediately stepped forward to check on Cheng Ying's condition.

Cheng Ying's face had begun to turn pale, and her slender arms were now covered with dark blue lines, a sign that the peripheral blood vessels had been eroded by toxins.

If she weren't a martial artist with mastered internal strength, an ordinary person would have died from internal organ failure long ago if the toxins had manifested to this extent.

"It is indeed poisoning, and it was a sneak attack." Huang Rong found a tiny needle mark on the back of Cheng Ying's hand.

If Cheng Ying's hand hadn't already been swollen, she wouldn't have noticed so quickly.

The people around immediately looked warily at the wounded lying on the ground. Some of them were still unconscious, while others were groaning incoherently. It was impossible to tell who the attacker was at the moment.

Cha Nan summoned a baby elephant in a pot, not caring if outsiders saw it... In any case, his special nature had already been made public.

The little elephant stretched out its trunk and sprayed water mist at Cheng Ying.

The mist fell on Cheng Ying, which calmed her breathing somewhat, but did not neutralize the toxins.

"She's poisoned, not injured. These liquids can only offer some protection. We need to detoxify her quickly..." Huang Rong was secretly annoyed. She still had a Tongxi Dilong Pill that Ouyang Feng had given her when he brought Ouyang Ke to propose marriage. This pill could cure all poisons and should have been useful, but it was wasted years ago when she was trying to save Wu Santong.

They fed Cheng Ying a pill of Impermanence, but it only made her breathing a little better. Her bluish lips and pale cheeks still showed no improvement.

Ultimately, it's not the right treatment. While Wuchang Dan can protect internal organs and clear internal injuries, its detoxification ability is only so-so.

Most common toxins can be neutralized, but the one Cheng Ying is currently suffering from is clearly not a common toxin.

"What a potent poison! Even the Impermanence Pill can't neutralize it." Huang Rong was somewhat at a loss. Although her father was a renowned physician of the time, she hadn't learned much from him.

"If only Father were here!"

Just as everyone was getting anxious, Cha Nan said, "If Aunt Guo doesn't mind, I do have a solution."

Huang Rong immediately understood what Cha Nan meant by the method.

"Then what are you hesitating for? Make your move quickly!" Huang Rong urged.

She always thought that being hit by Chanan's Parul Ball was just establishing a special connection between them, and she had no idea that a person who was truly and completely subdued would obey and submit to Chanan from the inside out.

It's not that Huang Rong wasn't smart, but rather that she was blind to what was right under her nose. After all, she was a firsthand witness and projected her own experiences onto everyone else.

Cha Nan was waiting for this sentence. To show his respect for his aunt Cheng Ying, he took out a green high-level Palu Ball.

At this moment, Cheng Ying was suffering from severe poisoning, and her life value was definitely low. Her strength was only around the end of the first-class level. In fact, she could have achieved a low-level Paluka.

The capture process was naturally straightforward: Cheng Ying was hit by the Palu Ball and disappeared, and then her image appeared in the base space.

Once her health is fully restored, Cha Nan will summon Cheng Ying again.

It's clear that the poison hasn't been cured yet, but because of the change in their positions, Cheng Ying can return to the base space to heal at any time, so her life is not in danger.

"Junior sister! Who attacked you?" Seeing that Cheng Ying had clearly regained consciousness although she hadn't been cured of the poison, Huang Rong immediately asked.

Once the person who poisoned the body is found, it won't be difficult to extract the antidote from them.

Even if they don't carry the antidote with them, or don't have the antidote at all, they can still force out the poison formula and then use the formula to find the antidote.

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