Chapter 1706: Chapter 1706: Utterly Defeated

When the large fire lanterns appeared, it was a bright sunny day with a refreshing summer breeze, thus when the Rong people discovered the fire lanterns, they were already scattered across the sky, drifting for an unknown duration.

Due to the distance, the Rong people couldn’t see clearly what was hanging below the fire lanterns, whether it was food or not. But when so many strange, flying things suddenly headed towards Long’an Prefecture, anyone could sense something was amiss.

Moo, moo, moo!

The ox horn sounded urgently, echoing outside Long’an Prefecture City.

The scout soldiers of the Rong people rode and shouted, "Enemies, enemies, there are bastards delivering things to Long’an Prefecture!"

Food, it must be delivered by those Bastard Chu people to Long’an Prefecture.

This news quickly reached the Royal Tent of the Heavenly Khan, Tie He was furious, slapping the table and saying, "Food, it must be those Bastard Chu soldiers who keep dropping poisonous insects, delivering food to Long’an Prefecture!"

The rotworms in the Da Rong camp could never be burned clean, all because of those cheap soldiers.

Since late April, those cheap soldiers have been secretly harming them, they’ve been tracking them for a long time, almost flipped Xiaolong Mountain upside down, yet they could never find them.

Now those cheap soldiers have come again!

"Pass the order, the Four-directions Vanguard General shall immediately lead the wolf pack and swear to find those cheap soldiers and slaughter them to feed the wolves!" Tie He ordered, "All strong crossbow carts and archers shall set out immediately, shoot down those strange lanterns in the sky, no matter what’s inside! Even if it’s a stone, don’t let them enter Long’an Prefecture!"

"Yes." The royal generals of various tribes responded in unison, they were also baffled by this move of the Bastard Chu.

"Before, they used birds to deliver medicine into the city, half a month ago they saw falcons delivering food into the city, several were shot down, thought they couldn’t do it, now they’ve come up with this strange contraption... the Bastard Chu are truly difficult to deal with, just like their civil servants, the most troublesome!" a royal general complained.

This royal general named Alman was the king of the tribe most eager to withdraw troops back to Da Rong, he disliked Bastard Chu, felt it far from the Witch God, the grass wasn’t good, his horses in Bastard Chu, after eating months of grass, were starved skinny.

The only redeeming feature of Bastard Chu was its beauties, all looking gorgeous, with good skin, much better to sleep with than Da Rong women.

However, he has already captured hundreds of Bastard Chu beauties over the past months, enough to play with for years, when he gets tired of them, he’ll return to Bastard Chu for beauties in a few years.

"Bastard Chu is indeed becoming increasingly hard to deal with, comparable to the Northwest Army under Duke Wei." Tuogude said, somewhat worriedly.

Upon hearing this, Alman became somewhat fearful, they were beaten by the Northwest Army under Duke Wei’s faction back then till they howled: "This battle is intolerably uncomfortable. After shooting down those strange lanterns, I’ll go find the Heavenly Khan and ask him to withdraw troops back to Da Rong."

He added, "In three months, it’s the Witch God Festival, we must return, or we’ll miss it and incur the Witch God’s wrath."

Alman said to Tuogude and the others, "You all must together demand the Heavenly Khan withdraw troops, we can’t stay in Bastard Chu, it’s not good here at all!"

Tuogude said nothing, left with his confidant generals.

Alman was angry, "This Tuogude, after interacting with Chu people more, his temperament increasingly resembles those cheap civil servants, whether to ask the Heavenly Khan to withdraw troops is a simple word, yet he doesn’t say it, truly not a man!"

Speaking of this, a nearby royal general laughed: "His father king liked handsome men, perhaps he inherited his father’s true legacy, indeed not a man?"

Alman frowned, "Tuogude is a tribal king, you shouldn’t make such jokes. Besides, even if Tuogude’s preference is like his father king, he’d certainly be courageous."

In Southern Great Chu, there are Immortal Lords, in Da Rong, this is even more prevalent, especially among tribal kings and royal court nobles, generals greatly adore beautiful men from Bastard Chu.

These men are even more handsome than Da Rong women, just looking at them makes one itchy.

And conquering Chu men rather than Chu women gives them more honor.

Moo, moo, moo!

The ox horn sounded urgently again, Alman and the others stopped laughing and quickly scattered, leading their troops to Long’an Prefecture to shoot down those strange lanterns.

But before their troops were fully assembled, they heard the scout soldiers again riding in the camp shouting, "Right side, strange lanterns are drifting into the camp from the right side!"

Everyone who heard this turned to look right.

The right side is part of Xiaolong Mountain, it was unknown when, dense strange lanterns began floating out from the right side of the mountain.

The scout soldiers had been watching for Long’an Prefecture, not paying much attention to their camp’s sky during the day, only watching the camp’s sky at night to prevent Bastard Chu soldiers from dropping rotworms with birds again.

Thus, when scout soldiers discovered strange lanterns drifting in from the right side of the mountain, those strange lanterns were almost drifting into their camp.

"What’s inside these strange lanterns?"

"Quick, quickly shoot them down!"

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Countless arrows rained towards the strange lanterns, but these lanterns were large, even if pierced through the lantern cloth by sharp arrows, they continued drifting. Only strange lanterns hit by strong crossbows fell down.

But had they not fallen, it would’ve been fine, yet when they fell...

Bang, bang, bang sounds echoed, with poison powder scattering, diffusing towards the camp.

"Stop, stop shooting! The strange lanterns contain poison! If they fall into the camp, we’ll all die!" Tuogude was the first to notice something amiss, immediately ordered the entire army, forbidding the tribes’ Rong soldiers from shooting!

Tie He rode on the Hanxue Treasure Horse, looking solemn, the great witch doctor next to him handed him the antidote and face-covering cloth: "Heavenly Khan, the Bastard Chu have poisoned again, please take the antidote and cover yourself with the cloth. These cloths are soaked in medicinal water, can resist some of the strange poison."

Tie He wore a sullen face, extremely unwilling, but only complied to save his life, asking his confidants beside him, "These strange lanterns cannot be shot down, do you have any ways to deal with them?"

Confidants looking at the strange lanterns drifting in the sky, all had no solution.

Unno said, "Heavenly Khan, these strange lanterns drift with the wind, wait until they drift over our camp then it’s fine."

This was the no alternative, alternative solution.

Unfortunately, those strange lanterns didn’t let them be, as they drifted into their camp, the ropes connecting the lantern cloth and lantern base were burned by fire inside.

Bang, bang, bang!

Bang, bang, bang!

Strange lanterns fell down one after another, crashing into the camp.

Instantly, poison powder scattered, and countless rotworms swarmed out from beneath the lantern base.

"Ah, ah, ah, it’s rotworms, rotworms are here again!"

The Rong soldiers were terrified by the rotworms, upon seeing infestations of rotworms inside, they fled everywhere, causing chaos in the camp in no time!

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