Chapter 410 - Moving the Capital to Chenzhou (XVI)

Chapter 410: Moving the Capital to Chenzhou (XVI)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
The setting sun painted the sky a deep amber. The sky gradually darkened, but the torches on the city walls had not yet been lit.
Jiang Pengji and the troops waited in ambush outside the city walls, patiently looking for an opportunity to attack. Everyone felt as though a storm was brewing.
Although Meng Hun looked cold, he was kind-hearted and gentle. The troops dared to joke with him after completing their own training tasks, so the overall atmosphere was not too tense. However, Jiang Pengji was the leader. She did not say anything redundant, nor did she deliberately show that she was in charge. All she had to do was scan the troops with her cool eyes. From her look alone, they would straighten their bodies and become uncontrollably nervous.
After receiving her glare, a troop member regained his senses and was shocked to find that his palms were sweating. It was true that different generals raised different soldiers.
Jiang Pengji looked up at the sky. The moon was not too bright.
“Stay here. I’ll attack the sentinels on the tower. Be careful––don’t expose yourselves.” Jiang Pengji measured the distance between where she was and the city wall with her eyes. She began to map out the safest route in her mind. Her black eyeballs lit up.
The troops wanted to stop her, and Meng Hun disapproved of it. After all, it was too dangerous.
As Jiang Pengji’s private troops, they could not let Jiang Pengji be harmed in any way––even if that meant that most of them had to die.
Jiang Pengji glanced at everyone and smirked. “Observe closely. As troops of the Liu family, you should know what to do. A true picked troop member isn’t qualified just by simply shooting improved arrows.”
She gathered two bundles of ropes, then headed towards the tower. She moved swiftly, lightly, and so fast that she left her troops speechless.
She was like the most dexterous black cat, weaving her way freely through the darkening shadows.
Upon seeing her risky behavior, the troops held their breaths nervously. Their hearts hung in their throats.
The troops did not expose themselves; they had undergone years of system training, so they were very skilled.
Jiang Pengji rushed to the city gate with ease. Both of her hands accurately found the leverage point. She stuck to the wall like a gecko and climbed up it easily. After a short while, she was halfway up. Her troops stared at her in bewilderment.
They could only see a black ball of shadows moving up the city wall because they were a bit far. However, there was no doubt that the shadow was their Langjun. Although most of the city walls were made of sand and stone, they were not smooth and seamless. It was very difficult to climb them as easily as she did. It was as if she was walking upon flat ground. The troops widened their eyes anxiously. Even the audience in the streaming room did not dare to use the bullet screens.
Many skilled rock climbers in the modern era could have climbed up the city wall of the Xiangyang District… But it was now a battlefield. If she was discovered by the enemy, she would have holes all over her body from flying arrows. Who could retain their composure and act normal under such high pressure?
The city walls of the Xiangyang District were a lot lower than those of Shangjing City, and the bricks were not layered as neatly and opulently. Jiang Pengji hardly used any energy.
A member of the Tsing Yi Army, who was standing guard nearby, yawned. Two drops of physiological tears rolled down from his eyes. He had yet to shut his mouth when a hint of coolness flashed across his neck. He was dead before the pain even reached his brain.
After Jiang Pengji killed the member of the Tsing Yi Army, she climbed over the wall and hurled him down the tower.
Poof… The body fell down the city wall.
Beneath the tower was mud and lush greenery. The body landing on the ground hardly produced a sound.
The Tsing Yi Army member had been standing guard for a long time, so his neural reflex was slower.
Jiang Pengji stepped on the city wall and drew a longbow. She nocked three arrows, instantly drawing them full.
Poof… Poof… Poof…
The three arrows seemed to go off simultaneously. The arrows penetrated the necks of the Tsing Yi Army members from the side, piercing their tracheas. The three bodies of the Tsing Yi Army members collapsed. They did not make a single sound before they died, but the sound of the corpses collapsing alarmed the other Tsing Yi soldiersArmy members standing guard.
Jiang Pengji rolled over and hid in the shadows formed by the walls. It was even darker there than in other places.
“What was that sound? Who––” Due to the darkening night sky, he could not see what happened clearly. He only realized that the figure that was three feet away from him had disappeared.
Something fell from the sentry tower when he took a step forward. He carefully widened his eyes, and there was a pain in his throat. An arrow appeared in front of him. He had yet to process how the arrow appeared before everything went black and he felt dizzy.
Jiang Pengji thought, There are not many of them on the sentry tower…
She swiftly killed the two sentinels on the sentry tower. Then, she dealt with the Tsing Yi soldiersArmy members on the city walls with ease.
Jiang Pengji’s brain was like a high-speed instrument, calmly calculating and analyzing the enemies nearby and their locations. How quickly she killed them was even more shocking.
Soon, every member of the Tsing Yi Army on the wall was dead. A viewer in the streaming room counted the number of dead bodies, and the fine hair on his body stood on end.
Jiang Pengji’s breathing was steady. It was not noticeable that she had just killed more than 40 people by herself.
She tied two ropes onto the pilaster and released them. At that moment, the troops fell into action. They climbed up the wall quickly.
Jiang Pengji could only carry a limited number of ropes, so the troops bundled and released new ropes as they reached the top of the wall.
More than 200 troops made it up the wall quickly.
The sun had set completely. After another 15 minutes, the people on duty would be relieved, and the torches would be lit.
Jiang Pengji made a few signals with her hands, and the troops understood her tacitly.
She did not use the stairs to descend from the wall. She directly pulled a rope and quickly landed on the ground in the shadows.
“Oh…” There was a short and light crooning sound as Jiang Pengji broke the necks of the unarmed guards at the city gate. She hid their bodies in the shadows of the city pits.
She opened the bolt on the gate and let the rest of the troops in.
Due to the atrocities of the Tsing Yi Army, the people of the city did not dare to go out at night. They were afraid they would be killed if they ran into the rioters. The streets were desolate.
There were tens of thousands of members of the Tsing Yi Army in the Xiangyang District, but they were split up in order to cover the various city gates. The personnel was scattered; they could not assemble immediately, and they were not a threat.
Jiang Pengji entered the city, her troops following behind.
Of course, the ease did not mean that the siege would go smoothly.
“Follow my lead!” Jiang Pengji waved her hand and planned to directly besiege the district headquarters of the Xiangyang District.
After they left the city gate, members of the Tsing Yi Army finally noticed the corpses on the city wall and the rope on the pilaster.
“An attack from the enemy has been discovered at the west city gate!…”
A terrifying scream broke the silence of the night. When the Tsing Yi Army rushed to the west city gate, Jiang Pengji and the troops had already branched out into two flanks. A massacre was about to begin.