My Cultivation Starting from Archery-Chapter 257 - 149 Thunderous Prestige_2

"Right! Dong An is dead!"

Nie Yuan slapped the secret missive onto the table, "Li Tiancheng and others have written, claiming they have agreed to credit their achievements to us, and are now advancing at full speed towards Sword Gate Canyon, preparing for a pincer attack with us to devour West Qi Kingdom in one fell swoop!"

"Is that so?!"

Lü Ji asked anxiously, "How did Dong An die, did Li Tiancheng and others conspire to assassinate him?"

"No."

Nie Yuan spoke deliberately, pausing with each word, "He was angered to death by our junior brother."

"..."

Lü Ji fell silent.

From this moment, he knew.

Another kind of person would emerge within the Eight Camps.

"Report!"

"Lü Shuai!"

"Scouts report, half a day ago, the main force of Zhong Wuxin’s army began to retreat from Sword Gate Canyon!"

"Then what are we waiting for, chase them!"

Lü Ji didn’t let the huge turn of events cloud his judgment, "Three thousand Xianzhen Army, follow me in charging forward to pursue, the rest divide into left and right behind, to prevent Li Tiancheng and the others from feigning surrender!"

"Beat the drums, march!"

...

Outside Yangchun Prefecture, in the wilderness.

After Sha Wenlong barehandedly killed more than thirty riders pursuing them, he continued to flee with Cao Fan. It was at this moment that Hai Dongqing returned with intelligence from Sword Gate Canyon.

"General Lü says Sword Gate Canyon has fallen, tells us to just keep moving forward!"

"General Lü is indeed formidable..."

Cao Fan sighed, "Sword Gate Canyon is easy to defend and hard to attack, yet he was able to in such a short time..."

"But..."

Sha Wenlong’s expression changed uncertainly, "It wasn’t General Lü who took it down but West Qi Kingdom voluntarily retreated because, because after Chen Sansi crossed the Hongze River for the fourth time, he went straight to Meishan Prefecture to execute the Liang traitor, then angering Dong An to death."

"What did you say?!"

Hearing this, Cao Fan’s wounds seemed to heal instantly, and he leapt up from the ground, "General Sha, are you sure you haven’t got it wrong, this isn’t false information from the enemy?"

"Princely Heir, this is indeed true."

Sha Wenlong sighed deeply, "See for yourself."

"How did he do it?!"

Cao Fan’s hands trembled uncontrollably, his eyes nearly popping out as he spoke incoherently, "The achievements after the fourth crossing... directly caused the entire West Qi army to retreat, meaning... this Ming State campaign has been subdued by Chen Sansi leading merely three thousand men!"

"One man, settles one state!"

"This is not just first merit, it’s Heavenly Merit!"

"It’s among the top ten Heavenly Merits in the over three hundred years of the Great Sheng Dynasty!"

"Princely Heir!"

Sha Wenlong, seeing that the other party was about to collapse, hurriedly stepped forward to support him, "Princely Heir!"

"General Sha, I can’t compete with him anymore..."

Cao Fan had to admit, "Not just me, from now on, no one in the younger generation can compete with him."

"A towering tree invites the wind, which is not necessarily a good thing; he will have to face even more troubles in the future!"

Sha Wenlong persuaded, "Moreover, the Princely Heir, there will still be opportunities in the future. Once we return, after resting and regrouping for a year or so, we will campaign across the grassland to suppress the barbarian tribes. The merit from such a campaign is much greater than that from quelling this rebellion!"

"General Sha."

With gritted teeth, Cao Fan said, "Tell me why Yu Song would disobey orders? If he hadn’t, the result would have been all of the Chen men dying on the way to attack Yangchun Prefecture. You and I leading over a thousand cavalry to break through and attack the enemy from behind at Sword Gate Canyon, in coordination with General Lü, would have scored us a major victory. This Heavenly Merit, it should have been ours; it was meant to be ours!"

"The Princely Heir is right; how dare an Assistant General disobey orders!"

Clenching his fist so tightly it cracked, Sha Wenlong said, "Once we return, I will personally list his crimes clearly! If all generals were to act as he did, I think we might as well not have fought this war at all; everything would have been thrown into chaos!"

...

Luo Tian Pass.

"Liang Jinian is dead!"

"You rebels, surrender quickly, or face the eradication of your entire family, leaving not one alive!"

"..."

Chen Sansi’s forces were reduced to barely fifteen hundred men, and wherever they went, all would surrender at the mere whiff of their presence. Not until they joined forces with the Capital City Guard Army did they completely secure Luo Tian Pass and stabilize the situation in the south.

At the same time, they also received news of Dong An taking his own life.

"This man was really one for splitting hairs."

Chen Sansi knew.

With Dong An’s death, it meant the war had ended.

"General Chen!"

Lu Shuhua and the others were ecstatic, "You have led us to achieve such Heavenly Merit!"

"Indeed."

Xie Sishu continued, "And not just merit, we have learned a lot by following you this time."

"More than that!"

Yan Changqing said admiringly, "When I return, I’m going to thoroughly review the entire sequence of the Ming State rebellion campaign on a map, then document it. I believe it won’t be long before everyone in the Military Family treats it like a treasured resource!"

"General Chen!"

"Marshal Jiang and his men brought some fine wine; we shall drink to our fill tonight!"

"Let’s go, let’s go!"

"..."

While the group was cheering and celebrating,

Chen Sansi silently left, rode Qian Xun in search of something near Luo Tian Pass, and eventually found over thirty bodies in a valley dozens of miles away.

There were many wild wolves nearby.

Many of the bodies were gnawed beyond recognition.

Through the painstaking identification of a water bag that was once used to carry "Drunk Saint," he recognized the decomposed and headless body of Yu Song.

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"Qian Xun."

Chen Sansi patted the horse’s head, "Go, call Zhao Kang and the others over so we can take our brothers’ bodies back for a proper burial."

He turned around to gather local herbs to prevent the bodies from decomposing further, then planned to transport them all back to Liangzhou after the war had truly ended, so they could rest in their homeland.

The overall situation was already settled.

However, there would still be two to three months of cleanup to do.

Fortunately, no further danger would arise in the aftermath, and Chen Sansi and his men would merely have to follow the Capital Army, pushing forward unopposed. In most cases, they wouldn’t even need to engage in battle themselves, simply observing from the sidelines would suffice.