The deputy general answered in a low voice.
The figure clad in dark red armor silently glanced at the deputy general beside him, then inquired softly, "Since the Miao Family has treated us so well, and now that we are indeed trapped in a desperate situation, should we remain loyal to the Miao Family?"
Without any hesitation, the deputy general’s expression was steadfast as he responded, "Of course... we should."
It was naturally present in the deputy general’s heart.
These, too, were naturally present in the deputy general’s heart.
However, if no matter what, one ultimately cannot escape death...
Rather than leading a life in shameful survival, it would be better to die with loyalty to the Miao Family.
This would not let the kindness the Miao Family had shown go to waste.
"Loyal to the end, hm?"
When the officer clad in dark red armor heard this, his eyes slightly narrowed.
He silently watched the deputy general’s pair of eyes behind him.
And his extremely resolved face.
Afterward, he could only heave a sigh of helplessness.
He extended his right hand and drew the longsword at his waist.
And directly chopped off the head of the deputy general behind him.
In a moment, crimson blood splattered everywhere.
The smell of blood gradually began to spread.
The round head of the deputy general was now slowly falling to the ground.
The deputy general’s bulging eyes seemed to say...
And when the officer in dark red armor saw the deputy general’s incredulous gaze,
he couldn’t help but sigh again and muttered softly, "Brother, don’t blame my ruthlessness, I did give you a chance, but who knew you wouldn’t cherish it..."
"Chenguan Prefecture, the Miao family, indeed treated me not badly."
"But with my cultivation level and strength,"
"Where can’t I be treated as an honored guest?"
"Just for a little bit of kindness, they want me to die for the Miao family of Chenguan Prefecture?"
"Ha, that seems a bit too wishful thinking..."
"I’ve held out for a month, that should be considered doing my utmost, right..."
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After murmuring to himself,
The commander in dark red armor then shouted to the soldiers inside the city, "Open the city gates!!!"
As this cry echoed gradually within the city,
All the soldiers inside turned their heads, some with surprised looks toward their own general.
Some people, after their surprise,
Displayed a bit of hesitation and struggle in their eyes.
Others showed a trace of understanding on their faces.
After all, under the collective cooling of those thousand Cooling Charms,
These soldiers, who had little to no cultivation, were almost frozen to death, yet they still had not opened the city gates to surrender...
Were they really ready to go down with the ship for the Miao Family of Chenguan Prefecture???
Of course, there were those who wanted to surrender.
There were also many of the Miao family’s brainwashed diehards in the army.
So, after a struggle between those who wanted to live and those diehards loyal to the Miao Family,
The side desiring life eventually prevailed.
Soon after, the city gate of this fortress
Was also slowly opened.
"Father, the city gate has opened..."
At the border of the Miao family in Chenguan Prefecture.
Outside a fortress with extremely thick city walls.
Luo Qingshan silently put away the three strands of yellow Buddhist beads on his left wrist.
He then said in a low voice to Luo Yong beside him.
"They’ve actually chosen to open the city gates?"
"Under the intimidation of the talisman’s power, they have ultimately chosen to surrender?"
The great deceiver Tang Jian, in a Taoist robe, holding a white feather fan, seemed utterly relaxed.
At this moment, he squinted his eyes,
Gently swaying the white feather fan in his hands as he watched the gradually opening city gate.
"Reasonable, isn’t it?"
Tang Jian thought to himself in silence.
In front of Tang Jian and Luo Qingshan,
The ever-silent Luo Yong,
Was now slowly walking forward.
In the blink of an eye, several days had passed.
In Qingshi City on the Luo Family Ancestral Land,
Inside the room of the Luo Family Patriarch,
Luo Ping, the current head of the Luo Family, sat silently in the main seat,
Holding a wartime report that had come from the front line in his hands.
He skimmed through it with slightly narrowed eyes.
"In just a few days, have we taken over more than twenty fortresses?"
"Nearly equal to a whole prefecture’s land, now fallen into the hands of our Luo Family?"
Luo Ping then placed the war report he held on the table.
Over the past month, the Miao Family of Chenguan Prefecture indeed held back the Luo Family’s advance.
A month’s time allowed Chenguan Prefecture’s Miao Family and Xunyang Prefecture’s Ke Family to make great progress in their attack on Changli Prefecture.
But, that was just about it.
Since the first fortress in the border land of Chenguan Prefecture fell to the Luo Family,
The entire prefecture had been forcefully breached by the Luo Family.
Following that, the Luo Family’s siege speed would become faster and faster,
Until, the so-called million-strong clad elite forces
Rushed forth, directly arriving outside the city where the Miao Family resided.
In Qingshi City on the Luo Family Ancestral Land,
Within the courtyard where the Ancestor of the Luo Family resided,
Luo Changfeng stood silently beside a Half Spirit Field,
With hands behind his back, he calmly observed the several dozen spiritual medicines growing very well within the field,
And the young sprout with green foliage,
Surrounded by swirls of spiritual power and robust vitality.