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Chapter 997 Si Luoying, Xuanhuang Army!

"Jing Ni!"

Jing Ni was still wearing her tight-fitting fishnet outfit, the silk gauze glowing with a faint blue light under the candlelight. The Jing Ni sword in her hand hummed incessantly, and the pearl on the sword tassel echoed the compass at Su Ye's waist.

"Your Highness!"

The woman's voice was clear and cold like an icy spring, yet a hint of allure appeared when she looked up.

"Have the Luo Wang (Net of Heaven) send a message to the Third Princess, saying..."

Su Ye stroked the spine of the sword, his fingertips pausing on the words "Jing Ni".

"Just tell them... I have prepared the nuptial wine in Qianling County."

Su Ye looked at the bustling Qian army camp outside the tent and suddenly curled the corners of his lips.

"promise."

The tassel of Jingni's sword suddenly tightened, the blue light of the Eastern Pearl shone brightly, and the woman knelt on one knee. The curves of her fishnet dress, stretched taut, resembled flowing mercury under the candlelight.

"Your Highness...do you really intend to marry those pampered princesses?"

She turned to leave, but then looked back.

"Spoiled and pampered?"

"How could someone who dared to follow Gu Changqing under his command, leading a thousand heavily armored cavalry in a night raid on the royal camp of the northern grasslands, so soon after joining the army, be a hothouse flower?"

Su Ye chuckled softly, her fingertips tracing the raised notch on the compass at her waist.

"The Xuanhuang Army under Luo Ying's command is a hundred times more difficult to deal with than the Crimson Armor Army under Tan Mengjun's command."

He watched Jing Ni's departing figure, then suddenly pointed his fingers together to form a sword and carved the character "Luo" on the table. He thought of the "Xuanhuang Army" that Si Luoying had enthusiastically formed in Hengzhou after obtaining his consent.

...

Meanwhile, behind Qianling County, the locust and poplar trees along the Hengzhou official road rustled in the spring breeze, and the Xuanhuang Army's supply wagons rolled over the bluestone road, leaving two winding water trails.

Si Luoying, who was at the head of the group, reined in her horse. Her black cloak swept across the dark jade saddle. She looked at the army formation stretching like a dragon in the distance, and a smug smile appeared on her lips.

"Sister Gongsun, look, these Mo family mechanical beasts are much more useful than laborers."

"These mechanical beasts were specially transferred by Jin Yu from the Mo family branch in Cangzhou, saying they were for the exclusive use of my Xuanhuang Army."

She pointed her whip at the bronze behemoths that were carrying grain and fodder. The mechanical beasts had ball bearings embedded in their feet, and they moved as if walking on flat ground on the muddy official road.

"Our lord is certainly willing to spend a fortune. These twelve mechanical chariots are probably equivalent to the baggage of an entire army of several thousand men in the Great Qian Dynasty."

Gongsun Ba rode alongside her, the Flaming Prison Corpse Fangs humming incessantly in their sheaths. This female general, who had once accompanied Su Ye in his conquest of Hengzhou, gazed at the willow catkins filling the sky, her voice carrying the unique hoarseness of the North.

"But... is the Third Princess really going to take these precious darlings to Calabash Valley to face danger?"

She removed the faceplate, revealing a menacing flame tattoo on her left cheek.

"Sister Gongsun, you underestimate us again! My Xuanhuang Army has three thousand light cavalry equipped with Mo family repeating crossbows, five hundred heavy armored soldiers equipped with trebuchets, and more..."

Si Luoying's eyebrows furrowed, and the seven Eastern Pearls clattered against the Xuanhuang Heart-Protecting Mirror.

"Jinyu even gave me three of the 'Crimson Phoenix,' the latest weapon developed by the Mohist school!"

She suddenly lowered her voice mysteriously.

"Red Phoenix?"

Gongsun Ba's pupils contracted slightly, and even Yan Tengji snorted.

As a general in Hengzhou, she naturally knew the value of these three mechanical birds—bronze giants with wingspans of several feet, carrying sulfur bombs and oil canisters in their bellies. They could burn through not only ordinary military camps, but even Meng Zhang's Azure Dragon Formation!

"Exactly!"

"Jinyu said this is called... something like 'asymmetric warfare'. Our Xuanhuang Army specializes in surprise attacks, while we let the veterans fight on the main battlefield."

Si Luoying proudly stroked the sword at her waist; the jade dragon-patterned buckle on the tassel matched the one on Su Ye's waist.

Before he could finish speaking, the cawing of crows suddenly came from afar. Si Luoying looked up and saw the black eagle of the Net circling above the army formation, the secret report silk tied between its claws gleaming with a dark blue light.

She took off the silk cloth, and soon after, her hands suddenly began to tremble. Gongsun Ba clearly saw her fingertips digging into her palms.

"Grand Tutor...is he dead?"

Si Luoying's voice was like a blade chilled by ice. She stared at the four vermilion seal characters "Blood-Soaked Gourd Valley" on the silk, and a metallic taste rose in her throat.

Ten years ago, on that snowy night, she was a princess of marriageable age, watching Gu Changqing lead his army north on a northern expedition at the Vermilion Bird Gate with her father.

"Your Majesty, I shall carve out a path to survival for the Great Qian Dynasty."

The wolf head pattern on the old general's silver armor gleamed coldly in the snow, he said at that moment.

"Please accept my deepest condolences, Third Princess."

"Now that the Grand Tutor is gone, we should..."

Gongsun Ba, who was standing to the side, also glanced at the scroll of silk that Luowang had sent. Then he reached out and supported Si Luoying's swaying shoulder, and the Blazing Soul Halberd struck the ground with a muffled thud.

"We must win!"

"Meng Zhang thinks he can crush the morale of our Great Qian army by killing the Grand Tutor? He has misjudged Jin Yu, and he has misjudged me even more!"

Si Luoying suddenly opened her phoenix eyes wide, her pupils bloodshot.

"Order the entire army! Speed ​​up the march!"

She suddenly ripped off the hairpin in her hair, letting her black hair fall loose.

The Xuanhuang Army suddenly accelerated, the sound of gears meshing and horses' hooves intertwining to create a metallic torrent.

"Sister Gongsun, if we win this battle, Jinyu said she wants to drink the nuptial wine with me."

Si Luoying gazed at the red sparrow that was faintly visible in the clouds and suddenly raised her voice.

"My lord certainly knows how to pick his timing. But... isn't the Third Princess afraid that if he loses the battle, the nuptial wine will turn into a death sentence?"

"My lord certainly knows how to pick his timing. But... isn't the Third Princess afraid that if he loses the battle, the nuptial wine will turn into a death sentence?"

Gongsun Ba galloped on her left, the Yan Tengji scattering sparks as it shattered the stones.

"He won't."

"I believe in him. He won't lose, much less... he won't fail!"

Si Luoying suddenly chuckled, her eyes still streaked with tears, yet she was as beautiful as a peach blossom.

"So the Third Princess willingly became his..."

Gongsun Ba paused for a moment, then looked at Si Luoying with some curiosity.

"As his knife?"

Si Luoying picked up the conversation, her sharp gaze sweeping over the military flag.

"Being able to serve as the Duke of Zhenguo's sword is better than being a caged bird in the deep palace."

She suddenly lurched onto the horse's belly, and the Xuanhuang Cloud-Treading Beast neighed as it leaped onto the earthen slope.

...

Three days later, thirty li outside Qianling County.

Inside the central command tent, Su Ye was deep in thought, staring at a sheepskin map.

"My lord, the Third Princess has arrived."

The neighing of warhorses came from outside the tent. Shi Jingsi lifted the curtain and entered, his armor still covered in the dust of battle.

Su Ye's fingertips paused suddenly, and the wolf-hair brush spread ink stains on the three characters "Qianling Pass".

When he looked up, the curtain had already been lifted from the outside.

Si Luoying wore a black rabbit fur cloak, and the tassel of her sword at her waist was adorned with seven pearls, each engraved with a different constellation pattern.

Twelve golden-armored female guards followed behind her, their black phoenix arm guards gleaming faintly in the twilight.

"Jinyu, when will we fight Meng Zhang again? I must..."

She removed her lion helmet, revealing her long, flowing hair and a striking, heroic air about her.

"Don't rush... Luo Ying, look at the sand table."

Su Ye turned around, and the gold threads on her white robe shimmered like a galaxy in the candlelight.

"Meng Zhang deliberately feigned weakness to the enemy, but in reality, he had already laid a trap here."

"If I hadn't retreated in time, the hundreds of thousands of troops that the Great Qian had painstakingly assembled would have been destroyed in an instant."

His sword tip touched the canyon marked with cinnabar.