Chapter 350
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Chapter 350: Arrival at the Front Line
At this moment, anyone could tell how terrible Li Yuanjie’s mood was.
With nowhere to vent his anger, he kicked the door of a house by the roadside.
The entire door instantly flew open without any resistance.
It wasn’t because he was strong, it was because the door wasn’t locked at all.
Li Yuanjie vaguely felt that something was amiss and instinctively walked in for a look, only to find the entire house empty, not even a single soul!
“Something’s wrong…”
The pair of wolf ears on his head twitched.
Their wolf tribe’s hearing and smell had always been sharp.
However, ever since earlier, the entire city had been too quiet, as if there was no one else besides them.
As this thought arose, Li Yuanjie’s expression subtly changed, as if he had realized something.
He quickly rushed out of the house and pushed open the door of the house next door.
“Empty, empty! Still empty!”
Li Yuanjie’s face grew increasingly grim as he forced his way into several houses.
He vaguely realized a truth he absolutely did not want to face.
Are you kidding me? The city he had painstakingly attacked and captured was actually an empty city?!
For Li Yuanjie, humans were a crucial resource.
As previously mentioned, his beastman civilization had very low technological and productive capabilities.
Therefore, when they wanted something, they either directly snatched it from humans or captured humans along with it!
They would make those human slaves help them with production.
However, perhaps because the living environment of the beastman kingdom was simply too harsh for humans, almost all the humans he captured died within a few years.
He tried to solve this problem but ultimately found it unsolvable.
There was no other way, they could only continuously capture humans to serve them.
Therefore, humans and the weapons and equipment produced by humans became crucial resources that their beastman civilization coveted in every invasion war.
Given this premise, it was imaginable how furious Li Yuanjie was facing such an empty city.
Needless to say, with everyone in the city gone, how could the armory and granary still be full?
The only thing worth celebrating was probably that the equipment stripped from the dead bodies was still usable.
However, the wolfman warriors under him apparently didn’t want him to celebrate for too long.
A wolfman warrior, who quickly ran over, unhesitatingly reminded him of another reality that utterly enraged him.
That was the chain explosions that suddenly occurred on the city wall during the previous battle, directly blowing up all of his Red Fox archers and the 4 triple-bow crossbows on the wall.
This completely shattered Li Yuanjie’s composure.
It was truly his first time suffering such a huge loss in a night raid!
Moreover, facing such losses, especially the complete annihilation of the Red Fox archers, he would need to adjust for a few days and appease the army’s morale.
Meanwhile, on the other side, in Mirror City, the army personally led by Luo Ji officially set off amidst the pouring rain.
Worried about the front-line situation, he naturally activated the ‘Speed is of the Essence in War’ tactic, force-marching through the night.
They arrived at Shangyuan City on the morning of the second day.
By the way, the Xuanjia Army, led by Luo Yong, arrived half a day earlier than him.
On the other side, Liu Meng and Guo Zhen, having received his subsequent urgent reports, also temporarily changed their marching routes and arrived at Shangyuan City one after another through a forced march.
As soon as the army entered the city, Zhao Pan, who had been waiting in the city, immediately knelt upon seeing Luo Ji.
“Your humble general Zhao Pan greets Your Majesty. Please punish your humble general.”
As he spoke, Zhao Pan’s head had already heavily knocked against the ground.
The dull thud of his forehead hitting the ground made Luo Ji’s heart tighten.
Then, looking at Zhao Pan with his forehead pressed to the ground, Luo Ji couldn’t help but take a deep breath, then slowly said.
“Zhao Pan, victory and defeat are common in war. You don’t need to…”
He was only halfway through his sentence when Zhao Pan suddenly raised his head.
The moment their eyes met, Luo Ji felt as if two raging fires were burning in Zhao Pan’s dark eyes!
That was definitely not the gaze of a dejected person!
“Your Majesty, your humble general requests punishment here, not out of stubbornness over the defeat at Iron Wall City, but to request Your Majesty to grant your humble general another chance to personally slay those monsters and avenge the fallen soldiers!”
“After that, however Your Majesty wishes to deal with your humble general, even if it means death as atonement, your humble general will have no complaints!”
Zhao Pan’s resolve exceeded Luo Ji’s expectations.
Without a trace of discouragement, he had completely transformed the resentment and pain in his heart into a raging inferno of anger.
This situation undoubtedly made Luo Ji relieved.
Transforming it into anger and hatred was better than dwelling on it or falling into despair.
Thinking this, Luo Ji decisively nodded.
“Zhao Pan, I am very pleased that you think this way…”
However, as he spoke, a soldier in Shangyuan City furiously rode a fast horse toward them, alarming the guard unit beside Luo Ji, who were almost drawing their swords.
Seeing one of his own soldiers cause such a commotion, Zhou Ming, as the defending general of Shangyuan City, undoubtedly panicked and then shouted angrily.
“Presumptuous! His Majesty is here! Get off your horse at once!”
Under Zhou Ming’s angry shout, the soldier on horseback apparently also noticed Luo Ji’s presence.
Panicking, he directly fell off his horse.
Then, disregarding the pain, he quickly knelt on the ground.
“This humble one deserves death. I did not know Your Majesty was here. Please forgive me!”
“It’s alright.”
Looking at the terrified soldier, Luo Ji waved his hand.
“Speak, what happened? What makes you so flustered?”
“It’s outside the city, there’s a unit of monsters appearing outside the city!”
The moment they heard this, both Luo Ji, standing there, and Zhao Pan, kneeling on the ground, narrowed their eyes.
After instinctively exchanging a glance, Luo Ji quickly said.
“Let’s go, take a look!”
Leading a few generals and riding fast horses, they rode from Shangyuan City’s west gate to the east gate.
Then, ascending the wall, Luo Ji clearly saw a small unit approaching in the distance.
He quickly raised his binoculars for a closer look.
After discerning their appearance, Luo Ji’s pupils immediately constricted.
“Wolfmen?”
Luo Ji’s tone carried a hint of uncertainty.
Although he had seen wolfmen many times in games and movies, this was truly his first time seeing them in reality.
Zhao Pan, on the other hand, was even more agitated than him.
“It’s them!”
“Who?”
“That monster with the scar on its forehead, it should be the general of that monstrous army.”
Hearing this, Luo Ji subconsciously used his binoculars to confirm, then a strange expression appeared on his face.
“But this unit seems to have only 10 to 20 soldiers. Are there so few of them?”
“No.”
Zhao Pan shook his head.
“Your humble general remembers there were at least 500 of such monsters.”
“It seems they’re dragging three wooden carts behind them. In any case, let’s see what tricks they’re trying to pull.”
