Chapter 92: Great Victory

“Brothers, charge in! Leave no one alive!”

“Capture Buyruq Khan, and you’ll be promoted three ranks!”

Li Xiao, covered in blood and gripping his horse lance, shouted sternly.

He took the lead, slaughtering madly within the Naiman formation, with the soldiers behind him following closely.

The Northern Frontier cavalry surged forward like a tide, fighting more bravely as the battle went on, and soon scattered the Northern Naiman cavalry.

“Great Khan, the Liao army’s offensive is too fierce; we can’t hold them back!”

“Retreat quickly!”

A Naiman general shouted loudly at Toqto Bolad.

Watching Li Xiao’s troops getting closer and closer, Toqto Bolad’s face turned ashen. He waved his scimitar and roared in anger.

“I won’t leave! I will live and die with my warriors!”

Unfortunately, facing the attack of Li Xiao’s army, the resistance of the Naiman soldiers became weaker and weaker, and they had already begun to scatter and flee.

These were the Naiman warriors Toqto Bolad trusted.

Seeing this situation, the Naiman general disregarded Toqto Bolad’s anger and shouted to the surrounding personal guards.

“Protect the Great Khan and leave!”

“As long as the Great Khan is still here, our Naiman tribe still has hope.”

“Go quickly!”

Thus, the personal guards immediately clustered around Toqto Bolad to leave; they didn’t want to throw their lives away on this battlefield for nothing.

“What are you doing? Let go of me! Let go of me!”

“You are harming me!”

“I won’t leave!”

“I will fight to the death against the Liao rebel army! Let go of me!”

Toqto Bolad was hustled away by his personal guards, still shouting loudly.

His voice grew further and further away…

Soon, Li Xiao could no longer see any resisting Naimans in front of him.

With Toqto Bolad’s escape, the surviving Naiman soldiers also fled one after another; no one was loyal enough to willingly throw away their life.

Li Xiao slowly reined in his warhorse and did not pursue Toqto Bolad.

Instead, he slowly took off his helmet, gasping for large mouthfuls of air mixed with the smell of blood.

“Damn, damn it.”

“So fucking tired.”

Li Xiao’s chest heaved constantly as he cursed.

The iron armor on his body weighed a full sixty or seventy jin; an ordinary person would find it difficult even to move wearing it.

Yet Li Xiao had worn it through two tough battles.

He was already exhausted, and the heavy cavalry behind him were in a similar state. On this vast grassland, they simply couldn’t catch up with Buyruq Khan.

“Uncle Liu, Uncle Luo, you two take men to help the Khitans,” Li Xiao shouted to Li Dashan and the other man.

Both of them led light cavalry and still had strength left at this moment.

“Yes, sir!”

After leaving a portion of the soldiers behind, the two led the main force to support Xiao Sima and defeat the main force of the Northern Naimans.

Li Xiao, on the other hand, slowly dismounted and sat on the ground to rest, also letting his warhorse recover its strength properly.

This buddy had suffered along with him.

But soon, he saw Xiao Yanyan riding over. The bloodstains on her body had become bright again.

“You…”

Li Xiao looked at Xiao Yanyan and shook his head speechlessly.

When would this woman truly listen to him?

But fortunately, the battle was ending soon, and there wouldn’t be much danger next, so Li Xiao couldn’t be bothered to lecture her.

In the distance, Xiao Sima’s grand army was fighting the Northern Naiman main force, and the situation was extremely dangerous.

But suddenly, the Northern Naiman army went into an uproar. Some soldiers began to scream frantically, constantly turning their heads to look around.

Expressions of panic and fear appeared on their faces.

The Naiman army instantly fell into chaos.

At this moment, Xiao Sima was covered in blood; he had already led his personal guards into the fray personally.

Seeing the abnormality of the Naiman soldiers, Xiao Sima wiped the blood from his face and asked in surprise, “What’s going on?”

Soon, a Khitan general ran excitedly towards Xiao Sima and shouted loudly, “My Lord, Thousand-Man Commander Li Xiao of Jin Prefecture led his army to attack Buyruq Khan’s central army!”

“Buyruq Khan has fled!”

Many surrounding Khitan soldiers also heard these words and instantly became excited.

“What?”

“Thousand-Man Commander Li Xiao of Jin Prefecture chased Buyruq Khan away?”

“Hahaha, we’re going to win!”

“Put your backs into it, brothers! Kill these dog-bred Naimans!”

The Khitan soldiers shouted and screamed excitedly.

Just a second ago, they were still struggling to resist the Naiman attack, and everyone’s heart was filled with hopeless despair.

Until the appearance of this news, like the sun clearing away the rain, the gloom dispersed.

The Khitan soldiers fell into ecstasy, and their will to fight began to burn fiercely.

The moment Xiao Sima heard this news, he also breathed a heavy sigh of relief, a smile of survival after a disaster appearing on his face.

“Hahahaha!”

“Good on you, Li Xiao! I really didn’t misjudge you!”

At this moment, he felt that the most correct decision he had made was to reuse and promote Li Xiao.

He had not failed his expectations.

In fact, what Li Xiao had achieved at this moment far exceeded Xiao Sima’s expectations.

“That kid is born material for war,” Xiao Sima laughed loudly.

His regard for Li Xiao shot up rapidly, and he practically treated him as his true right-hand man.

Soon, Li Dashan and Luo Ping arrived with their troops, pincer-attacking with Xiao Sima’s main force, and quickly routed the Naiman army.

Xiao Sima ordered men to pursue the Northern Naiman routed soldiers, and sent others to reinforce Xiao Lintuo and the others who were fighting a fierce battle with Tayang Khan’s army.

Only after arranging everything did he remember Li Xiao.

“Where is your Thousand-Man Commander? Take me to see him.”

Xiao Sima called out to a Han soldier.

Guided by him, they soon found Li Xiao’s location.

However, the moment he saw Li Xiao, the smile on Xiao Sima’s face vanished without a trace.

He saw Li Xiao sitting on a rock, with Xiao Yanyan squatting beside him holding a water skin, carefully feeding Li Xiao water.

Then she took out a clean handkerchief from her bosom and gently wiped the bloodstains from his face.

Her movements were gentle, and her eyes were full of concern and tenderness.

Seeing this scene from a distance, Xiao Sima’s old face instantly drooped, and his brows knitted into a frown.

“Hmph.”

With a light snort and looking stifled with anger, he strode forward.

“Aman, Li Xiao.”

Hearing Xiao Sima’s shout, a trace of surprise flashed across Xiao Yanyan’s face, and she hurriedly stood up and ran towards Xiao Sima.

“Big Brother, you’re finally here!”

Xiao Sima looked at his lively sister and said somewhat jealously, “Feeding water, wiping sweat, hehe…”

“Since we were little, I’ve never seen you be so attentive to me.”

Saying this, his gaze glared fiercely at Li Xiao.

Sensing this hostility, Li Xiao chuckled and slowly stood up.

But immediately, his body swayed weakly as if he were about to fall.

Seeing this, Xiao Yanyan hurriedly ran back to support Li Xiao.

She said to Xiao Sima in a blaming tone, “Big Brother, Li Xiao just charged and killed for a long time wearing heavy armor. His arms have lost all strength, that’s why I fed him water.”

“Don’t scare him.”

Hearing his sister defending Li Xiao, Xiao Sima’s eyelids twitched with anger.

Li Xiao took the opportunity to lean into Xiao Yanyan’s fragrant embrace, smelling the body scent from the woman’s neck, and said weakly to Xiao Sima.

“My Lord, please forgive me; this subordinate is being rude.”

“I really lack strength; I’ll be fine after resting for a while.”

Although Li Xiao looked serious on the surface, Xiao Sima found him an eyesore no matter how he looked.

The thought of valuing Li Xiao and relying on him as a right-hand man had long since flown away.

His favorability rating dropped directly to zero.

He gritted his teeth secretly, then glared fiercely at Li Xiao again and said, “This Prince just came by on the way to see how you are.”

“Since you aren’t injured, this Prince is relieved.”

“Rest well; this Prince still has to go check on the battle situation with Tayang Khan at the front.”

After speaking, Xiao Sima turned directly, mounted his horse, and was so angry he didn’t want to look at Li Xiao again.

He was afraid he wouldn’t be able to resist beating Li Xiao up.

After he had gone far, Xiao Yanyan pushed Li Xiao hard: “Hey, my brother is gone; get off.”

“So what if he’s gone? I still don’t have strength in my body,” Li Xiao mumbled.

He still leaned on Xiao Yanyan, not wanting to move.

On one hand, it was comfortable; on the other hand, he was truly tired.

“Alright, stop pretending.”

“I’m really not lying to you.” Li Xiao pretended to struggle to stand up.

But his body immediately fell heavily onto Xiao Yanyan.

Xiao Yanyan was caught off guard and was directly tackled onto the grass by Li Xiao.

The two rolled into a ball on the ground, sounds of laughter and scolding rising.

“You’re like a dead cow, so heavy.”

“You’re crushing me to death; get off!”

Li Xiao said in a wrongfully accused tone, “I told you I really don’t have strength, but you didn’t believe me.”

“I believe you, I believe you.”

“Hahaha, don’t move your hands around; it tickles.”

“You’re crushing my hair; get up!”

Watching the disheveled appearance of the two, Xiao Yanyan’s guards not far away looked dumbfounded, not knowing what to do for a moment.

“Did smoke rise from this Han man’s ancestral grave?”

Meanwhile, on the frontal battlefield, Tayang Khan learned the news of the defeat of Buyruq Khan’s ten thousand troops, and he was instantly stunned.

“Toqto Bolad, that piece of trash.”

“He was trash before, he is trash now, and he will always be trash.”

“It’s been less than four hours. Even if ten thousand goats were put on the grassland, the Liao people couldn’t catch them all in four hours.”

“Toqto Bolad is worse than a dog.”

Although Tayang Khan and Buyruq Khan were united as brothers in the big picture, in terms of personal conflict, the two were unsparing to each other.

Regarding this big brother, Buyruq Khan, Tayang Khan could rant for a day and a night without repeating himself.

Now, Tayang Khan had another reason to rant about him.

“Great Khan, let’s retreat.” A Naiman general interrupted Tayang Khan’s angry cursing and persuaded him instead.

“Toqto Bolad’s army has been scattered, and we have no reinforcements. If we continue to hold on, once the Liao people begin to adjust their forces, they will surround us.”

Tayang Khan’s eyes blazed with fire. He cursed fiercely a couple more times, but in the end, he could only helplessly issue the order to withdraw.