278: Chapter 278 Taking Jade Dragon City

Before long.

The Yulong Prefecture Commandant tentatively shouted down below, "May I ask, female general, where do you come from, and what is your purpose in coming to our Yulong City?"

Clearly, they mistook Nangong Hongyan, who was wearing armor, for the commanding general.

"Husband, how should I answer?"

Nangong Hongyan asked Chen Hu somewhat nervously.

"Tell them we are the Fierce Tiger Army and order them to surrender!" Chen Hu said.

Consequently, Nangong Hongyan immediately responded in a loud voice, "We are the Fierce Tiger Army, and Yulong City is already in our grasp. If you know what is good for you, open the city gates and come out to surrender. Otherwise, once the main army behind me arrives, I will surely make you all perish!"

After shouting this, Nangong Hongyan looked at Chen Hu, "Husband, how was my response?"

"Full of dominance!"

Chen Hu praised her.

"Giggle!" Having received Chen Hu's praise, Nangong Hongyan could not help but laugh shyly, "Husband, you really know how to flatter."

Meanwhile, the people on the city wall understood the origins of Chen Hu and his group as soon as they heard the words "Fierce Tiger Army."

"Prefect, what should we do? Should we surrender or defend to the death?"

An official asked.

"We eat the imperial court's salary; how could we surrender to a rebel!" Prefect Xue Ao snorted coldly. He had managed Yulong Prefecture for many years; how could he easily surrender to the rebel army?

Subsequently, Prefect Xue Ao ordered the Yulong Prefecture Commandant to reply, directly rejecting Chen Hu.

"Husband, they have rejected us. What should we do?"

Nangong Hongyan asked Chen Hu once again.

"Give them a shock!"

Chen Hu smiled nonchalantly, then said, "Send two hundred men to take them down for me!"

Immediately, two hundred soldiers stepped out from behind him.

Then they rushed rapidly toward the city wall.

Seeing that Chen Hu had only sent two hundred soldiers to attack the city, and without using any siege equipment.

Everyone on the city wall was stunned.

One official couldn't help but say, "Is the commander of this Fierce Tiger Army brain-damaged? Are they here to make a joke?"

The Yulong Prefecture Commandant did not respond to the official but kept his eyes locked on the two hundred soldiers below.

Previously, separated by several hundred meters, he could not sense the cultivation of these soldiers.

But as these soldiers approached, he sensed it.

He sensed that the 200 Black Armor Soldiers rushing toward the city wall were all in the Bone Refining Realm.

"Archers, shoot quickly! Do not let them get close!"

The Yulong Prefecture Commandant shouted in a panic, his eyes filled with disbelief.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"

Under his command, the archers on the city wall immediately picked up their bows and arrows to shoot downward.

Arrows flew straight toward the 200 Black Armor Soldiers below.

But the result made the hearts of the officials watching from the city wall sink.

Because out of the hundreds of arrows shot, not a single one hit the 200 soldiers below.

Furthermore, after just one volley.

These soldiers were already less than 50 meters from the city wall.

"Quick, keep shooting!"

The Yulong Prefecture Commandant urged.

Another rain of arrows fell.

What delighted the officials on the city wall was that this time, many were hit.

But soon, they couldn't laugh anymore.

Because the arrows that hit the 200 soldiers below simply fell off their armor.

Therefore, just like last time, the volley was completely useless.

Just then.

The 200 soldiers actually stepped on the city wall and sprinted toward the top.

"They are all Bone Refining Realm experts! Retreat quickly!"

Watching the 200 soldiers sprinting on the city wall, the Yulong Prefecture Commandant let out a desperate wail.

"What?"

"Commandant, are you not joking?"

"Bone Refining Realm as soldiers, how is that possible!"

...

Hearing the Yulong Prefecture Commandant's cry, the officials found it hard to believe.

What is the concept of a Bone Refining Realm Martial Artist?

In a Prefecture City, they could establish a first-rate power; in a Commandery City, they would be an absolute local tyrant.

Now, someone was telling them that 200 Bone Refining Realm experts had actually taken the Incarnation of common soldiers attacking the city.

The Yulong Prefecture Commandant no longer had the mood or time to respond to those officials.

He flicked his long spear, which turned into a streak of black light, thrusting toward a Black Armor Soldier who had just popped up on the city wall.

"Clang!"

The Black Armor Soldier who had popped up supported himself on the city wall with one hand and swung his blade with the other, colliding with the spear.

Then, the Yulong Prefecture Commandant felt a massive force coming from the web of his hand, almost making him lose his grip on the spear.

Before he could react.

That Black Armor Soldier had already leaped onto the city wall, the long blade in his hand turning into a streak of light.

"Pfft!"

The blade flashed and vanished, breaking through the Yulong Commandant's armor and leaving a gruesome wound on his left arm.

Just then.

More and more Black Armor Soldiers climbed onto the city wall.

The Yulong Commandant was directly besieged by two Black Armor Soldiers, and in merely two moves, his head was severed.

Seeing that the Yulong Commandant was dead, the soldiers' morale plummeted, and they threw down their weapons and knelt to surrender.

And those officials were all captured alive.

Soon.

The city gate was reopened.

Nangong Hongyan couldn't help but say, "Husband, we took a Prefecture City so quickly?"

"How difficult did you think it would be?"

Chen Hu asked in return.

"Never mind, I was treating the soldiers under Husband as ordinary soldiers!"

Nangong Hongyan said with a laugh.

If it were ordinary soldiers, to take a city like Yulong Prefecture City.

It would take ten days or half a month, and many soldiers would die.

Unlike the soldiers under Chen Hu's command, who breached a Prefecture City without a single death.

After entering the city.

Chen Hu divided his soldiers into three teams.

One team went to take the other three city gates, the second team went to the prefecture army barracks to take control, and the third team went to the prefectural office to take control.

There were still Constables and yamen runners stationed inside the prefectural office.

But they were simply no match for the Black Armor Soldiers. Furthermore, since the Prefect, the Chief Constable, and 70% of the officials had been captured, their will to resist was not high.

Therefore, the prefectural office was soon taken as well.

Subsequently, Chen Hu ordered someone to open the prefecture treasury.

He was immediately dumbfounded, because there were only a little over one hundred thousand taels of silver in the treasury, a few hundred sets of tattered armor, and two hundred pieces of weaponry.

Afterward, he opened the official granary and found that the grain inside was also pitifully scarce.

"Damn, the officials of this Yulong Prefecture are even greedier than those in Linjiang Prefecture!" Chen Hu said, feeling speechless.

"Husband, what should we do then?"

Nangong Hongyan asked.

"Of course, we raid their homes!"

Chen Hu sneered, then he brought up the System Mall and started purchasing Puppet officials.

As the Puppet officials appeared.

A list of Yulong Prefecture officials was quickly organized.

Under Chen Hu's order, these Puppet officials immediately took the Black Armor Soldiers to raid their homes.

First was the residence of Prefect Xue Ao.

Unlike that guy Prefect Yang Ze, this fellow had his own residence in Yulong Prefecture.

And it was large in scale, covering dozens of acres.

Just raiding Prefect Xue Ao's residence took a full two hours.

The wealth confiscated was also shocking enough.

Just in silver, there were over 20 million taels, and over 2 million taels of gold.

Besides that, there were 8 million taels in silver notes and over 300 thousand taels in gold notes.

Added together, that was over 50 million taels.

Moreover, this old geezer Prefect Xue Ao was extremely lustful and kept over thirty concubines in his residence.

Besides that, there were over 100 stunning maidservants and over 200 dancing girls.

Of course, as a Prefect, what he embezzled was definitely not just gold and silver.

The jewelry, ornaments, and jade ware searched from his residence, when converted into silver, were worth over 10 million taels.

Calligraphy and paintings were hard to value and were not estimated for now.

But the real estate deeds and such, added together, were also worth over 30 million taels.

There were also Medicinal Pills, Spirit Medicine, divine weapons, etc., which, when converted to silver, were worth over 20 million taels.

The total was directly over 100 million.

Compared with Prefect Xue Ao, Prefect Yang Ze was merely a small fry; this guy was the true massive embezzler.