156: Chapter 156 The Confused Kang Bo

That sharp-featured lieutenant followed behind him, scrambling and crawling, holding Kang Bo's heart-protecting mirror in his hands. His face was pale with fright, and he couldn't even speak clearly at this moment.

Kang Bo hurriedly threw his iron armor onto his body while his mind raced with frantic calculations.

Impossible!

Absolutely impossible!

Although Yunzhou City wasn't too far from Ze City, there were several mountain peaks separating them.

If an army of ten thousand really set out...

How could there be no word of it at all?

Furthermore...

What kind of thing is that Su Bai anyway?

He's just a green youth who recently clung to the coattails of Prefect Li Han!

How many days has it been since he took over the Yunzhou Army?

By all accounts, even if he recruited all the local thugs in the city and the Bandits outside, it would be a stretch if he could scrape together a few thousand capable soldiers!

Where would he get an army of ten thousand?

Not to mention provisions and armaments; these days, war is all about money and grain.

How could a General of the Chariots from a peasant background like Su Bai support the consumption of ten thousand people?

Something's wrong!

Something is definitely wrong here.

Kang Bo took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing the panic in his heart.

He had been in the military for twenty years; he wasn't someone who could be easily scared.

This kind of illogical troop movement had only one possibility: it was a bluff.

Yes, it must be a bluff.

That kid Su Bai must be trying to take advantage of his unstable footing, using some low-handed empty-fort strategy to scare him, hoping to defeat the enemy without a fight!

Thinking of this, Kang Bo's heart settled slightly.

As long as this army of ten thousand was fake, then the walls of Ze City were definitely not something a mere few hundred or thousand people could easily breach.

As long as he held his ground and defended for a few days...

Once the Yunzhou Army's provisions were exhausted, they would naturally have to scurry back to Yunzhou City.

"Scared of what?! Everyone, stay steady for me!"

Kang Bo snatched the helmet from the lieutenant's hands, jammed it heavily onto his head, kicked open the gates of the manor, and rushed out, shouting loudly:

"Notify the guards at the four gates! If anyone dares to retreat half a step, I'll hack them alive first! The rest of you, follow me to the city walls!"

When Kang Bo climbed onto the eastern city wall of Ze City, he took one look, and his whole being felt unwell.

Under the night sky...

Firelight covered the hills and plains.

The sound of war drums rose wave after wave, mingled with battle cries.

That Aura—never mind an army of ten thousand, people would believe it even if you said there were thirty thousand outside.

Kang Bo gripped the city wall tightly with both hands, his small eyes staring fixedly at the firelight outside.

Cold sweat immediately began to pour down.

The more he looked, the more he felt something was off.

The Aura was terrifying, but why was there no sound of siege engines advancing?

Why were there no suicide squads setting up scaling ladders at the base of the wall?

All thunder and no rain?

Kang Bo suddenly narrowed his eyes, circulating Qi to his eyes, and then looked into the firelight below.

With this look, his heart was instantly filled with wild joy.

Illusions!

These damn things aren't real people at all!

They are illusions created by a Formation.

"Hahahaha!"

After Kang Bo realized this, he immediately burst into wanton laughter on the city wall, laughing so hard that tears almost came out.

He knew it.

He knew this Su Bai was just putting on a show.

Trying to deceive an old general with such inferior illusions?

He was almost bluffed by that kid!

"Open your eyes and look clearly! Everything outside is fake! It's an illusion!"

Kang Bo turned around and kicked the backside of a guard who was shivering with fear, shouting arrogantly.

"That little brat Su Bai doesn't have many troops at all; he's just trying to scare us. As long as we hold the city gates, he won't be able to get in even if he screams his throat raw outside."

Just as Kang Bo was getting carried away with himself, a burst of hurried screams suddenly drifted over from behind the city wall.

"Ah—!!"

"The enemy is on the wall! Stop them quickly!!"

Those few screams caused Kang Bo to freeze in place.

Snapping back to his senses, Kang Bo whipped his head toward the direction of the sound.

With this look, his heart instantly went cold.

How much time had passed?

A full unit of the Yunzhou Army had actually managed to sneak onto the city wall?

Those Yunzhou Army soldiers hadn't launched a frontal assault at all.

They had used unknown means to sneak up from the western base where the defenses were weakest.

This group of people was like a pack of killing gods crawling out of Hell.

The leader was none other than Ma Lie; at this moment, the broad-backed saber in his hand was already completely stained red with blood.

He didn't care for any specific Moves.

With every swing of his saber, he surged with his full Qi, directly cleaving both the person and their weapon in half.

The Yunzhou Army soldiers following behind Ma Lie were each as fierce as wolves and tigers.

After a period of modern training, these soldiers were now all broad-shouldered and thick-waisted; in terms of physique alone, they far surpassed the soldiers of Ze City.

In the Qi Refining stage, the gap could still be seen through physical build.

Otherwise,

They operated in groups of three, forming small Formations, thrusting spears and hacking with steel sabers, cooperating with flawless tacit understanding.

The old, weak, and disabled of Ze City—who usually only knew how to oppress the commoners and embezzle military funds—were like paper in front of these true elites, unable to withstand even a single encounter.

It's over!

Watching this scene, only these two words remained in Kang Bo's mind.

A feint to the east while attacking the west!

The illusions of ten thousand people outside the city weren't meant to scare him at all, but to cover this spearhead unit's ascent onto the wall.

That young man named Su Bai was not only ruthless but also cunning.

At this moment, Kang Bo's mind was in complete disarray as he watched the scene.

Before Kang Bo could speak, he felt a shudder run through his entire body.

On the city wall not far from Kang Bo, a slender figure flipped up from an embrasure and landed steadily in front of him.

Su Bai!

Su Bai wasn't wearing any armor at all, just a set of black night-traveling clothes, holding his long saber upside down in his hand.

The night wind blew past.

Su Bai looked at Kang Bo with a calm gaze.

That look was as if he were looking at a corpse.

There was no nonsense.

Not even an opening remark.

As soon as Su Bai stood firm, his feet suddenly exerted force, causing several cracks to appear in the green bricks of the city wall.

His entire person shot toward Kang Bo like a projectile!

The long saber in his hand carried a sharp whistle that tore through the air, drawing a white flash in mid-air, enveloped in sharp Qi as it slashed directly at Kang Bo's head.

Too fast!

So fast that Kang Bo didn't even have time to make any defensive movements.

Under the absolute suppression of strength, Kang Bo could only watch helplessly as the long saber in Su Bai's hand drew closer and closer.

Under the survival instinct of a life-or-death moment, Kang Bo let out a roar, exhausted every last ounce of strength in his body, and forcibly twisted his body to the right.

"Puchi!"

The sound of a sharp blade entering flesh rang out.

Although Su Bai's strike didn't hit Kang Bo's head, it landed solidly on his left shoulder.

The sharp blade instantly sliced through the iron armor on Kang Bo's body.

As if cutting through tofu, it embedded itself deeply into his flesh.