Chapter 161: If Song law cannot kill you, I will!

Block-Xia City!

It means a city built to block Western Xia from moving east.

This is the city closest to the Western Xia border, and also a vital military stronghold for blocking the Western Xia army's eastward advance.

"Daoist, please stop. This is a vital border stronghold. Please descend and proceed on foot!"

Atop the city wall, a middle-aged general clad in armor said slowly and sternly.

"Bring out your Commandant Han!"

Li Zhangsheng stood in the void and said bluntly.

"Commandant Han?! This... I wonder what urgent matter the Daoist has?!"

Sensing Li Zhangsheng's unfriendly tone, the middle-aged general asked, his scalp tingling.

"Urgent matter?!"

"Heh! Your Commandant Han colluded with Western Xia, privately releasing three thousand Western Xia Iron Harrier heavy cavalry under Helian Tieshu, along with numerous experts from the First Grade Hall, into the heartland of the Song Kingdom. You tell me if this is an urgent matter?!"

Seeing the middle-aged general's inquiry, Li Zhangsheng did not hide it and spoke directly.

"W-what?! That's impossible!"

The middle-aged general was greatly shocked and instinctively retorted.

"Don't be in such a rush! It's not over yet!"

"After Helian Tieshu entered the Song heartland, he slaughtered villages, burned, killed, and looted, committing every evil. At least five thousand innocent commoners died in hatred!"

"You tell me, is this an urgent matter?!"

Li Zhangsheng continued, "If you don't believe me, you can go ask the members of the Beggar Sect, you can go ask Qiao Feng!"

"Leader Qiao Feng knows about this too?!"

The middle-aged general's expression changed, and he was at a loss.

He knew that Leader Qiao Feng of the Beggar Sect was righteous and upright. If even Leader Qiao could testify, then this matter was nine times out of ten true.

Currently, it had been less than a day since the incident at Apricot Forest, so this middle-aged general did not yet know that Qiao Feng was no longer the leader of the Beggar Sect.

"Commandant Han actually colluded with Western Xia?!"

"Three thousand Western Xia Iron Harrier heavy cavalry, plus a group of First Grade Hall experts?! This... what exactly does Commandant Han want to do?!"

"Slaughtering villages, over five thousand innocent commoners died unjustly?! This... if this is true, Commandant Han deserves to die!"

"Even Leader Qiao Feng can testify! Then it must be true!"

"Right! If I remember correctly, five days ago, Commandant Han ordered us to seal the camp gates tight, no matter what happened outside... I heard the sound of warhorses thundering at the time, and you all said I heard wrong..."

"..."

Suddenly, on the city wall, the soldiers began to discuss it one after another.

Some soldiers' expressions changed as they thought of the night five days ago...

"Nonsense!"

Just then, a middle-aged man wearing a Confucian robe and a square cap strode out, glaring at Li Zhangsheng.

This middle-aged man was none other than Commandant Han, who guarded Block-Xia City!

Because Block-Xia City was close to the Western Xia border and was a vital military stronghold, the Commandant was the highest military officer in the city.

And everyone knew the national situation of the Song Kingdom: civil officials governed the military. Therefore, this Commandant Han was a middle-aged scholar.

"Who exactly are you?! How dare you frame this general?!"

Commandant Han asked viciously, but before Li Zhangsheng could respond, he put on an expression of sudden realization, "This general understands. I have guarded Block-Xia City for many years, preventing the Western Xia army from advancing even an inch!"

"And in order to move east, Western Xia sent you to falsely accuse me, to cut off one of the imperial court's arms, causing chaos in Block-Xia City so it could be breached by Western Xia!"

"What a vicious, ruthless scheme!"

Commandant Han, turning black into white, pointed at Li Zhangsheng and directly counter-attacked, "Soldiers, this person is definitely a Western Xia spy!"

"Shoot him—"

Whoosh!

Li Zhangsheng flicked his large sleeve, and a terrifying, surging supreme force arrived, directly knocking the soldiers on the city wall to the ground. Their weapons fell, clattering against the wall.

"Commandant Han! What else do you have to say now?!"

Li Zhangsheng asked unhurriedly.

The reason he was certain Commandant Han colluded with Western Xia was because Li Zhangsheng had learned it from the minds of the Western Xia King Li Liangzuo and numerous civil and military officials.

"Y-you... Great Hero, spare my life!"

Commandant Han was terrified, a trace of fear flashing in his eyes. With a thud, he knelt directly on the ground, begging Li Zhangsheng for mercy.

Damn it!

To let Helian Tieshu successfully enter the heartland, I used a small trick to transfer away the many Heavenly Man martial artists guarding Block-Xia City. I didn't expect Helian Tieshu to be such trash. Slaughtering villages is one thing, but he actually got discovered.

Damn it! Helian Tieshu really deserves to die!

And he calls himself the Western Xia General of the East, a peak Heavenly Man martial artist? Is this it?!

It's simply dog shit!

And Western Xia, they are also a bunch of trash!

If you wanted to move east, you should have planned it properly. It's only been a few days, and you've already been discovered?!

Too useless!

Commandant Han cursed inwardly, feeling deep regret.

Had he known Western Xia was such trash, he shouldn't have colluded with them!

But then again, this couldn't really be blamed on him!

It was truly because Western Xia... gave too much!

I had no choice!

Commandant Han wailed in his heart.

"Is this your last will?!"

Li Zhangsheng looked down, his expression without the slightest ripple.

Because of this Commandant Han, over five thousand innocent commoners had returned to the Yellow Springs. He could not think of a reason to spare Commandant Han.

"Y-you cannot kill me!"

"I am a Commandant! Even if I committed a crime, it should be the imperial court that punishes me!"

"You have no right to kill me!"

Commandant Han, sensing the killing intent in Li Zhangsheng's heart, immediately shouted out.

"Commandant Han, it really was you?! Why... why did you do this..."

That middle-aged general was on the verge of collapse.

The highest military officer guarding Block-Xia City, a Commandant, actually colluded with Western Xia?!

It was incredible that Block-Xia City had managed to hold out for so long.

"Commandant Han... pfft! You, still worthy of being a Commandant?!"

"Traitor! A great traitor!"

"..."

The soldiers were all stunned, cursing Commandant Han one after another.

"Hmph! What do you know?! A bunch of brutes who don't read the books of sages!" ===== CHAPTER 163 =====