Chapter 452: Out of Control, Intimidation and Naivety, Battle Situation Clear, So Beautiful

Chui Mountain Inner City, West District

In front of the Mu Mansion, Mu Qingyu was clad in silver armor, with a large saber at his waist and a white cotton towel tied around his left upper arm. He was maintaining the posture of looking up and drawing a bow. The string of the powerful bow in his hand was still vibrating, clearly having just fired an arrow not long ago.

He looked at the arc of fire gradually disappearing in the sky, his eyes full of excitement. He threw the powerful bow in his hand to his eldest son Mu Ziheng beside him, and then turned his head to look at the front of the mansion gate.

Directly in front of the mansion gate, there stood more than a thousand soldiers clad in sturdy armor and carrying powerful bows. Among them, more than 70% were wearing thousand-forged iron armor, and the two hundred or so in the front row were actually wearing Chui Mountain yellow armor.

Like Mu Qingyu, they all had a white cotton towel tied around their left upper arm, clearly premeditated, used to distinguish friend from foe.

"Brothers, the Lord is blinded by that group of Duan clan villains and wants to hand over Chui Mountain to others. If we continue to ignore it, in the future, we will only become second-class citizens of Beishuo. Brothers, do you dare to follow this Court Head to eliminate the Duan clan villains, remonstrate with the Lord, and revitalize Chui Mountain?"

"Eliminate the Duan clan villains, remonstrate with the Lord, revitalize Chui Mountain!"

"Eliminate the Duan clan villains, remonstrate with the Lord, revitalize Chui Mountain!"

The emotions that had been suppressed for more than a year exploded suddenly at this moment. The group of soldiers immediately raised the weapons in their hands and roared angrily at the sky, instantly shaking the inner city.

"Follow me to the barracks to meet up with the third army, and then kill toward the Duan clan territory!"

With the military morale boiling to this point, Mu Qingyu naturally didn't talk nonsense anymore. He drew his large saber and pointed it at the location of the inner city barracks two kilometers away, then led the group of soldiers and swept quickly toward that side.

The west district didn't just have one Mu clan.

One thousand people hadn't even left the west district when three more teams merged from the other three directions, each team having more than five hundred people, also clad in thousand-forged iron armor, with white cotton towels tied around their left upper arms.

"Second Master Uncle, Third Master Uncle, Fourth Master Uncle!"

The leaders of the three teams were none other than Zhu Ziying, Helian Shan, and Qiu Sanming, the three direct disciples of Mu Longhe.

Mu Qingyu was ranked fifth, so he took the lead to salute the three master uncles.

Zhu Ziying and the others didn't speak, just nodded slightly, and continued to lead everyone to sweep quickly toward the barracks area.

"About 2,800 people, plus the third army in the barracks, the total is more than 3,800. It's about the same as planned. Next, just wait for the Duan clan to jump over the wall in a hurry and call out those three thousand-plus Beishuo people."

Zhu Ziying looked at the large army behind him, a cold look flashed in his pupils, and he spoke in a low voice. The four of Mu Qingyu nodded heavily, their faces full of excitement and expectation.

You know, it was daytime right now, and those who could withstand the cold sun to come out were all Cold-Resisting Realm experts. The total number of Cold-Resisting Realm experts in Chui Mountain was only seven thousand-plus, and after excluding those outside, there were at most less than seven thousand in the town city.

This meant that the Cold-Resisting Realm experts they incited to participate in the mutiny already accounted for 60% of the town city, or even more.

"Duan Hong hasn't appeared yet. It seems that the Cai Qiu Young Master still has some ability. Let's see how long they can endure!"

Mu Qingyu looked toward the center of the inner city, seeing that the Lord's palace still had no movement, his face full of sneers.

From the start of the mutiny to now, there were at least a hundred breaths of time. The Lord's palace was in the center of the Duan clan territory, only two kilometers away from the barracks. Even if you listened, you could hear the movement, not to mention that there were so many rocket arrows rising in the city just now.

Duan Hong couldn't possibly not know what happened in the city. That he had no movement until now could only mean that he was being restricted by something at this moment.

"Kill!"

"Eliminate the Duan clan villains, revitalize Chui Mountain!"

"The Duan clan won't give us a way to live, I won't let them have a good time even if I die."

"Brothers, kill!"

As the army team got closer and closer, the earth-shaking sounds of fighting in the barracks soon reached everyone's ears. Mu Qingyu quickened his pace and led everyone to the periphery of the barracks.

In the barracks, it was already a mess.

More than three thousand yellow-armored soldiers surrounded the barracks of the third army. A tragic fight had already begun in the inner circle. More than a thousand soldiers of the Yellow-Armored third army were resisting desperately under the leadership of the eldest brother Mu Qinghe.

Three thousand against one thousand, the battle situation was clear at a glance.

Mu Qinghe was besieged by the two Commanders Duan Mian and Duan Xian, and was in danger; at least 10% of the third army soldiers had already fallen, and as the Duan clan's side grew more and more high-spirited, the number of dead soldiers continued to increase.

"Brothers, follow me and kill in!"

Seeing his eldest brother's situation, how could Zhu Ziying dare to have any delay? Before Mu Qingyu could speak, he let out a roar, then drew the long staff from behind him and suddenly killed toward the central area of the barracks.

Helian Ba, Qiu Sanming, and Mu Qingyu also followed closely, and behind them were more than 2,800 Mu clan direct line troops, directly rushing toward the third army barracks area.

Nearly three thousand Cold-Resisting Realm experts suddenly rushed to kill, like a flood beast, instantly opening a gap in the encirclement arranged by the Duan clan's troops. The large army rushed in like a steel torrent, and while holding the gap, they rushed and killed to both sides.

"Hahahaha, reinforcements have arrived, reinforcements have arrived, counterattack, counterattack!"

"So many of our brothers have been killed, make the Duan clan pay with blood!"

"Brothers, we have more people, kill back, kill back!"

When there are many people, emotions will be completely wrapped up. Not to mention a mutiny that costs heads, from the moment the third army barracks started to riot, all the soldiers understood in their hearts that there was only one road left today.

This was the reason why they were besieged by those three thousand-plus Duan clan people just now, even though they knew the defeat was set, they didn't give up resistance.

It had reached this point, the outcome was either you die or I die.

Whoever retreats one step will lose everything!

Therefore, upon seeing the arrival of reinforcements, the third army soldiers who were already in an excited state suddenly pushed their emotions to a new peak, roaring and cooperating with the reinforcements rushing in from the outside, continuing to kill toward the Duan clan.

Whoosh...

The blade edge grazed his forehead, Mu Qinghe's body turned and retreated violently, but before he could retreat two steps, he noticed a streak of sword light from behind in his left peripheral vision. He had extremely rich experience in fighting the enemy, realizing that there was no way to avoid it, he lowered his head violently, raised his saber and swept horizontally from right to left, colliding with the sword edge with a bang.

Clang...

"One against two, relying on you!"

However, the moment he dodged Duan Xian's sword light, Duan Mian's blade edge, which had grazed his forehead, suddenly turned downward and slashed down directly at his right shoulder.

Along with the slashing blade force came Duan Mian's roar!

Duan Mian's strength reached 43 bristles, Duan Xian 39, and both were about the same age as Mu Qinghe, and their experience in fighting the enemy was equally rich. Mu Qinghe being able to hold on for so long against two was actually a bit of a slap in the face. What's more, the Mu clan direct line reinforcements from the outside had arrived, and Duan Mian also realized that if he didn't hurry up and kill Mu Qinghe, the situation would be completely out of control.

However, the more impatient he was, the less he could achieve his goal.

Crack...

Duan Mian's large saber fell, successfully splitting Mu Qinghe's skin membrane and flesh, and directly slashed onto the bone. His pupils widened in anger, and he pressed down hard, trying to continue to expand the results, or even directly take Mu Qinghe's life.

It was a pity that a silver long staff suddenly attacked from behind him. Duan Mian's brows twitched violently, and he didn't dare to continue to use force. While withdrawing the saber, his body moved quickly to the left, standing together with Duan Xian.

However, the long staff was only the first blow.

Duan Mian and Duan Xian hadn't stood firm yet, when a saber and a sword attacked from their flanks one after another, the targets pointing at their heads and hearts respectively, clearly aiming to take their lives, not giving them any breathing time.

Bang...

The saber and sword arrived first, and the long staff followed closely. What was even more fatal was that Mu Qinghe, who had an injured right shoulder, also rushed up while suppressing his injuries. In an instant, the situation changed from them besieging Mu Qinghe to being besieged by Mu Qinghe's four people.

"Zhu Ziying, Helian Shan, Qiu Sanming, it really didn't exceed the Lord's expectation, you rebel thieves, all wash your necks and wait for death!"

Duan Mian looked at the barracks that had completely killed into a ball, even if he saw that his side's originally excellent situation was reversing, he had no panic or loss of composure, but sneered and released harsh words to the three of Zhu Ziying.

"Wait for death? Duan Hong still can't come out until now, relying on this little bit of people from the Duan clan, plus the Yellow-Armored second army you pieced together, who is waiting for death?"

Mu Qinghe heard the accusation of colluding with foreign forces, and there was no surprise on his face. Hearing him ask him to stop, he sneered even more.

Zhu Ziying and the three beside him heard this and all revealed a look of disdain.

The people fighting in the barracks at the moment were all Cold-Resisting Realm experts, about the same number as they had calculated before. The Duan clan had more than a thousand people, plus two Yellow-Armored Armies, totaling just over three thousand Cold-Resisting Realm experts;

And their side had a total force of more than 3,800.

Having an absolute advantage in military strength was secondary. The key was combat effectiveness. The current Yellow-Armored second army had undergone a round of reorganization. More than 60% of the hundred-battle soldiers were actively eliminated by Duan Xian last year. The 60% newly replenished were all Duan clan people.

Those 60% who were eliminated were mostly Mu clan direct lines. Even if they were not direct lines, they were instigated by the Mu clan to join the mutiny.

So, at this moment, not only military strength, but even combat effectiveness, they were in the dominant position.

The Duan clan wanted to stop this mutiny, there was only one road left!

"Colluding with foreign forces, inciting mutiny, usurping the throne, Mu Qinghe, you have committed public anger. After today, Chui Mountain cannot accommodate you, and the Jiuzhen area cannot accommodate you even more. Stop! If you don't stop, Chui Mountain's hundred-year foundation will be destroyed in the hands of your Mu clan today!"

Hearing Duan Mian accuse him of colluding with foreign forces, Mu Qinghe had no surprise on his face. Hearing him ask him to stop, he sneered even more.

"Brothers, the Duan clan villains are about to collapse. Continue to rush forward with me. Today's remonstrance, if not successful, then become benevolent, kill!"

He only responded to Duan Mian with a roar, then led the four Zhu Ziying beside him to surround Duan Mian and Duan Xian again, attacking even more fiercely than before.

While Duan Mian resisted the siege of the five, he saw more and more of his side falling, until nearly 20%, his mood became more and more impatient. He looked at the center of the inner city on the north side, which was the direction of the Duan clan territory, his pupils full of urgency.

Why hasn't he come out yet, why hasn't he come out yet?

You know, it was daytime right now. Chui Mountain inner city, with the Lord's palace as the center, had a diameter of at most five kilometers. The earth-shaking sounds of fighting in the barracks had long spread throughout the inner city. Many residents were awakened from their dreams.

Some Cold-Resisting Realm experts who didn't know the truth could come out to see, but the vast majority of Earth-Digging Realm experts could only close their doors and windows, hide in the house, and wait for the result anxiously.

The quietest place in the whole city should be the Lord's palace.

In fact, the Lord's palace was not only not chaotic at this moment, but also revealed a kind of tranquility and harmony.

In the side hall of the palace, a banquet was even being held at this moment.

A round table was set in the side hall, with two people sitting at the left and right ends. There was only one person on the left, who was none other than Chui Mountain Lord Duan Hong; on the right was a green-robed youth who looked at most eighteen or nineteen years old, with more than forty people standing behind him, only ten or so of similar age, and the rest were all middle-aged people.

It could be seen that even if Duan Hong on the left was alone, his momentum could suppress the forty-plus people on the other side, but he was currently showing a trace of impatience, looking outside from time to time, clearly worried about the mutiny situation.

And the green-robed youth on the right was calm, holding a wine glass, the arrogance between his brows did not restrain even a bit even when looking at Duan Hong.

Compared to Duan Hong, this green-robed youth looked more like the master of Chui Mountain.

"Lord Duan, you have also seen my methods now! Chui Mountain was not stable internally, and I have only stayed in the town city for a month, and I can create this mutiny by turning my hand. This is ironclad proof. If you rashly lean toward Beishuo now, it will only bring greater disaster to Chui Mountain. As long as you promise me that you will not associate with Beishuo from now on, I will immediately send my subordinates to find Mu Qinghe and let them stop, how about it?"

Cai Shiqi was full of high spirits at this moment, especially seeing Duan Hong full of impatience because of the mutiny outside, without any demeanor of a Chui Mountain master, this psychological pleasure produced by being above a Manifestation-level powerhouse undoubtedly made him enjoy it to the extreme, and the look of pride on his face became more and more intense.

He even used a condescending tone to ask the other party.

Duan Hong heard his question, turned his head to look at Cai Shiqi opposite, and having been together for so long, he knew this Cai Qiu Young Master's temper very well, so seeing him full of pride, he didn't show any surprise, just shook his head lightly: "The Young Master does have some means, but wanting to subvert the entire Chui Mountain by trapping me alone, it's too simple to think!"

After speaking, Duan Hong's body shook suddenly, and the strong blood energy sprayed out instantly, almost overturning the table.

However, his overflowing blood energy, after leaving the round table for five meters, actually touched a gold screen. The gold screen was stimulated by the blood energy, and immediately shone brightly, soon forming a gold cover with a radius of five meters.

That gold cover actually trapped the five-meter space including the table tightly.

The table was almost overturned, and Cai Shiqi was also forced to stand up. He looked at Duan Hong, a trace of anger rising on his face, as if he had completely forgotten that the Duan Hong in front of him was a genuine Manifestation-level powerhouse.

Or rather, he didn't put this Manifestation-level Duan Hong in his eyes at all.

Even a clay figurine has three points of temper, not to mention Duan Hong was the master of Chui Mountain. He looked directly at Cai Shiqi, his expression also lowered a bit. He first suppressed the anger in his heart slightly, and then spoke in a deep voice: "The Young Master's means of mutiny are not too clever, but this gold cover is really a bit powerful..."

More than a bit powerful, Cold-Resisting Realm trapping Manifestation-level, this kind of thing in the Jiuzhen area was simply unimaginable, and only the Fiefdom side could produce such unfathomable means.

Duan Hong had expected this mutiny long ago.

There were few things in the town city that could be hidden from him, the Lord. During the previous period, Mu Qinghe was too close to Cai Shiqi. Duan Hong had known about the collusion between these two for a long time.

Just before dawn, Cai Shiqi sent someone to invite him to the side hall for a banquet. Combined with the fact that Mu Qinghe was going to hand over military power at dawn, he almost instantly realized that Cai Shiqi and Mu Qinghe were going to make a move.

Mutiny was actually not difficult to predict. The Mu clan's influence in the army was too great. With the support of Cai Shiqi, this Cai Qiu Young Master, what did Mu Qinghe dare not do?

The only thing Duan Hong miscalculated was that Cai Shiqi actually had such ability.

Just now the sound of the mutiny in the barracks came, he wanted to go out for the first time, but he didn't expect Cai Shiqi to have set up this layer of gold cover unknowingly, trapping him inside.

Duan Hong looked at the gold cover, pondered for a moment and continued to laugh: "It's a pity that this cover can only last for an hour. Does the Young Master really think that relying on that group of Mu Qinghe's rebels, they can subvert my entire Chui Mountain Zhencheng?"

That last sentence, Duan Hong used a slightly teasing rhetorical tone.

Cai Shiqi, who heard the tone, his expression became much gloomier, and he sneered in response: "It is currently daytime, your Chui Mountain has only seven thousand-plus Cold-Resisting Realm experts in total, and less than seven thousand in the town city. This mutiny, Mu Qinghe gathered at least nearly four thousand people. You, the Lord, don't come out, I really can't think of what chance your Duan clan has..."

Cai Shiqi's goal was not to subvert the Chui Mountain Duan clan at all, so after saying this, he immediately changed the subject and continued to add: "Lord Duan, I have persuaded you for a month, and I don't want to waste any more words. I will only say one last sentence. Cai Qiu has no intention of subverting your Chui Mountain status quo. As long as you promise me not to surrender to Beishuo, I will immediately give an order to Mu Qinghe to let them stop!"

Beishuo's backer is Chen Cang, surrendering to Beishuo is surrendering to Chen Cang. Neither Cai Qiu nor Chen Cang can move south on a large scale at present, so they can only foster an agent in the Jiuzhen area first.

The situation at present is already very clear. Chen Cang has already chosen Beishuo, and their Cai Qiu, until now, hasn't chosen an agent. Since they can't choose, they can only spoil Chen Cang's affairs first and cannot let Chen Cang continue to grow!

Thinking of when he first arrived in the Jiuzhen area last year, the lords of the Jin Shan and Wu Chuan towns were vague about Cai Qiu's solicitation and didn't give a clear statement, the gloom in the depths of Cai Shiqi's pupils flashed away.

But he quickly covered up that gloom, continued to look up and levelly look at Duan Hong in front of him, waiting for him to give the final answer.

Seeing Duan Hong not speaking for a long time, the anger in his heart rose more and more, and he couldn't help but continue to threaten with a tone: "Lord Duan, you may not know yet how strong my Cai Qiu is. I will tell you the truth, as long as my Cai Qiu army moves south, the nine towns in your southern foothills area added together are not enough to look at. A Manifestation-level expert like you, in my Cai Qiu..."

"Young Master Cai, you are still too naive!"

Duan Hong suddenly interrupted Cai Shiqi, laughed lowly, and then he sat back in his seat again, unhurriedly poured himself a glass of wine first, took a small sip, and then shook his head slowly: "Young Master, I know more than you imagine. How strong Cai Qiu is, how many Manifestation-level powerhouses you have, I know very well; but I know even better that your large army cannot move south in the short term, and even Manifestation-level experts cannot spare a few!"

After listening to these words, Cai Shiqi immediately realized that Duan Hong had already contacted Chen Cang's people in advance, and his expression sank violently.

"Young Master doesn't need to show such an expression. This Lord knows that Chen Cang and Cai Qiu have regulations that neither is allowed to send Manifestation-level experts to interfere in the Jiuzhen affairs. The Young Master has kept the rules until now, so Chen Cang naturally won't break the rules. As for this mutiny, whether it can finally be as the Young Master wishes, then..."

"Young Master!"

Suddenly, a person ran in from outside the hall in a hurry. Before getting close, he knelt down and saluted Cai Shiqi, then quickly said: "Reporting to the Young Master, a large number of Beishuo elites suddenly appeared in the Duan clan territory, totaling more than three thousand, and have all rushed to the barracks area to support the Duan clan."

"Hahahaha..."

"Lord Duan, don't be happy too early!"

Duan Hong had just let out a loud laugh when he was sternly interrupted by Cai Shiqi.

After Cai Shiqi interrupted him, his pupils emitted a wisp of cold color, and he continued: "I can persuade Mu Qinghe to launch a mutiny, so how could I not leave a backhand? If you think that relying on three thousand-plus Beishuo elites, you can suppress this mutiny, then you really don't take this Young Master seriously, humph!"

Duan Hong heard this, his brows locked low, and a trace of gloom flashed in his pupils, but thinking of the instructions from the little princess of Chen Cang a few days ago, his gloomy face immediately relaxed, and he smiled lightly: "Then let's see how much confidence the Young Master gave Mu Qinghe!"

"Beishuo army? Where did they come from? How could so many Beishuo armies appear!"

"The Beishuo people are all hidden in the Duan clan territory. The Duan clan really wants to hand over our Chui Mountain to Beishuo."

"The Lord hasn't appeared until now, don't you understand? So many Beishuo Cold-Resisting Realm experts are hidden in the Duan clan territory, how could the Lord not know?"

"The Lord also wants to surrender to Beishuo. Heaven destroys Chui Mountain, Heaven destroys Chui Mountain!"

Inner city barracks, the Mu clan direct line troops who had been fighting for half an hour were originally already holding the victory, but the large number of Beishuo armies that appeared in the Duan clan territory instantly reversed the battle situation again.

The appearance of the Beishuo army also completely confirmed what Mu Qinghe said before the battle. In order to fawn and surrender to the Yang clan, the Duan clan wantonly allowed Beishuo soldiers to sneak into the city.

Mu Qinghe, Zhu Ziying, Helian Shan, and Qiu Sanming, the four, saw the moment the Beishuo army appeared, and a thick joy instantly erupted in their eyes;

And unlike them, the soldiers participating in the mutiny in the barracks, after half an hour of fighting, only had three thousand-plus left. These three thousand-plus people, seeing the moment the Beishuo army appeared, were instantly covered with despair on their faces. ===== CHAPTER 453 =====