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Chapter 259

~8 min read 1,500 words

Jiang Jinshi silently calculated the time; from the moment he sent out the fast horses until now, he thought Old Xie and Jiang Ze must be on their way with the main army.

He deliberately beat the drums in front of the city to wait for the Xiongnu to come, just to drag out more time; as long as they fought and held on for a period of time, they could wrap this Xiongnu main army into a dumpling.

The Xiongnu cavalry didn't have the slightest hesitation, slamming fiercely into the Ming Army's formation.

For a time, the neighing of warhorses, the screams of soldiers, and the sound of weapons colliding suddenly became one piece.

Jiang Jinshi took the lead, waving his long halberd and guarding the front of the formation, and the Xiongnu cavalry who came were all turned upside down.

Han Xiao and Huang Yan guarded Jiang Jinshi's left and right, not letting the Xiongnu have the slightest chance to sneak an attack.

Adunla mixed in the crowd, watching Jiang Jinshi as if he were possessed by a god of slaughter, the wariness in his eyes becoming more intense.

For some reason, every time he saw Jiang Jinshi, the wound on his right arm throbbed.

But the Zhenbei Prince was also very brave, wasn't the final outcome also a miserable death?

Adunla gave a sinister smile, took out a special arrow from the side of his horse, and handed it to the personal guard beside him; this was a sharpshooter he had specially selected, whose archery was no worse than his own.

"Aim at his weakness; as long as you hit him, he will definitely die!" Adunla had great confidence in this; the poison on this arrow was unsolvable, and even the Zhenbei Prince had died from this arrow.

The personal guard drew his bow and aimed through the complex battlefield at Jiang Jinshi, finding a suitable angle, and the arrow went straight for Jiang Jinshi's left shoulder.

If he had aimed at the head, it was very likely that the other party would have discovered it and dodged it.

But aiming at a position like the left shoulder, which wouldn't be very noticeable, would increase the chance of hitting.

The arrow passed through the battlefield, watching it get closer and closer to Jiang Jinshi, but it was deflected by Han Xiao with a spear.

"You want to use such a low-down method to repeat the same trick?"

The Zhenbei Prince had already fallen into a trap on this, and Han Xiao had only hated himself for not being able to replace the Prince at that time; now, how could he let Adunla continue to succeed!

Seeing that the other party had been prepared, Adunla wasn't in a hurry in his heart; after all, it is easy to dodge a spear in the open, but hard to guard against an arrow in the dark, especially in such a complex situation on the battlefield.

You can dodge one arrow, but can you dodge ten or twenty?

However, Jiang Jinshi was standing in the front, and any Xiongnu who charged to the front was picked off by a halberd, which boosted the Ming Army's morale quite a bit, and the formation remained solid.

"Attack the flank!" Adunla ordered.

"Hold your ground, the formation cannot be chaotic!" Jiang Jinshi shouted, his long halberd waving faster.

The Ming Army gritted their teeth, the formation always like a rock, and Jiang Jinshi, who was on his horse in the front, was the anchor in their hearts.

The Commander was in the front charging, his bravery unmatched, so much so that even Adunla didn't dare to come forward and fight him, so how could they fall!!

The Xiongnu cavalry charged wave after wave, still unable to break the Ming Army's formation, and just at this white-hot moment, shouts of killing came from both sides of the battlefield.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

The main army led by Jiang Ze and Xiexiezi had arrived!

"Brothers! Reinforcements are here! Today we will wipe out the Xiongnu!" Jiang Jinshi raised his long halberd and shouted; he was already covered in blood, completely unaware of how many Xiongnu he had already beheaded.

Seeing this, Adunla felt a sense of impending doom, gritting his teeth: "You actually mobilized the troops of the other two cities, aren't you afraid that we will take the opportunity to sneak an attack?"

For Jiang Jinshi's bold decision, Adunla felt shocked; this person was really completely different from the Zhenbei Prince.

Even when the Zhenbei Prince made a desperate charge, he only brought less than 30,000 people, and he still had to worry about the safety of the people of Beijiang behind the city.

And Adunla had played against the Zhenbei Prince for a long time, and his thinking had been limited, thinking that the other party wouldn't easily mobilize the troops of the two cities, but he had forgotten that Jiang Jinshi was never the Zhenbei Prince!

"Brothers! Wipe out the Xiongnu, leave no one!" Jiang Ze saw Jiang Jinshi in the front at a glance on his horse, raised his spear, and charged over.

Xiexiezi showed a cruel smile and roared at the main army behind him: "No surrender accepted, the goal is to wipe out the Xiongnu!"

With 30,000 men on each side, they majestically surrounded the Xiongnu; this time Adunla was truly panicked, hurriedly ordering: "Retreat! The enemy has reinforcements! Retreat completely!"

"Leave?" Jiang Jinshi sneered: "Too late!"

"Brothers! We've been beaten for so many years, today let's beat it all back!"

Han Xiao heard Jiang Jinshi's statement on the side, feeling the blood in his body begin to boil.

"Charge!!"

Apart from the cavalry, the spear soldiers charged the fastest, and the archers didn't dare to shoot arrows anymore, for fear of hurting friendly forces, while the shield soldiers who were in the front at the beginning fell to the back.

The situation was reversed in just an instant, and Jiang Jinshi's goal was clear, heading straight for where Adunla was.

"Adunla! Come and die!" he roared loudly.

Adunla heard the shouting behind him, didn't even turn his head, and spurred his horse to run in the direction he came from.

Jiang Ze and Xiexiezi led their troops to break into the battlefield, catching the Xiongnu off guard, and now the Xiongnu began to flee in panic.

The two were also becoming more and more brave, specifically picking out people who looked like Xiongnu tribal leaders to fight, and the Ming Army's morale reached its highest point at this moment.

And the old soldiers of the Zhenbei Army also had the haze in their hearts completely washed away; it turned out the Xiongnu were nothing more than this!

Jiang Jinshi continuously approached Adunla, and Adunla suddenly turned around, holding the bow with one hand, with the arrow and bowstring bitten in his mouth, accompanied by the ruthlessness in his eyes, the arrow came toward Jiang Jinshi's face.

Adunla was overjoyed in his heart, at such a close distance, how could you dodge this arrow of mine?

Han Xiao, who was on Jiang Jinshi's right, had his spear on the right side at this moment and couldn't help Jiang Jinshi block this arrow in time, so he subconsciously stretched out his left hand and turned his body to help Jiang Jinshi block it.

"Swoosh!"

The arrow pierced into the body and penetrated Han Xiao's arm, and Jiang Jinshi's raised long halberd froze in front of his chest; he had reacted the moment Adunla turned around and raised the halberd in a blocking posture.

But he hadn't expected Han Xiao to use his own flesh to block this arrow, which was beyond Jiang Jinshi's expectations.

Han Xiao lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground, was helped up by the soldiers behind him, and Jiang Jinshi continued to charge toward Adunla.

Seeing that he couldn't avoid it, Adunla forcibly suppressed the fear in his eyes, threw away the long bow, held the scimitar in his left hand, and spurred his horse to meet him.

"Today is your death day!" Adunla roared, perhaps to bolster his own courage, and the scimitar went straight for Jiang Jinshi's throat.

Jiang Jinshi didn't dodge or evade, and the long halberd slashed toward the scimitar.

"Clang!"

Adunla was shaken all over, almost falling off his horse.

"I wasn't afraid of you with two hands, and you dare to fight me with one hand?" Jiang Jinshi sneered, the long halberd waving continuously, forcing Adunla to retreat repeatedly.

In just a few breaths, Jiang Jinshi seized the opportunity, and the long halberd slapped heavily on Adunla's chest.

Adunla fell off the horse's back, and the scimitar in his hand also fell to the ground.

When Adunla got up in a panic, he found that the tip of Jiang Jinshi's halberd was already resting on his head.

"You..."

He stared fixedly at Jiang Jinshi, his eyes filled with unwillingness.

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