22. The Clash

Kanou seeing lord of the Long Family is at his camp even after the notice of his injury is surprised but cannot even react to it because right at this moment Houken is still standing even with all the wound that he got after fighting the renown 4 way death trap of Long

while at the same time Mangoku see the state Houken at, really are not surprised thinking that its normal since a general just pass trough the enemy camp alone

unknown to him Riboku who see this from quite the distance away is shocked beyond notice as to see the state Houken is even without him meeting Ouki

'I really need to eliminate that guy before his talent grew fully' thought Riboku seeing the state Houken is after fighting Lingxu and his man

with the fighting keep going on and the Heilong unit took both of their lord along with Juton and Feng who is heavily injured to a safe place before the initial clash continue

Heilong losing most of its men because of many of them are scattered after that initial clash with Mangoku army are now only numbered 900 man with the highest Ranking commander is down and only Juton are awake and the only one who are able to make judgement

while they are walking trough the path as they carry their lord, Feng woke up "why did the useless one woke up first" said Juton

"shut your mouth if its not used properly Juton" said Feng with a smile in his face but there are a hint of pain in his voice

"How's the Lord?" asked Feng

Juton only point at the two Lords using his chin and keep on leading the man to keep walking searching for a way to at least get into another friendly army camps

along the way they met shin with the rest of Hi shin unit and catch up on what happened after the Heilong took their leave first to save their lords

hearing the story of the Young Shin even Juton is surprised by his bravery and cunning mind in battlefield

"Sit... Situation *cough cough* Juton" asked Lingxu weakly

Juton hearing their lord weak voice, instantly kneel with all the soldier following him and greet him while cusping their hand together

""LORD"" said all the Heilong soldier

"stand down, it seems we are behind the enemy line, Juton you will *cough* take command and get us to safety, let me down" said Lingxu wanting to walk with the rest of the unit

"my lord, I would rather for you to punish me for disobeying your order than putting you down to walk yourself in your condition my lord" said Fan un not wanting to have his lord to fight his own pain

"haah, sometimes your loyalty creeps me out you know" said Lingxu weakly albeit smiling looking at his man loyalty to their lord

while at that Lingxu glanced into shin and nod his head while shin also did the same "so what's your plan? you have anything to get us out from this position?" asked Shin

"You!!!" complain Juton but got stopped by Lingxu

"for now we will keep on walking towards the sun, after a while we should met up with Ouki as he will probably realise what is happening" said Lingxu still sounded so weak with a lot of wound in his body

"okay, you go rest and hold your self, we will get out of here" said Shin not wanting to back down and understand the plan Lingxu just said

while they walk they see Qin flag, and thinking that its probably one of the checkpoint to gather the stranglered soldier in the wild the man goes there

but what welcome them in that place is not Qin soldier but instead Zhao army fully ready to kill them all, Shoumou having seen the strangler ordered the cavalry to kill everyone

while the Hi Shin unit panicked, the Heilong unit is organized and instead even starting to form a formation by the order of Juton

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU LOOKING AT GO AND RETREAT" shout Juton at the Hi Shin unit, seeing that instead of retreating they just watch thinking that its some kind of show

"Fan Un, Daiki you guys take 10 man each and run with the Hi Shin, we will chase after you after its save" ordered Juton which both man nod and run with Fan Un and Daiki carrying the two lord in their back

'Did they just brave themself to protect their leader, all 900 of them are so determined to hold that place till their last breath just to give more time so that their lord escaped safely, is this the rumored Heilong Unit? the best unit said to rival those of an elite unit in the 6 state' Thought Hi Shin unit people seeing the bravery of the Heilong army

the Zhao Cavalry crashes into the Heilong formation and try to crush them but what they got is stubborn defense with even some scream from the Zhao cavalry unit getting slain

but even before the Hi Shin unit got far into the cliff, another rumbling are heard making even the ground are shaking because of it

looking at the direction of the sound they see Ouki and his army charging trough ready to save them

with Shoumou army facing off against the Ouki army, Shoumou charged forward to met Ouki confident in his strength that he will be the one to slain the relic of the past as they say

but not even needing to waif tor long Shoumou got striked down after only one move from Ouki

meetinf Ouki, Ouki give some small talk to Shin and then turn to his friend son, or even now Ouki consider him the most precious student and his foster son

"your army is really annoying to be managed boy" said Ouki looking back to the rest of Heilong unit numbering close to 5k man

"Houken is injured, but he is still breathing, you know their plan, so get ready for some fight" said Lingxu not caring at his jokes

"what a boring kid, nfufufu go and tend your injury at the camp, you force yourself too far this time, the future Lady of Long sounded and even act like Kyou when she is angry" said Ouki remembering How Sulan make so much scene in the Ouki camp

Lingxu having heard that, shakes his Head and joining the army to get back so that he can get his wound treated

"get me 500, the rest of you go with the General" said Lingxu stopping for a bit and then turned back to see Ouki still smiling at him

with the injured Heilong unit limps back to the camp to get treated, the rest of the army are pushing forward to met anyone who will be their enemies

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To be continued