Chapter 268 - The Real Plan

It was dead silent in the battlefield.

Prince Lian looked at the fallen body and laughed. He looked at the two people at the top of the hill and laughed. "To achieve victory, it's not important how many people you have to sacrifice, Ji Sheng? Taking children to war and now you're the one who kill him. How do you feel now? Can you continue our battle tomorrow with your head clear?"

Prince Ji Sheng merely looked at Prince Lian coldly. There was no emotion within his eyes as he walked to Yang Xian. "Hold on tight."

"Yes."

"What are you two talking…?"

The ground suddenly shook heavily. Some soldiers have felt that the ground was shaking a bit, but they thought that it was merely their imagination because of fatigue. After all, it was not weird for them to experience as if the world was shaking because they were too tired after a battle.

But now that the shook was greater, they realized that it was not the case.

Prince Lian's face changed terribly. "You…"

"There's no tomorrow, Xiong Tribe Prince Lian," Prince Ji Sheng replied. He looked at Prince Lian as if looking at a dead rat. "You'll die tonight."

Looking to the side, Prince Lian suddenly noticed that the U formation was no longer intact. Between the two hills that separated the south with the west side where Prince Ji Sheng and Yang Xian were standing, there was a gap. Rocks were pilling that area, but now it was shaking badly.

At the same time, there was water coming out from the other side.

His face turned pale as he looked at Wei Liuying and noticed the rope that was tied to the end of the arrow. When Yang Xian shot the arrow just now, he did it with the arrow tied firmly with a rope.

"Shoot Liu…"

Swish!

The archers behind Yang Xian immediately shot their arrows to Prince Lian and his soldiers before they could even make any move. They were forced to step behind. To their horror, they saw the rock suddenly broke and the water flooded in.

In truth, this was the area that Prince Ji Sheng and Yang Xian had designed to make river flow. The progress was not yet done, so they hadn't opened the path. But now that the Xiong Tribe soldiers were coming to this place willingly, they would just use this chance to open the path.

With the spring coming, the water was in great volume, so the path that they had blocked would have a hard time to block the water completely. They knew that they have to speed up the construction, but the war halted their progress. There might be some other problems later, but it should be fine.

They just needed to ask help from the soldiers to dig more path to Prince Ji Sheng's City.

Splash!

Water rushed in with great volume. Half of the soldiers who come there were heavy cavalries, which meant that they wouldn't be able to move properly. As water washed over them, they were forced to quickly escape for their lives.

Screams of terror filled the place along with the water volume rushing in rapidly.

"Xian, can you hold on the rope properly?"

"Yes, but I need help to pull her up."

"Help him."

"YES!"

The soldiers have numerous questions in their head. Starting from the moment Yang Xian said Wei Liuying's real name to the point when he shot her, the soldiers were having a hard time keeping up. They felt that their brain was roasted due to their incompetence and lack in intelligence.

"Wei Liuying, are you alive?"

Splash!

From below, they could hear faint movement. Wei Liuying was walking in their direction while holding the rope tightly. The arrow was heading to the gap between her hand and her chest. It scraped her before it hit the ground. Her hand was hurt a bit, but she was fine in overall.

"Don't worry, Strategist Yang have great control in his strength," Wei Liuying responded with an unhurried tone.

Unlike the soldiers who were trying to fight the sudden harsh current, Wei Liuying was using the rope to slowly climb up. It created a hole in her robe, so she was partially save as long as her robe didn't tear apart. Still, she had to climb the hills with the help of the rope.

The only reason she rushed forward was so that she didn't have to climb so much. It was also safer to be outside of the soldiers' range when they realized Prince Ji Sheng and Yang Xian's real plan.

Swish!

Yang Xian jumped to the front and landed not far from her. He lightly reached in and lift Wei Liuying up in bridal style. "Hold on tight."

"En."

The soldiers simply watched as Yang Xian arrived by the hill once more. They felt that the situation was surreal as everything seemed to move at a faster rate than what they could comprehend.

"You nearly fail, Xian," Prince Ji Sheng said with a blaming tone.

Yang Xian raised his head. "Why don't you try aiming at Lady Gao, Your Highness? I'm sure that you'll have a difficult time to shoot the arrow too."

Prince Ji Sheng clearly couldn't refute that. If he had to shoot Gao Ling, he would rather have himself got shoot. He furrowed his brows and looked at Yang Xian. "She's my fiancée while Wei Liuying is your apprentice."

"She's also my future wife."

Wei Liuying: "…" Wait, I never heard that.

The soldiers: "…" Strategist Yang, what did you say?

Prince Ji Sheng also paused a moment when he heard what Yang Xian said. He looked at his strategist as if he was looking at a stranger. "You need to properly discuss it with the person in question."

"That's…"

"Strategist Yang."

"Yes?"

"First, since when I will be your future wife? Second, can you put me down?" Wei Liuying asked in a deadpan tone.

Yang Xian looked at Wei Liuying and laughed lightly. "You have been living in my house for so long. Do you still think that it's possible for you to marry someone else?"

Wei Liuying: "…" this scheming strategist!

She had thought that there was something weird when Yang Xian first ordered her to stay in his house. After all, it would be unusual for unmarried man and women to live in the same residence. Disregarding the fact that she was still a kid and not yet an adult, it was still an unusual custom.

In the past, it was not much of a problem because everyone thought Wei Liuying was a boy. But now that they knew her real gender, the fact that she lived under the same roof with Yang Xian would come into questions marks.

She had lived with him for months.

It was as if declaring that she would be his wife when she had come of age.

Now that Wei Liuying thought about this, she felt that this was a trap that Yang Xian prepared for her. From the moment her real gender would be revealed, she would be tied to him for her entire life.

"Strategist Yang."

"Yes?"

"You better be prepared because I won't let you off," Wei Liuying said threateningly. Her face was dark as she realized that Yang Xian had set her up.

Yang Xian smiled bitterly. Originally, he didn't want to tell this to Wei Liuying, especially in this situation. However, there was simply no other choice since this incident had unexpectedly revealed her real gender. It was partially his fault too, though, but he wanted to let her know since it was possible that the plan would fail.

"You should stop your bicker, the survivors are getting out of the river," Prince Ji Sheng interrupted.

"Shot them down."

"Yes!"

The soldiers began to do their work again as they shoot down the soldiers who managed to get out of the river. The majority of the soldiers were unable to get out because they were too heavy. Added with the heavy current, they were washed away before they could possibly come close to the shore and drowned in the middle.

Prince Ji Sheng's soldiers began to move as they also walked along the edge to eliminate the soldiers who managed to go to the shore. The temperature was still fairly cold, so they knew that the soldiers would eventually die if they stayed under the water for too long.

"How about the other end for the river?" Wei Liuying asked because she hadn't been here to watch the progress of the construction.

"There's a path that lead it back to the main river. However, we haven't dug deep enough, so there might be a bit of flood when it's spring."

"It's spring now."

"That's why it'll be a bit flooding in the west area."

Wei Liuying thought about the villages in that area and sighed. It seemed that aside from war, they have to take care of flood problem too.

What a tiring work.