Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 2637 Still Vigorous in Old Age 21.0
Jiang Siye's side had a total of ten men, and now they had lost four of them, which could be described as a heavy loss. In addition, the two opposing groups had clearly formed a natural alliance, so what followed was a tough battle where the smaller force had to win against the larger one.

However, faced with this situation, the remaining people did not sigh and complain. Instead, they were eager to turn the tide and were in high spirits, wishing they could wipe out the opposing team.

On the contrary, Qin Zheng and Yan Bo's side seemed to have won but not won at all. Not only did they not show any joy, but their faces were also solemn. An uninformed person would have thought that they had lost four people.

"Are they worried that a desperate army will win?" Jin Miaomiao crossed her arms, sighed softly, and said, "They've turned a casual snowball fight into something like a military exercise."

“Snowballs are their weapons. This is definitely a drill for them.” Shen Cha looked at the three groups, who had already started making snowballs, and the main force of each group was now in charge of the attack. “The show is about to begin.”

Jin Miaomiao didn't speak, but simply nodded in agreement.

In this round, it was Master Jiang's side that launched the first attack, with Shao Bai holding two snowballs and charging ahead.

However, he had just crossed the halfway line when he was intercepted by Xue Ruitian from Yan Bo's side.

"Vice Commander Xue." Shao Bai, holding two balls in his hands, looked at Xue Ruitian, who was fighting alone with his hands empty, and chuckled, "Are you giving up resistance, or do you want to fight me hand-to-hand?"

"Guess?" Xue Ruitian put his hands behind his back, looking at him with a smile, not taking the ball in his hand seriously at all.

Shao Bai wasn't buying it. He threw the snowballs at Xue Ruitian. Xue Ruitian had anticipated this move and quickly dodged the two snowballs. But before he could even land properly, he saw Shao Bai take out two more snowballs from his pocket. Although these two were a bit small, the force with which he pulled them toward Xue Ruitian was not small at all.

Xue Ruitian glanced at the two balls flying rapidly toward him, raised an eyebrow slightly, and bent over to dodge Shao Bai's second attack.

When Xue Ruitian straightened up, he saw Shao Bai's shocked expression, as well as the incredulous expressions of the eagles and falcons that followed.

"What's wrong with you guys?" he said, somewhat amused. "What's with those expressions?"

"I didn't expect the Marquis to be so flexible; he can actually do such a difficult move."

Eagle rubbed his eyes, and before he could speak, he saw a device suddenly appear behind Xue Ruitian, grabbing Eagle Leopard and Shao Bai and running away.

"Trying to run now? Too late!"

Xue Ruitian raised an eyebrow, a mischievous grin on his face, and moved to the side, revealing what was behind him.

Jin Miaomiao also saw what was behind her and couldn't help but exclaim, "They actually brought this here?"

Shen Cha looked at the small catapult they used to train soldiers' aim, chuckled, and said, "I was wondering why they were missing several people. Turns out they were working on this thing."

As soon as Shen Cha finished speaking, they saw Qin Zheng bring over a catapult and two baskets of snowballs. Song Yaojia and Xia Chen, who were standing on either side of the catapult, looked at Yingbao, Yingjun, and Shaobai with smiles.

"Should we keep fighting?" Xue Ruitian asked cheerfully, lying on the catapult. "Let's just surrender!"

"You've gone too far!" Eagle Leopard was the first to jump up in protest. "How can you rely on external forces?"

"But it didn't say we couldn't use it, did it?" Song Yaojia looked at Shen Cha and Jin Miaomiao. "This isn't against the rules, is it?"

“It’s not against the rules, you can use it.” Shen Cha nodded, looked at Master Jiang, and spread his hands. “It just means you didn’t think of that.” Master Jiang sighed softly and beckoned to Eagle Leopard, Falcon, and Shao Bai to come back.

"We concede." Master Jiang sighed. "Can we start a new round? Without using these things, just pure combat?"

“Sure,” Shen Cha said, looking at Qin Zheng and Yan Bo. “What do you two think?”

"We won this round, didn't we?" Qin Zheng and Yan Bo walked over together, and seeing Shen Cha nod, "That's good, let's start again."

Qin Zheng looked at the children around him and Yan Bo, and said, "What do you think?"

"You admit defeat, huh?" Song Yaojia saw Eagle Leopard, Eagle Falcon, and Shao Bai nod reluctantly, and then looked at her own people, Shen Haolin, Bai Meng, and Jin Jing, who also agreed. "No problem, we can start a new game without these things, just pure fighting."

"I have a question!" Xue Ruitian raised his hand. "According to our previous agreement, shouldn't we switch places?"

“Of course!” Shen Cha nodded, then looked at Uncle Yan. “What do you think?”

“No problem, but,” Yan Bo looked at Qin Zheng, “they’re not going to change?”

“We don’t need to change.” Qin Zhengyi shrugged, looking at Shen Haolin, Song Yaojia, and Jin Jing. “You want to go over there?”

The three people who were called shook their heads at the same time, indicating that they would stay in Qin Zheng's team.

"Then you two, Fourth Grandfather and Uncle Yan, will take turns resting for a bit before continuing."

Shen Cha looked at them and made a gesture towards them.

Xue Ruitian, Bai Meng, and Xia Chen ran happily to Master Jiang's side, while Ying Bao, Ying Jun, and Shao Bai returned to Uncle Yan as they wished.

Shen Cha looked at the three groups who were busy with new formations, took out the bamboo tube that Ying Ba had given her earlier from her sleeve, poured out the paper roll inside and looked at it.

"What did they write?" Jin Miaomiao leaned closer, read the contents, and shook her head helplessly. "What exactly are these brothers trying to do? What good does it do them to let Wanyan Qingmu cause such a ruckus in Yiqing Prefecture every day? What does it prove? That Wanyan Qingmu is insane? That everything he did before was because he's insane?"

“That’s possible, but not only that. We don’t know anything else.” Shen Cha shook her head gently. “We don’t really know much about Yi Ting and Yi Xiu. We only know that they support the eldest prince and only recognize him. But now it seems that their ambitions are not just to support Wanyan Xi’s ascension to the throne. They probably have other intentions.”

"Should we send our people to investigate them?"

“No, A Piao and A Ru cannot be exposed. Besides, there are Uncle’s people near Yiqing Prefecture. When we get back, we’ll send a message to Lord Hei and ask Uncle’s people to investigate the true background of these two brothers.”

Before Jin Miaomiao could speak, she saw a shadowy figure run up to them and bow to them.

"what happened?"

"Boss, we just received news that a guest has arrived at the Duke's mansion. He claims to be Chu Han."