After rebirth, the Queen and I are on the run.

Chapter 1266 Killing the Western Helmsman [2]

"Everyone be careful, enemy troops are hiding near the tunnel entrance," Commander Mu warned everyone.

Everyone nodded and became alert.

A while later, the poison took effect, and General Mu led his scouts into the tunnel.

Glug glug glug, as they entered the tunnel, a batch of sharp fireballs rolled in from even deeper inside.

Boom boom boom boom!

Oh my god, it's deafening!

However, these three powerful fireballs also helped them kill or blast out a group of enemy soldiers.

"Quickly return and report to the Western Hegemon General that Liang Wei, that bastard, has gone underground and is carrying our Heavenly Thunder Weapon. Request the Western Hegemon General to send troops to kill Liang Wei and retrieve the weapon!"

From deep within the tunnel, a string of gibberish from the Eastern Desert could be heard.

General Mu and his scouts understood some of it (how could they scout out enemy positions if they couldn't understand anything?).

General Mu was delighted and hurriedly sent two scouts: "Go tell my brother that there is indeed a big cargo in the tunnel, belonging to a noble general from the west."

The two scouts did not move, but instead verbally relayed the order to the last two scouts, who then passed it on to the troops behind them.

Upon hearing this, General Mu Er sent someone to relay the message to Commander Lü. Commander Lü's troops had just entered the tunnel when they shouted towards the tunnel entrance.

"That west Duo? Kill him! Xiao Lü, listen to me! Stop looking for other tunnels for now. Kill him! He's our ultimate target in sweeping through Dongfu Town!" Commander Zhen couldn't hold back any longer and hurriedly sent someone to deliver the order: "Notify Commander Fan to return and guard this place. I'll lead the troops down the tunnel and kill Xi Duo, the great general of the western nobles!"

"This is a big deal. According to records, the true noble generals of the western part of the Eastern Desert command at least tens of thousands of troops."

The chief general of a true noble family can command an army of up to 30,000.

The combined forces of various noble clan leaders constitute the army of a tribal king, and this army may number between 100,000 and 200,000.

The five tribes of the Eastern Desert meant that the enemy forces that destroyed Wei this time might have exceeded one million, instead of the mere four hundred thousand troops reported by Tianmang Prefecture!

"Damn it!" Commander Zhen dared not calculate any further. The more he calculated, the more he felt that the enemy's war to destroy Wei would be a piece of cake.

If it's not easy, then they're all useless, considering how many soldiers there are.

"You beast! No wonder you need to eat meat-based rations. With so many troops, if you don't eat them as you sweep through the land, the proper military rations won't last until you reach Wei!"

"Yes!" The messenger hurriedly went to find Commander Fan.

"Commander, don't be too impulsive. Let us go in and scout ahead first, then you can lead your troops down," Commander Lü reminded him.

After the warning was given, the sounds of fighting erupted from deep within the tunnel; it was Mu Da and Mu Er engaging the enemy.

"Small elite soldiers, charge quickly and kill the enemy from the bottom!" Commander Lü ordered.

With a series of rustling sounds, a group of small but highly skilled assassins moved through the narrow tunnel, heading straight for its depths.

whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Clang clang clang clang clang clang!

Puff puff puff!

Various close-quarters combat erupted, with the sounds of weapons piercing flesh mingling with the deafening explosions of small, sharp objects.

But Mu Da and Mu Er only had sixty soldiers, how could they be a match for the enemy forces inside the tunnel?

After Mu Da and Mu Er killed a group of enemy soldiers in the tunnel, enemy soldiers quickly followed to fill their positions. Moreover, the enemy soldiers showed no mercy and started shooting arrows when they saw that most of the enemy soldiers in the tunnel were dead.

whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!

A volley of arrows rained down, and Mu Da and Mu Er's troops hurriedly lay on the corpses or pulled up enemy corpses to shield themselves from the arrows, thus managing to survive.

"Give me the poison packet! We'll wipe out the bastards of Liang Wei!" shouted General Xi Ren'er. Unfortunately, the great physician in charge of the poison packet didn't give it to him, only saying, "Using highly poisonous drugs at close range inside the tunnel will not only affect the soldiers in front, but also you and me, and even the entire tunnel. The poisonous mist will linger for a long time, and then the entire tunnel will be ruined."

"The poison may also spread to other tunnels, which will completely ruin General Xiduo's plans."

Are highly poison packets really that effective?

Even the Wei soldiers only dared to use mild sedatives.

"Damn those Eastern slave laborers, how could they dig a tunnel without proper ventilation!" Xiren'er cursed angrily...

Suddenly, boom—!
With a loud bang, a hole was suddenly blasted in the tunnel above them by a gunpowder pack.

With a rustling sound, soil and the supporting iron frame at the top of the tunnel were all blown away and scattered, piling up on both sides of the tunnel, burying some of the Eastern Desert soldiers under the debris.

Inside the tunnel, a ray of light shone down from the blasted hole, casting shadows that seemed to move around the edge.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Boom boom boom boom!

Several small, sharp projectiles were thrown down by the shadows, exploding on both sides of the tunnel and killing or wounding the Eastern Desert soldiers who had just gotten up!
"Kill!" With a shout, Commander Zhen rushed down from the top of the destroyed tunnel ahead of Ye Xifen, leading his troops: "Well done, Master Ye! You really know how to fight. You deserve credit!"

After the fighting started inside the tunnel, the noise reached the surface. Ye Xifen grabbed the old craftsman Bi and, following the muffled sounds, found a section of the tunnel. Without saying a word, she immediately used a 20-pound gunpowder pack to blow it up.

The ground shook violently, and the nearby ruins collapsed a second time. The fact that the entire tunnel was not destroyed was truly a testament to the superb skills of the enemy's craftsmen.

Whoosh whoosh!

As soon as Zhen Qianhu entered the tunnel, he began firing crossbow bolts while still in a sliding position, aiming them at west Ren'er.

With a series of sharp thuds, all the arrows pierced the great physician's body, and he died with his eyes wide open in disbelief.

"Kill the bastard Liang Wei, be loyal to the Eastern Desert, and the Eastern Desert will surely prevail forever!" Xi Ren'er, having taken the divine medicine, only wanted to kill. He wouldn't run away; he wanted to lead his troops in a desperate battle. He even ordered his dead soldiers: "Go and search the Great Physician's corpse, find the poison packet, and perish together with the bastard Liang Wei!"

"Yes!"

The Eastern Desert soldiers, trapped in this section, also took the divine medicine and began their journey to their deaths in battle.

"Chief, hurry up! The enemy is about to drop a deadly poison!" Mu Da Mu Er shouted, rushing towards the tunnel entrance.

Zhen Qianhu: "..."

They ran away as soon as the killing started?

"Go!" Ye Xifen reacted with lightning speed, slashing at the enemy soldiers charging from the depths of the tunnel while shouting towards the blasted tunnel ceiling, "Pull us up! The enemy is going to use poison to kill us all!"

Near the destroyed tunnel entrance, the middle-aged and elderly craftsmen and Wei soldiers rushed over, threw down several rope ladders, and pulled Ye Xifen, Zhen Qianhu, and others up.

Without pausing for a moment, Ye Xifen continued running on the surface, following the tunnel's path.

After running to another pile of ruins, he slammed his broadsword into the ground with a clang and shouted, "Weaponry team, twenty pounds of gunpowder, fire from my position!"

After saying this, he left the large sword standing upright and ran back.

When she ran back to the group, Chief Shanshan and her female guards had already set up the throwing machines.

Ye Xifen had the best aim. After she came over and made slight adjustments to the position, she lit the fuse and threw the gunpowder pack at the broadsword.

Whoosh!
Boom——!
After the loud bang came the sound of earth collapsing. The tunnel had been blasted by the gunpowder, and the ground quickly caved in, revealing a trench more than twenty meters long.

"Master craftsman Bi, Master craftsman Gong, continue along the collapsed ravines, search for tunnels, bomb each section you find, blast the enemy to death, blast them out of the ground!" Ye Xifen shouted, her whole body exuding a chilling murderous aura.

But those who heard these words, those who saw her like this, felt no fear, only excitement.

Commander Zhen: "If you do as Master Ye says, she really knows how to fight!"

(End of this chapter)