Battle for Northern Frontier: The game begins with the grassland woman buying him.

A major battle is still ongoing.

The tree canopy blocked out the moonlight, and the forest was filled with a fishy smell.

Su Zhan plunged headfirst into the darkness, panting heavily.

The arrow wound on his shoulder oozed blood, which drew a sharp cry from the falcon overhead.

The beast was still circling, its gaze fixed on his direction.

"Surround him from below!" the pursuers shouted, catching up on horseback.

The sound of horses' hooves was approaching the edge of the woods.

Su Zhan leaned against a tree so large that it would take three people to encircle it, holding a short knife in his hand in reverse.

He tore off a piece of his shirt and hastily used it to bandage his shoulder injury.

Despite the intense pain, it made my body tense up again.

The frantic barking of the hunting dogs pierced the deathly silence of the forest.

Two green lights rapidly approached in the darkness, and a burly mastiff pounced first, bringing a stench to the air.

Instead of advancing, Su Zhan retreated, then crouched down to meet the dog, his short knife plunging precisely from top to bottom into the mastiff's soft throat. With a twist, scalding blood gushed out.

Another hunting dog took the opportunity to bite his injured right leg.

Su Zhan yanked out his left leg and kicked the dog's head in the side; the sound of bones cracking was clearly audible.

The hunting dog howled and rolled away, then fell silent.

Although Su Zhan dealt with one mastiff and another pursuer in one move, more hoofbeats and flames were already surrounding them from three directions.

When the centurion saw Su Zhan, he immediately roared, "Fire!"

Whoosh! Poisoned crossbow bolts shot into the forest, thudding into tree trunks, some grazing the ancient tree where Su Zhan was hiding, and one even embedding itself deeply into the trunk behind him.

Su Zhan curled up, using the hollowed-out roots of the ancient tree and the dark corners to avoid the rain of arrows.

The moment the rain of arrows subsided, he suddenly lunged sideways, then swung his broadsword down.

As a cavalryman who had dismounted to search had just pushed aside the bushes, his throat was brutally slit open by Su Zhan's longsword.

Without hesitation, Su Zhan pulled out the corpse to shield himself. With two soft thuds, two crossbow bolts that had been fired at him sank deep into the corpse.

He forcefully pushed his corpse into the deepest part of the fire on the left, creating chaos, while simultaneously crouching down and lunging behind a leaning giant tree on the right.

"Surround him there and kill him!" Two cavalrymen with swords spotted Su Zhan and immediately charged forward, their hooves instantly crushing the withered branches and leaves to dust.

The horses struggled to maneuver in the dense forest, but Su Zhan advanced instead of retreating. Just as the horse charged in front of him, he suddenly rolled on the ground and ruthlessly slashed the tendon of the first horse's foreleg with his short knife.

The warhorse neighed and crashed to the ground.

The cavalryman on horseback was also thrown off.

Su Zhan immediately stood up, and his short sword transformed into a streak of blue light, piercing fiercely into the side of the unsuspecting fallen cavalryman's neck.

Upon seeing this, another cavalryman was filled with shock and rage, and slashed down with his scimitar with a whooshing sound.

Su Zhan dodged to the side, narrowly avoiding the blade, which grazed his face and stung.

He grabbed the other man's wrist holding the knife and pulled it down, then plunged the large knife into the gap in the leather armor under the man's ribs.

The cavalryman's screams abruptly ceased, and the life in his eyes quickly faded.

At that moment, the falcon overhead suddenly let out a scream, swooping down and its sharp talons aimed straight for Su Zhan's back.

With his back exposed, Su Zhan suddenly ducked and swung his knife upwards. The short knife in his hand collided with the eagle claw, and a few sparks flew.

The falcon shrieked in pain, flapped its wings, and soared into the sky, a few blood-stained feathers falling to the ground.

But this momentary interference allowed the archers on the perimeter to lock onto Su Zhan's position once again.

The centurion's command was only half-uttered: "Release!"

With a loud crash, a piece of rotten wood, broken by a horse, was seen in the distance.

Finally unable to withstand the night wind, it collapsed with a deafening roar.

The massive tree trunk and branches crashed heavily into the area between Su Zhan and his pursuers.

Smoke billowed up, wood chips flew everywhere, and screams, the neighing of horses, and the sound of breaking branches instantly drowned out the pursuers' subsequent orders.

The fallen giant trees formed a chaotic and deadly barrier, temporarily obstructing everyone's view.

Su Zhan was startled by the shockwave and retreated sharply, only to crash heavily into a tree trunk.

He felt a sweet taste in his throat, and despite the excruciating pain, he didn't hesitate to use the smoke and dust and the falling leaves and twigs to flee desperately deeper into the dense forest like a wisp of smoke.

The centurion was furious and roared loudly.

The falcons in the sky kept circling, and in the end, only boundless silence swallowed up the dense forest.

They eventually lost track of Su Zhan, allowing him to escape.

Su Zhan had already led them deep into the forest. Without lingering, he ran straight off into the distance.

He eventually found a brief respite in a cave.

He listened cautiously behind him, and the sound of the pursuers gradually faded away, indicating that he had shaken off his pursuers.

Su Zhan breathed a sigh of relief. This escape was too difficult. If it weren't for that tree helping him, he would have been surrounded by people by now. Even if he was skilled, he wouldn't have been able to withstand the attack of so many people and would definitely have been killed.

But fate was on his side, and he finally escaped his pursuers. Now he had to figure out how to reunite with the rest of the group.

Moreover, Su Zhan felt very worried. Even someone as skilled as him was almost killed by those people. Did the others have such good luck?

Su Zhan didn't know, but he hoped everyone would be alright.

Su Zhan hid in the cave and did not leave. Half an hour later, he cautiously headed to the other side.

He couldn't linger here. Once those people discovered he was missing, they would definitely conduct a thorough search of the area. After all, this was the territory of the grassland people, and he needed to escape before dawn.

Finally, when Su Zhan appeared at the edge of the woods, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Outside was a vast grassland. Once he left the grassland, he would be like a fish entering the sea, and no one would be able to catch him again.

So Su Zhan determined the direction and then headed towards the agreed location.

After traveling for a day, Su Zhan, exhausted and hungry, finally saw the small village they had agreed to meet.

That village was an abandoned village, with no people around.

This place has now been occupied by the Fierce Dragon Gang, whose purpose is to support those who are starting an uprising in the Royal Court.

Sure enough, as soon as Su Zhan passed by, people immediately jumped out of the bushes. After recognizing Su Zhan, they were overjoyed and ran up to take him into the village.

Inside the village, Su Zhan saw a pheasant neck.

The pheasant also had wounds on its neck and face, but it was okay; it wasn't seriously injured.

She then told Su Zhan about the current situation.

Although the attack was very successful, the number of casualties they suffered was far too great.

Not counting the discriminatory slaves, the Han Chinese who helped them fight against the steppe people, and even the people from other small tribes, the Fierce Dragon Gang had already lost eight or nine out of ten of its members, and very few of them were able to return.

However, Wild Chicken Neck felt that Su Zhan's escape was the most important thing, after all, Su Zhan was the third leader. His status was more important than anyone else's.