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Ugut finally stepped forward himself.

He did not bring a thousand cavalry.

He brought only twelve wolf-flag guards and stopped two hundred paces below the stone beam.

Chen Mu also escorted Batu to the edge of the slope.

Batu had lost too much blood and was pale, but he still tried to stand up straight. Er Gou kicked him in the back of the knee, making him kneel down again.

"Behave yourself."

Batu turned around and glared at him.

Er Gou lifted the blood-stained salt brick.

Batu couldn't understand what kind of weapon it was, but he saw hair stuck in the cracks of the salt bricks, and finally stopped moving.

Ugut was nearly fifty years old, but he was even wider than Batu. He wore a black wolf-skin cloak, his beard was covered in frost, and he had a white patch on his forehead as he dismounted from his black horse.

He looked at his son first.

Now look at Anato.

"Put Batu down."

Anato relayed the message to Chen Mu.

Chen Mu asked, "What will we exchange it for?"

Ugut thought he had heard a joke.

"Wild Dog Gully originally belonged to me."

"The cattle, sheep, warhorses, and provisions are all mine."

"You took my things in exchange for my son?"

Chen Mu pointed to the corpse on the slope.

"That's not the case anymore."

Ugut looked at the black pot flag.

"How dare a Han soldier, who doesn't even have a military flag, seize my grain land?"

"The flag is no longer about looking good."

"As long as we can hold on, that's fine."

Ugut's gaze slowly turned cold.

He stopped talking to Chen Mu and stared at Anato.

"Your mother entrusted you to me before she died."

"I'll teach you Chinese, teach you horseback riding, and give you the opportunity to enter Blackstone Castle."

"Now you're pointing a knife at my son?"

Anato fell silent.

The soldiers on the slope couldn't understand what she was saying, but they could see that her hand holding the knife was trembling.

Ugut took out a roll of wolf skin from his pocket.

The wolf skin was adorned with seven silver buttons.

"return."

"I can choose not to pursue Kumu's death."

"I'm returning Baiquan Ranch to your mother tribe."

"Batu will inherit my army in the future, and you will be his woman. No one in the north will dare to call you a traitor again."

Batu raised his head.

He clearly knew about this all along, and his eyes even seemed to take it for granted.

Anato whispered each sentence to Chen Mu.

After hearing this, Er Gou couldn't help but curse.

"This old man is trading his own son for his wife?"

"And you make it sound like you're rewarding her."

Chen Mu remained silent.

Anato looked at the rolled-up wolf skin, and for a moment her eyes wavered.

Baiquan Ranch is where her mother was born.

It's also the thing she's wanted to take back most of all these years.

If she could just step off the stone beam, perhaps many of her maternal clans would truly be spared.

Chen Mu suddenly turned the scimitar upside down and handed the hilt to her.

"If you want to go down, then go down."

Anato turned her head.

"Aren't you going to stop me?"

"Your legs are on your body."

"What if I take Batu with me?"

"That won't work."

Chen Mu pressed down on Batu's shoulder.

"This is something we risked our lives to capture."

Anado stared at him for a moment, then suddenly smiled.

"You can't even say nice things about keeping women around."

Why should I keep you here?

"Because I'm good-looking."

"The Northern Barbarians are charging!"

"wood."

She cursed and took the knife.

He then took out a small wolf-tooth token from his pocket.

That was something Ugut had personally hung around her neck when she was twelve. With that token, she could enter any of Ugut's ranches and command ten wolf riders.

She couldn't bear to throw it away.

Anado walked to the brazier and placed the Wolf Fang Token on the back of her knife.

Ugut's expression finally changed.

"Anado!"

She didn't turn around.

The back of the knife tilted.

The wolf-tooth token fell into the fire.

The grease and old rope immediately caught fire, and the acrid smell drifted down the stone beams on the wind. The wolf's teeth first turned black, then a thin crack appeared.

Anato cried out in the northern dialect, "My mother entrusted me to you so that you could protect me."

"I didn't mean for you to trade me for Batu's bed!"

"I'll go and rob Baiquan Ranch myself."

"I will save my own people."

"From today onwards, you are no longer my uncle."

She grabbed her longbow and shot an arrow at the rolled-up wolf skin.

The arrow pierced the wolf skin and embedded itself in the black wolf flagpole behind Ugut.

All twelve guards drew their swords at the same time.

Ugut raised his hand to stop him.

He looked at the wolf-tooth token in the fire, and the last bit of warmth on his face vanished.

"very good."

"Then I'll kill this Han soldier first, and then drag you back."

Ugut turned his horse around.

Batu got anxious on the slope.

"Father!"

Ugut did not turn around.

The wolf's horns rang out once more.

This time, there is no distinction between first and last.

On the north slope, west slope, and outside the spring gully, more than 500 northern barbarians moved at the same time. Ugut left more than 200 cavalry to guard the herd and the central army; no matter how narrow the stone beam was, he dared not fill all the people into one slope.

They left their warhorses at a distance and carried wooden shields, grappling hooks, and long ladders to weigh down the stone beams. Even the Wolf Banner Guards protecting the central army dismounted.

Ugut no longer wants his son.

He wanted to use human lives to fill in Wild Dog Ditch.

Er Gou's face turned pale.

"Sergeant, Batu is no longer effective."

Chen Mu pulled the broken knife out of Batu's leg.

Batu shuddered in pain.

"Then let him do the work."

Forty-three White Wolf Guard prisoners were driven behind the wagon wall to move stones and carry the wounded. Batu's wound was bandaged with coarse cloth and stuffed with a bundle of arrows.

"Aren't you afraid he'll stab you in the back?" Er Gou asked.

"If he dares to make a move, kill him first."

Chen Mu pushed Batu next to He Dashan.

He Dashan was wounded in the ribs and could only sit while drawing his bow. The guard with the severed finger stood beside him, his knife pressed against the back of Batu's neck.

Anato stood to Chen Mu's left.

"Ugut really doesn't care about Batu."

"I can tell."

"Do you regret not exchanging it first?"

"The point of capturing him alive was to create chaos for him."

He's in a mess right now.

Anato looked down at the densely packed crowd below the slope.

"I really want to kill you too."

"Many people want to kill me."

Chen Mu tossed her a round shield.

"queue."

Chen Mu had the last pot of meat soup carried to the rear of the banner.

There was only half a pot left, and not many pieces of meat.

He picked up the wooden ladle, first giving a mouthful to the most seriously injured person, and then giving two mouthfuls to each of the people who could still stand.

When it was his turn, there was only a layer of oily soup left at the bottom of the pot.

Anato threw half of her meat into his bowl.

Don't misunderstand.

"If you die, no one will take over White Spring Ranch for me."

Chen Mu bit the meat in half and stuffed one half back into her mouth.

"I don't eat alone."

Anato bit down on the flesh, and also bit down on the finger that touched his lips.

Chen Mu's brow twitched.

"Relax."

"To teach you a lesson."

She loosened her teeth, licked the grease off her lips, and turned to look down the slope.

This little bit of hot soup and half a piece of meat isn't enough to fill my stomach.

But this caused the last twenty-odd people to grip their knives tightly again.

The more than 500 people who pressed forward couldn't all act at the same time. The three slopes could only hold a little over a hundred people at a time, and those behind could only wait on the frozen ground. But they took turns, with one group retreating and another immediately pressing in from behind, as if they could never be killed off.

The northern barbarians' arrows arrived first.

The remaining hay wagons were riddled with bullets, looking like hedgehogs. A dozen rockets pierced the hay, and flames quickly erupted.

Chen Mu did not order his men to kill him.

The wall of vehicles could not be defended.

He ordered his men to push the burning hay cart down the west slope.

The northern barbarian soldiers immediately scattered and hid.

The car could only create a small gap by crashing through it.

More people came around from both sides.

"Retreat to the top of the stone beam!"

Of the forty people, only twenty-four are still standing.

Including the wounded who could barely draw their bows, the total number was less than thirty.

They stood in a circle around the black pot flag.

When the first group of Northern Barbarian soldiers reached the summit, the sun was already high in the sky.

Chen Mu charged towards the person at the front.

The two shields collided, the impact sending numbness through his arms. He first struck the bridge of the nose with the edge of the shield, then slashed the leg with his dagger. The opponent fell, and the men behind him continued their charge, stepping over the corpse.

The stone guards the right side.

His armor was covered in knife marks, and half of one ear had been sliced ​​off. A northern barbarian spear thrust at him, but he twisted to the side, clamped the spear shaft between his arms, and used his horseshoe to smash the opponent's wrist.

Two dogs guard the flag.

The salt bricks were broken, so he switched to a short axe from the northern barbarians. Whenever someone approached the flagpole, he would grab them and roll away, regardless of whether he had a knife or not.

He Dashan sat on the ground and shot arrows.

He only had twelve arrows in total.

Each shot hit a face within ten paces.

After firing the last arrow, he grabbed his spear and stood up, leaning on the shoulder of the guard with the severed finger.

Batu suddenly moved.

While everyone was fighting desperately, he grabbed a short knife from the ground and lunged at He Dashan.

The guard with the severed finger had been on guard against him for a long time.

Unable to grip the knife tightly with his two severed fingers, he simply used his wrists to clamp Batu's neck and pressed his entire body against him.

Batu plunged a knife into his side.

He Dashan hugged Batu from behind and slammed his forehead against the back of Batu's head.

One, two, three.

Batu was knocked so hard his eyes rolled back and his dagger fell from his hand.

The guard with the severed finger picked up the knife; he could have easily slit his own throat.

He Dashan, panting, said, "Keep it."

"You can still change horses."

The guard with the severed finger broke two of Batu's teeth with a single punch.

"This doesn't count as changing horses."

They tied the people up again.

The fighting on the stone beams lasted for an hour.

The northern barbarians pressed down layer by layer.

Chen Mu's short sword was chipped, so he snatched it from the corpse's hand. The bandage on his shoulder was already soaked with blood, and his right arm was becoming increasingly difficult to lift, so he had to switch the sword to his left hand.

One of the Wolf Banner Guards saw an opportunity and swung his axe at him from behind.

Anato lunged at Chen Mu from behind and took the hit with her round shield.

The axe cleaved through the shield and got stuck in front of her arm.

Anado stabbed the Wolf Flag Guard in the heart with a backhand.

The body pressed down on her, knocking her down.

Chen Mu grabbed her collar and dragged her out from under the corpse.

"Your hand can still move?"

"I can hug you."

"Then everything is fine."

Anato gritted her teeth and kicked him.

Chen Mu couldn't dodge, and a bloody footprint appeared on his leg.

More and more northern barbarians gathered around the flag.

The black flag was cut in half, and Er Gou used his belt to tie the broken pole to his back. An arrow pierced his thigh, and he knelt to guard it.

The stone also fell over.

His breastplate was dented by the hammer, and the blood he coughed up was all pink.

Only fifteen people were left who could stand.

Ugut is still down the slope.

His black wolf flag moved forward step by step.

Chen Mu glanced at the south side of Wild Dog Gully.

There were still no reinforcements there.

He stuck the dull blade into the ground and picked up a spear.

"The final round."

"Kill them!"

Er Gou looked up, wondering if he had misheard.

"Go back down?"

"They were all crammed onto the slope."

Chen Mu pointed his spear at Ugut's black wolf flag.

"Chong Zhong".

Fifteen people stood in a row.

He Dashan and the guard with the severed finger also helped each other over.

Anado tied Batu to the flagpole and stood next to Chen Mu.

Just as they were about to charge, a horse neighed suddenly came from the south slope.

A silver figure leaped up the ridge.

Lu Shuangyi wore a red battle cloak over her shoulders, and the spear in her hand was still dripping blood. Behind her, one hundred and twenty Black Stone Fortress cavalrymen broke through the snow fog and charged into Wild Dog Gully along the south slope.

Lin Qinghe is not here.

She tied her medicine box to the back of Lu Shuangyi's saddle.

When Lu Shuangyi saw Chen Mu covered in blood, her face turned frighteningly cold.

"One hour."

"That's what you both said when you let him out."

Anado leaned against the broken flag and chuckled.

"Those who arrive late tend to have the worst tempers."

Lu Shuangyi did not argue with her.

She drew her spear and pointed it at the black wolf flag down the slope.

"Kill him first."

Chen Mu grinned, revealing his blood-stained teeth.

"That suits me perfectly."