Azure Heaven Saber

Chapter 59 - 59 47 Would you like to come in and sit

?Chapter 59: Chapter 47: Would you like to come in and sit? Chapter 59: Chapter 47: Would you like to come in and sit? Wu Tiejun, clutching his brother’s body, quickly fled.

A mournful yell echoed from afar: “Miao Sensen! I vow to be your enemy from this life to the next! I’ll forever stand against you and the Rainbow Brigade! And I will make you pay ten-fold for today’s losses!”

The voice gradually faded.

On his own, he was no match for Miao Sensen. Moreover, Miao had plenty of helpers. If they got too close, he would have no chance of survival.

The only option was to flee and relay this message: The common benefactor of Yuezhou’s Rainbow Brigade was killed by Miao Sensen!

He was holding his brother’s dead body in his hands, and he needed to meet his responsibility of bringing him home.

Now was not a time for heroics.

This is a vendetta that could not coexist under the same sky!

Miao Sensen watched Wu Tiejun leave, with narrowed eyes, and gave no order to pursue him.

“Just letting him go like that? He’s alone. Our chances of killing him are high if we surround him,” queried a woman in black next to him, watching the direction Wu Tiejun had disappeared. Her eyes brimmed with murderous intent.

Said slowly, “Boss, it’s not often we get the chance to encounter Wu Tiejun alone like this.”

Miao Sensen paced a few steps, saying, “He fled early, creating distance between us. We can’t catch up to him in a short time. Even if we could, we might have to follow him to the outskirts of Yuezhou City, where we risk a full-scale attack.”

“Besides, under today’s delicate situation, even if we could kill Wu Tiejun here and now, I would choose to let him go back.”

“Killing him now would arouse suspicion in that old fox, He Bibiqu.”

“Might as well take advantage of the fact that he fled early, to make this game seem more convincing.”

“Next, mobilize everyone in our vicinity to find the whereabouts of that rogue doctor at all costs. Even a corpse would do; we can’t leave him to Great Qin!”

“As long as we can kill that rogue… Preferably capture him alive, he has great use. As long as this point is achieved, not only would we not lose this round, we would have eliminated a potential impact on the future.”

Miao Sensen’s face turned from calm to gloomy, filled with pensiveness. His eyes flickered constantly as he continued to move forward.

He was thinking, if he could capture this rogue doctor and use him to his advantage…

If the other party had a means to treat He Bibiqu’s chronic disease, then he must be highly skilled in medicine. If he could master this, it would be greatly advantageous.

“If Great Yan could control this doctor…”

Miao Sensen undoubtedly felt an urgent need, but he wasn’t particularly impatient.

Wu Tiejun had left and would surely report back to He Bibiqu.

What would He Bibiqu do?

The next step would inevitably be the Rainbow Brigade’s search for Great Yan’s hidden agents in Yuezhou City, for revenge, right?

Would He Bibiqu see through his ruse? But it didn’t matter. Even if he did, He would use this to boost the Rainbow Brigade’s morale, arouse shared hatred and revenge for the divine doctor.

Then a citywide search for Great Yan spies would be a definite.

But what benefits could he gain from this? What could Great Yan do in this space?

Miao Sensen reflected coolly.

At his level, every word and action had to hit the target. Especially when speaking to an enemy, the consequences of misleading them also need to be carefully considered.

Sometimes the outcome of a confrontation could be decided in a flash of insight.

With a solemn face, he weighed his options.

Suddenly.

A hawk’s cry echoed in the sky.

Miao Sensen frowned, abruptly looked up to find a large hawk in the sky, hovering like a black speck in the sky.

With a sharp cry, it swooped down from the sky, like an arrow, directly above Miao Sensen.

It paused briefly mid-air before fluttering onto Miao Sensen’s arm like a falling feather.

Miao Sensen unraveled a small bamboo tube tied to the hawk’s leg.

Upon reading the brief note inside, his face became grave.

He immediately retied the bamboo tube and sent the hawk back into the sky, vanishing into the clouds.

The woman in black, seeing Miao Sensen’s worried expression, couldn’t help but ask, “Boss, what happened?”

Miao Sensen sighed, “The war in the south was at a standstill. Yet Ma Qiange suddenly appeared. Instead of following the orders of the Great Qin Army to standby in the southern Qin Army, he cut straight in from the side of the Great Qi, using the invincible heavy cavalry, tearing open a gap. He penetrated right through Qi’s army and joined forces with Qin’s Southern Army, right in the middle of Qi’s forces!”

“What!?…”

The woman in black was left speechless.

The thirty-some men around immediately turned their heads to look. Their faces solemn.

This news was explosive!

Despite their alliance with Yan State, the outcome of the war between Great Qin and Great Qi in the South directly influenced the situation on Yan’s border. If the Qin Army won and Qi’s army retreated entirely, then Great Yan’s army would be directly exposed to Qin’s assault!

The two countries had always used their combined forces to flank Qin’s southern border; if Qi admitted defeat, then Qin would attack Yan with full force!

This was an issue threatening on a national scale.

Everyone could foresee this.

A man in black attire, pale and somewhat refined, furrowed his eyebrows and said, “Hasn’t the information about the movement of Ma Qiange’s troops of Great Qin already been provided to Great Qi? Besides, they themselves have spies, so the intelligence is definitely not so… How could this happen?”

The breach in the flanks represented something everyone understood very well – no army can hold up after such a thing and not collapse!

In other words, the war in the Southern Borderlands, Great Qi was already defeated!

A woman in black, her normally pale face now red with anger, yet with a hint of confusion, said, “Zhao Dingbian, the commanding officer of the Great Qi forces, is a battle-hardened veteran with a wealth of experience. How could he make such a beginner’s mistake?”

Miao Sensen sighed, “The High Command of Great Qin instructed Ma Qiange to offer swift assistance, obeying the orders of Marshal Huo Zongnan on the Southern Borderlands battlefield; not to act impulsively or take unnecessary risks. This order has not only been intercepted by us but also by Great Qi.”

“But Ma Qiange did not follow this command. Instead, after he deployed the troops, he changed his course, especially after leaving this small town by the river. After driving back our army of Great Yan, he went around the Great Yan border, with soldiers muzzled and horses muffled. He made a detour, and in the final twenty-mile distance, he sprinted at full speed. At the peak of his charge, he transformed his entire army into a gigantic spear… which pierced straight into the flanks of the Great Qi!”

“This fellow has outright defied military orders, hasn’t he? Doesn’t the Great Qin Army care about this? This type of wilful alteration of army orders should be culpable even if the battle is victorious, right? That’s a march order!” The woman in black angrily said.

“Not necessarily.”

Miao Sensen shook his head and sighed with disappointment, “We must have all been fooled. The command by the Great Qin High Command seems like a decoy. The real command was likely delivered to Ma Qiange only after he reached Yuezhou, or possibly even after he reached this riverside town, by He Bibiqu.”

“Otherwise, why would the Great Qin’s heavy cavalry pass through here? On the surface, it appears to be to aid the Qin’s Rainbow Agents, but this reason is far-fetched. To assist the Rainbow Agents in a battle, why would they mobilize ten thousand heavy cavalry? And that too, of all military types?”

“On this point… I was thoroughly tricked!”

Miao Sensen’s face was grim.

This round, to tell the truth, was a lapse in judgment.

Although the defeat of Great Qi is due to more than just this element, there must be other internal reasons as well.

Regardless, a veteran general like him should have thought of everything. To be struck in the flank and pierced, might not be surprising if it happened to a novice general. But when it happens to an experienced general, it seems like an insult to one’s intelligence.

There must be other circumstances that led to this accident.

However, those are not things that Miao Sensen needs to consider.

His thoughts are now the same as those of the person in charge of the intelligence section of Great Qi.

No matter how many factors contributed to the defeat of the battlefield, this matter in the intelligence department is still their fault!

Others don’t understand this.

As someone who works in the intelligence and infiltration department, how could Miao Sensen not understand this?

“No matter how it happened, defeat is defeat.”

The pale, refined man in black attire said, “Boss, if Great Qi loses, then our border with Great Yan is in danger.”

Miao Sensen kept silent, his mind churning with thoughts at rapid speed.

The woman in black said, “Although Great Qi was defeated in battle, we from Great Yan have troops stationed along the border. Great Qin won’t dare to pursue too drastically; otherwise, they would worry that we will take advantage of their open backside.”

Miao Sensen’s eyes flickered, “So, although Great Qi was defeated, at most it would retreat for some hundred miles and then regroup.”

“Exactly.”

“And as a veteran general, Zhao Dingbian’s command ability, as well as his fame in the world… doesn’t permit him to go back defeated like this.”

“Exactly.”

“So, Zhao Dingbian must be planning a counterattack.”

“Boss, you’re right.”

Miao Sensen’s eyes flickered while he thought quietly for a moment.

Suddenly he ordered, “Let’s withdraw from here and find a place to discuss this matter.”

Just as everyone was about to obey and withdraw.

Suddenly, the door of the dilapidated house opposite the medical clinic creaked open.

The nearly unhinged door swung open, and an elderly woman came out, holding a large wooden tub.

She tossed the water in the tub.

The tub of water, freshly used for washing clothes, was flung onto the ground, creating a semicircle on the main street.

It was very close to splashing on Miao Sensen’s feet.

Droplets of water made their mark on Miao Sensen’s trouser legs.

Miao Sensen felt his heart skip a beat, and his eyes darted towards the old woman.

The old woman raised her dimmed eyes and looked over Miao Sensen’s face, then said in surprise, “Oh, I didn’t notice earlier, but there are so many people here. Are you all here to see the doctor?”

Saying so, she scanned each face curiously, her fuzzy vision appearing as if she could not see clearly, and questioned, “All of you are sick together? What illness do you have that you need to come together?”

The woman in black took a deep breath and was about to speak.

Miao Sensen’s pupils momentarily contracted and then returned to normal. He smiled amiably and said, “No, we are not sick. We’re sorry to disturb you, ma’am. We will leave now.”

The old woman showed her few remaining teeth in a broad grin and cheerfully said, “Since you are here, why leave in such a hurry? Why don’t you come in and sit for a while?”

Miao Sensen saw the old woman smile and say, “My husband is very hospitable, though you are many, there is no problem coming in to have a cup of tea and rest a while. We can manage that.”

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