Time goes back to a few minutes ago. Just when the massacre in Baishi Pass was about to take place, on the grassland fifty miles away from Baishi Pass, there were 70,000 to 80,000 soldiers from the seven Shatu tribes who were gearing up and waiting for news from Baishi Pass.
A group of nobles from the seven Shatu tribes, representing the Wuli, Wushan, Tumo, Tulang and Fengye tribes, were gathered together, looking towards the direction of Baishi Pass. On the grass in front of these people, a skinny Shatu priest wearing a black robe was sitting cross-legged on the ground with his eyes closed. All the nobles from the seven Shatu tribes knew that this priest was using the eagle in the sky to observe the situation inside Baishi Pass. Once their people completely entered Baishi Pass and started to take action, they would immediately lead their troops to Baishi Pass and capture this checkpoint that guarded the Gulang grassland into the Han Empire in one fell swoop.
"Chief Nigu, will there be any problems with this plan? Why do I feel a little uneasy..." The person who said this was a man in his 50s with a big belly and a greasy and cunning face. While speaking, the man looked at Baishiguan with flickering eyes and seemed a little absent-minded.
Niko glanced at the man and frowned slightly. If this man was not the younger brother of the Fengye tribe leader, Halishe, who was representing the Fengye tribe to send 30,000 elite troops to participate in this operation, Niko would have whipped the man in the face with the whip in his hand. The men of the seven Shatu tribes are all wolves and lions, but Halishe is like a fox with a broken leg. He is suspicious and cautious in doing things. Sometimes, this kind of cautious character has reached the point of being annoying.
"Halishe, you are too suspicious. That Yan Liqiang is just a young man with short-sightedness. He might be happy to have made a lot of money from us. How could he have made any preparations? If he really had preparations and wanted to harm us, the troops supporting him from the Ganzhou governor would not be in Pingxi City now. They would have been transferred to Baishi Pass long ago. In the past few days, there has been no large-scale mobilization of troops in Qiyun County. This shows that he has not seen through our plan at all..." Nigu said confidently, looked in the direction of Baishi Pass, licked his lips like a hungry wolf, and said ferociously, "These 50,000 troops are the elite of our tribes. As long as they enter Baishi Pass, they will definitely be able to seize Baishi Pass. By then, the entire Qiyun County and the northwest will open their doors to us. The Han Empire is now unable to take care of itself, and it is a good time for us to plunder and occupy the Han territory. How much silver has he taken from us in the past two days? When the time comes, we will make him spit out double..."
"Yes, yes. I heard that Yan Liqiang's number one factory and manufacturing bureau in the world are making a fortune. After our army breaks in, those things will all belong to us. The Black Jie people have already agreed that no matter how much territory we can occupy inside the pass this time, these territories will be ours in the future. Those Han people are as weak and cowardly as sheep. How can they occupy such good land inside the pass..." A nobleman from the Seven Shatu tribes next to Nigu also looked in the direction of Baishishan Pass with greedy eyes.
These Shatu people were beaten like dogs by the Black Jie people, but when facing the Han Empire, they felt that they were still wolves!
“Hehehe, I heard that in the world’s number one factory of Qiyun Supervisor Yan Liqiang, there are thousands of embroiderers, all of them are delicate beauties. It will be a blessing for us if we charge in…” a general of the seven Shatu tribes also said, looking in the direction of Baishishan Pass.
When the nobles of the seven Shatu tribes around heard this, they all laughed lewdly.
"Patriarch Nigu, do you think Grandmaster Shalong can capture Yan Liqiang?"
"Of course we can. Grandmaster Shalong is the most powerful warrior among the seven tribes of Shatu. He has already advanced to the realm of Martial King. How old is Yan Liqiang? Can he be a match for Grandmaster Shalong? Although there are several masters among the defenders of Baishi Pass, no one is a match for Grandmaster Shalong. What's more, in addition to Grandmaster Shalong, Elder Mora of our Wuli tribe will also take action. You all know Elder Mora's strength. He has already advanced to the realm of Martial King. With the two of them taking action, even if we cannot capture Yan Liqiang alive, it will not be a problem to take Yan Liqiang's head. If Yan Liqiang is alive, it will save us some trouble. If we kill him, Qiyun County will be leaderless and in chaos..." Niko said confidently.
A group of Shatu nobles were talking, when suddenly, the Shatu priest who was sitting cross-legged in front of everyone shook his body, and suddenly a mouthful of blood spurted out, and then the whole person fell to the grass.
A group of Shatu nobles were shocked and quickly surrounded the priest who had vomited blood and fell to the ground. They raised him up and asked, "Priest Andu, what happened to you?"
In just a blink of an eye, the face of the fallen Shatu priest turned light golden, and his gray beard was stained with a lot of blood from his mouth, which made him look particularly miserable. Even though he was helped up by the crowd, blood still kept coming out of the Shatu priest's mouth. He opened his eyes and looked around weakly, "My... my natal spirit eagle... just now... just now I don't know... it was killed by... some raptor in the sky... all of a sudden... all of a sudden..."
Because his natal spirit creature had died, the priest's mind was severely damaged and he suffered backlash from his secret technique, as if he had lost half his life in an instant.
Nigu's eyebrows jumped, and he held the priest's shoulder with his hand, and asked in a deep voice, "Priest Angdu, before your natal spirit eagle was killed, you can see the situation inside Baishi Pass clearly. Have our people entered the pass?"
"I saw... our 50,000 people... have... all entered the customs..." the seriously injured Shatu priest said intermittently.
"Then did you see clearly what was the thing that killed your natal spirit eagle?"
“That… thing… swooped down… from the clouds. I… was always… looking down… so I didn’t see it clearly!” After saying these two sentences, Priest Andu spat out another mouthful of blood.
"Take Priest Andu down to rest first..." Nigu stood up and looked towards the direction of Baishi Pass, with a cold light flashing in his eyes. He thought for a moment and then gave an order, "Everyone, get on your horses immediately and charge towards Baishi Pass..."
Halishe's expression changed slightly. "Chief Nigu, but... but the signal from Baishi Pass hasn't come yet... Our people haven't taken action yet. If we move here and the Han people over at Baishi Pass notice..."
"No need to wait. It will take another half an hour to get to Baishi Pass from here. By the time we reach Baishi Pass, our people will have already started!" As he spoke, Nico had already jumped onto the rhinoceros horse. He glanced at the Shatu nobles and his voice suddenly turned cold. "From now on, anyone who dares to disobey my orders will be punished by military law..."
All the Shatu nobles hurriedly started to mount their horses, shouting and yelling, and the entire army of the seven Shatu tribes began to get agitated...
A few minutes later, the Shatu army waiting here started to move, rushing towards Baishi Pass in a black mass...
…
"Puff..."
When the troops led by Nigu and others were still on the road, Grandmaster Shalong, the top master of the seven tribes of Shatu and the one who was highly expected by the Shatu nobles, spit out a mouthful of blood and looked at Yan Liqiang as if he had seen a ghost. The power from Yan Liqiang's dragon-spine steel spear weighing several hundred kilograms, as well as his terrifying spear skills, simply frightened the top master of the seven tribes of Shatu...
(End of this chapter)