Exile opening: I won with the Universal Maker

143 Allegiance
When Shen Yuexi saw the sergeants of the Xirong Army marching out, she turned around without saying a word.

It's not that she's being hypocritical. The scene of such a large group of shirtless men holding knives is really shocking. She has never seen it before, and she couldn't bear such a big shock for a while.

Don't they know that they have Liannu on their side?
Doesn't wear armor and doesn't hold a shield. Is this a contempt for the power of the crossbow, or is it painted with an invulnerability spell?

She asked the craftsmen to strengthen the crossbow bolts, and the power of the crossbow bolts now far exceeds that of the past.

"Suicide," Qiu Liming raised his hands high and shouted, "Bowmen are ready."

A thousand soldiers could stand on the front of the city wall, and five hundred soldiers each held a crossbow filled with ten reinforced crossbow bolts, and there was a sergeant guarding him with a sword and shield beside him.With one round of shooting, [-] crossbow bolts will be fired.

Dayan soldiers put their crossbows on the city wall one after another, aiming at the Xirong army array slowly approaching in the distance.

"With the protection of the city wall, they can't rush up," Qiu Liming shouted to the sergeant confidently, "There are only [-] enemy troops in the area, and there is no armor shield to protect them. Two rounds of crossbow arrows will send them back to the west."

Hearing Qiu Liming's words, Shen Yuexi turned around suddenly.

"General Qiu, how many people did you say were on the other side?"

"Five thousand... five thousand." Qiu Liming repeated the number, as if he remembered something, and looked at the other side carefully.

In the cold wind, [-] Xirong soldiers approached the city wall in a neat line, but they looked like they had no fighting intentions. They neither shouted nor waved their swords, and marched silently.

When Qiu Liming saw clearly the face of the general who was walking in the front, Shen Yuexi exclaimed:

"It's Qiang Lin, they are the five thousand captives before!"

Behind the [-] soldiers of the Western Army, there were several thousand-man teams that formed two long snake-like columns outside the camp.All armed with bows and arrows.The two armies were far away, and Shen Yuexi saw that their arrows were on the string, and they could be fired as long as they raised their bows.

From such a long distance, those arrows could not reach this side at all.Are their arrows aimed at their own people?

Thinking rapidly in her mind.

These Xirong soldiers who were about to attack the city didn't even have armor or shields.No one would make fun of their own lives, it should have been ordered by the general on the opposite side, Xiu Muye.

The other party clearly knew that there was a Liannu here, which was tantamount to making these [-] soldiers commit suicide.

Considering his kindness to them, Qiang Lin refused to attack, and this could only be the reason.But he couldn't violate the military order, so he had to lead the five thousand soldiers to the battlefield.

What to do now?
Shen Yuexi didn't know what to do for a while, and looked at the Xirong sergeant who was getting closer.

These people are the ones she tried her best to save, and now they are standing in front of her again.It was very easy to kill them. After a round of crossbow arrows passed, at least half of these unprotected soldiers would die.

If you don't attack them, what will you do if they rush to attack the city? There is Xiaogang Village behind, and there are also people she wants to protect.

"General, they are about to enter the crossbow range!" A sergeant in charge of looking out shouted.

"Very good," Qiu Liming glanced at Shen Yuexi who lowered his head, "Listen to my orders."

"slow!"

Shen Yuexi raised her head and shouted loudly.

The soldiers on the city wall turned their heads to look at her.

Everyone admired the mistress very much. The powerful crossbow in their hands was designed by Shen Yuexi.Even if she is not a general, the sergeants also value her words very much.

"Don't shoot the arrow," Shen Yuexi said to Qiu Liming, "They don't want to fight us, they are being forced."

Qiu Liming did not respond.

He, who has been through battles for a long time, has already seen that the five thousand Xirong soldiers on the opposite side have no murderous intent at all.Their steps are heavy, their expressions struggle.

When these people were about to be murdered, it was Shen Yuexi who stopped Xiao Zhuo.When they were about to starve to death, it was Shen Yuexi who brought food and grass from the border to save them.Their lives were given to them by Shen Yuexi, and they didn't want to draw their swords against their savior.But in the army, the order is like a mountain, and the commander on the opposite side must have asked them to attack.If Qiang Lin disobeyed the military order, he would also die.

Are they really not going to attack?
"General," the sergeant in charge of the lookout reminded loudly, "they are already within range, give an order quickly."

"Don't shoot the arrow!" Shen Yuexi shook her head repeatedly.

As if hearing Shen Yuexi's voice, Qiang Lin who was walking in the front raised his head and looked at Shen Yuexi.

The struggle in his eyes disappeared, replaced by determination.

Qiang Lin raised the saber high, with the tip of the saber pointing down, and slammed it into the ground, knelt down on one knee, and raised his hands in the air:

"Crown princess, Qiang Lin will never attack the savior."

Behind him, Xirong soldiers imitated Qiang Lin, thrust their knives into the ground, and knelt down on one knee.

Hundreds, then thousands, until finally five thousand Xirong soldiers were on their knees.

Shen Yuexi couldn't speak, and raised her hands to cover her mouth.

Sergeant Dayan on the city wall was also shocked by the scene in front of them. Everyone had never seen the scene where the enemy refused to fight in front of the formation.The same is true for the Xirong army on the opposite side.

"I knew they would betray."

Xiu Muye patted the commander next to him on the shoulder: "These people are too weak, you can't be like Qiang Lin, don't give them a chance to pick up a knife."

The commander hesitated: "But those are our people..."

"The moment they put down their swords, they are no longer our clansmen," Xiu Muye pushed the commander away impatiently, and waved to the army, "Let the arrows!"

After the order was issued, there was no response.Seven thousand Xirong soldiers seemed to have all become deaf.

Xiu Muye was furious and roared, "Shoot the arrow!"

Thousands of feathered arrows flew out of the string with a "shua".

"Run!" Shen Yuexi shouted with all her strength when she saw the rain of arrows rising into the sky in the distance.

Before the Xirong soldiers who were kneeling on the ground stood up, the feather arrows fell with a sharp sound of wind.

Hundreds of people fell in pools of blood.

Shen Yuexi's eyes were blurred.

She seemed to have returned to the ruined temple where the wind and rain were blowing.On that night, arrows rained down, and the people in the temple had nowhere to escape, screaming and wailing together...

Below the city wall is like hell on earth.

No one would have thought that it would be their own people who would kill these Xirong soldiers.

"General Qiu, save them!" Shen Yuexi grabbed Qiu Liming's sleeve, "They can't die like this for nothing."

In her opinion, those who lay down their arms and refuse to fight are not cowards and do not deserve to die on the battlefield.

"Mistress, don't worry," Qiu Liming looked around and shouted to the soldiers, "Put down the ladder and let them climb up."

"General, this is not right," said a sergeant, "What if they cheat?"

Qiu Liming shouted: "It doesn't matter, let them come up, they are not allowed to carry weapons. If there are people with weapons, they will be killed on the spot."

According to the order, the sergeants pulled up the ladder from the inner side of the city wall and lowered it down along the outer edge. A sergeant with a loud voice shouted: "If you want to survive, climb up quickly. Anyone with a weapon will be killed on the spot."

The Xirong sergeants had no way to escape. Seeing a ladder lowered in front of them, they immediately ran down the city wall.

More than a thousand Xirong soldiers escaped through the city wall. Behind them, there were many dead and injured shot by arrows.

Qiang Lin calmly dodged waves of arrows under the city wall, as if he knew how to dodge feathered arrows, until at last he was the only one left, and the already safe Xirong soldiers shouted for him, then he climbed up the ladder.

His right arm was pierced by a feathered arrow, which somehow saved his life.

Going up to the city wall, Qiang Lin ignored the arrow on his arm, immediately knelt down in front of Shen Yuexi, tore off a strand of hair with his uninjured hand, wrapped it around his fingers and held it up.He looked very devout.

Seeing this, the rest of the Xirong soldiers knelt down and tore off their hair just like him.

Shen Yuexi didn't know why, so she looked at Qiu Liming.

"This is a ceremony of the Xirong people," Qiu Liming whispered to her. "The Xirong people believe that the hair on the body is bestowed by the gods, and only on the most solemn occasions can the hair be cut off for making oaths."

"I was rescued three times, and since then, Qiang Lin has been the princess' minion," Qiang Lin lowered his head, "Let's be urged, until death."

(End of this chapter)