Chapter 21 Self-destruction
  Xu Yihuan led the men and horses forward slowly. It was already noon now, and they were about to reach the pass in one or two kilometers.

"Chen Zhu, come here." Xu Yihuan reined in his horse and stopped.

Chen Zhu's heart was in his throat. He glanced at the top and surroundings of the pass, then quietly stepped forward. "Here I am"

"Rest where you are, let the brothers eat and drink, and then come with me."

Chen Zhu hesitated for a moment: "Yes" and turned around to order the team to dismount and rest.

Xu Yihuan reined in his horse and looked back, only to see that all the lieutenants behind him had disappeared, and then he got off the horse.

It wasn't like she didn't have good eyesight. When she saw Chen Zhu staring at her with a stern look on his face and looking around, she knew there must be an ambush here.

Before Yeshang left the camp this morning, he gave the deputy general a team of 2,000 soldiers and followed behind him quietly, fearing that the marshal and the three princes would make some small move.

Now that seems to be the case.

At this critical juncture, it was an opportunity to eradicate dissidents and win over people's hearts. How could she miss it.

On her first day as a new official, and being a female, it was inevitable that the military generals would be dissatisfied with her.

"Xu Xiaowei, you should also eat some." Chen Zhu flattered and handed Xu Yihuan a water bag, and then handed her a sesame seed cake.

Xu Yihuan refused to be polite to him, took the water bag and sesame seed cakes and started eating.

"When we finish eating later, could you please Mr. Chen and the other four captains to go with me?"

When Chen Zhu heard this, his heart skipped a beat: "Let's move forward together." He repeated these four words almost with tears in his eyes.

"What? Not willing?" Xu Yihuan just pretended that she couldn't see the panic on his face.

"No, I am willing." Chen Zhu's voice became hoarse, he stood up tremblingly, and turned to look in the direction where the other four captains were resting.

Xu Yihuan stood up after finishing the pancakes in her hands, patted Chen Chen Zhu on the shoulder and said, "Let's go."

Chen Zhu turned around and glanced at Xu Yihuan with a smile on his face, his face ashen.

"Go, go"

He stepped onto his horse, reined in his horse, and followed Xu Yihuande.

"Captain Chen, please lead the way." Xu Yihuan reined in his horse and stopped aside, then turned to look at the other four captains behind him.

His face was as ugly as Chen Zhu's.

The five of them looked at each other helplessly: "Isn't Captain Xu coming with us?"

Chen Zhu asked. The fifth prince personally carried him over this morning. If Miss Xu could not be killed today, he would be the one who died.

He tightened his grip on the reins, a thin layer of sweat forming on his forehead.

"Okay, I'll go with you." Xu Yihuan smiled arrogantly and followed the five people.

Xu Yihuan followed behind in a happy mood, while Chen Zhu led the team at a slower and slower pace.

Looking behind, Xu Yihuan almost laughed.

Suddenly he said: "You must learn more from Mr. Chen. You have to slow down when you reach the entrance of an important canyon. If something falls from the cliff accidentally, it will kill someone."

After hearing this, the five captains broke into a cold sweat and turned their heads to look behind them. There was no trace of worry on Xu Yihuan's face.

Chen Zhu had an idea, reined in his horse, turned around and stopped, and said with a smile: "Xu Xiaowei, please go with your subordinates. You are good at martial arts. With you in the front line, your subordinates can rest assured."

Xu Yihuan smiled heartily, but she hadn't given up on killing yet.

Chen Zhu looked at him with narrowed eyes and a slight smile. After a while, the smile on Chen Zhu's face froze: "Xu Xiaowei"

Xu Yihuan came back to her senses and raised the corners of her mouth: "Okay, but you have to be next to me."

Chen Zhu's face trembled. Did she discover something?
  Ever since Lieutenant General Du left the team just now, Colonel Xu's strange behavior had made him uneasy. He had no objection to their slow pace, and now he wanted to pull him aside.

Chen Zhu was so cruel that he sacrificed himself to save the lives of his family.

He took courage and said, "I will obey my orders."

The four captains reined in their horses and moved out of the way. Xu Yihuan gently patted the horse's butt and stepped forward, walking side by side with Chen Zhu. When we were about ten meters away from the pass.

Suddenly, a huge boulder rolled down from the sky at the mouth of the canyon.

Xu Yihuan looked up, her face calm as usual, she raised her eyes to Chen Zhu and said: "Mr. Chen, be careful."

After saying that, she raised her hand and used the Devil Fruit, and her palm-sized palm instantly turned into a mesh supported by her five fingers.

She gently pushed the boulder forward, and the boulder blocked the way out of the canyon mouth.

Mr. Chen broke out in a cold sweat when he looked at Xu Yihuan's strange body.

A line of sky appeared at the mouth of the canyon, and then more than a dozen pieces of gravel of different sizes fell down.

Xu Yihuan looked up and blew hard with her right hand. Her delicate and white fist immediately became as big as three or five people. She raised her hand to face the falling boulders.

Xu Yihuan pushed hard towards the narrow connection above the skyline at the mouth of the canyon.

For a moment, the two cliffs above the canyon mouth suddenly became clear.

The falling boulder also fell in front of the canyon mouth under Xu Yihuan's heavy punch.

The sound of falling stones resounded through the valley, and a thick khaki dust spread out.

She released her arm, retracted her fist in an instant, raised her hand to reach the cliff next to the sky at the mouth of the canyon, and pulled hard. The three people on the cliff were immediately pulled down by Xu Yihuan.

"Pa" The three people were thrown in front of Chen Zhu by Xu Yihuan.

Turning his head and looking to the other side, he shot in the same way, and there were three more people.

Xu Yihuan clapped her hands with satisfaction and looked at the six David soldiers with sharp eyes.

"Who told you that I would take this path?"

When Chen Zhu heard this, he sat on the horse and was already panicking.
  His face turned even greener, and his mouth trembled as he tried to explain, but he heard the soldier kneeling down and begging for mercy: "It was you from Jin Dynasty who asked us to ambush you here."

Xu Yihuan said angrily: "Who gave you the news?"

The soldier paused and recalled: "It seems to be a general named Cui."

Then another soldier rushed to answer: "I heard that your husband, Mr. Chen, will bring you here and act according to his gestures."

Chen Zhu was so scared that his feet were weak at this moment, and he looked at Xu Yihuan with despair: "Captain Xu Xu, I am also forced to have no choice."

Suddenly, he accidentally fell from his horse. The four centurions behind him were so frightened that they could immediately kneel down and beg for mercy: "It's not that we want to harm you, it was Vice General Cui who asked us to do this."

Xu Yihuan stared at the people kneeling below and snorted: "Vice General Cui"

"From this morning on, you are my soldiers. When will you need to listen to Vice General Cui's military orders?"

"You said it was the order given to you by Vice Admiral Cui. Where is the order? Take it out and let me see." Xu Yihuan's voice was neither loud nor quiet, but the five centurions who were kneeling below panicked.

"I have it, I have it," Chen Zhu suddenly choked and took out a map from his arms.

"This is the topographic map that Vice General Cui gave me today. He said that he just needs to take you to this location."

He held the map in both hands and looked at Xu Yihuan longingly.

Xu Yihuan used her Devil Fruit to reach out and take the map from Chen Zhu's hand. When she unfolded it, she found that it was even more detailed than what she had gotten.

"Just because of this, you want to kill me. You are simply asking for your own death."

Xu Yihuan put the map in his arms and turned around and shouted: "Come here, tie up these six Davidians and reduce the five centurions to corps commanders."

"Go and fetch the five horses. You five, walk all the way back."

Xu Yihuan finished speaking angrily. Just as he reined in his horse and prepared to return, he saw Vice General Du riding up with excitement on his face.

"Captain Xu, we've all been caught, we've been caught"

(End of this chapter)

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