Chu Mo grinned, "Of course!"

"Alright, tell me, what does 'Chicken Master' need to do?" The rooster had a fawning expression.

Chu Mo rolled his eyes, "Fancy acting as a mount?"

The rooster looked furious, glaring at Chu Mo, "You trying to pick a fight, kid?"

"No?" Chu Mo chuckled coldly.

"Er... That can be considered..." The rooster quickly gave in.

"This is the plan..." Chu Mo whispered something into the rooster's ear.

"Just like that?" The rooster looked at Chu Mo in disbelief.

Chu Mo nodded, "Yes, once it's done, I'll get you the Fish of Fortune!"

"Deal!" The rooster agreed swiftly, afraid that Chu Mo would change his mind, and quickly vanished from sight.

Chu Mo let out a sigh of relief, thinking: Everything is ready... It has to work!

....

"They are here... Those bastards are here!" A deputy general next to He Xu said nervously, "There are so many of them!"

"I give a damn! With our power, we could swallow these fifty thousand men alive!" He Xu whispered, "But the messenger said, let them taste the carrot first... Summon the man!"

At this point, a soldier stepped forward, looking at He Xu enthusiastically, "At your command!"

"Go, let them know that we have discovered them!" He Xu ordered coldly.

"Yes sir!"

The soldier quickly disappeared into the shrubbery.

At this time, the scouts of the Great Qi vanguard had also reached the edge of the tunnel on their side.

Five scouts were carefully surveying their surroundings.

After a while, one of the scouts gave the signal. A flare arrow shot high into the sky.

Thirty li from the Skybreaker Mountain Range, on the Great Qi side. Fifty thousand troops stood there, solemn and stern.

A young officer sat on his horse, intently watching the majestic mountain range thirty li away.

Upon seeing the flare arrow soaring high into the sky, his spirits immediately lifted!

"Pass the order, move towards the Skybreaker Mountain Range immediately!" The young officer's face gradually showed excitement, "Once we get through this...Great Xia...will be ours! Brothers, endless gold and silver, beautiful women, fertile lands...they are beckoning to you! Charge and kill all those stupid miners!"

Awooo Awooo!

With the continuous transmission of this command, the army of fifty thousand raised a thunderous cheer.

By now, they weren't even afraid of being found by the other side.

"The Third Prince...is watching us from behind, charge!" The young officer raised his sword, his legs kicking against the horse belly, and galloped towards the Skybreaker Mountain Region.

Just then...

Whoosh Whoosh Whoosh Whoosh!

Five icy arrows rapidly shot towards the five scouts of Great Qi.

Four of them were instantly killed, arrows piercing their throats.

The last scout took an arrow through the neck but was lucky enough to let out a warning with his last breath, "It's an ambush!"

This warning echoed throughout the area.

The oncoming Great Qi vanguard army, many of whom heard this sound, paused momentarily, taken aback.

Suddenly, they saw four to five flare arrows soar up into the sky.

Their shrill sound was absolutely dismal!

Then, a smoke signal soared high from the Skybreaker Mountain.

"Signal fire?" The young general glanced at it, a chill smile crawling into his features: "Press on!"

"General…" someone hesitated beside him: "They have begun to respond…"

"It would be abnormal if there was no response!" The young general pointed out, showing wisdom: "You guys have no idea what's inside this tunnel, perhaps we might face a fierce battle at the entrance."

"Charge!" The young general, full of spirits and morale, dashed ahead alone to the other side.

They soon approached the area that was only thirty miles away.

A sudden and rapid flurry of arrows was shot towards this young general.

The young general calmly took down a long spear from his horse, and started swinging it around, forming an impenetrable defense.

All the arrows were kept outside.

The others, who were ahead, also brandished their own weapons and blocked all the arrows.

Then they heard an incredibly infuriated voice from the other side: "We've been exposed, the Qi dogs are coming… move, destroy the tunnel... Quick!"

In the young general's eyes, a chill flashed as he ferociously commanded: "Attack!"

The thundering hooves of thousands of horses presented a spectacular sight.

Fifty thousand of the advance troops followed this young general and charged towards the other side.

Subsequently, there were several earth-shattering booms, followed by a billowing smoke!

By the time this group of people led by the young general arrived, they found out that a small part of the mountain had collapsed.

Instead of getting angry, a smile spread across the young general's face. At that moment, someone beside him asked: "General, why are you laughing? The cave entrance... has been blocked off by them!"

With a profound smile on his face, the young general responded: "Didn't I just say that it would be surprising if there was absolutely no defense! Now, we can send someone to notify the main army to march in! As for us, the advance troops, we are responsible for cleaning up everything… all of it! Brothers, follow me… let's dig this open!"

After that, a few fast horses were dispatched in the opposite direction to notify the main army. The young general led his men and started digging frantically.

They had in their possession a map of this tunnel!

Therefore, before it even got dark a group numbering in the tens of thousands had already opened the blocked entrance. Massive boulders were all pushed aside, and an extremely large cave… was fully exposed.

"Could there be ambushes inside?" someone asked next to the young general.

"Do we fear ambushes?" The young general smirked coldly: "In!"

However, after entering, this group suffered from overconfidence and carelessness. In the cave, several deep pits measuring over a dozen meters were found spread along the passageway. There was one at every interval… and it was obvious that these pits had been dug many years ago.

A considerable number of soldiers from the Great Qi side fell into these pits, alongside their horses, sustaining major injuries.

This led the advance troops… to be obstructed here.

"General… did they know we were coming early on?" someone looked stunned as they gazed upon the pits in the passageway.

"Rubbish! Can't you see that these pits are actually mines?" The young general's face turned somewhat stern, despite having anticipated that they would certainly face resistance here. After all, this was a primordial stone vein. It was impossible for Great Xia not to station heavily armed guards here.

What he hadn't expected was to find the passageway filled with pits.

These pits were likely to be old mines. After the primordial stones inside were completely extracted, they were covered with thin planks of wood and then covered with earth, forming a natural defense. These things must have been here for a long time. They were not made specifically to target them.

But in their enthusiasm and carelessness, they took quite a blow.

"Damn... It seems difficult to annihilate all the men here... Those people must have already gone to inform others. It looks like we… will have to work hard to dig open this passageway." The young general's face looked extremely gloomy as he gritted his teeth and spoke: "I had planned to march straight in, break through directly, and rendezvous at the tunnel exit. Now it seems… we can only act as the pioneers paving the way first… Damn, after we get past this passageway, I'm going to find a town and slaughter it to vent!"

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