The Empress's No.1 Lackey

Commander Zhao is going to manipulate clouds to make it rain? What does that mean? The court tributor on the high hill paused for a moment, but the actions of Bai Sun trying to follow immediately drew his attention away.

"The master wants us to wait here, it's better not to go and cause more trouble now." Song Jinxi said in a flat tone, staring at Nie Yurong.

The female assassin hesitated for a moment, deciding it was not a good time, and stopped obediently, frowning as she gazed at Zhao Douan swiftly approaching the city gate in the distance.

At the same time.

A change occurred in the battle under the city walls, a sudden horn for retreat blew from the top of the wall, low and mournful.

"Dang—"

The monk Fan Long, battling Tang Jinzhong, swept his long staff across to block his opponent's sword, then turned his head to gaze at the slowly rising smoke from the top of the wall, instinctively whispered: "Amitabha Buddha..."

Tang Jinzhong paused, his face changing: "You are from Divine Dragon Temple..."

But Fan Long had already turned back, using Magic to lighten his body, jumping up the city wall.

On the other side, the general staring at Lang Shiba forced him back once again, immediately shouted: "Cover the General's retreat!"

"General Su, go first, I'll cover the rear here." Lu Tong said calmly, his hand never stopping the action of shooting arrows.

Su Dan nodded, without wasting words, rushed down from the city wall at the highest speed under the cover of the defending troops on the wall. The rebel army inside the city had already prepared for retreating, a group blocked the city gate and immediately retreated towards the south gate— the fire won't block the retreat path in a short while, enough for them to leave.

"Swoosh—"

Lu Tong shot another powerful arrow, glancing at Xue Shence, who was holding a Fangtian Halberd with an extremely unsightly expression under the city wall, smiling through the air and waving his hand before turning to disappear.

The soldiers of the Capital Camp seized the opportunity to rush up the city wall, stunned one by one as they clearly saw flames rising from various places within the city.

"The burning city has started, we're a step too late... Su Dan has already prepared everything, he has calculated it all..."

Mo Chou, under the protection of the military soldiers, walked over to Xue Shence with a pale face, smiling miserably.

The surrounding soldiers glanced at the wolf smoke connecting the heavens and earth, their hearts sinking without any joy of capturing the city.

"Open the city gate!" Xue Shence, as the main commander, remained rare in his calmness and decisiveness: "Enter the city to extinguish the fire!!"

The generals followed orders, without hindrance this time, immediately a group of soldiers carrying a siege hammer rammed the tightly shut city gate, but only lime fell and they failed to break it open.

"Reporting to the General! The main gate is blocked inside!" Someone said with trembling lips.

"Let me handle it!" Suddenly, Chen Gui strode over at an unknown time, with eyes widened in anger, almost shouting: "Order the soldiers on the wall to evacuate the civilians inside the gate, I'm going to blast open the city with the Big Cannon!!"

Xue Shence gave him a glance, surprised that the Divine Might Cannon of the Divine Mechanism Camp could be useful at this time.

He immediately gave the order for them to evacuate the civilians, as Chen Gui trembled with force, passionately waved a gigantic command flag down.

From a distant high ground, the long-ambushed Divine Might Cannons simultaneously opened fire!

"Boom—"

In the deafening roar, the city gate blocked with stones collapsed under the cannon fire, rocks flying everywhere, the entire city wall shook, splitting open with cracks!

"Enter the city to save the fire!" Xue Shence shouted, leading by example, rushed into the opened breach, as soon as he entered the city, he saw the flames already rising everywhere inside, fueled by the wind, the burning was extremely fast. Although temporarily not big yet, by the time soldiers split up to fetch water to extinguish, time was evidently running out.

As for the retreating rebel army?

Xue Shence no longer had the mind to pursue, the urgent task was to extinguish the fire.

"Do everything you can! Go inside the city to cut off the spread of flames, salvage as much as possible!" Xue Shence nearly shouted, commanding the soldiers to fetch water, striving to extinguish the nearby wolf smoke first.

Soon, however, a soldier ran over with an empty bucket, lamenting: "The wells inside the city have also been blocked by the rebel army!"

Even the wells were blocked in advance... Xue Shence staggered, the mighty Military God of Yu Country, invincible on the battlefield, relied on leaning the Fangtian Halberd to support his body, despite maintaining a calm exterior, an overwhelming sense of helplessness surged inside!

Mo Chou also stood amidst the crowd with a pallor matching death, her gaze wandering over the bright flames in the distance, igniting house after house, she suddenly remembered something, spun around, and grabbed Ji Yue, her tone urgent: "You can control water! Can you extinguish the fire?"

Ji Yue was startled, stammering and shaking her head: "My mana isn't sufficient... The city is too big..."

With her abilities, it might be possible to extinguish a village the size of Song Family Manor, but such a large city, not even counting the fields outside, she was powerless.

Mo Chou was lost in despair, her mind only having one thought:

It's over!

Yet at this moment, someone in the crowd suddenly exclaimed: "Commander Zhao is here!"

Everyone instinctively turned their heads back to look, and instantly, several lines of sight simultaneously focused on the breached city gate.

At that moment, the thick smoke hadn't cleared yet, amid the remaining ruins and rubble, a familiar and tall figure appeared.

Zhao Douan carried the Chasing Saber diagonally on his back, his upper body clad in a pure-white half-body armor, with a black face image imprinted on his chest.

Unbeknownst to anyone, a slightly ethereal red garment had appeared on his body, and his hair bun had come undone, black hair fluttering in the fire.

He appeared to walk very slowly, yet was extremely fast, arriving in front of everyone in nearly a few breaths.

"Commander Zhao..." Xue Shence saw him and smiled bitterly: "We were a step too late, the fire is already uncontrollable."

Mo Chou remained silent in despair.

Lang Shiba, Ji Yue, Tang Jinzhong, Chen Gui, and other familiar faces lowered their gazes one by one, as if having committed a mistake.