Chapter 381: Chapter 373: The Impoverished General

The children in the distance, with excellent eyesight, watched as the beautiful sister bravely hit the fierce mastiffs with a burning stick until they were near defeat, enthusiastically clapping and cheering.

"Sister is awesome!"

"Go, sister! Kill those big dogs."

"Beat them to death, beat them to death."

The children in front of the mansion cheered warmly in the cold wind, their spirits lifted, warming their frozen bodies.

The grassland general took notice, turning to see his carefully raised mastiffs beaten nearly to death.

Extremely angry, he shouted, "Biji De Cha, Biji De Cha!"

What kind of nonsense is that?

Cheng Xiaoxiao, with sharp ears, heard the grassland general’s roar, but did not understand what he said, knowing without a doubt that it was not anything good.

The opponent now surely wanted to tear her apart.

Cheng Xiaoxiao didn’t care; only two mastiffs were left.

She stepped forward, and the two mastiffs trembled with their tails and retreated in fear.

Oh! You guys know fear now!

Weren’t you mighty before?

In the mastiffs’ eyes, the two-legged lamb in front of them was too fierce; the feeling of electricity coursing through their bodies was not something they wished to experience a third time.

They were afraid; the fierceness in her eyes was no less than theirs, even more violent and cruel.

The grassland general wanted to save the last two mastiffs, feigned a move, and tried to retreat.

Vice General Lin anticipated his intentions and quickly intercepted him, "Your opponent is me."

What, running halfway through the fight, who do you look down on?

The townspeople spent a lot of time dismantling the walls and stables, finally finishing the work just before the fire spread; they gasped, watched for a moment, and when the fire, finding no new targets to burn, stopped moving forward, they sighed in relief.

The men collapsed to the ground for a moment, then jumped up; it was freezing!

This damn weather was driving people crazy!

They cursed silently, looked at the houses in the distance with regret, fortunately, the fire was stopped, the general mansion was saved.

Cheng Xiaoxiao caught and killed one mastiff; unfortunately, the other ran too fast to catch, venting her anger on the grassland soldiers instead.

Relieving the pressure on the guard army, who were previously dominated.

The mastiffs were dead, now Cheng Xiaoxiao was taking out his soldiers one by one, seeing the tides turned, the grassland general cursed again in a language no one understood. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Cheng Xiaoxiao was unimpressed, the old man had no manners, she’d been annoyed for a while and needed to teach him personally.

So someone grabbed him from Vice General Lin’s hands and began to attack fiercely.

Murmuring, "Let you curse, let you look down on others, let you kill and set fires, quite capable, eh? ... If I don’t beat you until you cry for your father and mother, I’m not Cheng."

Vice General Lin raised an eyebrow, the young lady was very fierce, with a look to beat the opponent down permanently; she was a match for the general.

Especially hearing her mumbling, he laughed silently; after all, she was still a young girl, her aura was intimidating, but surprisingly cute.

However, she misunderstood the opponent; he wasn’t cursing but trying to organize the remaining troops to retreat, but with her fierce output, escape was impossible.

Thinking of this, his eyes shone with grim and excited light; if they couldn’t escape, then leave them all here!

Tightened the reins, turned directions, and headed forward with a spear, determined to take out all the enemies on horseback.

If he hadn’t been tangled with the opponent’s general, so many soldiers wouldn’t have been sacrificed.

Today they lost because of the horses if their cavalry matched the opponent’s numbers, they wouldn’t lose so tragically and need a young girl to save them.

With Vice General Lin’s high combat power joining, the remaining cavalry was quickly dealt with; when he turned back, he didn’t know when, the grassland general was already dead.

After killing the last grassland soldier, the townspeople cheered; they finally saved the town, but seeing the burnt row of houses, their expressions turned gloomy.

The fire in the small town burned for an hour before gradually dying out, the remaining sparks immediately covered by snow.

The wounded soldiers were placed in a separate area for bandaging and medicating, townspeople rushed home to see if there was anything left to save, many volunteered to help handle the corpses.

Vice General Lin sat inside the general mansion hall on the right side, a young lady was bandaging his injured arm, her skilled movements implied she’d done it many times; didn’t expect Qiao Town to have such hidden talents, she had seen several such girls before, unlike other places’ young ladies, they were good at helping in crucial moments.

In times of crisis, gender restrictions were really unimportant.

Moreover, everyone in the town could fight, truly achieving a community as soldiers; even with weak strength, they possessed courageous hearts, admiring the general here who led with such limited manpower to guard the territory.

The general mansion’s decoration was simple and elegant, modestly understated, with no expensive items; mostly brown earth and stone, poor greenery.

The entire mansion had only two phoenix trees and few wild grasses, the garden’s rockery bare, with a long-dried fish pond below, no adornment; such a simple mansion she had never seen before.

The townspeople respected him greatly, evidently a responsible, powerful, and kind general who cared for the people like his own children.

A fortunate thing for Tianqi, despite its rottenness; if not for protecting the people and defending against grassland barbarians’ invasion, she would have wanted to take him back to help guard her city.

Truly unfortunate.

Vice General Lin openly appraised Cheng Xiaoxiao, satisfied with her; such a bright and beautiful girl was indeed rare.

Her combat power was astounding, he as the border town’s second-in-command feared he was no match, estimating only a young talent like the general could rival her.

Vice General Lin completely missed that combat power doesn’t correlate with being a young talent.

The more he saw, the more he liked, his mind calculating hastily.

After his daughter finished bandaging his wound, he motioned her to leave.

Then, he smiled at Cheng, "This time, thanks to the young lady’s great help, I can’t repay you enough." Vice General Lin almost offered something dear to repay but remembered the general’s stubborn nature, so he changed his words.

"The young lady is the savior of everyone in Qiao Town; no item can offset this kindness. If there’s anything the young lady wants, Lin will do his best to fulfill, or you could directly ask the general when he returns."

He didn’t know if the person sent to report had arrived and worried Cheng might leave, wanting to keep her until the general returned.

"Vice General Lin is kind, in trouble, how can one stand by idly watching, driving out invaders is every citizen’s... uh! every Tianqi citizen’s duty and responsibility."

Speaking quickly, she almost misspoke.