The 47th Section: The Battle of Xiangfu

  The Ishihara residence was located on a large street not far from the palace, occupying almost half of the street. There were over 800 people living inside, including miscellaneous servants. At this moment, it had already darkened, and suddenly the guard at the entrance saw a black-clad person running towards him. As he approached, he found that it was actually Lord Ishihara Koinu. He looked disheveled and severely injured, with blood on his mouth and chest. The shocked guard quickly brought him in and hastily notified Ishihara Kumaji.

  "Uncle, what's going on here?" Stone Original Bear Two asked in surprise as he rushed over.

  "Shut up and listen! Cough, cough!" Ishihara Koinu spat out another mouthful of blood before slowly continuing: "The Dragon family launched a surprise attack on the Black Dragon Society's headquarters. Apart from me, probably no one else will survive!"

  "Ah! Have they gone mad?" Ishihara Kumaji said indignantly: "Why?"

  "Wait till I'm done with this!" Ishihara Koinu shouted in anger: "I reckon they'll be here any minute now, send someone to ask His Majesty for reinforcements right away! And also, urgently summon some people from the eastern guard of the Second Wolf's castle to support us here!"

  "How dare they attack here?" Ishihara Kuma asked incredulously: "This is the Wangdu's Prime Minister's mansion!"

  "It's bound to come! Aren't you going quickly, do you want to harm all your clansmen?" Ishihara Koinu said angrily.

  "Yes!" Ishihara Kuma woke up and said: "Someone come! Hurry to report to His Majesty, and also use my token to summon the eastern city guard to come here and defend!"

  "Immediately summon all the direct descendants to the Treasure Pavilion, only there is safe!" Ishihara Koinu said despondently: "I hope we can hold on until the Emperor arrives!"

  Ishihara Kuma heard this and understood the severity of the situation, so he quickly issued an emergency assembly order. He then supported Ishihara Ko Inu to the treasure hall. This treasure hall was where the Ishihara family stored their family treasures and martial arts secret books. To prevent theft and fire, it was built with bluestone and reinforced with magic by someone. The guards inside were all the last elite of the Ishihara family. Although there were not many people, only more than 30, they were absolutely super masters. Among them, the two leaders were still seniors of Ishihara Ko Inu, and even the master of the house could not move them normally.

  In the secret room of the treasure house, after Ishihara Koinu was helped to sit down, he found that all the main members of the family had arrived, including the two elders who were usually not seen, and then began to recount the course of events.

  "Master! Did you take advantage of my absence and send someone to assassinate the fifth young master of the Long family?" Stone Origin Xiaohu asked coldly.

  "No! Absolutely not!" Ishihara Kuma said firmly: "Unless I'm crazy, I'd never do such a stupid thing!"

  "But I just returned to headquarters and received a report that the assassination of Long Wu has failed!"

  "Ah!" The people in the house were shocked, and Ishihara Kuma was stunned on the spot.

  "Master! You really didn't send anyone?" asked Ishihara Koinu

  "Absolutely not!" Ishihara Kuma shouted, on the verge of tears, "If I had it, I'd be dead by now!"

  "What's going on?" Ishihara Koinu said in a strange tone, "I just finished reading the report and knew it was going to be bad. I was about to set up defenses when the Dragon family's troops broke through the manor's defenses! I fought desperately and barely escaped from Ryū Shōten and his wife. I heard her say that they want to wipe out our people!"

  "Long family is too much, you don't even acknowledge your debt?" complained Ishihara Kuma

  "I didn't admit it at first, but what's the use?" Ishihara Koinu said with a wry smile: "When others mobilize thousands of people to attack you, are they going to reason with you? The consequence of not admitting is being ambushed!"

  "Wait till I get down and then we'll settle the score!" said Ishihara Kuma II.

  "It's tough!" Ishihara Koinu frowned and said, "They've already got our report. Now it's no use trying to deny it. Let's think of another way to get through this!"

  "How could you give them something so important?"

  "It's too late! They're coming too fast!" At this moment, the ground suddenly started shaking slightly.

  "Tell them to hurry, the Qinglong Iron Cavalry of the Long family has arrived!" Ishihara Koinosuke said urgently. "Please ask both uncles to lead people to block the entrance of the treasure building. Once the treasure building is breached, our Ishihara family will be completely finished. Because the evidence in their hands is enough to kill us all, and even His Majesty can't say anything!"

  The Qinglong Army is known as the strongest on the continent, relying on this iron cavalry composed of dragon family members. They have only 10,000 people, led by the commander-in-chief of the Qinglong Army, and are invincible on the battlefield (except for city walls). The 3,000 people who came this time are even more elite, and in the battle to destroy the manor just now, they were almost unscathed. In addition to the surprise attack, there is another reason why there are too many masters inside, and the hundred captains inside are also golden-level warriors. Looking at the entire continent, such a luxurious formation is absolutely unique.

  It was very easy for the tiger wolf troops led by Father to break into the Ishihara family, and there was no resistance along the way.

  "Have they all run away?" Father asked Mother

  "Impossible!" Mother said firmly: "So many people ran out, we can't possibly not have received any news!"

  "Report!" A messenger ran up and saluted, saying: "A stone tower was found over there, the people inside are resisting very stubbornly, it's judged that they're all hiding there!"

  "Take a look back!"

  After the parents arrived, they found that this building was very tall and large, with a deep and narrow entrance that could only accommodate two people at a time.

  "This is where they hide their treasure, there shouldn't be any other way out around here, we can only charge at the entrance!" The mother said to the father: "You go try, Ishihara Koinu is injured, no one should be able to stop you! Be careful!"

  "Look at me!" his father exclaimed happily!

  But unexpectedly, after one person rushed in, he was beaten out in a few strokes, and his chest was also scratched with a wound. His mother was frightened, hurriedly supported him and asked: "How is it, nothing wrong?"

  "It's nothing! I was careless and didn't expect there to be two experts inside, just a bit weaker than Ishihara Kōta!" The father said discontentedly: "Old Knife Uncle, let's go together!"

  "Alright!" Lao Dao replied.

  Two people went in and played a game of ping-pong for a while, but were still asked to leave by the owner.

  "My goodness, there are so many experts inside! Seven or eight people surrounded us and chopped, they're not much worse than Ishihara Shiro!" Father said angrily.

  "Hmm! Is there a wizard inside?" Mom asked

  "They have someone on them who has cast auxiliary spells. I saw that they had been added, not just scrolls, but several systems, and there should be more than one mage."

  "Never mind!" said his mother to Lao Dao: "Call someone to bring oil, set the gate on fire, and throw some debris inside to smoke them out!"

  "Right! Let's see if they come out or not!" Father said excitedly

  At this time, the troops in the East City received the order from Ishihara Kuma and did not dare to slack off. They rushed out urgently, but were blocked by another team at a crossroads not far from the Ishihara residence. The leader was my cousin Long Qingyun, whose troops had completely blocked the road and even set up cavalry defenses.

  The Ishihara family's messenger took out Ishihara Kuma's token and said to him, "We have an urgent military order from the Minister of War on the Left, please step aside!"

  "My father has the Grand Marshal's order to set up a defense here and no one is allowed to pass through!" Long Qingyun said disdainfully.

  "You! The marshal can't command the city guards, don't you know that?" The flustered messenger heard the distant shouts and screams coming from the Ishihara residence and became even more anxious.

  "When will the city guard be commanded by the Left Prime Minister?" Long Qingyun smiled and said.

  The messenger was speechless, his heart racing, and he said, "If you don't move aside, I'll have to use force!"

  "Really? I'll continue!"

  "Come on! Everyone get ready, let's go kill!"

  Just as they were about to engage in battle, someone suddenly shouted, "The king is coming!"