Mekong Town, night.

  In the castle, Jin Heng was lying on a comfortable big bed, tossing and turning, but he couldn't fall asleep no matter what. He sat up with a start, and a woman who was not wearing any clothes next to him quickly grabbed the quilt to nervously cover her body...

  Jin Heng patted his forehead: "Why is my heart so uneasy? Did something happen to Wang Xu and the others?" As he spoke, he got out of bed and came to the window, staring blankly at the stars outside. He could only hear the distant sound of men's lewd laughter and women's crying from some houses, and he shook his head, muttering a curse under his breath.

  "There shouldn't be any problem." Jin Heng thought for a moment, with several thousand people fighting against over a thousand, how could so many elite soldiers not have any issues?

  "This guy is definitely spending the night at the quarry." After a long time, Jin Heng came to this conclusion. After all, it was now deep in the night, and the quarry was more than ten miles away from here. To be on the safe side, Wang Xu would certainly arrange for troops to stay overnight at the quarry. As for what risks they might encounter? Jin Heng shook his head. Perhaps some soldiers would be lost, but defeat was out of the question...

  With this thought, Jin Heng's heart felt more at ease. He then turned his gaze to the girl on the bed. In the candlelight, he saw that the girl's eyes were filled with a hint of terror, her arms tightly wrapped around her chest. Jin Heng's eyes gleamed with lust as he stepped closer to the bed, yanked open the quilt covering her enticing body, and pounced on her: "You little vixen, watch me torment you to death tonight!"

  Accompanied by Jin Heng's lustful laughter, the room soon echoed with the unique gasps between men and women...

  A few miles away from the quarry, Jingwei's camp and those quarry laborers were resting here, but Sun Biao was circling around Feng Qinyuan who refused to stay.

  "Feng Ge, please put in a good word for me with Liu Ce. I know I'm not a good person and I've wronged you guys before. If you want to hit me a few times to vent your anger, that's fine, but no matter what, let me join the team and we can work together!" Sun Biao was 27 years old, yet he called Feng Xuan, who was two years younger than him, "ge" (older brother), because he desperately wanted to join the Jingwei Camp and gamble on his future prospects, even if it meant getting beaten up by Feng Xuan.

  "Get out! Don't disturb my sleep! Are you going to join the Vanguard and continue to extort us? Get out as far as I can see! If you make another sound, I'll twist your head off and use it as a pillow!" Fēng Qiūnián, wrapped in his sleeping bag, scolded Sūn Biāo, whose shouting had made his scalp tingle with annoyance.

  Sun Biao didn't want to leave, instead he stretched out his head and said, "As long as you let me join, you can take my head, I, Sun Biao, won't make a sound, even if it's a dog's mother..."

  "Damn it!" Feng Xuan suddenly jumped up, "Can't you show some respect? Do you really think I'm afraid of you?"

  Sun Biao said: "As long as you let me join, I can do anything. Fang Ge, just look at our past comradeship and talk to Liu Ce about it!"

  "Who the hell is sworn brothers with you?! You don't even dare to look at yourself in the mirror, how dare you say that?! Say it again! Get out of my sight!"

  The mournful cry of the year's last day brought to their feet the soldiers who were just about to fall asleep, and many began to curse and scold in a loud and heated manner...

  "What's going on? Don't you people sleep?" Liu Ce heard that Feng Qian was shouting loudly, causing the soldiers to be unable to rest, so he came over to understand the situation.

  Feng Xuan said as soon as he saw Liu Ze: "General, this can't be blamed on me! This guy is too unreasonable and provocative, I couldn't bear it anymore..."

  "Alright, I know." Liu Ce knew that this matter couldn't be blamed on Feng Cui Nian, it was all because of Sun Biao's quarrel.

  "What's with you guys, aren't you going to rest? Want to get beaten by the military stick?" Liu Ce turned around and glared at the surrounding soldiers, saying lightly, and the crowd immediately dispersed, no longer lingering, fearing that they would lose face if they watched the excitement and got hit by the military stick.

  "Liu Ce, brother, I'm not a human being, I know I wronged you in the past, but I had no choice, you also know that in the camp, if you don't curry favor with those above, you can't even stand firm, and there's no chance of advancing, and if you don't have someone backing you up, won't you be bullied by others every day..." Sun Biao knelt down as soon as he saw Liu Ce, his face full of remorse.

  Liu Ce smiled and said, "Sun Biao, let bygones be bygones. Don't mention past things again. Tomorrow I'll give you some rice...".

  "No!" Sun Biao immediately interrupted Liu Ce's words, "I don't want rice or food, I beg of you, Brother Liu Ce, to give me a chance to join the Jingwei Camp. From now on, I, Sun Biao, will only follow your lead." He finished by heavily kowtowing once.

  "Sun Biao, I'm really curious, why don't you join the bandits with your skills?" Liu Ce asked with a playful expression, squatting down, this was also something he had been wanting to know for a long time, as in his impression Sun Biao's image wasn't very good.

  Sun Biao raised his head and said with a serious face: "I, Sun Biao, have done everything to survive, even if it means being someone's dog. But I also have my own bottom line. Being a thief is absolutely out of the question. Otherwise, even in death, I would not be able to show my face to my parents..."

  Sun Biao's words were righteous and articulate, but Liu Ce stared at his face and continued to ask, "What else? Tell the truth!"

  "Hmm..." Sun Biao's eyes darted back and forth, then he said: "Besides, following the bandits will only lead to a dead end, no future. I see that your side is strong and powerful..."

  Sun Biao himself didn't think much of the bandits, and having personally witnessed the scene before him where this team won two battles in a row, he was shocked and secretly glad that he hadn't joined the bandits earlier.

  "Haha......" Liu Ce smiled and got up to leave. Sun Biao didn't understand his meaning, and for a moment he didn't know how to respond.

  Just as Sun Biao was at a loss, Liu Ce's words reached his ears: "Go to Xu Hui's place to report and get a sleeping bag. You'll follow Xu Hui as a nominal assistant soldier for now."

  "Thank you!" Sun Biao bowed deeply towards Liu Ce's back, although he was just a supporting soldier, but he believed that his skills would definitely climb higher...

  "General, why did you spare Sun Biao?" Yang Fan was very puzzled by Liu Ce's actions, because in the past, Sun Biao had been most hostile to Liu Ce. By rights, Liu Ce should have taken advantage of the situation to kill him, or at least drive him out, but now he was leaving him be, which left Yang Fan baffled.

  Liu Ce wrapped himself in a sleeping bag, put the saddle on the back of his head, and said to Yang Fan: "Forget it, we were all in the same camp before. Since he didn't betray us and has shown signs of repentance, let's just forget about past matters..."

  Yang Fan was about to say something, but Liu Ce interrupted him: "Sleep, tomorrow there's a tough battle ahead." After finishing speaking, he turned his body and turned his back on Yang Fan. Yang Fan saw this and didn't dare say anything else, so he also turned over and tried hard to fall asleep...

  At this time, outside Meihetown, Yang Kaisan led a dozen or so people to place a bamboo basket at the city gate under the cover of night, then ran far away and mounted their horses to return from where they came.

  On the second day, when the bandits moved basket after basket of bloody bamboo baskets to the street entrance, countless people gathered around to watch. One of the baskets had a short knife inserted into its sealed opening, and sharp-eyed onlookers recognized that this was none other than Wang Xie's dagger.

  "Where is it?" When Jin Heng rushed to the street corner, it was already packed with people, so he had them dispersed and cleared a path directly to the front of the bamboo basket.

  When he saw the bamboo basket in front of him full of fresh blood, Jin Heng's face twitched uncontrollably for a few times, and that feeling of unease from last night floated up again...

  "Open it!" Jin Heng smoothed out his thoughts and ordered the basket to be opened. Inside, there were piles upon piles of bloody ears, numbering in the thousands. The visual impact was immense, and several bandits vomited on the spot.

  Jin Heng's stomach churned with a wave of nausea, and he barely suppressed the urge to vomit. He covered his mouth with his sleeve and asked, "Who brought this?"

  A pale-faced bandit said: "It was discovered when the city gate opened in the morning..." Just as he said this, it seemed like he remembered something and immediately ran to the side to vomit.

  Jin Heng suddenly felt weak all over, now knowing that the source of this unease was the scene in front of him. Wang Xie and the thousands of horses sent out were likely to be unlucky rather than lucky.

  "Hurry! Close the city gate!" As soon as he thought of the possibility of Wang Xiu's army being defeated, Jin Heng's sixth sense made him feel that something big was happening, and he immediately shouted for someone to close the city gate. It turned out that Jin Heng's judgment was very accurate, and just a short while after the city gate was closed, an army of over a thousand people appeared in the open space three miles away...

  "Xu Hui, order them to assemble the device on the spot with Gao Lao Han and Feng Ying. If there are not enough people, bring those laborers along to help. This time, your auxiliary troops may also need to go into battle." Liu Ce gazed at the Meihe Town imprinted in his eyes and began to take charge of the siege.

  Xu Hui heard that his auxiliary troops would also be going into battle, and loudly said "Yes!" He then immediately ran back to his unit, this was a good opportunity, he absolutely could not miss it...

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