Allure of a Country Maiden
Chapter 377 - 375

Chapter 377: Chapter 375

Not long after the four of them left, a section of the ground where they had just been fighting suddenly collapsed.

Countless grains of sand ceaselessly flowed into the sinkhole.

And the speed was getting faster and faster

It didn’t stop for a long time...

Di Shaowei seemed to sense something and wanted to turn his head to see what was happening.

"Don’t look back, run!" Shangguan Xuanyi shouted to stop him.

"The faster the better!" Xiao’er added. She didn’t know what was happening either, but she knew it was dangerous, very dangerous.

Upon hearing this, Di Shaowei was taken aback and spurred on his horse: "Go!"

"Go!"

The two steeds shot forward like arrows released from a bow.

Animals are just as good as humans at sensing danger, and these horses had pushed their speed to the limit.

The dawn was beginning to break in the distance, and they finally reached the edge of the desert.

Shangguan Xuanyi pulled on the reins, turned the horse around, and together with Xiao’er, looked toward the skyline of the desert.

Golden rays of sunlight spurted from the clouds, coloring the undulating desert a brilliant red... it was breathtaking...

Upon returning to the military camp, Li Mingfang immediately presented herself to face punishment!

The penalty for disobeying military orders was a minimum of thirty strokes, and if serious, execution on the spot.

Li Mingfang, with thorns on her back, knelt before a hundred thousand soldiers seeking forgiveness.

General Li ripped off the thorns from her back and brutally whipped her with them.

Blood quickly seeped through her undergarments and dyed her outer garments red.

A few lives were lost because she had disobeyed the military order, disregarded advice and so, they were gone!

General Li was known for his strictness, he was incredibly self-disciplined!

This was true not only for outsiders but even more so for his own people. Being a soldier, the most basic quality is obedience! Absolute obedience to superior orders.

As for the saying that sometimes one may not fully obey an external military command, it’s a lie! The only way this could work is if you achieved a victory and were able to compensate with your merits! But Li Mingfang had none!

So when he whipped Li Mingfang, he showed no mercy!

Although those who were killed were Li Mingfang’s confidants, they were guards of the Li Mansion, serving in the army with her, their sole duty was to protect her. Di Shaowei had stopped the soldiers from following them, so even though her crime was unforgivable, it couldn’t warrant immediate execution.

But the innocent lives that had been sacrificed due to her mistake, it was an undeniable fact!

General Li whipped her with thorns, one by one. Li Mingfang knelt there, biting her lip, bearing it without uttering a sound.

Not until her entire back was battered beyond recognition, bloody and bruised, did General Li show any sign of stopping.

Seeing this, Di Shaowei could not bear it and wanted to intervene.

Xiao’er tugged at the corner of his robe and shook her head at him.

If they saved her now, she will have endured all that beating for nothing!

If General Li didn’t break Li Mingfang until the soldiers were satisfied today, he would have a hard time commanding them in the future!

Besides, it’s an eye for an eye. Other people’s lives had been lost, and she was just suffering some pain, wasn’t she getting off lightly?

If you do something wrong, you must accept the punishment. Xiao’er agreed with this.

Di Shaowei understood Xiao’er’s intentions; he knew this principle, so he closed his eyes, as if not wanting to see.

Under General Li’s brutal blows, Li Mingfang finally couldn’t hold on any longer and fainted.

If it continued like this, someone would surely die!

The soldiers hadn’t anticipated that General Li would be so ruthless, even beating his own daughter to the brink of death.

If another vice general had made the same mistake, he’d be sentenced to a few dozen military canes, but it wouldn’t cost him his life.

They all knelt down to plead for Li Mingfang.

Not until every soldier made a plea for her did General Li cease.

Di Shaowei breathed a sigh of relief!

Both Li Mingfang and General Li been seriously injured and had a brush with death at Ghost Gate due to Dalu and Yelu. Had he not arrived in time with medicines, they’d be but a mound of loess now.

He understood her urgent desire for revenge, but she was overconfident! Without sizing up the situation properly, she only made her loved ones suffer and enemies happy.

In the army, one must adhere strictly to discipline, with clear rewards and punishments in order to win the people’s respect. General Li was punishing his child, but the pain was in his heart.

General Li wanted Li Mingfang to forever remember this bloody lesson, only allowing her ordinary medicine to recover. He also expelled her from the military camp. The army didn’t need insubordinate soldiers as deterrent.

Li Mingfang passed out for a full day and night before waking. Then she lay in bed, unable to sleep for three nights due to the pain. Only after ten days, she managed to barely get out of bed.

Upon learning that she had been expelled from the camp and couldn’t participate in the war, she felt life was worse than death, kneeling outside General Li’s tent for a whole day, yet he didn’t retract his order.

Once again, the soldiers witnessed the stern governance of General Li, deeply impressed.

In a certain palace of Xiyue Country, a longevity lamp for the king and prince was burning.

The maid who came to add oil and guard the lamp this morning found out that the second prince’s lamp has gone out.

She panicked and ran out.

Not much later.

The wizards in the palace set up their altar to find the cause of death.

In the end, it pointed directly towards the royal family of Minze Country.

The Khan of Xiyue crushed the cup in his hand from rage. As soon as he loosened his grip, a pile of powder fell.

He decided to lead the troops personally and avenge his second son! He was the son he was most proud of, the one been nurtured as future heir to Xiyue Country!

Xiyue is a country where the strong rule, and Tenglu, the Khan, has defeated countless strong enemies to reach this position.

Insult one can endure, but some are intolerable. Xiyue Country waged war once again!

This time’s battlefield was at the edge of the desert.

The war between the two armies was imminent.

Several men dressed in all black began to play a strange melody on their flutes, which seemed to captivate the soul!

Xiao’er, Shangguan Xuanyi, and Shangguan Xuanjun stood on top of a sand dune on horseback.

"What song are those men in black performing? It’s kind of evil." The song had just entered her mind, and she felt a momentary dizziness.

"Guard your mind!" General Li’s resonant voice sounded in the army, causing all the soldiers to shiver, and then they regained their senses from the daze.

"It should be the legendary Spirit Snake Song." Shangguan Xuanyi sneered internally, they dug their own graves this time.

"The spirit snake song, drawing snakes out of their holes, automatically forming arrays, ever-changing." Shangguan Xuanyi added.

The legendary Spirit Snake Array was said to produce thousands of snakes and create illusions that would cause those caught in the array to kill each other, or even commit suicide, achieving victory without fighting a single soldier.

"Wasn’t this formation lost long ago? How did the people of Xiyue country know about it?" Upon hearing this, Shangguan Xuanjun felt a heavy burden in his heart.

Xiao’er lamented in her heart, why did it have to involve snakes! How could she possibly observe the battle calmly now!

"Kill all those men in black, don’t let them draw out the snakes!" Di Shaowei also had heard of the spirit snake formation.

"Those men in black are just a distraction; the real performers are hidden." General Li shook his head.