Crown Prince of the Empire, I quit!

"Bandits..."

Chang Baishan repeated it, his voice expressing no emotion, and he strode out of the tent.

"Who's in the lead?"

"He claims to be an old subordinate of the Sand Scorpion, Wang Heizi's brother, Wang Tietou."

Liu Yueli followed closely behind, speaking very quickly.

"More than three hundred people, dressed in rags, but with fierce eyes, asked to see the general and said... they wanted Zhu Tao's head to be sacrificed to his grave."

Chang Baishan paused slightly, a cold arc appearing at the corner of his mouth.

"Sand Scorpion? Zhu Tao's minions just massacred the mines in Liangzhou, and his brothers are looking for me?" His eyes were as sharp as an eagle, sweeping across the crowd that was dark in the night, emitting the Gobi sand and the smell of blood.

The man in the lead had a hideous scar on his face and a burly figure. He was indeed seven points similar to Wang Heizi who died in the granary. At this moment, he was kneeling on one knee, but his head was stubbornly raised, looking directly at Chang Baishan who was walking towards him.

"General!"

Wang Tietou's voice was hoarse, like the friction of sand and gravel.

"My brother died at your hands, I admit it! He was stupid, serving the Zhu family like a dog! But that old dog Zhu Tao is the real trouble! He sent the Sand Scorpions to slaughter the Black Stone Mine. He killed Zhao Laoqi's family of twelve, even his three-year-old child, hanging them all from the derrick! Thirty-seven miners from Suzhou Nangou were blown to death in the cave!"

"My mother... my mother was buried alive in the mine by the Zhu family as a sacrifice to the mine god! We brothers have been harboring this blood feud for twenty years! Today, Zhu Tao has committed another murderous crime, and we can't wait any longer! If the general dares to attack Zhujiabao, I, Wang Tietou, and these three hundred brothers will be the vanguard and gnaw the first bone off his head!"

Chang Baishan listened silently, his eyes sweeping over the group of silent men behind Wang Tietou who were burning with flames of hatred.

Their weapons are varied, including rusty machetes, homemade hunting bows, heavy pickaxes... each one is soaked in the blood and tears of the struggling lower class.

He suddenly spoke, his voice not loud, but it hit Wang Tietou's heart like a hammer: "On the west side of the sand dunes, there is a secret passage that leads directly to the Ghost Crying Mine under Zhujiabao. It has been abandoned for thirty years.

Do you recognize it?"

Wang Tietou's pupils suddenly contracted, and he raised his head abruptly, his face full of horror.

"General, how did you know that road?! That was back then..."

He lowered his voice to a whisper, filled with disbelief, "That's where the miners used to smuggle ore... and that's where my mother was buried! Later, most of it collapsed, and only a few veteran miners know the approximate location!"

"Because that was one of the nails in the coffin I prepared for the Zhu family."

A steady voice came from the tent behind Chang Baishan.

Elder Song walked out slowly, wearing a cloak, holding a secret report in his hand, and the candlelight reflected his deep eyes.

He handed the secret report to Chang Baishan, with the red comments on it clearly visible.

"It can't be used as a blade, but the blade needs to be tempered. The map of the Ghost Crying Mine is attached. Changbaishan should make good use of it."

Chang Baishan took the secret report and looked at Elder Song: "Your Majesty, did you already know that Zhu Tao would become desperate and massacre the miners?"

Elder Song looked towards the northwest towards Zhujiabao, where the fire seemed to be brighter than anywhere else.

"Zhu Tao is a man of deep greed, and he values ​​life like gold. Cutting off his financial resources is like cutting off his spine. He will use the most brutal means to intimidate everyone and maintain his shaky iron rule. In his eyes, miners are nothing more than consumable materials."

He turned to Wang Tietou with a sharp gaze.

"Wang Tietou, we believe you hate the Zhu family to the core, but we don't just want Zhu Tao's head. We want to completely crush this Zhu family machine that sucks the marrow and cracks the bones! You and your people are familiar with the mines, and your hatred is deep-rooted. You are the best sharp knives."

"But this knife must obey our command and stab at the most fatal point. Do you dare?"

Wang Tietou looked at the emperor, then at the mine map in Chang Baishan's hand, which seemed to carry the breath of his mother's ghost.

He slammed his head against the ground, his forehead hitting the cold gravel with a dull thud.

"I'm willing to die for you and the general! If I can't take Zhujiabao, I, Wang Tietou, will bury myself in that mine!"

"it is good!"

Chang Baishan's eyes flashed with brilliance.

"Military Advisor Liu, prepare their armor and apply the best medicine! Wang Tietou, take a few of the old brothers who are most familiar with the abandoned mines and follow me into the camp! It's time for Zhu Tao's Black Armor Guards to set off!"

At the same time, Zhujiabao’s frenzied counterattack has turned into a bloody storm sweeping across the Hexi Corridor.

Liangzhou, Black Stone Mine Ruins.

The smell of blood has not yet dissipated, and new horror has arrived.

A team covered in heavy black armor, with only a pair of cold eyes visible.

Like a torrent of steel from hell, it stepped over the corpses of its fellow "Sand Scorpion" and rushed straight to the smelting workshop at the core of the mine.

The miners' terrified resistance was like paper in front of the fine steel armor and standard steel knives, and was crushed in an instant.

"Burn! Burn it all for me! Don't leave even a single grain of slag for the enemy!"

Zhu Biao, the commander of the Black Armor Guard and Zhu Tao's nephew, grinned and threw the kerosene can at the towering smelting furnace.

As long as this place is destroyed, those small miners who dared to break the contract will understand.

What will happen to the mine that betrays the Zhu family!

Just as the kerosene was about to ignite the furnace.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The deafening explosion did not come from the furnace, but from deep in the mine under everyone's feet!

The ground shook violently, like a giant beast turning over! The mine tunnel, which had just been ravaged by the "Sand Scorpion", was already unstable.

At this moment, due to the detonation of the preset explosives, a horrific chain collapse occurred!

"Earth dragon! Is it the earth dragon that has turned over?!" Zhu Biao's warhorse screamed and stood up, throwing him heavily down.

The air was filled with smoke and dust, rubble fell like rain, and the screams were drowned out by the roar of the collapse.

At least half of the Black Armored Guards and their war horses.

Instantly buried alive in the bottomless dark mine!

"kill!"

A deafening roar erupted from the smoke and dust! Miner Lao Zhang still had the whip marks left by the "Sand Scorpion" on his face.

His eyes were bloodshot as he swung his blacksmith's hammer and rushed out of his cover like a mad tiger, smashing it hard at a black-armored guard who had just struggled to get up from the edge of the collapse! The fine steel visor twisted and shattered under the hammer.

Red and white splashed out!

"Dog of the Zhu family! Taste the hammer of the common people!"

Lao Zhang's roar ignited the surviving miners and the ambushed soldiers of the Ever-Victorious Army, and the flames of revenge instantly engulfed the remaining Black Armored Guards.

After being attacked by these militiamen, many local soldiers were panicked because they had not received the news.

The other side trusted them and rushed up to hit the snake at its most vulnerable part, fighting with them and causing many casualties.

This was something they had never expected.

You have to know that at the beginning, their intelligence means and the speed of assembly were great.

But they are much stronger than these ordinary militiamen.

But now they are being crushed by the opponent, which makes people feel a little strange.

They didn't know that Chang Baishan and Liu Yueli had trained these militiamen during this period.

I just feel that these people are growing too fast, even to a weird level.

Is there a strange force that is constantly helping them?