Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 700: Chapter 539: The Slaughter in the Broken City

Gu Changsheng’s phoenix eyes slightly narrowed, constantly attentive to the situation ahead!

Today, the Red Sun City’s defending army had sent troops in three directions, adding up to over 3,500 men! Just now, Xiao Han Mo had used a strategy to claim the lives of over 4,000 enemies in a rush. With the troops now scattered, how would he choose?

In an instant, within the Central Military, a bright yellow firework shot up into the sky!

”Boom!”

”Boom!”

”Boom!”

Behind the three directions in which the army had departed from the city, the sounds of explosions thundered again. The figures of the Vanguard Army, crimson in the rush, plunged back into the midst of the three large forces leaving the city!

The sounds of clashing steel, the roaring explosions, the smiling faces—all permeating with the stench of blood!

Among the pools of blood, one by one, men fell to the ground, never to rise again, silent...

”Avoid arrogance and impatience, make the right choices. Dividing the troops into three groups, he got over 3,500 enemies. This time, he was more conservative than last time! His choices were also more appropriate!” Zhou Mu gazed at the battlefield of slaughter ahead, his brows relaxed as he slowly spoke.

”Hmph, at least he knows what’s good for him!” Gu Changsheng snorted twice, her tone unable to hide a trace of pride.

She had exhausted her wits and poured her heart into training the Dark Night Army and had great expectations for Han Qiu and Han Mo!

Now, even Xiao Han Mo could stand on his own! At the tender age of eight, leading the Dark Night Army—such was the caliber of the troops under her!

If they do not rise, they remain unnoticed; but with one move, they astonish the world!

After the sounds of artillery fire, the army leaving the city was hindered, and upon seeing the battlefield in front of the city gates, akin to Asura Hell, their courage shattered instantly!

This wasn’t warfare! This wasn’t a battlefield!

This was simply a massacre! A merciless slaughter!

The Red Sun City’s defending army hadn’t even gotten a clear view of the Dark Night Army before their lives were claimed in an instant!

Blood dyed the evening clouds red, as the area in front of Red Sun City fell into a purgatory akin to that of Asuras!

”They’re not human! They’re not human! They are devils!” A man with a trembling grip shouted and scrambled backward in terror.

With a mere force of two hundred men, facing thousands of troops, and still able to annihilate them with such ease!

This was not something a human could do!

The Dark Night Army, appearing without a trace and vanishing without a shadow on the battlefield, was like a group of devils, stepping with demonic strides, harvesting life after life!

Dividing the troops into three groups, it was only a matter of moments in the second sortie that led to a total defeat!

Such disastrous rout had instantly dispersed the morale of Red Sun City’s defending army, nearly causing it to collapse!

No matter how much the female Deputy General, in charge of defending the city, tried to assert her authority or how loudly she shouted, the soldiers hid behind the city gate, refusing to venture out again. With their spirits scattered and weakened for further battle, Han Mo’s method of luring the enemy out and then annihilating them, followed by seizing the morale of the army, was very skillfully employed!

”Their leading general is but a mere baby, what are you afraid of? What are you afraid of?” The female Deputy General cried out desperately, exasperated. The Huaheng Clan had issued death-defying military orders to defend against the enemy, and now, she was to be defeated by a mere baby. How could she accept that?

Facing many with few and still suffering defeat after defeat, even the heart of the Deputy General was on the verge of breaking!

But as the Defensive General, she had no room for retreat!

Her only option was to fight. Unwilling to yield without a fight, she was certainly not one to surrender without a clash!

In front of the city gate, the ground was once again covered with corpses, the blood-red fluid serpentine, joining together as one. Those who had never been on a battlefield would never know the brutality of war, nor would they understand how cheaply life could be expended, so vividly demonstrated in the theater of war!

Behind the Central Military, Gu Changsheng slowly closed her eyes, letting out a long sigh!

It was she, Gu Changsheng, who had trained this army with her own hands! This mere force of eight hundred men!

It was she who made warfare of this era unfair!

Gu Changsheng couldn’t help but look up at the sky. Was this her mission? Was this the reason she came into this world? To use the knowledge accrued from her future life to change the layout of this era?

This was not the outcome she desired...

In the midst of the Central Military, Xiao Han Mo, with a solemn face, stared at the city gate and spoke with a deep voice, ”Strike the iron while it’s hot, after which it declines, and with the third, it’s exhausted! Time is running out, their three sorties signify the impending breach of Red Sun City!”

Han Qiu looked at the red flare behind the city gate and then at her younger brother with the Marshal’s Plume in his hair, and suddenly, a warm moisture filled her eyes!

The enmity of her country, her family’s grudge, her father, as a border guarding official, fell from grace due to the seige’s disadvantage, resulting in his family’s destruction and annihilation!

In just three years, in merely three years!

Her brother, at the age of eight, clad in armor and donning the Marshal’s Plume, stood upon the battlefield!

Madam often said, ’Where you fall, there you must rise.’ Their Han family was brought to the brink of destruction because of a siege; it was time to make a name for themselves in a siege once more!

Such a great kindness is hard to repay even with one’s life!

Looking up at the setting sun, Gu Changsheng sighed and slowly collapsed onto the vehicle shaft, ”The real siege war is about to begin...”

Zhou Mu sat beside her, raised his hand, slowly covering her furrowed brow, and spoke with a gentle voice, ”This is the battlefield, and as long as it is a battlefield, casualties are inevitable...”

He knew what she was lamenting, but after all, once a large army marches forth, there is no way to turn back!

When they dispatched troops to the Southern Border, it was destined to unleash a bloody storm on the Southern Border!

”Alas...” From the supply vehicles behind them, the rhythmic sound of Little Monk Bu Jie’s wooden fish echoed, and Gu Changsheng sighed again without speaking further!

Twice the City Defending Guard went out, and none returned; the area before the Red Sun City Gate was stained red with the blood of the Defending Army, yet in this battle, both sides were determined to win at all costs!

Regaining a bit of strength, the female Deputy General in charge of the defense blew the horn to attack once again, this time the Qingcheng forces set out, their moment of success or failure at hand, they had no other choice!

The real army mobilized in full force, the real army pressed on the border!

And in the midst of the Dark Night Army’s Central Military, Xiao Han Mo watched the Qingcheng forces mobilize, a glint of light in his eyes. With a wave of his little hand, a bright yellow flare soared into the air, dagger in hand at his waist, he pointed and declared, ”This is the moment we’ve been waiting for! All forces advance, attack from both front and rear! Break through the city in one fell swoop! Charge!”

”Boom!”

”Boom!”

”Boom!”

As the sound fell, the thunderous roar of cannon fire erupted from within the advancing army!

Yhan Ting and Diao Chan, leading six hundred of the Dark Night Army on the left and right flanks, appeared on the city towers like ghosts!

In the blink of an eye, the Red Sun banner atop the Red Sun City tower was brought down, replaced by a dark red Liu Jin banner, on which the large character ”Gu” fluttered in the wind, its brush strokes showing vigor and an imposing momentum that seemed ready to fly!

The already wavering morale completely collapsed with the fall of the banner!

With the Dark Night Army capturing the city tower providing cover above, and the flanking forces of the Dark Night Army below, the remaining thirty thousand Red Sun City Defending Army were utterly trapped with no way out!

In numbers, they had the absolute advantage! Forty thousand against eight hundred!

Yet, as the banner fell, with the ”Gu” character flag soaring in the sky, and amid the roaring sounds of cannon fire, their disintegrating morale plunged the forty thousand Red Sun City defenders into the purgatory of death!

The sky was filled with gunpowder smoke, and wherever the smoke rose, countless City Defending Guards fell, their wide eyes frozen in terror!

Severed limbs, mangled arms, blood flowing into rivers...

This was true slaughter...

Luckily dodging the explosive arrows shot from both front and rear and the city towers, shadows flashed by their sides, and in an instant, daggers slashed across their throats, pierced through their chests...

As the sun slowly set behind the Western Mountain, wailing cries echoed around Red Sun City, as though calling for an everlasting day! Calling for the dawn of hope for life!

But what awaited them was eternal darkness...

Bodies littered the ground, piled up like mountains, their blood converging into rivers, reflecting the sunset that reddened the sky above Red Sun City...

Inside the city, within the City Lord’s Mansion, everyone was like a frightened bird, scurrying around headlessly...

The sounds of explosions and screams coming from the direction of the City Gate echoed through Red Sun City, and Huaheng Cangyue knew these were not sounds made by the Dark Night Army; they were the dying struggles of her City Defending Army!

Gu Changsheng, with only eight hundred soldiers, had truly captured Red Sun City, stout as copper walls and iron ramparts!

It was said that the commander leading the siege was just an eight-year-old child!

But none of that mattered anymore!

Nothing mattered now!

Gu Changsheng had given her a chance, which she thought was nothing but her own arrogant bluster!

But now it seemed that it was the last opportunity for the Huaheng Clan, and now... it was all too late...

Outside Red Sun City, Gu Changsheng lay back on the shaft of a wagon, his ears filled with the relentless sounds of slaughter...

”Evildoer, my grandfather once told me that everyone is a star. Tell me, in this battle of Red Sun City, how many stars will fall? Will there be any stars left in the sky tonight?” Staring at the sky filled with sunset, Gu Changsheng murmured absent-mindedly.

She was the profiteer! She was the true profiteer!

The wailing around her, she had created it all by herself; the tens of thousands of casualties, all the work of one person...

Her hands were stained with fresh blood, yet she still felt a trace of reluctance!

In that moment, Gu Changsheng suddenly felt that her steadfast resolve had lost all sense of boundary; her worldview, the righteousness she had held onto, vanished completely at that point!

The carnage continued, but she was pulled into a warm embrace, eagerly clinging to the muscular waist of the man beside her to draw in a shred of warmth...

From now on, Medicine God Lady Changsheng, who once practiced medicine to save the world, no longer existed. In her place stood Gu Changsheng of the Gu family, who led troops in battles across the Southern Border, killing countless people!

The Gu family’s banner, dyed red with blood, the Dark Night Army tempered through bloodshed, she ultimately became a woman whose name sent shivers down people’s spines...

Bodies piled up like mountains, rivers of blood flowed, and the Gu family banner fluttering upon the city tower...

As the last light of the sun fell behind the Western Mountain, Gu Changsheng’s wagon, guarded by the Dark Night Army, slowly approached the wide-open gates of Red Sun City...

Flanked by heaps of corpses lining the path, the blood beneath the wagon wheels, like water from a torrential rain, converged into rivers...

That day, as the sun sat in the west, the Dark Night Army took Red Sun City within a single Shichen...

All the killing and slaughtering, like the setting sun, descended from the sky, while the scent of blood before Red Sun City lingered on...