The Villain's Counterattack

Chapter 181 Xie Xun's hidden dangers erupt, Song Qingshu's strong declaration

Zhou Zhiyang personally led the navy to fight against the imperial navy in Chaohu Lake. Song Qingshu and Zhang Wuji each steered a small boat to charge into the enemy line. They killed the generals, seized the flags, destroyed the flagship, and killed the commander, throwing the enemy into chaos. In the end, the rebel army won a great victory and reaped countless rewards.

Afterwards, Zhang Wuji integrated the Ming Cult believers in Anhui and joined forces with Yang Xiao and Yin Tianzheng to fight the Mongol army head-on. With the large amount of supplies sent by Zhou Zhiyang by water and a large amount of armaments obtained from the Mongol Tartars, they were not inferior in equipment at all. Tactically, they applied Song Qingshu's previous teachings to the extreme, using various tricks to defeat cavalry.

Song Qingshu had previously sent a letter to the Beggars' Sect headquarters through his naval connections. The letter revealed Chen Youliang's true identity and Shi Huolong's fate, accusing him and Cheng Kun of being Mongol lackeys. It also detailed Cheng Kun's role in the Six Sects' siege of Guangming. The Beggars' Sect headquarters had already learned of Xie Xun's visit to the Spirit Snake Island, and therefore dispatched five elders to seize the Dragon Slaying Sword. All five were killed in action.

Song Qingshu's letter arrived at a very timely moment, which surprised the powerful elders of the Beggar Gang. They secretly tested the situation and found that the man who pretended to be the gang leader Shi Huolong had basically no martial arts skills, so he was naturally exposed soon. He then sold out Chen Youliang completely, which shocked everyone in the Beggar Gang.

All the troops that besieged Guangmingding were defeated. Was it the involvement of Master Cheng Kun and his apprentice?

It's true that when you think he's a good guy, everything about him seems good, but once you consider him a bad guy, everything about him seems bad. Chen Youliang's image within the Beggars' Sect took a 180-degree turn, and the Shaolin monk Yuan Zhen's identity was also known to the Beggars' Sect. They became wary of Shaolin, and anyone within the sect with ties to Shaolin was investigated, ultimately uncovering several spies.

The Beggars' Sect, enraged, immediately wrote a letter to Song Qingshu, expressing their willingness to contribute their strength to expel the Tartars, and mobilized their disciples to cooperate with them in the uprising. Although the Beggars' Sect was not as large as the Ming Cult, its number of people was absolutely astonishing, and for a time the situation of the anti-Yuan cause was very good.

Song Qingshu constantly contacted martial artists in Anhui, Jiangsu, and other regions, organizing a traitor-eliminating team under the guise of being the first disciple of the third generation of Wudang. They launched surprise attacks and killed traitors and Mongol officials and generals in areas controlled by the Mongol army, causing widespread panic. It wasn't until Zhao Min, led by the two Xuanming Elders, the bitter monk, Ada, Aer, and Asan, arrived that the Mongol army finally calmed down.

Zhao Min looked haggard now, no longer the quirky, spirited person she had been before, but now more composed. The months of drifting on the sea, facing storms, tsunamis, and various dangers, had made her more mature, and the losses were also enormous. If it weren't for the many experts around her, Zhao Min didn't know if she could have survived. Especially when they encountered the Persian fleet, her men were almost completely wiped out. The enemy's strong ships and powerful artillery, coupled with their large numbers, caused Zhao Min to suffer heavy losses and herself to suffer minor injuries. It was only thanks to the timely rescue of her experts that she would have perished at sea.

It was at that time that she lost track of Song Qingshu. It was not until she reached the shore that she learned from the Mongol officials that he and Zhang Wuji were fighting against the Mongol army in Anhui, and she hurried over.

Zhao Min has many masters under her command, and each of them is very powerful. The martial artists recruited by Song Qingshu temporarily are really no match for her. They lost a lot of manpower due to carelessness. Through the description of those who escaped, Song Qingshu immediately understood that when Zhao Min arrived, he immediately stopped the plan against the Mongol army and turned to attack their food supply.

Song Qingshu personally led many martial arts masters who were proficient in riding, light skills and archery. They came and went like the wind, appearing and disappearing unpredictably, but they always hit the rebels in a very uncomfortable place. They even used the intelligence network of the Beggar Gang to clear out and kill all small cavalry groups that dared to act alone, and seized a lot of war horses to provide to the rebel army.

Zhao Min took advantage of the situation and used a small group of cavalry to lure out Song Qingshu, and then sent a large army to encircle and suppress him. Song Qingshu was very alert and actually discovered in advance that the large group of cavalry led by them had rushed into the trap of the Five Elements Flag, killing thousands of Mongol cavalry. Then, he launched a counterattack and defeated the Mongol cavalry and captured three cities in a row.

It was only then that Zhao Min realized that although she was smart, she did not have much talent in commanding troops, or she was seriously lacking in experience. What she was best at was conspiracy and intrigue, and using small tricks to calculate people in the martial arts world. So she jumped out of the battlefield which she was not good at, and resumed her role of disrupting the martial arts world. First, she released the news that the Golden Lion King Xie Xun had returned from overseas and was currently a guest at Wudang Mountain.

As soon as the news came out, there was an uproar in the martial arts world. What is Wudang Mountain?

Zhang Sanfeng, the number one in the martial arts world, the seven chivalrous Wudang heroes, the Confucian hero Song Qingshu, and the Taoist holy land.

Song Qingshu's reaction was equally swift. He first had Zhang Wuji display his own Dragon Slaying Sword, which he then used to sever ten soldiers and kill ten Tartar generals before the opposing armies. He then called on everyone to unite under the Dragon Slaying Sword to fight against the Mongols and drive out the Tartars. Zhao Min's previous efforts had made Zhang Wuji successful, making people believe that he held the true Dragon Slaying Sword, after all, Zhang Wuji's identity was clear.

Then Song Qingshu spread the news that three months later, Wudang Mountain would hold a dog-slaughtering convention, offering a sacrifice to the heaven with the head of the Mongol Army Marshal, King Ruyang, to kick off a full-scale counterattack against the Mongol Empire. All heroes who fought against the Mongol Tartars were welcome to participate, but the Mongol Tartars and their running dogs and traitors were not welcome, and would be killed without mercy once discovered!

Only then did everyone know what Song Qingshu had done in the past few months. It turned out that he had captured the Grand Marshal of the Yuan Empire without a word. No wonder the Tartars seemed to have become much dumber. It turned out that the Grand Marshal of the Army had been replaced. Many elites died in the vast ocean, and most of the commanders of the battles now were the playboys and people with connections in Yuan Dadu.

High on the mountain, Zhao Min, accompanied by the two Xuanming Elders, Ku Tou Tuo, Ah Da, Ah Er, and Ah San, appeared more than ten meters behind Song Qingshu. Song Qingshu, each holding a sword, turned his back to them, his gaze cast into the distance. Time was running out, and there were still many things to be resolved before this. The masters around Zhao Min had always been a problem, so today was the day to put an end to them.

"Song Qingshu, what do you want in exchange for letting my father go?" Zhao Min went straight to the point and directly raised the issue that concerned her most.

Song Qingshu's heart moved slightly, and he whispered, "I didn't intend to kill him before. There are very few people in the Mongol Yuan Empire whom I can truly take seriously, and Prince Ruyang is one of them. That's why I took the risk of sneaking into Dadu, burning the palace, and robbing him during the chaos. Without him, the Mongol Yuan Dynasty would inevitably fall. It's just that I admire his abilities and didn't intend to kill him until you gave me a difficult problem, so I had to push him out to prevent the disaster."

Zhao Min is not a real fool. Xie Xun has enemies all over the world. Even if these people join forces, they cannot cause any impact on Wudang Mountain. However, rumors are inevitable, and if they are not handled properly, they may cause many bloody tragedies. This is what she thought at the beginning, to organize these people to disrupt Wudang Mountain, and then rescue her father in the chaos.

However, Song Qingshu didn't give him a chance. He directly used the interests of the nation to suppress personal grudges and set a clear time limit: three months. No one would be welcome within three months. After three months, only heroes who fought against the Tartars would be eligible to go to Wudang Mountain. If Xie Xun's enemies wanted to participate in this event, they had to make great achievements within these three months and contribute to the expulsion of the Tartars. Otherwise, they would not be eligible to go to Wudang Mountain.

No one doubted Song Qingshu's words. His words had been tested time and time again. Even the lie he told became true because of Bai Guishou's manipulation. Xie Xun was indeed snatched away by Jinhua Po Po in the Sky Eagle Country on the Japanese island.

A person has enemies all over the world, but there are only about a hundred of them at most. The Dragon Slaying Sword fell into Zhang Wuji's hands. Although he has influence, it is not as big as imagined. However, it is different for the Grand Marshal of the Yuan Dynasty Army. There are more than tens of millions of people who have enemies with the Tartars, and they wish to eat the Tartars alive.

"Is this the reason you asked me to come here today?" Zhao Min's face turned ashen.

Song Qingshu shook his head slightly and said, "That's not the case. It's just that your usefulness has been exhausted. It's no longer possible to attract the attention of the Mongol Yuan Empire. Therefore, it's time to settle some things. Today, I want to settle the grudge for injuring Third Uncle and Xiao Wuji. You guys can take action."

Was he crazy? He was actually going to fight six top-notch masters at the same time?