After Cheng Yuanzhi finished shouting, he could no longer hold back his tears. Finally… revenge was achieved!

Bai Qingyan forcefully suppressed her surging emotions, enduring the bitter tears in her eyes. She gazed toward the direction of the former Nan Jiang battlefield and tightened the reins. Personal vengeance was complete…

Grandfather, father, uncle, and brothers could now rest in peace.

Next, she would fulfill the grand aspirations of the Bai family’s ancestors and complete the great unification.

To make this world have soldiers… but no war!

Bai Qingyan pulled hard on the reins and said, “Shen Liangyu, immediately proceed to the depths of Lai’an Mountain to capture Li Tianjiao alive!”

“Shen Liangyu accepts the order!” Shen Liangyu responded and led his troops galloping away.

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In the distance, Hanwen Mountain Canyon.

Sa’er Khan had not expected Great Zhou to have ambushed troops lying in wait at this location. Countless fire arrows and oil poured down from both sides. The giant elephants, wrapped in flames, collided wildly, their impacts making the mountain itself tremble.

The air was filled with pine oil, fire oil, and the choking, pungent smell of burning peppers. The Great Zhou army seemed to have transported every combustible oil here, sparing no cost to attack them with fire.

The Great Zhou forces maintained their advantageous position on the mountain without coming down, only fiercely attacking with arrows and fire. This immediately threw the Tianfeng forces, who had always relied solely on giant elephants, into complete disarray.

The smell of burning was everywhere. Even through Tianfeng’s hardest armor, the elephants’ flesh was scorched by the heat of the fire oil burning along with the armor. That choking atmosphere… drove the already keen-sensed elephants into a mad frenzy of crashing and howling.

Sa’er Khan was choked to tears, his white robes disheveled and stained with burning ash. His face and head were covered with sweat, tears, and soot. The constantly leaping flames cast his fierce features in a yellow glow, as if he too were burning.

Everywhere were the heart-wrenching wails of Tianfeng soldiers and the trumpeting, nose-raising screams of the elephant army.

When had the ruler of Tianfeng ever been in such a wretched state?!

The path back to Pingdu City was already sealed off, with chevaux-de-frise burning with roaring flames. Even if they sacrificed giant elephants to crash through, Pingdu City had already fallen. All they could do now was cross the Danshui River!

The giant elephants could wade across the Danshui River, but these Great Zhou forces could not!

Arrows came in wave after wave, dense as falling rain. Time was running out for Sa’er Khan.

Having made up his mind, Sa’er Khan hesitated no longer and shouted: “Immediately charge toward the Danshui River and cross! Quickly…”

The bone whistles sounded again. The giant elephants that had not yet been completely driven mad by the flames charged forward frantically, carrying supplies and Tianfeng soldiers, as if the winding dark valley ahead held their path to survival.

Lu Yuanpeng blinked hard, tears constantly streaming from his eyes. It was too spicy…

He had seen Bai Qingyu, the Fifth Young Master of the Bai family, happy as anything. Knowing that Bai Qingyu was going to battle, he had actively sought out Bai Qingyu, asking him to assign the most dangerous task to him. So… that bastard Bai Qingyu had solemnly said he would give him the most important task!

The result… he had given him the task of leading soldiers to burn peppers and chili peppers in this ambush battle!

Even Sima Ping could lead crossbow archers to attack the giant elephants at the front lines, while he could only play around here, leading people to sprinkle peppers and chili on fires! That liar, Fifth Young Master Bai… was bullying him!

On second thought, he felt that Fifth Young Master Bai probably still regarded him as that wastrel dandy from the capital city. But he had already received the red-tasseled silver spear gifted by Sister Bai! He had gained Sister Bai’s recognition! Why did Fifth Young Master Bai make him do this kind of work?

“Most importantly, it’s too damn spicy…” Lu Yuanpeng wiped his tears with his sleeve and sniffled.

Under the assault of the Great Zhou army led by Bai Qingyu in the mountain valley, the originally quite spectacular elephant army formation that had emerged from Pingdu City had lost more than half its numbers and was now running toward the location where Shen Kunyang lay in ambush.

Lu Yuanpeng ordered his men to stop sprinkling peppers and chili, stretched his neck to look in the distance, and saw Sima Ping leading his team in a desperate final effort to kill the last giant elephant still in its death throes.

Seeing that the members of their small team were still continuously pouring wet peppers and chili onto the fires, Lu Yuanpeng’s eyes were so irritated by the spice that he could barely keep them open.

“It’s over! Stop burning that damn stuff…” Lu Yuanpeng sounded as if he had been crying, his voice heavy with nasal congestion from shedding too many tears.

The first phase of the mission complete, Bai Qingyu withdrew his troops, ordering his soldiers to carry supplies forward. He wanted to continue setting ambushes in the middle section of Hanwen Mountain Canyon!

Soon, the elephant army would encounter General Shen Kunyang. If the elephant army saw no way out of the canyon mouth and turned back, it would be perfect for him to kill another wave.

Bai Qingyu stood atop the canyon, looking down at the piles of giant elephant corpses in the valley below. Some elephants had slipped and fallen on the ice, others had been stimulated by the pepper and chili fumes into wild collisions, then trampled to death by their companions after falling.

It could be said that so far, fire, peppers, chili, and the icy paths made from compacted snow were the perfect weapons against Tianfeng’s giant elephants!

On the Great Zhou’s southwestern border, they had already lost more than half the elephant army. On the Great Zhou’s southeastern border, there was still a large elephant army. He hoped the three Bai Qingqi could handle them properly.

Bai Qingyu’s half silver mask gleamed in the reflection of the towering flames from the valley. He knew clearly in his heart… if he and Shen Kunyang ahead could kill all the elephant army, Tianfeng’s strength would be greatly weakened. Perhaps before winter’s end, they could drive these Tianfeng people back beyond the snowy mountains!

Without the elephant army, for at least ten years, Tianfeng would have no ability to come to this land again.

Sima Ping pulled himself up by rope, and after reaching the mountain slope, he gasped for breath as he untied the wet face cloth covering his face. He wiped his half-blackened face where only his eyes were visible, then turned to see Lu Yuanpeng, whose eyes had swollen like walnuts and who was sniffling, tucking his silver spear under his arm while helping to load those choking peppers and such onto horseback. Sima Ping instructed his subordinates to help Lu Yuanpeng’s team carry things.

Sima Ping walked over to Lu Yuanpeng, whose eyes had swollen like walnuts, watching as Lu Yuanpeng directed his subordinates with a heavy nasal voice to hurry up and move things. Gripping his waist sword and leaning against a tree trunk to rest, he laughed and said, “Crying like this, don’t tell me you thought I died when I charged down there?”

Lu Yuanpeng turned around: “Huh? You charged down there?”

Sima Ping: “…”

“Then what are you crying about?”

“Are you sick or something? When has this young master ever cried? Even when my grandfather used family discipline to beat me half to death, this young master never cried!” Lu Yuanpeng planted his spear firmly in the ground at his feet, gripping the silver spear with a proud expression. “It’s these damn peppers and chili that are too irritating to the eyes! No wonder those elephants went crazy…”