The city gate had originally been guarded by over a hundred men. After all, it was the most important checkpoint. The guards were split into three shifts, so there would still be around thirty on duty at any given time.
But these guards had never seen much action and lacked even a basic sense of danger. They could never have imagined that a batch of staggering, drunken men would suddenly erupt with the ferocity of tigers and attack them with deadly force.
The sudden turn of events left the guards completely dumbfounded. More than ten of them were killed in the first wave.
The dozen or so remaining men were terrified by the carnage before them. Seeing heads fly, bodies torn apart, and blood spraying everywhere, they wet themselves on the spot. The little fighting spirit they had left was completely crushed by the stench of blood.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
Someone screamed and sent out a distress signal.
In the end, a few men with decent nerves and passable fighting skills managed to rally the others and put up resistance, all while shouting at the top of their lungs.
But that left the city gate wide open. In the darkness, Master Hu's elite troops, already positioned outside, heard the commotion within and charged in from both sides of the gate.
They were two or three miles away, but at a full sprint, it would take these elite troops only a minute or two to reach the gate.
In that short time, the guards there had barely managed to organize a defense before the thirty-man force was completely scattered.
"Young Master, do you mean Cen Qi Manor Lord may have met with disaster?"
Just then, Jiang Yue suddenly warned him, "Someone's coming. Looks like Master Hu's men."
Before long, more