Return to Camp!

When the first drop of mountain dew at dawn fell onto Ding Hao's cheek, its icy touch jolted him awake from his dream!

He had had an erotic dream. In it, he had gone wild with a woman more than a dozen times, and the exquisite sensation left him savoring it endlessly!

Something was wrong.

It seemed... it had not been a dream!

Ding Hao suddenly shuddered, and his memories came flooding back like a tide!

Sure enough, when Ding Hao sat bolt upright, he saw that Luo Shenhuang had long since awakened. She had redressed herself and donned her golden armor!

Her stunningly beautiful face was calm and composed, as though the one who had crazily demanded more the night before had not been her at all.

"Commander Luo, you and I last night..." Ding Hao began, intending to explain.

After all, the woman before him was the commander of the Great Zhou Divine Phoenix Army. A casual word or action from her could decide whether he lived or died.

If she felt that he had defiled her last night, like Xia Weiyang had, then he really would have beaten a fox and gotten stink all over himself!

Especially since there was no one here. She had no need to exercise the same restraint as Xia Weiyang!

Even if she killed him, everyone would assume he had died on the battlefield.

Yet before Ding Hao could speak, Luo Shenhuang calmly nodded.

"Yesterday, on the battlefield, I was poisoned by the aphrodisiac desire poison that Man Potian, the Northern Barbarian commander-in-chief, fed to his warhorse. If you had not removed the poison from me in time, this commander would have lost her life. You did very well!"

Ding Hao froze, not expecting Luo Shenhuang to be so calm.

Instead, he found himself at a loss for words. He could only rise and say, "Uh, circumstances were urgent. It was simply my duty!"

But as he spoke, Ding Hao felt a chill below his waist!

Looking down, he discovered that he was still naked. He hurriedly scrambled to find his prison uniform and Elite Vanguard armor and put them on!

Throughout it all, Luo Shenhuang showed not the slightest embarrassment. After all, they had already seen everything they should and should not have seen the night before!

Only after Ding Hao had dressed.

Did Luo Shenhuang ask, "Soldier, what is your name?"

"Ding Hao!"

Luo Shenhuang said, "Ding Hao, I saw how bravely you led the Elite Vanguard Camp in charging and slaughtering through the Northern Barbarian army yesterday!"

"But I see that you seem to be a death-row prisoner. What crime did you commit?"

"Heh, a crime out of nowhere. I offended someone at court!"

Ding Hao gave a bitter laugh.

Then he suddenly recalled.

It was said that Luo Shenhuang and Xia Weiyang were close friends. In fact, more than half the reason the latter had risen to become the Great Zhou Empress as the Talented Woman was due to Luo Shenhuang's support!

But now.

He realized that these two close friends seemed as different as heaven and earth.

"You offended someone?"

Luo Shenhuang frowned, then said, "Mm, no matter. Once we return to camp, I will personally grant you the Merit of the Vanguard. With that military merit, it will be enough to have the court pardon your death-row status!"

"Uh, about that..." Ding Hao shook his head, about to explain!

But Luo Shenhuang rose to her feet and said, "For now, though, the two of us should leave this place first and rejoin the main army!"

With that, Luo Shenhuang took the initiative and strode toward the cave entrance. Seeing this, Ding Hao could only swallow the words on his tongue and follow behind her.

Yet just as they were about to leave the cave, Luo Shenhuang stopped again. Her beautiful eyes turned back toward Ding Hao as she said solemnly, "Ding Hao, you saved me, and I am deeply grateful. But regarding last night..."

Before she could finish, Ding Hao quickly answered, "Rest assured, Commander. You know of this matter, and I know of it. No third person will ever learn of it!"

"Thank you!"

Luo Shenhuang thanked him, then strode out of the cave!

Though circumstances had forced her hand last night, she... was still a woman, after all.

"This woman has a pretty solid sense of right and wrong, unlike that bitch Xia!"

Ding Hao reflected inwardly.

Though last night had been for detoxification and saving a life, had it been Xia Weiyang, she probably would have repaid his kindness with enmity and killed him the moment she awoke!

Yet from beginning to end, Luo Shenhuang had never blamed him. All she felt was gratitude for saving her life. Even her final words had merely been a discussion.

Not an order!

"No wonder this woman could become the Army Soul of the Great Zhou Divine Phoenix Army!"

"She truly possesses an uncommon character!"

Ding Hao glanced at Luo Shenhuang's retreating back and hurriedly followed her!

With the chaos of last night's battlefield, compounded by the darkness, Ding Hao had carried Luo Shenhuang and run wildly without the slightest idea where he was going!

Now that daylight had come, one look made it clear—they had ventured deep into the Tianman Mountain Range!

As the commander-in-chief for this campaign against the northern border barbarians, Luo Shenhuang naturally knew the terrain of the northern border like the back of her hand, leading Ding Hao through it.

At last, when the two returned to the previous battlefield, the clash between the Divine Phoenix Army and the Northern Barbarian Army had long since ended.

Along the way, corpses of Great Zhou Divine Phoenix Army soldiers and Northern Barbarian Army soldiers lay strewn everywhere, with far more barbarian soldiers among them!

"I'll pick, pick, pick!"

Naturally, Ding Hao did not stand on ceremony. He immediately began frantically looting!

Yet while looting the corpses, he showed great respect toward the fallen Divine Phoenix Army soldiers, sometimes even helping close their eyes!

When Luo Shenhuang saw this, she felt deeply gratified.

"This Ding Hao isn't bad. Being saved by someone like him doesn't count as sullying my body!"

Thus.

Luo Shenhuang even deliberately slowed her pace to give Ding Hao time to search the corpses!

Ding Hao naturally had no idea what Luo Shenhuang was thinking, but he was more than happy with the arrangement!

And so, the two walked and stopped, stopped and walked, all the way onward.

Only two hours later did they run headlong into a troop of Great Zhou cavalry. The man at their head was none other than Ding Yishan!

"Commander!"

"We found the Commander!"

The moment Ding Yishan spotted Luo Shenhuang in the distance, his spirits surged!

He hurriedly led his men before Luo Shenhuang. They all dismounted and knelt to greet her!

"Enough!"

Luo Shenhuang waved a hand.

At this moment.

Ding Yishan also saw Ding Hao, and the delight in his eyes grew threefold.

"Hey, Brother Ding Hao, you're actually alive? That's wonderful!"

In yesterday's great battle, both sides had fought until the sky turned dark and the earth lost its light. In the end, it only concluded when the Northern Barbarian Army sounded the gong and withdrew!

After the battlefield was cleared and the casualties counted, no one from the Elite Vanguard Camp had survived. Although Ding Yishan had not seen Ding Hao's corpse, in his heart, Ding Hao had surely long since died amid the chaotic battlefield!

Who would have thought that Ding Hao was not only alive, but was even at Luo Shenhuang's side!

Could it be?

Just as some thoughts rose in Ding Yishan's heart.

Luo Shenhuang, who had just swung herself onto a warhorse, spoke in surprise, "Oh? Ding Yishan, so you know each other!"

"This death-row prisoner named Ding Hao risked his life last night to carry me out of the encirclement, saving my life. When we return, he must be richly rewarded!"

"What! So it really was Brother Ding Hao who saved the Commander!"

Ding Yishan's spirits surged, and he could not help giving Ding Hao's shoulder a hearty slap. "Good lad! I knew I hadn't misjudged you!"

"Return to camp first!"

At last, with Ding Yishan and Ding Hao riding alongside her, Luo Shenhuang took the lead at the center and galloped back toward the military camp!

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