"Lao Xiang."
His companions had already risen, ready to retreat.
Xiang Lintian lay motionless on the ground.
After a long while, he took out a coin.
"Ancestor, heads, we spare Kou Island. Tails, we wipe them out."
With that said,
he tossed the coin high.
It spun several times in the air before landing firmly on the ground.
Under the blood-colored moonlight, the tails side gleamed.
"You retreat. I'm going to stop them."
Having received his ancestor's guidance, Xiang Lintian's entire bearing changed. He turned back resolutely. "Flying Dog Gorge has sheer cliffs on both sides and only one passage, a kilometer long. If I blow it up, I'll definitely slow their retreat."
"Have you lost your mind? Do you want to die?"
His companions grew frantic.
Lao Xiang was clearly going to his death.
Flying Dog Gorge was strategically formidable and was certain to be heavily guarded. Trying to stop a force of thirty thousand was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.
"Lao Xiang, we're fucking guerrillas. Head-on battles aren't our strength."
"Exactly, Lao Xiang. Stop messing around. You still have a wife and child."
"Don't throw your life away for nothing."
Lao Xiang waved a hand, letting their words go in one ear and out the other.
"I can't leave. If I do, I'll be letting my ancestor down."
"Even if I have to gnaw at it with my teeth, I'm bringing Flying Dog Gorge down."
"My ancestor chopped the heads off eight Kou Island soldiers with a single billhook. I can't disgrace him."
"Brothers, you're not Awakened. Don't follow me. Go back and tell my child that his father and his forebears were real men."
Flying Dog Gorge.
The Ninth Division had long since stationed a thousand-man force there.
It was an unavoidable route