At a single command.
The soldiers who had lain in ambush for so long surged out like a tidal wave, charging down from the dense forest.
This operation was a surprise attack, so Lüqiu Yuanmo and Princess Jiabao had brought only experts of the Celestial Realm and above.
Princess Jiabao's personnel were a mixed bag: retired old princes, old prefecture princes, Celestial Realm family guards and retainers forcibly scraped together from various residences, as well as some royal heirs who had not gone to the battlefield.
As for the newly recruited motley militia, they were fine for guarding a city, but sending them to launch a surprise attack on the bandits would only create chaos.
Lüqiu Yuanmo's side was much the same, with the old being old and the young being young.
The two groups of elites twisted into a single rope and shot toward Yun Mengyu and Wang Fugui like an arrowhead.
At their head was an elderly woman, vigorous and sharp-eyed, with an elegant bearing.
Clad in armor and wielding a Divine Ability Realm Spirit Treasure warhammer, she was surrounded by dense gang qi. Behind her floated the phantom of a powerful green bull. She was like a humanoid Fierce Beast charging wildly through the battlefield, incomparably valiant and domineering.
This old woman was Qing Shao, Prefecture Prince of Southern Yan.
In her youth, she had been a peerless figure who had taken her era by storm. Her talents had been extraordinary, and she had been deeply favored by Emperor Yuanjing, who had only recently ascended the throne at the time. The young men of her generation had flocked after her like ducks.
Yet, to everyone's surprise, rather than marrying a suitably talented son of an aristocratic family in grand fashion like most princesses, she had chosen to