At Songlin Ridge, five hundred government soldiers walked into the White Lotus Sect's ambush without the slightest preparation.
Ning Bukong, the White Lotus Sect elder in charge of this operation, was not watching the Ming Army. Instead, his sinister gaze was fixed on Wen Qingkong and Tang Yuanlou.
His eyes were filled with icy killing intent.
As the commander of this operation, killing Wen Qingkong and Tang Yuanlou, then pinning the blame on the Ming Army and Mingzhou Dark Stone, could not have been easier.
For this reason, every man he had brought was one of his trusted confidants within the White Lotus Sect.
Once the ambush began, the five hundred Ming soldiers would fight back, and Mingzhou Dark Stone would make its move as well. He would simply let Wen Qingkong and Tang Yuanlou be surrounded and killed.
Only after they were dead would he seize the million taels of silver.
As for being unable to obtain that million taels of silver because Wen Qingkong and Tang Yuanlou were dead—
Ning Bukong had never considered such an outcome.
He did not take the Ming Army or Mingzhou Dark Stone seriously at all.
After all, they were the renowned White Lotus Sect, the White Lotus Sect that had long contended with Great Xia for dominion over the realm!
"Attack!"
Ning Bukong gave the order.
The massive ballista let out a piercing howl.
A huge bolt over three meters long tore through the air. With unstoppable speed and force, it passed through the dense pines and punched straight through the bodies of more than a dozen Ming soldiers.
"Enemy attack!!"
After a brief silence, as though time itself had frozen for an instant, furious and alarmed cries from the Ming Army erupted across Songlin Ridge.
"It's a ballista!"
"Get down!"
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