His Rui

Chapter 73 - The Brave Yi Lei

General Li closed his eyes amd waited for his death with memories of Yi Jie revolving in his mind.

However, the dagger never pierced him.

Because at this moment, the door of the hut was suddenly kicked down and the man was pushed away from General Li.

The confused General Li opened his eyes and was surprised to see the person in front of himself.

"General Li, are you alright?"

When the General nodded his head, Xi Ying observed the bruises and cuts on his face.

It could be said that the General was beaten very badly.

A thought suddenly entered Xi Ying's mind.

'Will Rui kill him if she saw her father in this state?'

'She will, for sure.'

His own consciousness answered him.

Xi Ying smiled bitterly as he remembered the night when Li Rui ordered his own shadow guard to kill him.

The soldiers killed the other men and supported Yi Lei, Li Diu and General Li outside of the hut.

Commander Xie stabbed one man and glanced at the soldiers.

He breathed a sigh of relief seeing that the three of them were alive.

As Xi Ying had expected, there were many shadow guards and soldiers who were protecting the shabby hut.

"Huang"

Hidden from everyone's gaze behind a tree, Xi Ying called his shadow guard.

Soon Huang appeared in front of Xio Ying.

"My Lord"

"Not even a single one should be left alive."

If even one man was allowed to live and he ran to inform General Yun or Crown Prince then it will be difficult for him to proceed with his plan.

"Yes, My Lord."

Huang disappeared and Xi Ying led the soldiers supporting General Li, Yi Lei and Li Diu to a safe place.

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It was almost midnight by the time the soldiers killed all of the men.

Somewhere in the forests, they made their camps on the wide ground.

In a small camp, Fenyu was putting some paste he had prepared with the plants from forests on General Li's wounds.

At this moment, Commander Xie entered the camp.

He took the bowl filled with paste from Fenyu and dismissed him.

Applying the paste on General Li's wounds, he said

"I have not expected to see you again."

General Li laughed out loud and said

"I haven't also."

But Commander Xie was not amused at all. Seeing the still laughing General, he only felt anger and intentionally applied more pressure on his wound.

"You still have the courage to laugh?"

General Li was startled when he saw the red eyes of his subordinate.

"Are you going to shed tears like a three year old child now? If so then please do it away from me. I don't have any paitence to coax someone except my Wangfei."

Commander Xie's nostrils flared in anger and he really have the urge to hit the man in front of hum.

"Do you even know what all had transpired in your absence?"

General Li frowned when he saw his serious face and asked

"What happened?"

Commander Xie ignored his question this time and asked instead

"How did they abduct you from the battlefield in front of so many soldiers?"

General Li understood that everything must be fine or else the commander would not ignore his question.

So he answered generously as he remembered that day.

"While fighting at the front with Li Diu, I was told that you got injured and there was no one on your side to lead the soldiers. I left front side's responsibility on Li Diu but when I reached your side, a soldier informed me that the enemy soldiers had invaded the camps. "

"I saw that Yi Lei was leading the soldiers without any problem so I went to the camps area. However, when I reached there, a very large group of soldiers attacked me suddenly. I killed many of them but I have not known that they have called Li Diu there by telling him that I was injured."

"With Li Diu, Yi Lei also came there. Before they could understand the situation, they were controlled by those soldiers. They threatened me that they will kill both of them if I didn't corporate. So, I could only lower my sword."

"After that, they covered our faces and took the three of us away with them."

Commander Xie sighed as he said

"I was never injured. I was suddenly called by Commander Ji who told me that he will lead your soldiers because you gave your ancestoral wars strategies to the enemy country."

Of course, General Li understood what Commander Xie was talking about. He himself had his doubts about the whole matter that day.

Commander Xie had a grim face when he asked the question inside his heart.

"What happened to Yi Lei's face?"

When he visited Li Diu and Yi Lei just now, he had seen Yi Lei's face.

Half of his face was covered with a large scar with some burnt flash hanging down.

A heavy sigh escaped General Li's lips.

"Yi Lei...I have truly underestimated that young boy."

"One night, he had successfully cut all of his ropes but he was caught when he and Li Diu came to free me. They ....

burnt his face to supress him."

General Li chuckled as he continued.

"But they never succeeded. Whenever they tried to force out some information from my mouth, both of them would start to scream or do something to stop those men."

The silence prevailed in the camp after General Li completed his words.

The scar on Yi Lei's face was very large. The soldiers on the battlefield was used of seeing such scars, but Yi Lei will not spend all of his life on the battlefield.

However they could do nothing.

Yi Lei had to care that scar on his face throughout his whole life.

This silence was broken when Fenyu stepped inside. He bowed his head and informed General Li and Commander Xie

"Minister Xi wishes to see General Li."