Outside the city, the roar of battle shook the sky!

The Ning'an Army and the modao army had the Tuoluo Kingdom's thirty thousand troops screaming for their mothers and fathers!

Yue Congyun sat astride a tall warhorse, her silver spear flickering high and low. One thrust punched clean through a Tuoluo soldier's heart.

She looked up. A big, dark-faced man with a full beard was beating a ragged retreat inside a knot of soldiers!

She didn't know the King of the Right Court by sight, but she could tell the man was somebody important.

"Ning'an Army, charge with me!"

Yue Congyun let out a yell and led her men straight at the King of the Right Court, her spear flashing, every thrust a kill.

The King of the Right Court's own guard had caught a few spooked warhorses. He swung himself into the saddle and was about to gallop off when a woman's voice rang out: "Where do you think you're going? You're staying right here with this old woman!"

"Stop her!"

His personal guard came at Yue Congyun with their sabers raised to cut her off.

Her spear shot out like lightning in a streak of cold light, and the first two men to reach her were dead before they knew it.

The Ning'an Army swarmed in behind her, swinging their rebar as they came.

For a moment the air rang with the crack of snapping weapons and breaking bones!

The King of the Right Court actually grinned, showing a mouthful of big yellow teeth. "Who knew the Great Xuan still had a woman like this to whet this king's appetite? This king likes you. Come back to the Tuoluo Kingdom with this king!"

He dug his heels into his horse's flanks and charged at Yue Congyun with his heavy-backed broadsword. He wanted to take her alive.

The woman looked like an officer. If he could capture her, not only could he use her against Ning Chen—he could take her home to play with and to eat.

As he closed in, the King of the Right Court swung the…