[Falsum]

(Continued from previous post(obviously))

"IT'S A TRICK! THEY'RE STRAW PEOPLE! RUN!!" They shouted with fear. Suddenly, a couple of arrows
came from the nearby hills and took out the two advance scouts. The surviving Jin Yang troops
from the previous nights assault started to pour down the hills, surrounding the Ye troops.

Xiang Ji merely smiled.

"They aren't as numerous as us!" He shouted to his troops, as he waited for the troops to reach
him. "They are tired, and desperate!! Stick together, and they will die like dogs!!" The first
person to reach Xiang Ji was Mu Shun, who leapt foward and swung his sword at Xiang Ji. Xiang Ji
held his spear in both hands and deadlocked Mu Shun's sword.

"You bastard! I'll make sure to avenge my loss here!" Mu Shun shouted through the weopans. Then,
he leapt back and readied his sword again.

"You will only lose again!" Xiang Ji shouted back. Xiang Ji rushed foward toward Mu Shun. No
longer tired, he didn't restrict his swings at all. The first swing headed straight for Mu Shun's
left side, He blocked in time with his sword, but only with one hand. The power and leverage the
spear had forced Mu Shun completely to the ground. Rolling quickly to the side, Mu Shun brought
his hands up in enough time to block Xiang Ji's next stroke, which was a vertical swing. Even
though Mu Shun was holding the sword in both hands, and he was physically stronger than Xiang Ji,
the leverage advantage of the spear pushed the sword back. Xiang Ji quickly brought his spear
back up and swung it down again full strength at the same spot before Mu Shun could recover.
Blocked again, Xiang Ji brought down the spear again and again, until Mu Shun was the one starting
to tire out. Finally, a swing of the spear pushed the sword back far enough that the spear cut
halfway into Mu Shun's right shoulder. Mu Shun, screaming in pain, dropped the sword in his now
useless right hand, and clutched his shoulder with his left hand. Xiang Ji brought his spear back,
and swung it horizontally, slicing cleanly through Mu Shun's neck, severing the head. Taking the
head as a trophy, he hung it from his belt, and joined his soldiers, who where fighting the
Jin Yang ambush troops, in the fight.

Not long after he joined the main battle, the Jin Yang troops were completely wiped out. Taking
only a few casualities, the Ye troops morale really hit peak. The troops rested for the rest of
the day, and the next day, they marched out again for Hu Gate. Xiang Ji sent the head of Mu Shun,
as well as a report of the battles, with a messenger back to Ye. Before long, the hills on the
far left and far right of the troops turned into mountains, and as they got closer to Hu Gate,
the mountains grew closer and closer together, bottlenecking the plains. As dusk drew near,
the Ye troops morale had hit rock bottom. The moutain ranges keep growing closer and closer
together till they met. At the meeting point of the moutains, was Hu Gate. Dark, ominous,
forboding, the gate stood up a steep climb of plains just to the gate it self. It was most
definitely a gate built for war. It appeared to the men, an impreginable fortress, with no
way around it, and no way through it.

The hardest part of the campaign was about to begin.