"Ah, but…"

"I'll only help to give advice. As for the soldiers that I brought with me, I'll ask them to cooperate with you."

Commander Cao's expression changed when he heard what Wei Liuying said and looked at the other party in bewilderment. It was common knowledge that a soldier would not follow the words of other people aside from their leader. Besides, not all leaders would willingly give their soldiers to someone else.

"They're your soldiers, Strategist Liu…."

"They're His Highness, Prince Ji Sheng's soldiers. But before that, they're also Han Shi Kingdom's soldiers," Wei Liuying replied unhurriedly. "Also, I'm only lending them temporarily because I have another matters to attend to."

"Ah?"

"Commander Cao!" A soldier was rushing in. His face showed traces of panic. When he saw Wei Liuying, he flinched a bit, but he still came to them and kowtowed on the ground. "Commander Cao!"

"What is it?" Commander Cao asked back.

"Shan Xi Gang is here!"

Hearing that, Commander Cao nearly fainted on the spot. One of the biggest gangs in this area was Shan Xi Gang. However, that gang was quite inactive lately because their focus so far was only to target some hateful officials and rich people.

Did they find someone whom they want to rob from this city?

While the governor's face was pale, Wei Liuying was still calm. She knew that Shan Yi will come sooner or later, and the timing was pretty convenient. It seemed that her calculation was correct.

They arrived later than her.

"I'll speak to them."

"Strategist Liu?" Commander Cao was taken aback once more. Just by meeting Wei Liuying, he was already taken aback a few times because of her decision. "That's going to be very dangerous. You shouldn't do that, Strategist Liu."

"I'll be fine." Wei Liuying glanced to the gate. "Bring me there and call Captain Tang."

"…Alright."

With no other choice, Commander Cao had to bring Wei Liuying to him to the gate. Shan Xi Gang's people were already standing ready in front of the gate. They were looking in the direction of the city but there didn't seem to be any intention for them to rush in and attack.

As soon as they reached the gate, Wei Liuying noticed that Captain Tang was already standing there. It seemed that he ran when he heard that she called for him.

"You're going to stay here. Follow Commander Cao's command."

Captain Tang furrowed his brows when he heard that order. He didn't like the idea of listening to someone whom he had only met for the first time. But upon seeing Wei Liuying looking at him with solemn gaze, he swallowed any words that he was about to say and cupped his hands formally.

"This Tang understands, Strategist Liu."

"That's good." Wei Liuying patted his shoulder and walked to the gate. "Open the gate and don't follow me."

The soldiers didn't immediately respond to her request. They turned their head to the back as if they were asking for Commander Cao's permission. It was only when they saw Commander Cao nodded his head did they open the gate.

Wei Liuying walked out of the gate and headed to the woods. There were several Shan Xi Gang's members who were standing there. From the words written on the banner that they carried around, one would be able to recognize them everywhere.

She stopped just a few feet away from them.

"Liu Ying, Strategist from Prince Ji Sheng's army, wished to speak with Shan Xi Gang's leader."

The relationship between Prince Ji Sheng and Shan Xi Gang was never made public. In fact, there were only very few people who knew that the two unlikely sides were actually comrades. Of course, there was no plan to disclose the matter to everyone because it would change everything.

The two sides were not supposed to be close to each other because of the large difference in status.

Shan Xi Gang people were looking at Wei Liuying with suspicions. Only some of them knew about their leader's relationship with Prince Ji Sheng and a few others, but they had no plan to disclose it either.

Their leader will behead them if they dared to utter any words about that.

Slowly, Shan Yi walked out from the back. He had changed his clothes and now wearing his usual trademark messy clothing. From the way it looked like, his wounds were also healed because there was no trace of it at all.

"I'm the leader. What do you want?"

"I would like to inquire your intention to come here, Leader of Shan Xi Gang."

Shan Yi creased his eyebrows. Honestly, he truly had no interest to deal with someone like Wei Liuying nor Yang Xian. The two of them were very good at talking to the point that it was difficult for him to speak with them when they began to start twisting their words again.

It was so annoying. He truly couldn't understand why there were a lot of people who had the hobby of talking with that kind of language.

Couldn't they just be upfront with what they want?

"I'm thinking of attacking this nameless city. I heard that there are a lot of food and money that are unused here," Shan Yi lied.

Wei Liuying cupped her hands. "There are no such things in this city. In fact, this nameless city is still under development and didn't look too good."

"How do I know that you're saying the truth?"

"I won't lie. If I lie to you, let lightning strike me."

Shan Yi narrowed his eyes when he heard what Wei Liuying said. While it was true he didn't like these two's way of speaking, he still understood the consequences of saying oath like that. No one dared to say something like that so easily because they didn't dare to face the result.

Not all of them wanted to put their lives on the line.

'These two strategists are really troublesome. How come they always put their lives on the line in whatever things they do?'