Our desires lend the colors of the rainbow to a life that is nothing more than clouds.

– Rabindranath Tagore (Indian poet, philosopher, and Indian nationalist)

"You ......" felt that his lungs were about to be blown up, and he was angry and a little strange, he always felt that there was something wrong with the leader of the Zhenghong Banner that he saw tonight, as if he had never seen this Zhenghongqi leader.

The supreme commanders of the garrisons in the city of the Zhenglan Banner and the Zhenghongqi were all staff leaders, and there were five leaders under their jurisdiction who each led a bull lu; the Zhenglan Banner leaders who fell into a rage suddenly found that the Zhenghongqi in front of them was obviously not any of the five Zhenghongqi leaders.

Just as the Blue Banner leader, who sensed that something was wrong, was about to question Adrian's identity, the Blue Banner warriors, who couldn't control the anger in their hearts, took the lead in holding the short bow in their hands and shot arrows representing their anger at Adrian!

"Bang!"

Having achieved his goal, Adrien flicked the dagger in his hand to block the arrows that were shooting at him, and the battlefield ghosts behind him were also unlikely to be injured by the arrows shot by ordinary warriors, after all, their initial strength was equivalent to that of the Empire's high-level swordsmen.

"You grandsons of the Zhenglan Banner dare to kill us with the Zhenghong Banner?!" Yadrien, who was clearly happy in his heart, pretended to be angry on his face, and ordered the soldiers behind him: "Kill! Let these grandsons of the Zhenglan Banner see who is the grandfather!"

Adrian, who was so angry that he couldn't pay for his life, succeeded in arousing the indignation of all the Blue Flag soldiers present, and the Blue Banner leader, who had the intention to question Adrien face to face, didn't even have a chance to question him, so he watched the inevitable start of the fight.

How could the 100 soldiers of the Zhenglan Banner, whose average strength did not even possess that of a junior swordsman, be the opponents of the 47 battlefield ghosts with the strength of a high-level swordsman? As soon as the two teams of warriors fought, the soldiers of the Zhenglan Banner were defeated and retreated by the battlefield ghosts led by Adrien himself.

This is the result of Adrien's deliberate release of water, if it weren't for Adrien's strict order to hide the strength of the battlefield ghosts under his command, the soldiers of the Blue Flag would not have lasted even three minutes before they would have been wiped out, and even so, their casualty figures would have skyrocketed.

Adrian, who wanted to intensify the internal contradictions of the New Eight Banners through this method, although he did not crush the team of Blue Flag soldiers in front of him, there were no longer a few Blue Flag soldiers killed by the ghosts on the battlefield under his command.

In the fierce battle of more than 10 minutes, 78 soldiers of the Blue Banner, including Zuo Ling, were killed on the spot, and the more than 20 soldiers of the Blue Banner who fled in a hurry were also wounded, and the price that Adrion paid for this was that 23 soldiers of the Red Banner were 'killed'.

In fact, when the twenty or so Blue Banner soldiers who were deliberately let go by Adrien fled the scene, the twenty-three "killed" Red Banner soldiers got up from the ground one after another, and the first thing they did after that was to take away the cotton armor from the Blue Flag soldiers.

After leaving more than ten sets of bloodstained red flag cotton armor at the scene, Adrien first sent several battlefield ghosts to send more than ten sets of blood-stained positive blue flag cotton armor to the city wall, and then let the battlefield ghosts under his command collectively change into cotton armor with positive blue flag.

After turning into a patrol soldier with a blue flag, he came to a black-lit restaurant in the city to join the three battlefield ghosts he had sent earlier, so that Adrien had cotton armor with yellow, red, and blue flags in his hands.

Because he had just finished using the identity of the Red Flag, Adrien did not plan to continue to use the cotton armor of the Red Flag in the future, he left half of the Battlefield Ghost wearing the Cotton Armor of the Blue Flag, and the other half of the Battlefield Ghost was replaced by the Yellow Flag Cotton Armor.

In the next half hour, Adrien personally led 25 battlefield ghosts, as blue flag patrol soldiers, successively attacked a group of patrol soldiers with red flags and a team of patrol soldiers with white flags, and seized more than 200 sets of cotton armor of these two flags.

The 25 battlefield ghosts disguised as patrol soldiers with the Yellow Flag attacked a group of city wall patrol soldiers with a red flag and a patrol soldier with a white flag, and seized more than 200 sets of cotton armor of these two flags.

By the time the two teams regrouped in the restaurant, the silence in Longchamps had been replaced by fierce fighting, first the Red Flag and the Blue Flag fought, and then the Red Flag and the White Flag joined forces to attack the Blue Banner.

The Zhenglan Banner, which was attacked by the three families, had to ask for help from the Zhenghuang Flag and the Blue Flag under heavy casualties; but at this moment, the Zhenghuang Banner was attacked by the Zhenghong Flag and the White Flag, and if it were not for the dispersion of the strength of the two fronts of the Zhenghong Banner, the Zhenghuang Banner would have been unable to protect itself.

On the contrary, the inlaid blue flag, which was the same brotherly flag as the Zhenglan Banner, strengthened the Zhenglan Banner with all its strength and saved the Zhenglan Banner from three sieges.

At this point, the situation in the city was so far that only the last Yellow Banner was left to participate in the battle, but Adrion would not let the Yellow Banner stay out of this fight, and the unfortunate Yellow Banner was directly selected by Adrion as the target of heavy blows.

Wearing a white flag and a cotton armor, Adrien let the ghosts of the battlefield under his command change into two white flags and cotton armor with red flags, and then launched a fierce attack on the yellow flags.

In the eyes of the soldiers with the yellow flags who were defeated by Adrien, it was simply two white flags and three yellow flags that were joining forces to attack their yellow flags, and the soldiers of the yellow flags who had lost their backbone finally formed an alliance with the red flags under the leadership of their respective leaders.

Under the gradual pressure and deliberate instigation of Adrien, the New Eight Banners, each of which fought in a melee, slowly formed three coalition armies that united with each other: the union of the positive yellow flag and the two blue flags, the union of the red flag and the two white flags, and the union of the yellow flag and the positive red flag.

In fact, the subconscious alliance formed in this chaos is the same as the status quo of factional forces within the New Eight Banners; Dolgon's Yellow Banner and Dudu and Nikan Brothers' Blue Banners are one, and Shulhazy's Yellow Banner and Murhaqi's Red Banner are closely related.

The red flag and the two white flags, which were united in pursuit of self-protection, naturally hugged together to withstand the attacks of the other two armies, and appropriately launched a certain degree of counterattack; in short, the city of Longxiang at night had become a battlefield of internal fighting among the garrisons of the New Eight Banners.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the New Eight Banners to take care of others, Adrian, who successfully provoked the internal fighting of the New Eight Banners, took the unscathed battlefield ghosts under his command and quietly evacuated Longxiang City along the way they came.

Before leaving, they had discarded nearly 800 sets of Eight Banners cotton armor on the battlefield covered with blood and corpses, and Adrien had not entered Longchamps with a single thing, nor had he left Longchamps with a single thing.

On this night, less than 500 New Eight Banner soldiers actually died in the hands of the ghosts on the battlefield, but the number of New Eight Banner soldiers who died in the melee was far more than 5,000.