The carriage from the General's Mansion was naturally of the finest grade, drawn by a thousand-li-selected steed of exceptional pedigree.
Cāng Hán lashed the whip three times in succession; the horse, feeling the sting, bolted wildly, bursting out of the alley mouth in the blink of an eye.
Guarding the mouth of the alley were sixteen men who had hastily thrown up a barricade of wooden stakes. Before they could reinforce it, Cāng Hán smashed straight through, horse and carriage alike.
Chapter 46