On Jingxing Road, Li Gui was following the team returning for rescue. He was so anxious that he wished he could get his wings and fly back directly.

"General Sun, have you rested enough? Can you continue on your way now?"

Sun Qing gnawed on the dry food and said slowly, "Don't be anxious. Since Qu Yi has surrendered many old and weak men, I don't expect him to escape. He should be waiting for us at the front. If we rush too hastily, the soldiers will be tired and it will be difficult to fight.

"

Previously, he was anxious to chase Qu Yi out of fear that he would flee into Bingzhou, but after learning that all the old and weak in three villages had been surrendered, he knew that Qu Yi had no intention of escaping.

They wanted to eliminate this elite force of the imperial court, so why didn't Qu Yi want to eliminate the Black Mountain bandits?

Li Gui stared at Tong Ling with round eyes. Whether Sun Qing was really confused or pretending to be confused, it was none of his business whether Qu Yi could escape or not. What he was worried about was his own village.

"Since the general needs to rest, I will lead my subordinates first." He looked solemn, clasped his fists, turned around and left.

"Stop!" Sun Qing shouted.

Li Gui stopped and said coldly, "Our brothers' parents, wives and children are all in the stronghold. The general refuses to save us. Why don't we go back and save them ourselves?"

Sun Qing stood up, patted his shoulder, and said comfortingly, "If your stronghold surrenders, everyone's lives will no longer be in danger. If you resist, with the few manpower, we would have called Qu Yi to break it by now. What's the use of going back?"

But you die in vain."

Surrender? Will she surrender? Li Gui subconsciously looked at Du Fei.

Although Amo is a thief, she has another identity. She is the daughter of the Wang family in Jinyang. As long as she reveals her identity to Qu Yi, she can save the village!

Du Fei was not sure in his heart. Judging from how much Amo valued these young men, he probably wouldn't let them sacrifice their lives. If he surrendered, he would at most give up the Taihang Village and incorporate everyone into the Wang family. She would lose nothing.

It's a den of thieves.

It's just... if this is the case, the fact that the Wang family's daughter was a thief in the Taihang Mountains will become known to the world, and that will be a big trouble.

"I'm not worried whether it's going to happen or not. I still have to go back and take a look first." Seeing Du Fei's uncertain face, Li Gui said anxiously.

Sun Qing pointed at the hundreds of subordinates behind Li Gui, "You are not just enough to kill him in two rounds. I have already explained the truth to you. If you are still so stubborn, I have nothing to do with you. Go ahead!"

Li Gui hesitated, and Du Fei comforted him, "General Sun is right. These people cannot die in vain. She is so smart, there must be a way to protect everyone."

Du Fei had been following Zhang Mo for the longest time. Hearing what he said, Li Gui's anxious mind finally calmed down. He actually knew that going back would be of no use to him, and he just needed some psychological comfort.

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In Juyi Village, several ladders have been set up on the top of the city. With the cooperation of Quyi's archers, the moth thieves climbed up using their hands and feet.

The defenders above could only use the space between the two rounds of arrows to smash rocks down, but there were too many enemies. They smashed one down and climbed up again, so the effect was not great.

A man looked at the dense enemy soldiers pouring into the city. His hands and feet became weak with fear, and he wailed, "Boss, we can't stop it anymore, let's surrender!"

When he howled, several young men nearby who were defending against the enemy looked over, with the intention of retreating in their eyes.

surrender?

Zhang Mo looked around at everyone and narrowed her eyes slightly. If she wanted to surrender, she would not choose to resist in the first place. Seeing that those who surrendered were used as cannon fodder, she knew that Qu Yi did not really accept the surrender at all. If Zhang Yan's troops were chasing him, he would surrender.

They are just cannon fodder.

"Surrender, I can't stand it anymore."

The soldier who was the first to surrender just now howled and wanted to get off the tower, and several people nearby also tried to flee.

"stop!"

Zhang Mo shouted sharply, and the soldier stopped, turned around, and saw a flash of white light in front of his eyes. The next second he saw that a head was missing from his neck.

"If anyone talks about surrender again, this person will serve as a warning to others!"

Zhang Mo held up the bloody machete and looked at the people around her with eyes as cold as ice. A few drops of bright red blood splashed on her fair and delicate face. She was beautiful and cold!

The expressions on the faces of the people who wanted to get off the tower froze. They thought that the little boss's words of unforgivable execution were just casual remarks. Unexpectedly, she really cut them down. This, this is the same person who always smiles like a flower.

The little lady?

At this time, Zhang Mo had no time to talk to them anymore and said directly to Zhang Chang, "Take two of you to guard the entrance to the city. Anyone who dares to go down to the city will be killed on the spot!"

md, she is usually easy to talk to, but these people don't take her words seriously and spend so much energy on raising them to play house?

Everyone was excited and hurried to do whatever they needed to do.

Not only were the others frightened, Xu Chu, Guan Hai and others were also stunned, unable to believe that she dared to kill someone herself.

"ah--"

Another young man next to him was hit by an arrow and fell to the ground screaming.

Zhang Mo was no longer so scared at this time. She stared closely at the Quyi crossbowman who stopped within a stone's throw and then stopped approaching. She said to Guan Hai, "Let the archers stop and everyone throw rocks at them.

"

Then he ordered Xu Chu, "Ah Chu, let the young and strong men cooperate in pairs, one person raises the shield and the other smashes it, and try to see if they can smash the ladder."

"good!"

Xu Chu said, and under the cover of a soldier, he lifted a big stone and threw it hard at the moth thief who climbed up the ladder. Several more screams were heard, and the moth thief on the ladder was knocked down like a skewer.

, Xu Chu quickly moved rocks and threw them on the ladder. With a click, the ladder was broken in the middle.

The quality of these ladders that Qu Yi had people rush to make was really not very good. Just a slightly larger stone could break them. Seeing that this method was feasible, Xu Chu invited a few strong people to smash them together.

In a short time, four or five of the ladders used to build the city wall were smashed. Qu Yi frowned. The fighting power and perseverance of this village far exceeded his expectations!

Seeing that there was no movement on the other side of the city gate after fighting for a long time, Qu Yi said to Qu Heng, "Let the crossbowmen come closer. Even if they shoot a little at a time, they can shoot down the people on the top of the city."

The few people at the top of the city still had some lethality against the moth thieves in front, but they did absolutely zero harm to his troops. Qu Yi didn't regard them as a threat at all.

Qu Yi's archers approached again. Xu Chu turned his head and looked at the three trebuchets behind him, and shouted, "Amo, when are you going to get on the trebuchet?"

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Several young men standing next to the trebuchet also looked at her anxiously.

"Quickly, right away!"

Zhang Mo looked at the archer who was slowly approaching, and his eyes began to get excited. Qu Yi was a proud and arrogant guy, and arrogance would lead to him underestimating the enemy. Now is the chance to repel him!

"Oil tank! Coke!"

She yelled, and Qing Zhuang, who was in charge of the operation, immediately picked up a clay pot from the side and placed it on one end of the trebuchet. Several people on the other end pulled together, and the oil tank flew out with a roar, among the crowd dozens of meters away.

explode.

Among them are tung oil squeezed from tung tree fruits and animal oil.

The tung oil was originally purchased to brush the weapons' blades and prevent them from rusting. When he learned that Qu Yi had entered Jingxing, Zhang Mo had people brought to the city and equipped with trebuchets, just to deal with the bows that Qu Yi first arrived at the camp.

crossbowman.

At the same time, a dozen women came up carrying loads of red-hot coke, and two other trebuchets began to throw the coke down.

As a result, sporadic rain of flints began to fall in the formation of Quyi's archers. The swordsmen and shieldmen hurriedly raised their shields to resist. No one was hit, but the coke that fell on the ground was already hot and difficult to extinguish. If it was stained with oil, it would burn.

More vigorous.

Some soldiers accidentally stepped on it and immediately burned holes in the soles of their shoes. There were also many soldiers who were splashed with oil and caught fire directly on their bodies. Although it was not big, it was enough to cause burns.

Qu Yi's expression changed and he shouted urgently, "Get back!" He pointed to the river next to him and said, "Dive into the water, quickly!"

These archers were the most elite in his first camp. It didn't matter whether the small village was destroyed or not, but not one of his troops could be damaged.

Without the threat of archers, the city was finally able to let go. Stones were smashed down like hail. Xu Chu picked up a fork and pushed a ladder diagonally down by himself. Some moth thieves who climbed up the city were also killed.

He was beheaded to the ground, and the body was smashed down by Xu Chu as a stone. The situation was suddenly reversed.

Seeing that nothing could be done today, Qu Yi stared at the city head coldly and ordered a retreat!

Seeing the retreating enemy soldiers and the green and strong city, the women all cheered.

"This rain of flints is really wonderful!" Xu Chu wiped the blood and sweat on his face and laughed.

"We had to put the oil tanks earlier, but these people had already been smashed away."

Zhang Mo's tense nerves relaxed slightly and he explained, "We only have a few cans of oil in total. It's useless to smash the moth thieves. They were originally driven by Qu Yi to die. He will retreat only if he hits his own people. Moreover,

The trebuchet was hastily made, and some parts were not properly deployed. Its range was too short and its power was insufficient."

She had experimented before, and the range was only a few dozen meters, not even as good as a bow and arrow. She asked the archer to stop shooting below, just to draw Qu Yi's people closer.

"Then we can smash the rocks first! If we hit them from such a height, it would be injured, right?"

Zhang Mo simply explained, "The archer is protected by swords and shields. If it is a large catapult, he can hit it casually, but these ones are obviously not powerful enough. Smashing rocks may not make him retreat."

She only had one chance and had to hit it right.

Moreover, her purpose was only to burn and scald Qu Yi's archers so that they would lose their fighting ability.

Without knowing when Zhang Yan's reinforcements would arrive, if Qu Yi was angered, the village might not be able to be saved.

The best policy is not to make enemies, but to let him retreat when faced with difficulties. After all, his target is Zhang Yan, not a small village.

"That's it!" Xu Chu suddenly realized, looking at the empty oil tank next to him, his face became solemn again.

"The oil is gone, and there is not much coke left. What should we do tomorrow? That guy asked us to smash it all today, so he will definitely not be willing to accept it."

A soldier said disapprovingly, "He doesn't know that we are out of gas. Let's bring some water cans up tomorrow and scare them."
Chapter completed!