Lu Bu: My wife comes from two thousand years later

On the Jingxing Road, Li Gui followed the rescue team back, feeling extremely anxious and wishing he could grow wings and fly back directly.

"General Sun, have you all rested enough? Can we continue on our journey now?"

Sun Qing munched on some dry food and said slowly, "Don't worry. Qu Yi has recruited many old and weak soldiers. I don't think he'll flee. He should be waiting for us up ahead. If we rush too fast, the soldiers will tire out, which will be disadvantageous to the battle."

He had been anxious to chase after Qu Yi because he was afraid that he would flee to Bingzhou. However, after learning that the old and weak in three villages had all surrendered, he knew that Qu Yi did not want to escape.

They wanted to destroy this elite force of the imperial court, and didn't Qu Yi also want to destroy the Black Mountain bandits?

Li Gui stared at Sun Qing with his eyes wide open. Was Sun Qing really confused or was he pretending to be confused? It was none of his business whether Qu Yi escaped or not. He was worried about his own village.

"Since the general wants to rest, I will lead my subordinates to go first." His face was gloomy, he clasped his fists, turned around and left.

"Stop!" Sun Qingqing shouted.

Li Gui stopped and said coldly, "All of our brothers' parents, wives, and children are in the village. If the general refuses to rescue them, why don't we go back and save them ourselves?"

Sun Qing stood up, patted his shoulder, and said soothingly, "If your camp surrenders, everyone's lives will be safe. If you resist, with the limited manpower we have, Qu Yi would have broken through by now. What's the point of you going back? You'll just 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 Jinyang Wang family. As long as she reveals her identity to Qu Yi, she can save the village!

Du Fei was also unsure. Judging from how much Amo valued these young men, she would not let them risk their lives. If they surrendered, at most she would have to give up Taihang Mountain Stronghold and incorporate everyone into the Wang family. All she would lose was a den of thieves.

But...if that happens, the fact that Wang's daughter is a thief in Taihang Mountain will be known to the world, and that would be a big trouble.

"No, no, I'm worried. I have to go back and check first." Seeing Du Fei's uncertain face, Li Gui said anxiously.

Sun Qing pointed at the hundreds of men behind Li Gui and said, "With just a few of you, you're not even enough for Qu Yi to kill in two rounds. I've explained the truth to you, but you're still so stubborn. I can't control you. Go!"

Li Gui hesitated, and Du Fei consoled him, "General Sun is right. These people can't die in vain. She's so smart, she must have a way to save everyone."

Du Fei had been with Zhang Mo the longest, and after hearing what he said, Li Gui's anxious heart finally calmed down a bit. He knew that his small group of people would be useless if they returned, and they just needed some psychological comfort.

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In Juyi Village, several ladders have been placed on the top of the city wall. With the cooperation of Qu Yi's archers, the bandits use their hands and feet to climb up.

The guards above could only throw stones down from the gaps between the two rounds of arrows, but there were too many enemies, and for every one they threw down, another would climb up, so the effect was not great.

A man looked at the dense crowd of enemy soldiers rushing towards the city, his hands and feet weak with fear, and wailed, "Boss, we can't hold them back, let's surrender!"

When he howled, several young and strong men who were fighting the enemy nearby looked over, with a look of retreat in their eyes.

surrender?

Zhang Mo looked around at everyone, her eyes narrowed slightly. If she had to surrender, she would not have chosen to resist in the first place. Seeing that those who surrendered were used as cannon fodder, she knew that Qu Yi was not sincere in accepting surrender. If Zhang Yan's troops chased after them, they would only be cannon fodder if they surrendered.

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

The soldier who had surrendered first tried to get down from the city wall while howling, and several people nearby also tried to escape.

"stop!"

Zhang Mo shouted loudly, and the soldier stopped and turned to look over, only to see a flash of white light before his eyes. The next second, he saw that his head was missing from his neck.

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

Zhang Mo held up the bloody machete and looked at the people around her with eyes as cold as ice. Several drops of bright red blood splashed on her fair and delicate face, making her look beautiful and cold!

The expressions of those who wanted to go down from the city wall froze. They thought that the little boss's words about execution were just a casual remark, but they didn't expect that she really chopped the man off. Is this still the young lady who always smiles like a flower?

At this point, Zhang Mo didn't have time to talk to them anymore. She said directly to Zhang Chang, "Take two people and guard the entrance to the city. Anyone who dares to leave 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. Why does she spend so much energy to support them and play house with them?

Everyone was startled and hurried to do what they had to do.

Not only were the others frightened, but Xu Chu, Guan Hai and the others were also stunned, unable to believe that she dared to kill someone with her own hands.

"what--"

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

Zhang Mo was no longer so frightened. She stared closely at the crossbowmen from Qu Yi who had stopped at the target and stopped moving forward. She said to Guan Hai, "Hold the archers. Everyone, move some rocks and throw them down."

He then instructed Xu Chu, "Ah Chu, have the young and strong men work in pairs, one holding a shield while the other smashes it, and see if you can break the ladder."

"it is good!"

As Xu Chu spoke, he picked up a big stone under the cover of a soldier and smashed it down on the moth thieves who had climbed up the ladder. Several screams were heard again, and a row of moth thieves on the ladder were pulled down like skewers. Xu Chu quickly moved stones and smashed them on the ladder. With a click, the ladder broke in the middle.

The ladders that Qu Yi had his people rush to make were of very poor quality and could be broken by any slightly larger stone. Seeing that this method was feasible, Xu Chu called on a few strong men to help break them.

In a short while, four or five ladders on 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 from the city gate after knocking on it for a long time, Qu Yi said to Qu Heng, "Have the archers move closer. Even if they shoot only a little bit, they will be able to kill all those people on the top of the city wall."

The few people on the city wall had some killing power against the moth thieves in front, but they caused absolutely no damage to his troops. Qu Yi did not regard them as a threat at all.

Qu Yi's archers advanced one step closer. Xu Chu turned to look at the three trebuchets at the back, which served as decoration, and called out, "Amo, when are we going to use the trebuchets?"

The young men waiting by the catapult also looked at her anxiously.

"Quickly, right away!"

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

"Oil tank! Coke!"

She yelled, and the young man in charge of the operation immediately picked up a clay pot from the side and placed it on one end of the catapult. Several people at the other end pulled together, and the oil tank flew out and exploded among the crowd dozens of meters away.

These include tung oil squeezed from tung tree fruits and animal oil.

The tung oil was originally purchased to brush weapons to prevent them from rusting. When Zhang Mo learned that Qu Yi had entered Jingxing, he ordered people to bring them to the foot of the city and equip them with catapults to deal with the archers who were the first to enter Qu Yi's camp.

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

As a result, sporadic rain of flints began to fall from the archers' formation of Qu Yi. The sword and shield soldiers hurriedly raised their shields to block them. Although no one was hit hard, the charcoal that fell to the ground was already hot and difficult to extinguish, and when it was touched by oil, it burned even more vigorously.

Some soldiers accidentally stepped on it and had holes burned in their shoes. Many soldiers who were splashed with oil caught fire directly. Although the fire was not big, it was enough to burn them.

Qu Yi's face changed and he shouted urgently, "Retreat quickly!" He pointed to the river next to him and said, "Jump into the water, quickly!"

These archers were the most elite soldiers in his vanguard camp. It didn't matter whether the small village was breached or not, but he couldn't afford to lose a single one of his men.

Without the threat of the archers, the people on the city wall could finally let go and stones fell like hail. Xu Chu picked up a fork and single-handedly pushed down a ladder at an angle. Some of the thieves who climbed up the city wall were also killed on the ground, and their bodies were used as stones by Xu Chu to smash down, and the situation was reversed.

Seeing that there was nothing that could be done today, Qu Yi stared coldly at the top of the city wall and ordered a retreat!

Seeing the enemy soldiers retreating, the young men and women on the city walls all cheered.

"This flint rain is really wonderful!" Xu Chu wiped the blood and sweat from his face and laughed.

"If we had put the oil tank earlier, these people would have been driven away by the impact."

Zhang Mo's tense nerves relaxed slightly as she explained, "We only have a few cans of oil. It's useless to smash the moth bandits. They were sent here by Qu Yi to die. Only by smashing his own men will he retreat. Besides, the catapults were hastily built. Some parts were not properly configured. The range is too short and the power is insufficient."

She had tried it before, and the range was only a few dozen meters, even worse than a bow and arrow. She asked the archers to stop shooting below, in order to lure Qu Yi's men closer.

"Then we can throw rocks first! If we throw them from such a high place, they will definitely cause injuries, right?"

Zhang Mo explained simply, "The archers are protected by swords and shields. If it were a large catapult, they could just smash it with all their might, but these catapults are clearly not powerful enough, and throwing rocks at them might not necessarily make them retreat."

She only has one chance and must hit the target.

Moreover, her purpose was only to burn and scald Qu Yi's archers, making them lose their combat effectiveness.

Without knowing when Zhang Yan's reinforcements would arrive, if they angered Qu Yi, the village might really be lost.

The best strategy is to avoid making enemies and let him give up. After all, his target is Zhang Yan, not a small village.

"Is that so?" Xu Chu suddenly realized, looked at the empty oil tank next to him, and his face became serious again.

"We're out of oil, and we're running low on coke. What are we going to do tomorrow? That guy gave us a beating today, so he's definitely not going to let it go."

A soldier said disapprovingly, "He doesn't know we're out of oil. Why don't we bring some water jugs up tomorrow and scare them?"

Xu Chu grinned again, "Right, right, right. As the Art of War says, 'All is fair in war.'"