For three days in a row, Deputy General Gao was on the verge of a breakdown.

Lin Jinyue is a real scoundrel!

Deputy General Gao cursed her behind her back quite a bit.

Lin Jinyue not only threatened him to write various letters, but also had the people of Yunhe Village disguise themselves as his subordinates to operate the mail delivery business.

No one noticed anything unusual about it.

Lin Jinyue's people also managed to extract a lot of information from Xie Hong.

Deputy General Gao was so angry he almost ground his teeth to powder.

How can this guy be so bold? Isn't he afraid that Xie Hong will chop him up and feed him to the dogs?

What he didn't know was that those peasants and servants were used to being like walking corpses, enslaved and looked down upon. Now that they had a chance to turn their lives around, they naturally rushed to take it.

Because of his exceptional courage, Lin Jinyue gave the young man who delivered the letter a position as a strategist, with a monthly salary comparable to that of a squad leader.

The villagers only complained that there were too few such opportunities.

Deputy General Gao couldn't understand it, so he simply stopped thinking about it. But he couldn't stop Lin Jinyue from showing off in front of him every time, and he also had to endure Lin Jinyue's verbal humiliation.

They said that their group was no match for General Gu.

Forget General Gu, they're not even as good as the newly trained soldiers in their village. And they still want to fight Prince Jing?

The deputy was left speechless with humiliation.

He just wanted to say one thing: it wasn't that they couldn't hold on, it was that Lin Jinyue was too shameless.

For example, even if he were out of his mind, he wouldn't write those letters to Lin Jinyue.

Unless Lin Jinyue threatens him by forcing him to become a male prostitute.

Seeing the several burly men that Lin Jinyue brought... Deputy General Gao had no choice but to comply.

He did consider running away.

Yunhe Village was heavily fortified and impenetrable, with high walls built all around, along with watchtowers and sentry towers, and guards on duty day and night.

What's even more outrageous is that the village even keeps lights on at night!

There is a lamp every few meters, a lamp post made of bamboo, with a transparent glass cover on top. People light and extinguish the lamps every morning and evening.

Oh no, are they crazy? Using such expensive stuff to make lampshades?

This directly eliminates the possibility of the wind blowing out the lights.

The lights are on all night, why are these children running around?

Deputy General Gao was utterly devastated.

After several attempts to resist, he finally had to compromise and write those letters to Lin Jinyue.

Lin Jinyue was quite pleased to see Vice General Gao's apathy.

Zhao Yuan, who was impersonating Deputy General Gao's subordinate, tricked Xie Hong into revealing that a fight was about to break out and that Deputy General Gao should hurry back.

However, Lin Jinyue calmed her down, saying there were good things here, and they could go back after she finished questioning them.

After a while, Xie Hong will start fighting and won't be able to take care of Yunhe Village anymore.

Lin Jinyue was determined to delay as long as possible.

However, when Deputy General Gao learned that a fight was about to break out, he became somewhat uncooperative when writing his reply.

Lin Jinyue frowned: "Are you really not going to write it?"

Deputy General Gao lay down and said, "Come on, I don't care. A scholar can be killed but not humiliated. If you're still not satisfied, just send me away with one blow."

Lin Jinyue scoffed, "You really think you're something special? I've gone to all this trouble just for the sake of the people of Lingnan. If you want Xie Hong to bring his army here and annihilate them all, go ahead."

Deputy General Gao's eyes widened in shock. "You, what do you want to do?!"

Lin Jinyue said to him slowly and deliberately, "Alright, I know you guys aren't very bright, so there's no need to come here and embarrass yourselves. I'll only say this one last time: you've seen the power of cannons. With the manpower of our village, wiping out Xie Hong would be a piece of cake."

"However, I don't like to kill innocent people indiscriminately, which is why I refrained from taking action. If you don't cooperate and Xie Hong discovers something is wrong and dares to come to our village, I will wipe out his entire army. At that time, it will be easy for Prince Jing to conquer Lingnan."

When Lin Jinyue spoke, she looked confident and certain of victory.

So Vice General Gao hesitated once again.

Lin Jinyue practically said that if he didn't cooperate, he would be a sinner for all time in Lingnan.

Deputy General Gao took a deep breath.

Finally, he said, "Okay, I'll write it."

Lin Jinyue began to report: "Write it down, General. I've discovered that the people of Yunhe Village are preparing to flee. I dare not leave easily, since we only have a thousand soldiers. Perhaps I should stay in Yunhe Village and interrogate them..."

As he wrote, Deputy General Gao complained and interrogated them, saying they were lucky they weren't skinned alive by Lin Jinyue and the others.

Lin Jinyue was very satisfied with Vice General Gao's cooperation and said with a smile, "You should have done this earlier. Don't make me waste my breath next time. I don't always have the patience to explain."

Deputy General Gao felt a wave of fear wash over him.

After making her threats, Lin Jinyue began to think about increasing her troop strength.

She just said that dealing with Xie Hong in their village was easy, but it wasn't actually that easy.

The village now only has an 80-person guard team, plus a temporary guard team that was hastily put together. These people all have regular jobs, and their training level is not as good as that of a regular guard team.

The other thing is weapons.

With limited artillery shells and arrowheads, and iron ore being hard to obtain, it's difficult to mass-produce weapons.

Although Vice Admiral Gao had a lot of ironware on his ship, it certainly wouldn't be enough to fight a real battle.

Xie Hong also has a large force. If he really ignores everything and forcibly attacks Yunhe Village from several directions, including the sea and land, Lin Jinyue and her group probably won't be able to withstand it.

Even if they manage to hold off the attack with explosives, their losses will be devastating.

Lin Jinyue still didn't want to fight.

Just as Lin Jinyue was worrying about how to get Gu Shao and his men to contact their former subordinates and how to bring back their troops,

Lady Yong'an, the wife of the Marquis of Yong'an, has arrived.

The Lady Hou's large ship was moored not far behind, and she came over with two guards and a ship full of treasures.

This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content!