"If the mission fails, we will die without regret, but our families cannot be implicated."

Zhu Yunwen had already closed his eyes and slowly began to speak:

"bring it on……"

Upon hearing this, the burly man drew his bow again, but at that moment, the soldiers behind Zhu Yunwen, armed with rifles, also issued another threat.

In their view, Zhu Yunwen could not die under any circumstances. They could not bear to see one of their grandsons, who had sacrificed so much for the Ming Dynasty, die before their very eyes.

The soldier spoke directly, threateningly:

"You are not allowed to fire arrows. If you dare to fire arrows, we will kill you before you can. Then we will go to Chechi Kingdom, find your families, and kill them as well."

These words startled the assassins of Chechi Kingdom.

If that's the case, wouldn't their families be doomed to die no matter what?

If Zhu Yunwen is not killed, the people of Chechi Kingdom will kill his family.

After killing Zhu Yunwen, these Ming soldiers went to Chechi Kingdom to kill his family.

This was simply unsolvable. Faced with this situation, the Han people of Chechi Kingdom knew that the only way was to use Zhu Yunwen to threaten them and increase their bargaining power in this area.

Thinking of this, the burly assassin from Chechi Kingdom spoke calmly:

"Bringing all those people out seems to only make the situation worse today."

Upon hearing his words, all the more than one hundred assassins behind him stepped forward and drove out all the thousands of villagers who had been tied up.

They were tied together in a circle with a large rope, and a lot of firewood was placed around them.

This makes the situation on the ground seem more intuitive.

If even one of the flaming arrows lands in the pyre, thousands of people gathered together will perish in the flames.

The people were crying out in despair. Although they had gone outside and seen the two sides facing off, they had no idea what was going on.

Just then, Zhu Yunwen said with a gloomy expression:

“I know you are helpless, but as I said before, if you kill me and harm these people, then you will surely die.”

The burly man from Chechi Kingdom also said:

“I promised you I wouldn’t harm these people, but your men are going to hurt our families.”

One of Zhu Yunwen's subordinates also spoke up:

“If you don’t want us to hurt your family members, you can’t hurt our grandson.”

The burly man from Chechi Kingdom gave a wry smile and said:

"See? There's no solution to this, so it all comes down to who's more ruthless. As for you, His Highness the Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty, you both have people you want to protect, so I think you can understand me."

Therefore, I want you to order your men to issue a stern warning, or you may issue an order, that they must absolutely not be allowed to go to our families afterwards.

We were all forced into this situation; none of us wanted it to be this way. There are many innocent people in this world—these ordinary citizens, and our families—they are all innocent.

Today we will kill only you, and we are willing to be killed by your men. Therefore, this is the end of our feud.

Zhu Yunwen took a deep breath, turned around and said to his subordinates again:

"As the Crown Prince, I command you that even if it costs me my life, you must not harm the families of these people. If my death can save thousands of civilians, I will have no regrets."