Although they didn't know who was helping them, Jiang Qinyu and the others reacted quickly, desperately trying to break out of the bandits' encirclement.

One-Eyed King hated Jiang Qinyu to the core. With his last breath, he leaned on his long sword and stood up, gritting his teeth as he roared at his trusted confidant, Old Wolf, "Old Wolf, kill that woman for me!"

Old Wolf had been looking for an opportunity to get close to Jiang Qinyu since earlier, but the people of Dingshui Village were too united. Their three-person teams were hard to break through, and the men were like madmen when it came to protecting the women. If they tried to touch the women, the men would fight to the death.

But then One-Eyed King spoke again, and Old Wolf gritted his teeth and called to the two men beside him, "Big Head, Iron Hammer, avenge our boss! Let's go together!"

Even if two people suddenly appeared from nowhere behind him, Old Wolf didn't care. He had seen it all. This woman always gave the people of Dingshui Village advice at crucial moments, and she even threw out some weird thing that killed many of them at once. This woman must die!

Even now, the bandits didn't take the masked man and Qin Shen seriously, after all, several hundred of them were still alive.

"Niece, stay behind your uncle and don't let these bastards hurt you!" Village Chief Li was both angry and anxious when he heard what One-Eyed King and Old Wolf said, and he stood in front of Jiang Qinyu.

Meng Tianze also stepped in front of Jiang Qinyu, saying, "Don't worry, sister-in-law, as long as I'm standing, I won't let them hurt you!"

“Yu’er, your father can still wield a knife, so don’t be afraid!” Old Man Lu stood on the other side of Jiang Qinyu.

Jiang Qinyu's group had been scattered earlier because Liu Ruyi wasn't doing a good job. Now, she was surrounded by Lu Laotou and his two groups. A warm feeling washed over her, and her nose tingled slightly.

She raised the corners of her mouth, her clear and gentle voice filled with laughter, "With all of you here, I'm not afraid! Tonight, let's fight these people who only want to reap without sowing, and let them know that as long as one of us is here, no one can take over Dingshui Village!"

The drought is severe now, and water sources outside are almost nonexistent. Only in Dingshui Village and the surrounding areas can one still see some greenery. News of Dingshui Village having both water and food has spread.

Jiang Qinyu had just overheard the bandits saying that they weren't just there to rob grain and kill people tonight; their goal was to seize Dingshui Village!

"Yes! We can't let them take over the village!"

"Don't panic, everyone. Just do what we've been trained for. We'll definitely be able to drive them all away!"

"If they want to kill us, we shouldn't hold back! Beat them all to death!"

The villagers' angry voices echoed through the night sky, and Jiang Qinyu gripped the entrenching tool she had taken from the system amidst the chaos, its sharpened edge gleaming coldly.

Old Wolf led his men towards Jiang Qinyu's direction, and Village Chief Li and Meng Tianze were not intimidated either, and a battle between the two sides was about to break out.

Jiang Qinyu fell for the stun gun running out of power. Now, with an entrenching tool in hand, under the cover of Old Man Lu and the others, she was taking turns attacking the bandits around her, using chopping, slapping, and poking them—she was thorough in every way.

The Chinese entrenching tool is practically a divine weapon for individual combat among cold weapons. Not only can engineers use it, but other military branches and even ordinary people can also use it in various ways.

"Boss, those two guys behind us are too fierce, we can't hold them off!" a bandit suddenly shouted.

The one-eyed king then looked at the masked man and Qin Shen, and roared with difficulty, "Can't you take on him one by one with dozens of yourselves? Hold him off and kill that woman first!"

He had a feeling that if they didn't kill that woman, they would definitely leave empty-handed again today.

At this moment, the One-Eyed King was unaware that the real death warrant wasn't Jiang Qinyu, but rather...

Just as the one-eyed king was trying to direct a group of scattered bandits on how to kill people, the masked man suddenly attacked him!

Suddenly, the masked man leaped into the air, lightly touching the heads of the bandits with his toes, and in the blink of an eye, he was in front of the One-Eyed King!

"Someone! Protect me, protect me..." The one-eyed king had just been badly injured by the stun gun, and there was still a burning smell coming from his chest, so he had no fighting ability whatsoever.

The masked man swiftly thrust his longsword towards the One-Eyed King's heart.

"Uh... help, me..."

The sword did not miss, and the One-Eyed King, in a panic, threw out his long sword.

However, it was too late. The masked man turned his head to the side, and the long knife flew past his ear, severing the rope holding the mask on his face. The leather mask fell off the moment the man turned his head.

On the other end, Meng Tianze looked up and saw the masked man's entire face. "A-Zheng?"

He rubbed his eyes uncertainly, then suddenly shouted with wild joy, "Folks, A-Zheng is back! We're saved!"

Lu Yanzheng is incredibly skilled. At the age of sixteen, he was able to hunt a tiger in the mountains on his own. With him around, he could easily take on dozens of enemies, if not a hundred!

If he can hold off a group of bandits, Dingshui Village will be saved!

"Boss?" When Old Man Lu heard the name "A-Zheng," he looked over sharply. Upon seeing the man whose mask had fallen off, he immediately burst into tears, sobbing uncontrollably, "Boss, you're not dead... It's so good that you're not dead!"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Qinyu's heart skipped a beat. She abruptly turned her head to look in that direction, her eyes filled with disbelief, and a thought flashed through her mind:

Lu Yanzheng is back? She can't be a widow anymore?

Lu Yanzheng has a scar on his right cheek, running from his temple down to the middle of his right cheek. Is that why he wears a mask?

Jiang Qinyu remembered that in the original owner's memories, Lu Yanzheng had no scars on his face and was extremely handsome, with few people able to match him.

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