Noon.
The messenger ran up to Yang Qingzhi and shouted, "Report!"
"Reporting to the Junior Commander, Xiao Luofeng sent a message down the mountain, saying that they have rescued a group of women and children who had been captured by bandits and are requesting that the women and children be released!"
"What a joke!!" Xiong Bin shouted angrily. "They killed our people and now they want us to let theirs go?"
Yang Qingzhi raised his hand to suppress Xiong Bin's anger and asked, "Just women and children?"
That's what they said.
Seeing Yang Qingzhi start to ponder, Xiong Bin shouted, "Little Commander! They are the enemy!!"
Yang Qingzhi stroked the cat and said, "Our enemy is the Jingguo soldiers, not innocent women and children."
Yang Le glanced at Xiong Bin, stepped forward and said, "The calamities of war do not extend to the common people. I know that the young commander is magnanimous, but at this time, their actions should be viewed with caution as a trap."
Yang Qingzhi did not answer directly, but asked, "Do you remember when we wiped out those bandits, we didn't see a single woman in the village?"
"But the villagers down the mountain say that women and children are often arrested."
Yang Le understood and said, "What the young commander means is that the women and children we didn't find have been found by Xiao Luofeng and his men."
"That's probably it. The women and children must have been hidden by the bandits in the shadows. If we hadn't been in such a hurry, we probably would have found them too."
Yang Qingzhi didn't intend to spend too much time discussing the matter and ordered, "Agree to their conditions, but the handover must be done tonight."
"yes!"
"Little Commander!!" Xiong Bin was still unconvinced.
"General Xiong, do you want to avenge General Ma?" Yang Qingzhi suddenly asked.
Xiong Bin nodded emphatically, his eyes slightly red, and said, "If Ma Jian hadn't volunteered to fight, I would be the one who died! I must avenge Ma Jian!"
"Alright then."
Yang Qingzhi's expression turned serious. He said, "During the handover tonight, take some elite troops and sneak up the mountain from the south to see what their situation is. If there's an opportunity, complete the task that General Ma didn't finish!"
Xiong Bin was overjoyed and quickly clasped his hands in greeting, saying, "Yes!"
"General Yang."
"exist!"
"Your mission is the same as General Xiong's; you head north up the mountain!"
"Your subordinate obeys!"
Xiong Bin became excited and said, "So the young commander had such a plan!!"
Yang Le laughed and said, "With General Xiong and I launching a sneak attack together this time, we can avenge Ma Jian! We can capture Zhao Cheng!!"
"It's true that we're letting those women and children go."
Yang Qingzhi looked at the towering mountain before him, his eyes clear as water, and said, "But war is about deception, and we can't let an opportunity go to waste!"
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