Is Yin Jin'an going to attack the prefectural city?
With his twenty-four constables?
Wang Can felt that Yin Jin'an had no experience in fighting and was just making decisions on a whim.
“The Uyghurs are very powerful; even General Wu Aiguo’s 50,000 border troops couldn’t withstand them!” Wang Can reminded him.
Fifty thousand men couldn't hold them off; our twenty men wouldn't even be enough to fill the gaps between the Uyghurs' teeth.
Both the Western Xia and the Uyghurs were small countries, each with a population of less than ten million, and a total of 300,000 border troops stationed in the east, west, south, and north.
Seeing his bitter face, Yin Jin'an didn't explain, but simply gave the order in an authoritative tone: "Go and summon them."
Having no other choice, Wang Can summoned twenty-four yamen runners.
Yin Jin'an looked at the twenty-four constables. Twenty of them were tall and strong, while the other four were probably related to the officials and didn't look very reliable.
“The stronger one, take a step forward,” Yin Jin’an said, stroking her chin. “The weaker one, take a step back.”
The twenty-four constables split into two teams.
Ten people are strong, and fourteen people are not strong enough.
"The first ten, follow me to attack the prefectural city. Magistrate Wang will go with us. From now on, you will obey my orders," Yin Jin'an said. "I am Xiao Jin'an, the legitimate son of the late Empress Wei."
Wang Can had always guessed that he was the Crown Prince, but hearing the name from his lips today still excited and shocked him, and he knelt down with a thud.
Seeing Wang Can kneel down, the twenty-four yamen runners instinctively knelt down as well.
But they were all surprised. Wasn't it said that Empress Wei's eldest son was an idiot?
"You need not doubt that I am the eldest prince, nor should you doubt our ability to win the battle. Rest assured, victory is certain. I also value my life. Let us set off immediately for the prefectural city to punish the Uyghur traitors," Yin Jin'an said. "If we don't drive them away, we will all become slaves of a conquered nation sooner or later."
These twenty-four men were all trusted by Wang Can, so there wasn't much nonsense, and all twenty-four agreed to attack the prefectural city.
Yin Jin'an selected fourteen people, while the remaining ten stayed at the county government office to perform their duties.
Wang Can ordered his men to load the more than sixty earthenware pots that Yin Jin'an had made onto four carts, and then had the yamen runners and the county magistrate shout them out along the street.
"His Highness the Crown Prince cannot bear to see the people of Great Xia enslaved by foreign invaders. He has decided to attack the city. We urge all patriotic young men to follow His Highness to drive out the foreign invaders and reclaim the land of Great Xia."
"Okay, count me in. Let's drive the Uyghur thieves out of our homeland."
"I'm going too!"
Soon, hundreds of young men, who had spontaneously brought weapons, followed.
More than a hundred people, plus more than sixty earthenware pots for grenades, that's enough.
The city of Ganzhou was four or five times larger than that of the neighboring county. The city walls were high and thick, made of blue bricks. Before Yin Jin'an and his party even reached the city, they could see from afar that the guards outside the city gate had been replaced by Uyghurs.
When the Uyghurs guarding the city saw Yin Jin'an and his entourage driving a carriage, they shouted from the city wall, "Who goes there?", as the city gates remained closed.
Wang Can and the head constable Du Zhong were locals. Du Zhong shouted, "We deliver wine to the taverns in the city."
The Uyghur garrison, seeing that their four carts were full of earthenware jars and wine jugs, said, "Leave the wine behind and you can leave."
How do we settle the bill?
"Want money? Hahaha, if you want money, leave your head behind!"
After the Uyghur finished speaking, Yin Jin'an said to the yamen runner driving the carriage, "Turn around."
Wang Can and the yamen runner: .....Going back now?
Yin Jin'an shouted again, "Turn around! Lure them out!"
Sure enough, when they saw them turn around, the Uyghur guards thought they were trying to escape, so they immediately opened the city gates and thirty cavalrymen chased after them.
"Stop! Leave your wine here!"
Seeing them chasing after the enemy from the city gate, Yin Jin'an immediately said to everyone, "Prepare to fight!"
He spurred his horse forward, brandishing his Tang sword as he charged into the enemy ranks. The Tang sword was invincible, each strike killing a headless enemy.
More than a hundred people were greatly encouraged and their blood was boiling. They shouted "Kill!" and charged at the enemy with broadswords and longswords.
When the thirty Uyghurs saw that the situation was not good, they turned their horses around and tried to escape into the city.
Yin Jin'an didn't chase after them. Instead, he took a clay pot bomb from the carriage, lit the fuse with a tinderbox, and threw it forcefully at the thirty Uyghur soldiers who had run away.
"Boom!"
With a deafening roar, the Uyghur soldiers on the city wall, stunned and bewildered, were blown to pieces along with their horses as they tried to escape back into the city.
This was the first time Wang Can witnessed the power of the clay pot thunder.
Startled by the sudden explosion, he was temporarily deafened and stared in disbelief as a rain of body parts fell from the sky.
The yamen runners, on the other hand, were so excited that they shouted and yelled.
Good heavens, what kind of weapon is this?
No, this looks like the terrifying weapon from the legendary Jade Dragon Kingdom!
Their High Prince also manufactures them.
With that, what is there to fear?
Kill them!
Jiutian watched as his second uncle used a clay pot to kill the enemy, and he clapped his hands with joy. "My second uncle is really amazing! His pot is more powerful than mine. My pot is slow and doesn't have such great destructive power."
To cooperate with Yin Jin'an, she also threw out two lightning-summoning talismans in succession.
"The seal is on my hand, the incantation is on my lips. I wear the Heavenly Dipper on my head, and tread upon the Big Dipper on my feet. The Wind God and Rain Master, the Thunder God roar. I destroy the temple and drive away the gods... So be it!"
Dark clouds gathered over the city, a strong wind suddenly rose, and bolts of lightning and thunder fell continuously, killing the Uyghur archers guarding the city walls one after another, who fled in terror into the inner city.
With no one on the city wall, Yin Jin'an and his group immediately advanced.
"fry!"
Yin Jin'an took out a clay pot bomb and asked the others to show him how to operate it.
The city gate was blown open with a loud "boom" by the earthenware pot bomb, leaving only a black hole in the sturdy gate.
Let's go into town!
Wang Can said, "Your Highness, if we go in like this, won't they shoot us?"
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