The advisor looked very displeased as he saw that nearly half of the men had already been lost at the very beginning.
He never imagined that a group of honest, simple country folk would actually prepare stones and dare to throw them down!
Constable Sun was extremely anxious, knowing that the first group to climb the ladder were bandits, and the ladder handlers were refugees, and most of them were already injured, covered in blood!
There are more than 300 people in total, and 70 or 80 have been injured so far, with the number of injured still increasing.
Behind them were refugees, and behind them were their own people, such as their yamen runners, servants, and slaves.
Originally, they thought they could easily take over Shanshui Village with just over two hundred bandits and refugees, but unexpectedly, nearly half of their elite forces were lost right from the start!
"No!" he shouted. "Retreat first!"
In fact, before Officer Sun even shouted, the people under the embankment wall had already begun to evacuate.
Some refugees carried wooden ladders back, while others didn't even bother with the ladders and ran straight back, running far away, determined not to get near the rocks.
The meticulous Zhang Xiaocao, Xu Ting, and others quickly lifted the wooden ladder and pulled it up section by section before placing it back inside the wall.
Suddenly, more than twenty ready-made wooden ladders appeared in the village.
After going back and forth, there are now far more wooden ladders in the village than in Magistrate Wu's area.
Magistrate Wu's face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
The advisor wiped the sweat from his brow and whispered, "Master, it's alright. We've held off the main firepower here, and the others at the other parts of the wall must have already been breached!"
With a coordinated attack from within and without, we'll still win. The small sacrifices we've made so far are nothing.
Yes, quite a few of them went elsewhere!
Did these villagers think they would only enter through the main gate? They had no idea about the military strategy of feinting to the east while attacking to the west!
There were as many as seventy or eighty of them scattered elsewhere; once they got inside, they would be no match for them.
Magistrate Wu waited patiently, as did everyone else, their faces bearing mocking smiles.
Shui Qing watched from the observation platform for a while, then climbed down the horizontal bar.
She was also dressed in short clothes today, with her hair tied up, making her look exceptionally neat and tidy.
These past few days, apart from the elderly woman who was too old to climb high and low, and Zhang Chunhua and her mother, all the other women and girls were dressed neatly.
As soon as the water cleared, a replacement was immediately taken up the watchtower to continue the surveillance.
Wang Guifen stepped forward and asked, "Shuiqing, we've steamed several baskets of potatoes and cooked several pots of egg drop soup. Can we eat now?"
"When it's time to eat, which side can we eat from first?"
We can't just rush over there in a heated fight, that would be distracting!
Shui Qing nodded: "Okay, send these to the front. The other side won't attack for a while. Let them come down in several batches to eat. After they've eaten, they can go up and then the next batch can come down."
Wang Guifen said "okay" and turned to get to work.
As soon as Wang Guifen walked away, Hu Wenhua rushed up excitedly, his voice low but still unable to hide his excitement: "Sister! Your thing is so useful! All those people were taken down, thank goodness for the weapon you gave us."
Shui Qingxin said, "Of course it works! It's an electric baton; it'll shock you every time."
However, the fact that they could use stun guns meant that there were quite a few people on the other side of the wall. She told Wen Hua, Yan Qiuxing, and other family members that they should only use them when there was real danger—safety was the most important thing, but if they could handle it, there was no need to use them.
As for this weapon, don't ask any questions and don't tell anyone. She will take it back after this matter is over.
The fact that even Wen Hua is being used now indicates that the matter is indeed urgent, or even dangerous!
How many people came from your area?
"There are a lot more! I went around and roughly estimated that there are seventy or eighty people! Yan Qiuxing and I will go back to Dajiang and Dahu to see where they can't hold on and then go to help them!"
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