The other five people followed behind, extremely nervous, their hands and feet trembling involuntarily.
Lu Tu ordered his men to lie in ambush and obey his commands, while he drew his bow and aimed at the distant torchlight.
He roughly counted the number of people; there were more than a dozen in total. If it were still the same Wuhuan soldiers as before, he wouldn't be able to escape even if he led the villagers to run away. It was better to fight with his back to the river.
As they entered firing range, Lü Tu was about to shoot when he heard someone shout, "All villagers of Kuishan, listen to my command! I am Chief Zhou of Wuchuan Prefecture!"
"Brother Lü, the government troops from Wuchuan have arrived!"
Lu Tu remained vigilant: "Let's observe further."
Upon seeing the Wuchuan banners they were holding, Lü Tu gestured, "Put away your bows and arrows, they are government troops."
The others also secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "The government troops have arrived, we are safe now."
Lu Tu, however, was unconcerned. Although he had never dealt with the government troops before, based on his understanding of the government troops system under the feudal system, he knew that these people might not be a good thing.
As expected, when the group of government troops arrived, they first glared at Lü Tu and his men, who were holding weapons, and scolded them: "Why don't you kneel when you see the platoon leader here?"
Upon hearing this rebuke, Wu Lao Er and the others were about to kneel down when Lü Tu grabbed them and said loudly, "This humble subject injured his knee while killing the Wuhuan people and cannot kneel!"
A rider emerged from the government troops; the man on horseback was Zhou Yabing, the son of the Commandant of the Po Rong who had clashed with Lü Tu at the Wuchuan market that day.
He recognized Lü Tu at a glance, glanced at them with utter contempt, and sneered, "You mean, with just a few useless commoners like you, you killed the Wuhuan cavalry?"
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