The last sentence was muttered by Zhou Wan'er in a low voice. Perhaps it was because she had been pampered since childhood and lived in the royal family that she developed her current personality.
Even she herself didn't know that she had been deliberately avoiding her feelings for Sun Jian and never facing her own heart.
At this moment, Sun Jian was unaware that the two women were whispering about these things, and he simply asked the village chief helplessly.
"Hey old man, why are you talking so much nonsense?"
"I know a lot of things, why do I need to let you know?"
“So, tell me, will you help me or not? If you don’t help me, I’ll deal with the bandits myself. You can all run away if you want, but don’t blame me if your homes are gone after the bandits leave. I don’t have enough manpower to take care of so many households.”
Sun Liangzhi mustered his courage, and his gaze became resolute.
"help!"
Now that things have come to this point, there's still a chance of winning if we take a gamble, since Sun Jian wouldn't risk the lives of his entire family of four.
If we run away directly, when we come back, everyone's homes will probably be burned to the ground.
"Alright, let's not delay any longer, let's not wait until tomorrow."
Sun Jian quickly began to arrange his plans.
"The overall plan is divided into three steps. The first step is to take this bandit to the east end of the village to gather the villagers and tell them that the bandits are coming. Then we will tell everyone that I have called the government troops to protect the village."
"The second step was to tell them that the officers and soldiers would need at least 5 days to arrive. During this time, everyone needed to gather the food together and not hoard it. They also needed to protect the elderly, women and children, and to make sure that the tunnels between each household were connected to each other for easy hiding."
"The third step is to gather the able-bodied men in the village and have them follow me to build traps and trenches."
"Any more questions?"
Sun Jian inquired.
"have……"
“It’s fine if you want to take over the troops’ momentum, it’s fine to get everyone to assemble, it’s fine to get everyone to dig trenches and cooperate with you, but it’s probably not a problem if everyone has their own selfish motives when it comes to handing over their grain,” Sun Liangzhi analyzed the current situation.
"That's simple. Just say that after handing over the grain, everyone hides it in other people's tunnels. Some people want to hide it at home but are also afraid that others will take it, so they won't hide it all."
“That makes sense! I’ll make the arrangements right away. See you at the east end of the village in an hour.”
Sun Liangzhi suddenly realized what was going on. After tying up the bandits, he was quickly helped by his wife to go door to door.
Several trusted villagers quickly reacted and gathered at the village chief's house. Seeing this, Sun Jian breathed a sigh of relief and took the three women back home.
Sun Jian remained silent throughout the journey, focusing instead on the location of the trap and his strategy for capturing the bandits.
Gu Zijian gently poked Zhou Wan'er with his finger and whispered, "Sister, do you think your husband can wipe out all the bandits this time?"
Zhou Wan'er rolled her eyes at Gu Zijian, "Say it again, it's your husband, not my husband."
These were the words she was thinking, but she didn't say them aloud.
Do you believe him?
Gu Zijian smiled and said, "Of course I believe you."
"I'm still worried he might get hurt... after all, none of the bandits are kind people."
"Don't worry, his martial arts skills are no less than yours."
Zhou Wan'er imitated Sun Jian's movements, shrugged, and continued, "Female martial arts practitioners are rare in this era. I think... if there were no war, with your martial arts skills, you would probably at least be from a military family, right?"
"oh?"
Upon hearing Zhou Wan'er's words, Gu Zijian's heart suddenly raced, and her expression instantly turned panicked. Although she tried her best to restrain herself, the details were still evident.
"Hehe, just kidding." Zhou Wan'er didn't want to dwell on this issue too much. After all, they didn't know anything about her background. If she kept pressing Gu Zijian, it would be like waiting for others to dig up her own past.
Seeing that Gu Zijian had fallen silent, seemingly preoccupied, Zhou Wan'er quickly changed the subject: "Don't worry, think about it, has he ever done anything he wasn't sure about?"
"Sister Chu may not understand those strategies, but you should be able to tell how many tricks your husband used to deal with these few hundred bandits."
"Let me calculate it for you."
Zhou Wan'er slowed her pace and began to count on her jade-like fingers: "Knowing that the bandits were coming, she let them come instead—using their tricks against them, waiting for them to run into her trap."
"Organize the villagers to design traps while protecting themselves, and wait for the bandits to walk into the trap—wait for them to tire themselves out, and then catch them at the door."
"Under the guise of government officials and soldiers, they gathered the villagers' grain—taking advantage of the situation to create momentum and burn their bridges."
"As for how he fooled the village chief and how he planned this battle, let's not count them for now. He used six schemes right from the start. Do you think he was confident?"
Gu Zijian grew more and more admiring of Sun Jian as she listened, but before she could say anything, Sun Jian, who was ahead, noticed their furtive behavior and quickly stopped in his tracks: "What are you whispering about? Hurry up and follow us. We still need to prepare things when we get home."
"Here I am!"
...
After arriving home, Sun Jian took out the remaining four infrared composite bows and 90 metal arrows from his backpack.
First, he had Gu Zijian lead Chu Qingcheng and Zhou Wan'er to practice archery in the courtyard, while he himself hid in his room and began to summon the system to draw a lottery.
I only have one epic lottery draw left. If I want to draw again after that, I need to raise Chu Qingcheng's favorability to the highest level.
As for Gu Zijian and Zhou Wan'er, they have 37 and 32 points respectively, which is far from 50. Moreover, there have been no recent positive feedback, which means that I have to come up with other methods.
"System, I want to participate in the lottery. I want to specify either weapons or traps."
[Ding! The host can only choose one type of lottery draw.]
"Ugh, can I just choose to draw firearms? Give me a couple of tanks, or a few AKs."
Sun Jian rubbed his forehead, utterly helpless.
He had originally planned to get himself an RPK anti-missile tube.
When the bandits arrive, gather them together and wipe them all out with a single rocket launcher.
[Ding! The lottery page does not contain the specified item. If the host desires firearms, the system can only randomly draw a prize within the "Weapons" category. Whether or not you obtain a firearms depends entirely on luck.]
"Damn, that's not worth it!"
If you give a group of people infrared composite bows but no other firearms, how are you going to set traps?
Or they might give you a few planes and missiles, but who the hell would know how to fly them?!
My goal was to kidnap the bandits, not to destroy their entire stronghold.
"Should I just choose weapons or explosives?"
Upon hearing this result, Sun Jian continued to press for answers.
[Ding! Entry error, lottery cannot be entered. System notification: Items exceeding the scope of this event will cause great upheaval and change in the current era, and cannot be locked within a small range. Can only be obtained randomly through the "Weapon" category.]
"Alright, alright, then let's designate it as a trap. Traps can't possibly cause major upheavals and changes in the era, can they?"
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