Chapter 363 Those who are not of our kind will surely have different hearts, kill!
The soldiers were dejected after their first defeat. They were bad at fighting and archery, just like the useless and stupid pigs that Supervisor Liu had described.
They thought Yun Zhaoxue would scold them for being incompetent and wasting arrows.
Yun Zhaoxue knew that now was not the time to curse. Not only should she not curse, but she should also encourage them, "Don't be discouraged. Everyone has their strengths. Put down your bows and arrows and throw stones instead."
"Hunter team, prepare your bows and arrows!"
"Yes!" The hunters in the back row stepped forward.
"Release the arrows!"
She immediately sent people to recruit hunters from various villages to form a temporary archer team.
She took out several boxes of arrows from her spatial storage, distributing sixty arrows to each person, and keeping two boxes as spares.
The rebels below assumed this group was also incompetent and were caught off guard, never thinking to draw their swords to block the arrows, and were hit squarely.
The general on horseback in the front row was shot, fell from his horse, and screamed, "Ah!"
Qi Dasheng cleaved an arrow in two with a single sword stroke and commanded his men, "Release the arrows quickly!"
However, the ragtag soldiers he led were also useless.
Most of them couldn't shoot arrows; they either shot at the ground or at the city wall, never reaching the tower. Only a few managed to shoot up, but most of the time they missed.
Soldiers on the city wall picked up large stones and hurled them at the rebels below the city gate who were preparing to attack. The stones struck them squarely on the head, causing their skulls to tilt and blood to splatter.
Screams erupted repeatedly, "Ahhh!!"
The soldiers on the city wall smashed with increasing fervor. Their arrows failed, and they resorted to smashing stones—something even a three-year-old could do—with all their might, "Bang! Bang! Bang!!!"
The hunters had a rare opportunity to obtain arrows made of high-quality iron from the army. Normally, they would collect every arrow they shot, as they were reluctant to waste them, and a few arrows would last for several years.
Yun Zhaoxue gave them dozens of tubes at a time, and there were more when they ran out.
One tael of silver is awarded for each shot hit.
The hunters were incredibly accurate with their arrows, almost every shot was fatal, and the densely packed crowd below was their sitting duck.
Qi Dasheng saw that the first group of people who went forward to attack the city were either smashed to death or shot to death.
He gave the order again, "Keep going! Break through the city gates, enter the city, coordinate from the inside and outside, take Panyu County, and Princess Zhaoxue will be yours to play with as you please."
He saw Yun Zhaoxue on the city wall and reached out to his men, "Bring me a bow."
He drew his bow and aimed an arrow at Yun Zhaoxue.
"Princess, be careful!" Zhuiying cried out anxiously, trying to push her away.
"Don't worry about me, focus on killing the enemy!"
She's wearing a bulletproof vest; she won't die.
She also set her sights on Qi Dasheng below.
Two streaks of cold light crossed each other in the air.
Yun Zhaoxue dodged to the side, the arrow whizzing past her ear.
Qi Dasheng's pupils contracted sharply, and he quickly raised his shield to block, "Clang!"
More than thirty hunters kept shooting arrows, while more than fifty soldiers desperately smashed stones.
Seeing this, the rebels were so frightened that they retreated and dared not advance any further.
Pu Heshou shouted, "No one is allowed to retreat! Once the people inside the city open the gates, we'll charge in!"
They temporarily halted the attack from outside the city.
The city walls could no longer be defended.
More than 10,000 foreigners surged toward this side.
Most of the common people were unarmed.
Even with the Xiao family's secret guards and personal guards, they couldn't stop so many people.
Those on the city wall had to be constantly on guard against the enemy outside and couldn't go down to help. They could only watch helplessly as they saw the scene below.
Despite being wounded and with their swords chipped and broken, Zhu Feng and his companions still stood guard at the city gate.
Seeing the situation below, Zhuiying also felt things were not good. "Princess, what should we do? I'm afraid we can't stop them down there. Merchants are driven by profit. You've been talking to those two old men for a long time, but they're still standing by and doing nothing."
"Let's not talk about that now. I'll go down and help. You stay up here and command the soldiers to fight the enemy."
Before Yun Zhaoxue even reached the bottom of the stairs, she heard shouts of battle coming from the street to the west.
"kill!--"
The leaders were Li Guangyuan and Li Rui, who led the Li clan members and servants to help.
Shouts of killing could be heard from the other side of the street.
The barbarians saw the people surging towards them, and then looked at Zhu Feng and the people who were almost exhausted and blocking the city gate.
He suddenly felt a little scared, and his hand holding the knife trembled.
Pu Yali, the leader, brandished his sword. "Don't be afraid, everyone! As long as we open this gate and welcome the army into the city, we can wipe them out in one fell swoop and establish a new Abbasid Caliphate on this land!"
He was a pirate who made a living by robbing. He was Pu Heshou's nephew. This time, in order to carry out his great cause, he specially sent them to the island to help him take over Lingnan and create an empire for them, the Arabs, to drive out the local natives or make them their slaves.
Li Rui pointed at him and cursed, "So you've always harbored wolfish ambitions, wanting to seize our land. You're dreaming!"
"Our army is just outside the city. Once we open this gate, you, and all of you who stand in our way, will die! Surrender now, and we may spare your lives. Lay down your weapons and surrender."
Li Guangyuan sneered, "This is the place where our ancestors have lived for thousands of years. We must not let you take it away. As long as we are alive and have a breath left, we will not let your conspiracy succeed."
Pu Yali said confidently, "That's not necessarily true. We outnumber you, you can't beat us..."
"Whoosh!" An arrow pierced his heart. Everyone looked in the direction of the arrow and saw Yun Zhaoxue standing steadily on the stone railing of the steps, dressed in dark-colored tight-fitting clothes, with a cold and sharp look in her eyes.
Lu Wenzhong raised his arm and shouted, "The princess's archery skills are superb! She killed an enemy soldier with a single arrow! The princess is mighty!"
There were many foreigners, some of whom were pirates. They were very skilled, and the common people were no match for them. After being knocked down, they were stabbed in the heart with a knife, "Thud!"
When the people saw their loved ones fall, they had no fear but only the determination to avenge them, and they were blinded by rage.
Clang! ... Clang!
Pfft, hiss...
Holding knives in both hands, Yun Zhaoxue charged into the ranks of the barbarians and fought them.
With his left hand, he slashed horizontally with his knife, cutting open a man's throat. At the same time, with his right hand, he swung his knife upwards, cleaving aside a gun barrel that was attacking from the side, and kicked the man to the ground.
A spear thrust towards her, but she grabbed it.
Suddenly, someone slashed at her from behind.
"Princess, be careful."
Lu Zheng and Li Rui were on his left and right sides respectively. When they saw someone attacking, they rushed over to shield her from the knife.
But it was too late; he could only watch helplessly as the knife fell on her body, his pupils shrinking sharply.
Yun Zhaoxue dodged the spear in front of her, then thrust backward, piercing the man through.
He quickly pulled it out and slammed the one in front of him away, "Bang!"
As he fell backward, the spear slashed across his neck.
Lu Zheng and Li Rui rushed to her side almost at the same time.
"I saw you get slashed just now? How come you're completely unharmed?" Li Rui's gaze fell on her back. He didn't see any bloodstains, only a tear in her clothes, which was quite unbelievable.
"Are you injured?" Lu Zheng guessed that she was wearing something sharp. No external injuries did not mean there were no internal injuries.
"I'm fine. I'm wearing golden silk armor, which makes me invulnerable to swords and spears. Don't worry about me, just focus on killing the enemy."
The barbarians desperately pushed their way to the city gate, which was on the verge of collapse.
The barbarians pulled open the stick behind the gate, but Zhu Feng snatched it back and stuck it in place.
The rebels outside attacked the city again.
All the stones on the city wall were smashed, and half of the hunters were shot and wounded.
It was only thanks to Zhuiying leading the remaining men to shoot arrows that their advance was halted.
The fragile city gate finally succumbed to repeated impacts and attacks from both sides and collapsed.
When Pu Heshou saw that the city gate had been breached, he assumed that the people inside the city who were there to meet him had already captured Panyu City.
He led his troops to attack the city.
More and more people joined in. Refugees who had their fields and houses taken away and were left homeless, along with their families, villagers from Li Village and other villages, all came to help, carrying hoes, sickles, carrying poles, rakes and other farm tools.
And there's Lao Liao, Hu Feng, Zhao Jiu...
Wang Youcai also led the players and the noodle shop staff to help.
The city gates were breached, and enemy troops poured in.
The moment he rushed in, the sound of countless sharp blades slicing through flesh and several screams rang out, "Pfft!" Ah!
The enemy troops behind them had no time to stop and continued to charge forward.
Until something sharp pierced his body, causing intense pain, and he was pushed backward,
Zhu Feng and his guards roared in unison, their spears suddenly thrusting forward, pushing them out of the city. They then quickly pulled out their spears and retreated back into the city.
The enemy troops ahead dared not enter the city again.
Qi Dasheng rode forward on his horse, brandishing his broadsword, and immediately executed a deserter as a warning to others.
"With the enemy at our doorstep, anyone who retreats will be executed on the spot! The city gates have been breached by our men. Charge in and coordinate with those inside! Charge!"
Qi Dasheng led 500 men into the city, sending some to the city walls to kill the archers, so that the main army could attack the city without worrying about their rear.
After the city walls were breached by the enemy, Pu Heshou, who was hiding in the rear, thought that they had run out of weapons, so he led eight hundred men into the city.
On the city wall, Hua Murong and Pei Huaiji, along with Meng Dahu, Xiao Liuzi, Guo Ba, and others, carried two baskets of thunderbolts up the wall, lit them with torches, and threw them down at the enemy troops below.
Lei Zhenzi emitted a deafening roar, "Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Hua Murong huddled in a corner, watching the rebel army below, with Pei Huaiji, Meng Dahu, and others guarding his side.
"Good disciple, you must protect your master well."
Although Pei Huaiji's martial arts skills were not top-notch, they were still average, enough to deal with those fat soldiers with mediocre skills.
"Don't worry, Master. You just need to keep an eye on the enemy, and we will protect you."
He lit a thunderbolt with a tinderbox and threw it at him, "Bang!"
"Boom!"
Pu Heshou charged to the city gate on horseback. A deafening explosion erupted, and flames shot into the sky like an angry dragon, blasting him and his horse away. The soldiers screamed in agony, "Aaaaah!!!"
Scorching heat and smoke surged upwards, as if the ground and the city walls were trembling violently, leaving only craters and scorch marks in the dust.
"Lord Pu is dead, dead..." The rebel soldiers who had narrowly escaped death were terrified and abandoned their armor, fleeing in all directions.
"Run! Run!"
Qi Dasheng, who had stormed into the city, was shocked to see the corpses of the barbarians scattered all over the ground.
What's going on?
Didn't their men only open the gates and let them in after they captured Panyu?
Then they were surrounded by people, led by Yun Zhaoxue.
She said, "Qi Dasheng, as an official of the imperial court, you colluded with the barbarians to rebel. If you surrender now, I can leave you a whole corpse!"
"As long as the others lay down their weapons immediately, I, the princess, will forgive and forget the past, since you have not committed any serious offenses, and will let you go back to your hometowns to farm."
The enemy soldiers looked at each other in bewilderment.
Some of the more timid ones were the first to drop their weapons, and the others followed suit, crying out, "We surrender, please don't kill us!"
Qi Dasheng frantically brandished his knife and slit the throats of the two men closest to him. "Don't put down your weapons! Pick them up! They're lying to you. They'll kill you if you put down your weapons. Don't believe their lies. Pick up your weapons and fight them to the death. They're just a bunch of civilians. They're nothing to be afraid of."
No matter how much Qi Dasheng threatened and shouted, the soldiers ignored him, dropped their weapons, and ran away.
The imperial court generally treated surrendered traitors fairly well, as long as they were not utterly heinous, by incorporating them into the army and sending them to fight on the battlefield.
There was war almost every year. It was either an invasion by enemy troops from the north, a bandit rebellion, or a peasant uprising. There was war every day. In the era of cold weapons, war was all about manpower.
Seeing that his men had all fled, Qi Dasheng turned his horse around and charged out.
Yun Zhaoxue raised her crossbow and shot him in the heart. He fell from his horse and died.
The leader of the rebels must be killed to maintain public order.
After a chaotic battle, some died and some were injured.
Before the enemy was defeated, they remained on high alert, daring not to stop or relax in the slightest.
Only after it was all over did they go to the pile of corpses to search for their relatives' bodies.
Li Rui, not seeing his father, asked the servant, "Where's my father? Where is he?"
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