"Grandmother!" Zhongli Zhou bowed and saluted.
"You must have heard about my story. I am half responsible for your Zhongli family's empire. Go back! Go back and guard Liangzhou. I will watch over your mother's life for you."
After Jiang Qianruo finished speaking, he looked at the red tassel spear on the side, walked forward, pulled it out, and danced it twice in his hand, with a hint of happiness in his eyes.
Zhong Lizhou didn't know whether he should trust this grandmother he didn't know very well. Old Huang seemed to understand the expression on his face: "Don't waste time. If you delay for a minute, the support will arrive a little later! A grown man is talking to a woman. Are you a man who gets things done?"
Tang Qingfeng said with a bitter face: "Hurry up and go, Prince! There is no time to waste!"
Zhonglizhou looked at Jiang Qianruo deeply. He had heard a lot about his grandmother.
Although the two were not very close, he acknowledged in his heart that half of the Zhongli family's kingdom belonged to her.
He bowed deeply to Jiang Qianruo and said, "I am an unfilial grandson and I am sorry to trouble you, grandmother. I will leave ten guards to protect you and mother, and I will take the rest away!"
After saying this, he didn't dare to delay any longer and rushed out of the tent. Brigadier General Yang was already waiting outside with his horse.
"Ten of you stay here, and the rest of you follow me!"
Zhongli Zhou jumped on his horse, glanced at the tent behind him, and steeled his heart as he drove off: "Gee!!!"
After Zhong Lizhou left, Song Ruqing didn't bother to talk to Jiang Qianruo and shouted sternly: "Come here! Gather!"
The entire military camp was immediately filled with the sound of gongs and drums.
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All the people in Xiaotian Village ran out in just a moment. The impact from the barbarians was not as strong as the one given by Ji Changying.
On the village road, Ji Changying was running while holding a bell that was half a person's height. The bell rang "dong dong" from time to time with her footsteps.
The moment the bell stopped, her voice reached everyone's ears clearly: "Women, children and the elderly, go to Ji's house!"
Everyone clearly recalled the memory of the barbarians entering the village last year.
"Hurry, hurry, my wife, take the child and go hide at Ji's house. We will take our weapons and guard it!"
"Quick! Take whatever you have at home! A kitchen knife, a hoe, anything will do!"
"Move! Everyone, move!"
The village chief even stood there and shouted, "Bring all your pots! Become shield bearers! Grab any sickles you can!"
Seeing that the men in the village had understood what she said, Ji Changying breathed a sigh of relief and put the clock aside.
She put her finger to her lips and whistled, and Pearl came running over.
She patted the horse's head: "Let's go home!"
When I returned to the Ji family, Mrs. Hu was arranging the people who came to take refuge: "Everyone come here, go down one by one, it's quite narrow down there, don't rush!"
Ji Changying looked at the passage that had appeared on the ground in her house at some point, and looked at Hu in surprise: "What is this?"
Mrs. Hu lowered her voice, "This was Tianming's doing! Before you were away, he spent the whole day thinking about this. There's a hollowed-out floor below our house, and he put a lot of stuff in there. Before he left, he told me that if there was any danger, to go to the underground room directly opposite the main hall. It's safe there."
Ji Changying used his mental power to look down through the ground.
If you don’t pay attention, you won’t know. You will be shocked when you see it!
I don’t know when the entire bottom of the Ji family’s house had been hollowed out, turning it into a winding passage. Various mechanisms were hidden on the surrounding walls. Although the workmanship was a bit rough, it was obvious that they were new works.
There were some unfinished products on the other side, which he probably hadn't finished yet.
Seeing this, Ji Changying felt relieved: "Where's my mother?"
Mrs. Hu's expression was complicated: "Your mother went back to the military camp. She told me to stay down here and she will go to guard outside."
Mrs. Hu didn't want Mrs. Zhou to leave, but she couldn't stop her at all.
Ji Changying smiled and said, "Go down quickly. I'll be guarding outside too."
Hu gritted her teeth: "Then be careful!"
She knew she couldn't stop him.
When Ji Changying turned around, many young and strong men were guarding the gate and yard of the Ji family. They watched the children, women, and the elderly in the family get down to the ground. They didn't ask anything and didn't say anything. They just held their weapons tightly.
“Whoosh!”
The sound of a flare arrow exploded in the sky, and the two sides officially began to fight.
More than 2,000 barbarian cavalrymen rushed over the mountain and saw the brightly lit Xiaotian Village at the foot of the mountain. Their eyes flashed with excitement: "Kill!"
The person at the front waved his arm, and a group of people rushed down the mountain with excitement flashing in their eyes and shouting "Oh-oh-oh" like cats smelling fish.
Tielan, with his archers, had long been lying in ambush on the treetops at the foot of the mountain. Seeing a group of people rushing down like wild beasts, his face turned serious and he said, "Shoot!"
Although the visibility is poor at night, these archers have all been strictly screened and are top-notch in terms of both eyesight and endurance.
After hearing Tielan's order, a look of determination flashed across their faces. Aim and shoot!
The sound of arrows swishing could be heard at the foot of the mountain, and many of the barbarians in the front were shot down.
Some people still rushed down the mountain regardless of their lives while the bows were being drawn and arrows were being shot. Some people cursed a lot, but looked in the direction of the arrows, and with a stern look, they shouted at people to shoot blindly in this direction and then rushed under the tree.
Almost everyone in Xiaotian Village is staying at the Ji family.
They are not only guarding the Ji family, but also their own children and families.
Ji Changying looked at the pot on the mule, which was almost as tall as a person, and said in a deep voice: "Come on, some strong men, hold the pots and block the way!"
"Those who can shoot arrows, get on the wall. I'll give you arrows later!"
"Those who have killed the barbarians, stand behind the pot! If you can't stop them, move forward!"
As soon as Ji Changying finished speaking, the village chief immediately called a few people: "You, you, you, those of you who are strong, come over and move the pot!"
All those who had killed the barbarians stood up. Among them were some women who did not want to hide, such as Aunt Li, Grandma Wang, Aunt Yang, and Lin. They all looked at her with firm eyes, with expressions that would not concede rejection.
There are also some who have never killed barbarians, such as the ten female households.
Ji Changying took a deep breath and said, "If you want to survive, you have to work hard! Relying on yourself is better than anything else! Just wait!"
She turned and went into the room, took out all the weapons and arrows she had stored in the space, and distributed them to them: "Just do it! If anyone gets close, shoot them immediately. If you can't kill them, come on!"
“Kill, kill, kill!”
The Ji family was originally close to the back mountain. The barbarians who had escaped the rain of arrows rushed here immediately, but the Red Sleeves Army had already ambushed them and were waiting there: "Kill!"
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