After rebirth, the Queen and I are on the run.

Chapter 1101 Escape and Attack on the Old Village [2]

Whoosh whoosh!
The pine oil fire pot was smashed in the direction from which the shout came.

Boom boom boom!
The pine oil fire pot exploded, setting the people on Da Azu's side ablaze.

"Aaaaaah!" The screams continued.

"The villagers are using sound to locate us, so stop shouting, it will give us away!"

"Retreat! Retreat! The Wei army's catapults are not working properly; their range is far different from what we received in the intelligence!"

The spy from the Eastern Desert shouted, extremely dissatisfied with the spies lurking in the Wei army. They could even get the range information for long-range attacks wrong; they were utterly useless and had ruined the enemy!
However, they were wrong. It wasn't that the Eastern Desert spies lurking in the Wei army camp were incompetent; it was that Jiang Dalang, relying on his knowledge from his previous life, improved many of the Wei army's weapons, increasing the range of long-range weapons such as catapults.

With a whoosh, the spies hurriedly retreated their defensive line by more than ten meters, finally escaping the range of the catapults.

As the enemy retreated, we advanced; as soon as they withdrew, the Wei army and the mountain people pushed forward again.

Soon...

Boom boom boom!
The pine oil fire jars came again, and another batch of spies were burned.

"Pour out the deadly poison!" Da Azu was furious and gave this order: "Azu's identity can no longer deceive these lowly people, and we are all doomed, so let's die together... Bring all the deadly poisons left behind by the great physicians, wrap the poison in the arrows, and launch a long-range attack to poison them!"

"...Yes!" The spies paused for a moment, then took the order and went to carry it out.

The pause, however, already indicated that the spies were wavering.

No one wanted to die, especially after they had been treated as elders in the old village and worshipped by the mountain people. They wanted to continue living this life of being supported and did not want to die to serve the Eastern Desert.

They hesitated and wavered; they procrastinated.

Because of their delay, Jiang Dalang and the mountain people seized the initiative in their poison attack.

"Commander Xu, advance the crossbow fifty paces... tie the poison pack... release!" Jiang Dalang stood behind the crossbow, holding up the command flag, and gave the order to Xu Sanjun.

"Commander Jiang's order: Push the crossbow carts forward..." Xu Sanjun followed the order and led a group of his elite and trusted men to do as instructed.

After the ballista reached its position, it was quickly loaded with poison and the iron crossbows were released to deliver the poison.

Whoosh-!
Whoosh-!
Whoosh-!
The iron crossbow, with its extremely strong penetrating power and excellent accuracy, shot directly into the wooden wall of the wooden building where Da Azu and his men were hiding.

clank!

The crossbow bolt pierced the wooden wall, making a vibrating sound.

The powerful shock caused the medicine packet to shatter.

Whoohoo!
The poisonous powder dispersed and was carried away by the cold wind.

Da Azu, leading his men, hid inside the house. He only saw the crossbow bolts coming at him and didn't see the small medicine packet. He was unaware that the Wei army had used poison.

But soon, many spies inhaled the poison and collapsed to the ground, bang bang bang.

"Ah Da, another large group of people have fallen ill with exhaustion. This time it's quite severe; some have even fainted!" A subordinate leader ran up to report, asking Da Azu, "The enemy outnumbers us, and they're advancing again. Shouldn't we retreat to the Fire Seedling Grounds, using the mountain cave entrance as a stronghold, and kill each wave of enemies that come our way?"

Fighting the enemy while holding a pass with no way out is a dead end.

Many spies were unwilling to go, thinking that if they couldn't win, they could escape into the mountains and survive, thanks to their familiarity with the area.

But Da Azu was truly loyal to Dongmo. Upon hearing this, he said, "Withdraw from the house through the back door and head to the fire-breeding ground! Hold the cave entrance and delay the enemy. As long as we delay the Wei people for another quarter of an hour, our merit will increase, and our family and clansmen will receive more rewards and be punished less!"

Boom boom!
The eerie, deadly drumbeats sounded again.

This time, the order was: "Ah Da has ordered a retreat to the fire-cultivation site to continue stalling the enemy!" After the subordinate leader shouted this, he immediately waved the animal-hide flag and escorted Da Azu towards the cave entrance. However…

Bang bang bang!
Dozens of packets of powder exploded, filling the air with the scent of medicine.

As the spies ran, they all collapsed onto the snow.

Bang bang bang!
A series of muffled thuds rang out. Da Azu looked at the men and horses falling in front of and behind him, his pupils contracted, and he hurriedly shouted, "Run! It's not exhaustion, it's a sleeping potion!"

Having said that, he waved the animal-hide military flag and led his men forward. As long as they got out of the poison's range, they wouldn't be poisoned.

However, this time, the drug used by the mountain people and Wei army was very potent; it was a new drug concocted by Xun Lao and Qin Xiaomi.

Even though Da Azu was wearing a leather mask and had taken the antidote beforehand, he was still made weak all over by the drug.

He was already over forty years old, and if he slowed down any further, he wouldn't be able to run anymore.

Slurp slurp slurp!

The mountain people and Wei soldiers waded through the snow and charged in. When they caught a spy, they would first cut him in the leg.

Click, click, click!

The chilling sound of chopping echoed as the captured spies had each been stabbed at least once in the legs, rendering them unable to escape.

"Cut off their hands! Don't let them use poison to take us all down with them!" the chieftain shouted, raising his knife and slicing off the hand of the spy who was trying to spread the poison.

Boom!
The severed hand fell to the snow. The spy cried out in pain, clutching the broken wrist, and shouted, "Great Chieftain, Great Uncle, I am Fang Luo from the First Village! I am not a spy, but a member of the First Village!"

With a ripping sound, the chieftain ripped off the man's leather mask, and his machete fell again.

Click, click, click!

He killed the man with just a few stabs.

The chieftain shouted, "I've seen Fang Luo before. This person doesn't look like Fang Luo. He's a spy from the Eastern Desert. The spy killed the young men we sent to the old village and took their identities... Waaah, Luo Zi, rest assured, your uncle will avenge you!"

Upon hearing this, the mountain people hated the spies from the Eastern Desert even more, and their men showed no mercy as they rushed to chase after the spies and their followers from the old village.

In short, anyone from the old village wearing a leather mask, even if they are a familiar face, will be killed if caught.

A stranger can be killed.

Those who looked familiar were slashed on the hands and feet, rendering them unable to escape, and then left in the snow before the pursuers continued their chase.

All night long, the old village was filled with shouts of killing, screams of agony, and the sounds of people being hacked to pieces.

Thanks to the powerful new sleeping potion and the insect eggs that cause exhaustion, the villagers' pursuit was extremely effective, capturing the entire village with very few casualties.

"Report! Deputy General Lang, Chief Chief, Eighth Chief... a total of 6,733 people, both living and dead, have been wiped out!" Mengzi and Ahei reported, carrying the booklet.

"Hmm, not bad, not bad at all! You've all done a great job!" Deputy General Lang praised them.

"Reporting, Deputy General Lang, Commander Jiang says the fire in Cave No. 1 has been extinguished, but the smell there is strange. There's a burnt meat smell, a pungent animal urine smell, and a medicinal smell. The smell is very odd. Commander Jiang suspects something is seriously wrong there and requests that you go to Cave No. 1 to take a look." Miao Man personally ran to invite Deputy General Lang, and added, "Commander Jiang is already torturing Da Azu, trying to get the truth out of him about what happened inside the cave."

Miao Man, Zhu Xuemo, Yao Dayan, and other martial arts practitioners entered the mountains specifically to attack the old village.

Now that the battle is nearing its end, Miao Man and the others no longer need to conceal their identities and can appear in public.

"If Dalang says there's a problem, then it must be serious. Come on, take me to see it right away!" Deputy General Lang immediately led his personal guards and rushed towards Cave No. 1, the place where the flames were being cultivated.