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

Chapter 1258 Dongfu Town Almost Bombed to Ashes

after a little while.

Whoosh-!
Whoosh-!
Two ten-pound gunpowder packets, with lit fuses attached, were thrown towards the enemy stronghold on the mountaintop.

Boom—boom—!
Two loud bangs followed by screams of agony as severed limbs flew everywhere, the ones that flew the furthest landing near the point where the weapon was thrown.

The scouts, with their excellent senses, soon shouted: "Report! There's a smell of blood. There are probably mutilated corpses and body parts nearby. There are sounds of running and shouting coming from the direction of the mountaintop. The enemy is still at their long-range stronghold on the mountaintop and hasn't run away. Throw more weapons and kill them!"

"Master Ye, hurry, hurry, hurry!" Commander Fan and Commander Da Gan urged.

Ye Xifen said, "Fine-tune the position of the catapult..."

The enemy can run away, so you can't bomb one spot. You have to adjust the bombing direction by about half a finger's width to kill or wound more enemy soldiers.

The female guards, the mountain warriors, and the Wei soldiers were almost proficient and quickly adjusted their positions.

With a sizzling sound, the fuse, soaked in tung oil, was ignited...

Whizzing--!
Boom—boom—!
Two more ten-pound gunpowder packets were thrown, landing slightly to the left and right of the enemy's long-range attack stronghold.

"Run!" Dong Le'er only had time to shout this before flames appeared before his eyes, and his whole body was burning hot and in excruciating pain, as if he had been deep-fried.

Bang bang bang bang!
The sound of hands, feet, heads, and corpses being blown away and crashing to the ground.

"Ahhh, General Dongle'er is dead! General Dongle'er was blown to pieces by the Liang Wei's weapon!" The Dongmo soldiers under his command screamed in terror as they looked at Dongle'er's head that had fallen in front of them.

He had just died, but his muscles could still move, and Dong Le'er's eyes even blinked at him.

"Ahhh!" The screams were deafening, and the area around the hilltop shacks was in complete chaos.

Some soldiers from the Eastern Desert even shouted, "Heavenly punishment! Heavenly punishment! The gods are angry, that's why they're sending down heavenly punishment! Throw it away! Throw away the meat and grain! Don't eat it anymore, or you'll invite heavenly punishment!"

The people in the eastern part of the Eastern Desert are not meat-loving. Some people in the east even feared the annual religious festivals when they were young.

This is because during the religious ceremony, everyone works together to butcher the ingredients raw and cook meat and grain rice.

No one is born a monster; they are all forced into it by the older generation. It is only after growing up and getting used to it, and after killing the grain-producing Wei people, that they become more and more bloodthirsty.

The fear of sharp weapons today is a rekindling of childhood terrors, a realization that eating meat is wrong and against all reason. That's why they attribute the power of these weapons to divine punishment.

"Heaven is punishing us! Heaven is angry! Quickly throw away Liang Wei's meat!"

"Throw it away, throw it away! I'm not eating it anymore, I'll never eat it again!"

Bang, bang, bang! The surviving soldiers of the Eastern Desert threw away the meat and ration bags they were carrying.

The Eastern Desert soldiers remained in fear and confusion. After an unknown amount of time, some of the smarter ones finally came to their senses and shouted, "Retreat! Retreat back to Dongfu Town immediately!"

However, it was too late.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Arrows rained down, piercing the legs of the fleeing Eastern Desert soldiers.

"Kill them! Chop them to pieces and avenge the Wei people at the Mianfushan plague quarantine point!"

The clanging and slashing sounds continued for almost half an hour.

With bloodshot eyes, Da Gan and his men slaughtered the remaining Eastern Desert soldiers on the mountaintop until only ten remained before they stopped.

"Judging from their attire, these ten men are all military doctors from the Eastern Desert. They'll be useful if we keep them around."

Click-clack-clack-clack!

Ten military doctors from the Eastern Desert had their hands removed, their Achilles tendons severed, and were tied up.

"Clean up the battlefield and collect all the spoils; this is all money!" Commander Gan ordered. "Release the command arrow and inform Commander Fan and Master Ye that we have breached the enemy's long-range stronghold, and they can return to the chevaux-de-frise camp to report!"

Troops were stretched thin, and there was a possibility of plague at Mianfushan, so Commander Fan and Ye Xifen did not come up to avoid becoming spreaders of the plague. Whoosh!

Two command arrows shot into the sky, exploding into colored smoke.

After releasing the command arrow, Commander Gan left behind two hundred soldiers and led a hundred elite troops to the place where Xihe'er was shot to find Xihe'er's body.

This was a Western nobleman; even a corpse was a merit!
west He'er's body was still in the same place, but the great doctor who was originally guarding the body had run away.

But the people of the Eastern Desert were treacherous, and the great physician sprinkled poison on the corpse.

But Commander Gan and his men weren't fools. After arriving nearby, they first dissolved the antidote in water, making water bags full of the antidote, and then threw them towards Xi He'er's corpse.

Splash, splash, splash—the water sacs slammed onto the corpses, spilling the antidote and washing away and destroying the effects of the poison powder.

Commander Da Gan said, "You stay here and guard the body day and night, for at least a day and a night. Only touch the corpse after the poison has dissipated."

This was the standard procedure for the Wei army's elite suicide squad to deal with poisonous substances.

If you do that and still get poisoned, then you can only accept your fate.

"Yes!" The hundred young men of the suicide squad responded and crouched down near west He'er's body.

Da Gan, the commander of the thousand households, returned to the mountain hut and led his troops to search the area to see if any Eastern Desert soldiers were still hiding there.

The soldiers from the Eastern Desert didn't notice anything, but they did see room after room of meat and grain still being prepared.

Even the veteran, Commander Da Gan, was so shocked that he felt nauseous and vomited!

"Use a sharp tool to blast open a large pit to bury the bodies of these Wei people... Carry two baskets of pine resin to the entrails pit and burn the entrails to prevent the growth of bacteria."

That was all that Commander Gan could do; he couldn't possibly send his soldiers to carry the internal organs to the pit on the mountaintop and bury them with the remains.

The soldiers were exhausted after a night of fierce fighting. They needed to get some rest so they would have the strength to fight back if the enemy attacked again.
……

On the hillside, Commander Fan and his men saw the command arrow and laughed, "The Great Gan has captured the mountaintop; we can go back and report now."

"Thank you for your hard work, brave women." Commander Fan praised the female guards and the women of Shanying before leading the brave women and his personal guards down the mountain.

"General Chu is still waiting for our battle report. Let's go first. The catapults and other supplies can be handed over to the soldiers to push back."

The catapult failed to push back the barricade camp.

……

Down the mountain, outside the chevaux-de-frise camp—on the road to Dongfu Town, Wei soldiers patrolled back and forth shouting: "By order of King Ye and General Chu, 80% of the supply train's long-range attack supplies are to be sent to the Dongfu Town battlefield! Bomb the enemy forces hiding in Dongfu Town, recapture this key location, and clear the way for General Liang's return to the city!"

Eighty percent of the long-range attack supplies?
Is this an attempt to turn Dongfu Town into rubble?
"Hurry up, stop dawdling! Don't wait until the enemy has vanished before your long-range supply weapons arrive. What's the point of fighting then!"

Slurp—slurp—slurp!
Large catapults and tall watchtowers were propelled by manpower along specific tracks, sliding ten meters at a time towards the battlefield of Dongfu Town.

After running about ten meters, the porters and laborers in the military camp immediately ran to the back, pried up the sections of the iron track that had been coated with oil, and then ran to the front to lay the track back up.

Dangdang Dangdang!
"Supply and weapons are passing through; all personnel, make way!"

After shouting that, *slurp*!
The soldiers of the supply battalion pushed the supply and weapons together from behind using long iron poles.

The supply and weaponry slid ten meters along the track.

Ye Xifen was utterly shocked when she saw this scene for the first time... No matter how rich and powerful the lady was, or how big the manor was, it was not a real Wei army camp, and the general skills that could be taught to her were still not enough.

"Stop!" Ye Xifen shouted, looking at Commander Fan: "Commander Fan, it looks like we're going to launch a long-range bombing attack on Dongfu Town. Our boss is still in Dongfu Town, and I have to go fight alongside her. I'll stay here and wait for the catapults from Mianfu Mountain, and together we'll send them to the battlefield in Dongfu Town."

Catapults, as a type of supply weapon, are quite rare, and attacking Dongfu Town is a foreseeable great achievement.

She must use catapults and sharp weapons again to achieve the feat of bombing Dongfu Town!
(End of this chapter)