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

Chapter 1265 Killing the Western Helmsman
The old craftsman Cui from the supply battalion shouted, "Fellow disciples, let's use the true skills given to us by our ancestor to find all the tunnels dug by the enemy, earn military merit, and bring blessings to our descendants!"

Some of the slave artisans were extremely excited, shouting, "We swear to drag out all the enemy rats!"

Only by achieving military merit could a craftsman conscripted into the army remove his family's status as a slave and change his social standing.

Now that the opportunity has come, they must die to earn this military merit... With their deaths, their descendants can live openly and honestly as citizens of Wei.

"Shieldbearers form ranks to protect the artisans; elite troops move out in groups of three to provide close protection for the artisans; the artisans move in shifts to prevent them from being wiped out by the hidden enemy forces!"

"The rest of the Wei troops shall be on alert and search the area within half a mile, and be wary of enemy attacks from afar or poisonous attacks within the town!" After discussing the matter, Commander Fan and Commander Zhen issued these military orders.

Commander Zhen is more capable of leading troops to kill the enemy than Commander Fan. He is stationed here, waiting to enter the tunnels to kill the enemy.

Commander Fan led his troops to guard the area, search for and eliminate small groups of enemy soldiers.

"Chief Sun, Master Ye, Chief Wen, you should lead the mountain warriors and female guards to stay where you are and follow Commander Zhen... This is a battlefield, you must not be separated from your men!" Commander Fan earnestly reminded them before leaving with his troops.

He shouted excitedly, "Kids, strip the enemy's armor off their corpses, and their boots too! Those are leather boots, they're worth a fortune!"

"Collect the corpses and body parts of enemy generals of the rank of centurion and above. These are all military merits! Be careful not to touch the corpses with your wounded hands. They eat meat and have many diseases. Don't get infected!"

"Understood!" The soldiers under Commander Fan rushed towards the enemy corpses, tearing off pieces of spoils, some even finding gold, silver, and jewels.

The enemy army killed Wei soldiers along the way and looted a lot of good things, so there were quite a few enemy soldiers with gold and silver treasures, which made Zhen Qianhu's troops extremely envious.

"What are you looking at? Put your eyes back in your pockets! Be on guard, keep an eye on the enemy, don't get shot in the back!" Commander Zhen said, "After the spoils are collected, they will be handed over at the meeting, and you will definitely get a share."

"Yes!" The soldiers withdrew their gaze, took up their shields and swords, and stood guard near the ruins.

Bang bang bang, thud thud thud, clang clang clang, the craftsmen of all ages have taken out their tools and are hammering and banging in this area, while also lying on the ground listening to the sounds.

A discovery was made very quickly.

“There are two tunnel entrances, one inside the ruins and the other newly dug in the courtyard of the ruins.” Master Bi called out, beckoning to his apprentice, as well as Master Gong and Master Liu: “Follow me this way, walk, walk… Stop. According to the original tunnel entrance and the newly dug tunnel entrance, the true path of the original tunnel entrance is under the wall of this courtyard.”

Clang!

Old Craftsman Bi struck the ground with a long, sharp iron pestle and looked at Old Craftsman Cui: "Sir, the tunnels are intricate and difficult to explore from the ground, so the next step is to measure both the inside and outside simultaneously."

"What do you mean?" Zhen Qianhu asked.

Old Master Cui said, "The key is to lead the troops into the tunnels and traverse them one by one, with assistance from both inside and outside, in order to know how many tunnels the enemy has dug and the direction of each tunnel. Otherwise, it's just blind guessing, which is not only time-consuming but also has a 50% chance of being wrong."

Commander Zhen: "Simple, I'll send troops down into the tunnels right away!"

"Wait a minute," said Chief Shanshan. "Commander Zhen, Qin Dongjia has written a plan for using weapons in the tunnels. He says that we can use small, sharp weapons to bring poison into the tunnels first. This will allow us to scout ahead for our army and subdue the enemy troops inside the tunnels."

When deciding to enter Dongfu Town to sweep away the enemy, Qin Xiaomi considered the possibility of tunnels in Dongfu Town and devised a battle plan to use sharp weapons such as small balls and poison to create tunnels to kill the enemy.

"Chief Sun, do you have that battle plan with you? Let me take a look." Commander Zhen reached out his hand.

Leader Shanshan handed the battle plan to Commander Zhen.

After reading it, Commander Zhen immediately approved: "This battle plan is feasible. Xiao Lü, Mu Da, Mu Er, Su Youguo, Zhao Zhisheng, and Lao Fang, come and take a look at this battle plan. I will distribute the weapon, the small ball, to you right away!" "Yes, sir!" The vanguard, scouts, and elite troops all came over, read the tunnel battle plan, and thought it was very good.

"Come on, a small ball of sharp weapon and a one-ounce gunpowder pack, one for each person, line up to get them!" Commander Zhen shouted, and as he distributed them, he felt increasingly pained: "Little Lü, don't be too generous, use them sparingly. I only have six hundred jin, and you've already used up fifty jin of mine as soon as we entered Dongfu Town!"

"However, it was built quite well. Several enemy generals were killed, hahaha!" Zhen Qianhu looked at the armor of Xi Adan and other officers, the dismembered corpse of Xi Yuerduo, and the more than three thousand enemy corpses, and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Officer, make sure you register all of these merits!"

"Yes." The officers took out paper and pen and made the registration... They were not scholars, but regular Wei soldiers who could read. So they did the registration work after the battle and then got more military pay.

"Commander Zhen, we also need to go down into the tunnels to fight the enemy!" Ye Xifen and Aunt Wen brought over a group of mountain heroes.

Zhen Qianhu frowned: "You are women. If you encounter the enemy, the consequences will be unimaginable... Master Ye may not understand, but Chief Wen certainly does."

Aunt Wen said, "I understand. My sister was captured by enemy spies and taken to the old village to be a slave... All the women from the mountain village who participated in the battle knew about these experiences before they went to the battlefield, but we were determined to fight to the death!"

"After death, everything that happens to the corpse is a matter of the body."

"Moreover, we mountain people need such military merits. If we are afraid to fight, it might become an excuse for some evil people in the mountains to remove the female chieftain. This is worse than killing us. Because it would destroy our spirit! Even the mountain god would die without a spirit, let alone us?"

"Don't be superstitious or supernatural," Zhen Qianhu almost blurted out.

But Commander Zhen was a professional, and he only said, "I will not stop you from fighting the enemy and protecting the country, but you must promise not to be a burden to the Wei army... We only want comrades who can fight the enemy together, not burdens!"

It's a harsh truth, but it's the truth.

“Of course, no one wants a comrade who will be a burden to them,” Aunt Wen said. “We can sign a pledge that if we are captured by the enemy, we will only die in battle and will never be a burden to the other Wei soldiers!”

"Alright, officer, write a pledge and have the female warriors fighting in the tunnels sign it!" Commander Zhen agreed.

"Yes!" The officer didn't even pick up a pen, because they had a bag of pre-written military orders. They took one out, changed a few words, and handed it to Aunt Wen: "Aunt, this is a military order. Just sign it and put your fingerprint on it."

Aunt Wen took it, signed it, and pressed her hand on it.

Ahei, Aling, Ye Xifen, Shan Ying and the other women... Finally, Leader Shan Shan and thirty of the strongest female guards, prepared to die in battle, also signed the pledge.

dong dong dong, dong dong dong!
"Assemble and enter the tunnel in batches!" Commander Zhen ordered, then said to the two scouts, Mu Da and Mu Er, "You two lead the way, and split up at the forks in the road, with Xiao Lü filling in."

"According to what Qin Dongjia wrote, when a large number of enemy troops surround and attack inside the tunnel, a signal is sent to the surface. The craftsmen will locate the location and bombard the tunnel from the surface to kill the enemy! Enter the tunnel and kill the enemy!"

"Order!"

"Order!"

"Order!"

The Wei soldiers responded, and General Mu took out a fireball, a sharp weapon. He pulled a lever, and the smoking fireball rolled into the tunnel.

Rumbling sounds echoed from inside the tunnel, and a faint scream could be heard.

(End of this chapter)