Chapter 1388
Escape from Zhang City
Chapter 1388 Escaping Back to the City
Guan, the head镖师 (bodyguard/escort), knew this very well, so he shouted the code given by his master: "The Divine Child crosses the Desert Sea, the Lord of the Universe bestows red gold! This is the code given by my master. Ask your generals if they have heard this code before. We are..."
"We're in this together," Guan, the镖头 (bodyguard/escort), couldn't bring himself to say.
To say it would be treason and collusion with the enemy.
So he just kept repeating that code phrase.
The enemy's commander of a thousand soldiers was a true nobleman. He had heard from a member of the royal family when they went to the royal court to discuss the destruction of Wei.
but……
"You worthless bastards from Wei, not only are you useless, but you're also stupid. Do you really think that after we destroy Wei, we'll hand over our territory to that so-called Yu Zhu? Dream on! Even your Yu Zhu will be slaughtered by us!" General Nan Ge ordered, "Charge! Don't use arrows. Capture them alive and kill them slowly. Killing them too quickly won't be fun."
"Yes!" The Eastern Desert soldiers under his command roared and spurred their horses toward the镖师 (bodyguard/escort) camp.
A few meters away from Guan Biao and his men, the horse stopped and circled around them, howling. Even before drawing its sword, it had frightened many Wei civilians into fainting.
"Sir, sir, we'll give you our money, food, women, and a bunch of unmarried girls. We just beg you to spare our lives!"
Behind the wall of bodyguards, someone shouted this, and it was Elder Li Si.
Everyone was stunned, staring at him in disbelief: "You're a scholar!"
"What's wrong with scholars? Scholars need to live too! The Second Escort and the others are dead, and there are enemy troops behind them. The enemy troops are riding their horses back and forth, trampling on the corpses. They're not human, they're ghosts, they're ghosts... If we don't give up something, how will the men of each family survive?!" Elder Li Si was terrified by the enemy troops shooting the Second Escort and trampling on the corpses. All he wanted was to live.
No matter what the price of living is, all he wants is to live!
Half of the troops in the southern part of the Eastern Desert are from the East, since they rely on the appearance of people from the East to carry out infiltration and espionage.
Therefore, the general in the east quickly relayed this message to Nango: "Nango nobleman, Old Man Liang Wei said that he wants to offer you women. There are a group of unmarried girls among them. He only asks that you give their men a way to survive."
Nango frowned (he had no eyebrows; they liked to shave them), puzzled: "Does this nobleman need them to offer sacrifices? If we kill them all, wouldn't the women and land all belong to our Eastern Desert?"
Nan Ge really couldn't understand the mind of the Liang Wei people. From the moment the policy of destroying Wei was decided, Dong Mo regarded everything in Liang Wei as Dong Mo's property, and the Liang Wei people actually wanted to use their property to buy them off.
That's absolutely outrageous!
Nango said, "Make them hand over the person who shouted the message, dissect him in public, and let the bastard Liang Wei face reality and stop coveting our Eastern Desert's property!"
"Yes." General Dong Xin of the East accepted the order and led a group of men to the front of the confrontation between the two sides. He said in the Great Wei language, "The True Noble has ordered that the old man who shouted to offer his property be brought over. We have something to discuss with him."
This?
The head镖师 (bodyguard/escort), the镖师 (bodyguards/escorts), and the villagers all heard it and were shocked that the enemy soldiers could speak such fluent Wei dialect.
They hurriedly discussed, "Should we send Elder Li Er, Elder Li Si, Elder Li Wu, and Elder Yun to the enemy?"
"This is outrageous and disrespectful to elders! We are elders, clan elders! The sons who are in charge should go and negotiate with the enemy, while we elders stay behind to advise them." Elder Li Si, as expected of a scholar, knew how to speak.
"Come on, take Elder Li Si to the enemy!" Chief镖头 Guan wouldn't waste time with them; he'd give the enemy whatever they wanted.
Anyway, he's an old man, the enemy can't exactly do *that* to an old man, right? So give him to the old man, the loss is small, give him to him!
Everyone was a die-hard comrade, and they quickly subdued the four elders of the Li clan, then had the bodyguards escort them to the enemy.
"Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!" Elder Li Si cried out in terror, but no one paid him any attention. They were all focused on the enemy army, afraid that when the enemy was taking in the old man, they would rush over and kill them. Fortunately, Dong Xin did not. After taking in the old man, he did not harm the镖师 (bodyguards/escorts), but only ordered his Eastern soldiers: "Strip them naked, tie them up, and kill them in front of them, so they will understand that the property of my Divine Protector of the Eastern Desert is not to be coveted!"
"Yes," the Eastern soldier replied, and began the slaughtering work.
They were speaking in the Dongmo dialect, which the villagers couldn't understand. They could only watch and see what the villagers wanted to do to the old man.
With a ripping sound, the clothes were removed and tied to a horizontal wooden frame, and the wooden bucket and tool basin were also prepared.
The villagers were bewildered, and Guan, the head镖师 (bodyguard/escort), frowned deeply... This was definitely the scene of slaughtering a pig for the New Year.
The rumors that the Eastern Desert built slaughterhouses and used Wei people as military rations seem to be true.
"Ugh! Ugh! Ugh!" Elder Li Si also noticed something was wrong, crying out in despair and confusion... Why? So many women, so much grain and gold, and the镖师's horses, why did you rob them? Why did you target an old man like me?!
"Ahhh, get away, get away, don't come any closer!" From behind the镖师 (bodyguard/escort) camp, the enemy troops rode up and surrounded them.
The local militia members and men from various clans formed a human wall, waving torches, wooden sticks, and machetes, trying to drive away the enemy troops.
But this posed no threat to the enemy. The enemy even laughed and said in the language of the Eastern Desert, "The Liangwei bastards are indeed useless, even more delicate than our women."
"You think you can kill the enemy with just a torch, a stick, and a blunt kitchen knife? Are the people of Liangwei out of their minds?"
"Hahaha, of course their brains are not normal. What normal person would take the initiative to seek out an enemy country and ask it to send troops to their own country? Even the noble Nango has been thinking about this for years and still can't figure it out."
"Ahhh! Don't come any closer! If you do, we'll fight you to the death! We'll drag you down with us even if it kills us!!" The village militia and the men of the village roared ferociously.
But it was no use; the enemy wasn't afraid at all.
"The divine son crosses the desert sea, the lord of the universe bestows red gold..." Guan, the head镖师 (bodyguard/escort), kept shouting, hoping that the enemy would keep their word, recognize the code, and spare their lives.
But the enemy thought he was sick.
"Li Hui, Li Hui, where are you going? Come back here!" Li Wenhu's mother instinctively kept a close eye on Li Hui and, sure enough, saw him quietly slipping out of the camp.
"Shut up, you stupid woman!" Enraged after his whereabouts were exposed, Li Hui rushed back and began punching and kicking his wife: "Stupid woman, stupid woman! You don't help your man escape, you only drag him down! What use are you!"
"Father, stop!" Li Wenhu, despite his illness, tried to stop Li Hui, but he was also beaten.
Bang bang bang! Li Hui cursed in disgust: "Useless thing, you only drag me down... Hurry up and grab the knife to the front to fight off the enemy and protect our parents!"
"Hu-ge'er, protect yourself. Your parents are old and have lived enough. Go back to the city and live a good life with Liu. She's a good woman, she can manage the household. Don't think about changing wives again." Li Wenhu's mother suddenly came to her senses, rushed over, knocked Li Hui down, snatched the knife from his hand, and held it in her own, threatening him: "As parents, we must protect our children, do you understand?!"
Did you understand?
He kept asking the same question repeatedly, and even slashed at the ground with his knife. Li Hui was so frightened that his ears rang, and in a daze, he heard a thunderclap explode in his ears.
The explosions were deafening.
Idiot, you don't have tinnitus, the Wei army has come to your rescue.
Behind the镖师 (bodyguards/escorts) camp, the enemy troops who were slowly approaching the wall of local militia were feeling triumphant when several packages of sharp weapons came from behind, landed, exploded, and knocked them down.