Reborn as the Blissful Wife in the countryside Chapter 1536: Ambushed

The tunnel in Beicang Prefecture is almost completely dug. It’s currently at the stage of reinforcing the inner walls and working on drainage. Therefore, Tuogude is more at ease and has recently been able to sleep well.

This particular night, Tuogude was in deep sleep, suddenly awakened by the urgent knocking on the door: "Master, the charcoal workshop in the north of the city is on fire!"

Tuogude awoke with a start, immediately turning over and getting up, grabbing his waist knife before opening the door. He clutched the old accountant’s collar and angrily questioned, "How could the charcoal workshop catch fire? What about the fifth and third houses? Have they been burned too? Was it a careless accident, or did someone set the fire on purpose?"

The old accountant, Hu Ang, replied sternly: "Someone intentionally threw a pine oil-filled sheepskin ball inside, igniting the workshop and several houses. The fire is massive."

"Someone set the fire on purpose!" Hearing this, Tuogude’s eyes were wide with rage. He cursed in the Da Rong language, pushed Hu Ang aside, and swiftly headed outside the courtyard, commanding, "Gather everyone to the houses over there. Putting out the fire comes second. The most important thing is to guard those houses and not let anyone inside!"

The houses burning isn’t an issue, as long as no one goes inside to rummage through the debris, the tunnel won’t be discovered.

If the tunnel remains secure, Da Rong’s occupation of the Central Plains and the annexation of Great Chu will be accomplished!

"Understood!" Hu Ang immediately struck the piece of iron hanging from his waist.

This iron piece had holes, producing a crisp sound, and once struck, it was heard throughout the Yang Mansion and the neighboring estate.

Ding ding ding!

After the sound rang out, soon enough, people from both estates gathered together. Tuogude was already on horseback, pointing towards the north of the city and shouting: "March!"

He led the charge, galloping towards the northern houses. Those disguised as servants and the palace guards followed immediately, rushing towards the north of the city without regard for their lives.

But in their haste and chaos caused by the fire, they failed to anticipate Luo Ying’s ambush set up outside East City Wenchang Street.

As Tuogude’s horse just left Wenchang Street, a volley of sharp arrows shot towards them.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

The sharp arrows flashed with blinding white light in the dim night.

Upon hearing the wind-breaking sound of the sharp arrows, Tuogude immediately abandoned his horse, rolling off to the ground.

But the ambushers seemed to know him inside out; whoosh whoosh whoosh, another wave of wind-breaking sounds came, with a batch of sharp arrows shot directly along the ground.

With several thuds, the sound of arrows piercing flesh, over a dozen Rong people in the Witch Army were hit by the arrows, immobilized on the ground.

Tuogude, being clever and highly skilled, evaded this wave of arrows with experience. Yet he realized that the ambushers were experts with extensive battlefield fighting experience; otherwise, they wouldn’t have understood to immediately follow the first wave of arrow rain with another wave sweeping the ground.

"Retreat!" Tuogude had no time to engage with the ambushers. Seeing the impassable front, he decided to retreat and attempt to detour to the north of the city.

"Master, the arrows are poisoned, Ah Lei and others have been poisoned and have passed out." Hu Ang was holding Ah Lei, using a long needle he carried to prick the acupoint at the back of Ah Lei’s neck, but it couldn’t wake him up.

Upon hearing this, Tuogude became even more furious with the ambushers and immediately said, "Leave them behind, rush to the north of the city with full speed!"

With that said, he took advantage of the new wave of arrow rain arriving soon and rolled to the side, running along the wall of a nearby mansion. After running a few steps, Tuogude changed his plan, ordering his Witch Army, "These people are veterans, they must have set an ambush on the back route as well. Retreating to detour is not feasible, climb over the wall into the Yan Family, go through their courtyards to avoid their ambush!"

"Yes." Hu Ang immediately left Ah Lei and the others, following Tuogude.

Several people of the Yang Family also followed the crowd, scared half to death... Although they were Rong people, they had lived in Beicang Prefecture for several generations, studying the rules of Great Chu, never witnessing such events of leaving behind fellow soldiers who were not dead yet.

Yang Laoer held tightly to Elder Yang, trembling as he said, "Dad, why don’t we go home? Just let them go to the north... I don’t want to die."

"What are you saying?!" Hearing this, a few Witch Army at the rear grabbed Yang Laoer and threw him over the Yan Family’s wall, reporting his earlier words to Tuogude.

Tuogude sneered coldly, raised his large knife, and with a slash, chopped off Yang Laoer’s head.

When Elder Yang and Yang Laoda were thrown in after, the sight they saw was the decapitated Yang Laoer, frightening them to the point that they screamed, collapsing to the ground, pointing at Yang Laoer’s corpse, shouting silently, unable to utter a word.

Tuogude stepped forward, kicking Elder Yang over, saying, "Remember, Rong people are only warriors, there are no cowards. Should your family dare to retreat at this time, the end is death!"

"Yes, yes~" Elder Yang and Yang Laoda responded, nearly fainting, yet they dared not harbor any thoughts of retreat but instead, followed Tuogude, single-mindedly aiming to head north to protect the houses and prevent anyone from discovering the tunnel.

"Who?!" The Yan Family’s guard, hearing the commotion, came to check it out.

But they shouldn’t have come at this time, Tuogude had everyone wear sheepskin masks, covering their faces, then directly ordered, "Kill them, leave none alive."

Since they were discovered, these Yan Family guards couldn’t be left alive. Once things calmed down, they would blame the Yan Family’s deaths on the fierce bandits, claiming that bandits entered the city to set fire and kill people.

The Witch Army, receiving the order, immediately charged forward, slaughtering all of the patrolling Yan guards within less than a quarter-hour.

The Eagle Food Gang members, hearing the disturbance involving the Yan Family, immediately scaled the wall to enter: "Hell, the Witch Army is killing people, brothers quickly kill in and slaughter those bastards, don’t let them run wild on our turf!"

"Yes!" The fierce bandits of the Eagle Food Gang immediately rushed in, engaging the Witch Army left to silence witnesses in combat, while Tuogude led half of the Witch Army towards the north of the city.

Upon hearing the commotion, Old Master Yan promptly led the remaining guards over. Seeing the two groups fighting and the corpses strewn on the ground, he was almost scared to death. Hastily making hand gestures to the Guardian Master, he said, "Quick, retreat quickly~"

The Yan Family members quickly withdrew again.

"Close the doors, close the courtyard gate~" Old Master Yan’s legs were too weak, causing him to sit on the ground with a thud.

The Guardian Master of the Yan Family hurriedly led people to close the courtyard gate, returned to support Old Master Yan, saying, "Master, the door is closed, they cannot get out for now. Let’s quickly report to the authorities at the government office, these two groups look like wicked people."

Old Master Yan nodded, saying, "Yes, yes, report to the authorities, quickly send someone to report to the authorities."

He then grabbed the Guardian Master, saying, "You take the people with me to the backyard, get the madam, the young miss, the young madam, them, and our Xiao Ying’er out of here, this mansion cannot stay, the evil men have entered!"

"You two quickly go to the government office to report, the rest of you follow me to the backyard to escort the family women away." The Guardian Master immediately instructed, the women must not come to harm. If the women were disgraced, it would tarnish the Yan Family’s reputation, and they as guards would be beaten to death by the family, nobody could escape unscathed.

"Yes." The Yan Family guards immediately busied themselves.

The Yan Family women, upon hearing that evil men entered the house and many patrolling guards died, were so scared they sobbed uncontrollably.

Old Master Yan, anxious, cursed: "Damn it, stop crying now, those thugs are still in our house, do you want to lure them here? Quickly follow me, let’s hide outside?!"

He further asked, "Where is Xiao Ying’er? Has Xiao Ying’er come yet?"