Reborn as the Blissful Wife in the countryside Chapter 1583: Siege [5]

The soldiers are also dumbfounded: "Reporting to Lord Troop Commander, your humble servant does not know, the fire in the county town suddenly broke out."

By the time they discovered it, the flames were already soaring into the sky.

Bam!

Troop Commander Li kicked over a soldier, cursing: "Don’t know? What’s your duty on guard? Such a big incident happened, you don’t know? What use are you? Where is Liu Rong? Get Liu Rong here!"

"Your humble servant will immediately go find Chief Commander Liu." The soldier next to him who hadn’t been kicked ran away at once, and returned shortly saying: "Lord Troop Commander, Chief Commander Liu has already gone to investigate the situation and will be back soon."

Not here?

At this time, Liu Rong isn’t here!

Troop Commander Li is very angry, hurriedly ordering the soldiers: "It’s an enemy attack, quickly sound the gong and wave the flags to gather troops, don’t disperse the forces!"

Troop Commander Li is just annoyed that a troop commander like him was assigned to guard Guanlu County, but he isn’t a fool. Remembering what Yao Wan reported, he knows the Rong people must have initiated the attack, and immediately orders the gathering of troops.

"Yes." The soldiers took up the copper gong, galloping through the camp, shouting: "Enemy attack, enemy attack, troop commander orders, wave flags to gather troops!"

The soldiers running around like headless flies in the camp heard this and looked up and around, seeing the military flags waving high, immediately picked up their weapons and gathered towards the place where the flags were waving.

Zhang Zhong had already seized a horse, pulling Tang Ling, who came to testify, onto the horse, rushing directly to Troop Commander Li’s residence... This camp is the Military Office of Guanlu County, thus it has a courtyard, which became Troop Commander Li’s residence after he arrived.

"Troop Commander Li, the Rong people have already taken action, please quickly lead troops to Guanlu County town to rescue the people!" Zhang Zhong shouted towards Troop Commander Li.

Troop Commander Li roared: "I know, I’m gathering troops now, I’ll take troops to the county town to kill the Rong people!"

He asked again: "Where is your Company Commander? Quickly send him a message, have him bring his subordinates to the county town to help. The Rong people are too many and fight better than us, if we don’t gather more troops, Guanlu County is in danger!"

Zhang Zhong said: "Company Commander Qin is cleaning up Golden Tent Troop Commander at Shi Family Manor. Once Golden Tent Troop Commander is killed, he will come immediately."

Fearing Troop Commander Li would be angry at Company Commander Qin, he added: "Lord Troop Commander, our Company Commander has been quietly cleaning up the Rong people lurking in various villages these days, reducing the Rong population in Guanlu County by at least thirty percent, alleviating a significant burden!"

Troop Commander Li listened, finally not becoming angry, but still said: "Send a message to your Company Commander, urging him to bring troops to support quickly."

Then he flipped onto his horse, raised his sword, and yelled to the gathered soldiers: "Rong people surprise attack, all soldiers follow me quickly to the county town, guard Guanlu County!"

He added: "Anyone daring to disobey orders or desert will have their entire family executed as a consequence!"

"Yes!" The soldiers responded.

Troop Commander Li saw that almost everyone had gathered and ordered: "Take the shortcut, set off!"

Upon the order, nearly a thousand soldiers in the camp collectively advanced towards Guanlu County.

But just after setting out, they encountered a small group of Rong army.

This Rong army was lighting rockets, shooting towards the camp.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

The burning arrows were like fire raining from the sky, attacking the camp.

This camp is the Military Office of Guanlu County, with only two houses, more tents, which caught fire from the rockets. The tents burned fiercely, and in a short while, the camp became a sea of fire.

"Archers, shoot arrows!" Troop Commander Li was furious, immediately ordering the archers to shoot back.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

The archers attacked the group of Rong people firing rockets, arrows densely raining down, injuring dozens of Rong people.

"Shoot again!" Troop Commander Li shouted, arrows flew out again, wounding many more.

"Charge, kill these beasts!" Troop Commander Li ordered, and the cavalry were the first to rush and hack at the Rong people.

Zhang Zhong and Tang Ling also rode up, wielding a large knife slashing at the Rong people, aiming specifically for vital spots.

Crack, crack, crack!

The sound of knives slashing Rong people was relentless, Troop Commander Li and his side surrounded them, hacking away thanks to their numbers.

The Rong people screamed miserably, speaking what sounded like incomprehensible Rong language, presumably attempting to signal retreat to their companions, but unfortunately for them, their numbers were small, Troop Commander Li’s side was large, and after a little more than a quarter of an hour, they were all killed.

The soldiers were greatly encouraged, cheering loudly.

Troop Commander Li took the opportunity to say: "Did you see that, Rong people are no big deal, show your wolf-like vigor, kill these Rong people."

He added: "Take their weapons, rush to the county town to resist the enemy!"

"Yes!" The soldiers responded, echoing like thunder, grabbing the Rong people’s weapons, and headed towards the county town.

Zhang Zhong dismounted, rummaged through the body of the Rong Section Leader, and surprisingly found two packets of medicine powder, uncertain if it was poison.

He didn’t dare to be careless, packed up the medicine bags, mounted his horse, and said to Yao Wan beside him: "Let’s go!"

"Aye," Yao Wan replied, enduring the pain, gritting his teeth as he rode and followed.

Yao Wan was quite bold, having been beaten unconscious during the day, and now still able to ride by himself.

Not running wasn’t an option, the Rong people burned down the Military Office, if he stayed in it, he would be burned to death.

"Troop Commander Li, the Rong people might carry poison, have the soldiers be cautious." Zhang Zhong hurried to remind after catching up with Troop Commander Li.

What?

These beasts even carry poison!

Troop Commander Li was stunned but dared not shout loudly. Fearing it would dampen the soldiers’ morale, he could only ask Zhang Zhong: "If it’s really poison, do you have a way to counteract it?"

It was heard that during Company Commander Qin’s cleanup of lurking Rong people, he used poison to knock out Rong guards, so would Zhang Zhong have antidote?

Zhang Zhong indeed had some, he pulled out a bag of Detoxification Pills he carried, handing it to Troop Commander Li: "Not many, just over a hundred pills, Troop Commander Li can distribute among the soldiers to take for precaution."

As for the allocation of the Detoxification Pills, Zhang Zhong left it to Troop Commander Li to handle.

Troop Commander Li, having fought battles before, kept one for himself, then distributed the Detoxification Pills to Company Commanders, Chief Commanders, Section Leaders, and cavalry.

During face-to-face combat, the cavalry’s fighting power is superior to infantry, so preserve the cavalry first.

The men continued galloping while eating the Detoxification Pills, arriving outside Guanlu County town by the time all the pills were distributed.

Guanlu County was truly tragic, several batches of Rong people were lurking in the county town. Upon receiving the Great General’s orders, the Rong people in town started causing chaos.

The county government was stormed, all the government officials inside were killed, the Lord County Magistrate also was slain, his family suffered miserably...

County town’s wealthy families faced the same fate, the lurking Rong people had already investigated how many wealthy families were in the county town long before. Once the orders for early assault were received, the Rong people went straight to these wealthy families to loot food.

But they had to rush to Xing’an Prefecture, with little time for atrocities, upon realizing they couldn’t carry much, they simply poured pine oil and set it on fire.

Thus, the whole county town was set ablaze.

"I am Troop Commander Li guarding Guanlu County, open the city gate quickly and let me in!" Troop Commander Li shouted anxiously, looking at the blaze in the county town and hearing the shouting and killing sounds inside, urging the soldiers defending the city to let them in immediately.