Love Lock

Chapter 5 The Turks Retreat

"one?"

Alpi was even angrier.

"Yes, General, I wouldn't dare lie." Buga quickly pointed to the other soldiers who had escaped with him. "If you don't believe me, General, you can ask them. They all saw it."

The other soldiers nodded in agreement and began to tell what they had seen.

"Yes, General. We saw it with our own eyes. Only one person came."

"Does that person have three heads and six arms?" Alpi asked incredulously.

"Uh...that's not the case."

"The man's face was covered in dirt, making it impossible to see his features, but he silently killed five or six of us. It was the man himself who said: 'What are you looking at? Want a few more peanuts?'"

"Yes, yes, yes! Behind that person was a huge, strange box made of refined iron. We don't know how many peanuts were in that box, so we could only run back and report."

"enough!"

Alpi found it increasingly fantastical and had to angrily interrupt them. "Did you find those peanuts and bring them back?"

"General, those peanuts are terrifying! They killed our men from a hundred paces away. Our men can't get close at all."

Buka was almost in tears.

In that situation, he didn't even know how his own people died, so where was he supposed to pick up peanuts?
They were just repeating what the Prince of Xiaoyao's reinforcements said themselves.

Alpi paced back and forth, his murderous gaze sweeping over the group of good-for-nothings, muttering to himself, "Reinforcements? Peanuts?"

What's happening here?
Princess Yujia sent spies to infiltrate Ling'an City. With the help of a thousand cattle and sheep, she managed to bribe two of the Prince Xiaoyao's personal guards and assassinate him.

With the death of the Carefree King, Ling'an City will surely be thrown into chaos and unable to support Yong'an City. They can then take advantage of Yong'an City's lack of food and reinforcements to capture it in one fell swoop.

What a great opportunity!

But now the ambush on the Carefree King has failed, and a powerful reinforcement has inexplicably appeared... This...

A powerful reinforcement?
As he pondered, Alpi suddenly seemed to realize something, slapped his forehead, and shouted, "Quick! Quickly relay my order: retreat! Everyone retreat!"

"Yes!"

The messenger immediately turned around and went out to relay the order.

Everyone in the camp sprang into action and began preparing for their retreat.

Alpi hurried back to his desk, picked up a pen and wrote a few lines on a piece of paper, watching as the falconer tied the paper to the hawk's leg.

A moment later, a hawk flew into the depths of the grassland in the afterglow of the setting sun...

Due to the rugged and narrow roads and extremely poor road conditions, it was nearly midnight when Han Lei and Zhao Zun arrived at the North Gate of Yong'an City in the ambulance.

It was quiet both inside and outside the city walls.

There were no shouts of battle, no clashes of weapons, and no sign of a war taking place.

The torches on the city wall illuminated the entire camp.

Through the car window, Xiao Zhengfei could only see soldiers dragging their emaciated bodies down the city wall, carrying arrows, logs, and other defensive supplies.

"What's going on here?"

Xiao Zhengfei was completely bewildered. He turned around and reported what he had seen to Zhao Zun, who was lying in the back of the car.

"Let's go down and take a look." Zhao Zun was also taken aback.

Han Lei found a suitable spot in front of the campsite and parked the car. Xiao Zhengfei unbuckled his seatbelt, opened the car door, and jumped out.

Along the way, under Han Lei's instruction, Xiao Zhengfei has gained a basic understanding of some simple operations in the driver's cab.

The soldiers, who were working, suddenly saw a big guy with two bright eyes, howling as he charged toward the camp.

Everyone was startled and grabbed their weapons, staring warily at the giant monster.

Ma Cheng, the garrison commander of Yong'an City who was on the scene, saw another person jump out from among the crowd. He put his hand on the sword at his waist and cautiously approached.

Before he even got close, Xiao Zhengfei recognized him from the lights of the ambulance.

"General Ma, what's going on? Is the battle over?" Xiao Zhengfei asked loudly.

"Commander Xiao, it's you who have arrived!" Upon hearing Xiao Zhengfei's voice, Ma Cheng was overjoyed, but then spread his hands and replied, "We don't know either! The battle was going very well when the Turks suddenly and inexplicably withdrew their troops."

"They've withdrawn?"

Xiao Zhengfei raised an eyebrow, completely baffled.

Upon hearing that the Turks had suddenly withdrawn their troops, Zhao Zun, who was lying on a stretcher, immediately sat up.

Han Lei turned her head and exchanged a glance with Zhao Zun, both of them looking at each other with a lot of questions in their eyes.

"Quickly help me down!" Zhao Zun said urgently.

In the freezing cold, if the Turks really did withdraw their troops, it would undoubtedly be great news for them.

Han Lei's cart certainly didn't have much food, and the soldiers would still go hungry. But at least they wouldn't have to fight on empty stomachs.

"Oh!"

Han Lei obediently responded, quickly removed the needle from Zhao Zun's hand, and gently helped him out of the back of the car.

"Wait, hold onto the car door and stand still."

The rear cargo bed was quite high, and Zhao Zun was tall, strong, and sturdy, so Han Lei had a lot of trouble supporting him.

Han Lei took a wheelchair from the wall of the carriage, looked at Zhao Zun deeply, and then helped him sit down.

When she got out of the car, she saw that Zhao Zun had clearly aggravated the wound on his thigh, but he didn't even flinch.

What a tough guy!
Han Lei couldn't help but secretly give him a thumbs up in her heart.

Zhao Zun sat in his wheelchair, curiously touching and looking at this and that.

"Your Majesty, wait for me."

Seeing that they had all left the ambulance, Pingchuan panicked. He imitated Han Lei, pulled out the needle, pressed the injection site on the back of his hand, and got out of the ambulance.

Just as Han Lei pushed Zhao Zun around the ambulance, Xiao Zhengfei led Ma Cheng over.

"This humble general greets the Marshal." Upon seeing Zhao Zun, Ma Cheng immediately clasped his hands in a salute.

Zhao Zun was the commander-in-chief of the garrison in the two cities. Normally, the soldiers in the army called him Marshal, and only a few close friends and family members called him Prince.

Zhao Zun nodded. "I heard the Turks withdrew their troops?"

"They suddenly sounded the retreat in the evening, in a panic."

At this point, Ma Cheng suddenly noticed Zhao Zun's bandaged thigh and exclaimed in surprise, "Your Highness, how did you get injured?"

Ma Cheng was stepping forward to lift Zhao Zun's armor and examine his wounds. Suddenly, Han Lei heard a "ding" sound in her mind again—

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for your meritorious service in assisting the retreat of the troops. You are hereby rewarded with a map of the Dajing mineral deposits."

Ok?
Is the Turkic retreat related to me?

Han Lei was completely baffled, but since the system said so, she readily accepted the map.

"Thanks to Miss Han for saving us!"

At this moment, Ma Cheng clasped his hands in a salute to Han Lei, and Han Lei immediately snapped back to reality.

It turned out that in the brief moment she was lost in thought, Zhao Zun had already recounted the ambush to Ma Cheng.

"Don't worry about it, I just happened to run into it."

After exchanging pleasantries with Ma Cheng, Han Lei offered to have him send people to move the grain.

Upon hearing that there was grain, Ma Cheng was overjoyed. He immediately beckoned to a centurion and ordered him to make arrangements right away.

Seeing Han Lei get into the ambulance to move grain, Ma Cheng accompanied Zhao Zun to the central command tent to report on the battle situation.

As Ma Cheng walked, he kept turning back to stare at the ambulance and ask Xiao Zhengfei questions.

"Commander Xiao. What's that? How did you all come out of there? And why is Miss Han's face all colorful?"

When Xiao Zhengfei saw him ask about an ambulance, he immediately became smug and looked at Ma Cheng with the eyes of someone looking at a country bumpkin.

"You mean that? That's a horse-drawn carriage that doesn't need horses to run. Let me tell you, it's incredibly fast, and it doesn't even need to be fed hay..."