The rebel army's foremost master craftsman forged a million iron pylons!

"Tell me, where exactly are Li Tian and his gang of traitors hiding?"

"If you don't talk, I'll take your heads."

The dull crack of the whip echoed through the air once more.

These blacksmith apprentices were beaten and bruised, but not one of them uttered a sound.

The current imperial court is levying exorbitant taxes and imposing a system of collective punishment. If they admit to colluding with the rebel army, their entire families will suffer.

Such is the cruelty of the world; in this era of war, human life is truly as worthless as grass.

Li Tian was heartbroken at the sight and wished he could rush forward and wipe out all these armored soldiers, but reason told him that he couldn't do that.

Because the armored army still had a large number of civilians under their control.

Just then, a faint sound of horses' hooves came from afar, which Li Tian could hear clearly with his keen hearing.

Li Tian immediately turned around and headed back towards the original earthen slope.

On the earthen slope, six horses were parked. Wu Laoliu, Chen Jing, Chen Junshan, Sun Sanqian, Sun Sheng, and Zhao Erbao had all arrived. Three of the horses had two baskets on their backs, containing six repeating crossbows and hundreds of arrows.

Li Tian nodded slightly, then picked up a twig from the ground and drew a formation diagram.

"Old Wu, you take two crossbows and ambush on the east side."

"Sun Sheng, you're in charge of the west side."

"Zhao Erbao and Sun Sanqian, one from the south and one from the north."

"The rest of you, follow me and fight to save the people."

"yes!"

Several men responded in hushed tones, each taking a repeating crossbow from their baskets, and then began searching for suitable ambush points.

Li Tian stood on the earthen slope and observed for a while. Seeing that these people had already ambushed in the corresponding positions and had set up their crossbows, he led Chen Junshan and Chen Jing to secretly ambush on the west side of the grove.

The second incense stick finally burned out.

Just as a soldier stepped forward to insert the third incense stick into the incense burner, a short arrow suddenly flew out from the dense forest and pierced the man's throat.

Followed by.

Crackle, crackle.

Arrows flew like locusts.

Countless arrows flew from all directions toward the thirty-odd armored soldiers.

The power of the repeating crossbow was immense; it could pierce cowhide from three hundred paces away.

In a short time, the armored army suffered heavy losses, losing more than half of its troops.

What happened?

As the first wave of arrows approached, Su Xiong rolled to the ground, and a long arrow grazed his scalp before flying to the ground.

Before they could react, several screams rang out, and the guards around Su Xiong fell to the ground.

Immediately afterward, a third wave of arrows struck, and Su Xiong was hit in the left shoulder. He could no longer care about anything else and frantically ran towards his warhorse.

Su Xiong's warhorse was a rare and excellent steed; it had already galloped dozens of meters ahead. Li Tian, ​​who was in the woods, glanced at it and thought to himself, "You're fast!"

Then he withdrew his gaze and turned it to the battlefield outside the woods.

"kill!"

With a roar, Li Tian led Chen Jing, Chen Junshan and others out of the woods, and Wu Laoliu and others also came out from their hiding place.

Although the imperial armored forces were elite, most of them were already wounded, so how could they be a match for Li Tian and his group?

Chi Chi!

The sharp blade struck flesh with a muffled thud, and the battlefield was instantly littered with corpses and rivers of blood.

"Kill these bastards."

At this moment, someone among the villagers shouted first, and the group of villagers suddenly ran towards the burned-down Yu Family Village, picked up hoes and wooden sticks from the ground, turned back, and launched a fierce attack on the armored soldiers who were already injured and unable to move.

In the blink of an eye.

The dozen or so wounded armored soldiers lying on the ground were killed instantly; it was a gruesome sight.

"Li Wuzhang, you're back."

Upon seeing Li Wu and the others again, Old Man Yu was so moved that tears welled up in his eyes.

"Um."

Li Tian nodded slightly, glanced at the excited crowd and the dozen or so men tied to the tree, and said calmly.

"Let's rescue them first. The rest of you, come with me into the mountains to hide for a while."

"Yes, yes, Corporal Li is right. Only after those bastards Su Xiong are gone can we live a proper life."

The group quickly lowered the men from the tree. They were all seriously injured and collapsed to the ground almost immediately after being untied from the tree.

"Quickly, quickly find an oxcart, let's go into the mountains and hide right now!" someone shouted.

"No need for that, there's no time."

Li Tian said calmly, "Chen Junshan, Chen Jing, Zhao Erbao, and everyone from Wolf Head Fort, each carry one of them. Help the rest onto their warhorses. We'll head into the mountains now."

The group marched in a grand procession toward the nearby mountains. Everyone knew that the imperial armored forces would arrive quickly, in about half an hour.

Deep in the mountains and dense forests.

Li Tian led several hundred villagers from nearby villages on a walk through the mountains and rivers.

Because this area frequently suffers from war, these villagers have developed corresponding coping mechanisms to avoid such disasters.

As soon as they entered the mountains, a villager said to Li Tiandao, "Li Wuzhang, you don't need to worry about us. We know this mountain forest better than you do."

"If you find a cave to hide in, you can avoid the calamity of war."

"When it gets dark, we'll go back to our house through the tunnel we dug and get some food. We can survive in the mountains for seven or eight days without any problem."

"Yes, yes, yes, us too. We've been playing in these mountains since we were little, and we know this forest like the back of our hand," someone immediately chimed in.

Li Tian breathed a long sigh of relief. To be honest, if he really had to lead so many people to survive in the mountains, just the issue of food would give him a headache for most of the day.

Li Tian cupped his hands in greeting to the villagers, saying, "Thank you all for your trouble. Please take shelter for now and wait three to five days. I will go to Nankai City to fetch reinforcements."

"Drive all these imperial armored soldiers away."

The villagers nodded and went off in twos and threes, while Li Tian and his group continued to walk through the mountains and forests carrying the wounded.

"Squad leader, where do we go next?" Wu Laoliu asked.

"Let's go back to Wolfhead Castle."

"Above the underground tomb is the imperial army camp."

"We can only go back to Wolf Head Fortress now," Li Tiandao said.

Several people carried the wounded and headed from west to east, taking several mountain paths towards Wolf Head Fortress.

Along the way, imperial cavalry frequently galloped past, creating a scene of chaos and turmoil.

Fortunately.

Li Tian's intuition was extraordinary.

Whenever he encountered the imperial army's armored vehicles, he would first order his men to hide.

After walking for about four or five hours, the outline of Wolf Head Fortress began to appear in the distance.

Li Tian and his group hid in the dense forest.

"Old Wu, go up and check the situation. See if anything's wrong up there."

"Unless there are special circumstances, let's lower the suspension bridge directly."

Li Tian said to Wu Laoliu.

"Yes"

Wu Laoliu nodded, looked around, and finding nothing unusual, he ran towards Wolf Head Fortress at the fastest speed he had ever traveled.

brush!

Without stopping, as soon as he arrived at the foot of the cliff, Wu Laoliu threw a five-pronged hook upwards, which embedded itself in the crevice of the rock, and then climbed upwards like a gecko.