Chapter 24: Coarse Iron Sand

  "Oh?" Upon hearing that Tang Kun had a rough iron sand in his hand, Zhou Yue's heart moved and he nodded after a moment of contemplation: "Alright, it's a deal. Let's just forget about the past favor. Just don't take me for an escaped prisoner again, Commander Tang."

  At the moment, Zhou Yue handed over the remaining five pieces of rice cake to Tang Kun, and Tang Kun collected a total of 150 copper plates from nine other soldiers. Now, who knows how to use these copper plates that are supposed to be used as currency? It's clearly issued by the Yellow Turbans, but is it supposed to be spent with the Yellow Turbans? This is obviously impossible, so everyone didn't take it seriously.

  Zhou Yue didn't really expect much, but there was no way around it. As he saw it now, with his skills, gold, silver, treasures, beauties, and luxury cars were all trash that could be obtained with a flick of his wrist. So, trading wasn't as good as just taking this hundred and fifty copper coins on the spot. At this point, after adding these one hundred and fifty copper coins to his account, the number of copper coins in his hand had already exceeded four hundred, and he didn't know if that counted as a small fortune or not.

  "Comrade Tang Lianchang, you and your troops can withdraw from the battlefield to rest. I'll take over here. According to orders from above, we need to hold off the Yellow Turbans at Bridgehead Town for at least 72 hours to give Ning County a chance to build fortifications around the county seat." Just then, the commander of the reinforcement troops walked over to Tang Kun and said this. This person looked pale and clean, but his face was currently very unsightly, probably because he had been stimulated by the piles of blood and flesh on Bridgehead. He wasn't the only one; many of the reinforcement soldiers were vomiting profusely at this moment.

  "It's unrealistic to hold off the Yellow Turbans for three days!" Tang Kun shook his head bluntly, "You still don't know how terrifying the combat power of those Yellow Turbans is?"

  "Frightening? I don't think so! No matter how powerful they are, can they be more powerful than machine guns, armored vehicles and 108mm caliber artillery? Captain Tang, you were wrong from the start. We are a modernized army, we must rely on modernized weapons. You actually let your soldiers engage in close combat with those monsters? I don't want to discuss right or wrong about this matter, but I will reserve the right to report this to the division headquarters. Now, Captain Tang, please hand over the bridgehead position! This is an order!"

  The captain of the relief troops spoke with righteous words, Tang Kun's face turned red and then yellow, yellow and then white, white and then black, finally he let out a sigh and didn't say anything else, turning around to leave the bridgehead with Zhao Dashan, Qin Lang and others.

  Seeing this scene, Zhou Yue also shook his head in his heart. It seems that this reinforcement is going to suffer a loss. The power of the Yellow Turban Army's archers is not trivial at all. Moreover, after several bloody battles before, they are clearer than ever that they are not fighting against monsters without wisdom, but against an army that understands military tactics!

  Just as they were thinking this, the sound of a mournful horn echoed through the city of Chokyu once again. Upon hearing the horn, Zhou Yue and the others were all startled, because they had heard this same horn just yesterday. After the horn sounded, those originally easily defeated 1st class evil spirits suddenly became much more difficult to deal with. It seemed that after this probing attack, the Yellow Turbans would soon launch a formal assault.

  At this time, the front and rear two battle lines have been replaced by the reinforcement troops. Tang Kun did not immediately lead the remaining nearly 100 soldiers to retreat and rest, but instead re-established a third line of defense about 100 meters behind the second line, using civilian houses as cover. As for Zhao Dashan, Qin Lang, Zhou Yue, and more than a dozen others who still had the strength to fight, they were arranged in a two-story small building near the bridgehead, including five seriously wounded soldiers from the army. These five people have now recovered their lives to around 5 points after bandaging and with the help of Zhou Yue's five rice cakes. It seems that they will be able to move freely in about three hours and regain combat effectiveness in five hours.

  As for the other four seriously injured, they were not so lucky and had been prepared to be sent to Ning County, if they didn't recover from their apple and rice cake, at least two or three months would be needed to recover.

  As for Tang Kun's arrangement, neither Zhou Yue nor Zhao Dashan, Qin Lang and others had any objections. They all went through the bloody battles in turn, fearing death must be afraid of death, but they would not give up any opportunity to upgrade and become stronger. Because the current situation is very clear, as long as they stay on the front line, there will be opportunities to kill evil spirits. So at this moment, they were all in the second floor room or on the balcony, quickly recovering their physical strength while keeping an eye on the battle situation at any time.

  Zhou Yue, however, was not so leisurely and instead dragged the pale-faced woman, who was still trembling all over, to a two-story small building next door. To be honest, he was very dissatisfied with this foolish woman's behavior at the moment, and his previous decision began to waver. He wasn't Zhao Dashan, who could raise Zhang Ying like a pet; what he needed was someone who could fight alongside him and obey him absolutely.

  Zhou Yue silently watched her for half a day before slowly saying, "Are you scared? Do you regret it? If you still follow me, this kind of situation will happen many times. Who knows when I'll be torn apart and my heart, liver, and lungs will fly everywhere, including you yourself. For the last time, I advise you to leave with those seriously injured soldiers and withdraw under military protection. Once we reach Ning County, things will temporarily return to normal."

  The woman remained silent for a long time, finally mustering up the courage to lift her head and look at Zhou Yue. Her lips trembling, she said: "I... I won't leave, I want to be like you, go kill those monsters, they... they killed my whole family, I... I want revenge!"

  "Oh, aren't you leaving?"

  Zhou Yue nodded secretly in her heart, but on her face was an extremely disappointed look, shaking her head and saying: "You want to kill me? It's useless! Just by letting you stand beside me, you're already scared like this. I won't be like Zhao Dashan, that idiot, who would keep you around and drag me down!"

  "I won't hold you back, don't worry, whatever I let you do, I'll do it, no matter what!" The woman seemed to have made up her mind at this moment, and her words became more fluent.

  Zhou Yue and she exchanged a glance, then pretended to be nonchalant and said: "Alright, I'll give you an opportunity. I'll help you upgrade to level 2, and then you can rely on your own strength to upgrade to level 3. If you can do it, I'll take you in, but——"

  At this point, Zhou Yue stepped forward and whispered in the woman's ear: "If you dare to betray me, I will also kill you without hesitation!"

  After finishing speaking, Zhou Yue also stopped paying attention to him and began to size up the small building that looked like it had a very good quality of life. The owner of this small building escaped too hastily yesterday, probably only taking some cash and valuables with them, leaving many household items intact, just in time for them.

  This floor is the living room and kitchen, the second floor is the bedroom. Zhou Yue took that foolish woman to the second floor and rummaged out a few more durable clothes for himself, because his current clothes were almost all torn apart in the battle just now.

  Found the clothes, Zhou Yue directly changed into them locally, not paying attention to the silly woman next to him. In fact, he had long ignored the existence of this woman in his heart and simply treated her as a man.

  "Brother Zhou, let me bandage you up. That wound..." At this time, the woman suddenly said somewhat nervously, Zhou Yue's wounds had not yet healed, so they looked especially terrifying.

  "No need, you're not just going to stand there, pick out a few clothes for yourself too. Are you going to keep running around in your pajamas? Also, it's best to get a backpack and pack some essentials, because we might have to make a run for it on foot next."

  "Oh!" The woman responded in a low voice, then put down the silk quilt that had been wrapped around her body all along, and started searching too. As he looked at her back, Zhou Yue suddenly realized that this woman was indeed small and delicate, about 1.6 meters tall, very thin, especially the flat chest and those two legs as slender as bamboo sticks. No wonder it felt light when carrying her before, probably weighing less than 40 kilograms.

  "What's your name? What did you do before? What are your special skills?" Zhou Yue asked casually, asking about work and special skills mainly to prepare for the possible escape and wandering in the future.

  "My name is Liang Xiaoxue, I...I don't have a job yet." The woman replied nervously.

  "No job? Oh, I see. That's a mistress then!" Zhou Yueli said matter-of-factly, because anyone who could live in the Tianhe District was either rich or noble. Since this woman didn't have a job, what else could she be but a mistress?

  "I am not! I am not! I am not!"

  When Zhou Yue said that, Liang Xiaoxue hurriedly said, although her face was covered with scars and looked dirty, it could also be seen that she was completely red in the face.