After Transmigration: Building a Kingdom in Turbulent Times-Chapter 837 - 826: Reclaiming

Zhao Hanzhang said, "If, unfortunately, the enemy army reaches the city gates in the future, defend if we can, and if not, surrender like this time without much hesitation. The most important thing is to protect the civilians and prevent them from massacring or wantonly killing people."

Cui Shi responded with a solemn face, indicating his understanding.

Zhao Hanzhang left most of the weapons confiscated this time with Cui Shi and did not linger long, leaving with the army by evening.

Cui Shi and his companions escorted them for twenty miles, watching the army go far away, and only then did they wipe their tears while walking back.

Zhao Hanzhang and her group traveled fifty miles in the dark before stopping, without setting up camp. They directly took out some dry rations, took a few bites, and slept on the ground.

Ting He followed the soldiers to the riverbank to fetch water, boiled it for Zhao Hanzhang and Fu Tinghan, so they could soak their dry rations in hot water to eat.

Zhao Hanzhang was used to it; sometimes a battle could last a whole day, making it difficult to find time to sit and eat dry rations. At those times, she would break off a piece and hold it in her mouth, letting her saliva soften the ration slowly, at least preventing her hands from shaking from hunger.

So she took the bowl and tried to break the dry ration to soak in water, but the remaining piece was small and couldn’t be broken open for a moment.

After thinking for a while, she took out a dagger and slowly scraped, cutting the ration into two halves, keeping one half in her coat and soaking the other in water. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

Fu Tinghan still had a large piece of dry ration left and seeing this, he broke off a piece with force to give to her.

Zhao Hanzhang smiled at him, took the piece, and soaked it together in water. Seeing that he struggled to break the ration, she simply took it over, used all her strength, and forcefully broke off a large piece to give back to him.

Fu Tinghan put away the large piece, soaked the small piece in hot water, then moved the map on his knee to a new position and continued the topic, "Are we sure we’re going to Zhencheng?"

After a hum of agreement, Zhao Hanzhang said, "If we don’t recover Zhencheng, they could attack Dunqiu at any time, cutting off our retreat."

"Are we using the same strategy? Not breaking open the city gates?"

Zhao Hanzhang nodded, "If we blow open the city gates, it will take them a lot of manpower and resources to repair, and if Shi Le counterattacks, who knows how many will die."

Fu Tinghan thought for a moment before saying, "Then I’ll reduce the amount of explosives, and find some iron spikes or scraps to add in."

This is almost like a grenade; when thrown onto the city tower, the exploding spikes and scraps can injure, not necessarily fatal, but can incapacitate the enemy for a short time, allowing our ladder team to storm the city tower.

This also minimizes damage to the city tower. In this Dunqiu County attack, Fu Tinghan used two bags of explosives, threw them twice, and blew two large holes in the tower. Once they left, Dunqiu’s people had to repair them to prevent future enemy attacks.

However, this is still better than Pingyang City, where the gates haven’t been rebuilt yet.

Fu Tinghan needs to adjust the amount of explosives and methods used in each siege.

Zhao Hanzhang noticed the dry ration had softened a bit, so she picked up the bowl and ate this tasteless dinner, not frowning one bit, "How about it, did you find any good slingers?"

Fu Tinghan also picked up his bowl, eating the rations with some difficulty, nodding, "Yes, there’s one called Le Si. He has a talent for it. After just three days of learning from me, he can throw more accurately than me. This time in Dunqiu, two of the explosive charges were thrown by him."

Zhao Hanzhang thought for a moment and asked, "The two particularly accurate throws, the ones that exploded in the air above the tower?"

"Yes," Fu Tinghan couldn’t help but smile, "The other two that collapsed the tower were from my calibrated angle, much less accurate than his."

Zhao Hanzhang couldn’t help but laugh out loud. The two laughed together for a while, neither knowing what exactly struck their funny bone, just looking at each other and laughing non-stop.

Zhao Hanzhang almost laughed to tears before managing to calm down and comforted Fu Tinghan, "It’s okay, everyone has their own expertise, and he’s still your student."

Seeing her brows open up, with the morning’s worry dissipating from her forehead, Fu Tinghan couldn’t help but smile again, "This is what they call surpassing the master."

Zhao Hanzhang couldn’t resist laughing again, not even knowing why she was amused, perhaps realizing that Fu Tinghan, always smart and seemingly infallible in his field, wasn’t as perfect as she thought?

Hahaha...

Ting He, returning with more water, stopped at the good atmosphere, and seeing Fu An still moving forward with water, signaled with a chirp to indicate he shouldn’t go ahead.