Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 273: Chapter 164 Well Done Chapter 273: Chapter 164 Well Done “No! Lady Changsheng has said that no matter what, we must never abandon our comrades. Zheng Su is furious with embarrassment–if you fall into his hands, you could lose your life by mischance!” Han Qiu’s face was a cold mask as he glanced behind him.

Not far off, Zheng Su was leading the pursuing troops and was relentlessly chasing after them.

“If this goes on, they’ll catch up with us soon. What should we do?” Xiao Cui gripped Ru Hua’s bleeding calf tightly, her face filled with anxiety. “We can’t keep this up. We must quickly escape to the depression ahead. There are herbs that can stop the bleeding. If she keeps bleeding like this, Ru Hua might lose her life too!”

The female soldiers surrounded and protected them, fleeing in panic; each of their faces was covered in sweat, their expressions guarded.

“Put me down, I’ll hold them off! Otherwise, you’ll all get captured together. We just managed to escape that place of revelry. Do you all want to be captured because of me and fail completely?” Ru Hua struggled again. “Our group of over a hundred people fell into Zheng Su’s hands; do you also want to throw away our previous efforts? Put me down. You’ll be able to move much faster!”

“Ru Hua, we won’t abandon you to die!” Xiao Cui interrupted coldly.

“I won’t die. Have you forgotten the military discipline His Highness Prince Mu enacted? He forbade slaughter of the old, the weak, and women!” Ru Hua continued to struggle with tear-filled eyes; she truly couldn’t bear to see so many of her sisters captured because of her.

“No! Lady Changsheng has said that we are a collective, sharing life and death!” Han Qiu’s hands firmly grasped the struggling Ru Hua and continued to carry her forward.

“In life and death together!” fifty voices rang out emphatically, the faces of the female soldiers resolute with a determination to sink or swim together.

Protected in the middle, Han Mo suddenly stopped. “You go, find herbs for sister Ru Hua. I’ll hold them off!”

Before they could stop her, Han Mo ran back the way they had come. “I’m a child, they won’t dare to kill me! You go fast!”

Carrying Ru Hua, Han Qiu turned around, his brow furrowed, concealing the concern in his eyes, as he gave the cold order, “We’re moving!”

Running in the opposite direction from the rest, Han Mo ran several hundred meters before blatantly entering another path.

She even left traces along the way!

Indeed, within moments, Zheng Su came killing after her.

Seeing them not far from her, Han Mo stopped running and sat on the ground, beginning to cry loudly.

“How can there be a child here?” one of Zheng Su’s trusted aides looked at Han Mo, puzzled.

“Must be the child of those mountain bandits, wait and see how I finish him off to vent my anger!”

Another trusted aide was about to lift his broadsword but was stopped by Zheng Su, whose face was already quite grim. “Have you forgotten the military discipline His Highness Prince Mu laid down? We mustn’t slaughter the old, the weak, and women–let alone a child!”

At the mention of Prince Mu, the impulsive aide immediately calmed down, not daring to move.

“Are you a child of the mountain bandits?” Zheng Su bent down, locking eyes with Han Mo.

“Yes.” Little Han Mo with the Black Face was surprisingly honest, pretending to cry while keeping an eye on Zheng Su’s actions.

“You little brat are pretty formidable. You led us on a run around half the mountain. Were you abandoned by your family…ah!” Zheng Su’s words were cut short as he suddenly sat on the ground, clutching his calf in pain.

Han Mo retracted her Sweeping Leg and raised her hands in surrender, like Ma Lisuo.

“Damn it! You actually ambushed the Commander!”

A handful of long spears pointed directly at Xiao Han Mo, wishing they could tear her apart.

“Drop your weapons and spare your life, I surrender!” Han Mo’s usually icy face unexpectedly showed an evil smile as she looked at Zheng Su sitting on the ground. “My lord said, never underestimate the enemy, for underestimation leads to death! Zheng Su, many people from our stronghold have been captured by you. Let’s see how you continue the chase with that leg of yours!”

“I surrender; you can’t kill me. Take me away.” Han Mo raised her hands high and blinked at the hundreds of bloodshot eyes before her.

To sacrifice oneself for the sake of hundreds! In the words of his lady, this was to live nobly and die gloriously!

Zheng Su was helped to his feet by his subordinates with a dark expression. Indeed, he had underestimated his enemy. He had thought that a child was merely a bit fast on their feet!

But with that Sweeping Leg, catching him unguarded, he had swept clean across his shin! If he hadn’t dodged quickly, he feared his other leg might also have broken under the force of that powerful short leg!

“Take him down the mountain!” Grinding his teeth, Zheng Su waved his hand at his subordinates, knowing that this bandit suppression had turned into a real failure for him!

He, Zheng Su, who had hunted hawks all his life, was now astonished at being pecked in the eye by a hawk. These mountain bandits had truly opened his eyes!

Han Mo cooperated as the Bandit Suppression Army tied her up securely. Before leaving, she even had the nerve to say goodbye to Zheng Su mockingly.

“Commander, are we really going to let him go like this?” one of the trusted aides couldn’t hide his anger.

“What else can we do? The bandits have maimed four or five thousand of my men without taking a single life. Are we inferior to bandits, prepared to execute a child?” Zheng Su limped on one leg, his eyebrows furrowed upwards, “Continue the search in the mountains. Catch as many as possible!”

“Understood!”

…

Tightly bound, Little Han Mo had just descended the mountain when Yuan Bao rescued him, a treatment far better compared to the other captives who were enduring harsh interrogations.

Gu Changsheng, upon seeing the little blackened kid led by Yuan Bao, couldn’t help but burst into laughter, “I heard you took down Zheng Su all by yourself, and then you surrendered with a white flag in both hands?”

Feeling all fuzzy from his own lady’s laughter, Han Mo touched his nose with a cold face and honestly nodded his head.

A slap landed on his head, and Gu Changsheng’s face was undoubtedly full of praise, “Not bad at all, Little Han Mo, feigning weakness to the enemy, killing in one strike! Well done!”

Gu Changsheng had no doubt that, if Han Mo could use a killing move, he wouldn’t hesitate to cut Zheng Su’s throat!

Zhou Mu also nodded in approval by his side, “As my beloved said, indeed well done!”

The praised Han Mo, embarrassed, rubbed his patted head, “Lady, I was captured, does that mean I’m also out of the game?”

That was his main concern; he enjoyed life training with the troops and didn’t want to be eliminated.

Gu Changsheng and Zhou Mu exchanged a smile.

“To seize the enemy commander’s severed head amidst myriad armies, Little Han Mo, if I disqualified you, that would certainly arouse public anger,” Gu Changsheng said, rubbing his head with a smile like a blossoming flower, “rest assured, your capture was the most meaningful. You’ve actually taught them a good lesson.”

Upon hearing this, Han Mo’s furrowed brow relaxed slightly before looking up at his lady with renewed concern, “Lady, Sister Ru Hua twisted her ankle helping a comrade, and her calf was cut open by a tree root, bleeding a lot. She won’t be in any trouble, will she?”

Gu Changsheng shook his head, “No, your sister and Xiao Cui are there. They’ve been learning from me for a long time, dressing wounds and stopping blood is a piece of cake for them. You bought them time to find the hemostatic herbs. Ru Hua will be fine. Look at yourself all dirty and muddy, go wash up quickly. Your Sister Thunder has made a bunch of delicious food and is waiting to treat you.”

Han Mo immediately let out an excited yell and dashed towards the kitchen.

Gu Changsheng shook his head with a chuckle, looking at Zhou Mu, “What do you think?”

“Calm in the face of danger, bold and daring, truly worthy of a General’s family’s descendent,” Zhou Mu continued under Gu Changsheng’s expectant gaze, “With such capabilities at a tender age, when he grows up, the sky’s the limit!”

Gu Changsheng was utterly satisfied. Eagerly pulling Zhou Mu along, he said, “Han Qiu almost lost his life saving my son; I owe them, siblings, and will definitely repay them. I will do my utmost to nurture Han Mo.”

“Military tactics and strategies, or combat techniques–whatever he wants to learn, I’ll teach him everything I know. You wouldn’t believe it, evildoer, but Han Mo and my son get along so well, they are inseparable, practically wanting to wear the same pants…”

Zhou Mu’s lips curled into a smile that could charm all living beings, silently admiring her spirited little face, his deep eyes filled with utter contentment.

Having someone so exquisite by his side was truly irresistible!

Zheng Su, carried off by Han Mo, with a lame leg was slow to escape, relieving the pressure on the Dark Camp members.

The three-day deadline arrived in a blink, and as expected, Du Chenzhi’s bandit suppression campaign ended in failure.

Mobilizing ten thousand men for the operation, with over five thousand wounded and maimed soldiers, they captured only one hundred and seventy “mountain bandits,” including the young rascal who attacked the commander, bringing the total to one hundred seventy-one!

The ten thousand soldiers of Jiangnan Road, deflated like beaten eggplants, secretly grumbled that they had been Taiping soldiers for too long; they couldn’t even defeat a tiny mountain bandit!

To give the people an explanation, His Highness Prince Mu, watched by the crowd, donned his armor and mounted his warhorse, and in the midst of Du Chenzhi’s twitching face, led two thousand Elite Guards majestically into the mountains to “suppress bandits.”

While ten thousand Jiangnan Road soldiers had fruitlessly besieged them for three days, His Highness Prince Mu’s two thousand Elite Guards, in less than a day, returned with several blood-stained bundles.

The populace bowed in adoration, with cries of Prince Mu’s unparalleled valor!

Zheng Su and his wounded followers slinked away in defeat, swearing to train hard to wash away the shame.

Amongst the cheers of the masses, Prince Mu seized the opportunity to claim the stronghold deep within Baili Mountain as his own, declaring it a trial ground for his trusted aides.

No one dared object, and the shouts of praise ascended to the heavens.

“Ah, what a pity for those game animals, just to be buried like that…” General Qi looked at the “severed heads” being buried and swallowed his saliva with a sense of loss, “Good game meat, what a waste…”

“Do you really want to be buried with your head?” Yhan Ting’s cold voice interjected.

General Qi immediately shook his head repeatedly, “Of course not! I just haven’t eaten properly for four days; I’m about to faint from hunger!”

Gu Changsheng watched them with an amused smile and waved his hand, “Let’s go to the guesthouse. Food and drinks are ready to celebrate your resounding victory. You need to eat well and drink plenty to face even more brutal training!”

The excited crowd, upon hearing the second half of the sentence, suddenly deflated like beaten eggplants!

Alright then! One must listen to the lord’s word! From now on, they are Lord Changsheng’s men–off to the guesthouse for a meal, heads lowered!

Just as everything was settled and the excited bystanders were not yet dispersed, Yuan Bao arrived on a galloping horse, “My lord, Lady Changsheng, there’s trouble. An imperial edict from the Capital City has arrived, summoning Lady Changsheng to receive the decree!”