"That's equipment purchased with three hundred thousand taels of gold. It can't be so vulnerable." Inugami Mita said, he didn't quite believe Sakakaibe's words.

Seeing this, Sakagami didn't explain anything to him, and said directly: "I've said what needs to be said, and I'm going back to the city."

"Wait a minute." Inugami Mita immediately stopped Sakakaibe.

Sakagawa turned around very depressed and said, "What else do you have to do? I want to send the news to the city quickly."

Inugami Mita said it was difficult: "It will be dark soon, and it is not safe to travel at night. The Tang soldiers are more dangerous because they are not familiar with the place. We can take the opportunity to ambush them."

In addition, if you want to send a message to Sugawara and the others, you can ask the soldiers to deliver it."

Sakawai looked at the sky and said, "That's fine, I know there is a small forest ahead, which is the best place for an ambush.

As long as they enter the grove and we burn the grove, they will be unable to fly, haha..."

"Okay, everyone, follow me."

As soon as Inugami Mita greeted him, the thousand-strong army and the remaining troops of the Sakagabe tribe followed Inugami Mita to the grove.

Not far from them, the grain team rescued by Li Derjian learned about the situation in the city. The grain was purchased by Hongfu Nu and transported to them to serve as military rations.

Sensing that Hongfu Nu was in a hurry this time, she guessed that there might have been a fight in the city, so she immediately led the army on a hasty march.

However, the sky gradually darkened, which put the large army into a dilemma.

If you march in a hurry, you are afraid of encountering an ambush. If you happen to save the food team, you will know that the opponent's troops have already left the city, and they may even have prepared an ambush waiting for them to be captured.

"Marshal, it's already dark, why not let the hot air balloon fly into the sky to explore the way." A deputy general said.

His name was Li Zhong, and he was Li Jing's right-hand man. He had no official position and was regarded as Li Jing's retainer. This time Li Der Jian came to Fusang, but Li Jing was afraid that Li Der Jian's commanding experience was too inexperienced, so he asked Li Zhong to accompany him.

Li Dejian nodded and said, "Just follow Uncle Zhong's wishes. Come and let the hot air balloon explore the path, and use grenades to bombard the places where there are ambush to clear the road."

"Yes." Three hot air balloons will fly up and explore the way forward.

Not far from the grove, the Japanese soldiers who were ambushing Li Derjian and the others became frightened when they saw three flames flying in the sky.

"Look, the will-o'-the-wisp, it's the will-o'-the-wisp."

"Oh my god, people in the Tang Dynasty can control will-o'-the-wisps."

"The Tang people are too powerful, we can't defeat them."

"Run away, let's run away quickly."

"..."

Negative voices filled the Fuso army one by one. They believed that the three hot air balloons in the sky were will-o'-the-wisps, which made them very scared.

But Inugami Mita and Sakagabe did not give orders, so they did not dare to escape. Once they were caught, they would be beheaded in public.

So at this time, they were very scared and they did not dare to run away.

"Why are there will-o'-the-wisps in the sky?" Inugami Mita looked in disbelief.

Sakagabe said tremblingly: "If you ask me, I don't know, and I told you from the beginning that the Tang army is not something we can deal with."

Before Inugami Mita could ask, a series of explosions erupted in the grove in front of him. The grove was blown to pieces, flames flew everywhere, and a fire instantly burned the entire grove.

"Thunder, will-o'-the-wisps will rain down thunder."

"Will-o'-the-wisps actually bring down thunder?"

"It's terrible, it's really terrible."

"The Tang army is not human, we are no match at all, and we cannot defeat them at all."

…

For a time, Fuso soldiers thought

Inugami Mita looked at the fire in the woods and suddenly realized something was wrong. He quickly said: "No, we are exposed. Escape quickly."

"Retreat, retreat quickly." Sakagami also said.

Immediately, the Fuso soldiers who had long wanted to escape turned around and ran away. They were afraid that if they were a step too late, the will-o'-the-wisps from the sky would rain down thunder and kill them. They mistook the grenades for thunder.

The commotion below naturally attracted the attention of the hot air balloons in the sky. They increased their flames and suddenly increased their flight speed several times, flying towards the fuso deserters.

"Boom, boom, boom..." More than a dozen bombings in succession made the fleeing soldiers even more convinced that the will-o'-the-wisps in the sky were sent by the Tang Army.

After chasing for a while, one of the hot air balloons flew back, and the other two continued to chase in case there were any ambush on the road.

Sugawaraue didn't know that they had been defeated outside the city. The two thousand soldiers of Inugami Mita and Sakagabu had been defeated and fled. Their ambush plan had completely failed.

He led a thousand people to completely surround the entire inn, but until dark, there was still no movement in the inn.

This made him start to doubt his own speculation.

"Sugawara, you used so many soldiers to surround the inn, leaving 500 soldiers guarding the south gate. There are almost no soldiers guarding the other three gates. If they let in through the other gates, wouldn't we be doomed?"

Mari Takada said.

"The south of the city is the only way for them to pass through, and they can't sacrifice the near for the far." Sugawara said, "As for the 500 soldiers you mentioned to guard the south gate, there is no other way. We only have 500 left to use.

"

"Then you can detach another five hundred or even a thousand soldiers from here and go to the south gate."

"No." Sugawara Ue sternly refused, "Absolutely not. The fifteen hundred soldiers here are used by me to capture the people in the inn alive. This is our last life-saving talisman."

"Life-saving charm? Do you think we will lose? You must know that we have purchased the equipment of the Tang Army. The Tang Army has it, and we also have it. And this is our Fuso, not the Tang Dynasty. How could we lose?" Takada Maru was very worried.

Said displeasedly.

Sugawara said: "The Tang Dynasty is very powerful. Only those who have been to the Tang Dynasty will know."

"I don't know how powerful Datang is. I only know that this is Fuso. Since you think we will fight sooner or later, you might as well control the people in the inn early, lest it be too late." Mari Takada said.

Then he stood up and walked to the inn.

"Wait a minute." Sugawara called to Mari Takada, "Do you know that once we take action, we will have the leverage to fall into the hands of Datang. Once we are defeated, they may make even more excessive demands."

"Don't deceive yourself. Their goal is the whole of Fusang, and we also want to annex Datang. It's just that we are quietly weaker than Datang, but we don't have the power to fight.

If all of us Fuso warriors are as timid as you and don't have the courage to fight against the Tang Dynasty, then we will never win." Takada Maru said in a deep voice.

"Who told you that I would shrink from facing the Tang Dynasty?" Sugawara directly retorted.
Chapter completed!