Chapter 6 (Updated)


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"Yang Jin" - dialog.

'Yang Jin' - thoughts.


Yang Jin POV

After he persuaded his parents to go to Bai and request reinforcements, he now had to persuade civilians to take up arms and fight. He already sent out a call to all surrounding villages to quickly gather within walls of Kwan. He ordered Zhu Fa to make sure that they had enough shields, javelins, bows, arrows and food to arm and feed everyone. His plan for this battle was simple, make sure that enemies won't get on top of walls, because if they do, it's over. This will be accomplished by raining death on top of Zhao soldiers with everything they have and specifically targeting siege equipment. Just for this scenario he made sure to order blacksmiths to craft heavy javelins in large quantities. While civilians won't be able to throw them, soldiers will be able to do that with ease. He ordered Ma Cong to prepare everything for training civilians, while two days is not much, its enough to teach them how to fire bow, throw javelin and hold shield.


Two Days Later

Persuading villagers to take up arms and defend themselves and their families was relatively easy, since they did not want to die. Over 15,000 joined, others were too young, too old or too weak. Ma Cong and the veterans that he recruited made sure to train the civilians as much as they can. Today is the day that Lu Su said the Zhao army will reach Kwan. He was spending time tending to his horse, Kuan Ti, who he named after Chinese god of war, or it was known as Chinese god of war in the future. In more popular literature Kuan Ti is known as Guan Yu, from the Three Kingdoms warring era in China. Kuan Ti is the best horse he had seen since coming to this era, Kuan Ti is covered in black hair and not a single hair of other color.

"Lord Yang, Zhao army was just spotted. They'll be here within an hour." said Zhu Fa in a grave voice.

"I see, thank you for letting me know Zhu Fa. Prepare everyone, this will be a tough three days." he said with a frown.

"It's too bad we can only hold the enemy back and not simply annihilate them, it would do wonders for you if general Ou Ki arrived and the enemy was already taken care of." said Ma Cong. As Ma Cong said that inspiration hit him, Ma Cong was right, it would do wonders for him.

"Ma Cong, you just gave me an idea." he said looking at Ma Cong with his best sinister smirk.

"Why are you smirking at me like that? Why do I have a bad feeling about this?" asked Ma Cong with concern in his voice.

"Because you just volunteered yourself to be bait." said Zhu Fa with a smile.

"What?" said pale Ma Cong.


Normal POV

A few hours later our plan was complete, Ma Cong and 100 soldiers stood with him outside the main gate.

"I hate you both right now you know that right?" grumbled Ma Cong.

"You can hate us all you want just make sure you do what you're supposed to." said Zhu Fa, from his tone you could tell that he was enjoying this.

"Ma Cong, remember the plan, don't do anything reckless." said Yang Jin in a commanding voice.

"Yeah, yeah, I got it. I just gotta make sure to catch as much attention as possible right." said Ma Cong with resignation in his voice.


Zhao army

Li Chang POV

"Hmph, I told you those cowards will surrender as soon as they saw how much soldiers we had." said he to his lieutenant.

"Yes you did lord Li, but I would still advise caution." said lieutenant.

"What can they do, they got barely a thousand man." said he with an arrogant tone.

"Sir, a cornered animal will fight back twice as hard." said lieutenant with a cautious tone.

"Whatever, let's go and hear their surrender." said he. After that they rode out to meet the young looking guy with a strange armor and a war axe on his back.

"So what are your terms of surrender brat and hurry up, we got no time to waste on your tiny city." demanded he with dismissal in his voice.

"Our terms of surrender? I think you're mistaken, I rode out here to do two things. One is to see the face of the Zhao general so that later I can tell my lord what you look like so he can find you and kill you. Two is to tell you that you have no chance of taking Kwan and to tell you to turn back and run while you can." said arrogant kid.

"You little bastard, I'm a general of Zhao and you think that your lord, that is currently hiding like a coward and this tiny city can stop me?" he told him. As soon as he finished the sentence he found brat's war axe at his throat.

'He's fast, I barely even saw him move.' thought he.

"Accuse my lord of cowardice again and I'll take your head off your shoulders. My lord does not have time to waste on an insect like you, but don't worry, he'll grant you a honor of having his attention when he takes your life and destroys your army." said brat. After brat finished he turned his horse around and rode back behind the gate.

"That bastard, he dares to make fun of me, Li Chang, general of Zhao! I'll destroy him, his lord and burn this city to the ground!" he said through his gritted teeth.

"My lord Li, please calm down, he was trying to provoke you." pleaded lieutenant.

"Well guess what, he succeeded, and he will learn to regret it! Tell my army to mobilize, we'll attack immediately!" he said to lieutenant.

"Haa, as you command." said lieutenant in a resigned tone, thinking that it was useless to argue with him when he was angry like that.


Kwan city

Normal POV

"Well looks like the plan succeeded, they will attack in a few minutes." said Yang Jin as he looked at the Zhao army from the wall.

"What was that with the axe you fool, you could've ruined everything." questioned Zhu Fa with irritation clear in his voice.

"He accused our lord of cowardice, I couldn't let that insult go unchallenged!" said Ma Cong, as if he daring Zhu Fa to say he was wrong to do so.

"What! How dare he! Then why did you spare him you brute, he deserves to die a thousands death for that!" demanded Zhu Fa.

"Enough! I appreciate your concern with defending my honor as your lord, but we have no time for this. Tell soldiers to prepare, those two days will be hard on all of us." said Yang Jin with finality in his voice.

"Grrr, as you command." said Zhu Fa and Ma Cong through gritted teeth.

"Charge!" they heard Li Chang's voice.

The siege of Kwan began, the impatience of Li Chang could be seen in the fact that he threw all his troops in frontal assault in hopes of overwhelming a thousand soldiers defending Kwan.


AN

What happened to all the civilians that volunteered? Will a thousand soldiers be able to hold Kwan till the reinforcements arrive? What is this plan Yang Jin talked about? Find out in the next chapter of Immovable Object.

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