"What? Those bandits haven't left yet?!" Ji Zhenniang almost fainted again from fear, but she quickly covered her mouth and dared not cry.
Gu Jinli nodded: "They might not have left... There's something unusual about today."
Looking at the way the bandits charged down, they seemed very well-trained and well-equipped. Why would they run away just after a brief encounter?
This doesn't seem like a robbery; it feels more like a performance, fleeing right after the act.
But the bandits indeed suffered casualties, and twenty-one of them died.
Brother Qin mentioned that the rule in Great Chu is that as long as you kill ten or more enemies at a time, it counts as a merit. These twenty-one just reached the number for merit.
And these twenty-one died too easily, as if they were giving their lives away. Seeing Vice General Xue and the soldiers so happy, they would likely think these fierce bandits were exaggerated, and might develop a sense of underestimation.
