HLnovel Chapter 107 Catching a turtle in a urn
Chapter 107 Catching a turtle in a urn
The snow beasts suddenly attacked, and even though the Ye family army and Dongfang Qi's subordinates were all carefully selected soldiers, many of them were injured in one night.
The other side fought and retreated, giving the Ye family army no chance to breathe.
At daytime, the snow beasts retreated and were replaced by iron cavalry.
Ye Qinghuai was so busy that he had no time to rest, and the bad news kept coming.
Wan Xiaqing didn't care about his injuries and continued to go to the battlefield.
Wan Dongling took Wan Xuan to help the military doctor, and their hands were shaking from applying medicine all day.
On the second day, the peaceful night was broken again by the sound of drums.
The snow beast is coming again.
Wan Dongling took Wan Xuan back to rest. She looked at the soldiers fighting in front of her and couldn't help but say, "They seem anxious."
Wan Xuan was so tired that she yawned, "Sister, what did you say?"
"It's nothing, let's go back." Wan Xuan was young and couldn't stand the sleepiness. Wan Dongling covered her with a quilt and went back to Zhou Fangshi to help.
Unexpectedly, when Zhou Fangshi saw her, he quickly said, "Xiao Dongling, come with me. We really can't spare any help."
He hurried to Ye Qinghuai's tent carrying the medicine box, and Wan Dongling followed closely behind.
"General Pang is injured and insisted on reporting the military situation first. I didn't stop him just now. I'm going to pack up my medicine box and go find him as soon as possible. I estimate that his arm is broken and he must be treated immediately, otherwise there will be sequelae. I will need your help then." After a day, Zhou Fangshi's voice became hoarse and he walked forward with a sad face.
When they arrived at the tent, they announced it and went in.
Military intelligence is being discussed inside.
Ye Qinghuai glanced at Wan Dongling, nodded slightly, and continued to look at the map on the table in front of him with a gloomy expression, "It seems that the previous spies and spies were exposed, so they were anxious and attacked so fiercely."
Pang Kuan sat on the chair and let Zhou Fangshi bandage him. "But their trick is really cruel. The snow beast appeared silently, and it seemed to be integrated with the snow. Even I was fooled by it."
Ye Qinghuai looked at everyone, "Do you have any good ideas? How to break the deadlock?"
The soldiers looked at each other in bewilderment. Some said, "Even if they feign attack and retreat, we have more people and cannot outlast them."
"Make a trap and catch all the snow beasts!"
"You said it was easy, but how can we catch it? The weather is so cold, before we can catch the snow beast, our own people will freeze to death in the snow!"
After discussing for a long time, no decent conclusion was reached.
Pang Kuan's wound was bandaged. Zhou Fangshi patted Wan Dongling on the shoulder and whispered, "Let's go."
Wan Dongling hesitated for a moment and said, "I'll go over later."
Pang Kuan also heard it and looked over with wide eyes: "You little girl, why are you still here? Are you a spy sent by the enemy? To spy on the enemy?"
Wan Dongling looked over without dodging: "I have an idea."
Pang Kuan sneered: "What do you think? You are just a little yellow-haired girl. You have eaten less rice than me, old Pang, has eaten salt!"
Wan Dongling: "It doesn't hurt to listen."
Wan Dongling's eyes were calm, and she was not afraid at all even when she saw so many generals fighting on the battlefield.
Her hands and body were covered in blood, as if she had been busy with Zhou Fangshi for a long time.
But those eyes were bright and calm, which made people feel convinced for some reason.
Ye Qinghuai knew that she would never do anything without confidence, so he was looking forward to this idea. "Tell me about it."
Wan Dongling stepped forward and said, "The Gaoli Kingdom's offensive is fierce. In addition to the anger caused by the repeated failures of our strategies, we have overlooked one thing.
"The heavy snow blocked the road, and it took us a lot of effort to transport our food and fodder here. What about the Gaoli Kingdom across the way? Their terrain is rugged, so transporting food and fodder must be even more difficult.
"Even if they had made a lot of preparations before, today is already the eighth day of the first lunar month. They and we have been here for more than 30 days. It is impossible for them to have enough food and grass."
"You mean," Pang Kuan wondered, "they are planning to attack because they have run out of food?"
"That's right." Wan Dongling simply started from the beginning, "The Gaoli Kingdom has an insider in the Ning Dynasty, so they must think that they will win this war. Once they capture Lingxiao City, won't they have as much food and grass as they want?
"But because the spies were caught, the insiders were arrested, and they had no way of knowing our situation, they were desperate."
A soldier asked: "Even if what you said makes sense, how do we solve it?"
Wan Dongling walked to the spread-out map and spoke slowly: "First, pretend to be weak. Let them think we can't handle such a strategy."
Inside the Gaoli state camp, there was a great deal of excitement with fine wine and delicious food.
Ke Yiyun rushed into Xuanyuan Miao's tent with great joy, "Your Highness, good news! The Ye family army has been fighting too badly in recent days! Our Snow Fox Army can lose tens of thousands of casualties every day, and they are also listless during the day!"
Xuanyuan Miao smiled: "As expected, they are just a bunch of rabble. Even if it is the Ye Family Army, without the old leader, the current Ye Qinghuai is nothing to be afraid of. Keep attacking until you capture the ancient city!"
"Yes!"
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Wan Dongling: "Then, after the enemy let down their guard, they sneaked up behind them and burned their food supplies."
Ye Qinghuai pointed at a circle around Gaoliguo’s camp and said, “It’s six meters high here. If we go over there with a ladder, we will definitely be discovered by them.”
Wan Dongling: "Leave it to Xia Qing, no need for a ladder."
The Ye family army pretended to be weak for a few days, and the opponent's defense became much lax.
Gaoli Kingdom’s grain and grass were stored in three places in total. Wan Xiaqing led a team of five people, all of whom were excellent in light skills.
When they arrived outside the city wall of Gaoli State, they spread out a very elastic animal skin. Several people with good martial arts skills put on the clothes of Gaoli soldiers and flew over the wall with the help of the elasticity of the animal skin.
Three people were waiting outside, while another three went in to spread oil and set the fire.
As the fire started, there was chaos inside the wall. Soon, they took advantage of the chaos to climb up the wall from the internal stairs and return.
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Wan Dongling: "At this moment, they have no food and grass, and seeing that we are gradually declining, they must think that we are at the end of our strength, and they will definitely want to take the ancient city in one fell swoop."
"What if they guess this is a trap?"
Wan Dongling: "Whether you can guess it right or not, there is only one way left. The snow will not stop. They can either fight now or wait until they are too hungry to fight. Which one do you think they will choose?"
Without waiting for anyone to answer, Wan Dongling tapped the location of the ancient city camp with her fingers, making two dull sounds.
"When they attack, there is only one thing we have to do:
Catching a turtle in a jar."