Chapter 316 Jumping, Compass

"This is the list of supplies we requested from the government office. Please see if there is anything else we need to add."

Inside the general's tent, Yan Lang handed a memorial to Wei Chengyi. After learning that they had a small victory over the Western Hu people, those people in the government office who did not belong to them started to make trouble again, and even wanted to send them a military advisor to control and seize their military merits. After discussion, they decided to ask the government office for something, mainly to ask those people who made such trouble, and temporarily let them lose money to avoid disaster. After the war, they would settle accounts properly.

"Take double the amount of everything and tell them that if they don't give us the supplies, we'll let the Western Hu people march straight to the capital and let them fight on their own next time."

Flipping through the memorial and glancing casually, Wei Chengyi said forcefully that he hadn't settled accounts with them yet, but they were the first to jump up and down and try to reach out to the army. So don't blame him for being rude. If they couldn't get the supplies he wanted, he wouldn't mind letting his soldiers pretend to be Western Hu people and rob them one by one after they were dealt with.

"Double?"

Even so, he felt that those people might not necessarily give it to him, so he still wanted to double it?

Yan Lang couldn't help but feel a buzzing pain in his head. The commander-in-chief had given the order, and as a military advisor, he had to find a way to get the supplies from those people no matter what, right?

"They will give it."

Glancing at him calmly, Wei Chengyi took a few sips from his teacup and said, "Spread my words exactly as they are. When the time comes, there will be plenty of people who will force them to deliver the supplies to us."

The wealthy families in the city are not pushovers. What they fear most are the Western Hu people. As long as they don't give those people supplies, the army will let the Western Hu people attack the city directly. In order to protect themselves, the wealthy families will all unite. By then, those people will have to give even if they don't want to. Moreover, they probably won't have time to send any military advisors. He just wants them to know clearly that the army of Chenzhou is no longer something they can easily touch.

"Okay, I'll give the order later."

Yan Lang couldn't help but laugh. It was really unexpected that he could come up with such a bad idea. However, perhaps this was the only way to make them submit.

"You're starting meetings so early."

Shen Xiangwan's voice suddenly rang out, and the two of them turned their heads at the same time, only to see her wearing a dark blue dress, walking towards them with a smile. Even in the military camp, her waist-length hair was still tied into a high ponytail with a rubber band. As she walked, the ponytail swayed behind her, making her look even more playful and lively.

"Are you awake? Have you eaten?"

Wei Chengyi stood up and took her to sit in the main seat and asked softly.

"have eaten."

With a sweet smile, Shen Xiangwan asked casually: "What are you discussing? Can I listen in?"

The wounded camp wasn't that urgent anymore, so she wasn't in a hurry to go. When she'd emerged from the space earlier, she'd vaguely heard something about government supplies and the Western Hu people still eyeing them covetously. So they were starting to argue with them? Wasn't that something they'd do?

"There's nothing you can't listen to."

Sitting down next to him, Wei Chengyi slowly explained how some people wanted to send them a military advisor, and how they should respond. "Since they think their lives are too comfortable, I'll find something for them to do."

"Oh!"

Hearing this, Shen Xiangwan couldn't help but sneer and curled the corners of his mouth: "When the Western Hu people came, they were like bastards, completely disregarding the lives of the people. Now that we have finally won a battle, they are ready to pick peaches. Don't think too much. It's really giving them face."

“Who says it’s not?”

Yan Lang's lips curled up, but if you looked closely, his smile didn't extend to his eyes. Chenzhou's official system was rotten to the core. Few were good. Besides oppressing the people and squandering their wealth, what else could they do? After dealing with the Western Hu people, they should be thinking about consolidating the remaining political power in Chenzhou and eliminating those black sheep.

"They won't be able to keep jumping around for much longer."

Reaching out to smooth the hair that had fallen on her cheek, Wei Chengyi said casually that this time, the attempt of those people to send them a military advisor had touched his bottom line, and he was not going to give them any more chances to act rashly.

"By the way, are there any movements from the Western Hu people?"

Too lazy to talk about those bastards with faces as big as basins, Shen Xiangwan casually changed the subject. No matter what happens in the future, at least for now, their biggest enemy is still the Western Hu people.

"No, they must have been frightened. However, according to the scouts we sent out, their main camp is still thirty miles away from us. They may be sure we won't attack, or they may be waiting for reinforcements."

When talking about business, Yan Lang's expression froze. After poisoning the Western Hu people who attacked the city the day before yesterday, he sent out several groups of scouts one after another. The news they brought back was almost the same. Now he was not sure when the Western Hu people would counterattack. As for withdrawing troops, he had never thought about it. The Western Hu people had always been in the leading position in the battle with them. Now that they suddenly suffered such a big setback, how could they not retaliate?

"Can't we send scouts to bypass the Western Hu army and go deep into the grassland to gather information?"

Shen Xiangwan frowned almost imperceptibly. This feeling of having to wait anxiously for the counterattack of the Western Hu people was too shitty. At least they should know how many reinforcements the Western Hu people would have and when they would arrive, right?

"No, the grasslands outside the pass are too vast. Our people will get lost if they go in. Let alone getting information, it would be good if we can find our way back."

Shaking his head, Yan Lang also looked helpless. It was not that they had not thought about sending people out to figure out the terrain of the grassland, but none of the people they sent out had returned yet. It was really too difficult to identify the direction in the vast grassland. This was one of the reasons why, since the establishment of the Tianqi Kingdom, they could only passively take the beating in the battles with the Western Hu people.

"Oh my god, I almost forgot."

Hearing this, Shen Xiangwan slapped her forehead, and a small gadget the size of a palm appeared in her palm. "This is a compass. No matter where you are, its needle will only point to the south. With it, you should be able to tell the direction on the grassland."

The last time she talked to Wei Chengyi, she said she wanted to give him a small gadget to identify directions. At that time, she also asked Number One to take the time to help her make it. However, she forgot about it later because she was busy. Today, she finally remembered it.

"compass?"

"Is there such a good thing?"

Upon hearing this, the two of them blurted out almost at the same time. Wei Chengyi even picked up the compass directly. In order to verify what she said, he quickly changed several directions in the big tent. After confirming that it really worked, Wei Chengyi threw the compass to Yan Lang, turned around and picked up Shen Xiangwan: "Wanwan, you are really great, you are simply our lucky star!"

With the compass, they could not only send people deep into the grassland to gather information, but also lead troops there to launch a truly effective counterattack against the Western Hu people. Expelling or even destroying them was no longer just empty talk.

[End of this chapter]

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