Chapter 48
When the border troops came out in full force, Yun Mian sat in the slightly empty camp, on the high millstone, with his hands supporting his face, watching the soldiers in armor marching out one after another.
The sound of horse hooves made the fine sand and gravel on the ground tremble slightly. Yun Mian placed the long sword in his hand across his knees, looked at the dark sky above his head, and said softly: "Today's weather is good, it's good for fighting and bloodshed, don't stay put."
The system stopped at the scabbard on her knees. Upon hearing the words, it jumped up lightly and knocked the scabbard made of fine iron, making it jingle.
"Mianmian, after this battle, our side quest progress bar will increase a lot."
They will get closer and closer to that small goal.
Yun Mian's eyes curved slightly, and she jumped down from the millstone, saying cheerfully, "That's right! Mother and the others have gone to the front line to fight the enemy. Although I am guarding the rear, I must also guard against the enemy taking advantage of the opportunity to sneak in. There must be no mistakes in this battle!"
After she rearranged the soldiers who stayed behind, she calculated with Uncle System how intense the fighting would be. After some thought, she decided to take a small team of a hundred people to patrol and explore several unguarded passes.
"Food and supplies are still arriving in the rear. What we need to do is to guard against the enemy's surprise raid on the food and supplies. Once we encounter any suspicious person approaching, no matter if they are men, women, young or old, they will be killed without mercy!" Yun Mian spoke to the hundred people in a deep voice, and then led them to run towards Qiliang City in the rear.
In fact, my mother had arranged people to support the defense along the way, but Yunmian and the system calculated it several times on the sand table and felt that there were still loopholes, so no matter how prepared they were, it would not be excessive.
"We can send spies to Tuguo, and we can also find out some of the deployments of Tuguo's soldiers. So why do we think they won't know our arrangements?"
Yun Mian rode on his horse and galloped towards Qiliang City against the biting wind.
The one hundred carefully selected people behind her also rode their horses to catch up.
"Master said that the most fearful thing about a war is that one's side has made every possible plan." The wind broke her voice, but one could still hear some caution in her voice: "Because there has never been a war in the world where there has been every possible plan. In most famous battles, the losers can be described in one word: one mistake made in a hundred plans."
What Yunmian needs to do now is to plug this gap.
"Where is the gap?" The system asked doubtfully, "Your mother, the military advisor, and those generals have calculated this battle over and over again for hundreds of times. Even if I use the system data to simulate it, the chance of winning this battle is already over 80%."
If a battle has such a high chance of winning, even a man who has never fought in a war would dare to risk his life, let alone generals who have been on many battles?
But after hearing this, Yun Mian whipped the horse and went faster.
All the food and fodder were transported from Qiliang City to the border where the troops were stationed. Yun Mian listened to the whistling wind beside her ears, pursed her lips tightly, and said in a deep voice: "There is always a loophole in a hundred precautions. What is missed is not the millions of lives lost during the battle between the two armies, but the baggage and food and fodder in the rear!"
"Your mother sent people there before the war, so there shouldn't be any big problems, right? Can the Tu Kingdom still quietly send troops to go around behind us and cause trouble?" The system was a little confused.
"But what if they were not sent now, but were arranged half a year or even a year in advance? What if they were sent to infiltrate the rear early on, waiting only for the battle to break out today?"
“…What do you mean?”
Yun Mian pulled the reins hard and raised his hand to let the hundred soldiers behind him disperse and gallop in different directions towards the long food and grass line.
"No matter if you are a man or a woman, old or young, anyone who dares to approach the food will be killed!"
“Here!!”
Yun Mian watched them gallop away with heavy eyes, and her delicate fingers slowly tightened the reins in her hands.
Then he turned around and rode quickly towards the refugee resettlement area outside Qiliang City.
There was no conversation along the way. When she arrived at her destination, the refugee area was in chaos.
The girl sat high on the horse with her back straight, looking coldly at the defenders who were being attacked by the crying and rioting refugees but never drew their swords.
She loosened the reins, untied the bow on her back, put the arrow on it, and took aim.
The fully drawn bowstring was suddenly released, and the arrow pierced through the air like a stream of light, then pierced through the man's tall body, bringing with it a handful of warm blood that splattered everywhere. Amidst his wailing, he was nailed to the haystack beside him.
The blood-stained feathers at the tail of the arrow trembled slightly, and the refugees, frightened by the sudden change, suddenly fell silent like chickens being pinched by a big hand.
As they stared at him in shock and horror, Yun Mian took out the second arrow, put it on the bowstring, and aimed it at them again.
Everyone retreated in panic.
The sudden end of a life not only frightened the refugees, but also the soldiers guarding the city.
Someone came running over and saluted, saying, "Little Princess, those refugees suddenly rioted this morning. We have already sent people to suppress them, but they..."
Yun Mian released the bowstring again, and the arrow pierced the internal organs of a tall man again amidst a panicked scream.
Taking a last look at the refugees who were hunching their shoulders in fear and silence, Yun Mian tore off the prince's jade pendant hanging from her waist and threw it to the soldier.
"Anyone who causes trouble will be killed."
Her still childish voice seemed to contain a myriad of murderous intent, making the listeners tremble.
After saying this, the girl who had come in a hurry left in a hurry again.
Everyone looked at her back with timid expressions. She didn't say anything, as if... as if she came here specifically just to kill someone.
The system quietly looked at its host. She was very calm, with a firm look in her eyes, as if the person who had just taken two lives without saying a word was not her.
"Mianmian, are you scared?" it couldn't help asking.
The host is only ten years old now...it is a little worried that she might have some mental problems.
Shaking his head, Yunmian said, "There's nothing to be afraid of. I just feel lucky."
I am glad that my mother had kept those refugees outside the city, and I am glad that I remembered their existence today.
I was also glad that I could still catch up and kill those people.
"They are creating a riot and trying to escape. Even if there are defenders protecting the food and fodder, they are bound to be negligent..." Yun Mian whispered about the behavior of the refugees. The horse had already run to the vicinity of the food and fodder team.
"Little Princess, we killed several people along the way. This is the one we just caught."
Yunmian looked in the direction of his finger and saw old people, women, and children.
"To prevent further trouble, all the able-bodied men were killed," the soldier explained.
Yun Mian nodded slightly, looked at the people huddled together, and asked, "Have they interrogated them?"
"We tried them and their stories were different, but they all said they were innocent and asked us to let them go."
Yunmian asked again: "Did you search me?"
"We searched them," the soldier replied. "They looked like ordinary farmers. They had no weapons on them except for tinder. We couldn't tell whether they had ulterior motives or just needed to travel."
Yun Mian looked at those people and said softly, "Then let them go."
"Release, release?!" the soldiers were stunned.
Yun Mian pulled out an arrow and played with it in her hand. Hearing this, she glanced at him indifferently.
The soldier's eyes fell on her hands, and he nodded in understanding: "Yes, we will release them now."
He rode back and said something to the group of soldiers on guard. After hesitating for a moment, they really untied the ropes that bound the refugees and shouted in a stern voice at them to leave quickly.
They looked around in confusion, and when they were sure that no one was trying to stop them, they thanked the soldiers with tears in their eyes and could not wait to leave quickly.
The team transporting food and fodder was very long. The refugees left in a panic, but when they were far away from the guarding soldiers, they took advantage of everyone's relaxation and rushed back.
They grabbed the guards' knives, they lit tinder, and everyone rushed towards the food and fodder with a common goal.
Then, an arrow suddenly pierced his chest.
Old men, women, children... fell to the ground one by one amid the dense barrage of arrows, and the bloody holes on their bodies pierced by the arrows were bright red and glaring.
"Uncle System, is this what you once said: fishing enforcement?" Yun Mian put down the bow in his hand and patted the horse to let it move a few steps closer.
The system came back to its senses sluggishly, and the voice was a little stuck: "They..."
"How could ordinary people dare to approach a large army transporting food and supplies?" Yun Mian shook her head and sighed softly, "People are most afraid of soldiers, because soldiers have swords, status and privileges. Even the most ignorant people would never rush to rob food and supplies unless they are really starving to death."
So, among these old, weak, women and children, which one is innocent?
Maybe, but no matter if it was driven by interests or threatened by someone's weakness, given that the two countries were enemies, Yun Mian would never be soft-hearted just because they were weak and innocent.
Otherwise, where would she leave the people behind her and the soldiers who were dying on the battlefield?
After resolving the possible omissions in food and fodder, Yun Mian did not relax his vigilance. He led his soldiers on horseback to patrol several passes one by one before returning to the camp to let the people rest and then join the logistics of the war.
"I don't know how my mother is doing." Yun Mian sat in front of the sand table, holding her chin in her hand, in a daze.
She was not idle in the rear, even though she could have done nothing.
But she was worried about her mother, the uncles she knew, Xiaobai, Wei Wu, Chu Tian and others...
I don’t know if they are injured or how far their attack has progressed.
"Don't worry." The system comforted her: "Your mother is the most powerful person I have ever seen. If Lian Yunyi can be the male protagonist, then your mother must be a super boss! With her in control, the war will definitely have an overwhelming advantage!"
Yunmian: “…”
Oops, I'm actually a little convinced.
There is another chapter to come later. I feel a little sleepy today and I can’t muster the energy to type.
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
100 bottles of Changan Zhibeichen;
Onion smoldering 27 bottles;
23 bottles of seven-color flowers;
Fluorescent 19 bottles;
Watch the world smoke through 10 bottles;
8 bottles of giraffes who want to be fuel;
Nana is 77, Mingren does not fart secretly 3 bottles;
2 bottles of Yunjiang and Jing;
One bottle for three bowls per meal;
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