Chapter 59 Multiple Preparations
Lin Qianqian slept in a small tent, which she took out from her carriage. It was a sheepskin tent that she bought on the way to the border.
He spread a piece of rainproof tarpaulin in the tent to block out moisture, and then spread a piece of yellow and white tiger skin on the tarpaulin. He covered himself with a snow-white lambskin and went to sleep.
The advantage of sleeping close to the ground like this is that if a large group of people come over, they can hear the sounds coming from the ground.
She lay down and fell asleep in a daze soon after.
Si Xuan came in and touched Lin Qianqian's forehead with his hand, and found that her forehead was scorching hot, "Girl, you have a high fever."
It turns out that miracle doctors can also get sick.
Lin Qianqian struggled to open her eyes. No wonder her head felt so heavy, it turned out she had a fever.
Maybe you got sick because you sweated during the day and were blown by the cold wind.
She struggled to get up, took out two small pills from the bottles and jars she carried with her and stuffed them into her mouth, then took a large bowl of hot water brought by Si Xuan and drank it.
Si Xuan thought that Hongdou had taken the girls back to Yecheng to settle down. Now the entire marching team was full of rough men, and there were no girls to take care of Lin Qianqian.
He didn't care about the difference between men and women, and simply spread a leather mat next to Lin Qianqian and slept beside her so that he could take care of her more conveniently.
During the night, Si Xuan woke up many times and touched Lin Qianqian's forehead.
"Well, the fever went away so quickly. This girl's illness comes and goes quickly."
Si Xuan felt much more relieved after listening to Lin Qianqian's even breathing.
In the second half of the night, the wind was strong, the snow was heavy, and the sky was dark, so I couldn't see anything.
Lin Qianqian was awakened, opened her eyes, and looked face to face with Si Xuan.
Both of them woke up.
Seeing that Si Xuan was about to speak, she quickly pressed her hand on Si Xuan's lips, "Shh", and felt a warm feeling on her fingertips.
Lin Qianqian put her ear to the ground and listened carefully, and found that something was indeed happening. In addition to the sound of wind and snow, there were other sounds.
It's the sound of horse hooves.
The sound was very loud, definitely like that of a mighty army.
The people who came were either northern barbarians or soldiers from Beiyue Pass.
I don’t know whether the other party is an enemy or a friend, but it is always right to be prepared in advance.
Si Xuan's expression was solemn. As a god of war-level figure, he also heard something unusual.
He wrapped himself in his cloak and left the tent.
Lin Qianqian stretched out her hand, picked up the tiger skin, and wrapped it around her body with smooth movements.
I followed my boss Xuan outside and was startled by the cold wind.
It was still snowing heavily outside.
The dozens of people patrolling outside were almost frozen into ice.
Si Xuan issued a military order: "General Yue, extinguish all open flames, wake up everyone, and prepare for battle urgently."
If the person coming was an enemy, it would be too late to hide the grain carts. Fortunately, half of them had been hidden in advance.
To be honest, now is not a good time to fight. It is snowing heavily and it is dark. There is no other way except to fight blindly based on the sound.
The death toll from such a war is uncontrollable.
Si Xuan had actual combat experience, and he immediately ordered, "Line up the carriages first and use them as cover."
The northern barbarians are good at shooting, and these chariots can be used as shields to reduce casualties among teammates.
Si Xuan estimated the approximate number of people coming based on the sound of horse hooves: "From the sound of horse hooves, there are at least 5,000 people."
And there are only two thousand people on our side.
The disparity between the enemy and us was huge, and the weather was bad.
If the people who came here were really northern barbarians, they had lived in such a harsh environment since childhood, so they would naturally be able to adapt better than the people of Dayan.
I hope the troops coming are from Beiyue Pass to deliver food and fodder.
The sound of horse hooves was getting closer and closer, and Lin Qianqian could soon see who was coming.
The people who came were holding torches, many, many torches.
When they got closer, they threw many torches directly over here.
Some of the torches hit the carriage, some hit the tent, and some hit the snow.
Now we can be sure that it is the enemy. Our own people will never do this.
There are more than 100,000 soldiers guarding Beiyue Pass. It is impossible for so many barbarians to escape their eyes.
Could it be that the Field Marshal of the Three Armies deliberately let those people in?
When the enemies got closer, we could see clearly what they were wearing. Most of them were wearing leather. Some of them held bows and arrows, and some held crescent-shaped machetes. We were definitely seeing the northern barbarians.
The torches were filled with oil and the tent caught fire in an instant.
The tent could not be saved, but the wagon loaded with grain could be rescued.
Si Xuan's subordinates have an orderly division of labor.
Some hid behind the carriages and shot arrows at the northern barbarians, while others took shovels and shoveled snow onto the grain carts to put out the fire on the grain carts.
Casualties are inevitable.
But we have carriages as shields, while the other side does not, so our casualties are much less than those of the other side.
Especially when the enemy rushed closer, some horses' hooves were pinched by wild boars, and the people on horseback were thrown directly into the snow.
The person who fell in front tripped the people in the back row.
For a while, there were continuous wails and curses from the northern barbarians.
When Lin Qianqian was a child, she followed her adoptive parents to the border and could understand the language of the Beizi country.
What these people cursed was: "Damn it, there are wild boar traps. Who would set wild boar traps during a war?"
"These southern barbarians really have no moral principles."
You northern barbarians came to attack us in the middle of the night, and you even have the nerve to say that they have no moral principles.
Soon, the northern barbarians reached the second line of defense, which was rows of iron rakes, causing secondary damage to the northern barbarians.
The warhorse stepped on the iron rake and was stabbed. It immediately went crazy, jumping and leaping, and threw the northern barbarian off the horse.
The person who fell to the ground was stabbed by the iron rake. All that could be heard was a loud scream, and the white snow on the ground turned bright red.
Zhao Xiaoliu: "Miss Lin is mighty."
The wild boar traps and iron rakes actually killed thousands of northern barbarians and narrowed the gap in numbers between the two sides.
The northern barbarians are really angry, what the hell is this!
The people of the Great Yan State don't play by the rules at all.
I have never seen wild boar traps and iron rakes set up during a war. About a thousand people had fallen before they even got close to the enemy.
The leader of the northern barbarians shouted: "Charge!"
They were determined to burn the food supplies. With so much food supplies, it was impossible to safely pass through Beiyue Pass and return to Beizi Country, so they had to destroy them.
The destruction of food and fodder would have a huge impact on the overall war.
After suffering damage from two lines of defense, the northern barbarians finally rushed to a place very close to the carriage.
It just so happened that the wind was blowing towards the northern barbarians.
Lin Qianqian held up the big treasure she had prepared in advance, which was a two-meter-long bamboo tube with a hole in the middle, filled with psychedelic powder.
She puffed up her cheeks and blew, and the northern barbarians who were nearby soon fell to the ground.
General Yue standing by was stunned: It turns out that this is possible! Miss Lin actually has so many plans. This opportunistic method should not piss off the northern barbarians.
While he was shocked, Zhao Xiaoliu and others had already taken the antidote given by Lin Qianqian and jumped out with knives to reap heads.
Lin Qianqian blew a few bamboo tubes of medicine and killed thousands of northern barbarians.
Now it became two thousand against three thousand northern barbarians.
General Yue was full of admiration: Miss Lin, with her own strength, reduced the gap in numbers between the enemy and us, making this battle more certain.
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