Chapter 293 Trapping Others and Getting Trapped
"Don't you just want to eat meat? There's plenty of it on the mountain!
The King of Jin said, starting tonight, we'll send 500 people into the mountains to hunt, to ensure everyone has meat to eat every day!"
"Really? That's great!"
Everyone wanted to be the first to go hunting, and several lieutenants quickly finalized a list of hunters. But when they came back from their enthusiastic trip to the mountains, they all looked like frost-bitten leaves, wilted and listless.
"What's going on? Where's the prey?"
Qu Fan, the deputy general in charge of the patrol that night, saw them coming back empty-handed when he was about to hand over his shift at dawn, and couldn't help but ask curiously.
The deputy general Ji Wang who led the team glared at him unhappily. Don’t think that he couldn’t hear his gloating. Wasn’t it just that he was luckier than him and was the first group to go into the mountains to hunt?
If I had known this, I would have let him go first tonight!
Ji Wang didn't answer, and his soldiers spoke up.
"Don't even mention it. The entire forest has been trampled. Not to mention big game like wild boars and sheep, not even a single pheasant or rabbit has been seen!"
"The villagers are so powerful, can they kill all the prey in the forest?"
"Where? Looking at the tracks on the ground, a large group of people have surrounded the entire forest. Not to mention prey, there's not even a hair left!"
"A large group of people? An army?"
"Don't forget, there are still small groups of people from the Great Zhou outside the city. They are most likely the ones who did it!"
"Damn it! They not only robbed our food supplies, but also wanted to steal our prey. This is really too much!"
"Let's go and report to King Jin!"
When the King of Jin heard that the five hundred men who had gone into the mountains had not brought back a single pheasant, he was so angry that he smashed his only teacup.
With a "bang", the teacup shattered into pieces on the ground, scaring Ji Wang and Qu Fan.
"Your Majesty, calm down!"
"Your Majesty, calm down!"
"Bai Li! I will grind you into ashes!"
Looking at his soldiers with low morale, the King of Jin knew that his plan of relying on hunting to replenish his food supply had failed again.
He gnashed his teeth and said, "Ji Huanan, Bai Li, you two just wait for me. I will not be a human being until I have my revenge!"
After a fit of rage, King Jin slowly calmed down and began to anxiously think of a countermeasure in his mind.
Upon seeing this, several deputy generals hurriedly took their men away and never dared to hang around King Jin again.
Meanwhile, in the camp, the soldiers learned that their hunting plan had failed, and despair filled their faces. With food and fodder scarce and no prey to fill their stomachs, their stomachs began to growl, and the shadow of hunger loomed over the entire camp.
Prince Jin paced back and forth in the barracks, his brow furrowed, lost in deep thought.
He knew that the current situation was becoming increasingly difficult. If he could not find a way to solve the food and grass problem as soon as possible, the army would probably collapse without Bai Li having to leave the city to attack.
But at this moment, he really couldn't think of any effective solution, and his heart was filled with anxiety and helplessness.
At this time in Qinzhou City, Bai Li was overjoyed to learn that Ji Huanan had successfully disrupted King Jin's hunting plan.
"Haha, Uncle Ji is really smarter than I expected, and his reactions are so quick. He figured out the guerrilla tactics so quickly and did so many things. I'll give him a good note!"
"yes!"
Wu Lanzhi now holds several positions, and Bai Li handed all these trivial matters over to her.
"Li'er, this guerrilla tactic of yours is really useful. How come I haven't heard of it in military books?"
Nangong Min was so happy that he couldn't help but ask the question in his mind.
"Haha, this guerrilla tactic is something I invented myself. How could it be found in military books?"
Bai Li lied shamelessly. She couldn't say that she accidentally saw it in the history books left by her predecessors in the apocalypse, right?
Bai Li planned to never tell anyone in his lifetime that he was a lonely soul from the end of the world.
After all, this matter was too mysterious, and she was afraid of being mistaken for a monster and burned to death.
Here she has familiar parents, a grandmother who loves her, and so many loving family members. She feels content.
Even if there is still fighting and killing here, and she cannot realize her wish of lying down and eating, it doesn't matter. It is better than being in the end times, without any relatives around, and fighting zombies every day when she opens her eyes.
"Marshal Bai is truly gifted, unprecedented and unparalleled!"
"Hehe, I don't deserve it. I don't deserve it."
Bai Li, for once, did not shamelessly take credit for himself.
"Haha, sister, you also know how to be humble?"
Bai Li turned around and glared. Who else could have said this but her good brother Bai Dalang?
"Li'er, Prince Jin is guarding the main road now. We can't get out. Are we just going to have to endure this with him?"
Nangong Min hurriedly found a topic to help her out. When everyone heard this, they realized that this was exactly the issue they had been thinking about, and they hurriedly listened attentively to see if Marshal Bai had any good ideas.
"Ahem, of course not."
Bai Li straightened his face, opened the map on the table, and said to the others, "I want to take advantage of the fact that the King of Jin is short of food and grass to capture both Qiangzhou and Chizhou counties."
Everyone was shocked. Now everyone outside was under the King of Jin's command. How could they get out?
The crowd's reaction was as expected. Bai Li pointed at the map and said carefully, "We want to leave the city. In fact, besides the official bamboo forest road, there are two other small roads that can lead out..."
When everyone heard this, they hurried over and looked at the map on the table.
On the map, with Qinzhou as the center, the nearby mountains, forests, villages and fields were all clearly and distinctly drawn.
This map was drawn by Ji Huanan and delivered by King Kong yesterday.
Without careful observation, even the villagers who are most familiar with the terrain cannot draw such details.
Every fork in the map is clearly marked. With this map, everyone can know the area around Qinzhou clearly.
Nangong Min looked in the direction Bai Li pointed. There was a forest outside the north gate of Qinzhou. In the forest, there was a mountain path that the villagers had taken to go up the mountain to chop firewood.
The so-called mountain path was just a small path in the woods where the grass and trees were trampled down by people. It could not be found at all unless you looked carefully.
From the picture, we can see that the way out lies through the forest, over a hill, and around the back of the hill.
Going out from the west gate of the city is a field. Walking around the winding ridges of the field, there is a village at the end. There is a mountain behind the village. Needless to say, there is a way out there.
"We can get out, but we can't march quickly on such a small road. Besides, we're too big a target. Once we're discovered, there's nowhere to retreat and no cover. We'll become sitting ducks!"
"Don't worry about that. If we take this path, even if we are discovered, they won't be able to get close enough to surround us.
Don't forget, our bows and arrows have a longer range than theirs. Once we see someone, we should take the initiative and shoot him with arrows."
"Besides, we have Ji Huanan supporting us from outside. I don't think that bastard King Jin would dare to mobilize all his troops to encircle and suppress this small group.
If he really has the guts to come and surround us, we won't be afraid of him. I have a backup plan."
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