Chapter 442: Cicada Mantis Yellow Bird
Niubei Mountain, Niubei Mountain
Looking at the long low mountains on the sand table, Wei Changtian thought for a long time.
As Chu Xianping said, this is indeed the weakest link in the entire plan.
First, although I have already set a trap here, no one can say whether it can achieve the expected effect.
Second, even if the anti-rebellion army could be severely damaged here, it was uncertain whether the latter would retreat to Guanghan County as planned.
There will definitely be no problem with Han Zhao, but what if Ning Yongnian intervenes?
And if the imperial army does not retreat, then the 100,000 monsters hidden in the Ten Thousand Mountains will be useless.
Unlike the 10,000 monsters that made up the Tengu Army, although these 100,000 monsters would reluctantly obey Qingxian's command, their intelligence was not high and animality was still the most basic motivation for their actions.
To put it bluntly, once a fight breaks out, they won't be able to tell friend from foe and will simply attack everyone in front of them.
This is normal in itself. After all, if all the monsters under Qingxian could "obey orders and win battles", the monster clan would not have been trapped in the Ten Thousand Mountains for thousands of years and would have wiped out Daning long ago.
Therefore, it was already a great success for Qingxian to find 10,000 monsters that could cooperate with humans, so Wei Changtian did not ask her for more.
It doesn't matter if there is no distinction between friend and foe, as long as there are only enemies in front of these monsters. This was his previous idea.
But now, if the imperial army did not choose to retreat after the Battle of Niubei Mountain, but instead continued to advance towards Shuzhou City, then the use of these 100,000 monsters would have to be done with extreme caution.
It is possible that the Shu army might be wiped out even earlier than the imperial army.
If the situation gets more serious, Shuzhou City might even be attacked by a tide of beasts.
And once this happens, the result will be... "Brother Chu, Uncle Liang."
After an unknown amount of time, Wei Changtian suddenly looked up and asked, "How many days will it take for the imperial army to arrive?"
"General Han said that if nothing unexpected happens, it will take three days."
Chu Xianping quickly replied: "Including the time for rest and recuperation, the official attack on Guanghan should be in five days."
"Um"
Wei Changtian nodded and asked, "After the war begins, according to our plan, how many days will it take for the imperial army to enter Niutou Mountain?"
"Eight to ten days."
This time it was Liang Zhen who answered: "There is no fixed number on the battlefield, but the time should be not much different."
"Five days, eight days"
Wei Changtian pondered for a moment, then slowly stood up: "That is to say, at the earliest in thirteen days, the imperial army will enter Niutou Mountain."
"yes."
Chu Xianping and Liang Zhen looked at each other and said, "Sir, what are your plans?"
"have."
Wei Changtian reached out and picked up a green flag from the sand table and gently placed it behind Niutou Mountain.
"I will tell Gui Pei'an to have 100,000 people from Dali rush to Niutou Mountain to set up an ambush within thirteen days."
"Even if we can't get that many, I think it will be no problem to get half of them first."
"Also, I have to go to Niutou Mountain again, so you guys stay in Guanghan and continue to deploy according to the plan."
"I will be back in four days at the latest."
“.”
The war is about to begin, but Wei Changtian is going to Niutou Mountain again. It is obvious that he is going to do something big.
However, Chu Xianping and Liang Zhen did not ask any further questions.
"Changtian, when are you going to leave?"
Liang Zhen said seriously: "Do you need to send a team to accompany you?"
"No need. The fewer people who know about this, the better."
Wei Changtian shook his head: "Time is running out, I'll leave now."
"Okay, then I'll have someone prepare the car."
Liang Zhen agreed and immediately went out to ask someone to prepare the carriage.
At this time, only Wei Changtian and Chu Xianping were left in the conference room.
"Sir, besides Niutou Mountain, I actually have another concern."
Suddenly, Chu Xianping uttered a sentence slowly.
Wei Changtian turned his head to look over, as if he had already guessed what Chu Xianping wanted to say, and his expression did not change much.
The two of them looked at each other silently, and then both turned their eyes to another place on the sand table.
The green flag representing the Shu army and the red flag representing the imperial army faced each other on both sides, and behind the green flag was a large area of green flags.
The small green flag had the word "Li" embroidered on it, forming a pincer attack with the red flag, encircling all the green flags, which were already few in number.
Dali As the saying goes, the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.
There is nothing wrong with this sentence itself.
The problem is that in many cases, the "praying mantis" or even the "cicada" will mistakenly think that they are the "oriole".
At dusk, a horse-drawn carriage quietly left Guanghan County and headed straight for Niutou Mountain, 500 miles south.
From the time he entered the city to the time he left, it took five hours, and Wei Changtian didn't even have a bite to eat.
Of course he didn't care about it, but Xu Suisui was unwilling to follow him and "messed around", so he took the initiative to stay in Guanghan County.
This finally gave Wei Changtian and Shen Ran the opportunity to be alone.
“.”
"Mr. Shen, thank you for your help."
"It's okay. This is what I should do."
On the bumpy carriage, Wei Changtian had already said, "I hope the Dali reinforcements can arrive within thirteen days."
Shen Ran also agreed seriously, and in front of Wei Changtian, he took out the mother and child jade and started to deliver the message.
About a quarter of an hour later, as Shen Ran put away the mother and child jade, the matter came to a temporary end.
The next step is to wait for Gui Pei'an's reply.
The car fell into a brief silence. A few distant mountains outside the car were out of reach, vaguely appearing and seeming to blend with the gradually darkening sky.
Shen Ran looked at the empty scene through the car window, then looked at Wei Changtian who was thinking about something with his head down, and felt a little confused.
He didn't understand why Wei Changtian invited him to go to Niutou Mountain.
If it was just for what happened just now, he could have just told me before he left, why did he have to drag me along? Moreover, Wei Changtian obviously had something important to do, but I was strictly speaking just an "outsider", why did he trust me so much? Ever since he saw Wei Changtian's famous "show of authority" at the Chunlong Poetry Festival, Shen Ran had been very interested in this young man from a noble family who was well-known in Daning.
His poetic talent is unrivaled in the world, he has the ability to kill a second-rank official, and he has a romantic and handsome appearance. These advantages are obvious, but the exact opposite of this is the various rumors about Wei Changtian.
Killing the prime minister and his son, killing innocent people indiscriminately, colluding with foreign enemies, having no humanity, being licentious and lustful. Although Shen Ran understood the truth that "there is no wind without waves", he had never felt any of the above in Wei Changtian.
This contradiction is like a thick fog, covering Wei Changtian, making Shen Ran unable to see the former's true face.
And the most important thing is that Wei Changtian is the only person Shen Ran has met who can also see Tiandao Yunyan.
Based on this point alone, Shen Ran knew that Wei Changtian must be no simple person.
"Prince Wei"
After a little hesitation, Shen Ran finally asked, "Since the last Spring Dragon Poetry Meeting, there is one thing that has been bothering me until now. I wonder if you can help me solve it?"
"Mr. Shen, I know what you want to ask."
Looking up, Wei Changtian's expression was calm.
He shook his sleeves and made a gesture, and immediately three white rays of light appeared in the carriage, and then slowly transformed into the shapes of Yunyan, Gu Diao, and Huanglong.
“This, this is!”
Shen Ran suddenly widened his eyes and felt that his heartbeat had stopped at this moment.
But Wei Changtian just smiled, and then slowly said something in front of Shen Ran's extremely shocked eyes.
"Mr. Shen, there are actually thirteen people like you in this world."
(End of this chapter)
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