Chapter 128 Crossing the River
"Okay." Liu Hong said, and continued to look at the map in front of him, "They should be retreating to the vicinity of Jinwei Mountain."
"Because they have no food?" Xiao Jin asked.
Liu Hong nodded and drew a circle with his finger near Jinwei Mountain. "Jinwei Mountain is surrounded by mountains on one side and rivers on the other. Even if they don't have food, they can still hold on for a few more days."
"Once the reserve food arrives from He Yunfu, they will be able to recover."
Ling Chan then spoke up, "There's no food left at He Yun Mansion."
"What?" Liu Hong asked again uncertainly, "There's no food in Heyun Mansion? That's impossible. All of Dahe's reserve military supplies are kept in Heyun Mansion."
Because He Yunfu is the closest, it can provide timely support to the battlefield.
Ling Chan smiled mysteriously and said, "The food over there... has all been moved away."
"Even the grain they brought back from Heyun Mansion was reduced to only three carts."
"They are now going to other prefectures to transport grain, but that will take more time."
"Otherwise, they won't retreat so easily."
Xiao Jin came to Ling Chan and asked, "There's so much food in He Yun Mansion. Have they all been moved out?"
"Are they coming?"
Ling Chan subconsciously took two steps to the side, "Huh? Uh...they, um, are here."
Xiao Jin gave her a strange look, "Wan Yue..."
When Ling Chan heard the word Wanyue, she immediately thought of the word "sister".
"Deputy General Xiao." Ling Chan straightened her neck. "We are in the army now. You can call me Ling Chan, or you can call me Marquis."
Liu Hong looked at the two men suspiciously, while Liu Huaiyu looked curious. As for the others, they were all confused.
"My Lord." Xiao Jin immediately changed the address. "I want to ask, where are they?"
"They..." Ling Chan forced a guilty smile, "They are from the underworld and aren't used to being in a military camp, so... they'll help us with some things first."
Liu Hong had no doubt at all, "Great, this way, we can have more time to drive the Da He soldiers back to He Yun Mansion."
"Where is the grain that He Yunfu moved away?" Liu Huaiyu asked.
"It has been placed in a safe place." Ling Chan replied, everything was in her space.
“Once our food runs out, it will be replenished, so we don’t have to worry about food.”
After talking to Liu Hong, Ling Chan and Liu Huaiyu returned to the tent together, or rather, Liu Huaiyu accompanied Ling Chan back to the tent.
"Ling Chan, what happened to you just now?" Liu Huaiyu held Ling Chan's arm. She was full of admiration for Ling Chan, but at this moment, she was even more gossipy.
"Didn't you get along well with King Rui before?"
"What's going on now? What misunderstanding do you have?"
Ling Chan shook her head, "No."
"Then why are you so cold to Prince Rui?" Liu Huaiyu asked with a frown.
She suddenly stopped and whispered in surprise at Ling Chan's back, "You...do you think he's ugly because of his injury?!"
Ling Chan turned back helplessly, but saw Xiao Jin behind Liu Huaiyu.
She quickly took two steps to pull Liu Huaiyu up, "What nonsense are you talking about?"
The wound on Xiao Jin's face has healed, she has seen it several times.
"In fact, Prince Rui was originally very handsome, and you and he are really a good match." Liu Huaiyu didn't see Xiao Jin and spoke to himself.
"Didn't the imperial physician say that Prince Rui's injury would heal sooner or later?"
"When he recovers, who knows how many women in the capital will covet him... Don't regret it."
Ling Chan now just wanted to take her away quickly, "What do I regret? I..."
"Then what's going on?" Liu Huaiyu was still asking questions.
"It's nothing." Ling Chan pulled her and pulled her into her tent.
"Then how..."
Ling Chan peeked out of the tent and saw Xiao Jin turning around and heading somewhere else. She lowered the tent curtain and turned to look at Liu Huaiyu, "Nothing happened."
She poured a cup of tea and put it to her lips. "You're just talking nonsense. I'm afraid others will misunderstand you."
Liu Huaiyu looked at her for a moment and said, "I understand."
"You don't like King Rui."
"Why?" Liu Huaiyu sat opposite Ling Chan.
"Why is that?" Ling Chan put down the cup unhappily.
Liu Huaiyu pouted, "But... every time Prince Rui looks at you, it's obvious that you're not simple..."
"You're overthinking it." Ling Chan said lightly.
Liu Huaiyu was unconvinced, "How is that possible? I couldn't have been wrong. I couldn't have been suspicious."
Ling Chan looked at her seriously, "You're talking so loudly, Liu Huaiyu, how many times have you been in love?"
"What?" Liu Huaiyu was stunned. "What love?"
Ling Chan exhaled, "What I mean is, you are a girl, don't act like you understand all the relationships between men and women."
Liu Huaiyu snorted without hesitation, "Even if I haven't experienced it myself, I've seen it."
"It's just like Prince Huai looking at Ling Xueyao..."
She suddenly realized something, glanced at Ling Chan, and immediately changed her words, "Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore."
"For something like this, outsiders can only join in the fun."
She raised her eyebrows. "If you keep avoiding King Rui like this, and King Rui is really interested in you and pushes him into a corner... hehe."
"If you have nothing important to do, go back and rest." Ling Chan didn't take her words to heart. "We still have to surround and kill the Dahe people tomorrow."
Liu Huaiyu snorted, "Stingy guy, you didn't even give me a sip of water when I came to your tent."
After that, she slowly walked towards the door, "Okay, I'm leaving."
Not long after she left, Hongdou and the others came back with the food.
"Everyone has eaten a lot these days." Hongdou put down the food. "I just went to the kitchen and everyone was thanking you, Miss."
Ling Chan: "I still have to thank Da He."
Hongdou chuckled, "Yes, I have to thank Dahe."
After dinner, Ling Chan entered the space. The drone had mapped the terrain along her way, and she now wanted to print out the map.
When Ling Chan handed the map drawn by the drone to Liu Hong, Liu Hong was stunned!
"These..."
Ling Chan explained them to him one by one.
"This is the floor plan from here to He Yun Mansion..."
"This is a three-dimensional map." That is, a 3D map.
"There are also detailed maps of the Ganwei River area."
"This is the floor plan of He Yun Mansion."
Liu Hong took all the maps and looked at them one by one.
This time I found that many places were different from the map he was using...
"Great! With this map, we won't make any mistakes during our march."
"Go, call all the lieutenants."
Before setting off, Liu Hong wanted to discuss the strategy with everyone.
Xiao Jin is now the deputy general. Liu Hong has assigned ten commanders to him to manage more than 10,000 soldiers.
Although Liu Huaiyu was also a deputy general, Liu Hong did not assign her a command, so she was actually in name only.
And Ling Chan has no commander under her.
So although Ling Chan and Liu Huaiyu also participated in the discussion in Liu Hong's tent, they were not included in Liu Hong's plan.
They could only sit aside and listen to their arrangements.
The Dahe military camp retreated to the vicinity of the Ganwei River. The roads there were narrower, and it was impossible to surround the Dahe military camp from all sides as before.
We can only surround and kill them from the front and back.
The front is very simple, they just need to go straight there, but for the back, they have to walk along Yeran Mountain from the foot of Wuxie Mountain, then cross the river to the foot of Jinwei Mountain and encircle them from the rear.
Liu Hong ordered Xiao Jin and Deputy General Wang to lead 5,000 men each to encircle the enemy from the rear.
He also appointed four deputy generals and asked them to lead 5,000 men each to attack from the front.
Liu Huaiyu kept looking at Liu Hong with expectant eyes, but Liu Hong seemed not to see her the whole time.
She really wanted to go, but she knew that she couldn't question Liu Hong in such an occasion.
After all the commanders had left, Liu Huaiyu expressed his dissatisfaction, "Grandpa, I'm also a deputy general. Shouldn't you assign me a few commanders as well?"
Liu Hong sighed, "Huaiyu, it's not that grandpa doesn't want to give it to you, but..."
That was all he said, but his meaning was clear: it wasn't that he didn't want to give it to anyone, it was that no one was willing to follow Liu Huaiyu.
The dozen or so commanders in the military camp are all grown men, and each of them is a rough man.
Xiao Jin is already stand out enough among these people, let alone Liu Huaiyu?
When Xiao Jin first came to the military camp, he started as a captain in the army and became a deputy general with his own strength.
Because Liu Huaiyu received Xiao Heng's favor, she became a deputy general as soon as she arrived, but no one obeyed her, and no commander was willing to be under her.
"..." Liu Huaiyu pouted, "That's because you didn't give me a chance, Grandpa."
Liu Hong looked at her, and after a moment, as if he had made a big decision, he said, "Okay, then you can go with Deputy General Xiao."
Liu Huaiyu jumped up excitedly, "Yes, General."
She had already taken a step forward when she thought of Ling Chan, "Ling Chan, are you going?"
"Let's go together." Liu Hong waved his hand.
Liu Huaiyu pulled Ling Chan out. Ling Chan turned around and waved to Hongdou, Gonglan, and Gongyu who were waiting outside the tent. "Hongdou, Gonglan, Gongyu..."
The next second, she hit her head on something and someone pulled her arm.
"Hiss..." She turned around and saw a... chest.
Looking up, it was Xiao Jin.
Looking to the side, Liu Huaiyu was standing there with an apologetic look on his face.
The arm that was originally held by Liu Huaiyu was now in Xiao Jin's hand.
Xiao Jin let go of his hand, "Are you okay?"
He made no secret of his worry, so how could Ling Chan not see it?
"It's okay." Ling Chan shook her head and turned back to cover up, "Hongdou, hurry up."
"Miss." Hongdou was already in front of her, "I'm already here."
"Yes." Ling Chan took Hongdou's hand, "Let's go to the rear of the Dahe military camp with Deputy General Xiao."
"Okay." Hongdou nodded happily.
"Let's go." Xiao Jin didn't say much.
Liu Huaiyu walked back to Ling Chan, took her arm, and asked softly, "Ling Chan, are you okay?"
The collision just now was really strong, she heard a bang...
Ling Chan touched her left cheek and ear helplessly. Her ears were buzzing from the collision just now.
"Don't blame me. I was just about to remind you, but you bumped into it." Liu Huaiyu continued.
She also felt strange, "But King Rui didn't hide, just stood there and let you bump into him..."
Hearing this, Ling Chan gritted her teeth and asked, "So you did it on purpose?"
He deliberately brought her to bump into Xiao Jin, hoping that Xiao Jin would dodge.
Liu Huaiyu immediately let go of Ling Chan's hand and took two steps to the side. "I...I didn't."
But Ling Chan didn't believe it, she herself felt that she had no confidence, "I..."
The two of them chatted and laughed as they arrived at the place where the soldiers gathered.
"Let's set off first. Once we get behind Da He, we'll send a signal to the front." Xiao Jin explained the plan and got on his horse.
Liu Huaiyu and Ling Chan were originally chatting and laughing, but they immediately became serious after they got on their horses.
Except for a few of their deputy generals, everyone else walked.
When Ling Chan and the others were approaching Yeran Mountain, they had to dismount and walk, otherwise they would be too conspicuous.
And they have to wait.
It took five hours to walk from the military camp to Yeran Mountain. Although it was already evening, there was still some light in the sky, so they had to wait until dark before they could act under the cover of darkness.
At noon, everyone was busy on their way and did not stop to eat.
It's a good time to eat something and drink some water.
They left in a hurry, so Ling Chan and Liu Huaiyu didn't bring any dry food or water.
Xiao Jin shared some dry food with other soldiers and brought it to them.
"Thank you, King Rui." Liu Huaiyu took it, but she only took the ones from Hongdou, Gong Lan and Gong Yu, and did not share any with Ling Chan.
Not only that, after distributing the dry food to Hongdou and the others, she also touched Ling Chan, signaling her to take the remaining dry food from Xiao Jin.
Ling Chan reached out and took the dry food from Xiao Jin's hand, "When are we going to continue?"
"Wait another hour." Xiao Jin replied.
Their dry food was steamed buns made from a mixture of refined flour and coarse flour, which were softer than the coarse flour buns they had before.
"Thanks to the food you brought back, otherwise we wouldn't be able to eat such delicious steamed buns." Xiao Jin said.
Ling Chan tore off a piece of steamed bun and stuffed it into her mouth. "They have a duty to defend the land and are always on guard for Daqi. This is what they deserve to eat."
Instead of those brown rice and brown noodles...
Even if it was just coarse rice and coarse flour, some people in the capital still thought that giving them was enough. There were even people like Rong An who would exchange their lives for money.
Thinking of this, Ling Chan couldn't help but increase the strength of her bite on the steamed bun, which made Xiao Jin frown, thinking that he had said something wrong.
Next, Xiao Jin stopped talking and silently handed the water bag to her.
Everyone waited for another hour, and it was getting dark.
"Let's go."
We walked along the foot of Yeran Mountain. On the right was the Ganwei River. The river was gurgling, and the sound of flowing water became clearer, quiet and distant at night.
After walking for another half an hour, they could see torches in the Da He military camp across the river, as well as the figures of guards walking back and forth.
"When we cross the river later, you..." Xiao Jin specifically found Ling Chan and the others, wanting to say... When we cross the river later, have someone carry them across. They are all women and cannot soak in the water for too long, as this may easily hurt their bodies.
"We have our own way." Ling Chan didn't wait for him to finish, "Deputy General Xiao, don't worry about us."
She has a flight backpack, so she doesn't need anyone to carry her.
Although the Ganwei River is very wide, it is not too deep. When a person stands in it, the deepest part is almost up to the waist.
Xiao Jin deliberately chose a shallower location and arranged for the soldiers to cross the river.
Ling Chan fell behind everyone and slipped into space...
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