Chapter 129 There are spies in the military camp
Ling Chan took out the equipment that Hongdou and the others had used before. All of this equipment had been replenished.
She took another bottle, filled it with pool water and went out.
If she hadn't brought the bottle with her, she wouldn't have needed to enter the space specifically.
These pools of water were to prevent any soldiers from being seriously injured.
After coming out of the space, Ling Chan actually came face to face with Liu Huaiyu.
"Ling Chan?!" Liu Huaiyu blinked, "Where did you come from?"
She was just wondering why Ling Chan disappeared in the blink of an eye, and then suddenly appeared again.
"Hurry up and grab your stuff." Ling Chan stuffed Liu Huaiyu's equipment into her hands, "Don't fall behind."
Then I went to find red beans.
Liu Huaiyu was busy putting on his flight backpack and had no time to ask Ling Chan anymore.
After they were all dressed, they flew into the air behind everyone else and then flew to the other side.
The soldiers below waved at them excitedly. If they hadn't been asked to remain quiet, they would have cheered.
What Ling Chan and Liu Huaiyu didn't know was that the soldiers below became more confident when they saw them.
"Their guards are very strict." Liu Huaiyu looked at the Dahe military camp below.
The military camp was full of people...
But Liu Huaiyu soon discovered the flaw, "They concentrated their people in the front, and there were not many people in the back."
Ling Chan was also observing. Da He also arranged people at the rear of the military camp, but the number was not as large as in the front.
"Some of them are paying attention to the river." Ling Chan raised the silenced pistol in her hand and aimed in that direction.
Now is the critical time for everyone to cross the river, and we must not be discovered by Da He's people.
Liu Huaiyu, Hongdou and the others also looked over and found the sentry responsible for exploration by the river.
Several people aimed their pistols at the target, and Ling Chan gave the order, "Shoot."
After a few barely audible bangs, the sentries below all fell.
Over there, Xiao Jin, Lieutenant General Wang and the soldiers had reached the middle of the river, and they would be able to reach the other side of the river in another two cups of tea.
At the same time, two miles ahead of Dahe’s military camp, Daqi’s other lieutenants and soldiers were waiting for signals from Xiao Jin and Lieutenant General Wang.
As long as Xiao Jin and Deputy General Wang gave the signal, they would rush to the Dahe camp immediately.
"It should be about time, right?" Several deputy generals gathered together.
"Everyone, go back to your respective teams. It will probably take only half an hour."
Several commanders dispersed...
In the Dahe military camp, Hailasu suddenly ran out of the tent, "Everyone, pay attention, Daqi will raid the military camp today."
"Everyone be on alert."
After a while, a horn sounded, which was a warning signal to be on guard.
Immediately afterwards, all the Da He soldiers rushed out and gathered.
"What's going on?" Ling Chan looked down. With the help of the drone and glasses, she could clearly see the movements of the Da He soldiers.
Everyone left the tents and gathered in various parts of the camp.
Why would they gather so suddenly? Could it be that they knew Daqi was planning a surprise attack?
It doesn't make sense. They were not discovered by the Dahe people, and no signal was sent. The other deputy generals did not take any action. How could Dahe know about Daqi's surprise attack in advance?
"What's going on?" Liu Huaiyu was also puzzled. "Why would Da He be prepared in advance?"
The two looked at each other from a distance, and their guesses coincided with each other.
After a while, a group of soldiers ran to the rear of the camp and found the fallen sentry.
These people don't seem to be here to guard, but rather they seem to be heading directly...towards the Ganwei River.
They rushed to the bank of the Ganwei River and started shooting arrows into the river.
The Daqi soldiers were already crossing the river carefully, and they had no time to run away when the arrows flew towards them.
Ling Chan, Liu Huaiyu, Hongdou, Gong Lan and Gong Yu had already opened fire when they discovered that these soldiers had rushed to the banks of the Ganwei River.
But the other side had more people, so some Daqi soldiers were shot by arrows and fell into the water.
"Carry the wounded back to the other side." Xiao Jin ordered.
The soldiers near the wounded immediately carried the wounded and walked back...
Fortunately, this panic was only temporary. With the efforts of Ling Chan and others, all the archers below fell to the ground.
At the same time, the frontline soldiers of Daqi also stepped onto the ground and began to attack the Dahe camp.
Xiao Jin took out a flare and fired it into the sky.
The deputy generals of Daqi in the front saw the signal flare and ordered all soldiers to run towards the Dahe camp.
Two miles and five minutes later, the Daqi soldiers ran to the Dahe military camp.
They directly broke through the wooden railings in front of the military camp and rushed into the camp...
"General, we are now being attacked from both sides..." the soldier reported to Hailasu.
Hailasu looked at Ling Chan in the sky from afar, "Is that Daqi's Zhenbei Marquis?"
"She is the daughter of Gong Lele, the former Marquis of Zhenbei..."
Hailasu had never had direct contact with Gong Lele, but during the years he and Barhu were stationed at the border, he had heard Gong Lele's name many times from Barhu.
Barhu said Gong Lele was an unpredictable woman.
You never know where she'll appear from...
Unexpectedly, her daughter was like this too.
The person who brought the news said that the newly-appointed Marquis of Zhenbei had many strange hidden weapons and treasures.
Moreover, her maid is the new leader of the martial arts world of Daqi. This time, it was she who summoned the martial arts heroes of Daqi to come to the border to help.
The martial arts heroes... Hailasu hasn't seen them yet, but he has seen the so-called strange and bizarre hidden weapons.
The black hidden weapons held by these women in the air are so powerful...
Also, that day, when they left, the ammunition that Zhenbei Hou dropped was much more powerful than what they usually used.
"General." The soldier shouted again, his tone somewhat impatient. After all, it was already this late, and Hailasu was still in a daze.
"Da He soldiers have always been brave and good at fighting. Over the past decade or so, Da Qi soldiers have suffered countless casualties at our hands, and this time is no exception."
"Pass the order down. Daqi is sending a total of 60,000 men this time. Our Dahe soldiers are three times as many as theirs."
"This victory will allow them to eat as much meat and drink as they like!"
"Yes." The soldier responded and left, and began to pass on orders to the deputy generals and commanders.
The Dahe soldiers had been hungry for the fifth day and only ate some grilled fish in the evening. Instead of filling their stomachs, it aroused their hunger.
Hailasu’s words could motivate them at first, but after a burst of energy, they lost their strength.
My sword hands are weak from hunger...
Ling Chan and others opened a gap above for Xiao Jin and Deputy General Wang so that they could lead their men in.
Bang, bang, bang...
When Ling Chan had used up all the bullets she had taken out, she fell down directly, turned her arm inward, and the gun in her hand disappeared, replaced by a black umbrella.
The top of the black umbrella has now turned into a sharp blade...
She rushed into the crowd and joined the melee.
Liu Huaiyu and the others had run out of bullets, so they fell down with Ling Chan.
They picked up a knife from the corpse on the ground and joined the battle.
Xiao Jin saw her coming down to join the battlefield and slowly came to her.
Helping her deal with the Da He soldiers in front of her, Xiao Jin asked: "Why did you come down?"
"You guys stay outside and leave this to us."
"More people means more strength." Ling Chan said, and waved the black umbrella, and the soldier who was about to approach was stopped.
"You noticed it too, didn't you?" she continued.
Xiao Jin nodded, "Yeah."
"So the spy in the military camp hasn't been caught yet!"
The man Xiao Jin had discovered before was in cahoots with Gong Zhou. After Gong Zhou was captured, those people from the Gong family were also dealt with by Gong Taining.
He thought the army was clean, but he didn't expect there were spies.
"Do you, Daqi, have any spies in the army of Dahe?" Ling Chan asked, and pushed the umbrella forward again, stabbing someone to death.
Xiao Jin didn't stop, "No."
"When the late emperor was alive, he trained a group of scouts, who were stationed throughout the capital of Dahe."
"After the late emperor passed away, those scouts disappeared."
"My brother once sent people to infiltrate Dahe to contact these people, but to no avail."
"It takes a lot of effort to train scouts, and my royal brother doesn't have that kind of mind."
As he spoke, he killed five Da He soldiers in succession.
"What about the Embroidered Uniform Guard?" Ling Chan asked again. As for the Embroidered Uniform Guard... Ling Chan had only heard of them but had never seen them.
All she knew was that they were a guard team loyal to the emperor, but Ling Chan felt that it was more than that.
"They..." Xiao Jin frowned, "They are only responsible for scouting Daqi."
Will not participate in collecting military intelligence, inciting enemy generals to defect, etc.
To train such a person, there must be an imperial decree from the emperor, otherwise no one would dare to do such a thing.
Xiao Heng did not mention this matter, but Xiao Jin did. However, Xiao Heng did not take it seriously, so he could not do anything.
The two men were talking back to back, completely ignoring Da He's soldiers, which was simply insulting.
Behind them was Liu Huaiyu, whose arm was scratched by a soldier's knife.
Liu Huaiyu subconsciously frowned, preparing to feel the pain, but... he felt nothing.
She retracted her arms in surprise, only to find that her clothes were not even torn.
She looked up at the soldier who had injured her and found that the soldier's expression was even more surprised than hers.
"You..." The soldier looked at Liu Huaiyu in astonishment, "You..."
Liu Huaiyu raised his foot and kicked the knife out of the soldier's hand, then slashed his neck with the knife in his hand.
This was the first time Hongdou had actually killed someone with a knife. Her movements were hesitant, not as decisive as Liu Huaiyu's, but she had no hesitation in her hatred for the Dahe people.
Her father was drafted into the army because of the invasion of Dahe and died on the battlefield after only one year. The army gave him one or two taels of silver as a pension.
The tael of silver was snatched away by her grandparents, who also drove her and her mother out, saying that they had killed their son.
Her mother wandered around with her and later died of illness in the suburbs of Beijing, leaving behind her when she was just three years old.
That day, the Madam prayed at Yulu Temple and found her on her way back to the capital. She buried her mother and brought her back to the Ling Mansion, letting her accompany two-year-old Ling Chan...
The blood of the Dahe soldier splashed on Hongdou's cheek, making her fair little face look weird.
She reached out to wipe the blood off her cheek, and her hand holding the knife became more determined.
"General, we can't hold on any longer."
Hailasu stood in front of the tents. There was a lot of noise around the tents, and many of them had fires burning.
"General, let's retreat."
Hailasu's chest heaved up and down, and he didn't know how to make a decision for a moment.
Barahu died, and Juhongtu went to Jina Prefecture to transport grain...
The other deputy generals now all seem to be following his lead.
Of course he understood their thinking.
In this situation, if he makes a wrong decision and the court blames him, he will have to bear the consequences himself.
"General!" the sentry was anxious.
“Everyone really can’t hold on any longer.”
I haven't eaten in five days...
"Retreat!!" Hailasu took his last breath and suddenly opened his eyes.
The Daqi soldiers attacked from both sides...
"Order all soldiers to retreat towards He Yunfu."
There are only 20,000 Daqi soldiers in the rear, which makes it easier to break through than the 40,000 in the front.
As soon as the order to retreat was given, all the soldiers in the Dahe camp began to rush to the rear.
Ling Chan and the others could block some of the attacks from the back, but not all of them.
Seeing the Da He soldiers escaping, Ling Chan prepared to chase them.
"Stop chasing me." Xiao Jin grabbed her arm.
Ling Chan abruptly retracted the step she had already taken.
"If they retreat, they will enter He Yun Mansion." Ling Chan pulled out her arm.
"That's perfect. We can rest and regroup the next day at the latest." Xiao Jin saw the four lieutenants attacking from the front, "Let's clean up this place."
The so-called cleaning means getting rid of the corpses here, most likely by burning them.
"Wan...Marquis Zhenbei, you take Lieutenant General Liu and the others back to explain the situation here to General Liu. We will stay here to clean up the battlefield." Xiao Jin nodded at Ling Chan.
Ling Chan knew his intention. He didn't want them, the women, to stay here and witness the cruelty of cleaning up the battlefield after the war.
"Huaiyu, Hongdou, Gonglan, Gongyu, let's retreat first." Ling Chan accepted his kindness and called a few people to leave.
After returning to the military camp, Liu Hong learned that the battle had been won and immediately started writing a battle report.
"After being away from the capital for so long, I can finally report my victory to His Majesty." He picked up the brush and dipped it in ink. "I want to report your achievements to His Majesty, Marquis of Zhenbei."
"You are just like your mother, a woman who is as capable as a man. I sincerely hope to have a Zhenbei Marquis like you. It is truly a blessing."
"It's a good thing for us that the Dahe people retreated back to Heyun Mansion."
He took a deep breath and began to write on the paper, "After the soldiers return and have a good rest, we will move camp and head to the city of Heyun Prefecture."
"More than a decade ago, Da He threatened to negotiate peace, but in reality, he was just trying to buy time. This time, we absolutely cannot negotiate peace easily."
"I will also advise His Majesty in this manner in the victory report."
Liu Hong paused, "By the time the victory report reaches the capital, we might have already taken over He Yun Mansion."
He couldn't help laughing out loud, "Haha, after more than ten years, I can finally hold my head high and feel proud."
Then, he continued to write victory reports...
Ling Chan walked to the door of his tent and looked outside.
At night on the border, apart from the faint light of the stars and the moon, most of the sky is dark, but in the distance there is a red light shooting straight into the sky.
That was the direction of the Ganwei River, where Xiao Jin and his men were clearing the battlefield...
"OP." Gong Lan walked out from the darkness.
Ling Chan retracted her gaze, "What's the matter?"
"Gong Ye and Gong Ling are here. They have something important to report to the host."
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