nycdaug Chapter 163: One Autumn Rain and One Cold
Chapter 163: One Autumn Rain and One Cold
"Lu Ruiguang dared to go out of the city to attack the camp?" The second half of the night was when the guards were tired, and this was the best time to attack the camp.
However, the enemy did not try to hold on to the battle. Before our army could return to defend, the enemy had already withdrawn. It looked like a deliberate harassment.
Zong Yanli also woke up from his sleep and heard that the enemy had withdrawn again. He immediately summoned all the generals to discuss the matter.
Gongsun Pu still had a tired look on his face. He yawned and said, "Lu Ruiguang doesn't want to defend the city gate, and he is worried that our army will not be able to withstand the next fierce attack on the city, so he took this risky move and adopted guerrilla tactics."
Gongsun Pu recalled that when fighting against the Jin State's Donglong City, Shao Weiyi had also taken the action of dividing the team into guerrilla groups.
"We can wait a little longer." Gongsun Pu thought for a moment and said, "Let's see how the enemy attacks first, and then take action."
"If it is indeed as we guessed, a guerrilla team is leaving the city, we can ambush outside Yao'an Pass." Gongsun Pu raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows and whispered: "Judging from the city of Yao'an Pass, there are only a few directions to leave the city."
"Our army has set up an ambush in advance, and when the enemy leaves the city again, we can intercept them first, turning the passive situation into the active one."
"But there is one thing, we cannot be sure when the enemy will leave the city." Gongsun Pu said this and then fell silent for a moment, as if he was trying to wake up his sleepy brain.
Zhan Haoyue propped up his head and tilted it to one side. It looked like he had been asleep for quite a while...
Zong Yanli felt like laughing when he saw this scene, but he waved his hand and said, "Forget it. This happened suddenly tonight, and I have redeployed the defense. I don't think the enemy will attack our camp again. Let's all go back and rest."
Everyone thanked him quickly and turned back to the camp to rest.
The enemy was indeed just harassing us. Knowing that they were outnumbered and short of food and fodder, they naturally did not dare to engage us head-on. They chose to attack our camp in the second half of the night when everyone was sleeping soundly, just to disrupt our soldiers.
Lu Ruiguang's attack was disorganized, but there were traces to follow.
After a few days of observation, it was found that the enemy chose to attack the city in the second half of the night, when the soldiers were just about to go to bed, or when they were starting to cook.
To put it bluntly, it was chosen during that brief period of time when the soldiers' vigilance was relaxed.
"General, here is the news brought back by the scouts." Lu Hao hurried back on horseback and delivered the six directions out of the city from Yao'an Pass that the scouts had discovered in the past few days.
"Yeah." Zong Yanli nodded and asked Lu Hao to sit down, and then started a new round of deployment.
The six locations of the Yao'an Pass required ambushes, which would consume too many manpower. Therefore, Zong Yanli wanted to push forward through the pass, forcing the enemy to leave the city from four directions on the left and right sides.
Then Zong Yanli deployed ambushes in the four directions out of the city. After making the deployment, he had to find a way to lure the enemy out of the city.
Yao'an Pass is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Zong Yanli was worried that the enemy troops were hiding inside the pass and didn't know how to break the city. Unexpectedly, they came out on their own.
Every autumn rain brings a chill. The rain that has fallen for several days in a row seems to have brought the coolness of autumn.
The soldiers at the door of the military tent took out buckets and basins and placed them beside the tent to collect rain water.
Gongsun Pu and Zhan Haoyue were playing chess and making tea in a good mood. The army, which should have been so serious, looked like some elegant restaurant with the two of them setting it up.
Zong Yanli returned home soaked in rain with heavy steps. In the past few days, Zong Yanli personally went to investigate the surrounding situation, trying to gain some convenience from the terrain, and also looked around to see if there was any breakthrough among the people in the surrounding towns.
Being a commander-in-chief does not just mean sitting in the main tent and issuing orders all day long. If you don't see it with your own eyes, how can you know how the current situation is changing?
The irrigation of rainwater made the originally shallow streams gradually fill up. Several times when she went out, she saw the people tilting their heads back and opening their mouths wide to catch the rainwater. There were also people who were not satisfied with this and knelt in the fields to pray for the crops to grow.
"Have someone cut off the stream." Zong Yanli took off her armor, revealing her embarrassed face. Her hair was wet and her face was slightly red. She frowned and whispered, "Drive away all the people living near the stream, burn some incense and scatter the ashes into the river."
"Pretend to poison someone, and let the people spread the news. When Lu Ruiguang believes it, he will not dare to use water, and he will not be able to stay for a few days."
Zong Yanli gave the order while wiping the rain off his face with a piece of cloth. He paused, sighed, and said, "Send Feng Pei over."
Everyone bowed their heads in response. When they heard Zong Yanli's next words, they all raised their eyes and asked, "General, did you encounter the enemy on your way? Were you injured?"
Zong Yanli shook her head, her armor still dripping with water. She lowered her eyes and said, "I've been caught in too much autumn rain, maybe I caught a cold."
Monkie and the others were extremely stunned, and their eyes when they fell on Zong Yanli were full of surprise. In their eyes, Zong Yanli had always been as strong as a bull. Not to mention this kind of cold, even if he had been injured in a fight with a general or was on the verge of death against the enemy, he seemed to have recovered in an instant.
They really didn't expect that Zong Yanli would also catch a cold...
In everyone's eyes, the powerful and omnipotent general was like a god. But at this moment, they suddenly seemed to realize that the general was a human being, not a god.
Zong Yanli's illness did not come suddenly. She felt a little unwell two days ago, but because the war was more important, she did not pay any attention to it and still arranged everything properly. Only today did she feel very dizzy and called a military doctor to come.
Feng Pei has been with Zong Yanli for the past few years and knows Zong Yanli's physical condition very well. He was surprised to hear about this.
After taking the pulse, Feng Pei, who looked a little old, carefully prepared medicine for Zong Yanli and whispered, "General, you caught a cold because of being caught in the rain. Women are more fragile. Although you are physically strong, you are already 24 years old."
"You need to be careful to avoid getting any illness." Feng Pei advised softly. Whenever he thought of the fact that Zong Yanli was a girl, Feng Pei felt sad and respectful for her. As the years went by, he sighed more.
"How long will it take to get better?" Zong Yanli asked in a hoarse voice, suppressing the pain and swelling in his head.
"Let's try the medicine first..." Feng Pei knew that Zong Yanli was concerned about the war situation, so he gave the medicine to the mute slave and asked him to boil it and send it to him.
She hadn't been sick for a long time, and this illness reminded her of her childhood. Her mother didn't dare let her father know that she was a girl, so she insisted that Zong Yanli endure the pain without calling a doctor, for fear that others would leak the news, so she just secretly asked someone to get medicine.
In her daze, Zong Yanli seemed to have returned to her childhood. She used to think that her mother was cruel and tough, but she also ignored the tears hidden in her mother's eyes.