Chapter 338: Too Nostalgic
The cavalry team led by Wei Xing, Ren Yin, and Ren Nanshan successfully avoided the enemy's pursuit and seized the opportunity to deal the most painful blow to the enemy when they were most tired.
In a sense, these three people are indeed rare generals.
As for Xue Lihua, if her entire army had not been annihilated before, the enemy would not have relaxed their vigilance against the other three cavalry teams and felt that they were not enough to pose a threat to the enemy.
Therefore, Xue Lihua also had a share of the credit for the east wind, but the price she paid was more heavy.
After understanding all this, Xuanyuan Qing was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth. He immediately waved his hand and shouted, "Bring down the camp and reorganize the army, and pursue the victory. This time we must recapture the border in one go and drive the enemy back to the Diyue Kingdom."
"Yes, Ninth Prince." All the generals responded in unison.
Then everyone began to move camp and reorganize the army, pursuing the victory and advancing forward.
Gu Chan arranged a team to send the injured soldiers back to Zhongyuan City to recuperate.
More than 20 days later, in this situation of chasing and fighting, the more than 100,000 troops led by Gu Chan and Xuanyuan Qing finally drove the enemy into Wuheng County on the border.
Since the city walls of Wuheng County were tall and easy to defend but difficult to attack, it became somewhat difficult for Gu Chan and Xuanyuan Qing to capture Wuheng County and completely defeat the enemy for a while.
That night, just as the soldiers set up camp five miles outside Wuheng County, Gu Chan said to the generals in the central army tent, "Give orders that from tonight onwards, you can only eat and drink the food and water brought by our own forage camp, and you cannot touch anything on the border."
"Why?" Tian Ying asked puzzledly.
"Why are you talking so much nonsense? If I say no, then it's no." Gu Chan said unhappily.
Tian Ying and others looked at each other in bewilderment.
Xuanyuan Qing knew that Gu Chan must have made arrangements in advance, so he stood by her side and ordered, "Everyone go and do as Vice General Gu said. She has brought us so many miracles along the way, and I believe in her."
"Yes, Ninth Prince." The generals did not dare to disobey and could only agree unwillingly, then stood up and took their leave. Following Gu Chan's instructions, they ordered all the soldiers in the camp not to take any food and water on this side of the border.
Seeing that everyone was obedient, Gu Chan went back to sleep with peace of mind.
And for the next three days, Gu Chan asked Xuanyuan Qing to surround Wuheng County without attacking, and wait for the opportunity.
As expected, on the morning of the fourth day, the enemy troops wailed in Wuheng County.
It was because after three days, since the food and grass had been burned and there were so many soldiers who needed food and drink, the enemy general had to order everyone to use local materials to solve the problem of food and drink.
In this way, they fell into Gu Chan's trap.
More than ten days ago, the cavalry team led by Cheng Yu and Ma Zheng had arrived here in advance and spread 450 kilograms of powerful animal diarrhea medicine all over the food and water sources along the border.
This means that wherever there is food and drink on the border now, it is all infected with powerful animal diarrhea drugs.
At the beginning, the enemy soldiers could still hold on after eating these things, but as time went on and the amount of medicine they ingested increased, their diarrhea began to become more and more serious, and now it has reached a point where even the enemy doctors cannot control it.
After Gu Chan received the report from the mouse beast in the county town, he immediately seized the opportunity and ordered Xuanyuan Qing to send troops to attack the city.
In just one morning, more than 50,000 enemy soldiers were killed or wounded, leaving only 150,000 troops, who fled hurriedly to the large forest on the border behind.
During this siege, Gu Chan's soldiers only suffered a few thousand casualties, which was another miracle in the history of Tiancang Kingdom. On the night of the capture of Wuheng County, Xuanyuan Qing celebrated wildly and held Gu Chan in his hands like a treasure, which further strengthened his determination to marry Gu Chan as his imperial concubine.
Gu Chan, however, was dismissive of this.
While everyone was celebrating, she took Wei Xing, Ren Yin, Ren Nanshan, Xue Lihua and led 5,000 cavalry to pursue the enemy.
In the second half of the night, she chased the enemy all the way to the border forest.
Camping on a patch of grass at the entrance, Gu Chan was not in a hurry to go deep into the border forest, but waited quietly.
The five of them sat around the fire. Wei Xing asked curiously, "Little Boss, what are you waiting for? Why don't we charge in now? With our abilities, we can definitely kill all the enemy troops!"
"Yes! Although 150,000 enemy soldiers have fled into the forest, they are all weak and frail. We are not afraid if we rush in." Ren Yin also followed suit.
Gu Chan looked at the dark forest ahead and couldn't help but recall, "Do you know? When we first came to the border, Ma Zheng and I often followed Zhao Erniu into the mountains to hunt. I am very familiar with every plant and tree in this forest. At that time, Ma Zheng and I had a dream, which was to hunt every mysterious beast in the forest. Unfortunately, our dream could not be achieved."
"Why, are you still reminiscing about the past? Don't forget, you are no longer the poor boy you used to be." Xue Lihua said with a smile.
"People always change. You can't always be immersed in memories," Ren Nanshan advised.
Gu Chan smiled bitterly and said, "That's right. My biggest problem is that I am nostalgic. To be honest, some of the enemy soldiers are old acquaintances of mine. I don't really want to kill them."
"Besides Zhao Erniu and that bastard Huang Yue, who else is your old acquaintance?" Xue Lihua asked.
"Qin Xiang, the proprietress of Wanqi Shop." Gu Chan sighed.
When Xue Lihua heard what Gu Chan said, she fell silent.
She knew that when Gu Chan was living on the border, Qin Xiang, the proprietress of the Wanqi Shop, had given her a lot of help. She also taught her how to shoot arrows and imparted some skills to her.
However, it was later confirmed that Qin Xiang was also a spy planted by the Diyue Kingdom on the border of the Tiancang Kingdom.
If Gu Chan really wanted to kill Qin Xiang now, given her nostalgic nature, she probably wouldn't be able to do it easily.
Gu Chan continued, "In the past, there were a total of four mysterious beasts in Jiuyang Village. At that time, I raised a little fox, a rooster and an old hen from the village chief's house, and the little buffalo raised by Zhao Erniu. The last time I brought back the three mysterious beasts, there were no such four among the hundreds of mysterious beasts. I wonder if they are doing well now."
"They must have been taken away by the enemy's mysterious beast camp and retreated into the border forest. Don't think too much about it. These four mysterious beasts will definitely be fine." Xue Lihua said comfortingly.
Gu Chan nodded quietly, and she really hoped that they were all okay.
At this time, Wei Xing suddenly asked, "By the way, speaking of your three mysterious beasts, why haven't I seen them since we came to the border? Where did they go?"
"I asked them to come to the border in advance and sneak into the border forest to meet up with Ma Zheng and Cheng Yu." Gu Chan said with a smile.
Wei Xing and the other three were stunned when they heard this, their eyes wide open in surprise.
They didn't expect that Gu Chan had done so many things in secret. It could be said that she had predicted all the actions of the enemy after their defeat!
(End of this chapter)
