Chapter 1,750 Continue to cultivate openly and secretly
At this time, there are thousands of the most elite armor-piercing soldiers in the camp, and even if a few hundred people come in, they can't make a difference.
If the enemy wants to attack the camp, this number will definitely not be enough, and the scouts have not reported that peasant troops are gathering here, so there should be no problem.
"Brothers, you have worked hard all the way." Bai Tu first paid attention to the people returning to the team below, and then ordered to the side, "Let them go."
As the general guarding the camp, Bai Tu spoke, and the soldiers guarding the camp stopped being alert and immediately opened the door.
The troops from outside immediately filed in, and the leader, the one who had been responding to Bai Tu, was surprisingly the returned Kuei Hall manager Wu Kuang.
There is no doubt that this army is all disguised as peasant disciples... not entirely.
Looking at the team walking towards the camp, Bai Tu crossed his arms and glanced twice. He suddenly thought of another verification method and quickly said:
"Wait a minute!"
This sound made Wu Kuang's heart skip a beat.
If they were exposed and hundreds of people were trapped in their camp, it would be extremely cold.
He could only force himself to remain calm, but did not turn around immediately to avoid being recognized by Bai Tu.
Theoretically, Bai Tu shouldn't know him, but... what if?
Is it better to hide as little as possible?
Bai Tu didn't care, he just shouted and asked:
"I don't know the new password, so tell me the one from yesterday."
As the saying goes, a fool will eventually achieve something after all his worries. Bai Tu, this idiot, had a rare change of mind.
If someone else is not careful enough and not prepared enough, he really won't be able to answer his question.
But Wu Kuang is a cautious enough person... and he is not the only one who is cautious. The Zhu family and Han Xin are all cautious and well prepared.
When Wu Kuang heard this question, the corner of his mouth curled up, he felt relieved and replied calmly:
"Of course we know yesterday's password, but General Bai Tu is very careful."
"The password is pheasant."
After getting the correct answer, Bai Tu was completely relieved, waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's go, let's go."
Wu Kuang quickly led the people through the camp gate and walked towards the interior of the camp.
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On the other side, Han Xin's headquarters.
Tian Zhong watched everything with cold eyes, listening to messengers coming constantly to deliver the bad news.
Liu Ji seemed to be out of his mind, his eyes were dull, he wanted to say something but couldn't.
Only Han Xin remained emotionless, staring closely at the key nodes on the map.
At this time, Tian Yan suddenly rushed over with Tian Hu, Situ Wanli, the Zhu family and other hall masters.
"How's the battle going now?"
Liu Ji looked at Tian Yan blankly, and replied dejectedly, "Frostfall Ridge...is lost."
"What!?"
As soon as these words came out, Tian Hu and others couldn't help but turn pale with shock.
They knew about Han Xin's plan to lure the enemy, but they were told that the ambush location had been lost?
What a slap in the face!
The key is, what will happen to the ambush team now?
Even if you think about it with your feet, it probably won't be too good.
Tian Hu had the most violent temper and immediately stepped forward to question Han Xin about his command.
Just at this time, another messenger came in a hurry on horseback. He stumbled off his horse and came forward to report:
"Report!"
"General Long Qie was attacked from both front and rear, and Mangzhong Gang was lost!"
Before everyone in the farm family could digest this new bad news, frontline defeats came one after another:
"Report! Lidong Spring encountered a fierce attack by the imperial army, and General Ji Bu led his troops to withdraw."
"Report! The Xiaoshu Bridge has been destroyed, General Zhong Limei's path has been cut off, and he cannot complete the support operation in time."
Annoyed by the series of bad information, Tian Hu slapped the table where the map was placed.
Liu Ji, who was on the other side of the table, collapsed and fell to the ground, murmuring in frustration, "It's over, it's all over!"
The most calm person in the audience was Han Xin, followed by Tian Yan.
The latter then asked the former, "What are the casualties?"
"The casualties in Frostfall Ridge exceed 500. The casualties in several other battlefields have not been summarized yet, but they should not exceed 2,000."
"Totaling them all together, it is estimated that there are around 2,000 people. The actual number is likely to exceed 2,000, but not 3,000." Han Xin calmly reported a rough number.
Tian Hu completely exploded after hearing this. He waved his hand and shouted angrily, "Numbers? These are not numbers, they are brothers! They are more than two thousand living brothers."
In absolute terms, for a farm family with nearly 100,000 disciples, the number of two to three thousand is nothing, but this is just the beginning of tonight's battle, the beginning of everything.
At this rate of casualties, even if there were tens of thousands of people, they would be able to account for the loss within a few days.
It is true that farmers have a big business, but in fact such serious casualties rarely occur.
After all, apart from war, only epidemics can kill as efficiently as this.
Both of these are basically insulated from the farmhouses of the past.
Tian Hu's excitement at this time was not all about finding trouble, but more out of genuine anger.
Han Xin certainly understood this:
"I see."
Tian Hu stepped forward and grabbed Han Xin by the collar, glared at him and angrily said, "I don't think you care at all!"
"I care." Han Xin replied calmly.
This is the truth from the heart, but he omitted two words at the end - win or lose.
Tian Hu didn't believe Han Xin's lies... On this point, his judgment was correct, and he refuted with a choked voice:
"No, you don't care at all!"
Han Xin tilted his head back as much as possible to avoid the saliva, and at the same time reminded:
"This is war!"
"War kills people, lots of people."
"You look like a dead person to me!" Tian Hu refused Han Xin's truth.
Han Xin calmly reminded, "Beheading the generals before the battle will not help the subsequent battle."
"You!" What Tian Hu despised the most was Han Xin's confident appearance, as if the farmer would not change his mind without him, and he raised his fist to hit him.
Tian Yan stepped forward and stopped Tian Hu with his hand, giving him a look to tell him to let go.
Tian Hu didn't like Han Xin, but he had to listen to his eldest niece Xiakui, so he reluctantly pushed Han Xin away.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "I hope you don't mind the radicalism of Hall Master Tian Hu, but I think you should also explain why there were such serious casualties?" Tian Yan calmly asked Han Xin.
"Faced with 30,000 heavily armed imperial ace troops, do you think you can win this battle without any loss of blood and without any damage?" Han Xin spread his hands and asked in a puzzled tone.
It's really bad that there were so many casualties right out of the gate, but...who do you think you are fighting?
You know, although Han Xin was sure that the war would end tomorrow, he was also prepared for more than 20,000 or even 30,000 casualties among the farmers.
War means killing people.
This group of gangsters reacted as if they were trying to play house and couldn't figure it out, which made it difficult for him to comment.
If he weren't worried about arousing public anger, Han Xin would have directly responded with "No way" - of course, he was actually targeting the farmers, not Tian Yan who seemed to be questioning him.
However, the farmers still didn’t quite approve of Han Xin’s response—mainly because Han Xin did tend to avoid the truth.
Tian Yan lived up to expectations and continued to question, "But all your plans have failed!"
It is one thing that people will die in war, but it is another thing that your command is poor and the war is tense.
Han Xin was unwilling to explain too much about this, because he could not trust the peasants, whose cerebellum was not fully developed.
He just responded vaguely, "The war is not over yet, we still don't know who will win, and the three days that Xia Kui gave me have just begun."
The translation is just one sentence - I am sure of myself!
Situ Wanli stepped forward and suggested, "Xia Kui, I can't let this guy continue to take command."
"He is simply taking a big gamble. If he really waits for three days, he will lose all our farm's capital!"
The secondary reason why Situ Wanli attacked Han Xin at this time was that he really felt that Han Xin was gambling blindly, just like a fool in a casino hoping to get rich overnight.
The main reason is that Han Xin is closer to the Zhu family, and he does not want Han Xin to really stand out within the farm family.
Tian Yan did not express his position because of Situ Wanli's persuasion, while Han Xin responded calmly:
"War is like a giant wheel rolling down a hillside. Once it starts turning, it cannot stop...at least farmers do not have the ability to stop it."
"Faced with this game, only those who persevere to the end can hope to see victory."
Tian Yan looked sideways at Han Xin and asked playfully, "Are you still confident of winning?"
Han Xin grinned and said, "I have issued a military order. If you lose, you will lose your head!"
At this time, the Zhu family, the only one still standing behind, was wearing a "happy" face and stroking the beard on his mask calmly. He seemed to be as confident as Han Xin.
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To the northeast of Daze Mountain, inside the Hundred Battles Armor-Piercing Soldiers Camp.
After Wu Kuang led several hundred of his men around the camp several times, he was stopped and interrogated by a senior officer who was probably a military lord.
The armor-piercing soldiers of the Hundred Battles have strict military discipline, and all the soldiers in the camp behave in an orderly manner. Only their team is like a headless fly. It would be strange not to interrogate them.
The reason why Wu Kuang and the others wanted to circle around was, on the one hand, to collect as much information as possible and confirm the location of important targets in the camp, and on the other hand, it was also because they couldn't do it without turning.
Wu Kuang didn’t even know where to go to join the team!
In fact, he was well prepared. He completely replaced the 500-man team that actually existed in the Hundred-War Armor-Piercing Force... To be precise, it once existed, but it ceased to exist after the Battle of Qingming Valley.
But this did not allow him to know the layout of Wangli's camp out of thin air, especially since the camp had undergone a renovation today.
Instead of going to the wrong place, it's better to just wander around blindly.
There are risks in both, but Wu Kuang believes that the latter is smaller.
After Wu Kuang struggled to fool the military prince on the grounds that his brothers had not had enough water and rice all day and were in urgent need of filling their stomachs, they finally found a place to go.
I don’t know whether it was because he had never been sneaked into a large camp before, so he lacked the necessary vigilance, or whether it was simply because he was big-hearted. In short, after the military lord was fooled, he kindly pointed to the military camp.
The location of the kitchen... maybe this is just his habit.
Then Wu Kuang happily took his farm brothers to eat the imperial grain.
According to the plan, all he needs now is to wait, and eating while waiting is undoubtedly a good choice.
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On the other side of Wang Li's camp, the night fog shrouded the cliffs, making it difficult for people to see what was going on below.
Wang Li chose a very clever place to camp. He chose a mountain wall with a normal mountain road on one side and a cliff dozens of feet deep on the other side.
This allows the armor-piercing soldier to defend only one side of the enemy under normal circumstances. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is easy to defend but difficult to attack.
However, this also raises hidden dangers.
Under normal circumstances, even the most elite soldiers in the world would not be able to climb a cliff dozens of feet high.
But when it comes to the quality of individual soldiers, the army is actually far from comparable to Jianghu sects.
With no one in the armor-piercing camp knowing anything, and under the cover of night and thick fog, a group of peasant disciples, led by Chen Sheng, climbed up the cliff little by little.
It is easy for Chen Sheng to climb a cliff, but there is no point in going up alone. He must build a 'road' that can allow a large number of farm disciples to quickly climb the cliff.
Therefore, he had to lead a dozen of carefully selected most outstanding farm disciples to climb up the cliff with ropes and tools while leaving anchor points for fixing the ropes on the mountain wall until they reached the cliff.
Only in this way can we build a 'ropeway' that is strong enough for a large number of farmer disciples to climb.
Although Chen Sheng had tried his best to select people carefully, in practice, they still couldn't do the job perfectly, so Chen Sheng had to help him personally many times.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! There is nothing we can do about it. It is impossible for a farmer to gather a dozen top experts to climb the mountain.
However, it cannot be said that these people are useless.
Without their assistance, Chen Sheng alone would not be able to complete this work.
After Han Xin finished ordering his troops and generals in the afternoon, Chen Sheng began to prepare for this work - selecting manpower, preparing tools, selecting locations, and then starting implementation. Until now, he has finally almost completed the goal.
As long as the 'ropeway' is paved, the elite farmers prepared below can climb the mountain wall in a short time and surprise Wang Li's camp.
This is also something that a normal army cannot do.
If an ordinary person can climb up by pulling on a rope, that would be considered powerful, and if he doesn't become a dead dog after climbing up, he won't be much better.
For these elite farmers, this can only be regarded as a small job.
A little tired, but not too much, and it will not affect their ability to continue fighting.
It's not that Wang Li didn't arrange necessary sentry posts on this side of the cliff, but it's just that facing the elite farmers led by Chen Sheng, this arrangement may not be effective.
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Daze Mountain, inside Han Xin's headquarters.
While Han Xin was convincing everyone in the farmhouse with his confidence, another messenger came in a panic:
"Report!"
"In the direction of Frostfall Ridge, General Yingbu is caught between front and rear attacks. The situation is extremely urgent!"
As for the terrain of Frostfall Ridge, if people were stuck in the valley one after another, it would almost be doomed.
Upon hearing the news, Liu Ji hurriedly asked, "What should we do? Do we need to send someone to rescue?"
For people like farmers, when one of their own is in danger, their first reaction is only one - to save others.
Tian Hu even directly asked Tian Yan for orders, "Xia Kui, I will take someone there!"
It can only be said that Brother Tiger is bloody and not afraid of danger at all.
However, Tian Yan raised his hand to stop the impulsive Tian Hu and looked at Han Xin:
