Yuan Qingze didn't understand why Hong Wuding did this at first.
He was the commander-in-chief of the 30,000-strong border army, but at this critical moment, he left with 7,000 Wu Lingwei troops.
If the emperor pursues the case in the future...
Thinking that if these words were investigated in the future, Yuan Qingze's expression couldn't help but change.
I didn't understand what Hong Wuding was thinking just now, but now I understand. When I think of these few words, the answer is already right in front of me.
Of course Hong Wuding could guess that the imperial edict was false, so he was not sure whether he would be held accountable after this battle.
Rather than accompany a fake imperial envoy, it would be better to simply hand over the team to Yuan Qingze, a fake imperial envoy.
If the emperor asks about this matter in the future, Hong Wuding can confidently say that he has no doubts, so he will safely hand over the 30,000 border troops to Yuan Qingze.
As for Lin Ye...
Hong Wuding was not stupid. He naturally heard that Lin Ye was now valued by His Majesty.
Taking Wu Lingwei to support Lin Ye at this time was considered a friendship, and the friendship at this time was extraordinary.
Moreover, in terms of merit in the future, Hong Wu will definitely stay in Hanhai City. His merit has nothing to do with him, it is Yuan Qing who will take command.
But if he really supported Lin Ye and defended Deer Fangtai, how could he not get the credit for this?
Putting aside the danger and taking credit for the success, Hong Wuding is not as honest as he seems.
As soon as he thought of this, Yuan Qingze felt relieved.
To be honest, who can survive in the officialdom for a long time if he is not very scheming?
This is not an environment in which ordinary people can survive. Even those with less narrow-mindedness can't survive. People are really different.
Hong Wuding is the commander-in-chief of the frontier army. He has 30,000 troops and is a third-grade general. How could he be so arrogant?
The most important thing is that Hong Wuding's operation was done from a moral perspective.
Another advantage of doing this is that it makes the soldiers of the border army look down on Yuan Qingze.
Hong Wuding's move can be said to accomplish multiple things with one stone.
His frontier army could be put under the command of Yuan Qingze, but he felt that he could not let Yuan Qingze win the morale of the army.
The more Yuan Qing thought about it, the more he thought about it, and the unhappiness he felt before disappeared.
To be honest, if a person like Yuan Qingze can think clearly about these levels, can he be a fool?
Hong Wu decided to go, but Yuan Qingze didn't really care.
One army has two masters, which is also a taboo among military strategists. Hong Wuding left because he knew this.
Moreover, who can say clearly that Yuan Qing did not have these thoughts of Hong Wuding?
Donglin Canyon.
Lin Ye and the others cut down a large number of trees, blocking the already narrow canyon.
In this way, if the Loufan people come back, not even a single person will be able to get through unless they break through the deer herding platform.
They built another wooden wall about three to four feet away behind the rocks and wood.
With that layer of rocks blocking it, it was impossible for the Loufan people to attack the wooden wall directly. The jade army on the wooden wall could attack from a high position.
The only thing lacking is the military strength.
Now there are only about 1,500 or 600 people left in Donglin Canyon. With this small force, if the Loufan people attack with all their strength, the casualties every day will be unbearable.
Lin Ye's plan was to wait for the Loufan people to come back and stay there for another ten days.
But everyone knows in their hearts that they may not be able to survive these ten days.
On the wooden wall, Lin Ye looked carefully, then looked back behind him.
"Jiao Tianbao."
Lin Ye shouted.
Jiao Tianbao immediately ran over: "General, what's the matter?"
Lin Ye pointed behind the wooden wall: "Have you seen that bamboo forest? Go play."
Jiao Tianbao was stunned for a moment: "Playing? General, what are you playing with?"
Lin Ye said it with a smile, and Jiao Tianbao immediately became interested and called on dozens of Wu Lingwei to run to the bamboo forest on the hillside.
They bent bamboo and used ropes and leather to make several oversized slingshots.
At first, I tried using stones. Stones that can fly into the enemy are indeed difficult to cause damage because they are too small.
Bamboo cannot bounce off rocks that can cause damage.
Lin Ye thought for a while and asked them to collect dry firewood and bamboo leaves, and then remove all the corpses and uniforms abandoned by the Loufan people.
Make grass balls one by one, light them and then pop them out. It really looks very bluffing.
Although this kind of thing is not very lethal, it is scary, much more scary than throwing a small stone at it.
"Let all the injured people come here and make more big slingshots like this."
Lin Ye explained: "Don't worry about whether it is useful or not, and how useful it is. Even if you can't kill people and just scare the enemy, you still have to use it."
Jiao Tianbao responded and arranged those Wu Lingwei who were slightly injured here.
"Big sea."
Lin Ye called Pang Panghai over again.
"Now take people to the valley entrance to see if the camp where Lou Fan's army was stationed before dug wells to draw water."
Pang Panghai was curious: "General, what are you doing with this?"
Lin Ye smiled and said: "Go if you are asked to go. If not, come back."
Peng Dahai: "What if."
Lin Ye: "If so, come back quickly."
Pang Panghai laughed loudly, responded, and ran out with a few of his men.
The climate here in Dongbo is good, water can be seen everywhere, and the water source is plentiful. If farmers want to dig wells to collect water, they only need to dig a foot or two deep.
When an army travels, if it is not stationed near a water and wants to get water, most of the time it will dig a well.
It is easy for the army to dig wells one to two feet deep. For a camp of 100,000 people, digging dozens or even hundreds of wells is nothing.
With more people and greater strength, this kind of thing doesn't take long at all, and the auxiliary soldiers in the army will also bring the necessary tools.
Pang Panghai came back quickly as expected.
After he arrived at the camp of Lou Fan's army, he soon discovered the well.
"General!"
Pang Panghai ran up to Lin Ye and said breathlessly: "There is a well."
Lin Ye nodded.
He looked like he was thinking for a moment or hesitating.
Pang Panghai waited for Lin Ye to speak, and the sweat on his forehead became even more as he waited.
"You cover your mouth and nose with a scarf."
Lin Ye took a deep breath and then explained: "Transport Lou Fan's corpse to the camp, wait for the corpse to decompose, and then throw the corpse into the well."
Pang Dahai was stunned.
He looked at Lin Ye and didn't understand it at first. It took him a while to understand what General Lin meant.
"General, this..."
Pang Panghai obviously hesitated.
Lin Ye waved his hand: "Go and do it... After you are done, stay there as an outpost. If our reinforcements come, you will remind them not to drink water until they see Lou Fan's army return, then you can come back."
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Pang Panghai responded.
Lin Ye turned around and ordered: "Give me the order. From now on, if you need any drinking water, you have to go further to the mountain spring behind and bring it back."
He sat down on the city wall, looked up, and saw Zinai waving to him from the cliff opposite.
Lin Ye laughed and shouted to Zinai: "Throw the rope over with a stone."
After hearing this, Zinai became excited and gathered up the rope she had brought up before.
The rope was broken when they went up. Fortunately, just in case, Thirteenth Senior Brother Xu Haoran also carried a bundle when he went up.
Zinai tied a stone to the rope and threw it hard towards Lin Ye.
At first, the stones were too small and not heavy enough to carry such a long rope.
When Zinai got angry, he found a stone weighing dozens of kilograms, tied a rope with it, and threw it this way with both hands.
When she threw it, Lin Ye was so frightened that he ran back.
After the rope was fixed here, Zinai took a piece of leather to protect his hands and slid down directly.
Lin Ye smiled and asked: "Are the chicken legs over there delicious?"
Zina snorted.
She pulled Lin Ye's sleeve: "Bake some flavorful meat quickly. We didn't bring any salt. It's too unpalatable."
Lin Ye laughed loudly.
After the meat was cooked, Zina sat there and ate it with big mouthfuls, looking really greedy.
"elder brother."
Zinai handed the meat to Lin Ye: "Why don't you eat it?"
Lin Ye: "I'm not hungry."
Zinai: "Stop lying. I know you adults always lie to us children by pretending that you are not hungry. In fact, you are reluctant to eat yourself and leave the delicious food to the children."
Lin Ye: "You're overthinking it. It's not like we don't have salt here. Our roasted food is delicious."
Zinai: "..."
She snorted again and ate the meat.
Lin Ye saw that she was looking good now, and felt relieved.
This is a battlefield, this is a war, there will be too much life and death here, and he is afraid of leaving a shadow on Zina.
"elder brother."
Zina finished eating the meat and took the handkerchief Lin Ye handed him to wipe his hands.
She asked: "How long are we going to be here?"
Lin Ye replied: "If it's quick, twenty days."
Zinai groaned and seemed a little disappointed. She thought Lin Ye had brought her back here and was about to leave.
"elder brother."
Zinai looked at Lin Ye: "Can I be a general?"
Lin Ye: "When you get older, it's not that you can't, but that you're still young."
Zina said: "Then I will be a general."
Lin Ye asked: "Why?"
Zinai: "In the future, there may be a lot of things like this. I have to lead the team to many places. As a general, I can follow you all the time."
She said very seriously: "Don't think about what you did before, you went out to do things and left me at home."
When she said this, she heard Xiaohan whining a few times next to her, seeming a little aggrieved.
Neither of them paid any attention to it. Could it be that it was aggrieved because Zina didn't talk to it?
Just as Zina was about to coax it, she saw Xiaohan using his front paws to pull at the bone Zina had just chewed.
"You...actually, you are disgusted?!"
Zinai's eyes widened.
Lin Ye looked at it and couldn't help laughing.
The bones that Zina gnawed were as if they had been brushed with an iron brush, not even a trace of meat was left.
Xiaohan stuck out his tongue and licked the bone, feeling even more disgusted.
Not to mention shredded pork, it doesn’t even taste like meat!
Zina had chewed the meat bones, and what was left was almost like wood.
"It seems that I am too proud of you."
Xiaohan snorted: "I don't even like eating bones. Do you know how I spent these ten days on the cliff opposite?"
She pinched her waist and said, "I don't have anything delicious to eat there, and I'm bored. All I can do is eat terrible food and sleep!"
Xiaohan's eyes widened, as if he was...envious, envious, could there be such a good thing?
Zinai continued to talk about it: "You have my brother with you every day, but I don't!"
Xiaohan turned around and bit Lin Ye's clothes corner, pulling Lin Ye towards Zinai.
There was a look of disgust on his face, as if he disliked the bones Zina had chewed on.
Take it away, take it away, no one cares about it...