But Meng Chao did not see any of the veterans from White Bone Camp.
He did not smell the tracking powder on Leaf either.
It was as if the hundreds of new warriors who had just joined White Bone Camp were lying in ambush alone in the hot forest.
'Could Leaf and the others be carrying out other ambushes in other places?'
Ice Storm lay by Meng Chao's side. He was completely submerged in the rotting mud. Even his face, which was above the surface of the water, was black.
Only his eyes shone with the sharpness of ice spikes.
Her lips did not seem to be moving.
But her voice was accurately delivered into Meng Chao's ears with the help of spirit energy.
'They can't be.'
Meng Chao was like a piece of rotten wood. He thought about it quietly in the mud for a long time before he raised his head slightly and said in a low voice, "This is a large scale ambush, and it's an important one. If my guess is correct, White Bone Camp will definitely come out in full force. Everyone, including Leaf, will join the battle. We just need to be on guard and wait patiently!"
"Is that so?"
Ice Storm's curiosity was piqued again. "How do you know that this ambush is of a large scale and is very important? You must know that the reinforcements coming to Hundred Blade City are not just one army, and we only have hundreds of new warriors who have just joined White Bone Camp. They have never even seen the Ancient Dream Sacred Lady before. "
"That's the problem," Meng Chao said.
"Don't you think that it's too rash for an officer to lead a group of soldiers who have just joined the Bone Camp? They're not familiar with each other, and they don't even know each other's names, to carry out an ambush over such a long distance?
"Yes, those who have the right to join White Bone Camp are all warriors who are picked out of a hundred. After receiving the Rat God's Blessing last night, they have become very familiar with all sorts of killing techniques.
"But ambushes are a form of fighting that requires the soldiers to have the highest level of attainment in tactics and discipline.
"The rat people around us are brave, but they don't have the ability to lie on the ground for a day or two without moving while being highly focused and quiet.
"This sort of ability requires years of harsh training before it can be slowly developed.
"And our opponent is one of the best ambushers in Turanze. These wolf pups might be even more wary than the lionmen and tigermen.
"Let me ask you, how could such a hastily formed ambush force catch the well-trained elites of the Wolf Clan?
"No matter how good our ambush looks, it's useless at first glance. I'm afraid that the commander of the Wolf Clan will be able to discover a large group of people lying in ambush here through the flight paths of the startled birds above the forest and the sounds of insects in the forest from afar.
"The other party was wary and took a detour. We're lucky.
"What I'm afraid of is that the enemy will play along and pretend not to know that we are lying in ambush here, but in fact, they will rush out from an unexpected direction and catch us unprepared!"
Hailstorm was slightly stunned. After thinking for a while, he also found more suspicious points.
"That makes sense. The White Bone Camp only sent a few officers and priests to receive us. They didn't even ask for our names before they brought us here. Something's not right.
"Logically speaking, if we want to bring out the strongest combat power of these new warriors, we should at least have a group of bottom-level officers with rich combat experience, such as corporals and sergeants, to pull up the skeleton of the entire battle squad.
"How could they do that? They just casually tossed us into the forest, and aside from simple and crude orders, they didn't give us any tactics. Even if they did, they wouldn't be able to carry them out. How could they win the battle like that?"
"Perhaps the enemy has never thought about relying on us to win the battle," Meng Chao said.
Meng Chao said. "The enemy knows very well that even if we train for a few more days and have smart and capable corporals and ten-man sergeants instilling our tactical plans in each soldier's head, it's still impossible for us to destroy the enemies who come to provide reinforcements."
Hailstorm was stunned.
"Then, why did they send us here?" she asked with a frown.
"We're bait."
Meng Chao narrowed his eyes. His gaze was like invisible rays that continuously scanned the area. He did not miss a single seemingly calm pond or a single overly bright plant.
"As you can see, these are the dozen or so cities to the west of Hundred Blade City. They're the only way to reinforce Hundred Blade City, and they're the ideal place for an ambush. This is something both the Great Horn Army and the wolf battalion know.
"The intersecting stone forest beside the forest might be filled with danger, and it's not a good spot for reinforcements to pass through, but this forest isn't a path that leads straight to the main road. There are also countless corners where more than one thousand fearless warriors can quietly hide in ambush.
"If I were the commander of the wolf reinforcements …
"Even if I gave up on the stone forest and chose to move through the forest, I wouldn't be able to lower my guard.
I believe that the ambushers would just wait in the stone forest like idiots.
"So, no matter if the Bighorn Army chooses new warriors like us who have just joined the Bone Camp, or if the Bone Camp spends countless resources and painstakingly trained veterans to carry out the ambush mission, there's a high chance that we'll be discovered by the Wolf Tribe's reinforcements.
"After much consideration, if I were to plan the ambush, the only way I could come up with was to arrange a batch of baits so that the reinforcements of the Wolf Clan would discover and defeat them. That was the only way to lower the vigilance of the reinforcements of the Wolf Clan as much as possible.
"We're … bait?" Icicles kept growing in Hailstorm's eyes, and they became harder and sharper.
"That's right. It's just like the key to setting up sentry posts. It's a combination of light and darkness. While some of the sentries are in the light, they have to deploy even more powerful methods in the dark. I believe that aside from us, there's another group of even more powerful ambushers around the forest. That's the real elites of the White Bone Camp, the trump card that the Ancient Dream Sacred Lady personally created," Meng Chao said.
"Just now, I said that once the commander of the wolf reinforcements discovers our existence, he will have two choices. He can either go around us or beat us at our own game.
"But since the wolves can't bear the responsibility of losing Hundred Blade City, even if they manage to seize the city after it falls, the entire wolf race will become the laughingstock of the Turan Epic. After all, the ones who conquered Hundred Blade City are the lowly and weak rat people. Even if we let the war flag with the picture of a skeleton rat fly above Hundred Blade City for the blink of an eye, to the wolves, it will be a humiliation that not even a sea of blood can wash away." The lion and tiger races will definitely seize the chance to attack us and further weaken the wolf race's strength.
"The wolf reinforcements won't dare to take the risk.
"They need more time than we do.
"Aside from the path in front of us, if we go around it, we will have to go around the entire mountain range, and it will take us at least three to five days.
"Three to five days? Who knows whether the rat people who will cover the sky will conquer Hundred Blade City, tear apart the wolf race's glory, and trample them into hell?
"So, even though the wolf commander knows that there is an ambush in the forest, he can only choose to go around the mountain range and try to destroy all the soldiers the Big Horn Army has deployed in the forest so that he can control this path that they must pass through.
"The purpose of our ambush is to make the wolf commander misjudge the scale and fighting strength of the ambush. At the same time, we will expose the full strength of the wolf reinforcements. In fact, in the most ideal situation, we are new warriors who have just received the Rat God's Blessing. We will be able to release astonishing fighting strength when we are in a life and death situation. We will be like a sticky and rotten swamp that will bind the claws and limbs of the wolf reinforcements.
"Because of this, when the real ambush appears, we will be able to use the sharpest weapons to instantly cut the throats of the wolf reinforcements!"
Ice Storm gasped in amazement in his heart.
He thought about it for a long time before he said, "But how did you know that the scale of this ambush will be huge and that it will be very important?"
"Of course it's because the value of our 'bait' is too high," Meng Chao said.
"If it were a normal plan to lure the enemy, they could just choose a group of cannon fodder to carry it out. After all, there will be an endless stream of rat people coming from everywhere to join the Big Horn Army. There's no need for them to carefully choose so many brave warriors who are not afraid of death and spend a lot of resources to inject so many killing techniques into our brains.
"After all, no matter what the outcome of the ambush is, the army serving as bait will definitely suffer the most devastating attack. If things go wrong, the entire army might be wiped out.
"Unless the wolf reinforcements the White Bone Camp wants to ambush have really great fighting strength, and normal cannon fodder won't be able to stop them. They will be destroyed in an instant.
"Only a warrior who has gone through hundreds of battles and is peerlessly fierce can possibly slow down their footsteps and interfere with their judgment.
"And if the White Bone Camp doesn't send out all their strength to capture this powerful wolf reinforcements, it's impossible for them to succeed.
"So, close your eyes and rest. We're about to face an incredibly devastating battle. Let's hope that Leaf is lucky enough to survive before we find him!"
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