The battle at the front was in full swing, and Xie Ze was so bored that he was almost moldy.
However, military orders had to be obeyed. Even if there was nothing wrong, Xie Ze still had to be alert and be extremely vigilant.
"Have the scouts we sent out returned?"
Xie Ze paid attention to the battle situation at the front and ordered the soldiers to be ready for battle.
"Reporting to General, there is no news yet." The deputy general pressed the sword at his waist with his left hand and looked at the front solemnly. He asked Xie Ze in a low voice, "General, why did the lord send the general … Huang Song's troops are not as good as ours. He has already used up all his troops. How could he have the strength to launch a sneak attack?"
For a general, there was no future without military merits. How did military merits come about? Naturally, they were piled up with the enemy's heads.
Hiding in the safer rear, they didn't even see the shadow of the enemy. Wasn't this a waste of time?
Their lord's future was getting brighter and brighter. Once Huang Song was destroyed, she would be the ruler of all of Dongqing. It was a small peak of her life.
They didn't know what the future would be. Did the lord want to establish a stable country or continue to expand?
If it was the latter, it would be best.
If it was the former, one less battle meant one less chance to be promoted. When the world was at peace, it would not be so easy for a general to be promoted.
This time, being sent to the rear was equivalent to being on a cold bench. The deputy general who assisted Xie Ze was naturally worried.
"This is the lord's order. We will follow it. She must have a reason for this arrangement. Let everyone be alert so that the enemy doesn't take advantage of any loopholes. " Compared to the deputy general's worry, Xie Ze was calm. He raised his hand and took out a handkerchief from his armor to wipe the shiny shaft. He lowered his eyes and said, "If there is any trouble at the rear, the lord will punish us. Neither you nor I can afford to bear the consequences."
The deputy general thought of his lord's temper and suddenly sweated profusely. Of all the people he questioned, he questioned the lord's orders?
"I will do it now!"
The deputy general immediately left. Xie Ze recalled the deputy general's words and frowned slightly. Although he was not the lord's die-hard fan, the lord made decisions like a god and rarely made mistakes. The lord said that the enemy might launch a sneak attack at the rear, so this news was most likely true.
The only problem was, when would the enemy appear?
The rear was too comfortable and the soldiers were more or less relaxed. This was not a good sign.
Xie Ze could only send someone to constantly remind the soldiers in his tent not to be careless.
"Report —"
Just as the deputy general was about to report to Xie Ze, he heard a shout in his ear.
"What happened?"
The person said, "We found a bloodied warhorse just now —"
The deputy general was shocked and quickly said, "Let's go and take a look!"
It was a maroon warhorse. Its body was not as tall and strong as the heavy cavalry warhorses. It had a tubular body, a narrow chest, a long back, and shallow ribs. Although its back was narrow, it was strong and powerful. Its muscles were more developed than ordinary warhorses, and its fur was glossy. Those who were familiar with the breed of warhorses could tell at a glance that this horse was from the Northern Borderline and definitely had the bloodline of the Ferghana horse of Shalan. It was fast, had great endurance, and came and went like the wind.
Of course, this kind of horse was also specially allocated to scouts to ensure their mobility so that they could escape as soon as they discovered the enemy.
The deputy general looked at the warhorse with a heavy expression. He raised his hand and touched the bloodstain. With a slight sniff, he knew that it was human blood and not horse blood.
The soldier said, "Deputy General, this warhorse's abdomen is slightly injured —"
The deputy general looked in the direction that the soldier was pointing and saw a palm-long wound on the side of the horse's abdomen. Some of the blood had already coagulated.
With his many years of experience, he could tell at a glance what kind of sharp weapon had caused the wound.
"The horse is back. Where is the person?" the deputy general asked.
The soldier replied, "I didn't find him. When the horse came back, I didn't see anyone."
The deputy general's heart sank. He vaguely guessed that the scout had died. He asked again, "Other than this horse, did any other horses come back?"
The soldier shook his head.
The deputy general quickly passed the news to Xie Ze.
The mission of this batch of scouts was not to investigate the front but the rear. Now they had been killed. If not for the fact that the horse knew the way and ran back with injuries, they probably wouldn't have found it. It could be seen that the lord's guess was correct. There was indeed an enemy force hiding in the dark.
Hearing the deputy general's words, Xie Ze's brows furrowed, leaving faint wrinkles between his brows.
"Order the entire army to be on guard —"
He knew very well what kind of equipment his scouts were equipped with. Almost all of them were equipped with good horses that had both speed and endurance.
Under such circumstances, they were still killed by the enemy. It could be seen that the enemy was not easy to deal with.
If the warhorse hadn't come back on its own, Xie Ze wouldn't have known that the enemy had appeared.
Not long after he issued the order, there was a rumbling sound from behind. The ground shook even more violently.
"Kill —"
Accompanied by thunderous shouts, a dense horde of enemies quickly appeared in their field of vision. The deputy general's warhorse was startled. He was shocked by the number of enemies. He called out to Xie Ze loudly, "General, the enemy is here —"
Xie Ze glanced at them and his face darkened.
The enemy was less than three miles away. How did they do it so close?
If the lord hadn't warned them, the enemy would have launched a sneak attack and the army would have suffered heavy losses.
"What are you panicking for? Get into formation!"
Xie Ze shouted, as if he knew what was going on.
Three miles was nothing to the enemy cavalry.
These cavalry were not easy to deal with. They were very skilled with their bows and arrows. Before they even got close, the arrows had already fallen.
Xie Ze was calm. On one hand, he commanded the soldiers to block the arrows with the shield wall. On the other hand, he ordered the archers to shoot at the enemy under the protection of the shield wall. He tried to clear out the nearest wave of enemies. However, the distance between the two sides was too short. The archers couldn't shoot more than a few rounds.
The enemy cavalry opened the way, and the troops behind them followed closely. There were tens of thousands of them.
Seeing that the enemy cavalry was close, Xie Ze ordered the soldiers to line up with spears more than ten feet long. They stabbed the enemy's warhorses' sternum, abdomen, and eyes. However, the mobility of the cavalry was a headache for all troops. The spears could only hinder them for a while.
Jiang Pengji was the first to notice the unusual movements in the rear, but she didn't show it. Instead, she focused on the situation at the front.
In order to deal with the sneak attack, she gave Xie Ze a lot of manpower. Not only was Xie Ze's military ability questionable, but the quality of his own troops and the quality of his own troops were also questionable.
When the news of the sneak attack came, everyone was shocked. Only Jiang Pengji was calm as usual.
She said, "Believe in Yuan Gui!"
She had given the enemy a warning, which was equivalent to cheating. Jiang Pengji would definitely beat him up.
Inexplicably, Xie Ze's little universe (desire) erupted.
The enemy troops who launched the sneak attack were not bystanders. They were the people Feng Jue had brought from the frontlines of Wanzhou.
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