BXBX NOVEL Chapter 287: Notice
This was done intentionally to sow discord between Beiting and Chen. It was easy to guess, but it didn’t mean it could be easily avoided.
Now, Lan Feng just hopes that it is not what he imagined.
But no matter what, the envoy was killed and the Wolf King was furious. The next day, the Wolf King gave the order to fight quickly.
It was a situation where we had all the advantages, but it was disrupted so easily. Just thinking about it really makes me feel… uncomfortable.
Although Lan Feng had not seen the true face of the Emperor of the Great Zhou at this moment, he had already remembered him deeply in his heart.
Cutting off a prince’s leg was nothing, killing the emperor of an enemy country was much more satisfying. Just thinking about it made Lan Feng tremble with excitement.
On the other side, Ye Shuo, who had been targeted, returned to the tent under the escort of everyone. As soon as Ye Shuo stepped in, he was greeted with thunderous cheers, as if he was not burning an unknown tent, but the enemy’s food and fodder camp.
Because he is the emperor now, any merits he has will be infinitely magnified.Ye Shuo knew what the army lacked most right now, so he accepted it calmly.
Upon seeing this, Prince Ding couldn’t help but twitch his lips slightly, but he thought in his heart, if he and Ye Ming had such nerve, they wouldn’t do that… Alas!
It wasn’t like this when he beheaded General Lan Ruo, right?
Ye Shuo took this opportunity to strike while the iron was hot.
“When Beiting attacks tomorrow, I will personally lead you to fight.”
What an honour it is for His Majesty to personally command the battlefield?
Most people have a herd mentality. At this time, as long as one person responds, the rest will basically follow. After a while, bursts of roars were heard in the camp of Da Zhou.
“Fight!”
“Fight!”
The noise was so loud that it almost alarmed the people in the entire city, and even Beiting in the distance could feel it.
Lan Feng frowned subconsciously.
I don’t know how capable this emperor of the Great Zhou is, but his ability to create momentum is extraordinary.
But what does it matter if you make a big noise? In the end, what counts on the battlefield is real ability.
In just one afternoon, the king’s tent was set up. When Ye Shuo returned to the tent, he found a relatively unfamiliar face. The other person was dressed in a blue shirt and seemed a little out of place in front of the group of burly men.
The calculating man who was personally selected by Emperor Taicheng from the Ministry of Revenue and sent to the army is now doing very well. Looking at the cautious attitude of General Xu and General Fang, we can tell that he is living well here.
Seeing His Majesty’s eyes fall on Military Advisor Cheng Yi, General Xu hurriedly explained: “Your Majesty, this is Military Advisor Cheng Yi. This afternoon, Cheng Yi was not in the army, so he was unable to come to see you. I hope Your Majesty will forgive me.”
But what General Xu didn’t know was that the person in front of him was his own man, so how could Ye Shuo blame him?
The moment he saw Ye Shuo, Cheng Yi almost called out “teacher”. The next moment, after coming back to his senses, he hurriedly said, “Your humble servant Cheng Yi, kowtows to His Majesty.” ṙÅΝƟ𝐛Εŝ
When Ye Shuo was the Prince of Rui, he was already an unattainable existence. Now that Ye Shuo has become the emperor, Cheng Yi and others have no intention of resisting.
Perhaps in the eyes of General Xu and General Fang, his ability to dispatch food and be responsible for logistics is extremely impressive, but Cheng Yi knows in his heart that he is nothing in the academy, and there are many people who are better than him.
General Xu and General Fang only think of themselves as modest, but they don’t know that there are always people better than you and there are things better than you.
Ye Shuo raised his hand: “Well, get up.”
“I have heard that Military Advisor Cheng is known for his calculation skills. It just so happens that I have just found a group of people who are good at calculation. How about you two have a discussion?”
The moment the words fell, Cheng Yi immediately understood that the young man in front of him was probably also his teacher’s student. Judging from his age, he should be his junior fellow apprentice.
In an instant, Cheng Yi felt a sense of crisis, but at the same time he was somewhat fortunate that he had not slacked off in his studies over the years. Otherwise, if he could not compare with the current one, he would probably be replaced.
But in fact, although the young man Ye Shuo brought was good at calculating, he was completely different from Cheng Yi.
Cheng Yi is good at actuarial science and wants to take into account the deployment of every grain of food, while the man in front of him is good at models and deductions. One focuses on reality, while the other is accustomed to calculations and conception.
But these are not the reasons why Ye Shuo brought him with him. The most important reason why Ye Shuo brought him with him was that Zeng Mohuai said he was the best at Lanchester equations.
In ancient times when people had to rely on cold weapons, they relied most on lineups and formations. As long as the lineups and formations were reasonable enough, they could be invincible.
But even the Lanchester equation still requires human lives to fill in. If possible, Ye Shuo certainly wants to reduce the death rate of the Great Zhou soldiers to the lowest level.
So after Cheng Yi and the young man named Xia Ying he brought with him had a few words of probing each other, Ye Shuo couldn’t help but look at General Fang and General Xu standing beside him: “Do you know about the border defence arrangements of Beiting?”
In front of the emperor, General Fang and General Xu naturally told him everything they knew.
“Reporting to your Majesty, I knew something about it before, but after being discovered by Beiting, I’m afraid it can’t be used now.” General Fang felt a little ashamed when talking about this. They had finally obtained Beiting’s defence map before, and originally wanted to do something big, but in the end they didn’t succeed. Instead, Beiting discovered it, and they wasted so much effort in vain.
“I have failed to do my job well, Your Majesty, please punish me.”
Ye Shuo waved his hands and ignored him, but he frowned quietly in his heart.
Although it was just a few words, Ye Shuo understood one thing -
There are spies from the Great Zhou in Beiting. Conversely, the Great Zhou may not have spies from Beiting.
This place is both similar to and different from the ancient times that Ye Shuo knew in his previous life. Here, things like martial arts and internal strength are real, and the existence of Wu Yi and the secret guards proves the terrifying nature of the intelligence organization.
Ye Shuo simply asked: “I want to know one thing. If the Great Zhou has a military secret that can decide the outcome of the war, what is the chance that Beiting can obtain it under the layers of protection?”
Although General Fang was very surprised by this question, he still told the truth: “If you don’t care about the cost, it should be at least 20% to 30%, right?”
Even the defence map of the Beiting border can be leaked, which is enough to be called a secret that affects the war situation. What else can’t be stolen?
When Ye Shuo heard this, he completely gave up.
Ye Shuo had been thinking about whether or not to get the explosives out, but now it seems that it is impossible.
Although explosives are very powerful, their formula is not complicated. Saltpeter, wood carbon, and sulphur are not very precious things. If they can make them, Beiting can also make them. When the two sides explode each other, the casualties will be more than what can be estimated.
As for the more complex and extremely difficult to replicate thermal weapons, Beiting cannot make them. But can Da Zhou make them with its current level?
Ye Shuo did send a black box to Lucheng. Inside the black box was nothing but a gun. However, he had made it with great difficulty. Given the current situation in Da Zhou, where people can barely afford to eat, it is simply a dream to think of mass production.
Therefore, it is better to fight a war with cold weapons honestly and not easily drag the ancient times with such low productivity into a war with hot weapons.
One must eat one bite at a time. Forcing things to happen will not end well. Human hearts are unpredictable. Even Ye Shuo cannot control the abuse of weapons of mass destruction.
At that time, he would no longer have the final say.
Ye Shuo took a deep breath and then asked everyone else to leave.
The next day, Beiting arrived as expected.
Under layers of protection, Ye Shuo watched Beiting’s army and Lan Feng, whom his cheap elder brother mentioned, from afar.
To be honest, Lan Feng looks good and young, less than 30 years old. He is only one or two years older than Ye Shuo, yet he has achieved his current position. He deserves the title of genius.
Lan Feng also saw Ye Shuo.
The emperor of the Great Zhou was really crazy and also very afraid of his life. He clearly had the guts to kill their 200 envoys, but now that they were on the battlefield, he was unwilling to expose himself easily.
While the two sides were sizing each other up, Xia Ying was calculating something with a pen and paper.
Although the Lanchester equation is easy to use, you must first know the number of enemy troops!
Prince Ding, two generals, and a group of deputy generals took the opportunity to take a look, and then looked away. What the hell is this?
Although they couldn’t understand the maths, everyone instinctively felt uncomfortable.
Xia Ying had been counting on Cheng Yi, but who knew that Cheng Yi was also in such trouble? After all, the soldiers of Beiting were constantly moving, and it was really difficult to count them.
Just as the two were sweating profusely, their teacher suddenly spoke.
“There are about 28,300 people in total. From left to right, the first square has 3,400 people, the second square has 2,700 people, and the third square has …”
Xia Ying had no doubt at all and wrote it down quickly on the paper.
Prince Ding was stunned for a moment, then looked at his brother.
After a while, Xia Ying found General Fang and General Xu with the results.
General Fang and General Xu never expected that they were about to fight, but Xia Ying asked them to temporarily change their formation. Is this crazy?
But Xia Ying is the emperor’s man, and his words are the emperor’s words. As long as General Fang and General Xu have no intention of rebelling, they must obey him no matter what.
General Fang and General Xu began to give orders almost with gritted teeth.
Lan Feng watched as the Da Zhou team changed in just a few blinks of an eye, and felt that this was a good opportunity. No matter what the other party’s purpose was, he must not let them succeed.
Seeing so many soldiers from Beiting rushing up like wolves, Ye Shuo quickly took out a longbow.
This bow weighs seven stones, and the arrow is about as thick as a finger. Normally, it would take four people to pull it together, but now Ye Shuo pulled it to a full moon shape by himself.
Lan Feng felt a chill in his heart when he saw this. He didn’t know that the emperor of the Great Zhou was born with supernatural powers.
At the moment the arrow was aimed at Lan Feng, Lan Feng instinctively grabbed the shield of the soldier next to him.
Almost at the moment when the shield was blocked in front of him, a sound of breaking air was heard, and an arrow as thick as a finger pierced through the shield and shot straight towards the people behind Lan Feng. The arrow continued to shoot until it had pierced through four people before it stopped completely.
Even though the Great Zhou and Beiting had been enemies for many years, it was rare to see such a stunning arrow. The last time it was seen was several decades ago when the Duke of Zhen led the troops.
In just a short moment, Beiting’s morale fell to the ground.
The eyes of the soldiers on the Great Zhou side lit up, and then roars rang out –
“God bless the Great Zhou, charge!”
The sounds of fighting rang out all around, and Prince Ding alone could not help but look at his younger brother who seemed to still have some room for manoeuvre.