novelaction Chapter 236 I really admire you
Chapter 236 I really admire you
No matter how strong your soldiers are, or how sharp your swords are, they are useless in the face of natural collapse.
Therefore, the battlefield was always far away from here. When he was led by Zong Yanli to the foot of the snowy mountain, he felt something was wrong. However, Baines did not think that the avalanche was caused by Zong Yanli at all, until...
"Zong Yanli, it's Zong Yanli again!" Upon hearing the news, Yi Tiangan's eyes turned red with anger. He covered his chest and felt dizzy.
"No matter what! Defend Jingdian!" Yi Tiangan did not stop at all. He gathered his troops and headed straight for Jingdian to meet up with Baines.
When the two met, they fell silent, without any sign of confrontation as before.
The Northern Army was badly damaged, and now Yi Tiangan can only rely on Beines, who has suffered heavy losses. He also knows that if the Northern Kingdom cannot be defended, then the Lu Kingdom will also be in danger!
The two brothers are completely in the same boat. At this moment, Yi Tiangan actually felt a little regretful. He really regretted that if he had known that Zong Yanli was so difficult to deal with, he should not have set foot in the southern part. The benefits given by Jin State were really harmful!
"Where is the enemy now?" Yi Tiangan swallowed his anger and walked up to ask Baines.
"Behind Tashan, probably around this location." Baines' face was full of fatigue. Although his military losses were small, his military supplies and food were greatly lost. He first besieged Wuhuan to no avail, and then ran back to support the Northern Kingdom, but was tricked by Zong Yanli.
The current situation in Lu State is also not optimistic. Baines suppressed the anger on his face, looked at Yi Tiangan and said: "Next we can only face the enemy head-on, which is very disadvantageous to us..."
While the two were thinking about countermeasures, they suddenly heard the general outside the tent rushing in: "Report--!"
"General! The scouts have discovered the enemy's tracks!" the soldier kneeling down said hurriedly.
"The enemy is attacking?" Yi Tiangan felt a chill all over his body. He didn't have any more time to discuss countermeasures with them. He stood up and said, "Quick, prepare to meet the enemy!"
"No, General, the scouts discovered that the enemy troops were retreating!"
"what?"
"..."
Yi Tiangan and Baines both found it unbelievable when they heard this. With such a good opportunity to attack, why did Zong Yanli retreat?
Yi Tiangan pondered for a long time, then turned to look at Baines and asked, "Did Daqian also suffer heavy losses?"
"Impossible." Baines answered quickly and told Yi Tiangan about the situation in detail. Zong Yanli was clearly well prepared. He not only arranged a large number of shield soldiers for protection, but also surveyed the terrain.
After the avalanche, his subordinates were still afraid and terrified, but Daqian's soldiers seemed to have known that they were going to experience an avalanche. They clenched their swords and turned around to kill them immediately after the avalanche. It can be seen that the losses were very small.
After listening to Baines' words, Yi Tiangan was immediately confused: "If that's the case, why would Zong Yanli withdraw his troops at this moment?"
"Is he going to attack somewhere else?" Yi Tiangan was a little nervous, and quickly asked someone to bring a map. After spreading it out, he and Baines looked at it together. The two made detailed speculations, looked at the passes around, and speculated on Zong Yanli's whereabouts.
Just when Yi Tiangan wrote a letter asking everyone to be prepared to meet the enemy at any time and that he would be ready to provide support at any time.
But suddenly he learned that Zong Yanli had turned his troops around and actually attacked the State of Qi!
Yi Tiangan and Baines both found it unbelievable and had no idea why Zong Yanli made this move.
"I was surprised when I learned that Wuhuan suddenly sent troops to contain Qi..." But Baines figured it out in an instant, and said with a gloomy face: "I'm afraid Zong Yanli has already contacted Wuhuan, and even formed an alliance with him."
"It's just that Zong Yanli has been slow to lead his troops to attack the north. I thought he was still recuperating, but I didn't expect that he had already planned it." Baines said with a deep sigh, and at this moment, a feeling of fatigue and inferiority swept over him.
"This is good news for the North Country." Yi Tiangan just felt relieved. The North Country finally had a moment to breathe.
Otherwise, it would be too difficult to deal with Zong Yanli on this side and the State of Qi on the other side.
When the Northern Kingdom and the Kingdom of Lu were both breathing a sigh of relief, Zong Yanli had already led his troops to fight with the Qi army. The pressure on the Wuhuan who were struggling to hold on in the front suddenly decreased. Du Zhe's hands holding the sword were shaking slightly, and he was gasping for breath with blood all over his body.
"The princess is right..." Du Zhe smiled, shook his head, clenched the sword in his hand and roared: "Reinforcements have arrived! Kill them--!!!"
"kill--!"
Zong Yanli fiercely tore a hole in the Qi army's formation, and the pitch-black long sword slashed through the crowd. The black warhorse was so eye-catching, and her military flag was firmly inserted in the center of the Qi army. The soldiers who rushed out from all directions gradually devoured the Qi troops and forced them to retreat.
The battlefield was completely cleared, with only Zong Yanli's battle flag flying. Her eyes were bloodshot. No one could stand such sleepless and non-stop work.
She walked towards Du Zhe, and seeing that he was almost unable to stand, she reached out to support him and asked, "General Du, are you okay?"
"You won't die..." Du Zhe smiled and looked at Zong Yanli with relaxation in his eyes.
"Retreat!" Zong Yanli turned around and shouted, then returned to the camp with Du Zhe.
After Du Zhe simply bandaged the wound, he couldn't wait to see Zong Yanli. Zong Yanli drank two pots of hot water, took off her gloves, and found that the gloves were almost stuck to her hands. The backs and palms of her hands were completely cracked by the cold, and the blood oozing from the cracked wounds stuck to the gloves and froze.
Zong Yanli couldn't pull off her gloves and grimaced in pain. Du Zhe stopped her immediately and said, "You'll make the wound worse."
Although Du Zhe already knew that Zong Yanli was a ruthless person, he still felt refreshed every time he saw her.
Du Zhe asked for hot water, and called his personal soldiers to help Zong Yanli take off his gloves, then applied ointment and said, "This is a special wound medicine, specially used for frostbite and chilblains."
"Thank you." Zong Yanli let out a long sigh, looked at the bandaged hands, and raised her eyes to look at Du Zhe. Her face was completely mottled by wind and frost, and her lips were cracked a lot. Now she looked like a woman without wearing a mask.
Zong Yanli told Duzhe about the situation of the Northern Army and the Lu Army very straightforwardly: "There is nothing to be afraid of for the time being, so you can focus on fighting against Qi."
After listening to what Zong Yanli had done, Du Zhe couldn't help but show admiration. He took a deep breath and said, "General Zong Yan, Qi is quite difficult to deal with."