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Chapter 45: Soldiers’ deceitful ways

Her heart trembled as well.

When they got closer, they found that they were just their own scouts.

"Reporting to the commander, Marquis Duan Ding is on his way to conquer Yuncheng right now."

That was a sentence that made her completely despair.

Only then did she realize the purpose of the Pei family army in Gu Jinheng's eyes.

The Pei Family Army is a gathering of elites. Since the founding of the country, it has been directly under the command of the current emperor. The Pei Family Army only obeys the imperial edict and the Zhulong seal.

But he didn't even believe her!

He went north to fight and quell the civil strife, disregarding the life and death of the entire Pei family army.

Using the Pei army to stop the Wu clan eliminated two future troubles.

The Wu clan, and the Pei army.

Xiao Bin was no match for him at all, the outcome was already determined.

From now on, nothing can stop Gu Jinheng from using Xiao Mingyi's throne to control the world.

The blood rushed to my heart and I almost fell off my horse.

She couldn't suppress her sadness, her hands were shaking so much that she couldn't hold the reins.

"Are you sure?!" Uncle Lin asked.

The two men on horseback reported back, "This is the news our non-commissioned officer who stayed behind in Chaoyang just sent us."

She knew the scout wouldn't lie.

Besides this, there is really no other reason for Gu Jinheng to be late.

As if blinded by the wind and sand, she could hardly open her eyes. After the sadness, she felt extreme heartache.

She wanted to cry out loud, and God knew how sad she was at that moment.

But she is the commander in chief of the army facing thousands of enemies.

The coach has everything, but the only right he doesn't have is vulnerability.

Before she could recover from her grief, she noticed the strange looks from others.

With scrutiny and questioning.

The soldiers gradually lost their trust in her.

She is the descendant of Zhubei Spear who inherited her ancestors' will, the wife of Marquis Duan Ding, and it was she who led the Pei family army here.

She had never felt this way before, the feeling of being abandoned by the whole world.

She lost all her loved ones, even the person beside her exchanged the world for her.

The next moment Han Ruize broke the silence.

He took a long whip and whipped the soldier who was looking at her questioningly. The whip flew through the air and hit the soldier in the face with a "snap".

The soldier couldn't bear the force and fell to the ground in a hurry, covering his face and groaning in pain.

Blood flowed down half of his face through the fingers.

She may never forget how Han Ruize looked at that time.

He frowned and glared at everyone with angry eyes, "If you don't trust your own commander, you might as well get out now! The Pei Army doesn't need soldiers who even doubt their own commander."

But no one dared to make a sound.

So General Lin Hua's next words were spread widely on the yellow sand, in a deep and rich voice: "Don't forget, you are fighting for your country."

These words struck their hearts, and the soldiers were suddenly enlightened.

Gradually, some people knelt down in front of her, holding the sword in their right hand and slapping their left chest, "I beg the commander to forgive me!"

"Please forgive me, Master."

So they continued one after another, so powerful and inspiring. She could only swallow all her grief for the time being.

"Without further ado, I have a plan. I hope you can trust me this last time."

The Wu tribe will catch up with them in less than two hours.

She asked Han Ruize to take all the archers and crossbowmen, and go north along the high ground to make a half circle, following the path they took that night, and then ambush them at the cliff near the Stonehenge.

The high ground is wide, and it takes about an hour and a half to go around half a circle and then come back from the high ground.

Then let General Lin Hua take 50,000 men and follow Han Ruize, but he is different. He and the 50,000 men need to go around a full circle until they get back here.

It took about two hours to go around a circle, and when General Lin Hua returned, he just happened to be able to return to the rear of the Wu clan.

The three parties attacked together.

The art of war is all about deception. Without Gu Jinheng to set up an ambush, she could only create one herself.

She said to Han Ruize, "When you arrive, don't shoot your arrows in advance. Just be ready. When Uncle Lin arrives, we will start the battle on all three sides at the same time."

At that time, someone asked her, Tuoba Huo's army would arrive in less than an hour and a half, and the arrival time of the three parties was completely different, so why did they start fighting at the same time?
Good question, that was why she came to Stonehenge.

She and General Zhou Weiguo led their troops to guard behind a huge rock. The Wu people could not tell how many of them there were, and they even thought that this was a trap they had set up long ago to lure the enemy deeper.

They were unwilling to retreat, so after seeing Stonehenge, they would have stopped and watched instead of moving forward.

Coming from the southwest, the place where it stops must be under the cliff.

But that's not all.

She pointed her index finger in the air from the bottom of the cliff to the open area in the distance.

"When the time comes, you will bring rockets and fire them in this direction. We will bury a string of incendiary materials here."

General Zhou was impatient and interrupted her before she could finish her words, asking: "An igniter? Our army has never prepared such. Where did the igniter come from?"

"Take apart the firearm," she said.

The firearms are loaded with willow charcoal, iron residue, magnetite, arsenic, sulfur and the like, which can burn, spray and emit poisonous smoke.

She knew that the amount of gunpowder was insufficient, but if a small amount was scattered in different places, the fire would be connected into a chain.

This could break up the Wu tribe's army in the middle and separate them.

An army that has lost its discipline in chaos is the most vulnerable, and the Pei family army will gain a great advantage.

Uncle Lin Hua began to direct everyone to arrange the gunpowder.

On horseback, Pei Nai raised her head and looked up to the sky. She wanted to say something to God. May God help her this last time.
But if you think about it, what is there to wish for?
No one in this world needs her anymore. Even though she had prayed for a peaceful and stable life for half her life, this was the end of her life.

Most of the relatives died, and the remaining family members made a choice for power and great cause.

I would rather give her up mercilessly.

It's hard to tell how fast or slow an hour and a half is at that moment.

She took half of her troops and hid behind huge rocks. No one could judge their number under the cover of countless rocks.

The sun slowly sets in the west.

Likewise, hidden by countless huge rocks, no one could see her expression in the shadows of the rocks.

The massive sound of horse hooves shook the earth and sky.

The arrival of the Wu tribe was as expected. Tuoba Huo suspected that there was a trap ahead and stopped.

"Don't resist stubbornly! Girl, your little womanly tricks are beyond anyone's expectation. Hiding and running away are useless. Where can you escape to? Back to Chaoyang City? Haha, hurry up and bring your troops out to surrender, and I can still spare your life!"

Tuoba Huo spoke first.

Can you spare my life?

Oh, there has never been any useless people in Pei’s army, everyone knows that.

There is no way Tuoba Huo would allow such a big threat to remain alive, and the unarmed Pei family soldiers would never be captured!
(End of this chapter)