"Your Majesty, the enemy made a sneak attack at night and caught our defenders off guard. I suspect that there must be someone here to help, otherwise our defenders would never be so vulnerable."
The study room has already been filled with generals who came after hearing the news, and they are all talking about the attack on Jingu Gorge.
"I believe that the help of the Molan people must be indispensable here. I think there has been no war between Tianan and Molan for many years. However, this time the Huns invaded Tianan from their borders. There must be something fishy in this."
Another general analyzed.
"Instruct the Northwest Army, Si Muting to rush to the border of Jingu Gorge and capture Jingu Gorge." Baili Mochen listened to the generals' discussion and gave the order directly.
The Northwest Army is the closest army to Jingu Gorge, so the enemy simply doesn't send many people. It's more than enough to send one Northwest Army to deal with it.
However, when the order was sent to the Northwest Army, Baili Mochen quietly attached a secret letter written by himself. As for what was said in the letter, only King Yao himself and General Simu knew.
Baili Mochen had long expected that the Huns would cross the border of Molan and invade the Jingu Gorge and take control of the important border town.
According to reports, Hong Luan escaped after being seriously injured and is now recuperating in the Huns camp. This move was probably her idea.
It's just that he didn't expect that Jingu Gorge would be breached overnight without any resistance. From this point of view, the things about the military's meticulous work are most likely true.
It is estimated that the follow-up troops of the Huns are already on their way to Jingu Gorge at this time. It seems that this time the Huns are determined to annex Tianan Kingdom freely.
While the war was pressing, Baili Mochen did not forget to experiment with the steel-making recipe given by Chunfeng.
Sure enough, he lived up to his expectations, and the weapons he created were even better than the weapons of the Huns.
However, this time the weapon manufacturing was carried out in secret, and no one in the army knew about it except Baili Mochen himself.
Before King Yao's army could make a sneak attack on the enemy's rear, another report came from the enemy, saying that the Huns were making a strange weapon, and attached a pattern of the thing's style.
After receiving the news, Baili Mochen went to the enemy camp overnight to investigate and confirmed that what the Huns were manufacturing was the crossbow machine invented by Dongfeng, and the quantity produced by the other party was almost as much as the quantity they produced themselves.
This once again shows that there is an enemy spy in the army, and that this person's identity is invincible. This can be explained by the incident of the 2nd crossbow machine alone.
In King Yao's camp, only a handful of people knew about the advent of such a new weapon.
This discovery suddenly greatly narrowed the scope of the suspects, but it was not known whether the traitor in the Jin incident was the same person.
But looking at the enemy's camp full of crossbows, he had other ideas in mind.
Since they have already prepared it and delivered it to your door, it would be silly not to.
Late at night, a group of men dressed in black quietly sneaked into the Huns camp.
He took away hundreds of crossbows that the Huns had been working on day and night, and set fire to the Huns' food supply.
For a time, the Huns camp was in chaos, and the men in black took advantage of the chaos to disappear without a trace. When Prince Muhan and others came to their senses, they found that the crossbow machine in the weapons camp had long since disappeared.
Prince Mohan was so angry that he almost went on a killing spree, killing the soldiers and commanders guarding the weapons camp.
If the military adviser had not stopped him in time, saying that the war was now tense and it was not appropriate to sacrifice the troops when recruiting men, those individuals would have been killed long ago.
"Damn it, I didn't expect that something that was finally made would be taken advantage of by the other party." Prince Mohan slapped his palm on the table and said angrily.
"Prince, now is not the time for you to be angry. The most important thing is to take a good look at the people around you. Doesn't the prince find it strange? We have just done this and the other party came to the door secretly. Is this a coincidence? "
Unlike Prince Muhan's anger, Hongluan sat aside calmly and had nothing to do with the matter.
"You mean, there is something wrong with our people?" Prince Mohan turned around and asked.
"The prince thinks that someone can secretly send us a message. Isn't it possible that no one has ever secretly sent a message to each other?"
Hong Luan chuckled, his eyes flashing with contempt and ridicule.
Someone has been secretly passing information to them these days. At first, they didn't dare to believe the authenticity of the information, for fear that it was a trick by the other party to lure the enemy.
But after receiving the crossbow machine diagram and the successful test, they believed the information sent by this person.
After the other party sent the information the day before yesterday that King Yao was preparing to launch a surprise attack on their lair, Prince Muhan decided to use the power of Hong Luan to go straight into the hinterland of Tianan from Jingu Gorge to disrupt King Yao's plan.
"Well, that makes sense. I will order people to strictly investigate the people under my command." Prince Muhan felt that what Hong Luan said was very reasonable, so he turned around and ordered the military around him.
"Prince, my subordinates are going to go right away. I will definitely eliminate the spies for the prince." The military advisor was entrusted with the important task and immediately lowered his head and promised respectfully.
No one could notice the flash of dark light in the military advisor's lowered eyes.
"Okay, I can trust the military advisor to handle matters!" Prince Muhan patted the military advisor on the shoulder and said trustingly.
"My subordinates, please leave!" The military advisor chuckled, turned around and exited the camp.
Prince Muhan then turned around, looked at Hongluan and said anxiously: "The crossbow machine is gone, what should we do next?"
In fact, Prince Muhan already knew how to deal with the enemy, but he still pretended to be anxious and asked Hongluan.
"Why are you so anxious, prince? Don't we still have magic weapons? The crossbows can only be used for long-range attacks, and the number is limited. They can't hide like this all the time. We still have the advantage in close combat."
Hong Luan said eloquently, raising his eyes and taking a look at the weapon on the knife holder behind Prince Muhan.
"That's true, but if they use this crossbow to resist and really stay in the city, we won't have so much food consumption!" Prince Muhan said the important point again.
Food, food, this is what they need in the end, the most urgent thing. With the food they have now, they can last for another month at most, and they have lost a small part today.
"Aren't our people already on their way to Jingu Gorge? With the second weapon I gave you, are you afraid that you won't be able to capture a small border city?" Hong Luan raised her fingers and said proudly.
"Wait until the people who enter from Jingu Gorge successfully invade the hinterland, wouldn't it be better for us to attack them from both inside and outside? As for the crossbow, don't we still have the blueprints and can rebuild it?"
Hong Luan described everything as beautiful and simple, but she never thought whether things would go according to her plan.
"What I'm saying is that we were able to unexpectedly invade through Jingu Gorge this time, thanks to your contribution. When Kyoto is captured, you can choose whatever you want!"
Prince Muhan looked proud, as if the capital of Tianan already belonged to him.