In the Heshuo camp, in the general’s tent.
Li Gufeng, the leader of the Ghost Guards, cupped his hands towards Zhu Li and reported with a gloomy face, "General, according to my investigation, Wang Duo led the Imperial Guards to surround the entire 10-mile hunting ground near Kunming Lake."
"Right now, our scouts can't detect any situation of the brothers participating in the hunt."
"And none of the brothers in the hunting ground can leave the hunting ground. In other words, the connection between the brothers participating in the hunting competition and us has been completely cut off by Wang Duo's imperial guards."
"It's just our brothers. No one has come out?" Zhu Li frowned when he heard this. "Have any of the hunting teams from other vassal towns come out?"
"No!" Li Gufeng answered flatly.
"No?" Zhu Li narrowed his eyes and murmured.
If someone paid attention to his eyes, they would definitely notice that the moment he narrowed his eyes, a cold light flashed by.
"General, Alang and his men have just been through a great battle. Although the outcome is still uncertain, there are definitely some casualties."
"At this time, Yang Fugong suddenly did this, completely cutting off the connection between Alang and us; even if there are brothers with minor injuries, they will definitely be seriously injured after three days."
"If there are brothers who are seriously injured, their lives may be in danger after three days!" After listening to Li Gufeng's statement, Yue Yun hurriedly stepped out, bowed and said earnestly to Zhu Li.
"Yang Fugong's behavior is malicious and he deserves to be killed." Zhu Ya, who had become quite normal, heard this and echoed with a ferocious look on his face.
"Depriving the wounded of help, thereby greatly weakening their combat effectiveness and even reducing their numbers, should be just one of the reasons." Zhu Li looked around at everyone and spoke gloomily.
"More than 20 hunting teams belonging to different fiefdoms were forcibly restricted to a limited range. As long as the hunting teams moved a little bit further, they would encounter other teams. This would force them to continue killing each other." Zhu Li explained with a grim expression.
"What should we do? If we can't provide effective support to Alang and the others, will anything happen to them?" As Yue Pengju's son, Yue Yun was worried about his father and expressed his true feelings.
"Don't panic, Yue Yun." Zhu Li comforted him, and then he turned to look at Qing Ruo and said seriously: "Qing Ruo, take Guangmao and Xiao Yao to walk around the hunting ground and see if you can dig a tunnel that leads directly to the center of the hunting ground."
"Yes." Qing Ruo responded immediately after hearing this.
"Yang Fugong is so blatant that he wants to eliminate all the important generals in the hunting ground in one fell swoop. His appetite is a bit too big." Zhu Li looked unfriendly and said coldly, "But he has a plan, and we also have a way to get over the wall, right?"
"The general is right. As long as my kitten is here, we can open an underground passage in one night." Qing Ruo tilted her little head and assured confidently.
After saying that, she turned around and patted the kitten's shoulder vigorously. The kitten, with a simple and honest face, immediately blushed after being encouraged by the big sister. He straightened his chest vigorously, feeling very proud.
Perhaps because the three of them are from the same ethnic group and are all relatively young, the three of them are almost inseparable.
When Zhu Li appointed Qing Ruo as the captain, Qing Ruo immediately promoted Xiao Mao and Xiao Yao to the rank of captains. It was easy for others to see that Xiao Yao and Xiao Mao seemed to have regarded Qing Ruo as their own sister from the bottom of their hearts, and they obeyed almost all her orders.
This is a very strange combination. Qingruo is the brain, Xiaoyao is the eyes, and Xiaomao is the legs. Qingruo is responsible for decision-making, Xiaoyao is responsible for gathering information, and Xiaomao is responsible for escaping or sneaking in. It is perfect.
Zhu Li let Qing Ruo take charge of this matter, which was undoubtedly entrusting an important task to their small team. That afternoon, Qing Ruo took two loyal younger brothers and Qian to investigate the situation.
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In the Youzhou camp, Yuchi Jin also received news from the imperial guard general Wang Duo that the hunting grounds had been sealed off.
Yuchi Jin sat at the top, glanced at the three assistant generals sitting at the bottom, and let out a long sigh; then, she passed her gaze directly from Wenlan and Yangguang's faces and looked directly at He Ruobi.
Those two little girls didn't cause her any trouble.
She just thought Amitabha, what advice could she expect from them
Wenlan and Yangguang, who were sitting at the lower table, didn't think anything of themselves at all. They looked solemn and looked straight ahead, feeling very good about themselves.
Obviously, the two little girls were trying hard to act mature and prudent, but their childish faces only looked funny, without any of the dignity that a general should have.
"The battle at the hunting ground has not yet broken out. Of the ten people in our hunting team, only General Yu Juluo, Xie Tian and Xie Di are left. After the battle, Wang Duo blocked the hunting ground without waiting for us to rescue them. General He, what do you think about this situation?" Yuchi Jin frowned and said worriedly.
It has to be said that Yuchi Jin is at an absolute disadvantage compared to Wang Yueyao, as can be seen from the number of people she can use; and now, Yu Juluo, a pillar-level general of Youzhou, is trapped in the hunting ground again, which gives her a headache.
This situation was very tricky even for He Ruobi. He only replied in a deep voice: "General Manager, when we went north to Chang'an, we knew that the court wanted to use the name of spring search to deal with the vassal states."
"Wang Duo chose to besiege the hunting grounds after the conflict broke out between the vassal states. It was obvious that he wanted to first eliminate the minions of each vassal state; at the very least, he wanted to make each vassal state suffer heavy losses."
"He is so brazen in his attempt to harm the local governors. It is obvious that he is bullying us. We are guests from afar and our military strength is limited. Even if the general manager goes to him to argue, it will be useless."
"But he forgot that if he had done this in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, or even in peacetime, in the name of the Royalist Party, the various vassal states would probably have been deaf and dumb and suffered the consequences themselves."
"It's just that what period is it now? The Li Tang Dynasty has long been on the decline, but he still dares to do this. I have to say that although this person is insidious, he is a little confused about the situation."
"If we rely on our own strength, we really can't rescue General Yu Juluo and the Xie brothers; but Yang Fugong's bullying of the local governors will inevitably arouse the hatred of the local officials against the enemy."
"If the general manager wants to rescue General Yu and the Xie brothers, he must wait until the various vassal states rise up before he can act conveniently." He Ruobi looked at Yuchi Jin and analyzed very seriously.
However, before he finished speaking, just when Yuchi Jin also agreed with him, a clear and crisp voice immediately shouted in dissatisfaction: "Humph, big black guy, who said that we can't rescue General Xianyu and the two idiots of the Xie family by our own ability?"
The person who spoke was naturally Wenlan. She was very excited, her face flushed, and she almost jumped up while speaking; however, she seemed to remember that she was a general and had to maintain her image, so she suppressed the urge to jump up.
As the saying goes, brothers fight like brothers, and sisters quarrel like sisters. As soon as Wenlan opened her mouth, Yangguang immediately echoed: "That's right, that's right, big black guy, don't help others to be proud of themselves and destroy your own prestige."
"If you can't think of a solution yourself, it only means that you are stupid; my senior sister is so smart, she must have already had a perfect countermeasure, right, senior sister?"
After Yangguang finished looking down on He Ruobi, he quickly turned his head, and his bright big eyes turned into crescent shapes, and he looked at Wenlan eagerly.
However, when she looked at it, she suddenly found something wrong; it turned out that Wenlan was just angry at He Ruobi for saying that the Youzhou side was not good enough, so she couldn't help but retort. There is no such thing as a foolproof plan.
After the sunlight stirred up this, even Yuchi Jin looked at Wenlan seriously.
At this moment, facing the eager gaze of her junior sister, as well as the inquiring looks of Yuchi Jin and He Ruobi, Wen Lan looked dazed and stupid. Did she look like someone who would have her own ideas
As soon as she saw the expression on her senior sister's face, Yangguang knew that she had said the wrong thing. Her face immediately turned bitter and she was about to say something to smooth things over for her senior sister. After all, she was the youngest and even if she was embarrassed, she couldn't let her senior sister embarrass herself.
But before she could say anything, Wenlan spoke up.
As a senior foodie, as a veteran foodie who dreams of eating all over the world and tasting all the delicacies in the world, Wenlan is blessed with two rare abilities.
The first thing is to be thick-skinned.
Otherwise, if someone says something to you, you will back off, salivating in vain but unable to eat. Then you are not worthy of being a foodie.
Not only did I miss the delicious food.
The second is the ability to deceive. You have to know that in this world, you can't eat everything just because you have money. There are some things that you will never be able to eat unless you deceive.
What's more, Wenlan has no money, so she has to be even more clever in deceiving people.
She suddenly stood up, bowed to Yuchi Jin and He Ruobi, and said in a pretentious manner: "General Manager, General He, have you heard of a term?"
"What?" Yuchi Jin asked doubtfully, looking at Wenlan, who put her hands behind her back and pretended to be mature and steady. Although she knew these two little girls well, they had almost no other hobbies except being greedy and active.
But, isn't there a saying that goes like this? "A fool may think a thousand times, but he may get it right once." A fool may think about a problem, but sometimes he can figure it out. What's more, Wenlan and Yangguang are not stupid at all.
It's just that they are a little young and their minds are focused on eating. If they really thought about picking up people, maybe they could come up with some good ideas.
Thinking of this, Yuchi Jin couldn't help but look forward to Wenlan's "foolproof plan".
Seeing that her own housekeeper, the lady whom she admired, was also very humbly asking for advice from her, Wenlan seemed to become even more arrogant. She held her head high and chest out, as if she was pointing out the whole world, and uttered two words very clearly: "Freeloader!"
"Pfft..., are you eating for free?" He Ruobi, who was drinking water, suddenly spat out a mouthful of tea and looked at Wenlan in doubt.
Even Yuchi Jin and Yang Guang, upon hearing the two words, immediately put their hands on their foreheads, nodded and shrugged. It was obvious that the word Wenlan tickled their funny bones.
Upon seeing everyone's reactions, Wenlan's face instantly darkened.
Even her own junior sister laughed at her, which made her even angrier. She said calmly, "Think about it, when you are penniless and will starve to death if you don't eat; if at this time, you happen to meet a group of people going to a restaurant, and they don't know each other very well, shouldn't you sneak in and fill your stomach first?"
When the three of them saw that she was serious, they stopped laughing and looked at the little girl seriously. Obviously, they all realized that what Wenlan meant by "free eating" should not just be free eating and drinking.
Seeing everyone's eyes focused on her again, Wen Lan's heroic spirit returned, and she continued, "Right now, General Xianyu and the two big idiots from the Xie family are trapped in the hunting grounds and are seriously injured. If we can't get them out for treatment in time, their lives will most likely be in danger."
Upon hearing this, Yuchi Jin and He Ruobi were immediately shocked. This was obviously a point they had just overlooked. Now that Wenlan mentioned it, how could they be anxious
Seeing that the others were finally serious, Wen Lan continued, "Of course, we really can't save Xianyu and the others with our own strength."
"But I know a man whose subordinates have the ability to enter and leave the hunting grounds freely."
"Who?" Upon hearing that someone could enter and leave the hunting ground freely, Yuchi Jin and He Ruobi asked in unison.
"Pig-headed General!" Wenlan said decisively. Everyone present knew that the Pig-headed General that the sisters were referring to was naturally Zhu Li.
"Junior Sister Yangguang, you should still remember that little cat, the one who was very good at digging holes when we were in Shangjing, and now he has joined General Pighead."
"Kitten, ah, I get it. Senior sister is really smart. If the kitten that can dig holes is here, it will not be a problem for her to enter and exit the hunting ground freely." Yangguang's beautiful eyes lit up and she immediately affirmed.
Once praised by her junior sister, Wenlan immediately became so proud that she lost her mind. She nodded her head like a chicken pecking at rice and continued, "According to the news from the scouts, General Pighead's men were also seriously injured. With his 'saint bitch' heart, he will naturally let the kitten dig a hole and send people to rescue the wounded."
"At this time, we can make friends with them, take the opportunity to sneak in, and pick up General Xianyu and the other two. Isn't this the same as eating for free?"
After hearing Wenlan's words, Yuchi Jin and He Ruobi looked at each other and immediately agreed on the feasibility of this strategy; although Yuchi Jin's expression was a little unnatural, since it concerned the life and death of the general, how could she sit idly by.