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Chapter 581 Sending Fame and Fortune (Part 2)
Chapter 581 Sending Fame and Fortune (Part 2)
The night before, in Feng Manlou's camp.
"Hey, this is my plan: 'Walk with style,' 'Cross the river in white,' and 'Fortune favors the bold.' Once we lure them to the ambush site, with two hundred archers right in front of them, I don't know how I'll lose!" Huang Donglai pointed to the map and finished explaining his battle plan for the next day, then spoke in a summarizing tone.
At this point, Faning had already slipped away under the pretext that "it's inconvenient for me to be here while you're discussing important military matters," leaving only Huang Donglai and Feng Manlou in the tent.
After listening to Huang Donglai, a complete military novice, explain his battle plan using some bizarre understanding of RTS games and even more bizarre tactical naming methods, Feng Manlou couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
From Feng Manlou's perspective, just by listening to a few words, one could tell that Huang Donglai was a theorist who only talked about military strategy on paper; and this kid wasn't like Zhao Kuo who "studied military books thoroughly" before he started talking about military strategy, but rather he talked like a storyteller under a bridge, spouting nonsense.
but……
However, there is a "but" here.
Feng Manlou did not rush to interrupt, expose, or deny Huang Donglai.
Just like in many detective novels and movies, famous detectives can always get inspiration from the wrong reasoning of their assistants or other investigators. Today, while listening to Huang Donglai's nonsense, Feng Manlou was inspired and came up with a "turn the tables" idea.
Therefore, he listened patiently as Huang Donglai finished explaining his nonsensical tactics.
After listening, he pretended to wait a while before saying, "Good! As expected of the Heavenly Master who has made great contributions to protecting the country, you really have a knack for it. I have never thought of these tactics you mentioned before."
Ladies and gentlemen, those who frequently read time-travel novels are familiar with this kind of term. Generally speaking, in more "traditional" stories, the protagonist often receives such a response after using information asymmetry or personal intelligence to offer advice to some important figures. And this... is undoubtedly a kind of plot that is quite satisfying to read.
So Huang Donglai felt quite pleased when he heard these words.
After all, he usually discussed plans with Sun Yixie, and even when the two of them reached an agreement, they wouldn't praise each other; if they did, it would be in a sarcastic or mocking way. Most of the time, after their discussion, they would curse each other as dogs and ask each other things like "Are you even human?", although this didn't affect the final execution...
In short, today another "Brother Feng" gave Huang Donglai a rare "protagonist treatment," which made Huang a little arrogant.
Therefore, when Feng Manlou promised to allocate a certain number of troops to Huang Donglai so that he could carry out this plan the next day, he did not suspect that Feng Manlou might have any other intentions.
However, that very night, not long after Huang Donglai left Feng Manlou's tent, Feng Manlou secretly summoned another person...
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Back to the present, Sun Yixie's "feigned defeat and escape" drama is in full swing.
When he had run back about the same distance, he shouted, "What are you all standing there for! Come and help!"
These words were clearly directed at his subordinates in the Peak Battalion.
Seeing this, the soldiers were all wondering: "Our General Kameda is such a disgrace. He volunteered to go and fight the enemy single-handedly, but now he's been beaten so badly that he's running back in a panic. And he's giving us orders in this tone. What kind of nonsense is this?"
But despite their thoughts, on the battlefield, military orders came first, and they still had to go.
Therefore, as soon as the shouts fell, the several thousand men of the Fengzi Battalion (Tawu had reinforced Sun Ge's troops again in the past few days) launched a "full-scale attack" and rushed to meet their fleeing commander.
So Huang Donglai stopped chasing. Having anticipated this, he immediately turned his horse around and started running away, leaving behind the words: "Hmph! Osaka turtle! You call for help when you can't beat them, how shameless!"
He shouted these words with internal force, and a large group of people in front of him heard them.
Can "General Kameda" still tolerate this?
The next second, Sun Yixie naturally put on a show of being enraged: "Damn it! You surnamed Huang, I'll never forgive you! You must die today!" As he cursed, he turned his horse around and raised his arm to the Fengzi Camp men who came to his side, shouting, "Brothers! Follow me and kill them!"
Although Sun Ge's behavior was considered extremely ugly by the Yuan soldiers around him, considering that he already had a reputation in the military camp as a villain who had achieved great success, it did not affect the morale of the soldiers or the execution of orders at this moment.
In the blink of an eye, the troops of the Feng Battalion surged toward Huang Donglai's cavalry like a tidal wave.
Of course, this is all part of Huang Donglai's tactics: today he led his Ming army lightly armed and fast on horseback, and deliberately shouted from a distance from the enemy lines, all for the sake of this so-called "carefree journey".
But in reality, any commander with a normal brain could see that... this guy only had so many troops, and after coming all this way, he didn't get anything. He just exchanged a few moves, made a taunt, and then turned around and retreated. It was obviously a trap. Who would come after him?
Eh~ Kazumine Kameda does.
And everyone felt that this little man's decision to pursue the matter relentlessly after becoming enraged was perfectly reasonable; it was exactly the kind of thing he would do.
"General, what should we do? Should we report to the Prince?"
At the same time, in the Yuan army camp, a lieutenant general was asking Yibula for his opinion.
As for Yibula, he had actually already left the camp and formed ranks, but he was in no hurry to come up and had been quietly observing the movements of "King Guitian" and the Fengzi Camp from the rear.
"Hmph... Didn't General Kameda say this morning that His Highness was busy all day?" By this time, Yibula had already sobered up, and because of the loss he suffered this morning, there was still some resentment in his words towards His Highness.
However, after asking a sarcastic question, he calmed down and continued, "How about this... you take the others and hold the main position. Do not be careless. If there is any danger, report to the Prince immediately." He paused, "As for me... I will select 1,500 soldiers to follow the Fengzi Camp behind to check, in case they fall into the Ming Army's trap."
Don't be fooled by Yibula's seemingly selfless words, as if he's going to cover for Brother Sun who recently offended him. He's not really up to anything either, and he's just following along to "play it by ear."
In any case, Ibrahim also led his troops out to attack and gradually caught up.
Before long, his 1,500 men followed the Fengzi Camp to the entrance of a valley.
The terrain of this valley... well, even the most incompetent general would send out scouts to check for ambushes before daring to enter.
Therefore, Huang Donglai also arranged his second deployment here—"Crossing the River in White Clothes".
Of course, he was just borrowing the story of Lü Meng. In essence, he didn't actually wear white clothes or cross the river. He simply arranged a battalion of men here, instructing them to "pretend to be exposed" at a certain time, launch a surprise attack, and then immediately feign defeat and retreat into the valley with his small group.
According to Huang Donglai's understanding, in this situation, the enemy would think that the ambush had been broken and would then pursue and kill them. In that case, he could begin his final move of "seeking fortune in danger," which would involve having the troops who had retreated into the depths of the valley launch a counterattack, coordinating with the "real ambush force"—two hundred crossbowmen—and using the terrain to his advantage to surround the many with the few and defeat the strong with the weak.
Anyway, regarding Brother Huang's whole plan... let's be frank now, even he himself, with his relatively inflated ego, is only about 60-70% confident.
What truly emboldened him to implement this plan today was not Feng Manlou's "approval," but rather his own pre-planned strategy—that Brother Sun would cooperate with him.
This is why, when Huang Donglai came to challenge him today, he specifically asked for Sun Yixie.
He knew very well that Brother Sun, being an undercover agent, would definitely come if he heard that it was him who was challenging him, and as long as the two met on the battlefield, everything could be discussed.
Conversely, if... Sun Yixie is unable to participate in the battle today for some reason, then Huang Donglai will not run towards the valley at all. In that case, he will simply abandon the plan and lead his team back to the Ming Army camp.
Furthermore, as we mentioned earlier, if it were someone else, they probably wouldn't have pursued him so deeply from the start.
In short, a short while later, with Sun Yixie's cooperation, Huang Donglai's theoretical plan was successfully implemented; after the Fengzi Battalion repelled the Ming army's "fake ambush," they immediately pursued them into the valley.
Upon seeing this, Ibrahim, who was following behind, was delighted.
Because in his eyes, Huang Donglai's plan was not difficult to see through, so it was highly likely that "King Kameda" would not return after this trip.
Although Yibula was still a little heartbroken about losing the thousands of soldiers in the Fengzi Battalion, he felt it was all worth it considering that the villain Guitian would die here.
With this man dead, not only will no one bring up Yibula's "slip of the tongue" from this morning, but more importantly, with this treacherous minister no longer interfering, Yibula will finally be able to discuss serious matters with the prince, which will greatly help the war effort.
Of course, putting all that aside, just considering personal emotions, Yibula is now filled with regret and deep-seated hatred whenever he sees "Kameda Ichimine".
His biggest regret was that he had been blind to the truth and had been misled by this villain, personally promoting him and giving him the opportunity to speak in front of the prince, which led to him now being bullied by the prince.
But all of this will vanish with the death of this villain...
Thinking of this, Yibula decisively ordered his 1,500 men to remain stationary outside the valley and wait for the Fengzi Camp to be completely wiped out.
At this moment, he thought that the "Great Celestial Master" who had set up the ambush and the "Kameda Ippon" who had fallen into the trap were both on the first level, while he was on the second level, already sitting comfortably.
Unexpectedly, there was another person on the third floor today.
That person, I think everyone has guessed it—Feng Manlou.
Huang Donglai thought that all the arrangements today were going according to his plan, but... in fact, Feng Manlou had given his subordinates another set of arrangements last night.
Even the cavalrymen following Huang Donglai today are all acting according to the latter approach.
Ultimately, these people were always just soldiers in a storm.
Huang Donglai, at this moment, was merely a pawn in Feng Manlou's hands, and one that was not very trusted.
As the saying goes, "Righteousness cannot manage wealth, and compassion cannot command an army." Today, Fengmanlou has given Huang Donglai a good lesson in this regard.
Meanwhile, Huang Donglai retreated into the depths of the valley as planned. Just as he was about to summon the archers who were lying in ambush and launch a counterattack with the troops around him, the Ming soldiers who had originally followed him ignored him and scattered into the paths on both sides of the valley.
Huang Donglai was still in a daze when Sun Yixie's men arrived.
Upon seeing him, Brother Sun was also stunned, thinking to himself, "How come this scene is different from what you described earlier? Didn't you say that we would ambush the Yuan army here, and then I would take advantage of the chaos to escape with you? Once we got back to the Yuan army, you, whom I had 'captured alive,' would cooperate with me to fabricate military intelligence and help me claim military merits? How come the script has changed? You, a commander without any troops, have surrendered directly?"
Just as the two of them were beginning to sense that something was amiss, a sudden change occurred.
But then, from the valley above, came the sound of huge rocks rolling down, one after another.
"Hahahaha..." Immediately afterwards, a burst of laughter accompanied by the sound of falling rocks came from above, and as he laughed, he shouted, "Kameda Kazumine! Today I will make sure you die a horrible death!"
Upon hearing the voice, Sun Huang looked up and saw that the person laughing and cursing was none other than Kun Duli, who had been captured by the Ming army a few days ago. Moreover, the number of troops he was leading at this moment was clearly far greater than the number that Feng Manlou had promised Huang Donglai last night.
What's even more chilling is that these ambushers are attacking in such a manner that it doesn't matter if Sun Quan and Huang Zhong die in the chaos of battle...