imperial psychologist

Chapter 706 Seeing Orchid Grass Again
It was bound to be a tough night.

Wang Meng reorganized the previous convoy by hand, and the large troop continued to retreat southward, stopping at the hills not far from the east city gate at both ends.

Nearly [-] people did not light a fire all night, and huddled together to keep warm in the wind and snow that came from time to time. Wang Meng was still guarding the edge of the northern city, watching the movements of the golden man from afar.

In the second half of the night, the sound of artillery and explosions from the west resounded throughout the night.

At dawn, another urgent report came from ahead, saying that all the ice roads and official roads from Zhuozhou to Liangduwang had been blown up, and now it was impossible to travel.

"Are they trying to break the connection between Liangduwang and Zhuozhou and Yanzhou?" a guard guessed in a low voice.

"The group of people who set up an ambush on the ice road in Yanzhou yesterday—"

"Should be planning to do the same thing." Wang Meng said in a deep voice, "It happens to be able to use our gunpowder to blow up our road."

"But so what if the road is cut off," Xue Ziping looked in the direction of the two heads, "the two ends have always been a transit point between Zhuo and Yan, and the food and grass are all in place. Even if it becomes an isolated city, they may not be able to besiege it... eh ?”

Everyone looked at him sideways, "What's wrong?"

Xue Ziping frowned slightly, and stretched out his hand to point to the distant city, "That... what?"

In the twilight of the morning sun, everyone saw several streaks of dark gray smoke rising from the city looking at both sides.

At first the smoke was like the morning cooking smoke, and no one paid attention to it, but in a short while they became more intense, and now they have become billowing smoke, with occasional sporadic flames flickering in the thick smoke.

Wang Meng took out the monocular from his waist, and gasped after a while. "Look at this location...there are several granaries in the city."

The others clenched their sabers at their waists for an instant.

"My lord, what should we do now?"

"General Chang's message is to ask us to return to help and look at both sides," Wang Meng said in a low voice, "act by ear..."

Before the words fell, the team on the Jinren's side made moves.

I saw countless shield soldiers holding their copper shields high and approaching the north city gate steadily.

Bai Ling patted Xue Zian beside him, "...What is the range of our firecrackers?"

"About three hundred feet." Xue Zian replied in a low voice, "But the armor-piercing power must be within a hundred feet."

Bai Ling cursed in a low voice.

"Why do you ask this?" Xue Zian leaned towards Bai Ling, "What are you thinking of?"

"They should be shooting rockets into the city next," Bo Ling grabbed the turf on the ground, "The golden man's longbow can shoot up to six hundred feet!"

Xue Zi'an froze for a moment.

The golden thief does have a special kind of giant bow, which requires two people to operate together - Wei Songqing doesn't know the range of his own firecrackers, but he is very clear about the golden thief's giant bow...

Wang Meng also heard Bo Ling's words. Just as he was about to ask a question, Bo Ling ran to Wang Meng's side, "Lieutenant General, can you lend me the telescope?"

Wang Meng didn't refuse. Bo Ling took the telescope and ran north. Behind him, Wang Meng asked quickly, "Where is Songqing going?"

"That boulder in the north of the mountain last night," Bai Ling replied, "you can see the camp of the Jinren over there. I want to confirm one thing..."

Wang Meng nodded, signaling Xue Ziping to follow along.

Not long after Bo Ling left, the golden man's shield soldiers stopped four hundred feet away from the city gate.

A rain of arrows and gunfire shot out from the city wall looking at both sides in an instant.

The ammunition fell on the city gate and the open space that the Jin people saw, blasting out a cloud of dust, and the feather arrows took advantage of the high ground of the tower to fly farther, but were easily blocked by the shield.

The second and third rounds of shooting on the walls followed, but the result remained unchanged.

The battlefield fell into a quiet and eerie atmosphere.

Suddenly, the shields of the golden man were misplaced. Between the shields and the shields, countless gaps suddenly appeared, and the arrows with fire flew up behind the gaps, and flew towards the sky on the other side. .

As Bo Ling had expected, most of these flaming feather arrows crossed the city wall and fell into the city.

After a while, a little smoke and dust gradually rose from the back of Beicheng, and soon melted into the billowing smoke that rose early in the morning.

Repeatedly, probably after shooting all the rockets in their hands, this group of golden men retreated like a tide without any reluctance to fight.

The cooperation between the shield soldiers and the archers is so skillful that it is almost seamless.

Standing on the mountain, Wang Meng and others looked at this group of swift and sinister golden soldiers, feeling a little bit astonished while being resentful.

And this style of relying on shield soldiers, restraint and forbearance is very different from Arslan in the past.

In other words, unlike any tribe of previous gold thieves.

……

"What are you looking for?" Xue Ziping asked curiously.

Bai Ling was lying on the huge rock that she was squatting on last night, and Xue Ziping was holding her feet tightly behind her to prevent her from slipping.

"I'm looking for a flag I saw last night." Bo Ling said softly.

"What banner?"

"An orchid." Bo Ling whispered.

Xue Ziping repeated in a low voice, still feeling confused, he was a little puzzled, but seeing Bai Ling's focused search, Xue Ziping temporarily suppressed the question in his heart.

After a while, Xue Ziping raised his head, "... did you find it?"

"I'm still looking at it side by side." Bai Ling frowned, "I clearly remember that I saw it in these areas yesterday..."

"Don't worry, look slowly," Xue Ziping said in a low voice, "Speaking of which—"

"I found it!" Bo Ling almost roared under his voice, "I knew I read it right last night!"

Xue Ziping pulled Bo Ling's leg and quickly brought her down to the ground.

"Let's go back," Bai Ling patted the ashes off his body, looked at Xue Ziping, "...what did you want to ask me just now?"

"Oh, I want to ask you, how do you know that the Jinren are going to use rockets this time?"

Bo Ling smiled with deep eyes, and said in a low voice, "Because of this style of play, I have seen it once in Pingjing in the fourth year of Shengming."

……

Between the mountains and forests, Bai Ling followed Xue Ziping back to Wang Meng's side, and then explained clearly the chaos in Pingjing that he experienced a few years ago.

"Pingjing?" Xue Ziping just listened to the beginning, and his brows became a Sichuan character, "When did the gold thief hit the city of Pingjing?"

"Of course not a gold thief," Bo Ling said softly, "at least not at that time."

Just when everyone didn't know why, Wang Meng suddenly said, "In the fourth year of Shengming, a group of 'gold thieves' of unknown origin suddenly appeared in the hinterland of our Great Zhou, and they were called to disaster Jiangzhou. It was claimed that there were tens of thousands of people, but in fact there were only a few. Qian, it caused great panic among the people at that time—remember?”

The faces of the people present changed instantly.

"So...there were indeed rumors that the capital was besieged for three days and three nights," Xue Ziping was a little puzzled, "but isn't that a rumor?"

"The capital city was indeed besieged," Bo Ling said softly, "but it was never trapped. Long before those rockets shot into the city, the city defense forces had already evacuated the people and put fireproof blankets on the roof. The water source also laid an ambush in advance, and took down the poisoner in one fell swoop..."

Xue Zian was stunned while listening, "So who are these people?"

"...the remnants of Qinyuan." Wang Meng said in a deep voice.

(End of this chapter)