Ming Empire

Chapter 95 Kindness is not rewarded

Cao Yue's men and Li Yan's rebel army formed a formation on a plain more than [-] miles outside the city, preparing for a big battle.

It was already evening when the vanguards of the two sides met.In the brief conflict, the two sides paid a similar price. After losing more than a dozen cavalry, they also retreated with gold and prepared to fight again in the future.

The two armies set up camps separated by an open area five miles away.

In order to avoid being attacked by the other side, both sides have taken sufficient precautions, especially Li Yan's department, which has been attacked by the elite squads of the government and army in the past few days, is especially cautious and dare not be sloppy.

However, Cao Yue did not plan to attack the camp on a large scale. He just ordered his men and horses to take turns to be vigilant, and to deal with possible raids by rogues with the highest combat readiness. At the same time, he ordered the special training team with almost no losses to continue to attack Li Yan The Ministry carried out harassment.

Wang An is a very intelligent person. After successfully harassing for several days in a row, he has summed up a lot of experience. Although the rogues have stepped up their guard and almost guarded the camp like an iron barrel, it is not difficult for them. They fought in groups. The members of the training team were still able to sneak into the camp of the rogue bandits, complete the task of harassment and destruction, and tortured Li Yan into a rage.

However, on the night when the war was approaching, Wang An and his comrades suffered losses. When a team of five of them successfully sneaked into the camp, they were intercepted and killed by several highly skilled women. And thus alarmed the rogues in the camp.The special training team members who finally performed the task escaped from the camp after paying the price of two people killed and two injured.

This move also caused trouble for the follow-up action team, and Wang An was forced to cancel the harassment plan in the first half of the night.

However, the grenades and fires thrown by the squadrons when they retreated still caused panic among the rogues. Many rogue generals stayed up all night and personally led troops to patrol the camp to prevent the officers and soldiers from attacking the camp again.Li Yan also didn't dare to take a good rest. At most, he just slept in his big tent with his clothes on, so as not to sleep too soundly and be too late to deal with an accident.

Li Yan now deeply understands that he has encountered a very difficult opponent, and this opponent's combat methods are different from any generals he has dealt with before.Cao Yue's command can be said to be confusing, and his methods are even more confusing, making it difficult to judge what is going on.What frustrates Li Yan the most is that his camp has been attacked several times by officers and soldiers, but he has no idea what kind of people attacked, how they entered the camp, or how they left.

It's like heavenly soldiers descending to earth, these people come and go without a trace, strictly guarding against the vigilant people, and in the end they are just doing nothing.

On the night when the war was approaching, Li Yan encountered another attack on the camp in a similar manner by the officers and soldiers. Li Yan's anger was unknowingly vented, and many of his own soldiers were also punished for being ignorant.

Li Yan's violent action caused all the soldiers around him to tremble, not knowing how to deal with it, fearing that they would also be punished.

Although he already knew that this decisive battle with the army led by Cao Yue was a bit more ominous than good, but Li Yan, who had been severely tortured these days, still hoped to have a decisive battle as soon as possible, otherwise he would not be able to bear it.

Just when Li Yan was depressed about being harassed again this evening, a soldier walked into the big tent and carefully reported that someone asked to see him.

"Who is asking to see?" Li Yan snorted sullenly.

"Yes, ma'am!" The soldier replied tremblingly.

"Ma'am?" Li Yan froze for a moment, then froze there.

Seeing that Li Yan didn't respond for a while, the extremely nervous soldier finally couldn't help but ask again: "General, madam asks you, do you want to see her?"

"Let her in!" Li Yan, who had expected that Hong Niangzi would definitely come with his troops, finally eased his tone and asked his soldiers to bring Hong Niangzi in.

Soon, the blood-stained red lady broke into Li Yan's big tent in a hurry.

"Master!" Seeing Li Yan with a haggard face, the red lady couldn't help calling out in pain, she really wanted to rush forward, throw herself into Li Yan's arms and cry bitterly for a while, but she held back in the end.

"Why are you back?" Li Yan, who was equally excited in his heart, hardened his heart and asked in a tone without any emotion.

"Sanggong, I don't worry about you, and I have been following the army." Seeing Li Yan's emotionless indifference, Hong Niangzi finally couldn't help but shed tears.

"The battle between the rebel army and the official army is about to start, you should leave here," Li Yan said in the same tone, and found the blood on the red lady's body. After hesitating for a while, he finally couldn't help but care. "Are you hurt...?"

"No!" This sentence made Hong Niang feel more comfortable, her tears became more joyful, and she immediately told the truth, "These days, my family also heard that the rebel army was attacked by the government army from time to time at night, and they didn't know Who was the sneak attack? Out of curiosity, I sneaked into the camp with Ruyi and Xiaoyun tonight, trying to intercept and kill the sneak attackers. We did meet the sneak attackers, but we didn’t expect them to be very skilled. People, just couldn’t kill them all, let alone capture them alive.”

"How many sneak attackers have you intercepted and killed?" Li Yan was shocked, and couldn't help rushing to Hong Niangzi.

"The bodies of those two people are outside, and they escaped the other two wounded!" Seeing Li Yan's appearance, Hong Niangzi's mood improved a little, and immediately ordered the two maids outside the tent to put them away. The bodies of the two attackers killed by them were pulled over.

Li Yan followed Hong Niangzi out of the tent, and carefully checked the two attackers who were intercepted and killed by Hong Niangzi's master and servant, but found no useful clues.

"My lord, Cao Yue trained a group of highly skilled dead men who specialize in sneak attacks and sabotage. The last time the slaves were attacked on the way to the south, it should be these people. These people are very destructive. You must Be careful, or the morale of the army will be disturbed!" At this time, the red lady seemed to have lost all resentment towards Li Yan, and she was concerned, she thought that after this incident, Li Yan's attitude towards her would change.

"Thank you!" To Hong Niangzi's surprise, Li Yan answered him with the same expression as before: "I will pay attention."

What the red lady didn't expect was that Li Yan's mind was different now. He thought that the red lady knew about Cao Yue's plan and that Cao Yue had these dead men under his command, but she never told him.This made him feel that the unclear relationship between Hong Niangzi and Cao Yue was more complicated. This time Hong Niangzi sneaked back to the camp, maybe she had a more special purpose.

The unpleasant encounters in the past few days made Li Yan not in a good mood, let alone think about things in a good way.

"Xianggong!" Feeling the coldness in Li Yan's tone, the red lady couldn't help calling out.

"We are no longer husband and wife, don't call me husband-in-law, you go, today I will not care about your crime of trespassing the camp, but I warn you, if next time... You're welcome!" Li Yan said, ignoring the red lady, swung down his sleeves vigorously, and walked back to the big tent.

The red lady who stood there blankly looked at the background of Li Yan's entry, and finally shed hot tears!
(End of this chapter)