mtl008 Chapter 242 High Fever
Chapter 242 High Fever
The Dongyue troops were getting closer and closer, and the sound of horse hooves was like thunder, shaking the ground.
Su Yi murmured in a low voice: "But if they have seen the terrain, this terrain is like a tiger's mouth, the easiest to be ambushed, why didn't they stop to observe? This is really abnormal."
This time, Nan Shu set up a tight net at the entrance of the valley to prevent the East Vietnamese army from being highly vigilant and stopping to withdraw before entering the valley.
But even so, they were not afraid. After all, they had set up an ambush at the entrance of the valley. If the East Vietnamese army was alert and turned around to flee, huge rocks could roll down from the other side of the valley. Even if they did not kill all of them, they would at least turn two or three thousand people into meat patties, thus defeating the East Vietnamese people's fighting spirit.
But now seeing this group of people, they seemed to have no vigilance at all, and rushed straight into the valley like bulls, which made Su Yi and Mu Jin notice something was wrong.
While the two were thinking, all 10,000 troops of Dong Yue had entered the encirclement. Before Su Yi and Mu Jin could make up their minds, they suddenly heard Mu Yan's angry shout, and the roar of boulders rolling down came from both ends of the valley.
Immediately afterwards, five thousand elite soldiers of Southern Shu stood up from the ground like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. They drew their bows and arrows and shot at the Dongyue troops in the valley.
The neighing of horses echoed throughout the valley, but strangely, the only sound in the valley was the cries of horses. The Dongyue soldiers seemed to feel no pain and allowed countless arrows to pierce their bodies without anyone uttering a single cry.
Mu Jin frowned and stood up. Are these people dead? Their whole bodies were pierced like hedgehogs, but they didn't say a word. Can the people of Dongyue endure the pain so much?
After Mu Jin finished speaking, he twisted the flesh on Su Yi's arm hard.
"It hurts! Let go! You woman!" Su Yi suddenly retracted his arm and touched the place where Mu Jin had twisted it.
"You cruel woman! You have almost scratched my hands. Now I am an emperor after all, can't you be gentle to me?"
"Aren't you also a native Dongyue person? I thought you Dongyue people were born without feeling pain." Mu Jin slightly curved the corners of his lips and said to Su Yi with a smile: "Or is it that only you with delicate skin and tender flesh can't stand pain?"
Su Yi rolled his eyes at Mu Jin and said, "So, I felt that there was something strange about this matter just now!" The two of them looked into the valley again. At this time, the 10,000 Dongyue soldiers who had entered the valley had all fallen to the ground.
"Ajin!" Mu Yan looked in the direction of the two people and shouted excitedly, "How could these Dongyue soldiers become so vulnerable under Su Yuntian's rule? I originally thought that at most I could kill one or two thousand people at the entrance of the valley to destroy their prestige."
"I didn't expect these people are here to die." Mu Yan laughed, however, he suddenly discovered that there was no joy of victory on Su Yi and Mu Jin's faces, but instead an indescribable entanglement.
Mu Yan's laughter stopped abruptly. He strode towards Su Yi and Mu Jin and asked, "Is there something wrong?"
Mu Jin frowned and said, "Brother, the emperor hasn't issued an order yet, why did you give an order without authorization?"
Mu Yan scratched his head and explained, "Didn't we discuss this before we set out? We'll wait until all of their people enter the valley, and then once the boulders on both sides fall, they'll be trapped inside, and then we'll shoot them to death with arrows."
"But brother, don't you think things are going too smoothly?" Mu Jin's tone was full of worry.
Mu Yan touched his nose and said nonchalantly: "All the people have been killed in the valley. No matter what conspiracy they have, it will be useless."
"Alright!" Su Yi interrupted their conversation and looked at Mu Yan: "General Mu, let one thousand people stay behind to deal with the aftermath, and the rest will return to Liangcheng with us first."
Mu Yan felt that Su Yi and Mu Jin were too cautious, but he didn't know what to say. He ordered a thousand people to stay behind to clean up the aftermath, and then returned to Liangcheng with Su Yi and Mu Jin.
After three days of not getting a good rest, Mu Jin returned to Liangcheng, took a shower, and fell asleep after being so tired that he didn't even dry his hair.
I didn't wake up until the next morning. It was only two hours since I went to bed. Maybe there was something on my mind. Even if Su Yi ordered that no one should approach Mu Jin's tent to avoid disturbing her rest, she would wake up on her own without anyone calling her. "
After Mu Jin washed up, she quickly tied her ponytail and changed into the narrow robe with round collar that she usually wore in the army. From a distance, she looked like a heroic and brave young man, making it difficult to look away.
She opened the tent and stepped out, only to see Mu Yan slowly walking towards the meeting tent from the dining camp in the distance.
"Brother!" Mu Jin shouted. Mu Yan heard the voice, looked at Mu Jin and asked with a smile: "Why don't you sleep a little longer?"
Mu Jin shook his head, "I don't want to sleep anymore."
"It's good that you woke up. I just received a tip that Su Yuntian and his army did not move out of camp last night and are still stationed in Liuzhou. It seems that they are planning to keep their troops in place. Could it be that Dongyue has suffered two consecutive defeats and is scared?" Mu Yan said with a joking smile.
When Mu Jin heard Mu Yan say this, he frowned again unconsciously: "Didn't Su Yuntian follow those people last night?"
"No! I just received a report from an informant. Su Yuntian is indeed still stranded in Liuzhou with a hundred thousand troops."
Hearing Mu Yan's words, Mu Jin frowned even more. She looked into the distance thoughtfully and said to Mu Yan, "Have the thousand soldiers who cleaned up the mess last night returned to the camp?"
Mu Yan nodded: "Yes, I just arranged for them to have breakfast and allowed them to rest for half a day. Now they all went back to the tent to rest."
"Is there anything different about them?"
"No! I just looked a little tired after working all night. This is normal. You don't need to worry, Jin."
Mu Jin pondered for a moment, and finally smiled: "Nothing, maybe I'm overthinking it, brother, are you going to the meeting account?"
"Yes."
"Then I'll go with you."
Mu Yan nodded, looked at a passing soldier and said, "Go to the dining camp and get some breakfast and send it to the meeting tent." The soldier took the order and left.
The Mu siblings entered the meeting room and found Su Yi already sitting inside. When Su Yi saw Mu Jin coming in, he curled his lips and said to Mu Jin: "Good morning, Jin! Didn't I tell them not to disturb you? How come you woke up so quickly?"
Mu Jin smiled slightly and said, "I can't sleep myself, don't blame them."
After Mu Jin finished speaking, the soldier behind him walked in holding a tray with Mu Jin's breakfast.
While eating breakfast, Mu Jin asked Su Yi, "I heard that Su Yuntian's army was stranded in Liuzhou. Liangcheng is a large grain depot in Dongyue, why would they give it up?"
Mu Jin frowned and continued, "I always feel like they are up to no good."
Su Yi nodded in agreement, "I have already sent people to inquire. The war was caused by them. Su Yuntian will not give up so easily until the last moment."
Mu Jin nodded and turned to look at Mu Yan: "Brother, I still think there is something strange about the East Vietnamese soldiers last night. Ask a soldier who buried the bodies of the East Vietnamese soldiers last night to come and talk to me."
"Okay!" Mu Yan didn't think there was anything wrong with it, but he still ordered someone to go find someone. "Ajin, do you still think there was something fishy about those Dongyue soldiers last night?"
Mu Jin nodded: "Brother, don't you think a normal person would not make a sound if shot by an arrow? Only a dead person would not make a sound."
"Maybe the horses made too much noise last night and we couldn't hear clearly." Mu Yan said disapprovingly. At this moment, the soldier who had just gone out to call people walked into the meeting room with a panicked look on his face.
"Reporting to the Emperor, the two Generals Mu, the one thousand soldiers who were there to deal with the aftermath last night are all suffering from a high fever and unconscious in their tents."