Chapter 45: On the Shore of the Crescent Lake
"Now I order, all the men with five hundred people as a brigade and one hundred as a small team, immediately prepare and follow General Fan to lurk here." Luo Ning said in a low voice.
"Yes!" Three thousand people shouted in unison.
"Uncle, I'll take Luo Yuan and Qian'er to the front to explore the way." Luo Ning turned around and said to Fan He.
"Let's let Qian'er take care of things in the rear, and I'll follow you in." Fan He said on the side.
"It's okay, Qian'er, you take care of everyone, and you must find a place to camp quickly, and let Ling'er inform me." Luo Ning whistled, and the snow-white animal suddenly rushed into Luo Ning's arms.
"Ling'er, are you fat? Follow Qian'er well, and come to my sister in a while! Luo Ning doted on Ling'er's furry little head.
"Thunder!" Ling'er naughtily hit Hacha.
"This is your pet!" Fan Gao felt that there were more and more secrets on his niece, and the skills that Luo Ning had shown these days had surprised Fan Gao, but Fan Gao never thought that there was such a cute little Linghu next to Luo Ning, no wonder Luo Ning was able to predict the danger many times, it turned out that there was such a small bodyguard.
As soon as Ling'er heard Fan Gao say that he was a pet. The little nose snorted dissatisfiedly, and the little head immediately turned to the side and ignored Fan Gao again.
Fan Gao was stunned for a moment, this little animal is too humane.
"It's not my pet, it's part of our family!" Luo Ning smiled and touched Ling'er's little head, and after Ling'er heard Luo Ning praise herself like this, her little head happily rubbed Luo Ning's palm.
"Qian'er, take good care of Ling'er!" Luo Ning handed Ling'er's hands to Qian'er.
"Yes, Miss!" Qian'er hurriedly hugged Ling'er in her arms.
"Let's go!" Luo Ning nodded with satisfaction, then nodded at Fan Gao, and disappeared into the vast grassland with Fan He and Luo Yuan.
"Let's go too!" Fan Gao also led the people to quickly march to a more secret place on the side, after all, they are now alone behind the enemy, and if they accidentally leak the news, they will be dumpled by the enemy.
Therefore, Fan Gao ordered people to find a camp on the one hand, and on the other hand, he ordered people to eliminate the traces of the army's march as much as possible.
"Eldest sister, our current situation is not good!" Luo Yuan and Luo Ning lay on the slope of the mountain and looked at the fortifications below, the crescent-like lakeside tightly surrounded the military camp of the Western Barbarians, the grain and grass fell high, there were even children and women laughing around, the men were looking around, this place should be the throat of supply, just behind this military camp, a winding road stretched into the distance.
"yes, if you don't try to break through this defense, it's all empty talk." Luo Ning couldn't help but sigh, but if he passed through this line of defense strongly, his back would be completely exposed to the Western Barbarians, and if the prince didn't cooperate, then their situation would be precarious.
And whether the prince will cooperate or not is probably able to figure it out with his toenails.
"Let's go back first, and then think about it in the long run." Fan He remembered the terrain around him, and then said in a low voice with Luo Ning.
Luo Ning thought about it, and now there is no other way, so she has to retreat first.
"How, what are you observing?" After walking not far, Luo Ning's Ling'er came out to pick them up, so they quickly returned to the base camp.
"It's hard!" Luo Ning said with a slight frown.
"Although we were able to get out of this vast mountain smoothly, the current environment is even more dangerous." Luo Ning said with a frown.
"Why don't we forcibly snatch the grain and grass? That can be regarded as a message to the prince, no matter what the prince says, he also hopes to destroy the Western Barbarians! Fan He frowned and said.
"It's hard to say, high-level games, what is in their hearts, but we can't guess." Fan Lei said on the side.
"Second brother, do you have any good ideas?" Luo Ning's gaze fell on Fan Lei's body.
"This, if I say it, don't blame me for being rebellious." Fan Lei hesitated for a moment but still spoke.
"What a big rebellion, when did you kid do this now?" Fan Gao frowned slightly, and slapped Fan Lei's head.
"Then I'll leave it at that." Seeing that Fan Gao was angry, Fan Lei hurriedly said.
"Speak quickly!" The Fan family's father and son and Luo Ning's sister and brother were also a little anxious.
"My cousin is a bystander, in fact, I wanted to say at that time, the prince asked us to die, why should we go to die?" Fan Lei said seriously.
"Yes, I fainted, why did we go to die!" Luo Ning suddenly realized that when he was leaving, he arranged for the Fan family's family to leave the capital as soon as possible, which was actually already preparing a way out for himself, but now he wanted to go to his own death.
"That's it, let's take this pass first, I will lead a team of three hundred people to cross the Xiban region, and the others will let the eldest brother and the second brother carry enough food and go back according to the route we interspersed, this route, we have already gone through, presumably there will be no problem going back." Luo Ning said.
"Yes, it happened that on the way we came, I found a big mountain, that place can be attacked and defended, we will put the remaining 2,700 people in a position there, and the grain and grass we have robbed are enough for us to maintain for a period of time, and then we take advantage of our familiarity with the terrain in the mountains, on the one hand, rob the grain and grass of the Ximan, and on the other hand, rob the grain and grass of Yunguo, so that the grass has fallen into the grass, and we have also left a retreat for ourselves." Fan Lei added on the side.
"But what about the supplies?" Luo Ning's brows furrowed slightly.
"You don't have to worry about this, we have weapons, we can hunt on one side, and on the other hand, we can explore the way out according to the form of that mountain, not only to replenish the items we need, but also to sell the mountain treasures." Fan Gao said on the side.
"Then it's decided, the eldest brother, the second brother and the third brother will transfer with Qian'er, and my uncle and I will take three hundred people to intersperse." Luo Ning said a word.
"I think it's okay to let the eldest brother and the second brother take Qian'er, and I'll follow my father's side." Fan He thought for a while.
Luo Ning actually wanted Fan He to stay, but there must be someone on the mountain who knows medical skills, and the people who know medical skills here know more or less than Qian'er, so Qian'er must follow the people of the Fan family to transfer. These days, Luo Ning can see that Fan He already has a good impression of Qian'er, so he has such an arrangement.
"Qian'er, what do you say?" Luo Ning's eyes fell on Qian'er.
"I listen to Miss!" Qian'er's face turned red all of a sudden.
"Okay, then let's arrange it like this!" Luo Ning acquiesced to Fan He's adjustment, the emotional matter is a matter of two people, as the person next to him, he may be able to push it gently, but it is too much, and the most important thing is that the two people will come naturally.
Therefore, Luo Ning directly affirmed the adjustment that Fan He said, after all, according to the current situation, Fan He's adjustment is the most powerful choice.
After a night's rest, Luo Ning led the army to quietly lurk next to the Xiban army, and the Xiban area was full of lofty mountains, so Luo Ning's actions with the army could be said to be unaware.
"Overseer, how should we attack?" Fan He came to Luo Ning's front and asked in a low voice, although they are above the Western Barbarian Army, but if they want to really capture the obstacle, it is a very difficult thing, in front of them is a crooked Crescent Lake, if you want to attack this obstacle, you must cross this Crescent Lake, but as long as the army is once in the river, it is equivalent to being completely exposed to the eyes of the Western Barbarians, and there will definitely be very few people who can rush through it at that time.
"This place can only be outwitted, not stormed!" Fan Gao said with a frown.
"Alas, it seems that it can only damage some yin virtue." Luo Ning frowned slightly, the form of this place reminded Luo Ning of the most famous battle in the Three Kingdoms period, if it weren't for the heavy rain from the sky, then the three thousand vine armor army would be burned clean by Zhuge Liang.
"Damage to Yin Virtue?" Fan Gao and his son looked at Luo Ning in surprise.
"We are now dwelling on this mountain, and we have ordered all the men to bury pots and cook food, and we will prepare to attack the pass tomorrow." Luo Ning frowned slightly.
"Bury the pot and make rice? Didn't that let Xiban know our whereabouts? Fan Xiang frowned and said, he couldn't figure out which one Luo Ning was playing in his head.
"We don't have any secrets at all now, the Western Barbarians know it!" Luo Ning smiled, "Maybe it will be more powerful for us to let the enemy know our whereabouts." Luo Ning muttered to herself.
"Yes!" Luo Ning has already given the order, and although Fan Xiang can't understand it as a soldier, he also executes it to the letter.
For a while, the smell of food came from the smoke of the cooking, and it seemed that there were still people talking and laughing.
"General, you see that the mountain opposite us has smoke." Next to the shore of the Crescent Lake, a Western Barbarian soldier is like a general of the Western Barbarians.
"Smoke?" The general hurriedly followed the direction pointed by the soldiers, and sure enough, a puff of black smoke revealed from the mountain, and a flock of small birds fluttered and flew in the trees.
"Sure enough, there was movement on the other side." The Xiban general smiled. "Some time ago, I got the news that Yunguo sent a team across Dilong Mountain to copy our rear, and after so long there was no movement, I thought that the team had fed the beasts of Dilong Mountain, but I didn't expect it to be alive, and it also touched our noses, but that group of people really didn't even have a little common sense, the smoke was shining, the birds were startled, and they had already told us about their arrival." General Xiban said disdainfully.
"Order all the soldiers to be on duty, I think they will quietly cross the shore of Crescent Lake tonight, and we will let them have a good meal then." General Xiban laughed.