Chapter XVII. Pre-War Planning

Wu Wei pondered Li Fan's words just now while walking, and after thinking for a while, he still couldn't figure it out, so he asked: "Brother Fan, I am also a veteran who has fought with the Pakang tribe for several years, and I know a little bit about military affairs, but after thinking about it for a long time just now, I still feel that there is no hope of winning at all, what can you do?"

Li Fan smiled and said, "The secret of heaven must not be revealed!" After speaking, he changed the topic and asked Wu Wei some things about the various tribes of the Greenstone Country.

Towards evening, except for Wu Wei, the other people sent out to find Li Fan returned to the village.

Seeing that they didn't find Li Fan, Chen Meili sat on the stone on the side of the road and cried.

Tanya heard that they heard a few gunshots, and also saw someone kill several militia leaders of the Hpakant tribe with a sniper rifle, and guessed that the sniper was probably Li Fan, because he was carrying a sniper rifle, so he comforted Chen Meili and asked her to wait a little longer, Li Fan must still be alive.

After listening to Danya's analysis, Chen Meili also felt that there was some truth, stopped crying, and looked at the path in front of the village with teary eyes.

Sure enough, before the last few rays of sunlight were about to disappear, three figures appeared on the path in the distance, Chen Meili looked at it with a telescope, it was Li Fan and the three of them, and she hurriedly ran back to the village and told Danya excitedly.

Although Tanya deployed in the village to meet the enemy, she was always worried about the wise and tall man who saved her.

The "close contact" with Li Fan on the second floor of the farm also made some subtle changes in Danya's heart, after all, she is the princess of the dignified Longken tribe, although she is the only one left in the family, but the people of the tribe still support her very much, and no man has ever approached her closely, let alone skin contact.

The people of the Pakang tribe did not insult her because they wanted to use her to threaten the Longken tribe, and they also specially sent female soldiers to take care of her, and when they heard Chen Meili running to tell them that they had seen Li Fan, they immediately picked her up and ran to the entrance of the village, and their hands with binoculars trembled excitedly.

Under the eager eyes of the two women, Li Fan and his party came to the entrance of the village, Danya stood shyly next to the big stone, and was about to say something, Chen Meili had already jumped up and hugged Li Fan's neck and cried.

Li Fan felt Chen Meimei's heartbeat, looked at Danya's concerned eyes, and knew in his heart that these two women were sincere to him, and said softly: "Am I fine, don't worry, there are important things to do!"

As soon as Li Fan reminded her, Danya immediately came back to her senses and asked, "By the way, haven't you encountered the vanguard of the Hpakant tribe all the way?"

Li Fan looked at Chen Meili, who had already loosened his neck, and turned around and said: "Their vanguard was killed by me with a sniper rifle and several leaders were evacuated to the mountain col, let's go to the village first, find a place to discuss it!"

Danya and several militia leaders in the village nodded when they heard this, and took Li Fan and them to the ancestral hall in the village.

Danya ordered a few reliable militiamen to guard around the ancestral hall, and seeing that Wu Wei was still following Li Fan's side, she thought for a moment and motioned for him to leave as well.

Li Fan interrupted Danya, grabbed Wu Wei and said, "Brother Wu Wei is trustworthy, and he won't reveal a little about the situation in the village if he is about to be killed!"

When several militia leaders in the village heard this, they immediately changed their attitude towards Wu Wei, and Danya also nodded to him and said, "Wu Wei is doing well, stay and study the battle situation together!" After speaking, he began to introduce the latest situation.

Li Fan looked at the people present, in addition to himself, Chen Meili, Lu Zhong, Danya, and Wu Wei, there were also seven militia leaders in the village, and while listening to Danya's introduction to the situation, he pondered.

After a while, after Tanya introduced the situation, the militia leader began to talk about it, Chen Meili had received some military training, and she also said a few words from time to time, Lu Zhong did not say anything, and listened carefully on the side, while Li Fan did not say a word.

Seeing that Li Fan had been thinking without making a sound, Danya asked, "Li Fan, you have a lot of ways, let's talk about it!"

Li Fan looked at the people present and said:

"I have a solution, I don't know if it's going to work. You just said that there are monsters in the fog area in the south, and no one dares to enter it, and the mountains in the north are relatively steep, and ordinary people can't climb over them, so they don't need to be careful. We think so, and the Hpakant tribe probably thinks so too, can we make a surprise attack, send some good climbers over the mountains, lay in ambush, and when they attack the village at noon tomorrow, we can sneak up on them from their rear?"

When Lu Zhong heard Li Fan say this, he was a little puzzled in his heart, and was about to ask, but was stopped by Li Fan with his eyes.

Several militia leaders discussed for a while, and one said: "It's a solution, if there are fewer people, it won't work, if there are more, the positive force of the village will be weakened too much, how many people are appropriate?"

Li Fan thought for a moment and said, "How about 300 people? Find some people with sharp legs!" The people present had another heated discussion, and then they all agreed.

After discussing for a while, everyone went separately to prepare, and after Danya settled Chen Meili and Lu Zhong, she was about to arrange Li Fan, but was called by Li Fan alone to a corner where no one was.

Seeing that Li Fan was mysterious, Danya asked curiously, "What's the matter?"

Li Fan said in a low voice: "At the meeting just now, the suggestion I made was used to lure the enemy!"

When Danya heard this, she was taken aback and said, "What kind of trick is it?"

Li Fan made sure that there was no one around, and said:

"The Hpakant tribe has your inner line, don't you have it in your village? In the middle of the night, you personally pick 300 people, everyone searches them, and they are not allowed to bring communication equipment, after leaving the village, they first walk north towards the mountains, and then quietly enter the fog area south after they are out of sight, tomorrow at noon, we will not sneak attack them from the north, but from the south!"

After listening to it and pondering for a while, Danya asked: "Li Fan, I haven't had time to ask you about the things in the fog area, but you did rescue Lu Zhong, and you will go to the fog area at night, don't you have to worry about the monsters?"

Li Fan said with certainty: "If the monster is so powerful, can Lu Zhong and I come out alive? I will tell you about the things in the fog area when I have time, being able to pass through the fog area is a secret that only you know, and it is also the key to whether this battle can be won, the Hpakant tribe does not know that they can pass through the fog area now, and it is likely that they will be divided into troops to surround the northern mountains according to the intelligence of the inner line, so we have a chance to catch them off guard!"

Danya was very excited after listening to Li Fan's analysis, and said: "Li Fan, you haven't led soldiers to fight, why are you so good at battle methods?"

Li Fan smiled and said: "I like to play Go, the truth is the same, but it's still on paper, Danya, do you think my method is feasible?"

Danya gave a thumbs up and said, "Not only is it feasible, but it's also very clever!" The two discussed the details for a while, and Danya hurried to pick someone.

In the middle of the night, Danya selected 300 people and led the team herself.

As soon as Li Fan heard that Danya was going to lead the team, he left the village with Chen Meili and Lu Zhong and Danya's team.

After the three hundred men had followed the path into the dense forest, Tanya suddenly ordered to go south.

A few of the soldiers didn't understand it, and asked as they walked, "Princess Tanya, aren't you going to climb the mountains to the north?"

Danya replied, "The situation has changed, you just follow me, and you are not allowed to talk on the road!"

Everyone was a militia close to the Danya family, and when they heard Danya say this, they stopped talking, and quietly followed Danya and Li Fan, and came to the periphery of the fog forest when it was close to dawn.

Just when Danya and Li Fan wanted to enter the fog area, the three hundred militiamen hesitated, and the soldiers stopped Li Fan and said, "Princess Danya, you should know about the fog area!

Danya looked back at everyone and said solemnly:

"I know the legends of the Fog Zone, the elders of the family have told me that there are monsters in some parts of the Fog Zone, and there are none, I know which road is safe, and those legends are deliberately spread to scare the Pa Kang tribe, so that they don't dare to attack us through the Fog Zone, do you understand?"

Although the militia were a little skeptical, since Princess Tanya said so, and wanted to go in herself, they all followed the princess into the fog area in the end.

Li Fan instructed the rear not to fall behind as he walked, and then took out the locator and map to lead the way.

More than two hours later, the team passed through the periphery of the fog area and came to the edge of the other side of the fog area that Li Fan expected, and laid down in ambush to rest.

Danya gave Wu Wei a walkie-talkie and asked him to stay in the team to be in charge of commanding, and he and Li Fan quietly came to the outside of the fog area, climbed a giant tree, and took turns using binoculars to observe the situation in the distant woods.

The sky was getting brighter, and various small animals came out to move out of the forest from time to time, and Li Fan used a telescope to nervously observe all kinds of movements in the woods.

Tanya sat on the trunk of a tree next to her, drinking water, and quietly observed the tall and wise man in front of her from the side.

Li Fan seemed to feel Danya's gaze and looked back.

Seeing that Li Fan found out, Danya's face turned red, and she said shyly: "Li Fan, I'm really sorry to involve the three of you in this tribal war." ”

Li Fan turned his head and continued to observe the woods with a telescope, and said: "If you don't want to get involved, the road back to Huanglong Country has been blocked by the people of Pa Kang, and one of the other party's goals is beauty, since you can't hide, then you don't have to hide!"

Danya hesitated for a moment and asked, "If we win this battle by luck, do you ...... Can you stay?"

Li Fan heard Danya ask, turned his head and looked at Danya tenderly and said, "My parents and friends are all over there in Huanglongguo, they must be going back!"

Li Fan's answer was expected by Danya, but she was still a little disappointed in her heart, lowered her head, kept rubbing the binoculars with her hands, and didn't say a word.

Seeing Danya's disappointed expression, Li Fan smiled and said, "Don't be like this, I just said I wanted to go back, I didn't say that I wouldn't come to see you again!"

Danya's eyes lit up, she raised her head to look at Li Fan and asked, "Will you come to see me often?"

Li Fan nodded and said: "Don't worry, Li Fan is a man of words, he won this battle, you first stabilize the situation of the tribe, and I will come to see you in a few months!"

Danya laughed happily, but after a while, she gradually put away her smile and said with a dejected expression: "Even if the Hpakant tribe transfers some of the militia to Beiling, the rest of the people are still several times more than us, can we really win?"

Li Fan said in an affirmative tone:

"There is a saying in the Huanglong Kingdom that 'capture the thief first captures the king', and our 300 people will find the opportunity to attack the artillery team, ammunition supply and command post behind them later, and if we take these, the thousands of militia in front will be chaotic, and the chance of winning is still very large. ”

"Even if it doesn't work, we can drag the other party and let the villagers run farther, we can retreat into the fog area if we can't stand it, they don't dare to chase in!"

After listening to Li Fan's analysis, Danya gained a little more confidence, and the two continued to use binoculars to observe the woods in the distance.

Towards noon, a large number of Hpakant militiamen, most of them armed with advanced submachine guns, slowly came out of the woods in the distance, scattering around the village halfway up the hill in front of them.

Li Fan and Danya did not move, and continued to observe, looking for a suitable fighter.

After another hour or so, three pickup trucks slowly drove through the woods, each with a medium artillery gun towed behind them, found a clearing in the forest, lined up, aimed at the village halfway up the mountain, and began to load shells.

Danya saw the three cannons in the open space, and began to get nervous, and asked Li Fan from time to time if he could attack.

Li Fan comforted her: "Don't worry, the leader of the other party hasn't appeared yet, and he won't fire so quickly, you tell Wu Wei first, let everyone prepare for the attack, and wait for the order!"

Sure enough, the three loaded guns did not move, and the Hpakant militia scattered under the trees to take a dip, as if waiting for someone.

After another half an hour, two pickup trucks carrying several people came to the vicinity of the artillery, followed by two personnel carriers and four ammunition supply vehicles.

More than a hundred militiamen got off the troop carriers and scattered to stand guard near the artillery positions, and several people in civilian clothes got out of the pickup, one of whom had been talking something on a walkie-talkie.

After a while, a dense burst of gunfire was heard from the direction of the village, and the front was opened, and then the Hpakant militia in the open field began to adjust their artillery and prepare to fire at the village.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Li Fan was just about to ask Danya to inform Wu Wei to attack, but he didn't expect an accident to appear, and a masked man wearing black clothes with a sword jumped down from a giant tree next to him and rushed straight to the three artillery carriages.

The nearby militia of Hpakant were taken aback and raised their guns to shoot, but the man in black was extremely fast, swam a few times, raised his sword and killed four or five people, and then actually raised his sword and slashed at a cannon.

Only a muffled sound was heard, and the cannon made of stainless steel was actually split in two by a thin sword.

Seeing this, the Hpakant militia made a mess, and the sound of submachine guns came and went in the woods, and the men in black did not hit them, but they hit many of their own people.

Li Fan and Danya were surprised to observe the subversive scene in the forest with binoculars.

I saw the man in black calmly dodging left and right in the rain of bullets, killing more than a dozen people and then destroying the other two artillery, but it seemed that the target was only artillery, and there was no intention of killing those Pakang leaders.