Chapter 1320 - 322: Chosen Ones_6

Chapter 1320: Chapter 322: Chosen Ones_6

"General Chi, your noble spirit is truly admirable. I am impressed."

"Not at all, not at all. In fact, Brother Jing, you didn’t need to make this special trip. These days, the Yan scouts are rampant, it’s quite dangerous."

"If I should come, I must come. In the military, I’m in the business of running errands, isn’t that right? Haha."

The Jing Family focuses on cultural and educational matters in Chu, and doesn’t actually have much influence in the military. This time, under the mobilization of the Regent, the Jing Family didn’t produce any organized private soldiers, but contributed many slaves as laborers.

Jing Renli walking this path in the military still had to rely on himself mostly.

At this moment, the sound of rain came from outside the military tent.

Chi Mingyi lifted the curtain and went out with Jing Renli.

Jing Renli smiled and said, "This rain isn’t small, is it?"

Chi Mingyi sighed, "It seems that the Yan will not come these days; their horse hooves will sink into the mud, unable to advance or retreat."

"That’s right."

"So, I’ve always thought, even if the Yan break through Town South Pass, their warhorses falling into our Chu marshlands could never be as majestic as they are in the Jin land."

"This is something, good to say to me, but don’t let outsiders hear. Town South Pass must not be lost."

"I know, I know."

Jing Renli looked to the west and found two trebuchets parked there, and couldn’t help but laugh, "Why do you still have these here, General Chi?"

Under normal circumstances, trebuchets would not be set up in military camps.

"Originally, I was to transport these to the West Fortress, but they broke down midway, so the craftsmen left them here to repair. Coincidentally, the Yan doubled their scouting, planning to let West Fortress come pick them up, as I’m too lazy to bother with it."

"Haha, I’ve heard that the Yan’s Lord Pingye seems skilled in mechanical arts too; they used this when the wild people attacked the city in the past."

"The Yan’s mechanical arts are just superficial, not worth much."

"Indeed."

"Oh, right, someone come."

"General."

"Didn’t someone report Yan scouts were spotted on the east side earlier, are they gone?"

"To answer General, not yet. Vice General Xu is still awaiting your instruction on whether to send a cavalry unit to drive them out."

"Why deal with those flies, just a waste of effort." Saying this, Chi Mingyi pointed at the trebuchet, "Call the craftsmen here, let’s give me and Brother Jing a sight to see."

Jing Renli said, "General Chi, isn’t this inappropriate?"

"What’s inappropriate about it? In the end, it’s just for fun. This thing here is a waste of space, it’s useless in an actual battle."

The defenses of the camp lack depth; when the enemy charges, the trebuchet’s range would be awkward; forcibly launching it might help the enemy break into the camp.

Jing Renli then eased into a retreat, saying, "Can it even hit?"

"Unless those Yan scouts are truly unlucky, it’s unlikely to hit, but it might scare them a bit, haha."

......

"Really going to fill the earth and attack the camp?"

Lord Zheng was still wrestling with this issue.

Although it is commonly said to block soldiers with generals and water with earth,

But using such a primitive method always gives Lord Zheng a feeling of being teased.

"My lord, just use this method, no need to fill completely, just create a spot for the warhorses to speed up and charge."

"Fine, if you think it works, then go ahead."

"My lord, there’s some movement in the military camp." A Ming pointed ahead and said.

Indeed, there was movement; the place where Lord Zheng and his party were was halfway up a hillside, granting them a somewhat higher vantage, allowing them a fairly clear view of the camp’s situation.

"What are the Chu doing, setting up a trebuchet?" A Ming said, "Looks like they still want to hit us."

This is like using a cannon to swat mosquitoes.

Even a fine trebuchet would at best not hit the city interior by accident when aiming at walls, nor the walls when aiming at the interior; landing a precision strike on a small group at long distance is a dream.

Liang Cheng also spoke, "If this can hit us, it’d be a supernatural occurrence..."

Lord Zheng immediately glared at Liang Cheng, pointed to him and A Ming, and said:

"Do you two not know what you are?"

With that,

Lord Zheng immediately waved his hand, ordering:

"Retreat!"

After speaking,

Lord Zheng was the first to spur his horse into action, with his men quickly following.

All along,

Lord Zheng had little confidence in his battlefield fortune, a fact evidenced by the number of arrow wounds on A Ming after each battle.

A large portion of the arrows embedded in A Ming were the ones he blocked for Lord Zheng.

Whether such a battlefield-chosen one, untouched by a thousand battles, existed, Lord Zheng believes so; but unfortunately, he was not one of them.

It’s not that he wanted an excuse, but reality told him that the god of fate not only didn’t favor him, but also quite enjoyed watching him "fall suddenly."

"Buzz!"

The trebuchet in Yangshan Village was launched.

A huge stone was hurled into the sky, describing a parabolic arc before crashing downward.

Lord Zheng was at the forefront,

with his guards looking up at the sky,

followed by A Ming and Liang Cheng looking up,

seeing the massive stone fly overhead, heading straight for their far-ahead lord.

The mounted Sword Saint was so exasperated he laughed,