Cypress Boat Floating

It was a quiet night, except for the strong wind in the second half of the night, everything was fine.

Ye Jianqing took a short rest in the second half of the night, but Arnold stayed up all night. It was obvious that he had not slept all night, but his face looked more energetic than those young people who had rested all night.

Their mission today is heavier, and they need to go a little further forward to spy and see which place is most suitable as a breakthrough point for escorting the army.

After Ye Jianqing assigned them tasks, he took the two of them away.

One of these two people is Su Yuan, who is good at thinking but has average fighting skills. Su Yuan has a quick mind and can roughly understand what Ye Jianqing says after listening to it once. He will often come to Ye Jianqing to review afterwards. Ye Jianqing likes such studious people very much, so he always keeps him by his side and intends to train him to be a new elite team captain and teach him these tactics.

The other one was still a child, only 16 years old. His grandparents and mother all died in the war. His father took him to flee to Liaocheng. The journey made his father seriously ill, and he finally died after arriving in Liaocheng.

At home, everyone called him "Little Tree" and hoped that he would grow up like a leaf. He had no surname. After his father passed away, he could not survive alone. Fortunately, he met Qian Hongzhen, who took pity on him and took him to his camp to be a soldier. He also gave him a name, Qian Shu.

Qian Shu is a lively and optimistic person, a good boy, and very hardworking on weekdays. When he saw Qian Hongzhen was going to lead people to Beiguan to fight, he was the first one to sign up and ask to join in.

The two people led by Ye Jianqing were both smart. Her main purpose was to train the next team leader. She did not hide anything during the exploration. Whenever she saw a situation, she analyzed and explained it to them, trying to make them understand in the simplest words.

This time when they went out to explore, they gave up their horses and chose to disguise themselves and walk. They didn't carry anything with them, just some dry food and weapons. They focused on simplicity, convenience and speed.

On the first day, they quietly advanced five miles and reached the camp of the Desert Army in the west. There were about a hundred people in the camp, but they had no weapons.

On the second day, they quietly advanced two miles and found the camps of the Desert Army to the north and east. There were more than a hundred tents in the north. If there were five to six people living in one tent, there should be about five or six hundred people. But Ye Jianqing had paid special attention to some of the tents. There were only guards there and no one going in or out. Therefore, it can be inferred that those tents contained either weapons or food, and there should be no one inside. In this way, there were about two hundred people in the north.

There are so many guards on the east side that it is impossible to detect the situation inside. This place is directly opposite the gate of Beiguan City. This is the base camp of the Desert Army, so there is a high probability that food and grass are hidden here.

Then, the weapons are hidden in the north.

On the third day, the Desert Army was ready to take action and began to convene the leaders of the three armies for discussions. Ye Jianqing, who was hiding in the dark, was also about to take action.

The Desert Army had just launched an offensive on Beiguan City the day before their arrival. The offensive was fierce and the Flame Army suffered heavy casualties, but the Desert Army also suffered serious casualties, so the two sides spontaneously ceased fighting for a few days.

At that time, Ye Jianqing thought that the Desert Army would not let go of the Flame Army so quickly, so on the second night, after figuring out all the areas, she secretly took eleven people to hide in the west with the Desert Army. They were closest to the west and had the fewest people here, making it very suitable for a breakout.

She didn't know the general on the west. He was a burly man with thick eyebrows, big eyes, a full beard, and a not very tall body, but his lower body was very stable. Ye Jianqing weighed the fighting power of both sides and found that she might not be able to beat the opponent, so she decisively gave up the decapitation operation.

When the commander went to the Desert Army headquarters for a meeting, Ye Jianqing took this opportunity to secretly prepare with the remaining eleven people to eliminate the people of the western army.

Their team is small, with only twelve people. If they want to win, they must concentrate their forces. If they face an enemy with numerical superiority, they can first disperse the enemy, besiege the enemy's forced dispersed troops, and then break through the enemy's defense lines one by one.

The Desert Army wanted to capture the tough Beiguan City before Qian Hongzhen's troops arrived, but Ye Jianqing didn't want them to do so. Therefore, she had to delay the time. Only when Qian Hongzhen arrived, reinforcements, food, and marshals arrived, the gods returned, and the flames returned, could she truly defeat the Desert Army and drive them back to their desert.

As the sky darkened, bonfires were lit in the military tents in the desert, and the weather gradually began to cool down. This is how it is in the desert, with a large temperature difference at night.

Ye Jianqing had modified everyone's clothes a few days ago so that they could blend perfectly into the desert. Ye Jianqing also led people to dig a channel in the place where they were hiding.

There was no general in the western camp at that time, so Ye Jianqing asked Arnold to take some people to lure a few desert soldiers here, kill them, change their clothes, and bury the bodies directly in the sand.

It would be too suspicious if all twelve people went, so Ye Jianqing only arranged a few people, including herself, Arnold, Wang Peng and another person with better martial arts skills, to ensure that they could escape from the camp.

The four men pretended to be the Desert Army and infiltrated the army. Arnold would carry out a decapitation operation when necessary. If it succeeded, that would be the best. If not, he would retreat and not force it.

The rest of us will have to break up the army tomorrow, split it up, lure the enemy to their hiding places, and destroy them.

This is Ye Jianqing’s plan.

Everything went smoothly. Led by Arnold, several smaller men in the camp successfully lured a few people in without anyone noticing. As soon as these people entered the area, they were stabbed in the throat by the people waiting here.

Several people quietly stripped the clothes off the body and buried it in the sand.

These children who came with Ye Jianqing had basically never fought head-on on a battlefield, nor had they seen blood or dead bodies. Ye Jianqing and Arnold had expressionless faces as they raised their swords and slashed. However, after the children who were assigned the task of killing started to act, their faces turned pale and they kept retching.

The faces of the others were not much better. Those who were assigned to stay here thought that they would have to stay with the corpse for a night, and their faces turned pale. But Ye Jianqing was fine and his face was normal. They were very competitive and did not want to lose face, so they endured it.

Seeing everyone like this, Ye Jianqing, who had just changed his clothes, smiled jokingly: "You can't stand this?"

Before anyone could answer, she spoke again, "You can't stand this, then you should go back as soon as possible and don't come here. The battlefield is not a place for you to play games. You can't even stand sleeping with a corpse for one night. Your hands shake like a sieve when you see blood. Let alone killing someone, you can't even kill a chicken. If we hadn't reacted quickly just now, what could you kill with your sword skills? You can't even hurt the enemy's skin."

Ye Jianqing sneered twice. The child who had just killed someone didn't dare to do it again and was almost killed in return. It was Ye Jianqing who acted in time. A flying knife flew through the back of the enemy's head. The blood mixed with brain matter sprayed directly onto the child's face. The child was stunned on the spot.

"One or two, what do you think a battlefield is? This is the place closest to death, and it is where you need to shoulder the responsibility. I don't care what your purpose is here, but now that you are here, you should know what your responsibilities are and what you have to do. I give you one night to overcome it. If you can't overcome it, then go back."

After saying that, Ye Jianqing didn't care about the expressions of the remaining children, and took Arnold and the other two and sneaked into the army.

Among them, Ye Jianqing was the thinnest, but she relied on her aura and some items to make herself look strong, and her delicate face was hidden under the black soil.

Ye Jianqing stood behind Arnold and looked inside the military camp.

It must be said that the desert people, perhaps because of the geographical environment, all look extremely barbaric. They sit by the campfire, drinking and chatting loudly. The cold night does not seem to matter to them, as they can withstand the cold by themselves.

There were still knife marks on his old armor, and some of the exposed cloth clothes were patched. The boots on his feet were also worn into one piece. If he exerted more force, the soles would probably break.

Ye Jianqing frowned slightly, always feeling that this desert army in the west was a bit poor. They ate dry and hard naan bread, which they washed down with hot water, but they seemed to have gotten used to it.

"Alas, when will this war end?" Someone had a bitter look on his face and sipped the hot water in the bowl, but this did not seem to ease his mood.

"All we have to do is take down Beiguan City." Someone comforted him.

"But can we really defeat the Flame Army?" The man seemed a little pessimistic.

At this time, a strong man beside him slapped the man on the back. Ye Jianqing felt the pain just by looking at the slap, but the other party didn't seem to feel anything. The strong man said, "The Flame Army has been beaten by us these past few days and they dare not leave the city gate. They are just a bunch of cowards. What are we afraid of? Hahahaha."

The four of them passed by these people without saying anything. Ye Jianqing could feel that the two children behind him seemed to be in a bad mood. When they walked to a deserted place, he glared at them and asked them to suppress their emotions.