12dz Chapter 145 Treason
Chapter 145 Treason
After King Hu retreated to Yucheng, he guarded the city gates and refused to leave.
For the entire day, Lu He and his men remained stationed outside Yancheng and did not pursue the enemy.
The reason was to take stock of battle losses.
That's why I have to say this Morgan is something else.
Lu He stared at the punctured tires of several SUVs and fell into deep thought.
"That Morgan was an excellent marksman, and his strength was as great as an ox. His strength was probably almost comparable to that of Lord Liao Chen." Gao Kuang still felt lingering fear when he thought about it. On the battlefield, he was sitting in an off-road vehicle and saw Morgan riding a brown horse nimbly maneuvering around the vehicle several times. He tried to stab the vehicle several times but couldn't penetrate the tires. He quickly discovered that the tires were soft, so he spurred his horse and punctured the tires of four or five vehicles.
His reaction was incredibly swift; even in a situation he had never witnessed before, he was still able to quickly determine the best course of action.
“Morgan is quite a character,” Lu He pondered. Could he have modified the spurs to block off-road vehicles? If the tires were blocked, the off-road vehicles would be unable to move. “He’s probably already figured out a way to deal with us…”
Ah! System, is it really impossible to exchange for tanks and rifles?
System: No, you can unlock it when you enter the military comics section. Your cheat code is ridiculously overpowered, don't be ungrateful…
"Alright, alright, I'll think of something else." Lu He stroked his chin. "Or, how about we convert them all to excavators? Excavators don't have tires for me to puncture."
Lu He went to check the excavators again and found that the chain of one of the excavators had been jammed by something, with a gap mark. Wow, it seems someone really did try to pry open the excavator's base.
"Where is the driver of this vehicle?" Lu He asked.
A young boy of about twelve or thirteen years old ran over, wearing cloth armor that was larger than his own size. "General, this is the one I'm riding."
They were used to using "riding" to describe driving a vehicle, and Lu He got used to it too.
What's the story behind this mark?
"Reporting to the General, there are spearmen, but their spears are broken, while the excavators are fine!" Oh right, they also like to call excavators "big claws" and off-road vehicles "big boxes."
This is not a good idea. A single spear can be broken, but what if dozens of them are pried in at the same time? Lu He narrowed his eyes.
Inside Yucheng, King Hu was so angry that he smashed things everywhere, which was quite similar to Li Yun. They were both irritable and liked to smash things.
"Your Highness, please don't be anxious, you'll only hurt yourself..." Zhu Yong advised from the side.
"Your Highness, I have a way to deal with those monsters!" Morgan said. "I've tried it. The bottom of that large black iron box is its weak point. We can stab it with a spear and cut off its legs. The giant yellow claws are incredibly hard. Although they have no weak points, if our army can use dozens of spears to pierce their lower ends and pry them off, we can stop their movement and restrain them. Moreover, I've observed that they are using mechanical arts. Every mechanical art has a way to be broken. They also need soldiers to operate them. We just need to restrain those mechanisms and then capture the soldiers inside to disable these mechanical arts."
"Oh? There's a solution? Excellent, excellent!" King Hu's eyes lit up, and he became happy again.
“Mogan, I’m worried things aren’t that simple. We’ve only seen these, but we don’t know how many traps they’ve hidden, or if they have any more surprises.” Zhu Yong was cautious, and he was certain that Lu He hadn’t used all his trump cards.
“That’s true, so shall we just stay here and not come out?” King Hu asked tentatively. “But simply staying here and not coming out isn’t a solution either…”
"Your Majesty, I am willing to go to Tongchi to borrow troops. I hope Your Highness and General Mo will abandon Yucheng, leaving only 50,000 troops to defend the city and delay the enemy, while the rest will retreat to Chucheng and await my arrival with reinforcements." Zhu Yong had already decided to borrow 800,000 troops from Tongchi. Long before the uprising, Zhu Yong had suggested borrowing another 500,000 troops from Tongchi to ensure everything went smoothly, but at that time, King Hu still had Mo Gan's misplaced confidence and was overconfident, and besides, he was unwilling to agree to cede a city to Tongchi as a token of gratitude.
Moreover, if Xi Kingdom were to borrow troops from Tongchi Kingdom and cede another city to them, it would be accused of treason, since Tongchi had always been an enemy of Xi Kingdom. But now King Hu was in a bind. Once the rebellion began, he could only fight to win and couldn't worry about anything else. He had no way back. Besides, it was a matter of the victor taking all; whether he had colluded with the enemy or not was up to him to decide, as long as he could seize the throne.
Anyway, he was ambitious and never intended to return the throne to any of the princes from the beginning.
This time, Hu Wang and Mo Gan fully adopted Zhu Yong's suggestion. Zhu Yong's borrowing of troops and subsequent reinforcements would likely take several dozen days, which was indeed the best way to delay the situation at present.
However, no matter how clever Zhu Yong was, he couldn't guess that there were eyes in the sky. No matter how they arranged their troops, the number of soldiers and generals in the city would be known at a glance by aerial drones, and they could not deceive the enemy.
Last time they only noticed the birds running on the ground, never paying attention to the birds flying in the sky. How could they have imagined that the birds in the sky weren't birds?