Chapter 573 (1/2)
Chapter 573: 573
”Hehe… Yellow Gold's face turned red again…” Ling Chi pointed at Ling Seventeen and laughed to the point his body trembled .
”You dog egg…” Ling Seventeen's face wasn't red at the start but turned red from what Ling Chi had said . He then glared at Ling Chi fiercely and waved his fists around .
”Yellow… err, Seventeen, do you have some trouble?” Ling Jian was too used to using Ling Seventeen's nickname and had almost blurted it out without thinking .
”It isn't 'some trouble' at all but it is a huge trouble,” Ling Seventeen said with a depressed look . ”I have never been afraid of death but am afraid that my death wouldn't be sufficient to complete the young n.o.ble's mission . That would be horrible and extremely embarra.s.sing . ”
”Oh,” Ling Jian looked at Ling Seventeen with a smile which didn't seem like a smile . ”There isn't a need for you to rush, young n.o.ble is here already . Let me tell him now that Ling Seventeen does not have the ability to complete this mission . I believe that the young n.o.ble will understand you for sure . ” Ling Jian's voice suddenly turned cold and he turned and walked away .
”Don't don't… don't… brother Jian, ancestor Jian…” Ling Seventeen's burly figure pounced forward and grabbed onto Ling Jian's calves and was dragged by Ling Jian along the ground for a short few feet, ”My dear ancestor, please don't play with me . I will die…”
Ling Tian sat on a smooth rock with a bunch of burly men seated opposite him respectfully .
”Speak, what kind of difficulties do you have?” Ling Tian looked at the ape-like Ling Seventeen in front of him and could not help but be shocked . When he was in the courtyard, Ling Seventeen could already eat more than the others and had a larger built as compared to his peers . In just a short few years, Ling Seventeen had grown horizontally and currently looked like a rectangle . In a couple of years, who knows if he would turn into a square .
Especially his extremely boorish face and his needle-like beard . No one would ever be able to imagine that this boorish man who looked as though he was more than thirty years old was actually less than eighteen! Ling Tian almost suspected that Ling Seventeen had taken steroids .
”Young n.o.ble, this subordinate wants to launch an ambush to capture the surrounding twenty or so lookout stations before sending men to guard the ends of the two roads . The others will then dig up this segment of the road and sister Chen's mission would be complete . ” Ling Seventeen scratched his hair and a handful of dandruff fell off as he said helplessly, ”It is a pity that we do not have enough manpower . ”
”Puchi!” Ling Seventeen was greeted with a face full of water and never expected that his young n.o.ble would spit out his mouthful of water .
Ling Tian had just received the gourd which Ling Chi offered him and drank a mouthful of water but was choked by the words that Ling Seventeen said . ”What did you say? Ambush more than twenty lookout stations? Guard the two ends of the road? Dig the road up??”
Lling Tian stood up and kicked Ling Seventeen's burly shoulders with exasperation . ”Dammit! Without 5000 soldiers at least, it would be impossible to attack more than twenty lookout stations at the same time . On top of that, if you want to guard the two ends of the road, you would need 50,000 soldiers at the very least and even then, you guys may not be able to guard the road! As for digging the road up, while the idea isn't bad… the road is filled with iron and rocks two feet underground . How do you plan to dig it up? You only have a mere thousand soldiers and you actually came up with such a huge plan? I really don't know if I should call you a genius or idiot! If I were to really go with your plan, I might as well bring all of our soldiers over to have a final battle with the Xiao Family . What is the point of talking about disrupting their resupply route? To think that you really came up with such a plan . ”
”Hehehe… yellow gold is truly pigheaded!” Ling Chi gloated by the side .
After being sent rolling by Ling Tian, Ling Seventeen stood up foolishly with a few leaves stuck onto his bird nest like hair . He then blinked his eyes with doubt and asked, ”Err… sister Chen was the one who said that… we need to destroy the resupply route . If we don't dig up the road, how should we destroy it?”
”Haiz!” Ling Tian let out a long sigh and had the urge to bang his head on the rock . He was truly playing music to a bull .
”Pig! Do you really need to touch the road to destroy the resupply route?” Ling Jian let out a flurry of fists, hating the fact that Ling Seventeen had truly thrown his face . ”Setting fire to burn it is destroying the resupply route . Killing them all is also destroying the resupply route . Dammit, even if you guys infiltrate the Xiao Residence to kill them all cleanly, it would still be destroying the resupply route! Do you understand?!”
Ling Seventeen used one hand to cover his face and the other to guard his two important parts, implementing the battle philosophy which Ling Tian had taught him back then, ”Cover his face, hug his b.a.l.l.s and allow the other party to punch and kick as they like!” His body began shaking from left to right as he begged for mercy, ”Brother Jian… I will pick some soldiers to infiltrate the Xiao Residence to kill…”
”F**k!” Ling Tian was completely speechless!
The saying of 'a disciple truly takes after his master' was truly right . Ling Jian's idea was truly completely rotten and wasn't any much better than Ling Seventeen's plan of guarding the ends of the road and digging up the road! To think that he would have a look of righteousness on his face, scolding his subordinate for being a pig . In actual fact, he wasn't any much better than Ling Seventeen .
Kill everyone? If they really killed everyone, what was the point of destroying the resupply route? Wasn't this akin to taking off his pants to fart?!
A few hundred thousand soldiers, even if they stood still and allowed you to kill them, you would require a few months to complete the task!
”Stop fooling around! All of you are a bunch of pig heads! Pot calling the kettle black!” Ling Tian grunted, ”Show me the map of the surrounding area!”
It seems like I will still have to rely on myself . Ling Tian sighed helplessly . It was completely nonsensical to rely on a bandit and a.s.sa.s.sin to destroy a military resupply route! Just what was Meng LiGe thinking about? You have to know, every occupation has a specialty…
Seeing Ling Jian finally stopping his attack, Ling Seventeen carefully removed his hands from his head and crotch . To the thick-skinned Ling Seventeen, this round of beating was truly nothing much . Turning around and seeing his subordinates look at him in a daze, he immediately flew into a rage, ”Didn't you guys hear that young n.o.ble wants the map? Aren't all of you b*st*rds going to fetch the map? A bunch of pig heads without any reaction! Are you guys going to wait for my whip to teach you guys a lesson?”
With a loud bang, the bandits scattered like the birds and hurriedly ran to fetch the map…
Ling Tian frowned and let out a sigh . In order to fetch a map which was a mere few grams, more than a hundred people were required to fetch it…
Ling Seventeen turned around in embarra.s.sment and scratched his head foolishly, ”Young n.o.ble please don't be anxious… err, the children are going to fetch the map and it would arrive soon . Hehehe… these fellows are a little slow… it isn't much, I only need to give them a good beating…”
Ling Tian looked at the bushy face in front of him and was speechless . At the same time, he felt his stomach churning in disgust before sighing and saying weakly, ”Seventeen, I finally understand why you unloaded the yellow gold into your pants back then and also completely understand Ling Jian's mood when training you . It isn't easy . ”
Ling Seventeen was dumbfounded with his jaws down in shock . He completely could not understand how this matter was related to his embarra.s.sing past . Besides that, what has this got to do with his boss Ling Jian? What wasn't easy for Ling Jian? Their young n.o.ble's words were truly deep and profound and he was truly a well-learned individual .
Feng Mo, Ling Jian, and Ling Chi looked at the dumbfounded Ling Seventeen and their faces contorted from holding in their laughter .
The sound of footsteps broke Ling Seventeen's doubt and s.n.a.t.c.hed the map from the hands of his subordinate . He then turned around and presented the map with both his arms raised as though he was presenting a treasure to the king, ”Young n.o.ble, hehe, the map is here . ”
”Sssss…” In a moment of anxiousness, a large hole was torn in the fragile map and Ling Tian who witnessed it was about to blow up .
”Scram to the side!” Ling Jian kicked Ling Seventeen in the a.s.s and cursed .
Ling Seventeen held onto his a.s.s and stood by the side shamelessly . At the same time, he winked at Ling Chi, ”Hehe, dog egg, hehe…”
Ling Chi rolled his eyes and looked to the side . Facing a shameless person like Ling Seventeen, Ling Chi was truly helpless . Of course, there also wasn't a need for him to flare up at Ling Seventeen as flaring up at Ling Seventeen was just a waste of effort . Even if you went completely bonkers from anger, Ling Seventeen wouldn't understand why you were angry .
Ling Tian frowned and looked at the gigantic map carefully . After considering for a long time, he finally made up his mind and pointed to the map, ”It shall be here!” He then revealed a helpless smile . Ling Jian could clearly feel that there was a dense feeling of pity in Ling Tian's eyes and he could not help but be stunned . Why? Why would Ling Tian be acting in such a manner?
Looking at where Ling Tian's finger was pointing at, Ling Jian saw a large lake on the map with a blue stream beneath it . Following along the stream, Ling Jian noticed that it was surrounded by two tall peaks by the side with a large road in the center . Following that, there was a st.u.r.dy looking castle and it was the number one perilous location of the southeast, the Heavenly Water Ravine Pa.s.s! This was also the Xiao Family's natural barrier towards invaders!
After going through the Heavenly Water Ravine Pa.s.s, they would be greeted with three thousand miles of fertile land and that was where the true territory of the Xiao Family was . It was also the reason why no other power was able to infiltrate into the Xiao Family's territory for the past 500 years!
Regardless of whether the Xiao Family wanted to send out armies or the outside world wanted to invade them, it was necessary to pa.s.s through the Heavenly Water Ravine Pa.s.sing and there wasn't a second path! The mountains which spanned across a couple of thousand miles and the precipitously steep slopes that were high up in the clouds made it impossible for any army to surmount it!
This Heavenly Water Ravine Pa.s.s was truly capable of blocking ten thousand soldiers with a single man! At this place which only required 2000 soldiers to defend steadily, the Xiao Family actually sent a whole ten battalions!
Ten thousand men!
This was only counting the ordinary troops and did not include the various personal guards, cavalry and other various troops . If all of these were to be added in, there would be 20,000 soldiers at the very least! Regardless of how terribly the Xiao Family loses on the outside, as long as they were able to protect this place, the three thousand miles of territory behind it would always be theirs! Even if all of their soldiers on the outside perished, the Xiao Family only needed a few decades of rest before they would be able to produce tens of thousands of soldiers again and rule the world!
The grain of the Xiao Family was sent out from this place and the defense of the resupply route was watertight . There was no place for them to take action and even if they only wanted to cut off the supply of food for three days, it was an extremely challenging task! This was only possible if they could grasp control of this ancient pa.s.s within their hands! Apart from that, the Xiao Family would be able to repair any form of damage that they created in a short day or two . As for hara.s.sment tactics, that was completely useless .