Chapter 49 Greed and Schemes (2/2)
3PM of the same day.
A message arrow shot by Hua Shi arrived in Pan Feng's hands. He read the letter and passed it to Xin Ping.
”What do you think of this?” Pan Feng asked.
”Zhang Tong is cunning. He wants to borrow our force to expel Guo Dian for 50,000 gold.”
”Should we do as they ask?”
”No. We don't need to do anything. I've heard that Guo Dian asked Liu Yan for help and they will be here in a few days. So all we have to do is to surround their fortress and let Guo Dian clean up the mess for us.”
”Don't do anything? Then won't Guo Dian take all the plunders and profits?”
Xin Ping smiled as he continued.
”Guo Dian will not be able to take down that fortress formation, and he is not so stupid to not realize that after what had happened to us. At best, he will just probe it with a squad of trebuchets or long range attacks. If he is fail, then he will stop attacking and just simply surround them. Just like us.”
”Then how can we defeat Zhang Tong. If he turtles for years, won't our supply runs out first?”
”No. The last intel reported that Zhang Tong only have less than 100 tons of grain in his current granaries.”
Pan Feng frowned as he thought of the news that Tong had bought over 100,000 tons of potatoes. Then why did he only have 200 tons of grain?
”I know what you are thinking. Our spies were baffled too. I've confirmed this thrice with them already and they confirmed it.”
”When was the last update intel then?”
”It was updated two weeks ago. Zhang Tong seemed to hide all his potatoes somewhere but they were not in that fort, so we can rest assure. With my calculation, their supply will run out in a month and a half at the latest.”
Pan Feng's eyes brightened up. If Zhang Tong could only supply his troops for less than two months, then he could use a prolonged warfare to starve Zhang Tong and his men. Afterwards, they would have no choice but to comply with their demand without a chance of fighting back.
Or in a scenario where Zhang Tong marched out to battle them outside the camp, then they would have the number advantage and could win with ease in a direct battle.
”Alright, I'll do as you said. But manage our supplies carefully. I don't want our grain to run out before they do.”
”Please do not worry. I've prepared enough provisions for half a year, so this fight will be easy.”
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6PM. Zhang Tong Fortress.
Hua Shi was pacing on the wall, waiting for Pan Feng messenger. However, they never replied Tong's message letter.
Realizing that they would not agree to their demand, Hua Shi got frustrated and returned to her tent. Meanwhile, Tong fell into deep thought, abandoning his emotions and his bias feeling, trying to think of a battle plan for tomorrow and recollected what happened today.
'Today, I was rash.'
'I wasted half a clip of bullets for morals of the troops instead of sniping their officers.'
Tong counted his 5.56x45mm bullets. There were 87 left. As for the 9mm pistol bullets, he still had a humble amount of 280. If he used them carefully, he could take out the important officers with it. Then it would be possible to force the invaders into retreat without fighting.
'Let's see here. Their main army was roughly 800m away from the nearest wall.'
'But M16A4 effective range is 550m or less.'
'A pity that this thing is an assault rifle.'
'If it's a proper sniper rifle, then I can snipe their generals from the wall.'
'Should I take a role as an assassin again?'
'Approach them in secret, and hunt their generals?'
'This sounds like a game from the previous world.'
'If my life was a game, what it should be called?'
'A new game in E3 2020 from the U**soft! Assassin C****, Tong in the Three Kingdoms!'
'No, I should be in a H**man franchise instead, I have a gun.'
'But I'm not agent forty-seven.'
'...'
'... Fudge! Stop! WTF brain!? Stop fantasizing!'
'Concentrate! ... where am I?'
Tong spent the rest of the day half-fantasizing and half-planning. In the end, he came up with a rough draft of a new plan for himself tomorrow.
At the same time, Tong noticed a group of 500 flashing yellow dots in his mini map which were 8km away from his fort to the north-east. The front dot of this group were marked as ”Wen Chou”.