Chapter 51 Battle of Anping – Day Three (1/2)
Chapter 51 – Battle of Anping – Day Three
October 25th. 1 AM.
Tong's eyes snapped open as he woke up from his nap. He opened his radar map in a hurry checked if there was any movement.
Tong had ordered his men to station in the trench at the south and Zhang Liang troops at the west side beforehand. Meanwhile Zhang Bao and his men stationed on the wall.
He crawled in the southern trench to the first line and reunited with Hua Shi who was already there. She was sitting in the trench, looking at the radar map that Tong had shared.
”You're finally up. The raid team is ready.”
”Alright, let's move. If you see any patrol units outside, you snipe them.”
”Are you sure this is a good idea? The night battle sounds hard to me.”
”If we don't fight back, they will just surround us and do nothing. Then we will probably lose.”
”Ehhhhh!? Why? Haven't we stocked those potatoes and grains? Why are we going to lose?”
”Army morals, zombie. Humans are not robots. For both of us, we can survive till the end of times, but our soldiers cannot. They didn't have our mental fortitude or had been through hell literally like us, so they can abandon us easily when they lose hope.”
Hua Shi still looked at Tong in doubt while Tong smiled wryly at her.
Siege warfare was a battle of attrition that could take months or years to decide the outcome, which was not favorable to Tong in his point of view.
Tong wanted to break the deadlock situation and drew Pan Feng and Guo Dian into small skirmishes so he could wither their forces numbers. Or even better, he could snipe down both of them if he had a chance.
If he neglected this and left them be for a few months, the soldiers would lose their edges and thought that it would be fine leaving the enemies be outside the gate. With their guard down, they would be vulnerable to ploys and tactics by the opposite parties.
Furthermore, without reinforcement and hope to break free from this entrapment, soldiers would get depress overtime, and might end up destroying the order from within by riot or desertion.
It was not a scenario that Tong wished to see it happened.
But now, Pan Feng spread his troops too thin as he separated his men into two camps, one was located 5km down south of the fort, while the other one was 5km toward the ease. A great opportunity awaited for Tong.
Unlike the last time when Tong raid Guo Dian camp, he took three thousand men with him this time along with Zhou Cang, leaving two thousand men in the fortress.
Tong could destroy the southern camp if he played his card right tonight.
The 3,000 raiders followed Tong's lead without a sound. From the first line of trench to Pan Feng camp was only 5 kilometer away, so they reached it in a couple hours.
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[Homing Arrow] LV. 5 (50/1,600)
- Fire a magic homing arrow at a locked target.
- Convert an ordinary arrow into a magic homing arrow.
- Passive skill [Bow Mastery] will be applied to the host once the skill is equipped.
Skill Cost:
- 1 Lifespan for firing homing magic arrow with ordinary arrow.
- 10 Lifespan for firing homing magic arrow without an arrow.
Skill Restriction:
- Homing effects only applies to a locked target in the range of 300 meters or lower.
- Range restriction depends on the level of the skill
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Hua Shi leveled up this skill faster than the others because she had many opportunities to use it without restrain. She had taken over a hundred lives with this skill alone in the past two days.
Along the way to the enemy encampment, Hua Shi used her long range homing arrows to snipe down patrolling troops and wanderers, allowing the troops to conceal themselves in the night to approach Pan Feng camp.
Afterwards after they reached the camp, Tong signaled his troops to stop and hide. He rechecked his inventory and the radar map for one last time.
Tong learnt his lesson from the previous night raid. He emptied out the unnecessary items and left 6 slots of his inventory available for more looting.
Then he started the operation.
Silenced the guards one by one, Tong and a squad of elites snuck into the camp. Some were stabbed in the vocal cord, and some had their neck sliced and unable to utter a sound.
Seeing that the guards around the barrier of the camps were down, the rest of the troops got in. They separated into small squads, and entered the tents where Pan Feng soldiers were resting in. Then, several small muffled voices sounded inside the tents and returned to its silence again in a few seconds.