Concubine's Survival Handbook

Chapter 377 Good News Comes
In the evening, Jing Ning was chatting with Tong Ji in the room when Wen Xing suddenly trotted in with a beaming face.Jing Ning raised his eyes and scolded lightly, "Why are you in such a hurry?"

Seeing that Ji Qing was also there, Wen Xing suppressed the smile on his face, and respectfully handed over the letter in his hand to Jing Ning.

"Miss, there is a letter from the general."

Jing Ning's eyes lit up, and a little excitement appeared on his face.The seal had already been removed, the old general and his wife had obviously read it, and Jing Ning opened the letter to read it carefully regardless of Ji Qing being nearby.

It turned out that there was a small-scale battle on the border three days ago.

Originally, the national strengths of Zhao and Qi were almost the same, if they had to confront each other rashly, there would be heavy casualties. Therefore, since Xiao Lin reached the border, he has been rectifying his defenses, allowing the soldiers to recuperate, and has remained steadfast in the face of Qi's provocation.The Xiao family has a very high prestige in the army, so although the soldiers have doubts in their hearts, the morale of the army is extremely stable.

On the other hand, Qi State would send a small team of cavalry to harass Zhao State almost every day, but they never came back. Seeing this, the second prince was anxious and wanted to lead the army to attack directly.

"Second prince, this is absolutely impossible. Now that Zhao Jun is recharging his energy, Xiao Lin must be trying to accumulate strength, but our army's daily raids have seen no results. The morale of the army is already unstable. If we rush to send troops at this time, our army will definitely be damaged. Great, I hope the second prince thinks twice!" Li Shang looked anxiously, looking at the back of the second prince and said sincerely.Since the second prince succeeded in a surprise attack last time, he has become more greedy and aggressive, arbitrarily domineering, and Li Shangsheng was afraid that the second prince's agitation would ruin the lives of the generals of the Qi army in vain.

"It is precisely because we harassed Wei Weiguo that we had to launch a large-scale attack on them. If Zhao Guo was allowed to recharge his energy, wouldn't our army have no chance of winning? Li Shang, think about the last time, if I hadn't seized the opportunity, How can our army win?"

The second prince turned around with a very complacent face, and he didn't take Li Shang's suggestion into consideration in his words.Li Shang frowned, and secretly sighed in his heart, the second prince was too proud of himself.

"This..." Li Shang wanted to say something, but was interrupted by the second prince waving his hand.

The second prince's face was stained with a bit of impatience, and he said in a deep voice: "This matter is settled like this, order Deputy General Zhang to lead [-] elite soldiers to burn Zhao Jun's barracks at night, and Li Shang, you lead [-] troops to respond in the rear." , This time, Zhao Jun will definitely be hit hard!" The second prince looked extremely confident, as if he had seen Xiao Lin running away in a hurry.

Although Li Shang didn't agree with it in his heart, he still took orders to make arrangements.

On the other side, in Zhao Jun's barracks, Xiao Lin sat in the barracks to discuss matters with the generals.

"General, the Qi army has repeatedly attacked and harassed. Although the number of people is not large, it is very disturbing. The soldiers are all suffocated. If this continues, the morale of the army may be unstable." General Fu Shen said The expression is a bit worried.

Xiao Lin nodded. It is true that Qi State has repeatedly disturbed him these few days, and he is extremely annoyed, but the time has not come, so don't act rashly.

"Qi's army has harassed him many times but it didn't work. The second prince is impatient. He is afraid that he won't be able to last long. He ordered the lieutenant generals to strengthen their night defenses and move the food and supplies." Xiao Lin looked serious. , with a low tone, he kept imagining in his mind what kind of offensive methods he would adopt if he were the second prince.

"General, if the food and supplies are transferred, I'm afraid it will attract the attention of the Qi army, and it will expose our weakness." Fu's words were somewhat disapproving.

This time the two countries are at war, Ji Feiyun, the eldest son of the Minister of War, is in charge of transporting the grain and grass, but Ji Feiyun and Xiao Lin have always been at odds, so the time for the grain and grass to arrive is not timely, and it will always be eight or nine days later than expected. At present, the new batch of grain and grass has not yet been delivered, so for Zhao Jun, grain and grass are their biggest weakness.

"It doesn't matter, I have asked the emperor for an order. The court will send Mr. Li to be responsible for the escort of food and grass. It is expected to be delivered in two days at the latest. At present, we must be careful of Zhao Jun's night attack." Xiao Lin knew what General Fu was worried about. Before he left for the expedition, he had been worried about the plan. As expected, he deliberately delayed the supply, so Xiao Lin asked the emperor for an order.

Zhao Jun's barracks are located on a high ground, easy to defend and not easy to attack. It would be very difficult to attack in the daytime. If Xiao Lin was the commander of Qi Jun, he would choose to attack at night, first burning food and grass, and then destroying weapons. Combat power is bound to be greatly reduced, and then is the best time to attack.

It was night, [-] elite Qi troops attacked Zhao Jun's barracks at night, but Zhao Jun was well prepared. Although he was a little flustered for a while, he quickly calmed down and fought against Qi Jun in an orderly manner under Xiao Lin's command.Zhao Jun had been holding back his breath for a long time. Now that Qi Jun came to his door, Zhao Jun was red-eyed, but in just a cup of tea, the [-] elite Qi troops were defeated, and Li Shang saw the situation in the rear. Miao Li led the army to flee back to Qi Jun's barracks.

In this battle, the Zhao army won a big victory and wiped out [-] Qi troops. The Qi army was severely injured and lost the most elite troops in the army.

In the letter, Xiao Lin wrote out the situation of the battle in detail, full of pleasure between the lines.

Jing Ning breathed a sigh of relief after reading the letter. The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly. Fortunately, Xiao Lin was able to achieve this victory because of his careful consideration.

"Looking at my sister's expression, it must be that General Xiao has shown his might on the battlefield." Ji Qing looked at Jing Ning with a smile, taking in all of Jing Ning's expression.

Jing Ning came back to his senses, with a decent smile on his face, and said in a gentle voice, "My sister guessed right, this is a good news."

Looking at the smiling Ji Qing, Jing Ning felt a little dark in her heart. She still remembered Xiao Lin mentioning in her heart that Ji Feiyun deliberately delayed the delivery of grain and grass.

Hearing this, Ji Qing laughed even happier, and said some congratulatory words, Jing Ning responded on the face, but there was a little gap in his heart, that Ji Feiyun, if he had the chance, he would definitely meet him.

At this time, the servants of the mansion came to communicate, saying that the emperor's reward had arrived.Jing Ning and Ji Qing looked at each other, and hurried to the front hall.After seeing off Xuanzhi's father-in-law, the sky had already darkened, and Jing Ning was a little tired, so he sent Ji Qing away, wanting to take an early rest.

"Miss, Wanxi is here, and she said she wanted to congratulate Miss." Wen Xing showed a bit of boredom when talking about Wanxi.

Jing Ning frowned, she was tired today and had no time to deal with that woman.

"Find a reason to send her away." Jing Ning waved her hand lightly, preparing to rest under the service of Bi Hua.Wen Xing responded and withdrew.After a while, Wen Xing came back again, followed by a person.

Jing Ning frowned, and said in a cold tone: "If you want to congratulate, come back tomorrow, Wen Xing, see off the guests."

Wen Xing hesitated for a moment, and turned his body to reveal the person behind him.Jing Ning was obviously taken aback when he saw the person coming, and a bit of surprise flashed in his eyes.How could she come here at this time?

(End of this chapter)