Chapter 10 Exploring the Beast Camp

Zhang Zhentian and Yao Xiu climbed the hill, and they looked in the direction of the ridge through the moonlight. In the mountains between the ridges and the hills, there are so faint that several bonfires jump in the stars, and the night wind blows, and the air seems to smell of metal, people and animals.

"Brother Zhang, it seems that there is someone under the ridge." Yao Xiu stood beside Zhang Zhentian and said with consternation.

"I know!" Zhang Zhentian nodded slightly, "Let's go! Let's go ahead and have a look.

"Oh! OK." Yao Xiu listened, she nodded, and then followed Zhang Zhentian and quietly touched the position of the bonfire.

In the night, Zhang Zhentian and Yao Xiu were careful to move forward for another half an hour. In the air, the fishy smell of human and animal excrement is getting stronger and stronger. Occasionally, there was a loud voice coming with the night wind.

Yao Xiu listened to the voice. She gently pulled Zhang Zhentian's arm beside her, and then she made a frog jumping on the ground. Zhang Zhentian looked at it and nodded with laughter. He understood that Yao Xiu was telling him that there was an orc camp in front of him.

Zhang Zhentian put his hand to his mouth and made a silent gesture. Then, the two of them quietly walked forward for a while. Zhang Zhentian found a hidden place, and then the two hid together.

Under the moonlight, Zhang Zhentian and Yao Xiu saw through the grass that many tents had been scattered in the open space in front of them. In the middle of the tent, a bonfire was lit. From time to time, patrolled orc soldiers patrolled between the camps. It seems that the camp is heavily guarded.

Zhang Zhentian and Yao Xiu hid in the hiding place for half an hour. Zhang Zhentian looked at the opportunity for the patrol soldiers to stay away from their place. He made a gentle gesture to Yao Xiu, and then the two slowly retreated. Just as the two were about to leave the hiding place, a loud voice of a man came from not far away. Come here.

Although the language of this world is not as complicated as the earth world, the language of the orcs is not completely connected with the original language. Coupled with the difference in regional accents, Zhang Zhentian can't understand the meaning of that voice at all. But this does not affect Zhang Zhentian's recognition of the owner of the sound. Is it him? The servant named Xu Buzhi.

Yao Xiu held her breath, and she listened carefully for a while. When Xu Bu's straight voice went away, she quickly pulled Zhang Zhentian's sleeve, and then gestured to greet Zhang Zhentian to leave the hiding place. When the two returned to the hill, Yao Xiu whispered to Zhang Zhentian, "Brother Zhang, they are going to attack Yanzhou."

"Sneak attack on Yanzhou?" Zhang Zhentian looked at Yao Xiu in surprise, "Isn't this not suitable for a large army to march?"

"I think they came through the mountain road under the ridge in batches." Yao Xiu thought for a moment and said, "I just heard what Xu Buzhi meant, and their people haven't arrived yet. Now, 3,000 soldiers and horses have been concentrated in the camp of the orcs, and their subsequent sergeants have not yet arrived.

"How can thousands of soldiers and horses take Yanzhou?" Zhang Zhentian pondered for a moment, and looked at Yao Xiu with suspicion, "With the strong city defense of Yanzhou, it is impossible to take Yanzhou without tens of thousands of troops."

"So you mean..." Yao Xiu looked at Zhang Zhentian in surprise, "Maybe they have an insider?"

"It's hard to say!" Zhang Zhentian nodded. There are many people who betray the country for their own personal gain in the earth world, and there must be no such scum in the original world.

"Brother Zhang, let's go back to the village first!" Yao Xiu tightened her tight clothes. Obviously, in the night wind, she felt cold.

"It's okay!" Zhang Zhentian observed Yao Xiu's movements. He took off his coat and put it on Yao Xiu's body. "Weath more and don't catch a cold!" Go back to the village."

"Hmm!" Yao Xiu's face turned red. She pulled Zhang Zhentian's clothes on her body with her hand, and then she followed Zhang Zhentian quietly and went back to the village.

In the house of the people who stayed in the village, Jiang Dongfang, Fang Kun, Su Tianxing and Su Wanyue had been waiting for a long time. This Zhentian and Yao Xiu had been out for half a night. Naturally, they thought that Zhang Zhentian had encountered something wrong on the road. As soon as Zhang Zhentian and Yao Xiu just entered the door, Su Tianxing couldn't wait to stand up, "Mr. Zhang, where have you been? We are so anxious!"

"Oh! Ha ha, it's worrying everyone." Zhang Zhentian looked at the people in the room, and then he found a bench and sat down. "I have some bad news to tell you." Speaking of this, he paused and then turned his eyes to Fang Kun, "General Fang, I'm afraid we can't go to northern Xinjiang to meet Baiyue's army for the time being. Just now, Yao Xiu and I found that the army of the orcs was hidden in the mountain in front of us. They wanted to attack Yanzhou.

"What?" Fang Kun listened to Zhang Zhentian's words and stood up, "How many troops do they have?"

"I heard that 3,000 troops have passed the ridge, and the follow-up troops have not yet arrived." Yao Xiu answered truthfully.

"Brother Zhang and General Fang, what are your plans?" Jiang Dongfang listened to Yao Xiu's words, and he turned his eyes to both of them.

"Let General Fang decide!" After Zhang Zhentian finished speaking, he also turned his eyes to Fang Kun. After all, one of the purposes of Zhang Zhentian's visits is to escort Fang Kun to join the Baiyue army. As for how to defend Yanzhou, it is not their business.

"I think we'd better go back to Yanzhou!" Fang Kunsi replied thoughtfully, "Yanzhou has just sent a grain transportation team to northern Xinjiang, and the defense in the city is bound to be empty. And the orc army is now in front of us, and I'm afraid they still have the purpose of 'one arrow and two birds'.

"You mean that if they can't attack Yanzhou, they will attack our grain delivery team?" Yao Xiu listened to Fang Kun's words. She took a look at Fang Kun, then turned her surprised eyes to Zhang Zhentian, and then asked anxiously, "Zhang... Zhang, what do you think we should do?"

"Xiuer, can you hear clearly that they are going to attack Yanzhou, not to the grain transportation team?" Zhang Zhentian did not pay attention to the changes in Yao Xiu's tone and title. If it's Zhang, it's Zhang!

"Yes! They want to attack Yanzhou. Yao Xiu replied.

"Which is usually simpler than attacking Yanzhou or attacking the grain transportation team?" After listening to Yao Xiu's words, Zhang Zhentian turned his eyes to Fang Kun again.

"It must be an attack on the grain transportation team." Fang Kun answered without hesitation, "Although the grain transportation team will follow a large number of soldiers and civilian husbands, once the grain and fodder is ignited, it will be difficult to extinguish it again. And even if Yanzhou City doesn't have many soldiers left, it has a strong wall defense, so it is not easy for their orcs to enter Yanzhou.

"I think so too. It seems that there are really spies in Yanzhou. This matter of troop transfer and defense can only turn to the grain transportation team. Zhang Zhentian listened to Fang Kun's words and made a heavy head. After that, he turned his eyes to the people in the room, "Dongfang, you and Wanyue go back to Yanzhou! You two should pay attention to the daily entry and exit of the two gates in the west and north of Yanzhou. Especially Ximen, I suspect that if there are spies in Yanzhou, they will definitely contact the orcs through Ximen.

"Okay! Brother Zhang. Jiang Dongfang and Su Wanyue nodded immediately after hearing this.

"General Fang and Xiuer, you two go to the grain transportation team!" Zhang Zhentian turned his eyes to Fang Kun and Yao Xiu again, "You two went to contact the officials of the grain transportation team and asked them to send troops to support us..."

"I don't! I'm not going!" Yao Xiu didn't wait for Zhang Zhentian to finish speaking, and she rushed to interrupt, "I want to be with you!" Don't try to get rid of me!"

"This...don't be capricious!" Zhang Zhentian stared at Yao Xiu with dissatisfaction, "Here you are most familiar with the road and terrain, as well as the officials of Yan Yunguo. If you don't go to the grain transportation team, who will look for it?"

"Then come with me!" Yao Xiu answered uncommensuredly.

"Mr. Zhang, I think I'd better be with Tianxing!" Fang Kun saw that Zhang Zhentian and Yao Xiu were about to quarrel. He quickly persuaded him, "Mr. Zhang went with Miss Yao to scout the enemy. Naturally, Mr. Zhang could speak more clearly. I think it's better for Mr. Zhang to go!"

"Mr. Zhang, go ahead!" Su Tianxing also said, "Staying here is just to monitor the actions of the orcs. If the orc army acts, even if you are here, you can't resist it. It's better for you to go to the grain transportation team with Yao Xiu to ask for help.

"If so, General Fang, be more careful when you and Tianxing stay in the village! Let's split up!" Zhang Zhentian glanced at Yao Xiu with a proud face, and then pulled Yao Xiu's sleeve, "Let's go! Hurry up and take me to the grain transportation team!"