Rebirth: My Healer Wife Owns Superpowers-Chapter 349 - : This man’s skills in arranging and hiding things in advance are top-notChapter
Chapter 349: Chapter 349: This man’s skills in arranging and hiding things in advance are top-notch.
Song Yuanzhao sneered coldly, his knife clanged down onto the desk, instantly adding an angle to the table.
“This is indeed a great idea that Zhao Xiyan brought to our doorstep. If it weren’t for his men flying around above my head in that huge basket every day, I would never have thought of the spectacular effect of releasing a hundred thousand arrows simultaneously! Hahaha… those heavy crossbows finally came into use…”
“Father, doing this, you will kill the civilians in the city along with him!”
“Civilians in the city? Humph…” A savage smile appeared on Song Yuanzhao’s gloomy face.
“Those wretched people, they approve of Zhao Xiyan, so let them die with him!”
At that moment, a messenger came in and reported that 500,000 troops had been arranged in position, with 100,000 elite troops on the front line, all equipped with meticulously crafted crossbows, and everyone else was also in place, just waiting for Song Yuanzhao’s order to attack.
Song Yuanzhao laughed loudly, grabbed his sword, and walked out.
Song Qingshan was anxious and quickly stepped forward to stop him.
“Father, please just listen to my advice, withdraw the troops. Have you forgotten about Miss Qi’s mysterious weapon?”
Song Yuanzhao pushed him away and sneered, “That was a long time ago. Have you seen them use it during this time? It must be extremely rare, otherwise, having besieged Yecheng for so long, if they had thrown that thing down from the baskets, they would have gotten rid of us by now. Now they have only 150,000 defending the city, while we have 500,000. It is a perfect time to take Yecheng while Zhao Xiyan is unguarded during his wedding!”
Song Qingshan blocked him weakly in front of Song Yuanzhao.
“Father, just because they haven’t thrown it doesn’t mean they don’t have it. A person like Zhao Xiyan wouldn’t be unguarded just because he is getting married. Moreover, he hasn’t attacked us for so long, maybe he has already made arrangements and is just waiting for this day!”
“Move aside.” Song Yuanzhao kicked Song Qingshan over and cursed, “How could I, Song Yuanzhao, have such a cowardly son? No wonder Miss Qi doesn’t look at you.”
Hearing Song Yuanzhao mention Qi Yue, Song Qingshan sobbed a little, hung his head, and said no more.
Seeing this, Song Yuanzhao picked up his sword and fiercely pointed it at Song Qingshan, forcing him to raise his head.
“Song Qingshan, don’t you like Miss Qi? Now that your father has sabotaged their wedding, it’s a great opportunity for you to help your father take Yecheng and have a chance to win Miss Qi. I’m asking you, are you going or not?”
Song Qingshan was stunned for a moment, then after a long pause, said, “I do like Miss Qi, but she doesn’t like me. Even if we defeat Zhao Xiyan, what then?”
“You!”
Song Yuanzhao stomped his foot in frustration, “You useless thing, you deserve not to get the woman you want!”
Saying this, he carried his sword and stormed out.
Song Qingshan collapsed heavily to the ground, face down, and began to sob softly.
After a long while, he finally got up, shouting “Father, Father…” and chased after him.
On the walls of Yecheng, Zhao Xiyan stood with his hands behind his back.
At that moment, he had changed out of his wedding red clothes, clad in silver armor, still stunningly striking.
His exceptional, distinctive aura made it easy for Qi Yue to spot him among the array of soldiers.
Qi Yue immediately left Zhao Zhi and sprinted up to the city tower.
“Zhao Xiyan—”
Her shout made Zhao Xiyan, who had raised his arm ready to give the attack signal, stop in his tracks.
Seeing her, Zhao Xiyan quickly came to meet her, his face filled with joy yet tinged with a hint of reproach.
“Yueyue, why are you here?”
“I came to fight alongside you!”
“Ha…” Zhao Xiyan chuckled, “It’s really different now that we’re married, Yueyue, now you start to worry about me.”
Qi Yue glared at him.
“As if I didn’t care about you before?”
“You cared the most about me.”
“Spare me,” Qi Yue said, looking down at the dense crowd of Donggao soldiers below, feeling slightly numb.
“How do you plan to deal with the Fox King? If all these soldiers come at us, it’s no joke!”
“Madam need not worry, this time Song Yuanzhao should experience what it’s like to be captured.”
“Stop calling me madam, madam. We haven’t even had a drink yet, so it doesn’t count.”
“Fine, once we capture Song Yuanzhao, we’ll drink.”
“….”
As the two of them spoke, there was a new development in the formation of the Donggao Army below the city tower.
A large, magnificent chariot slowly emerged from the rear of the formation.
“It’s Song Yuanzhao; he dares to show himself on the battlefield. Could he be intending to use himself as bait?”
Qi Yue, looking at Song Yuanzhao through the telescope, glanced at Zhao Xiyan.
“You just said you wanted to capture Song Yuanzhao. You can’t be serious? Are you planning that move of taking the enemy’s head from the midst of an army again?”
Without waiting for Zhao Xiyan to respond, she hastily returned her gaze to the Donggao Army.
“From this distance, we could easily kill him with one move. What about that thing I gave you last time? Can it be used? Please don’t foolishly charge in, it seems like Song Yuanzhao is up to no good!”
“My Yueyue is looking at enemy movements now?” Zhao Xiyan said, looking at her with a doting smile.
“Can you take this seriously? We are at war!” Qi Yue said irritably, tossing the telescope into Zhao Xiyan’s hands.
Zhao Xiyan took it, not even looking through it, and continued with a smile, “Madam, don’t worry, I have everything arranged.”
As he pointed with his arm, suddenly, clouds of dust rose behind where Song Yuanzhao was positioned, as if a large troop had surged forward, or perhaps something had been ignited.
“What is that?”
Zhao Xiyan smiled slightly.
“Song Yuanzhao wants to launch one hundred thousand arrows simultaneously to break through the city wall defenses, preparing the way for his engineers to scale the tower. This is purely a suicidal strategy. Once I cut off his rear, let’s see what he can do.”
“So, the place that’s on fire now is Song Yuanzhao’s equipment warehouse?”
“Mm, a few days ago, Hei San and the others saw from the hot air balloon that Song Yuanzhao’s men were setting up many large tents, seemingly busy with something inside. I guessed that Song Yuanzhao was about to make a move, constructing the tent because he needed to rush the production of siege equipment. Hence, I deliberately left Yecheng, not expecting him to hold his ground. After the news of our marriage was released, sure enough, signs of his troops mobilizing were noticed.”
“…” Qi Yue’s eyelids twitched as she listened, “So, our marriage was also part of your calculations?”
“Of course not; it just so happened to coincide.” Zhao Xiyan curled his lip, “Yueyue isn’t upset, right?”
“There’s nothing to be angry about,” Qi Yue shook her head, her thoughts racing, “So that means, the tall and short ones being drunk in Yecheng was also an act?”
“Mm, Song Yuanzhao had suffered a great loss at their hands before. Otherwise, he probably wouldn’t have been so confident to just charge in like that.”
“It looks like there are about one hundred thousand men outside; did you pull out the hundred fifty thousand defending the city?”
“Naturally not, with Yueyue in the city, even if I am confident, I wouldn’t be so careless.”
Qi Yue was astonished.
“So the troops outside are a surprise force?”
“Mm,” Zhao Xiyan nodded, “The local citizens were too enthusiastic recently. Around Yecheng, more than fifty small counties recruited quite a few new soldiers. I had the tall ones secretly train them, and now they have come into use!”
“….” After hearing this, Qi Yue silently closed her mouth.
One must admit, this man’s ability to prearrange and conceal his moves was top-notch.
The whole world knew he had fewer than two hundred thousand troops, yet he secretly had an additional one hundred thousand.
Not to mention how difficult it must be to manage, just the daily food and military pay… that all costs money.
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“So much silver must be spent!” she thought.
A bright idea crossed Qi Yue’s mind.
“So you’re saying, when you broke through Yulin Pass, you must have had more than just fifteen thousand troops, right? Could it be, you have more soldiers stationed elsewhere…”
