Chapter 1402 - 334: Showdown! (Part 2)

Chapter 1402: Chapter 334: Showdown! (Part 2)

And that time, Lord Zheng was first possessed by Mo Wan, then took Xue Three’s medicine, which led to a dual exhaustion of spirit.

"Yes, Prince, I remember."

Prince Jingnan nodded and asked, "Order them outside to send in the food."

"Prince, I’ve already instructed someone to prepare it, a small hot pot blend, which you’ve had before."

"You still have the mood to prepare these?"

"No matter how busy, if conditions permit, we must eat well."

"Let’s go."

Gongsun Zhen was tending the fire, while Gong Lin sat idly, not intentionally being lazy, but indeed having nothing to do. Since Lord Zheng entered the king’s tent and hadn’t come out for a long time, they were actually just his attendants with no other tasks to handle.

When they saw Lord Zheng and Prince Jingnan approaching in the distance, Gong Lin immediately got up to cut vegetables.

Lord Zheng lifted the pot lid and personally added all the vegetables, knowing that Prince Jingnan was very busy and had no time to slowly dip veggies and meat to eat, so he straightforwardly made a hot pot blend.

"Let’s eat together." Lord Zheng said to Gongsun Zhen and Gong Wang.

The two nodded, each filled a bowl, and squatted far away in the corner, as they were military brats themselves who naturally were observant.

Lord Zheng sat down with Prince Jingnan on either side, and began to have lunch.

"Over at West Mountain Fort, Li Fusheng’s offensive hasn’t seen any results yet," Prince Jingnan said.

"It seems like he couldn’t conquer the first wave, now entering a stalemate and exhaustion." Lord Zheng said.

Tian Wujing nodded, "However, learning from your precedent, he did scout and found that within West Mountain Fort, it is a private army of the Dugu Clan from Chu State, not the imperial guard.

Although, in the imperial guard, there is a leader named Dugu Ni, also from the Dugu Clan, they are not together."

"In this case, it’s just a matter of time."

"Sweep slowly, no rush anyway."

"This time, among all the wars I’ve seen Prince fight, this is the slowest one; actually, Prince likely prefers this kind of war, right?"

Tian Wujing didn’t answer.

"Prince, I’ve heard that the river engineering at Wang River is still being repaired?"

"Yes, it’s being repaired."

"What’s it for?" Lord Zheng directly asked, "Is it related to the Chu conquest?"

Originally, Lord Zheng was very surprised by the river engineering at Wang River, as the nation was at war here, and yet the river engineering was still under repair over there.

When Xue Three returned, he also mentioned some matters regarding the river engineering.

It must be known, San’er is an expert in this field, seeing there’s a problem means there certainly is a problem.

Lord Zheng hesitated for a moment, then asked, "I’ve heard that during the siege of Jade Plate City capturing the wild people’s main forces at Wang River, Prince ordered the construction of Yan’s navy."

Initially, Yan did not require a navy, but with the ongoing expansion wars needing to face new terrains and battlefield environments, a navy was essential.

Wang River engineering easily reminded Lord Zheng of Yan’s newly constructed navy.

Tian Wujing seemed not to deliberately hide,

he put down the chopsticks,

looked at Zheng Fan,

and said:

"Even I don’t know if it can succeed, manpower, in the face of celestial phenomena, is still small."

"Prince, this is part of your strategy... one of them?"

"Yes."

Tian Wujing took the chopsticks, drew a line on the ground, pointed to it, and said:

"This is Wang River."

Lord Zheng nodded.

At the end of this line, Tian Wujing used the chopsticks to draw three strokes, saying, "Here, it’s the Mong Mountain range, which is where you traveled last time into Chu."

Lord Zheng nodded again.

"Wang River enters Chu from the west side of Mong Mountain, finally flowing into Chu State’s Grand Marsh. From here to here is the Chu people’s canal. The Chu use this river to control the area west of the marsh all the way to Qi Mountain.

Back then, the Chu people’s navy also traveled north on this river into Wang River, disrupting and defeating Wujing’s Eastern Conquest Army.

The route you took into Chu last time was east of Mong Mountain."

Lord Zheng immediately said; "There indeed allows for boat travel, also has some tributaries from Wang River, but the waterways are short and hard to navigate, only small smuggling boats can go along. Moreover, entering from here faces the winding Mong Mountain paths, all abound with terrain where one man guards and ten thousand cannot pass.

Our army simply cannot enter Chu from here.

Should we go from west of Mong Mountain, although there is enough river surface to navigate, the Chu people’s navy is dense there, they can easily block the river.

If forcefully entering from here, it would be no different from sending the army through South Gate to Liang State to attack Chu."

Just then,

Tian Wujing’s chopsticks stabbed "Wang River" and pulled diagonally east toward east of Mong Mountain.

"This......"

Lord Zheng was immediately enlightened.

He really hadn’t thought that it would be, would be, using such methods!

He had considered water offensives and inundations, as throughout history there are many such battles, but with Town South Pass’s location, wanting to redirect water for inundation seemed almost impossible.

But, Tian Wujing’s hint finally completely solved the original puzzle.

For a moment, when Lord Zheng looked at Tian Wujing again, he truly was somewhat tongue-tied.

Tian Wujing did not care about Lord Zheng’s change of expression, instead focusing on his own narration:

"During the summer flood season, not only Wang River’s surface, but its tributary water levels are actually higher than usual in the year. West of Mong Mountain, river channels are wide, but our Yan navy is simply not a match for the Chu navy, taking this route is a dead end.