Dai Junliang was taken aback: "Then—"
"Take this opportunity, have the archers release their arrows imdiately!"
"...!"
Dai Junliang suddenly understood.
Now is truly not the ti for them to celebrate victory. Though Xue Xian’s n can no longer attack, everyone knows that the main force of Longxi Army has arrived, boasting a strength of nearly 300,000 troops. Fufeng’s forces were already insufficient, and before this, he had slaughtered 80,000 of their n. The disparity in strength between the two sides is vast; unless they seize this mont to inflict maximum damage on the enemy, once given ti to recuperate and return, Fufeng will never again have an opportunity like today!
Dai Junliang took a deep breath and as he looked towards Shang Ruyi once more, the admiration in his eyes was now evidently clear.
Previously, he was sowhat startled by this General’s wife’s perilous strategy—according to the two military orders given by Yu Wenye when he fell ill, "secure the city gates, dig deep trenches," she had him gather tung oil in the city, and buried most of it in the massive trench dug at the city gate entrance. Then, she poured the remaining tung oil into these specially made twenty or so water carts.
These water carts had added layers, with tung oil already injected below, while above it was disguised as water.
When Xue Xian’s siege ladders were engulfed by flas spewing from the trench, he naturally hurried to extinguish the fire with water, and just after sounding the retreat, having Song Yu and Ma Xu abandon the water carts to enter the city was to provide them with "water" to douse the flas.
Oil and water are incompatible; when the water was released, the deadly tung oil mixed in and surged forth, floating on the water’s surface.
Thus, wherever the water flowed, the flas would burn!
It was unexpected that such a fierce and ruthless tactic would co from a woman’s mouth, and today, at this mont, it was fully realized!
Even more unexpected was that, facing the success before her eyes, Shang Ruyi displayed no hint of excitent; instead, she beca the calst among everyone, even thinking to capitalize on the victory and inflict maximum damage on the enemy forces.
She intends to defeat Xue Xian in this battle!
At this mont, a surge of fervent battle intent arose within Dai Junliang’s heart. He imdiately turned and shouted orders: "Archers ready!"
Originally, the surrounding soldiers had their morale boosted by the sudden turn of events. Upon hearing these words, they instantly understood. The archers hurried forward, and although the battlents had been scorched by the flas below and the air was sweltering, they paid no mind. Braving the intense heat, they stepped up, aiming at the retreating Longxi Army below and released their arrows.
Instantly, arrows rained down like a storm!
The soldiers who had barely escaped the inferno, so still struggling to extinguish the flas on their bodies and feet, once again faced an almost devastating attack. For a mont, the piercing shrieks of arrows slicing through the air intertwined with the echoed cries of agony, resounding throughout Fufeng County.
Blood once again stained the skies.
Watching this scene, Shang Ruyi’s expression and the chill in her eyes grew a few degrees colder than before.
Even as those already wounded, dragged down from the city tower, the archers now surged up again, scrambling to shoot arrows at the Longxi Army retreating from the fire below, she remained silent, slowly retreating from the crowd.
As she quietly observed the high-spirited archers on the city tower rain down arrows on the embarrassedly fleeing Longxi Army below, a voice carrying a gentle laugh sounded behind her.
"Sister-in-law, you truly caught by surprise."
"...!"
Shang Ruyi’s heart suddenly skipped a beat.
She slowly turned around, not knowing when Yu Wenqian had walked back from the other side of the city tower to stand behind her. He was holding the bow from which he had just released that wall of fla, still with hints of a blazing aura lingering on him.
Yet, his gaze remained remarkably calm.
Those blue-gray, clear eyes, now carried a faint and profound smile, quietly observing Shang Ruyi, as if the slaughter and struggle ahead were nothing but illusion to him. He still saw only the person before him, silently scrutinizing sothing.
Then, he scrutinized out this sentence.
And this sentence to Shang Ruyi wasn’t all that unfamiliar. After she and Yu Wenye had been newlyweds for a short while, when they agreed to pretend to be a couple for appearances, Yu Wenye had said this to her more than once.
Now, the words ca from Yu Wenqian’s mouth.
Almost instinctively, Shang Ruyi was about to reply with her usual response to these words—
We are, indeed, strangers.
But the next mont, she paused, only pondering for a while, then said, "Brother, are you really surprised?"
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