Chapter 308

"With this, we can annihilate Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu's army completely!"

Han Xin spoke as he took out a bronze pot, looked at it for a moment, and said: "It's almost the first watch now. Rest for a while. We'll set out at the fourth watch!"

This is filled with sand!

Every time the sand inside finishes leaking out, one shi-cheng has passed!

This is the bronze water-clock the ancients commonly used!

Originally, this should have been filled with water.

But because it's winter, water freezes too easily, so Han Xin filled it with sand instead!

Using sand to keep track of the hours!

Xiaoyaozi and the others looked at the bronze pot and all nodded: "Good!"

"You continue to lie in ambush here. Li Li Xuanba, let's go!"

After giving his instructions, Han Xin directly took Li Yuanba and left!

The remaining two-thousand-plus Central Plains experts watched the bronze pot while also watching Han Xin, who had already departed!

Some among them felt a bit uneasy!

"Why do I always have this bad premonition?"

"Facing Ying Su… would he really let us go?"

Xiaoyaozi frowned: "Why do you say that?"

Zhong Yu said: "During the day, when we paid our respects to Facing Ying Su, Fan Kuai mentioned that a battle had broken out. From his report, it seemed extremely urgent!"

"But… when we arrived here, it was utterly quiet. Why is that?"

"And why does he want us to lead the charge?"

He spoke, frowning.

As for this matter, no one could figure it out!

Xiaoyaozi shook his head as well — he didn't understand either. However, he waved his hand and said: "Don't overthink it. No matter what, Facing Ying Su is the Emperor. If he said with his own mouth that he'd spare us, then he will spare us!"

"Besides, even though we're leading the charge, isn't Li Yuanba still with us?"

"You may not know this, but when the Qin Army fights, it almost entirely relies on Li Yuanba. The Qin Army handles the encirclement, and Li Yuanba handles the slaughter!"

"This time, it's the same!"

"Besides, even if something really is off, we don't need to panic!"

"You must understand, with so many of us, we are a tremendous force to either side!"

"If Facing Ying Su plays tricks on us, we can immediately return to Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu's side and join him in killing Facing Ying Su!"

He spoke.

The others, having heard this, all nodded, thinking it made sense!

Xiaoyaozi continued: "However… we can't slack off just because of suspicion. In this battle, we need to perform well. If we do, perhaps Facing Ying Su will even bestow rewards upon us!"

"If that happens, not only can we wash away the charge of treason, we can also become meritorious heroes who defeated the Xiongnu. And if we capture Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu alive, we can become the number-one meritorious hero, admired by everyone under heaven!"

He spoke.

And the moment these words came out, instantly, everyone boiled over with excitement!

Men of the Jianghu may not value money all that much, nor power all that much, but they do value their reputation greatly!

The mere fame of having defeated the Xiongnu was already making everyone's eyes light up.

Let alone capturing Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu alive and becoming the number-one meritorious hero?

That would truly be fame and fortune both secured!

"Perform well. If we could capture Seeing Xiang Yu, Fan Zeng, and Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu all three alive, then according to what Facing Ying Su said before, we could claim the title of Marquis Within the Pass!"

"Marquis Within the Pass!"

In that instant, everyone's eyes lit up!

Everyone was looking forward to it!

Meanwhile, on the other side!

In the darkness of night, Han Xin's army was on the move!

But… this movement was not detected by a single Xiongnu sentry!

Why?

Because… no one was carrying torches!

A full sixty-thousand troops were all marching in pitch darkness!

This was precisely Han Xin's arrangement!

Although he could not fight at night!

But… before dawn, it was still possible to have the entire army lie in ambush twenty li outside Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu's camp!

When daylight broke, Li Yuanba and the group of experts, serving as the vanguard, would directly storm Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu's camp!

Once they reacted and tried to flee, that would be the moment for the main army to strike!

Using cannons to catch Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu completely off guard!

Likewise, such an arrangement was something Fan Zeng had not anticipated.

He had not expected Han Xin to arrange things this way!

He had even less expected that over two thousand experts would defect to Facing Ying Su and turn around to attack them!

And under such an arrangement!

At the third watch, the entire army reached a point thirty li away!

At the fourth watch, Li Yuanba arrived at Xiaoyaozi's side, and they set out!

At the fifth watch, Li Yuanba, Xiaoyaozi, and a host of other experts had already arrived ten li outside the camp!

This was the gathering place of the patrol soldiers in Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu's army camp!

But because the weather was cold, almost everyone was huddled around a fire for warmth, so no one discovered Xiaoyaozi and the others!

By the sixth watch, a tiny glimmer of light had just appeared on the horizon!

With a wave of Xiaoyaozi's hand, instantly, dozens of experts, like wildcats, approached the patrol soldiers without making the slightest sound!

Their movements were practiced; one hand covered a mouth, the other slashed a throat. By the time the group of patrol soldiers before them was dead, not a single person had made a sound!

Following the same method, by the time they reached five li outside the main camp, not a single patrol soldier had discovered them!

Just like that, even when they reached three li from the main camp, they remained undiscovered!

But... just as they lurked at the two-li mark, someone finally discovered them.

A Xiongnu soldier who had come out of a tent, yawning, suddenly saw the scene of them slitting the throats of Xiongnu soldiers while urinating!

This sight utterly terrified him; he opened his mouth and shouted loudly, "Who goes there? What are you doing!"

"Enemy attack!"

"Enemy attack!"

He shouted loudly!

This instantly alarmed almost everyone!

In that instant, dense masses of Xiongnu soldiers ran out from inside the tents!

Countless experts from the Central Plains also ran out from the barracks!

Fan Zeng and Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu, who had not slept all night, were even more startled by this loud shout!

The two, who had been dozing off, instantly woke up!

Without any delay, they immediately ran out of the tent!

And at a glance, they saw the scene of chaotic battle!

More than two thousand people were slaughtering the Xiongnu soldiers like pigs; every single one was incredibly fierce!

Every single one was extremely valiant!

"Who!"

"Who!"

"Who is this!"

Chanyu Modu Chanyu Chanyu Modu was stunned!

Fan Zeng, equally incredulous, pointed at a figure in the distance: "He... he is... someone from the Daoist school?"

"He... he is an expert from the Confucian school?"

"And him... Li Ming!"