Chapter 350 The Master Of Stratagem


    "Five hundred? You must be kidding. Does the Crimson Dragon Army envisage to utilize five hundred


    soldiers to brawl against my two military camps with more than ten thousand soldiers? Do they look


    down upon me? Are you free from ambiguity there are only five hundred soldiers?" Commander Zuo


    raised his voice as he stood up abruptly. His facial expression disyed outrage, with all guns zing


    for being treated with hatred. Fires of fury and hatred were smoldering in the small, narrowed eyes.


    "I''m sanguine. They have only five hundred soldiers." The Deputy Commander wearing a yellow robe


    nodded weakly.


    "Despite the Crimson Dragon Army being fragile, they shouldn''t consign just five hundred soldiers. I


    guess this is a setup. They contemte in sounding out our military burliness." Commander Zuo


    analyzed while his eyes turning around, and again he sat down. After pondering over the matter, he


    proceeded, "Lead two thousand soldiers and a squad of spirit maniptors to apprehend the five


    hundred soldiers and take them back to oppression. I demand to know the exact sum of soldiers sent


    by the Crimson Dragon Army."


    "Yes. Should I mention the mission to Commander Zhou?" the Deputy Commander in yellow inquired,


    saluting to Commander Zuo.


    "Are you numbskull? Do you want Commander Zhou to take my credit? With the military strength of my


    two military camps, even if they have thousands of soldiers, I could tackle them!" Commander Zuo


    caterwauled, giving bloodthirsty gawk to the Deputy Commander in yellow.


    The Deputy Commander in yellow, lowering his head and bowing down, abruptly turned away.


    Promptly, the Deputy Commander in yellow took two thousand soldiers and a team of spirit


    maniptors, got out of the military camp and with overwhelming momentum, went like a bat out hell


    towards the five hundred soldiers led by Rocky marching towards the Rough Slope.


    "Commander Rocky, rival armies showed up in front of us," the soldier that walked foremost reported


    when he saw a dark mass of figures charging at them and came back to Rocky.


    "How many are they?" Rocky inquired.


    "About two thousand."


    "Just two thousand? That''s not a significant number. Well, let''s draw them away," Rocky said with his


    eyebrows lifting. Then he waved his hand and bellowed his lungs out. "Everyone, retreat! Cast away


    your helmets and weapons. Tell them nothing matters to us except saving our skin."


    After Rocky issued the order, he led the five hundred soldiers to pull back towards the right side of the


    mountain ridge, purporting to run like sheep.


    When the Deputy Commander in yellow showed up, merely to encounter the five hundred soldiers


    backing down to the right side of the mountain ridge like deserters. He drew them for the small troop


    dispatched to scrutinize the way. Therefore, without procrastination, he headed his men to trail after


    them.


    Meanwhile, the five hundred soldiers headed by Rocky had appeared at the gentle slope at the right


    side of the mountain ridge. On the spot, they waved a g to signal the army waiting on the gentle


    slope.


    Setting their eyes on the signal, all the spirit-manipted beasts of the teams of spirit maniptors


    started to drive the hundreds of horses in the army. Out of heebie-jeebies, they ran helter-skelter in a


    great hurry like a torrent through a strait on the gentle slope in a crease. In an instant, a massive cloud


    of dust rose on it.


    Then the one thousand soldiers there also shuttled back and forth in the dust, hollering vehemently.


    Besides, seven to eight spirit maniptors disyed the spiritual martial arts to violently shoot the


    ground, sand, and stones sshing as if there were hordes of troops and horses.


    When the two thousand soldiers and the team of spirit maniptors led by the Deputy Commander in


    yellow arrived at the gentle slope, sweat trickled down their backs, free-flowing like condensation on a


    windowpane, it beaded on their forehead and dripped from their chins as they supposed that the


    Crimson Dragon Army had sent tens of thousands of soldiers.


    "Move and instruct Commander Zuo and propose to him to deliver reinforcements here..." the Deputy


    Commander in yellowmanded. He didn''t pluck up the fortitude to retreat for being in a blue funk


    that they would be encircled unaware, so he found a defensive ce to wait for the reinforcements.


    Since the rival had been taken in, Rocky led the five hundred soldiers and went in a roundabout way to


    join another five hundred men convoying army provisions.


    Before long, the Commander Zuo was notified that the Crimson Dragon Army had issued tens of


    thousands of soldiers to attack the Rough Slope. He turned serious at once and dispatched five


    thousand soldiers from the right military camp to support the Deputy Commander in yellow at the gentle


    slope, while the three thousand soldiers of the left military camp would remain to safeguard the


    hignd.


    "I perceive the Timber Deity Empire won''t assign all their men. Fortunately, I have a n in reserve."


    Rocky muttered to himself in cold eyes, an evil smile creeping in the corner of his lips.


    After that, like before, Rocky led the army of about a thousand soldiers and army provisions to impose


    a deceptive front to break through the Rough Slope to get to the ce where their military camps were


    stationed.


    When Commander Zuo who led the rest three thousand soldiers in the left military camp at east side


    perceived that an army of the Crimson Dragon Group was marching towards the Rough Slope with


    army provisions, he burst into a glee. "I know it is their trick to make us flee our base. Their real


    purpose is to escort army provisions to their military camp at the Rough Slope. Humph. How dare they


    make a progress under my nose with only a thousand soldiers? Let me takemand in person to


    wipe them out unawares."


    With no man left at the hignd, Commander Zuo immediately assembled all the three thousand


    soldiers of the left military camp and confronted the army led by Rocky. During the dog fight, Rocky led


    the three hundred soldiers escorting army provisions to retreat to the grove at the left side of the


    mountain ridge, ruled the other hundreds of soldiers to withdraw to the right side of the gentle slope to


    meet with the army cooling their heels there.


    Discerning their movements, Commander Zuo branched out the second thousand soldiers into two


    columns to chase after Rocky to loot the army provisions. He sensed once they looted the army


    provisions, the Crimson Dragon Army would fail to make the final effort.


    In a short while, the three hundred soldiers and the army provisions had entered the grove at Rocky''s


    At the point, the second thousand soldiers led by Commander Zuo also swarmed into the grove. The


    grove was crowded with people instantaneously.


    "The beer and skittlesmence!" Rocky chortled as he gave a signal.


    After a second, several high heaps of firewood in a dash were ignited, smoke smudge produced. In the


    gale, the smoke smudge floated into the grove.


    A moment afterward, the grove was shrouded in smoke fog.


    Commander Zuo supposed that there were ambushes, so he gathered the two columns of soldiers. In


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    this way, the grove was filled with a dense mass of soldiers of the Timber Deity Empire.


    All of a sudden, the trees and leaves around them shuddering, figures scurrying around, imaginary


    fears bedeviled them.


    "The men from the Timber Deity Empire, listen. Now you have been sieged. Put down your weapons


    and take off your pants, or we will shoot arrows to kill you all." At the point, a poke mullock voice


    became apparent.


    "Commander, what measures should we undertake?" a Deputy Commander beside Commander Zuo


    asked.


    "What else can we do? Can''t you make good use of your eyes and see that we are in an ambush?"


    Commander Zuo shouted while making a re at the Deputy Commander, and he bellowed, "Damn it.


    I never predicted that the Crimson Dragon Army would assign more than tens of thousands of soldiers


    to charge our two military camps on the east side. I should have instructed Commander Zhou to take


    up the cudgels for us."


    "Make it fast. Put down your weapons and take off your pants, or this will be your fate,"


    Rocky shouted. Wee! Several formidable arrows were shot into the grove, a few soldiers of the Timber


    Deity Empire tumbling down.


    Witnessing the copse of theirrades, the soldiers were all frightened as a duck being shot out of


    the sky. The morale of the army of the Timber Deity Empire began to slump. The soldiers turned


    ghostly pale at the figures sieging them, gradually losing their fighting spirit. Many of them started to put


    down their weapons and even take off their pants.


    Commander Zuo, still reeling in his opinion, whose head was in a cold sweat, was reluctant to give up


    resistance and to be seized without putting up a fight.