The system asked me, a weak woman, to challenge a saint

While Chen Subaru was fully commanding the defense of Puyang County Military Town, ten scout strongholds had been quietly established in the northeast of Gaoping County Military Town.

Although the human puppet scouts act cautiously and are equipped with investigative weapons, the northeastern part of Gaoping County Military Town is the focus of the military town scouts' investigation. Coupled with Lin Hu's personal investigation, and after a battle between the scouts, Lin Hu finally discovered the locations of at least seven scout strongholds after losing more than twenty scouts.

When Lin Hu was covered in blood and brought the information back to Gaoping County, Li Zhong, the temporary commander of Puyang County, hesitated. There are seven scout strongholds, each with at least a hundred people, and the distance between them is no more than twenty miles. If you add in the hidden strongholds and troops, these scouts have built a reconnaissance area that stretches for hundreds of miles, and their combat strength may exceed a thousand people.

Witnessing Lin Hu's miserable appearance, although she was just exhausted and not seriously injured, our side had actually lost more than twenty elite scouts, including a Concentrating Realm scout. Li Zhong believed that if we relied on the military power of Gaoping County to remove these strongholds, even if we succeeded, the casualties would be unbearable.

Lin Hu waited for a long time in the military meeting hall of Gaoping County Military Town. He seemed a little impatient with Li Zhong's hesitation and urged: "Sir, the enemy scouts have established several strongholds. If we don't destroy them as soon as possible, Their next step may be to build a siege camp, which will make it much more difficult to destroy the enemy. At the same time, the construction of the camp will also provide more support for the invasion of the puppet army. "

Li Zhong frowned and waited for a long time before responding: "I understand."

Li Zhong was not a cowardly general. He also knew that he should give priority to destroying the enemy's plan to build a siege camp. However, Gaoping County was now empty of troops. Most of his troops were the newly recovered Wupu garrison, and the military town was still there. To carry out the construction of peripheral defense, in addition to basic defense and patrol, all manpower was dispatched. The only mobile forces currently available are the 200 infantry on fixed patrol, the 100 cavalry left behind to guard the military town, and the more than 100 scouts in Lin Hu's hands.

Not to mention the serious shortage of troops, even with the nearly a thousand troops led by Gao Ping, the price to be paid to eliminate this enemy is not ordinary, and there is even a risk of the entire army being annihilated if not careful.

Seeing that Li Zhong was silent, Lin Hu could no longer persuade him. She politely excused herself and prepared to leave the military meeting hall. At this time, Li Zhong whispered: "Lin Hu, before taking a rest, please use the military town's communication formation to contact Young Master Wen Ruo and inform him of the situation you have discovered."

Lin Hu heard this, did not respond, saluted again and left the military meeting hall.

After annihilating the scout stronghold, Chen Subaru carefully considered and decided to put the last part of the war preparation materials stored in Jiangjun Town into a new layer of peripheral defense. Although these materials are not enough to build a fourth-level defensive array, considering that Puyang County is not the enemy's main attack direction, if the killing position outside the military town is wide enough, the enemy's diversionary force attack will be more cautious, thereby gaining more for Chen Subaru. Time for tactics.

Just as Chen Subaru was carefully examining the terrain map and considering which areas to put limited supplies into outside the third-level formation to more effectively confuse the enemy, a monk responsible for guarding the communication formation came to him and informed him that the communication formation had been received in Gaoping County. Junzhen connection request.

Some small mechanisms were added to the Beifu Army's communication formation. When the formation is activated, these small mechanisms will be triggered. The formations of other military towns can recognize them and quickly locate the military town that sends the message. Therefore, the monks guarding the formation can use the distance information displayed by the formation mechanism to determine which military town the message is from.

After receiving the report from the monks guarding the formation, Chen Subaru rushed to the military town where the formation was communicated in a flash. At this time, another monk responsible for guarding the formation was waiting for news from his colleagues. He first saw Chen Subaru, and then heard the message from his colleagues. Since the entire military town was aware of Chen Subaru's cultivation and identity, the monks guarding the formation activated the formation without hesitation. The communication between the army and the town is often about emergency military situations, and the monks guarding the formation will not delay military affairs because of their greed for spiritual stones.

In the formation, Chen Subaru listened to Lin Hu's report on the current military situation in Gaoping County. He did not issue an order immediately, but asked with concern: "Lin Hu, are you seriously injured?"

Lin Hu was not as full of personal emotions as Lin Yue. She responded humbly based on the fixed correspondence in her memory: "I'm fine, I'm worried, young master. Although I lost some manpower during this investigation of the enemy's scout base, However, the subordinates did not encounter a real life-threatening opponent. The mission given by the young master was to investigate, not to kill, so they did not fight the enemy. However, the subordinates chose to retreat after excessive casualties and failed to completely. Exploring the enemy's situation, please forgive me, young master."

Chen Subaru comforted him softly: "It doesn't matter, Lin Hu. You did the right thing. It's not a life-or-death moment yet, so conserving your strength is a wise choice."

Hearing Chen Subaru's compliment, Lin Hu smiled charmingly even though he couldn't see anyone.

Chen Subaru's real purpose in asking Lin Hu was not just to care about his subordinates, but to worry that enemy scout strongholds in every county contained difficult enemies like Li Minke. Knowing that Lin Hu had escaped unharmed, Chen Subaru judged that there might not be such a person hiding in the Gaoping County scout army.

After all, Lin Hu’s cultivation level is not low. Since the opponent discovered her existence and made her pay a heavy price in the scout battle, but ultimately failed to keep her and did not even pose a threat to her life, Chen Subaru felt that the enemy would not Such magnanimity allowed her to let this woman go safely after exploring seven strongholds.

In fact, Chen Subaru's judgment was basically correct. After discovering Lin Hu, the human puppet scouts from Gaoping County immediately sent more manpower to besiege him. When Lin Hu realized that she had been surrounded by enemy scouts, she estimated the time from discovering herself to sending reinforcements and surrounding her based on the enemy's cultivation. She speculated that the enemy should have a detection range of twenty to twenty-five miles.

However, Lin Hu's trump card is not stealth detection, but charm. Unlike Lin Yue, her charm works quickly. Therefore, after being trapped, Lin Hu did not panic.

First of all, Huanchen Sect's charm technique is not limited to species. Human puppets will also be affected. Although the extent is limited, it is still a fatal move in a fight. Secondly, Lin Hu's charm technique is the most traditional and widely applicable among the Huanchen Sect, and its group charm effect is particularly significant.

Lin Hu asked her army scouts to attract the enemy's attention as much as possible, while she took the opportunity to use charm to influence the enemy scouts. Under the influence of Lin Hu's charm, enemy scouts may be killed due to lack of concentration, or they may attack their companions in retaliation. Therefore, the enemy suffered heavy casualties in the early stage, and the military town scouts led by Lin Hu easily broke through the encirclement.

The human puppet scouts were quite experienced in fighting. They quickly adjusted their strategy and no longer tried to surround Lin Hu with the human sea tactic. Instead, they chose to set up an ambush on Lin Hu's only road, hit and kill her scouts, and quickly evacuated after success.