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Ava did not laugh like everyone else. He waved his hand and said, "Generals, do not underestimate the enemy. Before I set out, the king summoned me to the palace late at night and repeatedly emphasized that if Daliang sent their ninth prince Gu Xingyan this time, I must be careful. He said that this man is a master at using troops, not inferior to me, and should not be underestimated."

Someone laughed: "I'm afraid that the one who can compete with you, the great general, has not been born yet? Hahahaha, what kind of ability can a prince who was just found from the countryside have? Don't be scared to the point of peeing your pants on the battlefield."

The others laughed along.

After laughing, several people looked at each other and asked, "Since it was just found, how did the king know about it?"

Ava raised his hand and motioned for everyone to be quiet: "The king did not say it explicitly, but he was very strange that night, as if he was very afraid of this person. He repeatedly emphasized that no matter who Daliang sent, there was no need to worry, except Gu Xingyan."

"Everyone, to be praised by the monarch, this person must be no ordinary person. The so-called newly found person is probably just an excuse to lull us. We'd better be careful."

The generals and soldiers stopped talking. Since even the king and the general said so, they would definitely take it seriously.

"Report!" a soldier outside shouted.

"Come in."

"General, a spy reported that a group of people entered the Daliang military camp this afternoon. Among them were two women and a dozen people dressed as guards."

Ava frowned. Before he set out, the king did not tell him about the women of Daliang. He only learned in the past few days that the new emperor of Daliang had issued an order to employ women as officials and generals.

Could it be that these two women were the first batch selected?

"How's your skill?"

The soldier shook his head: "The spies didn't dare to get too close. They only vaguely saw that the Daliang commander seemed to be very familiar with them. But it can be seen that they should be quite skilled."

Ava waved his hand and asked them to leave: "Keep investigating."

"Yes."

The others laughed when they heard this and said, "The girls of Daliang can only stay in the backyard and give birth to children. What use are they? Unlike the girls of our Zhao country, they grew up on horseback, so fighting and killing enemies are no problem. She is just the lover of the ninth prince of Daliang. The general king does not need to take it too seriously."

Ava just glanced at them and said nothing.

Half an hour later, the food table was removed and Ava ordered people to hang up the map.

"Huaizhou City is strategically located and surrounded by mountains on three sides, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack. Now that we have captured Huaizhou, it will be a great help to our Zhao Kingdom army."

"But the terrain of Yongzhou where we will fight tomorrow is flat. If we send out 400,000 troops, it will easily attract their attention. So this general has decided to send all the troops to attack from the front in the early morning of tomorrow before daybreak."

Someone raised a doubt: "General Wang, each city in Daliang has four gates: east, west, south, and north. If we send all our troops to attack from the south gate in the front, what if they send a small number of troops out from the other gates and go around to our rear?"

Ava was good-tempered when eating and drinking, but once he talked about the war layout, he would never allow anyone to question him and glanced at the general's face.

"The strategy set by this general cannot be opposed! Although they also have 300,000 troops, how can they be compared with our 400,000? If we attack from the front with 400,000, how can they spare the extra troops to go around behind us?"

The general didn't dare to speak anymore.

"I have told you that in a war, the worst thing to do is to disperse our forces and to underestimate the enemy! Don't think that if we take over Rangcheng and Huaizhou, we can swallow up the entire Daliang!"

"Yes!"

"The battle will begin at dawn tomorrow. We must use the ten large crossbows that we built in the past two days."

"Yes."

This large crossbow can fire twenty arrows at once. The people of Daliang are really amazing. They can actually make such a good weapon.

It was only after he conquered Rangcheng and Huaizhou that he conducted a thorough study and discovered the underlying principle. He immediately captured several beam craftsmen and asked the people of Zhao to learn from them.

Several people looked at each other, not daring to say anything.

Ava asked coldly, "What's the problem?"

One of them said cautiously: "Great General Wang, these bows and crossbows were made by people from Daliang. Our people are learning on the side first. How come these bows and crossbows have not been tried yet? If something goes wrong..."

This time Ava did not refute: "What you said makes sense. So, take a few people to test the crossbow first."

"Yes!"

"If anyone from Daliang dares to be sneaky or cunning, kill him!"

"Yes." After receiving the order, the man immediately went out with a dozen of his soldiers to the place where bows and crossbows were made.

Then Ava issued the orders one by one.

By the time everything was said, it was almost the hour of Xu.

Ava rubbed his swollen brows and said, "Alright, let's do this. You go back and rest for two hours. After two hours, the army will gather together and follow me to take Yongzhou City in one fell swoop and capture Gu Xingyan alive!"

"Yes, take over Yongzhou City and capture Gu Xingyan alive!"

"Report!" A broken voice rushed in from outside.

Everyone's heart sank, wondering if something had happened to the food.

Ava shouted, "Come in, what's going on?"

"General, we captured a Daliang soldier, and he said that there were unusual movements in the Daliang army."

Ava stood up from his seat and asked, "Where are our spies? Why is there no news at all?"

The soldier knelt on one knee, with cold sweat oozing from his forehead: "No news was sent back, probably he was killed."

"Bring people in."

After receiving the order, the soldier brought in a man who was tied up. The man was wearing a Daliang soldier's uniform, was about thirty years old, and had a goatee.

The soldier kicked his knee hard, and the man with the goatee fell heavily to his knees.

Ava raised his foot and kicked the soldier away. The soldier spit out blood due to the heavy kick.

On the contrary, he showed great respect to the man with the goatee and personally stepped forward to help him up: "Are you a soldier from Daliang?"

"Yes."

"Why are you here?"

The goatee snorted coldly: "No reason. Are you the King of Ava, the Great General of Zhao Kingdom?"

Ava nodded: "That's right, General."

The goatee's mouth curled up into a smile: "I'm looking for you."

Ava laughed: "I didn't realize that I had been targeted by a small soldier like you from Daliang."

The man with the goatee said calmly, "This afternoon, Gu Xingyan convened a meeting of all generals above the rank of deputy general to make a plan to attack Huaizhou City in the early morning of tomorrow."

He was in charge of pouring the night incense, and he heard a lot when the generals came out of the commander's tent.

Several people were shocked. It was almost the hour of Xu, and less than five hours until midnight.

Well, we originally planned to attack Yongzhou City in the early morning, but they actually dared to attack Huaizhou City first. This Gu Xingyan has really never been to the battlefield, so he dares to act recklessly.

Ava was not completely convinced: "Why did you reveal such important information to me? This is treason. How can this general trust you?"