Flowers Bloom from Battlefield

While they were resting on the headquarters, Soujin revised the tactics once again. Ming Hui checked the soldiers again and counted them. According to him, the number of wounded soldiers didn’t increase much from yesterday, but there were still more of them.

”Probably, he’s only lucky to guess the way you fight correctly,” Yan tried to ease the tense atmosphere.

”Blaming yourself won’t solve the situation,” Jun Hua put the map in front of them, ”Let’s make a strategy for winning the war.”

Soujin nodded his head and arranged the strategy with them. Lou and Shu guard the area and didn’t allow anyone to come near them.

”Is it possible that there is a spy here?” Ming Hui suddenly asked. He didn’t believe that Ye Jiu could see the future. It sounded extremely impossible as there was no way someone could see the future. The possible explanation would be there was a spy among them.

Soujin frowned. The one who knew the strategy they were going to use was only him and them. Even their personal guards were located far enough. Besides, they didn’t say which strategy they were going to use clearly as Soujin would still direct the battle by himself or Jun Hua inserted additional things inside.

After all, when Jun Hua countered the attack previously, Ye Jiu didn’t respond very well. So, he must only know the original plan but didn’t know the rest of their attack. Was there a pattern in the attack that Ye Jiu could read?

”No, there is no spy,” Soujin already tested it before by not telling anyone about his attack to anyone and only gave the vague instruction to his squad. Much to his surprise, Ye Jiu still knew about his tactic, despite him not telling anyone. So he knew, Ye Jiu didn’t use spies.

”Let’s just try different tactics that we never used before,” Jun Hua suggested.

”I see.”

They agreed. If they couldn’t win by the usual strategy they used, they need to change them. One way or another, they believed that they could find a strategy they could use to counter Ye Jiu perfectly.

Still, the result crushed their hope continuously.

No matter which strategy Soujin use, even those that he never used before, Ye Jiu would always counter the strategy perfectly. The strategy pushed them to unfavorable position and making them farther and farther away from the capital.

”The distance that we fight hard to gain is slowly taken back by Ye Jiu,” after three weeks, the distance became obvious and they discussed how they should fight whilst retreating on the horse. Jun Hua also riding a horse after a long time insisting and complaining. She wouldn’t want to stay in the carriage once again. After all, riding horse didn’t really require her martial arts.

”It’s obvious, he can predict the strategy that Soujin use very well,” Ming Hui frowned. The ability Ye Jiu had could be called insane. More importantly, he was the enemy they had to face.

Soujin nodded. No matter which strategy he used, the strategy that Ye Jiu used would perfectly counter his. Although the damage was not big because he could react on time, the morale on his soldiers was going down every day. If this continued, there was no guarantee that they would not lose their composure.

They have been trying to change their pattern and attack Ye Jiu in a different way. Unfortunately, their decision always ended in him reading them. No matter how many times they tried to read the pattern, they couldn’t.

”What about an ambush for him?” Yan asked.

Because they were retreating and heading towards a different place, there was a chance that they couldn’t set up an ambush here. Ye Jiu shouldn’t be able to predict them because they didn’t see each other.

Soujin looked around. It was not impossible to put an ambush here, but the problem was they didn’t know where Ye Jiu would appear and if he did, would their attack succeed? Glancing around, he finally nodded his head solemnly.

”I will stay behind to set up an ambush. All of you continue to the hill and set the headquarters,” Soujin answered.

Jun Hua didn’t like the idea of ambush, but she nodded her head, ”I understand.”

In any case, even her tactics couldn’t surprise Ye Jiu when they were facing each other on the battle. So, this time, she would try to bet with the idea of ambush. If he hadn’t seen the soldiers, probably he would not be able to guess.

As Jun Hua and the others went on their way, Soujin led part of his soldiers for an ambush. He carefully selected a good place for the soldiers to hide and waited for Ye Jiu to appear on the way. On the side of Soujin, Lou stayed vigilant.

This battle was undoubtedly the hardest battle Soujin ever experience. Ye Jiu was such a peculiar opponent that made them couldn’t predict his movement while he could tell their movement very clearly and made the precaution before the battle happened.

Hiding, Soujin waited for a few hours before he sensed that something was wrong. He hurriedly told his soldiers to prepare for a battle and moved to the side only to meet with Ye Jiu who had already standing there along with his soldiers.

”You’re not that foolish too, General Soujin,” Ye Jiu said with a slight smile, ”But, it’s already too late.”

Soujin drew his sword. His mind was in turmoil. How could Ye Jiu found that they were setting up an ambush here? Looking at the number of soldiers behind Ye Jiu, he knew that Ye Jiu had guessed correctly the number of soldiers he had here.

”How did you guess it?” Soujin asked in a rather cold tone.

”You wouldn’t know even if I told you, General Soujin,” Ye Jiu smiled, ”This time, I would not fall for the same tactic anymore.”

”This time…?” Soujin couldn’t remember meeting with Ye Jiu before aside from their battle starting a few weeks before. As for talking, he could only remember the taunt the other party said to him. Besides, with their difference in location, there was no chance for them to meet with each other in the past.

Ye Jiu smirked, ”Of course, you would not know because in your memory we hadn’t met before.”

Soujin readied his sword. No matter what, he needed to get out from this trap.

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Here’s the link again: (there’s only 4 hours left and we’re still halfway to the second goal~)

https://activity.webnovel.com/2019/64169591/womansday