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Chapter 210: The Strategist Who Smashes Wine Cups

The soldiers who had successfully sheared a row of pillars in half for the first time also heard her praises. They all leapt up and cheered with joy. They had been caged beasts for over a month at this point, and this group of hot-blooded men could no longer suppress the rage inside of their hearts.

Bai Xiangxiu was extremely excited as well. She yelled loudly at them, “You are the best!”

“Wooo!” The soldiers greatly appreciated the encouragement. They all roared back with excitement after hearing her praise. They all knew that this was a strategist hired by the general. Why wouldn’t they be happy when they received such praise?

Long Heng frowned. Wouldn’t this make them overzealous? However this seemed to reveal new sides to his wife. She almost seemed to have endless amounts of vigor now. It was hard to take his eyes off of her.

Song Jiaoyue was watching everything from a roof of a building in the distance. It felt like he was in a dream. It was genuinely hard to take his eyes off of her when she shone as brightly as that, despite knowing that she was now inseparable from Long Heng and was doing all this for the sake of her husband. However, he still couldn’t forget her.

He clenched his fist tightly into a ball. Beside him, Yu Kuang abruptly asked, “What is your relationship with her?”

“Nothing.”

“But your expressions…”

“A past that I unintentionally destroyed with my own hands.”

“What?”

“You don’t need to know.” Song Jiaoyue turned and left. He was determined to help them to the best of his abilities. He couldn’t let her efforts go down the drain.

Long Heng was soon done preparing for the battle. He gave them a single day to rest, planning to start his offensive in one day. He’d already prepared a special strike team for the night operation. Since they were martial arts experts and extremely deadly in their own right, Song Jiaoyue and Yu Kuang had been assigned to the strike team as well. They would leave the city at night via a secret passage and converge in the morning to attack the enemy.

Long Heng would have to wait until morning to lead the troops into battle, because the enemy troops would never want to engage in battle at night. The battle would not begin again as long as the flag of truce was hung up high. Unless of course, a surprise attack was in the works. But who would expect a surprise attack directly from the front!?

They enjoyed a sumptuous dinner the night before the big battle. The soldiers usually in charge of cooking had also participated in training so Bai Xiangxiu took it upon herself to prepare dinner. She had nothing much to do anyways. It was very rare for a strategist to end up in the kitchen, so the soldiers followed her commands as easily as on the training field. Using her own money Bai Xiangxiu bought two pigs off the local citizens. She had the kitchen slaughter and cook them for the soldiers. She went through a lot of trouble to acquire and prepare the two pigs.

How could Long Heng and the soldiers possibly have the time to prepare all this? They were all very surprised when pork was served on their table. Long Heng was taken aback as well. He immediately asked Bai Xiangxiu, “You’ve spent all day preparing this?”

“Yes. I’ve prepared this to boost morale because every single one of you will be risking your lives in the battle tomorrow.”

“Many thanks to you.”

“I’ve bought some wine as well. However, they’re not allowed to drink too much. Everyone only gets one bowl of wine.”

The soldiers were all very excited. It’d been more than a month since they last tasted wine and meat! Moreover, everyone was allowed one bowl of wine! That amount almost seemed astronomical when they were at war.