Taming beasts starts with understanding bird language

In the afternoon dusk.

Just as Gu Chan was sitting in the lobby of the lord's mansion, anxiously waiting for news.

Yan Kuan held his head high and walked with a breeze. He came to the lord's mansion in high spirits. When he walked into the lobby and saw Gu Chan, he laughed and said, "Lord, I am here to tell you the good news."

"How's the battle going?" Gu Chan asked.

"In the battle this morning, a total of 37 enemy warships were destroyed, more than 11,000 enemy soldiers were captured, and more than 1,000 were injured. However, their lives are not in danger. Now all the captured soldiers have been temporarily taken back to the firearms camp for proper placement, and the soldiers do not have much resistance." Yan Kuan reported happily.

"Hahaha……"

Gu Chan couldn't help but burst into laughter.

She really didn't expect that Shuiyue, the female general known as the best female general in Kyoto, could be so incompetent.

All she thought about last night was that the best outcome would be to destroy half of the enemy's warships and force them to retreat. But she never expected that the fruits of victory would far exceed her imagination!

Wei Xing and the other two who were sitting nearby were also confused by what they heard.

Yuan Jie was even more surprised and asked, "General Yan, how could this happen? We only have 20 warships, 100 cannons, and only a few thousand soldiers. How can we achieve such a great victory?"

"Miss Yuan, you don't know that we attacked with artillery and the enemy could only fight back with bows and arrows. Comparing the two sides, it can be said that we were tactically crushing the enemy, leaving them with no ability to fight back at all. And most importantly, the enemy made a misjudgment and did not retreat when they should have. Instead, they took the initiative to attack us, shortening the distance between the two warships, which made it easier for our artillery to aim and attack!" Yan Kuan explained with a smile.

After he finished speaking, Yuan Jie was so amused that she couldn't stop laughing.

Wei Xing asked, "What about the enemy general?"

"Oh! General Manager, this is exactly what I feel is a pity. We let the enemy general escape on a small boat. If we could capture her and those deputy generals as well, then this battle would be a success." The smile on Yan Kuan's face froze, and he said with a look of disappointment.

Ren Nanshan said with stars in his eyes, "General Yan, I envy you so much! I also want to go up and fight them with real swords and guns. It's a pity that I don't have this opportunity."

"Why are you in such a hurry? Today is only the first day of the attack and defense, and there are still two days to go! When it comes to the third day, I will let you go up and have fun." Gu Chan waved her hand and said.

Ren Nanshan was immediately excited and rubbed his hands, eager to go to the battlefield to fight as soon as possible.

Yan Kuan said, "Lord, what should we do now?"

"You lead the brothers of the Firearm Battalion to keep an eye on the waterway. At the same time, give preferential treatment to the captured soldiers. Those who are willing to stay will be incorporated into the Firearm Battalion. Those who are unwilling to stay will be given generous gifts and sent back to Zuo Wangfeng." Gu Chan said with a sly smile.

"Yes, lord." Yan Kuanle responded.

Then he said no more, and immediately followed Gu Chan's instructions and rushed back to the Firearms Camp to comfort the captured soldiers.

After he left, Gu Chan said to Ren Nanshan, "Don't sit idle either. Take a team of guards and run around the entire Jiangnan City with a gong. Beat the gong and shout, 'The first day of the military exercise, the offensive and defensive battles were victorious. The enemy was completely annihilated, and we achieved great results.'"

"Yes, master." Ren Nanshan said while holding back a smile.

After saying this, he immediately got up and left, and then took more than 20 guards with him, each riding a fast horse and holding a gong in his hand, and began to run around Jiangnan City to spread the good news.

By the evening, the news of Gu Chan's great victory in the first wave of attack and defense of the day spread throughout the Jiangnan area.

The common people in Jiangnan City decorated the place with lanterns and colored lights, beat drums and gongs, set off firecrackers and fireworks, and other celebrations, creating a festive atmosphere. This made Zuo Wangfeng, who was in the camp in Dujiang Town, extremely angry.

Anyway, he never thought from the beginning to the end that Shuiyue would be defeated so badly despite having such a big advantage.

Look, at this moment, he was so angry that he was turning around in the big tent, his face was ashen, and he was extremely angry.

Shuiyue and several of his lieutenants knelt in front of him, all with their heads lowered and not saying a word.

After being angry for a while, Zuo Wangfeng glared at Shuiyue and cursed, "This is just a military exercise of attack and defense. I'm not really asking you to fight him to the death. He obviously has powerful weapons like artillery. You can't beat him, so you can just lead the warships and retreat. Now, not only have you lost more than 30 warships, but you also lost all the more than 10,000 soldiers you brought with you. You are really embarrassing yourself."

"General, I have suffered a defeat and have nothing to say. Please punish me by military law! I accept it." Shuiyue said stubbornly with her head down.

"You..." Zuo Wangfeng was speechless due to her anger.

If this was really a war between the two armies, with a fight to the death, then it would be fine to punish Shuiyue according to military law, but the problem is that in this offensive and defensive battle, apart from the loss of more than 30 warships, there were no casualties at all.

It was just Shuiyue who killed a deputy general with her own hands. How could he punish Shuiyue with military law?

In a rage, Zuo Wangfeng said with a sullen face, "Come here, drag her out and give her a hundred lashes. From today on, she will be dismissed from her position as a female general and will stay in the camp to feed the mysterious beasts temporarily."

"Yes, General." The two soldiers answered in unison, and immediately came in, dragging Shuiyue out on the left and right to beat her with a stick.

"Clap clap clap..."

Soon, loud sounds of beatings were heard outside the big tent.

At first Shuiyue could still hold on, but after more than thirty hits, she finally couldn't bear it anymore.

"Ah ah ah..."

What followed was her scream of pain.

The deputy generals kneeling in the big tent all had pale faces and beads of sweat on their foreheads.

They had followed Zuo Wangfeng for many years, but this was the first time they saw him so angry.

But this was just the beginning. Just when the Left King was getting angry, a soldier ran into the tent and said to him, "General, the Lord's men have brought back our captured soldiers. They also brought the body of the deputy general who was killed by Shuiyue's soldiers, and carried it here with the highest etiquette of sixteen people."

"This..." Zuo Wangfeng was speechless.

The soldiers said, "General, only about 3,000 of our soldiers have returned."

Zuo Wangfeng stood there in a daze. After a long silence, at a certain moment he felt like he had eaten rat shit and wanted to vomit but couldn't, and felt nauseous but couldn't. He slowly sat back in the chair behind him.

The deputy generals kneeling on the ground all had extremely ugly expressions on their faces.

They couldn't help but admire Gu Chan's method. She had completely given Zuo Wangfeng a fatal move!