Within the Web of Deceit

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~by おじや

"That so? Fascinating.”

Ruolan crossed her arms beneath her chest, still blocking the man’s way. Something about him screamed to her that she shouldn’t trust him so easily, and her intuition was seldom wrong on these sort of things - at least not usually.

"I'm unarmed, if you haven't noticed," in truth, any normal person would see no weapon hanging on his waist, only a purple cloth was tied there like an decoration. Really, this woman was going to make his life somewhat more hellish, but the blight could forgo it for this plan.

"Hmm…. No, not today."

"We have less than three days before the pincer movement. Ding Feng should already be on his way to act as a distraction. This double-envelopment may or may not work, but we’ll need everyone’s best efforts.” 

While moving those pieces around on the map, much like a child, Zhu Ran began to whine.

Was that a challenge? He heard it as such, as his gaze focused on the map before him. The pincer movement was a good move overall, yet there was an terrible hindsight to this pincer move. There was some small paths weaving through the particular area. Their enemy was with some capable strategists as is, but there was one area he had his sight on.

He moved a piece over to the hillside and uttered, "A double-envelopment does have it's risks. But there could be a flanking, Positioning a ballistae unit here..." another piece was moved to another spot, "And here would cover not only the main force, but prevent an ambush as well."

"Having the ballistaes will take time, but if those areas can be procured and secured, the double-envelopment will work."