Chapter 1341: Stalling for Time
Charles led his main force pressing steadily toward the 5th Battalion Commander’s camp, but because they were blocked by traps all along the way, their marching speed gradually slowed down.
All these traps were very small-scale; unless you were really unlucky and stepped right on the core and got your heart pierced, the vast majority weren’t lethal. Basically as long as Charles’s team worked together to dismantle them, they could get through.
But!
There were just too many traps, way too many. One took 1–2 minutes to dismantle, ten would be 10–20 minutes, what about fifty, a hundred?
By the time the army reached the spot where the enemy camp’s Array Flag was, the soup would be cold and the day long gone.
Once Charles realized the mess he was in, his face went completely black.
Time rewinds to a few hours ago.
Back when Ji You hadn’t yet gotten the position of 5th Battalion Commander, the first thing she ordered upon returning from the enemy camp was to have Li Shanshui and the others, who had been left behind in the Seventh Team in charge of building traps and defensive works, immediately speed up trap construction.
At the time Ji You even asked, "According to the locations marked on this map I drew, I want traps in all of them. Can you pull that off?"
Li Shanshui was a boy with delicate, handsome features. His personality matched his name well—very gentle, mild, and meticulous. As soon as he saw the map Ji You had drawn, he noticed that a large chunk of the area didn’t yet fall within Ji You’s sphere of control. He frowned slightly and said, "I can build trap works on this scale, but—this territory is crossing borders. Will the other groups even let us do it?"
Ji You waved a hand the moment she heard that and said, "Don’t worry about that. You just focus on building traps, I’ll handle the rest."
After hearing this, Li Shanshui didn’t doubt Ji You’s capabilities. He nodded and said, "I understand. I can build them."