Foundation
Mo Yan looks around and as he expected everyone had a very troubled face. He himself was in shock when asked to plan for an invasion. The first three days he almost went crazy thinking about all the obstacles.
He created thousands of plans and mock battles yet the end was utter failure. After all a secret invasion with the intention to engulf an entire country was like entering a tigers den to skin his hide.
Drinking wine he moistens his throat and once again continues "that being said...it isn't impossible to invade Nanling...though the risk are high but there are paths which we can take...Emperor's idea is not bad...but the risks are too high...but with correct information and changes the plan can be used
First.. rather than just focusing on infiltrating on Nanling...we will first send a group of men to infiltrate in qing and Khan...they can mix up in the crowd of merchants that travel back and forth from no mans land trade association...
The men entering Qing will just scout for information and keep eye on Lin army's movements while the one entering Khan will contact our men acting as robbers and ruffians...afterwards they will keep eye on Pei Jins army's movements...as the wall is yet to be finished they are still vulnerable to the raids..
our men hidden as robbers just has to pass the message to the defected tribes that once the wall is raised their emperor is planning to kill all of them with nanlings assistance..with this news they will never allow the wall to be raised..we will further escalate the matter with our men joining them and making them attack nanlings borders...with chaos at hand Pei Jins army is forced to remain alert for any invasions...and Pei Jin won't be able to mobilize his army in time of crisis even if he does we have our men keeping eye on them thus giving us a chance to salvage the situation..
we will provide amnesty to the prisoners in exile and death row...in return they are to join the nomadic tribe and give trouble to yans army...one each of their family member will be kept as a hostage to make them obedient and work as we said..with sudden increase of men and attacks yans will be too busy and unable to leave their place...thus solving our another problem...
we will send elites to the three cities to find the numbers of soldiers, the men in charge, their defenses, and most of all their means and regularity of communication to higher authority...the spies we have already sent shall find out the situation with royal guards protecting the capital...this the first level of preparation that must be done without any mistake...
Second...we must have lord of the valley pulled out from the capital...best if she leaves the Nanling...or else we would have to prepare ourselves to battle her...which wouldn't be wise in our part... the possibility for that is very rare but not out of option...
She will only leave the capital for two things...one...either there happens a problem in medicine valley and two someone of high status requests her for medical assistance...we cannot rely on the first option as the elders are guarding the valley themselves and the security is even higher than of the palace..which leaves us to second option...
We will send the top mercenary to poison the current emperor of Qing Yang Fuguang...they might have suspicions on us but with the issue of walls Khans will also be under their suspicion...for the peace and not to attract attention they will settle the matter inside in secret...
Hardening poison should do the job as it is both viscious and painful...and most of all in present only she can cure it...after all she became famous by treating this poison...Jisheng being a close friend ...Pei Jin will not sit by and watch...and for Pei Jin and future benefit she will travel to treat him...with the unpredictable danger gone for the rest we just have to plan and perform with perfection..."