A black-clothed masked man said as he put the short knife in his hand to his lips, stretched out his tongue and licked the blood stained on the blade, his eyes flashing with pride.

It's a kind of pride that comes from the heart, it's innate.

"What nonsense, Lord Dutong is still waiting, quickly take off the clothes of these two humans, and let the two of you dress up as them!" another black-clad masked man said coldly.

"Yes!" the man immediately put away, and his haughty expression suddenly turned into respect.

The mountain wind blew through a faint trace of blood, and soon attracted a group of grinning beasts, and then they also found the corpses of two sleek humans.

"Roar!" several fierce beasts flew up, and in an instant, they devoured the corpses.

Sometimes, things are so magical, maybe the previous background of these two corpses was really noble, and they were clothed and fed since childhood, but when they died, they were just corpses after all......

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Fang Zhengzhi didn't know that Wu Yu'er would take him away from Yanjing City, and he was so far away, if he made a detour to Yanjing City, he would have to delay a lot of time in the middle.

Moreover, the main thing is that it doesn't make any sense for him to go to Yanjing City again.

Simply go straight to Dingshan Pass.

It's just that Wu Yu'er made a fuss like this, and now there is a biggest problem in front of him, that is, he doesn't even have a single soldier hair in his hand.

No soldiers?

How to take the martial arts test!

This kind of feeling is like letting you go to the ice rink to skate, but you don't give you shoes, and skate barefoot?

Single-handedly participating in the martial arts test?

I'm afraid this can be regarded as a wonderful flower in this palace martial arts test.

I don't know if it's lucky or unlucky.

A week later. A figure appeared in the Joyama Pass, dressed in a blue robe, and riding a broken horse of unknown breed under the step.

At such a time, those who rushed to Joyama Castle were either traders of animal skins or Fang Masa.

The answer is the latter.

Fang Zheng looked straight at the bluestone buildings around him, and there was a passing vendor dressed in various clothes and a stern sergeant holding a spear.

Now he has two choices.

The first is to find the general who is guarding the pass. Identify yourself, and then, try to borrow some soldiers to play, to do this, you have to look at the character.

The second is to go directly into the Southern Regions Mountains alone and enjoy the pleasure of a lone ranger.

Before making the final choice, Fang Zhengzhi decided to have a good meal first, he had been on the road these days, and finally arrived at Dingshan Pass. You can't go hungry, can you?

As a boundary near the Southern Regions, there is naturally a lot of game in Jozan Pass.

The front door of each restaurant is full of all kinds of wild animals.

"Freshly slaughtered, cut wherever you want!"

"Do you want to come inside?"

The shouts represent that the business here is still prosperous, although it can't be compared with Yanjing City, but it focuses on the original taste, and does not sell water-injected meat.

Fang Zhengzhi casually picked a restaurant with good business, and found the place with the most people to sit down leisurely, and called Xiao Er. I ordered a few dishes of game and took another pot of wine. I ate it myself.

The reason why I chose a place with a lot of people is, of course, to inquire about the news.

The restaurant has always been the most convenient place to listen to the news and ask the news, and Fang Zhengzhi has been wandering around all these years, and this common sense is still understood.

The location is good, and it sounds more clear when it sounds like the news.

As more and more diners come and go. There were also bursts of discussion in Fang Zhengzhi's ears, most of them talking about this martial arts test.

Fang Zheng listened to it directly, and added the hearsay when he came all the way, and slowly he also had some understanding of the situation of this martial arts test.

"The Great Xia Dynasty sent a total of 100,000 troops. ”

"Each candidate receives two thousand sergeants, and one of them is called a general in the examination. ”

"Prince Lin Tianrong personally led more than 40,000 soldiers to assist. ”

"The criterion for the assessment is to have more sergeants than who remains. And the Guardian Tribe!"

Fang Zhengzhi was leisurely eating wild food and drinking wine, while sorting out this information, and at the same time thinking about how to test this martial arts test.

On the surface, the biggest problem now is that there are no soldiers in hand, and it is impossible to take the exam alone, but in fact, this problem has not become the biggest problem for Fang Zheng.

The questions he considers are......

The purpose of the imperial court!

It's like, if you want to answer a question, you can't just look at the surface content of the question, you can also guess the mind of the questioner, why he came out like this, what is the meaning of such a question, which are the clues, where are the hints, and what is the hidden central idea?

Temple Examination.

The most important test of the Great Xia Dynasty is also the most strategic, wisdom and force test, but the rules are so simple, do you only need to protect the tribe and retain the army?

If this is the case, why should an additional 40,000 sergeants be sent to help?

Keeping the reference personnel safe?

It seems reasonable, but when you think about it, you always feel that it can't be as simple as it seems.

After all, Fang Zhengzhi now knows one thing very clearly, he is the first leader in the palace examination and literature examination, which Wu Yuer had already told herself when she left.

In other words, to understand it simply, the strategy of the palace examination is based on the theme of "war".

Since the strategy and ideology of the temple test is war!

Then, the mind and purpose of the Holy One is also war!

Battle......

It can't be as simple as a superficial exam? There must be some hidden purpose in this, but it is impossible for the Holy One to publicly announce this purpose in public.

In addition, there is another point that Wu Yu'er once told herself that the Southern Mountains have been almost controlled by the demons, and this almost meaning, the deep understanding naturally means that it has not been completely controlled!

Otherwise, it is estimated that this is not the result now, and it should be a direct war.

Fang Zhengzhi believed in the Shadow Gate's intelligence ability, but he didn't think that the court of the Great Xia Dynasty was full of idiots who only knew how to eat.

The news that the Shadow Gate could know, it was almost impossible for the imperial court to say that it was completely unaware.

There is no public reason......

It should be that he is afraid that the announcement will cause panic among the people, or that the Holy Lord does not intend to bring this matter to the public for the time being.

Thinking like this, Fang Zhengzhi's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Understood! Sure enough, this martial arts test is not as simple as it seems, guarding the tribe, on the surface, it is guarding, but in other words, it can also be described as control. ”

The first step is to control the four tribes in the name of the martial test, Yan Crow, Shi Zun, Thunder Lion, Han Ape, and then, on this basis, lay out heavy troops, and at that time, if the situation in the Southern Mountains really changes, the Great Xia Dynasty can launch an attack on the Holy Mountain City at the same time in the position of the four tribes.

Step 2......

Fang Zhengzhi can't think of it for the time being.

After all, the current situation is far from that step, how the Holy Lord will lay out, and what kind of plans the imperial court has, many things I don't know.

If you don't know, you can't judge.

However, one thing is certain.

If the Great Xia Dynasty wants to control the four major tribes in the name of martial arts and deploy 100,000 heavy troops, will the Southern Mountains agree? Will the demons agree?

Definitely not.

Then, there will definitely be open and secret battles, in Wu Yuer's words, I am afraid that few people who participated in the martial arts test this time will really not be able to leave alive.

This has nothing to do with whether the court is ruthless or not.

If your guess is correct, there must be a lieutenant general under each candidate, and these lieutenants should have a secret order in their hands, and they can suspend the secret order of the exam at any time.

If the martial arts test can be carried out normally, then of course everything will be fine.

Once there is a major change, the adjutant general will take over the military order, and the army will be integrated immediately, and the 100,000-strong army will be condensed into an iron plate in an instant.

Thinking of this, Fang Zhengzhi also had to admire the sage's strategy.

This is indeed the best way to deal with the current situation, if the Southern Mountains are safely landed, then this is a test to witness the peace and friendship between the two countries.

If there is any change in the Southern Regions, this is the beginning of a war.

And, most importantly, to stabilize the hearts of the people.

Everyone felt that this was a martial arts test, so naturally they would not speculate at a deep level about the real purpose of the Great Xia Dynasty's army against the Southern Regions Mountain Range.

Fang Zhengzhi gently picked up the wine glass and took a sip.

It's a little spicy.

Sure enough, the wine in the Kannai is all strong liquor.

The amount of alcohol in Fang Zhengzhi is average, and it is definitely impossible to drink booze, so this kind of spirit can only be tasted at a shallow level.

Now that the true purpose of the saint has probably been guessed, the next thing is the question that concerns him, in such a big situation, how can he win the first place in the martial arts test?

There are no soldiers......

If you can't participate in the tribal competition, then naturally you won't be able to get a score in the exam.

So, it's time to borrow troops?

But what do you do after you borrow soldiers?

Mixed into the four major tribes, and those talented people were as stupid as they thought they were taking exams, and they were fighting for blue noses and swollen faces one by one?

It was vulgar.

If you are a noble man, how can you be with them?

In addition, what he can think of, Yan Xiu should also be able to think of, then, Wu Feng should also be able to think of it, Nangong Hao......

Of course you can.

Fang Zhengzhi has never been a person who underestimates his opponent too much, Nangong Hao can give himself such a question during the literary exam, and his mind is certainly not low.

Maybe, the current Nangong Hao is peeking at the secret orders of the deputy generals around him.

All right......

Here's the problem.

In such a complex environment, how can I ensure that I get the test results of the martial arts exam, and I can not be stupid to fight those candidates? )