The night on the Wolf Slope is peaceful and quiet, and the white moon is like water, sprinkled on the tall grass on the slope, with a soft shimmer. From time to time, insects chirped around, one after another, reflecting the night so quietly.

The breeze rustled through the tall grass, but someone whispered in the rustle.

"General, the spies have just come to report: the tributary procession of the Qiang people has traveled five miles outside the slope." In the grass, a middle-aged man who looked like a soldier said respectfully to an old man who looked like another general.

The old man was about fifty or sixty years old, dressed in cast-iron armor, wearing a general's helmet, and a long gray goatee, and looked kind. If it weren't for this armor, I am afraid that I would be regarded as an old man who got lost in the mountains.

"Well, the order, the whole army is silent, and those who violate the order will be beheaded!" As soon as the old man waved his hand, the military order spread all over the slope with the breeze, and after the wind passed, only the insects chirped.

The middle-aged man couldn't help but shudder when he saw this scene. He knows all too well what the man in front of him means!

This old general's name is Situ Bao, and when he was first transferred to the army, everyone thought that he would be a good talker when they saw his kind eyebrows and good intentions. There was a lieutenant who left the camp and returned home, but because of some personal matters at home, he returned to the camp one day late, and was hung in front of the gate by Situ Leopard for three days and three nights, and he was not let go until he lost his breath. On another occasion, his lieutenant was secretly drinking in his tent and was caught in the right place, only to have his legs broken by his "cane fifty years...... Now, he has given this silent order, and I am afraid that as long as someone makes a loud fart, he will definitely be beheaded on the spot.

"Han Yi, why are you in a daze?"

"Uh, General, Last...... The last general was just thinking about something......" The middle-aged man who was called Han Yi couldn't help but panic a little when he saw Situ Leopard looking at him, but suddenly remembered something, "That's right! There is something to be reported to the general. ”

"Hurry up!"

Seeing that Situ Leopard was a little impatient, Han Yi didn't dare to slack off, and arched his hand: "General Hui, in addition to reporting the whereabouts of the tributary team, the scouts also found a strange thing - the tributary team was followed by a large number of homeless people, with tens of thousands of people."

"Outcasts? This is outside the Guan, and there have been no disasters in the near future, how can there be tens of thousands of displaced people? Even if they are really homeless, why do they rush in the middle of the night? Situ Bao said strangely.

The last general also thought it was very strange. The spies also said that the group of homeless people were just following the tributary procession in an orderly manner, and did not make any moves, and it seemed that they did not have any plans for the tribute. Han Yi lowered his head and said, but when he looked up, he saw Situ Leopard holding his white goatee, as if he was in deep thought.

"General, things are different, or we will withdraw our troops first, and wait for ......"

"Withdrawal? Not necessarily. If those people are really outcasts, we will scatter and flee when we start. I'm afraid...... Forget it, let's wait and see! Situ Bao said, but suddenly heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves coming from the west side of the road.

"General, it's the Sentinel of the Qiang people!"

"Tell the whole army to hide carefully!" Situ Bao commanded softly.

As soon as he waved his hand, several heralds whispered the order all over the grass, and there was a dead silence in the grass. At this moment, the sound of insects disappeared.

On the road down the slope, the sound of horses' hooves got closer and closer, and it didn't take long to reach the bottom of the slope. Everyone in the grass could see clearly that the horses were driven by two Qiang cavalrymen wearing sheepskin jackets and carrying scimitars at their waists.

When the two men came down the slope, they stopped and began to look around. One of them rode his horse around the side of the road.

When they looked around, and when they saw that there was no danger, they rode their horses east along the road.

The sentry rode away, but the people on the slope were not relieved, for they saw that countless fires were flickering on the west side of the road.

The light of the fire grew brighter and closer, and it was not long before it reached the bottom of the slope. Everyone could clearly see that under the firelight were hundreds of Qiang soldiers holding torches and wearing sheepskin covers, escorting dozens of carriages full of large iron boxes, slowly marching eastward.

Situ Leopard looked at the team, but his gaze stopped at one of them.

It was a bald man, dressed in a fur coat, stepping off a yellow horse, carrying a scimitar at his waist and carrying a longbow. There is a long scar on his face, up to the eyebrows, down to the cheeks, and the appearance is very fierce.

Situ Bao looked at the bald man and muttered: "Dan Muyang! The envoy turned out to be him? ”

"General, do you know this person?"

"Well, it's kind of an old acquaintance." Situ Bao pinched his beard and said in a low voice, "His name is Dan Muyang, and he is the commander of the Qiang tribe and one of the three great warriors of the Qiang tribe. Before the Qiang people surrendered to my Great Liang Kingdom, I fought him on the battlefield. His kung fu, tsk......"

"General, look over there!"

Situ Bao looked in the direction pointed by Han Yi, and saw that behind the tributary procession, a large number of ragged homeless people were following.

"This should be the outcasts that the spies are talking about."

"Outcasts?" Situ Bao's expression suddenly became a little solemn, "Han Yi, have you ever seen that there are only men and no women among the homeless, and they are all strong?" ”

Listening to Situ Bao's words, Han Yi looked at those "homeless people" carefully, and sure enough, there were men and women, and all of them were young and strong. They have a steady pace and are powerful. Tens of thousands of people walked together in an orderly manner, and there was no crowding and pushing in the ordinary crowd of displaced people. There wasn't even any noise of speech except for footsteps.

This is an outcast, it is clearly an army pretending!

"General, since things have changed, it's better to ......"

Han Yi was reluctant, he wanted to persuade Situ Leopard to withdraw his troops, but seeing that Situ Leopard's face was becoming more and more gloomy, he didn't dare to say any more.

He didn't know that Situ Leopard at this moment was riding a tiger - the day before yesterday, the Zhengxi General's Mansion had given himself a secret order: under the banner of the Northern Wei Dynasty, he robbed the Qiang people to pay tribute to Daliang, intending to provoke the relationship between the Qiang people and the Northern Wei Dynasty, and use this to lead the Northern Expedition. He also made a military order, and if he didn't succeed, he became a benevolent. But now......

Situ Leopard turned his head to look at the soldiers who were also crouching in the grass behind him, and sighed lightly.

"A wise man thinks a thousand times, and he will make a mistake...... I thought it was a few hundred escorts, and I could easily solve it with a battalion of men and horses. But now in this situation, the opponent has ten times more men than himself, even if he takes advantage of the ambush to attack him unprepared, it is most likely to be more than auspicious and ......unlucky," Situ Leopard muttered in his heart, but did not give the order whether to attack or retreat.

Half an hour passed, but Situ Bao was still hesitant.

At this time, the people and horses under the slope had already crossed the slope for a small time, Situ Bao saw that the fighter plane was about to be lost, and finally made a decision, and said to Han Yi in a low voice: "Pass my general order, and the whole army will enter the ......."

"Whoa—"

Before Situ Leopard's word "attack" was spoken, an arrow broke through the air from the top of his head.

He has been in the army since he was a child, and has experienced more than 100 battles of all sizes, not without the experience of arrows crossing his side. But he had never heard such a roaring of arrows breaking through the air! It is conceivable that if this arrow is aimed at himself, even if he is wearing armor, I am afraid that he will end up with armor piercing and death.

Situ Bao was shocked and angry, he raised his eyes to look at the team of Qiang people down the slope, but saw that the tributary team and the "homeless" people behind him were all in chaos. Someone in the military formation shouted something loudly in the Qiang language, and his voice was full of horror. He looked at Dan Muyang's position again, and saw that the bald man was already lying on the back of the horse, and there was a white feather arrow stuck in the bald head.

Situ Leopard realized that the arrow just now was not shot at him by the Qiang people, but in his own army formation, someone sniped Dan Muyang without authorization.

"Han Yi, go and show me who made the move without permission, and if you find it, you will kill me on the spot!"

"The last general commands!"

"Wait!"

Situ Leopard was a little confused by that arrow, but after all, he had been on the battlefield for a long time, and immediately reacted, the enemy had just lost the main general, and the chances of winning the army at this moment were a few percent greater.

"No matter who it is, keep his head first, and then dispose of it after the war."

Han Yi saw that Situ Bao had the intention of ordering troops, so he reminded in a low voice: "The last general understands. However, the general, although the arrow just shot the opponent's main general, the Qiang people did not seem to be affected too much, but they discovered our location. ”

What Han Yi said, Situ Bao also noticed it. I saw that although the tributary team had lost its main general, under the command of several junior generals, it began to assemble into several small military formations on the main road. The wandering army behind took out their scimitars out of nowhere, and slowly moved closer to the military formation down the slope.

"It's okay, although the Qiang people already know our location, they don't know our troops, so they don't dare to attack rashly. Give the order to the archers, give me a concentrated shot—who is this?!! ”

Situ Leopard's military order was once again interrupted by the sound of breaking through the air.

"Woo-" "Ah-"

With a sound of breaking through the sky, a young general in the Qiang army who had been shouting fell to the ground screaming, with a white feather arrow stuck in his right eye.

Before Situ Leopard could fully react, he heard several arrows breaking through the air one after another from the top of his head. And echoed by the screams on the road.

If Dan Muyang's death just now caused a small chaos, then the Qiang army at this time was really in chaos.

Some of them still gathered in a group, continuing to carry out the orders of the dead general. Others are looking for bunkers, or behind wagons, or horses, or boulders. There were a few others, I don't know if they were too heroic or too stupid, and they actually rushed up the slope.

"Archers obey! Shoot the arrows! ”

Situ Leopard heard a young voice from the top of the slope behind him, followed by countless arrows flying out of the grass behind him, sprinkled down the slope like a shower. At that moment, the screams and scolding were endless.

Situ Bao looked back at the figure at the top of the slope, his face was cloudy, "Han Yi, do you know this person?" ”

Han Yi scolded in his heart, and he replied with a blushing face: "This person's name is Jiang Xiaoshui, and he is a soldier commander under the command of the last general."

"Humph!" Situ Leopard snorted coldly, did not look at the figure again, but turned his head to face the slope and shouted, "Listen to my orders, the whole army charges!" Kill! ”

"Kill—" Thousands of figures leaped out of the slope and rushed towards the already chaotic military formation below.

……

"Jiang Lan, you don't want to die? Do you know that this is called a fake military order! It's going to lose your head! On the hillside, Xiang Beichuan looked at Jiang Lan with a pale face.

"Lao Xiang, don't worry, after this battle, Situ Leopard will not only not cut the master, but will also reward the master heavily!" Jiang Lan said with a smug face.

"I don't know about others, but if you play this game here in Situ Leopard, the end will definitely not be good, and you will have to take a military stick at the lightest!"

At this time, a full year has passed since the two joined the army. During this year, they were all promoted to commanders by virtue of their outstanding skills.

Yesterday afternoon, their commander Han Yi called his commanders and commanders over and ordered them to assemble their respective teams and rush out of the customs to the Wild Wolf Slope.

"Old Xiang, you're also a veteran. Think about it with your pig brain, what is the purpose of our ambush here? Jiang Lan said, and at the same time put the bow on his back, and pulled out the long knife behind his back.

"The purpose? I don't know why! Han Duwei said yesterday that this time he came to ambush the tributary team of the Qiang people. Xiang Beichuan muttered, he didn't understand why Jiang Lan had this question.

"Hey, forget it. I'll tell you about it when the battle is over. You see, everyone else has gone up to kill them, let's hurry up, lest people say that we are retreating! Jiang Lan shook his head, and then walked straight to the battle group down the slope with a long knife in his hand.

Seeing this, Xiang Beichuan had to shake his head helplessly, and then followed to fight.

The Qiang army below the slope has long been in disarray.

They had already lost their command, and then they saw countless figures on the slope rushing towards them with the moonlight on their backs, and they were even more frightened on the spot. Nine out of ten people scatter and flee, and those who resist are also fighting on their own.

As soon as the two militaries clashed, the winner was already decided.

Because of the large number of displaced people, the line was very long, and the soldiers at the back of the line did not know the situation ahead. Several of the leading generals originally wanted to lead the team to support, but seeing that more and more friendly troops fled back from the front, they also retreated and fled with their soldiers towards the way they came.