When she came out of her house, it was already the morning of the third day.

In the past two days, the water and rice in Lihua have not entered, except for occasionally calling An Xuzhi, Li Ji, Gao Yunce and others to discuss various matters, he has never come out for other things, so when he walked out of the house, everyone in the gate looked at him.

I saw that his hair was messy, and his eyes were obviously red and swollen because he had not been fully rested for a long time. This is quite different from the neatness and cleanliness of Lihua's appearance on weekdays, and it can be seen how hard the six sergeants were killed and two sergeants disappeared this time.

In fact, in the past few days, he was not only depressed because of the death of the soldiers, but more because he was annoyed that he was helpless in the face of such a non-human animal attack, and he was constantly thinking about good strategies for the past two days. By talking with An Xuzhi, Li Ji and others, he learned that the Sumeru wolf was not something that could be met in a large number of people, so he could only blame himself for his bad luck at the time.

In fact, the way to avoid losses is simple, it is nothing more than to counter violence with violence, and win the few with the many. Rivaling this creature with almost no intelligence, it can only compete with its numbers and weapons, and if the number of wolves is far greater than the wolf pack or not much different from the number of wolves when they first encounter it, those Sumeru wolves probably will not take the initiative to provoke themselves.

Early this morning, Zhu Lihua felt that he could no longer be so negative, after all, he was the main general of this city, and Rong Di would come to invade the pass at any time at any time. Your words and deeds will affect the morale and fighting spirit of the soldiers under your account.

The grain and grass outside Long Decheng had already been quietly transported to the Qimu Pass, even when passing through the Yuxiao Pass, it was only said that the grain and grass raised by Jieyuan was raised, which made the defenders of the Yuxiao Pass envious.

Regarding An Xuzhi's matter, Yu Lihua personally returned to Yuxiao Pass to discuss with Han Yunbin all night, and Han Yunbin also admitted that Wen Zhaoyuan's delay in going to the rescue that day was authorized by Wen Zhaoyuan, and sent someone to monitor him, and he had no choice but to do it. The prison soldier sent by Wen Zhaoyuan was also killed by him at the last moment, so he sent someone to rescue Mu Qiguan. In this regard, he also sent someone to repair the book to explain to Wen Zhaoyuan that the person died at the hands of Rong Di, and gave all the family wealth he had saved over the years to Wen Zhaoyuan, and promised to find an opportunity to kill An Xuzhi, which only had a few months of buffer time, and during this time, he was also worried about this matter.

Hearing that Lihua had learned the details from An Xu, Han Yunbin also knew that killing An Xuzhi had a conscience and his attitude towards Lihua was obviously biased towards An Xuzhi, so he simply told Lihua all the things, and also hoped that Lihua could help him get out of this predicament, after all, Lihua was also a nobleman, and there was a big Buddha behind him.

After the two discussed, the final solution was to send a military report from Jimuguan that An Xuzhi had died in a conflict with the Rong people, and reported to the Yuanzhou General Government to reward him with meritorious service. At the same time, Han Yunbin was also asked to repair a letter and send it to Wen Zhaoyuan of the Xijing Military Department to explain An Xu's death in battle, and attach An Xu's military talisman and blood robe as evidence. Although Wen Zhaoyuan's doubts cannot be completely dispelled, it will soon be the time for Rong Di to invade the pass, and I think Wen Zhaoyuan will not pay too much attention to these two small characters. Moreover, the Yuanzhou General Government also recorded the death of An Xu in the battle, and if Wen Zhaoyuan pursued it, it would be well documented.

However, since then, there is no such person as An Xu in the world. For a warrior in a hundred battles, such an ending is inevitably a little sad. However, An Xuzhi was open-minded, and after hearing that Zhu Lihua came back to explain to him, he just smiled and said: "As long as you stay alive and take revenge", after speaking, he went to work on his own affairs like a person who had nothing to do.

After standing outside the door and sorting out his thoughts, he ordered the sergeant to bring breakfast and hurriedly use it, and then ordered the soldiers to go out again to inspect the enemy's situation.

For nearly a month after that, he took his soldiers out of the customs almost every day to inspect and run all over the corners of the 30-kilometer range outside the Muqi Pass, so that he was familiar with the terrain in this area. Lihua sent people to set up some lookout posts in several places with steep terrain and open vision within ten miles outside the Muqi Pass, so that the observation range of the Muqi Pass was extended outward for ten miles, which was to enable the Rong people to detect and deploy defenses earlier before the attack. There are two people at each of these observation posts, and the posts are eight paces above the ground, which is effective in preventing wild beast attacks. If the Rong people are found, the wolf smoke in the post will be lit as soon as possible, and the personnel will be withdrawn into the pass.

On this day, early in the morning, he took 40 people out of the customs to inspect the customs, and in addition to the 12 sergeants who had returned from the last attack, he also sent 28 people with him. The lesson of the last time made Zhu Lihua a little nervous in his heart, he was afraid that there would be a shortage of manpower and he had to flee for his life, so after careful consideration, he took a forty-person exploration team with him every time he went out of the customs for more than a month, after all, he was prepared. In addition to the outposts, it is enough to leave 60 guards in the pass, because there is only one way up the mountain, and if the Rong people come to attack, most of them will also meet their own reconnaissance troops, and then they can retreat. If it happens to be wrong with the Rong troops after going down the mountain, then it will be too late for these sixty people to wait for reinforcements by virtue of the dangerous pass, after all, the distance between Yuxiao Pass and Qimu Pass is not very far.

He still sent out four scouts, about 100 meters away from the team, to check in advance, and he took the rest of the soldiers to patrol along the way.

During this inspection, they plan to explore the road where they first encountered the Sumeru wolf. An hour or so, everyone came to the forest where they were attacked, and Lihua stood alone and silently in front of the few trees that the deceased soldier had climbed, stared at him for a long time and said softly: "Six brothers, you have protected me and died, and there is nothing to repay in the tree, but to find them to avenge you." With that, he bowed deeply and turned to leave.

Whether you stand on the Muqi Pass or the Yuxiao Pass and look west, they are all majestic and stretching mountains, if you can see the people of Lihua and his party, you will find that they have only walked through a tenth of the mountain range after walking for half a day. They had already passed by the stream where the bodies of the six soldiers had been found. At the moment, a fire is being lit outside a mountain col stone fort along the way to make food. Lu Lihua stood on top of the stone castle, Wei Yuanqi, Liu He and Li Ji accompanied him, and at this moment he was explaining these stone castle things to Wei Yuanqi and others.

"This stone fort was originally a fortification built when Yao Jun went out to conquer Rong Di, because after Rong Di was forced to withdraw from Shenzhou, Yao Jun led Yongshang and Liu Ang to lead 100,000 troops out of Qin Lan and Sumeru to pursue Rong Di, but after the soldiers entered the mountains, they saw Rong Di turned into pieces and hid into the mountains and forests, and the Rong people did not attack Yongshang and Liu Ang in formation, but hid and harassed from time to time, making Yongliu and Liu miserable, and the morale of the soldiers gradually declined as the casualties became larger and larger. After Yao Jun learned of the situation, he repaired the book and the two of them, and asked them to build stone forts along the way, gather forts to defend themselves, and attack with the forts, so as to gradually open up the situation. Jie Zi once told me that he found these stone castles outside the Qinlan Pass to the west, usually separated by ten miles, and the same is true for Sumeru. ”

"Then why give up these stone forts, it also looks quite solid, if these stone forts are still occupied by me, the surrounding fertile land will no longer have to work hard to climb the mountains to transport grain." Zhu Lihua looked at Wei Yuanqi, who was asking him, and said, "The stone fort is easy to guard in groups, how many people can be accommodated in a single stone fort?" Compared to Yuxiao and Qimu Xiongguan, how many lives can be added to these stone forts to hold on? The stone fort is only an expedient measure when enterprising, and it is not advisable to defend it. A fort is surrounded, should the surrounding fortresses be saved, how to save it, and how many troops should be sent to save it? Ten thousand steps back, if the war reaches the point where you can defend yourself with a fort, it can only be a dying earning, so after Yao Jun withdrew his troops, he chose to build a garrison through the trench channel, although he lost some land, but also kept the peace of my Shenzhou for more than 500 years. ”

After listening to what Li Hua said, everyone nodded yes. Zhu Lihua looked at a few people and said: "But the matter is not absolute, it also depends on the surrounding situation and the changes in the war, if the backup is unimpeded, the soldiers in each fort are sufficient, the weapons are abundant, and the fort is not indispensable, and it can also achieve the purpose of containing the troops, dissipating the fighting spirit of the enemy army, and dispersing the deployment of the enemy army." ”

"At that time, it would be better if there was a strange army that was divided and annihilated." Zhu Lihua smiled slightly, looked at Wei Yuanqi who was speaking, and nodded: "The war situation will not be static, and the enemy commander will not wait to be beaten according to our expectations, remember to be good at using the situation, take advantage of the strength, and use my strengths to have the hope of winning." ”

Although everyone was discussing the way to use the army, their eyes were the scenery outside the fort, a place that the Qin people had hardly set foot in for 500 years, which made them feel both fresh and a little uneasy in the face of the unknown.

Two hundred steps outside the fort, are some weeds and shrubs, two hundred steps away is the hillside and the dense forest on the hillside, standing on the fort to see the view is excellent.

Looking at it, Zhu Lihua and the others found a person running out of the western woods almost at the same time, but they struggled desperately towards the stone castle. Soon after he ran out of the woods, he saw more than a dozen Sumeru wolves jumping out of the woods and chasing after them.

"It's Brother Tang Yuan!" Li Ji beside Lu Lihua suddenly shouted, and hurriedly got off the stone fort, and Lu Lihua stood on the stone fort and ordered loudly, "The archers should return to the stone fort quickly, and the rest of the soldiers should quickly lead Tang Yuan back to the fort." ”

At the same time as Lihua gave the order, these soldiers resting under the stone fort also saw Tang Yuan, and after hearing Lihua's order, more than 20 people quickly took out bows and arrows from their backs and shot at the Sumeru wolf behind Tang Yuan. After a round of arrows, more than 20 people ran towards the stone castle while taking arrows. More than a dozen people mentioned Changge and ran to Tang Yuan.

Tang Yuan saw that someone in the stone castle answered, and immediately shook his spirits, and ran faster, and in the blink of an eye, he met with more than ten Changge hands, and after Changge put Tang Yuan into the formation, the queue was slightly adjusted, and it was arranged into a semicircular two-row array, the front row squatted Changge up, and the back row Changge Ping faced the Sumeru wolf. After a round of arrows, only three or four of the Sumeru wolves were shot, and the rest of the wolves continued to run forward with arrows hanging on their bodies, apparently not hurting the vital point. After that, more and more Sumeru wolves rushed out of the woods and rushed towards everyone.