"General, only you and I are coming, it's better to be careful, it's inconvenient to go further."

At this moment, it is the cold season in the northern frontier, and the north of Hangu Pass is a flat river, although the snow on the ground is not thick, but it is also in the gray sky that falls at night, it looks a little pale.

It was Fan Di who spoke, and it was Lu Jue who looked at Hanguguan not far away quietly on his side, and fell into deep thought.

After learning that Hangu Pass had been captured, after a short discussion between Lu Jue and Xiao Han and Fan Di, Lu Jue still wanted to see for himself what went wrong with this Hangu Pass and why it was so easily breached.

Xiao Han is the commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army, from Yipin, as long as Lu Jue wants to go in person, there will inevitably be one person left in the army.

So Xiao Han had to stay in the army and obey Lu Jue's orders, and the army continued the northern expedition.

On the other hand, under the pain of losing his son, Fan Di naturally couldn't sit still, the old general who was nearly fifty years old, his son was not killed by the enemy on the battlefield, but died so inexplicably while on guard, it was difficult to swallow this stiff breath of anger no matter who it was.

In order to facilitate the investigation of the situation, Lu Jue took Fan Di and the two of them rode horses to the Hangu Pass to investigate the situation.

It's okay not to look at it, but at a glance, Lu Jue's clear eyes became more and more incomprehensible.

Not far away, Hangu Pass is a mess, and many of the camp's grain and grass are black and gray that have been burned by the fire.

Lu Jue couldn't help but step on the horse's pedal and shake it hard, and after pedaling, the horse walked slowly forward according to Lu Jue's mind.

"General!"

Although Fan Di felt the pain of losing his son in his heart, and not far in front of him was the cold place of his son's bones, he still knew the importance in his heart, Lu Jue, as the general of the Northern Expedition, could not take risks alone.

Lu Jue heard Fan Di's eager shout, shook his head slightly, turned his head and said softly with a little helplessness at the corner of his mouth: "It's okay, look at the ashes and dust all over the ground, where it looks like there are still people, if you don't go in and take a look, the mystery in my heart will never be solved." ”

Fan Di naturally heard some self-deprecating meanings from Lu Jue's words, and even he couldn't help but feel surprised.

Although Fan Di is in charge of the preparation of grain and grass, he can be regarded as a battle-hardened old general, and once upon a time would he have been afraid of those Tidi people?

Now it looks like there is obviously no place where there are people, but it is extremely timid, and it is a little bit of a loss of his own prestige and ambition of others.

Lu Jue and Fan Di entered from the south entrance of Hangu Pass, and what came into view was the traces of being burned by the fire everywhere, the desolation all over the ground, after a night of wind and snow, the charcoal ashes around were a lot less, but there was still a slight fishy smell in the air.

"When did this Tidi love to burn with fire?"

Lu Jue looked at the signs of serious burning of the fire in front of him, frowned, and couldn't help but ask Fan Di behind him.

From the experience of growing up in the Zhenbei General's Mansion when he was a child, and later paying more or less attention to some news from the north, this Tidi clan, it seems that because of their living habits, every time they fight or plunder the villages in the north of the Ye Dynasty, they will not use fire to burn them.

Murder does not kill young children, plundering never arson.

Not for anything else, just to have a village house for them to grab food in the coming winter.

After Fan Di entered this camp, the corners of his eyes have been a little warm, after all, in such a tragic situation, it is impossible to find his son's body, at this time, hearing Lu Jue's doubtful question, Fan Di hurriedly sniffed and guessed:

"Maybe the campfires around the camp were knocked over during the scuffle? It led to a fire in the camp. ”

Fan Di's guess is not a problem, the soldiers here have all been killed, and in the face of the fire that is gradually getting out of control, naturally no one will put out the fire, so if it burns overnight, naturally everything will burn out.

Lu Jue did not make up his mind directly, but got off the horse, led the horse and slowly walked through the military camp of the Hanguguan camp, revealing the military rations that had not been hoarded before, and he vaguely felt that this fire was not as simple as Fan Di said.

Fan Di dismounted with Lu Jue, looking at the bones and armor lying on the ground around him, after all, the time was not long, and many of the bones still had muscles and internal organs hanging on them, so the weather was cold, and it condensed into ice with blood, and it did not emit any pungent smell.

"Huh?"

Lu Jue's eyebrows moved slightly, he snorted softly, his clear and alert eyes flashed a trace of doubt in a trance, he put down the horse rope in his hand, and walked to the barn on the side and stood quietly.

"Did the general find out that something was wrong there?"

Fan Di looked at the barn that had been burned black by the fire, like a small black stone, and it was already unrecognizable.

Under Fan Di's doubts, Lu Jue hooked a smile on the corner of his mouth, lengthened his voice, and whispered: "Interesting and interesting." ”

Looking at Lu Jue's expression, Fan Di was even more dazed, not knowing what Lu Jue was talking about interesting.

"General Fan Di, I'm afraid you and I won't be able to return to the barracks for a while."

When Fan Di heard Lu Jue say this, he obviously had a new clue, so he hurriedly knelt down on one knee with a long sword on the ground, lowered his head and said in a deep voice: "As long as I can avenge my son, Fan is willing to repay the general with this old life!" ”

Lu Jue's two competitions in the palace earlier had been secretly spread by Feng Yewu and others.

In the army, he has already become a little distorted, and even deified a lot, Fan Di came along the way, and saw that Xiao Han had special respect for the commander of the Northern Expedition, who was not as big as his own son, although he had doubts in his heart, but he was not offended.

It wasn't until he followed Lu Jue here that he watched Lu Jue investigate the matter of Hanguguan regardless of the risks, and he had a slightly different opinion in his heart.

It seems that the young man in front of him may really be able to lead Ye Chao to recover the lost ground.

In the face of Fan Di's thoughts, Lu Jue didn't know, for this Tidi invasion, Lu Jue was completely because of the untrustworthy people under Feng Yewu, who worked so hard for his love.

And the matter of Hangu Pass is even more because of the breath in his heart, after all, the Northern Expedition army has just left the scope of Kyoto and is about to return, which is not on the face of either himself or Feng Yewu.

At the same time, an inexplicable feeling also drove Lu Jue to make him firmly adhere to the place of Hangu Pass.

It's as if some secret is about to be revealed from here.

Under the wind and snow, the gray sky is like tens of millions of catties of pig iron, condensed, and the oppressive air is lifeless.