Just as Chang'an was raising money and goods, Ling Tianlei rushed towards the Yucang Federation. Fan Xiao's pathfinder team and Lu Bu's pathfinder cavalry also explored the path in the Fengyue Path at the same time, looking for whether the orcs had hidden ambushes in the Fengyue Path and on the cliffs on both sides.

Fan Xiao, Li Shan, A Qi and his party marched forward with difficulty on the steep cliffs of Fengyue Trail. Li Shan and Ah Qi were in front, cutting down the thorny vines in their path with machetes and ring-headed knives. Fan Xiao and several staff officers of the Third Army who accompanied him recorded the terrain while walking.

Suddenly, Li Shan and Ah Qi, who were exploring the road in front, stopped, waved their hands to the back, and motioned for Fan Xiao and the others to dodge.

Fan Xiao walked lightly to Li Shan's side, looked forward in the direction of Li Shan's finger, and saw a figure swaying in the dense bushes in front of him. On the cliff next to it, there are also figures shaking.

Seeing this, the group immediately hid in the dense bushes to avoid being discovered by them.

"Chief of Staff Fan, those people don't look like orcs, although the clothes on their bodies are tattered, they can still see a trace of their original appearance, it seems to be the military uniform of the Celestial Star Empire! Mo is not the defeated army of the Celestial Star Empire hidden in this Five Elements Mountain. When General Lu led his troops over the day before yesterday, they didn't attack either, and they didn't seem to be hostile to our army! Li Shan whispered.

"Don't rush to conclusions yet, just observe for a while. No attack does not mean that there is no hostility, there are only more than 1,000 people in Lu Bu's department, and even if the ambush soldiers see it, they can't raise any appetite for such a small force. Fan Xiao carefully analyzed the current situation and made the most reasonable judgment.

"No!" Li Shan nodded, and then stared intently ahead, carefully observing the group of ragged people.

After observing the words for a while, Fan Xiao finally determined the identities of those people, they were indeed the defeated soldiers of the Heavenly Star Empire who fled into this Five Elements Mountain. According to them, they are just guards in charge of patrolling, and they still have a few nests in the mountains. In that old lair, there were many more soldiers and people who had fled into the mountains.

Even if they were in the mountains, they also knew something about the situation outside, knowing that Great Qin had replaced the Celestial Star Empire, knowing that the Qin army had defeated the orc army twice, and knowing that the crown prince Octavian had withdrawn from Jizhou from the Fengyue Path.

Although Fan Xiao has not had a deeper understanding of the others, he knows that those defeated soldiers and ordinary people are innocent, they are all victims of the war. If they stay in this mountain, sooner or later they will not be able to live, and if they do not survive, they will turn the people into bandits. In that case, it would be very disadvantageous to both Great Qin and themselves. Only when they go down the mountain and fall under the kingship of Great Qin is the best choice for themselves and Great Qin.

Having made up his mind, Fan Xiao motioned for everyone to move closer to him, and ordered: "Take off the hunting clothes outside, tie them around your waist, and expose your battle armor, and we will meet them when we go out." ”

"No!" Everyone neatly followed Fan Xiao's instructions and began to take off their hunting outfits.

Seeing Ah Qi's trembling appearance, Fan Xiao patted him on the shoulder and comforted, "Ah Qi, you will follow us later." Rest assured, it's okay, they're not orcs, nor are they those lackeys of the orcs. Like you, they will all be the people of Great Qin. ”

"Uh-huh!" Ah Qi kept nodding his head, forcibly trying to stop being afraid, but he still couldn't help but tremble. Afraid, can you not be afraid, there are only a few people on their side, and on the other side, there are dozens of people! The disparity in power was so obvious, how could he not be afraid.

"Brothers ahead!" Fan Xiao took Li Shan and a few people, raised his hands and walked out, "Brothers, don't get me wrong, we are Qin Jun!" Look, our armor, red and black, this is the armor of the Qin army. ”

When the ragged soldiers saw someone approaching them, they drew their swords from their waists and surrounded them.

"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, we are Qin Jun!"

"How to prove!" One of the leading generals asked.

"As I said earlier, the armor we have on us is the best proof of that!" Fan Xiao was helpless and replied again. He took out his official credentials from his bosom and handed them to the general: "If you still don't believe it, this is the best evidence." ”

The general took Fan Xiao's official certificate and looked at it. He does this