No matter how hot the weather is, it is still easy to find coolness in the mountains north of Chang'an City. The mountains are densely forested, and you can occasionally find mountain springs, but not a single animal can be seen in this large mountain. Some people say that there is no aura in the mountain for a long time, so all the animals have run away. Some people also say that because the construction of Chang'an City changed the dragon vein, the mountain looks lush and green, but it has long since died.

There are many things to say, but it is an indisputable fact that there are no animals in this mountain.

But the plants here are very abundant, and there are many towering trees that can only be hugged by three people. So to say that this is a dead mountain is obviously unreasonable.

This is a very strange phenomenon, and even more than one Emperor of the Great Sui sent people to investigate, but they could not find the reason for the absence of animals, but this mountain will not soon become a bare tomb, as many people swore to predict. Of course, another legend is self-defeating.

There have been many versions of the rumors, but the most heart-wrenching one is definitely the legend of the death of the Great Sui on the day of the bald mountains. Of course, such a legend must be inseparable from the world's masters, some people say that it is a white-bearded old man, fairy wind bones. Some people say that it is a fairy in white with fluttering white clothes, ice muscles and jade bones. Some people also say that this was said by a head of the Buddha's sect, and his face is vicious.

It doesn't matter who said it, but the words are still this sentence.

The gist is that one day this mountain becomes a bare tomb, then the rivers and mountains of the Great Sui will come to an end. But this is contrary to the prophecy that the half moon surrounded Chang'an and did not fall, compared to the people of the Great Sui are naturally more willing to believe the latter. As long as this mountain is still there, Chang'an City is there.

The silence in the mountain was broken by the sound of footsteps stepping on fallen leaves, and four people, three men and one woman, appeared in this mountain that had not been seen for many years. There are no roads in the mountains, and stepping on the thick fallen leaves feels like walking on a thick blanket. It was comfortable, but the faces of the four people walking through the woods were solemn.

The sound of footsteps came and went, and walking in such a quiet and deep forest actually had the illusion of walking through the underworld.

Walking in the front was a person who looked like a scholar in a cloth robe and couldn't tell his specific age. The remaining three people distanced themselves from him for more than ten meters, and walked in a row for three months, stepping on the footprints of their predecessors with every step. It seems that the four people walked all the way and left only one footprint.

The scholar in cloth who was walking in the front suddenly frowned, and then sped up his pace a little. The people behind immediately accelerated to follow, and in second place was a village girl wearing a blue cloth floral dress, carrying a basket in her hand. Behind him was an old man in a royal blue robe, who glanced at the young woman in front of him from time to time, with a somewhat complicated look.

At the end of the walk was a young-looking man. Dressed in brocade clothes and with a jade belt, his status is obviously not low. He has a very delicate face, thin eyebrows, and big eyes. The jaw is slightly pointed compared to others, but it is very pleasing to the eye. The mouth is small and the lips are red. is such a beautiful boy in brocade, and it seems a little out of place to walk with the other three people.

The first is a scholar in cloth, the second is a village girl, the third is like a rich man, and in the end, this young man, with the three of them, seems to have a sense of disobedience.

The scholar in cloth clothes who walked in the front was Zhuo Buyi, but after making a gesture, he quickened his pace. The people behind him did not follow his footprints, but fanned out and copied the bread forward. If you look closely, you will see that even though they are walking on the soft fallen leaves, they have not left a trace. The rotting leaves have not changed at all since they were trampled by their feet.

It seems that there is still only one person's footprints.

What appeared in front of the four of them was a clearing, and next to a rock was a pile of extinguished charcoal. Zhuo Buyi squatted down to feel the temperature of the charcoal, then shook his head and said, "I've been away for at least half a day." ”

"I'm curious"

The brocade-clothed boy who walked at the end frowned slightly: "Why didn't they choose a route that could escape as soon as possible, why did they have to enter this mountain?" There is no doubt that escaping here will leave more or less traces. ”

The old man in the royal blue robe was leaving, and he seemed to have a very respectful attitude towards the brocade-clothed boy, and when he spoke, he bowed slightly forward and replied, "Perhaps, they didn't plan to flee in a hurry at all. ”

Zhuo Buyi nodded and said: "If they are in a hurry to leave, then it means that they don't know about the imperial court's preparation to move troops in the northwest, but if they deliberately delay like now, it is estimated that they should have already found out." Other words...... At least a third man went the other way and brought the news back, and the people who entered the mountain were only delaying time for him. ”

"It's not necessarily a person, the crane chased out to the west and didn't find a trace. If it is a human being, he can't hide his natural divine eyes. ”

Leaving the difficulty, he said.

"Not right"

The proprietress in the blue cloth floral skirt squatted down and looked carefully at the rock, then pinched up some dirt and sniffed it: "There are not two people here, although there are traces of two people left along the way, but I am sure that there should be three people who fled this way." ”

"If you say yes, it must be."

Leaving the difficulty, he said.

I don't know why, there is always something different in the eyes of the proprietress he looks at.

The proprietress didn't seem to have a good impression of him, got up and walked to Zhuo Buyi's side and said, "There is a person whose steps are very vain, either left by the young monk who was seriously injured, or there is a person who is not even able to practice martial arts with them. ”

"Who could it be?"

The boy in brocade asked.

"Find them and you'll know."

The proprietress didn't seem to have a good impression of this brocade boy, so she replied coldly and moved forward again. The face of the brocade-clothed boy changed slightly, but he endured it without having a seizure. As he approached, he lowered his voice and said, "Your Highness, she once traveled west with Prince Zhong. ”

Hearing this, the expression of the brocade-clothed boy who was called His Royal Highness changed slightly. When I looked at the proprietress again, my eyes were full of respect.

At this time, Zhuo Buyi's expression suddenly changed: "Someone came from behind, and he acted quickly!" ”

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Fang Jie's first few days in the Yanwu Academy were uneventful, listening to the professors of the Yanwu Academy lecture on the art of war, reading and writing every morning, and in the afternoon he would be taken by Qiu Yu to the waterfall to be tortured. Of course, he would occasionally be called away by Dean Zhou to study his body in a secret room.

Because Fang Xie was rarely with other students, rumors began to circulate in the Yanwu Academy that he was arrogant. And after arrogance, people tend to add three words.

Arrogant waste.

In the eyes of other students, Fang Jie's current strength is not bad. But he can't practice, and sooner or later he will be slowly surpassed by other students who can practice. Cultivation is endless, and no matter how good a person's physical fitness is, it is only a fixed body after all. So at first, the students' admiration for Fang Xie slowly turned into contempt.

Most people think that Fang Xie is very strong now. But in less than three years, Yu Xiao, Pei Chuxing, Xie Fuyao and others, who were already stronger than him, might be able to throw him off a few streets.

Fang Xie regarded such remarks as a gust of wind and ignored them at all. He still comes and goes with those friends every day, arrogant, Mo Xidao, Xie Fuyao. Occasionally, he had a drink with Yu Xiao Pei Chuxing and the two of them, of course, he would definitely not take the initiative to invite guests.

On the sixth day of entering the Martial Arts Academy, the morning class was taught how to use scouts by teaching Mo Wanwu. On the march to war, scouts are essential. Scouts are often the best soldiers in the army, and they are responsible for scouting the enemy's terrain and road conditions for the army, including assassinating the enemy commander.

Fang Xie and Zhang Qi were both scouts, so when Mo Wanwu said that what he was going to talk about today was how to equip An Rejection, the two of them couldn't help but glance at each other, and there was some tacit understanding.

"A good scout sometimes plays a role even more than the general of an army. The commander is the head of the army, and the general is the arms of the army. Wherever the mind comes to mind, the arms hit. And the scouts are the eyes of the coach. The success of a scout can lead to the victory of the army. In the same way, the defeat of one scout may affect the judgment of the boss and lead to the defeat of the entire war. ”

"Professor!"

When Mo Wanwu said this, a student raised his hand and said in a somewhat flirtatious tone: "Are you exaggerating? If scouts are really that important, why is the highest rank in the scout team just a captain? From the sixth grade, this is too low, right? ”

"What's your name?"

Mo Wanwu asked.

"Chuzhou Liu Shuang."

The student stood up and clenched his fists and said, "My father is Liu An, the county guard of Chuzhou County. ”

"I didn't ask who your dad was."

Mo Wanwu replied in a flat tone, and then slowly walked to Liu Shuang's side and asked, "Do you think what I said before was a bit exaggerated?" ”

"The student just thinks that scouts are important, but it seems too much to speak of them as the eyes of a commander-in-chief marshal. A handsome person, who knows astronomy and geography, knows right from wrong, and has a broad vision, how can he make a judgment just by relying on the news from the scouts? As far as I know, Li Xiao, the great general during the reign of Emperor Taizong, once fell into the siege of the southern army when he pacified Jiangnan, and broke the 70,000 southern army with a mere 3,000 troops, which seems to have nothing to do with the scouts, right? ”

"Are you from Chuzhou?"

"Yes!"

"Chuzhou is also in the south of the Yangtze River...... Li Xiao is a northerner. ”

Mo Wanwu said lightly.

"What do you mean, sir?"

Liu Shuang's face flushed, and he couldn't help but ask slightly angrily.

Mo Wanwu smiled and said: "It's nothing, I just accidentally remembered that Li Xiao is from the north, what's wrong?" Other than that...... Let me ask you, Li Xiao is indeed brilliant with 3,000 to 10 million. But if he had already been waiting to investigate the enemy's situation, would he fall into the ambush of the Southern army? Do you know that the most elite soldiers of the 3,000 Great Sui, after waiting for reinforcements to arrive and break through the siege, there are only twenty-six people left? Even if Li Xiao broke the enemy army, everyone said that he fought beautifully in this battle, but because he did not detect the enemy in advance and lost 3,000 elites, I looked down on him. Three thousand Sui elites, with only tens of thousands of remnants of the Southern Army, they were exchanged, what is it worth? ”

"Sir, are you saying that you are stronger than General Li?"

Liu Shuang asked angrily.

Mo Wanwu ignored him, but continued: "It is precisely because of this battle that Li Xiao wrote to the court to ask for guilt. His Majesty Taizong remembered his high merits and did not punish him, but Li Xiao did not dare to ignore the scouts from then on. In order to prevent such a tragedy from happening again, he invited many masters to train soldiers from the Ouchi guards and formed the first pure scout team in the Great Sui. Before that, the general and the commander assigned a team of men to do the investigation of the military situation at will. These things...... DID YOU KNOW? ”

In the last sentence, he asked Liu Shuang.

"I only know that Mr. is disrespectful to General Li!"

Mo Wanwu snorted coldly and said, "Respect in your mouth is respect? Don't say that Li Xiao is not a god, even if he is, can't he be blamed by future generations? I don't dare to say that he is better than Li Xiao, but I say that where he is wrong, he is wrong. And if you think I'm wrong, then you can not listen but don't refute it. ”

"Why can Mr. accuse General Li of being at fault, but we can't accuse Mr. of being wrong?"

Liu Shuang asked angrily.

"Because Li Xiao is dead, I say that he is wrong, and he will not crawl out of the ground and beat me because he is unhappy. But I'm still alive, and if you question what I'm saying, I can hit you at any time if I'm not happy until your mother doesn't recognize me. I see? ”

"I ...... Defy! ”

Liu Shuang said: "The professor of the Martial Arts Academy, how can he be so unreasonable? ”

"Because this is the Martial Arts Academy, everything the professor says is right."

Mo Wanwu said: "I know that many of you think what he said is good, and think that what I said is wrong. Then that's good, tomorrow all of you who think Liu Shuang is right will team up with him. I'll take the rest of the students on another team, and of course, I'll only bring one-fifth of yours. How useful the scout is, I have tried it. ”

Fang Xie pursed his lips and smiled, and found that he liked the style of the martial arts academy very much.

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