(Due to the problem of sorting the manuscripts, one less chapter is arranged today, and it is somewhat difficult to make adjustments and supplements, so it will be two more chapters for the time being, which will not affect the subsequent updates.) ）

As expected, a large number of rocks and logs were piled up on the hill, but there were no defenders stationed there.

"Commander Qiqi, a large number of piled stones and rolling logs were found on the hills on both sides, but there was no rebel garrison, and they did not launch an attack when our army set fire to the poisonous smoke, probably because of the influence of the poisonous smoke, and abandoned the position."

Etis was suspicious when he heard the news:

"What's going on inside the valley?"

"This ......" belonged to the regimental commander and stopped talking: "Commander of the Qi Army, our scouts can only go deep into the occupied area, and the western hill leading to the valley is still occupied by the rebels, so only by continuing to advance in the valley can we further know the situation in the valley." ”

The Jin Xuedi people advanced to the west of the outer lake, and the mountains west of the thirty miles were still under the control of Baili Yan, and the scouts of the Jin Xuedi people were all back and forth, and they could not enter the blockade area at all.

Etis was silent for a moment, pacing back and forth in the tent, and suddenly stopped and asked:

"Is there any news from the inside recently?"

"Nope. However, according to the information obtained before, they are an extremely tight northerner army, and the camp is extremely strictly guarded, and it is difficult to send news from within them. ”

"Then find a way to let our secret agents blend in among them and find out the details."

In order to rule and enslave the descendants of the Central Plains for a long time, the Jin Xuedi people compiled the Central Plains people who had been assimilated by the Moon God King Sect into the "Fan Register", selected loyal and reliable Central Plains descendants from the Fan Nationality, and entered various villages and labor teams, secretly monitored them, and reported those with bad intentions.

At the same time that Etis was plotting to infiltrate the plan, the news of the Xian army from the Central Plains was no longer a vague rumor among the people after circulating for months. In order to boost the morale of the army, Bailiyan ordered the whole army to wear their hair in a bun, restore the style of the Central Plains, and unite the people with the aftermath of the victory.

"Hey, in the past few months, there are no people, ghosts and ghosts, and the cloak is scattered, I really don't know what kind of life I live, this is what kind of person I have!" Su Hong croaked, inserted the hairpin into the bun, fixed the hairpin, played left and right, made sure that it was sturdy, and continued: "General, you said that these white-haired thieves can also be called by their cloaks, isn't it uncomfortable?" ”

"But in the past few months, I haven't seen you shave your head, don't you still live well." Bai Liyan asked rhetorically.

"That being said, the last general feels very awkward."

"Okay, don't talk nonsense, is Lu Gao back?"

"Not yet, and it will be tomorrow morning at the earliest. General, what did you ask Lu Gao to do, it's so mysterious. ”

"I pondered that if tens of thousands of people were drowned in Jinxuedi at a time, the strong attack would have to change to a long-term siege and trap us alive, so before that, we had to be fully prepared. I asked Lu Gao to go back and mobilize the old soldiers to make some arrangements, so as not to be caught off guard. ”

"But the white-haired thieves have not moved in the past few days, the fire has not been put out, and the poisonous smoke has not burned, I always feel that something is wrong, general, do you think they are playing some crooked idea again?"

"There is no doubt about it, Jin Xuedi must be holding back some bad tricks, ready to release it. In the past few days, as many as 17 Jin Xuedi scouts have been caught one after another, which shows that they are eager to know the situation in the rear of our army and do not dare to attack rashly. ”

"Then why don't we just get rid of the five thousand people in front of us, and we may not be able to force the main force of the Jin Xuedi people out."

"You want to be beautiful. Not to mention that our army suffered more than 3,000 casualties in the previous round, excluding women and prisoners, there are only 8,000 people who can be used, there are less than 1,000 old soldiers and 1,000 new soldiers in the valley, there are still 1,000 people on the dam, and we only have more than 4,000 people in our hands.

Even if he set up a clever plan and tried his best to eat the 5,000 people in front of him, he could only fight head-on, and without 2,000 casualties, he would not be able to take them at all. This bait is not so easy to swallow, so if you keep it, you may be able to make some gains. ”

"Harvest, what harvest?"

Su Hong hurriedly asked, Bai Liyan did not evade this time:

"After the Jin Xuedi people are drowned, you take the old soldiers to search for the saltpeter powder and sulfur powder of the Jin Xuedi people along the way, and secretly escort them back to the valley, which will have a secret use. Don't reveal it to anyone else, you know. ”

"The last will understand."

Bailiyan asked Lu Gao to return to the valley to transfer the old pawn to burn charcoal and grind powder for later use, and prepare to configure black powder to enhance combat power. Bai Liyan was even worried that after a year and a half of excavation, the heavenly ship discovered by Changsun Guo in the first month of last year would really be able to make gunpowder, and a special plane might soon appear in the battle on Qianyue Mountain.

And at the moment, it seems that he has taken the wrong script, gone to the wrong time and space, and is staging a historical drama of stepping on the skin of a watermelon.

The trajectory of historical development is not in any way deduced according to the known development process and logical will of human beings on the earth, at least in the current treacherous time and space pattern, black powder did not first appear in the Central Plains civilization, but came from other continents across the ocean.

Of course, there is no technical difficulty in the early black powder, and the chance is greater, and after the Stone Age, even in the bronze civilization, there is a theoretical probability of accidental discovery.

Perhaps in the near future, the Central Plains will have to face not only the threat from the south, but also the invasion from the sea.

Two days later, in the second half of the night, a cloaked figure sneakily shuttled through the woods, and two old soldiers of the Xian Army who were squatting on the trees watched the fire in the secret sentry hole, and the two jumped down and blocked the way of the people:

"What people!"

The man was taken aback, and the night was so deep that he could hide the surprise on his face. The man spoke with a fluent Xu accent, and hurriedly said:

"Don't do it, your own people ...... your own people"

"What are you doing jumping out of the camp in the middle of the night!" The old pawn questioned, looking up and down in the dark, but found that this person was wearing a hairband, and three days ago, the whole army had implemented hair ties, but this person was still dressed in a hairdress, which could not help but arouse the suspicion of the old pawn.

Then the man said:

"I went out of the camp to just now, and I got lost, no, I went to the wrong place indiscriminately. Please also ask the two of you to raise your noble hands and let the brothers go. ”

"Next time, pay attention, go back to camp!"

"Thank you, both."

The man nodded his head and thanked him, and quickly left the woods. When the man was far away, two old men approached, and one of them, a slightly taller man, said:

"Don't you think there's something wrong with this guy?"

"Well, that's right, I just tied my hair three days ago, but this person is a cloaked and has a mysterious whereabouts, I guess it's a thief spy from the Central Plains who came from the white-haired thief camp, and wants to sneak into my military camp to take the opportunity to spy on the news."

"This matter should be reported to the general immediately."

"Okay, you go and report, I'll keep an eye on you!"

When the two of them blew a whistle, they told the secret sentinel to take over the guard, and one of them rushed back to the camp by taking the path, and the other continued to stalk secretly.

The old man who returned to the camp quickly reported to Su Hong, and Su Hong hurriedly woke up Bai Liyan:

"General, the secret sentry came to report that the suspected white-haired thief sent by the Central Plains thief had infiltrated our army's camp."

When Bailiyan heard the news, she realized the seriousness of the situation:

"What about people?"

"I was discovered by my secret whistle, and for the sake of prudence, I did not startle the snake. It was already in the camp, and I asked the old pawn to go and entangle with the man, and then I reported to the general. ”

"How did the old man know that person was a thief in the Central Plains."

"Coincidentally, that person sneaked into the camp from the east of my secret post, and after being discovered by the secret post, he claimed to be out of the camp to and get lost in the dark, but he didn't tie his hair, so he concluded that he was a thief in the Central Plains."

"Let's go, take Ben to have a look!"

The Jin Xuedi people can easily penetrate the Central Plains coalition army to spy on intelligence, and the Central Plains people do not have the Jin Xuedi race, so this kind of one-way intelligence acquisition and spy infiltration is undoubtedly an extremely despicable and dirty means.

Bai Liyan always suspected that the Jin Xuedi people had already infiltrated the hinterland of the Central Plains by using the Central Plains thieves to spy on military information, otherwise it would be impossible to grasp the situation in the Central Plains so accurately.

Before coming to the camp, several Xianjun veterans were very clever to remove their hair buns, and questioned the person with a cloak, Bailiyan came to the camp gate with a fire, and sure enough, he found that the person in front of him was cloaked, and there was no difference from other newcomers. Looking up and down, Bai Liyan asked:

"What's your name!"

The man replied:

"Wu Jiang."

"Which battalion is it from, and who is the general?"

"Fang Liang's camp."

"Are you sure?" Bai Liyan asked.

"Absolutely."

"Who is your centurion?"

"Brother Jiao Muhua."

Bai Liyan turned her head and whispered to Su Hong:

"Ben will remember that this Jiao Muhua is a veteran of the headquarters."

"Exactly, it was from the forbidden army under General Lu Gao, who was the commander before, and after being promoted to centurion, he was incorporated into Fang Liang's new Ding battalion."

"Go, get me Jiao Muhua."

"No!"

When the man heard the news and was going to be confronted face to face, his expression immediately looked a little strange, Bai Liyan saw it in his eyes, his face was silent, and then he asked:

"Who's your chief?"

"Brother Ding Quan, from the village of Medaso."

Bai Liyan smiled coldly:

"Hehe, you know that."

"They are all brothers in the same battalion, of course they know. General, I can go back to the camp. ”

"Let's wait......"

Baili Yan's eyes signaled, and the old soldiers of the Xian army scattered left and right to surround them.

When he was young, Su Hong brought Jiao Muhua with him, and Bai Liyan told him to recognize people.

"Jiao Muhua, do you recognize this person?"

"No one. It is definitely not under his subordinates, nor is it under Ding Quan. I don't know what the general means? ”

"Then let me ask you, do you know Ding Quan, what is his personality?"

"This person likes to talk everywhere, according to some new soldiers in private, Ding Quan has spread things out of nothing many times, especially the strict prohibition of women in our army, saying that our army arbitrarily occupies his wife and daughter."

"And how did you deal with it?"

"This kind of thing can only lead by example, just scold him once or twice, as long as he is upright, he is afraid that the shadow will not be oblique. His subordinates have followed General Lu and followed the general for many years, how can his subordinates not know the general's words and deeds. ”

Jiao Muhua said emotionally, Bai Liyan thought for a moment and asked intentionally:

"Since you were transferred to my pioneer battalion by Lu Gao, you have been following the general."

"Yes, since before the fight against Shao Ping, he has served under the general."

"I think you are also an old soldier who is almost forty years old, so why have you been the head soldier in the forbidden army for so many years."

"Don't hide it from the general, the Xianguo forbidden army system is different from the forbidden army of other countries, and the promotion of generals is greatly affected by the family, but even if it is a soldier of the forbidden army, there is still a high amount of money every year, and the number of years of joining the forbidden army is different, and the number of years is increasing year by year.

Therefore, even if we and other forbidden soldiers are soldiers for life, the treatment of the old soldiers is actually no worse than that of the commanders, and there are even some rewards on the New Year's Day, which are incomparable to other generals of the army. ”

"That's right, your forbidden army does have a lot to take, and the general would have known about it, but he didn't know that there was such a big coming. In this way, you and I know each other as fate, and at the moment we will urgently need to hire people, if you transfer out of Fang Liangying tomorrow, I will send someone else to take over your position. In addition, five to ten people from the old soldiers of the forbidden army will be transferred to listen to your call, and you will be directly promoted to the commander of the capital, and if you can return to the Central Plains, you will report to the king of Xian again. ”

"General Xie promoted."

"Now, you go and find Ding Quan, there will be something to ask."

"Yes!"