Ling Xia asked the details a few more times, but Ling Baiyu couldn't answer a specific answer, no matter how he asked, Ling Baiyu just repeated the answer just now, seeing that Ling Baiyu's mood was a little nervous at this time, he was worried that if he asked again, Ling Baiyu would be stimulated, so Ling Xu stopped asking.

After wandering around the col for a long time, Ling Xia didn't find any suspicious items, let alone clues, he didn't even find a piece of horse dung, at noon, Ling Xia sat on the ground a little dejectedly, looked around the col, his mind was full of confusion and puzzlement:

"Since the Yin Soldier's borrowing took place in the mountain col, how could there be no trace here? How many footprints should there be? Could it be that all this is really the work of ghosts? Only the ghosts of the Netherworld can do this without knowing it. ”

"Brother, I'm hungry, I still have to eat persimmons." Ling Baiyu rubbed her stomach and looked at Ling Xia pitifully.

When Ling Xia was thinking nonsense, Ling Baiyu couldn't stand it with hunger, seeing her pitiful appearance, Ling Xia took out a piece of dry food from his arms, because of the cold weather, and the dry food was put for a long time, so it was hard,

"The persimmons have been eaten by you, how can there be persimmons to eat, give, eat some dry food." After speaking, Ling Xia threw it at Ling Baiyu and threw the dry food to her.

"Smack!"

Seeing the dry food thrown by Ling Xia, Ling Baiyu slapped it casually, slapped the dry food to the ground, and looked at the dry food dripping and rolling on the ground, she pouted: "Why don't I eat dry food, I want to eat persimmons, eat big persimmons." As he spoke, Ling Baiyu stretched out his hands and made a big gesture.

"You girl, it's really nonsense, what's wrong with this, you still pick and choose." As he spoke, Ling Xia stood up, walked to the discarded dry food, picked up the dry food, and habitually patted the dry food with his hand, wanting to pat the dust off it.

But when he slapped it twice, he found a strange thing, that is, there was no dust on the ground on the dry food at all, and looking at the dry food for a while, Ling Xia's mind suddenly lit up.

Then, he got up to observe the surroundings, walked along the col, because it was the col, so the road was covered with small stone foam, squatted down and picked up a few grains of sand and gravel, Ling Xia said thoughtfully: "I see......"

"What's the matter, did you find something?"

After seeing Ling Xia's actions, Su Jing'an and Wu Zhenshan, who were watching from a distance, couldn't sit still, and left the temporary tent one after another, walked quickly to Ling Xia's side, and asked him if he had found a clue?

Seeing the impatient expressions of the two, Ling Xia groaned for a moment, and then turned his gaze to Wu Zhenshan: "General, I want to consult something?" With the general's martial arts, what rank does it belong to in our Xia Dynasty? What is the cultivation of the person with the highest martial arts in the world? ”

"What do you mean?" Wu Zhenshan didn't understand Ling Xia's meaning for a while.

"General Wu's martial arts, as far as this official knows, should be at a first-class level, but there are still masters above him." Su Jing'an understood Ling Xia's question, and when he saw Ling Xia looking at him, he stroked his beard and said slowly: "Although this official doesn't understand martial arts, because this official is in charge of the stability of the people of a province, he also has a little bit of questions about martial arts.

The world's martial arts are divided into four levels: external strength, internal force, true qi, Gangyuan, and four levels, and the external strength is the most elementary martial artist, when the martial artist can hit a hundred catties of power, the strength will change into external strength, and the external strength is divided into ten weights, and the martial artist increases the attack power of one hundred catties, and its external strength will be promoted to one heavy.

Once the warrior surpasses the power of a thousand catties, the force transforms again, evolving from the external force to the internal force, and the same as the external force, the internal force is also ten, and every ten external forces can be transformed into a heavy internal force, the limit of the internal force is 10,000 catties, once this limit is broken, the internal force is advanced to the true qi.

True Qi is stored in the Dantian Qi Sea has great power, ten layers of internal force into a layer of true qi, a hundred layers of internal force can be cultivated to the perfection of true qi, at this time, the martial artist can send out 100,000 catties of force in a snap of his fingers, open the monument and gravel, between one finger, when the true qi is condensed to the extreme realm, a qualitative change will occur, sublimation into Gangyuan.

According to rumors, the master of the Gangyuan realm will not be injured at all, let alone die, because in the same realm, there is no exercise at all to crack the body protection Gangyuan, so to speak, the Gangyuan master is an invincible existence.

Counting the masters of the world, I am afraid that in the world, there are only the "Zhenguo Gong: Win the Sky" of this dynasty, the "National Teacher: Bajina" of the Infinite Ocean Island Country, and the "High Priest: Phoenix Immortal" of the millions of mountain tribes. ”

"Flying flowers and picking leaves hurt people, practicing sound into silk to speak, this is similar to Qiao Feng, Guo Jing, and Feng Qingyang in martial arts novels. It seems that this parallel world is not outrageous, except for the historical background is a little confusing, everything is the same as in ancient times. Ling Xia secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"What does all this have to do with this case?" Wu Zhenshan looked at Ling Xia with a puzzled expression.

"It's okay, just ask." When the words fell, Ling Xia groaned slightly, he raised the dry food in his hand and asked the two of them what was wrong with this dry food?

Wu Zhenshan and the others took a look, and they all shook their heads, indicating that they couldn't see anything wrong. Ling Xia smiled, and then pointed to the col behind him, asking the two of them to take a closer look at what was wrong with the col? However, after Wu Zhenshan and Su Jing'an walked twice, they still shook their heads, saying that the ground here is flat, the mountain wall is steep, the branches and leaves are yellowish, and everything is as usual, and there is no doubt.

"Two adults, my sister and I have walked in this col for a long time, and the two of you have also walked around the col twice, it stands to reason that there should be our footprints on this ground, but now the ground is still as smooth as ever, leaving no footprints, isn't it strange?"

After saying this, Ling Xia handed the dry food in his hand to the two of them, pointed to the surface of the dry food and said: "This dry food accidentally fell to the ground just now, and rolled a few times from the ground, it stands to reason that the surface of the dry food should be more or less contaminated with some dust, but the two adults, please see, there is no dust on it, what does this mean?" ”

"This ------ shows that the ground under the col is clean." Su Jing'an muttered to herself.

"Not bad." Ling Xia nodded, pointed to the cliffs and bushes on both sides of the col and said, "This place is located at the bottom of the col, and it is autumn and winter now, so it stands to reason that this place should be full of dead branches, leaves, stones, and dust, but there is nothing here.

Not to mention last night's incident, just now the four of us walked on the road many times, but on this road, it is always so clean, this is absolutely unreasonable, since we can't leave footprints, then the people who passed by here last night will definitely not leave traces. ”

"You've just been wandering around the col when you noticed something like this? I see you've been staring at the entrance to the north side of the mountain, and you've been fiddling with horse manure on the ground with tree branches, so you're probably doing this for idleness, right? Wu Zhenshan glared at Ling Xia.

"General Wu even noticed my behavior of inspecting horse manure, and he was really like a torch with a burning eye, and his heart was as careful as a hair, and he sincerely admired it." Without a trace, he patted Wu Zhenshan a little fart, Ling Xia pointed to the road under his feet, and said:

"The road is forty-eight paces wide from left to right, about forty meters. It is about 1,415 steps long from the north side of the mountain pass to the south side of the road, almost more than 1,200 meters. ”

"Analysis? There is nothing here, what analysis to take? Wu Zhenshan looked at Ling Xia suspiciously.

"May I ask the General, what is the number of the unit that disappeared last night? What is the preparation? Ling Xia asked.

"This ------ this ------- a secret, because the stakes are too great to answer this question." After a pause, Wu Zhenshan pointed to Su Jing'an beside him: "Your question, not only the general, even if it is the political envoy, I am afraid that he will not dare to answer." ”

Seeing that Wu Zhenshan refused to tell him the answer, Ling Xia wanted to ask Su Jing'an, but when Wu Zhenshan finished speaking, Su Jing'an nodded in agreement, and a trace of doubt rose in his mind, "These two people are both high-ranking and powerful people, and even they don't dare to divulge the information of the missing army, what secrets must be hidden here?" What's the secret? ”

Although he was thinking about the problem in his mind, Ling Xia couldn't see anything abnormal on his face, seeing the two staring at him, Ling Xia's mind turned and asked another question: "General Wu, do our country's cavalry have any requirements when marching?" ”

"Of course there is, the infantry march is a formation of 10,000 horses, and the cavalry march is a formation of 1,000 cavalry, to put it in layman's terms, when the infantry marches, 10,000 people form a square, and when the cavalry marches, it is a thousand cavalry units, and a thousand cavalry form a phalanx." After speaking, Wu Zhenshan looked at Ling Xia with curiosity on his face: "How do you know that it was the cavalry who disappeared last night?" ”

"It's very simple, there are only horseshoe prints on the north side of the col entrance, but there are no battle boot prints, which can only indicate that a cavalry army passed here last night." When the words fell, Ling Xia led Wu Zhenshan and the others to the entrance of the mountain col on the north side, pointed to the horseshoe prints on the ground and said:

"Although the horseshoe prints on the ground are scattered, if you look closely, there are five rows of horseshoe prints, the distance between the hoof prints and the two sides is about one meter, the length of a war horse is about three meters, and the body width is about one meter, according to which a data can be calculated, the cavalry team occupies the width of the road of twenty meters, that is, half the width of the road.

Although there are no traces on the road between the mountain passes, but there are left here in the mountain pass, please follow these footprints to look back, these four hoof prints are a horse's, these four hoof prints belong to another horse, let's first screen the horseshoe prints, and then count backwards along these horseshoe prints, one, two, three、...... Ninety-seven, ninety-eight, ninety-nine.

Two adults, please see, at the position of the ninety-nine horses in front, there are two rut marks, although the rut marks overlap with the horses' hoof prints behind, but the rut marks do not overlap with the front hoof prints, and it is still about a hundred horses away from the horses in front.

Although I have never been a soldier, I have seen troops march from other places ------ well------ from TV, but anyone who marches with a car either takes the lead from the front, or the car has important materials in the car and is protected by the army in the middle. I never heard of the car following the army to clean up the aftermath.

I carefully observed the rut prints, the ruts were not wide, and there were two horseshoe prints side by side in front of the front of the carriage, and it seemed that the carriage was pulled by two military horses, the ruts were thin, the spacing was very short, and there was only one, so it can be judged that this should not be a chariot, let alone a grain and grass cart.

I suppose it must have been an ordinary carriage, probably loaded with some kind of important goods, and as for the soldiers, it is estimated that they were specially responsible for transporting the contents of the carriage, since the carriage did not lead from the front, it was guarded by the soldiers in the middle of the line, and if so, there should be a queue of about a hundred horses at the back of the convoy.

According to these clues, we can analyze and calculate, according to the calculation of one hundred horses, if there are five rows in parallel, that is five hundred horses, and each horse carries a soldier, which means that there are five hundred soldiers in front of the carriage to open the way, and since the carriage is guarded in the middle of the team, there must be five hundred cavalry behind it to deal with the aftermath.

By this calculation, a thousand cavalry and a carriage should have passed through last night. Although the two adults refused to divulge any information, now that this data has been obtained, then I can be sure of another thing, it was a thousand cavalrymen who disappeared from here last night, right? ”

After speaking, Ling Xia looked at Su Jing'an and Wu Zhenshan with a confident expression, looking at the stunned and shocked expressions on their faces, he knew that he had analyzed correctly.