At the same time, in the northern military camp, Tun Lianwei and the remaining half of the Jinjiawei were stationed here, and Huo Qing and Ling Feiyan had been placed in the Jinjiawei.

In terms of numbers, there are more military camps in the north, so the area of the military camps is also larger, and at this time, the supreme commander here is standing on the city wall and looking into the distance, his eyes patrolling back and forth on the land of Mobei not far away.

"Commander Ou," a voice sounded behind him, "There are a total of five people from Qingshan Academy this time, Ling Tieying's daughter and a stunned Qing named Huo Qing have already been placed in the Golden Armor." The man was hunched over his waist and head bowed as he spoke, and he was very respectful to the man in front of him.

The Commander turned around slowly, but his eyes did not look at people, and his hands were behind his back. He has the face of a Jiangnan person, but he has the tall figure of a northerner, and he should have been a beautiful man when he was young, with two mustaches, dry lips that are a little molting, and the wrinkles on his forehead and the corners of his eyes make him look a little vicissitudes.

"This is my sixth year in Yecang, you see, in another hour, the sunset should completely set, I am tired of seeing the scenery of Mobei......" Commander Ou's words revealed a little helplessness, if there are others, they will think that they have been guarding the border for many years and miss their homeland.

"Let's get down to business," Commander Ou stepped forward and stretched out his hand to help, "I said don't do this kind of big gift at every turn, don't forget, you are a dignified captain." In this night, even the generals are trying their best to be close to the army and love the people, aren't you trying to trap me in injustice with such a attitude? ”

The person who came immediately stood up straight, with apologies and fear in a panic, and quickly defended: "It's the last general's misbehavior!" The commander has always treated us like sons, and the general knows this very well! ”

"Hehe, I'm just talking casually, don't be so nervous!" Commander Ou immediately showed a smile and reached out to hold the hand of the visitor, looking very intimate. But the man was still nervous, and he could even see sweat running down his forehead.

"What happened to the other three?"

"Returning to the commander, the name of the archery is very good is Shi Gong Zhengyuan, and now he is under Xiang Ang; The other two, Xuan Shaoning and Duan Lang, are now in the cold sword", the person who came lowered his head as he spoke, without the slightest momentum that a captain should have.

"Cold Knife? These two people are quite picky, and they actually went to Xia Junmao, why, are they in a hurry to make military merits? ”

"I heard that when the general asked them what their choice was yesterday, they went to the cold knife voluntarily, these two hairy boys were so anxious to behave when they first entered the barracks, this road must not go far!" The lieutenant frowned and said suspiciously, with an indescribable gloom in his eyes.

"It's hard to say, after all, it's Baishi's disciple, send someone to keep an eye on it, and report to me immediately if there is any situation!"

"Yes!"

"Let's go, Captain Yang, go to my tent and have two drinks!" After speaking, Commander Ou didn't look at Captain Yang, and walked away directly, and this Captain Yang finally breathed a sigh of relief, gently wiped the sweat stains on his forehead and immediately followed.

For Mobei, there is no change of four seasons, only the difference between the rainy season and the dry season. Since June, Mobei has entered the rainy season, and until the end of September, it is still continuous rain, and the raindrops of beans hit the surface of the camp tent, hitting the sound of endless ears.

Xuan Shaoning stood in the camp tent, looking at the gray sky, feeling a little irritable, he had been in the barracks for more than four months, except for the daily drill, which was a four-day rotation. It's also strange to say, during this period, Xiliang didn't move. "Could it be that you are also restrained by this annoying rain?" Xuan Shaoning muttered to himself, and smiled helplessly after speaking.

"It's like this every year, and the rain doesn't stop until October, when it's cold." Xing Gang walked to Xuan Shaoning's side and said seemingly unintentionally, his eyes also looking at the sky.

"How long have you been in the barracks?" Xuan Shaoning asked.

"I, I was captured by the Xiliang army three years ago, and I worked as a coolie in Kansai, and then the Xuanjia army and the Xiliang soldiers fought in Kansai, and the Xiliang soldiers were defeated and retreated, and we were rescued by a coolie. I've been with the Xuanjia Army since then, and three years is a lot of time! Xing Gang talked about the past with a little sadness.

Seven years is a blink of an eye, let alone three years? I don't know what happened to them...... Xuan Shaoning recalled the time in Qingshan Academy for a while, and couldn't help but be in a trance.

While...... While...... While......

At this moment, three melodious bells rang, which was a signal for a change of guard.

Song Mi rushed into the camp tent in military uniform, shouting loudly: "Let's go, go to Nanchenglou to change guards!" Everyone immediately raised their sabers and strode towards the city tower with Song Mi.

The southern military camp defends the towers in the south and west of Yecang City, and each group of soldiers who change guards guards the city for twelve hours, and it is the turn of Xuan Shaoning's fourth army on this day.

The city wall of Yecang is as high as seven zhang, all of which are made of stones, and are poured with rice milk, tung oil, and lime juice, which is quite solid. There are twelve lookouts evenly distributed on the four sides of the city wall, and the fourth army is stationed in the south of the castle tower.

"Xie Yi, Lei Peng, and Meng Kebao go to the lookout, and the others disperse!" Song Mi loudly arranged the personnel arrangement of this small team, Xuan Shaoning was arranged in the middle of the city tower, from here you can see with the naked eye is the moat about half a mile away from the root of the city wall, because of the heavy rain for a few days, the moat is about to become a moat, and then you can only see the vast wasteland, full of yellow, after watching for a long time, it is inevitable to get bored, but fortunately, when the fourth army is in place, the rain gradually decreases.

The Xuanjia army was very disciplined, and it was not allowed to talk while guarding the city, so what Xuan Shaoning could do was to check it over and over again as far as his eyes could see, and in this way he survived five hours, it was dark, and the yellow color was replaced by the night, and the rain stopped after entering the night.

The night in Mobei is cold and lonely, and only the twinkling stars in the sky can be companions. Xuan Shaoning looked up at the sky, then lowered his head and continued to look into the distance, at this moment, there seemed to be something moving in the night in the distance.

What is it? Xuan Shaoning involuntarily approached the city wall, and even leaned out of the battlement, looking far away and still not seeing it really, but his intuition told him that there was indeed an object moving. But my night vision is very limited, and I can't see clearly, what should I do? Xuan Shaoning looked left and right, looked up and caught a glimpse of the lookout, and suddenly thought about it - go to the lookout!

On second thought, military discipline makes it clear: No one is allowed to leave his post without permission. Isn't it obvious that I have violated military discipline by doing this, what should I do? Xuan Shaoning reluctantly took the steps he had just taken, but the soles of his feet had not fully landed, and he changed his mind again.

No way! Even if I have to be fined, I have to make sure of it!

After making a decision, Xuan Shaoning secretly ran to the bottom of the lookout where Xie Yi was, and his move was seen by Cao Tie.

"Hey, what are you doing? You are leaving your post without permission, if you are discovered by the military commander, you will be dealt with by military law! Cao Tie was so anxious that he lowered his voice and shouted to Xuan Shaoning.

Xuan Shaoning made a silent gesture to Cao Tie, and then no matter how anxious he was, he went down the stairs to the lookout. Xie Yi was also startled when he saw Xuan Shaoning, "Why did you come up?" ”

"Shhhh Xuan Shaoning didn't care about Xie Yi, and stood directly at the top of the lookout to look at the moving objects. The so-called "standing high and looking far away" is indeed true, Xuan Shaoning found that the moving objects were people!

"There is a situation!"

"What's the situation?" Xie Yi on the side hadn't reacted yet.

"See for yourself!"

Xuan Shaoning pulled Xie Yi to point in a suspicious direction, and before Xie Yi could react, Xuan Shaoning had already run down the lookout and happened to meet Song Mi.

Song Mi asked solemnly, "What are you doing?" Ignoring military discipline! ”

"Captain Wu, you come to the lookout with me first, and it's not too late for you to interrogate me after reading it!" Xuan Shaoning turned around and went to the lookout, and Song Miqiang followed with anger.

"Captain Wu, look!" Xuan Shaoning pointed out the suspicious direction to Song Mi.

Someone!

Song Mi reacted immediately, he glanced at Xie Yi, who was a little guilty and didn't dare to face it. Song Mi said: "The situation is unclear now, and it is not appropriate to alarm the army."

"What then?" Xie Yi suddenly raised his head and asked a little puzzled.

"I'm willing to go and find out first!" Xuan Shaoning said without hesitation.

"You? How? ”

"I need a rope, so I'll go down from this northern wall"

"Okay, Xie Yi, go and prepare the rope and the bell arrow immediately!"

"Yes!"

"I'm going with you!" Song Mi stared at Xuan Shaoning and said.

After a short time, Xie Yi took the prepared rope to the city wall, and at this time, everyone in the fourth army discovered the situation.

"Lei Peng, Meng Kebao, wait for our signal before making a decision to sound the alarm!"

"Yes!"

"Cao Tie, Tao Sikun, and Qing Cang continue to stand guard! Xie Yi, see it! ”

"Yes!"

"Xuan Shaoning, Xie Yu, Xing Gang and I will go down to find out!"

"Yes!"

In the past four months, Song Mi has been such a silent man, but at the critical moment, he acted vigorously and resolutely, which greatly changed Xuan Shaoning's impression of him.

After wrapping ropes around their waists, the four of them began to slowly descend from the top of the city wall, and they all landed safely in only half a column of incense. Song Mi looked up and saw Qing Cang making a gesture on the city wall that everything was fine.

"The situation ahead is unknown, cheer up, be careful!" Song Mi took the lead and ran forward quickly, and Xuan Shaoning pressed the handle of the knife on his waist with his hand, and at this time he obviously felt his heartbeat accelerate. Under the cover of night, the four of them used their flying claws to fix themselves on both sides of the trench and climbed over the trench in turn.

Crossing the trench safely was not a difficult task for the four of them, Xuan Shao Ningfu took out the flint as soon as he stood still, and was about to ignite it but was stopped by Song Mi.

"Once you start a fire, you expose yourself."

"Yes!" Xuan Shaoning was secretly annoyed by his on-the-spot performance.

Song Mi raised his arm slightly and made a fist gesture, and the other three slowly moved to his side in an arc towards the place where those figures moved. After about a mile from the city wall, the terrain changed, and instead of the flat loess that had been before, grassy fields and scattered trees gradually appeared, and the terrain became uneven, and if someone hid in it, it would be difficult to find it even from the lookout. These people were obviously too careless to expose themselves.

Through the moonlight, Xuan Shaoning could see that there were six or seven figures shaking within his line of sight.

"What should I do?" Xie Yu asked Song Mi softly, Song Mi didn't answer, just made a gesture to the left to Xing Gang and a gesture to the right to Xuan Shaoning, and then patted Xie Yu's shoulder to signal to go together. The three of them moved very carefully, trying not to make any noise, relying on the bushes to hide in the night, but fortunately, the six or seven figures were not noticed.

After a while, the four of them were in place, and Song Mi saw the opportunity, and jumped up and knocked down the person closest to him, because the person was facing away from Song Mi, until the knife was pierced through the chest, there was still a look of disbelief on his face.

As soon as Song Mi moved, the remaining three people also immediately attacked, Xing Gang leaned into the crowd and cut the ankles of the three with a knife; Xie Yu threw a throwing knife hard and finished off one person; Xuan Shaoning punched a person in the chest, and just as he fell to the ground, Xuan Shaoning pulled out his saber and put it against his throat.

In the midst of this lightning and flint, the five of them either became ghosts or prisoners, leaving only the last person who was subdued by Xuan Shaoning. It was only at this time that Xuan Shaoning could see clearly by the moonlight that the person in front of him was wearing a fur hat, tan armor, and a half-moon-shaped scimitar pinned to his waist, and he looked like a Xiliang soldier.

"What are you doing sneakily here so late?" Xuan Shaoning pressed hard against his throat and asked.

"I guess they're here to find out what we're doing!" Xie Yu pulled out the flying knife from the corpse of the Xiliang soldier who died from his flying knife, and wiped the blood stains remaining on the flying knife with his clothes.

"If you don't say it, then it's the same fate as them!" Song Mi said viciously.

"I said, I said...... We are indeed ...... Explore the ...... of Nightshade City The deployment situation ...... "This Xiliang soldier was obviously frightened, and his speech trembled.

"Captain Wu, look, this man's neck!" Xing Gang said while controlling the three captives, pointing to the person who was controlled by Xuan Shaoning.

Song Mi was standing at an angle where he could clearly see the faint mark on the neck of the Xiliang soldier: an upside-down, leaf-shaped, blue-gray scale. Song Mi turned around and came to the three captives controlled by Xing Gang and Xie Yu, and reached out to pick the necks of the three but did not see the same mark.

"Bring them back, there is naturally a way to get them to speak!" Song Mi straightened up, as if threatening.

Xuan Shaoning tilted his head and wanted to glance at the mark, with the slight movement of his body, the knife against the throat of the Xiliang soldier was slightly loosened, and the Xiliang soldier changed his previous cowardly appearance, his eyes flashed with a cold killing intent, and he quickly pulled out the dagger on his waist, his body did not move, and he stabbed Xuan Shaoning with a backhand.

"Be careful!" Song Mi discovered the danger and reminded loudly, and at the same time prepared to make a move, saying that it was too late and that was too fast, Xuan Shaoning instinctively dodged away, and with the force of his hand, he actually slashed the throat of Xiliang Bing, and the blood with body temperature sprayed into the air in an instant.

Xuan Shaoning has never really killed anyone so far, even if he knows that he must be able to kill the enemy in battle, but in the face of this situation, he froze in place, even if his whole body posture still maintained his original appearance, looking at his robe at a loss.

Song Mi was about to comfort a few words, but he heard Xing Gang's shouts behind him, and when he looked back, the three captives who were originally tied up actually took advantage of the chaos to bite off their tongues and commit suicide!

"It's okay now, not a single living mouth is left!" Xing Gang was a little annoyed by his mistakes.

Song Mi accepted the reality without changing his face, and first comforted Xuan Shaoning and said: "Whoever it is, even if it is a general, is not born to kill." As a member of the Xuanjia Soldiers, we have all gone through this stage of yours, and no matter how much I persuade us, we still have to rely on ourselves to get through it in the end. I'm sure you'll be able to handle it. ”

Xie Yu, who was in charge of the guard, reminded: "Look, the city is full of fire!" ”

The four of them looked in the direction of Yecang City, and sure enough, the city wall was already as bright as day.

"It must be the Captain who has discovered the problem, let's hurry back!"

The four of them immediately ran in the direction of the city, and when they ran to the bottom of the city, they could clearly see that the city wall was full of people, and one of them was standing in the middle of the crowd quite imposingly, it was Xia Junmao! Xuan Shaoning only then began to worry about how to explain tonight's events.

"Don't fly the eaves and walk the wall anymore, go directly to the main gate, and open the city gate!" Xia Junmao's words even had banter, which made Xuan Shaoning very uneasy, it seems that it will be difficult to be good tonight.

There was a bang, there was a sound of iron chains pulling, the heavy city gate was slowly lowered, and the four of them walked in with a heavy heart, and on the way up to the city tower, Xuan Shaoning had already made up his mind to take this matter alone.

"See Xia Duwei!" Song Mi saluted first.

"Well, let's talk about it."

"Tonight's matter is ......." Song Mi had just spoken, but unexpectedly, Xuan Shaoning stepped forward and grabbed the conversation, "Captain Xia, tonight's incident is all caused by Shaoning, I did not follow military discipline and left without authorization, Shaoning is willing to accept punishment!" ”

"Xia Duwei, there is a reason for the incident, it was not Xuan Shaoning who did it on purpose!" Song Mi only glanced at this subordinate, and still replied calmly: "It was he who noticed a figure shaking not far away during his inspection, so we went down to check." ”

"What's the situation?" Xia Junmao was not in a hurry to pursue responsibility, but asked directly.

"It's six Xiliang soldiers, estimated that they are exploring the terrain, and I am afraid of cleaning and startling the snake, so I didn't report it, so I went to check it with the three of them."

"What about people?"

"All dead!"

"Is that death without proof?"

"The bodies of those six people are still in place, and Captain Xia can send someone to check them."

"So, you've made a meritorious service, haven't you?"

"I violated military discipline first, and I didn't dare to mention military merits, but this time I did have some gains"

"What's the catch?"

"A Symbol"

"Symbols?"

"Yes, I can draw the symbols on paper so that the lieutenant can see them more clearly!"

"Well, that's it for now! Let's talk about the punishment. ”

"Captain Xia, if you want to be punished, we will also be punished!" The rest of the Fourth Rank all fell to their knees and pleaded for punishment.

"Why, do you think that the law does not hold the people accountable?"

"Don't dare, if you want to say that we have violated discipline, we have indeed violated discipline!" Tao Sikun is also a bloody man.

"It's a good scene of brotherly love, let's get up. The merits and demerits are compensated, but in order to set an example, I will still punish each of you for a month! You are responsible for bringing back the corpses of those Xiliang soldiers! Xia Junmao's sudden change in attitude really surprised everyone, "All of you listen, if this kind of thing happens again in the future, I will definitely punish him heavily!" The latter sentence was addressed to all those present.

When Xia Junmao walked past Xuan Shaoning, he deliberately stopped, glanced obliquely, and left.

"What a false alarm, it scared me to death......" Cao Tie was the first to break the silence.

"Brother Shaoning is really a man!" Qing Cang was very appreciative of Xuan Shaoning's actions just now.

"That's right! Shaoning really impressed me! Also, I didn't expect Captain Xia to spare us so much tonight? Xie Yi always felt that something was untrue.

"There is no human affection in front of military law! Don't take it as an example, continue to stand guard! Song Mi stopped everyone's discussion in time and let everyone return to their positions. Just as Xuan Shaoning was about to leave, Song Mi blocked his way, leaving behind the sentence "The barracks is not a place for you to be a hero" and left, leaving Xuan Shaoning alone.

In a few moments, all the soldiers on the city tower returned to their positions, and the night sky was already sparsely moonlit, as if everything that had just happened was a dream of their own.

This Xia Junmao is unpredictable and has a different mind than ordinary people, which is really incomprehensible; There is also that Song Mi, who is decisive and aggressive, but he doesn't appreciate it, why do you let yourself run into it? This night was another meticulous work and another killing; first violated military discipline, and then was pardoned, and Xuan Shaoning, who was linked one by one, still did not slow down until this moment, touching his back, and the military uniform in the armor was already soaked.