Tiny pebbles sit quietly in the dry dust.

A dull tremor in the distance came this way, and the dust particles of the soil shook slightly, more and more frequently, and when the woven sandals were stepped on, they shook from the ground, and then there were booming footsteps, one, two, four...... Ten ...... Hundreds of figures ran from here, occasionally kicking the small, long-standing pebble out of the way with the occasional running foot, and then crashing into the galloping horse and bouncing away.

"Speed up and rush through here, Ctesiphon is under attack, let the people in the back team speed up!"

"Run! Faster—"

From time to time, the cavalry running on the side shouted at the auxiliaries advancing on foot, the light infantry team wearing cloth clothes and shields, and the flag bearer led by the cavalry raised his hand sharply with the head of the dragon and the tail of the horse, so that the subordinates in the rear were stationed on the horse, and under the iron mask, only a pair of eyes were exposed, and he turned his head: "How long will it take for our scouts to come back?" ”

"Only a part of the ...... returned"

……

The direction of progress was divided into two different paths, on the left side were hills linking the tributaries of the Euphrates, and on the other side were open fields, occasionally wooded, but not dense, and in the darkness there was the wailing of war horses.

Suddenly, a war horse rushed out of the low grass, the horse's hips were still missing two arrows, the moment the hooves hit the ground, the whole horse fell forward, and the scout wearing half thin armor above rolled a few times on the ground, discarded the spear, and pulled out the 'Pompeii' style short sword at his waist, and a Cylius cavalry in two leather armor rushed out of the bushes and slashed down with a ring sword.

Phew-

Between the metal blades, sparks erupted in the darkness, the Roman scout on the ground rolled on the ground, slipped out, and then quickly got up, turned around and ran towards the nearest forest, the Han scout who caught up behind pulled the reins, turned out of the arc and swung the knife from the side, the Roman scout kicked his feet, his body pounced, and the blade slashed into the tree with a thud, "Huh-" The wolf riding scout pulled out the blade and brought out the sawdust, and there was a sound of horses' hooves approaching in the nearby woods, Li Heizi raised his hand to stop the other party: "No need to chase, Let him leave, and inform the other brothers that they don't kill them all. ”

"Yes!"

The wolf cavalry scouts who came over are different from the standing horse scouts in the army, but a specially set up team specially designed to hunt and kill enemy scouts, following Gongsun Zhinan to fight in the north for more than ten years, they are already very elite, and they know everything about the scout's movements, habits, and equipment, even if they are far away in other countries, they are almost the same.

As this hunting cavalry team is the first group of old men in the White Wolf Plain, Li Heizi is also from the middle age of nearly fifty years to know the destiny of heaven, he watched the fleeing Roman scouts drowned in the black, twisted the reins and ran to the rear, and soon, with other subordinates who rushed over, burrowed into the forest, or galloped on the field, to make greater movement.

In the distance, the Fifth Legion from Namenia was still on the march, and the flag bearer of the cavalry received the scouts who had fled, and hurriedly sent a message to the commander of the Chinese army, Uljus, who was on horseback talking to the herald about something, "Where are the troops of the province of Babylon?" Tell their legionnaires that before I go to war with the Cyrius, I hope they will flank Ctesiphon and lay siege to the south. ”

As he was talking, there was a faint herald cavalry rushing towards him, but he was stopped by the soldiers of the Guards Regiment, and Urjus waved the herald away, so that the cavalry could be released: "What's the matter?" ”

The herald dismounted: "Our scouts have been attacked, and only twelve have returned. ”

"Those who came back were all warriors! What were the number of people who attacked over there? Uljus wiped the sweat from his palms and went to call the deputy commander.

"It's not clear, the scout who went to the front to explore the way was intercepted before he could get close to Ctesiphon." The herald replied.

After a while, the deputy commander rode over, and Uraus pressed the red-maned iron helmet on his head, and said with a smile: "Just now, the information came that our scouts have been killed a lot. ”

"There are scouts, which means that there is an army of the Cyrius ahead."

"That's right, but I suspect the enemy is tempting him." He rode with the other side and walked on the side of the long dragon-like procession, looking at the torches that were being raised: "It seems that the cunning Cylius have guessed that we will reinforce Ctesiphon and set up a battlefield here to hold us back. ”

"It seems that the captain of the Girus on Ctesiphon's side won't last long." The deputy corps commander frowned and looked in the direction of the field: "The general said that the Celeus people are luring the enemy, will there be no army at all in the place where they are attacked, but waiting for us on another road?" ”

Urjus waved his hand: "The enemy may have seen our thoughts and deliberately confused, but there are really no Selius on the other side of the hills. ”

As the order spread, the marching team in front began to deflect after receiving the order, and soon the outline of the hill was faintly visible.

……….

In the forest gap, there is not the slightest light, unknown night birds cry in the dark, occasionally there is a broken branch stepping sound, there are figures undulating in the dark, and then fall silent, in the hills filled with a trace of mist, Zhou Yu closed his eyes and pretended to sleep behind a quiet rock covered with moss, and then, the sound of stepping on the fallen leaves accumulated in the forest came out, approaching this side, he opened his eyes and saw Sun Ce carrying a gun and bowing his upper body cautiously.

"Will the tenacious Daqin people not come? There was news from Li Heizi's side that there were scouts from the Great Qin people, and they solved it according to the plan. Sun Ce sat down next to him against the rock.

Zhou Yu took out a silk handkerchief and handed it to the brother to wipe his sweat, with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Those army commanders in Daqin are all experienced soldiers, and they have some experience in the way of using soldiers, Yu just wants to use their ideas to induce them, and my brother relaxes ......."

The words paused, and a strange birdsong sounded in the distance, as if conveying a certain message, and the curvature of the corners of his mouth became more conspicuous, and then said: "Before ..... finished speaking, people were sent to the door, brother, guess how many people there will be?" ”

Sun Ce, who was sitting against the rock, sneered, and wiped the silk handkerchief in his hand over the head of the gun: "Everything is placed, hidden in a hidden and flammable location, no matter how many he comes, he will be dead anyway, and you will not know how many corpses there are when the time comes?" ”

"Haha, I won't know if the corpse is not there yet, but the fire will definitely be fierce."

Zhou Yu stood up, patted the dirt, and let people send a signal: "Notify everywhere to prepare, before you see the signal, you must not do it without permission, and those who violate the order will be beheaded-"

In the rolling hills, the sound faded into black after a moment, and on the other side, the eagle flag held high stepped into the forest.