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Three days later, in the middle of the night, at the exit of a hidden valley in the north of Huoshan Mountain, Yang Su sat alone on a horse in the forest, looking calm.

Behind him was a simple camp made up of thousands of makeshift tents, and more than 30,000 soldiers who had been running for three days and three nights were seizing this rare time to fall asleep greedily, and the snoring in the camp came and went, and it seemed to be thunder from afar.

There was no one in the camp to light a fire, and the moonlight was like water, quietly scattered in this temporary military camp within a radius of several miles, revealing a trace of indescribable tranquility.

Feng Xiaoci, who had a stern face, was standing beside Yang Su, he was anxiously walking around Yang Su's side, from time to time he walked out of the forest and looked out, every time he came back, he was disappointed, and after sitting for a while, he would continue to run out.

Yang Su smiled slightly and said: "Feng Sima, don't be impatient, it's useless for you to run out all the time, you will always come, if there is an accident on the road, it will only be providential." ”

Feng Xiaoci smiled embarrassedly and said: "The last general is a rough man, he can't hide things in his heart, joys, sorrows and sorrows are written on his face, handsome, I have never seen a calm and calm boss like you." ”

"When he was guarding Daizhou, he followed General Li Jingli, although he was calm on the surface, but he was very anxious in his heart, I could see from the sweat on his body, but you are different, you are the same as usual, you don't see it at all is a matter of life and death."

Yang Su shook his head: "It's not that Ben Shuai is not nervous, but it's useless to be nervous, and Ben Shuai has considered this situation before coming." There are also measures to deal with it. That's right. Did the sergeants sent to Taniguchi and the cliffs spy on the enemy in return? ”

Feng Xiaoci was about to speak, when suddenly a flash of fire lit up outside the forest, although it was very faint, it seemed to illuminate the whole night, and the firelight went out after three clockwise circles in the air, as if nothing had happened.

Feng Xiaoci jumped up excitedly and said to Yang Su: "Dashuai, that's the agreed signal." Look at this frame, it must be General Mai coming. ”

Yang Su pondered for a moment and said, "Feng Sima, you step forward and reply to the signal." As he spoke, he turned his head to a herald behind him and said, "Tell the whole army, immediately enter a state of alert, and be ready to fight at any time!" ”

Feng Xiaoci was slightly stunned and said, "Dashuai, the brothers can finally take a nap for a while, do you want to wake them up now?" ”

Yang Su said in a deep voice: "This is just in case, in case it is the enemy army that comes, I am afraid that the soldiers will all die in their sleep." Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years. There's nothing wrong with being prepared, if it's our army. You can sleep again after a while. ”

Feng Xiaoci smiled, didn't say a word, and walked out. He took out a fire fold from his arms, and also drew three circles in the air, but the direction was opposite to just now, and in a few moments, a person flew over in the thick night on the opposite side, dressed in a black night suit, and there was no sound when he stepped on the ground.

Feng Xiaoci saw it really in the moonlight, the person who came was wrapped in black cloth, with a leopard's head and eyes, a bearded face, a medium build, disproportionately long and thick legs, and a ring-headed knife in his hand, could it be a wheat iron rod?

Mai Tiezhu saw that it was Feng Xiaoci, laughed, put the knife down, inserted it into the ground, and gave Feng Xiaoci a bear hug when he came up, and said excitedly: "Good brother, let my brother and I find it easily, and you don't leave a mark at the exit, I have run for five or six miles, shaking torches everywhere, and no one comes out." ”

Feng Xiaoci slapped the chest of the wheat iron rod fiercely, and his face changed with a relieved expression, and said with a smile: "If you don't come, I'm going to die, you must know that our 40,000 brothers haven't slept for three days and three nights along the way, and they don't have long weapons and iron armor, if it's the enemy army who comes, I'm afraid they will all have to be explained here." ”

Mai Tiezhu stopped laughing, and said, "Where is Marshal Yang?" I was ordered by General Yang to come over to connect, and we will talk about our old relationship later, and get down to business first. ”

Feng Xiaoci hurriedly made a gesture to the forest and said, "The marshal has been waiting for you for a long time, and the soldiers are making up for sleep, but the marshal who has not closed his eyes for three days is still unwilling to rest, and has been watching in the forest. ”

The two of them entered the forest while talking, and they didn't walk a few steps to the place where Yang Su was sitting, and Mai Tiezhu was about to salute when he saw Yang Su, but Yang Su waved his hand to signal that it was not necessary, and then Yang Su's voice was calm and fast: "Can 10,000 iron horses be in place?" ”

Mai Tiezhu hurriedly replied: "Thanks to the blessing of the commander, 10,000 soldiers fortunately did not disgrace their lives, and they arrived near here four hours ago, and we walked along the river bank all the way, and did not encounter the enemy. ”

Yang Su continued to ask in a deep voice: "There is a gap of more than twenty miles between this Huozhou City and the big camp in Zhao Zikai's valley, so there is no connection between them?" Did you come across an enemy patrol as you came all the way from the riverbank? ”

Mai Tiezhu's face changed slightly: "General Yang set up sentry cavalry on both sides, just to prevent the enemy's patrols, but I waited for half an hour and didn't see anyone coming, so General Yang ordered all the cavalry to quickly cross the main road, and now they are hiding five miles outside the forest." ”

Yang Su's face suddenly became ugly: "Didn't you leave anyone to guard after you passed the Guò Road?" ”

Mai Tiezhu said strangely: "It's all already crossed, why do you have to leave someone to guard?" ”

Yang Su stomped his foot fiercely, and his voice couldn't hide the anger in his heart: "Confused, 10,000 Xiaoguo, one person and two horses, there are 20,000 horses riding through this road, how can you not leave horseshoe prints everywhere?" No matter how slack the enemy is, it is impossible for the whole day to go unpatrolled on that road, and although you are lucky enough to get through the road, you will soon be discovered by the enemy. ”

Mai Tiecane's face turned pale in an instant, he bit his finger and asked, "Then what now?" ”

Yang Su's brows tightened, pacing back and forth in the forest, and a bright moon sprinkled on his face through the gaps in the branches in the forest, reflecting shadowy branches, swaying slightly with the night breeze, which further aggravated the uneasiness in the hearts of Mai Tiezhu and Feng Xiaoci.

Yang Su suddenly stopped. The expression on his face became resolute: "Can't wait any longer. The whereabouts have been revealed. The enemy will react by dawn at the latest. We must act now. ”

He turned his head to look at the herald behind him, and said: "Order, the whole army will set off immediately, and order the adjutant general Tu Wanxu to lead 3,000 infantry, each with a gong and drum, to protect General Liu's 10,000 archers, seize the commanding heights on the east side of the valley, and if there is an enemy garrison, they will attack and take it." Then watch me hold up the fire as a trumpet, beat the drum and fire the arrows. A herald with a yellow flag on his back quickly ran backwards.

Yang Su turned his head and said to the wheat iron staff: "You go back to Yang Xuangan immediately, let him lead the cavalry here, and quickly hand over the cavalry's spears to the infantry to use, quickly." When he heard this, he ran towards the forest without looking back.

Yang Su looked at the figure of Mai Tiecane in the distance, and gave the third order without looking back: "Feng Sima, you go to the camp now, pick three hundred soldiers to guard the camp, and the other soldiers all line up." Go outside the forest to get the cavalry's weapons first, and then listen to my orders to prepare for battle. ”

Feng Xiaoci nodded. In response to the "order", he flew towards the camp tent within a radius of several miles.

Yang Su was suddenly left with only a few personal guards, he sighed, looked at the moon in the sky that had begun to sink in the west, and muttered, "Is it still too late?" ”

Half an hour later, Yang Su was already standing outside the forest, while Yang Xuangan lowered his head, like a child who had made a mistake, and said nothing in front of Yang Su, as if waiting for his father's criticism and accusations.

Yang Su glanced at Yang Xuangan and sighed: "Okay, you yourself should know how dangerous this negligence will be, fortunately, you are lucky, and when you pass the main road, you also know that you will send sharp soldiers on both sides of the road to guard it, no matter what, it will finally meet you smoothly, but if you encounter this kind of thing again in the future, you must have more eyes on it." ”

Yang Xuangan raised his head, but there was a hint of confusion in his eyes: "Then if you follow your father's will, what should you do?" How can 20,000 horses cross this road without leaving a trace? ”

Yang Su nodded: "The last few hundred horsemen are tied with branches behind their tails, and the large troops in front can run back and forth after guò, and the horses' hoof prints all over the ground can be eliminated." However, this tactic can only be used at night, otherwise the enemy army can see the smoke and dust in the daytime even if they are more than ten miles away. ”

Yang Xuan sighed "oh", but his eyes turned to the woods behind Yang Su, and asked, "Father, why haven't the infantry brothers come over for so long?" There was a lot of noise in the direction of the camp. ”

Yang Su listened carefully to the direction of the camp, and sure enough, there was a lot of movement, no one was snoring anymore, but he faintly heard some people arguing in a low voice, and in the sound of crickets in this quiet summer night, Yang Su's face flashed a trace of gloom, and he said to the herald beside him: "Go, call Feng Sima back!" ”

Soon, Feng Xiaoci hurried back with the herald, he was sweating profusely, his helmet was in his hand, he was wearing a headband, his hair was tightly tied by the headband, and the few locks of hair above his forehead were tightly pressed against the door of his head by the sweat that was constantly oozing from his head.

As soon as Yang Su saw Feng Xiaoci, he asked in a deep voice: "Feng Sima, half an hour ago, Ben Shuai asked you to bring the soldiers out of the camp, why haven't the soldiers left the camp for so long?" Did you bring Ben Shuai's orders with you? ”

Feng Xiaoci didn't dare to raise his hand to wipe his sweat at all, and hurriedly said: "Back to the marshal, after the last general entered the camp, he found that the army had been woken up by the order given by the marshal before. ”

"As soon as they entered the camp, General Shangguan and General Li followed the last general, and asked the last general if the cavalry had been in place, and the last general didn't care about gossiping with them, so he directly announced the military order of the commander, 300 people stayed to defend the camp, and all the other soldiers had to line up, take weapons first, and then listen to the commander's dispatch."

Yang Su nodded: "Yes, it is indeed the original words of Ben Shuai, could it be that someone disobeyed the order?" ”

Feng Xiaoci took a breath, raised his hand to wipe the sweat on his head, and said: "That's not it, it's just that because the marshal didn't clearly order which three hundred people stayed in the camp to guard, as a result, all the armies wanted to fight for the messenger who guarded the camp, and they couldn't hold each other, and it wasn't until just now that a result was reached." ”

"Now there are three hundred soldiers from General Shangguan's Yongzi battalion to guard them, and the remaining soldiers are lining up and will come out soon."

Yang Su listened, his face became more and more ugly, and even a faint layer of black gas floated, Yang Xuan felt it, and knew that it was not good, looking at the current frame. Yang Su is ready to kill people in front of the battle again.

It's already the end of the day. The moon had set below the western sky. And the eastern horizon was covered with a hint of fish belly white, and a thin morning mist appeared in the forest, and the characters began to be difficult to see more than a dozen paces away.

The infantry were lining up, and because they wanted to hide their whereabouts, the team leaders were only whispering orders, and the movements and steps of the sergeants could not be lighter, and the movements and steps of the tens of thousands of people still startled the birds and apes in the forest.

A few trumpets could be heard faintly in the valley in the distance. It was a rallying cry for some camps to start urging the soldiers to get up and patrol, Yang Su's face became more and more solemn, and he asked Feng Xiaoci, "How were the three hundred people chosen?" ”

Feng Xiaoci shook his head: "Several generals wanted their personal guards to stay, and they couldn't hold on for a while, and finally General Shangguan's guards squeezed directly to the camp gate, standing and not leaving, and others had no choice, so they gave up." ”

Murderous intent appeared on Yang Su's face, and a sneer flashed at the corner of his mouth: "Order, the whole army is arrayed." When they came out of the forest and assembled, all the three hundred men who were guarding the camp were called out. Ben Shuai has something to say! ”

Half an hour later, nearly 30,000 infantry troops had all walked out of the camp in the forest, lined up in the open space outside the forest, Yang Su had already ridden a white high-headed horse, his expression was cold, and he didn't say a word, while Yang Xuangan rode a black cloud and stood behind Yang Su, even if he was more than a dozen steps away, he could feel the strong killing intent on Yang Su's body.

A little half of the hour has passed, it is dawn, the thin layer of morning mist in the forest just now, at this time it is getting thicker and thicker, it is difficult to see others more than ten steps away, in the eyes of the soldiers, Yang Su's figure is also looming in this morning mist.

I only heard Yang Su's voice ringing sternly and angrily: "Law enforcement officer, take down all the three hundred people who stayed in the camp just now and escort them to the front of the army." ”

Yang Su's voice was very loud, and every team in the front row could hear it clearly, and these people quickly passed the words to the back, and in less than a moment, nearly 30,000 people in the whole army clearly heard Yang Su's military order, and everyone's face changed.

During the time of the message, the magistrate had already taken a thousand guards and knights of the Chinese army, and tied up the three hundred soldiers who had stayed in the camp, from the main to the small soldiers, and escorted them to the front of the main army.

Yang Su glanced at a burly and sturdy general standing behind him, dressed in serial armor and purple-skinned. This man's face was now as white as earth, sweating like pulp, and he was constantly wiping the sweat from his forehead.

Yang Su said coldly: "Shangguanzheng, are these all your soldiers?" ”

The general is the official government in the history of Cizhou, Yang Liang just started the army a month ago, he sent the general Su Liang east out of the Taihang Eight Paths in the caliber, through the northern region of Henan, and Cizhou is the first place to bear the brunt, Shangguan Zheng gritted his teeth in Cizhou for more than ten days, and his subordinates suffered more than half of the casualties, but still held Cizhou, forcing Su Liang to detour to Xiangzhou.

Three days later, Shangguan Zheng and others came to Henan Province to pacify the ambassador, and the army led by Shi Ning, the general of the imperial court, and the two of them combined to break through Su Liang's army.

After the war, Shangguan Zheng was sent by Shi Ning to assist Yang Su's main army and marched to Jinyang together, because the Shangguan family and the Shi family are the backbone families of the Guanlong Group, and the friendship has gone through three generations, so Shi Ning, who is inseparable, also let Shangguan Zheng take this opportunity to make another meritorious service, so as to reward meritorious deeds after the war.

However, Shangguanzheng's troops suffered heavy casualties in the first battle of Cizhou, and most of the soldiers and guards who had been following him in the past few years were lost, leaving only more than 600 people, and among the 5,000 people that Shangguanzheng came to bring this time, only 300 guards were his cronies, and the rest of the soldiers were temporarily transferred to him by Shi Ning.

As soon as he saw that there was an opportunity to stay in the camp, he immediately took the lead in fighting for this left-behind quota.

But although Shangguanzheng has never followed Yang Su, he has also heard that Yang Su governs the army strictly and likes to kill people and establish authority, when he heard Yang Su's order to take down all the three hundred left-behind soldiers and bring them to the front of the army, his mind "boomed", his eyes were dark, and he almost didn't have a mouthful of blood spurting out.

Shangguan Zheng wanted to open his mouth to plead, but as soon as he bumped into Yang Su's cold and murderous eyes, he swallowed the words back into his stomach at once, and the sweat on his head and body was like the surging Fen River water in this summer.

Shangguan Zheng was thinking about countermeasures, but Yang Su's cold question came from his ears, and the whole person suddenly seemed to have fallen into an ice cave, he barely squeezed out a smile, and arched his hand: "Back to the commander, these soldiers are the personal guards of the last general's Yongzi battalion." The commander ordered 300 men to guard the camp, and the general left them behind. ”

Feng Xiaoci also woke up a little, he didn't want to see the three hundred heads fall to the ground, and hurriedly echoed Shangguan Zhengdao: "Marshal, what General Shangguan said is the truth, and it is all to blame for the negligence of the last general, and he failed to designate the troops to guard for a while, which made the generals quarrel, delayed the time for the army to assemble, and asked the marshal to punish him." ”

Yang Su glared at Feng Xiaoci fiercely, and said in a deep voice: "My Great Sui army has an iron law: the name should not be called, the time is not enough, the time is not violated, and the law of the division is changed, this is called a slow army, and the offender will be beheaded." ”

"Feng Sima, you are not doing things well, you have delayed the military aircraft, and you should have been beheaded according to the law! I remember that you have made meritorious efforts to explore the way, and changed it to fifty rods, and now that the war is imminent, write it down for the time being, and when the war is over, you should be punished according to the law, and you will retreat first! (To be continued......)