With the little privilege of being an officer, Liu Han and I often secretly had trysts in my dormitory to release our passion. It made me feel like I was back in the good old days of Zuoqiu City.

However, in addition to daily standing guard and drills, the Yin Army always has to be sent out occasionally to carry out tasks. Sometimes there is a situation where one party has just returned from a foreign country, and the other party has to set off in full gear and pass by. Today, my herald Wang Qi brought me two pieces of news at the same time.

"Report to Captain Zhai: The Left Army of the Japanese Tour has just passed the Ghost Gate Pass and is on its way back to the camp!" Wang Qi ran over to me and reported to me.

I was inspecting the new shields that the Eighth Battalion had just received from Wang Song's baggage camp, and when I heard it, I nodded with satisfaction. In the past few days, I have told Wang Qi to go to the Ghost Gate three times a day in the morning, noon and evening, just to find out when Liu Han, who has been out to suppress bandits since last month, will return to the camp.

But Wang Qi then told me another piece of news that made me very unhappy. He leaned closer and lowered his voice and said, "Captain, according to the gossip I got when I met the heralds of the 1st Battalion on my way back, we are likely to leave tonight!" ”

My face immediately sank, and I suddenly scolded in my heart: "Damn, leave so soon? Don't give me a chance to have fun one night before leaving! ”

It turned out that this morning, Gan Sheng had already convened a short meeting with several of our Yin Schools, asking them to prepare for the expedition in advance, so it was a good thing that Wang Song gave us a new shield. However, Gan Sheng did not tell us the specific tasks and destinations of the expedition when he held the meeting, but asked us to keep them strictly confidential, and only said that he would wait for the notice of the next step.

As a result, I never expected that this notice of departure would come so quickly!

But the troops are like this, as soon as the order is issued, it must be carried out, and there is no opportunity to bargain at all. I didn't even have time to meet Liu Han, so I had to leave her a note in my dorm room, telling her that I was out on an assignment.

However, when I hurried to the square behind the Ghost Gate Pass with the eighth battalion that night, I found that the troops dispatched by the underworld this time were far more than the night tour rear army, but the entire night tour army!

The front army, the rear army, the left army, the right army, the rear army, and the five troops under the command of the marshal of the night tour were all assembled in the square under the command of their respective generals, and they were crowded. The total number of the night marchers exceeded six thousand if calculated at full strength.

I and several of my commanders were amazed, what kind of mission did it take to send so many troops? Moreover, even the marshal of the night tour, one of the two yin marshals of the underworld, personally led the team to command!

"It can't be a ghost bandit!" Shi Xun said very firmly, "No ghost bandit has such a strong strength that can alarm half of the Yin army. ”

"Are you going to fight a certain Yin City?" Yao Chen couldn't help but guess, "I've heard that there have been a few Xiaoyin Cities who have been quite dishonest recently. ”

I shook my head categorically and denied: "It's a bit of a fuss to send a Yin army of 6,000 people to fight a small Yin City, unless it's to fight a big Yin City like Zuoqiu City!" However, most of our recruits here were recruited from several Yin Cities such as Zuoqiu City, White Water City, and Black Salt City, and it would be impossible to send us to such a mission. ”

"Well, the captain has a point. But what else could that be a mission? Yao Chen was even more surprised. Like me, he had just enlisted in the army for a year, and he still had less knowledge after all.

In the end, it was the veteran Du Zong who gave the answer closest to the truth. He lowered his voice and said to us, "No more guessing. With such a big battle, there will be no other possibility than fighting the ghost army! ”

"Fighting the Ghost Army?" Everyone else was taken aback.

Although the name of the ghost army has been ringing in our ears since the beginning of the Yin army, we don't know where the ghost army is hiding and where the thunderous ghost commander is. This time, the underworld pulled out such a huge army without warning to pursue the ghost army, I'm afraid this mission will be more than lucky!

Du Zong has gone through my carrot and stick **, and now his mentality is also more positive. Instead of worrying, he comforted us: "It's all right! With the strength of the whole army at night, no matter where it hits, it is impossible to suffer a loss. Maybe by the time we get there, the ghost army will have already disappeared! ”

As soon as everyone heard this, they all believed it, and their mood relaxed a lot. Although the ghost army is haunted and its whereabouts are strange, they have never dared to fight head-on with the Yin army. This shows that the strength of the ghost army is still far inferior to that of the Yin army, so they can only hide everywhere and fight guerrillas everywhere in the underworld.

But no matter how much we guessed, we junior officers never got a definite message. This time, the night tour army all set out on the expedition, and the secrecy work was quite in place, and it is estimated that the detailed instructions can only be known by the night tour marshal and a few yin generals.

Moreover, the marshal of the night tour seemed to be in a hurry to set out, and ordered the baggage battalion to carry only a small amount of marching supplies without any slow cattle and heavy weapons. He did not even carry out the regular counting procedure, and directly delegated the authority of the inspection to the battalions. After the roll call of the commanders and soldiers of each battalion was completed, they immediately reported to the Yin general, and the Yin general was then gathered to the marshal of the night tour.

As a result, the entire counting process took less than half an hour to complete. Subsequently, the marshal of the night tour officially ordered: "Go!" ”

The Fifth Army of the Night Tour formed a long snake formation that was most suitable for long-distance marching in the order of the front army, the left army, the middle army, the right army and the rear army, and passed through the Ghost Gate Pass one by one. Because the rear army of the night tour was at the end of the whole army, by the time the troops in front had set off, it was already more than three miles apart when it was our turn.

The entire army of the Night Rangers made a ghost fire and marched rapidly in the underground caverns, and the long marching procession was like a terrible green fire dragon shuttling through the caves in the underworld of the underworld.

There are a total of ten yin veins outside the ghost gate, which lead to various parts of the underworld. However, some yin veins lead to various large and small yin cities, which belong to the main transportation routes, and caravans come and go frequently; while others lead to all kinds of Jedi and dangerous places, and fewer people walk; There are even one or two yin veins, which are so remote that very few people will go there. This time, the Night Rangers walked the most remote Yin vein.

The places where the yin vein leads are relatively well-known are the Qianzhang Valley, the Great Lava Lake, and the Gopher Maze. All three of these places can be said to be a desperate situation without people!

Qianzhang Valley, as the name suggests, is a deep canyon, unfathomable. The cliffs on both sides of the canyon are straight and steep, as neat as if they were cut out of a knife and an axe, and it is difficult to find a place to stay. There are no resources to be used in this kind of place, and even ghosts don't want to go.

The Great Lava Lake is located at the base of an active volcano and is said to be more than a mile in circumference. Steaming, boiling magma was churning inside, and every now and then a small eruption flowed along the course of the underground cavern. Such a harsh environment has caused the nearby geology to be very unstable, collapsing, blocking, and high temperatures, all of which are extremely dangerous, and naturally no one is idle and bored to run over to find death.

The last gopher maze is not so scary compared to the above two desperate situations. It is the largest breeding ground for gophers, with no less than 100,000 of them. Gophers are as big as wolfdogs, and they have a fierce temperament, and they like to burrow into burrows in the ground to make nests, and over time they dig a large area of the underground valley into a hornet's nest, like a maze.

Occasionally, some expeditions that are not afraid of death will go to catch gopher near the gopher maze. But gophers are very common underground creatures, which can be caught anywhere, and some people have even begun to try to domesticate and breed, so they don't necessarily have to go to the gopher maze to catch them.

It can't be that this time it was a night tour marshal who was purely on a whim, with thousands of men and horses to run to eliminate the four pests and encircle and suppress the nest of gophers, right?

But the march was in a hurry along the way, and the high-level officials had no intention of sharing information with us at all, but just urged us to hurry up, and refused to even give us time to lie down and sleep and rest, but to make a rapid march!

After a day and a half of continuous marching, at midnight on the third day of departure, the night rangers reached the periphery of the gopher maze. Marshal Night Tour finally gave the order to lie down and sleep, but the rest time was only one hour, and it was only enough for us to take a nap.

At the same time, Marshal Night Tour also sent a team of scouts to sneak into the gopher maze to investigate, and convened a pre-war meeting of officers above the rank of Yin Colonel. At this time, everyone understood without saying that the destination of this rapid march turned out to be the gopher maze, could it be that the ghost army was hiding here?

Yeyou is a tall, thin, long-bearded old man with sharp eyes and no anger. He sat in the middle military tent and watched as dozens of Yin generals and Yin Colonel-level officers under his command walked in one after another, crowding the military tent to the brim. Except for the night tour, everyone can only stand.

After everyone arrived, Ye You asked his soldiers to lower the curtain of the military tent to ensure that the secret was not leaked, and then began to explain the task:

"Two days ago, the spies sent by the Chacha Division reported that there were signs of ghost troops in the gopher maze. The spies once had the audacity to enter the labyrinth to investigate, and they saw the ghost army going in and out of the labyrinth, and they also brought a lot of supplies from other places, as if they wanted to build a base here and plot against them! ”

"Wow!"

The officers present could not help but be taken aback when they heard such information, and some of them could not help but talk about it in private.

The gopher maze is not far from the underworld, and it took us less than two days to get here on a hurried march. If the ghost army really established a base here, then their strategic purpose was already quite clear, and it was likely that they would use this place as a forward position to launch a sneak attack on the underworld at any time!