"Ming Xiu plank road, dark Chen Cang?" Chen Shimei frowned, maybe he hadn't heard this allusion, "What does Lord Chen mean by this?" ”

There are a lot of soldiers and generals around me, and I was worried that there were other spies in the Qinglong Army, so I didn't go into details, so I only asked Chen Shimei to gather the soldiers of the earthwork and prepare to dig a hole in the ground, which is the forehand tactic of "Ming Xiu Plank Road", and there is nothing to hide.

The sun passed the highest point in the middle of the sky, the Qinglong Army had begun to dig tunnels on the front line, the White Tiger Army noticed movement in the city, the city defense artillery roared, smashing to the front of the Qinglong Army's position, the number of sappers is very small, more precious, more precious than the shells of the White Tiger Army (so they can't keep firing artillery, otherwise Qinglongju would not dare to rely on not leaving), I ordered the soldiers of the Department of Civil Engineering to withdraw one after another, and when the White Tiger stopped firing artillery, before letting them step forward, the White Tiger would shoot again, and the sappers would retreat.

After digging the ground, the sappers dug up the ground and dug forward in parallel, and the artillery on the opposite side was even more helpless.

However, such a blatant digging of tunnels, even fools can see our tactics, they must have begun to start in the city, to make countermeasures, such as digging blocking ditches, or digging tunnels for each other, this is not a wonderful tactic, it has been used in ancient times.

From this, I suddenly thought that the Taiwan Strait seems to be only a few dozen kilometers wide, with Huaxia's strong engineering capabilities, several large excavators operate at the same time, regardless of the cost, the kind that can take the chariot, will it be ...... Hehe, perhaps, people have been preparing to do this for a long time, and they have even dug a long distance, and once the war starts, it will be a matter of the last kilometer.

Don't think about it so much, anyway, this is a feint, the engineer enters the ground, and after the smooth start of the tunneling, there will be no major battles here for the time being, although the Qinglong has few people, the White Tiger Army does not dare to go out of the city to face the toughness, they are not opponents, and there have been three reinforcements, nearly 5,000 people, and the Qinglong is even more powerful.

The third princess came back and brought a light cavalry, and I had a short one-on-one meeting with her in the camp tent to inform her about the situation in the Yang Realm and the Underworld, and proposed that the Qinglong Kingdom would assist us to occupy the shelter of the Valley of the Dead, and as a trading condition, I could help the Qinglong Kingdom take the White Horse City.

The third princess said with a smile: "Even if you don't help attack the white horse, I will help you, one of your Ma Yu army divisions can compensate for 100,000 elite soldiers!" ”

"Xiao Yu's performance is okay?" I asked.

"Quite remarkable, five battles and five victories!" The third princess stretched out her fingers, her eyes full of reverence.

"Hopefully, the war will end sooner. Then it is decided, Your Royal Highness the Third Princess, you lend me an army, I will bypass the Valley of the Dead, sneak attack White Horse City from behind, and set fire to it, at that time, we will attack from both sides and conquer it in one fell swoop. I got up and briefly stated my tactics, detouring to the Valley of the Dead, which was the core of the plan to "Darkness Chencang".

"You take this cavalry with you, it's the elite of my Blue Dragon Army." The third princess pointed out that the troops of about 2,000 people she had just brought with her did look good, and besides, everyone's breastplate was a raised and embroidered dragon head, and in the Qinglong Army, this kind of "dragoon" was the most noble.

"Thank you, princess!" I stretched out my hand and shook hands with the third princess, about to leave, the third princess shook hands, but did not let go, her small mouth pursed, slightly bowed, as if she had something to say.

"Your Royal Highness the Third Princess, is there anything else you want to say?" I say.

"Hmm......" The third princess hesitated, "Chen Yang, is the jade pendant I gave you last time?" ”

"The princess's gift, how dare Chen not carry it with him," I smiled, untied the collar of the battle armor, and took out the jade pendant from it, "Huh." ”

The third princess stretched out her jade finger, came over and pinched the jade pendant, and the smile on her face suddenly dimmed, let go of her hand, and turned to leave.

"What's wrong?" I looked down,, this is the piece of Tianwang jade that Wu Mei gave me, dark green, and the piece that the third princess gave me, it is pale green I don't know what jade, the shape of the two is almost the same, both are fish, and they are all worn with leather ropes, I didn't look carefully, just dig it out, I took it wrong!

I hurriedly stuffed back Wu Mei's piece of Heavenly King Jade, took out the pale green jade of the third princess, chased to the door of the tent, and took the third princess's hand: "I'm sorry, Your Royal Highness the Third Princess, I took it wrong, yours is here." ”

The third princess turned around and came back, looking at the jade pendant she gave me around my neck, and then she turned into joy and smiled indifferently: "Even if you still have a conscience, who gave that piece, Your Highness Shu Yao?" ”

"Uh...... No. "I smiled bitterly, I can't talk about it, the two armies are fighting, and the commanders of both sides are the givers of the two jade pendants around my neck, if they are known to each other, a cool one will be given to themselves.

"Who's that?" The third princess pulled the Heavenly King Jade out of my neck again, "Look at the material, it's a little familiar......"

"Report!" A scream came from outside the account.

The third princess hurriedly let go, took a step back, kept her distance from me, and said coldly: "Come in!" ”

Thank you to the herald.

The herald came in and knelt down on one knee: "Report to Your Highness, please go and discuss the military situation!" ”

"Got it, it's over." The third princess said, and the herald got up, peeked at me, and withdrew from the account.

The reason why I confessed the death of the Valley of the Dead to the third princess alone was not to deliberately hide it from Chen Shimei, this Chen Concubine, although he was strong in martial arts, seemed to be a little too worried about his own safety, and he was always accompanied by a few masters above the green gas to prevent the enemy from sneaking attacks, and among these guards, I estimated that there were enemy spies, so I didn't tell him.

"Third princess, the matter of the Valley of the Dead, you still need to hide it from the colt for the time being, so as not to cause extraneous branches." I admonished.

The third princess heard my voice and narrowed her eyes: "You mean, there are internal ghosts in our army?" ”

"When I led the cavalry of Longcheng to help, I encountered an ambush of 5,000 people from the Vermilion Bird Kingdom in the forest." I state the facts directly and let her analyze them for herself.

The third princess thought for a while and lowered her voice: "I came from the imperial city, and I also encountered ambush soldiers, but there were only a few hundred people, and they were the sailors of the Qilin Kingdom. ”

"You Qinglong, it seems that you have been manipulated by someone's vertical and horizontal technique." I laughed.

"What is Vertical and Horizontal Technique?" The third princess asked.

"Vertical and horizontal, referred to as vertical and horizontal, is very complicated, specific to us, it is 'the people of the world gather in the white tiger and want to attack the green dragon', understand?"

The third princess looked confused and shook her head: "I don't understand." ”

"If the war subsides, I invite you to study in the Yang Realm." I said with a smile.

"Okay," the third princess said with a smile, "I haven't been to the Yang Realm yet, and I've heard that there are a lot of delicacies!" ”

Hehe, it's a foodie again.

"Go ahead, wait for my news!" I touched the head of the third princess, she was like a kitten, squinted her eyes and enjoyed it for a few seconds, then pulled down her serious face and lifted the curtain out.

I also came out of the camp, and the third princess was explaining the matter to the leader of the dragoons, and the dragoons nodded and walked towards me: "In the lower royal forest dragoon commander, Guo Liu Feng (reader dragon set, begging not to die), wait for Lord Chen to send." ”

"Don't dare to send me, just cooperate with me." I turned over a horse, looked around, looking for Xu'er, I couldn't find it, there were too many people, the Qinglong Army was eating, I had to open the yin and yang eyes, and I found it, and the whole army was a black gas, supervising the battle behind the digging army in front.

I ran over and called Li Xu'er back and asked her to come with me, just in case I encountered another ambush on the road.

The two of them led 1,800 dragoons, left the Qinglong army, and returned to the fork in the road retrograde, just about to turn to the Valley of the Dead, and the parallel Su'er suddenly stopped the reins of my horse and looked in the direction of the grove in front of the left: "There is someone there, is it waiting for you?" ”

"Where?" I looked over, I couldn't see it, I opened my yin and yang eyes, and I saw it, there was a purple gas in the forest, and there was only one demon.

"You go to the Valley of the Dead first to meet Your Highness." I laughed.

"No problem?" Su'er frowned.

"No problem." I rode away from the group and ran into the grove, and behind me a large group of men and horses turned in the direction of the Valley of the Dead.

Running to the edge of the forest, I turned over and dismounted, entered the grove, and looked at the tree: "Little daughter-in-law, why don't you come down?" ”

"No, we can't see each other within a month." Between the thick occupations in the trees, there was the sound of Dara, and I could only faintly see her legs, and she was wearing a black tights, dressed at the moment.

"Aren't you wearing a veil?" I asked.

"If you take it off once, you can't wear it again." Dala laughed.

"You'd better come down, I'm looking up like this, my neck hurts, I'll turn around, okay?" I asked with a smile.

"Uh...... Yes. The figure in the tree moved, and I turned away, with my hands behind my back, and looked at the war horse outside the woods.

Whoosh, someone behind me fell to the ground, stepped on the dead leaves, approached me, a pair of hands, lightly put on my shoulders, Dala said softly: "Husband, I'm sorry, I didn't know that you were the leader of the troops in the previous battle in the Black Forest, I heard that you were shot four arrows by my people, are you okay?" ”

"It's fine, a little hurt." I said, "I've been healed a long time ago."

"That's fine, I've been playing drums in my heart, and I'm worried."

I tried to turn around, but Dara also spun with me, and after I turned 90 degrees, she was still behind me, and smiled, "I said I can't meet, don't play tricks!" ”

"Okay......" I smiled wryly, put my hand on my shoulder, and touched Dala's hand, which she immediately retracted, as if frightened.

Silent.

After half a ring, Dala asked softly, "What is the matter with my husband calling me?" ”

"I originally missed you and wanted to meet you, but you didn't let me see you." I laughed and shook my head.

"Uh, do you really miss me?" Dala whispered, putting her hand on my shoulder again, and I grabbed her hand again, but this time she didn't dodge.

"Hmm!" I nodded, grabbed her hands, pulled down, let her hug my waist from behind, Dala shrank back, still yielded, leaned up, put her head on my shoulder, my peripheral vision, I could see her forehead, but I couldn't see her face, but this familiar scent was sure to be her, not a fake.

"There are some things that I probably shouldn't have asked," I began to get down to business, "and I'm not qualified to ask, don't be angry when I ask." ”

"Ask, husband." Dara said softly.

"Aren't you allies of the Blue Dragon, why did you come together with the White Tiger Kingdom again?" I asked, "Isn't the white tiger always bullying you?" ”

I don't know about the grievances and entanglements between the three kingdoms, but judging from the fact that the Heavenly King Jade of the Vermilion Bird Country, except for a little left by the royal family, everything else has to pay tribute to the White Tiger Country, it should be this kind of relationship.

"Uh......" Dala hesitated, "This is something that our Majesty has decided, if it harms the interests of the husband's group, please forgive the husband, this will not affect the relationship between the two of us, right?" ”

In the last sentence, Dala asked very weakly.

"Don't worry," I grabbed her hand from in front of me, "public is public, private is private, I'm just worried that you, as the deputy marshal, will be embarrassed if we fight on the battlefield." ”

"Then I will resign from the post of deputy marshal when I go back." Dala said immediately.

"Is that okay?"

"What's not to do, anyway, I'm not very good at fighting, it's just that my martial arts are higher, so our majesty will let me lead the troops." Dala said with some grievances.

"Don't force it, don't anger your majesty, it's not good for your family." I say.

"Don't worry, husband, I have my own measure." Dhara said.

"I'm sorry for you." I tried to turn around and give Dara a positive hug, but she circled me again, seemingly determined not to meet me.

I didn't force it, smiled, reached over, and touched her cheek: "You are really cute, the number of days in a month, you remember it, and you will come to me when the time comes." ”

"Hmm!" Dala nodded heavily on my shoulder, "Husband, do you want to hug me?" ”

"yes."

"You can turn around, but you have to make sure you can't open your eyes." Dala said seriously.

"Okay." I closed my eyes and turned around, and this time Dala didn't stop me.

I hugged Dala head-on, leaned my nose in, sniffed the scent of her face, and kissed her on the lips.

Dala whispered, instantly broke free from my embrace, there was no sound, I touched it forward, I didn't touch it, called her twice, and there was no response, I had to open my eyes, the person was gone, I opened the yin and yang eyes, looking around, it turned out that she was back in the middle of the dense forest on the tree.

I looked over: "Climb so high, don't fall." ”

"Husband, you have violated the rules." Dhara said.

"What?"

"You can't kiss my ......"

"What happens if you kiss it?" I asked with a smile.

"Uh...... Anyway, it's not good, but don't worry, I won't say it, husband, goodbye. ”

Before I could say goodbye, the leaves moved, the black shadow disappeared, and I changed back to yin and yang eyes, her purple qi was already a hundred meters away, running wildly on the treetops.

Later, I learned that the Suman precepts were extremely strict, and within a month before they got married, men and women were not allowed to see each other, let alone have skin-to-skin intimacy, otherwise it would be a death law - it was said that that would make people leak their true anger and destroy their skills for at least a year.

After Dala left, I stood there for a long time, wiped the fragrance from my lips, reluctantly turned out of the grove, and turned on my horse.

The tail of the dragoons, before they had fully entered the fork in the road, I chased after them, and the cavalry asked me to get out of the way, and when I caught up with Xu Er and Guo Liufeng, they just arrived at the entrance of the Valley of the Dead, the Lost Stone Formation.

Xiao Qian and Xie Xin'an were already waiting in front of the battle, and I asked Qin Shuyao where she was, and Xin'an said that His Highness was studying the division of the territory with the leaders of the mountains inside.

"How's the talk?" I asked.

"The leaders said that the area of the Valley of the Dead is limited, and the number of demons here is too large, so we can only divide three-quarters of the place for our underworld." Xie Xin'an replied.

"That's pretty good." I smiled and said, I have thought about the division of the territory before, I think that the demon spirit is willing to divide half of the territory, even if it is very polite, I didn't expect to give three-quarters of the territory.

Xin'an nodded: "Your Highness is also very satisfied, and is talking about the specific division of the block, involving the terrain and the distribution of the garrison of the Guangwang Palace in the future." ”

"Yes, yes," I turned to Xiao Qian, "Thank you, Comrade Xiao Qian." ”

Xiao Qianjiao smiled shyly: "The son is true to his word, and it should be the slave who should say thank you." ”

"Can you lead the way, I'm going to take these cavalry across the border." I pointed to the mighty dragoons behind me.

"Of course!"

The cavalry behind may have heard the rumors of the Valley of the Dead, and they were a little afraid to enter, especially their war horses, which were obviously hesitant.

I had to dismount, jump on the big rock, and hold a pre-war mobilization meeting for the dragoons, this time when I brought the cavalry of the White Tiger Country, I also encountered a similar situation, people are afraid of ghosts in the underworld, and demons are also afraid of demons, human nature.

As soon as the dragoons heard that they were going to plagiarize White Horse City from behind, they immediately became happy, and they began to pacify their horses, and after about ten minutes, I estimated that their psychological preparations were almost complete (the environment inside was very gloomy and visually striking), so I ordered the whole army to enter the Valley of the Dead.

It was a shortcut, I didn't meet Qin Shuyao, after the Ecstasy Stone Tepe, bypassing the small pool, and then walking for half an hour, I came to the swamp on the other side, and saw a boat neatly parked by the water, I couldn't help but shake my head and smile bitterly, this is the last time I took the White Tiger Cavalry, from this side through the Valley of the Dead, sneak attack on the back of the Qinglong Army, by the residents of White Horse City, demolished houses and doors, at all costs, to create a pro-army ship, the defenders in White Horse City, may never have dreamed that just ten days later, I will use their boats, Carry the Blue Dragon Army and give them a blow in the back!

Thinking of those kind residents of White Horse City, I have a contradiction in my heart, war, who is right and who is wrong?

The soldiers are fast, I look at the watch (after coming to the demon world, proofreading, it is the standard time of the Qinglong Kingdom), it is already three o'clock in the afternoon, strive for a quick victory before dark, as long as the two sides are flanked, forcing the defenders in the White Horse City to retreat, in this way, unnecessary civilian casualties can also be avoided.

However, looking at White Horse City, which was far away from the swamp, Guo Liufeng asked: "Lord Chen, we are just cavalry, and we don't have siege props, can we enter it?" ”

"Then it depends on whether you charge fast or the enemy closes the city gate faster." I smiled and said, there is the west gate of White Horse City, because there is only the Valley of the Dead outside, which is a dead end, so the city gate will not be closed, and the defenders are also the old, weak, sick and disabled, outside the city gate, two hundred meters is the swamp, but the landing action is sudden enough, the cavalry vanguard can rush in before the city gate is closed, as long as the city gate is occupied, the follow-up cavalry can continue to pour in, and directly take the command platform in the city - if Wu Mei is here, it should be on the high platform.

Last time I took the White Tiger Army, it was more than 1,000 people, this time I brought the Green Dragon Army, it was 1,800 people, people rode on horses, did not occupy space, and squeezed again, the boat on the shore was just enough to load all the dragoons.

We don't have to do the problem of rowing by ourselves, the old man who can control the crocodile in the swamp directs the crocodile to push the boat forward underwater.

Inside the swamp, the fog was clear and the grass was so tall that it was a good causal of our raids.

After about half an hour, the fleet was so close to the shore that I could even see the eyebrows of the defenders.

In the end, during the war, the vigilance of the White Tiger Army was still very high, the first ship docked, the enemy reacted, shooting arrows from the top of the city, I gave Xu'er a look, Xu'er jumped ashore, stretched out the defensive cover, rushed to the city, flew up to the city gate, the city archers, all killed, the dragoons went ashore, rushed directly towards the city gate, the White Tiger soldiers hurriedly closed the door, but it was still too late, halfway through, the Qinglong Army entered the city, defeated the city gate defenders, and the city gate was reopened.

Soon, all the dragoons went ashore and assembled in the small square in the city, which was the one I was bullied by the Warm Spring Pavilion incident last time, and Xu Er and Guo Liufeng led the troops and rushed straight to the command platform in the center of the city along the main road.

I didn't rush, first, because I was afraid of encountering Wu Mei head-on, which would be embarrassing; The second reason is that I have to give a signal to the third princess in the back.

The people nearby, as soon as they saw the Qinglong Army killed, they all hid in the house, I took a few Qinglong soldiers, looked along the street for a while, the cleaning work of White Horse City, did a great job, I didn't find anything to cause fire for a long time, I had to knock on the door of a house, and said in demon language: "Hello, fellow, we are not bad people, I want to borrow something." ”

There was no movement inside, I looked at the Qinglong soldier next to me, he raised his foot, kicked the door open, and led people in.

In the courtyard of this family, there is a large pile of dry firewood, and there is kerosene next to it, and the soldiers saw that the kerosene was poured on the firewood, I took out a lighter and lit it, and the flames suddenly jumped up, billowing black smoke, at this time, the window opened, and an old man poked his head out to see, and immediately closed the window.

"Look at the fire and burn it for at least five minutes." I gave the order to the soldiers, and walked myself to the door, which was notched, and the wooden door was only half open, and inside was the galley, which became the boat we had just taken.

I went into the kitchen and into the main hall, there was an old man on the kang, and a little girl, neatly dressed, the old man saw me come in, and quickly pulled the little girl behind him to protect her.

"Uncle, do you have any smoke?" I asked, the addiction to cigarettes is coming up, there is tobacco sales in the demon world, but there are not many demons who smoke.

"No, no." The uncle said tremblingly, he can speak Mandarin.

"Oh, that's a bother." I bowed slightly, turned around and prepared to leave the room.

"Wait, general." Uncle stopped me again.

I turned around: "Huh? Something? ”

"Thank you for the general's kindness in not killing my grandfather and grandson," the uncle said tremblingly, "The old man, the old man is a fortune teller, if he does not give up, the old man is willing to count a hexagram for the general, and he should be thanked!" ”