Towards dawn, the patrol finally returned to the city walls, and after reporting the situation to the officers on duty, they ran to the playground and played with the soldiers on duty at night.

After a day of stationing and patrolling, Ling Yi always felt that something was wrong, but he didn't know that it was different.

Next to the fire, Ling Yi kept thinking, but he couldn't figure out what the problem was.

At this time, Shan Qianqun led the soldiers who changed guards, and Ling Yi and other captains hurriedly assembled their teams, reported the situation, and prepared to go back to the barracks to rest.

Just about to set off, Shan Qianqun stopped Ling Yi: "Captain Wu, wait a minute, let's talk!"

Ling Yi stayed alone on the playground under the city defense wall, watching the soldiers who changed guards standing guard, patrolling patrols, and drills.

"How is it, can your team still adapt to the mission here?" Shan Qianqun stood aside and looked at the soldiers who were training, and asked Ling Yi.

Ling Yi replied: "The team members can adapt, in fact, it is not too hard, but it is a little cold in winter, and there are not many other problems." ”

"It's okay, it's good to be stationed at the border, it's the most boring and hard, there are no entertainment activities here, and the conditions are very difficult, in order to alleviate this emotion, the general border guards are rotated every two years, and I have been here for almost two years, and when this winter passes, I can take my brothers back to Tianyu City to rest!"

Shan Qianqun began to introduce some of the situation of the border guards, from garrison to communications, all military operations were introduced to Ling Yi, and Ling Yi had a general understanding of the military tasks of the border defense through Shan Qianqun's introduction.

After talking for about half an hour, Shan Qianqun said about the same: "Let's talk about it here today, go back and have a good rest, and come back tomorrow morning to change the guard!"

Ling Yi was about to retire, but his heart moved, and he asked: "Minister Shan, I observed it yesterday, and I always feel weird, but I can't tell where there is a problem, you can see what is wrong!"

Shan Qianqun listened to Ling Yi's words, and did not answer directly, but called the herald, took out yesterday's patrol and garrison records, and then personally inspected the city defense wall, and then said to Ling Yi: "Everything is normal, tell me what you found!"

Ling Yi thought for a while and replied: "My patrol and garrison are all carried out according to the instructions of the veterans, there should be no problem, I feel that the strange place is on the side of the Northern Wilderness." ”

After listening to what Ling Yi said, Shan Qianqun took out his binoculars and observed the Northern Wilderness Grassland for a while, and replied: "Everything is normal, there is no sign of cavalry attacking!"

Hearing the word "cavalry", Ling Yi finally figured out what was the problem, and said: "I know where the problem is, this is the border, why is there no garrison of the Northern Wilderness Empire?"

Shan Qianqun also understood Ling Yi's question at this time, and said: "This is indeed different from the border situation in other places, I'll tell you about it!"

As soon as Ling Yi heard that Shan Qianqun wanted to solve his doubts, he cheered up.

"Adjacent here is the Dangyu tribe of the Northern Wilderness Empire, this tribe is a nomadic people, they have no fixed tribe, and they can be said to spend all year round on horseback. You see, now in winter, the whole steppe has withered, there are no tribes stationed at all, they have migrated elsewhere, and usually they don't come back until spring!"

Listening to Shan Qianqun's introduction, Ling Yi still had questions: "Then why didn't even the soldiers stationed at the border stay?"

Shan Qianqun said: "The soldiers of their tribe are all light cavalry, and they are extremely fast, in fact, they also have their sentinels in the distance, as long as they find that our army enters the grassland, they will set the entire grassland on fire, these dead grass fires are enough to block our army from the grassland, and at the same time, if the grassland is on fire, it will attract cavalry reinforcements, so they don't need to be stationed on the grassland at all!"

"So that's the case, in the withered grassland, fire attack is indeed a good means of attack!" Ling Yi gradually understood these truths.

Shan Qianqun continued: "The grassland is easy for us to monitor, and they are easy to attack, so the general battlefield will not be on this grassland!"

Ling Yi also understood: "So, that's why we have to patrol every day, and we will arrange traps and secret sentinels on some mountain roads that are easy to lurk over, right, Minister Shan?"

"That's right, that's why patrolling is our most important task. Go and rest!" Shan Qianqun explained the situation and let Ling Yi go back to rest!

"Yes!" Ling Yi ordered to return to the barracks.

Five or six days have passed without incident, and there has been no military conflict, and every night Ling Yi still hears the sound of shouting and drinking in the barracks, but he has not asked, first, his level is not up to the level of discipline management, and second, since Shan Qianqun can tolerate this situation, there should be his reasons.

On the evening of the seventh day, Ling Yi and one of the captains who led the patrol led more than 100 brothers to start patrolling.

Today they began their patrol from the eastern front, and there was no trace of enemy soldiers along the entire route, which was originally intended to cross from the steppe to the western front. But he was stopped by the captain, who saw his fingers dipped in saliva and tested the direction and force of the wind.

He ordered the soldiers: "Return the same way at full speed, don't go down the grassland tonight, the wind direction is not good for us, and there will be strong winds in the second half of the night!"

After receiving the order, the soldiers did not question the captain's decision and began to set off and return at full speed.

Ling Yi and other recruits had doubts, but they didn't dare to question the veterans, they must have been stationed here for so long, they must have rich experience.

When Ling Yi and the others returned to the city defense wall, Shan Qianqun, who had been resting, also arrived here, and the captain reported the situation to Shan Qianqun.

Shan Qianqun ordered: "Herald!"

"Here!"

"Go back to the barracks, order Lin Quchang, who is on duty, to put all the men on guard and wait for the order! Call the old fellows of Ruffian Tun over and hand them over to patrol the Western Front tonight!"

"Yes!" the herald commanded and ran towards the barracks!

"Yang He, Wu Lingyi!"

"Here!" the two men stepped forward to listen.

"Patrol the Eastern Front again, make sure the traps and outposts are intact, and if there is a situation, light the beacon!"

"Yes!" the two men ordered to patrol the Eastern Front again.

On the way, Ling Yi asked Captain Yang, "Captain Yang, why do you need to be on guard tonight? What did you find?"

"In fact, there are no specific discoveries, this is all the experience accumulated in ordinary times, from the weather point of view, there will be a strong wind in the second half of the night, and it is a north wind, if we just marched down the grassland, we may be attacked by the enemy's fire. ”

After listening to Captain Yang's explanation, Ling Yi understood that this was the experience accumulated from years of patrolling.

Then he listened to Captain Yang continue to explain: "According to the previous situation, such a wind direction will definitely snow in the early morning, and the cavalry of the Northern Wilderness has been going south in the ice and snow weather many times, they are not afraid of the cold, and they can just take advantage of the weather to attack our restrictions, so they have to be guarded!"

It's still a matter of experience, marching and fighting, experience is an indispensable ability, an experienced soldier is often easier to survive on the battlefield than a new recruit, and in the same way, an experienced commander will definitely be able to achieve victory with the least losses!

"What's going on with that ruffian?" Ling Yi asked.

"Ruffian?" Captain Yang heard this word, and his eyes radiated a spark of admiration: "Ruffian Zitun has been stationed here for more than eight years, they are not subordinate to Minister Shan's troops, they are veterans of the old Guipo border defense!"

"What's going on?" Ling Yi asked.

"This ruffian is the remnants of the garrison of the year, when the old Guipo was attacked by the Northern Wilderness Tiger and Wolf Cavalry, the original garrison of more than 1,000 people finally fought for this hundred or so people. Originally, they had made meritorious contributions and could retreat to Tianyu City, but these more than 100 people were unwilling to leave, and this garrison was more than eight years. They are not subject to any mobilization except for the war, and no one in the barracks is instructed not to move, drinking, gambling, and fighting all day long, so they have the title of a ruffian, but they are not ambiguous when they go into battle to kill the enemy, all of them exist with one enemy and ten!"

Listening to Captain Zhao's introduction, Ling Yi was a little admired and curious about this ruffian.

While speaking, the queue had already arrived at the location of the first outpost, and explained a few words to the two sentry soldiers, leaving five more soldiers to take care of each other, and Captain Yang led the patrol to continue forward.

After passing the second outpost, Captain Yang waved his hand, and all members of the patrol stopped and extinguished the torches.

"The wind and snow are coming, in order not to expose the target, we can only move forward in the dark, pay attention to the situation, there are two dark sentinel points, we have to spend the night on the mountain tonight, and it will be safe when it is dawn!"

With a command, the team moved slowly in the dark.

Check out the third dark whistle, no problem, there is still the last one left.

At this moment, a soldier exclaimed: "Look, the beacon fire on the Western Front has been lit!"

With an exclamation, everyone's hearts rose to their throats, especially the recruits, looking at the blazing beacon fire, although they couldn't hear the sound of fighting, it also made them feel helpless.

Snowflakes began to fall in the sky, and the air seemed to have become a lot colder, even Ling Yi couldn't help but shiver, although there were countless battles, but this was the first time he went to the battlefield, and he couldn't help but be a little excited.

"What should we do?" Ling Yi asked Captain Yang.

Captain Yang said loudly to all the soldiers: "Don't be nervous, the veterans take care of the recruits, and the recruits follow the veterans and are ready to respond at any time." Now that the war has started on the Western Front, Minister Shan has arranged for soldiers to reinforce our side, and the first two outposts will be left for the reinforcements, we just need to guard the third and fourth outposts, hold on for a while, and the reinforcements will arrive!"

After listening to Captain Yang's words, all the recruits felt a lot more relieved.

I saw Captain Yang pull Ling Yi over and asked, "Give me an explanation, what kind of strength you have, why can't I see it?"

Ling Yi didn't hide it: "I'm a great martial artist level!"

As soon as he heard this, Captain Yang was taken aback, and said: "You demon, I estimate that we will meet the enemy attack at the fourth dark outpost, we have few troops, don't fight hard for a while, just drag them forward, you don't have to go all out, keep your strength, if a strong person appears, you are our last line of defense! With you, I feel a lot at ease, no accident, our side will be stronger than the attack on the Western Front!"

Ling Yi was puzzled: "Why?"

Captain Yang explained: "I guess the Western Front is to hold back most of our troops, they attack first, but also to attract more reinforcements to the past, so that our side is the weakest, be careful!"

Hearing this, Ling Yi maximized his senses and paid attention to his surroundings at all times!