readx;? Under the night, the fire in Chu Lingtian's camp has gradually been extinguished, and most of the 100,000 troops have also rested at this moment, and most of the military tents are pitch black, except for a few large tents in the Chinese army, which still reflect a faint candlelight. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The encampment of 100,000 troops was by no means a small formation. Chu Lingtian's camp is divided into the front army, the middle army and the rear army, although the camp tent is very close, but the front and back are still more than ten miles away. Nowadays, there is heavy snow on the Zhuo Wolf Grassland, especially at night, and the wind is biting cold, which is extremely cold. Therefore, the sergeants stationed in various parts of the camp also dressed themselves like heavy bears one by one, wishing that only a pair of eyes were outside, and the rest of their bodies were all wrapped in thick cotton, but even so, they were still shivering in the cold wind, and subconsciously approached the torches planted around the camp.

It is said that it is a torch, in fact, it is to build a shelf with a few pieces of wood, put an iron basin on the shelf, and the basin is placed with fire oil, after this pot of fire oil is lit, it can be burned from night to dawn, and this way of lighting is the most commonly used by the army when marching outside.

In the depths of the pitch-black snow, Liu Sandao's body quickly flashed around in a night coat, galloping towards Chu Lingtian's camp. And when he arrived less than 100 meters away from the camp, Liu Sandao couldn't help but slow down, only to see him slightly short in the snow, a pair of bright eyes carefully looking at Chu Lingtian's camp, especially when he saw the faint light in the depths of the camp, the corners of Liu Sandao's mouth had inadvertently raised a smile. Then the figure flickered, and the whole person disappeared in place again.

At the camp gate, more than a dozen sergeants in heavy cotton uniforms were sitting around a campfire chatting. Since it was already night, and the place was in the middle of nowhere, there was no one around. Therefore, these sergeants guarding the door naturally did not have to stand on the left and right as usual, and they also stood straight. Especially in the middle of the night, these sergeants naturally slacked off a lot.

"Old Sun, what if we are discovered by General Chu...... Isn't that good?" said a young man who looked to be no more than twenty years old, with a worried expression. And as he spoke, his flickering little eyes kept looking towards the camp, for fear that Chu Lingtian would suddenly come out of the camp.

"Don't worry, boy!" The sergeant who was called Lao Sun Tou was a little old man in his fifties, short and thin, but his small squinted eyes were full of cunning, and at a glance he knew that he was a full veteran oil, "Don't you look at what day it is now?" There is heavy snow in the sky, a cold wind blowing on the ground, you can't see the bright moon when you look up, you can't see the grass when you look down, do you think there will be anyone other than a few of us who is willing to come out of the warm tent?"

"Alas, no way, this is our fate!" the other sergeant sighed softly, "Who let us have no ability to be generals, so we can only sit here and guard the camp gate? I heard that Vice Adjutant Ma Rufeng was also a guard of the camp gate at the beginning, how did he rush up in a blink of an eye, and now he has become a high deputy general, neither starvation nor cold!"

"What's so great about Ma Rufeng?" the old grandson grinned, and then said quite proudly, "I think I personally carried Ma Rufeng back then!"

"Really?" As soon as Lao Sun Tou's words came out, he immediately aroused the curiosity of more than a dozen young sergeants around, and they hurriedly stepped forward one by one, looking interested, and urged one after another, "Tell me quickly!

"That's it, tell me about it!"

"Whew!"

Just when the sergeants surrounded Lao Sun Tou and asked, a slightly joking voice suddenly sounded not far away from a circle of people, and then before Lao Sun Tou and the others turned their heads, they only felt that the cold wind was blowing so quickly that they couldn't open their eyes for a while because of a gust of wind mixed with ice and snow.

And when this gust of wind blew over, the old grandson and the first few people opened their eyes again and looked into the distance, except for a darkness, there was no other abnormality.

"Who was talking over there just now?" asked the old grandson with a suspicious expression.

"Who is talking over there? Did you hear it wrong because the wind came suddenly just now! Let you say a few of us!" said a sergeant with a smile, and did not forget to encourage the others to say to the old grandson together, "Don't interrupt, just now you said that you once carried Ma Rufeng, what is going on?"

"That's it, you don't want to get by!" the other sergeants asked with great interest, concentrating their attention again.

As soon as Lao Sun Tou saw everyone coaxing, he was immediately aroused to be interested in talking, only to see him take a deep breath, and then waved his hand slightly at everyone, signaling them to be quiet.

"You boys don't look at how old my grandson is! Lao Tzu has eaten more salt than you have eaten rice, and has walked more bridges than you have walked, and I have not been in vain in the barracks for so many years, and I have seen a basket of soldiers and generals! When Ma Rufeng first entered the camp 20 years ago, this camp did not have 100,000 people, but only 20,000 or 30,000 people, and at that time we were not the Northern Xinjiang army, but the blue character battalion. At that time, the commander of the army was naturally not General Chu Lingtianchu, but General Lan Shixun Lan!" "Lao Sun Tou especially likes to tell these young soldiers about the past, because in the eyes of Lao Sun Tou, he is a veteran of Lan Shixun's generation, and these past events are also the capital he is most proud of.

"General Lan, I know!" a young soldier nodded repeatedly, "Twenty years ago, you were only thirty years old at that time, right?"

"It's more than thirty years old! At that time, there were no factions in the world, and all of them were under the command of Lord Han Xiao!" Old Sun's eyes narrowed slightly, recalling the past with interest.

"Han Xiao, Protector Han Xiao?" a young sergeant exclaimed, "I've heard of him, and I knew that Han Xiao was a great legend when I was a child!"

"Hehe, I have to admit that this Han Xiao is definitely a legend!" Old Sun Tou nodded and smiled, "He is actually not a few years older than me, but at that time I was just a beggar who was forced to join the army, and Han Xiao was already the protector general of the famous Sacred Domain at that time! The seven official positions of the Sacred Domain are divided into emperor, king, duke, marquis, minister, mansion, and official, at that time, Han Xiao was still a marquis, and was not included in the 'duke' position, and it was a few years later that he was named the protector of the country!" But people really can't be compared, Han Xiao's cultivation talent is definitely rare in that generation, and his ability to lead troops to fight is even more unmatched, otherwise the emperor would never be so important to a person with a foreign surname!"

Hearing Lao Sun Tou's words, the dozen or so sergeants around him all nodded in unison.

"What about Lord Lan? What was Lord Lan then?" asked a good sergeant, impatiently.

"Lord Lan was the commander of the Blue Battalion at that time, the so-called Wenchen was called 'Chen', and the Wuchen was called 'General', so at that time, Lord Lan Shixun was still among the ministers, one level lower than the official position of Lord Chu Lingtian today!" Lord Lan is also a genius of the world, he is younger than Han Xiao, and his life experience is quite legendary, even if it is said that he is on the rise, it is not an exaggeration. Lord Lan's ability to command the army is no less than Han Xiao, plus at that time, Han Xiao's skill was high, and after the emperor named him the protector of the country, he was even more wary of Han Xiao everywhere but suffered from the unscrupulous generals around him, so he had to rely on Han Xiao, and at this time, Lord Lan's appearance became a powerful magic weapon for the emperor to clamp down on Han Xiao, and since then, Lord Lan has been leading troops for much more time than Han Xiao, and under the intentional cultivation of the emperor, Lord Lan naturally soared, from the position of the minister to the throne, until the outbreak of the Zhuo Wolf disaster about ten years ago, the eighteen tribes of the Zhuo Wolf Grassland were bloodied by the beast clan overnight, and even Han Xiao's elite army Xie Ziying could not resist the black armor army of the beast clan, so that the whole army was annihilated, and at a time when the northern Xinjiang was in danger, the perfect opportunity for Lord Lan to really be on an equal footing with Han Xiao came!"

"I know!Lord Lan led the troops to repel the beast army, quelled the Zhuo Wolf Grassland Rebellion, and then succeeded in the first battle, and was officially canonized as the Duke of Zhenbei by the Emperor, and was listed in the position of the Third Duke along with Han Xiao and **** Qian!" a young sergeant shouted excitedly, "I'm afraid no one in the entire Sacred Domain doesn't know about this matter!"

"That's good!" Old Sun nodded proudly, "Lord Lan is above 10,000 people alone, then the status of his confidant General Chu Lingtian is naturally rising, which is also the reason why the Northern Xinjiang Battalion swore allegiance to Lord Lan!

"What about you, old grandson, how come Ma Rufeng, who joined the army later than you, has achieved the throne of deputy general, and you are still just a hundred heads of households guarding the door?" the young sergeants deliberately joked.

"You are so young, and you still have the enthusiasm to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, and then you can be named a marquis and a general, I understand!" Lao Sun Tou said with a sigh on his face, "But Lao Tzu, as a person who has come over, also wants to advise you, there were as many as 20,000 or 30,000 sergeants of my generation back then, and now there is only one Chu Lingtian, and there are only dozens of people who have been promoted to a total of 1,000 households, and even the people who are still alive are only a few hundred people together, do you know why?"

A dozen sergeants looked at each other and shook their heads in unison.

"Although there are many brave soldiers, there are also many brave people, and there are a large number of people who are both civil and military, but in the end, not everyone can become a general!" said Lao Sun Tou with great feeling, "As the so-called one general succeeds and ten thousand bones wither, if there are not tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people paving the road with corpses, then how can there be today's Han Xiao and Lan Shixun? There is nothing wrong with you wanting to become the next Han Xiao and the next Lan Shixun, but the premise is that you yourself must have the ability like theirs!"

"What about **** Qian?" a sergeant muttered unconvinced, "Legend has it that **** Qian has no power to restrain the chicken, let alone go into battle to kill the enemy, and even carry a knife is afraid that it is difficult, how can he be ranked among the third dukes?"

"Why? With your brain!" Old Sun Tou snorted coldly, "You know a fart, **** Qian's path is different from Han Xiao and Lan Shixun, people play with their brains and scheming, and they are the number one think tank around the emperor, just like the status of Deputy General Fan Jiang in the northern Xinjiang camp today!

"What's so mysterious, tell me about it!"

"Let me tell you! Legend has it that the four great holy kings of the Sacred Domain did not settle in the four places of the southeast, south, and northwest in the early years, but lived in the same Imperial City of the Sacred Domain as the Emperor!" Old Sun Tou said with a mysterious expression, "But the four Great Saint Kings are all blood relatives of the royal family, so naturally some of them will spy on the throne, especially ......" Old Sun Tou's words couldn't help but look around left and right for a while, and then lowered his voice a little again," Especially Shengdong Wang Yan Chong, he is a few years older than the current Emperor Yan Chong, he should be the eldest son of the royal family, but in the end, it was Yan Chong who sat on the throne of the emperor, how can you think about other holy kings willingly? How can others be allowed to sleep soundly next to the so-called couch? Emperor Yan Chong is also distressed by this, even if he is in the Golden Palace of the Imperial City, he is also worried everywhere, and he is always on guard against someone assassinating him! And at this time, **** Qian appeared, he devised a clever plan, not only gradually dismantled the close connection between the four holy kings, but also brought the Holy North King Yanlie, the Holy South King Yan Hao, and the Holy West King Yan Zheng all under the command of the emperor, and finally set up a bureau to deliberately let the four holy kings make a big fuss in the imperial city for their own interests, it is said that he almost made a move back then, and the leading emperor Yan Chong just took this opportunity to take the real power of the four holy kings, and sent the four of them to the east, west, north and south of the holy land to reflect on their own mistakes, so as to consolidate the authority of the emperor, it can be said **** Qian helped Emperor Yan Chong solve the big problem that threatened the imperial power, and helped the Emperor to sit on the throne, you say that he was named Wending Gongqi, isn't it strange that he was named Wending Gongqi?"

"Oh, in this way, if it wasn't for the help of Duke Wen Ding back then, maybe the Sacred Domain would have changed hands by now......

"Shhh

Seeing the appearance of Lao Suntou's righteous words, more than a dozen sergeants put away their previous contempt and nodded solemnly one by one.

"Old Sun, I'll ask you more!" A sergeant reached out and touched a handful ......of snot, then leaned towards Lao Suntou, lowered his voice and asked cautiously, "Do you know who General Chu brought us here to deal with this time?" He didn't continue his words, but stretched out his hand and lightly pointed at the darkness in the north, needless to say that the others also understood, because just twenty miles north of the camp, there was still a large camp, and it was Han Xiao's men and horses who lived there.

"Military orders are like mountains, you are a soldier, you only need to obey the general's military orders! Don't ask too much else, it will not be good for you to ask too many questions!" said Lao Sun Tou in a deep tone.

"Actually, I heard from the other brothers...... The young sergeant ...... speech, but he looked like he wanted to speak.

"Say what?"

"It is said that General Chu wants to unite with the Black Armor Army of the Beast Clan to attack back and forth, and together they will exterminate Han Xiao's men and horses......" As soon as the sergeant said this, more than a dozen people turned their eyes to the old grandson, their eyes were different, both excited and puzzled, and some people were even mixed with a trace of hesitation and confusion.

"We don't know the above things, and we don't need to know!" Old Sun Tou was quite open-minded, stretched out his hand close to the bonfire to keep warm, and said with a smile, "We soldiers don't need to know what the top people think, we just need to know who is our head! Your head is me, my head is a total of 1,000 households, the head of a total of 1,000 households is 10,000 households, the head of 10,000 households is a deputy general, and the head of a deputy general is a general...... Therefore, what General Chu said about Ma Rufeng, what Vice General Ma Rufeng should do, what Ma Rufeng should do, what ten thousand households should do, what ten thousand households should do, what I will do, what I do, what I do, what you do! Let you kill whoever you want, let you save whoever you want, you must know that the person who can take your life the fastest and most directly is not Han Xiao's camp twenty miles away, nor the beast clan black armor army a hundred miles away, but your head! Now you understand?"

"Understood...... Understand...... "Hearing the words of the old grandson, more than a dozen sergeants couldn't help but be shocked, and then they didn't dare to ask anything more, one by one they just sat silently by the campfire to warm their bodies. Indeed, for these major events of the family and the country, the courage of their soldiers guarding the camp gate is really too insignificant!

"The old-timer has not been a fool for so many years, every word of his words is a wise saying, you boys have to learn hard!haha......"

Just when the first few people of Lao Sun were silent, a joking voice came from the darkness not far away, and then before everyone could react, another gust of wind suddenly hit, and the cold and biting cold wind mixed with endless ice and snow was directly poured into the necks of more than a dozen sergeants, making them huddle together one by one to resist this sudden wind chill.

When the gust of wind dissipated, the old grandson and the first few people looked at each other from the ground.

"Just now...... Did you hear that?" asked the old man tentatively, his tone seemed to be mixed with a hint of uncertainty.

The rest of the sergeants glanced at each other, a look of surprise in their eyes, and then nodded lightly in unison.

"Who is looking for ...... death?"

Seeing this, the old grandson suddenly shouted angrily, and then picked up the big knife standing aside, turned around and stood up, and wanted to walk in the direction where the voice came just now, but when his body just stood up, the movement under his feet was involuntarily stunned, because at this moment, there was no trace of human existence in the place where the sound came just now, and even the white and flawless snow had not been stepped on at all.

"This ......" Old Sun Tou glanced down at the other sergeants, only to see that the other sergeants didn't know what to say as if they had seen a ghost.

"Gollum!"

One of the sergeants swallowed a mouthful of spit with difficulty, and then said with trepidation: "I heard that during the disaster of the wolf, eighteen tribes were washed in blood overnight on this grassland, and those dead souls have not been dispersed, so they wander on the grassland, and ...... every night."

"Shut up! Don't talk nonsense in front of Lao Tzu!" Before the sergeant finished speaking, the old grandson scolded angrily, but the scolding was scolded, but his body involuntarily fought a cold war, and quickly threw down the big knife, quickly squatted down, and squeezed together with a dozen other sergeants, "If you dare to scare people, see if I don't kick your ass......"

"I'm talking about legends......"

"Bullshit Legends ......"

All of a sudden, a bustling noise erupted again at the camp gate, and the anomaly just now was quickly forgotten in the noise of the group of sergeants.

At the same time, in a big tent in the Chinese army in Chu Lingtian's camp, Lan Chen, who was originally lying on the bed and asleep, suddenly woke up for some reason.

After getting up, Lan Chen sat on the bed in a daze, and a layer of fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, obviously he must have had some nightmare just now. And when he sorted out his thoughts a little and was about to lie down and fall asleep again, Yu Guang inadvertently swept to the square table in the tent, and in an instant, Lan Chen's spirit was suddenly shocked, and then the originally sleepy eyes also became brilliant and dignified in an instant!

On weekdays, apart from a candlestick with a faint yellow glow, there is only a teapot and a few tea bowls left on the square table. But tonight's square table