81_81671 early morning. Yandang Pass.

It was early in the morning, but it wasn't really bright, but it wasn't as dark as midnight. The walls of Yandang Pass were littered with torches and oil lamps, as well as illuminating light released by the city-patrolling spirits.

As far as the eye can see, the entire city wall of Yandang Pass is densely packed with people. Most were soldiers, and a small part were craftsmen. The vast majority of them were busy repairing the walls and sentry posts of Yandang Pass, erecting new muskets and cannons on the walls, and installing new crossbows to defend the city. Dozens of spirits are installing new gates in the gates. If someone flies in the sky, they will definitely be able to see that there is a flow of people and vehicles inside and outside the gate. Countless grains, grasses and supplies are being transported by the logistics troops to the Guannai and placed under the same deployment of the commanders. All of them work in this half-dark and half-light condition. In just a few dozen hours, most of the city walls of Yandang Pass have been repaired, and about half of the fortifications that have been damaged during the siege have also been repaired.

On the city gate towers on the north and south sides of the checkpoint, there is a huge flag of the Cangling Country. The size of these two national flags is almost five or six times the size of the military flags held in the army in peacetime, and each of them is hung on the city gate tower with a large-caliber iron pipe similar to a cannon barrel, which is enough to pull the wind and attract the wind.

For hundreds of years, the Cangyan Mountains have always been an important place for soldiers to compete repeatedly between the Cangling Kingdom and the Jianyan Kingdom. In most cases, Cangling Kingdom has always been on the defensive in border defense, and rarely takes the initiative to attack. The capture of Yandang Pass this time was not only an important tactical breakthrough, but also marked a change in the northwest strategy of Cangling Kingdom.

Qiu Bai was suspended above the north gate of Yandang Pass. Hundreds of warriors from the First Spirit Division Regiment gathered around him, lined up in several phalanxes of various sizes in the air. Looking down from a higher place, these phalanxes just form a battle formation. The center point of each small square is faintly glittering with a grainy light.

In front of them, there are rolling mountains and a mountain path in the middle of the mountain road. Except for the two roads leading to Sanguan and Zhenxie Pass, the other roads are all small mountain roads that pass through stone mountains and snow-capped mountains, with ups and downs, bumps and bumps, and you can neither ride horses nor chariots, but can only walk. The most important thing is that these mountain paths must pass through the spirit beast gathering area in the Cangyan Mountain Range. Even the most elite spirit master troops in the Central Army could not pass through these naturally formed mountain roads without alarming the group of spirit beasts in the mountains at all.

At this moment, the spirit masters in the center of the phalanx were all releasing detection spirit power waves. The entire battle array was like a huge probe, constantly scanning the situation within a radius of more than ten miles.

Qiu Bai's gaze slowly swept over the peaks with a majesty that seemed to be able to penetrate the night sky. Layer after layer of blue-gold spiritual power fluctuations were released from his body and melted into the air. Under his investigation, all the Scouting Spirit Master troops were nowhere to hide. Only a spirit general who cultivated to a half-order or a first-order higher than him could not be discovered by him. Spiritual masters of the same class, as long as the martial spirits are different, the martial spirit grades are different, the spiritual power attributes are different, the physical qualities are different, and even the ages and genders are different, the abilities in all aspects may be very different. This is true even for the spirit generals with the spirit core. If the spirit sitting on the rostrum of the "Flower and Rain in the Wind" ceremony would not be Bai Suxin, but him, those assassins who mixed in would not have a chance to make a move at all. It's a pity that no one in this world can 100% predict everything, and no one can handle everything 100% well.

"General Qiu!" a call came from below.

Qiu Bai didn't look back or respond, just raised his right hand, stretched it down, and made a "fishing" movement. A powerful current of air enveloped the herald flying upwards from below, pulling him up.

The herald saluted Qiu Bai and handed a letter in both hands.

"General Qiu. This is a letter from the Joint Command and the approval of the Executive and Military Commission. ”

"Okay, I got it. Go back. Qiu Bai said lightly.

The herald saluted again. Qiu Bai returned the salute, raised his hand, drew the air current, sent the herald back to the ground, and gently opened the envelope.

"Dandelion Project? Are they trying to ......?"

He read the letter carefully. The letter paper was coated with a special invisible powder made by the Cangling Army, and only those who had cultivated high enough or possessed a special manifestation powder could see the handwriting on it. With his cultivation, it can be read directly without the need for manifestation powder. Two minutes later, he tucked the letter back into the envelope, which was tucked into the pocket on the inside of his armor.

And so it was...... Just like I thought...... Kanglong: They're coming...... It's just that...... Why is there still ......?"

He shook his head and didn't continue. A faint white light appeared in the sky. The darkness began to reced.

Cangling City. Spirit Master Academy of Cangling Academy. Dean's Office.

Hou Renze sat on the office chair and quietly looked at the purple-clothed spirit master in front of him.

"Is that so?"

"Yes, that's what the headquarters means. The purple-clothed spirit master said respectfully.

"Okay," Hou Renze cupped his glasses, "I understand." Please inform the two vice presidents and the directors. This matter needs to be discussed. ”

"Yes, Dean!" the purple-clothed spirit master straightened his waist, saluted, and turned to walk out of the dean's room.

Ten minutes later, all the main leaders of the Spirit Master Academy of Cangling Academy arrived in the conference room. Everyone sat around a large conference table in the center of the room. Hou Renze sat on the main seat in the center, and the two vice presidents sat on either side of him. Further down are Jin Bo, the director of the Academic Affairs Office, and Chai Ding, the director of the Teaching Office. More than a dozen other education committee members and senior faculty members and researchers sat in other positions.

"Everyone," Hou Renze spoke, "I'm sorry to disturb everyone's work and rest at this time. But now there's one thing I have to discuss with you. Only at this time, none of you here have any teaching tasks. I'm not going to take up too much of your time. ”

Everyone didn't speak, just looked at Hou Renze.

"Ahem," Hou Renze cleared his throat, "the assassination of Huang Yixiong, the governor of Cangyan, has been investigated. It was the work of the Five Beasts Gang, an underground force entrenched in Cangyan Province and Xiliang Province. They are the remnants of the Seven Beast Bandits that were exterminated that year. Admiral Long Yao suspected that they were colluding with the Jianyan* side and the pirate gangs on the border between the two countries. The central authorities decided to thoroughly investigate and exterminate them, clear the way for the rear of the battlefield, and also deter the underground forces in the northwest region. ”

Several members of the education committee and senior faculty members looked at each other a few times. They didn't think about it for a while, and it had nothing to do with them directly.

"The headquarters just sent me an order," Hou Renze continued, "that the academy will send a group of senior students who are about to graduate to form a team and go to Cangyan Province under the leadership of the instructor, accept the unified command of Cangyan Province, and participate in the work of encircling and suppressing the Five Beast Gang." In my opinion, this is conducive to exercising the actual combat ability of the trainees. This operation can be counted as an internship assignment for the cadets, and they should be given more credits and rewards than a normal internship assignment. ”

Jin Bo raised his head and looked at Hou Renze's face. He saw that Hou Renze's expression didn't seem quite right, and there seemed to be a trace of excitement between his eyebrows. The expressions of the two vice presidents were also a little wrong.

"What do you think?" Hou Renze raised his hand and motioned for everyone to speak.

All the education committee members and senior faculty members present still did not speak, but only looked at each other and shook their heads at each other. In their memory, the He military rarely summoned the students of the government-run Spirit Master Academy to participate in large-scale anti-bandit missions. Even if they did, they would never directly send students to fight gangs or evil spirits.

"Dean, I don't think there's a problem!"

Chai Ding took the lead in opening his voice. He was still loud, attracting the eyes of the whole table to his rugged face.

"Aren't you just going to help suppress the bandits? I'll just lead the team! I'll keep the students safe!"

Several elderly education committee members and senior teachers pursed their lips at the same time, with either a hint of mockery or a hint of disdain in their eyes. In their opinion, Chai Ding is a big man with developed limbs and a simple mind, and he usually manages discipline in the academy and scares and scares a few disobedient students, but as soon as he goes to the battlefield, he will be able to stab Lou Zi, let alone let him serve as a nanny. Even Jimbo, who had worked with him for a while, looked at him with suspicion.

"Xiao Chai," Hou Renze laughed twice, "I know." You've recently cultivated to the fifth order and seventh level, and you want to use actual combat to break through, right?"

"Uh...... Dean, do you see that?" Chai Ding was a little embarrassed.

"Who am I? I can't see it?" Hou Renze raised his eyebrows, raised his right index finger, and lifted his glasses up, "However, you must also know that the main purpose of this operation is to cooperate with the anti-bandit operations of the two provinces, to train our students, and to cooperate with the 'Dandelion Project' of the Joint Command." ”

"Hmm. I understand. Chai Ding nodded and stopped squeaking.

"Dean, what is Project Dandelion?" asked a male faculty member with burgundy shoulder-length hair.

"I can't tell you this," Hou Renze shook his head with a serious face, "This is a military secret of the Military Commission and the Joint Command. At present, in our Spirit Master Academy, only I have permission to know about this plan. I can only tell you one thing now, and that is that the bandit program is part of the Dandelion program. ”

"Then let me go. ”

It was the vice president who was sitting on Hou Renze's left hand side who spoke. He raised his large, slender hand and stroked the grass-green forehead hair on his head. If you look closer, you can see that his skin is also grass-green, close to the color of most bushes, and there are several brown patches on his face that resemble mud. His appearance is really not good-looking, but it does not look ugly, but gives people a relatively gentle and approachable feeling.

"Dean Sang," Jimbo began, "are you going to lead the team yourself?" I remember, you don't seem to have led students in years. ”