The next day, in the morning, Shangguan Xiu had just gotten up and was washing, Wei Tianxing strode in from the outside, and when he saw Shangguan Xiu, he said loudly: "My lord, the Ningnan army has withdrawn!"

Shangguan Xiu's washing action only paused slightly, then picked up the hand towel, wiped his face slowly, and after putting down the hand towel, he asked calmly, "Is it confirmed?"

"It's confirmed, my brothers and I saw it with our own eyes, and now the Ningnan Army is packing up the camp tent in the camp!" Wei Tian said happily.

Of course, he has a reason to be excited, when Tang Wanyun sent him to Xibu Mountain to resist the Ningnan army, he was determined to die, in his opinion, three thousand against thirty thousand, it is impossible to win no matter what, and now, the Ningnan army has taken the initiative to withdraw, and everyone on Xibu Mountain is equivalent to picking up a life.

Shangguan Xiu didn't show the slightest hint of excitement, and said in a flat tone: "Probe and report again, keep an eye on Ning Nanjun's every move." ”

"Yes, my lord!" Wei Tian agreed, and then peeked at Shangguan Xiu carefully, seeing that the expression on his face had not changed, and he couldn't tell whether he was happy or unhappy. Wei Tian cleared his throat and said in a tentative whisper: "My lord, the Ningnan army has withdrawn, and the war is finally over. ”

Shangguan Xiu glanced at Wei Tian deeply and asked rhetorically, "Old Wei, do you really think this battle is over here?"

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He rolled his eyes, gasped, and asked in surprise: "Could it be that your lord thinks that the retreat of the Ningnan army is fake, and they are preparing to storm Xibu Mountain with all their might?"

Shangguan Xiu shrugged his shoulders and said with a deep gaze: "Regardless of whether the Ningnan army is really retreating or a fake retreat, this battle is far from over!"

His words made the second monk Wei Tianzhang confused, and he didn't understand what Shangguan Xiu meant by this, the latter waved his hand and said, "If you go to investigate again, you must always keep track of the whereabouts of the Ningnan Army!"

"Yes!" Wei Tian agreed again, and walked out of Shangguan Xiu's room with a stomach full of inexplicability.

At midnight, that is, around nine o'clock, the messenger of the Ningnan army came to Xibu Mountain, and after seeing Shangguan Xiu, he conveyed Jiang Ting's meaning, saying that he would withdraw his troops immediately, and all the large baggage in the army would be left in the camp, which could be temporarily kept by the Feng army, and if Shangguan Xiu did not believe that they were really withdrawing the army, he could also send people to monitor along the way, and finally, the messenger reminded Shangguan Xiu not to forget the agreement between the two sides, after the Ningnan army retreated five hundred miles, he would release the captured Tongyang.

After Shangguan Xiu sent the messenger, he found Xu Rui and asked him to arrange two hundred brothers to be spies and keep an eye on the movements of the Ningnan army at all times.

Xu Rui agreed and took the order, Shangguan Xiu looked at Xiao Jue and Wu Yufei beside him, and asked, "Do we have a map of Shah?"

Xiao Jue bent down and said in a low voice: "Brother Xiu, we only have a topographic map of the area around Xibu Mountain, and we don't have a map of the entire territory of Shahe. ”

"I have!" Wei Tian said loudly as he walked in from outside the door. He looked back at one of his men and waved at him, who turned away without saying a word, and in a short time he fetched a map of Shah.

The map is a patchwork of several pieces of sheepskin, which looks to be some years old, the sheepskin is blackened, and the map drawn on it is blurry.

Shangguan Xiu spread the map on the ground, and he lowered his head and looked at it carefully.

The map was clearly not drawn by the Wind Man, and was full of Shah script. Although Shangguan Xiu learned some everyday Shah language, he didn't know Shah's words, and in his eyes, this twisted and twisted text was like a ghost painting.

He asked, "Where is our Mount Sib?"

"Here!" said the Tongtianmen disciple who had taken the map, pointing to a corner of the map.

Shangguan Xiu glanced at him and asked, "Do you know the word Shah?"

"Yes, the villain studied for a year. ”

Shangguan Xiu nodded and looked carefully at the place of his finger. He first pointed to the place where Mount Xibu was located, then traced his finger along the map to the northwest, and asked, "What is the place where Mount Xibu is five hundred miles to the northwest?"

The Tongtianmen disciple knelt on the ground, looking at the map intently, his eyes almost falling off the map. His gaze slowly moved along the map, and after a while, he raised his hand and pointed, and said, "My lord, this is it." ”

Shangguan Xiu looked at the place where he pointed his finger, and it was full of words he didn't recognize. "Where is this place?" he asked.

The man said, "This is the territory of the Shahqixi tribe. ”

"Qixi clan ......," Shangguan Xiu muttered.

At this time, Xu Rui, who had arranged the spies, came back from outside, and when he heard Shangguan Xiu's muttering, he asked curiously, "Brother Xiu, what's wrong with the Qixi clan?"

Shangguan Xiu sat cross-legged on the ground and said, "If the Ningnan army retreats five hundred miles, it just retreats into the territory of the Qixi clan, I don't know what the strength of this Qixi clan is?"

He was not very familiar with the various tribes in the Shah territory, but Xu Rui knew very well that the Shah people who used to go to Xibu Mountain to do business came from any tribe, and naturally there were also people from the Qixi tribe.

He rubbed his chin and pondered for a while, and said, "The strength of the Qixi clan is not strong, but it is not weak either, and the clansmen are close to 100,000. ”

In Shah's tribes, it is not very clear who is the people and who is the soldiers. When it comes to going on a campaign, the adult men of the whole clan are soldiers, and when defending against foreign enemies, even women and children can take up arms to fight, generally speaking, judging how many troops a tribe has, mainly depends on the population of the tribe, excluding one percent of the old people and two percent of the children, the rest can be soldiers.

"100,000 people is not a small number. Shangguan Xiu said quietly: "Will they allow the Ningnan Army to be stationed in their territory?"

Xu Rui smiled and said: "The Qixi tribe is relatively enlightened among the tribes of Shah, they don't like to fight, they only like to make money, if Ningnan will provide them with some money, the Qixi tribe should not refuse the stationing of the Ningnan army." ”

"Hmm!" Shangguan Xiu nodded, looked down at the map, and said, "In this way, after the Ningnan army retreats five hundred miles, it should be stationed in the territory of the Qixi clan. As he spoke, he clicked on the map and said, "There are a lot of mountains here?"

"Yes, the territory of the Qixi tribe is full of mountains and forests, and they can't grow food, in the past, there were few people in the Qixi tribe, and they could still make a living by hunting, but now there are more and more people in the Qixi tribe, and they can't meet the demand by hunting alone, and they need to go out to buy food, which is also the reason why many people in the Qixi tribe come out to do business. After a pause, Xu Rui suddenly remembered something, and said happily: "It's just that the luck of the Qixi clan is not very good, most of the territories of other clans have cork, and after cutting down, whether they are sold to our Fengguo or sold to Ningnan, they can be exchanged for a lot of silver, but in the territory of the Qixi clan, there are all useless pine trees." ”

Shangguan Xiu blinked, laughed out loud, and said thoughtfully, "They are quite unlucky!"

They were talking in the room, when a disciple of Tongtianmen ran in from the outside and said to Shangguan Xiu, Wei Tian and the others, "My lord, the Ningnan army has begun to withdraw outside the camp!"

As soon as he finished speaking, another wind sergeant ran in from outside, gasping and saying, "Big ...... My lord, the Ningnan army, withdrew, the Ningnan army withdrew from the camp. ”

Shangguan Xiu waved his hand and said, "Let's explore and report again." ”

"Obey!" The disciples of Tongtianmen and the soldiers glanced at each other, turned around, and walked out quickly.

Xu Rui swallowed his saliva, couldn't help but sigh loudly, and said: "This battle, we finally survived, it's just that the poor old man ......" Speaking of this, Xu Rui's eyes turned red, and he choked up and couldn't finish his words.

He and Dai Yu have worked together in Xibu Mountain for so long, and the relationship between them has long been cultivated, and for Dai Yu's death, in addition to Shangguan Xiu, he is the most distressed.

"We are not done yet. Shangguan Xiu said word by word.

Xu Ruizheng was full of emotion, hearing Shangguan Xiu's words, he immediately turned his head to look over, there was still an undried mist in his eyes, Xiao Jue, Wu Yufei, and Wei Tian also looked at Shangguan Xiu in puzzlement. The latter narrowed his eyes and asked in a condensed voice, "Whose territory is Xibu Mountain?"

"Self-...... Naturally, it's our territory!" Xu Rui replied inexplicably.

"Not only our territory, but also the territory of the Windy Country, the territory of the dignified and windy territory, how can we allow foreign enemies to attack, fight when we say we will fight, and leave when we say we will go?" Shangguan Xiu's squinted eagle eyes couldn't block the light that shot out of it.

Everyone's hearts trembled, and they asked in unison, "Brother Xiu wants to ...... Take advantage of the enemy's retreat and take the initiative to sneak attack the enemy?"

Shangguan Xiu nodded first, then shook his head, and said: "The Ningnan Army is a regular central army, not a miscellaneous rebel army, when the Ningnan Army retreats, even if they don't think that our army will sneak attack them, they will still make strict defensive moves, which is the basic quality of the regular army." ”

His words confused everyone, and people looked at each other, but they didn't understand what Shangguan Xiu meant. Xu Rui asked cautiously, "Brother Xiu is going to ......?"

Shangguan Xiu said: "As the saying goes, without delay, there will be changes later, in order to rescue Tongyang as soon as possible and avoid extraneous branches, the retreat of these five hundred miles, we will definitely do a rapid march, and the Ningnan army has left a baggage, which is also convenient for them to make a rapid march." Until they retreat five hundred miles and enter the territory of the Qixi clan, they will camp and rest, this is the time when the Ningnan army is the most relaxed, and it is also a good opportunity for us to counterattack. ”

"Brother Xiu wants to ...... Do you want to sneak attack the Ningnan Army in the territory of the Qi Xi clan?" Xu Rui and the others widened their eyes and looked at Shangguan Xiu like monsters.

They only have about 1,000 people now, and the Ningnan army has 20,000 people after removing casualties, and the difference between the strength of the two sides is 20 times.

Shangguan Xiu said: "If you are not bold when you are fighting, when will you be bold? Do you still think that our initiative to sneak attack the Ningnan army is to hit the stone with an egg, and the people of Ningnan will think like this, they would never have imagined that we would chase five hundred miles and sneak attack them in the territory of the Qixi tribe, taking them by surprise and attacking them unprepared, this is the key to victory!"