Shao Lin returned the knife to the sheath, jumped out of the carriage, and explained: "My lord, this grass ball looks huge, but in fact, it is empty inside. ”

"Empty?" Lin Haotian raised his eyebrows, came to the grass ball, and stretched out his hand to push it slightly.

Sure enough, the grass ball was very light, and rolled a few times in his modest thrust.

Shao Lin stepped forward and continued: "My lord, the enemy army is very cunning, and he also knows the situation of our army very well. They hid the balls of grass on the top of the hill beforehand, and the soldiers hid all of them in the hollow balls of grass to avoid the observation of the falcons on the ground nets. Therefore, when the Seventh Legion was marching, although the falcons were released, the falcons did not find the enemy troops on the top of the mountain, but only found ambushes in the forest, and the Seventh Legion suffered a great loss. ”

"So that's ......" Lin Haotian couldn't help but nod again and again, the main purpose of the Red Army's abandonment of the Great Black Valley, which is suitable for ambush, is to paralyze itself, passing through the dangerous place of the Great Black Valley, their own soldiers will naturally breathe a sigh of relief and relax their vigilance, but at this time, they just entered the ambush site of the Red Army.

The Red Army took great pains to create these large grass balls, mainly for two purposes, one is to hide soldiers, and the other is to use them for fire attack, the Red Army uses these grass balls, and then forcibly drives their own soldiers into their ambushed woodland, surprises, attacks them unprepared, and catches them off guard.

It can be said that in this ambush, the Red Army has already calculated everything, even if it is not the Seventh Army Corps that is ambushed, but the New Army, or even the First Army and the Second Army Corps, the result will be the same, and their own side will definitely be defeated.

It's just that the Seventh Army was unlucky, and Guan He's initiative to ask for help just made the Seventh Army bump into the muzzle of the Red Army.

"Who is this commander-in-chief of the Red Army? Why do you know so much about the situation of our army, and even know that our army will use falcons to conduct high-altitude reconnaissance. Let the ambushed soldiers burrow into the grass ball in advance to avoid the falcon's sight. Lin Haotian rubbed his chin and muttered puzzledly.

Shao Lin lowered his head, Tong Lei was also silent, they were also very curious, they wanted to know who the main general behind the Red Army was, since the Red Army had such a powerful general. Then why didn't the Red Court reuse this person in the first place?

Luo Lan's eyes rolled, he stepped forward, and whispered beside Lin Haotian: "My lord, could it be that there is something detailed within our army?"

As soon as these words came out, the faces of everyone present changed, which was the last thing that all the soldiers of the Jin Army wanted to see.

After Lin Haotian heard this, a gleam flashed in his eyes.

Zhou Yan's face sank, he glared at Luo Lan fiercely, and said cautiously to Lin Haotian on the side: "My lord." The last general thought that it was not difficult for the Red Army to understand the situation of our army, and that our army had been fighting on the battlefield for many years, and its characteristics had long been laid out on the surface, and it was no secret that our army used falcons for reconnaissance, but that the Red Army commander could make good use of these characteristics of our army, and this person was very cunning. Absolutely good!"

Bai Die also agreed with Zhou Yan's words, and all the people present were veterans of the Jin Army. Only she, Zhou Yan and Roland have the least qualifications, and Roland is an old Jin man, who has won the trust of adults, and works beside adults, if there are spies within the Jin Army, it can only be her and Zhou Yan's greatest suspicion. She said with a straight face: "Could the chief general of the Red Army be the shrub man that the Red Soldiers said? This person said that he was a chivalrous man of the Red Country, but how could a chivalrous man be so good at using soldiers, and the last general suspected that this trub man was probably the general of the Red Country."

"En!" Lin Haotian nodded, feeling that Zhou Yan and Bai Die's analysis was very reasonable. Of course, he doesn't want spies within his own side.

He took a deep breath, squinted his eyes, and said: "I am strong and the enemy is weak, and the Red Army is now fighting a guerrilla war with our army! ”

Lin Haotian felt sad just thinking about it, not to mention the loss of war horses and armaments, the casualties alone were already unacceptable.

To train a heavy cavalry, how can it be so easy, in addition to requiring the soldiers to have a strong physique, but also need a lot of conditions and skills, it is not an exaggeration to say that the Seventh Legion is a legion made of gold.

"No matter who the main general of the enemy army is, in short, when our army hits Yujing, we will naturally see the difference!" Lin Haotian clenched his fist, hit the grass ball in front of him hard, and then turned around and walked back to the Chinese military tent.

The next day, the New Army arrived at the Great Black Valley and joined the Seventh Army.

When Guan He asked Lin Haotian for help, he was full of confidence, and he almost didn't make a military order, but now he has suffered a big defeat, his whole person is like a defeated attack, his shoulders collapsed, and his head drooped down, after seeing Lin Haotian, he didn't wait to speak, he knelt on the ground first, and kowtowed forward: "Please treat the crime of the last general!"

In this battle, Guan He didn't make any mistakes, but Lin Haotian couldn't help but punish him, after all, he lost the battle, if there was no punishment, I am afraid he would be accustomed to it in the future.

Lin Haotian stared at him for a moment, then slowly asked, "Tell me yourself, how should I punish you?"

"This ......" Guan He grinned secretly, now he wants to be an official or not, he wants a title without a title, and he can't talk about demotion, after thinking for a while, he said in a low voice: "The life of the last general is the adult's, no matter how the adult punishes the last general, the last general can accept it." ”

"Good. Lin Haotian nodded, and shouted outside the tent: "Come on, Guanhe is not good for commanding the army, and he is responsible for two hundred military sticks!"

As soon as he spoke, the guards outside immediately walked in.

At this time, Shao Lin and Tong Lei both came out of the ranks, intervened and said: "My lord, now is the most critical moment for our army to fight against the remnants of the Red Army. ”

If the two hundred army sticks go down, the iron men will be flattened, let alone Guan He? Even if you are not crippled, you will not want to get out of bed within two or three months.

Seeing that Shao Lin and Tong Lei took the lead in pleading, the other golden generals also came out one after another, intervening and said: "Yes, my lord, the big war is coming, and our army will damage itself to the generals, wouldn't it increase the morale of the enemy army and destroy the prestige of my own family?"

"Please think twice!"

Lin Haotian was just pretentious, and if he really wanted to beat the 200 military sticks in Guanhe, he himself was still reluctant! Seeing that all the generals had come to intercede, he just borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, pretended to think for a while, and said: "What the generals said is also reasonable, and the 200 military sticks are exempted. Let's fight twenty sticks!"

When Guan He heard this, he kowtowed again and again with relief, and said urgently: "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

"Yes, sir!" the guards pulled Guan He out of the tent.

After he left, Lin Haotian looked at Shao Lin and Tong Lei and said, "The next journey." You two must do your best to reconnoitre, and never let our army fall into an enemy ambush again. ”

"Yes! Subordinates obey orders!" Shao Lin and Tong Lei gave their hands to receive the order.

That night, late at night, Lin Haotian quietly left the Golden Camp alone and went straight to the outside of the Great Black Valley.

Along the way, there are Jin Army's sentry posts and patrols everywhere, Lin Haotian can dodge if he can, and he can't dodge if he can. He took out the token of the Demon Warrior and fooled him.

When he walked out of the Great Black Valley, he first looked around, and then walked quickly towards the woods by the roadside.

Soon, he came to the place where the soldiers of the Seventh Legion were ambushed that day, there were still many burn marks on the trees, and blood stains could be faintly seen on the ground.

Don't look at the five fingers in the forest. Lin Haotian didn't hold a torch again, but his night eyes could see everything in the woods clearly.

He walked a little further into the woodland. Suddenly stopped, sighed helplessly, slowly turned around, looked behind him, and said, "Come out!"

“......”

No one answered, and there was no movement in the woods.

Lin Haotian shook his head. The voice was not loud: "If you don't come out again, I'll go over and get you out!"

......Seeing that he couldn't hide it, Roland slowly walked out from behind an old tree.

Lin Haotian looked at her directly, frowned slightly, and said in a deep voice: "Didn't you let you stay in the army? Am I being too indulgent to you on weekdays?"

Roland's body shook, and he hurriedly shook his hand, and then like a child who had done something wrong, he put his hands behind his back, lowered his head, and whispered: "My subordinates are not worried about adults going on adventures alone, so I ...... I came out to protect the adults......"

Alas, although she was well-intentioned, and he was also very grateful to her, Lin Haotian still sighed in his heart, and said with a wry smile: "When I am so downtrodden that I need a girl to protect me." As he spoke, he shook his head as he continued his walk deeper into the woods.

Hearing that the adult didn't drive him away again, Roland suddenly showed joy on his face, quickly caught up with him, and said in a brisk tone: "Don't worry, my lord, my subordinates will go with the adult, and they will definitely not drag the adult." ”

"That's probably not up to you. That being said, however, Lin Haotian did not return to the camp again.

Passing through the main battlefield left over from that day, the traces of the battle in the forest began to gradually decrease, and the grass and vines also increased, making it more and more difficult to walk.

Late at night, walking in the deep mountains and old forests is also a very scary thing.

There is very little light in the forest, the dense branches block the moonlight tightly, and the visibility of ordinary people is only two or three meters away at best, in this case, the trees in the forest seem to have turned into demons and monsters in the dark, making people's heartstrings tense unconsciously, and the birds, insects and beasts in the forest also make strange cries from time to time, which is terrifying and makes people feel chill from the bones.

Lin Haotian has lived in the mountains since he was a child, and he has long been accustomed to this, not to mention that he still has night eyes and a super high martial arts, and he is not afraid to walk in the forest.

And Roland is different, she is not from a wealthy family, but she is also the daughter of a wealthy family, where is she walking in the forest at night? At this time, she is more and more frightened, and the more she walks, the more frightened she becomes, and she unconsciously wants to grab Lin Haotian's clothes.

But after all, the two have different identities, so how can there be any reason for the official to grab the adult's clothes? Her hands were raised and lowered, put down and raised, and at the same time, the two apricot eyes were big and round, and from time to time they looked nervously forward, backward, left and right.

Nervousness is contagious, and she was so nervous that Lin Haotian on the side also became nervous. He shook his head secretly, helplessly grabbed Roland's cold little hand, and said in a low voice of dissatisfaction: "I don't let you follow, I have to come, I have already dragged me down before I have encountered the enemy army." ”

"My ......, my lord"

"What else do you want to say?"

"I'm sorry......" Roland lowered her head with a red face, feeling the warmth of Lin Haotian's palm, she couldn't help but raise her head timidly, and quietly looked at his side face.

At this time, his eyes were completely green, flashing with a crystal green light, which was originally a very scary and weird eye, but in Roland's opinion, it felt very charming. It's as if they were a pair of green gems that could suck people's eyes into them and make them unable to extricate themselves.

"Looking at my old face every day, can't you see enough?" Lin Haotian's eyes stared at the ground, but the words were said to Roland beside him.

Roland was blushed by what he said, but soon she said urgently: "Adults are not old at all......"

Between words. Lin Haotian suddenly quickened his pace, came to a bush, and then pulled Roland to squat down and break a blade of grass from the grass.

"Your Excellency?" Roland looked at him puzzled.

"There was blood on it. Lin Haotian took the blade of grass, looked at it for a while, then lowered his head and sniffed it, then threw it away, stood up, and continued to walk forward. At the same time, he muttered in a low voice: "The blood stains must have been left by the wounded Red Army, the Red Army is very careful, after a fierce battle, there must be a lot of wounded soldiers among them, but the blood stains left are almost impossible to find." ”

"That said, they took special care not to leave any traces when they retreated. Roland said with a frown.

"En!" Lin Haotian smiled leisurely and said, "However, no matter how cunning the prey." It's impossible to leave nothing out, let alone that. It's an army of tens of thousands!"

"Do you want to keep tracking them?"

"If the Red Army just evacuates the Yangou area, my fear is that they will continue to set up ambushes along the way. Sweetness is like taking drugs, once you taste it, you can't stop it. Lin Haotian said with a sneer.

"Drugs? What's that?"

"Uh...... When I didn't say it. "If you ask Lin Haotian what drug abuse is. He couldn't explain it clearly, so he could only avoid talking about it.

Roland pursed the corners of her lips, but she immediately realized that she was so rude.

Leaving the barracks, he walked alone in the deep mountains and old forests, which made Roland forget the identities of the two from time to time.

They went from late at night until dawn. Lin Haotian stopped at this time and said to Roland, who was full of tiredness: "Let's rest here!"

"Good!" Roland immediately showed joy and hurriedly agreed.

The two sat down under a tree, and Roland asked, "My lord, are we following the right route?"

"Of course!"

"But I don't see any sign of it, and the weeds on the ground don't show any signs of being trampled on by the army. ”

Lin Haotian smiled and said, "At this point, the Red Army has already been broken into pieces, and they are going separately. ”

Roland was taken aback and asked in disbelief, "Your Excellency can even see this?"

"I also see that the Red Army, which has been divided into two parts, one is in a hurry, and the other is slow, as for why the soldiers are in two ways, one fast and one slow, I don't know, now, if only I could find the spies or eyeliner of the Red Army. ”

Lin Haotian took Roland to track the whereabouts of the Red Army in the woods, and according to the traces and clues left by the Red Army, he could judge that the main force of the Red Army had withdrawn from the Yangou area, but there was still a small force left, and the number should not exceed 1,000.

He didn't know what the Red Army's intention was to leave these forces, but he could judge a rough idea without thinking about it, and it was estimated that he still had to ambush himself somewhere.

Lin Haotian didn't plan to track down the main force of the Red Army that had withdrawn from Yangou, and it was pointless to track it down, his goal was to lock on the small-scale Red Army left in Yangou.

The Red Army was very elite, perhaps they were very good at evading tracking, and along the way, they left very few clues, and they had to look carefully and search to find the food scraps and feces they had buried in the ground.

Lin Haotian and Roland walked in the forest for another day and a night, and the forest gradually became dominated by maple trees. It's autumn, the maple leaves are turning orange, and the forest is golden as far as the eye can see.

Seeing such a beautiful scenery, Roland forgot the tiredness of rushing for a while, and she said excitedly: "It's so beautiful, it seems to have returned to her hometown!"

In the country of Jin, the maple tree is one of the most common trees.

Lin Haotian smiled when he heard this, and said casually while looking around: "If you are homesick, when this war is over, go home and have a look." ”

Roland asked, "Will the adults also go back?" After speaking, she immediately realized that she was talking nonsense, the capital has been moved to Zhenjiang, and of course the adults will not return to Jindi.

Lin Haotian really nodded and sighed: "I also want to go back to Jindi to have a look!"

Roland was surprised and delighted, and said, "Then the subordinates can accompany the adults back to Jindi......

Before she finished speaking, Lin Haotian suddenly raised his hand to stop her words, then walked to a maple tree, squatted down, looked at it carefully for a long time, reached out and buckled a small piece of bark, put it under his nose and sniffed it carefully.

"My lord, what's wrong?" Roland asked in a curious whisper as he stepped forward.

"It's human urine, it's not long yet, and the Red Soldier we're tracking should be in this area. As he spoke, Lin Haotian narrowed his eyes and slowly looked around.

After looking at it for a while, he didn't look back and said, "You stay here and wait for me, I'll go back!"

After speaking, a black mist suddenly emanated from his body, and then the person disappeared.

"Big ......" Roland still wanted to stop Lin Haotian, but the words had just come out, where was Lin Haotian still in sight?

Lin Haotian flashed away quickly with Feng Ling, his figure disappearing in the woods, fluctuating, like a ghost, and like a whirlwind.

He ran forward for about two cups of tea, and after a pause, stopped at a branch, and then looked at the grass not far in front of him. (To be continued......)