When Jinhua's body was carried out of the prison and hastily buried on the hillside, the Hanxing Pass, the pass between Xidai and Futao City, had turned into a sea of fire. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

On the day of the start of the war, there was no warning near Hanxing Pass. A caravan selling spices entered the checkpoint, and due to the leader's ill health, the group rested in the inn.

In the middle of the night, several caravans had nothing to do, chatting with the waiters at the post station to relieve their boredom. At the third watch, the sound of drums just came from the streets and alleys not far away, and the legs suddenly changed their faces.

Several corpses were hidden in the post station, and more than a dozen black shadows flashed towards the gate of Hanxing Pass.

These dozen or so people have all received the most rigorous training, set off in unison, and act in unison. The weapons they wielded were not long, and could even be hidden in the palms of their hands—short shuttles made of purple gold, sharp as needles, and topped with poison that sealed their throats with blood. When Zhan Zhongqi passed through Hanxing Pass, he ordered the guards to strictly inspect the merchants who came from Futao City...... However, even if you search your body, it is difficult to find those purple gold short shuttles.

The raging fire rose at the battlement of Hanxing Pass, and from a distance, the firelight still illuminated a large area of the sky in the dark night, and the brilliance of the light even obscured the bright stars in the sky. Therefore, this regular battle was also known as the "Battle of the Stars" in later generations, symbolizing the official war between the Western Dynasty and Futao City.

Under the firelight, the Hanxing Pass was slowly opened, and the 50,000 horses of Liang Gong of Futao City slowly came along the official road. Fifteen thousand light cavalry charged at the front, followed by 10,000 heavy cavalry, and then 25,000 infantry. They crossed the customs without hindrance, all the way west, unhindered and unhindered.

Hanxing Pass is built under the Jiangliu Mountain, after passing the pass is a smooth road, there are forty or fifty villages and towns along both sides of the official road, more than 200 miles in the northwest direction is the Xingba Mountain that is rumored to be the ancestor of the emperor of the country, and the front of the Xingba Mountain, that is, the current "imperial capital" of the Western Dynasty - Fengguan Mangcheng.

The military discipline of the soldiers in Futao City is not good, and after tasting the first sweetness, their hearts become more and more impetuous. Although the world is in turmoil, the upper reaches of the river have been safe and sound, the people are accustomed to watching the lively days, and the soldiers are also accustomed to the lazy and casual military life. At this moment, the first battle was because of the sneak attack, and the soldiers took the Hanxing Pass without blood, and the generals who led the troops became proud, and they claimed that their army was the most powerful army in the world, and the enemy did not even dare to resist.

Most of the blind courage is blown out. The soldiers of Futao City had never experienced a truly cruel war, and their victory in the first battle, coupled with the self-absorption of the generals, really thought that they were invincible and invincible. Two days after entering the border of the Western Dynasty, the initially well-organized team gradually became fragmented.

Leading the 50,000 horses was the deputy general Li Wenxuan, whose official rank was second only to the city lord Liang Gong in Futao City, and there were three commanders under his command, namely Yu Zhaoxian, the light cavalry, Jia He, and Wutai. Li Wenxuan is forty-five years old, but because of good maintenance, a face from a distance and a near look is no different from a man in his thirties, someone once guessed that he had Yi blood because of his face, but before he guessed anything, the person who spoke casually was found sunk in the Chijiang River.

Li Wenxuan can be a civil but not a martial artist, as we all know, he can become this deputy general because of his nepotism with Liang Gong - it is rumored that Li Wenxuan and Liang are recognized as the same godmother. However, Li Wenxuanhui's "text" is not the so-called "text" of ordinary civil officials. He knows how to form formations, of course - just the most superficial formations.

It has been three days since he passed through Hanxing Pass, and seeing that the army is becoming more and more ineffective, Li Wenxuan is greatly impressed. He was not a general who was good at disciplining soldiers, but he knew that he should work together at this moment, so he immediately summoned the three subordinate commanders and held a meeting together.

According to the history of the development of military warfare, infantry appeared first, followed by chariot soldiers, and later due to the promotion of cavalry, chariot soldiers were replaced by heavy cavalry, and then because of the development of cavalry equipment, light cavalry appeared...... At this time, the three commanders under Li Wenxuan's command were exactly the same in age order as the armies under each other's command.

Yu Zhaoxian was the youngest, only 38 years old. He was dressed in chain mail, carrying a beast-headed saber on his shoulder, his face was full of flesh, and his appearance was fierce; Jia He was in the middle, born in the same year as Li Wenxuan, and similar to the equipment of heavy horseback, he also wore heavy armor, because the heavy armor hindered the killing, so his usual weapon was a long-handled copper hammer, and his mood was invisible, and he appeared to be extremely deep in the city; Wu Tai was the only one in the whole army who was above Li Wenxuan, he was dressed in fish scale armor, and his usual weapon was a horse-pounding spear, and his appearance was ordinary, and there was nothing special about it.

No one knows what the three generals were secretly discussing, but on the second day, the formation of the light cavalry army at the forefront suddenly became much more neat, and then when they set up camp that night, the light cavalry divided into three thousand troops and killed the surrounding villages and towns along the branch road of the official road.

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Zhan Zhongqi and his entourage have returned to Fengguan Mangcheng, but in the past few days, something strange has happened in the palace.

Durham was reading a book and taking notes in his newly renovated study when he heard a "pop" and something smashed on the floor. Durham turned his wheelchair to the middle of the study, and saw that the largest vase in the east of the door had fallen to the ground, and it had become powder.

"What rat is so strong?" Duren muttered in a low voice, shaking his head, intending to wait for the palace people to come and tell them to clean up later.

However, it was not the palace people who came, but Zhan Zhongqi.

"Lord Wang, please forgive the small inconvenience. Durham had a good impression of the learned old prince, but was puzzled by the fact that he had come to inquire about the fall of the vase in the study.

Zhan Zhongqi waved his hand to him, signaling him to do his own thing, and then asked someone to move a small pony and sit quietly next to the pile of debris, not knowing what he was waiting for.

Du Lun reads and reads, and he still has to eat and sleep, but Zhan Zhongqi was still there when he left the study, and Zhan Zhongqi did not leave when he came back, Du Lun didn't dare to ask more, so he could only secretly doubt in his heart, and because he was worried about the old man's body, he specially ordered the palace people to send Zhan Zhongqi a few meals.

Zhan Zhongqi ate the meal silently and put the plate aside casually. Those delicacies tasted like chewing wax in his mouth. Eating seemed to him to be just a step that had to be taken in order to prolong his life, and there was no enjoyment at all. On the contrary, it is these broken vases in front of me that make more sense.

Duren looked at the old man who was a little crazy in his eyes inexplicably, and after spending three days in the study, he suddenly heard a few "pops", and the vase in the study broke three more.

None of the three vases were too big, but no one knew that it was impossible for a mouse to knock down three vases at the same time...... Unless the rat becomes a sperm. Duren's hands shook in fright from the three crisp sounds, and the military law book he was looking at fell to the ground. He was bending down to pick it up, but he saw a slender hand pick up the book of military law and put it on the case in front of him, and then the two onion fingers flicked slightly, turning to the page he was looking at before the book fell.

"Don't worry. A cold voice rang out.

"Multi-...... Thanks a lot...... ...... coo, "The last sound is naturally the sound of swallowing saliva." Durham raised his head, only to see a beautiful and peerless woman standing in front of him at some point. The beauty is fully dressed in armor and has a heroic posture, which makes people dare not look directly. Durham often lives in the palace, and there are not a few beautiful women he has seen, but for some reason, those beauties are beautiful in his eyes, and they have no soul, but the woman in front of him is cold to his heart, making him feel ashamed and dare not look at her directly, and he wants to look at her more, as long as he looks at her.

He secretly looked at the woman again, but saw that the woman had already walked to Zhan Zhongqi's side and looked at the vase fragments with him.

On the other hand, Zhan Zhongqi turned his head sideways and asked, "Qingqiu, what did you see?"

The woman, Qingqiu, got up and looked around at the entire study, and smiled indifferently: "If I guessed correctly, this entire study room was rebuilt according to your orders." What is placed in what position is also particular. ”

"Hehehe, you can tell, it's good. Before I left, I did leave them the drawings. Zhan Zhongqi smiled and said, with a little relief on his face, and then asked Du Lun again, "Child, I've been watching you these days, you are very nice and down-to-earth." You can also take a look, what can you see?"

"Me?" Du Lun opened his mouth inexplicably, but when he saw Qingqiu's clear eyes staring at his face, he couldn't help but blush, and he couldn't help but say that he couldn't see anything in front of her. He has been staying here since the study was built, and he is familiar with every brick and tile, and at this moment he does not need to turn a wheelchair, just like walking through this study, and has gone through all the scenes.

After a while, Du Ren's eyes suddenly lit up, and he let out a long "oh" and said, "This ...... This study...... This study is a map!"

"Yes. Zhan Zhongqi nodded, "The bookshelves are mountains, the aisles are official roads, and these vase decorations are village and town passes." Is this formation...... It's called 'Red Dust Lock'. I once placed one in the imperial palace in the imperial capital, but that array was much bigger than the current one. ”

"Red Dust Lock?" Zhan Zhongqi said was a completely new realm for Duren, and after listening to it dumbfounded, he asked, "Is this ...... How did you do that? Lord Wang, you are really a god!"

This sentence is a sincere compliment, but Zhan Zhongqi has read countless people, and at this moment he is no longer impetuous because of foreign objects, he nodded and said with a smile: "It's nothing, I also learned it from my predecessors." You have read so many books, do you remember that there is a book called "Records of Foreign Objects"? There are all kinds of royal objects, most of which are made by strange tricks and tricks, but one of them is a treasure that came out of this heavenly way. ”

When Duren heard this, he couldn't help but high-five and replied, "I know!

Zhan Zhongqi smiled: "Yes." The instrument of earth motion can point out the ground movement situation thousands of miles away, and warn natural disasters, in this case, why can't man-made disasters be sensed from a distance of thousands of miles?"

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