The Pawn Chapter 42 The Blade Rode Out of the Pass
The fishy wind blew away, and the yellow sand rolled in.
A cavalry team was marching through the desert with difficulty, and if you looked down from the sky, you could see that this cavalry team looked rather rudimentary, with only a hundred people in size. More than 100 cavalrymen marched in a conical formation and were advancing non-stop into the deeper part of the desert.
"Is this map really useful?" the leader of the lead said, clutching the map in his hand, "It's been days, and we still haven't seen the camp of the Monsters." β
"The Raccoon is a nomadic people, and its whereabouts are uncertain, but this map has only been drawn in the past few months by undercover spies who have infiltrated the caravan of the Fox merchants, so it should be about the same, let's go further and take a look." One of the people who was on his side of him came up with the idea.
This leader has thick eyebrows and big eyes, a leopard head and tiger whiskers, and two iron halberds hanging obliquely on the saddle, it is Wei Wei, and this person who is walking with him as a staff officer is, of course, Du Rong.
Half a year ago, the battle at the famous border pass made Wei Wei famous, and it also allowed him to fight for the position of vanguard officer of the Wan Qi Battalion promised by Li Duo, and he also jumped from an ordinary soldier in the Sky Wolf Army to a centurion in charge of a hundred people, but the position of vanguard was only available in wartime, and it was no different from other centurions on weekdays.
Rao is like this, which also makes many people quite red-eyed, especially some elites in the Sky Wolf Army who did not participate in the tournament - in their opinion, it makes sense for a person who is the top of the infantry battalion to enter the Sky Wolf Army, but why did he even give him the position of vanguard so easily?
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Wei Wei is not Li Duo's opponent at all, but why did Li Duo make that big promise to him? Could it be that this guy is really related to Li Duo? Many people in the Wan Qi camp have come to the door with such an idea to provoke, but Wei Wei has gradually proved his ability to everyone in the past six months, and it is no exaggeration to say that Wei Wei's strength has now faintly surpassed Du Rong.
Although there are fewer people who are not convinced now, it is not without - there is a man named Zheng Xianming in this Wan Qi battalion, he is the most promising candidate for the vanguard position since Wei collapsed, and he is also a brave general, and he is angry with Wei Xuan - this pioneer position is what he has in his pocket, but he was given a sword to win his love by a promoted horse from an infantry battalion, and everyone has to worry about it, which Zheng Xianming has been pregnant for more than half a year. So Li Duo made such a decision after soliciting the opinions of the two - it was the second training of the Wan Qi Battalion, and the Heavenly Wolf Army was ready to take the initiative to attack the Qiangren, so he ordered Wei Wei and Zheng Xianming to lead a 100-strong army as scouts, and Li Duo personally led the army behind the palace - whoever has achieved more credit and great results will be the first vanguard officer.
So Wei Wei and Zheng Xianming each selected a team of 100 elite soldiers in the Wan Qi camp to start in two ways, and it has been ten days since they went out of the border and entered the fortress.
Du Rong, Li Dayong and Wei Cheng also entered the Wan Qi Battalion at the same time as Wei Wei because they won the rankings in the martial arts competition - Wei Wei picked people naturally not to leave them behind, and the rest of the people were originally from the infantry battalion through the martial arts competition, and there were also veterans who had been selected into the Wan Qiao Battalion three years ago, and they were all top strong.
"This Li Duo is not kind......" Wei Cheng urged the horse to run to the edge of Wei Xuan, he looked around, and muttered in a low voice: "I said that I will give you the position of the vanguard, why is there another round of ...... now?"
Du Rong immediately intercepted the conversation and said: "Wei Wei is now unstable in the Heavenly Wolf Army, if because of that promise, if he really gives him the position of the pioneer directly, it will be unkind, this time we will help him make a great contribution, won't the position of the pioneer be justified!"
"Hehe...... Wei Cheng scratched his head through the helmet and smiled: "It's the same." β
Unbeknownst to the trio, the man behind them could hear the conversation between them and memorize them verbatim.
The team had been marching in the depths of the desert for nearly a day, and at this time it was already sunset on the west hill, and the remnants of the sun were like blood, but Du Rong, who was walking in the front, stopped his steps.
"What's wrong?" Wei Wei asked when he saw Du Rong stop.
"Look. Du Rong stretched out his finger and pointed to the north, "It's cooking smoke." β
Sure enough, everyone looked far away in the direction that Du Rong pointed, and sure enough, they saw wisps of green smoke heading straight into the clouds.
Wei Wei also reacted, so he called Wei Cheng and Li Dayong over, and asked them to hide their figures to find out the identity of the other party, and asked the other soldiers to dismount and rest one after another, and take out the dry food they brought with them to eat.
In fact, they also carry the tools of camping and lighting fires with them, as for why they don't use them nowβisn't this nonsense, there is a fire here to eat cooked food, and the opposite side can naturally see it, doesn't it expose their own position and waste their efforts and miss the opportunity?
Wei Cheng and Li Dayong were just about to take the order to leave, when suddenly one person interrupted them, it was the one who had just silently paid attention to the conversation between Wei Wei and the others, and he said to Wei Wei: "Two people may not be enough, it is better to pick a few more people together, and I am willing to go with them to investigate." β
"Hmm...... Okay, too. Wei Wei felt that this guy was reasonable, and it would be more efficient to have two more people, so he pointed to the guy and another person who Mao Sui had recommended, "You two should go with them too, but remember not to expose your whereabouts!"
After receiving the order, the four of them rode their horses and galloped out, while Wei Wei and the others rested and waited in place.
What Wei Wei never expected was that this survey almost caused a catastrophe.
The four people who went out to spy on the situation did not go straight towards the place where the smoke rose, but made a slight detour, but they did not delay for long, and a simple camp appeared in front of them.
I said...... Why don't we split up and go in four different directions, which will save a lot of time. The person who recommended himself suggested to several people.
"I'm afraid this is inappropriate......" Li Dayong has always been the most stable one, in order to act in concealment, there are already very few four people, and there is no one to take care of each other when the troops are divided.
"What about a group of twos?" Wei Cheng said. "That way, if we're in danger, we can take care of each other. β
Seeing that Wei Chengdu said this, the remaining two people also agreed to the distribution of pairs and pairs, and Li Dayong no longer insisted, so Li Dayong and Wei Cheng approached from the west, and the guy who recommended himself and another young man lurked in the east.
Li Dayong and Wei Cheng were far away from the camp, and then they went around the circle again, until they came to a poplar forest not far from the camp, where shrubs and weeds grew wildly, tied their horses, and began to approach the camp quietly on foot.
"Do you see clearly?" Li Dayong asked Wei Chengdao, Wei Cheng's eyesight is excellent and very suitable for archery, and Wei Cheng's archery skills are also the best in the camp.
"Hmm...... Judging by the outfit of these people, it should be the Monster people, yes, there are also people who carry weapons with them, but I don't know if this is a caravan or an army of the Monster people?" Wei Cheng looked at it for a while and responded, "Look at the sky is going to get dark, let's wait until it gets dark for a while, and then we will slowly approach." β
In this way, the two groped their way in the direction of the camp, and quietly kept in mind the terrain and the number of people they observed.
The two men on the east side did not make any move, but hid in another poplar forest on the high slope to the east and condescendingly observed the camp of the Qiangren, and did not make any movement until it was already dark.
"When are we going to act?" the young man asked about the one whom Mao Sui had recommended himself, who always had a cold face and his eyes were rolling all the time.
"No hurry, wait. Brother Leng Mian said lightly, as if he didn't care about the matter of spying at all - then why did he take the initiative to ask for help?
From their current position, they could also see the light of the bonfire in the camp of the Yakuza people, which had been lit for some hour, and it seemed that they were roasting something to eat.
"Brother, what's your name?" The two of them were silent and observed the movement of the camp for a while, and the young man was bored and took the initiative to open the conversation box and chat, he still held the broken dry food in his hand, and handed half of it to Brother Leng Mian.
"Tian Kai. Brother Leng Mian still spoke in that cold tone, concise and to the point, and he didn't take the dry food handed to him by the young man.
The young man saw that Tian Kai didn't want to pay attention to him, so he turned his head again and continued to wait while nibbling on dry food, and after a while, he couldn't bear the loneliness and said, "My name is ......"
His voice stopped abruptly at this moment, blood welled up from his mouth, and a sharp chill pierced his chest and punctured his alveoli. The young man struggled to turn his head and saw Tian Kai's mouth opening and closing: "I'm not interested in knowing your name, and it doesn't matter what your name is now." β
There is no need to know the name of a dead man.
Tian Kai twisted the handle of the knife vigorously, until the young man's eyes were closed and there was no longer any breath, then he pulled out the knife, he stuck the knife in the yellow sand and washed away the blood stains on the blade with sand, and tore off a piece of cloth from the young man's clothes to wipe the sand on the knife to ensure that the knife had no traces of the blood that had just been killed before stopping.
Tian Kai is a nail that Zheng Xianming planted in Wei Ruan's team, and the task given to Tian Kai by Zheng Xianming is also very simple - not to ask Tian Kai to kill Wei Ruan, but to ask Tian Kai to disrupt Wei Ru's actions at a critical time.
Of course, it would be great if Tian Kai could take out Wei Wei - and now is the perfect opportunity. According to Tian Kai's observation, although this camp is simple but large-scale, there are about a thousand fierce warriors in it, if these fierce people are led to the side of Wei Xuan's army of more than 100 people...... No matter how strong you are, can all of these more than 100 people be ten?
Tian Kai got on his horse, hung the young man's body on another horse, and led it slowly towards the camp, and when Tian Kai thought that the distance was appropriate, he stabbed the horse carrying the young man's body with a knife in the buttocks.
The horse was frightened by the pain and crashed straight in the direction of the camp of the Monsters.
"That's pretty much it......" Tian Kai muttered to himself.