It was getting darker and darker, and the air was getting hotter and hotter.

At the foot of the mountain is a black and oppressive camp, with military flags unfurled and fierce. There was a faint thunder in the wind, and at the same time there was a dull sound. Banner hunting, the sound of foot soldiers training can be faintly heard.

On the distant horizon, a galloping black dot faintly appeared, getting closer and closer, and the crisp sound of horses' hooves could be heard on the ground.

The black dot gradually became visible, and it turned out to be a galloping horse. The knight kept waving his whip and urging the horses under his seat, and judging from the speed of the horses, they had been running for a long time.

When I arrived at more than 50 zhang outside the camp gate, the sentry at the gate had already seen clearly, the person who came was dressed in the clothes of the dynasty, and the smell of a civil official, but he did not look like an ordinary scribe, and he also carried a burden wrapped in yellow silk on his back. The guard's instincts raised his vigilance and shouted, "Stop the horse!"

"Bastard, this messenger is here with the holy decree, and when I meet your head Li Yi, I don't hurry up and open the camp gate and kneel to welcome the holy will. Immediately the knight shouted.

The guard was taken aback, and hurriedly called another guard, and after a few orders, the guard quickly ran to the big tent to report. The guards themselves hurriedly ran down the watchtower, commanded a few soldiers, and opened the camp gate.

The knight outside the door also stopped Mahler and looked into the barracks.

After a while, a group of people dressed as generals came out from the direction of the big tent, and the first person was dressed in general clothes, it was Li Yi.

Hearing the holy decree, Li Yi was taken aback, and hurriedly led the generals on the left and right to stride out of the camp gate.

The attendants on the left and right carried out an offering table, lit the incense table, and everyone knelt on the ground with the general, ready to listen to the holy decree.

Immediately the knight dismounted, took out a roll of yellow silk wrapped in something from the package behind his back, walked to the incense case, unfolded it, and read it aloud.

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor's edict said: Li Yi, the guard of the third battalion of the border pass, is not effective in supervising the army, and he will be decided, and he will be admitted!"

Li Yi was taken aback, and was about to distinguish, when he saw the messenger suddenly pull out a dagger from the holy decree, as fast as the wind, and stabbed it in the chest that Li Yi had just stood up. At the same time, he laughed loudly and avoided from afar.

From Li Yi getting up to the envoy fleeing away, but in an instant, the body and movement of this envoy is a civil official. It's just a martial arts master.

With the laughter of the envoy, there was a thunderous sound of horses' hooves in the distance, but it was a team of Khitan iron horsemen.

Li Yi covered the blood-spurting wound and pointed at the messenger and said, "You... You... You're a fake!"

I couldn't turn it around in one breath, and I passed away with hatred.

The surrounding soldiers were stunned by this sudden change, and by the time they reacted, the Khitan iron cavalry had already reached a place where they were less than a stone's throw away.

In the blink of an eye, the Khitan iron cavalry rushed into the camp gate, and the soldiers in the rear did not know what was going on, and they were already stepped on top of the iron cavalry.

A bloody battle ensued. But the camp gate has been broken, the main general is dead, the army is discouraged, besides, the Khitans are well prepared, and the third battalion under the west mountain is almost washed away in the middle of a meal. Soldiers were killed and wounded everywhere, and corpses were strewn all over the field.

Since the opening of the station with the Khitan, there has never been such a fiasco. A large battalion of 10,000 men was destroyed. Of the 11,000 people in the whole army, including the generals, only a few hundred escaped.

At the same time, on the hill in the distance, several horsemen and horses were quietly observing the situation of the camp in the West Mountain.

A man dressed as a scribe drove forward and bowed his hand to a person dressed as a Khitan general: "Lord, it seems that Weichen's calculation has been half successful. ”

"Hahahaha, Shijie, your clever plan is really different, even if this big plan fails, we also let the Southern Barbarians lose a 10,000-person team and a camp, which is enough. The Khitan general laughed.

"If the Lord says so, will the other team fail? Could it be that the Lord doubts the ability of our so-and-so?" asked the scribe who had been called to be a scholar, and his heart was very disapproving.

The general looked at the somewhat unhappy strategist, sighed, and said bitterly: "Shijie, it's not that I despise your resourcefulness, the victory just now has proven your ability." ”

"Oh, that's ......," Fang Shijie hesitated and asked rhetorically.

The Khitan general looked at the bloody battlefield in the distance, and the Khitan soldiers had already begun to clean up the battlefield. This time, the Khitan people seized the village, seized countless grains and grasses, and wiped out more than 10,000 people on the other side, but their own losses were less than 1,000 people, no wonder the Khitan general said that this victory was a complete victory.

"Shijie, when you were studying in the south, did you ever hear of an army of the Southern Barbarians, called the 'Wolf Army'?", the Khitan general asked Fang Shijie.

Fang Shijie looked at the general's solemn expression and replied suspiciously: "No, isn't this army another big battalion we have to deal with?"

The Khitan general said: "Exactly, you just arrived on the battlefield, and you arranged such a big victory for me in less than three days, I think you also have a certain understanding of these southern generals, right?"

Fang Shijie said: "Fang Shijie was greatly favored by the Lord, taken in since he was a child, and sent Shijie to the Southern Dynasty to learn its culture and listen to its secrets. ”

Looking at the soldiers cleaning the battlefield in the distance, Fang Shijie said again: "Like this Li Yi, the law of governing the army is not in a proper manner, and he is loyal to the Southern Dynasty, but his weakness is also here. The so-called generals are outside, and the monarch's order is not subject to it, but this Li Yi opened the door of the camp because of a small envoy, personally went out to greet him, in order to show respect, and even led the three armies, large and small, all kneeling down to greet them, and the two armies were in the array, how could it be so. ”

After a pause, he continued: "Yao Qun, the general of the fourth battalion, is simply a straw bag, if it weren't for the backstage in the court, he wouldn't even be able to mix with the army commander. Moreover, most of the soldiers under my command despise him as human beings, and they cannot talk about orders from above and down, so can such a good thing see through my meticulous planning? Besides, the fourth battalion is stationed in a prisoner army, and the number is only about 4,000, how can it defeat our tens of thousands of iron cavalry?"

The Khitan general looked at Fang Shijie's energetic face, sighed secretly, and said, "Shijie, you have just arrived in the army, you are not familiar with the battlefield situation, and you have never been exposed to real fighting. In the Southern Dynasty, it mainly relied on the officials of the Southern Barbarian Court to collect intelligence, so it is normal not to know about the wolf army, but you must not have the heart to underestimate the enemy!"

"Oh!", Fang Shijie was appetized by the Khitan general's words, and asked rhetorically: "Could it be that this wolf army is so powerful, why is there no mention of it in the intelligence of the Southern Dynasty?"

The Khitan general turned his head to look at Fang Shijie, who was confused, and shouted softly: "Sakan!"

"Yes", an entourage in the back row rode out, came to the start, and reported respectfully: "Back to the Lord, because the wolf army is a prisoner army, it is not mentioned in the meritorious service report. ”

Fang Shijie was taken aback: "Could it be that this wolf army is actually this prisoner army?"

Sakan replied: "Exactly. ”

The Khitan general turned around and said, "Sakan, you have fought against the wolf army, you tell Shijie about the situation of the wolf army." ”

"Yes. "Sakandao," the wolf army was originally an army composed of prisoners issued by the Southern Dynasty, and it has always been loosely disciplined and lawless, and even the commanders stationed at the border gates did not take them to heart. However, in recent years, the Southern Dynasty has become more and more peaceful, and the number of prisoners has gradually decreased, and the prisoner army has no longer expanded, remaining at about 20,000 people. Since then, there have been countless battles, large and small, and the prisoner army has slowly reached this scale, with only more than 4,000 people left. ”

Fang Shijie was very puzzled and asked, "Then why is the Prisoner Army called the Wolf Army?"

Sakan continued: "The wolf army is famous for two points, one is that it does not obey orders, and none of the generals of the wolf army have stayed in the wolf army for more than three months; ”

"Silk", Fang Shijie gasped, "Could it be that this wolf army is so brave?"

Sarkhan said: "The wolf army now accounts for half of the infantry and cavalry, and the lord sent us to lead five thousand elite cavalry to contain the wolf army a year ago, who would have thought that as soon as it came into contact, the wolf army would fight with us,"

Fang Shijie said: "Then this wolf army is not all strong and aggressive, so it is not difficult to deal with." ”

Sakan said: "The 5,000 elite cavalry led by us are the most elite 'Tiger Benwei' in our army, all of them are one to ten, crisscrossing the battlefield, and no one is invincible. ”

Fang Shijie suddenly cut off Sakan's words and asked, "Wait, could it be that a year ago, the Southern Dynasty won a great victory, and the border guard Sun Xiao broke the tiger guard of our clan, and the official was promoted to the third level, and he actually led the wolf army?"

Sakan said: "Definitely. At that time, the commander of the wolf army was not Sun Xiao. ”

Fang Shijie Qi said: "Then how can it be Sun Xiao on the good news of the Southern Dynasty Imperial Court?"

"That's why you haven't heard of the Wolf Army. General Khitan took over the topic.

Fang Shijie was quick to think and immediately reacted: "Could it be that this wolf army has made meritorious contributions, but he has not received any reward, why is the wolf army still working so hard?"

"Hehehehehe, as long as you stay in the prisoner camp for five years, you can leave the prisoner status and return to your place of origin. However, in the killing array, it was not easy to say if you didn't die for five years in the past. The Khitan general sighed.

Fang Shijie already sensed something, and asked cautiously: "Lord, since the wolf army is so powerful, why didn't the Lord remind me when I offered advice?"

The Khitan general said with a smile: "You have a keen mind, you have studied in the Southern Dynasty for many years, but you are arrogant and arrogant, and you talk about the army on paper, if you don't let you be frustrated a few times, how can you know that there is a sky outside the sky, and there are people outside the people, how can you become a great weapon?"

Fang Shijie was still unconvinced, and suddenly heard an urgent report, "Report-", a scout horse galloped forward, came to the front, turned over and dismounted, knelt down on one knee and reported: "Back to the Lord, the fourth battalion is heavily guarded, and the 10,000 horses who sneaked up on the fourth battalion were found ten miles away, and General Hubi, who pretended to be a messenger, had no news, and the army was disturbed by a sneak attack by two hundred scouts, and lost more than 600 people. The other party was not injured. ”

The Khitan general asked loudly and urgently: "What's the matter, there is no news from Hubi?"

"Returning to the Lord, General Hubi sent a signal two moments ago that the operation failed and cannot escape, and until now the general has not returned," Tanma replied respectfully.

"You go down!", the general waved his hand. Tanma turned and walked away.

He turned his head and asked, "Shijie, what do you think?"

Fang Shijie was more cautious now, and after thinking about it, he said: "Lord, the wolf army is so heavily guarded, it will never be the style of that straw bag Yao Qun, it can be concluded that there must be an extremely clever figure in the wolf army to plan in the middle." ”

General Khitan looked at Fang Shijie and nodded: "Yes, there is indeed a clever figure in the wolf army, a person who is so clever that people are afraid, and the prisoner army was changed to the 'wolf army' by the officers and soldiers with whom our army fought because of this person. Otherwise, how would a mere 200 scouts dare to attack and harass our army of 10,000 people, kill and wound more than 600 people, and then retreat. ”

Fang Shijie asked in surprise: "Is there really such a person, who is this person?"

The Khitan general sighed and replied: "We have never looked at the prisoner army, and in the past, we had no way of dealing with wars, and there were casualties on both sides in each battle, until the last few years. Almost the wolf army has never had major casualties, and every time our army has suffered heavy casualties, and then had to send the most elite tiger guards to contain the wolf army, five thousand children, but was completely annihilated by the wolf army in a battle, and since then our army has not dared to provoke easily. All battles are spears and shields, defense is the first, and never take the initiative to attack. This kind of military power is really enviable!"

Fang Shijie smiled and said, "The Lord has not yet made it clear, who is this person, and why is he in the prisoner camp?"

Sarkhan took over the topic: "It's not that the Lord is hiding it, but even we don't know who this person is?"

Fang Shijie was silent for a moment, got up and dismounted, knelt on the ground, and said respectfully: "Lord, Shijie miscalculated, mistook the surname of General Bi, and asked for punishment!"

The Khitan general looked down at Fang Shijie, who was kneeling on the ground, and said: "You have just arrived, and you have already offered advice for our army to seize the third largest battalion of the Southern Dynasty, destroy 10,000 enemies, and greatly boost the morale of the army. After a pause, he said: "Besides, my original intention was to let you be frustrated by the wolf army and learn some lessons, I hope you will remember this lesson." ”

Fang Shijie kowtowed and said, "Shijie is taught." ”

The Khitan general said again: "Don't be presumptuous, although the wolf army is powerful, but the Nanban court doesn't know about it, and by next month, this group of people should also leave the military and return to their hometowns, so you don't have to worry too much." Get up!"

Fang Shijie got up and responded, "Yes." But he kept muttering in his heart, who is so powerful, so that the Khitan king can actually admire it, but there is no trace to dig up.

The group rode back to the Khitan camp.

In the fourth battalion, there is a contest.

Du Kai was still angry, this pretending messenger was actually a master, and he killed fourteen brothers under the siege of layers. Seeing the brother bleeding, Du Kai's eyes were about to turn red, and he personally took action, and fought hard with the other party for a long time, before he took a moment and used a knife technique taught by the boss to cut open the stomach of this tough opponent.

Seeing the two hundred-person scout team swaggering back, Du Kai was even more unhappy, this is troublesome, the boss doesn't peel off the skin if he knows. Thinking of the boss's usual methods against the enemy, and then looking at the corpses of the enemies he killed, he was still uneasy. How can the tricks taught by the boss be so bloody, it is so difficult to even let people keep a whole corpse.

My heart was smeared with uneasiness, but when I looked up, I saw a face smiling and nodding. A smile of custom, a calm expression. Du Kai was really shocked when he saw this face that was at least ten years younger than him.

"Boss, I'm ......", Du Kai shouted anxiously.

The young man waved his hand to stop what he was about to say, "I saw it all." Du Kai was startled again, didn't he also see that his brother had been killed.

The young man shook his head and said, "This is a master, at least at the level of a general." Judging by his tricks, it may be the leader of the Tiger Benwei called the 'Smiling Tiger' by the Khitan people. ”

Du Kai was taken aback after hearing this, what happened today, he couldn't help but be frightened.

But this time it was really shocking, I actually killed Hubi, Du Kai couldn't believe himself.

Although he is a disciple of the Shaolin layman, he cultivates both inside and outside, and is full of martial arts, and when he came to the prisoner camp, he also became a centurion with his outstanding martial arts. But if you want to fight the "smiling tiger" known as one of the "Three Tigers" on your own, Du Kai has never dared to hope for it.

"Why, don't you believe he's Hubi?", the young man asked with a smile.

Du Kai shook his head vigorously, still feeling a little unconvinced. "Boss, is that really Hubi? Did I kill it alone?"

"Hahahaha, with your 'bloody hands' Du Kai, it's not so, you were also a character in the enemy formation back then, what's the big deal about killing someone, why can't you stand up so much?" The young man made fun of him.

It's not the boss, it's really this Hubi is not an ordinary character, it's the 'smiling tiger'! That year, the 'Three Tigers outside the Saiwai' teamed up with the Central Plains and made the whole martial arts uneasy, and later, my master and 17 uncles and uncles used the 18 Arhat Formation to injure them and escape away. It can be seen that the exhalation is so powerful. Such a person was actually cleaned up by me alone, which is a bit too much... Too... It's incredible. Du Kai said that later, he stuttered a little.

"Brother Du, it's not that your masters are bad at martial arts, it's because they don't have killing intent in their chests, so they don't have murderous intent when they make moves, and in the end, they are injured rather than killed. It's not that these three people's martial arts are really high. Aren't you going to clean it up by yourself today?" said the young man.

Du Kai said: "Boss, what trick did you teach me, why is it so powerful, killing people without even leaving a whole corpse? Moreover, as soon as you make a move, you have the urge to kill?"

The young man glared and gritted his teeth and said: "I have a deep enmity with the county head, and I don't share the sky, and the knife move I realized in the battle of thousands of troops and horses is to one day be able to execute their entire family and scatter their bones and ashes." Therefore, my sword technique is to control the knife with murderous aura, and the stronger the murderous aura, the more fierce the knife move. ”

Seeing that the situation was not good, Du Kai hurriedly staggered the conversation and asked: "Boss, this time the Khitans sent a general to pretend to be an envoy, is there any conspiracy?

"At this time, I thought, you are too slow, I came before you and Hubi duel, command the guard, otherwise how could I mistake the surnames of a dozen brothers. The boss said hatefully.

"Go and gather up the bodies of the brethren so that they can be buried. Brother Du, you go to deal with Sun Xiao, I'll go back. ”

After saying that, he turned around and disappeared into the tent group not far away.

Before the figure disappeared, the boss turned around and shouted: "Brother Du, don't forget the feeling of having just finished with Hu!"

It wasn't until the figure of the boss disappeared that Du Kai commanded everyone to deal with the aftermath.

Seeing that the brothers were busy, Du Kai looked down at his hands again, drew his knife and thought carefully for a moment, as if he was going to go through the tricks he had done again, and when he raised his head again, he was already a more confident face.

Beckoning his subordinates to deal with this side, Du Kai straightened his armor and walked towards the big tent of the Chinese army.

In the fourth battalion, the military flag was waving in the wind. In the wind, a swarthy wolf's head, with its teeth open to the sky, swayed with the flag in the wind, appearing and disappearing. Under the banner, a murderous soldier.

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