On the official road from Sucheng to the capital, there have always been people coming and going, and it is the most famous and lively official road of Daqi, but today, it is sparsely populated, General Xu and his party escorted the Sui Gong, and they traveled for most of the day, and they did not see a passerby.

"General Xu, it's time to rest." An adjutant general, Le Ma, came to General Xu's side and reminded.

General Xu nodded, the sun has been going down for a while, and it will take about two more days, and you will arrive in the capital, so you don't have to worry about it for a while. The order was given: "Order, the whole army rests here, camps, and erects more torches around." ”

The adjutant turned his horse back and gave the order to go. Soon, the entire Suigong team gradually stopped, but fortunately, this time the terrain was quite wide, but it was also suitable for camping.

The men and horses stopped, and the soldiers pushed the vehicles carrying the tribute together, formed a circle, lit torches, and set up camp on the periphery of the tribute.

General Xu Lerma took a few soldiers to observe the terrain, came back in a big circle before and after, and said happily to several lieutenant generals: "The terrain here is not bad, there is only one road in front and back, and there is such a large open space in the middle. What a dangerous place! ”

"Then I can get a good night's sleep tonight!" A young lieutenant said happily.

"Oh, no! Hold on for two more days, and when you finish sending the New Year's tribute, and return to Sioux City, I will let you sleep enough in the Zuichun Building! General Xu said with a straight face, and laughed narrowly at the end.

The rest of the people also understood what General Xu meant, and they all laughed, slapped the young lieutenant general, and made a man's "joke".

The soldiers buried the pot to cook, and took water nearby to roast and cook the ingredients, which was full of fragrance, and all the soldiers ate a delicious meal.

During the night, the young lieutenant arranged the patrol and the secret sentry, yawned and sat down in front of a torch, and soon began to nap.

Four sentries patrolled back and forth between the tents with torches, and four sentries lay in the grass on the outskirts of the tents, their uniforms smeared with some mint liquid to protect them from snakes, insects, rats and ants.

As the night deepened, the patrol saw that the young lieutenant was sleeping soundly, and quietly walked to the remote place one by one, hiding behind the camp tent and quietly getting up.

The torches were extinguished one after another, and only one young soldier was left at the patrol post who was still holding on, keeping rekindling the torches everywhere, and the dark sentry had all fallen asleep on the ground.

In the second half of the night, the little soldier on patrol gradually couldn't support it, his eyes were confused, and his steps became heavier and heavier.

Suddenly, there was a noise on the official road in the distance, and the little soldier raised his head and looked, but saw nothing, only some grass and trees swaying, and then lowered his head again, dragging his feet to patrol in a daze.

In the dark, two black shadows flickered, falling together, the four dark whistles did not make a sound, and some people were even asleep, so they crooked their necks and died directly.

The young soldier heard the movement at the sentry and took a torch to shine a photo, but because of the distance and the fact that the sentry was lying in ambush in the grass, he didn't see anything when he raised the torch.

The little soldier had the courage to shout: "Big dog, Ermao, what happened?" ”

No one responded.

The little soldier immediately drew his knife in his hand, ran to the young lieutenant general, and gently woke up the young lieutenant: "Vice Admiral Wang... Vice General Wang, there seems to be movement. ”

The young lieutenant was pushed awake and yawned and asked, "What can you do?" In the middle of the night. ”

The little soldier said, "I just heard the big dog moving there, and no one answered me when they shouted..."

The young lieutenant said impatiently: "They must have fallen asleep again, go and go, go and go." ”

The little soldier was pushed away by the young lieutenant general, and looked at the place of several secret sentinels again, and there was indeed no movement: "Maybe it's really me who is too sleepy..."

The little soldier yawned and put his knife back into its sheath, yawned too, and stretched.

Suddenly, the little soldier's eyes widened, and by the faint light of the fire, he saw a shocking scene: a long-haired woman was sitting behind a tent at some point, only to see her slowly turn her head, and it turned out to be the head of a fox!

"Demon... The little soldier was so frightened that he stammered.

Before the little soldier shouted, a large number of "monsters" suddenly appeared in the grass and on the official road, and the little soldier turned his head to take a look, and was suddenly frightened: some monsters were horseshoe; Some monsters have their hands and feet upside down; Some monsters have skinless faces, white teeth and protruding eyeballs, which look extremely terrifying...

"Youkai!" The little soldier finally shouted, and ran in all directions desperately, shouting incessantly: "There are monsters! Everyone, get up, there are monsters! ”

The soldiers of the battalion were woken up by him, and one by one they came out of the tent with sleepy eyes, and before everyone was fully awake, they saw the same terrifying scene as the little soldiers. The difference was that at this time they saw more, and countless "monsters" were approaching the camp in all directions.

"Youkai!"

"There's a ghost!!"

"Help, run!"

The fear spread instantly, and the soldier who had just been woken up was startled by his comrades, and then frightened by the approaching "monster", and suddenly panicked, and was also frightened and scurried around.

General Xu also entered the tent at night and quietly ate some wine, but at this time he was woken up by the agitation outside, and rushed out with a sword: "What's going on, what are you running around!" ”

There were no soldiers to answer, everyone wanted to find a place to hide, General Xu glanced left and right, and suddenly understood in his heart, there was no need for others to answer, the "monsters" that appeared in all directions were the answer.

The young lieutenant ran to General Xu's side, gasped and said, "General Xu, the last general is incompetent, what are the ways of these monsters." The young adjutant general woke up and hid for a long time, and when he saw General Xu coming out, as if he saw a life-saving straw, he ran to General Xu's side, pretending to be desperate to resist and did his best.

General Xu ignored the young lieutenant general, drew his sword and pierced the chest of a "monster" who crawled towards Suigong, and the "monster" screamed and fell to the ground and died on the spot.

"See? These are not monsters, don't be afraid, don't mess around. These aren't monsters, they're all pretending to be ghosts! They want to grab the New Year's tribute, line up! General Xu raised his sword and shouted at the fleeing soldiers in the tent.

But at this time, everyone was panicking, and no one cared about him at all, let alone lined up to resist the enemy.

The young lieutenant general was next to General Xu, and at this time, he had the backbone and his mind was much more stable, and General Xu killed a "monster" on the spot, which made the young lieutenant feel a lot more at ease: since he will die, it will be easy to do.

The young lieutenant picked up a spear and rushed towards the "monsters", and with a stab of the spear in his hand, two "monsters" were killed by him on the spot.

"General Xu, these are all handed over to the end... Ahh The young lieutenant was killed by the two on the spot, and the rest of the words were crushed in his throat and never spoken again.

The two figures hit the hand and immediately jumped away, General Xu's eyes were sharp, and when he saw the two of them jumping towards another deputy general who had just come out of the camp tent, he secretly screamed in his heart that it was not good, and he was about to keep up with his sword.

A person jumped out of the darkness again and stopped in front of General Xu, it was Elder Sun outside Su City!

"General Xu, don't be impatient, just for a while." Elder Sun smiled sadly.

Without saying a word, General Xu drew his sword and slashed at Elder Sun, and Elder Sun also entangled himself and fought with General Xu.

Soon, the lieutenants on General Xu's side were killed by those two figures one by one. The two figures saw that Elder Sun was still fighting with General Xu, so they flew to the two of them, and sure enough, it was Elder Wang and Elder Zhu who set off with Elder Sun outside Su Cheng! These "monsters" are naturally the group of beggars who walked with them at that time, and the three elders followed more than 100 disciples all the way.

"Do you know what a great sin it is to rob the tribute?" General Xu and the three elders confronted each other, glancing at the three of them and shouting.

Elder Zhu snorted coldly: "You just said that the sky is broken, and we will also decide this year's tribute!" ”

General Xu glanced at the "monsters" around him, the soldiers under his command had already escaped, and there were still a few soldiers who were still fighting with these "monsters", and it seemed that the situation was not optimistic.

General Xu suddenly felt a sense of indignation in his heart, there were still two days to go to the capital, but now there was such a thing. This year's tribute is not a small amount, it is eight million taels, if you lose it, not to mention that you can't explain it to the prince when you go back, if the court blames it, then Nanhuai...

"Wait for the damn!" The more General Xu thought about it, the more angry he became, he raised his sword and fought with the three of them...

The dark clouds in the sky gradually dissipated, and a full moon appeared, shining on the mountains and rivers, as if to wash away all the darkness in the world. Under the moonlit night, a group of "monsters" were squatting on the ground picking up silver taels, and two large carts were knocked over in the chaos just now, and the silver taels were spilled on the ground. There were some soldier corpses and several "monster" corpses lying next to it, as well as General Xu, who was not looking at him.

Elder Zhu and Elder Wang helped Elder Sun, and the three of them sat on the ground gasping for breath.

"I do have some skills." Elder Zhu took the lead in speaking.

Wang Changlong nodded and agreed: "If you fight with the prince, Nanhuai really won't necessarily lose." ”

Elder Sun was the most seriously injured, and was kicked several times by General Xu, and kept coughing up blood at this time: "Clean up... Let's go, for a while... When the day dawns, there are more people on the official road, so let's go to Licheng and wait... Elder Tang. ”

After everyone finished cleaning up, they pushed the Sui Gong and walked south, heading towards Licheng.