At the foot of Luofu Mountain, the flames on the body of the endless wood are burning, and they are red.

The fire beast (fire rat) weighing 100 catties is bathed in flames and happily playful chasing.

The scorching flames not only do not injure the Fire Beasts (Fire Rats), but also make their long red brocade hair smooth and bright.

However, as soon as the Fire Beast (Fire Rat) burst into flames, the long hair on its body immediately turned snow-white, and its body was white and flawless.

The ghosts who were in charge of collecting the skins of the flare beasts used food to silence the flare beasts. Using scissors, they cut off their beautiful and bright long hairs and collect them and sell them to the textile mill where they are fired.

In recent years, the fire cloth business of the Nine Shadows Kingdom has been booming.

Huohuan cloth is exported overseas, and it is the only one in the underworld.

It's all because the area around Luofu Mountain has a unique location for raising fire beasts. The flaming beasts feed on the flames in the endless woods, fat and brightly fur, and the woven fire cloth is naturally high-quality.

The garrison on Luofu Mountain, in addition to the duty of guarding the safety of this place, also has a duty, which is to protect the fire beasts here from being poached, and also to make the fire cloth of the Nine Shadows Country continue to be woven and exported overseas, so that the treasury is full.

The garrison in the area defends the area, and the flaremons that live here have never been poached.

The sergeants stationed here were therefore more good at defense and less good at mountain search and guerrilla warfare.

Exterminate the rebels who have been reduced to pieces and fled far into the mountains, and the army under the command of the ghost captives can only help, and help from the side. This is also the reason why Wu Xiaoshen will be sent here.

Together with his sergeants, he will serve as the main attacker.

Wu Xiaoshen, who was sitting in the yamen of the military government on the mountain, drank a few sips of tea to moisten his throat, and said to the ghost captive: "Abel, you are very thoughtful, so I am much more relaxed." ”。

The ghost captives smiled and waved his hand, and after signaling that Wu Xiaoshen didn't have to be so polite, he frowned, looked at the tiles under his feet in front of him, and said thoughtfully: "But there is one thing so far, which is what Shi Ben and I are both very confused about. ”。

"Oh?" Wu Xiaoshen frowned slightly, and his focused gaze fell on the ghost captive opposite.

"This rebellion came suddenly, and it felt like a hasty action. Moreover, the enemy's combat effectiveness is very weak. The ghost prisoner frowned slightly, and continued to say thoughtfully: "I have followed the lord for more than ten years, and I have encountered seven or eight rebellions in various places, and I have personally led troops to encircle and suppress the rebels more than three times, and I have never seen a rebel army with such weak combat effectiveness. ”。

"It's almost all about breaking at the touch of a button. At this time, Shi Ben took over and said with a solemn face: "And the weapons in their hands are backward, and some rebels are even armed with wooden sticks and hoes. ”。

When Wu Xiaoshen heard this, he also frowned, and a puzzled look gradually appeared in his eyes.

Indeed, such a situation is very strange. Even if the rebels have a rabble, they are not so inferior in weapons.

Wu Xiaoshen was also confused about this, and he couldn't figure it out.

At the same time, the ghost captives spoke again, and said ashamedly: "They can't fight, but it's quite fast to escape." I was afraid of fraud, so I didn't dare to chase deeply, but gave the rebels a chance to escape into the mountains and have time to break into pieces. ”。

However, this is not something that the ghost captives are going to do on purpose. At that time, the enemy retreated very quickly, and the best way to deal with it was to do so.

Before knowing the true purpose of the enemy, he dared to go deep into the mountains and forests to pursue, and he was most likely to be ambushed by the enemy. A cautious ghost is also a good one.

"So Xiao Ash, you must be extra cautious when you go into the mountains this time. After a pause, the ghost captive told Wu Xiaoshen again: "In any case, you can't be rash, and you can be conservative and not aggressive." ”。

After listening carefully to the advice of his senior uncle, Wu Xiaoshen nodded twice and responded. And keep in mind the confession of the ghost captive.

"Little Ash, how many people have you brought?" At this time, Shi Ben asked again.

"A battalion of soldiers and horses. Wu Xiaoshen said without reservation.

For the soldiers trained by Wu Xiaoshen, one enemy and ten people abound in the army under his command. They are all elite soldiers who are good at sneak attacks behind enemy lines, guerrilla warfare, blocking enemy troops, and surviving and searching in the mountains and forests.

A battalion of soldiers and horses is sufficient.

"Well, that's just going to wipe out the rebels one by one. Shi Ben thought for a moment and then said.

"Yes, that's what I was going to do. Wu Xiaoshen nodded and said, "However, first, I still want to capture a few alive and bring them back, and hand them over to the Chacha Division to investigate the real purpose behind them." ”。

The ghost captive and Shi Ben were silent and pondered for a moment, and nodded their heads one after another in agreement with Wu Xiaoshen's proposal.

There are many strange things about this rebellion, and so far the top local military commanders, Ghost Capture and Shi Ben, two battle-hardened veterans, have been confused.

Wu Xiaoshen's proposal is the key to solving these mysteries.

It also coincides with the planning of Lin Cong and Xuanjiao on the side of Yuque Palace.

"Here, Ash. With that, the ghost captive stood up and walked towards the wall on the right side of the lobby.

On the wall hung a large, one-foot-tall map, which covered almost an entire wall. The detailed geography of mountains and rivers is outlined on the map with a yellow background, and the mountains and rivers in the southern area of Xuanyanzhou, as well as all the terrain and landforms, are clearly presented in the eyes of the ghosts in front of the map.

After Wu Xiaoshen stood up and walked over with a heavy step, the ground trembled slightly with every step, and the ghost picked up the straight bamboo pole standing in the corner of the wall, pointed to a big mountain in the southwest of the Luofu Mountain area on the map, and said: "Xiao Ash, you see, according to the intelligence, most of the enemy troops have escaped into this place. ”。

Wu Xiaoshen fixed his eyes and saw that the top of the mountain painted on the map was shrouded in clouds and mist, and a long river meandered under the mountain, and there were also tributaries of the rivers around the mountain, passing through the mountain range, dividing the mountain range into two, like a yin and yang fish.

Wu Xiaohui, who served and fought in the southern region, was also very familiar with the topography and geography of this place, and immediately didn't look at the annotated small print on the map, just glanced at the location of the mountain range on the map, and blurted out, "Yunling." ”。

"Yes, the guide I prepared for you is also a ghost who is familiar with this place. And the rebels chose Yunling as the retreat destination with a very strong purpose. The nodding ghost continued to say: "In the Yunling Mountain within a radius of eight hundred miles, the pine waves are bursting with strange peaks, the cliffs are pine and straight, and there are countless strange rocks and strange stones. Such a complex terrain, whether it is an ambush or a guerrilla attack, has taken advantage of the time and place. The large army entered the mountains on a large scale to encircle and suppress, and it may encounter the enemy's resistance at the Yifu Pass, which will cause great casualties. In addition, the mountains are covered with ghosts and fog all year round, it is difficult to see the true face of the mountain top and the mountain, it is inconvenient to march, and it is extremely difficult to transfer materials to the mountain, so all I can do now is to surround the mountain. It depends on you to go into the mountains to encircle and suppress. ”。

As soon as he finished speaking, the ghost captive and Shi Ben turned their heads together, and at the same time looked at Wu Xiaoshen, and cast an expectant look at Wu Xiaoshen. The two of them pinned their hopes of going into the mountains to encircle and suppress Wu Xiaoshen......

Qingqiu Fox Country, the national capital Qingqiu Mountain, at the foot of the east foothills, far away from the downtown area, there is a rectangular courtyard composed of buildings, a total of four courtyards before and after.

The hall in the courtyard is extremely luxurious, and the materials of non-gold and jade make everything in the courtyard so dazzling and dazzling when it is not a rainy day, bathed in the light of the cloudy sun.

The beams used in the halls of the houses are also colorful jade trees, which are solid and gorgeous. Even the brick joints are filled with green mud, so that every house and hall will not leak water and air in Dongyingzhou, which rains heavily in the rainy season.

All the halls are yellow glazed tiles on the top of the hill again, the front eaves open the door between the bright rooms, the second room, the tip of the window for the sill, the back eaves are indirectly through the corridor and the apse communicate, the space and the mask are very wide, not crowded, and majestic.

With so many high-quality materials and gorgeous materials, it took countless people's fat and ointment to build this mansion.

Even the stone carving of a pair of nine-tailed foxes at the door is half a foot high, and the materials are not mediocre. It was a huge piece of white jade, carved out.

The courtyard is heavily guarded inside and outside. Everywhere you look, you can see guards standing guard at fixed points, and patrols coming and going.

Here, it is the heir of the future ghost king of the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom, and now the prince of the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom, the residence of the prince Fox Qingping - Tai**.

In the past, Hu Qingping lived here.

In fact, unless he goes to the thin horse house that Hu Qingping is going to raise, he basically lives in Tai** at other times.

When he was sixteen years old, his father, the Qingqiu Fox King, abolished the previous crown prince and established the young Hu Qingping as the prince of the Fox Kingdom, and then built this mansion palace for the prince of the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom to live in.

Today, Hu Qingping has lived here for a hundred years.

Every grass and tree, every brick and tile here, he is already familiar with and accustomed to it.

Today, it is raining continuously, and the pouring rain is constantly beating in the fox Qingping's Tai**.

The rain that moistened the roof of the ground brought up bursts of rich yin air, and the slight cold dispersed under the rain and mist.

Hu Qingping was wearing a gray and white robe today, standing in front of the main hall with his hands in his hands, staring at the dimness brought by the low-hanging dark clouds, and the water curtain that kept falling on the eaves in front of him, stunned.

The crystal clear water droplets were connected into a water curtain and hung upside down, so that Hu Qingping couldn't really see everything in the courtyard outside the water curtain.

Just like now, he can't see anything clearly in the battle situation in Dongyingzhou.

It stands to reason that his plan should have completely paralyzed the garrison of the Nine Shadows Kingdom in the area of Dushuo Mountain under the plague and lost a lot of combat effectiveness.

However, the information obtained by Hu Qingping was that Dushuo Mountain trained twice a day, and in the early morning and evening, the high-pitched shouts of the training soldiers could shake the sky and the earth in the rain.

Although the spies of the Qingqiu Fox Country did not dare to rashly approach Dushuo Mountain to investigate carefully, they listened to the shouts that could be heard in the wind and rain ten miles away, and judged that everything was as usual in Dushuo Mountain, and the garrison was not paralyzed.

This made Hu Qingping puzzled and suspicious, and he didn't know what went wrong and made the plan fall short?

In fact, how did he know that his plan had indeed succeeded, and it had also brought a lot of trouble and losses to the Nine Shadows Kingdom, the problem was only that his opponent was the experienced old ghost of King Yama.

King Yama knew that once he showed weakness in combat or revealed the serious casualties of the local garrison due to the plague, it would immediately give the enemy more courage and attract the enemy's rain attack.

In order to prevent the house leak from happening in the overnight rain, the king of Yama arranged many loud sergeants in the mountains every day to gather together for training. At the same time, every time you train, you have to shout loudly, so that the high-pitched and loud shouts resound in the sky.

The enemy spies who did not dare to approach Dushuo Mountain could not see the situation in the mountains clearly in the rain and fog, and could only judge the situation in the mountains by their sounds.

In this way, it misleads all the people outside the mountain.

Not to mention the right-hand men and spies under Hu Qingping, even the residents of nearby towns felt that the morale of the mountain sergeants was high, and they did not relax or neglect their training because of the continuous rain.

The experienced King of Yama, the carefully planned trick of using the rain and fog to perform was very successful, which made Hu Qingping puzzled and doubted his ability.

In the past few days, he has often been sad, and he has trouble sleeping, and the edges of his eyes have been bloodshot.

If this continues, Hu Qingping believes that the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom will not be able to weaken the local army of the Nine Shadow Kingdom in Dongyingzhou, and the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom can only continue to honestly choose to be a vassal state of the Nine Shadow Kingdom.

But this is Hu Qingping, as well as the Qingqiu Fox King and half of the court of the Fox Country, are unwilling and unwilling.

Their fox ghost ambition is not small, and they have a strong desire to go to Tuhe, and they want to compete with the Nine Shadows Kingdom and the Northern Yin Dynasty to check and balance each other.

Something more has to be done?

Fox Qingping, who was staring at the rain curtain in front of him, thought silently like this, and calculated.

If it weren't for the weakening of the local Nine Shadows Army, the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom would not have the strength to compete with it.

It's just that Hu Qingping racked his brains and couldn't come up with a new way.

Just as he was meditating, an old fox ghost passed under the water curtain in front of him, stood in front of his fox Qingping, and immediately saluted.

The old fox ghost's robe was drenched with water, and it was still dripping.

After the old fox ghost bowed, seeing that there were no outsiders around, he still tried his best to keep his voice low, and said to Hu Qingping: "Prince, the king has made up his mind to go abroad, go to the capital of the Nine Shadows, and send the Nine Shadows to meet with the Nine Shadows King. ”。

The appearance of the old fox ghost and his words interrupted Hu Qingping's train of thought.

He settled down and asked the old ghost thoughtfully: "It's my Uncle Wang's side, what news has come back?" ”。

Hu Qingping knew that although the Qingqiu Fox King had agreed to Changqin before, he still had concerns about going to the Nine Shadows Kingdom.

Now that he has suddenly made up his mind, it will only be that his worries have been dispelled, and it is very likely that Hu Lan has sent some news back.

"Yes. The old fox ghost didn't deny it, nodded and said: "Lord Fox Lan came back with a message, saying that the King of Jiuyou recently began to be comfortable and wander around because of the signing of the peace treaty with the Northern Yin Dynasty. The king felt that it was the best time to go abroad to envoy to the Nine Shadows Kingdom at this time. ”。

The wind and rain are shaking, and the water curtain is still falling.

In the sound of falling water, the old fox ghost smiled lightly and looked proud.

In his eyes, there was also a bit of contempt, which was the contempt for Xiao Shizhu, the king of the Nine Shadows.

The plan to expel the Nine Shadows Army and dominate the east of the Netherworld seems to have been successfully completed in the mind of the triumphant old fox ghost.

Like most of Xiao Shizhu's enemies in the past, these arrogant fox ghosts in the Qingqiu Fox Kingdom all made the mistake of despising the cynical Xiao Shizhu.

"The king has another task, to give to the prince. After a while, the old fox ghost said to the fox Qingping, lowered his voice, and said: "The king went abroad this time, and the accompanying guards were arranged by you, the prince. ”。