Chapter II: Patrol

On the one hand, the Yan State supported by the Harvey Empire has always been the front line of many kingdoms and principalities to resist the Harvey Empire, and many kingdoms and principalities are also of the same mind at a certain level, although there is also a certain struggle between them, but for the sake of common survival, they have not made any big moves. However, this qiē collapsed because of a small interest, and the Yan State also changed from the front line of the fight against the Harvey Empire to the base of attacking various small countries, in this case, each small country has used various schemes to delay the pace of the war of the Harvey Empire, in this case, the Harvey Empire's war against the small country dragged on for three years before it began to be implemented, but in the end, the Harvey Empire also lost the suddenness of the war, so that many small countries had enough time to prepare for this war, of course, the Harvey Empire also used these three years to unite a kingdom that was originally one, and destroyed it completely, and even many principalities secretly took refuge in the Harvey Empire in order to ensure their family inheritance, and of course, there are many principalities and kingdoms like the Chu State, which took refuge in the Huayuan Empire, and although this war is now a war between the Chu State and the Yan State, it can be expected that this will be a war dominated by the two empires in the end. It was at this time that Kong Ming interrupted his studies in the Huayuan Empire and came to the Chu State to fulfill a promise he made to Xiang Tiancheng. In the past three years, Kong Ming's sword skills are still at the level of a great swordsman, but his understanding of sword skills is more in-depth, and his magic level, completely stable at the level of a magician, is not only his spiritual power and magic power, but also his magic knowledge, he is no longer the kind of magician who is like half a bucket of water, but a real magician, in addition, Kong Ming also used his time to study a lot of military affairs and history. It can be said that in the past three years, the level of Kongming has been unprecedentedly improved. And under this kind of hard study, plus Kong Ming didn't want to pay attention to it at all, so he never stepped into the door of the Yun family, nor did he go to anyone from the Yun family, and the Yun family also thought that Kong Ming didn't know his own life experience at all because of Kong Ming's move, so he slowly relaxed. After coming here, Kong Ming conducted a thrilling training for his team, and in a short period of time, Kong Ming made a team have a qualitative improvement, but at the same time, the complaints in the team have also reached their peak.

This Tianming took a squad to patrol outside the camp, this is a routine patrol, because the two armies are at war, so this routine military action is also accompanied by the danger of life, many times this kind of action is also to let the second-rate team led by Kong Ming to do this kind of work, because the elite is placed on the battlefield, and a condition to become an elite is to experience more battles, this is what General Xiang Zuoding, the commander-in-chief of the Chu State, said, so the patrol of the swordsman battalion was lost to the group of civilians and rookies who had not experienced the war led by Kong Ming, and before that, there were many rookies of other teams who were captured by the enemy, and many birds no longer dared to fly。 So this "good thing" fell into the hands of Kong Ming this time. Kong Ming divided thirty people into three groups, the striker was a group of five people, headed by He Feng, the squad leader of a junior sword master, that is, the junior sword master who gave Kong Ming a beating, in the middle was a group of twenty people, Kong Ming was in the center, and finally it was still a group of five people's guards, each group was more than 100 meters away from each other, responding to each other, observing each other, and riding horses all the way carefully patrolling along the place more than ten kilometers away from the camp.

Unconsciously, they came to the border city of Fenglin City, where the two armies were facing each other, looking at the tall city from afar, the city wall on both sides could not be seen, more than ten meters high, the wall was made of huge whole stones, thick and strong, countless flags on the city wall were hunting and fluttering, and the army of Yan was guarding it. In front of the city wall is a moat more than ten meters wide, the water is a little turbid, and from the moat to the place where Kong Ming stands about two kilometers is completely empty, without any shelter, there are still many tree stumps left in the open space, countless sizes, it can be seen how much effort Yan has spent for this war. The Weiyi passage from here to Fenglin City is the suspension bridge from the city gate, and it is controlled by Yan Guo. Kong Ming asked everyone to dismount, and after sending out a guard, he sat down to rest by the edge of the forest, ate some food, and prepared to return to the camp. Kong Ming sat down on a large tree stump, looking at the tall Maple Forest City from afar, carefully observing the beautiful city. There was an indescribable peace in my heart. His eyes slowly lowered, and then closed gently, feeling the feeling of the breeze, and his mood slowly calmed down, and suddenly, he felt a flock of birds flying up from the right, and suddenly opened his eyes, and called softly and forcefully "Get on the horse" , Everyone didn't know why Kong Ming said so suddenly, but after so many days of training, they all subconsciously obeyed Kong Ming's instructions, He Feng also glanced at Kong Ming strangely, everyone immediately flew on the horse, and under the leadership of Kong Ming, they ran towards Fenglin City, everyone didn't know why, but because of Kong Ming's usual cruel and powerful training, more than thirty people did not say a word. Just when Kong Ming led the team to run out of more than 100 meters with all his strength, a brigade of the country in front of the chest ran out of the forest not far from the right, and hundreds of people chased after Kong Ming and them from behind. Kong Ming led a team of soldiers to run towards the gate of Fenglin City, the people of Yan Kingdom did not know why Kong Ming was like this, how they would find out their intentions, but they stepped up the pursuit, and there was still a kilometer or so from the city gate, and another team of soldiers from Fenglin rushed out of the city gate, straight to Kong Ming and others to kill, Kong Ming immediately rushed the horse's head towards the avenue connected to Fenglin City and Chu State, and everyone followed Kong Ming to beat the innocent horse with a horse whip, so that the war horse let go of its hooves and galloped. Kong Ming's turn caught the Yan army a little off guard, and from the forest on the left, another team of Yan Guo rushed out, but it couldn't keep up with Kong Ming's rhythm, and he stared at Kong Ming and they crossed by his side, and the Yan soldiers who tried to surround Kong Ming in three ways could only chase, and the dust behind Kong Ming sighed. One of the officers at the head waved his hand, and the army of the Yan Kingdom stopped, and a puff of dust swept through, and it took a long time before it slowly stopped. The leader spoke. "It's so smart, go, go back. ”

Kong Ming led the team all the way and didn't dare to stop until he reached the main gate of the camp. Kong Ming pulled the reins hard, Jun Ma stood up with a sigh, shook his head, turned around, the other people couldn't react, and rushed over next to Kong Ming, Kong Ming looked at the enemy army wandering far away, and his heart was calm, maybe it was because he had experienced cruel battles again and again, so that Kong Ming inadvertently learned to calmly teach this process between life and death. Between life and death, I realized the true meaning of battle. Watching the distant enemy slowly retreat, Kongming's mood was endless.

"Captain, how did you know that the enemy was coming just now, and you also knew that they had another ambush?" He Feng asked strangely, indeed, no one saw the existence of those ambush soldiers, but it made Kong Ming find out, and Kong Ming was closed at that time, which made people feel very strange.

"When the birds fly, people go into the forest, and there is no sound in the mountains and forests on the other side, how can there be no animal calls in the mountains and forests? Kong Ming took the reins and walked back to the camp with the team.

After returning to the camp, Kong Ming immediately reported the patrol situation to the captain of the swordsman battalion, and the captain did not have a surprised expression, but comforted Kong Ming slightly, after all, this kind of attack happens every day, but the situation between everyone is different, there are dead and wounded, and there are also people who retreat with their whole body, just like Kong Ming.

Kong Ming returned to his tent, looking at the sand table that he was piled on the ground, constantly recalling and deducing the situation just now, for his more than 30 people, the other party actually sent hundreds of people to intercept, not simple, I think the big war will start soon, now I should start preparing something, otherwise, I don't know if this level can be passed, although he is a great sword master, but Kong Ming is very clear that in an environment like the battlefield, even a master like the Sword Master may not be able to say that it is 100% safe, let alone a big sword master like him。

Kong Ming was alone in the tent thinking about some things about the battle situation, but he didn't know that there was a commotion outside the tent, and the people who came back with Kong Ming all knew how dangerous this time was, if it wasn't for Kong Ming knowing in advance, and making a judgment that made the enemy have an illusion, maybe many of them couldn't come back, because they knew that the people who went out to patrol the other teams, but there were many people who never came back, although they had also been mercenaries, but it was the first time to participate in this kind of war, and now although they came back safely, but thinking about the situation just now also makes people have a lot of excitement, never thought that death would be so close to them. The three squad leaders He Feng, Liu Ling, and Zhou Ming were also constantly wandering outside Kong Ming's tent, if they still had some doubts about whether Kong Ming had been on the battlefield as he himself said, then after today's incident, they would never doubt it again. As for why Kong Ming knew that there was an ambush there, although Kong Ming had said it, they still had some incomprehension, and as soon as Kong Ming came back, he returned to the tent and never came out again, which also made them have some heart palpitations, thinking that something would definitely happen, so they lingered outside for a long time, unwilling to leave. In the end, He Feng really couldn't wait, and after reporting outside the tent, Kong Ming let them in.

After they came in, Kong Ming was still staring at the sand table and didn't look up at them at all, but Kong Ming opened his mouth and asked, "What's the matter?"

"Captain, we're here now to ask what's next. He Feng said.

"Hehe, where would I know, there is no notice from above. Kong Ming smiled, as if he didn't know their nervousness at all, and still stuck some signs on the sand table in one hand.

"But the brothers don't have any bottom at all. Zhou Ming said anxiously, and the other two also looked at Kong Ming with nervous faces.

"What is the bottom? I usually train well, and I can fight how I want to fight when the time comes, that's it, do you still need any bottom!"

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The three of them were silent, today's battle made them really overwhelmed, if there were still so many people on the battlefield, with their level, how many of them could survive, it was not certain. Just when they didn't know what to do, Kong Ming opened his mouth and said: "From today onwards, sleep at night, wear no armor and weapons, and send more sentries at night, replace the current two people and one post with three people and one post, and add two posts in the direction near the outside of the camp, and two posts in the center of the camp. ”

"Why?" Liu Ling asked, his questioning also asking about the other two things in his heart.

Kong Ming raised his head and said to them sternly: "If I am not mistaken, the enemy may come to rob the camp in the past few days, everyone be careful, and even if they don't come, they will be the same on the battlefield, otherwise, once something happens, it will not be a trivial matter, it will cost people's lives." ”

"Yes!" After seeing Kong Ming say this, the three of them hurriedly replied, and then took their leave. Kong Ming looked at the figures they were leaving, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and continued to look at the sand table, deducing the enemy's possible next move.