My eyes were blurry, as if I couldn't see anything clearly. Xiao Yunfan only felt dizzy and his lips were dry, he didn't think that the taste of this wine was not pleasant. Reluctantly stood up, only to feel that his feet were fluttering, walked to a pool, scooped his hands with his hands, and kept splashing water on his face. After a while, the whole person finally came to his senses.

He coughed twice, stretched out his sleeve to wipe the water droplets on his face, and said to himself: "Hey, sure enough, people are old, and they can go up with some wine." ”

The cave is arranged in the shape of a king, along the road, and the two stone rooms on the left and right of the entrance are used for living, and the two stone rooms in the middle are one for the kitchen and the other for the pharmacy. The last two rooms are a latrine and a study.

He walked along the corridor to the front of the study, stretched out his hand to turn the stone button, and a stone door slowly rose. The top floor of this stone chamber has holes for ventilation. The walls are adorned with natural pearls, so the interior is not dim. On the west wall, two objects protruded, one was the hilt of the sword and the other was the scabbard.

Xiao Yunfan came to the stone wall, took a closer look, he reached out and touched the hilt of the sword, the cold feeling was so familiar, as if he hadn't seen a friend for a long time. The thoughts fluctuated in his heart, and he said: "Good brother, it's all Xiao who can't save you from this cage." Suddenly, it occurred to him that since he couldn't pull it out with internal force, he could always use other methods.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he said in his heart: "Why don't I try it with a thousand spirit tricks." With a flash of thought, he ran to the kitchen and found some caramel to put in a small bag. After leaving the cave, he looked for ants under a pine tree.

He first put a wooden stick on the ground with starch candy, and then bent down to wait. Sure enough, an ant the size of a grain of rice found the food first, and it first touched the sugar grain with its two small tentacles, and tried to lift it, but unfortunately it was unsuccessful.

Then the ant turned back to the nest. After a while, a swarm of ants crawled towards the sugar grains in swarms. Seeing the orderly appearance of these ants, Xiao Yunfan said: "I have never been able to find a way to use the insect part of the Thousand Spirits Formula, so I might as well try this ant today." ”

As he spoke, he unloaded the burden from his back and took out a wooden box from within. It turned out that the wooden box contained a lot of wood chips and a pheasant feather. Seeing that the ants were gathering more and more, he reached out and lifted the wooden stick upside down, and carefully swept the ants into the wooden box with the feathers.

When he returned to the cave, he made a three-foot-long and wide rectangle out of peppercorns on the stone table in the study, and drew many vertical lines in the rectangle. Then the ants were swept into it, and at first the ants were scurrying around, but as soon as they encountered the peppercorns, they shrank back. And so on and so forth, and the ant had to wander around in the rectangle.

Xiao Yunfan looked for some big ants and specially trained. First, put a grain of sugar and let the ants carry it back and forth. After a few days, these ants were actually trained by him like soldiers. As soon as the feathers in his hands made a slight noise on the tabletop, the ants walked straight along the thin line as if they had received military orders.

He raised these ants for a month, and the ants he picked out and trained were only extremely strong. At first, the ant array was only a few dozen ants, but as he learned more about the habits of ants, he actually expanded the ant array to 1,000.

At first, he put rice grains in front of the ant array, and later put peanuts, broad beans and other things, and sometimes he put a fat chicken can turn into white bones in an instant. These ants were raised by him, as if they were gradually becoming spiritual, but as soon as Xiao Yunfan gave the order, they could act.

After getting along with these ants for a long time, I don't feel that each ant is much different like before. He was able to distinguish the difference between each ant by its subtle features. Seeing that there were more and more of these ant armies, Xiao Yunfan thought to himself: "Although this ant is small, it can move Mount Tai. The army of these little things should be given a resounding name.

By the way, since I am nicknamed 'Jade Lion', the army I trained is called the Lion Army. How does the Lion Army sound like a lice army, haha. But this lion is not a lice, and it's time for my lion army to show their strength. ”

Xiao Yunfan picked up a bamboo flute and gave orders to the ants. A black-pressed sheet of ants climbed along the ground to the stone wall, and there was a faint sound in the air. In less than half a day, two fist-sized holes were carved out of the stone wall.

He reached out and grasped the hilt of his sword, drew it with a delicate stroke, blew the dust off it, and wiped it with a cloth. The gourd was drawn in the same way, and the black scabbard was also removed. Xiao Yunfan was extremely excited in his heart, holding the sword in his hand and waving it a few times.

With the sword removed, he disbanded the lion army and sent the ants back to their homeland in boxes.

Inside the tent, two arm-thick butter waxes burned. The chief soldier Li Yingxiang sat on the chair, and under him were Zhou Guanghao, Zhu Wenda, Bian Zhiyuan and other generals. Li Yingxiang has been sleeping in the open in the past few months, fighting in all directions, and his temples have become a lot whiter.

He looked at the crowd: "Now that there is another war in southern Sichuan, do you have a good plan to break the enemy?" Zhou Guanghao stood up with his sword in one hand, and said with both hands: "General, my subordinates thought that we were going to break the bandits in southern Sichuan, and we will divide our troops to attack them." ”

Li Yingxiang said: "Let's talk about it, how do you divide the troops to attack it?" Zhou Guanghao drew out his long sword and pointed at the raised mountain peak in the sand table and said: "I am mountainous in Sichuan, and now the army has opened this miasma of smoke, if it is a joint camp, once the enemy attacks with fire, it will be difficult to resist, and this is one of them."

The Black Bone Clan and the Zada Clan have occupied Xiangling, which is already unfavorable to our army, and this is also the second. If our army crosses the Lushui by force, the other side will definitely set up an ambush along the coast. Once our army cannot wait for the shore, then Lushui will be our burial place.

It is better for his subordinates to lead a team of light cavalry, cross the river at night, find out the situation in Xiangling first, and wait for the subordinates to disturb the enemy's heart, and then send troops to help. As long as we open the gap in Xiangling, the destruction of the enemy will be half done.

After the enemy's spirit is frustrated, it is natural that they will not fight again easily. Once they can't hold out, then our army can first surround them and cut off the connection between them. As long as we surround one, reinforcements will naturally come to die. Divide them and attack them, and finally encircle them, and the war in southern Sichuan can be settled. ”

After Zhou Guanghao finished speaking, Li Yingxiang laughed, he stood up and said: "Guoyong is a scholar, I am afraid I don't know much about military affairs. You are afraid that you will be wounded by the enemy before you have crossed the river. What he meant was that Zhou Guanghao was talking on paper.

Zhou Guanghao looked around, and saw that the smiles on everyone's faces were as much ridicule as Li Yingxiang, and he was very angry in his heart, and said loudly: "The general's words are wrong, whoever said that Wenchen can't lead troops." During the Three Kingdoms, there was Lu Xun, the general of Eastern Wu, and there were also figures like Mr. Yang Ming in the Ming Dynasty. ”

General Zhu Wenda said: "Brother Zhou, this is compared to Lu Xun, Mr. Yangming?" Zhou Guanghao said: "Why not?" Zhu Wenda: "The march and war are far from what is said in the play, what Li Taibai drunk grass to scare the barbarian book, Zhuge Liang grass boat borrowed arrows, that is a set of nonsense made up by the literati, when the story is okay, how can it be taken seriously?"

Provoked by the other party, Zhou Guanghao said: "General Li, is Zhou an official of the imperial court?" Li Yingxiang was stunned and said: "Brother Zhou is a person from the military department, so he is naturally an official of the imperial court." Zhou Guanghao said again: "Since the imperial court appointed Zhou, it is naturally not wrong." What is the reason why one literati on the left cannot lead troops, and another literati cannot fight?"

Before Li Yingxiang could speak, Bian Zhiyuan said: "Zhou Jianjun, it's not that the big guy can't trust you, but it's too dangerous for you to do this." You don't hesitate to take your life, and someone on the side respects you as a good man, but which of the brothers was not raised by their mothers? Once they have three longs and two shorts, what do you do with their fathers and mothers?"

Zhou Guanghao sneered: "The so-called 'Wenchen dies, Wuchen fights to the death', since we have been ordered by the imperial court, we have naturally put life and death out of the way a long time ago. If you are afraid of death, what kind of soldier is you, it is better to go home and farm honestly. ”

When Bian Zhiyuan heard him say this, his face turned pale, and he stretched out his hand to point at him and said, "You...... You really don't know what to do. I tried to persuade you, but you mocked me. As he spoke, he drew his sword. Li Yingxiang said with a straight face: "Before you meet the enemy, your own people have started first, what kind of system has it become." ”

Both glared at each other. Zhou Guanghao crossed his hands and said: "General Li, Zhou is willing to make a military order, if I lead twenty horsemen, I can't break the Xiangling bandits within ten days, and I am willing to be dealt with by military law." Li Yingxiang said: "There is no joke in the army, Guoyong still thinks twice." ”

Zhou Guanghao said: "Guoyong is favored by the imperial court, and he should be loyal to the army." Others can't be the vanguard of this enemy-breaking spearhead, I'll come. I would like to make a military order and ask the general to fulfill it. Li Yingxiang glanced at the edge of the wall, and said in his heart: "It's all your mouth, it's good now, you don't have to force this scholar to seek death." ”

Zhou Guanghao said again: "Please give the general an order." Li Yingxiangyuan didn't expect that he would say a joke, this guy actually played a real game. He hesitated again and again, and said in his heart: "Everyone can see that it was Zhou Guanghao who asked for the battle himself, even if he dies in battle, Lao Tzu has nothing to do with it."

Then I thought again: "This person is Xu Zhongcheng's confidant, if he has three longs and two shorts, Lord Zhongcheng will definitely refer to me, which makes me embarrassed." Even if this person asks for death, Lord Yama can't stop him, so I will fulfill him. ”

At that moment, he said in a deep voice: "Come and get pen and ink." After a while, his subordinates took pen and ink. Zhou Guanghao held the brush and waved it. Li Yingxiang looked at the military order and nodded: "Okay, since Zhou Jianjun wants to be the vanguard, this general will allow you." What do you want from General Ben other than twenty light horsemen?"

Zhou Guanghao said: "If I take down Xiangling, I want Zhu and Bian Er to make amends to Zhou, and I also ask the general to retract his words that literati cannot lead troops." Li Yingxiang sighed and said: "There is a lot of trouble, and Zhou Jianjun still has to fight for a breath." Well, General Ben answered you for them. As he spoke, he took out a token from the sign holder and handed it to Zhou Guanghao.