The Sugon Hill Pass, unexpectedly quiet, makes people feel suspicious.

Ye Guan sat quietly in his camp, crossed his knees and closed his eyes, quietly waiting for the scouts who had hiked into the interior of Zongqiu Mountain to return.

If Shen Tuyan didn't set up an ambush at the mountain pass, it would be a bit surprising to Ye Guan.

He had suspiciously slowed down his march in order to keep the sergeant from getting too tired and having more strength to deal with a possible ambush.

And the Zongqiu Mountain Pass area is obviously a good place to set up an ambush, surrounded by mountains on both sides, the forest is luxuriant, and a large group of sergeants can not be seen when they get into the forest, if Ye Guan is allowed to arrange the defense, this Zongqiu Mountain Pass, he will definitely not let go, even if the opponent may be aware of it. Setting up an ambush here will at least delay your opponent's march and give your side more time to prepare.

But Shen Tuyan didn't do it at all.

The enemy is not able to do so in a few ways.

Either they don't have the ability to set up an ambush, which Ye Guan has basically ruled out. Not counting the large number of civilian soldiers brought back by Shen Tuyan before, in the previous team, there were no less than a few thousand elite troops belonging to the Zongqiu Mountain area, and it was still possible to set up an ambush with a small part, even if the troops were scarce, he would use more sergeants to govern the civilian soldiers, but in a few days, it was also possible to set up a large number of traps nearby to delay the speed of his own march.

Either the enemy has other plans, trying to lure the enemy deeper, so that they can underestimate the enemy and enter a larger ambush not far away. At this point, Ye Guan had already sent scouts to investigate.

Either that, something had happened inside the city in the Qiuchang City area, so that Shen Tuyan didn't have more time to set it up. Ye Guan had no way of knowing this, and it was impossible to directly send scouts to investigate, which was no different from sending the scout team to death.

Ye Guan was in a quiet mood, and since he had thought of what might happen later, it was useless to worry, so he didn't wait for news quietly.

At midnight, Zongqiu Mountain was calm, and the whole camp was quiet, and the torches around the camp were slightly lit, fluttering with the breeze from time to time. In the distance, the chirping of insects in the middle of summer is particularly loud.

The patrol in the camp has not stopped, and the scouts around him are also waiting for him, these do not need Ye Guan's personal orders, all the sergeants in the enclave this time are veterans of a hundred battles, even the veteran sergeants who were recruited before, they have quickly adapted to the life of the barracks, and they can sit up with anything, not to mention that there are many good generals in the camp, with them, these trivial matters do not need Ye Guan to worry.

Ye Guan originally thought that the enemy army might sneak up on his camp at midnight, but he sat in the tent until the early hours of the morning, but nothing happened.

Everything, it was too quiet.

The scout team sent out before, Ye Guan told them to be extra careful, let them take off their standing military armor, do not ride horses, travel lightly, and if they encounter the enemy, they will flee immediately, just bring the news back. But Ye Guan waited in his tent until the early hours of the morning, but he did not wait for these scouts to return.

Three teams of scouts, more than twenty sergeants, seemed to have disappeared into the vast Zongqiu Mountain Range, without a trace of news.

The first rays of sunlight in the early morning shone in, Ye Guan slowly opened his eyes, and he looked at the camp tent, except for Xu Bao, who had been guarding the door, there was no one.

frowned slightly, and a bad feeling spread to Ye Guan's heart.

The three teams of scouts that were filmed before may not come back.

This made Ye Guan a little unexpected, you must know that these scouts are all battle-hardened, perennial in the scout camp of the East Wangfu, spying on the enemy in various places, and this kind of thing rarely happens.

But at this moment, it really happened, and the entire three teams of scouts disappeared like this, as if they had been swallowed by Zongqiu Mountain, without a trace.

Something happened that I didn't expect, and it was probably unexpected.

Ye Guan frowned slightly, stood up, quickly walked out of his big tent, and came to the lookout platform in the tent, his eyes narrowed slightly, looking at the official road of Qiu Changcheng.

The official road is winding, and the early morning light is not very sufficient, and the situation in the distance is not real.

In the early morning, yin and yang converge, and the Zongqiu Mountain at this moment seems to be shrouded in a thick fog, weird and mysterious.

A cold feeling reached Ye Guan's skin, and he looked into the distance, but he didn't find anything wrong.

Walking slowly down the lookout and past several groups of patrol sergeants who saluted him, Ye Guan returned to his big tent again, sitting on the couch, his brows furrowed.

In the official road of Zongqiu Mountain, I can't see any clues, and there is no way to guess what danger there is.

When he was stationed in scouts before, he deliberately told him to be extra careful. With the strength of these scouts' feet, even if they were extremely careful, they would have to walk much faster than ordinary people, and they could walk at least twenty miles in an hour, and from last night to now, at least four hours, if they were attacked in the middle of the way, they would definitely not be able to return to any of them.

If calculated by the distance, it is possible that forty miles away, something happened that caused all the scouts to be damaged or trapped, otherwise there would not be any news at this time.

"Could it be ......" Ye Guan first thought of the trap, but then dispelled this thought. The three teams of scouts sent this time are extremely experienced, and the traps laid by ordinary people can't escape their eyes at all, even in the dark night, they also have a keen sense of the surrounding people, with long-term polishing experience, these scouts know where to easily set traps, where to arrange cumbersome traps, and hide or crack in advance.

"If it's not a trap, then it's ......" Immediately, Ye Guan thought of another possibility, if it wasn't a trap, if it wasn't an ambush, then there was only one possibility, the formation.

There is such a category in the formation, which is designed for defense, but it is not blindly protected, and it is necessary to know that the best defense is to attack, this kind of formation is mainly to play a defensive role by killing the enemy, and this kind of formation has a general name, killing formation.

There are many kinds of killing arrays, some are aimed at individuals, some are aimed at group goals, and some are like thunder, and some are silent. Some can stimulate a large amount of energy to wipe out the enemy in an instant, while others condense the formation energy and kill the enemy silently.

This type of formation is similar to the purpose of a trap, but it is more stealthy and ingenious, and ordinary scouts alone can find traps that are arranged, but they cannot find killing formations in the same position.

Once the killing array is triggered, it may trigger a chain of arrays around it, wiping out all the people in the vicinity silently.

Ye Guan frowned, if it was really a killing formation, then the matter might be far beyond his expectations.

The arrangement of the killing array is hundreds of times more difficult than the ordinary formation, the ordinary formation just uses different methods to condense the power of nature to achieve a certain purpose, while the killing array compresses and integrates the energy gathered from these gatherings while condensing the power of nature, supplemented by hidden portrayal means, which makes people unable to guard against it. With Ye Guan's knowledge, he only knew that Ning Yi of the East Wangfu had this ability, and he had never heard of anyone else.

"It seems that the person behind this Shen Tu Yan is probably not as simple as cultivating death qi. Ye Guan was in a somewhat solemn mood at the moment, several teams of scouts did not come back, and he thought of a lot.

It's not that there is a chance that a few of the scouts were not captured or besieged by the enemy, but this possibility is too small. If you want to use the formation to besiege, the same arrangement method, the layout of the killing formation must be arranged to besiege the formation, and the effect is much better. Ye Guan would not be so naïve that the enemy would show mercy to the two sides on the battlefield, spare his scout's life, or take prisoners, which is basically impossible under the current situation.

"I said, four generals and lieutenants came in to see me. Ye Guan thought for a moment, raised his head, and ordered softly to Xu Bao outside the account. When Xu Bao heard this, he immediately saluted Ye Guan with both hands in fists, and then quickly gave the order.

gave the order to summon the four generals, Ye Guan sat upright on his couch, but his frowning brows stretched out, and he became unwavering, but he was quickly calculating in his heart, if the enemy arranged a killing array, how to crack it.

After a while, the sound of several military boots stepping on the ground came, which greatly confused Ye Guan's thoughts, he raised his head slightly, and saw four big men wearing general's armor walking into his camp tent and kneeling on one knee.

"Subordinate, see General Leader Ye. The four generals said in unison.

"Generals, please take your seats. Ye Guan waved his hand lightly and motioned for several generals to sit down, and then, the four generals sat down on the chairs on both sides and looked at Ye Guan in unison.

Stationed at the pass of Zongqiu Mountain overnight, they knew that Ye Guan called them here at this moment to give the next military order.

"Commander Ye, what are the military orders, please also hand over full authority to your subordinates, and your subordinates will go all out to ensure that nothing goes wrong. As soon as the four of them sat down, a general on Ye Guan's left immediately spoke. This general looked like a reckless man, his face was angular, about forty or around, full of neutrality, a pair of tiger eyes looked at Ye Guan, his hands clenched into fists, and his eyes were full of expectation.

This general's name is Ding Jiang, the chief general of the East Wangfu Chi Wolf Army, praying for the 289 years of the Heavenly Calendar, and then transferred to the East Wangfu, fighting in the East Wangfu for more than ten years, the imperial court feudal general, the rank of four-grade general, one of the mainstays of the East Wangfu, the military achievements are impressive, and the martial artist is a senior cultivator.

"Oops. As soon as Ding Jiang's voice fell, another general opposite him immediately spoke, and said unhappily: "I said General Ding, just sit down and you open your mouth to be a pioneer, do you want to make a face?"

"Yes, General Ding, the military arrangements still have to be arranged by General Commander Ye, what do you mean when you open your mouth?" The general who spoke immediately followed, and faintly stood with the general.

The first general to speak is named Kou Long, and then the general name is Ren Zijin, the two generals belong to the East Wangfu Guards, pray for the two hundred and eighty-eight years of the Tianli Army, and enter the East Wangfu for two years, both have the rank of four generals, and fight for the East Wangfu Quartet, the same is a great achievement, and Ding Jiang usually does not deal with it, often fight for a verbal level.

"What's the matter, you two are not convinced?" Ding Jiang glared when he heard this, looked at the two opposite, and felt a little angry in his heart. This expedition to the enclave, they each geared up, before in the imperial capital, did not start a frontal war with the three kings and then withdrew, so that several people felt that their faces were gloomy, and they all wanted to show their strength in the enclave, but after entering the enclave, they did not encounter any wars worth mentioning, and the city they went to either surrendered or was vulnerable, which made several generals feel uninterested, and finally ran into a beaten opponent, naturally rushing to be the vanguard.

"How about not being convinced?" Koron glared back, not flinching.

"Alright, alright. At this time, Ding Jiang put down a white-faced general and said in a low voice: "Don't you look at what kind of place this is, General Leader Ye is still there, what are you arguing about?"

White-faced general, Tu Xingping, joined the army of the wolf army in the East Wangfu, prayed for the 289th year of the Tianli calendar, and was transferred to the East Wangfu at the same time as Ding Jiang, with the rank of four-rank general, both civil and military, and a senior martial artist, but he was only in his early thirties, and he was the youngest of the three generals.

As soon as Tu Xingping's voice fell, the three of them shut up in unison and immediately looked at Ye Guan. Ye Guan sat on the couch, his eyes slightly closed, his face calm, and he didn't say a word.