"What's wrong?"
Seeing that Fang Jie's frown was getting deeper and deeper, Shen Qingshan couldn't help asking, Fang Jie slowly opened his eyes and shook his head: "I can feel the position of the fifth energy channel, very clearly, but I just can't. Trying to perceive what is hidden in this qi channel like before. The difference from the previous four qi channels is that this qi channel seems to be... dead."
Shen Qingfan was startled, thought for a while and comforted him: "Maybe your perception is not enough, so you can't detect this Qi channel in the deepest part of your body."
Seeing him come out of meditation, Mu Xiaoyao and Wanyan Yunshu also walked in from the outside. The three women looked at the melted water on the table and at the layer of golden sand on the ground, the shock on their faces hadn't receded. Fang Jie followed their gaze and was surprised, he didn't even know what happened just now.
Just as the four of them were talking, Fei Yupao quickly ran in from outside and said, "General, there is an urgent military situation!"
Fang Jie immediately got up and talked to the three women, then walked quickly to the big tent.
Mu Xiaoyao picked up the broom to sweep the golden sand on the ground, and suddenly saw a small bud on the table leg gradually withering, and the withering speed was very fast, as if it lost the nutrients that supported its vitality in an instant.
She pointed in surprise, but didn't know what to say.
Fang Jie hurried to the big tent, where several major generals were already waiting for him.
"General, the scouts sent out came back and reported that they found a large-scale mobilization of rebel forces. Except for the westernmost counties, almost all the elite rebels hidden in the counties and towns came out, as if gathering in one direction. .”
Feiyupao, who reported the letter, pointed to a few locations beside the map: "Shang Huoxi, who was tricked by the general into Qingshui, and the rebels of Hanen, Lai County, have not moved and are still stationed in place. Besides, there is Qiucheng, Wan Yong, the rebels in the three places of Enze have not moved, and the scouts are still watching, once the rebel forces are mobilized, there will be immediate returns."
After Fang Jie had finished listening, he went to the map and circled the counties and towns that the flying fish card had said earlier that had troops mobilized, and then crossed out the counties and towns that had not been mobilized.
"It seems that Li Yuanshan has given up on Xiangcheng."
Looking at the situation he had outlined, Fang Jie's thinking became clear: "The reason why the elite rebels in Lai County, Qingshui, Qiucheng, Wanyong, and Enze have not been mobilized is because we killed Li Xiaolian. Li Yuanshan assigned seven An inspector supervises the rebels in all prefectures, counties, villages and towns within a radius of 270 miles west of Xiangcheng. Li Xiaolian was killed here a while ago, so Li Yuanshan's troop deployment did not reach us! The inspectors from other places are all there. The rebels in other cities have already begun to mobilize. If there is no accident, Xiangcheng has been captured by the imperial army, and Li Yuanshan must have come west with the remnant soldiers... "
"Juexiao, do you mean that Li Yuanshan has opened his pockets?"
Wanyan Chongde asked.
Fang Jie nodded: "Although there is no news that the Feiyu robe from Xiangcheng has been sent back, the mobilization of troops from the rebels has confirmed that Li Yuanshan will make a final fight. He spent more than 1.5 million rebels The purpose of the bait is to lead the imperial army into the trap he set up, and now, the decisive battle has finally come."
He pointed to a location on the map and said: "Xiping City, the prefecture of Xiping County, is located in the middle of this trap. If there is no accident, Li Yuanshan will lead the rebels to retreat here. The imperial army followed and chased. The rebels will gather here, and the distance from the rebels in each city to Xiping City is not too far, and they can arrive within five days at the slowest. Li Yuanshan intends to encircle the imperial army, but with his current Definitely not enough troops..."
Just as they were talking, someone ran in quickly from outside: "Report! The spies who went to the southeast to investigate Luo Yao's subordinates are back!"
"Let him in!"
Not long after, a dusty flying fish robe came in, and the other party saluted first and then said: "General, I found out that Luo Yao's left avant-garde with hundreds of thousands of troops was stationed in Sipan Town before, and they were suddenly transferred a few days ago to bypass it." Yin Poshan, the rebel army camped against him, headed directly to the east. In addition, the Mongolian barbarian cavalry has also come out of the camp, and the direction of march is also east!"
"Sure enough..."
Fang Jie's expression changed, he waved his hands and said, "Go and rest first."
Wanyan Chongde took a deep breath: "It now appears that His Majesty's troops have fallen into the trap carefully arranged by Li Yuanshan, Luo Yao's hundreds of thousands of troops have moved eastward, Meng Yuan's two hundred thousand wolves The cavalry is also moving eastward, even if the backs of the Great Sui Zhengxi Army are exposed to the enemy's eyes... Not only that, once the decisive battle comes, Meng Wansui and Yin Poshan's rebels will also flock here!"
"Your Majesty must have made arrangements!"
Fang Xie said firmly: "Li Yuanshan's strategy cannot be hidden from anyone, and it is impossible for His Majesty's wisdom not to discover it."
He paused and said, "I'm afraid Li Yuanshan hasn't noticed it yet, but his and His Majesty's positions have been switched... Before, His Majesty was in the clear, and every move of the imperial army was in front of Li Yuanshan's eyes, so everything was very clear. As for Li Yuanshan's arrangement, everyone thought it was a cloud of fog at the beginning. Now it is different, everyone has seen Li Yuanshan's arrangement clearly, but His Majesty's arrangement...no one knows."
Wanyan Chongde nodded: "Then what should we do now?"
Fang Jie was silent for a while and said: "I want to go out for a while, the rebels in other places have already been mobilized, even if the rebels in Qingshui and other places in Lai County were not mobilized without the order of the patrol envoy, they must be concerned about the movements of the rebels in other places. Pay attention. If my fake inspector doesn't show up for a long time, they will become suspicious. They can't see me through, so I will simply dig a big hole in Li Yuanshan's last effort."
"Are you going to transfer the rebels in these five counties to other places?"
Wanyan Chongde asked.
"Um."
Fang Jie hummed and said, "Your Highness, you lead the team out of the city immediately to the east, avoiding the forces of the rebels and heading towards Xiping City. After I transfer the rebels from the five places in Qingshuilai County, I will join you immediately! "
Wanyan Chongde knew that the day he had been waiting for for a long time had finally arrived, he looked at Fang Jie and said seriously: "Be careful!"
Fang Jie said with a smile: "It's okay, I'm now a very powerful inspector!"
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In the Langru Mountain Canyon to the west of Fan Gu, thousands of elite soldiers were busy. A city wall has been erected. Although it looks rough, it is extraordinarily thick and strong. The stone wall was already over two meters high, but it looked like they didn't intend to stop there.
There was a clear and sweet whistle from the mountain, and the soldiers carrying stones in the valley below immediately ran to both sides. The people below all avoided and responded with whistles, and then heard a rumbling sound, and several huge stones rolled down along the gentler slope of the canyon cliff.
When the boulder fell to the ground, the ground seemed to tremble a few times.
As the dust cleared, the soldiers burst into cheers.
They used logs to move the boulders to the side of the stone wall. Lu Fenghou wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at the already large-scale stone wall with a great sense of accomplishment in his heart. During these days, the soldiers of the Black Banner Army have followed Fang Jie's order to build a stone wall in the Qingxia. Although they are very tired, everyone is very motivated. They knew that General Fang wanted to block the 200,000 Mongolian wolf riders in the northwest, and these wolf riders were the sworn enemies of every soldier in the Black Banner Army.
A few years ago, it was these wolf riders who slaughtered hundreds of thousands of fellow Black Banner soldiers with scimitars. In Mandu Banner, on the grasslands hundreds of miles from north to south and two thousand miles from east to west, the corpses of soldiers of the Sui Dynasty were everywhere. Li Yuanshan asked the rebels to seal Fan Gu, and those who survived struggled out of such a situation where there were pursuers and interceptions before. Now, they want to return the same fate to those Mongolian wolf riders.
From the northwest of the Sui Dynasty back to the grassland, the Langrushan Canyon is the only way.
The soldiers knew how fierce the Mongols would attack them once they blocked the Qingxia, but none of them felt uneasy, let alone fear.
"Come on!"
Lu Fenghou pushed the boulder and shouted loudly: "Let's hurry up, when the general comes back from the east, he will be shocked by the stone wall we built! Let the general see, when he is away, our Black Banner Army No man is lazy!"
"Ha ha."
The soldiers laughed and sweated profusely.
At this moment, there was a sudden exclamation from the mountain. Lu Fenghou raised his head and looked up, only to see a boulder hanging or being hit by a rock that rolled down before, and it moved slowly. about to fall. Lu Fenghou was shocked, and immediately shouted: "Everyone spread out, step back!"
After saying this, the big rock that looked like it weighed thousands of catties had already rolled down the hillside. The soldiers ran back amidst exclamations, but they didn't evacuate quickly because there were too many people.
Lu Fenghou saw the boulder coming towards him, he looked back at the soldiers who hadn't completely dispersed, suddenly roared, and grabbed a log and rushed towards the boulder. He actually wanted to use his body to slow down the speed of the boulder rolling down.
This decision came so abruptly.
Lu Fenghou never thought that he would be stoned to death one day. He insisted that he would die gloriously on the battlefield, not from illness or old age, but from being wrapped in leather and transported back to his hometown.
The boulder roared towards him, and he actually laughed at himself at this moment. He poked the wood on the ground obliquely and carried it on his shoulders, intending to block the boulder with his flesh and blood against the wood.
Bang!
The flesh on Lu Fenghou's face twitched, and then slowly opened his eyes.
There is a vast expanse of white all around, stones, people, vegetation are all white.
He couldn't help being stunned, thinking in his heart, is this the underworld? It turns out that the underworld looks like this, everything has no color. Later, he suddenly realized that this was not the underworld, he was still in the same place, the reason why he saw things without color was probably because the soul saw differently from what he saw when he was alive.
The stone is still the same stone, and the people are still those people.
Huh…
Who is that fat man? Is it the judge of the underworld
Just when he was surprised, the white world in his eyes finally gradually recovered. The colors returned to his eyes, and the world was still the same. The reason why most of the things I looked at turned white was because I was scared.
A fat man in a black Taoist robe appeared in front of Lu Fenghou at some point, and pushed one hand on the rolling boulder. The fat Taoist couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief after he stabilized the boulder, and then looked back. Lu Fenghou asked with a glance: "Hey, you idiot who saw the falling rocks and rushed forward, are you okay?"
Lu Fenghou said subconsciously: "Didn't you also charge forward?"
The fat Taoist was stunned for a moment, and then said angrily, "I'm an idiot than you. Not only did I rush forward when I saw falling rocks, but I didn't avoid something that was infinitely more dangerous than falling rocks..."
He knew that the frightened general didn't understand what he was talking about, and he didn't bother to explain: "I want to ask you something, do you enter the grassland all the way west from this place?"
"yes… "
Lu Fenghou replied, and then suddenly remembered: "I have seen you!"
The fat Taoist was startled: "Have you seen me?"
"I've seen it!"
Lu Fenghou said excitedly: "On Mount Mangdang, you have looked for my general."
"Oh my god...you are the soldiers of Fang Jie, that bastard? Alas, it seems that I really walked too slowly, and I only cared about my Dao heart along the way...Since you are Fang Jie's people, it's okay It’s easy to say, help me prepare a month’s dry food and give it to a few horses.”
He said carelessly: "I'm Fang Jie's uncle, let's get some meat to eat first... By the way, I saved your life just now, do you have any sisters or sisters you want to introduce to me..."