The fishy wind blows away, and the yellow sand rolls in.
A cavalry team is marching hard in the desert. If you look down from the sky, you can see that this cavalry team looks quite simple, with only a hundred people in size. These more than a hundred cavalry people are walking on horseback.
The cone-shaped queue is advancing non-stop deeper into the desert.
"Is this map really useful?" The leading leader clutched the map in his hand, "It's been several days, but we still haven't seen the Haogao people's camp."
"The Xiegao are a nomadic people. They have no fixed place and whereabouts. However, this map was drawn in the past few months by undercover spies who infiltrated the caravans of Xieyi merchants. It should be similar. Let's move forward.
Let's see." A person walking alongside him came up with an idea.
This leader, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a leopard's head and a tiger's beard, and two iron halberds hanging diagonally from the saddle, is none other than Wei Kui, and the person riding alongside him as a staff officer is of course Du Rong.
The famous battle at the border six months ago made Wei Kui famous, and also allowed him to win the position of vanguard officer of Wansu Camp promised by Li Duo, and he also jumped from an ordinary soldier in the Sirius Army to a
A centurion in charge of hundreds of people, but the position of vanguard only existed during wartime, so he was no different from other centurions on weekdays.
Even so, many people are quite envious, especially some elites in the Sirius Army who did not participate in the martial arts competition - in their view, it would be better for a person who is the leader in the infantry battalion to join the Sirius Army.
It makes sense, but why was the position of vanguard given to him so easily?
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Wei Kui is no match for Li Duo, but why did Li Duo make that big promise to him? Is it possible that this guy is really related to Li Duo? There are many in Wansu Camp.
With this idea in mind, people came to provoke him one after another, but Wei Kuide gradually proved his ability to everyone in the past six months. It is no exaggeration to say that Wei Kuide's strength has now surpassed Du Rong.
Although there are fewer people who are unconvinced now, it is not that there are none - there is a man named Zheng Xianming among these ten thousand soldiers. He is the most promising candidate to win the position of vanguard since before the collapse of Wei Dynasty, and he is also a brave man.
A fierce general, he was very angry with Wei Kui - he saw that this vanguard position was within his grasp, but he was snatched away from him by a newly promoted horse from the infantry battalion. Anyone who let him go would be upset. This Zheng Xianming
It was normal for him to be worried about the pregnancy for more than half a year. So Li Duo made such a decision after consulting the two of them. At the time of the second military training of the Wansu Camp, the Sirius Army was preparing to take the initiative against the Xiegao people.
To attack, Wei Kui and Zheng Xianming were ordered to each lead an army of 100 men as scouts, while Li Duo personally led the army at the rear - whoever achieved more merit and achieved greater results would be the first vanguard officer.
So Wei Kui and Zheng Xianming each selected a hundred elite troops from Wansu Camp and set out in two directions. It has been ten days since they left the border and entered the fortress.
Du Rong, Li Dayong and Wei Cheng entered the Wansu Camp at the same time as Wei Kui because they had achieved high rankings in the martial arts competition. Naturally, Wei Kui would not leave them behind when he picked people. Some of the others were originally from the army.
They came from the infantry battalion through martial arts competitions, and there were also veterans who had been selected into the Wansu Battalion three years ago, and they were all very strong.
"This Li Duo is not kind..." Wei Cheng urged his horse and ran to Wei Kui's side. He looked around and muttered in a low voice: "I said I would give you the position of vanguard, why are you here again now?"
One round..."
Du Rong immediately stopped the conversation and said: "Wei Kui is not yet stable in the Sirius Army. It would be unkind to give him the vanguard position directly because of that promise. Let's help him this time."
After making great achievements, doesn’t the position of pioneer become justifiable?”
"Hehe..." Wei Cheng scratched his head through the helmet and said with a smile, "That's right."
What the three of them didn't know was that a person behind them happened to hear the conversation between them and remembered these words word for word.
The team had been marching in the depths of the desert for nearly a day. It was already setting in the west hills, and the setting sun was like blood. However, Du Rong, who was walking in the front, stopped his horse.
"What's wrong?" Seeing Du Rong stop, Wei Kui asked.
"Look." Du Rong pointed his finger to the north, "It's smoke."
Sure enough, everyone looked towards the direction Du Rong pointed and saw wisps of green smoke heading straight into the sky.
Wei Kui also reacted and called Wei Cheng and Li Dayong over, asking them to go ahead and hide themselves to detect the identity of the other party. He also asked other soldiers to dismount their horses to rest and take out the dry food they carried with them to eat.
In fact, they also carry tools for making camp fires. As for why they don't use them now - isn't this nonsense? If you light a fire here to eat cooked food, you can naturally see it from the other side. Doesn't it expose your own position and waste all your efforts and miss a good opportunity?
Just as Wei Cheng and Li Dayong were about to take the order and leave, someone suddenly interrupted them. It was the one who had been silently paying attention to the conversation between Wei Kui and others. He said to Wei Kui: "Two people may not be enough, why not pick a few more"
Let's go together alone, I'm willing to go explore with them."
"Hmm... That's fine." Wei Kui felt that what this guy said was reasonable. Two more people would be more efficient, so he pointed at the guy and another person who had recommended themselves, "You two should go with them, too.
But remember not to reveal your whereabouts!"
After receiving the order, these four people galloped out, while Wei Kui and others rested and waited at the spot.
What Wei Kui never expected was that this survey would almost lead to a catastrophe.
The four people who went out to investigate the situation did not go straight towards the place where the smoke was rising, but took a slight detour. However, it did not take long before a simple camp appeared in front of them.
"I said... why don't we split up and go in four different directions? This can save a lot of time." The person who recommended himself suggested to several people.
"I'm afraid this isn't appropriate..." Li Dayong has always been the most prudent one. In order to operate covertly, the four of them were already very few. If the troops were divided up, there wouldn't even be anyone to look after each other.
"What about working in pairs?" Wei Cheng said. "That way we can take care of each other if we encounter danger."
Seeing that Wei Chengdu said this, the remaining two people also agreed to the allocation in pairs, so Li Dayong no longer insisted, so Li Dayong and Wei Cheng approached from the west, and the guy who volunteered and
Another young guy is lurking to the east.
Li Dayong and Wei Cheng were far away from the camp and then detoured again until they came to a Populus euphratica forest not far from the camp where shrubs and weeds were growing wildly. They tied up their horses and started walking quietly.
Approaching the camp.
"Did you see it clearly?" Li Dayong asked Wei Chengdao. Wei Cheng's eyesight was excellent and he was very suitable for archery. Wei Cheng's archery skills were also among the best in the camp.
"Well... Judging from the costumes of these people, they should be Xiegao people. There are also people carrying weapons. I just don't know if this is a Xiegao people's caravan or an army?" Wei Cheng looked at it for a while and responded, "Look at this.
It's going to get dark soon, let's wait until it gets dark and then we can get closer slowly."
In this way, the two of them groped forward step by step in the direction of the camp, secretly memorizing the terrain and the number of people they observed.
The two people to the east didn't do much. They just hid in another Populus euphratica forest on the high slope to the east and observed the Haogao people's camp from a high position. They didn't make any move until the sky got dark.
"When will we take action?" the young man asked the person who recommended himself. That person always had a cold face, but his eyes kept rolling around.
"No hurry, wait a minute." The cold-faced brother said calmly, as if he didn't care about the spying at all - then why did he take the initiative to ask for help?
From their current position, they could also see the light of the bonfire burning in the Haogao people's camp. The fire had been burning for some time. It seemed that they were roasting something to eat.
"Brother, what's your name?" The two of them were silent for a while and observed the movements of the camp. The young man felt bored and took the initiative to start chatting. He was still holding the broken dry food in his hand and handed half of it to him.
Gave it to Brother Lengmian.
"Tian Kai." Brother Lengmian still had the same cold tone, concise and to the point. He did not take the dry food handed to him by the young man.
Seeing that Tian Kai didn't want to pay attention to him, the young man turned his head and continued to wait while nibbling dry food. After a while, he couldn't bear the loneliness and said: "My name is..."
His voice stopped suddenly at this moment, and blood gushed out of his mouth. A sharp coldness penetrated his chest and pierced his alveoli. The young man struggled to turn his head away and saw Tian Kai's mouth opening.
Yihe: "I'm not interested in knowing your name, and it doesn't matter what your name is now."
There is no need to know the names of dead people.
Tian Kai twisted the handle of the knife hard until the young man closed his eyes and lost his breath. Then he pulled out the knife. He inserted the knife into the yellow sand and used the sand to wash away the blood on the blade, and then removed the blood from the young man's hand.
He tore off a piece of cloth from his clothes and wiped the sand off the knife, making sure that there were no traces of the blood of the person he had just killed and drank before he stopped.
Tian Kai was a nail planted by Zheng Xianming in Wei Kui's team, and the task Zheng Xianming gave Tian Kai was also very simple - he did not ask Tian Kai to kill Wei Kui, but only asked Tian Kai to disrupt Wei Kui at the critical moment.
action is enough.
Of course, it would be great if Tian Kai could kill Wei Kui - and now is an excellent opportunity. According to Tian Kai's observation, although this camp is simple but large in scale, there are probably nearly a thousand Xiegao warriors in it. If
Lure these Xie Gao people to the side of Wei Kui's army of more than a hundred people... No matter how strong Wei Kui is, can these hundreds of people be equal to ten?
Tian Kai rode on his own horse, hung the young man's body on another horse and led it slowly towards the camp. When Tian Kai thought the distance was suitable, he stabbed Zai fiercely with a knife.
On the horse's butt holding the young man's body.
The horse was so frightened after being in pain that it ran straight towards the Haogao people's camp.
"That's almost it..." Tian Kai murmured to himself.
This chapter has been completed!