Just when Chen Baoyuan left these practitioners who loyally guarded her and left the purple bamboo forest alone, the figures of two Northern Wei practitioners wearing black armor cut through the air and came to Pingfeng Valley.
These two practitioners from the Northern Wei Dynasty immediately discovered Murong Xing's body.
They knelt down and looked at the wounds on Murong Xing's chest and hands, silently.
Just relying on some traces of battles at the scene, these two Northern Wei practitioners quickly deduced that this was the work of Tie Cejun of the Southern Dynasties.
Standing in an opposing position, the Southern Dynasty army that is most difficult for people from the Northern Dynasty to understand is the Tiece Army.
According to their understanding, the Tiece Army was not a collection of the most elite sergeants of the Southern Dynasties, but a collection of sergeants who were marginalized in the army and ruthlessly abandoned by their own armies.
It was difficult for the Tiece Army to obtain sufficient supplies of food and grass, and even some of their ordnance was not sophisticated, and many of them were even homemade.
Such an army should have no morale or will at all.
However, the reality is exactly the opposite. The Tiece Army is even more difficult to deal with than the well-known elite armies of the Southern Dynasties.
What they practitioners don't know is that precisely because life is too difficult, most of the Tiece Army sergeants just want to survive as long as possible.
There is no will more powerful than the pure desire to live.
Just as these practitioners of the Northern Wei Dynasty did not understand, why many people in the more remote dynasties such as Dangxiang, whose lives were already extremely difficult, had to struggle to have enough to eat and worship some of their so-called gods and so-called superiors.
division.
The fact is that the more difficult and difficult the environment in which we live, the more we need some kind of strong belief support.
Looking at some traces of the battle around them, the two Northern Wei practitioners were sure that the battle would end quickly.
The sooner the battle ends, the stronger the iron army is.
Therefore, these two Northern Wei practitioners did not choose to pursue it on their own, but decided to return quickly to report the military situation.
Tie Ce's army marched very cautiously.
Most of the time, they walked along the streams in the mountains, and they walked with their bodies low in the water, trying their best to get into the shadows of the trees on both sides of the bank, and even wished they could embed themselves in the exposed tree roots.
Many are lessons learned between life and death.
The sound of water can cover up many sounds caused by marching, and the water flow can wash away the traces left in the stream, and even wash away the smell left behind.
Lin Yi followed Xue Jiu closely. Although he was already nominally the commander of the Iron Ce Army, he still had too much to learn about marching and fighting.
But for Xue Jiu, Lin Yi learned quickly.
Lin Yi had memorized the passwords, codes and sign language that were often used in battle formations almost after listening to them once.
In the following time, Lin Yi even quickly memorized some of the ways and secret codes used by Tiece Army and other armies of different affiliations to identify each other.
And in Xue Jiu's opinion, Lin Yi has been influenced by it since he was a child. In terms of commanding, he may be born with an advantage that others cannot compare with. At least in terms of temperament, in his opinion, Lin Yi and the kind of person who was just sent to the Tiece Army
There seems to be no difference at all among some of the young elite generals.
"In your opinion, what is the most important thing in fighting practitioners?"
Lin Yi asked Xue Jiu softly while remembering those codes and sign language.
The more he talked with Xue Jiu, the more he felt that the combat experience of Tie Cejun was actually more valuable to him than the records in the classics and notes of Qitian Academy and Nantian Academy.
Because those who can leave notes related to practice are generally practitioners.
It is impossible for these ordinary soldiers to leave any works in the long scrolls of history.
However, the classics left by practitioners usually record how to use martial arts and true energy skills to fight against the enemy. Even if there are some examples of the weak defeating the strong, the gap in cultivation is not likely to be too large.
For example, there are very few classics that teach practitioners who have just entered the Huangya realm how to kill mid-level practitioners in the Life Palace realm.
This gap is so large that in the world of practitioners, it is considered impossible.
If a practitioner who has just condensed yellow buds meets a practitioner in the middle level of the Life Palace, he should die happily and don't struggle too much needlessly.
But these Tiece Army sergeants are not even practitioners.
Some of their small tricks and experience in killing powerful practitioners were very useful in Lin Yi's opinion.
"The most important thing is to be calm."
Xue Jiu said softly: "First of all, we must think clearly. Practitioners are not the same people as us. Their power is too strong. Think of them as tigers. No matter how powerful they are, you will not be afraid.
Being able to stay calm is the first step. From our perspective, how to deceive practitioners is the second key step."
Lin Yi was a little curious, "What does cheated mean?"
"The reaction of practitioners is always faster than ours." Xue Jiu looked back at Lin Yi, "Just like you, even if you and I stand still, stabbing each other with swords, you will know me faster than me.
Wherever the knife stabs you. Even if you strike later, you will have enough time to deflect my knife and kill me instead. So don’t think that practitioners sometimes have flaws. We think it’s too late, it’s just what we think. What we need
, is to make him have some kind of negligence and neglect to guard against one of us. For example, we will pretend to be dead, and these practitioners kill people. If the person who kills is also a practitioner, he will remember clearly how many people he killed, but the
An ordinary sergeant like us, during a battle, may not count how many he has killed or how many are left. Some of us may be seriously injured after being hit by his sword, but we simply don't move and let him think he is dead.
Sometimes a sudden attack may be successful."
The climate in the mountains and forests is changeable, and a sudden heavy rain ended the conversation between Lin Yi and Xue Jiu.
All the Tiece troops came ashore and fled into the mountains and forests.
This kind of heavy rain can easily cause short-term flash floods, and sometimes the water flowing downstream can turn the water level of such a shallow stream into a monster capable of swallowing a sergeant like them in an instant.
Just before the unexpected heavy rain stopped, across a mountain, there was a wisp of blue smoke rising tenaciously into the sky amid the rain.
When all the Tiece Army sergeants saw the blue smoke, they took a deep breath and then turned to look at Lin Yi.
This is green wolf smoke, something used by the Southern Dynasty armies to ask for help.
Tie Cejun has the responsibility of rescuing. When seeing such smoke, it is up to Lin Yi to decide whether to go or not.
The burning of blue wolf smoke shows that the battle there has been extremely detrimental to the Southern Dynasty's army.
Especially in Meishan, where practitioners are everywhere, such battles are even more dangerous.
Is it just possible to escape?
There are many things in life, and there is no reason to escape.
Lin Yi looked up at the wolf smoke that was very close to them, clenched his fist and raised it.
This is preparation for battle.
The heavy rain covered up the shrill sound of arrows.
Hundreds of feather arrows drew arcs, falling from both sides of the hillside, following the line of rain towards the Southern Dynasty troops who were suppressed in a ravine.
The Southern Dynasty troops in the ravine had dispersed as much as possible and huddled under some trees and rocks. However, when these arrows fell, they still made a lot of flesh-piercing sounds and splashed with blood.
"Which idiot leads this army?"
Just after climbing over the top of the mountain, suppressing his violent breathing, and just seeing this scene clearly from the forest, Xue Jiu's face became extremely ugly, and he couldn't help lowering his voice and cursed angrily.
For these iron soldiers, even if they happen to be marching in a ravine and suddenly encounter an ambush on both sides of the hillside, this army should at least try to rush into the hillside on one side after so long.
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In his current view, this army does not need to charge towards the hillsides on both sides at all. They only need to retreat at full speed to the back road. Behind them is a small hill, but it is enough to change the current situation of being casually
Shooting situation.
"What kind of army is this?"
Lin Yi had heard Xue Jiu describe some of the characteristics of each army before, but the clothing style of the army that was pressed in the ravine was obviously that of the Southern Dynasties, but he still could not tell which army it belonged to.
"They are soldiers from the prefecture and county here." Xue Jiuhan said, "Whose family soldiers they are, I can't tell."
Lin Yi nodded and looked towards the hillside opposite.
The feathered arrows of the Northern Wei Dynasty were actually very expensive to make, but he had heard at least four rounds of arrow rain along the way.
The poor commander of the Southern Dynasty army below was enough to arouse Xue Jiu's anger, but in his opinion, the commander of the Northern Wei army was also willful and wasteful.