My vision was blurry, as if I couldn't see anything clearly. Xiao Yunfan felt dizzy and his lips were dry. He didn't expect that the taste of alcohol was unpleasant. He reluctantly stood up, feeling weak under his feet. He walked to a pool, held a gourd in his hands, and kept splashing water on his face. After a while, the whole person finally woke up.
He coughed twice, stretched out his sleeves to wipe the water drops on his face, and said to himself: "Hey, as expected, people get old and get sick after drinking some wine."
The cave is distributed in a king shape and runs along the corridor. The two stone rooms on the left and right of the entrance are used for living. One of the two stone rooms in the middle is a kitchen and the other is a pharmacy. The last two rooms are a toilet and a study.
He walked along the corridor to the study, reached out and turned the stone button, and a stone door slowly rose. There are holes on the top of this stone chamber for ventilation. The walls are decorated with natural pearls, so the room is not dark. On the west wall, two objects protrude, one is the hilt of the sword, and the other is the scabbard.
Xiao Yunfan came to the stone wall and took a closer look. He reached out and touched the hilt of the sword. The cold feeling was so familiar, like a friend he hadn't seen for a long time. His thoughts were rising and falling, and he said, "Good brother, Xiao is incompetent and can't save you from this prison." Suddenly, he thought that since he couldn't pull it out with internal force, he could always use other methods.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he thought to himself: "Why don't I try Qianling Jue?" With a flash of thought, he ran to the kitchen, found some caramel and put it into a small bag. After leaving the cave, he looked for traces of ants under a pine tree.
He first put the stick covered with candy on the ground, then bent down and waited. Sure enough, an ant the size of a rice grain discovered the food first. It touched the sugar grain with its two small tentacles and tried to lift it, but unfortunately it failed.
The ant then returned to the ant nest. After a while, a group of ants crawled towards the sugar granules. Seeing these ants appearing in an orderly manner, Xiao Yunfan said: "I have never been able to figure out how to use the insect part in Qianling Jue, so I might as well try it with these ants today."
As he spoke, he took off the baggage from his back and took out a wooden box. It turned out that the wooden box contained many sawdust and a pheasant feather. Seeing that the ants were gathering more and more, he reached out and lifted the wooden stick, and carefully swept the ants into the wooden box with the feathers.
After returning to the cave, he used peppercorns to place a three-foot-wide rectangle on the stone table in the study room, and drew many vertical lines in the rectangle. Then the ants were swept into it. At first, the ants ran around, but when they encountered the peppercorns, they shrank back. This cycle goes on and on, and the ant has no choice but to walk randomly within the rectangle.
Xiao Yunfan found some big ants and trained them specially. First, put a grain of sugar and let the ants carry it back and forth. After a few days of this, these ants were actually trained by him to look like soldiers. As long as the feather in his hand made a slight sound on the table, the ants would move straight forward along the thin line as if they had received a military order.
He raised these ants for a full month, and the ants he selected for training were all extremely strong. At the beginning, there were only a few dozen ants in the ant colony. As he gained a deeper understanding of the ants' habits, he actually expanded the ant colony to thousands.
At first, he placed rice grains in front of the ant array, and later he placed peanuts, broad beans and other items, slowly and slowly. Sometimes, he even placed a fat chicken and it turned into bones in an instant. These ants were raised by him, and they seemed to have gradually become spiritual. Whenever Xiao Yunfan gave a command, they would take action.
After living with these ants for a long time, I no longer feel that they are all the same as before. He was actually able to distinguish the differences based on the subtle features of each ant. Seeing the army of these ants growing more and more, Xiao Yunfan thought to himself: "Although these ants are small, they can move Mount Tai. We should give the army composed of these little things a resounding name."
By the way, since my nickname is 'Jade Lion', the army I train is called the Lion Army. Why does the Lion Army sound like the Lice Army, haha. But this lion is not that louse, 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 mass of ants climbed up the stone wall along the ground, and a slight sound came from the air. In less than half a day, two fist-sized round holes were dug out of the stone wall.
He stretched out his hand to hold the hilt of the sword, pulled out the long sword lightly, blew away the dust on it, and wiped it with a cloth. Following the same pattern, the black scabbard was also taken out. Xiao Yunfan was extremely excited and waved the sword a few times in his hand.
Having taken out the sword, he disbanded the Lion Army and sent the ants back to their hometown in a box.
Inside the tent, two giant sticks of tallow wax as thick as an arm were burning. The commander-in-chief Li Yingxiang was sitting on a chair, and under him were generals such as Zhou Guanghao, Zhu Wenda, and Bian Zhiyuan. Li Yingxiang has been living in the open air and fighting in all directions for the past few months, and his temples have become a lot whiter.
He looked at the crowd and said: "Now there is a war in southern Sichuan. Do you have any good strategies to defeat the enemy?" Zhou Guanghao stood up with his sword in one hand, crossed his hands and said: "General, my subordinates thought that we were going to defeat the bandits in southern Sichuan, so we divided our troops. Hit it.”
Li Yingxiang said: "Tell me, how can we divide our troops to attack it?" Zhou Guanghao drew out his long sword and pointed at the raised peaks in the sand table and said: "Our Sichuan is very mountainous. Now that the army is setting out to clear this smoky land, if we camp together, Once the enemy attacks the stronghold with fire, it will be difficult to resist. This is one of the reasons.
The Black Bone Clan and the Zada Clan have occupied Xiangling, which is already disadvantageous to our army. This is the second reason. If our army crosses the Lu River by force, the opponent will definitely set up an ambush along the coast. Once our army cannot wait for the shore, Lushui will be our burial place.
It would be better for my subordinates to lead a group of light cavalry and cross the river at night to find out the situation at Xiangling first. After my subordinates have confused the enemy's morale, the general will then send troops to rush for reinforcements. As long as we open the gap in Xiangling, half the battle to defeat the enemy will be completed.
After the enemy's morale is frustrated, they will naturally not fight again easily. Once they are unable to hold on, our army can surround them first and cut off the connection between them. As long as we surround one, reinforcements will naturally come to die. Divide them, attack them, and finally unite them and encircle them, and the war in southern Sichuan will be peaceful. "
After Zhou Guanghao finished speaking, Li Yingxiang laughed loudly. He stood up and said: "Guoyong is a scholar, and I am afraid he knows little about military matters. I am afraid that you will be injured by the enemy before you lead your troops across the river." What he meant was: To say that Zhou Guanghao is just talk on paper.
Zhou Guanghao looked around and saw that the smiles on everyone's faces were almost as mocking as Li Yingxiang's. He felt very unhappy and said loudly: "The general's words are wrong. Who said that civil servants cannot lead troops? During the Three Kingdoms period, there was Lu Xun, the general of Soochow, and the Ming Dynasty. There is also a figure like Mr. Yangming in the dynasty."
General Zhu Wenda said: "Brother Zhou, are you comparing yourself to Lu Xun, Mr. Yangming?" Zhou Guanghao said: "Why not?" Zhu Wenda said: "March and fight are far from what is said in the drama. Why is Li Taibai drunk and frightened?" Man Shu, Zhuge Liang's straw boat borrowing arrows, these are all nonsense made up by literati. It's okay to listen to them as stories, but how can they be taken seriously?"
Provoked by the other party, Zhou Guanghao said seriously: "General Li, is Zhou an official appointed by the imperial court?" Li Yingxiang was startled and said: "Brother Zhou is from the Ministry of War, so naturally he is an official of the imperial court." Zhou Guanghao said again: "Since The imperial court appointed Zhou, so he was right. You have a scholar who can't lead troops, and a scholar who can't fight. What's the point?"
Before Li Yingxiang spoke, Bian Zhiyuan said: "Zhou Jianjun, it's not that everyone can't trust you, but that it's too dangerous for you to do this. You don't care about your life. Someone Bian respects you as a good man, but none of the brothers is a mother-in-law." Raised? Once they have a problem, what do you want their parents to do?"
Zhou Guanghao sneered and said: "As the saying goes, 'Civil ministers will die to remonstrate, and military ministers will die to fight'. Since we have been ordered by the court, we have naturally put life and death aside for a long time. If we are afraid of death, why should we be soldiers? It is better to go home and farm."
When Bian Zhiyuan heard what he said, his face turned pale. He pointed at him and said, "You... you are really ignorant. I advised you with good intentions, but you ridiculed me." He was about to draw his sword. Li Yingxiang said with a straight face: "We haven't even met the enemy yet, but one of our own has taken action first. How unbecoming is it?"
Both of them glared at each other. Zhou Guanghao crossed his hands and said: "General Li, Zhou is willing to issue a military order. If I lead twenty cavalry and cannot defeat the Xiangling bandits within ten days, I am willing to be dealt with by military law." Li Yingxiang said: "There is no joke in the army, Guoyong It’s better to think twice before you act.”
Zhou Guanghao said sternly: "Guoyong has received the honor of the imperial court, and he should be loyal to the army. Others cannot be the vanguard to defeat the enemy, so I will do it. I am willing to issue a military order and ask the general to fulfill it." Li Yingxiang rolled his eyes at the wall beside him and thought. He said: "It's all your talk. It's better now than forcing this scholar to seek death."
Zhou Guanghao said again: "Please give the general order." Li Yingxiang didn't expect that his joke would turn out to be serious. He hesitated again and again, and thought to himself: "Everyone can see that Zhou Guanghao asked for the fight on his own, so even if he dies in the fight, I have nothing to do with it.
Then he thought again: "This man is Xu Zhongcheng's confidant. If he has any shortcomings, Master Zhongcheng will definitely refer to me, which makes me embarrassed. Anyway, this man wants to die, and the Lord of Hell can't stop him. I Then it will be fulfilled for him.”
At that moment, he said in a deep voice: "Come here and get the pen and ink." After a while, his subordinates brought the pen and ink. Zhou Guanghao held the brush and swung it. Li Yingxiang looked at the military order and nodded: "Okay, since Zhou Jianjun wants to be the vanguard, I will allow you. In addition to twenty light cavalry, what else do you want from me?"
Zhou Guanghao said: "If I take Xiangling, I will ask Generals Zhu and Bian to apologize to Zhou, and also ask the general to take back his words that scholars cannot lead troops." Li Yingxiang breathed a sigh of relief and said: "After all the trouble, Zhou Jianjun is still You have to fight for it. Well, I will answer your question for them." He took out a token from the lottery tube and handed it to Zhou Guanghao.
