"Not back yet?" Wei Kui was sitting cross-legged on the sand, surrounded by soldiers in the middle. They had been waiting for about two hours, and it was completely dark. Wei Cheng and Li Dayong had already returned from their investigation, but Tian Kai and Lin San were still missing.
"It couldn't be that they were caught by the Haogao people..." Du Rong said from the side. There has been no news for such a long time. I'm afraid these two people are already in danger.
Everyone waited anxiously for a moment, then saw a soldier in charge of patrol on the slope shouting: "Here we come!"
"Back? Are you sure it's the two of them?" Wei stood up and rushed up the slope. He had been delayed for too long. He couldn't wait to know the information those two people brought back.
"No...it's not the two of them..." The patrolling soldier's voice trembled, his tone frightened, as if he had seen something extraordinary.
There was no need to wait for others to say anything, Wei Kui had already seen it - the fire was shining brightly in the distance, and the dust was rising into the sky. It seemed that a large army that was far more numerous than them was advancing towards this direction.
"What's coming?" Du Rong asked.
"It's the Xiegao people's army..." Wei Cheng said firmly. He had excellent eyesight and had previously inspected the situation of the Xiegao people's camp, so he could naturally recognize it. "The entire army has probably been dispatched."
A group of people were standing on the back side of the dune, observing each other's movements. Since they were on the back slope, they had not been discovered yet, but that would be a matter of time.
"What to do now?" Wei Cheng looked at his clan brother. He was the leader of the scout team, so naturally he was the one to make the decision.
"Old Wei, take a detour with the large army. Give me ten people and I will lure them away." Du Rong said suddenly.
"How can this be done..." Wei Kui hesitated. Du Rong's behavior means sacrificing his life for justice. This decision is rational, but it goes against Wei Kui's consistent style.
"You misunderstood me..." Du Rong interrupted Wei Kui, "I want you to take a detour and go straight to the opponent's camp, and we will buy time for your large army. If their nest is attacked by surprise, they will definitely not be able to fight. We have been entangled for too long, and when the time comes we will attack from both inside and outside."
"Is it really feasible?" Wei Kui asked.
"Come on, the faster you go, the greater the chance we will survive." Du Rong was not a mother-in-law person either. He patted Wei Kui on the shoulder, then immediately turned around and prepared to set off.
As the Haogao army advanced, they could finally see a group of figures riding tall horses on the sand dunes in front of them, looking down at them from a high position.
"Fire arrows." Du Rong's voice was very calm, and several arrows were immediately fired from the sand dune to shoot at the enemy formation. The dozen or so people Wei Kui left behind were all warriors who were best at archery, and among them, Wei Cheng was the most skilled in archery. Wei Cheng's arrow feathers went straight to the centermost person in the opponent's formation!
This Xiegao army is not the army that has fought with the Sirius Army before, but its combat effectiveness is not weaker than the one that defeated their camp back then.
The ace force in Baiyu Jingzhong, the capital of the Sheng Kingdom, is called the Forbidden Army. They are the strongest and most loyal guards in a country. There are also corresponding ones among the Haogao people - their name is not called the Forbidden Army, but "The Forbidden Army" "Divisional Department" and "King's Department".
The leader of the Haogao people is called "Da Si", and Da Si has four noble princes on his left and right. From the meaning of the word, we can also know that the Si Bu is the guard of the Da Si, and the Wang Bu is naturally the prince's guard. The troops in front of you are the royal troops of the right prince.
The person at the center of the Right Prince's Department wears a felt hat and leather armor. He is about thirty years old and has a very extraordinary appearance. He is Amul, the leader of the Right Prince's Department, and he is naturally very powerful. When the arrow shot in front of him, Amul chuckled and caught the arrow that was close at hand with his hand. Then he picked up his bow and shot an arrow in return.
Wei Cheng didn't have the ability, so he had to pull out the sword from his waist and split the arrow shot by the commander, while muttering: "It's so powerful."
The royal men reacted quickly after facing a round of shooting, and drew their long bows to fight back. However, they saw Du Rong on the sand dune yelling: "Retreat!", and the dozen or so knights retreated one after another. He went down and disappeared from the royal family's sight.
A chase battle began like this. The Hao Gao King's men chased and beat them, and Du Rong and others kept turning around to fight back. Of course, the power of hundreds of royal troops was not something that a dozen or so riders could resist, and Du Rong and others gradually fell into a disadvantage. However, their mission is to contain the opponent, so they don't need to cause any damage, they just need to lead the opponent in circles.
Here, Wei Kui bypassed the king's advance along the back of the sand dune, and under the leadership of Li Dayong, went straight to the Haogao camp. Unexpectedly, he met Tian Kai who was sent out here.
Tian Kai was also screaming in his heart that he was unlucky. He originally wanted to break into the Haogao people's camp to warn them that there were Sheng Kingdom troops around, but in the end, these reckless men actually chased them out, and he hid in the woods before getting around. He passed the opponent's eye, but he didn't expect to see the opponent move in full force as soon as he came out of Populus euphratica forest. Now Wei Kui's entire team might be wiped out, which made Tian Kai extremely frightened. After all, this was somewhat contrary to his original intention, so of course he ran away. In order not to be discovered, he bypassed the camp and wanted to go back via the same road Wei Cheng and Li Day used, but he happened to bump into Wei Kui.
Before Wei Kui could ask questions, Li Dayong spoke first: "You...why are you here? Isn't this the path we took? Where is Lin San?"
Tian Kai's acting skills were also very good. He immediately acted like he was in shock, and said half panicked and half angry: "Lin San rushed in greedily, but unexpectedly he was caught by the Haogao people and was taken back to their camp. Soon after, I saw the Xiegao people marching out in full force along the path we came from. I hid and waited for them to pass by, then I remembered to come here to find you... Could it be that Lin San had rebelled? Bar?"
Listen, this is a lot of confusion and frame-up. He obviously killed Lin San and used Lin San's body to lure the Haogao people out, but he said that Lin San himself broke into the camp to take advantage of his credit and was caught. Tian Kai All of his words were secretly guiding everyone to think about it: "After Lin San was arrested, he was greedy for life and feared death, and in order to survive, he revealed everyone's position."
Wei Kui nodded, as if he had no doubts about Tian Kai's words, "Okay, then you can return to the team first."
"Where are we going?" Tian Kai asked. He was also curious about how Wei Kui led everyone to bypass the Xiegao people and come to this place.
"Hit the camp." Wei Kui's mind was not on Tian Kai at all. He replied with two words perfunctorily and then directed everyone to move forward.
Holy shit, is this guy crazy? Tian Kai suddenly felt a chill in his heart. Does Wei Kui think he has a long life? No, I have to find an opportunity to sneak away - of course Tian Kai has to sneak away. Following Wei Kui to rob the camp will be a dead end. Not to mention, Lin San, whose bones are still cold, is still lying in the camp! What if Wei Kui saw Lin San's body and saw clues?
On the way, Wei Kui suddenly turned around and asked Tian Kai: "Have you fought with the Haogao people?"
Tian Kai knew that he would be wrong if he said too much, so he naturally answered no truthfully. Wei Kui nodded and continued to concentrate on his way, but there were still words in his mouth.
After Amul and Du Rong sawed each other for a long time, he suddenly had an idea and thought about it - these Sheng people would not fight or run, so there must be a conspiracy among them, and as the The two groups of soldiers and horses were getting farther and farther away from the Haogao camp, and it was only then that Amul realized what these people were going to do.
"Quick, the whole army retreats and rushes back to the camp!" Amul realized that he had fallen into the trap of diverting the tiger away from the mountain.
Logically speaking, if the camp is lost, it will be lost. Anyway, the combat effectiveness of their royal group is here. Whether they can fight head-on or run away, they can succeed. It doesn't matter if they don't want this camp - it's just that there are still many people in this camp. There is a very important person, and this royal team is accompanying him.
The person who made Amul rush back anxiously was Lan Jian, the son of the right prince of Xie Gao. Lan Jian was fifteen years old. He was skilled in bow and horse and loved hunting. He often took his friends out to do some hunting activities. This time The right prince's royal family also traveled with him to protect the prince's safety.
If the army is defeated, it will be defeated, but if something happens to Lan Jian - Amul's ten heads are not enough to cut off.
So the situation suddenly reversed. Previously, Amul was chasing Du Rong, but now it was Amul chasing Du Rong. Amul didn't dare to divide his troops - who knew how many troops the other party had going to rob the camp? If something goes wrong in dividing the troops, not to mention Lan Jian, the entire royal family will be buried with him.
Amul led the royal troops back to the camp sooner or later - what was late was that there were only a few dozen people in the camp left behind. How could they have imagined how the Sheng people suddenly became so fierce and dared to kick them? At the camp gate, these dozens of people were caught off guard and were either killed or captured. The dead were lying on the ground, and the living were tied with ropes and kneeling aside; and Lan Jian was the first to return. He didn't die, which can be considered a blessing among misfortunes.
Wei Kui led some of the soldiers from Wansu Camp to stand at the gate of the camp. At his feet was Lan Jian, who was tied with a cowhide rope and lying on the ground.
"I'm telling you... just stand there and don't move." Wei Kui pointed at Amul at the front of the queue with his iron halberd. He didn't know if Amul could understand - but it would be fine if Amul could understand the situation in front of him. . "Don't come over here. I'm here to interrogate the traitors. We'll talk about your master's affairs later."
Amul didn't know Mandarin, but there was someone in the royal family who did, and he quickly translated for Amul. Only then did Amul see that besides Lan Jian lying on the ground, there was a lonely person standing in front of Wei Kui.
Of course Amul is impatient, Lan Jian is still in his hands, but if he acts rashly now, he will definitely annoy the other party - he is still some distance away from the camp, and Lan Jian's head is at the feet of that strong man. He believes that as long as he has With this action, the strong man could kick Lan Jian's head like a broken melon. So he just waited to see what Wei Kui was going to do.
"Don't you admit it yet?" Wei Kui turned to Tian Kai after threatening Amul. "Lin San will die in your hands."
"I have nothing to admit." Tian Kai lowered his head and looked very calm. When he rushed into the camp with the team, his first thought was not to kill the enemy, but to look for Lin San's body, but he didn't find it - presumably those Xiegao people also thought it was unlucky, so they left it somewhere without anyone. In the corner. "I didn't kill the person."
"Pull him down..." Wei Kui snorted disdainfully, "Do you want me to show you Lin San's body?"
This sentence can be said to shock Tian Kai, but he still pretended to be calm and said: "It's not me who killed him after seeing it..."
"Tsk tsk..." Wei Kui smacked his lips, "You really can't shed tears until you see the coffin..."
Lin San's body was quickly taken out. It turned out that he had been wrapped in a straw mat by the Haogao people and thrown outside the camp. After occupying the camp, Li Dayong patrolled around and found it outside the gate of another camp. turn up.
The straw mat was opened, and Lin San's corpse had his eyes closed, his expression was in pain, and he seemed to be full of injustice. However, there was only a horrific penetrating wound on his body diagonally from his back to his chest.
"There is only one wound on the whole body... Doesn't this match what you said before about him forcing his way into the camp?" Wei Kui said angrily.
"It's not impossible... what if he was captured as soon as he broke in. He thought he could get a chance to survive by asking for glory, but he was stabbed to death and silenced after the rebellion?" Tian Kai He is also sharp-tongued and eloquent.
"Hey... you are really tough-talking." Wei Kui curled his lips, "Well, just throw your saber over."
When Tian Kai saw that Wei Kui wanted his own saber, he made a quick decision and took off the saber from his waist and threw it in front of Wei Kui. In order to cover up the traces of murder, Tian Kai handled the knife extremely carefully and carefully. He believed that There would definitely be nothing unusual about it, and the knife would become strong evidence of his innocence.
Wei Kui pulled out Tian Kai's saber, put it in front of his nose and sniffed it vigorously. As if to avoid making any mistakes, he pulled out the saber from Lin San's body and repeated his previous actions, and finally said slowly: "The wounds on Lin San were not caused by the Xiegao people's scimitars, but by our sabers. Your knife smells of blood...but his knife doesn't."
"I asked you before if you had ever fought with the Haogao people, and the answer you gave me was no. Then where did the smell of blood on your knife come from?" Wei Kui seemed unwilling to fight with this sharp blade that killed his compatriots. He made contact and threw Tian Kai's knife directly to the ground.
Hearing what Wei Kui said, Tian Kai only thought that there was no need to accuse him. How could he know Wei Kui's innate sensitivity to the smell of blood? He could only pretend to be angry, and his words were all mocking Wei Kui's ridiculous behavior: "You can smell this? Do you have a dog's nose? You said it smells like blood?" After speaking, he looked around. The reaction of other soldiers was to gain supporters for themselves.
Wei Kui ignored him and said loudly: "You...in order to frame us, or just to harm me, you took the initiative to invite Ying to explore the camp. In fact, it was to wait for an opportunity to interfere. You proposed to divide the troops also to make it more difficult. To facilitate your actions, in the end, although the four of us were not separated as you wished, it is not a bad thing for you to be in a group with this young man instead of being in a group with two people I know well. There is such a Being a scapegoat will make it easier for you to attract the attention of the Xie Gao people..."
"You kill Lin San, and then use his body to remind the Xiegao people that there are Shengguo troops around, so that our surprise attack plan ends in failure, and then you can take this opportunity to escape. But you I didn’t expect that the Xiegao people would take the initiative to attack, and I didn’t expect that we, with only a hundred people, would dare to do the opposite and bypass the army and go straight to their home base..."
"Yes or no?" Wei Kui still had a smile on his face, but his eyes were filled with anger.
"It's whatever you say..." Tian Kai also didn't expect that Wei Kui, who seemed to be a reckless man, could actually see through his own thoughts, but he could only pretend to be incapable of washing himself by jumping into the Yellow River. He showed his disdain with a clear look.
Of course Wei Kui knew that Tian Kai would have such a reaction. He immediately turned his head to the people watching the show over there and shouted loudly: "Did you kill our brother who was rolled up in the straw mat?"
After listening to the translation, Amul shook his head at Wei Kui - they were not the ones who killed the person in the first place, and of course they would not admit it. Besides, Amul wanted to see the other party engaging in internal strife.
"Look, even the Xiegao people won't help you... If they really killed him, there's no need for them to deny it, right?" Wei Kui had already pulled out the iron halberd stuck in the ground and was walking towards Tian Kai step by step. .
"I didn't want to kill him..." Tian Kai lowered his head and said, and just when everyone was thinking about "Did he just say that he killed Lin San?" Tian Kai rushed out and leaned over to think. Pick up the saber Wei Kui threw on the ground.
Wei Kui's speed was much faster than Tian Kai's, and his iron halberd was much longer than Tian Kai's arm. The iron halberd passed through his chest, and Tian Kai died immediately.
Wei Kui took off Tian Kai from his halberd and chopped off Tian Kai's head with Lin San's saber. He slowly turned around and walked to Lin San's body and said in a low voice: "This brother... although we We’re not acquaintances, but you were killed by a traitor because of me, and I’m sorry for you... I used your knife to chop off his head, and it was regarded as your revenge with your own hands, so you can go with peace of mind."
After Wei Kui finished dealing with the traitors, he turned his attention to Amul, who had been waiting for a long time, and wiped the blood spattered on his hands with Tian Kai's clothes, "You are the boss of this group of people, right? You can talk about us now. It’s about that.”
