Chen Xizhen was sure that someone would attack the camp tonight, and it was not unreasonable.
As the saying goes, if you know yourself and the enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without danger. In any war, spying on the enemy's situation is a very important link.
For the Liangshan Rebels, before the formal decisive battle with all their forces, they must test it out before they can decide their next move.
So tonight's attack will not be to directly achieve a decisive victory, but to test how many noteworthy generals there are in the army, and how many masters among Taoist officials are there?
Among the 100,000 troops, which parts have high morale and strict military discipline? Where are the places with low morale and easy to be breached?
In addition to the common archers, infantry, cavalry, and navy, what other special arms are there?
When attacking the camp, there must be experts snooping from a distance to grasp this information, but...
"If someone really attacks the camp tonight, they will only be able to test a quarter of the masters in the army at most."
Guan Sheng and Hu Yanzhuo were chatting in a military tent.
Guan Sheng was slightly admiring: "Chen Daozi is really good at leading troops in battles. The formation diagram he laid out, according to the eight directions, occupies the heaven, earth, water, fire, wind, thunder, mountains, and the changes of the eight qi. Every two A hexagram can be achieved by planting it."
"The generals in these two directions have fixed selections, but the people under their command are constantly changing, providing the eight demonic turbid energies to the generals in a steady stream."
"The generals in the other six positions are immobile and hidden, but when the soldiers and horses under their command have moved, the devil's cultivation can faintly echo the past, completely misleading the outside world's perception of the military camp."
Hu Yanzhuo nodded repeatedly when he heard this, and said: "But Liangshan was able to eradicate Yan Shude, Yun Tianbiao, and Liu Yongxi one after another with a weak army and a small army. Their leader must also be a man of both civil and military skills, and there is no shortage of strategies."
"If General Guan were to guess, how should we arrange today's attack on the camp so that we can find out the details without causing too many losses to our elite men?"
Both of them are veteran generals who are accustomed to leading troops on expeditions. During the reign of Emperor Daojun, they were already outstanding local generals. After they came to Han Shizhong's command, they often fought against each other and learned from each other.
Now seeing Chen Xizhen's arrangement, while admiring it, I couldn't help but feel eager to win. I unconsciously put myself in the enemy's perspective and thought about how to find a flaw.
Guan Sheng frowned and thought hard. The candlelight flickered slightly, causing the facial features on his face to change slightly. After a long time, he relaxed his brows and said, "There is a plan..."
Hu Yanzhuo was waiting to hear his opinion, but when he saw him shut his mouth mid-sentence, he couldn't help but asked a little anxiously, "What's the plan?"
Guan Sheng shook his head: "This plan won't work either. I already know Chen Xizhen's overall layout, so I can come up with this flaw. The people in Liangshan don't know Chen Xizhen's layout at all, how could they think of this?"
Hu Yanzhuo couldn't think of any good plan, so he sighed and said: "It seems that Liangshan will definitely lose one of its troops tonight. The task of exploring the camp is of great importance, and it must be led by a strong general. I don't know if it will be Shi." Xiu and Lin Chong, or Lu Da and Wu Song, are the unfortunate people."
Guan Sheng said worriedly: "The big leader in Liangshan has always taken the lead in several battles. I'm afraid he will do it himself."
One hundred thousand elite magic soldiers, thirty-two first-rate generals, six great officials and their warlocks, and three immortal golden elixirs. This kind of lineup is enough to fight even against a character who is on the verge of ascending.
No matter how overestimated the guarding of Luoyang is, once he goes deep into the camp alone, he will definitely be trapped. If Liangshan soldiers and horses come to rescue him, they will have to start a decisive battle with the imperial soldiers and horses in a hurry.
In such a situation, it will be like using a warm chest and ribs to meet a cold sharp knife. In the end, it will only be a waste of blood, spilled on the cold night.
Guan Sheng and others had been secretly instructed by Han Shizhong before they came. If they could save some people in Liangshan, they should try to save as many as possible. Naturally, they didn't want to see such a tragedy.
The two of them waited until the darkest part of the night amid unspoken worries.
Just after midnight, the stars and moonlight in the sky were obscured.
On the vast land, all the birds, beasts, poisonous insects with a radius of fifty miles have long been frightened away by the momentum of a hundred thousand elite demonic soldiers. There is no sound of insects or birds nearby, only the uniform footsteps of patrolling soldiers and the armor plates on their bodies. , the sound of crashing and crashing.
Inside the camp of the imperial soldiers and horses, the fire in the iron pot was burning brightly. Groups of soldiers held torches to watch the night. The gray-white tent cloth was slightly yellowed in the firelight, but so many flames could only illuminate it. Just show off this military camp.
If they looked up to the sky, they would only see endless darkness, and they could not tell the difference between height and distance.
If they looked outside the military camp, they could only see clearly things within a hundred feet at most. Further away, the shadows of the mountains and forests were like silent black paper-cuts, standing at the end of the field of vision, and no details could be seen. .
The sound of wind lingered low among the soldiers' armor, and the solemn and solemn atmosphere in the military camp changed subtly.
Someone soon recognized that it was a gust of wind blowing from the east, but such a wind was easily blocked and cut by the high fences and towering sentry towers when it reached the edge of the military camp.
After entering the military camp, the tents were easily squeezed into a flat weak wind. I could only walk around the tents to slightly change the direction of the flames of the torches in the soldiers' hands.
Even the heavy flag was still hanging down, unwilling to pay attention to the breeze.
The wind seemed to be irritated.
The wind was getting noticeably louder, all blowing from the east.
Finally, the shaking of the torch became violent and the flag blew away.
In the dark sky, although everything was dim, you could vaguely see large groups of clouds being moved and rolled by the wind, slowly rolling.
All the generals in the camp stood firmly at their positions and sneered at the strange wind.
There is no need for these top-notch generals to take action. It is just the small flag officers and deputy generals who each call on the soldiers under their command. They use their skills a little bit to cover the sky and the earth. The thick turbid air everywhere is here. An invisible solid wall formed around the perimeter of the army camp, easily blocking the strange wind.
The strong wind from the east refused to let up. No matter how fierce the whistling air flow was, it could only knock itself apart and roll back over the camp on the east again and again, forming sand and dust cyclones outside the camp gate, all in vain.
The flag officers and soldiers guarding the east side looked at each other with tacit and arrogant smiles on their faces.
It might be okay for thieves and monsters in the countryside to use this kind of magic to deal with a small group of soldiers and horses, 1,800 people, but trying to shake an army of 100,000 people is simply a fantasy!
When those ignorant monsters hiding in the dark run out of mana and find that they can't even blow up some pawns, the expressions on their faces must be very funny.
They looked at the silent mountain shadow in the distance, guessing the expression of the demon hiding in a certain direction, and their smiles became even stronger.
Where to hide?
Is it on the top of the mountain in the southeast, on the mountainside of the mountain in the east-north, or on the col of the mountain in the far north?
Or is it the short mountain directly east?
Among the mountains, the one directly east is the shortest.
On such a mountain, even the lowest-ranking night soldier in the army can run from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain in just two or three breaths, trampling the mountain under his feet.
The soldiers on duty looked around and searched for a while, and they were almost certain that the wind was coming from the low mountain due east.
The wind is still getting stronger, and it is still impossible to break into the camp. It is just blowing more and more dust outside the camp gate, obstructing people's eyesight. Looking through the dust whirlwind, it seems like the low mountain , and became a little higher.
The flag officer rubbed his eyes and focused the five powers of his powers on his eyes. His vision suddenly became clear and his eyesight was greatly enhanced.
I saw it right just now, the mountain has actually become taller.
Well, high again?
Higher!
Higher! ! !
The soldiers on the east side of the camp stared blankly at the scene in front of them.
The mountain is getting higher and higher. In an instant, it has grown more than ten times taller and bigger. In a blink of an eye, it is so big that it blocks the shadows of the mountains on the left and right, filling the field of vision.
The mountaintop grew bigger and faster, and the sound of the wind outside the camp almost became the howling of thousands of wild beasts. The ground outside the camp was blown into pieces and cracked. The fence that was several feet high also began to shake.
The impregnable turbid air defense began to have some waves.
The flag officers and guards finally sounded the jiaodou and iron whistles. Once they pulled out the triangular flags on their backs and waved them in the air, a brilliant fireworks exploded.
In the east direction of this military camp that stretches for more than ten miles, five hundred splendid fireworks went up in no particular order.
The guard to the east, Lingying General Haransheng, walked out of the camp carrying a bronze figure with a horn.
"Well done, I dare to choose a certain house..."
Haransheng's majestic voice suddenly stopped. What came from the east was not the enemy troops he had imagined sneaking up and testing, but a mountain, a mountain that was growing in size.
The demon-conquering real person Wang Tianba, who was guarding the southeast, flew up into the air in shock, slapped his head with his hand, and a golden light erupted from the Tianling Gai.
The golden light formed a big golden eyeball about three feet in diameter, rising slowly with a clear outline of the eyeball, scanning the mountain peak from top to bottom.
Of course the mountain will not get bigger. The reason why it feels like it is getting bigger is because the mountain is approaching the military camp.
In just a few breaths, the mountain had moved from five miles east of the military camp to a hundred feet away.
The east wind that resounded through the sky was not the strange wind that the Liangshan Taoist achieved through his magic.
Rather, it was a completely natural phenomenon, because as the mountain approached, it caused a huge air flow, squeezing the air towards the military camp.
Such a natural style, without any magical influence...
Your mother too! !
Wang Tianba almost cursed. The big golden eyeball above his head had already locked onto the bottom of the mountain, where a person was running quickly.
Wang Tianba had seen that man's portrait.
——The big dragon head of Liangshan is in the water, and the anti-thief demon road passes through Luoyang, carrying the mountain and coming!
"Brothers, come to the rescue!!!"
The shrill roars of Haransheng and Wang Tianba spread throughout the military camp.
In just a blink of an eye, the mountain peak crashed into the Song Bing military camp.
"Hahahaha, Liangshan Pass and Luoyang. I'm here to pay you a special visit. Please accept this small gift."
Haranshan and Wang Tianba were the first to bear the brunt.
Haransheng mobilized the demonic turbid energy of his soldiers and horses, and exploded. The other parts of the body looked normal, but the right arm suddenly extended thirty feet, becoming thicker from the shoulder to the forearm.
The palm had swelled to the size of half an acre, and the originally domineering and majestic unicorn bronze man became an inconspicuous small object in the center of the palm.
This palm hit the mountain peak, and it was deeply dented. Then large balls of blood mist burst out from the five fingers, and the arm was broken.
Harlanson was flying high in the sky, but like a small insect, he was crushed by the mountain and continued to crash into the military camp.
Wang Tianba flew away and did not dare to block.
From the Chinese army tent in the distance, Chen Xizhen roared, and a purple beam of light as thick as a human waist rose into the sky.
The elegant Longhu Mountain Evil-Slaying Magic Sword is located at the tip of the purple light. It leads the beam of light and turns into a purple phoenix, dragging five long feathers and crashing into the mountain peak.
The mountain suffered such a heavy blow, and a large number of cracks burst out from the middle, with a tendency to break, but the whole body was still falling towards the military camp.
Chen Xizhen couldn't care less about the secret plan for a while. The tiger talisman and command flag in the army, which represented the authority of the commander-in-chief, vibrated repeatedly and issued military orders.
The generals who were guarding everywhere responded with the tokens on their bodies.
However, before the military order arrived, some people who were close friends with Haransheng and Wang Tianba had already taken action first.
I saw the turbid air flowing wildly all over the sky, scattered into thousands of black water-like phenomena, controlled by a god who controlled the air and luck, and shot towards the mountain peak one after another.
When looking at the mountain from a distance, it seems that it is not worth mentioning. You can easily climb it, step on the entire mountain peak under your feet, and conquer it.
But when this mountain comes to conquer people's hearts, the real horror is revealed.
Although the huge mountain was torn apart by successive bombardments, even a small part of the mountain remains was still far more lethal than ordinary artillery fire.
What's more, all the mountain debris is still within the scope of the military camp.
Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo and others also took action one after another.
Liu Hunkang had a jade ruler in his hand. He floated in the air and shook his finger. At least one-seventh of the mountain debris began to shrink under the jade light. From the original huge boulder mudflow, It shrank to only fist-sized gravel.
Wang Laozhi fired divine fire from his palms, turning millions of kilograms of earth and stone into clouds of smoke in an instant. Fireworks billowed, more and more earth and stone were refined by him, and black smoke evaporated.
Another flying sword struck from Chen Xizhen's back, rolling up a lot of earth and rocks and converging into three smoky black fire dragons. They were ferocious, with teeth and claws bared, and they pounced towards the direction of the man carrying the mountain.
There was no one there.
Even though the sword is unsheathed, its light is still sharp.
Chen Xizhen's face turned ashen. All the masters in the military camp had taken action. Liangshan had not lost a single soldier, and his plan had been in vain.
"How can a person in the world who has never ascended have such profound skills?!"
He didn't say this sentence. He calmed down his expression. When others met him, no one knew what he was thinking.
"Hahaha, the Liangshan bandits are indeed cunning, but no matter how hard they try to move mountains, they still can't shake the position of my camp at all."
After going to comfort Harlanson and comforting other soldiers with a smile, Chen Xizhen calmly returned to the camp alone.
Half an hour later, there were faint clouds in the sky.
Another small mountain appeared and fell down.
This time the mountain top was much smaller than the previous one, and everyone was already somewhat prepared, so they quickly moved and smashed the mountain top.
Chen Xizhen looked indifferent.
Less than half an hour later, another small mountain peak came crashing down on him. He was furious. Two sword lights were unsheathed at the same time, and they used all their strength to cut into pieces the small mountain top.
"Come back! Everyone has already been out..."
He gritted his teeth and didn't let himself say these words.
In the early hours of the morning, in the darkness before dawn, the clouds and mists in the sky moved slightly. Suddenly, two sword lights flew into the clouds and swept across them.
In the military camp, the two swords were sheathed, and everyone looked at them.
Chen Xizhen paused and said, "This time it's just clouds."
