PS: Three days in a row and five watches are already so awesome that I don't need to say anything, I think I'm an amazing man...... Owes more to make up, cool.

Chapter 988: Swordsman

Xiahou Baichuan had been observing the enemy's deployment by the Qinhe River for several days, and at first he saw that the deployment of the high army on the opposite bank was just like this, and it was just decent. The next day, I thought of something and looked at it again, and found that this defense really had some doorways. When I went back on the third day, I found that Zheng Ziyu's armament did not have a flaw.

On the fourth day, Fang Xie personally went to the river.

"The subordinates are guilty."

Seeing that Fang Xie was coming, Xiahou Baichuan knelt down on one knee and saluted: "The lord strictly ordered that the river should be crossed quickly, but his subordinates did not fight for several days, and they failed the lord's trust." ”

"Justification"

Fang Xie walked to the river, and a Xiao riding school immediately moved a chair and put it behind Fang Jie, Fang Xie threw off his cloak and sat down on the chair, waiting for Xiahou Baichuan's answer.

"No flaws"

Xiahou Baichuan recounted his observations in the past few days, bowed down and stood aside and didn't dare to say anything more. Before entering the army, Fang Xie had already ordered the battle of the Transition River to be fast, and now the rain does not know when it will come down in this season, once the rain rises heavily, it will definitely be much more difficult to cross the river than now.

"No flaws?"

Fang Xie repeated it, and then came over and looked at the other side with clairvoyance.

"There is no trick in such a war. If there is no flaw in the opponent's arrangement, it can only attack head-on. The enemy is defending our attack, and there is no warship to support us, once the battle starts, it will be tragic, and my subordinates are worried that the casualties will be too great......"

"How long do you need it?"

Fang asked.

"Two days"

Xiahou Baichuan raised his head and said: "Please give your subordinates two more days, if you can't think of a way to cross the river within two days, your subordinates are willing to engage in military law." ”

"Okay, I'll give you three more days."

Fang Xie stood up and threw the clairvoyance to the guards: "Hundreds of thousands of troops are watching behind you, and you know how much grain and grass you consume more than one day. Even if the grain is transported from Liyin Cang, ten catties of grain will be left in the army. If grain is transported from the southwest of the Yangtze River, half of the ten catties of grain will be left. I know that you have a heavy burden as a vanguard general, but since you can pick it up, you must walk steadily. ”

"Whoa!"

Xiahou Baichuan nodded heavily: "Within three days, my subordinates will come up with a strategy to break the enemy!" ”

Fang Xie snorted, didn't say anything more and turned to leave.

After returning to the camp, Fang Xie flashed his cloak aside when he entered the big tent, and his face was a little unsightly. It just so happened that Dugu Wenxiu came in to ask him for instructions, and when he saw Fang Jie's face was different, he immediately understood that it must be the matter of the vanguard army.

"Lord, what is the difficulty of General Xiahou?"

Dugu Wenxiu asked.

"He was afraid that the casualties would be too great, so he did not dare to go to war."

Fang Xie sighed: "But what Zheng Ziyu wants is that he doesn't dare to go to war like this!" I have just returned from the Qinhe River, which is at least a few meters wider than it was a few days ago, and it is already raining upstream. If it was delayed for a few more days, Zheng Ziyu wouldn't even have to be on the shore. ”

Dugu Wenxiu said: "Actually, Xiahou is also thinking about the lord...... The Qinhe River is more than a mile away, and at this distance, the power of artillery can force the enemy on the bank back at most. However, the enemy's ballista and stone-throwing carts could easily intercept the team that walked halfway to the river, and the soldiers attacked it halfway, and Zheng Ziyu had a geographical advantage...... Unless Zheng Ziyu's ballista and stone-throwing cart could not be used when the vanguard army crossed the river, the casualties would indeed not be too small. ”

"Let Zheng Ziyu's ballista not be used?"

Fang Jie's eyes suddenly lit up: "Come on, go and call the wine and wealth." ”

……

……

Xiang Qingniu walked into Fang Jie's tent with a piece of cooked meat in his mouth, glanced at Fang Jie, who was sitting behind the table and reading a book, and threw the half roast chicken he was carrying in his hand, Fang Xie stretched out his hand to catch it, and then gave Xiang Qingniu a fierce look.

"What is this for? You let another fat man borrow all those Jianghu guests from me, are you looking for the bad luck of Zheng Ziyu on the other side? I heard that Zheng Ziyu is resourceful, but I'm afraid that we will cross the river and sneak attack at night, if the manpower in my hand is too damaged, what will you give me back? ”

"Chicken butts can't stop your mouth?"

Fang Xie sat up straight and tore off a chicken wing: "The water has risen upstream, if you can't cross the river in a few days, it will be difficult to get past it if it rains heavily." ”

"Do you want to go to the other side of the bank to step on two feet?"

Xiang Qingniu rubbed the greasy on his hand on the Daozun clothes, and didn't care at all.

"If you can trample to death the tens of thousands of Zheng Ziyu's army alone, I'd be happy. Gao Kaitai has been in Gyeonggi Province for several years, and there are so many big names in Chang'an City, which one has few masters? Wang Yiqu died or Yang Jian killed him, Gao Kaitai has always been alive and well, can there be few decent cultivators around? ”

"If you're afraid of something, then fight."

Xiang Qingniu said while picking his teeth.

"In fact, this is an unwritten rule, and things on the battlefield should be solved on the battlefield as much as possible. Since ancient times, great practitioners have rarely been involved in wars. Of course, it's not impossible. At the beginning, Luo Yao walked into Pang Ba's camp alone, and slaughtered almost all the generals in Pang Ba's army, not following the rules at all. ”

"You're going to slaughter it too?"

Xiang Qingniu said with a smile.

"I always feel that Gao Kaitai is just waiting for me to go."

"Why?"

Xiang Qingniu asked, "Are you overestimating your opponent too much?" Now in this world, there are really few people who can threaten you. The old cow's nose can, but he is a saint in peace and mind on the western grassland. Zhang Yiyang could, but he pretended to practice in retreat in Wudang Mountain. Who else can? I can't even think of it if I break my scalp. Unless ......"

He glanced at Fang Jie: "Unless, there are also a few big ...... in the Gao Kaitai army."

Fang Xie frowned slightly, what Xiang Qingniu said may not be impossible. Zheng Ziyu's arrangement of troops is like a dead guard, and the defending side uses everything he can use, putting on the best formation and waiting. The attacking side will have a headache, and the casualties of the soldiers will be too great for anyone to bear. At this time, it is often up to the practitioner to solve the problem.

It was impossible for Zheng Ziyu not to think that there were many Jianghu guests in the Black Flag Army, was he really not on guard?

"Someone!"

Fang Xie immediately ordered: "Let Chen Xiaoru take people to chase wine and wealth, and bring all the people back!" ”

The Xiao Riding School outside the door knew that Fang Xie was really in a hurry when he heard the tone, and hurriedly sent someone to inform Chen Xiaoru.

"What, do you really think there will be a few people in Zheng Ziyu's army?"

Xiang Qingniu looked at Fang Xie and was a little disapproving: "The rivers and lakes are big when they say they are big, and they are not much bigger when they say they are small." There are only a handful of masters who have become famous in the rivers and lakes, and now there are definitely more dead than alive. If there was really such a master in Gao Kaitai's army who could threaten you, I guess he would have sent him to assassinate you a long time ago, instead of waiting for ......."

"Why did Gao Kaitai dare to come to our army to negotiate with only a few personal guards?"

Fang Xie suddenly asked.

Xiang Qingniu was stunned: "What do you mean...... He was carrying a master with him that day? ”

Fang Xie nodded: "It was my negligence, I didn't think that Gao Kaitai had such a master by his side from the beginning, so I didn't care about those guards." ”

"Impossible."

Xiang Qingniu shook his head: "Even if you don't care, as long as such a master stands in front of you, you can naturally feel it." Those guards are so close to you that you don't notice anything, either they have some special way to hide their cultivation, or they are not worth mentioning at all. ”

"A special idea?"

Fang Xie thought about it carefully, and in his memory, there seemed to be no sect in the rivers and lakes that was good at such a cultivation method.

"I suddenly thought of a ......"

Xiang Qingniu subconsciously glanced at Fang Jie, and his face became a little unsightly.

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……

Jiu Shicai's body was a little unstable, if it wasn't for Chen Xiaoru helping him, he might have fallen down just now. He had at least four wounds on his chest, each of which was deep. If it weren't for his light skills being good enough, maybe he would have died a long time ago.

He didn't die, but of the more than 100 Jianghu guests he brought to the north of the Qin River, only four of them came back alive with him, and those four people were also seriously injured. If it weren't for Chen Xiaoru's timely response, maybe none of them would have been able to come back.

"Subordinate...... If the matter is unfavorable, please punish the Lord. ”

Jiu Secai struggled to bow down, but the movement on his body hurt his heart, and the blood continued to flow down his clothes, and soon stained a large area of red where he was standing at his feet. Fang Xie immediately got up and asked people to help Jiu Se Cai find a place to lie down, he tore off Jiu Se Cai's clothes, and at a glance he could see that he had knife wounds on his chest.

Fang Xie personally cleaned the wound for Jiu Secai, then used medicine, and asked the military doctor to bring needles and threads to stitch the wound.

"What shall I punish you?"

Fang Xie shook his head while stitching up the wound: "I thought of it too late to call you back, and the fault is not yours but me." What's more, I really can't think of a reason to punish a man with wounds on his chest. ”

The wine color Cai was slightly stunned and didn't say anything more.

"When the subordinates arrived, Jiu Secai dragged behind alone to block the pursuers, so those four people came back......"

Chen Xiaoru said next to him.

Fang Xie nodded, and seriously dealt with the wound of the wine and the wealth: "This matter was originally arranged by me to be inconsiderate, and I suddenly woke up after you set off, and it was too late to send someone to call you back." I have all these wounds of yours in my heart. ”

Liquor Secai was suddenly a little scared.

The atmosphere he feared the most reappeared.

What he was most afraid of was not the bloody and cold atmosphere in the abandoned brick kiln, but the warmth when he first entered the palace of the Four Princes and Lao Liu squatted at the back door to eat. For most of his life, he had experienced the feeling of coldness, too little warmth. So he was afraid, afraid that this feeling would quickly disappear once it appeared.

"If you take one knife, I will scrape Zheng Ziyu a hundred times, and if you take four stabs, I will kill Zheng Ziyu."

Fang Xie took care of Jiu Secai's wound, got up and washed his hands: "Chen Xiaoru, take someone to send Jiu Secai back to recuperate, and find a few thoughtful people to take care of him during this period when he is fully recovered, don't find a woman, this guy is unreliable." ”

Jiu Secai couldn't help laughing, hiding a hint of warmth in the corners of his eyes.

"Those swordsmen are very unusual."

He said: "My subordinates are also a ** lake, and I have seen a lot of famous people who use knives. But none of them use knives like those people, they use knives to the extreme, and they are terrible to the extreme. The subordinates were able to come back alive because they had encountered too many situations before when they almost died, and they had already practiced their reactions, and the subordinates couldn't even avoid these four knives......"

"I see."

Fang Xie patted Jiu Secai's shoulder: "Go back and recuperate, I'll deal with those swordsmen." ”

He looked at Xiang Qingniu, Xiang Qingniu nodded, his face solemn.