The nights in Huainan in spring are still a little chilly.

The cool breeze swept across the mountains, and the verdant greenery of the mountains turned into a misty ink color in the night.

In the heavy ink, thirteen black shadows quickly walked through the mountains and forests, rushing towards the direction of Shouchun City.

The black shadow running at the front was Deng Zhan, who had already changed out of the people's deep clothes at this time and was wearing a pure black night suit.

The twelve dragoons who followed him were also dressed in night clothes like him.

None of the thirteen men rode horses, but relied on two legs to walk through the wooded tombs.

While running, Deng Zhan suddenly stopped, raised an arm, and stopped the dragoon guards running behind him.

Seeing Deng Zhan's gesture, the twelve dragoons all squatted down, their eyes roaming the mountains and forests in the thick night.

There was silence all around, even the birds seemed to have fallen asleep, and the whole tomb fell into silence.

The ears of the dragoons were silent except for the rustle of the branches of the trees as the wind passed through the mountains.

But listening to the rustling sound, all the dragoon guards frowned like Deng Zhan.

The wind stirs the branches, and the sound is like a harmonious music, which brings a comfortable feeling to the ears.

The noise that Deng Zhan and the dragoon guards heard was not very peaceful, but a little chaotic.

Squatting in the grass, under the cover of the vegetation in the mountain forest, quietly listening to the sound of getting closer and closer.

"Patrolling the mountains all day, I don't know what the general is thinking!" The sound was getting closer and closer, and with the sound, the voice of a Huainan soldier reached the ears of Deng Zhan and the others.

"The Qin Army Dragoon Guards are haunted and often appear behind others!" As soon as the voice of the soldier who spoke first fell, another soldier took over his words and said to him: "We are waiting to explore the Xiangling, and we are also beware of the Qin army's dragoon guards sneaking into the army with the help of the cover of the mountains!" ”

Listening to the two Huainan soldiers talking, the corners of Deng Zhan's mouth pulled slightly towards Lu Shang, and he couldn't help but feel a little more contempt for Zhang Xun's caution in his heart.

If Zhang Xun hadn't sent soldiers to inspect Xiangling and only stationed outside Shouchun City, Deng Zhan and the others would still have many obstacles if they wanted to infiltrate the Huainan Army camp.

But Zhang Xun sent soldiers from the Huainan Army to inspect the mountains, and the number of soldiers was not large.

Listening to the sound of approaching footsteps, Deng Zhan was almost sure that the Huainan army approaching their side was only more than twenty people in total.

The dragoon guards, who specialize in assassination, have no problem dealing with more than 20 ordinary soldiers, in Deng Zhan's opinion.

The Huainan army patrolling the mountains was getting closer and closer, and Deng Zhan stretched out his hands and made a gesture to the twelve dragoons behind him.

The twelve dragoons saw his gesture and immediately spread out to the sides.

As soon as they dispersed, a group of Huainan troops, only twenty-three or four people, came over and walked forward along the place where they had just been hiding.

As soon as this group of Huainan troops walked by, Deng Zhan waved to the dragoon guards hiding on both sides and took the lead in following them.

Jumping behind the most Huainan army, Deng Zhan took out a short sword, stepped forward and covered the mouth of the Huainan army, and slashed the short sword towards his neck, dragging the body aside while the blood shot out.

The twelve dragoons who followed behind Deng Zhan also did the same, jumping up one by one, from back to front, covering the mouth of the Huainan Army soldier who was the last when they jumped in front of them, and slashed the throat of the Huainan Army with a short sword, dragging the body aside.

The two officers of the Huainan Army who were walking and talking, including the two of them, all the Huainan troops who were walking in front did not notice that the companions behind were decreasing one by one.

Finally, Deng Zhan and the others dealt with all the Huainan soldiers, leaving only the two officers who no longer had subordinates but didn't know about them.

As they walked, the two officers complained that they had come here to patrol the mountains and had nothing to do.

Exchanging glances with a dragoon, Deng Zhan and the dragoon suddenly jumped towards the two Huainan Army officers.

This time they didn't hide their tracks at all, and the officers of the Huainan Army heard movement behind them, and hurriedly turned around, and at the moment when they turned around, two short swords had already slashed past their necks.

The sharp dagger slashed the throats of the two Huainan Army officers.

Deng Zhan and the dragoon guards who were working at the same time reached out to hold the two officers before they fell to the ground, and slowly laid them flat on the ground.

After putting down the eliminated officers, Deng Zhan glanced at the dragoons who followed behind him, and he and another dragoon quickly changed into the clothes and armor of the Huainan Army officers.

and the dragoon guards changed into the clothes and armor of the Huainan Army, and Deng Zhan led everyone to push the corpses into the depression full of shrubs on the side, and then led the twelve soldiers along the path of Xiangling to the Huainan Army camp of Zhang Xun's department stationed outside Shouchun City.

The slopes of the hill are very gentle, but the soil on the ground is very soft in some places, and if you are not careful, you will step on the air.

Along the path, Deng Zhan and the twelve dragoon guards marched crookedly, walking for half an hour before they reached the foot of the mountain in Xiangling.

The Huainan area is full of hills, but there are also some gentle areas between the hills.

Under the Xiangling, the location of Deng Zhan and others is a flat land outside Shouchun City.

From a distance, they could even use the light of the fire in the military camp outside the city to vaguely see the black figure of the Shouchun city wall in the night.

Waving to the twelve people who followed behind him, Deng Zhan walked towards the military camp of the Huainan Army outside the city first.

The military camp of 100,000 people was unusually large, and the camp tents connected to each other almost surrounded the Shouchun city wall.

Before he reached the military camp of the Huainan Army, Deng Zhan's brows furrowed.

With such a large barracks, there must be patrolling teams everywhere inside, and if one of the teams sees something abnormal, it will not be so easy to get out of the barracks.

Entering the barracks, it is absolutely impossible to delay for too long, but it takes a lot of time to find Zhang Xun's camp tent.

Standing outside the barracks, looking at the huge barracks, Deng Zhan's brows furrowed tightly, and for a while he didn't know where to enter the camp and was closest to Zhang Xun's handsome tent.

"Is there anything wrong?" Looking at the military camp of the Huainan Army, a shout came from Deng Zhan's ears.

Hearing the shout, he turned his head to look in the direction where the voice came from, and saw a group of Huainan troops with torches walking towards them.

"Nope!" glanced at the Huainan army who was walking towards them, and found that the leading officer was no different from the armor on his body, Deng Zhan replied.

"The general just inspected, and explained to us that he wanted to strictly investigate the Lingling!" Walking up to Deng Zhan and the others, the officer of the Huainan Army said to Deng Zhan: "Since I came to Shouchun, I have been patrolling every day, and I have not found any trace of the Qin army, so I don't know why the general is so cautious. ”

"The general is here again?" The officer of the Huainan Army said that the general had just made an inspection, Deng Zhan's eyes lit up, and he asked, "Where is the general?" Why didn't I see it? ”

Raising his hand and pointing towards the barracks, the officer of the Huainan Army said to Deng Zhan: "You just entered the barracks, you are lucky, you didn't meet the general!" I was scolded by the general, saying that I didn't go into the mountains to search, how could I see the Qin army's dragoon guards! ”

After chatting with Deng Zhan for a few words, the officer of the Huainan Army looked at Deng Zhan from head to toe, with a puzzle on his face, and asked Deng Zhan: "Brother is a good face, when did you receive the order to patrol the mountains?" ”

"Don't mention it!" The officers of the Huainan Army already had some suspicions about them, Deng Zhan pretended to be helpless and shook his head, waved his hand at him and said: "Brother I don't know, at noon we were burying the pot to make food, and I happened to bump into the general inspecting the barracks, and when I saw us, I don't know why, saying that there were not enough people patrolling the mountains, and asked us to go into the mountains to search!" There are more than ten teams of people who enter the mountain together, and if the brothers don't leave here, they can see each other before dawn! ”

Deng Zhan's explanation was flawless, and the doubts in the hearts of the officers of the Huainan Army were also relieved.

After chatting with the officer for a few more words, and invisibly figured out the approximate location of Zhang Xun's camp tent, Deng Zhan said goodbye to the officer and led the twelve dragoons to walk in the direction of the barracks.

Entering the barracks, Deng Zhan and the others held their heads high, as if they really lived in this barracks, and walked straight in the direction of Zhang Xun's tent.

Along the way, I also met a few groups of Huainan troops inspecting the barracks, but I saw that they were wearing the clothes and armor of the Huainan army, and the Huainan army who inspected did not ask much, and after passing by them, they walked forward along the established route.

After walking about a stick of incense, Deng Zhan saw a tent much larger than the other tents appear in front of him.

Seeing the tent, Deng Zhan turned his head and glanced at the dragoon guards behind him.

Seeing his eyes, the twelve dragoons immediately dispersed and hid behind nearby tents.

In each tent were the Huainan soldiers who were sleeping, hiding behind these tents, and all the dragoons, including Deng Zhan, were holding their breath and staring at the largest tent without blinking.

Outside the largest tent, eight heavily armed Huainan soldiers stood.

The eight Huainan soldiers are all tall and big, and they are all leaders in the army at a glance, just from the physique of the eight people and their upright posture, Deng Zhan can be sure that these eight people must be the guards who protect Zhang Xun.

Hibernating in the dark, quietly observing the positions of the eight people, Deng Zhan was thinking in his heart how to do it, so that he could solve all the eight guards without any movement, and then enter Zhang Xun's tent.

The positions of the eight Huainan troops are very elegant, they can see each other's existence, and the eyes of the eight people are different, covering almost all the angles around the tent.

Just looking at the positions of those eight people, Deng Zhan felt a headache.

But as long as they can get close, with the strength of the dragoon guard, there is no problem at all to solve the eight Huainan troops, but the problem is, how to get close to them without being discovered!