Chapter 1042: The Doubts of the Past Reappear
Ding Kui stared at the suspected archer for a while, and then at Master Kou for a while, "Strange, how can you have a feeling of déjà vu?" he muttered in his heart, "It doesn't make sense, Prince Yinsha's people have never looked for me." ”
"Even if you're afraid of being recognized as a rebel, you should wear a mask, isn't it trying to cover up your whole face?"
He can understand that the masters of the rebel army are afraid of encountering secret agents, and the people in the spy department can remember some of the famous masters, Shao Dianzhi and others are acting behind enemy lines, and it is necessary to hide people's eyes and ears and keep a low profile.
"Or are you afraid of being recognized?"
The thought came to him irrepressibly, and he searched his mind for all the people he had met before, looking for that sense of familiarity.
"I shouldn't have seen that look, but Master Kou's black face is a little unnatural, probably a mask carefully made by Master Yixiang. He quickly confirmed that he hadn't seen these two Level 6 Combat Powers.
There are not many people with a body type as strong as Master Kou, and Ding Kui compares the people he has seen one by one, and there are close but none of them are exactly the same.
"Funiu Mountain, that pair of mysterious brothers?" He had only seen the mysterious second brother of the axe from a distance, and at that time his mental power was not strong enough, and his memory was a little vague.
"It shouldn't be, eleven years ago, the combat power of that pair of brothers was in the middle and early stages of the fifth level, can they be promoted to the sixth level now?" he refuted his guess again, "Although others may also have adventures, it is not so coincidental that the two of them will advance together." At the beginning, the mysterious archer was shot off half of his ear by Grandpa Qian, if the guy in front of him had a problem with his ear, it must be the pair of brothers in Funiu Mountain. ”
He finally decided to find an opportunity to lift the veil of the face coverer.
To the west of Kada City was a safe area, and there were relatively few military posts and checkpoints, and it didn't take long for Shao Dianzhi and his party to leave the heavily controlled area.
Ding Kui suddenly quickened his pace, crossed a few people and came to Shao Dianzhi, and said, "It's safe here, you can go as you come, and you don't need me to continue to escort you." ”
"Uncle Lao, if you have the opportunity, I hope you will go and see your father. "Shao Dianzhi plans to bid farewell to Ding Kui.
"I have a request," Ding Kui turned to look at the masked man, "I wonder if this person can meet him in his true face?"
"The old man has a hidden illness and it is inconvenient to show it to others, so he can't obey his orders. ”
Hearing this, it was an old man who was masked.
"Good boy, do you know how to respect the old and the virtuous?" Master Kou glared at Ding Kui again.
"Uncle, these two seniors were invited by my father to protect the little nephew, and the little nephew can only treat each other politely and dare not offend. If the seniors refuse, I hope that the uncle will not force it. Shao Dianzhi persuaded.
Ding Kui stared at the masked old man tightly, concentrated his mental strength on it, and asked word by word, "Have you ever been to Funiu Mountain?"
"Where the old man has been has nothing to do with you, if you are still aggressive and continue to oppress the old man with your mental power, the old man will ignore Prince Zhi's face and ask your Excellency for advice. The masked old man took out a short bow, and his sharp gaze pierced Ding Kui's eyes.
Master Kou clenched his fists, making a sound like fried beans, and looked at Ding Kui with an unkind face, showing signs of doing it without saying a word.
Shao Dianzhi moved in front of Ding Kui, and said hurriedly: "You should give your little nephew a face, the two seniors came from Xihai Prefecture with the little nephew, and they shouldn't have been to the place you just said, you must have recognized the wrong person." ”
He didn't think that the two masters who were protecting him would meet Ding Kui.
"Has he been covering his face all the time?" Ding Kui retracted his spiritual power and turned to lock on Shao Dianzhi. He didn't notice that the masked old man had a weak reaction, and he didn't rule out that people pretended to be calm, so he had to change to a much weaker target.
"Yes, the little nephew covered his face when he first saw his senior. ”
Ding Kui also didn't notice Shao Dianzhi's uneasy mood swings, indicating that Shao Dianzhi didn't lie, "I'm sorry, maybe I confessed my mistake." He gestured to the masked old man.
"It's not that I'm afraid of you, firstly, it is unnecessary, secondly, in case it attracts other people, if the two seniors are dissatisfied, Ding Kui will be ready to wait for you in the future. Farewell!" After he finished speaking, he released the Fighting Dragon, then jumped on the back of the dragon and stepped on the dragon to fly into the sky.
He flew north, presumably bypassing the city of Kada, and then turned east.
"Big brother, why don't you teach him a lesson?" Master Kou was furious.
The masked old man gave him a stern look, "Our task is to protect Prince Zhi, don't make extraneous branches if you can, and we'll talk about Ding Kui's rudeness later." ”
Now in front of Shao Dianzhi, it is inconvenient for the masked old man to say more.
"The two seniors shouldn't really have a holiday with Ding Kui, right?" Shao Dianzhi didn't call Ding Kui "uncle" behind his back.
"Even if the old man has anything to do with Ding Kui, it is the Yang family's business. The masked old man didn't answer directly, but the implication was to let Shao Dianzhi not ask more.
He and Master Kou were sent by the Yang family to help protect Shao Dianzhi, and they were not Shao Dianyong's subordinates, so there was no need to be too polite to Shao Dianzhi.
Shaodianzhi touched a soft nail and it was not good to attack, so he had to give an order stupidly: "Uh, let's go, let's go, we have to rush back to Xihaizhou as soon as possible." ”
"It's a pity that the spiritual power can't 'see' what is behind the towel, the old man's reaction is normal, but Master Kou is a little strange, do you want to find Grandpa Kun to catch up with him and test it again?" Ding Kui was still entangled on the road.
He wanted to forcibly lift the masked old man's face scarf, but his two fists were invincible to four hands, and the evil tiger was still afraid of wolves.
"Hmph, listen to what Shao Dianzhi said, the two old guys are not the people of Prince Yinsha, they can only defect to the rebel families, I can't find out if I believe it one by one! There are not many families that can cultivate great martial artists and great archers. ”
can send two master-level masters to protect outsiders, then there must be at home and there are at least three master-level masters in this family, if Ding Kui hadn't picked up two dragons for nothing, the Ding family wouldn't have as many as three.
"Even if it is proved that they are the mysterious brothers on the Floating Cow Mountain, it cannot be proved that they participated in the assassination of me, and if the mysterious brothers had taken action themselves, I would have died long ago. This investigation has to be carried out in secret, and there is no need to provoke a strong enemy for yourself before figuring out the situation. ”
Ding Kui slowly straightened out his thoughts, and found that he couldn't be in a hurry, the water of the Funiu Mountain incident was very deep back then, and the forces involved in it that dared to brave Jiang Tong's anger should not be underestimated, even his current strength may not be qualified to challenge.
Rushing back to the barracks outside Xixuan City, he immediately convened a meeting of officers at and above the staff level of the division and regiment to study and arrange the action of burning the Dongda camp.
"It's easy to burn down the East Daying, but it's difficult to blockade Xixuancheng, does it count as a blockade with your eyes?" Wang Chou joked.
It was quite difficult for more than 30,000 troops to encircle and kill more than 40,000 enemies, and the arrogant generals of the Eighth Army had no confidence.
"Indeed, the morale of the enemy army is still there, dare to fight with our army, how much grain and grass is left in the city?" Hua Mo also considered what would happen after the fire attack.
"The grain stored in Xixuancheng can be used by 100,000 troops for a month, and the enemy army will run out of food for at least two months, and if half of the troops are reduced during this period, it can hold out longer. "Ding Kui's information is relatively reliable, and there are two intelligence organizations working for him.
"Otherwise, if we attack Huatong City again, and by the way, organize the people on Huatong Mountain to withdraw to Baiting City, and we can apply to the headquarters for the 71st Division to participate in the battle. "Ma Ji remembered the last operation, the loss was not large, and the gain was not small.
"Your army has suffered losses, how can you be defenseless, this time there will definitely be no defenders out of the city to die, the forbidden law in Xixuan City can quickly support Huatong City, I am afraid that the sneak attack will be difficult to work. "The staff of the 76th Division came out to reject Ma Zheng's proposal.
"The Minfu battalion has built twenty giant trebuchets that can be used to attack the city in both directions, which is enough for our current strength, why don't we let the Minfu try to dig tunnels?" Hua Mo's staff officer suggested an idea.
"No, there are enemy troops with forbidden laws, and it is very dangerous to fight in the tunnels. Ding Kui knew very well what the means of the forbidden law were, "Okay, I'll talk about it later, tomorrow the 72nd Division will attack, the 76th Division will contain it, the 73rd Division will assist, the special operations battalion will assist in the attack, and the cavalry brigade will ambush in the east, and if the enemy refuses to enter the city, it will be annihilated." ”
He was afraid that the meeting would go off topic, so he simply set the tone first, and then asked the staff officers of each division and regiment to refine the action plan.
Military operations such as the burning of the East Camp were a matter of ease to those who participated in the meeting, and there was no need to bother to discuss them at all.
Not every barracks is so easy to burn, the prerequisite is to be able to throw fire oil into the enemy's barracks, and then ensure that rockets are continuously fired into the barracks, and there must be troops to put pressure on the enemy so that the enemy troops are not free to fight the fire.
The Shaodian army besieging Xixuancheng could meet all the conditions, so it would be easy for Ding Kui to go off topic when he held a meeting. Under Ding Kui's control, everyone accepted their assignments, and the meeting ended quickly, as if discussing unilateral actions, completely ignoring the reaction of their own troops.
In the evening, the 74th Division escorted Huoyou to Nandaying, and Xie Luoli, who was responsible for leading the team, asked to compete with Fan Yuzhen's brigade as soon as he arrived.
The Eighth Army often held internal competitions, and although Xie Luoli's brigade had not faced Fan Yuzhen's brigade alone, Xie Luoli's personal strength was higher than that of Fan Yuzhen, so he was confident.
Ding Kui asked Fan Yuzhen to be found, and then announced in public that Xie Luoli and Fan Yuzhen's brigade would compete in martial arts, and would be responsible for intercepting and killing enemy scouts in the next three days, and whichever brigade killed more would win.
Jiao Mingguang secretly asked Fan Yuzhen, "Team Fan, has Lord Ding taken back the golden bamboo crossbow?"
"No, I don't. ”
"That's great!" Jiao Mingguang waved his fist excitedly, "You have the golden bamboo crossbow in your hand, we will win this competition." ”
"Hmph, that Xie Luo is too deceitful, relying on himself to be a samurai, deliberately picking me to compete, and I must beat him down on the day I advance. Fan Yuzhen was a little angry, and Xie Luoli's proposal for a martial arts competition was tantamount to slapping her in the face.
"Hehe, is it? You can knock him down if you advance?" someone asked with a smile.