Chapter 152

The weather is hot, but you can easily find cool in the mountains north of Chang'an city. Mountain forests are very dense, and spring water can be found occasionally, but not even an animal can be seen in this mountain. Some people said that there was no aura in the mountain for a long time, so all the animals ran away. Others say that because the construction of Chang'an City has changed the dragon vein, the mountain looks lush. In fact, it has long died.

Everything is said, but it is an indisputable fact that there are no animals in the mountain.

But the plants here are very prosperous, and there are towering trees that can be held by three people everywhere. So it is obviously unreasonable to say that this is a dead mountain.

This is a very strange phenomenon. Even more than one emperor of the Sui Dynasty sent people to explore, but he couldn't find the reason why there were no animals. However, the mountain will soon become a bare grave as many people vowed and predicted. Of course, another legend derived from it is also self defeating.

There have been many versions of rumors, but the most frightening is the legend of the death of the Sui Dynasty on the day when the mountain was bald. Of course, such a legend must be inseparable from an expert in the world. Some people say that it is an old man with a white beard and a fairy spirit. Some people say that she is a fairy in white, with ice flesh and jade bones. Others said this was said by a head Buddha of the Buddha, with a ferocious face.

No matter who said it, it's still this sentence.

The main idea is that one day when the mountain becomes a bare grave, the rivers and mountains of the Sui Dynasty will come to an end. But this is contrary to the prediction that Chang'an will not fall in half a month. In contrast, the people of the great Sui Dynasty naturally prefer to believe the latter. As long as the mountain is still there, Chang'an city will be there.

The silence in the mountain was broken by the sound of footsteps stepping on fallen leaves. Three men and one woman appeared in the mountain that has not been seen for many years. There is no road in the mountains. Stepping on the thick fallen leaves feels like walking on a thick blanket. It was very comfortable, but the faces of the four people walking through the woods were dignified.

Footsteps come and go. Walking in such a quiet and deep forest, there is an illusion of walking through the underworld.

At the front was a scholar in a cloth robe. He couldn't see his specific age. The remaining three people opened a distance of more than ten meters from him and walked in a row for three months, stepping on the footprints of their predecessors at every step. It seems that four people came all the way, leaving only one footprints.

The cloth scholar who walked in front suddenly frowned, and then quickened his pace for a few minutes. The people behind quickly followed. In the second place was a village girl in a blue rag floral dress with a basket in her hand. Behind him was an old man in a royal blue robe. He looked at the young woman in front of him from time to time. His eyes were a little complicated.

At the end is a young man. He is wearing a royal coat and a jade belt. Obviously, he has a high status. His face is very beautiful, his eyebrows are very thin and his eyes are very big. The jaw is a little sharp relative to others, but it looks very pleasant. The mouth is small and the lips are red. Such a good young master in royal clothes seems out of tune when he walks with the other three people.

The first is a scholar in cloth, the second is a village girl, and the third is like a rich man. Finally, the young childe seems to be a little against peace with the three of them.

Zhuo Buyi was the scholar in Buyi who walked in front, but he quickened his pace after making a gesture. Instead of following his footprints, the people behind spread out in a fan shape and copied forward. If you look carefully, you will find that even if you walk on the soft fallen leaves, they don't leave a trace. Those rotten leaves have not changed at all after being trampled by their feet.

It seems that there is only one person's footprint.

In front of the four of them was an open space, with a pile of extinguished charcoal next to a rock. Zhuo Buyi squatted down and felt the temperature of charcoal, then shook his head and said, "I've been away for at least half a day."

"I'm curious"

The Royal Prince in the last place frowned and said, "why don't they choose the route they can escape as soon as possible? Why do they have to enter this mountain? There is no doubt that escaping here will leave traces more or less."

The old man in the royal blue robe was in trouble. He seemed to have great respect for the Royal Prince. When he spoke, he leaned forward slightly and replied, "maybe they didn't intend to run away at all."

Zhuo Buyi nodded and said, "if they are in a hurry, it means that they don't know that the imperial court is ready to move troops to the northwest, but if they deliberately delay like this, they should have found out. That is to say... At least there is a third person who took another road and took the news back, and the people who entered the mountain just delayed for him."

"It's not necessarily human. Taoist Hezhen chased West and found no trace. If it's human, he can't hide his natural divine eyes."

Li Nan said.

"No"

The landlady in a blue rag skirt squatted down and looked carefully at the rock, then picked up some soil and smelled: "there are not two people here. Although there are traces of two people along the way, I'm sure three people should escape here."

"If you say yes, it must be."

Li Nan said.

I don't know why. There's always something different in his eyes at the landlady.

The boss's wife didn't seem to like him at all. She got up and went to Zhuo Buyi and said, "there is a man with vain steps, either left by the young monk who was seriously injured, or there is a man with ordinary martial arts and even can't practice with them."

"Who would it be?"

Young master royal clothes asked.

"Find them and you'll know."

The proprietress didn't seem to like the young man in royal clothes. She answered coldly and moved forward again. The young man in royal clothes changed his face slightly, but he didn't attack. Li Nan approached him and said in a low voice, "Your Highness, she once traveled westward with the loyal prince."

Hearing this, Li Nan's Royal Prince changed slightly. When I looked at the landlady again, my eyes were full of respect.

Just at this time, Zhuo Buyi suddenly changed his look: "there are people coming from behind, moving quickly!"

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Fang Xie's life in the first few days of the Academy was ordinary. Every morning, he listened to the professors of the Academy give lectures on the art of war, read and write. In the afternoon, Qiu Yu would take him to the waterfall to suffer. Of course, he was occasionally called away by President Zhou and studied his body in a secret room.

Because Fang Xie was rarely with other students, rumors about his arrogance began to spread in the martial arts academy. After arrogance, people often add three words.

Arrogant waste.

In the eyes of other students, Fang Xie's strength is not bad. But he can't practice. Sooner or later, he will be overtaken by other students who can practice. Practice is endless, and no matter how good a person's physical quality is, it is only a fixed body. So at first, the students' admiration for each other slowly changed into contempt.

Most people think that although fangxie is very strong now. But in less than three years, Yu Xiao, Pei Chuxing, Xie Fuyao and others who might have been better than him might be able to get rid of him for a few blocks.

Fang Xie took such remarks as a gust of wind and ignored them at all. He still comes and goes to those friends every day. He is crazy. Don't wash his knife and Xie Fuyao. Occasionally, I have a drink with Yu Xiao and Pei Chuxing. Of course, he won't take the initiative to treat them.

On the sixth day of entering the martial arts academy, the morning course is taught by Professor Mo everything to talk about how to use scouts. Scouts are essential for marching and fighting. Scouts are often the best soldiers carefully selected in the army. They are responsible for exploring the terrain and road conditions of the enemy for the army, even assassinating the enemy commander.

Fang Xie and Zhang Kuang were born as scouts, so when Mo everything said that today we were going to talk about how to equip and arrange scouts, they couldn't help looking at each other and had some tacit understanding.

"An excellent scout sometimes plays a more important role than a general of an army. The commander-in-chief is the mind of the army, and the general is the two arms of the army. Where the mind thinks, his arms will hit. And the scouts are the eyes of the commander-in-chief. The success of a scout can lead to the victory of the army. Similarly, the failure of a scout may affect the judgment of the commander-in-chief This led to the failure of the whole war. "

"Professor!"

When Mo tianwu came to this point, a student raised his hand and said frivolously, "are you exaggerating? If scouts are really so important, why is the highest level of the scouts just a school captain? From the sixth grade, it's too low?"

"What's your name?"

Mo asked.

"Chuzhou Liu Shuang."

The student stood up and said, "my father is Liu An, the governor of Chuzhou county."

"I didn't ask who your father is."

Mo everything replied in a flat tone, then walked slowly to Liu Shuang and asked, "do you think what I said before is exaggerated?"

"Students just think that scouts are important, but it seems too much for Sir to say that they are the eyes of a unified military marshal. Those who are handsome know astronomy, geography, right and wrong, and have broad horizons. Do they judge only by the information inquired by scouts? As far as I know, Li Xiao, a senior general in the reign of Emperor Taizong, once fell into the southern army when he calmed the south of the Yangtze River Besieged, with a mere 3000 troops, it broke through 70000 of the southern army, which seems to have nothing to do with the scouts? "

"Are you from Chuzhou?"

"Yes!"

"Chuzhou is also in the south of the Yangtze River... Li Xiao is from the north."

Ink all things said a light sentence.

"What does that mean, sir?"

Liu Shuang blushed and asked with a slight anger.

Mo everything smiled: "Nothing. I just happened to think that Li Xiao is from the north. What's the matter? In addition... I ask you, Li Xiao is really brilliant with 30 million. But if he had arranged to scout and explore the enemy, would he fall into the ambush of the southern army? You can also know that there are only 26 people left after the 3000 most elite soldiers of the Sui Dynasty wait for reinforcements to break through the siege? Even if Li Xiao broke the enemy Army, everyone said he played beautifully in this battle, but I despised him because he lost 3000 elite because he didn't find out the enemy in advance. The 3000 elite of the Sui Dynasty were replaced with tens of thousands of disabled soldiers of the southern army. It's worth it? "

"Sir, you are better than general Li?"

Liu Shuang asked angrily.

Mo everything ignored him, but continued: "It was also because of this war that Li Xiao wrote to the imperial court to plead guilty. His majesty Taizong did not punish him for his high achievements, but Li Xiao dared not ignore the scouts. In order to prevent such a tragic event from happening again, he invited many experts from the imperial guards to train soldiers and formed the first pure scouts team in the Sui Dynasty. Before that, the generals and the commander-in-chief randomly assigned him to inquire about military information A man and a horse to do. These things... Do you know? "

Finally, he asked Liu Shuang.

"All I know is that Sir is disrespectful to General Li!"

Mo everything hummed coldly, "respect is respect? Don't say that Li Xiao is not a God, even if it is, can't he be blamed for his fault? I dare not say that he is better than Li Xiao, but I say what he is wrong is wrong. If you think I'm wrong, you can listen, but don't refute."

"Why can Mr. Li blame general Li's fault, but we can't blame Mr. Li?"

Liu Shuang asked angrily.

"Because Li Xiao is dead, I said he was wrong. He won't climb out of the ground and beat me because he is unhappy. But I'm still alive. If you question what I said, I can beat you at any time until your mother can't recognize it. Understand?"

"I... disagree!"

Liu Shuang said, "the professor of the Academy of martial arts, how can he be so unreasonable?"

"Because this is the martial arts academy, the professor is right in everything he says."

Mo tianwu said, "I know many of you think he's right and I think I'm wrong. Well, all of you who think Liu Shuang is right will form a team with him tomorrow. I'll take the rest of the students as another team. Of course, I'll take only one-fifth of you. I've tried the role of scouts."

Fang Xie smiled and found that he liked the style of the martial arts academy very much.