Nightfall

Overnight stays at the camp camp, the red flames on the firewood pile can gently shake the waist. Dozens of Datang frontiers scattered around or slumbered or guarded the guard. Only Ning Que sat with the school captain. By the fire.

In Bai Ri, the school captain claimed to Mr. Ning that he did n’t know his true identity. However, at this time, beside the red and warm fire, his title had already changed in soft words: “Ning Adults, are you really going to Dongshengzhai tomorrow? It's too close to the Yan people over there, there may be trouble. "

Ning Que held a branch to fiddle with the sweet potato in the fire. Hearing this, he looked up at him and could n’t help but shook his head. He looked at the elite border guards who did n’t pay attention to him. For many months, it turned out that I did n’t have any trouble at all. In my opinion, this is the real trouble. "

He looked at the seemingly honest face of the captain and sighed, "Is our luck too bad? You are the dark bodyguard in Tuyang City, and you will be sent out to follow you I made me want to ask about the situation in Tuyang City without knowing who to ask.

The captain smiled bitterly and said: "When I learned that I was protecting my adult personally, my subordinates felt helpless."

"Can the General House know the identity of your dark bodyguard, and I'm embarrassed to you, so I simply drove you away from Tuyang City and followed me around ... or maybe they even have my identity?"

The captain shook his head and said, "Master, please rest assured that the status of your subordinates should not be revealed. As for you, I think no matter whether you are an army division or an inner battalion, a person like you is actually your majesty's dark guard."

Ning Que pulled two roasted sweet potatoes out of the fire, and gave one to the captain. With his fingertips, he slowly ripped the skin of the other sweet potato, bowed his head, and began to eat hot white steamed pulp , Vaguely said: "As long as there is nothing to do, I don't want to do anything to stare in secret."

The captain picked up the cooked sweet potato that rolled to his feet and looked at Ning Que's face reflected in the fire, not knowing what to say.

His mood for the thirteen blame next to him was very complicated. Other soldiers may not know Ning Que's identity, but he is a dark bodyguard. Of course, he knows that Ning Que is a confidant's disciple. Why should such a distinguished person come to Frontier? What made him even more puzzled was that he had to do such troublesome things. Why did he bother?

It should be noted that this is a deserted wilderness. This is a battlefield with long grass and hidden bones. If it really angered General Xiahou, the general will not care whether you are a student on the second floor of the college, killing you and throwing you into the grassland , Who knows how you died? Even the Confucius didn't do anything.

There was a faint sound in the distance, and the cavalry responsible for the night police task stood up and walked to the periphery. The captain glanced at the place and changed his name for safety. He said softly: "Mr. Thirteen, what exactly are you going to check for this time? It is better to make arrangements with the target."

"I did not come to Frontier for the purpose of checking things this time, just to take a look for Your Majesty."

Ning Que threw the sweet potato that had eaten most of it into the fire, wiped the sticky scum on his face with his cuffs, and said, "Just look at this situation and see nothing."

"You have a special status. The general government is worried about you and does not want you to come. Of course, I hope that the farther away you are, the better. If you want to see ..., ... someone in the general's government, don't go to Tuyang City After all, it's not done. "

The captain hesitated for a moment, but said directly to Tuyang City. He knew very well that a big man like Mr. Thirteen, who received His Majesty secretly came to frontier fortress, the so-called patrol inspection for the Son of Heaven, of course, only the general himself could qualify for this kind of treatment, but he still did not Dare to say the name of General Xiahou directly.

The scholars from Chang'an exited from Chang'an City to Yanbei fortress. On the way, they passed Tuyang City. At that time, the General Mansion was responsible for coming forward to receive General Xiahou's deputy, so Ning Que had not seen General Xiahou himself.

Hearing the three characters of Tuyang City at this time, thinking of the tyrannical general in Tuyang City, he said after a moment of silence, he smiled and said: "I will always go."

On the second day, Ning Que and his dozens of elite Tang Jun elaborated again and moved eastward along the simple frontier defense line of the northern border of Yan State. Just after noon, they reached the easternmost part of the West Road front line in charge of Tang Jun. Head, looking across the willow, clearly saw a green mountain and the yellow earth city not far from the mountain.

More than ten officers were waiting for their arrival outside Dongsheng Village. General Dongshengzhai did not know who the thirteen gentlemen were, but he guessed from the documents of the General Mansion of Tuyang City and the excited expressions of those subordinate officers that he should be a big man in Chang'an City, and should have some relationship with the Academy .

Ning Que looked at the officers outside the walled city and smiled. He jumped from the Dahei horse and greeted the general with a few words. Then he walked to the right and walked to someone and said with a smile: "Still used to staying here?"

The officer in front of him was a young girl, dressed in an arrow suit, all covered with dust from the wasteland. She looked at Ning Que and said with a smile: "Although it is not as comfortable as you are, she is still used to it."

Ning Que said with a smile: "If you are not used to it, you have to get used to it. I told you before that the real battlefield is different from what you guys imagined in Chang'an City."

Then he noticed that Linchuan Wang Ying was also standing among the officers. The fifteen-year-old boy was blown away by the wind and sand of the frontier for a lot of greenness, and his posture seemed to be quite tall.

He watched these coming to the front line in less than a month, but the temperament and spirit of the college students changed a lot more than when he was in Changan. He praised and said: "It seems that everyone is still used to the life here, and I am relieved."

General Dongshengzhai followed him, and he was a little displeased to see that he didn't pay much attention to him ... s think that even if you are a big man from Chang'an City, but now you are in a military barracks, what qualifications are there for you.

However, when he heard this conversation, he immediately understood that the thirteen gentlemen were really not good to provoke anyone who dared to speak to the daughter of General Yun Yu, and who dared to pose to the students of the academy.

The training goal of the college students in the future is to become a court official, and will not have a relationship with the military system. However, the Tang Dynasty uses martial arts to establish the country, and front-line practical training is an indispensable part of the training plan.

Dongshengzhai is at the east end of the Tang Army ’s defense line, very close to a tribe of Zuoying Wangting, and also close to the young masters from the Yan team and the Central Plains countries. Under the double pressure, it can be said that it is the most difficult to support the Yan army. local.

For thousands of years, the practical principles of academy are where the hardest, students should go, so this yellow earth city with three thousand soldiers and horses has the most academy students, in addition to the elite academy students .

On the trip from Chang'an to Yanbei fortress, Ning Que and the college students were getting along day and night, and they were very familiar with each other, and the students who participated in the training were all Tang students. The disputes in the past have long disappeared. Meet, naturally lively and lively.

After experiencing a real battle in the battlefield, young people will mature quickly after life and death. It is precisely because of maturity. Their enthusiasm for Ning Que will inevitably be mixed with a sense of admiration and distance. After all, Ning Que is the second college. The students on the floor are far away from their status.

By the blue lake, Situ Yilan took out her handkerchief and wiped the dirt on her forehead with a wet look. Looking at the silent Ning Que, she asked, "Not used to being shouted before?"

Ning Que walked to the lake, looked at the shadow of Wannian Chenmu at the bottom of the lake, and said with a smile: "Being embraced and respected, being respected is always the goal of our struggle. You grew up in the General Mansion of Chang'an City since childhood. "Where did the Majestic Army Megatron understand the mentality of our people at the bottom."

Situ Ylang stood up, handed him the handkerchief, and said, "But I smiled at you earlier."

Ning Que wiped his face and said, "In the past, these classmates ignored me, but then I was already good on the trip, but now I am so respectful of speaking to me, and the contrast is too great to adapt."

"So you want to walk by the lake alone with me?"

"Yes."

"The army is the place that pays most attention to the class. The military order is like a mountain. As long as it is a superior, no matter whether his military order is reasonable or not, whether you think it is sent to death or not, you must ride a horse and rush forward."

Situ Yilan looked at him and said: "Leaving the academy and coming to the front line, participating in several battles, and being beaten a few times by the generals, they naturally understand that the world still speaks with strength after all."

"Speaking of fighting and strength."

Ning Que looked at her and said with a smile: "When I first met you, I thought you were just a wicked girl who was on the long streets of the family. I have never seen the legendary female army, and I don't think it is great. Really not I thought you would take the initiative to choose to come to Dongshengzhai, and did so beautifully here.

After all, they are young handsomes selected from the Datang counties. Once they have met the strict rules and brutal battles of the military camp, the college students who participated in the training soon began to show their abilities. Although they are only low-level officers, they are The part that I am responsible for is done vividly.

Situ Yilan was born in the goalkeeper family and dared to serve. He performed particularly well. He has been to Dongshengzhai for more than a month. He has led the rider into the wilderness and scouted six times. Two of them met Wang Ting rider. Yangcheng, just waiting to be promoted by awards.

"The left account Wang Ting did not have the guts to fight in full, and those riders were not Wang Ting's elite at all, they were the cavalry of the small tribes, but this was only for the sake of the army's beauty.

Situ Yilan was full of bravery and no arrogance. He said: "It's nothing to kill some small tribe cavalry. I really want to fight against the Wang Ting cavalry. I dare not say victory. I can only fight for more kills."

Ning Que rubbed some stiff wrists. Almost two years after leaving Weicheng, his blade had two years of blood that had not been infected by the prairie cavalry. At this time, listening to Situ ’s calm and **** words, he could n’t help but miss those galloping horses and bibi lake, holding a knife and cutting wood Bloody time.

"Actually, I have been curious, what kind of person are you."

Situ Yilan turned around by the lake and raised his eyebrows slowly. He was very interested in looking at Ning Que's face and said, "Father once checked your files in the military department, but only told me some rough ideas. I refused to tell me too much details. I was anxiously questioned, and only said that if there is a chance to fight with you in the future, all I listen to you is. I rarely see my father's evaluation of people so high. What have you done in Weicheng? "

"It is indeed a bit proud to be evaluated by General Yun Yu."

Ning Que's eyes crossed her shoulders and landed on the blue lake, thinking about Weicheng's years, after a moment of silence, said: "In Weicheng, I mainly do one thing."

"whats the matter?"

"Horse thief."

"I heard that the horse thief in the wasteland was the most fierce and even the cavalry of the Golden Horde was not willing to provoke them."

"It ’s not that exaggerated. But the composition of the horse thief is very complicated. There are real horse thieves and no food. I saw the people from Yanbei in Subi Lake. I was so far away, I do n’t know how they turned over. Minshan ’s. And you must not think that the most powerful horse thief I have ever encountered is disguised by the cavalry of the King of the Golden Horde. "

"The Cavalry of the Golden Horde? Did you win or did they win?"

"I said that I only do horse thief killing. If they won, how would I kill? ...,

Ning Que looked at her and said, "I think that the reason why General Yun Yu said that to you is probably because I knew that I had a good murderous skill in waiting for the original. In fact, this is not uncommon."

Situ Yilan looked at him and said, "You have been so powerful after killing so many horse thieves."

Ning Que said: "I don't deny this. They all say that the practitioners in the world are the strongest, but the practitioners I have seen seem to say that if they are put on the wilderness, as long as they meet a horse thief from the 100-person team, they absolutely Can't survive. "

"But you still want to be a practitioner."

"Because I can kill people, if I become a practitioner, I can become a practitioner who can kill people."

Ning Que paused for a moment and then said with a smile: "I always had a thought, don't go outside and talk nonsense."

Situ Ylanda was interested and said, "I promise not to divulge the secret, so speak quickly."

Ning Que walked to the lake and looked at the blue water of the lake that extended to the north without seeing his head. He said: "The practitioners do have enough personal strength, but in my opinion, these practitioners in the world do not know **** people."

After thinking for a long time, Situ Ylang frowned and asked, "Isn't killing ... killing?"

Ning Que looked at her and asked several questions in a row: "How to spend the least effort to kill? How to kill the opponent when the strength is far less than the enemy? How to use the environmental wind and even the sun to kill? How to squeeze in the case of serious injuries With the last effort to kill? How to kill without being killed? "

Situ Yilan shook his head, thinking that he met the prairie cavalry in the wasteland, picked up the bow and arrow and shot, and picked up the park knife and cut it. There is so much to say.

"If murder is such a complicated thing, can you teach me?"

"This kind of thing is not taught, it will naturally kill more people, so the frontier barracks is the best place to hone the killing skills, and practitioners rarely practice in the barracks."

Ning Que said: "Fortunately or unfortunately, I have lived in the Weicheng military camp for many years. I think this is where General Yun Yu thinks I am pretty good, and is also a place that you cannot understand for now."

Situ Yilan looked at him curiously and asked, "You are the first disciple of the two-story academy to practice in frontier fortress. Could it be that your purpose is to practice in the military camp?"

"If there is a chance, I am certainly willing to use the practitioner's ability to try on the battlefield."

Ning Que stepped up again and walked to the east along the fine round white stone by the lake, laughing at himself: "But now it seems that neither Tuyang City nor the imperial court will give me this opportunity."

Situ Yilan looked at his back and shook his head.

Ning Que quietly looked at the blue lake, the white clouds of trees in the reflection in the distance, and the depth of the wilderness that he could not see with his naked eyes.

I do n’t know if there are any practitioners who will practice on the battlefield. He is really interested in this idea, but it is not this idea that really tickles his hands, but something very simple.

Standing in the wilderness, smelling the smell of horse dung coming from the wind, and the slight burnt smell of long grass burning, he felt that every part of his body was as excited as the three long knives behind him. Slightly trembling, it is difficult to stop the enemies who want to steer horses into the depths of the grassland and wield a knife to cut down one after another.

It is a pity that the blue lake in front of him is not Subi Lake.

The lake around Dongshengzhai does not know what the name is among the prairie barbarians. It is slender like a waist. From here, it extends to the depths of the extreme north wilderness, and there is no end at all. Because the lake is too deep, it glows with a faint blue luster, like a sapphire melted and condensed into silk.

"This is a salty lake, and the water is not drinkable, so there is no camp here."

Situ Yilan watched his gaze quietly looking at the lake, raised his arm and pointed at the mountain forest in the distance. He said: "The barbarians' rides were all drilled out of the mountain forest when they invaded south. It was very sudden. But these past few days, no prairie people have dared to come here. "

Ning Que looked at the vaguely visible forest in the mist and asked, "Can I pass now?"

"Crossing the mountain forest, we reached the east line of Yan Jun. In order to avoid trouble, we didn't pass very much. Of course, they didn't come too much. The two sides had a tacit understanding and ignored it."

"Have you seen those people?"

"who?"

"Because of the young masters from all over the world who came from the Xiling Temple's edict, what is the Pagoda in the Pavilion?"

Situ Yilan shook his head and said: "I haven't seen it. However, after the last encounter with a ride, Dongshengzhai sent troops to expel that tribe ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ and encountered the cavalry cavalry of the Xiling Temple."

Listening to the four words of **** cavalry, Ning Que turned around and asked, "What then?"

Thinking of the scene that day, Situ Yilan was still a little angry, and said with a sneer: "Obviously it was our battle in Dongshengzhai, and basically wiped out the enemy. As a result, the temple cavalry who had been watching with cold eyes were finally charged.

"They want to grab?"

"Well, many levels were cut off by them, and Wang Ying quarreled with them and ended up not winning ..."

Ning Que said: "I thought Wang Ying had matured a lot on the battlefield. I didn't expect to be so childish."

Stuart Yilan said angrily: "Do you think it should not be noisy?"

"Of course, it shouldn't be noisy. What can be the result of noisy? When we used to fight for firewood in Subihu, we never quarreled with people from the Seventh Walled City when they came to fight for the army."

Ning Que looked at the calm lake and shook his head and said, "We just cut it with a knife."