The sunset was setting, and above the Guancheng, which was shrouded in the sunset, Shan Ximu, dressed in military uniform, stood with his hands behind his back, and his eyes were calmly looking at the beautiful sunset that was about to fall on the horizon in the western sky.

"Brother, the marshal and the others are here!" Dou Yihu strode behind Shan Ximu and spoke softly.

Shan Ximu, who was slightly silent after hearing this, nodded slightly and turned toward Guanxia: "Let's go, follow me to see the marshal!"

In the residence of Zhuque Pass, Li Luanhu sat high in the main seat, and the generals below gathered together, which seemed very lively.

"Huh?" Li Luanhu, who seemed to have some awareness, looked up at Shan Ximu and Dou Yihu who were stroking in outside the door, and couldn't help but get up and laughed loudly: "Haha, General Shan, did not disappoint me! This time I took the Zhuque Pass, it was almost a bloody sword. General Shan was the first achievement."

Shan Ximu stepped forward and bowed slightly to Li Luanhu, and there was no surprise on his face. He said calmly: "Master, these are all for the lives of the soldiers, and the assisting achievements of several young generals. It was General Qin Ying and General Luo Zhang who first killed the city, and General Qin and Han led their troops to attack the city first."

"In this way, General Shan didn't take action? He really planned and won a thousand miles away!" The sudden voice sounded, which attracted everyone to look at Fan Long with a sarcastic curve on his lips.

As if he hadn't noticed the eyes of everyone, Fan Long raised his head and looked at Shan Ximu with a sharp look: "General Shan, I wonder where the master of the Zhuque Pass turned his head? You won't even fight with him, right?"

"Fan Long, what do you mean?" Before Shan Ximu could speak, Dou Yihu glared at Fan Long and shouted.

Qin Han, who was originally sitting quietly, also looked up at Fan Long coldly: "Fan Long, the master who turned his head was very skilled in martial arts, and even I almost died. Fortunately, Brother Dan arrived in time to help. What do you mean by saying this?"

Seeing their tense appearance, Li Luanhu, whose eyes were narrowed, had no intention of opening a mouth to stop him.

Fan Long didn't care about Dou Yihu and Qin Han's sharp eyes, and said calmly: "I don't mean anything! But I heard that the master turned his head and the bitch Fan Lihua were both at Zhuque Pass. General Shan, with your means, I don't believe you didn't leave them sure. Moreover, I heard that you didn't even take action. Do I need to explain what's the point? Everyone must see that. I think General Shan needs to give the marshal an explanation."

"Fan Long, why are you talking about Fan Lihua? The grudge between you and Fan Lihua has nothing to do with us, and we have no obligation to help you deal with Fan Lihua." Dou Yihu shouted coldly.

When Fan Long heard this, he immediately said, "Fan Lihua came to help and turn her head. It was a rebel who blocked the imperial army from the west. Isn't it what you should do to kill her?"

"Oh? Then I wonder who was outside Hanjiang Pass who blocked the imperial army for several months?" Qin Han asked with a sneer.

Fan Long looked at Qin Han with faint eyes and did not say anything. However, Fan Hu, who was beside him, couldn't help but slapped the coffee table next to him and stood up and said angrily: "Qin Han, we have surrendered to the court. What do you mean by this?"

"My elder brother means. You can surrender to the court, and others can." Qin Ying said, "In the future, maybe the master turning his head and Fan Lihua can surrender. With their help, our Western Expedition will be even more like a tiger."

Fan Long smiled, smiling a little coldly: "General Qin Ying is saying that our Tang army will accommodate a bitch who kills his father?"

"Fan Long, Fan Lihua's murder of her father is just a one-sided statement. Who knows the truth or false?" Luo Zhang sneered.

Luo Tong, who was frowning, glanced and clasped his hands tightly. Fan Long, with a cold expression, couldn't help but yell: "Okay! Don't say more. Since General Fan Long thinks we are not doing well enough, then you will be able to conquer the Xuanwu Pass in the next Xuanwu Pass. I believe that by then, you will not let a thief run away."

"Okay!" Fan Long, who shouted softly, stood up and bowed to Li Luanhu: "Marson! The last general asked for his order and led his army to attack Xuanwu Pass."

Li Luanhu waved his hand and smiled slightly, "Hey! General Fan Long, don't be tempted to act. We have overcome three passes in a row, and the soldiers are tired. Let's take a good rest at Zhuque Pass before talking about it. As for this battle, we still have to fight. General Fan Long should not be anxious, there will be a chance."

When everyone heard Li Luanhu's words, they were stunned. Unexpectedly, since taking over as the rank of marshal, Li Luanhu, who has always been as anxious as a spark, has been calm now.

Luo Tong's expression changed slightly with a slightly frown. He looked at Li Luanhu seriously, but didn't say much.

Shan Ximu also looked at Li Luanhu, his eyes flashing with inexplicable smell.

"Yes!" Fan Long, who was slightly unwilling to respond, had to retreat to his seat and sit down. A faint chill flashed through his slightly lowered eyes.

Next, after discussing some military affairs, Li Luanhu ordered the generals to go down and prepare for military affairs.

...

Several miles west of Zhuque Pass, a few miles away from the vast plain, there were war horses neighing and horse hooves, and amid the shouts of killing, smoke and dust rolling on the plain, thousands of troops galloping, and the cavalry were training.

On a small mound, Shan Ximu, Qin Han, Luo Zhang, Dou Yihu, Qin Ying and others were all riding horses to watch from afar.

"It's been ten days! Brother Shan, what trick do you think Li Luanhu plays?" Luo Zhang frowned.

Qin Ying was also puzzled: "Yes! We train troops all day long. Should we make Xuanwu Pass ready and we will send troops to fight again?"

"Don't think too much, just wait with peace of mind!" Shan Ximu said calmly with a light look on his eyes.

As soon as Shan Ximu finished speaking, Dou Yihu looked up at the distance as if he was aware and said, "Brother, look!"

"Huh?" Shan Ximu turned around and saw two riders running from afar. Soon after, they came close to each other, but they were all wearing regular clothes.

Qingyuan went up first and said with a little dissatisfaction: "Brother Shan, we just came back from Xuanwu Pass!"

"What did you find out?" Seeing the expressions of the two, Shan Ximu couldn't help but frown and asked hurriedly.

The two brothers looked at each other, and Qingyuan was slightly silent before saying, "There is a powerful formation outside Xuanwu Pass, which just blocked the important roads of the imperial army's westward entry into Xuanwu Pass."

"What? Formation?" Qin Ying, Luo Zhang and others all changed their expressions.

Qin Han narrowed his eyes and asked, "Brother Qingyuan. When was that formation set up?"

"It seems that the cloth has just been set for a few days!" Qingyuan breathed lightly.

Just now, Luo Zhang's face changed, and then he gritted his teeth and said annoyedly: "It must be Li Luanhu, he..."

"Luo Zhang! If you have no basis, don't talk nonsense!" Shan Ximu shouted with a slightly cold face.

Luo Zhang, who held his hands tightly, looked at Shan Ximu, gritted his teeth and said nothing more.

"Let's go, go back to the camp first!" Shan Ximu said calmly. He turned his horse's head first and headed towards the military camp not far away.

However, the few people had just returned to the camp tent in the military camp and sat down and had not finished drinking it. They received an emergency military order from Li Luanhu.

"Brother Shan, what is the military order?" Seeing Shan Ximu looking at Ling Han in his hand silently, Luo Zhang couldn't help but get up anxiously and asked.

Shan Ximu slowly raised his head and his face was still calm. There was a hint of coldness in his eyes: "The Marshal is destined to be. Let us all have 30,000 horses and infantry, 10,000 cavalry as vanguards, and 20,000 infantry soldiers behind the palace to attack Xuanwu Pass."

With a muffled sound, Qin Han, who suddenly stood up, shot a coffee table and burst open, with a cold face.

Dou Yihu, Qin Ying, Qingyuan and Qingzhu also stood up, and each of them looked bad.

"Sentences to suspend training and rest for an hour. After noon, the soldiers enter Xuanwu Pass!" Shan Ximu ordered in a deep voice.

Luo Zhang glared and said anxiously: "Brother Shan, Li Luanhu is obviously planning to plot against us!"

"Are you going to disobey the military order?" Li Luanhu looked at Luo Zhang with sharp eyes and asked Luo Zhang to stop.

Withdrew his gaze, took a deep breath and closed his eyes, Shan Ximu, and indifferently ordered: "Go and prepare!"

"Yes!" Qin Han responded, Dou Yihu, and Qin Ying turned around and left first.

Luo Zhang, whose fists were clenched and his face changed, couldn't help but sigh when he saw this, and shook his hands and left.

After they all left, Shan Ximu, who breathed a little relieved, opened his eyes and bowed to Qingyuan Qingzhu: "Brother Qingyuan! Brother Qingzhu! Thank you for helping you find out the news this time. Otherwise, Ximu would still be in the dark now!"

"Brother Shan, don't be polite! In fact, even if we didn't find out the news, you would have noticed that something was wrong, right?" Qingyuan smiled and stood up casually.

Qingzhu also got up with a smile, then looked at Shan Ximu seriously: "Brother Shan has a solution?"

"Do you two know some of the details of that formation?" Shan Ximu asked back without answering.

The two brothers looked at each other and felt a little ashamed. Qingyuan said, "Brother Shan, the formation is very strange, and we dare not investigate without authorization. So, we don't know much. However, ringtones are heard from the formation, which makes people feel swaying. If it is an ordinary person, if they get close, they will definitely lose their minds. I think there should be extremely powerful sound wave attack methods in the formation."

"That's right!" Qingzhu also added: "If you assist with fierce attack methods, then once you enter the formation, your mind will be lost by the sound wave attack, you will be almost dead for a lifetime!"

Listening to Qingyuan Qingzhu's introduction, Shan Ximu couldn't help frowning and his expression became solemn.

...

On the wall of Zhuque Passion, Li Luanhu, dressed in regular clothes, squinted his eyes and looked at the smoke and dust rising in the distance, and an inexplicable curve appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Brother Li, what have you prepared for Shan Ximu and the others outside Xuanwu Pass?" Fan Long, who was also wearing a black robe and regular clothes on the side, asked in a low voice curiously: "Don't be like outside Qinglong Pass. If they fear the enemy, even if they are punished, they will not die."

Li Luanhu smiled confidently and said, "Outside Xuanwu Pass, there is a large formation called the Golden Bell and Bronze Bell Formation!"

"Golden Bell Copper Bell Formation? What kind of formation is this? I never heard of it before," Fan Long frowned and asked in confusion when he heard it.

Li Luanhu smiled and said, "Of course you haven't heard of it! This is a great formation created by our master. It is mysterious and unpredictable and has infinite power. As long as you enter a certain range around the formation, you will be affected by the formation. If you think it's okay if you don't enter the formation, you're very wrong. When Shan Ximu and the others react, they can't retreat. The golden bell's soul capture and the golden bell take his life is not just a joke."

"The Golden Bell of Zhenyue? The Golden Bell of Soul-catching?" Fan Long's expression changed when he heard this.

Li Luanhu nodded and smiled even stronger, with a hint of cruelty: "That's right! It's the Zhenyue Golden Bell of the Master Jin Axe Heavenly Lord and the Soul-Seeing Golden Bell of the Holy Mother of my uncle Jin Jian. The Zhenyue Golden Bell is so powerful that even if you use all your strength to spread a mountain, you can be shaken into gravel powder. The Soul-Seeing Golden Bell is even more captivating. Even if you condense the soul, the soul is not strong enough and the Taoist heart is not stable enough, you can't resist it and you lose your mind in an instant. As long as you enter the formation, you will die without life."

"I didn't expect Brother Li to take out the mountain-storming treasures of the two seniors, Golden Axe Heavenly Lord and Golden Sword Holy Mother. It seems that Shan Ximu and the others are doomed this time," Fan Long took a deep breath and said with a smile.

Li Luanhu smiled slightly with a smug smile. Then his eyes flashed: "Send scouts to inquire about the news at all times, and send Shan Ximu and the others to march at full speed, and do not neglect them. In addition, let the soldiers be ready to go. We are ready to take over General Shan, who is invincible at any time."

Speaking of the last sentence, Li Luanhu couldn't help but smile with a sarcastic curve on the corner of his mouth.

"Haha! The last general will take the order!" Fan Long also laughed with a ferocious and cruel smell flashed in his eyes.

He turned his head and looked at Fan Long. Li Luanhu couldn't help but smile even stronger. He turned around and walked down to Guancheng in a relaxed mood.

...

Several miles outside Xuanwu Pass, the official road crossed a pile of rocks after quarries, and looked a little blurred under the sunset light. A steep rock cliff more than ten meters high not far away blocking the sunset light and leaving a shadow on the rocky ground.

And in this pile of rocks, the space faintly rippled slightly. The dull bells and pleasant bells rang one after another, slowly echoing. Sometimes the bells were a little quick, causing some of the surrounding rocks to tremble and shatter.

Far away, smoke and dust rolled like an earth dragon, and a group of hundreds of cavalry led by about two or three thousand Tang infantrymen came slowly and stopped about a hundred meters away from the pile of rocks.

"What a strange bell and ringtone!" Luo Zhang, among the leading cavalry, frowned first.

He carefully observed Qin Ying in front of him and soon bit his head, and shouted in surprise with a slightly pale face: "The space in front seems to be twisted, it feels so weird. I feel a little dizzy when I look closely."

"It's really not very ordinary! Ximu, don't be careless!" Luo Tong also looked at Shan Ximu solemnly.

With his eyes narrowed, Shan Ximu, who was pondering slightly, slammed his heels and the horse under his seat slowly forward in a few steps.

"Huh?" Shan Ximu, who had advanced less than ten meters, suddenly stopped with a slightly changed face.

Buzz... The void shook, and a sudden loud bell rang, like a morning bell and evening drum, and the sound shook for several miles, making people feel like their ears were roaring in an instant.

"Be careful!" Shan Ximu's eyes crunched and shouted softly.

Dingling bell... Qingyue's ringing rang and echoed constantly. For a moment, it seemed as if countless bells were responding to the harmony of the bell. The Qingyue's notes were as high and low as if they had inexplicable magic, blurring the Tang army soldiers who were originally stunned by the bell as if they were drunk.
To be continued...