The unexpected tranquility of Zongqiu Mountain Pass makes people feel suspicious.

Ye Guan sat quietly in his camp, closed his eyes cross-legged, and quietly waited for the scouts who were hiking into the interior of Zongqiu Mountain to return.

If Shen Tuyan had not set up an ambush at the mountain pass, it would have been a bit surprising to Ye Guan.

I was suspiciously slowed down my marching speed in order to prevent the sergeant from being too tired and to have more energy to deal with possible ambush.

The Zongqiushan Pass area is obviously a good place to set up an ambush, surrounded by mountains on both sides and lush forests. A large group of soldiers could not see any trace when they entered the forest. If Ye Guan was asked to arrange defense, he would never let go of this Zongqiushan Pass, even if the opponent might notice it. Setting up an ambush here can at least delay the opponent's marching speed and give him more time to prepare.

But Shen Tuyan didn't do that at all.

The enemy can do this without exceeding a few possibilities.

Either they do not have the ability to set up an ambush, Ye Guan has basically eliminated this point. Not to mention the large number of civilian soldiers brought back by Shen Tuyan, in the previous team, there were only a few thousand elite troops belonging to the Zongqiushan area. It is still possible to set up an ambush. Even if the troops are short of troops, he would have to use more soldiers to control the civilian soldiers. However, in a few days, he could set up a large number of traps nearby to delay the speed of his own marching.

Either the enemy has other intentions and wants to lure the enemy deeper, make him underestimate the enemy, enter the enemy and hit a larger ambush not far away. Ye Guan has sent a scout to investigate this.

Either something happened inside the city in Qiuchang City, so that Shen Tuyan had no more time to use it for distribution. Ye Guan had no way to know about this, and it was impossible for him to directly dispatch scouts to investigate, which was no different from asking the scouts to die.

Ye Guan was in a quiet mood. Since he had thought about what might happen later, it was useless to worry and wait for the news quietly.

At midnight, Zongqiu Mountain was calm, and the entire camp returned to tranquility. Torches around the camp were slightly lit up, and they were fluttering with the breeze from time to time. In the distance, the midsummer cries were particularly loud.

The patrol in the camp has never stopped, and the scouts around are waiting for trouble. Ye Guan personally did not require Ye Guan's personal instructions. All the soldiers who went to the enclave this time were veterans who had experienced many battles. Even the veterans recruited before quickly adapted to the life of the military camp and sat up with everything. What's more, there are many good generals in the camp, and with them, there are no need for Ye Guan to worry about these trivial matters.

Ye Guan originally thought that the enemy might attack his camp at midnight, but he sat in the camp until the early morning, but nothing happened.

Everything is too quiet.

Ye Guan reminded them to be extra careful when they removed their regular military armor, not riding horses, and going into battle lightly. If they encounter enemy troops, they just need to bring the news back. However, Ye Guan waited in his tent until early morning, but did not wait for these scouts to return to the team.

The three teams of scouts and more than twenty soldiers seemed to have disappeared from the vast mountain range, without any news.

The first ray of sunlight in the morning shone in. Ye Guan slowly opened his eyes. He looked at the camp tent, except for Xu Bao, who had been guarding the door, there was no one there.

His eyebrows were slightly frowned, and a bad feeling was passed on to Ye Guan's heart.

The three teams of scouts photographed before may not be able to come back.

This made Ye Guan unexpected. You should know that these scouts have been through the battlefield for a long time. They have spyed on the enemy situation in various places in the scout camp of the Dongwang Mansion for many years. Very few such things happen.

But it really happened at this moment. Three teams of scouts disappeared like this, as if they were swallowed by Zongqiu Mountain, without a trace.

Some things that I didn't expect happened, and this thing was probably beyond my expectations.

Ye Guanwei frowned, stood up, quickly walked out of his tent, came to the observation deck inside the tent, narrowed his eyes slightly, and looked at the official road of Qiu Changcheng.

The official road is winding, the morning light is not very sufficient, and the situation in the distance is not real.

The yin and yang meet in the early morning, and the Zongqiu Mountain at this moment seems to be shrouded in thick fog, strange and mysterious.

A hint of coldness spread to Ye Guan's skin. He looked into the distance intently, but found nothing inappropriate.

He walked slowly down the observation deck and passed several teams of patrol sergeants who saluted him. Ye Guan returned to his tent again, sat on the couch, frowned.

There is no clue in the official road of Zongqiu Mountain, and there is no way to guess the dangers there are.

When he dispatched scouts before, he specifically told them to be extra careful. With the foot strength of these scouts, even if they are extra careful, they should walk much faster than ordinary people. They can walk at least twenty miles in an hour. From last night to now, at least four hours, if they are attacked halfway, they will definitely not be able to come back.

If calculated by distance, what might have happened when traveling forty miles away, causing all scouts to be damaged or trapped, otherwise there would not be any news until now.

"Is it..." Ye Guan first thought of the trap, but then he gave up the idea. The three teams of scouts sent this time were extremely experienced. The traps set by ordinary people could not escape their eyes. Even in the dark night, they had a keen sense of the people around them. With long-term polishing experience, these scouts knew where to easily arrange traps and where to arrange cumbersome traps, and avoid or crack them in advance.

"If it's not a trap, then..." Then Ye Guan thought of another possibility. If it's not a trap or an ambush, then there is only one possibility, formation.

There is a special type of formation that is designed for defense, but it is not blindly protected. It should be known that the best defense is attack. This type of formation mainly plays a defensive role by killing the enemy. This type of formation has a general name, killing formation.

There are many types of killing formations, some target individuals, some target group targets, some are sounding like thunder when activated, while others can stimulate a large amount of energy to erase the enemy in an instant, while others condense the energy of the formation and kill the enemy quietly.

This type of formation has similar uses as traps, but it is more secret and clever. With ordinary scouts alone, you can find traps arranged, but you cannot find killing formations at the same position.

Once the killing formation is triggered, it may trigger a chain of formations around it, erase all the people nearby, silently.

Ye Guan frowned. If it was a killing formation, then things might have exceeded his expectations.

The arrangement of the killing array is hundreds of times more difficult than that of ordinary formations. Ordinary formations only use different methods to condense natural power to achieve a certain goal. However, while the killing array condenses natural power, compresses and integrates the gathered energy, and supplemented with secret portrayal methods, which makes people unable to defend against. With Ye Guan's knowledge, he only knew that Ning Yi of the Eastern Prince's Mansion had this ability, and he had never heard of others.

"It seems that the person behind Shen Tuyan is probably not as simple as practicing death energy." Ye Guan was in a serious mood at this moment. Several teams of scouts did not come back, and he thought a lot.

It’s not that the teams of scouts were not captured or besieged by all the enemy troops, but this may be too small. If you want to use the formation to surround them, with the same arrangement method, the setting up the killing formation must be much better. Ye Guan would not be so naive that both sides were on the battlefield, and the enemy would show mercy, spare his life, or take him into prison. This is basically impossible under the current situation.

"Tell me, four generals, the lieutenant came in to see me." Ye Guan thought for a moment, raised his head, and Xu Bao, who was outside the account, whispered the order. When Xu Bao heard this, he immediately bowed to Ye Guan with his fists and then quickly sent the order.

After giving orders to summon the four generals, Ye Guan sat upright on his couch, but his frown stretched out and became a vague person. However, he was quickly calculating in his heart how to crack it if the enemy arranged a killing formation.

After a while, the sound of several military boots stomping on the ground came, which made Ye Guan's thoughts messed up. He looked up slightly and saw four big men wearing general armor walking into his tent and kneeling on one knee.

"Subordinate, please see General Ye." The four generals said in unison.

"Please get up, please sit down, all the generals." Ye Guan waved his hand gently and signaled the generals to sit down. Then, the four generals sat down on the chairs on both sides and looked at Ye Guan together.

They were stationed at the Zongqiu Mountain Pass overnight. They knew that Ye Guan asked them to come at this moment to issue the next military order.

"General Ye, if you have any military orders, please hand over the full power to your subordinates. The subordinates will do their best to ensure that there is no mistake." As soon as the four of them sat down, a general on Ye Guan's left spoke immediately. The general looked like a rash man with a clear face, about 40 or so, full of energy. He looked at Ye Guan with his tiger eyes, clasped his fists, and his eyes were full of expectations.

This general is named Ding Jiang, the chief general of the Chilang Army of the East Prince's Mansion. In the 289th year of Qi Tianli, he was later transferred to the East Prince's Mansion and fought in the East Prince's Mansion for more than ten years. The court ordered the feudal general to be a fourth-rank general, one of the mainstays of the East Prince's Mansion. He has made great achievements and advanced martial arts cultivation.

"Hey hey hey." As soon as Ding Jiang finished speaking, another general opposite him immediately spoke, and said unhappy: "I said General Ding, you just sat down and asked for a pioneer. Do you want to have a good face?"

"Yes, General Ding, you have to listen to General Ye's military affairs arrangements. What do you mean by opening your mouth?" The general who spoke to the general immediately followed Yan, standing with the general just now.

The general who spoke first was Kou Long, and then the general who spoke first was Ren Zijin. The two generals belonged to the guards of the Eastern Prince's Mansion. They were soldiers in the 288th year of Qi Tianli and entered the Eastern Prince's Mansion together in the two years of joining the army. They both had the title of fourth-rank generals and fought for the Eastern Prince's Mansion. They also had great military achievements and did not deal with Ding Jiang very well, and often argued for their verbal prominence.

"What? Are you two dissatisfied?" Ding Jiang glared at him and looked at the two people on the opposite side, feeling a little angry. When they went to the enclave this time, they were all ready to fight. Before, they had not started a head-on battle with the three kings in the imperial capital, they retreated in shame, which made the people feel dull and wanted to show their strength in the enclave. However, after entering the enclave, they did not encounter any war worth mentioning. The city where they went either opened the city to surrender or was vulnerable, which made the generals feel uninterested. After finally meeting an enemy who was beaten, they naturally rushed to be the pioneer.

"What if I don't accept it?" Kou Long glared back and refused to retreat.

"Okay, OK." At this time, Ding Jiang attacked a white-faced general and whispered: "If you don't look at where this is, General Ye is still there, why are you quarreling?"

The white-faced general, Tu Xingping, the Eastern Prince's Mansion Chilang Army joined the army. In the 289th year of Qi Tianli, he was transferred to the Eastern Prince's Mansion at the same time as Ding Jiang. He was a fourth-rank general, both civil and military. He had a high level of cultivation, but he was only in his early thirties. He was the youngest among the three generals.

As soon as Tu Xingping finished speaking, the three of them shut up and immediately looked at Ye Guan. Ye Guan sat upright on the couch, his eyes slightly closed, his face calm, and he didn't say a word.
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