The eyes were blurred, as if they could not see anything clearly. Xiao Yunfan felt dizzy and his lips were dry. He didn't expect that the alcohol was not good. He barely stood up, and only felt that his feet were floating. He walked to a pool, scooped his hands, and poured water on his face. After a while, he finally woke up.

He coughed twice, stretched out his sleeves and wiped the water droplets on his face, and said to himself, "Oh, it turns out that he is old, so he will get over the head after drinking some wine."

The cave is distributed in the shape of a king, walking along the corridor. There are two stone rooms on the left and right at the entrance for living. There are two stone rooms in the middle, one is a kitchen, and the other is a pharmacy. The last two rooms are a toilet and the other is a study.

He walked along the corridor to the study, reached out to turn the stone button, and a stone door slowly rose up. There were holes on the top of the stone chamber for ventilation. The walls were decorated with natural pearls, so the room was not dim. On the wall to the west, two objects were protruding, one was the hilt of the sword and the other was the scabbard.

Xiao Yunfan came to this stone wall and looked at it. He reached out and touched the hilt of the sword. The cold and bone-bone feeling was so familiar, like a friend who hadn't seen him for a long time. His thoughts fluctuated and he said, "Good brother, Xiao is incompetent and cannot save you from this cage." Suddenly, he thought that since he could not pull it out with his internal force, he could always use other methods.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he thought to himself, "Why don't I try the Thousand Spirit Art?" A thought flashed, and he ran to the kitchen, found some malt sugar and put it in a small bag. After leaving the cave, he looked for traces of ants under a pine tree.

He first put the sticks covered with malt sugar on the ground, and then leaned down to wait. Sure enough, an ant big and small grains of rice discovered the food first. It first touched the sugar grains with two small antennae and tried to lift it up, but unfortunately it failed.

After that, the ant turned back to the ant hole. Soon, a group of ants crawled towards the sugar grains in groups. Seeing the ants appearing in an orderly manner, Xiao Yunfan said: "I have never been able to understand the insect part in the Thousand Spirit Art. Why not try this ant today."

As he said that, he took off his bag from his back and took out a wooden box. It turned out that the wooden box contained a lot of wood chips and a pheasant feather. Seeing that the ants gathered more and more, he reached out to lift the wooden stick and carefully swept the ants into the wooden box with the feather.

After returning to the cave, he used peppercorns on the stone table in the study and placed a three-foot-long rectangle, and drew many vertical lines in the rectangle. Then he swept the ants into it. At first, the ants ran around, but when they encountered peppercorns, they shrank back. This cycle was repeated, and the ant had to walk around in the rectangle.

Xiao Yunfan searched for some big ants and specially trained them. He first put a piece of candy and let the ants carry them back and forth. After a few days, these ants were trained by him like soldiers. As long as the feathers in his hands made a slight sound on the table, the ants would go straight along the thin line as if they had received military orders.

He raised these ants for a month, and the ants he picked out to train were extremely strong. At the beginning, there were only dozens of ants in the ant formation. As he gained deeper understanding of the ant habits, he actually expanded the ant formation to a thousand.

At first, rice grains were placed in front of the ant formation, and later peanuts, broad beans and other things were added, and the situation was circulating.

When he put a fat chicken in, sometimes he could turn into bones in an instant. These ants were raised by him, as if they gradually became spiritual. Whenever Xiao Yunfan issued an order, they could act.

After living with these ants for a long time, I feel that each ants are almost the same as before. He can actually distinguish the differences based on the subtle characteristics of each ants. Seeing the increasing number of these ants army, Xiao Yunfan thought to himself: "Although these ants are small, they can move Mount Tai. You should give the army of these small things a loud name.

By the way, since I am nicknamed "Jade Lion", the army I trained is called the Lion Army. Why does the Lion Army sound like a Little Army? Haha. But this lion is not that lice, and it is time for me, the Lion Army to show their strength."

Xiao Yunfan picked up a bamboo flute and issued orders to the ants. A black ants climbed up the stone wall along the ground, and a subtle sound came from the air. In less than half a day, two round holes the size of fists were chiseled out of the stone wall.

He reached out and held the hilt of the sword, gently pulled out the sword, blew away the dust on it, and wiped it with a cloth. He drew the gourd as he did, and the black scabbard was also taken out. Xiao Yunfan was extremely excited, holding the sword in his hand and wielding it a few times.

The sword had been taken out, and he disbanded the Lion Army and sent the ants back to their hometown with a box.

Inside the den, two butter wax as thick as an arm was burning. General Li Yingxiang sat upright on the chair, and his head was Zhou Guanghao, Zhu Wenda, Bian Zhiyuan and other generals. Li Yingxiang has been sleeping in the open in the past few months, fighting in all directions, and his temples have become much white.

He looked at everyone and said, "Now there is another war in southern Sichuan. Do you have any good plans for defeating the enemy?" Zhou Guanghao stood up with his sword and crossed his hands and said, "General, my subordinates thought they were going to defeat the bandits in southern Sichuan. We will divide the troops to attack them."

Li Yingxiang said, "Let's talk about it, how can you divide the troops to attack?" Zhou Guanghao pulled out his long sword and pointed to the raised mountain peak in the sand table and said, "I have mountains in Sichuan. Now the army is driving this smoky land. If the joint camp sets up, it will be difficult to resist once the enemy attacks with fire. This is one of them.

The Black Bone Clan and the Zada ​​Clan have occupied Xiangling, which is not good for our army. This is the second reason. If our army crosses the Lu River forcibly, the other side will definitely set up ambush along the coast. Once our army cannot wait for the shore, the Lu River will be our burial place at that time.

It is better to lead a team of light cavalry to cross the river at night, first understand the situation of Xiangling, and after the subordinates disrupt the morale of the enemy, the general will send troops to help. As long as we open the gap in Xiangling, the matter of breaking the enemy will be halfway.

After the enemy's aura is frustrated, they will naturally not fight easily. Once they cannot stand firm, our army can encircle them first and cut off the connection between them. As long as we surround one, reinforcements will naturally come to die. Strike them and attack them, and finally join them to surround them. The war in southern Sichuan can be settled."

After Zhou Guanghao finished speaking, Li Yingxiang laughed. He stood up and said, "Guoyong is a scholar, I am afraid that you have only a little understanding of military affairs. You are afraid that you will be injured by the enemy before you cross the river." His implication was that Zhou Guanghao was talking about war on paper.

Zhou Guanghao looked around for a while and saw the smile on everyone's faces as ridiculed as Li Yingxiang. He felt very angry and said loudly: "General."

This is a bad statement. Who says that civil officials cannot lead troops? During the Three Kingdoms, there were Lu Xun, the general of the Eastern Wu, and there were also figures like Mr. Yangming in the Ming Dynasty.”

General Zhu Wenda said, "Brother Zhou is comparing himself to Lu Xun and Mr. Yangming?" Zhou Guanghao said, "What's wrong?" Zhu Wenda said, "Marching and fighting are far from what is said in the play. What about Li Taibai's drunk grass and scaring the man's books, and Zhuge Liang borrowing arrows from a straw boat are all a set of literati's stories. It's okay to listen to the story, how can you take it seriously?"

After being agitated by the other party, Zhou Guanghao said seriously: "General Li, is Zhou appointed by the court?" Li Yingxiang was stunned and said: "Brother Zhou is a person ordered by the Ministry of War, so he is naturally an official of the court." Zhou Guanghao said again: "Since the court appointed Zhou, it is naturally not wrong. If you wait for a literati on the left, you cannot lead troops and another literati cannot fight. What is the reason?"

Before Li Yingxiang could speak, Bian Zhiyuan said, "Zhou Jianjun, it's not that everyone can't trust you, but that you do this too dangerously. You don't care about your life. Bian respects you as a hero, but which brothers are not raised by my mother? Once they have a few shortcomings, what should you do if your parents do?"

Zhou Guanghao sneered: "The so-called 'civil ministers' refusal to persuade them, and military officials fight to the death'. Since we were ordered by the court, we naturally put life and death aside. If we were afraid of death, we would be a soldier. It would be better to go home and farm."

When Bian Zhiyuan heard him say this, his face turned pale and pointed at him, "You... you are so ungrateful. I kindly advised you, but you mocked me." As he said that, he was about to draw the sword. Li Yingxiang said with a stern face: "Before you meet the enemy, you have started your own hands first, what kind of morality is it."

Both of them glared at each other. Zhou Guanghao said with his hands crossed, "General Li, Zhou is willing to issue a military order. If I lead twenty cavalry, I will not be able to break the bandits in Xiangling within ten days, and I am willing to be dealt with by military law." Li Yingxiang said, "There is no joke in the army, Guoyong will think twice before he can do it."

Zhou Guanghao said seriously: "Guoyong received the reward from the court and should do the loyal army. Others cannot be the vanguard of the enemy, so I will come. I am willing to issue a military order and ask the general to fulfill it." Li Yingxiang glanced at Bian Zhiyuan and said to himself: "It's all you talk too much, so you must force this scholar to seek death."

Zhou Guanghao said again, "Please give orders by the general." Li Yingxiangyuan didn't expect that this guy would actually play the truth with a joke. He hesitated and thought to himself, "Everyone saw that Zhou Guanghao asked for the battle himself, even if he died in battle, it had nothing to do with it.

Then he thought, "This person is Xu Zhongcheng's confidant. If he has a few shortcomings, Lord Zhongcheng will definitely write my book, which makes me embarrassed. Well, if this person asks to die, the King of Hell can't stop him, so I will fulfill him."

He said in a deep voice: "The person who comes to get the pen and ink." Soon, his subordinates took the pen and ink. Zhou Guanghao held the brush and waved it. Li Yingxiang looked at the military order and nodded and said: "Okay, since the general Zhou wants to be this vanguard, I will allow you. In addition to twenty light cavalry, what else do you want this general to give you?"

Zhou Guanghao said, "If I take down Xiangling and ask Zhu, the two generals of the Bian have apologized to Zhou, and ask the general to take back the words that the literati cannot lead troops." Li Yingxiang exclaimed and said, "After making trouble, Zhou Jianjun still has to fight for a breath. Okay, I will answer you for them." As he said that, he took out a token from the signboard and handed it to Zhou Guanghao.
Chapter completed!