For three days in a row, Zeng Rouniang and others lived in Jincheng without much movement.

The fourth day.

Chen Mian suddenly sent someone to invite Zeng Rouniang, saying that they had something important to discuss.

"After waiting for a few days, Chen Mian still couldn't calm down." Zeng Rouniang said to Lulu, and then asked: "Where is General Zhenwu? What's the news?"

Someone reported: "He has never been seen leaving the barracks. The rest of the Dingxi army is managed by him like an iron barrel. I don't know how to win people's hearts. I can't find out any specific information. I just heard that he often goes to the open space behind the camp."

Zeng Rouniang frowned in thought, said nothing, and led people to find Chen Mian. But when she arrived, Chen Mian was serving tea and chatting, looking around and talking about other things, as if testing Zeng Rouniang's attitude.

After a while, Zeng Rouniang simply said: "If Uncle Chen has any plans, you can tell me. My father and I are on the side of the cities in the northwest. As long as it is beneficial to the northwest, you can tell me."

Chen Mian was overjoyed when he heard this. He knew this woman, so he had no doubts anymore and said, "Uncle, I got some information about a deserted stronghold."

"Huh?" Zeng Rouniang asked carefully.

"This is also my foresight. I thought that the Huangren would not be willing to accept the loss, so I used spies and scouts to investigate, and I discovered a stronghold of the Huangren, which contained a large amount of food and soldiers!"

"Is this happening?" Zeng Rouniang suddenly stood up, "Where is it?"

"Niece, come with me, I will mark it on the map for you."

Soon, Chen Mian marked the specific location on the map of the meeting hall.

It is a dense forest called Xilin more than fifty miles away from Jincheng. It occupies a large area. There are many hills in the forest, and there are three rivers running through it from the north to the south.

"This creek forest is located at the junction of two families. There are no mountains or rivers, so there are no gods in charge. There are not many monsters inside, and wild beasts are rampant. There is no road connecting the forest outside. It is not under the jurisdiction of Jincheng, so only hunters come in and out on weekdays." Chen

Mian pointed while saying: "The deserters must have valued this, so they hid the stronghold inside. A rough estimate is that the food, grass and soldiers inside are enough to last 30,000 soldiers and horses for three months!"

Zeng Rouniang walked closer to observe, and the more she looked, the more frightened she became.

"The rivers in the forest are the upper reaches of the river. The barren people use waterways to transport them. Between advance and retreat, several large cities along the river are within the deterrent range of this stronghold!"

After thinking about it, she raised her head and said, "Uncle Chen, this information is so important! No matter what, it's a great achievement!"

Chen Mian smiled and said: "Niece, you have also seen the critical point here. Uncle, I want to lead a group of troops to make a surprise attack here. If you can, grab it. If you can't, burn it with fire! In short, we have to

Before the deserter can react, get rid of this hidden danger first!"

"Soldiers are a major matter and should not be acted upon rashly." Zeng Rouniang shook her head. "When we send spies to investigate, we must find those with rich experience and strong skills to find out the true and false in detail. I will inform my father about this matter. Once confirmed, it will not be the case."

Regarding the Jincheng family, the coalition forces should send out troops together to destroy this place!"

"Okay! I'll make arrangements right away!"

Chen Mian left in a hurry, while Zeng Rouniang looked at the map, made calculations, and considered many situations.

the other side.

"These living corpses are rich in death aura, similar to rotten blood, and have signs of being refined with blood! There are blood lines running through the central axis of the body, intertwined into formations, which are obviously traces of some kind of sacrificial exercise..."

Chen Yuan was studying several living dead - after repelling the deserters, he ordered the remaining living dead to be suppressed with gold and iron and buried in the soil. When necessary, he would dig out one to study. After a few days, he gained a lot.

.

At this moment, there was a slightly trembling living dead on his left, and an iron ball obtained from the mountain god's cave on his right.

Inside the iron ball, the living corpse flesh was also trembling, echoing and resonating with the living dead.

This proved Chen Yuan's guess.

"Both of them were written by the same person! Therefore, the person who refined the living corpse was also the person who visited Lushou Mountain. He was worshiped by the desolate man, the Bone Taoist!"

He put away the iron ball and restrained the living corpse, and he began to think deeply.

"Using the method of blood refining to accelerate living corpses means a mature and systematic method of sacrificing corpses! But these living corpses all have unfinished meanings, indicating that the blood refining is not yet complete. It is either the practice that is defective or the blood refining.

Not finished yet? I need more information!"

He stretched out his left hand and pressed it, absorbing the essence of death from the living dead body, and stored it in the Shinto gap of his left arm. There was already a lot of essence of death stored in it. Every time he replenished his body, he could be restored to Qi.

The peak state of perfect blood.

At this moment.

"General!"

Zhang Que's voice came. Then, he ran over panting.

"What's wrong?"

"Then Chen Mian suddenly ordered me and other soldiers from Dingxi to form a scout and go to a place to investigate, saying that they discovered the hidden stronghold of the Huangren!" Zhang Que asked for instructions: "All the strongholds of the Huangren are dangerous and unusual, and they need good hands.

We can't count on the soldiers in the northwest!" He said with a bit of pride, "General, how do you think we should arrange it? Otherwise, my subordinates can lead people over?"

"The deserted man's secret stronghold?"

Chen Yuan's heart moved, and all kinds of information went through his mind——

Blood sacrifice, living dead, skeletal Taoist, desolate man, desolate man stronghold...

He caught a thread.

"Very good, it's just the right time to find out what's going on. Speaking of which, I spent too much time in Jincheng."

"What? Chen Shiji went to collect information personally?!"

In the barracks hall, Chen Mian's eyes widened after receiving the news, his face full of surprise.

Zeng Rouniang, who was sitting at the bottom, changed her expression and showed a look of surprise.

"That's right," Zhang Que, who came to report the news, had a bitter look on his face. "When the general got the news, he said he would go there to investigate in person, and also said that other people don't need to get involved..."

He was full of regrets, feeling that his general was considerate of his soldiers and was unwilling to put himself and others in danger, so he sacrificed himself for him!

In the final analysis, it is the incompetence of people like myself that drags down the general!

Chen Mian quickly digested this shocking news and said in a fake tone: "General Chen is confused! Zhang Que, why don't you stop him? Let him be willful! A young man who is successful will inevitably act arbitrarily, but Zhang Que, you are

You’re a veteran, but you don’t know what’s important?”

"How can I persuade the general! He read the contents of the military order, knew the location, and set off immediately. He had no chance to stop him!" Zhang Que's face became even more bitter.

Chen Mian still needs to talk about it.

But Zeng Rouniang interrupted him and said: "This matter involves the safety of the northwest. We cannot mess up the situation because of temporary grudges! Let's understand the situation first!"

"My niece is right!" Chen Mian quickly nodded in agreement.

Zeng Rouniang said again: "However, what General Zhenwu did was really childish. As a general, he is the soul of an army and is involved in the safety of all cities. He should be sitting in the center and arranging troops. How can he personally be implicated?" She shook her head.

Shaking his head, "He has no consciousness of being a general at all! Uncle Chen, hurry up and arrange people to stop him! Bring him back quickly!"

"Okay, let's make arrangements now."

"Having acquired the masculine energy and blood, I have almost studied the living corpse. I carry the mustard bag with me, so there is no need to bind it to the army. However, so many people have entrusted their thoughts to me. This is not a small cause and effect.

Before going, it is also appropriate to do some research for them."

Chen Yuan's body was like lightning, walking through the forest.

"As soon as the Huangren retreated, information about the secret stronghold appeared. Coupled with the unfinished intentions of the blood-refined living corpse, one cannot but make people suspect that someone is deliberately spreading the news. We just took the opportunity to test the opponent's truth.

No matter what the plan is, we must collect as much information as possible."

Following the route mentioned in the military order, he quickly arrived at the boundary of Xilin. He stopped more than thirty miles away from the target, found a tall tree and jumped up, with a golden light flashing in his eyes.

Evil energy surged in the field of vision, and many spiritual energies gathered and dispersed.

"It's strange. It's full of spiritual energy. It can be said to be a treasured land for cultivation. However, it also has a sinister appearance, showing signs of a Jedi! There is indeed something weird about this place. It's not a simple desert stronghold. It's probably a trap, but it needs to be searched carefully. But for now

In this situation, you will step into a trap if you are not careful.”

Withdrawing his gaze, Chen Yuan pondered for a moment, and then revealed the Misfortune Sword.

"Although the Golden Eyes can see Qi, they cannot sense the fine details in a wide range. Fortunately, there is a compromise."

After the thought fell, he made a sword formula with his left hand, pouring the power of the divine way into the Fou Qiu sword.

Buzz!

The sword blade burst out with brilliance, then soared into the sky, turning into a cold light, leaving in an instant, lingering around, using the power of Shinto to imprint the surrounding scene, and then returned after a few breaths.

Chen Yuan absorbed the divine power from his sword, and the scene within a hundred miles radius was immediately reflected in his mind, allowing him to discover many details, as well as many hidden teams of desolate people, including a familiar figure.

"When the Huangren attacked Jincheng before, there was this woman. She seemed to be worshiped by the Huangren, and she ran back during the chaos. She is considered a high-level person, so she should know a lot of inside information. It's you!"

Huajinu's mood has gradually calmed down in the past few days, and he has gradually been freed from the panic of attacking Jincheng. He is leading a team of people to patrol the forest.

"As long as I don't take the initiative to take risks, danger will never find me."

She has made up her mind to stay away from Jincheng in the past six months.

"Not just Jincheng," she calculated as she walked, "there is no guarantee that that person will not go to support other cities, so I have to stay away from the recent siege of the city. Even if I go, I have to hide behind. Of course, the most ideal thing is this.

Inspection mission.”

Looking at the lush and lush forest, Huajinu praised his wit.

"Although this is a trap prepared for the Northwest Allied Forces, it is safe until the Ningren attack in force!"

She feels that she is quite capable of planning now.

"In such a secret place, at most a few scouts can come, and the murderous man is the commander at first glance. The commander-in-chief, he will not let the well-behaved Chinese army not stay here, but come here to investigate, right?"

Just as he was thinking about it, Huajinu felt a chill down his back, and for some reason, he felt a bit ominous.

"What's wrong?"

Before I could finish my thoughts, I heard an exclamation from behind me!

"Enemy attack!"

When Huajinu turned around, the dozens of Huangren soldiers behind him had all fallen.

In the distance, a young man in Taoist robes was walking slowly.

Huajinu's eyes widened, as if he had seen a ghost in the daytime.
Chapter completed!