Reborn as the favorite of the cold-faced general

Ye Huaiyun boarded the observation deck and looked through the binoculars.There are tens of thousands of southwest soldiers and horses galloping from the desert of dead souls.

"Create an illusion first to defeat the psychological defense of our soldiers, and then take the opportunity to attack the camp." Ye Huaiyun put down the binoculars and said, "This despicable strategy is something that King Chang Xin could come up with."

"I don't think it might be like attacking the camp." Chu Tingyun stood beside him.

The afterglow of the setting sun gradually sank into the horizon, and the sky changed to a deep blue.Chu Tingyun said: "Our garrison has more than 8000 people, but he used [-] troops to attack the camp. Heh, even if he is disturbed by illusions, that is whimsical."

"Then this time the camp..." Ye Huaiyun paused, thinking of their experience in the Desert of Souls last night, he had a flash of inspiration, "Does he want to use the defeat as a bait to lure our soldiers into the Desert of Souls?"

Seeing that the cavalry was getting closer and closer to them, our soldiers had also packed up their emotions and were ready to go.

Chu Tingyun took out an arrow feather casually, put it on the bow, and shot it lightly through the chest of the cavalry leader.This is also the secret signal for our army to attack, and the people on both sides immediately fought in a melee.

Ye Huaiyun was always paying attention to the battle situation, and it was just as they had guessed.Not long after the stalemate, the Southwest soldiers were defeated and fled.

Chen Jun had hated King Chang Xin's soldiers for a long time. Seeing their defeat, he immediately wanted to catch up.

Ye Huaiyun had given an order not to pursue him early in the morning, but for some reason, none of the thousand soldiers listened to him.

As if being controlled by something, he just ran forward blindly.

"It's the effect of that illusion." Chu Tingyun said: "The further they run, the closer they are to the illusion. It seems to give them hope that they can go back to the past to make up for their regrets."

So what they are chasing is not the enemy, but the hope that they can't ask for.

"What should we do now?" Ye Huaiyun asked.He couldn't just watch more than a thousand soldiers under him running into the desert of dead souls to die in vain.

"Let's follow up." Chu Tingyun said, "Break that phantom formation."

There are still more than a thousand opponents, and they should have preserved their strength.To be on the safe side, the two couldn't catch up directly, so they asked Xie Lan and Han Jiu to gather two elite teams.

After chasing all the way to the desert of the dead, we can no longer see the men and horses we chased out, and the enemy's figure.

The hooves of the steed under Ye Huaiyun stomped on the spot, making everyone behind him stop first.

With the experience of falling into quicksand last night, he dared not easily make too much noise in the Desert of Dead Souls.I am afraid that the sound of their horseshoes will make the sand flow and fall into the underground palace again.

Ye Huaiyun listened attentively, and it seemed that there was a voice coming from the front left of them, and they were about to raise their hands to give an order.

Suddenly, a cool breeze blew up.Wrapped with sand and a stinking fishy smell, it brushed across the cheeks.

Everyone subconsciously raised their sleeves to cover their noses, but the disgusting breath still entered their noses, and Ye Huaiyun almost spit out what he ate at noon.

The air in front of him seemed to be covered with a layer of yellow sand, and his vision became unclear.The more this is the case, the more vigilant you should be. Everyone understands this truth and walks carefully into the depths of the desert.

Ye Huaiyun held his breath and concentrated, when his body suddenly sank, as if another person had fallen on the horse's back.

He turned his head to look, and it turned out that Chu Tingyun had abandoned his original mount and came to ride with him.

"What are you doing?" Ye Huaiyun asked amusedly, "Major General Chu, are you afraid?"

"Well, I'm afraid." Chu Tingyun admitted with a cheeky face, and said, "I am a timid man, and I need your majesty to protect me."

"..." Ye Huaiyun pushed his head away from her shoulder.

Ye Huaiyun seemed to be able to imagine the raised eyebrows of this person when he said such nonsensical words, if he was not worried about the quicksand coming again, he would have burst into laughter.He was a little disgusted and said: "Go back to your own horse, I think it's crowded."

"I don't, I want to." Chu Tingyun resolutely refused.

...Why are you still playing a rogue?Ye Huaiyun earnestly said, "We are half a battlefield now, how can we ride together when we go to the battlefield?"

Chu Tingyun finally changed his playful smile and became serious: "I'm really scared." He continued in a low voice: "The demon wind and sand fog are both very weird. I'm afraid that each of them will ride a horse, and they won't be able to see each other as they walk. people."

"For example now." Chu Tingyun paused, "I can't see Xie Lan and Han Jiu anymore."

Ye Huaiyun was startled, sure enough, there were only the two of them around.

Chu Tingyun took the opportunity to reach out to him, took Ye Huaiyun's other hand that was not holding the horse's rein, and clasped it tightly, as if he was afraid that he would disappear too.Ye Huaiyun didn't dodge this time, he tightened his fingers and responded to him.

The two of them added a horse, and walked in the misty desert of souls like this, taking every step cautiously.

They know that there must be danger behind this fog, and they are ready to deal with danger together with each other at any time.

It's a pity that the two people who locked their fingers tightly at this moment never imagined that the plan would never keep up with the changes.And change is powerless.

It felt like walking for a long time, and the fog suddenly cleared.Under the faint starlight, a group of people were constantly approaching them.

The two got off their horses at the same time in a tacit understanding, and drew out their sabers at the same time.

The group of people in the distance moved forward very slowly, like old men faltering, moving forward step by step.Ye Huaiyun and Chu Tingyun waited for a long time before those people got close enough to attack.

At the same time, they also saw the true appearance of those "people".Pale complexion, hoarse voice, stiff movements...and in the widened eyes, there were two strings of blood and tears hanging on the cheeks.

On a moonlit night, it is especially eerie.

"Living puppet." Chu Tingyun said two words lightly.

Ye Huaiyun gave a "hmm", and he saw it too.There are dozens of living puppets walking towards them.

Some of these puppets are tall, some are short, and some look like old people and children.The two immediately understood that they were all old and weak women and children who were captured by King Chang Xin in Pingshui City.

"Desolate!" Ye Huaiyun gritted his teeth and spit out four words.

After the living puppets approached them, their mechanical and rigid movements immediately became flexible.No need for a weapon, just open your bloody mouth, wave your thick arms, and launch an attack.

Chu Tingyun's Xuanyi sword sliced ​​off one of the puppet's legs, but the puppet did not fall down. Instead, it crossed its legs and continued to swing its claws at him.Every movement is chaotic and skillful, exposing the weakness of the whole body, but I can't hit it no matter what.

They suddenly realized that these living puppets don't feel pain, and they won't die a second time.So all their attacks are in vain.

The legs are cut off and the hands are cut off, and the hands are cut off and the teeth are still there.Even if it is split from it, the living puppet will be divided into two, and they will attack separately, which is even more troublesome.

After fighting for more than half an hour, Ye Huaiyun's hand holding the sword was a little loose, and Chu Tingyun also began to breathe quickly.And these ghosts, not only did not slow down in the slightest, but from time to time a severed arm grabbed their legs.

Chu Tingyun saw a puppet hand slowly standing up from the ground, ready to attack Ye Huaiyun's hind thigh.

Without even thinking about it, he rushed forward to get rid of the puppet, but probably because he had been fighting for too long, his five senses became dull due to fatigue.He didn't notice that behind him, there was also a hand, scratching a bloodstain fiercely on the skin.

The bloody smell instantly dispersed in the air, causing the living puppets to groan.

Ye Huaiyun suddenly felt bad, did this... make them even more excited?

Just when he thought that the living puppets were about to step up their attack, a whistle sounded over the desert.

The living puppets stopped attacking immediately when they heard the whistle, and retreated in the direction they came from.

Ye Huaiyun rushed to Chu Tingyun's side to support him in two steps, and glanced at the robe and skin with five long marks on his legs, "How do you feel?"

"I don't feel anything." Chu Tingyun answered him.

While the two were talking, the living puppets had already retreated a small distance.A bunker slowly appeared on the ground, and the surrounding sand grains kept flowing down, just like the quicksand that Ye Huaiyun encountered yesterday.And those living puppets jumped off the vortex one after another, were gradually swallowed up, and returned to the underground palace.

Because Chu Tingyun was caught by a ghost, and Xie Lan and Han Jiu were missing, they dare not follow casually today.He only intends to exit the Desert of Souls first, and then make other plans.

After leaving the Dead Soul Desert, Ye Huaiyun saw Xie Lan and Han Jiu anxiously pacing in place at a glance.

He drove forward, "Are you all okay?"

But he actually asked nonsense, because Ye Huaiyun obviously saw that the soldiers behind Han Jiu had missed a big step, and the group of people who chased the Southwest soldiers out at first were also not in the line.

Sure enough, Xie Lan shook her head and sighed, "The situation is not good."

After they walked two steps in the mist, some of the soldiers behind them were killing each other, some were delusional, and some were relatively normal, and they were suddenly dragged into the quicksand by a puppet hand that emerged from the ground died.

In the end, those who survived by chance were only these few people.

Ye Huaiyun frowned upon hearing Xie Lan's words.It seems that this desert of dead souls is far more treacherous than he imagined.

After returning to the tent, Ye Huaiyun immediately ordered Zhao Chuyang to be summoned to check the wound on Chu Tingyun's body.

Zhao Chuyang took his pulse and looked at the wound. After a long time of diagnosis, he said: "It's just a common scratch, just apply some medicine and it will be fine."

"Really? Was this caught by a living puppet?" Ye Huaiyun looked at him suspiciously, remembering the records he had read in some ancient books and asked: "There is no such thing as saying that you will be infected once you are caught?"

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, there are no such hidden dangers." Zhao Chuyang said: "If you don't believe me, ask General Chu if he feels the same as when he is injured normally."

Chu Tingyun nodded towards Ye Huaiyun, "There is really nothing unusual, so don't worry about it."

Although both of them were categorical, Ye Huaiyun always had a bad premonition for some reason.

The curtain of the general camp was suddenly lifted by Han Jiu. Regardless of Ye Huaiyun and Chu Tingyun looking at each other, he took a deep breath and shouted loudly: "Master Jiang Shao is gone!"

"It's gone?" Ye Huaiyun was suspicious, "What's going on?"

"According to the officers and soldiers, after His Majesty and the general led the troops to the Desert of Souls, Master Jiang Shaogong also rode to the southwest on horseback. It seems that the whole person is still in a trance." Han Jiu said: "Will it be true? Could it be controlled by the phantom array?"

Ye Huaiyun was a little anxious, "Have you sent someone to look for it?"

"No need to look for it." Chu Tingyun suddenly said coolly.

Ye Huaiyun asked: "Why didn't you look for it?"

"Huaiyun, do you think it's reasonable for him to be arrested suddenly when the whole army retreats during the battle of Dieshuigu?" Chu Tingyun raised an eyebrow at him, and then rubbed his forehead, "Besides, he still regards him as That black cat that Duan Ye gave is like a treasure."

"What do you mean?" Ye Huaiyun's wide-open eyes were filled with disbelief.

Jiang Linxu, the ghost who revealed the secrets of the army? !