Eight-year-old Princess: Phoenix Reborn

Lingxi City was built on a plain with fertile land and abundant water. On the plain, if you are marching and fighting, it is a difficult place to set up an ambush. On the east and west sides of Lingxi City, there are two dense forests. The mountain in the east is relatively gentle and stretches for tens of miles along the Qianshui River. The mountain in the west is steeper and the forest is denser. Some, but the presence of wild animals in the mountains and forests is also very dangerous.

Yunshang chose the mountain in the east as the destination for this day's visit. Yunshang rode a horse and went straight out of the city, heading for Langya Mountain.

Not long after leaving the city, I saw the road up the mountain. Although there is no official road on the mountain, the mountain is not steep, so Yunshang rode directly to the mountain. After more than half of the climb, the forest gradually became denser, and the horse seemed a little tired, so Yun Chang got off the horse and led the horse up the mountain.

Most of the forest is fir and cypress, and there are also rhododendrons in full bloom.

Yunshang walked for more than an hour, but she didn't see anything wrong. Thinking of the last time she scouted the terrain like this, it seemed to be when she was fighting in Kangyang. It was because of that time that she met Liu Yinfeng.

Later, she was trapped in the small courtyard by Liu Yinfeng's Seven Star Big Dipper Array, and in the end, Luo Qingyan also saved her.

Thinking about it, Yun Chang raised the corners of her mouth, but after a while, her footsteps suddenly stopped, Seven Star Big Dipper Formation? If she remembers correctly, it seems that the Yelang Kingdom has never had formations on the battlefield since ancient times, and all battles rely on the bravery of soldiers and sturdy horses. Cangjue Qingsu is very likely, and he doesn't know the formation at all.

A light flashed in Yunshang's eyes. She had worshiped Qing Cang, the master of formation, as her teacher before. Although she was too busy, Yunshang didn't really learn too much from Qing Cang. However, she has carefully read the formation book, and she can even draw every formation diagram in it.

If you use formations to resist, it may not be impossible to have more enemies with fewer enemies.

Yun Chang was thinking to herself, but heard the secret guard behind her exclaim: Master, look, there seems to be smoke over there.

Yun Chang looked in the direction pointed by the dark guard, and indeed saw a green smoke rising from the distant woods. Yun Chang looked at the green smoke carefully, the smoke was relatively small, it should not burn wet leaves, but dry things. And there is only that one smoke nearby, so there shouldn't be a large-scale garrison.

Explore. Yun Shang ordered concisely.

The dark guard responded, moved his body, and quickly hid in the woods.

Although he felt that there should not be a large-scale garrison, Yunshang was a little worried that it might be a spy sent by the Yelang Kingdom, so he found a protruding rock and hid under it.

The hidden guard's movements were also very fast, and he came back to report after a short time: Master, there is a thatched cottage in the distance, and my subordinates looked at it, it should be a temporary resting place for the people at the foot of the mountain when they go hunting, but now There are two old couples living here, probably people who have taken refuge.

Yun Shang was a little surprised: There are still people taking refuge in this mountain?

The hidden guard nodded, and replied: In times of war, most people will flee farther away, but some older people, with inconvenient legs and feet and no entanglement, mostly just hide in the mountains and forests.

Yun Shang still had doubts in her heart, pondered for a moment, and then said: You guys wait outside, go with me alone, I have to go and see if it is real people or fake.

When the hidden guard behind heard the words, a female hidden guard stood up and said, Subordinate, let's go with the master. There is a woman, so it's not easy to get suspicious.

Yun Chang nodded slightly, but fortunately, in order to hide his identity, the secret guards dressed up as ordinary people, and the attire was not obtrusive.

What's your name? Yun Chang asked.

The woman hurriedly said: This subordinate knows Wei.

Zhiwei, right? Give them the sword for safekeeping, let's go. Yun Shang said, and walked towards the place where the green smoke rose.

It looked close, but it took some time to walk. When Yunshang walked to the thatched cottage, she was already out of breath. From a distance, she saw an old woman about fifty years old at the door of the thatched cottage. Clean the wild vegetables, pick off the roots of the wild vegetables, put them in a bucket, wash them, and pick them up.

The old woman stood up and saw Yunshang and Zhiwei. The old woman seemed to be startled by the sudden appearance of the two, her body trembled suddenly, and she screamed. fell into the bucket.

An old man walked out of the room quickly, holding a kitchen knife in his hand, staring at Yunshang and Zhiwei viciously.

Yun Chang hurriedly said: Don't panic, old man. Xiaosheng and his younger sister came to Lingxi City to find relatives, but they were driven out by officers and soldiers before they entered Lingxi City. They got lost for some reason, old man, I want to go to Lucheng, how should I go?

The expressions of the old couple were still full of guard, and they stared at Yunshang and Zhiwei fixedly. After a long while, the old man pointed in a direction: Over there.

Yun Shang hurriedly nodded, thanked her with cupped hands, and left the thatched cottage with Zhiwei.

Master. After leaving the thatched hut far away, Zhiwei opened his mouth: The old couple should not have martial arts.

Yun Chang nodded: Let's go, let's walk again.

The two joined up with other dark guards, and it was already around noon. The dark guard handed water and cakes to Yunshang, Yunshang stuffed some indiscriminately, and started walking again. After walking not far, the dark guard held Yunshang again: Master, there are footsteps.

Yun Chang's footsteps stopped, and two of the hidden guards behind him bent down and listened to the ground for a long time before saying: The sound of footsteps is coming from the north, and there should be many people, but there is no sound of footsteps approaching. It didn't go far either.

Listening to the description of the dark guard, Yun Shang had vaguely guessed what was ahead.

Yunshang took out the map from her arms, and there were many red dots on the map. Yunshang raised her eyes and looked at the sunshine between the shades of the trees: Where are we now?

Hearing the words, the dark guard quickly moved to Yunshang's side, looked at the map in Yunshang's hand, and pointed to a place.

Yun Chang's eyes moved, and there happened to be a red dot where the dark guard pointed. Luo Qingyan said that it was the garrison point where Xia's troops dispersed. After all, the map is small, so it can be seen on the map that their current position almost coincides with the red dot, but in fact, there should be some distance.

Judging from the sound of footsteps, how far is it from us? Yun Chang asked.

The hidden guard leaned on the ground and listened for a long time before answering, About one mile.

One mile, that is very close.

Yun Shang made a mark on the red spot with her nails, and then raised her eyes: Let's not go north, let's go east.

Yun Shang searched on the mountain for about two hours before going down the mountain. After descending the mountain, Yunshang went straight to the camp outside Lingxi City.

It was gradually getting dark outside the camp, and torches were lit everywhere in the camp. When Yun Chang walked to the gate of the camp, she saw Zhao Yingjie riding a horse and leading a lot of people out of it.

Zhao Yingjie saw Yunshang from a distance, quickly reined in his horse, turned over and jumped off: The last general pays his respects to the empress.

Seeing this, the soldiers guarding the camp and the generals who were following Zhao Yingjie looked at Yunshang in surprise. After a long while, they knelt down with Zhao Yingjie and said, Meet the empress.

Yun Chang nodded slightly, her eyes fell on Zhao Yingjie: General Zhao is in such a hurry, where is he going?

Zhao Yingjie heard the words, and quickly responded: The end will go to check around.

Where's Your Majesty? Yun Shang asked softly.

Zhao Yingjie knew it clearly, and quickly called the guard on the side: Take the empress to the handsome camp.

Yun Chang thought for a while, and then said: General Zhao will go to inspect later. I have something to discuss with His Majesty. It is about this battle. General Zhao will also go with me.

Hearing this, Zhao Yingjie responded again and again, then turned around, and said to a general following him: I will trouble General Li with today's inspection.

The man responded quickly, and got up with everyone behind him, cupped his hands towards Yunshang again, got on his horse, and hurried away with the soldiers. Only then did Zhao Yingjie throw the reins of the horse to the soldiers guarding the camp, and said respectfully to Yun Shang: Ma'am, this way please.

Shuaiying is in the middle of the entire camp. As soon as Yunshang entered Shuaiying, she saw Luo Qingyan standing behind the table, drawing something on the long map on the table.

Your Majesty. Yun Chang said with a smile.

Luo Qingyan raised his eyes and laughed: You're back?

Yun Chang nodded lightly, and walked forward: Didn't you say that Cangjue Qingsu came to call for battle today?

Luo Qingyan nodded, and said with a smile: Yes, but he was scared away by me.

Yun Chang knew it would not be so simple, but Luo Qingyan said that since she didn't want to say it, she wouldn't ask, and only asked softly, Is there any news about the Queen Mother?

When the Yelang Kingdom called for battle this morning, they were held on the train station as a threat. Luo said lightly, his voice still casual as usual.

Yun Chang showed a bit of worry, and Luo Qingyan said again: But it's okay, looking at their appearance, they should be fine.

Luo Qingyan obviously didn't want Yunshang to worry too much, so he quickly turned the conversation away: I heard that you went to Langya Mountain for a walk? Did you find anything?

Yun Chang nodded lightly: Yes.

After speaking, Yun Chang turned around and looked at Zhao Yingjie: General Zhao knows that there are some old and weak people in the city, and there is no way to escape to other cities, so they hid in the mountains.

Zhao Yingjie nodded lightly: There are quite a few, but we have made a special trip to investigate those people, and they are indeed ordinary people.

Yun Shang shook her head when she heard the words, her eyes were full of disapproval: Not necessarily, I found out that there are secret works from the Yelang Kingdom sneaked into the mountains. Although only two people were found today, I'm afraid the real The number will not be less.\u003c