Chapter 67: Night Walk

Hearing that all the boulders in front were marked, a trace of obscene felt in Lu Xun's heart, but Lu Xun still asked, "Can you find out clearly?"

"I have personally checked it back to the governor. It is true that all the huge rocks have marks marked on them." Gan Ning replied.

"Take me to see."

Lu Xun touched the mark on the huge rock and frowned. Lu Xun ordered people to mark the stone to give full play to the advantage of the large number of people. However, because the marking of the stone was not from the handwriting of the same person, Lu Xun could not tell that many of the marks were drawn by the Shu army.

"There must be unmarked stones. As long as we expand the search range, we will definitely find them!" However, after looking at the sky, it was already very dark. After dark, the field of vision would be much smaller. It would be even more difficult to find unmarked stones. So Lu Xun ordered to rest first and wait until the daytime to look for them.

However, this night was not so easy to pass. It was the hour of Hai again. Adou led the archers to find Lu Xun's army, and several rounds of bows and arrows flew past. Although he was prepared for a long time, the soldiers suffered not much loss, but the Jiangdong Army did not fall asleep again.

Jiang Dongjun did not sleep well all night, but Adou slept well. After harassing Lu Xun, Adou took his people back to rest and slept until dawn.

The next day, Lu Xun began to look for unmarked boulders again. After more than two hours of searching, Lu Xun was finally disappointed, and all the boulders around him were marked.

Because he had a bad rest last night, Wu Jun was exhausted at this time, so Lu Xun ordered the soldiers to rest on the spot for an afternoon to recover his strength.

After receiving a reply from the spy, Zhang Ren said that Lu Xun took advantage of the afternoon to go find Adou immediately.

"Your Highness, Lu Xun and the others are resting. Should we go over and give him some colors?" Zhang Yi asked.

"No, the field of vision is too wide during the day, which is not conducive to sneak attacks. Moreover, Lu Xun can judge our position by the trajectory of the bow and arrow flying out." A Dou said.

"Will this help Lu Xun and the others to recover their physical strength? Our tired soldiers will be difficult to use."

"It's okay, they have rested during the day for a few days, so let them run a little more at night! Zhang Ren, go find some people in the army who are fast-moving, so that they can start resting now, I will be of use tonight!"

As time passed, night fell again, but at this time, all the water carried by Lu Xun's army had been used up, and the Wu army was facing the danger of water cut off.

"Governor, I have ordered people to prepare for the attack of bows and arrows!" Quan Cong said.

Lu Xun nodded, but Lu Xun was still very depressed. He was so passive. Over time, the losses were small, and it was a big deal to affect the morale of the army.

"Quan Cong, follow me around!" Lu Xun sighed softly.

"I will obey the order!"

Lu Xun's central army was naturally in a clear torch, but this torch was limited to the place where the generals rested and the location for the periphery of reconnaissance. Generally, there were no torches in the places where soldiers stayed. Because there were no trees in the Eighth Formation and lacked the supply of wood, it was naturally impossible to have a large number of torches, so the torches carried in the army were mainly supplied to some important places for use.

About dozens of feet away from the central army, Lu Xun had discovered that the place where the soldiers rested was pitch black, and there was no moonlight, so he could really be said to be unable to see his five fingers.

Lu Xun looked back and saw that the lights in his central army were brightly lit and very conspicuous.

"Oh!" A scream came, and Lu Xun's torch pointed at the sound. From a distance, you could vaguely see a Wu army covering his head.

Could it be that a fight occurred in the army? Thinking of this, Lu Xun hurriedly said to Quan Cong: "Go and see what happened there!"

After a while, Quan Cong came back to report to Lu Xun. It turned out that the soldier had just shouted that he had risen up and pulled him away, but because he had no torches, he could not see the road clearly, so he hit a stone head-on.

At this time, a flash of inspiration flashed in Lu Xun's mind, as if he had realized some key issues.

"Quan Cong, send orders to let everyone get up. We will march overnight and order the troops leading the way to not lit torches when marching!" Lu Xun said.

"Governor, it's hard to tell the direction of the marching at night. If you don't light a torch, how can you get out of this stone formation?" Quan Cong said strangely.

"Don't distinguish the direction? I ask you, during the day, you may distinguish the direction? It is difficult to distinguish the direction in this formation and has nothing to do with the day and night. And if we really can't distinguish the direction, we might be able to walk out of this stone formation!"

Adou brought more than a hundred soldiers who were good at running to the vicinity of the Wu army.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince, the Wu army is marching!" the spy reported.

"March while the night? It seems that Lu Xun is really trying his best!" Adou sighed.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince, we also found that the supply of Wu army has been insufficient!"

"How can I see it?"

"I just saw that the troops led the Wu army, the vanguard of the Wu army, did not even light up the torches. I think there was not much wood left in them!" The spy said proudly.

"There is no ignition?" A Dou frowned and lowered his head to think.

With internal strength reaching Chengdu like A Dou, you can also see things. The night has not had a great impact on A Dou's visual appearance. So even in the darkness, everything around it is still clearly reflected in A Dou's eyes.

A Dou looked into the distance. The stones in the stone formation were so clear in A Dou's eyes. Suddenly, A Dou pointed at the front and asked a soldier beside him: "How far can you see?"

The soldier hurriedly illuminated the torch in his hand, and the front suddenly lit up. Before the soldiers could talk, A Dou's face suddenly paused and he sighed: "Lu Boyan is indeed smart, and he found the flaw so quickly!"

The foundation of the Zhuge Eight Formation is this continuous huge rock, and the main function of the huge rock is to disturb people's vision and make people's visual judgments deviate. Because they are disturbed by these stones, people will keep turning around in the formation.

But there is a prerequisite for this, that is, people must see these stones so that the stones can affect their vision and give people the illusion. If a blind man comes in, then these stones will not affect their vision, and the blind man will only move forward based on his intuition.

Lu Xun has always been thinking about how to destroy these stones so that his stones will not have an impact on the army, and he did not think about how to not see the stone. The soldier who had just gotten up and got into the stone, which made Lu Xun discover this. If he could not see these stones, the visual impact of the stone formation would be reduced to the minimum. In this way, the chance of being able to get out of the stone formation has increased greatly, so Lu Xun ordered the vanguard to not light a torch.

At this time, Adou also realized the problem was shrinking. If the impact of the stone formation on the Wu army was reduced, Lu Xun might really go out, and that would fail.

"Fortunately I'll come tonight, otherwise Lu Xun will succeed! Since you, Lu Xun doesn't want to light the torch, let me help you!" As Adou said, he looked at the more than a hundred soldiers behind him, and said, "Send the order, everyone, lit the torches on your body, follow me!"

Gan Ning walked in front with his men. The marching speed at night was not too fast, and there were no torches, which made the speed slower. Moreover, it was dark, and sometimes when I got closer, I found a stone in front of me, but unfortunately I bumped into it.

Although Gan Ning didn't know why Lu Xun issued such an order, he still strictly followed Lu Xun's orders.

At this moment, several highlights suddenly appeared in the distance, and the highlights slowly swayed and got closer. At this time, Gan Ning could see the figures shaking under the highlights in the distance.

"It's the Shu army! Go and report to the governor! Come to me if everyone else!" Gan Ning shouted immediately.

Gan Ning immediately led his men to the fire, and the Shu army also discovered Gan Ning's movements and immediately began to escape. However, it was obvious that the Shu army was faster than Gan Ning.

After chasing for a while, Gan Ning found that he could not catch up. Because he was afraid that he would lose his way from the large army, Gan Ning gave up the pursuit and retreated.

Seeing that Gan Ning did not chase him, the Shu army began to slowly approach him. The light of the torch was particularly conspicuous in the darkness.

Gan Ning once again led his troops to chase after him, but the Shu army fled again, but Gan Ning still couldn't catch up and retreated in a bad mood.

Several times in a row, Gan Ning did not catch up with the Shu army, and the Shu army seemed to be determined, sticking to the Wu army like a dog skin plaster. The light emitted by the torch kept swaying in front of the Wu army soldiers.

Not long after, Lu Xun from the central army also received the news.

"Appoint Gan Ning, don't worry about the Shu army for now, and send a command to rest on the spot! Quan Cong, follow me to go and take a look."

Lu Xun and Quan Cong came to the vanguard. Lu Xun looked up and saw torches flashing in the distance and shaking figures. But it was obvious that these people did not seem to be close, but stayed far away, keeping a certain distance from the Wu army.

"So amazing. I didn't expect the Shu army to come up with a solution so soon!" Lu Xun sighed lightly.

Lu Xun originally wanted Gan Ning to ignore these Shu troops, but in the dark, these more than a hundred torches were very conspicuous. With these torches, they completely attracted Gan Ning and the others' attention. As long as people could not do it, they would not pay attention to these torches. Moreover, the light of the torches would illuminate a huge rock around them. In this way, the plan to reduce the influence of the stone formation under the darkness of the night was bankrupt again.

"Gan Ning, is it possible for you to catch up with those people in front?"

Gan Ning shook his head: "The general has just gone to chase after him, but he can't catch up. The enemy's journey is very fast."

"Oh, since that's the case, there's no need to chase us! The Shu army came to disturb us on purpose and would definitely choose people who are good at running. Moreover, they are familiar with the terrain, so we can't catch up even if we want to!" Lu Xun sighed softly.
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