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Chapter 802 Intuition
Lu You squatted on the ground, looking at the piles of horse manure on the ground as if they were some kind of treasure.

After watching for a while, he even picked up a small stick from the side and started stirring it inside. The outside was hard, but the inside was still a mess. When he picked it up with the stick, it was still dripping. This scene immediately made Captain He Jiaxi, who was eating a pancake next to him, feel extremely nauseous.

"Boss, boss, I'm eating!" He Jiaxi protested loudly.

Lu You glanced at him, too lazy to speak. He Jiaxi was a new recruit in this large-scale expansion of the army. He had good martial arts skills, at the seventh rank of Xuan Yuan, and was young, just over thirty. Unlike Lu You, who was almost forty and had worked his way up to become a regimental commander, He Jiaxi became Lu You's deputy as soon as he joined the team. The higher-ups' intention was clear: to let Lu You, a veteran of the battlefield, mentor this young man.

Someone of He Jiaxi's age, with martial arts cultivation reaching the seventh rank of Xuan Yuan, is definitely going to be given an important position.

Lu You was stuck at the sixth rank of Qi Control for several years. Later, he broke through to the seventh rank of Profound Origin through repeated battles on the battlefield. However, Lu You also knew that this was his limit.

He Jiaxi was very arrogant, but Lü You was not polite to him at all. When it comes to martial arts prodigies, who does He Jiaxi count for? Not to mention Protector Li and Protector Xiao, even his own brother Ding Ergou, who is only in his twenties, is already at the peak of the seventh rank of Xuan Yuan, and who knows when he will break through to the eighth rank.

"Can't eat?" He chuckled and said, "What's this in a war? I once ate sitting on a corpse. That dead guy had been stabbed in the stomach, his intestines were spilling out, and his excrement was everywhere, with greenbottle flies buzzing around. Would you eat then? If you don't, you won't have the energy to fight later, and you'll end up as a corpse on the ground. Throw up? Hehe, you'll get used to it after a few times!"

Seeing He Jiaxi squat down and vomit after only hearing half of what he said, Lü You burst into laughter, patting his large belly and laughing uncontrollably.

This kid is much older than Er Gou, but his experience on the battlefield is incomparable.

If I am a wild dog on the battlefield, then Ding Ergou is a lone wolf, extremely fierce!
We haven't seen each other for several months since we last parted ways at Yangguan.

He was promoted to regimental commander and finally became the leader of a thousand men, while Ding Ergou became a lieutenant general and was assigned to the cavalry. Although he only led a thousand cavalrymen, the difference between a thousand cavalrymen and a thousand infantrymen was like heaven and earth.

"Finished throwing up?" Seeing He Jiaxi stand up with a pale face, Lü You handed him his water bottle: "You'll get used to it after a few battles. It's strange, with your martial arts skills at this level, how come you've never been on the battlefield in our area outside the Great Wall?"

“I’ve always stayed at home!” He Jiaxi took the water bottle and explained, “My family owns property and didn’t want me to join the army. This time, I ran away on my own!”

"Understood!" Lü You gave a thumbs up: "You're quite the man. Jiaxi, come and take a look!"

"What's so interesting about horse manure?"

"Ha, there's a lot to learn here!" Lü You shook his head and said, "Look at this horse manure, and then look at the huge pile your horse just pooped. Is there a difference?"

He Jiaxi stared in astonishment for a long time, "It seems there really is a difference, my horse is bigger."

Lu You laughed heartily, "This horse manure must have been left here three days ago, and this horse clearly ate more grass than grain, which means it's been out for quite a few days and its food supply is running low! If you don't believe me, go and check your horse's manure; you'll find plenty of undigested grain inside. You won't see any in this manure!"

"There's more to this story?" He Jiaxi's eyes widened.

“These horses aren’t from outside the Great Wall!” Lü You said again. “One or two is normal, but look at all this horse manure. It’s like this everywhere. What does that tell you?”

"Quite a few warhorses from within the Great Wall!" He Jiaxi suddenly realized: "Three days ago, a cavalry force from within the Great Wall passed through here!" "You understand?" Lü You said: "They might be nearby right now!"

Upon hearing Lü You's words, He Jiaxi immediately became nervous.

Currently, in the nearly one thousand li region from Yangguan and Boling to Shanggu and Yuyang, the armies of the Beiting Protectorate outside the pass and the Linghuye Group in Chang'an are constantly clashing.

Everyone could already smell the scent of the final battle.

Before the decisive battle, skirmishes between small units occurred almost daily, and the areas of actual control between the two sides were intertwined, with each side having control of the other. Today, a place might still be under control, but overnight, it might have already changed hands.

Li Guohua, who was in charge of the Linghu Group's front line, dispatched a large number of cavalry to patrol this vast area. Similarly, the Beiting Protectorate also dispatched cavalry. These elite cavalrymen fought each other and even found loopholes in the enemy's defenses to infiltrate the enemy's rear and carry out large-scale sabotage.

The cavalry force we see now is probably one of those that infiltrated from there.

Standing up, Lü You looked at the long, winding grain transport team and his brows furrowed deeply.

This time, when he returned to the area outside the Great Wall, he brought with him a thousand newly reorganized soldiers, as well as more than one hundred carts carrying 200,000 catties of grain to the Shapingba camp. Shapingba was a newly established and secure camp responsible for the security of an area of ​​nearly one hundred miles.

After Lü You arrives there, he will be stationed there, and Shapingba will become an important node for the army's encampment.

They were still two days' journey from the Shapingba camp. Now that they had discovered traces of the enemy, Lü You couldn't help but mutter to himself.

The enemy that could infiltrate here silently must be an extremely elite force, after all, avoiding the fierce and ruthless cavalry of the Beiting Protectorate is no easy task.

His own unit was a newly reorganized regiment, with only 300 veterans out of a thousand men. If this enemy force were to suddenly attack, the situation would be dire.

"We're not leaving today!" Lü You suddenly said. "Send down the order to set up camp here, a mountain-shaped camp!"

"Mountain Battalion? Commander, setting up a mountain battalion takes half a day. Why bother with all that effort? We'll have to dismantle it again tomorrow," He Jiaxi said.

"It's better to put in some effort than to die!" Lü You shook his head and said, "Let's release carrier pigeons. If there are any of our cavalry nearby, they'll receive the message and come to our aid!"

"Are you worried that this enemy force will come knocking on our door?"

"Jiaxi, trust a veteran's intuition!" Lü You's face was grave. "My heart is pounding. Better safe than sorry. It's not easy for your old brother to have survived this long. I've just been promoted, and I don't want to die like this!"

He Jiaxi nodded. Although Lü You's words sounded mysterious, this guy had fought for nearly ten years. He had survived ten years of fighting on the battlefield and was a well-known lucky general outside the Great Wall. His intuition might really be accurate!
(End of this chapter)