Chapter 623: Death as the Soul of a Strange Country
At noon on February 13, the Phantom Stone Wind sent a letter that the night army had evacuated the mountain, leaving 50,000 men to garrison the mountain.
After reading it, Mo Ling immediately replied, asking them to intercept the route traveled by Ye Qianao, and when Ah Jin and Chu Lang came back, he told them what they planned to do next.
After replying to the letter, Chu Lang, who was looking for a hidden place, returned to the army along the route, "Xiao Mo, the direction I walked in was very empty all the way, and there was no hiding place, Ah Jinke is back?"
"Not yet, General Ge ordered to rest in place and wait for Ah Jin to come back. ”
"Yes!"
The Mo army stayed in place until evening, and Ah Jin rode his horse and followed the killer to catch up with the large army from the rear, and he did find one, but the result was not satisfactory.
About thirty miles from here, there is a small mountain forest, but the area of the mountain forest is not large, not enough for 200,000 people to hide, they are in a remote location, except for this small mountain forest, there is no other place to hide.
Mo Ling pursed his lips and was silent after hearing this, that mountain forest is too conspicuous, since Ah Jin can easily find it, Ji Liyan will also be able to.
He must have assumed that they would be hiding in a very remote place, where they could not hide for a few miles.
And don't go forward, the night army will scatter and search, and if they don't find a hidden place, it will be a matter of time before they find it.
The others were silently thinking about countermeasures, and the problem they were facing now was how to find a place where 200,000 people could hide for eighteen days, which was extremely difficult in the territory of the Night Country.
If you stay outside, you will be discovered by the searching night army in the near future, and there will be no soldiers and horses at that time, and you will not be able to fight the night army at all.
Ah Jin pondered: "Xiao Mo, I don't know if I can think of a place. ”
"Where?"
"When they first arrived in Fencheng, they wrote to us, saying that they were making weapons in a small town outside Fencheng, and they did not intend to mention that there were several empty towns or villages next to the town, and the people there were transferred to Fencheng, and if we went there to station, it might be okay. ”
Chu Lang: "No, if we are stationed in the territory of the enemy army, if they find out, they will not wipe us out, and it is so close to Fencheng, isn't this a sheep in the mouth of a tiger!"
Ah Jin shook his head, "No, no, the most dangerous place is the safest place, the night army will definitely go to the remote place to search us, who would have thought that we would go to the towns across the city." ”
Mo Ling opened the map and looked at the situation around Fencheng, which marked that there were three small towns and two small villages around Fencheng, one of which was far away from Fencheng, at least twenty miles apart.
If they are stationed there, even if the people of Fencheng find them, they will have time to evacuate, and they will be close to Yanyan, and when they will meet with Ye Qianao, they will not need to go to the mountains, and they can directly find Ji Liyan to fight back.
"I think it's possible. ”
Chu Zijin nodded, "I also think it's feasible, but we have to send someone out to lure the night army, and use a small number of soldiers and horses to show up to involve their pursuit direction, otherwise the night army can't find us for a long time, and they will definitely shift their attention to the city around." ”
If they are hunted down to death, it can also be said that the lives of a few people will be exchanged for the survival of a large army.
To put it bluntly, it is to give their lives, although it is cruel, but they only have this way to go at present.
Mo Ling pursed his lips, summoned the four generals, and told them about the deployment.
The four generals naturally knew that the soldiers who went to lure were more than lucky, but if they didn't do so, there was no way out.
Cao Zhou hugged his fists and asked, "Mo Shuai, the last general is willing to lead 5,000 men and horses to lure the enemy." ”
Ge Hao: "Mo Shuai, the last will go!"
Shao Da: "The last general will go, I will lead the cavalry to go, the cavalry is more proficient in equestrian skills than ordinary soldiers, maybe you can survive in danger." ”
Xu Ye: "The end will go!"
Cao Zhou laughed and patted his chest, "What are you robbing with Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu has no father, no mother, no wife, no children, no worries, he fought for the strange country when he was born, and he died without worry, and he was a good man decades later." ”
Xu also said with a loud voice: "Lao Tzu put life and death aside when he went to the battlefield, and what do you do when you talk about your relatives at this time, you Lao Cao is brave, Lao Tzu is not a coward, Lao Tzu goes!"
Cao Zhou got up and patted the snow on his buttocks, and smiled heartily, "You are old and young, they are still waiting for you to go back, I'll go." ”
After speaking, without waiting for them to reply, he strode to the rear soldiers and said loudly: "Mo Shuai has decided to evacuate to Fencheng Township, but he needs 5,000 people to show up to lure the enemy army.
After hearing this, the soldiers stood up one by one, they knew that the life and death of this trip were uncertain, but they were willing to give their lives to create a way for the army to live, because they were warriors, and the warriors would never retreat and never be afraid of death.
Cao Zhou looked at the soldiers in front of him and laughed, "It's worthy of being a soldier of my strange country, there is a kind!"
After counting the 5,000 people, Cao Zhou ordered people to tie tents and food to horses, and the soldiers who were not ordered were still shouting that they were going too.
Cao Zhou waved his hand, "There are enough people, the rest of the people will evacuate with Mo Shuai, and wait until the end of the month to counterattack Lao Tzu to the death of the whole night." ”
After a pause, he raised his arms and shouted with all his might: "Fight for a strange country in life, and die for the soul of a strange country!"
The soldiers raised their arms in unison and shouted: "Born to fight for a strange country, die for the soul of a strange country!"
A shout resounded in the field, and the soldiers looked at the 5,000 people and shouted, doing a parting practice for them.
After the outfit, Cao Zhou walked up to Mo Ling and hugged his fists: "The last general is gone, I wish Mo Shuai all the best in the future, can defeat Ji Liyan, and can lead the Mo army to the final victory." ”
Mo Ling clenched his fists: "General Cao, come alive." ”
Ge Hao: "Lao Cao came back alive. ”
Shao Da: "Old Cao, cherish. ”
Xu Ye: "Lao Cao, if you die, Lao Tzu will definitely kill you!"
From just a small soldier, they got acquainted, and as Li Shuai recovered the small country and was promoted to general step by step, they fought together for decades, fighting side by side in thousands of battles, and no one had a deeper comradeship than the four of them.
At this time, watching the old comrades-in-arms for decades rushing to that unknown situation, even the three of them who had been fighting for many years couldn't help but redden.
Cao Zhou smiled heartily, still pulling his unique loud voice, and said roughly: "Don't be so sad, Lao Tzu is not adaptable, and he is gone." ”
After speaking, he turned over his horse, looked at the people in front of him, turned the horse's head and shook the whip and gradually walked away.
When their figures disappeared, the soldiers ended their farewell shouts.
Mo Ling turned around and ordered: "Leave Fencheng!"
For Cao Zhou, a subordinate who has followed her for a year, she is naturally reluctant in her heart, but now she is reluctant to give up, at the moment of going to the battlefield, her life is against the soldiers, and for her, it is a foreign object.
She put her own life on the line, but innocently thought that she didn't want Ah Jin to bury their lives on the battlefield, what a ridiculous and powerless idea......
Seeing her walking silently, Ah Jin thought she was thinking about Bai Yixuan, so she looked for something to divert her attention, "Xiao Mo, if you meet the people who are still alive in the township, do you kill or ......?"
"Kill, in order to prevent accidents, kill to prevent future troubles. ”
Fencheng is about three days away from here, and the Mo army is on the road non-stop for three days, and the night army is also searching for the Mo army non-stop.
Ji Liyan divided his troops into forty teams, one team of 10,000 people, and began a carpet search in the direction of Mo Ling's escape behind the mountain, in a semicircle, and he led the rest of the soldiers to find it in the middle of nowhere.
And Mu Xue'er was in the camp tent at the foot of the mountain, refining Gu worms with the worms that the night army found for her.
After looking for the night army for a day, but nothing, on February 14, the detachment of the night army to the east found Cao Zhou's deliberately exposed horseshoe prints in the snow.
The commander of the detachment immediately sent someone to report to Ji Liyan, who received the news and ordered all the detachments to pursue to the east.
And the phantom stone wind, who received the order, was riding his horse to intercept it on the road that Ye Qianao must pass.
On the evening of February 15, the Mo army marched to a mile away from the village where they were to hide, and the Mo army was lucky not to meet the night army and the people for three days, but when the Mo Ling sent people to investigate the village, the hundred soldiers met an old man.
He was about seventy or eighty years old, lived in a dilapidated thatched hut, and seemed to be a lonely old man abandoned by his children, and it was estimated that he himself did not have the physical strength to move to the big city.
The soldier thought about Mo Ling's instructions and wanted to execute him, but when the sword was pointed at him, he couldn't do anything, and hundreds of people looked at each other, found two ropes to tie the old man, and then a few people went to tell Mo Ling to enter the village.
When the old man saw Mo Jun, he was not afraid at all, but shouted with great spirit that they did not respect the old man, and the words of abuse were comparable to Chu Erha.
The soldiers heard that one head and two were big, I really had never seen an old man so old and so energetic to scold people, but he couldn't kill it, so he could only be scolded with a constipated face.
It wasn't until nearly 200,000 horses entered the village and Mo Ling came to the thatched house that the old man ended the abuse.
The cloudy eyes looked at Mo Ling in unison, and there was no fear on his face, "You are the marshal of the Mo army, Leping, you don't go to fight with Ye Qianze, come here to do something in this corner, and quickly untie the old man! Hmph, the little girl is very good-looking, but the soldiers under your command are too rude, the old man is fifty out of seventy, how can this group of bastard boys treat the old man like this! Quick, untie the rope!"
Everyone was speechless for a while, not only was he not afraid of the enemy army, but he was arrogant to the enemy army, and they also admired him.
Ge Hao looked at Mo Ling in embarrassment, "Mo Shuai, what should I do?"
He is not in the prime of life, so when he is in his prime, even if he has the idea to tell him, his body and bones are not allowed, there is no threat, if he kills, is it a bit inhumane......
"I also asked her a fart, the old man is your grandfather's generation, are you just doing this to your grandfather, hurry up and strangle the old man! There are also rumors that Leping loves the people and the people, but I didn't expect it to be such a beast, even the old man is tied up, the old man is really wrong!"
Everyone: "......" The key is that you are from the Night Country, why should you be merciful to your subordinates?
Chu Lang was annoyed by the noise, and directly drew his sword, "You are an old man, you can really shout, my lord will send you back to the west!"