Chapter 201: The team is in turmoil
The morning sun shone across the ridge and shone on the faces of the nervous-looking soldiers, warmly driving away the slightest chill left in the hearts of the previous night. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
They slowly walked through the rocky and dangerous peaks of Songshan Mountain, and stepped into the dense jungle again. This jungle was supposed to pass through yesterday, but was stranded on the road in the middle of the cliff due to a sudden rainstorm.
I don't know if it's a blessing or providence, if I had slept in the jungle last night, it might have been a more tragic situation.
Now that everyone knew that there was a demonic giant spider in this forest, as soon as Fang stepped into the jungle, everyone unconsciously quickened their pace, and the more than 100 people actually didn't make any more small talk, all they heard was the sound of footsteps walking briskly.
Seven or eight people who were injured last night and were unable to walk were carried on stretchers, and they took on the duties of guards and were vigilantly observing the situation around them.
Maybe it's because of last night's battle, and the giant spiders have also suffered heavy losses, or maybe it's because it's daytime, and the sun is about to shine on the earth, and the surroundings are gradually becoming lively, and unknown little insects are squeaking, and many chaffinches are chasing after them from the trees, squeaking and chirping.
Hearing these sounds, Yan Juncao was a lot relieved, because he knew that there was the sound of birds and insects, which meant that nothing unusual was happening in the woods. But he did not dare to slack off, and although most of them were new recruits, he had to bring them safely to the camp.
More than ten miles further is a ten-zhang long simple wooden bridge, which was quietly built by the Tang Dynasty army in order to exterminate the bandits, and this place will not be marked on the general civilian map as a secret mountain and forest path, and only the mountain people who are familiar with this place may know that there is such a road.
For Yan Juncao, he was only a seventeen or eighteen-year-old recruit when he first walked this road, but now he is a middle-aged man, and the experience of the past ten years has made him a lot of vicissitudes and insights.
After crossing the wooden bridge, you will enter a basin for another ten miles, and after crossing the basin, you will almost reach the base camp. That is, there is still one day to go. I hope God won't add to the chaos anymore, Yan Juncao secretly prayed in his heart.
At this time, he had heard the sound of the river flowing in the distance, but he felt that something was wrong, so he took two retinues and rode up to check what was going on.
Before coming to the wooden bridge, the three of them gasped, the ten-zhang long wooden bridge has long been destroyed, only the lonely pier of the tree root is still standing in the middle of the river, and there are only about a dozen wooden piles reinforced side by side on the side of the bridge, the bridge deck has long been gone, and the opposite bridge body is left with half of it, and half of the bridge body is submerged in the water......
Yan Juncao and the other three turned over and dismounted and walked to the bridgehead, Yan Juncao squatted and took a closer look at the broken ropes and broken trees scattered on the ground, and said: "This was obviously quickly cut off by a sharp weapon, who did it?" ”
One of the attendants said, "Aren't they giant spiders? ”
The other attendant shuddered when he heard this, and hurriedly said, "Impossible, did those giant spiders know that we would pass through here?" ”
The attendant who spoke earlier immediately answered: "There is only one way here, either turn back or move forward, presumably those monsters are going to cut off our path." ”
Yan Juncao said: "Don't fight, we can move freely now There are about one hundred and six people, it will take some time to repair the bridge, but we can't hurry, and we will go to the basin in front, and the vision will be much wider when we enter the basin than in the jungle, but we are not very afraid of these monsters." Hurry up and organize yourself to get together and repair the bridges with local materials. ”
At this moment, the team in front had already run up quickly, and Li Tianqi, Nangong Shuo and others ran in front.
Li Tianqi originally saw Yan Juncao and the others silent, and suddenly rode their horses and ran forward, and felt a little bad, but at this time, he ran quickly and saw Yan Juncao and the others' solemn expressions, knowing that something must have happened. He also inquired and saw the broken bridges.
At this time, Yan Juncao's entourage spoke, "Let's take local materials and hurry up to repair the bridge!" ”
The other attendant had already run to the back and began to organize the people to cut down the trees.
Li Tianqi walked up to Yan Juncao and asked, "Juncao, it will take a lot of effort to repair the bridge?" It seems that there is no other road, otherwise there would be no need to build the bridge. ”
Yan Juncao nodded and said, "Yes, it will take three hours soon." It's okay to hold on. ”
Li Tianqi looked up at the sky, at this time the sun had gone up the mountain, it seemed that it was a good weather today, "How far is it before you can pass through this wood?" ”
Yan Juncao said: "After crossing this bridge, there are still ten miles to enter the basin, and it will take about a day to cross the basin, and then you will reach the base camp." ”
Li Tianqi thought for a while and said, "Jun Cao, why don't we put down our baggage and find a shallow place to wade through the water first?" When we get back to safety, we might as well bring some more people to repair the bridge, right? ”
Yan Juncao smiled slightly: "Li Tianqi, your idea is good, and it is indeed for the sake of everyone's safety, but now it is bright and clear, the sun is shining, and along the way, the finches are cheerful, and all kinds of birds and beasts in the jungle are not unusual, presumably those monsters only appear at night." We didn't repair the bridge when it was broken, and we left our baggage behind at the moment, which made others laugh at us for being cowardly. ”
Li Tianqi said: "But in case ......"
Yan Juncao waved his hand, "Don't say more, let's hurry up and help, don't stand, build the bridge first." ”
Although Li Tianqi still felt that something was wrong, seeing that the weather was sunny at this time, he could only endure it and stop talking and join the team of cutting trees.
He saw the situation on both sides of the wooden bridge, and understood that the bridge must have been deliberately vandalized, and why
Everyone gathered firewood and the flame was high, and after a while, dozens of big trees were cut down, and many people who knew how to water began to take off their clothes and tights under the leadership of veterans, and waded into the water to build bridges.
Two hours later, the bridge was half-repaired, and there were still four zhang to go.
Although Yan Jun Cao Fangcai said it a little lightly, it was just to embolden everyone, in fact, his heart had been hanging, for fear that something unexpected would happen, but fortunately, it went smoothly and nothing else happened.
Lunch was ready, and everyone casually filled their stomachs, and then began to build the bridge again.
More than a dozen small giant spiders suddenly floated down the upper reaches of the river, and the people who were repairing the bridge in the water quickly swam away to avoid it, and the people standing on the bridge also dispersed violently, and they did not dare to step forward again for a while.
The little spiders were all curled up in a ball, apparently dead, but the encounter with them last night had caused many of those present to worry again.
Due to a small episode, the process of repairing the bridge was slightly delayed, but under the order of Yan Juncao, everyone still worked together to completely repair the wooden bridge.
Yan Juncao rode on a fast horse, "Everyone pack up their things and continue to move forward, and you will be able to leave this forest for ten miles." ”
Hearing him say this, many recruits' hearts suddenly cheered up, and they hurriedly packed their bags on the ground and lined up again to march forward.
Everyone now knew that there were still ten miles to get out of this wood, and their hearts were full of anticipation, and at this time the morale was high, and some people began to sing the ballads of their hometown, which was also very interesting.
Nangong Shuo wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked at Li Tianqi's slightly frowning brows and asked with a smile, "What's wrong?" You still seem to have some doubts, huh? ”
Li Tianqi said: "It's really strange here, and some small giant spiders rushed down from the river for some reason, which is really hard to reassure." Let's hope everything goes well, and the wooden bridge has been repaired. ”
Nangong Shuo patted Li Tianqi on the shoulder and said, "It's okay, those giant spiders were killed so much last night, and it is daylight at this time, they won't come out." ”
Li Tianqi said softly: "I'm worried about the nest. And if those white-clothed women already knew that there were monsters in this place but wanted to break in, either they came prepared, or they came with some purpose unknown to us, it would be too unsettling, and it would be better to leave this place quickly. ”
Nangong Shuo nodded and said, "Yes." You're right. ”
As they were walking, the sky was getting dark, and then everyone realized that a large dark cloud came from nowhere, and it felt like it was night in an instant, and those birds and insects suddenly disappeared and disappeared invisibly.
There is no shelter here, and if it really rains heavily, everyone will inevitably be drenched in soup.
Yan Juncao was also a little uneasy at this time, looking back at the team, only to see that the team had lit torches, and the people behind the team began to run, but the team in the middle of the darkness didn't know what was happening behind, thinking that there was a monster, and suddenly panicked, and began to run forward, at this time the formation of the team gradually became chaotic.
I don't know who looked behind in front of me, but just asked, is there a giant spider behind it? This was a questionable sentence, but who knew that it was like a fryer, the team was in chaos, scrambling to run forward, and the people behind saw that the front also began to run wildly, and they were even eager to have a few more feet, and some even threw away their weapon packages and ran wildly.
Yan Juncao scolded a few words secretly, he regretted not following Li Tianqi's advice at the moment. It was like night had suddenly fallen, and that wasn't what he was really worried about, he was worried about the giant spider from last night.
Li Tianqi shouted loudly: "Don't panic, everyone! Don't mess around! ”
Nangong Shuo also shouted: "We are all brave Tang soldiers, and we must run uniformly!" Don't panic! ”
"Everyone, calm down! I'm Yan Juncao here! Yan Juncao shouted as he rode his horse to the back of the group, he did this wisely, and the people behind the team saw the leader running over, and their panicked mood began to calm down.
Order was restored to the ranks, but the hearts of many people were still extremely nervous, and a little fire would inevitably ignite these restless people.
"Ahh There are giant spiders! A small giant spider the size of a wolfdog suddenly jumped from a tree, opened its mouth and bit the neck of an old soldier, the old soldier screamed, drew his saber and slashed at the little giant spider's body, the little giant spider's wound sprayed a lot of liquid, and the sound of the sizzling accompanied the old soldier's screams......
The team was in disarray again......
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