Reaching out and grabbing a handful of snow from the low bushes at his feet, he stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it vigorously a few times, the snow melted, and the cold snow water flowed down his throat into his abdomen, but it caused a hot discomfort in his stomach, hunger, and the whole army fell into despair.

Half a month of non-stop heavy snowfall, so that the entire Kuoshan was completely blocked by the heavy snow, when it was really a thousand mountains and birds flew away, thousands of people disappeared, although the heavy snow blocked the enemy's pursuit, but also, but also let this team flee into the Cuishan in a hurry to fall into a desperate situation.

Tian Jingwen's face was haggard, from the time he arrived at Kunshan Pass to start blocking the attack, in a month, he had lost nearly twenty pounds, tall and burly figure, now only a bone frame remains, the eye sockets are deep, the unkempt hair is entangled with the beard, and he looks very much like a savage.

This is the case as a leading general, not to mention ordinary soldiers, and the feeling of despair is spreading in this army.

When he first arrived at Kunshan Pass, Tian Jingwen had 5,000 soldiers, but now, there are only more than 1,000 people who can still follow him and struggle in Kunshan Mountain. All the wounded soldiers in the army died one after another in the period after entering the mountain, but now, dysentery and frostbite began to rage among the troops again, and I don't know how long I can hold out.

There were bursts of cheers in the distance, Tian Jingwen was a little surprised, since these days, it was rare to hear the laughter of the soldiers.

Qin Shan rushed towards Tian Jingwen excitedly, and behind him, several soldiers were running towards him with a very large beast carrying a pole, it was a bear blind, look at that head, I was afraid that there were four or five hundred catties. Tian Jingwen's eyes couldn't help but light up.

"General, I'm lucky today, I found a blind bear who was in Maodong, and I overturned him without much effort, and everyone can make a tooth sacrifice."

Tian Jingwen's face also showed a rare smile. Since they entered the mountain, almost all the birds and beasts that can be found in the mountain have become the belly of the warriors, but now, it is difficult to find. And further back, where is the way out? The winter in western Liaoning is long. Can your own army catch a blind bear every day? Where is there such a big beast in this mountain?

The garrison finally had a trace of fireworks, and the green smoke rising rose upward, and the soldiers gathered in front of the cauldron, watching the snow melt, watching the pieces of meat and bones being thrown into the cauldron, smelling the fragrance and gradually rising, and the throats of the soldiers also slid up and down.

This cat is blind in the bear. In the winter, I ate myself round, just in the winter season, this thick fat has not been consumed much, it is the time when the fat is thick. But there are many monks and little porridge, even if there is not even a bit of meat skin wasted, and there are only one, two or two dry goods under the name of each soldier.

Qin Shan scooped up a piece of fat meat from the pot. plus a spoonful of soup and sent it to Tian Jingwen, "General." Drink it hot! ＂

Tian Jingwen took the bowl, looked at the fat piece of bear meat in the bowl, stood up silently, walked to the cauldron, and threw the piece of meat back into the pot, "Boil more, boil the meat up!" ＂

Looking at Tian Jingwen, Qin Shan also silently threw the piece of meat in his bowl back into the pot.

One by one, the soldiers picked up bowls of broth, drank it in small sips, no salt or condiments, it was light, it was really not a good thing, but each one drank very seriously and very sweetly. But it's this seriousness, but it's sad to watch.

The soldier suddenly heard a low crying voice, Qin Shan stood up suddenly, his face showed anger, now the generals who lead the troops, what they are most afraid of is that the army's heart is weak, this crying sound is not a kind of weakness, weakness is contagious.

The weeping was a soldier who looked extremely menstruating, and by looking at his countenance, he was at most sixteen or seventeen years old, and the beard above his lips had not yet fully grown.

"You, come out! Qin Shan strode up to the soldier and roared.

The soldier took the bowl and walked in front of Qin Shan with tears in his eyes.

"The warriors of the Qi country can shed blood and not tears! Qin Shan roared angrily, "You mess with our army's heart, what crime should you be guilty of, do you know?" ＂

The young soldier raised his head and looked at Qin Shan, "General Qin, I want to go home, I want to go home!" ＂

Qin Shan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and his heart was sour, but his hand grasped the handle of the knife at his waist and pulled it out inch by inch.

"General Qin, although Xiao Er is young, he is very brave in battle, and his brain is also very flexible, in Kunshan Pass, he killed two or three Eastern Expeditionary Army by himself, he was starved and confused." A low-ranking officer stood up, "Just spare him this time."

Qin Shan Senran said: "Merit is merit, passing is the side, he messes with our army's heart, and he should be beheaded."

The knife slowly came out of its sheath, and he was about to raise it, but his wrist was tight, and he was held by someone, and when he turned his head to look, it was Tian Jingwen standing beside him.

"Brethren, you all want to go home, don't you? Tian Jingwen asked loudly.

After a moment of silence, the soldiers said in unison, "Yes, we want to go home."

"I want to go home too! Tian Jingwen said loudly, "But if we want to go home, we must be able to hold the group and work hard to overcome this difficult situation in front of us, and we must survive before we can go home, right?" ＂

"Yes! ＂

"And if you want to survive, you must first cheer up, tens of thousands of troops to conquer the east have not been able to kill us, can it be that this little mountain, this little snow can kill us? ＂

"Can't! The soldiers roared.

"Okay, let's have this spirit, let's work together, live, and go home! ＂

"Go home, go home! ＂

The originally low morale was puffed up by Tian Jingwen in a blink of an eye. Qin Shan looked at Tian Jingwen with admiration, it was originally a matter of distracting the army, but in the blink of an eye, General Tian reversed himself.

Tian Jingwen turned his head, and when he turned his back to the soldier, the passionate color just now disappeared without a trace, and everywhere he looked, it was all white, and he didn't know where to return.

At this time, on another hill far away from the top of the hill where Tian Jingwen led the troops, a small group of soldiers were sitting cross-legged on the ground, their whole bodies were wrapped in white cloaks, sitting quietly, if they did not move, they looked not much different from a rock covered with snow.

"Captain, smoke, smoke! From the top of a big tree, there was a sudden sound of a person's cry, Zhang Xi, who was sitting on the snow and was silently chewing mutton jerky, stood up suddenly, grabbed the trunk with both hands, and climbed up, and dozens of soldiers sitting cross-legged on the ground also stood up at once.

Peking his head out from between the snow-covered branches, a wisp of cooking smoke rose above the opposite hill.

One, two, three...... Zhang Xi nodded lightly, "It should be them."

Sliding down from the tree pole, he walked among the soldiers and said to a middle-aged man with a thin body, a tired face, and a long beard on his chin: "Mr. Qin, they should be on the hill opposite us, we found them."

Mr. Qin, that is, Qin Shaowei, Tian Dan's chief strategist, also showed excitement on his face, it had been five or six days since this scout team of the Eastern Army entered Kunshan, and finally there was news of Tian Jingwen.

The difficult trek in the past few days almost exhausted his body, and later, it was these soldiers who took turns to carry him on their backs, otherwise, he categorically insisted on this time, and lived with these scouts for several days, which also gave Qin Shaowei a further understanding of the Eastern Army.

This group of dozens of soldiers was the scouts under Zheng Xiaoyang of the Eastern Army, in Qin Shaowei's eyes, these soldiers were cold, tenacious, and disciplined, and their equipment was incomparable to the best army in the Qi State. In them, Qin Shaowei got a glimpse of some clues to the Eastern Army. Secretly sighing at the defeat of the Qi people, it is not without reason.

"Platoon Commander Zhang, then let's hurry over and find them! Qin Shaowei said excitedly. Let Tian Jingwen be able to lead an elite to return to China, but Tian Xiang and Gao Yuan have won the result with great difficulty, Tian Jingwen can return to the country one day earlier, and bring back Tian Xiang's order, so that the civil strife in Qi can have a result earlier, and Qi Guo, who is standing on the edge of the cliff, can be pulled back a little bit. The military system of the Eastern Expeditionary Army is very strange, starting from the commander downwards, the divisions, regiments, battalions, and companies are lined up, one level down, such as the arm and the finger, but some armies do not follow this establishment, like the lofty Eastern Army, the division and below are directly battalions, and there is no regimental establishment. Like the officer of the Eastern Army in front of him, he is a platoon commander, leading dozens of soldiers.

"Mr. Qin, don't look at this mountain across the mountain, but Wangshan runs dead horses, even if they don't move anywhere, it will take at least a day or two to get to where they are." Zhang Xi looked at Qin Shaowei's somewhat ugly face and said with a smile: "But don't worry, as long as you find their traces, they will never be able to run again, and we will definitely catch up with them."

Qin Shaowei nodded, he believed Zhang Xi's words, because these days, the army in front of him could find a little clue in the place where there was nothing abnormal in his opinion, and approached Tian Jingwen day by day.

Although this fact made him feel very uncomfortable, it was like an iron fact in front of him.

"That's good, Platoon Commander Zhang has worked so hard! ＂

"It's not hard, this is the military order I received, no matter what, it will be completed! Zhang Xi smiled. Now that the Eastern Army has won a big victory, he has a lot less resentment in his heart for these defeated generals, and the victor always has to learn to be tolerant. Who said this, it seems that Commander Zheng said it! (To be continued......) R527