420,000 troops

Of course, it is impossible not to pass, but it is really difficult to pass.

The intersection is so big, and the width is only a few kilometers, Wu Xiaoqing found a piece of high ground and looked down, almost at a glance - the dense military camp filled the entire intersection. In front of these barracks is a tall and square castle, built against a hill, with a ditch dug in front of it, and through the telescope, you can clearly see the huge flag flying above the castle: two circles, but in contrast to the Little Yang Sect, their large circle is in the center of the picture, and the small circle is placed at the bottom of the picture.

It can be clearly seen that there are two roads that cut diagonally from the east and west of the castle, the west leads to the hinterland of those countries that believe in the Great Yang Sect, and the east leads to the depths of the mountains, which is also where Wu Xiaoqing is going. This is what Wu Xiaoqing has heard of, the place where soldiers must fight. Otherwise, the other party would not have built a castle here to defend it.

Through the information collected in the city, the search and rescue team roughly simulated the state of war at this time, and soon came to a pessimistic conclusion - this siege battle will have to be encircled for at least more than a year before it is possible to determine the winner. There are two most likely outcomes, first, the siege has been around for more than a year, and the logistics on the side of the Xiaoyang Sect cannot support it, so they take the initiative to retreat, and the second is that the logistics of the Xiaoyang Sect have no problems, and the siege will be maintained for three years, and finally the army in the castle will run out of ammunition and food and surrender.

But their rescue mission certainly won't have to wait that long.

Maybe just wait and wait, you don't have to wait, just watch the meteor shower all over the sky. Wu Xiaoqing didn't know what a volcanic eruption that could destroy a civilization looked like, but when he thought about it, it must have been spectacular, higher than watching an American blockbuster in a movie theater.

The search and rescue team proposed three plans for Wu Xiaoqing to choose by himself.

First, Wu Xiaoqing abandoned Jingding and walked directly in the mountains alone, and after bypassing, he would find a way to buy a horse.

Second, after nightfall, Wu Xiaoqing disguised himself as a soldier of the Xiaoyang Sect and walked through the camp.

The third is to join the army of the Xiaoyang Sect as a mercenary, and then find an opportunity to escape as a deserter.

After carefully listening to the suggestions of the search and rescue team, Wu Xiaoqing chose two.

Climbing the mountain alone, Wu Xiaoqing is really not sure, who knows what kind of animals will be in the mountains here, what the terrain in the mountains will be like, besides, whether you can buy horses after the past - according to the news that Professor Shen heard, there were not many people on that road in the past, and it was all barren mountains and mountains.

As for the third one, once caught, according to the regulations of the army, it will definitely be a dead end. Even if he can escape, it is not ruled out that no one will come to chase him. They chased after each other desperately, and they couldn't run by then.

The second one is much better, operating at night, the army organization in this era is very poor, and the search and rescue team can simulate the voice of a human very accurately, which adds a lot of certainty to their success. At that time, even if something happened, Wu Xiaoqing threw the horse and drilled into the crowd, this camp of thousands of people, it is estimated that the other party will not be able to find it.

Finally, summarizing the advantages and disadvantages of various methods, as well as Wu Xiaoqing's own advantages and disadvantages, the search and rescue team helped Wu Xiaoqing sort out the final practice plan: buy a way out of the army!

According to the search and rescue team, Wu Xiaoqing first went to the vicinity of the barracks, found the merchants who were engaged in the business of selling, and then spent a silver coin to buy a flag of the Xiaoyang Sect and the jihadist robes worn by the soldiers outside.

Then he changed into his costume, rode Jingding, and walked back for a while, and after seeing the third army heading to the front line, Wu Xiaoqing carefully paid attention to their flag: "Well, this is fine, I will draw." "The banner of this army is painted with a shield, which looks like a door panel, a square, the simplest.

Wu Xiaoqing took the initiative to step forward, and the search and rescue team simulated the voice of the soldier who had just interrogated them, and asked the leader: "Good day, the soldiers who bravely helped them." ”

"Good day, invincible holy army!"

The army seemed to be in good spirits, and it was very energetic, especially the freedmen. Wu Xiaoqing until their positive reason, because the holy war army is full, for these people, the place where they can eat can be regarded as heaven, and they are about to go to heaven, and everyone is naturally very happy.

But Wu Xiaoqing is afraid that he will let them down a little for a while.

"The general asked me to ask you how much food you brought."

The leading knight glanced at Wu Xiaoqing, and after determining that Wu Xiaoqing's armor was better than his own, and it was likely to be a red man beside the general, he replied: "The order said that the military camp would provide food, but we only brought our own rations, and we are almost finished." "In fact, I only brought the rations of a few knights and dozens of squires, and the remaining hundreds of free men, they brought food with them if they liked, and they were hungry if they didn't like to bring them.

The search and rescue team said: "Now there is not much food in the camp, and the general has ordered you to rest in place for two days, and in these two days, you will find a way to find food by yourself, and then you will go to the camp when the food from the rear arrives." ”

When the knights heard about it, they asked with a bitter face: "I can't even find rats around here, where can I find food?" ”

Search and rescue team: "The little sun of all things will guide you, good luck." ”

didn't have time to listen to the complaints and nagging of those free people, Wu Xiaoqing patted his ass and walked back.

When I went back again, I arrived near the camp, and it was almost dark, but fortunately the merchants were still there. The merchant, who had earned a silver coin with two rags, warmly received the repeat customer and, at the request of the customer, brought him a blank flag and several colors of paint.

Under the guidance of the search and rescue team, Wu Xiaoqing successfully copied a military flag, saw that there was more paint, and painted the same badge on his shield.

After nightfall, Wu Xiaoqing entered the camp in the name of the family's signal soldiers, and reported to the general himself, saying that their army was short of food, and those hungry ghosts refused to leave on the road on the grounds that their stomachs were not full. The lord was afraid that the general would blame and delay this sacred battle, so he specially sent someone to inform him first, hoping that tomorrow morning, the general would be able to send someone to deliver some food.

The general who commanded this battle was a prince of a kingdom that believed in Xiaoyang Sect, and he was not much older than Wu Xiaoqing, so he did not have any doubts about this reason. And comforted Wu Xiaoqing a few words, asking him to go back and tell their lord that there is no need to worry, they have time.

Wu Xiaoqing was lucky and was arranged in a separate camp, which saved him a lot of things.

In the second half of the night, Wu Xiaoqing walked towards the northeast of the camp with Jingding, and when he was about to reach the position of the sentry post, he pretended to urinate and stayed for a while, and then suddenly lowered his head. Xiaoyang is on top! ”

The sentinels took their torches and took a closer look: what else could it be, of course two cents a piece, which everyone loved so much, sparkling glass marbles!

More than a dozen sentries on duty soon searched desperately near the gate, although it was dark at night, but each sentry looked very seriously, they lit all the torches used for sentry observation, held them in their left hands, and groped with their right hands almost inch by inch on the ground.

Every half a minute, Wu Xiaoqing threw a new marble on the ground, and then deliberately let people find out. After a few times, all the soldiers were commanded by Wu Xiaoqing to stay away from the camp, and Wu Xiaoqing also quietly led the horse and gradually walked out of the camp.

At the last critical moment, Wu Xiaoqing threw more than a dozen glass beads towards the left side of the camp gate, and then shouted: "There!" Better! ”

All the torches swarmed over to look for it, and Wu Xiaoqing took advantage of this time to quietly sneak into the darkness on the right.

No one noticed that Wu Xiaoqing had quietly turned over and got on the horse, or rather, someone wouldn't mind if they noticed. - Who will introduce one less contender for wealth?

The soldiers even broke out into small clashes with each other over the glass beads.

What is more beneficial to Wu Xiaoqing is that with people's general vision at night at this time, there is no projected light source, as long as you go out dozens of meters, it is impossible to see or catch up.

After this pass, Wu Xiaoqing no longer delayed, he hurried desperately overnight, until the next day, when it was time to contact Shen Changwen, he stopped and rested for a while.

Shen Changwen routinely reported on the progress of his communication with the lord, and he explained to the lord that the disaster was coming, but the lord didn't believe it at all, and almost locked Shen Changwen up as an infidel.

Fortunately, Shen Changwen has a lot of money, which is enough to prove Shen Changwen's piety - during the holy war, money can directly atone for any sin.

It sounds like Shen Changwen's experience yesterday was not easier than his own, according to him, he was ready to do it when he was declared a heretic and was going to be imprisoned.

Fortunately, his head was nimble, and he thought of the atonement in time. And he still has hope, after all, Wu Xiaoqing is still outside, it's really not good, and he can rush back to save him. If he did do it, he might have been killed on the spot indoors.

Shen Changwen is also ready to set off today and go to the next city. Part of it was fear, but part of it was the need for the task.

It is necessary to find such a place first, to convince people of the fact that there is going to be a disaster, otherwise, how will they organize to save people at that time?