Chapter 9: Where is the Hope?
"Haha! Lao Zhang, you can't compare to me this time, Lao Tzu personally cut down a big official! Another soldier laughed as he lay on the ground.
"And me! Ye yes (Dad) stabbed one to death with his own hands, and he passed through it all at once! Another man sat up, raised his spear, and said triumphantly.
"It's all to blame Lao Liu for pulling me, otherwise the biggest leader must be a ghost under a knife!" Uncle Zhang said unconvinced.
"Come on, it's good to be able to escape, if you kill them all, none of us will be able to escape." Liu Jin said angrily.
"How? Is there an effect, has anyone rushed out? Uncle Zhang asked with concern.
"Yes! I've seen someone rush out! Fang Zhi said with a grin.
The two brothers were busy with Zou Yu, and they were ordered to observe the battle situation in the back, so he knew best. The two brothers are tall, only twenty years old, leaving them to follow Zou Yu, the original intention is to see that they are the smallest people in the team in addition to Zou Yu, and they don't want them to die.
"Just rush out! The brothers did not die in vain! Liu Jin nodded and said, then looked around, and was a little sad, just this raid, out of the one hundred and fifty-four people who came out, only one hundred and six people remained, and more than thirty were injured.
"You didn't see it, the Goguryeo people were stupid! Some stood still and looked up, and some rushed over, and the darkness was so overwhelming that I quickly lit a fire to inform you. With just this kung fu, it is estimated that even if you can't run out of many brothers, you can kill more, which is enough! Fang Zhi's eyes widened, and he frothed at the crowd and talked about what he saw.
Fangzheng, Fangzhi is a twin, the eldest brother Fangzheng has few words, Fangzhi is a little active, although he didn't cut people today, but he feels very excited, and his spirit is also very high.
"The spirit is so good? Get out of here and see if there are any pursuers! Uncle Zhang kicked lightly on Fang Zhi's leg and shouted.
"Hey, hey! Yes, sir! Fang Zhi smirked, clenched his fists to receive his life, and ran towards the height with the knife.
"It's not very safe here, when Goguryeo stabilizes, an army will be sent to search for it tomorrow, and we must leave as soon as possible." Liu Jin reminded.
"Xiao Yu, what do you see? What are we going to do? The army has failed here, should we continue to go to Liaodong City? Uncle Zhang asked.
"No matter what, we must cross the river first, otherwise we will be surrounded by Goguryeo sooner or later."
Zou Yu knew that they were now located east of the Hunshui, that is, east of the Yalu River, which completely belonged to the hinterland of Goguryeo, and if they did not cross the river, they would always be under the palm of someone else's hand.
"But we don't have ships, how can we get there?" Liu Jin frowned.
"Go to the northeast, that side belongs to the mountains, the plateau, easy to hide, and it is the source of the muddy water, the river is narrower, easy to pass.
It's best to find a fighter who has broken through and ask how the battle is going, but in my estimation, it may not be optimistic. Zou Yu analyzed, and at the same time, he was also taking a vaccination, euphemistically suggesting that the army may have been completely defeated.
"Xiao Yu, you... Do you mean that His Majesty was also defeated? Liu Jin asked with a slightly trembling voice.
"It shouldn't be there yet, but at present, the navy has failed, the division of troops has failed, the army has been defeated by half, Goguryeo can now concentrate its forces on defense, it is already May, and there are still four months before it will enter autumn, Liaodong is bitterly cold, and the army will inevitably retreat before that." Zou Yu analyzed them.
"That means we can't attack, and we can't catch up with the retreating army." Liu Jin said gloomily.
"Not necessarily, maybe the army will conquer Liaodong and continue to advance, but Goguryeo will definitely be able to hold most of the area, and if we are lucky, we will be able to join the army, so our first goal is to cross the river." Zou Yu didn't say it so surely, he kept a glimmer of hope for them, people are like this, many times, even if they know the result in their hearts, before they see it with their own eyes, they will always keep a hope in their hearts, which may be why human beings always have the motivation to move forward, hope! The root of all good things, the place of spiritual sustenance. Even if there is little hope, it is still called hope! All with a hint of hope.
"Good! Xiao Yu is right, as long as there is hope, we can't give up, think about the wives and children at home, still waiting for us to go back. Uncle Zhang stood up and said, this simple man has a high prestige in the crowd, and he is also the current spiritual pillar.
As for Zou Yu, he is about to catch up, at least for now, he is about the same as Liu Jin, and he belongs to one of the pillars.
One hundred and six people, starting from a new one, wanted to go back to join the remaining men, and then find a place to cross the river.
"Come and see!" Yuan Fang greeted in surprise.
Everyone hurriedly ran over together, and looked in the direction of Fang Zhi's finger, only to see another mountain in the distance, and a group of people were drilling into the woods, looking at the clothes, it was the Sui Dynasty army.
"It's a friendly army!"
"Slow down! Fangzheng, Fangzhi, you two go over and see if Goguryeo is pretending, if not, bring them over, and go to a few more people to check if there are any pursuers nearby. Liu Jin stopped the happy crowd and calmly gave several orders.
Zou Yu also learned in the last two days, it turns out that this Uncle Liu still has a good background, Liu Jin's Ziwei, Wei's Liu branch, but the family is in the middle, even so, he belongs to the children of a good family, he has read books, practiced martial arts, compared to Uncle Zhang, the force is not comparable, but he is definitely much more rational and has more brains.
The children of the good family, who belong to the middle class, and who are innocent, can be called the children of the good family, and generally either enter the most elite team, or serve as a low-level general in the ordinary team.
Poor and wealthy, middle-class families have good living conditions, so they can raise a strong physique, and they also have the conditions to study, so compared with ordinary people, they are much better by nature.
Wei's Liu family is the place where all the surnames Liu originated in the world, including Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, but the surname Liu has spread out after 800 years of the Han Dynasty and is found all over the country, but the Liu family of Wei's has always been regarded as the main vein.
Those who received the order quickly rushed out, and the others were not idle, hiding, and choosing a retreat, ready to retreat at any time, this has become their habit.
Quietly and slightly anxiously waited, until half an hour later, Fang Zheng, Fang Zhi led the crowd out of the mountains and forests, which made everyone breathe a sigh of relief, which means that they are indeed friendly troops who have been in a foreign land, of course, the more hometown people around, the better, this kind of mood, people who have lived in other places have experienced.