As the two generals Ran Wei judged, along the Alegu River in the south, there were indeed frequent movements of the troops of the Tu Ku Ci. Fortunately, the front team that reconnoites and opens the road in front is vigilant, and promptly informs the team to conceal or bypass the road in a roundabout, so although the team stops and goes, it is always impossible to raise the speed of the march, but it is better to be safe. The team set off at noon, and only stopped to rest when it was dark, and looked at the end of the hour, calculating the distance, less than five hours, and had walked out of more than 30 miles. The first few officers gathered to discuss, and they all thought that they should meet with the Wei Fu Department of Shuangmatan as soon as possible, and it was important to hurry in the dark.

The task of arranging the night march is still being assigned here, and an urgent military situation has been reported later: more than 2,000 cavalry from the north have caught up!

This news made everyone's hearts gloomy: the blind man is gone! Although many people have long known that this must be the result after leaving the break, when it really happens, they can't help but feel sorry for them.

Ran Linde listened to the words of the sentinel, lowered his head and stared at the map silently, and only sighed faintly for a long time before he sighed faintly and said: "Two sentinels, the open field battle has blocked the enemy more than ten times for two hours, this is a general!" He shook his head with a tense face, and sighed. It's a pity ......."

But now is obviously not the time to be sentimental, the brigade is still in danger, the situation in front is unknown, there is an enemy chasing behind, and there are still Turks around the vicinity, and the slightest carelessness is the result of the annihilation of the whole army. Wang Yi immediately gave an order, a sentry hussar and the sentry led by Wen Mu with the mighty army as the backbone of the soldiers as the front team, another hussar captain led a sentry guard as the rear team, and the rest of the sentry guards protected the Chinese army and camels and horses and food for the Chinese army, and were not allowed to raise fire, set off immediately, and advance at night.

To be honest, the decision made by Wang Yi and several officers to transfer overnight did not seem wrong at best. The soldiers of the hussar army are all selected from the various armies of Liyuan, and they have always been responsible for guarding the imperial city of the palace city, and they are worthy of the name of the "Imperial Forest Army"; The mighty army ranks among the spears in the Liyuan battalion, and is also one of the "Praetorian Guards". In terms of the soldier's physical fitness, equipment, training, determination to fight and ability to fight alone, there is nothing wrong with these two sentries opening the way in front of the team as a front team. The mistake is that these two sentries are more than brave and inexperienced on the battlefield, and the two officers who lead the troops, one is a hussar captain who has been promoted by good training, and the other has been buried in the case for a long time.

At first, Wang Yi still wanted to resist, but who knew that the enemy would disrupt the formation of the Zhao army in an instant, and seeing that he couldn't do anything, he had to take someone to protect Chen Pu, and rendezvous with Wen Mu, who came back to rob people, desperately fought a bloody way to the south and fled. Pity the remaining hundreds of Zhao soldiers, on one side is the endless Alegu River, on the other side is the ferocious and vicious Rush soldiers, the head and tail of the team was cut into three sections, and they could only fight separately in the dark. The cavalry roared in groups, scimitars like frost and blades like snow, slashing and chopping arbitrarily in the ranks of the Zhao army that had no orders and were chaotic into a pot of porridge. On this section of the two- or three-mile-long river beach, the sound of horses' hooves was dense in an instant, and the cries and screams of Zhao soldiers were everywhere, and the enemy's echoing orders were everywhere......

From the ambush place to Shuangmatan, the distance is less than sixty miles, Wang Yi and they walked for four whole days, but they still couldn't see the shadow of the Shuangmatan military village. On the fifth day, they met the remnants of a Zhao army of three or four hundred people, and only then did they know that Shuangmatan had been lost six days earlier, and two thousand defenders had been martyred since the brigade commander Wei Jiao and below. Not only did Shuangma Beach fall into the hands of the enemy, but seven or eight large and small villages along the way to the south were now in the hands of the Tujici. Tuqi also sent more than 4,000 elite cavalry to patrol and guard along the way, and it was more difficult to return to Zhao Realm from this road than to ascend to the sky.

In desperation, Wang Yi had no choice but to turn around with his team again, lose dozens of horses, break thirty or forty soldiers, forcibly cross the Alegu River in a place where the water flow is relatively gentle, and then find a way to break through to the south. However, wherever they went, they could see the banner of the Tuqi people, and wherever they bumped into it, they could hear the horn of the Tuqi people, and there was no road to the southern Zhao land......

For more than half a month after that, this group of Zhao soldiers was like a headless fly wandering around the vast northern grasslands, suddenly to the east and then to the south, and in the morning it was still heading north and at noon it was heading west. When you are hungry, you will kill horses and dig grass roots to satisfy your hunger, when you are thirsty, you will drink dew, mud soup and even horse urine, and when you meet a small group of enemies, you will surround them and crackle and slash, grab horses and food, grab knives and spears, grab armor, and run away when you hit a large group of enemies, and if you can't escape, you will have red eyes and carry a sword, and you will die anyway, and you will drag a person on your back before you die. Because they all risked their lives, everyone was brave and moved forward, so with this heart and blood of sacrificing their lives, they were surrounded by a large group of enemies several times, and they were all killed.

At noon that day, they first sacked a grain convoy, but on the way to retreat, they met a detachment of cavalry in a narrow way. There were two or three thousand soldiers in this detachment, and the black flags of the big tent soldiers erected were four or five poles, and the horns were fiercely sounding in order to wave the flags, and several groups of enemy soldiers outflanked the front and rear, and immediately wrapped more than 100 Zhao soldiers tightly. Just when everyone thought that this time was the end of life, who would have thought that just now it was a sunny day with a scorching sun and a blue sky, and in an instant, the sky was dark and cloudy, and it was almost impossible to catch a glimpse of the figure three or five steps away. Taking advantage of the moment when the enemy's order could not be trafficked, Ran Linde raised his arms and shouted: "Everyone rush east side by side!" More than 100 Zhao soldiers woke up like a dream, and they all roared "kill", and in an instant, they knocked out a passage on the already scattered encirclement and clashed away......

In the evening, after a long day's work, the team finally found a place that seemed relatively safe to camp. This is an earthen city that has been abandoned for I don't know how many years, look at the layout of the regulations, it seems to be a military city built in the Han and Tang dynasties, hundreds of years of sun, wind and rain, and now the wall has already collapsed and the weeds are luxuriant, and it is so dilapidated that it does not look like it. The neatly arranged barracks in the earthen city are now only adobes of varying heights and lengths on the ground; Two of the four walls have fallen, and the only remaining two walls, one east and one north, are still cracked with large gaps three or four people wide. Only one enemy building in the north is still relatively complete, the chest wall buttress is paved with mud bricks based on the pedal, all the enemy buildings are readily available, although they are all hidden in the grass, the bricks and trees are broken and the rammed earth is peeled off, but you can vaguely see the majestic atmosphere of the year. Now, the enemy tower engraved its lonely and slightly thin back in the blood-red sunset in the sky, like a dutiful sentinel, stubbornly holding on to his post.

Chen Pu sat under the ruins of a half-man-high earthen wall, staring at the enemy tower with some obsession.

She doesn't look like a general at all. The crimson scarlet scarlet was gone, replaced by an ordinary soldier's iron helmet, and the general's armor with more than a thousand pieces of fish-scale armor connected together became a half-body black lacquered iron strip leather armor of an ordinary soldier. The leather armor was stained with black blood everywhere, and there was a crack on the left side that was more than an inch long that had been cut by a knife. Her face is no longer round, goose-egg-shaped. Her cheeks slumped slightly, her cheekbones bulged out slightly, and her chin showed a slight straight edge. Although her face was still as fair as before, it was definitely no longer the kind of pale that she knew at first glance that she had never seen much sunshine, but a rough ruddy glow sharpened from the wind and sand. In fact, we cannot but admit that she is much more beautiful now than when we first saw her, when she was just a flower that had not weathered the wind and rain, delicate but with a morbid weakness; And now, it seems that she has transformed from a flower into a tree!

The most surprising thing was her eyes. Just ten days ago, no matter what she saw, whether it was looking at people or things, she always had a kind of lofty gaze, and now, although the haughty look is still there, but her eyes have added a lot of new content, if we distinguish carefully, we may be able to find composure, calmness, courage, and courage from it......

She slowly withdrew her gaze from the enemy tower, grabbed the scimitar stuck in the ground at her feet, and tugged at one of her sleeves to wipe the blood from the blade. She stopped abruptly, stared at the scimitar in her hand, her lips squirmed a few times, and then spat to the side, continuing to wipe the scimitar with her sleeve.

All of this is amazing!

Is she really the princess of Changsha and the general of the Zhuguo Kingdom, Chen Pu?

A young man with a strip of cloth hanging his arm around his neck approached. Because of the injury on his arm, he did not salute, but bowed down and said, "General......"

It is indeed her!

However, how did she become like this in just a few days?

After Wang Yi finished speaking, Chen Pu frowned and thought for a while, and said, "You go and call General Ran and Captain Wen over, I want to hear their opinions." ”

"Yes." Wang Yi turned around and left without the slightest hesitation.

Liao Pheasant, the leader of Chen Pu's personal guards, came over with a stoneware bowl that was missing, and said cautiously: "General, the dinner will be ready soon, you drink some water first." ”

Chen Pu stuck the scimitar into the dirt on the other side and took the water bowl. This water is not pure water in a water bladder, it is rainwater from a puddle in the northeast corner of Tucheng, although it has been boiling for a long time after boiling, but the water is still yellow-green colored, and there is an indescribable and unpleasant smell, and there are some black ashes floating out of the stove fire on the water surface. She took the bowl, gently blew away the ashes, drank several sips, and asked, "What do you have for dinner?" ”

Liao Pheasant didn't seem to dare to look at her face, lowered his head and whispered: "I couldn't bring out the grain I robbed at noon, I killed another horse just now, we shared a piece of meat, and Captain Wen also sent us some wild vegetables." She said as she took out a few grass roots from her pocket that were still damp with soil, held them to Chen Pu, and said, "This is the ...... that General Ran dug for you."

Chen Pu took over the grassroots with an expressionless face. The roots of the grass are very short, not much longer than her thumb, but the spreading branches are tangled and knotted, like the beard of the birthday fairy, many and dense. She clenched her fists and slowly put these precious things into her arms.

This is the tooth of the first grass, a kind of grass unique to the grassland, it is said that livestock can eat it can have more cubs, but its root is a deadly poison, as long as you eat a grass root, it will be poisoned and die within 24 hours, the shape of death is unbearable to see one by one, the whole body is edematous and ulcerated, the skin is cracked and the teeth are off, and the face is unrecognizable......

This is a good thing that she specially asked Ran Linde to find for her. What she wants is "unrecognizable......