It was getting late, and Cheng Ranxuan chose to camp not far in front of him with the pond ride. It's flat and not far from the river, so it's a good place to stay if you don't know that the river has been poisoned.

Cheng Ranxuan walked around the camp, and someone hurriedly ran to his side, saying, "General Cheng, the people sent out are back." ”

"How?" Cheng Ranxuan asked, these people were sent out to find the whereabouts of the five Tang Riders who did not know their whereabouts when he began to prepare to set up camp.

"Found one, it's dead." The sorrow on the soldier's face could not be hidden, and the dead guy was still telling him early in the morning that he was going to go home and marry his daughter-in-law.

"Didn't you find the rest?"

"None of them have been found, but there are indeed too many dead animals on both sides of the river."

"I'm afraid it's been a few days since I was poisoned, so it's no wonder that we haven't encountered any beasts along the way, I'm afraid we all escaped."

At this time, the little soldier who had been following Cheng Ranxuan, holding the map in his hand, came over to this side, he walked in front of Cheng Ranxuan, and said: "General Cheng, I have seen the map, let's go all the way to the northeast, hurry with all our might, and we can reach Nanhu in three days. ”

Cheng Ranxuan felt sad in his heart, knowing that the person who poisoned him was not a white-headed man who had long since disappeared, but someone else, but he couldn't show it, so he could only smile and nod and say: "Okay, be prepared tonight, and we will set off as soon as the morning dawns." ”

The soldier carefully rolled up the map, put it into the bamboo tube, and then wrapped the bamboo tube with a cloth bag, hung it around his waist, and said to Cheng Ranxuan: "General Cheng, the water that the current team carries is at most sustaining a day and a half, and it still doesn't count the water needed for livestock and horses, how can we deal with this." ”

The soldier who reported the news to Cheng Ranxuan listened to Xiao Bing's words, and also looked at Cheng Ranxuan and said, "Yes, general, how should this be handled." ”

"There is no water on the ground, there is naturally water in the sky, before dawn, clean up the kettle, collect the dew on the grass and trees, it should be no problem to hold on for an extra day or two."

When the two of them heard Cheng Ranxuan's words, they were both shocked, they didn't expect that the dew could still be collected, so they hurriedly turned around and went back to pack their things.

In order to save the little water left, instead of even cooking rice, the white flour bun simmered with leftover flour in the queue was used for dinner.

Cheng Ranxuan has never had the habit of opening a small stove again, and at this moment, he is also sitting by the fire with the team, eating white bread. Most of the soldiers were not satisfied with the food, and besides, the water had been collected, and if you choked on it, you would have to swallow it.

Cheng Ranxuan tore the dry and hard white mask in his hand into small pieces and sent it to his mouth, he was thinking about things, so he didn't care too much about the texture and taste of this thing. Whatever, it's good to be able to fill your stomach on the march.

Who will it be? When will it be shot? Where will it be struck? Cheng Ranxuan is also a person who has been in and out of the battlefield and licked blood on the tip of the knife, but now such a sudden desperate situation caught him off guard.

Suddenly, not far away, a soldier clutched his throat and fell to the ground in pain, making a "gurgling" sound from his throat, like a drowning man.

Cheng Ranxuan stood up, looked at him, and asked the people around him, "What's wrong?" ”

"I think I'm choking, pour some water on him!" Someone hurriedly handed a kettle.

A soldier took the kettle, tilted his head, and poured a few mouthfuls of water into his mouth, but when these few mouthfuls of water went in, the man not only showed no signs of improvement, but convulsed, and the soldier who fed the water wanted to pour another sip of water, but the soldier who was twitching suddenly coughed, and then, a large piece of something squirted out of his mouth, and all fell on the soldier who fed the water. The twitching soldier then fell silent.

The soldier dipped his finger in the man's vomit by the campfire, and in the backlight of the campfire, his hand flushed red.

"It's blood! General Cheng, he vomited blood! The soldier hurriedly stood up and frantically shook the vomit off his body to the ground.

Cheng Ranxuan was shocked, and hurriedly shouted: "Don't eat it, spit out what you eat!" "But, after all, it's too late, this poison is discovered too late.

The soldiers threw the dry white bread in their hands on the ground, hooked their waists, and reached for their throats, trying to spit out what they had eaten in their stomachs. Cheng Ranxuan smashed three punches directly into the abdomen, and after a burst of nausea, he vomited out the contents of his abdomen, but he saw that his vomit had been wrapped in red.

Gradually, more and more people fell around him, Cheng Ran Xuan pulled out the purple gold long sword at his waist, and shouted into the black wilderness outside the bonfire: "Rats, why don't you dare to come out to meet people, will you only poison such indiscriminate means?" ”

Cheng Ranxuan admitted that he had miscalculated, but he didn't want to die so inexplicably.

In the darkness, a figure gradually appeared, like ghosts, hiding in the dark night outside the bonfire, the nearest was only a hundred steps away from Cheng Ranxuan.

Most of these people were wearing the same bamboo horn armor as themselves, but each of them had a black iron mask on their faces. They didn't have a leader, or rather, the leader didn't show up.

Many soldiers were already rolling on the ground in pain, spitting blood at this time, and the last hope in their hearts was extinguished at the sight of these black faces. I fought for the palace all my life, but the final end was to expose the corpse in the wilderness?

"What about your leaders? I want to talk to him. I am Cheng Ranxuan. Cheng Ranxuan reported to his home and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve.

"Become a general!" Cheng Ranxuan's eyebrows instantly wrinkled, and he followed the sound to see the little soldier who always had the map on his waist slowly getting up from the team and said with a smile: "I am their leader!" ”