Wang Yi quickly notified Ran Linde and three other officers, and the five of them rushed over.

Chen Pu beckoned to several officers and said calmly, "No need to salute, sit down and talk." You didn't eat it either, did you? After speaking, he didn't look at the officers, lowered his head and drank the water in the bowl, handed the pottery bowl to Liao Pheasant, and instructed her, "Divide the contents of the pot and give a bowl to several adults to eat." Liao Pheasant's lips squirmed, as if she wanted to distinguish something, but Chen Pu's slightly hoarse voice revealed undoubted majesty, she hesitated for a moment, finally nodded and said "yes", and took the bowl.

Several officers glanced at each other, and each other's eyes were a little damp. The team ran around for a day without harvesting, and killing horses and dividing meat was also a last resort, after all, horses can chew grass, but people can't just eat wild vegetables. The wild vegetable thing can only hang its life, and in fact, it can neither starve nor grow strength. Now that the horse had been divided equally between the belt and the flesh, it was actually the ration for the whole team from tonight until the day after tomorrow, and General Zhuguo would now distribute it to everyone, which meant that she and her guards would starve.

Ran Linde licked his dry lips, and said dissuasively: "The general's love for the soldiers and the protection of the soldiers, everyone can see the inscription in the five years, but this horse meat is the general's rations, and the subordinates dare not accept it." Please take back your order! ”

Chen Pu just hummed noncommittally, turned his gaze to Wang Yi, and asked, "Why didn't Captain Wen come?" ”

Wang Yi looked at Chen Pu and replied: "General Yu, just now the outpost found that there seemed to be a horse team activity in the southeast, and Captain Wen was not at ease, so he took someone over to visit the situation. "From the banks of the Alegu River to here, one bloody battle after another, the young prince seemed to have matured a lot overnight, and the previous youthful sparkle had faded from his demeanor, and in their place was a calm temperament that was not commensurate with his age, and the cynical frivolous eyes in his eyes were gone, and they became unusually cold. A pair of dark eyes are always hidden behind the eyelids, and they seem to be carefully examining everything around them at any time.

"Did the sentry see how many enemies there were?" Chen Pu asked.

If it had been half a month ago, she would never have asked such a question. At that time, she would only sit quietly in the top seat like an irrelevant ornament, listening silently. However, now she will not only take the initiative to inquire about such an important military situation, but also gather everyone to discuss it; In the process of discussion, she will not only bring her own judgment and ideas together, but also take the initiative to seek the opinions and opinions of others. Sometimes, she even makes a decision directly for the team's next move on the basis of summarizing everyone's opinions. As a result, not all of these decisions were right, and certainly not all of them were wrong, in fact, they were almost half right and half wrong, and slightly more right. It was in these mixed decisions that she began to slowly establish her prestige in this team with her own actions and courage.

Wang Yi replied, "There are about a few hundred people. He also seemed tired of such vague and general figures, and frowned and explained, "The sentry did not approach the reconnaissance for fear of alarming the enemy, but only looked at it from a distance. They had a lot of horses, but they didn't have banners, and it was not clear whether they were tribal soldiers or big tent soldiers, or whether they were a team carrying grain or a roaming horse. ”

"How far is it from us?"

"Seven miles to the southeast, separated from us by two large meadows." Wang Yi moved the cloth belt hanging from his neck to his shoulder, and said with a chuckle: "It is because of these two meadows that they did not find this earth city. ”

Chen Pu looked around, and several makeshift earthen stoves were emitting smoke that was not thick or light, and the air was filled with the sour smell of horse meat and the bitter smell of wild vegetables. Her gaze followed the rising pillar of smoke, and her face relaxed a little until she was sure that the smoke was evaporating with the rising night breeze. She tilted her face and glanced at the darkening sky. A bright moon hung quietly on the eastern sky, silently looking down on the earth with a light smile. Stars shimmer in the deep sky, as if they were a huge bluestone slab adorned with silver spikes. The figure of the ancient enemy tower became deeper and deeper, staring lonely into the distance......

She withdrew her gaze and said, "Send a few more sentries and keep an eye on them." This is where the team rests tonight. After a pause, she added, "After dawn, we will decide again whether we should go or stay according to the enemy's movements." After speaking, he asked Ran Linde again, "What does General Linde think?" ”

Ran Linde nodded and said, "I think it's okay." We've been exercising for the past three days, and we're all tired, so it's time to take this opportunity to take a good rest. "Most of the middle and senior officers in this team died in the battle in the lower reaches of Alegu, and the few who were lucky enough to escape were killed or disappeared one after another in the next ten days or so, so he is now the oldest officer with the most qualifications, and his words naturally carry the heaviest weight. Since he agreed with Chen Pu's opinion, the rest of the officers would certainly not have any objections.

Chen Pu said to Wang Yi: "Then General Wang will go and arrange it." Remember to remind everyone that you should not raise a fire after dark, and let the brothers put out the fire. ”

With her military order, several stoves came out of the fire in a moment, and the soldiers held clay bowls and wooden bowls, squatting or sitting around the iron pot on the stove, regardless of whether it was hot or cold, raw or cooked, holding the oily fleshy bones in their hands and burying their heads in gnawing, and they all ate with sighs and sighs, and their hands and faces were full of greasy grease.

The three petty officers here are also eating vigorously. They are all reckless and reckless men, and the days with Chen Pu are not short, marching and fighting, eating and living together, although they respect her and love her in their hearts, but the love that rolls out of the blood mountain and the sea of knives is different, and they are not restrained in front of her, eating and drinking are embarrassed, Chen Pu has not swallowed a mouthful of wild vegetables, they have drunk the soup at the bottom of the bowl to a trickle, and he took the bowl and ran back to fill it to eat, and then came over to continue. Wang Yi and Ran Linde are both identity people, they follow etiquette in their gestures, eat and drink silently with their lips closed, gnaw on bones half-sideways, raise their arms to cover their faces and drink soup, and refuse to trespass their manners. Chen Pu only ate a few handfuls of wild vegetables and drank a few mouthfuls of hot soup, then put down the bowl and asked Ran Linde: "General Linde, what do you think, where are we now?" Is it closer to Yanshan, or closer to Mogan Dazhai? ”

Ran Linde was looking at the remaining piece of horse meat with blood in the bowl and worried. He has endured hardships in prison, although his body has not fallen into any major problems, but his stomach has not been good, and he relies on himself to take care of it on weekdays. Since the breakout, he has been suffering from colic and diarrhea in his abdomen, and now he has an incomparably headache when he sees such rough food as raw meat and wild vegetables, but the situation is forced to stop eating, so every time he rests and sharpens, others cheer, and he is in pain. Listening to Chen Pu's inquiry, he quickly put down the bowl, wiped the oil flowers on the side of his mouth, and said in a deep voice: "Without a guide and no map, it is difficult to say where we are now." However, judging by the number of enemies in the vicinity in the last two days, I estimate that we should be closer to Mogan Dazhai. After a pause, he said a little anxiously, "Among the soldiers we met at noon today, it seems that there is a banner stationed in Molu. These Great Hordes were placed on the eastern edge of the steppe to guard against Uduo and Silla, and now they have also been transferred...... I guess something may have happened to the Middle Route Army as well. ”

His voice was low and deep, as if it did not come out of his throat but out of the ground, and in the darkness and darkness he was like a ghostly night groan, and the few people around him had already heard it tightly, and the last assertion that "something happened to the Middle Route Army" was more like a thunderclap that suddenly exploded in the ears in the empty and lonely wilderness, and everyone was dizzy for a while. An officer's hand shook, and the clay bowl in his hand fell to the ground, cracked into several petals, and scattered wild vegetables in oil soup on the ground.

Chen Pu only felt that it was dark in front of him, and he almost fainted, and the 60,000 soldiers and 40,000 people of the Central Route Army were destroyed like the Left Route Army, what kind of disaster would it be......

She settled down, forced herself to press a pounding heart, and was about to open her mouth to inquire in detail, when a string of horses' hooves came from the west, and instantly rolled to the front of Tucheng, knowing that it was the outpost who came back to report in an emergency, and barely stood up with the help of the earthen wall, and heard the sound of horses' hooves in the southeast direction, one by one, the sentinels on both sides came back at the same time!

The soldiers also knew that the matter was urgent, and without the officer's order, they began to hurriedly pack up their weapons and horses, tie their clothes and armor, check their belts and leggings, and did not forget to pour the remaining wild vegetable broth into their mouths in their busy schedules. The sentinel returning from the west galloped in front of Chen Pu, and he didn't even have time to get off the horse, pointing to the west and wheezing: "Huh...... Greetings to the great, great general, west, west ......"

"Don't worry, speak slowly! Someone, bring him a bowl of water! ”

"To the west, General, there is an enemy's food convoy to the west!"

"Is it the grain team? Not a horse team? How far away? ”

"Fifteen miles! …… The torches were dragged out for two or three miles, and they were not dense, so they must be grain teams! ”

"How many are there?"

The sentry took a bowl and took a few sips of water before burping and saying, "I don't know." Belch! …… Their spies can be scattered, and I can't help it...... Belch! No way close! If it weren't for my fast horse, I probably wouldn't have come back! ”

The sentinel on the east side has come around the gap in the city wall, and the war horse has not yet stood firm before it is rolled into the saddle and dismounted, who knows that one foot is caught in the stirrup and cannot be escaped, the golden rooster jumps independently, and his mouth is still shouting: "General! General! Fuck it! To the southeast is our own people! ”