After the order was issued, Wu Meng turned around and returned to the place where he had fought with Xin Bai and the others.

But I happened to see that Xin Bai and the others had retreated to the road card of Huimu Prison Pass, while Zhao Zhidong was still standing in the crowd with the support of the sergeants.

There were nearly a hundred corpses lying on the ground, most of them were the personal guards who had come to meet Xin Bai with Zhao Zhihai and Zhao Zhidong before. There are also a small number of corpses left by the Simber Army.

Obviously, the sergeants under Zhao Zhidong have not waited for reinforcements to come, and they have been killed by the Xinbai rebels.

Wu Meng stepped forward, grabbed Zhao Zhidong and shouted, "Deputy General." ”

Zhao Zhidong saw that it was Wu Meng, so he nodded at him and asked, "How is the general?" ”

Wu Meng said: "The medical officer has investigated, and the deputy general also knows that the knife did not hit the heart. Adjutant General, I have ordered the sergeants to make a detour to the south to break through the siege, and you should hurry up, the last general will definitely be able to kill the scum and avenge the general. ”

Zhao Zhidong heard what Wu Meng said, and also knew that Zhao Zhihai was worry-free, so he nodded again.

Then he heard Wu Meng say that he was going to attack the defenders of Mugao Pass, so he shook his head again and said: "These rebels are not many in number, just confront them to stop their harassment of the march of the troops, the real danger is that the Rong people behind them are afraid that they will catch up soon, and if they stay here, they will eventually suffer from the enemy and will not be able to retreat." ”

With that, he looked at the rebels looming on the path that winded up the path leading to the Wooden Prison Pass in the distance, and took a sip.

"This time, the general and I have been negligent, and this is my responsibility, so let me atone for my sins. Go, Xiao Meng, assist the general to break out of the encirclement, and then avenge me after meeting with General Zhao Pi in the Guannai. ”

After finishing speaking, Zhao Zhidong lifted Changge and stood in the middle of the road.

Wu Meng saw that Zhao Zhidong was determined to die, and also knew that the army of Rong people behind him was close at hand, so he ordered to leave 2,000 soldiers to follow Zhao Zhidong, and asked him to follow the main force as soon as the army retreated south. After making all the arrangements, he quickly passed through the intersection of the wooden prison and headed south.

Zhao Zhidong knew that his injuries were incorrigible, so he decided to break off the army. He stood in the middle of the road, and more than 20,000 Qin troops passed by him.

The paths, forests, streams and riverbeds at the foot of the mountains, but wherever they can pass is the place where the Qin soldiers march, at this moment, no matter where the soldiers of the Qin army walk south, the eyes are the figure of the general standing in the middle of the road.

Half an hour later, when all the men and horses successfully passed the wooden prison, Wu Meng and Yin Fang stood behind the large group of people and horses, looking forward to the north.

"Brother Yin, why hasn't the adjutant general arrived yet?"

This person who was called Brother Yin by Wu Meng was Yin Fang, the post-military captain, and at this moment his expression was gloomy, he shook his head at Wu Meng, and said:

"You and I were both brought out of our hometown by the Adjutant General, and it is thanks to the Admiral that the two of us brothers can have today. Brother Wu, being able to die and die for the country may be the best reward for the deputy general's half-life and bravery. ”

After saying that, Yin Fang got off the horse, knelt down with Wu Meng and many Qin troops around him, and kowtowed three times facing the north.

And Zhao Zhidong under the wooden prison pass was already at the end of the strong crossbow, and seeing that most of the Qin army had passed smoothly from the wooden prison pass, he smiled and shouted loudly to the two thousand Qin soldiers around him:

"Sons, I am Zhao Zhidong, the deputy general under the command of the general of the Central Guard, and you have seen it today, the rebels who have betrayed their parents' state are in front, and there is a large army of Rong people chasing behind.

With my 2,000 men and horses, protect the main force of our army to be able to return to the Guannei, kill the rebels, and exterminate the barbarians, you are all good, and you are my great Qin Zheng Zheng man.

Now, I have to give an order to kill the rebels with all my might, let these fatherless and motherless brutes see the appearance of my hot-blooded men in Great Qin, and let the Rong people behind me know that they are pursuing a Great Qin royal division that will never be reluctant.

Great Qin is mighty! ”

"Great Qin mighty", "Great Qin mighty", "Great Qin mighty".

More than 2,000 people shouted in unison the pride and ambition of 10,000 people, at this moment, no one knew that they had no chance of survival, and the only reason for them not to be afraid, not to retreat, not to hesitate was that the deputy general who had commanded an army of 100,000 was by their side.

Whoever is not afraid of death, perhaps no one is not afraid of death. But who can face death directly, the answer lies in the two thousand Qin soldiers who are dead soldiers.

The soldiers behind him had already appeared in front of everyone, and the rebels in front of them walked out of the dangerous places and forests that blocked the attack.

But what is there to fear, isn't it just death?

"Brothers, if you hold off the enemy for a moment longer, kill one more enemy soldier, and you will have more robes to go out of the customs to avenge our blood and hatred, and kill the enemy with me!"

Zhao Zhidong mentioned Changge, endured the pain caused by the injuries on his body, and killed Xin Bai and the others who were slowly approaching.

The remaining 2,000 Qin troops did not line up, but shouted to the rebels and the Rong people to kill the generals.

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For example, it is about 180 miles to walk from Yuanzhou to Yuxiao Pass, the farthest of the Seven Passes of Sumeru, of which it is 130 miles to Longdeok City.

Most of the 130 miles are built in Pingchuan, and there are few mountain roads.

Despite this, the Lihua 100-man team also walked for three or four days before it was finished.

And Yuanzhou is located 240 miles southwest of Xiaoguan, so the distance between Yuanzhou and Yuxiao Pass is much shorter than the distance from Xiaoguan to Yuxiao Pass.

Those who have a personal experience of this are the Qin soldiers and horses who escaped from the wooden prison nine days ago.

The winding and rugged mountain roads, the unfamiliar and complex environment, these have caused the difficulty of the march, Zhao Zhihai only needed to enter the pass from the wooden prison pass, and he never thought of going deep into the Sumeru Mountains.

But that accident made the Qin army outside the gate embark on a road of nine deaths and one life.

Zhao Zhihai has been in a coma for nine consecutive days and has not woken up yet. As the temporary commanders, Wu Meng and Yin Fang took the remaining more than 23,000 people who escaped from the wooden prison pass into the depths of the Sumeru Mountains.

For nine days, they had to hurry to avoid the pursuing soldiers, so that the soldiers who went out to explore the road were sometimes left behind the panicked army.

Encounters with the Rong tribe, encountering poisonous insects and miasma, and walking into the cliff are all common things that will happen at any time in the past nine days. Gradually, even the Rong people chasing behind them slowed down.

Although the soldiers were thrown away, the original army of 23,000 men now had only about 16,000 soldiers left.

During these nine days, more than 7,000 soldiers either died in the battle or stumbled into the miasma of the night's rest, never to get up again.

Some of the soldiers who were originally injured did not receive timely treatment, and what was originally just some skin injuries became fatal factors, and a large number of soldiers fell in this exotic mountain and forest.

Therefore, it also allowed the Rong people who were chasing behind them to accurately follow behind the Qin army only by relying on the dead bodies of the Qin soldiers.

Gradually, the morale of this army has fallen to the extreme, and what is even more fatal is that the food has been completely depleted today.

In fact, when they broke through from Xiaoguan, there was not much food, and for some time after the breakthrough, they were able to hold on for a few days with the reduction in numbers.

For this reason, some unnecessary battles have become necessary, and some unnecessary casualties have also become necessary.

Since yesterday, the army has not encountered a single tribe, and when all the soldiers were given a bowl of weeds and rice soup with a clear bottom and a few grains of rice to each of them in the early morning, the whole army was completely cut off from food and grass.

In the past few days, Wu Meng and Yin Fang have also discussed several times about where to enter the customs, but each time they feel that only the main general of Yuxiao Pass is a person who can be relied on, and the main general of Mishen Pass, like Mugao Pass, is also a cloth cloth nobleman and is not reliable.

However, the Yuxiao Guan general they were referring to was not Zhu Lihua, but Zhao Zhihai's relative, Ma Yuan, the nephew of Zhang Ziyu, the chief of the Criminal Department of the DPRK.

The two of them have been by Zhao Zhihai's side for many years, how can they not know about this relationship.

Even during these nine days, the two of them had the idea of passing over the gods because of the heavy casualties of the soldiers. But in the end, this idea was dispelled in the memories of Zhao Zhihai's assassination and Zhao Zhidong's martyrdom in his mind.

And at this point, the two of them don't remember how far the army has traveled in the deep mountains, and they don't know which pass they are closest to at this moment.

They only knew that if they kept walking like this, until they saw the legendary uninhabited snowy Kunlun, it was the end of the Sumeru Mountains.

They thought that it would be the closest to Yuxiao Pass.

As everyone knows, Yuxiao Pass is more than 700 miles away from the snowy Kunlun, and there is no road to the east and west for more than 700 miles.

Yuxiao Pass is the southernmost pass of the Sumeru Mountains, which is the southernmost pass that guards the seven passages of the east and west, but it is not the southernmost point of the Sumeru Mountains.

How did Wu Meng and Yin Fang know about this section, and besides, most of the soldiers under them were from Qinlan County, so how could they know the landform of the Sumeru Mountains.

Fortunately, both Qin Lan and Mount Meru are in a north-south direction, going all the way along the mountain range, and perpendicular to the direction of the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, and they always can't get lost.

Seeing that the sun had turned westward, Wu Meng and Yin Fang, who had been walking for most of the day, could no longer walk, so they had to order the whole army to rest.

The two of them looked at Zhao Zhihai, who was still unconscious beside him, glanced at each other, and invariably smiled bitterly.

Wu Meng ordered hundreds of archers and soldiers to go to the woods in front to see if they could catch some prey, and sent nearly a thousand people to the nearby hillside to dig up some wild vegetables and artemisia ferns.

After the order was given, he suddenly froze for a moment, and then hurriedly sent people to guard behind the army.

Seeing him like this, Yin Fang couldn't help but smile and said, "Brother Wu, you have a general order to find food first, and then send a guard is rare since ancient times. ”

Wu Meng couldn't help but blushed and said, "I'm hungry and faint, Brother Yin is smiling." ”

"I'm worse than you, and if you hadn't remembered to arrange a vigilance, I wouldn't have known how to do such things on the march and in battle." That Yin Fang also laughed and laughed at herself.

The two watched the medical officer slowly feed the rice soup to Zhao Zhihai's mouth, and couldn't help but swallow their saliva.

Then they looked at each other, got up and walked out of the tent.