"Report!"

"General Hui, the enemy army has about 30,000 horses and horses to evacuate the camp and do not know where to go, as for the specific situation, our scouts can't get close, so we don't know who led the departure, and we don't know where they are going."

"What!" Liu Xia, who was watching the musketeers shoot on the school ground, heard this, and his face showed a look of surprise, so he said in a deep voice: "Let's go, conference hall!" ”

With that, everyone followed Liu Xia to the council hall, and when they arrived in the room, everyone surrounded a map.

"An army of 30,000 is not a small number, and it will definitely not leave for no reason. What do you think of Da Zhuang? Liu Xia turned his head and asked Liu Dazhuang.

Liu Dazhuang obviously didn't expect Liu Xia to ask himself, and he couldn't understand this matter, why would the enemy army suddenly send 30,000 troops to go elsewhere? Although the enemy army is several times more than the Pingbei army in terms of numbers, even if it is divided into 30,000 horses, it is not a good thing to separate.

"General, it seems that there must be something strange at this time from the perspective of his subordinates!"

Liu Xia nodded and said coldly: "No matter what conspiracy the enemy has, it will not escape our eyes!" After passing the order, the scouts outside divided a part and stared at the 30,000 army, Ben Hou would not believe that the 30,000 army could suddenly disappear, and it was not so easy for so many people to hide. ”

"Yes, my subordinates understand!"

"Where has the Strategist gone?"

The guard next to him stepped forward and replied: "General Hui, now that the military division has arrived in Yanshi City, it is expected that he will be able to reach the Tiger Prison Pass as early as this evening, and if it is delayed, he will be able to arrive almost tomorrow morning." ”

Liu Xia sighed and said: "The enemy army suddenly divided its troops, although we don't know what they are going to do now, but we can also guess that they must have a conspiracy, so we can't have the slightest relaxation, this battle is related to our future lives, the lives of our old and young wives and children in our family, we must win!" The Qing army is not invincible and invincible! They are human too! They will also be afraid, and they will be defeated! Even if we are now outnumbered by the enemy, as long as we have high morale and the spirit of looking at death as if we were at home, we will surely win in the end. ”

"Long live the Pingbei Army! Long live the general! I don't know who shouted, but dozens of generals in the entire conference hall shouted in unison.

"Is there any news from that brigade?" Liu Xia raised his arm and waved it, signaling for his voice to come down, and then suddenly thought of something, so he asked again.

The brigade that Liu Xia said was a brigade of the personal guard regiment that was sent out to carry out special orders before, and that was many days ago, but so far Liu Xia has not seen anyone report to him about their specific situation now.

As the head of the pro-guard regiment, Wang Shishi was also very worried, after all, they were all soldiers of the pro-guard regiment, and the soldiers of each pro-guard regiment seemed to be his younger brother Wang Shishi, and Wang Shishi treated them like this.

"General Hui, for so many days, there has been no news from the scouts about them."

"Alas" Liu Xia sighed and said in a condensed voice: "They are heroic soldiers, they must not be treated badly, once they find out about their situation, they will come and report immediately!" ”

Songshan is the middle of the five mountains, and although it is not a large mountain range in the entire Chinese territory, it is not small. The peaks are like clouds, and the strange stone and strange forests are lined up one after another.

Tiger Pass is between Songshan Mountain and the Yellow River.

In a forest in a branch of Songshan Mountain, more than 60 people with tattered bodies, dirty mud and unkempt hair were sitting on the ground eating wild rabbits that had been beaten, but these wild rabbits were not cooked, but directly eaten raw. Because if you make a fire and cook, there will be smoke, which will expose your whereabouts.

Even though these people looked like beggars, they were still in good spirits, and the swords in their hands were extremely sharp.

These more than 60 people are the remaining men and horses of the 200-strong brigade, although they escaped a hundred people before, but because they did not receive timely treatment along the way, some soldiers were infected due to injuries and eventually died, and more than 60 of them were left in the end.

"Deputy team, do we have to stay in this deep mountain and old forest all the time? If that's the case, then brother I might as well go out and do it for the Qing army, even if it is better to die than to nest here! A big man said to Wang Jiang, who was sitting not far away.

Wang Jiang tightly held the [clairvoyance] (monocular) given to him by the captain in his hand, only to see that his brows had been wrinkled into Sichuan characters, and after listening to the words of the big man, he did not speak, but pondered.

Another soldier who took a bite of raw rabbit meat fiercely, wiped the blood from his mouth, and followed up and said: "Yes, deputy team, although the captain broke off the rear in order to let us survive, if we hid in this deep mountain and old forest like this, then I might as well follow the captain to die on the battlefield!" Since coming to this deep mountain and old forest, many brothers have died one after another due to aggravated injuries, and I don't want to live in this deep mountain and old forest! ”

"Yes, vice-team, let's rush out!"

"Vice, let's rush out!"

Wang Jiang still continued to think, but his other hand was also clenched into a fist, and the fingernails that had not been repaired for a long time had grown wildly, and now they were all inserted into the palm of his hand.

"Nope! We can't rush out so impulsively, if we all die in battle, then what's the point of the captain's death? ”

At this time, a soldier suddenly angrily threw a rabbit thigh in his hand to the ground, licked the blood on his mouth, and shouted angrily: "Wang Jiang, if you are greedy for life and afraid of death, stay in this deep mountain and old forest by yourself!" Lao Tzu is not afraid of death, so Lao Tzu will not accompany you to eat bird meat here! Lao Tzu is going to kill the Tartars! After that, the big man raised his head and shouted to everyone: "Brothers, come with me if you are not afraid of death, let's go and avenge the captain!" ”

"Good, good!"

"Let's go, avenge the captain, since the deputy team is so afraid of death, let's eat rabbit meat here!"

"Let's go to the East Valley to lead the horses! Walk! ”

The horses were not here, but in a ravine two miles away, and the ravine was full of grass and no woods, so it was still good to place the horses.

Wang Jiang was not angry at the words of the big man, he knew the mood of his brothers, why didn't he want to rush out and fight the enemy like that? But, but if they all die, is it worthy of the captain who died for them?

No! You can't just rush out and die senselessly, absolutely not!

"Stop! Stop for Lao Tzu! Now that the captain is gone, I will exercise the right to be a captain for the time being! Stand still! ”

Wang Jiang stood up suddenly, and then shouted at those who were about to go to the East Valley.

Wang Jiang's shouting suddenly startled everyone, and the leading man said with some mockery: "What? You, Wang Jiang, are greedy for life and afraid of death, and you still don't want us to avenge the captain? ”

Wang Jiang said coldly: "Now that the captain is not here, I am the captain, you are not allowed to go anywhere now, this is a military order!" Have you forgotten who you are? You are a member of the Pingbei Army, and you are the warriors of the loyal Guards Regiment! Military orders must be obeyed! ”

Military orders are like mountains, and for soldiers, military orders are above all else! Even if the military order tells you to go up the mountain, you can't retreat. If you tread on fire, you will not be able to escape. This is the real soldier.

Wang Jiang's words made the big man stunned, and everyone fell silent.

Wang Jiang immediately said: "I know what you guys are thinking in their hearts! Thinking about me, Wang Jiang is afraid of death, and I, Wang Jiang, am timid. But I want to tell you that I, Wang Jiang, am not afraid of death, and what I am afraid of is that death is meaningless. What did the general do when he asked us to come out? It is to let us interfere with the enemy army, if we are so brainless and brainless to confront hundreds of thousands of enemy troops head-on, then it is estimated that more than 60 of us will not be able to produce a small wave and be annihilated! What's the point of the captain's death? ”

After listening to Wang Jiang's words, everyone, including the big man, fell silent and stopped talking, and there was only Wang Jiang's voice in the entire forest.

"So, the vice-team, what do you think we should do?" A soldier asked, a little timidly.

Wang Jiang said in a deep voice: "Brothers, don't worry, I, Wang Jiang, am not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and I will not let my brothers stay in this place where birds don't and get moldy, this afternoon we ate a lot of cooked food, so we immediately moved to other places, constantly harassing the Qing army in the rear, and doing some power for the brothers in the Tiger Prison Pass, even if our little strength does not have the slightest impact on the overall situation, but at least it can slightly reduce the pressure on the brothers in the Guan." ”

"Good!" After Wang Jiang finished speaking, many brothers shouted loudly in agreement.

Wang Jiang looked at the excited soldiers, his eyes were a little dim, how many of these brothers would be alive in the end?

Alas, damn the Manchurian Tartar boar skin, it's okay to hunt and live in his own deep mountains and old forests, what are you doing in the world of our Han people? You have come out of the forest and killed my friends and relatives, you are the source of evil, even if I, Wang Jiang, cannot destroy you, sooner or later, the general will destroy you all.

As the sky got dark, Wang Jiang and his entourage of more than 60 people returned to the East Valley with more than a dozen dead rabbits, and there were more than 100 war horses from the four brothers and guards in the East Valley.

"The brothers barbecued all the rabbit meat, feasted on it tonight, and then we moved overnight!"

"Good, good! I can finally eat cooked food, and I've been a little disgusted with raw meat these days. ”

"yes, have a good meal!"

There was only a faint starlight in the night sky, and everything was so dark.

Under the Tiger Prison, tens of thousands of Qing troops were already carrying ladders and eyeing them.