"Platoon commander, there seems to be someone over there!" Li Jie, who was walking in the front, suddenly shouted.

A few hundred meters away, on top of a meadow, two men in Red Army uniforms sat on it, leaning against each other.

"Come and have a look!" Li Hao's worst fears still happened, and he shouted anxiously.

When they rushed there panting, Li Jie and Hong Linfeng were checking on them, and the expressions that were still excited just now had been replaced by solemnity, and they replied with a long sigh: "Platoon commander, they sacrificed!" ”

"I didn't find any food on them, and their clothes were so thin, I guess they either starved to death or froze to death!"

Li Hao's face sank suddenly, and he ordered with a serious face: "We can't let our comrades sacrifice and still be here in the wind and rain, exposing the corpses in the wilderness. A few more people buried them and marked them! ”

"Yes, platoon commander!"

Seeing several subordinates burying the bodies of the two sacrificed soldiers in the meadow, Li Hao, who should have been relieved, turned his face more and more solemn.

Then he suddenly commanded, "Next, we have to speed up!" ”

Hong Linfeng looked puzzled, frowned and reminded: "Platoon commander, the speed is already very fast now, if it is faster, I am worried that some recruits will not be able to keep up!" ”

"This is a grassland, full of quagmire, if you go too fast, you will fall into the quagmire if you are not careful, and someone will die!"

Li Hao insisted on answering: "It's not that I want to be fast, I want to save more Red Army soldiers like this who have fallen behind!" ”

"There were casualties among the main forces in the grassland, and they didn't even have time to bury the bodies of the sacrificed soldiers, it is certain that the situation of the main force is worse than we imagined, and we will definitely encounter more and more soldiers who fall behind for various reasons!"

"We have food and medicine in our hands, and as long as they still have a breath, we can revive them, and the Red Army will sacrifice one less soldier!"

"As for your worries, it's not a problem at all!"

"Have the recruits strap their guns to their horses and march lightly. If you can't walk, drag the mule and horse by the tail! ”

"As for the quagmire in the middle of the meadow, the road that tens of thousands of people in front of you must be safe, the main force has just passed, and the footprints left along the way are still there, follow the footprints left by them, it will definitely be no problem!"

Li Hao was very glad that until it was dark and camped, they did not find a single corpse of the Red Army exposed in the wilderness.

After the start of the march on the third day, things were not right.

From time to time, a mound pops up on the large and small meadows along the way, and the further you go, the more there are.

Everyone knows that one or more Red Army corpses are buried under each grave.

As they walked, everyone's faces became heavier and heavier, and finally everyone hurried forward with their heads down and didn't say a word.

When the oppressive atmosphere made people almost out of breath, Li Jie suddenly shouted.

"There's someone in front, go over and see if you're still alive!"

"Alive, platoon commander, they're alive!" Li Jie was the first to rush over and shouted excitedly.

"They're ready to eat, they haven't eaten for a long time, if you want to eat, it's better to be thin!"

Li Hao hurriedly ordered: "Quickly set up the pot, boil some barley batter for them to eat, and add some salt and dried meat to it!" ”

More than an hour later, the two men who had passed out from hunger slowly woke up.

After a few bites of the steaming batter, a hint of rosy finally appeared on his pale face.

"Comrade, who are you?" Li Hao hurriedly asked.

"We are from the Third Legion, and we are in charge of the Queen's Palace...... When I woke up in the morning, I found that the main forces were gone, and then I fell behind and ran out of food! One of the warriors regained some strength and whispered.

"Finally caught up with the main force!" Li Hao exclaimed excitedly.

"Hello comrades, we are from the Fifth Legion, we fell behind more than a month ago, I took everyone to chase the main force all the way, and it has been more than a month, and we have been chasing here, and we finally caught up!"

Then he added: "We have food, you have a good rest, and follow us later." Wait until you catch up with the main force and then return to the team! ”

When the troops set up camp that night, they took in four more stragglers.

The wounds of the two fighters were inflamed, coupled with a high fever from the rain, and in order not to affect the main force, they took the initiative to choose to leave the team.

When Li Hao met them, he had already begun to talk nonsense and was unconscious.

Fortunately, along the way, Li Hao used the identity of the smuggling team to buy and reserve a lot of medicines with Dayang and Dayan, and after drinking the medicine and eating some batter, the two of them slowly regained their consciousness.

The other two people were directly starved and fainted on the meadow, if they hadn't been touched by Li Hao, they would have died here in one night at most.

Seeing the six people slowly recovering their mental and physical strength while drinking steaming batter, Li Hao's solemn face rarely showed a smile.

He felt that it was worth it to travel for so long, even at a loss to buy so much grain to bring into the grassland.

On the third day of entering the steppe, he had already saved the lives of six Red Army soldiers. Continuing to walk, Li Hao was sure that he would save more Red Army soldiers.

"Platoon commander, there's a problem!" Hong Linfeng suddenly walked over, with a solemn face!

"Questions? What a problem! Li Hao was in a very good mood now, and immediately asked.

Hong Linfeng frowned and replied: "We walked more than 40 kilometers on the first day of entering the grassland, and the second day was also, but today because of a lot of delay on the way to save people, we only walked more than 30 kilometers in total. Tomorrow with them on the march, they are weak, and there are two comrades in it who can't walk too far because of fever, I estimate that it would be good to be able to walk more than 20 kilometers! ”

"At this pace of marching, we will have to walk at least two days longer than expected before we can get out of the grassland!"

"This is still the best situation, if we contain more and more soldiers in the future, there must be many of them who can't walk, or even can't march, then the marching speed will be slow!"

The smile on Li Hao's face disappeared, and his brows were twisted.

What he was worried about was not the speed of the march, the troops had stored a sufficient amount of food and supplies before entering the grassland, even if everyone walked on this grassland for another half a month, they would not go hungry.

But the Red Army soldiers who had fallen behind and were struggling with hunger and illness could not afford to wait.

If you delay one more day on the road and meet them one day later, you may be separated forever!

frowned and replied: "Slow down, slow down, anyway, the food and supplies we brought are enough to support us!" ”

"What I'm most worried about now is the Red Army that has fallen behind in front, they can't afford to wait!"

"In this way, after dawn tomorrow, we will divide our troops and advance, Hong Linfeng, you and Chen Bing, two veterans, will stay, plus three new soldiers, who are responsible for all the mules and horses and the soldiers who have fallen behind, and slowly advance behind. I took the rest of the men and a mule and a horse, and marched ahead with food and medicine, and when I found the stragglers alive, I left some food and a soldier to take care of them, and waited for you to meet them! ”

"After dark, we continued to search for the fighters who were still alive, and tried to find all the fighters who had fallen behind within 100 kilometers in two days. Then wait for you to converge. ”

"If we go any further, we will almost leave the grassland, and the main force will definitely send people back to the grassland to search, so we won't go!"

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