Chapter 193: Open Path Forest
Five thousand soldiers, 10,000 hydras, and eight banners of heavenly wolves, led by seven thousand holy elephants and eight banners, shuttled through the primeval jungle under the leadership of the two new leading party members with red flags.
The road surface is quite smooth, but the trees are thick, and the big trees that can only be hugged by a few people can be seen everywhere, the branches and leaves on the top are shading, and the bottom is full of ferns, shrubs, mosses, etc., and the shade-loving plants, the roots of the big trees are "exposed" from the surface, like huge snakes, coiled with each other, criss-crossed.
The smooth road surface is not like the Central Plains, where you can run horses and drive casually.
The "Cheetah" scout camp, a jungle scout camp dominated by hydra and eight banners, with a very small number of occupant scouts, spread out on a fifty-mile guard, cleaning up the traps left by the hunters to prevent a raid.
Gou Yu and Yu Luo rode their war elephants, and the two horses took the lead, so that the two big jungle overlords used their bodies and soles of their feet to open up a path like two ribbons that intersected and merged from time to time.
The newly opened road was so narrow that it could only be walked by one person, so that the army of 23,000 was drawn into two long dragons that did not meet each other, separated by miles from each other.
In addition to Gou Yu and a small number of red flag and blue flag soldiers under Yu Luo, the rest are all white flags under Cao Ying, and the three teams are mixed together, with Cao Ying as the vanguard.
Five thousand regular soldiers guarded the head and tail, the hydra, the holy elephant, the wolf, and the three Eight Banners army were in the center and mixed together.
The hydra and the wolf took turns to cut down branches and weeds with knives and axes to widen the road, and the people of the Eight Banners of the Holy Elephant brought hoes, drafts, shovels, baskets and other tools to dig and move stones and pave the road.
Except for a small number of Sacred Elephant Eight Banners in the vanguard and scouts, the remaining more than 6,000 Sacred Elephant Banner soldiers have all done the physical work of clearing the wasteland and paving the road, and then carrying weapons, it will be too much of a hindrance, therefore, except for the military attachés in command, the weapons of the Sacred Elephant Banner soldiers are temporarily handed over to the regular soldiers who are recuperating and preparing for battle at any time.
In addition to the two soldiers and dragons, the Orion Born, the agile Howling Sky Army, one person led several military dogs, with Wushi as a unit, shuttled through the jungle on both sides of the road, in the name of preventing snakes, scorpions, poisonous insects, etc.
But the soldiers of the Howling Sky Army, who were leading a head with a Halazi military dog, paid attention to the eyes of the Holy Elephant Banner Soldiers from time to time, making these people who were working hard seem to be more terrifying than the most vicious snakes.
After the Eight Banners who paved the way was the position of the commander of the Chinese army.
In front of them were more than 10,000 short men who were seven feet, six feet, or even more than five feet tall, so that the Chinese army of 200 rode tall horses, and the tigers and leopards who were more than eight feet tall looked particularly majestic and tall.
Together with a battalion of 500 soldiers beside him, the guards who were seven feet tall and above all looked extremely powerful.
Among the Chinese army, there is a place where tigers and leopards are righteous in front and behind, and in the forest where there is no road on the left and right, the "Cheetah" scouts, the Howling Sky Army, and the most loyal scouts of Hydra.
Under the protection of the "Cheetah" in command of Zero, the commander of the Xiaotian Army Xie Lang, the most loyal general of the Shu Han Dynasty in the history of Hydra, Liao Hua, three masters and a group of elites.
It was the location of Cao's 'sex', and Huangfu Tan followed behind him, and on the side was the remaining one of the leading party.
"Bu Yun, you ask this new flag soldier, how far is this place from his own cottage!"
Cao 'sex', who was riding on a jujube red horse, said to Bu Yun, who was riding a grassland horse beside him.
"No!"
Buyun received the order, stammered to the leading party on the side, and kept gesturing with his hands, and the leading party looked at him with a blank face.
Cao "sex" shook his head when he saw it, he was in Ninan, you can't speak Chinese well, you can't speak Yue well, and you can't speak Zhanren well, only the dialect of Xijuan City is fluent, and I don't know how to say it.
Forget it, although he has a good background in the army and is a squire by his side, the first two have become them, and it is normal for the third one to fail to temper it in the end, how can everything be successful!
After a while, the leading party understood, and then learned Buyun's sign language, plus the standard version of Zhanren's language, and repeated it several times.
Buyun was sweating profusely, and finally understood.
He wiped the sweat from his forehead and bowed: "Back to the lord, he said that there is still half of the cottage here, and we have traveled!" ”
If there is no pressure, there is no motivation.
"Hmm!" Cao "sex" continued to look at Buyun with faint eyes: "Practice your language skills!" ”
Cao's blunt words were like an iron hammer hammer hammered on Buyun's chest, only to feel that the whole person was out of breath, and he bit his lip tightly: "No! ”
"Let's go down!" With a wave of his hand, Buyun walked away obediently, riding his horse dozens of steps behind, waiting to be summoned again.
"Lord, will this be too harsh on him?" Huangfu Tan, who replaced Jiang Wan on the side and acted as the mastermind, spoke.
Huangfu Tan is not as good as Buyun, he has already become a talent, and he no longer needs to be tempered.
"Senior brother, you have to use force to strike iron!" Cao Xing looked back at him who followed his horse, and put on an affectionate smile: "Although it took nearly four hours to get here from Xinzhai to here, the road is about twenty miles, half of it, that is, six or seven miles, and it is expected that there will be another hour to reach the cottage where these three people are." ”
From the primeval forest to open the way, an hour to walk six or seven miles, this is in Cao "sex" expected, but I did not expect that this day in the southern forests, active unnaturalized people are not a few, listen to Gou Yu's translation, this place is a hundred miles, more than 1,000 households of Dazhai has one, but also the main goal of this time.
There are more than 20 small and medium-sized villages with dozens or more than 100 households, and one of them is the current target.
You said that you have a village with a population of 200 households, plus a large cottage, a radius of 100 miles is nearly 10,000 people, and a county is only a radius of 100 miles, so calculated, the distribution density of people is not particularly small.
But these nearly 10,000 people living in the primeval forest don't even have a road, and they don't know how they usually get traffic.
"Yes! With such a flat ground, I didn't expect to change to a forest, it was so difficult to walk, and it was several times more difficult than the rugged mountain roads in our Guanzhong! Just this baggage? ”
Huangfu Tan was born in the north of Guanzhong Qindi, there are many mountains in the north, but the rainfall in the northwest is very small, and the Qin and Han dynasties set the capital here, so that the trees are seriously cut down, so it is mostly a bare and barren mountain with rock "exposed".
"Haha!"
Cao "sex" hid the depression in his heart, and looked up to the sky and laughed heroically:
"Senior brother, this time we used thousands of livestock, more than 1,000 horses, either grassland horses or this Jiangnan dwarf horse, these two kinds of horses, other places are not as good as Xiliang high-headed horses, Jiangnan dwarf horses are only a little tall, but hard-working, but no horse breed can compare!"