Chapter 435: Pack Lightly
In this era of tigers and leopards, in such an uninhabited valley, breaking away from the brigade is equivalent to death, so Lu Shi encouraged and cheered back and forth, and from time to time gave his horse to the brothers who fell behind.
The brothers were not polite, they lay down on their horses to rest for a while, and when their strength had just recovered, they immediately dismounted and marched into the ranks of the army, and the horses were replaced by new people.
While they were desperately hurrying, Lu Shi and Chen Che both silently prayed that it would get darker again, so that Zhang Yuan would withdraw his troops and stop the battle, which would leave Cao Meng time to breathe.
When he was praying anxiously, the supervisor sergeant in front of him carried another supervisor sergeant on Cao Meng's side, and he reported that Zhang Yuan did not withdraw his troops when it was dark, but launched an attack on the city overnight.
This bad news simply made Lu Shi and Chen Che crazy. Glancing at each other and gritting his teeth, Lu Shi climbed onto a big stone and shouted loudly to the team that hurried forward like a fire dragon: "Brothers, tell you a bad news, Ganquan battlefield, our Cao Meng brothers, with only five hundred people, resisted Zhang Yuan's eight thousand township brave soldiers to fight to the death, this is nearly twenty times the enemy, now the enemy did not withdraw according to the regular dark army, but more ferocious overnight siege, now our fortress is in danger, we must step up the march to support our brothers, What is our slogan? β
"Don't leave, never give up, fight to the death." Everyone shouted with their last breath, and the voice was amplified and transmitted back and forth in the dark valley.
"Okay, for the sake of our brothers, for the sake of our perseverance, I need you to travel lightly again, and run forward, now, the women's army is out of the line, go to the back to collect the things that everyone has discarded."
Pack light again? There was nothing left on him except a gun. But a blood-pumping scene appeared in front of people's eyes, Lu Shi and Chen stood in front of the team, unbuttoned their shirts without saying a word, took off the heavy cotton jacket that had been soaked with sweat inside, and threw it on the side of the road without hesitation, and then ran forward in a single coat.
No one agitated, and no one was needed, all the people were panting and unbuttoning their shirts like bellows while running, taking off their sweat-soaked cotton jackets, and discarding them on the side of the road without hesitation, and then let go of their footsteps and strode with Lu Shi to run.
The mountain road is rugged, it is no longer an obstacle for the brothers, the urgent task, so that all the soldiers are as agile as the cheetahs in the mountains, desperately jumping over the trenches and boulders, no one is bothering to cut the thorns, no one looks at the cliffs around them, just desperately running, someone fell behind, just walking slowly on the side of the road to recover his strength, and then running, a warrior really can't run, there is a strong brother, like the usual training to set him up, but the man struggled to shake off the hands of his companions, The voice pleaded weakly: "Leave me alone, you run, the front is where you are most needed." Then he plunged headlong to the side of the road and said no more.
No one bothered to take a second look, and hurried past him. The torch was extinguished, he was thrown away, and he looked at the back of the brother in front of him, and occasionally there were one or two dull voices sounding under the cliff, it was the brother who fell, there was no wailing and screaming, it was gritting his teeth and insisting that he didn't want his voice to affect the brothers' fighting spirit.
Run, run, run to the battlefield is victory.
When Lu Shi ran out of the mountains with the army desperately and stepped on the plain with two feet, the already exhausted soldiers involuntarily burst into cheers.
Stepping on the flat ground, that is, only twenty miles away from Ganquan, the guide who was lying on the top of Lu Shi's war horse said with relief: "King Chuang, the road below is all a horse and a flat river, and there are still twenty miles to go, and the little old man has done his best." After that, he fell headlong and fell unconscious.
Lu Shi hurriedly called a warrior over, ordered him to hurry up and treat him, and flew on the horse himself, after all, the war horse was not as strong as the white horse that was snatched away by Da Lang, and his body shook a little, but he stood tenaciously and stood firmly, Lu Shi sat firmly on the horse, pretending to be casual, and shouted loudly and hoarsely to the brothers who kept shaking and gritting their teeth in front of him and insisted on marching: "Brothers, we have been racing against death all night, and now, we have run through the most dangerous section, and there is a smooth road in front of us, and there are still twenty miles, What is that twenty miles? For us, it is just a small program of morning training, but these twenty miles are not our giggling and laughing after running to eat, but in front of the twenty miles, there is a group of our most dear brothers who are fighting bloodily, in need of our immediate support, and a tragic battle is waiting for us, I know that we run these twenty miles, maybe we don't even have the strength to hold the gun, but I believe that we still have teeth to use, we still have flesh and blood to resist the knife and gun for our brother, So we must grit our teeth and persevere until we join our brotherhood. Answer me, can you? β
No one answered, if you have the strength to answer, let's use it to run, everyone uses actions to answer Lu Shi's question, everyone stares at blood-red eyes, dragging their tired bodies, but their steps are firmer and faster than before.
"Reportβ" In the distance, another sergeant of the prison galloped on a war horse, and the sergeant of the warlord shouted from afar: "Where is King Chuang, take me to King Chuang." β
Lu Shi's heart chuckled, his heart was broken, could it be that he was desperately on the way, but he couldn't catch up with the last battle of the Cao Meng brothers? Suddenly remembered that the Black Tiger Star should have arrived at the battlefield many times earlier than himself, could it be that the enemy was really so strong that even the cavalry of the six hundred Black Tiger Star could not change the situation of the battlefield? But no matter how he was in his heart, he still pretended to be calm and waited for the sergeant to come and report, but Lu Shi obviously felt that the soldiers around him gritted their teeth and raised their steps to the limit.
The sergeant seemed to feel the acceleration of the brothers' footsteps, and also saw that the brothers' insistence was already at the end of the crossbow, and he didn't wait to report to Lu Shi at the moment, and shouted on his own: "Great victory, great victory in Ganquan, Chief Cao resisted 7,000 enemy troops with 500 brothers, and won a great victory this morning." β
The team did not stop, and all the brothers did not stop, they still persisted so tenaciously, trying their last strength to run towards Ganquan and the battlefield machinery that needed their own reinforcements.
The sergeant was taken aback when he saw this, he already felt that the brothers were just instinctively running mechanically with the will of their lives, one turned over and dismounted, stopped a brother who was running with his head down, and shouted loudly into his ear: "Great victory, great victory in Ganquan, Chief Cao has five hundred brothers to resist seven thousand enemy troops, and this morning is a great victory." Did you hear that? Don't run anymore, the battle is over. Who would have thought that the brother pushed him away and still struggled forward.
The sergeant was frightened, and cried and shouted: "King Chuang, where is King Chuang, tell my brother quickly, it is really a great victory, what a great victory, let the brothers stop running, this is going to run the dead." β
At this time, Lu Shicai reversed his taste, and called the prison sergeant brother who was rolling and crawling in disbelief. Keep your eyes on the sergeant and ask aloud, "What did you say?" Great victory, Ganquan great victory, Mr. Cao's great victory this morning? Is it true? You must know that lying about the military is a sin of killing the head. β
"This is true, it was the Grand Commander who asked me to inform King Chuang, don't let everyone run anymore, King Chuang, you see that the current brothers are running unconscious, they are just supporting in one breath, let everyone stop." The sergeant replied to Lu Shi while struggling to hug a brother who was walking with his head down, and the brother and he were both turned into rolling gourds, but the brother was stubbornly struggling to crawl in the direction of Ganquan.
Lu Shi felt a whirlwind of the sky, victory? Five hundred against seven thousand, is it really a victory?
Chen Che beside him also muttered as if in a dream, "It's really a victory, my sergeant will never dare to lie about the military situation." β
Lu Shi suddenly stretched out his hands to the sky, and shouted hoarsely: "Brothers, rest, let's not rush to the battlefield, we are really victorious, five hundred against seven thousand, we are really victorious." As he spoke, he was already choked up and burst into tears.
The team stopped all at once, as if the picture was frozen, there were no cheers, no hugs, and just like that, all the soldiers suddenly fell, neatly and neatly.
Yes, I ran seventy miles in a straight line overnight, but it was hundreds of miles up and down the mountain, how incredible is this, and what kind of spirit is this support? What kind of strong army is this? What kind of will?
Looking at the brothers who were lying on the ground, Lu Shi and Chen Che did not have any ease, if they were not taken care of immediately, there would only be a few hundred people who could stand up in a while, that is, their team would be greatly injured without a fight.
But no one in the whole team stood except for himself and the crumbling Chen Che, how can this be good? Could it be that he let his brother just watch him fall asleep in this icy and snowy place, wearing a single coat, and never wake up again?
When Lu Shi was shouting, ordering, and praying for the brothers who had fallen asleep to get up quickly, but he helped this one up and fell down that one, just went to help that one, this one fell down again, and when Lu Shichen Che and a few brothers who were still awake were at a loss, in a village not far from the road, a few peasants came over with a hoe and stick in their hands, and came forward to observe for a while with trepidation, and then a bold old man cautiously came behind Lu Shi, who looked quite kind, and asked carefully: " Dare to ask this king, is this team a righteous master? β
Lu Shi didn't react, but his instinctive habit was still modest: "This old man, we are the team of the army. But immediately, like grasping a big life-saving straw, he grabbed the old man and said eagerly: "Please ask the old man to help save my brother, my brother is out of strength, just a bowl of hot water, please." β
"Breaking into the army?" Your old man was stunned, he hadn't heard of it, but a young man next to him was overjoyed and said: "Dad, the team of the king is the team of the king, let me say, I saw the clothing of this team from a distance, and only the clothing of the team is black." β
When the old man heard this, he jumped three feet and shouted to the man, "What are you doing in a daze?" Why don't you do it to treat our team's righteous teacher? β