When he looked back, the soldiers who followed closely behind him were all lying on their horses with crooked armor and oblique exhaustion, and they all looked at themselves with pleading eyes, even the war horses that were originally carefully cared for by themselves were all shaking, and they were no longer as fierce as they were at the beginning.

It is really as the Chinese army said, if the persecution is tight, there will really be a situation where the morale of the army will fluctuate, and the consequences will be completely unimaginable. Thinking about today's journey, it is indeed extremely difficult, all the cavalry almost lead the horse forward, and they have to constantly repair the road to carry earth and stones, and the physical strength and spirit consumed are more than ten times that of the ordinary road, and it is indeed enough for these sergeants to bear, although there is no way to look at the slim road ahead, there is only the road of hatred; "I just waited according to your orders, went down, set up camp now, buried the pot to cook, have a good rest, and wait for tomorrow we will work harder and rush back to this delayed journey."

When the Chinese army heard this, he was overjoyed, and he saluted again and again; "On behalf of my brothers, thank you for the general's compassion, I will arrange it, please rest assured."

After the Chinese army left, the good news was promulgated to the whole army, and the whole team once again erupted in heartfelt cheers,

In fact, Li Yuanhao was already tired, he was just holding it in one breath before, and with his own order, he suddenly felt that his whole body was like a scattered shelf, and he couldn't lift half of his strength, dismounted with difficulty, and staggered to the side of the road. Chasing, killing donkeys, skinning and chopping meat, the rest of the people, even the basic patrol sentry is too lazy to send out.

It is also helpless, the original expedition, according to the convention, no matter how far or near the road, it is necessary to bring a large number of masters, at least one person must be equipped with three, those with armor, waiting for war horses, serving soldiers, real soldiers in peacetime, is to recuperate, the others are the master's labor, but this time is an exception, one is that he is too anxious, and he is bent on raiding the thieves, and he doesn't want to drag down the march with his master at all, and second, those masters are all hired and assigned by Zhang Yuan, which makes him even more unpleasant, and he resolutely refused at that time, It seems that he is still too presumptuous.

Fortunately, there was no human relationship in this barren mountain and wilderness, let alone thieves, so he didn't say more, and ordered his subordinates to make more bonfires to guard against wild beasts, and when it was dark, his own soldiers brought roasted donkey meat and a jar of wine to him, and he ate it in a sullen voice, and then he was really tired and uncomfortable, so he went to the tent that his soldiers simply set up and fell asleep.

When the soldiers saw that the general was asleep, they did not hesitate to find a leeward place and followed the sleep, and there was not a single awake person in the whole camp.

To be honest, it is indeed too tired, for the soldiers who have no enemy situation and are not accustomed to keeping vigil in person, sleeping is the best and most wanted.

But there are still sober people, but not in this great camp, but in the grass on the far mountain.

In the dense distance of the grass, several men in black lay there and carefully observed the movements of the officers and soldiers.

A squad leader of the prison sergeant squad watched carefully for a while, then retracted his body behind a ridge, tilted his head and whispered a laugh to the other people around him; "I didn't see it, these pickled goods can really stand the toss, let's rectify them like this, their marching speed is still much faster than we expected, it seems that Li Yuanhao's pro-soldiers are different in combat effectiveness and physical strength, if this were someone else, they would have been subdued by us in ten miles."

Hearing the squad leader's evaluation, the other sergeants laughed together. "Captain, why don't we put more explosives in that section of the canyon at the beginning, and just block that road? Why so much trouble. A man whispered.

The squad leader waved his hand and gently patted the head of the brother who said this, and scolded with a smile: "What do you know? We only slowed down their march, not to prevent them from advancing, but if you blocked the road, so that they would not come, would the feast that King Chuang had prepared for them not be in vain? Also, once they don't come, they will have to join up with that Zhang Yuan boy, and the 4,000 horse infantry officers and troops are on the main road, so our army can only fight with them. ”

"How about a real fight? It is not three strikes and five divided by two that destroy them. The man said confidently.

"Victory, we are certain, but how many brothers' lives will be exchanged for that, do you see how we can give up the heart of the Bodhisattva of the king? Besides, King Chuang has always advocated and demanded, not as a last resort, but not to outwit and not attack, and ruined the lives of his brothers in vain. Look at the many battles in the past, which one has achieved an unprecedented victory with just a few brothers casualties, as you said, to achieve those big victories, then now our army has already changed more than one brother. Fighting with King Chuang is a worry-free experience, so learn from it. The captain of the squad laughed and taught this new brother, too, in the battle of Yanchuan, the sergeant of the prison also suffered heavy losses, and later did not expand the army, so he had to recruit another batch of tens of thousands of people, to be honest, this newcomer is not as hungry as the tacit understanding of the original brothers.

"This brother, I can't learn it, who is King Chuang? That's the king of heaven who came down to take care of me, if I have a king, wouldn't I also be an immortal? And when he said this, his eyes were as bright as stars in the darkness.

"So, yes, listen to King Chuang. King Chuang asked us to slow down the pace of the officials and soldiers and drag down their bodies this time, but we still have to do it seamlessly so as not to scare away these pickled things, which is very difficult and scaled. ”

"Squad leader, if it's not difficult, then why do you leave this matter to our sergeant? Captain Zhao Xing is right, since he is an elite, he has to take the most difficult task and do what others can't do, so he deserves the title of our sergeant. As soon as the newcomer mentioned that Zhou Ji had been selected as a sergeant, his face was full of pride.

"Okay, everyone should be like the captain said, this is what the elite should do."

Looking at the lifeless official and military camp. One of the prison sergeants whispered; "Captain, you said we just let these dogs sleep peacefully, but we can't give him the wind? They don't give military salaries either, isn't it too *** to take advantage of us? There was a sour feeling in his tone.

The squad leader quietly kicked the sergeant and scolded in a whisper; "Don't play with me, if you have something to say, let it go, but you have to be quiet, don't *** alarm these bastards."

The sergeant laughed and whispered; "I'm just unhappy in my heart, why do they sleep like pigs, but we are freezing here, so ah, I want to spoil them, let them stay with us until dawn, or they are all people, wouldn't it be fair?"

"It's a bit difficult to let them sleep peacefully, it's in our plan of action, but now we have to think of a way to not only not want them to sleep, but also to be able to not let them know it's artificial, but it's a bit difficult, once they see that it's artificial, then don't scare them away? Let's think about what to do."

For a while, everyone became silent, and they all used their brains to think of a way, and there were only bursts of wolf howls and tiger howls in the entire silent mountains, mixed with the mournful cries of pheasants.

"It would be nice if it were summer." A sergeant couldn't hold back and muttered quietly; "Wouldn't it be fun to let some snakes and rats make trouble with them, but unfortunately, there is no way to do it in this winter."

"Don't speak, have you forgotten discipline?" The squad leader scolded in a low voice, and the sergeant stuck out his tongue in the dark, hugged his arms and leaned under the ridge to continue to think of a way.

But after a while, another sergeant couldn't stand the loneliness and complained in a whisper; "He's ***, everyone is sleeping by the fire, but we are thinking in this ice and snow, it's really fucking unwilling."

"What did you just say?" The squad leader asked suddenly. The sergeant thought that the squad leader was annoyed, so he hurriedly curled his neck and was silent. The squad leader was anxious and asked again; "Boy, what did you just say? Say it again. ”

Seeing the urgency of the squad leader's question, the sergeant didn't dare to hide anymore, and whispered: "Just now I said that everyone is sleeping by the fire, but we are thinking in this ice and snow, which is really fucking unwilling." ”

"Hah, I've got a way." The squad leader slapped his thigh and almost jumped up excitedly, suddenly remembering that he was not far from the enemy camp, and this time he was shocked and alarmed the enemy is not a joke, nervously poked his head out to observe the enemy camp, and confirmed that he did not attract the attention of the enemy, then patted his chest and retracted his head with a sigh, in fact, they were far away from the enemy camp, even if they spoke normally, they might not be able to alarm the officers and soldiers.

Seeing the team leader shrink back, everyone immediately gathered over and asked in a low voice; "What did the captain come up with? Let's talk about it. ”

"How about we launch a fire attack, how about we come to him and burn the company camp?"

"Well, great, if you don't burn these bastards, you can make them sleep badly." As he spoke, a sergeant of the prison drew his bow and began to look for something.

"What are you doing?" The team leader held him down and said urgently.

"What are you doing, find something that ignites a fire and make a rocket and set it on fire." The eyes were full of inexplicable looks, since half of the fire joint venture was set, and he didn't look for the rocket firewood and grass that ignited the fire, what else could he do?

"Are you crazy or stupid? You set fire to a rocket, doesn't that tell the enemy that we are nearby? In that case, why don't all those boys retract? Can you afford to ruin the king's plan? ”

The sergeant was stunned for a moment, knowing that he was reckless, and put down the bow and arrow in his hand stupidly, but also raised a question: "Squad leader, if we don't want bows and arrows, we can't climb over and set fire, so how can we set fire?" ”

This is a problem, not only to set fires, but also to see the clues in hindsight, which is really difficult.