"Cheer up! Stay on guard! Not a single monkey should be in range. The Rong soldiers have been ambushed, and you don't want to be eaten by the people of the Ten Directions, so look around. ”

It seemed to be endless, and the towering ancient tree slowly retreated in a tremble. The officers in the team kept reminding everyone to be vigilant. Yixin held his bow and arrows and stared at everything around him with red eyes, feeling that he was about to fall apart.

He had thought that cramming into a cabin with bighorn deer on a boat would be the hardest of all, but now he knew that the experience of riding an elephant for more than 200 kilometers in 30 hours by a forest lake was even more devastating.

Along the way, eating, drinking, and sleeping on the back of the elephant, the elephant cavalry was probably used to this kind of thing, although tired, but not embarrassed. Yixin couldn't do it, he had to tie himself to the elephant's back to avoid falling down, eating and drinking on the elephant's back, which made his clothes dirty. One elephant and two people can drive the elephant and sleep the other, but in this kind of bump, he can't sleep at all, and occasionally stops to let the elephant rest and dig the roots and peel the bark for the elephant......

Like sleeping two or three hours a day. Such weather is also suitable for long periods of time. As long as they aren't too fast, they can also eat while walking. Therefore, the elephant is not too tired. And after the five hundred elephants rode over, roads appeared in the forest where there were no roads. That's what made them go first.

Someone from behind passed the news, and they already knew about the ambush of the Rong soldiers. And what made them even more worried about being ambushed was that none of the scouts they had sent in this direction before their departure had reciprocated. Although they encountered the people of the 100-man team building the beacon fire on the way, these people also did not know what was happening in front of them.

Seeing that they were approaching their destination, everyone couldn't help but cheer up. Yixin couldn't help but stare at the direction of the direction.

At a certain moment, Yixin saw the elephant raise his nose to the right side, and he immediately drew his bow and aimed it at the forest and shouted: "Southeast direction!" ”

Dozens of bows in the front team were pulled up almost at the same time, and when they were about to shoot out, a shout came from the forest: "Don't let go of the arrows, I am a scout under the commander of the 7,000-man team Yunsheng, who led the team?" I have an important military briefing! ”

The team stopped, and the leading Ju quickly arrived at the front team. He stretched out his hand to stop everyone from firing the arrows, and also stopped the people walking into the forest, and shouted, "Since you are scouts, why didn't you report back before?" ”

"We were ambushed. I just survived, my horses died, and I was injured and couldn't get back. The voice in the forest replied.

"We don't release the arrows, you come out first."

The people of the forest got the promise and slowly walked out with a branch. This person was dressed in a camouflage suit woven with leaves and long grass, and his face was covered with mud, and after he came out, he nodded to Yixin: "I originally wanted to take the initiative to come out, but I was discovered by this brother before I could make a sound." ”

Ju recognized that the scout was wearing the scout's habitual outfit in the wild, or did he continue to communicate with him after someone came to identify him: "I am the commander of this vanguard, what information do you have to tell us?" ”

The scout said, "Our scout team has been attacked five kilometers ahead. The bodies of our brothers were left undisposed of in the forest. There are people from the Ten Directions tribe lying in ambush all around. Not far from there, they are also logging and building ships with a lot of movement. ”

The scout waved the branch in his hand and drew a few times on the ground, explaining, "There are about three to four thousand of them. There were about a thousand people lying in ambush near our brother's corpse on either side, and they left a thousand each by the river in this position. Their intention may be to paralyze us with the loggers and shipbuilders, so that we can check on the bodies of our brothers so that we can go straight inside. ”

Ju asked, "Did you figure these out alone?" ”

The scout smiled bitterly: "There are more than thirty brothers who come out, and I am the only one left, can I survive or my ten captains desperately cover up, how dare I not figure it out?" I've done my duty to figure this out by going around the forest for a day and bringing back this news to you. ”

"How's the terrain over there?" Ju didn't doubt it, and then asked.

The scout said energetically, almost finished what he knew, and he asked, leaning on crutches, "Is there a medic in the team?" ”

"Medic!" Ju saw that he was crumbling and hurriedly called the military doctor to come forward.

"I'm probably going to have to be treated." The scout tried his best to rip off his disguise, but he seemed to be overwhelmed and fell straight down.

The medic ran up to him and cut open his camouflage suit, revealing that he had wounds on his thighs and chest and abdomen, with only a little herb applied and even some bleeding.

The military doctor heard the scout's heartbeat and blood pressure, and raised his head and shouted: "Where are the volunteers with blood type O?" Blood transfusions are needed here. ”

Ju asked people to do their best to treat the scouts, and after he sent someone to report to the Hong'an camp, he summoned the accompanying centurion to discuss countermeasures.

The enemy is in front of him, as the vanguard, and in addition to opening the way, he must definitely show something. But the current situation is that the number of enemies is 4,000, and even if they are pressed by all the people on their side, they are only 1,000. Although a thousand elephants on a frontal battlefield is enough to overwhelm four thousand infantry, the dense forests greatly limit the speed of the elephants, and if the enemy has enough time to climb the trees or scatter and escape, the odds of victory are not great.

And now the distribution of the enemy clearly gives them enough time to deal with it. The enemy is now divided into three parts, and no matter which part the elephant rides to attack, it will give the other two parts enough time to react.

After discussing this, some people proposed a way to divide the troops, but it seemed that it was not advisable to combine it with a topographical analysis. Because there are hillsides where the enemy is ambushing. It is already difficult for the elephant herd to increase speed in the forest, and if it has to go uphill, the speed will be even slower, and if there are not enough at this time, they may be entangled, and if the ten people by the river arrive, the battle may be in danger.

"The king has asked us to protect our lives as much as possible in battle, but we are not afraid of death." In the end, Ju and the others were a little discouraged. The simple method of the people of the Ten Directions played a role in covering each other. It's really impossible to take them down easily. Well, let's do it. No matter what, as long as the decision is made, these 4,000 people will be driven out by their 500 elephant horsemen.

"Well, let me interject, if they have set a trap for us to pass, and we can't win in the past, why should we go over?" Yixin followed the centurion who rode with him, and listened to their deliberations throughout the process. Finally, when I saw that they were going to fight hard, I finally couldn't help but interject.

Ju waited for a few centurions to look at him unkindly: Are you afraid of death?

Yixin hurriedly explained: "Well, I mean, now that the northwest wind is so strong, and we happen to be in the upwind position, why don't we light a few fires first and force them out of the ambush terrain?" After burning these vines and thorns in the forest, it will be much easier for us to rush and kill. ”

Ju waited for the others' eyes to light up. Ju slapped Yixin on the shoulder, and said with great satisfaction: "It's a pity that your kid doesn't enter the staff." ”

Yixin thought of something, and snorted coldly: "I won't go to the staff if I die." ”