Xue Shao asked Du Zheng to gather all the remnants of the army and escort these people back to the state. More than ninety percent of them looked like savages, more than half of them were wounded, and many of them were seriously injured. It seems that these people don't want to escape, but they really can't escape before they nest in this mountain forest.

Food and medicine have become a big problem!

Xue Shao's jungle life skills played a huge role, he took some sturdy remnants of soldiers and people, in the woods to hunt wild beasts, mushrooms, wild vegetables, dig a lot of herbs to heal people's injuries and diseases. Although it could not completely cure them, it could alleviate their temporary pain.

More importantly, Xue Shao gave them the confidence to live, clear their names, return to the barracks and live a normal life!

People are in a desperate situation, and they can only be supported by a spirit and perseverance.

After sunset, the mountains and forests were dark and cold. I vaguely heard the cry of a wild wolf in the distance. Someone wanted to start a fire, and Xue Shao asked them to extinguish it.

Attract wild wolves, but they are not afraid; Attracting Turkic soldiers, that's really miserable!

Of the two hundred remnants, there were about thirty or forty who could barely come in handy, Xue Shao organized them into three fires, selected the fire commander to take the lead, and divided them into three shifts to guard against them at night.

Late at night, Xue Shao called Niu Ben to a secret place.

"You ride on your horse at night and hurry to Bingzhou, and hand over this letter to Li Duozuo in person!" Xue Shao put a written letter into a bamboo tube and sealed it with mud and handed it to Niu Ben.

"I'm leaving, what are you going to do?" Niu Ben was anxious, "These people obey you on the surface, but they may not be sincere!" If there is a mess, won't it be over? ”

"If it's really messed up, you won't be much of a difference here." Xue Shao whispered in his ear, "Run the official road at night, the sooner the better!" Be sure to meet Li Duozuo as soon as possible, and ask him to send someone to pick us up! There were three or four hundred civilians, and two hundred remnants. More than six or seven hundred lives, many of which are injured and in urgent need of treatment, cannot be delayed for a moment! ”

"Why don't you deliver a letter and I'll take these people away?" Niu Ben said urgently.

"Fart!" Xue Shao said angrily, "As soon as I leave, these remnants may rebel at any time, can you suppress it?" ”

"I have a big Mo knife!"

"Uncle Mo!" Xue Shao was even more annoyed, raised his hand and slapped him on the head, "Don't talk nonsense, hurry up!" My life and that of these six or seven hundred people are all on you! ”

"......" Niu Ben was stunned for a moment, "White-faced, you must hold on, wait for me to come back with troops to pick you up!" ”

Xue Shao nodded, "I will take people to that village to settle down for a while, there are some crops and houses left by the villagers." If you bring someone to me, you will go to that village in a group! ”

Niu Ben suddenly hugged Xue Shao tightly with a bear hug, and cried in a muffled voice, "White-faced, you can't die!" ”

"Sa...... Hand! You stupid bear, let go, you're strangling me! ”

When it was dawn, Xue Shao gathered his men and horses, sent a fire man to cut down the road with a saber, and then lifted the wounded to escort the people and march forward in the rugged dense forest.

Du Zheng brought a few people to question Xue Shao, what about your stupid big entourage?

Xue Shao said: "I asked him to ride a horse overnight and run the official road to deliver a letter to Li Duozuo. Let him send troops to pick us up as soon as possible! ”

"Why don't you let us know?" Du Zheng said, "Could it be that General Xue has other intentions in secret?" ”

Xue Shao sighed, "If I really had other intentions, I rode away with him last night, and I will stay here and suffer with you?" ”

In a word, Du Zheng and others were speechless.

Xue Shao continued: "I know that if I send someone to deliver the letter on horseback, there will be a big chaos among the people. Besides, Li Duozuo only knows me and Niu Ben and doesn't know you, so it's a question whether you can see Li Duozuo when you go. So, I privately advocated sending Niu Ben to take the first step, and galloped overnight to deliver the letter—are there any questions? ”

"No more!" Du Zheng and the others clasped their fists at Xue Shao and bowed, "I'm waiting for the abruptness, the general forgives the sin!" ”

"It's also good to have something to say. I don't want any more suspicion and estrangement between us. Xue Shao said, "Let's go, everyone must take care of the wounded and protect the people." The more critical the moment, the more we must not forget the sacred vocation of our Datang guards! ”

"Yes......" Du Zheng and the others replied a little weakly.

Xue Shao sighed secretly in his heart, in a desperate situation, there is only the desire to survive in the normal reaction of people. It is difficult to arouse their men's blood and patriotic fervor again!

Such a group of remnants of the defeated generals and fleeing people, Xue Shao did not dare to take them on the official road. Daizhou has fallen, and the Turkic soldiers may appear near here at any time, and it would be a tragedy for the entire regiment to be wiped out if they encountered the Turkic soldiers on the official road.

A group of people can only make a difficult trek through the primeval forest. After walking for a long time, Xue Shao understood that those people didn't wear armor anymore, which was definitely a huge burden.

Xue Shao did not hesitate to abandon this pair of mountain iron armor that had only been worn for two days, and only wore a hood.

The day came down into the evening, and twelve people died.

Eight seriously wounded and sick people died, one citizen ate poisonous mushrooms without permission and died, and three other pathfinder guards fell to their death, one was bitten to death by poisonous snakes, and the other was dragged away by several wild wolves.

Everyone's physical strength is not much left, and a strong sense of crisis and depression is always hanging over everyone's hearts. A few men even got into a fight because of a quarrel, which was like a life-and-death fight like killing their father and enemy. Xue Shao led several people to pull them away, but they were not lightly injured.

In such a state of existence, human nature is very easily distorted.

Food is a big problem, and Xue Shao's only horse has become the object of everyone's saliva coveting.

That night, Xue Shao ordered someone to overturn and kill the war horse, and the bones were boiled into soup and horse meat for food, and in an instant, there was no scum left and it was eaten up by hundreds of people.

Xue Shao focused on taking care of some sick people and the old and weak women and children, and Du Zheng had a lot of opinions, saying that at this time, we should try to ensure the physical strength of the young and strong, and we should no longer distribute precious food to those who are "useless".

Xue Shao didn't refute, but insisted on doing so. He knew that what Du Zheng said was not unreasonable. But if he did what he said, why didn't he ride a war horse and run away with Niu Ben?

Since you have chosen to stay, you want to save the lives of these people as much as possible!

"Swear to defend it!"

The hideous and distorted face and hoarse and sonorous words of the three knives seemed to echo in Xue Shao's mind all the time.

The group went around a big circle to avoid the Turkic soldiers, and trekked hard for seven days and seven nights in the primeval forest where there was no daylight, but they did not get lost. With his outstanding jungle survival skills, Xue Shao led this group of remnants of defeated soldiers and fleeing people out of this murderous primeval forest.

People are dying every day, and it's a massive increase every day. At the beginning, there were more than six or seven hundred, and now there are less than five hundred. Along the way, many corpses were left behind, and some corpses were left and buried directly in the belly of the beast.

Including Xue Shao, none of the living people looked like a human form, and all of them looked like wild people in the primeval forest. In the past few days, everyone has undoubtedly been wandering between life and death. If it weren't for Xue Shao's many such experiences in his previous life, and he had also refined his physique very well before, I am afraid that he would have died a long time ago.

"There is a village there!" Xue Shao pointed to the village in front of him, "We fought there before, killed a group of Turkic soldiers, and evacuated the people there. Although it has become a deserted village, there are crops and houses. And I made an agreement with Niu Ben to wait for reinforcements there! ”

"Oh-" The people who had already been exhausted let out a cheer.

In the few days when the light of day was not seen in the big forest, everyone thought that they would not survive. Now that they have the best hope of survival, many people cry with joy.

"General Xue, the life-saving benefactor is worshiped by us!" Whether it was the sergeants or the people, they all knelt down for Xue Shao.

"Please, please!" Xue Shao said, "Although you can stay there temporarily, there are also some dangers. Maybe the Turkic rangers will touch it again. Therefore, we must hurry up and go into the village as soon as possible, find as much food, water, and warm clothes and quilts as possible, and still hide in the mountains and forests behind the village, waiting for reinforcements to arrive! ”

"Obey General Xue's orders!"

Now, no one questions Xue Shao's words anymore.

Xue Shao personally took three or four slightly stronger people and quietly entered the village along the route of the initial lurking reconnaissance.

When I went inside, I saw that the place had already been occupied, there were no less than 300 people with weapons and horses, digging earth for stoves and cutting trees for firewood, crops had been harvested in advance, and all the food and wine that the villagers had hidden in the cellars had not had time to take away had been dug up. There are also people who are cooking meat and drinking too much.

Xue Shao's heart sank, there was no armor and banners of the Tang Army, not they were the regular army of the Tang Dynasty brought by Niu Ben!

"Looks like this is a bunch of bandits, right?" A person next to him whispered.

Xue Shao asked them to hide carefully here, and he quietly touched the side of the house where the Turkic leader had been assassinated, and touched it along the foot of the house. Hiding in the dark and observing for a while, Xue Shao judged that these people, like Du Zheng and others, were defeated and fleeing soldiers!

Xue Shao thought to himself, the city fell and the battle was lost, not only were these people not in a hurry to return to the barracks, but they also did not help the people in danger and protect the people, and they also drank wine and ate meat here without fear, I am afraid that this is really a "soldier bandit".

Although it is not possible to make a conclusion for a while, Xue Shao believes that as long as there is this risk, you can't take risks rashly!

So he quietly retreated, and called everyone back the way they came.

"General Xue, since it's the Tang Army, why don't we recognize it and gather troops together?" Du Zheng and others said, "They have soldiers, horses and food, and they can help us escort the people to the south!" ”

"It doesn't have to be that simple." Xue Shao told him about his concerns.

When everyone heard this, they were immediately disheartened, "What should I do?" ”

At this moment, a woman next to her cried out loudly, "Daddy! ”

Everyone ran over to see that an old man in his sixties had already been hungry and had just swallowed his breath.

It is almost a miracle that the old man has survived until now. Hearing that the village could not accept people, the old man's last breath of anger dispersed, and he couldn't hold on.

Xue Shao looked at the group of people around him who were dying and almost collapsed, and gritted his teeth, "I'll go into the village and give it a try!" ”.

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