After listening to Yue Jing's report, Yang Yi turned his head to look at Qi Jingshan on the side with some surprise, the last time Yang Yi first arrived in Lixian, he only heard that there were still more than 60,000 people in the Northern Army, and he didn't want to suffer more than half of the casualties in a few days?

Qi Jingshan didn't raise his head, he couldn't see his expression clearly, and only listened to him say indifferently: "The grain and grass in Shuozhou City have long been cut off half a month ago, and the old man has organized four breakthroughs during this period without success. The weather was hot, and many soldiers were basically unable to survive once they were injured. ”

Although they tried their best to make their tone appear flat, Yang Yi and Hong Zhi could still hear that Qi Jingshan's somewhat trembling words were full of unwillingness and sadness.

The cruelty of war is something that anyone knows but can't imagine, and a man who is still alive one moment may be buried in the yellow sand forever the next.

What Qi Jingshan is carrying is not only the Shuozhou City that has gone through hundreds of years of wind, frost, snow and rain.

Yang Yi did not continue to talk about the topic of casualties, the dead are always dead, and the living have to grit their teeth and move forward, now everyone is in a trap, and the topic of too much morale can only be buried in their hearts.

"How long will our dry food last?"

"It's not optimistic, you can last up to ten days if you save food."

Yang Yi nodded and said, "It's enough, as long as we go into the mountains, there is food." ”

Qi Jingshan raised his head and asked, "What are you going to do next?" ”

Yang Yi waved his hand and asked Hong Zhi to take the marching map, and then carefully explained the route to Qi Jingshan.

Qi Jingshan took the map and looked at it for a long time, he had been in the north for more than ten years, and his familiarity with the geographical environment here was far greater than that of Yang Yi. After several deliberations, Qi Jingshan also determined that although there were still many unsettling factors in the retreat route formulated by Bai Yuanliang, it was the best and only choice at present.

Qi Jingshan slowly closed the marching map and handed it to Yang Yi, but he didn't say a word.

Yang Yi took the map and asked suspiciously: "Don't you give some advice?" ”

Qi Jingshan glanced at Yang Yi and said with a smile: "No, you are now the main general." ”

After speaking, Qi Jingshan stopped talking, and slowly leaned on the sand and closed his eyes to recuperate.

Yang Yi shook his head strangely, he didn't want to be the commander of the Northern Army Qi Jingshan at all. Yang Yi naturally heard of this famous general. Rough, upright, brave, looking down on literati, is a typical battlefield veteran, except that the emperor never puts anyone in his eyes, I heard that because of the disagreement with the head of the emperor Gu Changlian, Gu Changlian was actually mentioned in the court, if it wasn't for the emperor's reprimand, it was likely to start a fight.

But at this moment, Qi Jingshan was unusually indifferent, and his words and actions were full of helplessness and sadness.

After more than an hour, the sky was getting dark, and the wind and sand slowly stopped. Although most of them still look very tired, at least they have recovered a lot physically.

Yang Yi ordered everyone to quickly pack up their things and continue to hurry.

Bai Yuanliang almost never woke up after coming out of Lixian, and Yang Yi could only continue to order someone to tie him to the horse, and let Monkey Jian'er and Tie Niu sandwich him between him and hurry. originally wanted to tie Qi Jingshan as well, but was rejected by his words, and it was a shame to be tied to a horse as a general.

In the following time, more than 20,000 people fled the wasteland for five days and nights.

The mortality rate of wounded soldiers is very high, the weather is hot and there is no sterilization, many soldiers can only watch even a small wound become inflamed and fester, and finally stay in the wasteland forever.

Qi Jingshan's body is getting weaker and weaker, and it seems that he is completely supported by willpower. Yang Yi was very anxious, but there was nothing he could do.

In the past few days, I have encountered many small groups of fierce troops and small tribes on the road, all of whom are soldiers left behind in some places. Under normal circumstances, Yang Yi would order the army to crush the past without hesitation, in order not to let the enemy know his whereabouts, most of the time the enemy must be completely annihilated, including the old and weak, women and children.

No one in this day and age will talk to you about the Geneva Conventions, about humanitarianism. Yang Yi couldn't bear it, but it didn't mean that he wouldn't be ruthless.

The wise saying "To be merciful to the enemy is to be cruel to oneself" is almost written out in the book, so after Yang Yi gave the order to destroy those small tribes, he usually did not read it, so that his generals would do it more thoroughly.

I hadn't encountered the Fierce Di army, but for some reason, everyone felt in their hearts that there were countless Fierce Di people behind them chasing them frantically.

Bai Yuanliang's escape route was very bold, almost interspersed between the fingers of the fierce Di people, but he always followed one main point, that is, to march from the junction of the forces of the fierce Di tribe or the garrison army.

Every time the fierce Di people got the military report and discovered the location of Yang Yi's army, when their main force arrived, only the corpse of the clan was left for them.

One is chasing frantically, the other is desperately fleeing, this is an eagle catching chickens in the wasteland.

However, people who have been walking by the river always have wet shoes, not to mention that Yang Yi is walking on a choppy bloodthirsty river.

On the morning of the sixth day, Yang Yi and the others encountered the biggest fierce force in recent days.

"It's not just my shoes that get wet, but my whole feet have to sink into the river." Qi Jingshan, who was pale, looked at the black pressure in the distance and said with a smile.

Yang Yi frowned tightly and did not speak, this place is only two hundred miles away from the Xiangshan Mountain Range, and it can be reached before sunset tomorrow at most. No one would have thought that the journey would be smooth, but when they were about to step out of the ghost gate, they encountered a large force of fierce cavalry.

Soon, Hong Zhi and Yue Jing, who went to spy on the situation, came back, and they also brought desperate news.

There are more than 10,000 fierce Di people on the opposite mountain, and it is not an ordinary fierce Di tribal army, it is the most elite --- wolf cavalry army under the tent of King Huyanzhi!

"Are you sure you read that right?" Yang Yi absolutely didn't believe that the wolf cavalry army in Shuozhou City would run so fast, and he actually surpassed himself in front to intercept it.

"You can't go wrong!" Yue Jing affirmed: "We have been fighting with the Fierce Di people for more than ten years, and we have never seen that the tribal armies other than the Fierce Di Wolf Cavalry will be equipped with uniform animal skin armor, and the banner of the wolf totem is even more daring to be used by other tribal armies. ”

Yang Yi looked up, and sure enough, he saw a wolf totem flag in the fierce Di army, this wolf totem Yang Yi had also seen, and there was such a totem wooden card on those fierce Di warriors with high martial arts in the Valley of Flowers.

Seeing that Yang Yi was still incredulous, Qi Jingshan on the side said: "Don't guess, it's the wolf cavalry, and the wolf nature on their bodies is unique to the world." ”

"But the old man thinks that they are not specifically here to intercept us, but have another mission, dragging the blessing of your Ninth Highness, and happened to be bumped into by us."

Yang Yi smiled helplessly: "Then do you want to go over and discuss with them, let's do our own things, and we should not meet each other?" ”

This is a joke that anyone can hear, because the hungry wolf on the grassland has never been in the habit of making peace with its prey, unless you hurt it.