In the cave, there was another scorching sound of a knife pressing on the flesh. Then with a high-pitched howl behind Cao Jian's sleeve in his mouth, the sky outside the cave gradually brightened.

Everyone who tossed all night was exhausted. Cao Jian and Li Yanzhao, who were wrapped up in their wounds, each found a flat place, and soon after lying down, they fell asleep. Qin Dayong and Cui Yang, who were in better spirits, sat at the entrance of the cave and were on duty, and according to Li Yanzhao's instructions, every hour passed, they went to loosen the cloth cord tourniquet made of the sleeve of Li Yanzhao's right arm for a quarter of an hour, and then fastened it again.

A few hours later, Liu Jiwu woke up from his sleep, and saw that the two people on duty were also in low spirits, so he couldn't help but feel compassion, so he stepped forward to replace the two of them, so that they could also rest for a while.

In this way, in the afternoon, except for Li Yanzhao and Cao Jian, the rest of the people woke up. Then they took out the water bags one after another, and gnawed on the stiff Hu Cake on the fried noodles in the dry food bag. They hurriedly ate their first meal after crossing the river.

Seeing that Li Yanzhao and Cao Jian were still asleep, Liu Jiwu, who hurriedly gnawed on some dry food, was a little uneasy. Then he stepped forward and touched the foreheads of the two.

Cao Jian was okay, but when he touched Li Yanzhao's forehead, Liu Jiwu was a little flustered.

In the palm of his hand, he felt the body temperature on Li Yanzhao's forehead that exceeded the normal range. He didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly grabbed Li Yanzhao's left hand and carefully checked his pulse.

Fortunately, the pulse is still relatively stable, and there should be no major changes for a while.

Liu Jiwu ordered Niu Erzhuang and Qin Dayong to take everyone's water bladders, go to find a mountain stream, and fill all the water bladders of everyone. Then Liu Jiwu gathered the rest of the people together and said to everyone: "The hundred people are seriously ill now. I can't wait until I wake up with the head of 100 people and then take action. This time, our mission was to reconnoiter the Qiang camp on the bank of the Taoshui River, and now the captain of the hundred people is seriously injured and does not wake up, we should go to the reconnaissance as soon as possible, and then take the captain of the hundred people back to the camp to resume his life. ”

Hearing Liu Jiwu's arrangement, everyone expressed their willingness to comply with the order. So Liu Jiwu made arrangements for the remaining nine people except Cao Jian and Li Yanzhao: Cui Yang, Zhang Xing, Han Wencan, and Niu Erzhuang were responsible for staying on duty and taking turns to take care of the two wounded.

Liu Jiwu himself took Qin Dayong, Wang Qiang, Ding Yue, and Liao Rulong. A total of five people went to the bank of the Taoshui River to conduct reconnaissance on the Diqiang battalion.

Liu Jiwu cautiously walked to Li Yanzhao's side, and then groped for the mud ball wrapped in cloth that could be used to write and draw from the armor that Li Yanzhao had untied, as well as a few simple pieces of straw paper.

The five of them packed up their armor, weapons, dry food and other things, took out their horses, and after leaving the cave, they followed Li Yanzhao and ran in the direction of the Taoshui River.

Cui Yang sat at the entrance of the cave, boredly chewing a dog's tail grass pulled from the ground next to him, and looked distractedly at the direction where Liu Jiwu led everyone to disappear.

Niu Erzhuang on the side was holding a piece of dry and hard hu cake, rattling it, accompanied by a snapping chewing sound, and the dotted white cake crumbs fell on the beard on his chin and the iron armor on his chest, like a little galaxy in the dark night sky.

Cui Yang glanced at Niu Erzhuang with disdain: "Eat, eat, eat, beat and eat." Hundreds of people have grown like that, can you still eat? ”

Unexpectedly, Niu Erzhuang actually put down the Hu cake in his hand, and cried with a sob. Zhang Xing panicked and wanted to persuade him, but he didn't know where to persuade for a while.

Niu Erzhuang sobbed and cried, raised his hand from time to time, and wiped a handful of sad tears with his sleeve. After snorting for a long time, he muttered, "The hundred people are good people, I ...... I don't want him to be ...... It became like this. From the Fleeing ...... Since the time of the escape, he has been ...... for the hundred-man long Took good care of me...... Woooooooo ”

Niu Erzhuang's cry couldn't help but make Zhang Xing gloomy. He glanced back at Li Yanzhao, who was still asleep in the cave, and he was also sad.

From the moment he joined the army, he decided that Li Yanzhao was worthy of his following and allegiance. So now, when Li Yanzhao was seriously injured and unconscious, he, as a subordinate, actually had a feeling of confusion and overwhelm. From the bottom of my heart, I began to feel empty.

If there is a good one of the hundred people, where will they go? At this time, almost everyone has such a similar question in their hearts.

They are used to taking Li Yanzhao as their backbone, how can they accept this sudden loss of emptiness?

Liu Jiwu and the other four arrived in the mountains and forests seven or eight miles north of the Taoshui Qiang camp in the afternoon.

Because he has long been familiar with Li Yanzhao's homework on the map. At this time, Liu Jiwu had already made up his mind to mark the situation in the Diqiang camp on the drawings, so that the commander of the hundred people and many generals at the upper level could make a relatively accurate judgment on the enemy's situation according to their own reconnaissance results.

In order to accurately mark the general situation of the enemy's camp on the drawings, and even every detail, it is necessary to get as close to the enemy camp as possible in order to observe the situation closer to reality.

This kind of reconnaissance often has to be two or three miles close to the enemy camp in order to accurately detect many situations in the camp. However, when it came close to reconnoitre, it was dangerous and abnormal. It is even more inevitable to encounter enemy sentry cavalry, and even slightly larger teams such as patrolling the camp, finding water, and logging trees. If you encounter that kind of situation, your own side will definitely be more than lucky.

In order to prevent this from happening, Liu Jiwu divided his four men into two groups, and released them to the enemy side and the depths of the mountains and forests, so that they could sentry into the two sides of the enemy's sentry cavalry and the squad that were more likely to appear, and instructed everyone to withdraw quickly if they encountered a situation, no matter how many enemy troops there were. All the people agreed and went away.

Liu Jiwu ordered the two groups of men to keep a distance of half a mile to one mile from him. And ordered Wang Qiang and Liao Rulong, who were on the enemy's side, to reach the edge of the mountain forest, and then gradually returned to join him.

The five people, divided into three groups, each cautiously groped in the direction of the sentinel he was responsible for.

Liu Jiwu watched the two teams of men and horses gradually move away, and he himself looked around vigilantly for a while, and then took his weapons and rode his horse slowly towards the side of the Qiang camp. The reason why he didn't act with Wang Qiang and Liao Rulong was that he felt that it was a slightly safer way to respond in the back.

Liu Jiwu walked for half an hour. I didn't hear a few birds along the way. At this time, at the beginning of the first month, although the branches of the yellow forest have faintly appeared on the branches of the trees, but in the mountain forest, it still seems to be a pool of stagnant water, and there is no trace of waves.

Liao Rulong, who had gone before, returned soon and reported to Liu Jiwu that Wang Qiang and the two of them had already traveled to the edge of the mountain forest. Along the way, there were no enemy sentries or squads. After Liu Jiwu heard this, he judged that this was a blank period for the enemy's patrol. So he sped up his speed and ran towards the edge of the mountain forest with Liao Rulong.

At the edge of the mountains and forests, Liu Jiwuguan was only a few miles away from the Diqiang camp. At this distance, the camp can see all the military tents, watchtowers, grain storage places, and even the curling cooking smoke and busy scenes in the barracks.

Liu Jiwu hurriedly took out the straw paper he carried, as well as the piece of mud that could be used to write and paint at any time made by the hundred people on the way to escape, and couldn't find a smooth place, so he untied his saddle, and then placed it on the ground, looking at the Diqiang camp a mile away, and then ordered Wang Qiang and Liao Rulong to separate the guard, and he followed the layout of the Diqiang camp and carefully outlined the layout of the camp on the paper.

Liu Jiwu had just made a lot of effort to draw half of the Diqiang camp in front of him, when he saw Wang Qiang, who had been released out for more than 100 steps to be on guard, riding a horse towards him in a panic. Just as he was about to make an inquiry, Wang Qiang had already rolled the saddle and dismounted, and shouted: "Shi Chang, three hundred steps ahead, I have seen a local sentry horseman, and there are about ten people watching it." It is better to wait with me to go into the forest for a while! ”