From morning to noon the next day, three of the four groups of spies sent out returned. Only Jiao Li, Liu Fushan and Mi Tianci were left without returning.

Those who came back had different accounts.

Mi Tianbao's group, I didn't hear any news. Two of Almat's subordinates, one said that the Volunteer Army was 300 miles to the north, and the other said that it was 200 miles to the south.

Ask them carefully, it turns out that they are also hearsay and speculation, and these news have no value at all.

Now, we have to wait for Jiao Li to come back.

In this regard, Baochai and others are both looking forward to and worrying.

At this time, Jiao Li, Liu Fushan, and Mi Tianci were in the mushroom ditch about two hundred and eighty miles northeast of Woniugang.

The name here is mushroom ditch, but in fact, it is not the same concept as the mountain ravine in the ordinary mountainous area. It is only because it is located in a low depression in the grassland, and it is rich in mushrooms, so it gets its name.

In the past, Mi Tianci used to work as a leatherman in a family here, and they got along very well, with the attitude of trying it out, Mi Tianci brought Jiao Li and Liu Fushan here.

The family was very happy about Mi Tianci's arrival and received them very warmly. After Jiaoli gave two bottles of spirits, the head of the household became even more enthusiastic.

In the evening, Jiao Li and his family stayed at this accommodation, and the head of the household took advantage of the evening to go out to inquire from house to house, and finally got a clue from an old man.

came back and told Jiao Li, who went to inquire carefully.

It turned out that the old man went out to hunt hares yesterday, and once met a troop of soldiers and horses, with the appearance of 1,800 people, wearing and carrying weapons, which were exactly the style of the volunteers.

On the grassland here, it is impossible for anyone else to be dressed like this, and Jiao Li concluded that that team was the Beihai Volunteer Army.

Early this morning, the old man led Jiao Li and the others to the place where he met the troop of soldiers and horses.

There has been no snow in the past few days, and the traces of the soldiers and horses are still there. Jiao Li carefully examined the horseshoe prints and concluded that they were left by the Beihai Volunteers.

The horseshoe of the Beihai Volunteer Army, unlike other horseshoe, has its own special marking, which can be distinguished from the horseshoe print.

Now, the three of Jiao Li are following these traces, and as long as it doesn't snow in the near future, they will always find the Beihai Volunteers.

It was until about two o'clock in the afternoon, and finally I saw a team coming in front of me. The speed is not fast, and the line is not very neat.

Jiao Li and the others hurriedly flashed to a few bushes of sea buckthorn forest on the side, carefully observing.

When the team walked in, they found that it was indeed the Beihai Volunteer Army.

Jiao Li and a few people came out just now, and it turned out that this team of people was Shi Liu's troops of the Third Brigade.

"Quartermaster Jiao, why are you here?"

Shi Liu was naturally taken aback.

"Thank goodness I finally found you. We're here to deliver you ammunition. ”

"Send ammo? Great, just in time to run out of ammo. Now we are fighting with the Mogu people. ”

"Where's Chief Min?"

"It should be in Tulong Liangzi, where we are preparing for a decisive battle with the Mogu people. At this time, many Mogu people had already rushed there. Where is the ammunition? ”

"In Woniugang, because I don't know where you are, I have to wait there first and come out to find out the news."

"Woniugang, it's far away, it's three hundred miles away from Tulongliangzi. It will take at least three or four days to arrive, and if you go back to deliver the letter, it will take five or six days, and I am afraid that you will not be able to catch up with the decisive battle. ”

"How far is it from Tulong Liangzi?"

"There are also two hundred and fifty or sixty miles."

"How did you get here?"

"Our regiment is harassing behind enemy lines, pinning down the enemy's soldiers and horses, and preventing them from rushing to Tulongliangzi, and we just fought a battle with the Mogu people today."

"Your regiment?"

Jiao Li looked at the team, and Shi Liu immediately understood what he meant.

"There is no ammunition, so I can only fight with the Mogu people with bows and arrows and sabers. The bows and arrows are all captured, and they are not as good as our previous ones. The Mogu people are also quite capable, and we have suffered relatively large losses in this battle. Although he won, he also lost more than 300 people, and this battle was miserable. At present, Chief Min does not have much ammunition left. ”

"God, have you walked the road from Woniugang to Tulongliangzi?"

"I haven't walked before, but I know the general direction. My brother Tempo walked by. ”

"Okay, Commander Shi, I'll go back immediately, march day and night after I go back, and send the ammunition to Tulongliangzi as soon as possible."

"Quartermaster Jiao, why don't I go with you, go there to replenish the ammunition, and then rush to Tulong Liangzi, and you will go over later."

"It's okay, replenish the ammunition, you're a new force, go! We traveled overnight. ”

Shi Liu left thirty people behind, followed the original route, and rushed back to Tulong Liangzi to report to Jia Min, while the rest of the men and horses rushed to Woniugang with Jiao Li.

Because of the slow march with the baggage cart, Shi Liu decided to abandon the cart and unload the horse, and the folk man mounted his horse, carrying only bows and arrows and the necessary food, and marched lightly to speed up the march.

Jiao Li and the others have been out for four days, and there is still no news at all.

At this time, whether to continue to wait at Woniugang or to set off has become the focus of controversy here.

Baochai believes that it should continue to wait.

Chang'an and Qu Shen thought that they should set off and look for Jia Min and them as they went.

There are two reasons for them, one is that they have not returned for such a long time, and Jiaoli and the others may have been killed, and they may never be able to wait for them to come back here.

The second is that it has been so long, and Jia Min's situation may become more and more difficult. By the time we hear about it in the future, it may be too late.

Miaoyu's point of view is that there is no goal at all now, and if you go blindly, you are likely to get farther and farther away from Jia Min and them, and go the opposite way.

Both sides have good reasons, and neither can convince anyone. In the end, a compromise was reached. If Jiaoli doesn't come tonight, he'll leave for Red Hill tomorrow. Get there and ask around.

Woniugang left a few people behind to wait for Jiao Li to come back, if Jiao Li did not come back after three days, he would be treated as dead and no longer care about him.

Soon, the night passed again, and Jiaoli still didn't move.

After eating in the morning, he ordered the camp to be set up and prepared to rush to Hongshan.

"Miss Xue, you're ready, you can go."

Needless to say from Liu Cheng, Baochai had already seen that the team was ready. The soldiers and horses on the Chang'an side have already begun to set off.

"Miss Xue, a team of soldiers and horses from the northeast is coming."

"Who's coming?"

"I haven't seen it yet, but there's someone watching there."

"Re-explore, quick return."

"Yes!"

"We can't leave for the time being, let's get ready to fight."

Chang'an's side also got the report, stopped the pullout, and prepared to meet the enemy.

As soon as the formation was opened, a few horses galloped towards us.

"Quartermaster Jiao is back, I have found the volunteers, it is our soldiers and horses, and Commander Shi is here."

Far away, the spies shouted loudly, and their voices changed their tones, and they were extremely excited.

Baochai, Miaoyu, Liu Cheng and others almost couldn't believe it when they heard it, until a few people arrived and saw me clearly, and they didn't believe it.

In an instant, these people burst into tears.

When we meet at this time, we are naturally very affectionate. However, there was no time to say more, so I hurriedly exchanged situations.

Chang'an and Qu Shen will come over, so everyone will study the next action plan together.

Since Jiao Li and Shi Liu converged, they didn't camp and rest at all for a day or two nights, but when they were tired of walking, they paused for a while, fed some forage to the war horses, rested their strength, and people also took the opportunity to take a rest, nibble on a cold steamed bun, and then kept marching.

Before they made peace with Jiao Li, they hadn't slept for two days and one night, and they had a fierce battle with the Mogu people. At this time, both men and horses were extremely tired.

So Shi Liubu stayed in Woniugang, left ammunition, and rested here for a day before leaving.

Chang'an led the men and horses of the headquarters, immediately pulled out, and rushed to Tulong Liangzi as soon as possible to reinforce Jia Min.

Baochai, as before, escorted ammunition and other baggage vehicles, marched day and night, and rushed to Tulongliangzi as soon as possible.

The long, difficult night finally passed, and the day dawned.

On the vast snowfield, a column is trudging with difficulty. From a distance, it looks like a river, flowing slowly.

This is Baochai's baggage team.

These people, who had been on the road for a day and a night since yesterday morning. Except for two stops in the middle to feed the horses and stop for an hour and a half each, they have been marching.

Since Chang'an's team was in front and had already stepped on the road, the vehicle walked up, saving some effort.

Chang'an's team moved forward lightly, leaving the vehicle and some baggage behind, and followed Baochai's convoy. So Chang'an, they have now thrown off the baggage team.

Although there were horses, and although they were all wearing cotton clothes, cotton shoes, and cotton hats brought from Beihai, they were still very cold on the cold winter night.

In the second half of the night, there were no horses to ride, so I had to lead the horses and move my body to withstand the cold.

Joli returned from the front.

"Miss Xue, there is a river ahead, you can rest here."

"Okay, just rest here for two hours."

The team stopped, Jiao Li led people to dig ice for water, and Liu Cheng led people to cut down sea buckthorn trees.

In the grasslands here, there are almost no other trees, only this sea buckthorn forest can be found almost everywhere.

The sea buckthorn trees were all wet, and charcoal was used underneath, and it took a lot of effort to ignite the fire.

After the five large piles of sea buckthorn trees were lit, people gathered around the fire and began to warm the fire.

Because the fire was so big that it was difficult to get close, I had to wait for the fire to run out before I approached the fire and started roasting steamed buns.

There are two steamed buns per person, one is roasted and eaten, and the other is roasted and softened, hidden on the body, and eaten again at noon.

You can't bury the pot to cook along the way, and the dishes are naturally free. As for tea and hot water, don't even think about it. I couldn't stand the thirst, so I grabbed a handful of snow and swallowed it, and then I drank water.

"Jiao Li, how much jerky is left?"

Baochai asked while nibbling on the steamed bun that Ying'er had just roasted for her.

"There are still some of them, which were originally prepared for Chief Min."

"Take out some and divide it among everyone, and the aisle has some strength. Even the people gave it. As for Chief Min, they fight, war horses or something, and there will always be damage. ”

"Okay, eat some meat, it's a little salty."

"Let's go, Quartermaster Jiao will rest more."

Liu Cheng got up and left.

"Jiaoli has worked hard."

"Miss Xue is polite, when I was on the road yesterday, I slept in the car for a while, and that's it. But the girls had never suffered like this. ”

"Yes, it's quite bitter, but this is our own family's business, so many soldiers can follow us with hard work, what else can our own family say. No matter how hard and tired you are, you have to hold on. ”

"It's good to fight this battle. As soon as the Mogu people were defeated, the general trend of the world was set. ”

While talking, there was a commotion behind him, and it turned out that Shi Liu led people to catch up.

After greeting each other in person, Shi Liu didn't stop, and the team overtook the baggage team and rushed forward.

When the rest time came, Baochai's team also set off and continued the difficult march.