Chapter 248 of Volume VII "The Comeback": The Conjectures of the Little Man
"This hellish place is either a mountain or a forest, and there are so many insects!"
With a 'snap', the big slap landed on the neck that was twisted to the side, and when the palm was removed, a blood spot appeared on the neck and the body of the mosquito was flattened, and the eyes were bloodshot under the constantly trembling eyebrows, and the eyelids that kept fanning seemed to fall asleep in the next moment. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
Birds and insects chirping, the sun shining through the gaps in the branches, the soldiers in dirty black robes lay on the ground, they breathed the humid air, and some of the soldiers kept scratching and scolding their crotches, saying that if they didn't go out to bask in the sun, their wedges would rot.
'Kaba-'
The crunch of a tree branch being trampled alarmed the soldiers, who grabbed their weapons and squatted down, their eyes fixed on the direction where the sound was coming from.
"Who!?"
Five vague figures approached from the weeds, and occasionally faint conversations could be heard, and when they were questioned, the five stopped, and one of them replied angrily: "Who else, weβthe one who delivers the food!" β
Hefu let out a sigh of relief when he put down his weapon, he had been transferred to the front four days earlier, and was now a canton. He wondered why the sentry on guard on the periphery hadn't notified him in advance, and beckoned to the robe next to him: "You take someone out to have a look." β
With a bitter face, he touched his flat belly and reluctantly replied, "No!" He beckoned to a few more familiar robes, and they disappeared among the weeds and trees in an instant.
"Lao Zhang, do you see anyone else?"
The men who had just stepped out of the weeds were stunned, and one of them was carrying a basket full of wooden bowls and spoons, and a long bucket with a heavy weight on his back. I could still see the mouth of the barrel covered with a white cloth steaming continuously; The other three men were still carrying baskets in their hands, and they were also carrying baskets on their backs, and from the cracks in the bamboo strips, they could see that they were yellow cakes; The last guy was looking for a place to put down the bucket behind him. As my body shook, I seemed to hear the sound of 'bang-bang-bang-' water.
Lao Zhang's green tendons on his hands were floating like earthworms because of the long-distance lifting of heavy things, he shook his arm to activate blood, and said in confusion: "What's wrong?" β
The soldiers nearby looked at Heifu with blank eyes, hoping that Heifu would finish quickly, they had been in this place for two days and one night, except for the hurried stomach not long ago, which had not eaten for nearly six hours, and now their eyes were already turning green when they smelled the smell of bread and bone broth.
Hefu was also hungry. But he still asked Lao Zhang in detail how he walked through the woods and whether he found anything unusual on the way.
"Didn't see that?" There was a deep groan, and his tone was full of worried fluctuations: "Distribute the food to the soldiers." Stay here for the time being when you're done parting and don't go back. β
Of course, the five men were stunned, and the soldiers, who were already hungry and panicked, immediately and consciously lined up to receive the food when they heard the order to use food. scolded in a sullen voice, "Mother." Finally nibbled on the grain! He took a sip of the lukewarm minced broth and half-narrowed his eyes in satisfaction.
Heifu called out a few people's names, these were all soldiers who were going to replace the guards on the periphery, and the people who were called by name responded "Oh!" "Don't forget to pour all the minced broth from the wooden bowl into your stomach, stretch out your paws and bring two more cakes.
The war with Su Shen started for nearly a month and a half, and in the first month, the Black Flag Army oversaw Fu Yu's army to cut down Lu Lou and enter Su Shen in one fell swoop, basically not encountering much resistance along the way. However, in the middle of the period, due to the constant raids of the cautious hunters on the grain routes, the advance of the troops (including the Fuyu army) had to be slowed down. It was not until six days ago that Xilin sent an order to storm the capital of Sushen, and the troops urgently replenished food and continued to advance.
According to some knowledgeable officers, they said that the war with Su Shen was already in its late stages, and that the war could be ended by capturing Su Shen's royal city. Although they were not tired of playing cat and mouse games in the woods all day long with the cautious stragglers, they were also tortured by the damp mountains and forests, just like some soldiers said: the crotches that always stay in the damp mountains and forests are about to rot!
It's not that you can't imagine what kind of battlefield it is if you don't come to the front line in person, it's not at all the way that the two armies are fighting in formation or you attack and defend, the number of battles of the real large corps is very rare, more often in the mountains and forests, you look for me, I look for you, whoever finds it will fight without saying a word, sometimes a squad is completely wiped out, and it takes a few days to get the news of the squad before you know that dozens of people have died again.
Heifu looked around with sharp eyes while nibbling on the bun, he knew that there was a barracks of his own army not far away, and there was basically very little chance of encountering enemy troops, but he always felt that something was wrong, and he had sent out to find the sentry's robe for too long......
"How long did it take you to get from camp here?"
Lao Zhang sat next to Heifu, and he replied with a smile: "It should be half an hour, and Xiaohuo almost didn't slide into the canal." β
The reason why Heifu was worried and not panicked was precisely because the military camp was close to here, and within a radius of five miles there were infantry camps like himself who stayed on guard on the periphery, and if the enemy army approached, the birds in the woods would have already been startled and the sound of fighting continued.
The cautious hunters, who were scattered in large numbers among the mountains and forests, found an opportunity to carry out a sneak attack, which could not be prevented, but after it was determined that Wei's Korea, Beiwo, Nanwo and other forces participated in the war, the harassment of Sushen became a little less, and the soldiers privately speculated that they must be preparing for a big war, and there was this speculation because a large number of troops who had originally killed the guerrillas in the rear were transferred to the front.
A sudden trumpet sounded, and the roar came from far to near: "Assemble!" The captain has an order: all the soldiers in the forest go to the barracks to assemble! β
More than 200 soldiers were stunned at first with bread buns and wooden bowls, and then stood up as if they had been touched by electricity.
Heifu also stood up, and he shouted, "The whole team! Turning his head to look at the position of the sentry post, he cursed in a low voice: "They should all eat military sticks!" β
In the woods within a radius of five miles, birds frightened by the sound fluttered their wings and flew away, and occasionally they heard wild beasts roaring in the woods, and when a thousand strange sounds gathered together, coupled with the lack of light transmission in the woods, there was actually an eerie atmosphere.
Hefu was puzzled to find that none of the soldiers sent out had returned, and he calmly ordered the team to assemble in the barracks first, while he himself was submerged in the grass.
Soldiers are always more sensitive to the smell of blood, Heifu followed the traces of people to explore nearly five or six hundred meters, smelled the smell of blood, and immediately crawled down, he scanned the surroundings and found no obvious traces of fighting, tried to crawl for a distance after the elbow reached out touched something, looked down and was stunned, and saw a red and white snake cut in half by a knife!
Heifu had just kept his gaze level, waiting to look down, and finally found that the ground was full of footprints and snake corpses, and then continued to explore a distance and finally found the first robe, but he was already lying on the ground and curled up, his face was also pale for a while, and his nose was still bursting out of black blood.
'Hiss-'
A blue-colored snake spitting out of the cuffs of the poisoned soldier twisted his body and slashed out, this scene made Heifu palpitate for a while, and many soldiers in the past month have been accidentally killed by snakes, insects and other strange insects or beasts. He explored around and found the bodies of three robes one after another, all of them died of poisoning, but the other two robes could not be found.
"Snake Cave ......"
Cold-blooded animals, one by one, kept slicing past and impacting Hauff's visual senses, and he finally found the other two missing robes, who were being instigated by snakes in a hole about three meters deep.
A slight 'huh' alerted Hef, who flashed very quickly behind the trunk of the tree, and heard a thin voice in his ears. He was sure that the people who came did not speak the Altaic language of the Central Plains or the steppe, and he thought in horror: "Cautious people!? β
I have to be surprised and shocked, as far as Heifu knows, the nearby Prudence people should have already retreated with the large army, even if they didn't leave, how did the Prudence people avoid the exploration of other friendly forces so close to the barracks!? He didn't dare to move, the ears of the cautious people were very smart, and the small sound of weeds rubbing against them could attract their attention, and he didn't poke out to look, and once the scout was hiding in the pit to visit and was also attacked by the arrows of the cautious, and the unreasonable soldier said that the cautious people had an instinct called a hunter, and could sense that others were watching.
It sounded mysterious, but Heifu really believed in intuition, he lowered the frequency of his breathing and waited for the sound of talking and footsteps to fade away before poking his head out to look, he saw the backs of five slowly sinking into the forest, they were walking in the direction of obviously avoiding the range of the army's assembly, and couldn't help but think: "How many more cautious people are nearby?" β
There is no doubt that the Su Shen people are all qualified hunters, and the soldiers of the Black Flag Army and the Su Shen people are basically not the opponents of the Su Shen people if they fight one-on-one in the jungle, and the Black Flag soldiers cannot shuttle as flexibly as the Su Shen people who have lived in the woods and mountains since childhood, and most of the soldiers of the Black Flag Army used to use spears before, and it takes a while to adapt to them after changing the war knife.
Instead of following the departing Prudence or burying the corpse of the robe, Hefu ran in the direction of the barracks, desperately wanting to inform the chief of the presence of the Prudence nearby, and the number was unknown!
"What if...... If the army moves forward and the cautious people behind set fire to the forest......"
Sharp wheezing soundsβit gets farther and farther away......
(To be continued,) (To be continued.) )