Because of Xie Shence's uneasiness, at midnight, the five of them set off again and headed south overnight. After Xu Luwei saw Xie Shence's cold face, he didn't dare to complain in the slightest about rushing in the middle of the night, and he didn't even dare to yawn loudly.

Traveling at night is extremely restrictive. In order to avoid trouble, Xie Shence and the others didn't even hit the torches, and moved forward in the dark, but fortunately, on the grassland, the undulating terrain and the night sky can be clearly distinguished, and there is no need to worry about the horses being injured.

Xie Shence was worried, he always felt that something would happen.

The sky gradually brightened, and Xie Shence and the others walked for more than 70 miles in one night.

In the early morning, I rested for an hour by a small river, slept for a while, and set off again.

It is only three hundred miles away from the He Lou Department, and at this speed, it should only take three days to reach the He Lou Department.

In fact, Xie Shence can't confirm that he will definitely be courteous when he arrives at the He Lou Department. It's just that the distance between Daba City and the northwest of Dajin is too far, and there is no transit for supplies, so Xie Shence is not sure that he will be able to pass through the combat zone alive or avoid pursuit.

At noon, several giant hounds waded across the river to a scorched fire and whined.

A smile finally appeared on Halfface's face.

At this time, a hound stretched out its paws and quickly picked up the soil in a churned grass, and several hounds quickly surrounded it and dug with their forelimbs. In a few moments, one of the hounds walked up to Ban Face, holding a bloody cloth belt.

The guard took the cloth belt, took out a few severed pieces of blood that had clotted from the bag on the horse's back—the limbs of the horseman who had been eaten by the hounds the previous night—and threw them to the hounds, causing the hounds to scramble at once.

The guard carefully sniffed the blood stains on the cloth belt, and said to half of his face: "Report to the general, this is exactly what the wounded man left, and the herbs on it are the smell of the weed juice used to treat knife wounds." ”

Half of his face laughed, the straight scar wriggling across his face like an earthworm.

"Okay, so they're not far away, let's go now! Before tomorrow, General Ben will catch those cheap bones! ”

However, just as he was about to mount his horse, several of the hounds twitched, foaming at the mouth, and died after a while.

Half of his face became very attractive.

"Yes...... Poisonous. ”

The guard, who had smelled the blood on the cloth, then collapsed, foaming at the mouth, and died of convulsions.

Half of his face was cloudy, on the verge of rage.

He had brought a few hounds with him, and the guard was also a veteran of discerning directions, but he finally found the clue again, but in a quarter of an hour, he was poisoned by those people, and his clue was broken again.

General Secretary Yang is a master of using poison, and since Xie Shence suspects that he and the others are being tracked, he thinks that the enemy is guided by a hunting dog with an extremely sensitive sense of smell. Since this is the case, then Xie Shence asked General Secretary Yang to use the poison on his body and mix it with several kinds of wild grasses to make a volatile strong poison, which he wanted to use to get rid of the enemy's hounds and leaders. It's just that the hound is dead, but half of his face has escaped because of the guards.

Half-faced sneered: "In that case...... Divide into ten squads and let me search separately to make sure I find them again. ”

In the evening. Xie Shence and the others entered a forest.

It is a small hill, which stands out in the undulating grassland, and the forest is not large, but it is full of life inside. Xie Shence planned to rest for another hour and then hastened his way. There are still six of the eight horses that he brought out when he was separated from Mr. Zhang, and one of those two was given to the shepherd as a reward, and the other died of exhaustion.

Xie Shence and the others are of course very tired, but the horses are even more tired, and it has been two days since they didn't change horses, and even the war horses can't withstand this level of squeezing, so Xie Shence and the others' mounts are basically almost to the limit.

The forage of the war horse is extremely particular, and the forage of the Dajin Horse Farm includes soybeans, wheat bran, and eggs! Only in this way can the size and energy of the war horse be ensured, and eating grass alone is not enough to support a high-intensity march. And Xie Shence's horses are not excellent war horses, so if the horse's physical strength cannot be well distributed, these horses will not be able to support them to rush to the He Lou Department.

It takes time to rest evenly to distribute the horse's physical strength, but Xie Shence and others really don't have time to recuperate.

Xu Luwei looked at the sweaty horse, and said to Xie Shence with some anxiety: "The horse can't last three days." ”

Xie Shence stopped adding firewood to the fire and glanced at her.

"Are you happy?"

Xu Luwei hurriedly said: "No, no, I didn't mean that." ”

Xie Shence said: "If we die, you won't be much better, you are a traitor, I believe that the people of Erli are very clear about your handling of traitors." ”

Xu Luwei stopped talking.

The cleanup of traitors by the Erli people was extremely cruel, and one of the most famous punishments was the "rat box".

Put the rat in an iron box with a round hole, and then stick the side of the hole to the person, and plug the hole with human flesh. Then the iron box is heated, and when the rat can't stand the heat, it will make a hole in the part of the human body that blocks the round hole to escape. Eventually, the human body will be dug up alive by rats to dig out blood holes, so that all the internal organs will be crushed and die.

The pain is beyond words.

If this torture is used on oneself...... Thinking of this, Xu Luwei immediately ran to the side and vomited.

When she vomited, she thanked Shence and said, "What disgusting things have come to mind?" Say it to make this little marquis happy. ”

Xu Luwei's stomach was still cramping, his face was pale, and he ignored Xie Shence.

Seeing that she was silent, Xie Shence waved his hand and beckoned He Ruoque and the three of them to him and said, "You know, we don't have enough horses. And the reason why there are not enough horses is because there are many people, so it ......"

Xu Luwei suddenly became nervous.

"Get rid of this woman, so we have a better chance of escaping."

Xu Luwei's face instantly turned to ashes.

Mr. Yang first agreed: "Little Hou Ye, this method is feasible. But this woman may still be useful to us......"

"There's a use for a fart." Xie Shence interrupted Mr. Yang's words.

"No matter how useful it is, is it still useful if we can't live ourselves? In that case, why take her? ”

He Ruoque did not speak, so he acquiesced.

Xie Di was mute, so naturally he couldn't speak. However, looking at his expression, he also knew that he would not object to any decision made by Xie Shence at all.

Xu Luwei said with tears in his eyes: "Do you have to kill me?" ”

Xie Shence looked into her eyes and said seriously: "You should understand our predicament, it is really difficult for us to survive, this is the territory of the Duan Division, and it is also the only area where the Duan Department can still maintain relative peace." Many of the tribes have been forced to relocate due to the needs of the war, so it's really hard to get supplies here, you know, we passed through three abandoned tribes and couldn't find anything useful. So the conditions we are in are extremely difficult and cannot support us to reach our destination. ”

"And as you know, the most fundamental reason for this situation is that we are too slow. The speed is too slow because there are too many people and too few horses. Mr. Yang is my colleague, He Ruo and Xie Di are my family, and you, a very beautiful woman, are from Erli. So, if we want to reduce the burden, what else can we do besides solving you? And what leverage do you have to prove that it is worth it for us to run away with you for the rest of our lives? ”

Xu Luwei said calmly: "I have betrayed the Erli people, I know a lot of things about the Erli people, and it can be useful to you, and I can help you deal with the revenge of the Erli people in the future...... Isn't that enough? ”

Xie Shence sighed and said, "I'm sorry, Miss Xu, we all know that you are really useful. But as you know, we have to live ourselves first, and then we can use you. ”

Xu Luwei suddenly said loudly: "You men have caused all this! Why sacrifice me in the end? What am I doing wrong? Are men like this, and they only know how to shirk responsibility and bully the weak, useless things? ”

Mr. Yang and the others stopped talking.

Xie Shence thought for a while and said: "I admit that the current situation is caused by me, and even I was wrong at the beginning, I thought things too simply. Grandpa was right, I'm still too tender in the face of more spicy characters. So I'm going to fail. ”

"But that's okay, as long as I'm alive, anything is still possible. I don't know what you've been through and why you have this view of men, but I'll tell you my opinion, survival of the fittest is the truth. At this time you are the weak and I am the strong, so ...... Of course you died. ”

Xu Luwei wiped away her tears, but the tears still flowed down.

"If you have to kill me, can you not be so painful?"

Xie Shence nodded, "Yes." ”

However, just when Xu Luwei closed his eyes and waited for death, and Xie Shence pulled out the Han knife, He Ruoque instantly lay on the ground and pressed his ear to the ground.

Xie Ti climbed a tree like a monkey.

After a while, He Ruoque got up and said to Xie Shence and General Secretary Yang, "Someone is coming. ”

Xie Shence put away the knife expressionlessly and asked, "How many people are there?" ”

Xie Di jumped down from the tree and quickly began to write on the ground with his scabbard.

"West, ten, cavalry, horse bandits?"

Mr. Yang said: "It's finally here." ”

Xie Shence looked at Xu Luwei and said, "It's really timely." ”

Xu Luwei didn't get happy, in fact, if Xie Shence and the others couldn't kill all these people, they would also die, because according to Xie Shence's personality, before he died, he would definitely have lost his breath. If you can't kill all the bandits, then the arrival of the bandits will only delay the time of their own death.

Xie Shence tied Xu Luwei with a rope, stuffed a cloth ball in his mouth, and said, "No matter who it is, kill it, just to supply us with horses." ”

So a few people quickly led the six horses to the depths of the woods, with chewing heads, in case of sound, He Ruoque and Xie Di after burying the fire, climbed to the trees on both sides with bows and arrows on their backs to hide, Xie Shence and Yang Zongsi ambushed behind the bushes not far away.

Not long after Xie Shence and the others hid, a small group of cavalry entered the woods from the west.