Chapter 969: A Dilemma
According to the scene, the flying team was killed at least three days ago.
After such a long time, no one can say whether Jia Zhu and the last six Feijun are still alive, and it cannot be ruled out that they were killed before the incident, but Wang Ping resolutely ruled out the possibility of early death. He believed in his soldiers, believing that if more than half of the members of the squad were still fighting, the chances of their protection being killed by the Qiang people were slim, let alone abandoning Jia Zhu to flee for his life. The distribution of the remains of the dead flying soldiers also shows that the team members died one after another in the continuous resistance and echelon cover.
Anyone with considerable combat experience can even roughly restore the scene at that time from the traces of the scene: the enemy pursued relentlessly, using the advantage of strength and familiarity with the terrain to surround the squad, and in order to protect Jia Zhu, the team had to fight with dozens of times or more enemies, breaking through from the weak point of the encirclement, more enemies caught up, and there were constantly flying troops left along the way to block the pursuers, so as to buy precious time for their companions to take Jia Zhu away......
You must know that the flying army has been short of medicine and food for a long time, and it has to overcome the continuous erosion of altitude sickness, and the flying army team still maintains a strong fighting spirit and combat power in such a desperate situation, which is worthy of the word "iron army", which is admirable.
"We conducted a large-scale search of that area, and found sporadic traces of battle one after another, and there were no Feijun and Jia Zhu's bodies on the road, but the clues found indicated that they may have ......" Xu Shu did not continue, his expression was very solemn.
"Reason."
"After they escaped from the encirclement, they entered a canyon, which was the place of death." Death means that there is nowhere to escape, the flying army team fled to the canyon in a hurry, and when they found that the bottom of the valley was a dead end, they were afraid that it was too late to turn back and find another way out, the number of pursuers was overwhelming, and the few surviving members of the team could not still resist. It's not that Xu Shu is pessimistic, it's really a huge disparity between the enemy and us, otherwise the team wouldn't have died in front of the breakout.
Yu Buzhi said: "Trap? ”
"No, it should be unfamiliar with the terrain and mistaken." Xu Shu's smile was a little bitter.
Objectively speaking, the Qiang people's tactical tactics are very rough, and they basically rely on the courage of blood and qi to fight, and there is no discipline, Xu Shu does not think that they have the ability to play the tricks of encircling the three queyi and inviting the king into the urn. It's not that Xu Shu underestimated the Qiang people on the plateau, this is the case, and Jia Zhu's team is full of more than 20 people, hundreds or even thousands of people are chasing them, and it is enough to crush them with strength, and there is no need to play tricks, so there is no doubt that they have strayed.
Unfamiliar with the terrain, it is enough to be fatal on the battlefield.
"Did you find any of the bodies?" Yu Buzhi asked, "If you live to see people, you have to see corpses when you die."
"Nope." Xu Shu sighed: "There was a mountain fire in the valley, and it has not been extinguished so far, judging from the level of the mountain fire, even if there are bodies inside, it is difficult to find it after the mountain fire is extinguished...... This conclusion is not for me to say, there are many good hunters in the Flying Army and are very experienced in wildfires...... We could only reconnoiter on the periphery, climb the ridges on both sides of the canyon and look at it from a distance, but found no signs of living people in the valley, but two search teams met at the ridge at the bottom of the valley, confirming that there was no road at the bottom of the canyon. ”
The fish was silent.
Xu Shu was born as a ranger, he values his promise and righteousness, as the commander of the Zhulu Army, Xu Shu has a moral responsibility to rescue the trapped subordinates, and his determination to rescue the Flying Army is undoubted, even if there is a glimmer of hope, he will not give up easily. But Yu Buzhi felt that Xu Shu was pessimistic about whether Jia Zhu's team was still alive now, which showed that all kinds of superficial evidence pointed to the worst outcome, that is, Jia Zhu's team had been wiped out. Xu Shu is a rational person, and he still insists on searching and rescuing, probably because he still has hope for what happens, or he doesn't want the martyr to lie in the wilderness.
"We have thirty percent of our mercenaries out there on search missions, but the Qiang scouts near the enclave are becoming more and more frequent and bold, and I believe that they will launch operations in the enclave soon. We are faced with a dilemma: whether to withdraw our men first, or to increase our search efforts to get a result before the Qiang attack......"
If the manpower is withdrawn, the survivors of Jia Zhu's team basically have no chance of being rescued, but if the manpower is not withdrawn, something is likely to happen in the plateau enclave, which is not only related to whether the enclave can be saved, but also related to the degree of loss of the soldiers and mercenaries. There are only seven people who haven't been found outside, and on the enclave side, the deer chasers and mercenaries add up to nearly three thousand, which side is more important, in fact, it is clear at a glance.
Xu Shu has the ability to make the most suitable choice, but at this time, he is a little reluctant and unbearable.
The king-level strategist has enough wisdom to control his emotions and is absolutely rational, but Xu Shu is a little different, he is a little more enthusiastic than other king-level strategists, and his insistence on morality is also more persistent, why is he still so young. Judging from the identity of a strategist alone, Xu Shu's personality traits may not be a good thing, but it may not be a good thing that he is also the commander in the army. Comparing hearts to hearts, I am afraid that not many people like to mess with a cold-blooded and ruthless coach, because they may be rationally given up in difficult choices at any time; Xu Shu will do his best to save his subordinates, and he will also win the support and love of the soldiers, and the troops under his command will be more cohesive and sacrificial.
Putting the choice in the hands of the lord is not that Xu Shu is not responsible.
Just as Yu Buzhi trusts Xu Shu's loyalty and ability, Xu Shu also trusts Yu Buzhi's vision and determination. He believed that Yu Buzhi would make the most appropriate choice, and that the Lord of the Deer Chase was not a mediocre person who did not learn or know how to do it.
Yu Buzhi pondered for a moment and said, "The biggest problem now is that I don't know if they're still there, right?" ”
"Hmm." Xu Shu nodded.
If you are sure that there are no survivors left in the team, you will not need to be torn apart.
"I have a way."
Yu Buzhi opened the lord panel, Feijun and Jia Zhu are both deer chasers, so it is possible to find some information through the lord panel, maybe direct information, or one-sided information, which may not directly display the information needed, but combined with other conditions, many things can often be deduced.
Historical figures who settled in the territory, the information can be checked on the lord's manual, there are more detailed display materials of the officer, and those who have not yet been out of the office cannot see the details of the ability characteristics, but it is not difficult to judge whether it is dead or alive, some time ago the flying army lost contact, and Yu Buzhi insisted that Wang Ping was not dead is confirmed through the lord's manual. Jia Zhu is the daughter of Jia Xu, the historical data is not recorded, the romance or wild history has her name, the game [Three Kingdoms] is eclectic, and Jia Zhu also enjoys the treatment of historical figures in the game, whether it is dead or alive, at a glance.
The flying army is more troublesome, Wang Ping is a historical figure, and the subordinate generals can see it from the list of generals, and ordinary flying soldiers can't find it, but the fish is not wise and can also query the number of people in the flying army's real-time establishment, and it was through the change in the establishment that the flying army was accidentally detected in distress. The flying army suffered heavy losses in this campaign, and there were dozens of people who came back alive, and the specific number was not known to the fish, and then compared with the number of flying troops, whether there were any flying troops outside who survived, it was completely possible to deduce.
"The team is gone."
Yu Buzhi's face is gloomy, the data does not lie, and the last six survivors of the team have been killed.
Xu Shu had been mentally prepared for this, but he was still very sad when the news was confirmed. The flying army is all good sons, elite soldiers who are one in a hundred, and they were ordered to escort Jia Xu's family to death in battle, and when he thought that he was the one who gave the order, the sadness and guilt in Xu Shu's heart became a little heavier.
The warrior has no survivors, and Jia Zhu is a weak woman, so naturally there is no possibility of surviving.
"Huh?" Yu Buzhi said suddenly.
"How?"
"Jia Zhu is not dead!"