Bang! ”

A blinding flash of lightning flashed in the sky, followed by an oppressive thunder that tormented everyone's eardrums.

The pouring rain kept falling, as if someone had poked a hole in the sky, and the water of a whole lake was desperately pouring down.

The 90,000 troops brought by Xiao Jinwu from the southeast front braved the torrential rain to advance silently, fortunately, the terrain here is not precipitous, and there is a big river nearby, so there is no need to worry about the torrential rain causing flash floods, and the soldiers are all swept to the Yellow Spring.

But even so, after nearly a month's march, the army was exhausted and almost at its limit.

In the end, the border army is not as elite as the twelve guards of the Beijing Division, Xiao Jinwu led the army to march all the way for more than 20 days, in addition to a large number of non-combat attrition, and even the situation of falling behind in the formation system, Xiao Jinwu led more than ten years of soldiers, or the first time he encountered it.

"Dashuai, if we continue like this, before we get to Xichuan, the army will fall apart!"

Deng He, the general soldier of Jiangnan, braved the torrential rain and shouted beside Xiao Jinwu at the top of his voice.

Xiao Jinwu wore a robe, but there would not be much difference between wearing a robe and not wearing a robe in such a rainstorm.

At this time, he was also poured cold in his heart, but his heart was colder than his body.

Xiao Jinwu and the Northern Dynasty army have fought more than a dozen battles, and deeply understand the horror of the other party's combat power, in this state, let alone facing the Wuling pro-army, even the ordinary Southern Dynasty elite can easily beat this group of rabble.

It was not until this moment that Xiao Jinwu had a deep understanding of the evaluation given by the Ministry of War to the "weak" combat strength of the border army.

"Dashuai, the river in front of you is surging, the bridge is broken, and the army is temporarily impassable!"

Before Xiao Jinwu could take a breath, Yuan Shiyuan brought him more heart-wrenching news.

Xiao Jinwu looked at the sky, sighed helplessly, and said: "Order the army to stop advancing, camp on a high place, temporarily repair here for a few days, and wait for the weather to improve, and send another liaison to return thirty miles to search for the stragglers." ”

The herald immediately took the order, and the slowly advancing army came to a halt, and dragged its tired body to find high ground and camp under the call of the officer.

However, it was easier said than done to set up camp during a rainstorm, which created runoff on the surface of the ground, making it difficult to secure the tents, and the camp proceeded so slowly that many senior officers had to be personally involved.

At this moment, Gao Deyong, who was in charge of the scout, hurriedly found Xiao Jinwu, and said with a solemn face: "Dashuai, the scout has just come to report, there are some situations three miles away from the northwest, you had better go over and take a look in person." ”

"What's going on?"

Xiao Jinwu frowned and asked.

Gao Deyong said: "Several bodies have been found, and people have been sent to investigate, but the situation is a little strange. ”

Gao Deyong's face was very gloomy when he spoke, Xiao Jinwu rarely saw this expression on the face of this thick-lined man, and immediately realized that something was wrong, handed over the military affairs to Deng He, ordered half a battalion of personal guards, and braved the torrential rain to run with Gao Deyong three miles to the northwest.

Three miles to the northwest is a hill near the Chicheon River, where the Baektu Mountains stretch like a cake, cut by the Chicheon River, and countless years of river impact have created a small plain with a radius of several miles, and around the plain there are countless scattered hills.

It was at the foot of one of these hills that the spies discovered the anomaly.

The torrential rain washed away the surface of the ground, and one of the runoffs was tinged red.

When Xiao Jinwu arrived here, he could still see this strange scene, the turbulent water was mixed with a large amount of sediment, which dyed the water flow brown, but the slightest red line could still be clearly seen in it, as if someone had knocked over the paint jar.

"Where is the body?"

Xiao Jinwu shouted at the top of his voice.

"There!"

Gao Deyong pointed to the grass on the side, and sure enough, there were several scouts standing there, and two naked corpses were lying at their feet.

Xiao Jinwu walked over and opened the palm of the corpse to see that there were thick calluses on it, and it was very likely to be a soldier.

He pondered for a moment, then asked, "Have you gone up and seen it?" ”

Gao Deyong shook his head: "Not yet, I just got the scout's return, because it was too close to the army, so I reported to the marshal first." ”

Xiao Jinwu nodded, pointed towards the hills, and said, "Go up and take a look, cheer up, be careful!" ”

"Yes!"

The guards immediately drew their long knives and reached for the mountain.

Xiao Jinwu and Gao Deyong followed behind the guards, carefully climbing up, and it didn't take long for several guards to suddenly run over in a panic.

"Commander, General, ...... ...... above"

The guards were pale, very nervous, and couldn't say a word.

"What's up there?"

Gao Deyong was in a hurry and asked impatiently.

The guard swallowed and said, "There are dead people on it, there are so many dead people!" ”

Xiao Jinwu's face changed, without saying a word, he immediately quickened his pace and ran towards the mountain, Gao Deyong and the guards around him did not dare to lag behind, and hurriedly followed him.

About a pillar of incense time, near the top of the mountain, everyone finally found a wooden camp, the scale of the camp is not small, under normal circumstances there should be one or two thousand garrisons, and on the plaque of the camp is written "Qinglong Camp" four big characters.

Seeing these four words, not only Xiao Jinwu, but even Gao Deyong, who had thick lines, was stunned.

What surprised everyone even more was that the entire camp was in a mess, and there were countless corpses lying on the ground, and at a cursory glance, there were as many as one or two hundred corpses at the gate of the camp alone.

"What's going on?!"

Xiao Jinwu exclaimed in surprise and asked Gao Deyong: "The Qinglong Camp is part of the Longmen Water Village, we are taking the middle line, and we should have passed the Longmen Water Village the day before yesterday, how could we meet the Qinglong Camp here?" ”

Gao Deyong's face was gloomy and said: "Recently, there have been heavy rains, and it is easy for the army to get lost in the valley with complex terrain, maybe the forward battalion is taking the wrong way?" ”

Xiao Jinwu hurriedly took out a roll of oil-paper maps, unfolded them in the rainstorm, looked at them carefully for a moment, and stomped his feet fiercely: "You're right, judging from the map, the terrain here is very similar to the target terrain, but there is still a big difference, it seems that we are going the wrong way nine times out of ten, where is the forward battalion now?" ”

Gao Deyong said: "The scouts who came back last night said that they were about thirty miles away from the army. ”

"Thirty miles ......"

Xiao Jinwu's face changed suddenly, and he quickly ran towards the Qinglong camp full of corpses.

"Dashuai, be careful!"

Gao Deyong exclaimed, hurriedly waved his hand at the guards, pulled out his long knife and followed.

At this time, the Qinglong camp was already devastated, with fragmented corpses and shocking blood marks everywhere, and under the washing of the torrential rain, the blood slowly accumulated together, staining the ground black.

Everyone looked at this scene with mixed feelings, as soldiers, they had never seen such a tragic situation, but every time they saw it, it was a terrible torture.

"Handsome ......"

Gao Deyong walked up to Xiao Jinwu and called him softly, but Xiao Jinwu's face became even more ugly.

"Judging from the corpses, these soldiers probably died the day before yesterday, the enemy is very strong in combat, and very calm, after they kill all the soldiers in the Qinglong camp, they even have time to deal with the corpses of their comrades."

Xiao Jinwu said coldly.

"The combat power is so strong, is it the army of the Southern Dynasties?"

Gao Deyong exclaimed.

"There will be no one else but them!"

Xiao Jinwu said in a deep voice: "I'm not worried about this, do you remember the red water at the foot of the mountain?" ”

Gao Deyong nodded: "Remember, most of it is the blood and water gathered here." ”

Xiao Jinwu shook his head and said, "These corpses all died two days ago, and the blood has turned black, how can it be that it can converge into red blood water?" What's more, under the heavy rain for several days, even if the blood flows like a river, it is impossible to continue until now! ”

Gao Deyong was stunned for a moment, and looked at Xiao Jinwu in astonishment: "What do you mean...... Could it be ......?"

Xiao Jinwu had a calm face, didn't say a word, and went straight through the Qinglong camp, looking at the valley below from the higher camp, his pupils shrank suddenly.

I saw that the valley was full of corpses, and the number was much more than that in the Qinglong camp, and under the washing of the torrential rain, countless blood and water gathered together, and with the rain "la-la-la" towards the foot of the mountain.

"My God, it's our forward battalion, is it all six thousand people lost here?"

When Gao Deyong saw the military uniform on the corpse, his face suddenly changed, and he subconsciously exclaimed.

Xiao Jinwu's eyelids jumped suddenly, and he said in a deep voice: "That's right, it seems that they encountered the Southern Dynasty army last night, and from the time calculation, the Southern Dynasty army is nearby, and immediately ordered the army to retreat thirty miles back by the same route!" ”

"Yes!"

Gao Deyong's face turned pale, and he hurriedly rushed down the mountain.

Xiao Jinwu stared blankly at the tragic situation in the valley, and a storm broke off in his heart.

"The army of the Southern Dynasty has already left Xichuan, Xu Rui, are you really defeated?"

No one paid attention, and just when everyone was shocked and sighed, a pair of eyes were staring at them coldly.

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