Seventeen Days of Death (4)

At the same time, the officers and soldiers who were chasing the Eastern Navy first found the abandoned unmanned mounts in a valley, and after a great deal of time, they finally found a clear target in the place where the Dream Man and the Eastern Navy Cavalry Battalion parted ways.

Then the clues were soon blocked by the Jiulong River, and it was difficult to leave the footprints of their predecessors on the rocky beach near the river, so they had to spend a lot of manpower to go to the other side of the river to find clues again. By the time they rediscovered the footprints of the cavalry battalion on the west bank of the Kowloon River, it was already approaching dusk.

Huang Zhi and Zhang Wei teamed up to plan the enemy's plan to delay the army from the state capital for more than eight hours, and won themselves plenty of time to rest. When they regained their strength, they had to embark on the road of death again.

This time, the imperial court is obviously determined to put them to death, and there is no shortage of capable people in the official army, who will not be fooled casually, and will soon be able to catch up with the people of their dreams again. At this time, the Donghai team and the cavalry battalion no longer had horses to walk, and the next road had to rely on two tuǐ to walk step by step, and it was really difficult to reassure people if they didn't leave early.

By this time, the night had only passed for the dreamers, and it was still twelve and a half days before they returned to the "real" world.

At the same time, in Donghai Town, night still shrouded the town, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood, adding a touch of desolation and bleakness to this town full of unjust souls. On the west side of the small square in the center of the town, only the town office is still lit up, while the other buildings around the square are dead silent.

Needless to say, as long as the person in the dream is not there, even on weekdays, it is a black light and blind fire. The closure of the Council of Elders was inevitable, and it was impossible for the state army to tolerate the continued existence of the governing body set up by the Dream Man, and the safety of the elders was unknown for the time being. At this time, even the medical hall on the south side of the square was closed, which was a bit abnormal, faintly implying that the Donghai team was already dying step by step and was about to turn into the dust of history.

A veteran in battle armor entered the night from the east side of the town, and walked into the only town hall with lights on under the crowd, and politely greeted a woman, "There is Miss Lao Dong'er." ”

"What's the doubt this time?" Dong'er's face inadvertently showed a little hatred, but he quickly concealed this emotion in the bottom of his heart.

"The Dream Man of the East China Sea took a battalion of cavalry and hid in the mountains and forests east of the town, I wonder if Miss Dong'er has any suggestions?" The veteran asked.

"Suggestion? Little girl, I don't know how to lead troops to fight, how can I give you advice to the general of the town army. 'Providence' only asked me to provide intelligence support to the Imperial Court, and I was not in a position to make any suggestions. Dong'er couldn't help but sneer.

The veteran general, known as the "General of the Town Army", paused, stroked his beard, and smiled disapprovingly, "This is old and abrupt." Then let's change the question, I don't know if there is a road to the outside world in the mountains of the East China Sea Territory in addition to the two official roads going north and south? ”

Dong'er frowned when she heard this, although she was a little resistant to this question in her heart, she couldn't help but answer, "It is said that there is a mountain road leading to Xin County, but I don't know the specific location of the little girl." ”

The veteran waved at Dong'er again, "Thank you Miss Dong'er for your information." Then he turned around and said to one of the generals behind him, "Immediately send 800 miles to the state capital urgently, and let the two armies left behind in the state capital immediately go to Xin County to intercept the dream people in the East China Sea."

Looking at the departure of the generals from the state capital, Dong'er looked at the night above his head outside the town office in disappointment, and muttered silently, "Farewell, farewell to morale, although the East China Sea team has not been together for a long time, your performance is really wonderful, it's a pity, you shouldn't go so far, so far that people can't control it......"

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On the third day, after a night of escape, more than 500 people who had fled had temporarily left the banks of the Jiulong River and moved to the hills north of the northern village. From here, further northwest, you will soon find a tributary of the Kowloon River that turns westward, which is much faster than going all the way down the river.

The pursuers of the official army were temporarily thrown away by some distance, but the dreamman was faced with a new problem. When they rushed back to Donghai Town from Dongwei Pass, in order to lighten the burden, they only brought five days' worth of rations. Originally, I thought that there would be no problem of food shortages when I arrived in Donghai Town, but who would have thought that things would come to such a point, and I had just escaped from the tiger's mouth a little, but I fell into the dilemma of running out of food.

Although you don't have to go hungry for a few days, that's when you don't exercise much. At this moment, however, they are faced with a bleak future, and they are surrounded by pursuers one day if they do not move at least a few tens of miles every day. So while continuing to die, they also have to solve the problem of rations at any time.

When Du Ziteng found a group of people in his dreams who reacted to the problem of food shortage, everyone turned their attention to Zhang Wei. He's a master trained in wilderness survival, and this kind of problem shouldn't be difficult for this veteran special forces.

Zhang Wei also lived up to expectations and took on this responsibility, "Don't panic, there is nothing in the mountains that can't be eaten." Lao Du, you arrange some people to follow me, and I will teach them how to get food at any time. ”

The food problem is not difficult to solve, but it is necessary to spend a certain amount of extra time on foraging for food every day, so the great cause of fleeing is still difficult and bumpy. It was only during the daylight of the third day that the group had advanced about twenty miles into the mountains, when they saw the pursuers behind them approach them again.

Fortunately, they had already come to the Jiulong River again, and as long as they found a suitable shoal to cross the river to the north, they could temporarily let the pursuers who left the state capital be lost for a while. After they crossed the river again, they had already come to the northwest of Donghai Town, which was seventy miles away in a straight line, and there was still a mountain road of nearly three hundred miles to go from the border of Xin County.

They camped by the river for most of the night and spent the morning, and by the afternoon when they were about to continue on their way, they could already see scouts of the army leaving the state on the other side of the river. Similarly, an army of 500 men could not hide their tracks at such a close distance, and the birds in the mountains and forests would always storm their location.

It was discovered that the scout team of the Eastern Navy immediately sounded the cannon and informed the large army of the whereabouts of the dream man. It goes without saying that the pursuers are somewhere not far away, and the distance between the two sides is probably within a few hours.