Night 7: Thirteen Days of Death (End of Week 9)

Huang Zhi's plan proved to be flawless, and after waiting for a long time, the officers and soldiers decided that the Eastern Navy had gone far away, so they secretly tried to cross the river again. When they had all crossed the river and regrouped on the east bank, Xiaofeng ignited a few fires, and then used his "speed" skill to chase after the large army that had already gone far. And before that, he slept on a big tree for half a day, and at this time he was full of gods, believing that he could easily catch up with the big guys.

This time, the remnants of the vanguard did not suffer any losses from this second forest fire, but they had to retreat to the west bank and wait for the fire to subside before they could continue their advance.

The time soon came to the tenth day, and the dreamers came to the realm of the East Sea View again, but they did not plan to visit Yichenzi. First, the other party can't help much at this time, and no one can tell whether Donghaiguan will suddenly become his enemy like the Lizhou Army. More is better than less, and the three stinkers unanimously decided to take a detour.

In the afternoon of the same day, the army, which had died all the way here, continued to the northwest, passing through a valley, and a taciturn noon suddenly took the initiative to speak, "Captain, let everyone stop." ”

When Sima Fuqiang heard this, he asked Du Ziteng to stop the team and looked at the crop man with questions.

Wuyang walked to the grass on the side without saying a word, and began to plow the ground with a tool in hand. It wasn't until everyone watched him speechlessly as he dug out a lump of dirt that this honest man who cherished words like gold spoke again, "sweet potato"

At this time, everyone saw clearly that what he was holding was indeed a sweet potato.

Wuyang added, three words to be exact, "There are many." ”

At this time, Sima Fuqiang finally understood what he meant, and hurriedly asked the cavalry to go to plow sweet potatoes together, which was a serious ration, much better than the strange "food" that Zhang Wei was looking for.

After an hour's work on the farm, the cavalrymen had enough food for ten days, at least for the next period of time.

At this time, people in the dream recalled that this valley was the temporary settlement place of the displaced people in Rixin County, and these sweet potatoes were also planted by them at that time. After the displaced people in Xinxian County were taken in by the Dream Man, it became a wasteland that no one cared for, but the sweet potatoes were still growing freely and strongly.

The problem of food was solved, and the pursuers behind him were thrown away without a trace. The army from the state capital was blocked by the forest fire for three days, and it is unlikely that they will catch up with them in the short term.

Good things come in pairs, and everything seems to indicate that the road ahead will be smoother and smoother.

Three days later, the penultimate day after the dreamer left the dream of power, they finally came out of the hilly area. Leaving the hilly area means leaving the East China Sea and entering the Xinxian area, and from then on to the south into Weixian, where you will soon be able to return to Dongweiguan to join the main force of the Eastern Navy.

Although there are still endless mountains at the edge of the field of vision, when people come out of the mountains, they still have a feeling of sudden enlightenment in their dreams, and the depression in their hearts is suddenly relieved a lot.

In fact, the entire Lizhou is basically hilly terrain, but among these mountains and mountains, there are always some basins or narrow plains, and the boundary between Donghai and Xin County is a river valley basin. And this river valley basin is actually the junction of the four regions, although it is owned by Xin County, but to the southeast is the East China Sea where the Dream Man is located, to the northeast is the state capital, and to the southwest is the tail county where the East China Sea team is preparing to borrow.

The East China Sea is located on the coast and has abundant precipitation, which not only forms the Jiulong River system within its own territory, but also gives birth to the source of the Heart River. The Xinhe River flows out of the hills of the East China Sea and enters Xinxian in a northwesterly direction, forming this valley basin at the junction of the two counties. Subsequently, the heart river runs through the entire heart county from south to north, and flows north into the big river in Kang County.

The overall trend of the valley basin is northwest-southeast, the length reaches 20 li, and the widest part is almost 10 li, and the whole is spindle-shaped. The crossing at which the dreamers came out was located at the southeastern end of the basin, and in fact on the last day they walked in the East China Sea, the mountain path ran parallel to the upper reaches of the Heart River.

Along the Xinhe River all the way to the northwest, the end of the basin leads to the hinterland of Xinxian County, and there is a mountain pass on the east side of the five miles halfway, which is the road crossing leading to the state capital. Ten miles further on, another mountain pass to the west is towards Wei County. This information was provided by Du Ziteng, and in the past, when the rebels in Weixian County still existed, the officers and troops leaving the state capital entered the northeast corner of Weixian County to fight the rebels.

"It's just a ten-mile road, everyone move quickly, let's try to enter the boundary of Weixian County at night, and it is relatively safe there." After listening to Du Ziteng's introduction, Sima Fuqiang immediately made this decision.

No one raised any objections to this, as long as they thought that they had escaped from the pursuit of the official army and would soon be able to return to Dongwei Pass smoothly, everyone was in a good mood.

As for the Liwei Department of the Lizhou Capital Army stationed in the northern part of Weixian, although the strength under his command has been re-expanded to about 3,000 at this time, it is after all a defeated general of the Weixian rebels, and it is impossible to be the opponent of the Eastern Navy, so no one takes him seriously. Even Li Wei himself is also worried about the ability of the three principals of the Eastern Navy, and as long as he has the opportunity to avoid it, he will try to dodge a little farther.

It was a high autumn atmosphere, all the way to a bit of outing, looking at the various wild vegetation in the valley basin colorful, fruitful, the air was filled with the rich fragrance of various fruits in the golden autumn, everyone's footsteps were much brisker, and the hard work of trekking through mountains and rivers for more than ten days was all left behind.

Along the way, Zhang Wei and Wuyang also instructed everyone to pick and eat according to their respective cognitions of various wild fruits, which can be regarded as a rare adjustment after eating several sweet potatoes in a row.

When they came out of the hilly mountain pass, it was already early afternoon, and there were many delays on the way, so the group did not reach the western mountain pass until dusk.

As we walked along the pass, the road became narrower and narrower, and soon we came to a large canyon that could be called a ray of heaven. Knowing the treacherous nature of this terrain, Sima Fuqiang asked the team to stop and rest, and ate dinner by the way. At the same time, he sent Xiaofeng to the front to explore the way to determine if the canyon was safe and on which side of the canyon he was going to spend the night.

Taking advantage of this moment, the soldiers of the cavalry battalion turned back to fetch water from the heart of the river and prepared to make sweet potato soup for dinner. Two days ago, when there was a shortage of water in the mountains, everyone could only eat roasted sweet potatoes for three meals, and in this dry autumn, it was really a little hot.

The sweet potato soup was not ready, Xiaofeng had already run back out of breath, his face was full of anxious looks, but his mouth was speechless for a long time, and then he simply sat on the ground, and his face became very ugly.

As the team doctor, Li Sha hurriedly came over to check his condition, "I ran too fast, I couldn't catch my breath, and my physical strength was a little overdrawn." She put her hand on Xiaofeng's xiōng mouth, and a "recovery" continued, and the situation immediately improved.

Xiaofeng got up from the ground at this time, pulled Sima Fuqiang's sleeve in a panic, and pointed to the west of the mountain pass, "Captain, it's not good, the front is blocked by the official army." ”

As soon as these words came out, they immediately ruined everyone's good mood, Sima Fuqiang glanced at Huang Zhi and Zhang Wei, and took the lead in the direction of the mountain pass. It's not that he can't believe Xiaofeng, some things really have to be seen with your own eyes before you can better come up with a solution.

The two Huang Zhi brothers followed closely behind, and at the same time did not forget to pull Xiaofeng to lead the way, and the rest of the dream people also nervously followed the captain, even the commander of the cavalry battalion, Du Ziteng.

The canyon was very long, two miles long, but there was no danger in it, and the officers and soldiers did not set up an ambush here. After a glimmer of time, the terrain gradually opened up, but there was still no trace of the officers and soldiers.

Xiaofeng pointed ahead, "I'm relatively fast, I ran five miles directly just now, and there is an open valley in front of me, where the officers and soldiers set up camp." ”

"So there's still three miles to go." Sima Fuqiang looked at the zigzag road ahead, even if he launched the "Ascend High and Look Far Away", he couldn't see the blocked valley three miles away. "Then move on."

After half an hour, the group finally came to the edge of the valley, and as far as the eye could see, there were many flags, and Sima Fuqiang roughly counted them, there were a total of 5,000 men and horses here, that is, the establishment of an army from the state capital, which was equivalent to the number of troops that blocked the official road in the Nanshan Mountains of the East China Sea.

At the beginning, with the strength of the dream man, when the cavalry battalion was sacrificed, there was still a chance to pass through that line of defense. But today is different, whether it is the dream man or the cavalry battalion have lost their horses, if they fight on foot, even if they can fight with one as ten, it is not possible to break through the opponent's already quite solid defense line.

"Must be outwitted," Zhang Wei succinctly expressed his opinion.

Sima Fuqiang carefully looked at the distribution and setting of the military camp in the state capital, and was ready to turn around and set up a sand table to analyze and study.

After more than half an hour, the group returned to the east of the first line of heaven, but received even worse news at this end of the canyon - there were pursuers behind

Just as they were going to the west to investigate, two battalions of cavalry with as many as 1,000 men suddenly appeared outside the mountain pass, cutting off the rear route of the Eastern Navy. The reason why these cavalry did not attack immediately was obviously waiting for the follow-up troops to follow up, preparing to encircle and annihilate the dreamer nine times out of ten.

Sima Fuqiang looked at the officers and troops with different numbers behind him with a solemn face, "The Andong Army from the state capital, plus the Zhendong Army at the other end of the valley, we were caught by 10,000 horses and horses. ”

"Obviously, this Andong army is ambushed in the territory of the eastern mountain pass prefecture, and it is waiting for us to enter the western mountain pass before sending cavalry to cut off our rear road." Huang Zhi analyzed, "That means one thing, someone in the East China Sea betrayed us, so the officials and soldiers know that we have to come out of here." ”

Zhang Wei's brows jumped, obviously extremely angry, "It doesn't matter who betrayed us, the key is how we get out of this desperate situation." ”