Chapter Ninety-Eight: There's a Mole!
Running out of the jungle was John and Wu Yun, whose horse was firmly pulled by John, and kept following closely behind John's mount.
Looking from afar, I saw her hands tightly clasping the horse's neck, lying on the horse motionless, and I didn't know if she was injured.
Except for the two of them, Liu Ping didn't see anyone else's figure, and his heart couldn't help but be full of shadows.
At this time, Liu Ping naturally couldn't stand in place and wait for the two to run back to the camp, but hurried up to meet them in a hurry
When they were still quite far away, Liu Ping was already shouting at John: "What happened! ”
John gasped sharply and cried out through gritted teeth, "Ambush!" You go and help, they are entangled by the Persian cavalry, right behind! ”
Hearing John say this, Liu Ping hurriedly accelerated and sprinted forward, and when he staggered past the two, he looked at Wu Yun, and asked more uneasily: "Wu Yun is okay?!" ”
Before John could speak, Wu Yun, who was holding the horse's neck tightly, had tilted his head and shouted at Liu Ping: "I'm fine, you hurry up and save them." ”
Liu Ping nodded, signaling the two to rest assured, and then ran towards the jungle path without looking back, transporting the internal force in his body to his feet as he ran, and suddenly he moved forward three points faster.
The jungle is not very large, and Liu Ping's speed is extremely fast, and he has already rushed out of the forest after running along the winding and rugged jungle path for less than a minute.
Liu Ping only felt that his eyes suddenly lit up, and the jungle and shrubs that were full of eyes before were gone, and all that came into view was the barren grass and loess, as well as the steep mountains not far away.
This is a basin surrounded by mountains, the area is not small or large, the position he is in at the moment is the edge of this wasteland, due to the high terrain, the whole wasteland scene, Liu Ping can see at a glance.
The wasteland was covered with knee-high weeds, withered and yellow, and a ray of sunlight piercing the thick clouds fell from the sky, shining on the wasteland like a searchlight, and together with a troop of cavalry galloping on the ground, it formed an extremely beautiful oil painting.
Although the picture is beautiful, Liu Ping has no intention of appreciating it, because this large wave of cavalry is the Persian cavalry, and they are chasing and killing his two teammates.
Running in the front was Wei Xuan, who was riding a horse, he looked very embarrassed at the moment, if he hadn't hugged the horse's neck tightly with both hands, he would have been thrown off the horse by the galloping war horse.
Wang Dahai, who had transformed into a werewolf, followed him, in addition to helping him drive the horses, he also helped him block a few arrows from behind from time to time.
Less than a hundred meters away from the two of them, there were almost a thousand Persian cavalry, who were desperately chasing the two.
I didn't see Poker, Jun Ningxiang and Pan Zhiwen, and it is estimated that there is a lot of luck.
The two of them were not far from the jungle at this time, and at that speed, the Persian cavalry did not expect to be able to catch up with them before entering the jungle.
In this case, Liu Ping was not in a hurry to save them, but turned around and rushed into the jungle behind him, and after finding a large tree, he frantically chopped it.
How sharp the Pinglong knife is, it is just two knives, and an ancient tree that is almost one meter thick was cut off by him, and then he hit the trunk with a move of the dragon eighteen palms 'Kang Long has regrets', and the whole tree suddenly smashed down towards the trail.
With a bang, the thick tree trunk and a huge number of branches instantly blocked the entire path, and the leaves scattered in the sky and the dust raised on the ground filled a radius of dozens of meters in a blink of an eye.
Wei Xuan and Wang Dahai had just come to the edge of the jungle at this moment, and before they could enter it, they saw this scene, and the two of them were immediately taken aback, and quickly stopped their mounts.
Just when the two of them were in doubt, Liu Ping came out of the depths of the jungle and beckoned to the two: "What are you in a daze!" Dismount and come here! ”
"Holy! It turned out that you did it! You madman, can't you wait for us to get there?! ”
Wang Dahai hurriedly lifted Wei Xuan off the horse, then grabbed him under his arm and ran towards Liu Ping, shouting at Liu Ping as he ran.
After picking up the two, Liu Ping escorted them and turned around and left: "Time is so tight, then have the kung fu to calculate the distance slowly, and quickly cut it down first." ”
"When the tree fell, we had just arrived, and you weren't afraid that it would hit us!"
"You two are not blind, such a big tree is slowly falling down, won't you hide."
Wang Dahai and Liu Ping were arguing while running, and their figures soon disappeared into the jungle.
At this time, the Persian cavalry finally came to the place where the two dismounted, and they saw that the road in front of them had been blocked and could no longer pass on horseback, so they immediately dismounted and chased Liu Ping and them in the direction where they disappeared on foot.
Thousands of Persian cavalry dismounted and chased after about 700 people, and the rest were scattered to the edge of the jungle except for a few dozen people who tried to remove the huge tree that stood in the way, and then guarded there one by one in case someone suddenly rushed out of the jungle and ran away.
When the Persian cavalry rode a horse, the speed was very fast, but once they got off the horse and wanted to catch up with Liu Ping in the jungle, it would be a fantasy, as for Wang Dahai, who had transformed into a werewolf, not to mention, even if he had Wei Xuan under his arm all the time, the speed of running would not be slower than Liu Ping.
After confirming that no one could catch up, Liu Ping finally couldn't help but ask Wang Dahai about the whereabouts of the others.
Wang Dahai, who has been trying to look very strong, finally showed a sad look at this moment, and let out a long sigh of dejection: "Poker is dead, he died to save Wu Yun." I don't know about Pan Zhiwen, it was very chaotic, I haven't seen him, and I don't know if he ran away or died. As for Jun Ningxiang, she is also dead, she has already died in front of my eyes, I was entangled by a group of Persian cavalry, and I didn't have time to save her. ”
Liu Ping knew the relationship between Jun Ningxiang and Wang Dahai, and couldn't help but sigh when he heard this: "I'm sorry, mourning." ”
"It's okay, in this bastard's main god space, whether it is me or her, we have long had the consciousness of death, but you don't have to worry, I'm not too sad, after all, it's not that I can't resurrect her, it's just five hundred reward points."
Liu Ping couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this: "En?!" What do you mean? Resurrection? ”
"You can't forget, poker! Isn't he the resurrection that John gave to him in the space of the Lord God? Since John can resurrect poker, of course I can also resurrect Jun Ningxiang, but when he resurrects poker, it is still free, and I have no free chance, and I need 500 bonus points. ”
Liu Ping remembered that this was really the case, and he couldn't help but look happy.
But soon he fell silent again, because he suddenly thought that although John can resurrect poker, but whether Wang Dahai can resurrect Jun Ningxiang is really hard to say at this moment, after all, she is a member of the reincarnation team, resurrecting teammates and resurrecting people in the real world, these are two concepts, who knows if the main god has any special regulations.
Although he thought of this, he would not say it stupidly, whether Jun Ningxiang's resurrection succeeded or not in the end, at least at this moment it would be better to give Wang Dahai a thought, than to have no hope at all.
By the time the Persian cavalry finished searching the jungle and came out of the woods south of the camp, Liu Ping and the others had returned to the camp safely.
John and Wu Yun were waiting for them in the camp at the moment, and as soon as they saw them returning, they hurried up together.
Wu Yun saw that only Wang Dahai and Wei Xuan had been rescued, so he couldn't help but be anxious, grabbed Wang Dahai's hand and asked about the whereabouts of the others.
Before Wang Dahai could answer, John had already shook his head on the side: "Don't ask Wang Dahai, they are all dead." ”
Wu Yun didn't believe it at first, and looked at Wang Dahai with hope on his face, hoping to hear a different answer from his mouth, but Wang Dahai could only nod at her helplessly.
Wu Yun's face suddenly turned extremely pale, and he muttered to himself: "All dead? How so? How so! ”
Liu Ping looked at the rear and found that the Persians had been guarding there since they came out of the jungle, and they did not chase after them, and it seemed that they would not take action until the reinforcements arrived, so he put his mind at ease, ignored them, and turned to Wang Dahai and others to ask what was going on.
Wang Dahai, who had turned back into a human body, sat on the ground with his head down, shook his head and replied: "I don't know what's going on, we just walked to the edge of that wilderness, and thousands of cavalry suddenly appeared on a dirt slope in front of us and rushed towards us. ”
John nodded on the side: "This is clearly an ambush, we obviously sent outposts, but those outposts have not sent any news back, these cavalry have already run in front of our eyes, it stands to reason, this is simply impossible, after all, they only broke through the trail last night, how did these Persians know so quickly that we are going to break through from there, and they specially set a trap there to wait for us." ”
Wei Xuan finally eased up a little, and after hearing John's words, he shook his head: "It's not too difficult to guess, there are only three roads in total, the west gate is occupied by them, and the east gate is guarded by them, as long as we plan to break through and don't take the south road, can we still fly to the sky." ”
John waved his hand: "Although you have a good brain, but after all, you have no experience, marching and fighting is not as simple as you think, there must be ghosts in it." ”
Everyone was shocked when they heard this, and they all looked at John, wondering why he had come to this conclusion.
"First of all, the Persians should not know what the terrain is like to the south of Thermopa, after all, they have never broken through our defenses, so how can they know where to ambush. They had just broken through the defense of the rear trail last night, and they had to consolidate their positions, survey the surrounding terrain, and receive reinforcements from the rear, so why did they deliberately run to the wilderness so quickly and set up an ambush circle. ”
Wei Xuan tilted his head and thought for a while: "Could it be that the Persians had already surveyed the terrain of Hot Springs Pass before the war?" ”
John shook his head: "This is a slave society, in 480 BC, in this era, even if there is a military map, it is very simple, and it is impossible for the commander to see from it where it is suitable to ambush us." Moreover, at the first time after the loss of the rear trail, Pan Zhiwen came to report to us non-stop, and since we received the news, we immediately organized a breakthrough without delay, so don't you think it's strange? The Persians reacted too quickly, and they set up an ambush so quickly. ”
Speaking of this, John pointed to the jungle behind him again: "Although when we broke through, there were already a large number of archers hidden in that jungle, but for these people, I can understand that they were chasing Pan Zhiwen's pursuers, because they kept chasing Pan Zhiwen, and finally found that they couldn't catch up, and they didn't dare to attack the camp, so they had to come to that jungle to defend, this situation is normal, nothing strange." But why did the Persians send so many cavalry to ambush the edge of the wilderness except for this jungle? It doesn't make any sense! ”
Liu Ping's eyes shrank suddenly: "This can only show that they already knew in advance that we would inevitably break through to the south immediately, and those Persian soldiers in that jungle would definitely not be able to stop us, so they deliberately ambushed thousands of cavalry in the rear." ”
John nodded: "Yes, they must have known about it a long time ago, so they can only explain it like this!" And it was already known before the trail was broken, otherwise it would not have been possible that the trail had just been broken, and the Persians had arranged all the ambushes so quickly. ”
Wei Xuan's face suddenly turned extremely pale at this moment: "Mole! There is a mole among us! ”
Everyone was taken aback: "Mole?!" How can it be! ”
"It must be so! I said, it's just one night, why did so many giants and siege crossbows suddenly appear outside the west gate, I was very strange, why did the Persians not only arrange siege crossbows, but also arrange so many catapults, and so many warships on the sea, these arrangements are completely unreasonable, because the Persians just want to break through the hot spring pass, why do they want to block the east gate passage so vigorously. Now that I think about it, all of these arrangements are aimed at us! ”