Chapter Forty-Eight: The Discovery of Wen Han

Wang Sheng walked in front of every soldier in the cave, or looked at his injuries, or helped him sort out his armor, without saying a word the whole time, and finally came to Meng Xuan's side, patted his hand on Meng Xuan's shoulder a few times, looked at everyone, and there was an unknown meaning in his eyes: "In two days, running hundreds of miles, more than 50 people annihilated more than 100 party members, even if the party members divided their troops and carelessly, your two days of battle are out-and-out victories, although you can't be proud, but enough to be proud, Weizhou will remember you, I just hate not having the opportunity to fight with you and share in all these glories. ”

Meng Xuan said a little gloomily: "Although we have won more than ten battles in a row, but the overall situation has not changed, tomorrow these scattered party teams will rush to Weizhou City one after another, I don't know how many people will be slaughtered and enslaved, only more than 30 of us are powerless to stop it, and the party people have already taken precautions, and our hope of rescuing the people is very slim." ”

Xue Yuan sighed: "This is indeed our biggest dilemma, a big reason why we were able to achieve victory in the past two days is that the enemy is in the open and we are in the dark, concentrating our superior forces; Now we also understand that if the party members have taken precautions, then our superior forces will not exist. ”

Qin Zhen had been thinking about how to get out of the predicament in front of him, but he soon found that these were all in vain, and he felt so powerless under the absolute strength gap.

If it was just a simple battle between the two armies, Qin Zhen felt that it was very simple, if they won the battle, they would fight, and if they couldn't win, they would run, with the advantage of terrain, as long as they were in this big mountain, let alone two thousand party troops, even if they were doubled, they might not be able to find their whereabouts; But now, this road is obviously not working, these party members are not coming at them at all, their butcher's knives are aimed at the unarmed people.

In fact, the most rational thing now is to give up the people who were arrested, hibernate up, and preserve their own strength, they have been running around for this time, saving so many people, they have done their best, and they can be regarded as benevolent and righteous, with a clear conscience, if they continue to save those people, the final result is that not only can not save those people, they will take it themselves, rather than both sides of the board, it is better to abandon one side to save the other, the party people will eventually go, and when the party people are gone, at least they still have some strength, There is hope to preserve the flame of hope, and there is hope to grow the flame, but if the flame is gone, everything will be empty talk.

But immediately Qin Zhen thought of the blood that would be shed and the heads of people that would be erected outside Weizhou City, and he expelled this thought from his mind.

Qin Zhen felt as if he was tightly bound by a big net, he wanted to break free, but he had no strength at all, he wanted to scream, but he felt like a dying fish, just spitting the last bubble there, this feeling of powerlessness made Qin Zhen desperate, he suddenly remembered the mood of "himself" in his dream three years ago, and he was also so desperate and unwilling.

"Qin Zhen, what's wrong with you?" Xue Yuan's voice came from his ears.

Qin Zhen came back to his senses, felt that this person was weak, stabilized his mind, and said softly: "It's nothing, it's just that I was a little absorbed in thinking about things just now." ”

Xue Yuan obviously didn't believe Qin Zhen's explanation, and said suspiciously: "What do you think can make your face distort like that?" ”

Qin Zhen shook his head and signaled that he was fine.

At this moment, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves outside, and after a while, Zhao Feihu galloped with heavy footsteps, and when he came to Qin Zhen and the others, he saw Qin Zhen and Wang Sheng's somewhat blurred faces in the dim light, he was obviously stunned, but immediately, he said in a hurried tone: "We have found the cavalry team of Weizhou." ”

Qin Zhen was stunned for a moment, weren't the soldiers of Zhichong Mansion in Weizhou City, why did Zhao Feihu find the Weizhou cavalry outside the city, could it be that Guo Duwei and they also went out of the city?

Before Qin Zhen could clear his thoughts, he heard Wang Sheng's surprised voice sound: "Are there other Weizhou Mansion soldiers outside the city?" Where did you meet it? Don't worry, tell us in detail about the situation you encountered. ”

Zhao Feihu desperately took a few deep breaths to calm his breathing, and then said: "We originally went to the southeast to inquire about the whereabouts of the Dangxiang army, and accidentally found that the Dangxiang army there was actually assembling to the east. ”

"Later, we heard the sound of fighting in the direction of the assembly of the party army, and the battle stopped after only a short while, and after the party army left, we touched and found the corpses of Li Hu and Wang San of two cavalrymen in Weizhou Zhichong Mansion, they were two scouts under Wang Zhu, Wen Han took people to follow, and he sent me to report to you."

As soon as Zhao Feihu finished speaking, Wang Sheng immediately said: "Wang Zhu is Guo Duwei's personal soldier, although he has some bravery, but his resourcefulness is insufficient, Guo Duwei can't let him go out of the city alone to carry out such a major task, only Guo Duwei has this ability and so many party members in Weizhou City, so Wang Zhu must have followed Guo Duwei out of the city together." The Dangxiang army assembled to the east, and the Weizhou scouts had to engage the Dangxiang army, which was several times their own, indicating that these Dangxiang people were very likely to have discovered Guo Duwei's traces, and they had to desperately delay time, Guo Duwei and they were in danger. ”

Qin Zhen said: "Since we have information about Guo Duwei and them, then we should quickly find them, meet with them, and see what the situation is on their side." ”

Wang Sheng nodded in agreement.

Everyone forcibly suppressed their exhaustion and rushed in the direction of Guo Wei under the leadership of Zhao Feihu.

When he came to the place where Zhao Feihu said that he found the Weizhou cavalry scouts, the bodies of the two scouts were still there, and Wen Han was afraid of startling the snakes, so he did not immediately bury the bodies of the two scouts.

"Dig a pit and bury the bodies of Wang Sanyou and Li Hu, let them be buried in the ground, since we are here, we are not afraid of the party members finding out." Wang Sheng commanded.

"No!" The soldier behind him agreed, and began to dig a pit to bury the two scouts.

Along the way, he also encountered the corpses of several Weizhou scouts, and Wang Shengdu ordered his subordinates to let them be buried in the ground.

Qin Zhen obviously felt Wang Sheng's impatience and uneasiness, and persuaded in a deep voice: "Captain Wang doesn't need to be too anxious, according to the traces of the battle we see now, it shows that the Dangxiang army may have only discovered Guo Duwei's traces now, and there is no direct contact, now that it is dark, the terrain in the mountains is complicated, I think with Guo Duwei's ability, the cover of the night, and the advantage of the terrain, I believe that before dawn, the Dangxiang army should not pose a mortal threat to Guo Duwei and them." ”

Hearing Qin Zhen say this, Wang Sheng's impatience and uneasiness gradually calmed down, he was very clear about Guo Wei's ability and the preparations made in order to deal with the party members, although Guo Wei had come to Weizhou for less than half a year, but his familiarity with the important terrain around Weizhou was no less than his own, he could only believe in Guo Wei now, and believed that he could use the cover of the night and the advantages of the terrain to deal with the party and the army, and wait for them.

After continuing to walk for less than an hour, Qin Zhen heard a faint movement in front of him, Qin Zhen guessed that it should be the party army, and after discussing with Wang Shengluo, Qin Zhen asked everyone to rest in place, and Zhao Feihu went to find Wen Han and others to figure out the current situation.

Soon Wen Han came back, and it was not strange to see Qin Zhen and Wang Sheng, it was estimated that Zhao Feihu had already told him about the situation here on the way, Wen Han didn't talk nonsense when he came over, and directly reported what he observed to Qin Zhen and Wang Sheng and others.

"According to my observations, this time the Weizhou soldiers outside should be under the command of Guo Duwei, they entered the front of the concave tomb, the concave tomb inside the ravines and ravines, the terrain is complicated, at night the party army can not find the trace of the Weizhou soldiers, it seems that Guo Duwei intentionally entered the concave tomb."

Wang Sheng was shocked: "How could Guo Duwei enter the hollow tomb, although the terrain there is complicated, but at the same time it is surrounded by mountains on three sides, there is Hoe Mountain in the east, Gaidi Peak in the south, and Qingliang Mountain in the north, and the three mountains are waist-to-waist connected, and there is no canyon crack at all, these mountains are steep and abnormal, and it is difficult for people to climb, let alone war horses, as long as the party people block the exit to the west, these party troops can't see it at night, they have nothing to do, but when the day dawns, the inside of the depression tomb will almost be unobstructed, and there is no hiding place at all, Guo Duwei, didn't they let the party members catch the turtle steadily. ”

Wen Han suddenly smiled and said: "Don't worry, Lord Captain, the hollow grave is a dangerous place, but it is not a dead place, at the junction of Qingliang Mountain and Hoe Mountain, there is actually a small road, in the past, there were farmers who took refuge in the hollow grave, in addition to the big gap in the west and the outside world, they sometimes also took this path, but later there were frequent wars, and this place was also abandoned, and this path was covered by weeds, so not many people knew. ”

Zhao Feihu said worriedly: "Then does Guo Duwei know this road?" ”

Wen Han pointed to his head with a finger: "What do you say?" ”

Wang Sheng breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "It is impossible for Guo Duwei not to know the danger of the concave tomb, since he dares to enter the concave tomb, he must know the way to leave the concave tomb, even if Guo Duwei does not know, there must be someone in their team who knows this road, we don't have to worry too much." ”

Qin Zhen said to Wen Han: "You know this path, then you must also know where the exit of this path is, since Guo Duwei deliberately entered this hollow tomb, then he will definitely leave the hollow tomb along the path before dawn, we will rush over now, wait at the exit, and join Guo Duwei." ”

Wen Han said: "From here, it will take a long detour, maybe by the time we rush over, they may have already left." In fact, the most direct way is for us to rush into this hollow grave while the party and army are not paying attention, and also take that path, we will definitely catch up with them. ”

As he spoke, Wen Han slowed down his speech and said with a slight hesitation: "It's just that what is the condition of your injuries and that of the captain, can you adapt to the fierce charge battle?" If the impact on combat effectiveness is relatively large, it is safer for us to take a detour, which is nothing more than to spend a little more time. ”