Chapter 136: Deep
Xiao Yunhe vomited so much that he vomited all the yellow-green bile water until he vomited out, and then sat on the side with the support of Xie Datou, hanging his head in a daze.
After a while, Lusan walked over.
"Yunhe, are you feeling better?" Lu San lost his previous ruthlessness, and his words were full of concern.
Xiao Yunhe shook his head, still feeling very nauseous in his throat, but all the things he had eaten in his stomach had vomited, and there was nothing left to vomit if he wanted to vomit.
"I know it's a bit too much to do this today! You're just on a mission for the first time, and you've encountered this kind of thing, and it's difficult for some strong people to make you turn around so quickly!" Lu San sighed and patted Xiao Yunhe on the shoulder.
"Brother Lu, I know that you are for my good, I don't blame you! It's me who is not angry, I'm too indecisive!" Xiao Yunhe raised his head and looked at Lu Sang, although he was still struggling, he had a little more determination.
"I knew you could get through! In that case, you get up first, and I'll take you to see!" Lu Sang picked up Xiao Yunhe and led him forward.
Xiao Yunhe could only smile bitterly, this Lu Sang really regarded himself as an iron man!
Helplessly followed Lu Sang all the way, there was blood everywhere along the way, and he could kick one or two people in the head from time to time when he walked on the road, and when he thought of the head that was cut off by himself just now, Xiao Yunhe had the urge to vomit again.
Walking to a campfire, Lusan stopped.
He took out the map from his arms, half-squatted down, spread out one hand, and pointed up to explain to Xiao Yunhe.
"We're here now, I've already interrogated them just now, they're all from the Kiga tribe, and that location is a little west of here. The young men of their tribe were all taken away by the chiefs of the Koga tribe. I just thought ......"
"Brother Lu, why did they poison us?" Xiao Yunhe interrupted Lu Sang's words and asked.
"You still don't understand?" Lu San stopped and looked at Xiao Yunhe.
"I don't understand!" Xiao Yunhe shook his head, "There are old and young of them, and they are obviously not scouts like us. And we shouldn't have shown any flaws, why did they poison us when we met for the first time? Is it rare for these barbarians to be born with a penchant for burning, killing and looting?"
"You're right, but they're born like this!" Lusan nodded, "In the desert of northern Xinjiang, if you are alone and see a group of shepherds, don't go up and talk to them." Because whether you are their own or not, they will not hesitate to kill you. When the barbarians were nomagular, the shepherds who were lonely, who were not as strong as them, would become their prey. Within the barbarians, looting and being robbed are commonplace. For us, looting is a great sin. But for them, looting is a necessary survival skill for everyone. ”
"Our strength is not as good as theirs, although we are less numerous, but we are all young and middle-aged, even if we are not the Left Guards, they will not be our opponents!" Xiao Yunhe was puzzled.
"Strong and weak, just a superficial contrast, a qiē, can be converted. If we hadn't taken precautions today, but had really gotten drunk, and they had attacked in the middle of the night, would you say, we be able to handle it?" asked Lussan.
"This ......" Xiao Yunhe couldn't answer.
"The reason why you think so is because you are not a barbarian. All you think about is how to get through safely. And what they were thinking about was how they could loot a little more. It's normal for you to not understand the different positions. You only remember one thing, here in the future, grow a few more eyes, and don't trust anyone!" Lu Sang sternly warned.
"By the way, where did I just go?" asked Lussan.
"Uh...... Brother Lu just said that the young and middle-aged people in their clan were taken away by their chief......" Xiao Yunhe thought for a moment and reminded.
"Yes, that's it! The young men of their clan were taken away by their chief. This operation is still very mysterious, and no one of my own people knows about it. There was still a little kid who overheard a little. It was only said that the Khan had a heavy action there, so he armed all the young men of his clan and took them away! As for what the heavy action was, he didn't ask!" Lu San said with some disappointment.
After listening to Lu Sang's words, Xiao Yunhe touched his chin and fell into deep thought.
"Brother Lu, do the barbarians know about the battle plan this time?" Xiao Yunhe suddenly asked.
"I shouldn't know! Our expedition this time is top secret, we were only notified last night, the barbarians have no reason to know......" Lu San said slowly, suddenly his eyes widened and looked at Xiao Yunhe, "What did you think of?"
"I'm wondering, will this re-action of the barbarians have something to do with us?" Xiao Yunhe said.
"You mean, the barbarians are aware of our movements, and they have gathered their forces to fight us?" said Lussan.
"It's very likely that this is the case, here, there should be nothing that will make the barbarians make such a big move......"
"This is impossible!" said Lusan categorically, "even we only learned about the expedition last night! The barbarians had already set out five days ago! Could it be that this group of barbarians still has the ability to predict the future?"
"We're just guessing now, what the specific situation is, we can only know if we see it with our own eyes!" Xiao Yunhe didn't argue much, and said to Lu Sang, "Brother Lu, what should we do next?"
"We now have two choices, one is to return to the barracks and report to the general about the situation here, and our mission will be completed! The other option is to go and check in person according to the location where they have assembled. Get the most accurate information and report back!" Lusan said, looking at the map.
"The second option is very risky!" Xiao Yunhe looked at the direction pointed by Lu Sang's finger, according to the scale of the map, it should be twenty or thirty miles away from where he is now.
"That's true, but since we are soldiers, from the moment we set out on the expedition, this life no longer belongs to us! To live until the end of the war is God's gift!" Lusan said very calmly.
"Brother Lu has already made a choice?" Xiao Yunhe asked.
"Well, you guessed it?" asked Lussan.
"If it were me, I would have chosen it this way!" Xiao Yunhe sighed.
"If only you understood!" Lusan nodded, putting away the map.
Standing up, Lusan shouted, "Come here!"
At the sound of the order, the soldiers immediately hurried over and stood in a circle around Lussan.
"Thank you!" Lusan shouted.
"Here!" Xie Datou took a step forward and replied loudly.
"You take two people, return to the barracks immediately, and hand over this letter to General Shan in person!" Lu Sang handed over a letter to Xie Datou, and after a while, he even wrote the letter.
"Yes!" Xie Datou took it and stepped back.
Xie Datou pulled the two people next to him and was about to leave, just took two steps, and turned back.
"Brother Lu, we're going back, where are you going, aren't you going with us all the way?" Xie Datou asked.
"We have other tasks, you go first!" replied Lussan, not intending to tell him everything.
"How can that be done, Brother Lu, you let the other brothers go, I'll follow you!" Xie Datou said with a smile.
"Don't follow me with a hippie smile!" Execute orders!" Lusan said with a blank face.
"Brother Lu, I'm ......" Xie Datou still hasn't given up.
"Carry out the order!" Lusan glared.
Xie Datou couldn't, so he could only take those two people and lead the horse reluctantly.
"Yunhe, do you want to go back with the big heads?" Lu San turned his gaze to Xiao Yunhe.
"No need, thank you Brother Lu for your concern, I can still stand it!" Xiao Yunhe shook his head and declined Lu Sang's kindness.
He understood that Lusan was worried that he had been stimulated too much and wanted to let him go back and recuperate.
Xiao Yunhe is really uncomfortable now, the things in his stomach have been vomited upside down, and now his stomach is empty, and when he walks around, the sour water in his stomach is flooding upwards one by one, not to mention how uncomfortable it is.
This is just a physical reaction, his heart is now more uncomfortable than his body, and the pain of killing women and children with his own hands is still devouring his heart.
Even so, Xiao Yunhe didn't want to leave.
Brother Lu said that this is the battlefield of demons, and if he retreats, is it still his own style?
I have never been afraid of pain, and in my life, in the past 15 years, has there ever been a day when I have not survived pain? Enduring pain has long become a habit.
What is this pain now compared to before?
If you can only stand on this battlefield by becoming a demon, then let yourself be a demon too!
Xiao Yunhe has made up his mind, and if the dust has not settled, he will never retreat.
Lu San also seemed to expect Xiao Yunhe to answer this way, so he didn't say much more to persuade him, and nodded.
The sound of horses' hooves faded away, and Lu San looked at the rest of the people and said, "Now it's the second order!"
Everyone listened with their ears open.
"Sleep!"
"Huh?" people were dumbfounded.
"It's not easy to rush at night, we won't rush to the night today! Now there are still two hours before dawn, everyone go to bed at once, recuperate their spirits, and set off early tomorrow morning!" Lusan glared at him, walked to the place where he came, and lay down on the ground and fell asleep.
The others glanced at each other, followed Lussan's example, and went to sleep.
In front of it is still a hell on earth with rivers of blood and corpses all over the field. On this side, these soldiers who created this qiē with their own hands fell asleep one by one snoring like thunder.
And so the night passed.
The next day, as soon as the morning dawned, Xiao Yunhe opened his eyes.
As soon as I opened my eyes and looked around, I saw that everyone else had already gotten up, and only myself was left, still lying on the ground sleeping, covered with blankets of several people.
Xiao Yunhe smiled bitterly, stood up, folded the blankets, and put them back in their original places.
As soon as he stood up, Xiao Yunhe saw the Shura field in front of him.
A headless corpse lay on the ground. The round heads are scattered and have a large distribution range.
The blood on the ground has long since dried up. The dried blood formed a thick layer, adding an extra layer of blood-red coat to this barren desert.
Looking at this scene, Xiao Yunhe's face darkened again.
"Stop watching! Eat!" Lu Sang walked over and grabbed Xiao Yunhe's shoulders and led him to the back.
After the group has eaten and cleaned up, they are about to start a new journey.
"Why did you kill them all?" Xiao Yunhe, who was closest to Lu Sang, asked in a low voice.
He thought that if Lusan asked for information, he would release those who survived, or at least those who confessed information.
But when I looked at it today, there was not a single living person left.
Xiao Yunhe then remembered that everyone had slept last night. If there really is a living mouth, Lusan will definitely arrange for someone to keep vigil.
Apparently, last night, they killed everyone.
"We can't help it, they let one go, and our whereabouts are revealed. If they are going out on a large army, they can also be taken prisoner. But we only have these people now, and it is simply not realistic to bring them with us. Therefore, this is the only way to do it!" Lusan sighed and replied in a low voice.
Xiao Yunhe nodded, his expression even darker.
Then, everyone packed up and got on their horses, Lu San stood at the front, and was about to give the order to go, when Xiao Yunhe spoke again.
"Brother Lu, are their corpses just like that?" Xiao Yunhe pointed to the corpses behind him, and said unbearably.
"It's useless to bury them, no matter how deep you bury them, the wolves will dig them out and eat them. Here, there is no such thing as being buried in the ground. Lusan shook his head, patted the horse under his crotch, and he galloped out first.
The expression on Xiao Yunhe's face was even more gloomy, but he had to let out a long sigh, followed the back of the team, and hurried forward.
This way, galloping in the endless desert, Xiao Yunhe can no longer feel the pleasant feeling that fascinated him before.
The horse galloped, relaxed the body, only let the war horse under the crotch run with it, felt the air from the shop blowing by, and watched the scenery on both sides retreat rapidly in front of him. What Xiao Yunhe felt before was a feeling of unrestrained and casual freedom.
And now, with the same scene and the same weather, what he feels is a kind of heavy pressure like a mountain, and his once free heart is clothed with a layer of shackles, and the more he walks, the more depressed he feels in his heart. The expression on his face also became more gloomy.
Inside my stomach, the feeling of wanting to vomit has long since disappeared. But the heaviness in my heart still continues.
It is easy to infect others, Xiao Yunhe was sullen along the way, and the whole team became much more deserted. walked Xie Datou again, except for Lu Sang's words during the intermission, at other times, basically no one spoke along the way.
They traveled all the way until it was dark, and then Lusang asked everyone to stop and rest for the night.
After finding a leeward place, Lu San asked a few soldiers to patrol around, pulled Xiao Yunhe, and began to study the map again.
Xiao Yunhe's heart was difficult to solve, and he just wanted to be alone for a while, but since Lu San found out that Xiao Yunhe seemed to be very interested in maps, he had to pull him to study it every time.
Xiao Yunhe was very helpless, but he could also understand that this was deliberately done by Lu San, so that he could keep himself busy, so that he would not have time to think about those troubles.
couldn't bear to disobey his kindness, Xiao Yunhe could only suppress the irritability in his heart and looked at this map that he didn't know how many times he had seen.
"We are here now, and according to the current pace, we will be able to reach the place where the barbarians have assembled in half a day. This piece of water is still abundant, so don't worry about this. However, the dry food we brought with the army was only enough for five days, so this time, we must not delay! I just don't know if these barbarians have shifted their positions......" Lu San actually didn't have anything to study, he talked to himself, and he was more thinking by himself.
After talking to himself for a while, Lu Sang raised his head, looked at Xiao Yunhe with his head down, and said, "Yunhe, what do you think, tell me about it!"
"I really don't have any ideas, Brother Lu, what you just said is quite right, we just listen to you!" Xiao Yunhe waved his hand and said.
When a person is distracted by one thing, he cannot concentrate on another. Xiao Yunhe didn't even listen to what Lu Sang had just said, and he didn't have the heart to think of some special ideas.
"What are these words? Everyone brainstorms! You have a very smart brain, and I don't know how many dangers you will encounter in tomorrow's situation, if you think about it more, maybe if you have an idea, we will have a little more chance to live!" Lu San asked Xiao Yunhe to come over just to let him use his brain and not think nonsense, and now seeing him like this, he naturally refuses to let him go.
"Okay, then I'll just say a few random words! If I say something wrong, Brother Lu will laugh!"
Xiao Yunhe had no choice but to cheer up, looked at the map, and began to organize his words.
"We are now dozens of miles behind enemy lines, and there is no backup nearby to support us, and it is impossible for us to go head-to-head with the barbarians with a team of less than thirty men! No matter which tribe of the barbarians we encounter, even the smallest tribe, we can be annihilated without difficulty. And what we are about to face is the Khan of the Barbarians, a powerful army composed of elite soldiers from all the tribes of the Barbarians. In the face of such an army, we must be even more cautious. ”
"Our mission is not to go to the enemy's head-on confrontation, but to find the enemy's traces, as long as the enemy's whereabouts are detected, our mission is completed. But in accomplishing this task, we must both discover the enemy's whereabouts and not allow the enemy to discover our own whereabouts. Otherwise, once our existence is exposed, in this barbarian desert, even if we have horses, we will never be able to escape. Therefore, tomorrow's actions must be well planned!"