Chapter 60: Striking the Grass and Startling the Snake
Empress Li's reckless behavior just now almost exposed the team to a place of no return.
Fortunately, Guo Xun intervened in time to disguise the rock slide as a rock landslide.
This blocked the enemies at the bottom of the hill and made them dare not come up.
Guo Xun had a gust of wind and rain on the rocks, and he had already exerted twelve points of strength.
Soon Guo Xun was already tired, but even so, it was disguised like a rock landslide.
The enemy at the foot of the mountain fled in a hurry, and after a long period of silence, Guo Xun slowly stopped.
At this time, Guo Xun was already sweating profusely, but he did not forget to advise:
"Stay where you are, and when it's completely dark, we'll sneak down the mountain."
Everyone was frightened, looking at the pile of stones under the mountain, how dare they say anything, so they all lay quietly on the slope, quietly waiting for dark.
Each of them was thinking about it in their hearts, and before they knew it, their eyes fell on Guo Xun.
They couldn't figure out why a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy had such a strong strength!
After it was completely dark, Guo Xun released his divine sense and carefully observed it, making sure that no one came up at the bottom of the mountain.
After no one from the tower outpost continued to stare at the slope, Guo Xun whispered:
"Okay, it's already dark, I guess they can't see us anymore, let's get out of here quickly."
Everyone nodded, turned around, and ran to the other side of the slope. Sure enough.
Guo Xun and they were not found, and then they quickly went down the mountain, did not dare to delay, and rushed back to the base camp overnight.
Along the way, Empress Li didn't dare to speak, but listened to the people to be accountable.
The first to speak was Cai Yuyuan, who had a good personal relationship with Empress Li.
Cai Yuyuan is a subordinate of Song Qingji, he is cautious and unsmiling, he really can't help it, he didn't expect Empress Li to be such a reckless person.
"Queen Li, why are you so reckless! It's okay to joke about it, when is this! Human life is at stake! If it weren't for Guo Xun, we wouldn't know what would have happened! If you let the general know, you know the consequences! ”
"That's it! Can you be careful in the future, Queen Li! ”
Ai Gufeng, who usually rarely speaks and is a little introverted, was also frightened and said along.
Yu Dafu, who was often bullied by Empress Li, saw that Ai Gufeng had spoken, so he didn't hold back, so he said:
"In the future, we have to be careful, we can't go wrong like this again, today fortunately Guo Xun helped us out of the siege, otherwise we really can't go back!"
Everyone said a word, only Cao He didn't say anything, and Empress Li didn't say a word from beginning to end, just hurried away.
Yu Dafu ran over to ask Guo Xun why he was so powerful.
Everyone wanted to ask this question for a long time, but they didn't dare to ask, after all, they were not Guo Xun's friends.
Hearing Yu Dafu's question, the others pricked up their ears, they were all very curious about this question, but Guo Xun didn't explain, just said hurry up.
Everyone had long been impressed by Guo Xun's strength, and seeing that Guo Xun didn't want to say more, Yu Dafu also stopped asking.
Then everyone hurried quietly until the next day.
Early in the morning, a group of people from the southern peak country came to the place of the rockslide last night.
After all, it was a rockslide, and they were down the hill, so they had to come up and check it.
When they came up to check, they found some footprints and a large crater on the slope.
Then they immediately realized what was going on, and they hurried back to the camp.
However, after a while, I saw a general wearing heavy armor and a broadsword, hurriedly running towards the central camp.
When the advance team returned to the army, they hurried to the camp tent, and Cao He told the generals everything they had seen yesterday.
But Cao He concealed the matter of Empress Li, Guo Xun thought that it was inappropriate to conceal this matter, and last night's incident must have been shocked.
If we don't talk about it now, it will be a great sin to let the enemy come and find us first, and this cannot be deceived casually!
Guo Xun stood up at this time, and now it is a critical juncture, and he can't care about your face.
Guo Xun continued Cao He's words and said:
"Yesterday, when we went to investigate, because of the cold wind and strange rocks on the ridge, we accidentally stepped on some rocks, and almost exposed our whereabouts, I think we have already scared the snakes by now."
Guo Xun's words did not say that it was caused by the recklessness of his teammates.
It's just that it was pushed to the right time and place, and Empress Li also breathed a sigh of relief after hearing it, and said secretly in his heart:
"I will never go against Guo Xun again in the future."
The generals had expected that there was an enemy behind the mountain, and after the news was confirmed, they were a little sad, but fortunately, the enemy was in the open, and we were in the dark, so we could be safe for the time being.
But now that I heard that I may have been startled, this suddenly made the hearts of several generals suddenly rise to their throats again.
But at this point, it was useless to talk too much, and for a while several generals did not know what to do.
Listening to Cao He's rough estimate that the enemy army has 100,000 people, and our side is less than 30,000, how should we deal with the enemy!
Moreover, our terrain is relatively open, if we really let the enemy fight, it can be said that there is no way to hide, there is no way to avoid it, and finally being surrounded again is really worse than death.
In the end, the generals discussed that the troops should retreat for the time being, and then find a way to deal with it.
The troops quickly retreated five hundred miles, and on this day several generals called all the non-commissioned officers in the unit together.
Because they felt that the original advance team was just a pathfinder.
It doesn't need too much strength, but it's not enough now, so I'm going to pick out another breakout team.
Let them cross the border at all costs and return to the Tang Imperial Kingdom and find the Tang Imperial Kingdom Border Army.
When all the officers arrived, everyone found that Guo Xun was still standing alone behind Hainan.
And next to the other generals stood a line of people.
In the end, each general sent three people and one person from Hainan to form a team of sixteen people, and six people from the original advance team were also among them.
Now this team is in danger and shoulders a heavy responsibility, and everyone is looking at death as if they were at home.
Even if there is little hope, they have to break through, and they all know that this time there may be no return.
The generals never participated, and there were many more people behind the generals, and they couldn't leave because they needed to stabilize the morale of the army.
These people in the breakout team are all old units that have followed the general for many years, and their strength is not low.
The worst also has six layers of skin and meat, and the highest is the eighth layer of skin and meat, and the captain is Song Hailong, the deputy general of the eighth layer of skin and meat.
After everything was ready, the breakout team headed for the depths of the Gobi.
And just two days after the breakout team set out, the enemy battalion sent a small boat down the river