Chapter 572: The End of the Road (Plus Change)
Can such an unsympathetic wild monster be inferred with common sense?
"The Red Crossbow is here. Yan Saburo pointed forward, "Even if it has spare strength, it should be kept to deal with King Wei, how can it be the turn of the Zhenbei Army that does not know the origin and depth?"
He Xiaoyuan took a light breath: "Okay, wait for two more days." If the Zhenbei army does not arrive, we will do it ourselves. "King Wei must not be allowed to flee to the Howling Wind Gorge.
Yan Saburo stared into the distance: "Your medicine has already taken effect, right?"
"Of course. He Xiaoyuan said hatefully, "Do you think they are tired and want to die, and they can't wait to give up fleeing and resisting?"
"They probably thought it was due to the wind and snow. Yan Saburo admired a little, this woman always teaches people to be poisoned and unknowingly, so that she can lower her vigilance.
She smiled, a smile colder than the wind and snow. The victory of revenge is imminent, and He Xiaokite has patience.
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For Wei Wangjun, the next twenty hours or so were a nightmare.
The guide is still alive, and he can discern the material of the rocks on the ground to determine if the mountain ahead is volcanic. But in this way, the speed of travel was greatly reduced, and if we continued like this, we would not be able to get out of the Chibashi Mountains for another five or six days.
But the team had reached the end of their crossbows.
Thirty or forty degrees below zero, snow-capped mountains with a howling north wind, long walks. For most people, these three key words are lethal conditions.
In less than two days, more than 300 people in this team collapsed and could not get up again, and it was impossible to tell whether they had frozen to death or starved to death.
On the night of the third day of escaping from the Red Crossbow Peak, Yan Saburo found that someone had raised a fire two miles away from the camp, and not long after, the smell of meat wafted out.
That aroma...... Yan Saburo was not difficult to distinguish, but sighed secretly. He Xiaokite looked through the gap in the leaves and saw more than a dozen people under him gobbling up.
She has seen too many poignant scenes like this. But what happened in the team of the king of Wei is very new.
Yan Saburo's gaze swept over the wreckage they had thrown aside, and suddenly froze: "Look there." β
He Xiaoyuan looked at it carefully, and his face changed slightly: "Liao Qing?"
The head was short of meat, and there was no one to cook it, so it was thrown aside, just face up.
Although he was so thin that he was skinny and his beard was about to cover his whole face, He Xiaokite could still tell that the deceased was Liao Qing, the former prime minister of the country and the grandfather of King Yu!
He was tortured in the heavenly prison and fell ill in Wushibao, and it was He Xiaokite who pulled his life back from the ghost gate. It's a pity that he couldn't escape the fifteenth year of junior high school, and he finally died in the Snow Mountain.
Without a carriage and nothing to keep out the cold, a normal person would not be able to live, let alone a patient like him, who was already extremely weak?
However, King Wei at most asked people to throw away the corpse, but did not ask the soldiers to eat him.
"King Wei can't be suppressed anymore. She said leisurely, "This kind of thing, there will be more and more in the future." β
In the second half of the night, Yan Saburo left for a long time, and when he came back, he told her: "Concubine Liao is still alive." β
"Oh?" He Xiaoyuan was careless, "how is she?"
"It's fine. "Liao Qing didn't survive and died, so there is one less important card in King Wei's hand, and only Concubine Liao can be used as a life amulet. For this alone, King Wei has to let her live well.
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The next day, when the sun rose, there were more than a dozen embers of fires around the camp. There were some people in the team who had noticeably thicker clothes on their bodies.
But the atmosphere of this team has become more and more eccentric.
"If we don't take a detour, now we are out of the Great Snow Mountain!" Wei Wang lost his temper at Ke Yanhua and the guide again, "Choose the shortest route for me!"
The guide trembled, and he didn't know whether he was frozen or frightened: "Take a short line, I'm afraid Yamazawa will send monsters to chase after me." β
"It's been three days since I left the Red Crossbow Peak, and that monster may not be able to keep up!"
Once again, he was wrong, and Yamazawa's patience was very good.
The team took a shortcut and walked for three hours, and the big stone man appeared, and chased after everyone for another night.
At this time, the speed of Wei Wangjun's advance was far less than that of two days ago, and many people were drifting when they walked, let alone ran away. The rock monster rushes up and can kill one with a single fist.
Counting those who were lost and fell to their deaths, there were more than 600 people in the guard team.
Finally, a stranger took advantage of the night to quietly leave the team and never come back.
King Wei and this team are at the end of their rope, and they can't stay any longer.
He Xiaoyuan was eager to try: "Can you do it?"
"Don't wait for Zhenbei Hou?"
He Xiaoyuan bit her lip: "Don't wait." Who knows if he can come or not!" On the third day after leaving Wushi Fort, she knew that Han Zhao was leading the army in this direction, and she also left a mark pointing to the Red Crossbow Snow Mountain. So many days have passed, why hasn't the Zhenbei Army caught up yet?
Did something happen halfway through?
He Xiaoyuan knew that Han Zhaofei seized Shengyi and occupied the word "fast", and the powerful forces in other parts of the country did not react at all, and Kyoto changed hands. However, there are many people who are not convinced, on the way of Han Zhao leading the army west to pursue the king, will any force come out to intercept and obstruct?
It's all unknown.
Yan Saburo looked at her sideways: "If he is stopped at the Red Crossbow Peak, what if he is good?"
"What's the matter with me?" He Xiaoyuan sank his face, "King Wei can break through the interception of the red crossbow, can't he? If the Zhenbei Army is not as good as these lost dogs, then what is the point of chasing?"
Yan Saburo smiled and stretched out his finger to point around: "Look at the treetops, don't you think there are a lot of birds here?"
They sat in a tree, about two hundred feet away from the camp of the Guards, and could not get any closer, otherwise it would be inconvenient to talk and the risk of being discovered would be greatly increased.
It was a forest, and the snow was crushing the branches. After he reminded her, He Xiaoyuan raised her eyes and found that there were many big magpies parked around the camp, including on the branches near her, chirping noisily.
Magpies are also very common in winter, and He Xiaokite walked all the way to the snowy mountains, and often saw them flying low, and never took it to heart. But now that you look closely, there are at least more than 100 magpies parked near the Weiwang camp.
In such a cold and windy valley, I don't know where so many fat magpies come from. But compared to the entire forest, their number is negligible, which is why He Xiaokite has never found anything abnormal.
Yan Saburo continued, "Since last night, there have been so many birds near the camp. β
He Xiaoyuan's face moved slightly: "Manipulated by someone?"
"Maybe it's the strangers of King Wei, but it's more likelyβ"
He Xiaoyuan bit her lip and couldn't hide the excitement in her eyes: "Han Zhao?"
"I remember that in Shengyi, the Zhenbei Hou's subordinates were able to control a hundred birds to communicate. Yan Saburo remained silent, "It's a piece of cake to use as surveillance now, right?"