Chapter 62: Deep Mountains
Wu Kui carried his machete, which was like half a door panel, and led more than 20 family members to open the way in front, followed by the 2,000 soldiers of the Yuwen Army. Due to the narrowness of the mountain road, the team could only move forward one column after another, and this team that played the vanguard stretched for more than a mile on the winding mountain road.
General Chen personally led a follow-up force of more than 70,000 men, kept a certain distance from the forward, and advanced in order along the road left by the forward troops.
It has been two days since I entered the mountain, and I have gone deep into the inaccessible deep mountains and old forests. Wu Kui and the others relied on the memory of two darts in the past, and worked hard to shuttle through the forest. In addition to sleeping, Wu Kui and the others have never stopped, and even eat dry food while walking. They were further and further away from the team behind them, but fortunately there were signs along the way to ensure that the teams behind them did not get lost.
In the early morning of the next day, Wu Kui, who was resting on a big tree, was woken up by the dew dripping from the branches, he raised his hand to wipe the dew drops on his face, turned sideways and prepared to continue sleeping for a while, but suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure dangling in the woods in front of him.
He sat up in shock, squinted his eyes and looked in the other direction, although he didn't see anything passing, but the few trees in the forest over there were clearly shaking, could they be beasts?
The beasts of the mountains were not afraid, there were so many of them, and there were several bonfires in the night, and the beasts did not dare to come near.
But such a thick tree trunk can be shaken like that, so isn't it just a giant beast that passed just now? Wu Kui felt a little strange more and more, so he got up and walked over there, wanting to find out.
He crept into the woods, looked around, and found a bush of grass to the southwest lying on the ground as if it had been crushed by something, so he walked in the direction of the bush.
He walked along the grass that had been crushed on the ground, and there was an open space in front of him, and he looked around, not knowing where to go on, but then he saw a huge footprint on the ground, he had never seen such a big footprint, and stretched out his foot to compare, and it was half a bigger than his foot.
The second footprint was already a foot away, and the stride was so large that it could be seen that it was a behemoth. Surprised and curious, Wu Kui chased in the direction of the footprints.
After searching for a while, at a slope, the footprints were gone, Wu Kui climbed the slope and looked around, but found no obvious traces. He had no choice but to observe and continue to walk, and before he knew it, he had walked a long distance.
After passing through a dense forest, there was another clearing in front of him, and Wu Kui stood on the edge of the woods and looked at this clearing, feeling a little strange, because this clearing seemed to have been cut down by someone, not like it was formed naturally.
When Wu Kui was figuring out what was going on, he suddenly felt a wind in the back of his head, he secretly screamed that it was not good, and hurriedly flashed to the side, but he was still carried to the ground by a huge force, he turned twice on the ground, and when he turned sideways, a huge monster with brown hair pounced on the ground beside him.
Without thinking much about it, Wu Kui immediately turned over and swooped back on the monster, tightly locking the neck of the thing with his arms, wrapping one of the monster's arms with his legs, and leaning back with his upper body in an attempt to suppress the monster's other arm.
The brown-haired monster, shaking its head desperately to break free from the restraints, let out a deafening roar, arched its back, and then jerked backwards, trying to press the contents of its back under it.
Usually, with Wu Kui's size, it is not a problem to deal with a fierce tiger and black bear, but this monster is strong and heavy, which Wu Kui has never encountered, and he feels that he can't suppress this monster, so he hugs the monster and rolls back.
The monster was locked around Wu Kui's neck, and Wu Kui had to roll out several times on the ground.
The two rolled to the middle of the clearing before stopping, Wu Kui was also overwhelmed by the huge monster, and the arm that locked the neck of the thing was also loosened, and he was about to turn over and ride the monster, when suddenly his feet were weak, and the whole person sank down.
Wu Kui only felt that after a whirlwind, he fell heavily to the ground, and a lot of dust and stones fell all over his head, and in the dark, he couldn't see anything clearly, Wu Kui lost consciousness and fainted.
In the early morning of the next day, the twenty or so villagers who followed Wu Kui into the mountain could not find Wu Kui anywhere, and Wu Kui's machete was still leaning against the edge of the tree, but the person was nowhere to be found.
Everyone shouted and searched everywhere, and sent people to quickly contact the troops behind to report. After a while, the main striker led the team to arrive, and after asking about the situation, he also felt very strange.
Some soldiers said that they would not be dragged away by wild beasts? The villagers scoffed, saying that the wild beast was afraid when they saw it, and they dared to talk to him? Besides, so many people were there, but others didn't talk about it? If a wild beast really came, would there be no movement?
Some people also said that it was not convenient to enter the forest and get lost? Everyone did not approve of it, saying that he was not a big girl, and he was still hiding in the old forest when he pulled? Yesterday afternoon, everyone saw him soaking on the side of the road, and he did not avoid people, and it was obviously unreasonable to run away at night.
Everyone was puzzled, so they had to continue to send people to look around, while quickly reporting the situation to General Chen. By the time General Chen's army arrived, half a day had passed.
In order not to delay the military situation, General Chen ordered two village warriors and ten soldiers to stay where they were and wait, if Wu Kui did not return after two days, they could return to Xingjing County to report the news. The rest of the Xiang Yong, who knew the way, continued to lead the way with the forward troops, and advanced to the territory of Tufan Kingdom.
In addition, General Chen felt that this deep mountain was rather strange, so he ordered the soldiers and villagers in the front to form groups in pairs to take care of each other, and not to leave the team alone.
At noon the next day, the troops finally walked out of the mountains and into the plains, less than a hundred miles away from the capital of Tufan.
When approaching Yindufu, the front probed the horses to report that the defense of Yindufu was empty, there were not many troops, and the horses were not saddled, most of the soldiers were not armoured, and the garrison troops were almost unguarded.
General Chen was overjoyed when he heard this, Yindu Mansion was originally a small city on the grassland, surrounded by a flat river, there was no danger to defend, and the defense was empty, it seemed that taking this city could be said to be easy to capture, and it was effortless.
Sure enough, when the troops led by General Chen reached Yindu Mansion, they captured it almost bloodlessly. There were only more than 10,000 Tufan soldiers defending the city, and in the panic, they surrendered after only a little resistance, and they were captured in a daze before they could understand how a team of Central Plains people suddenly appeared here.
However, upon entering the city, General Chen found that it was actually just an empty city, with no magnificent palaces and large official buildings, only some ordinary people going back and forth between the markets, and even the rich were rarely seen.
The captured Tufan officer told him that some of the princes, nobles, and dignitaries of the Tufan Kingdom had been relocated to Gulu Pass, and that all the relocation had just been completed two days earlier. General Chen thought that the original native Fan people were nomadic people, migrating around, and only after gradually growing up in the past ten years that they slowly settled down. After stealing the land of the Central Plains, they were naturally willing to move in and enjoy their success.
Looking at this decadent capital, General Chen felt that this was no longer the important town of the Tufan Kingdom, but their abandoned son, which was no longer important to them, which also showed that the Tufan Kingdom was determined to annex the Central Plains.