About fifteen minutes after Bai Xiang and her "trapped camp" hurriedly evacuated, Medical Master Guo, escorted by a group of personal guards, arrived at the temporary pass that didn't even have a name.
Guo Yaoshi, Fengrui and three other people met at Shiliting.
Counting it all together, only half a year has passed since today.
However, this Han Chinese civilian in the North first rose to prominence by joining the resentful army of the Liao Kingdom. Finally, through years of constant fighting at the risk of his life, he finally became a legendary figure among the current tycoons of the Yan Territory.
The last time I met Fengrui and others, it was just hair on the sideburns and a slightly grayer head.
Now, because a helmet was held in the hands of a personal guard and was not put on directly, after looking over it, it turned out to be almost completely white.
At first glance, he looks at least ten years older.
It can be seen from this that the psychological pressure of this domestic slave with three surnames must have been extremely high in recent days.
However, it is worth mentioning that even though he is currently under astonishing pressure from Wanyan Wu begging for money, Yaoshi Guo's clothes and armor are still very neatly dressed.
What's more important is that this old man in his fifties still has sharp eyes and his back is straighter than that of a young man.
It seems that even in such a desperate situation, he did not give up his confidence to fight hard.
Sure enough, any person who can survive in these troubled times must have a strong mind that is as hard as iron and stone.
After reaching the pass, Pharmacist Guo could see the broken limbs and arms on the ground, and the smell of blood and gunpowder in the air.
His close friend Zhen Wuchen is leading a group of members to clean up the battlefield.
He didn't chase the demons away from their retreat, but chased them all the way up.
In response to this point, Pharmacist Guo was not unhappy at all, nor did he mean to reprimand him.
The main reason is that they have suffered too many losses in this regard in the past.
For example: if someone is not careful during the chase and stumbles on a rope; or even just steps on a branch or a large leaf, the trap set by the monsters will be triggered.
When the trap was triggered, at least one of a man's legs was pricked with a bamboo stick and was covered in blood.
The most serious thing was an explosion; among the flying iron pieces and stones, all the soldiers within a dozen or so steps around were knocked to the ground.
Maybe not many people died on the spot, but it was more troublesome than if they all died.
Because a warrior who loses the ability to move will often drag down two intact warriors.
Therefore, after suffering too many losses, the Ever Victorious Army had already learned a lesson and sent out those warriors with Orion origins to carefully explore the road ahead.
It doesn’t matter how far or how far we can advance in one day; we just need to advance steadily every day and make the encirclement network formed by the army smaller and smaller.
In order to avoid causing huge casualties in this regard, it will cause a serious drop in morale.
But even so, after a short time, Zhen Wuchen, who had roughly cleaned up the battlefield, came over and reported a series of bad news:
"Shuai Guo, in this battle just now, we killed another seven to eight hundred people and seriously injured more than four hundred.
Nowadays, it is very difficult to get some hot water in the vast Yanshan Mountains. I am afraid that not many of these brothers will survive; in addition, Guo Sihu also died in the battle."
When talking about 'Guo Sihu died in battle', Zhen Wuchen stopped what he was saying and looked at him carefully.
The main reason is that after years of fighting, Medicine Master Guo has experienced countless women; but in the past two years, he has only had an only heir, named Guo Anguo.
Now he is only a little over one year old, and he is still more than ten years away from adulthood.
As he grew older, in order to control a huge victorious army, Medicine Master Guo accepted a large number of adopted sons.
Among them, Guo Sihu was the unlucky guy who was killed by a war elephant with an ax while holding a wrought-iron eyebrow stick in his hand during the previous battle.
He is considered to be the most promising one among the adopted sons of Medicine Master Guo.
Although he is now a captain of thousands, based on Zhen Wuchen's understanding, Guo Yaoshi will soon promote him to be in charge of an infantry group of 10,000 people.
Of course, now that Guo Sihu is completely dead, such a promotion is definitely out of the question.
Unexpectedly, after hearing such bad news, Medicine Master Guo's face showed no expression at all.
After pondering for a while, Zhen Wuchen still used his eyes to signal the guards around Medicine Master Guo to stay away and not let others get close.
Then he lowered his voice and said his suggestion: "Guo Shuai, in order to strangle these monsters entrenched in Yanshan.
As of today, the total casualties of our Ever-Victorious Army are as many as 70,000 to 80,000; although they only account for 30% of the total strength, the casualties among our old brothers are extremely high.
If we don't have a group of old brothers, how can we control the army? The end is probably worse than that of a lost dog.
Why not slow down a little and let the other Jin troops rush in front to fight these monsters head-on?"
After hearing this, Pharmacist Guo smiled bitterly, shook his head, and said: "Five ministers, you must not have such a fluke in the future.
Song people like to reason, so they can still fool people.
But these Jin people were barbaric. They said that when the Song people came to Yanjing City, they would kill all of us and our families, and they would never let us live for a moment longer.
In this battle, we have no other way to survive except to move forward desperately and destroy these monsters.
Fortunately, as long as we move forward slowly, in seven or eight days, we will be able to squeeze these demons to the point where they cannot move. At that time, they will only have to fight to the death with us, and that will be the day of their extinction.
As for the old brothers who died in the battle, there were also people like Xu Sihu.
For example, Xu Sihu was just a village man with some brute strength before, and he couldn't even eat a few meals in a year; but after me, how much wine and meat did he eat, and how many women he slept with that he couldn't even imagine before?
Even if you are dead now, it must be worth it; the same is true for other old brothers. They were just some untouchables in the past, and they have never enjoyed the scenery they have enjoyed in recent years."
When talking about the latter part, Pharmacist Guo looked so cold and fierce as he gritted his teeth.
After seeing such an expression, Zhen Wuchen couldn't help but feel extremely sad in his heart.
Because he knew that Yaoshi Guo, who used to treat his brothers as brothers, had completely changed after climbing to such a high position and enjoying so much wealth...
*******
It’s night! It’s near Haituo Ridge, the second highest peak in the Yanshan area.
Under an oil lamp no bigger than a bean, Fengrui, Ali, and Zhan Xiang gathered around a poorly made table. In silence, each of them frowned deeply.
Compared with during the day, the war elephant now coughs from time to time.
During the coughing process, the corners of her eyebrows would show obvious signs of twitching, indicating that the girl's internal injuries seemed to be serious.
As for Fengrui, there was a deep wound on the left side of his face, and half of his face was swollen.
These are some of the injuries sustained by the two of them in the process of fighting against the victorious army in the subsequent time.
There was no way! As the Jin people's encirclement network became smaller and smaller, they even resorted to such crazy methods as setting fire to the mountain. The old and young who could hide in the hidden camp before had to move deeper into Yanshan Mountain.
How can the foot strength of these people compare to that of a group of adult men who are always victorious?
In order to buy them enough time to move, Fengrui and others passively started defensive and blocking battles more and more times day by day.
Continuously getting injured and getting worse has become a very common thing.
That is to say, Ah Li, whose battle ability is weak, has been treating the wounded almost all the time during the whole process, and the current situation is slightly better.
The only thing that made the three of them so solemn was not the injuries on Fengrui and Ali.
The real reason is that the hand-drawn map of the Yanshan area in front of the three of them shows that more and more areas are occupied by the Jin people, while there are fewer and fewer areas that can allow them to move.
This led to a crazy suggestion from Ali:
Tonight, the White Fox Empress, or the Heavenly Fox Imperial Master, plans to lead her guards out overnight to assassinate Medicine Master Guo and make suggestions to break the situation...
