Half a month later, the Western Expedition army turned back 600 miles.
They searched all suspicious areas along the river, but still found no trace of the Tibetans.
Almost all the livestock have been killed, and the military rations are almost running out.
What's worse is that, having been in the harsh environment of Kunlun Mountain for such a long time, more and more officers and soldiers have suffered from unknown diseases, including heart palpitations and shortness of breath, numbness of hands and feet, and facial swelling.
A tall soldier staggered forward while holding on to the barrel of his gun. As he walked, he fell to the ground. Comrades around him hurriedly gathered around him, helped him up, gave him water, and called him, but he no longer responded...
"This is the fourth one today..." Mu Ying said to Deng Yu solemnly.
"Alas..." Deng Yu nodded. He himself was getting worse and worse. His formerly straight waist was now stooped, his cheeks were sunken, and the joints all over his body seemed to be rusty. It was difficult to move. Only his lungs kept snoring.
Bellows.
Everyone is on the verge of reaching their limit.
After a long silence, Deng Yu whispered to Mu Ying: "Three days, and I won't look for you in another three days."
"Then our previous...wasn't it all in vain?" Mu Ying hissed: "If we mention it in the future, it will become a joke."
"That's not possible. Let all the brothers stay here." Deng Yu said this sentence in two parts. "I will bear all the responsibilities. No one will laugh at you."
"Well, if you don't experience it yourself, you don't know how difficult it is for us." Mu Ying sighed, looking at the vast mountains in the distance, hoping for a miracle to happen.
~~
Zhu Xi led several scouts and struggled to climb up the steep mountain wall.
Although the second child also began to become weak, his body was much stronger than the others after all. So when a large number of scouts were exhausted, Duke Wei finally agreed to let him join the investigation team.
This is the second mountain they climbed today. After climbing up, they can overlook several valleys. But there is no easy mountain to climb in the Kunlun Mountains. Almost every peak worth climbing is extremely steep.
You can walk up the mountain.
They can only use the cracks and concave and convex places in the rocks to move upward little by little using their hands and feet.
A scout saw a protrusion on the mountain wall that could be used for footing, so he leaned forward and carefully put his right foot on it. After giving it a try, he felt that there was no problem, so he shifted his weight over it and raised his left foot to prepare to climb up.
Unexpectedly, the protruding stone actually moved, and he staggered and was about to fall down the mountain.
At the critical moment, a strong hand grabbed his collar, and His Highness King Qin reached out to save him.
After carrying the frightened scout to a safe place, the second brother let go of his hand and whispered: "Little one, be careful."
"Man, thank you Qianhu." The scout also stuttered in fright.
"You're welcome," Zhu Xi said and continued to climb up using his hands and feet.
The scout quickly followed suit.
After a long meal, several people finally succeeded in climbing to the top. They were all out of breath from exhaustion. After a while, they took out their binoculars from their backpacks and began to conduct reconnaissance while eating the snow on the top of the mountain.
Zhu Fang had given up all hope. After a casual look, he put down his telescope and looked around the top of the mountain for the legendary Tianshan Snow Lotus, so that he could pick it up and see if it could cure his father-in-law's illness.
After looking around without looking, the scout on the side laughed and said: "Qianhu, this is Kunlun Mountain, not Tianshan Mountain. How can there be Tianshan Snow Lotus?"
"Yes, yes, why didn't you tell me earlier?" Zhu Xi was discouraged and was about to call a few people down the mountain when he suddenly heard the scout he had rescued excitedly say: "Qianhu, come and see, there is someone!"
The excited voice and trembling hands immediately attracted everyone.
"Where is it?" Zhu Xi also leaned over and raised the telescope, but he couldn't find the target.
"A little further to the left, there's a man crawling out of that mountain col just now." The scout corrected the direction for him.
Others also looked, but saw nothing. "Aren't you deceived?"
"Do you think the blue sheep are humans?"
"No, it's definitely a human being, and he's carrying a tall bundle of grass on his back!" The scout blushed.
Before he finished speaking, another scout shouted: "I saw it, it's really a human being!"
Now even His Highness the King of Qin saw it clearly. He saw a Tibetan carrying a straw bale and climbing out of the mountain with difficulty. After a while, another Tibetan climbed out...
Looking at the Tibetans grazing one after another, the second child's blood immediately boiled. Even with his IQ, he knew what this meant!
"You stay here and keep an eye on them to see which direction they go." He immediately gave the order: "The rest of the people come down the mountain with me quickly, don't let them escape!"
"Yes!" The scouts all became energetic and resurrected one by one with full health. They followed Hong Qianhu and rushed down the mountain, sliding and sliding, toward the col where the Tibetans were gathering grazing grass.
However, they ran to death at Wangshan. Zhu Xi and a few scouts ran to death before they arrived at the mountain col. Fortunately, there were many Tibetans who came to hunt for pasture, and a small number of them survived.
A few people followed them from a distance, walked through the mountains for an hour, and finally discovered the extremely hidden mountain basin!
~~
At night, the scouts returned one after another. Mu Ying counted the number of people and found that His Highness King Qin had not returned all the way.
After waiting for another hour, all the other scouts came back, but King Qin still didn't return.
Mu Ying realized that something must have happened and quickly reported it to Duke Wei.
Deng Yu was also very anxious when he heard this, but he couldn't send people to look for it in the dark. The two of them could only wait anxiously for daybreak, preparing to lead people to look for it separately as soon as they could see the road clearly.
However, before dawn, the scouts from King Qin's route came back.
The soldiers immediately took him to see Deng Yu. When Deng Yu saw that King Qin was still missing, he asked sternly: "Where are you, Qian Hu? Why didn't you come back together?"
"Commander, we have discovered the Tibetan camp!" The scout reported excitedly: "Hong Qianhu brought a brother to monitor there and asked us to come back and report!"
"What?!" Before Deng Yu could say anything, Mu Ying Lanyu and other generals immediately exploded. "Have you really found the enemy?!"
"It's true!" the scout shouted: "We have seen their camp with our own eyes. There are at least 50,000 or 60,000 people!"
"Good guys, we finally found them!" The generals were as excited as if they had been given blood.
"Where is it? Mark it." Deng Yu, however, remained calm and ordered people to light torches and unfold the map.
"Right here!" The scout hurried forward and drew a circle on the map without hesitation. "There is a big mountain col here, and there is a lake in the middle. The water in the lake does not flow out."
"Hiss..." Deng Yu crossed his arms and stared at the circle and the few red crosses on the side. The most recent investigation was less than two miles away from there! What bad luck!
However, it’s great to find it in the end!
"Commander, give the order!" The generals couldn't hold back and urged.
"Make food at five o'clock, break camp at dawn, and attack with the whole army!" Deng Yu punched the map and gave the order to attack!
