Due to the fierceness of the fire, no one could get close to it. Therefore, the search for Lin Hu had to wait until the fire near the official road was extinguished the next day. After the fire, the official road was extremely hot, and waiting for it to cool down naturally made people anxious.
The girls of the Lin family were eager to find Lin Hu, so they could only carry water from the mountain stream to the official road and sprinkle it on the official road for artificial cooling. After the water was poured on it, it would evaporate immediately, but it would take away some heat.
After that, sand from the ravine was transported by horses and carts to cover it with heat, and people could stay on the official road. But even so, the progress was still extremely slow. The soldiers who were sprinkling water and paving the road were sweating from the tops of their shirts, and their whole bodies were covered with sweat.
Being in an environment with high temperature and radiation is like an ant on a hot pot, which is too much to bear.
When a green signal flare was raised on the hill opposite, the girls of the Lin family could see it clearly. Because they had all come to the front in person to participate in collecting water and paving the road, because they all wanted to enter Lin Hu and other places earlier.
Search the person's last location. The green signal flare is a signal for the arrival of Luoyan Army's troops. Gao Muqing and others responded immediately after seeing this signal and responded with the same signal.
Ma Bin saw the Lin family girls turning from the side of the mountain road through the telescope, and shouted happily. Gao Muqing also saw Ma Bin on the top of the mountain through the telescope, and then he was sure that it was Ma Bin and the others who had arrived. But
Even so, it was still difficult for the two sides to join forces. Just as Lin Hu had worried before, if such a fire burned, not only would the Jurchens be unable to get out, but also outside reinforcements would not be able to come in. The situation at this moment verified his words.
In order to rendezvous as soon as possible, Ma Bin could only use the stupid method used by the other side. He led his troops to cut down trees and carry earth and rocks as stepping stones, and pushed forward bit by bit into the scorching valley. But in the end he gave up.
. Even if the heat on the ground can be slightly isolated and you can set foot, the closer you get to the interior of the valley, the scorching heat reflected from the surrounding ground and the hillside will make people unable to get close. If you walk in for less than a cup of tea, your skin will be burned. Even if you are covered with a scorching heat, you will be burned.
It won't last even a moment when it's wet.
With no choice but to give up, Ma Bin retreated to the distant valley and ordered his troops to camp on the spot. In this situation, manpower could not do anything and could only rely on the power of nature. If it rained in the middle of the night, everything would be easy to solve. But
The stars were bright that night, the new moon was bright, and there was no sign of rain at all. Ma Bin tossed and turned all night, and got up early in the morning to check the situation, only to find that the scorching heat in the valley had reached a tolerable level. Although the temperature on the ground was still a little
, but it’s ready to settle down.
It turns out that the east wind swept away the night last night, and the night wind passing through the valley blew away a lot of heat. In addition, it has been a day and a night since the fire was extinguished, and the heat has naturally decreased, and it is no longer enough to prevent people from approaching.
Ma Bin was overjoyed and hurriedly entered on foot with dozens of soldiers. Gao Muqing and others apparently also discovered this. They also came early in the morning, and the two sides finally met in the valley.
"Master Gao Dazhao, hahaha, it's great to see you all safe and well. I was worried all the way, for fear that rescue would be late. I encountered a mountain landslide on the way, which delayed me for a day, which made me anxious. Sure enough,
The leader of Gao Dazhao is sitting at the pass, and the Jurchens can't even think of crossing the thunder pond." Ma Bin said with a warm laugh after bowing to the ladies of the Lin family.
Gao Muqing smiled and nodded: "Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Ma. You have come all the way from Taiyuan.
It’s not easy. Mu Qing is very grateful.”
Ma Bin waved his hand and said: "How can I say thank you? This is obvious. Brother Lin has made a clever plan to complete this encirclement and suppression operation. It is a heavy responsibility on our shoulders and it should be completed. This is our duty. You must not know what is happening outside.
Good news. We arrived outside the mountain yesterday evening, and happened to encounter the Jurchens running out of the mountain like gray mice, and were trapped by our 30,000 cavalry. We fought from dusk to midnight, beheading them.
There were more than 40,000 people. Only more than 10,000 people fled back to the mountains and hid. Hahaha, this time finally lived up to Brother Lin's expectations and almost wiped out all the bastards who dared to invade our Funiu Mountain. Only the more than 10,000 people were left.
People hiding in the hills cannot escape. Sun Wanchun led his people to patrol and wait at various mountain passes outside. If they dare to come out, they will die. Hahaha. Although we arrived a little late, we arrived just in time.
Just a coincidence.”
Gao Muqing and others were shocked when they heard this. They really didn't know that Ma Bin and the others had actually encountered Jurchen soldiers outside and almost wiped out all the enemies. This was really a great victory, and all the previous persistence and sacrifices had been paid off.
Return. The entire encirclement and suppression plan was a great success.
"That's great, really great. It turns out that Master Ma has wiped out the Jurchen soldiers and horses. This is a great victory." Gao Muqing said repeatedly. The girls also expressed their joy and congratulations.
"Isn't it the credit of the leader Gao Dazhen? If the Jurchens had not abandoned their horses and walked out of the mountains and were caught by us, how could we have won such an easy victory? I knew it was you who beat the Jurchens at a glance.
They wanted to run back, but you set off a fire to block their way back. They had no choice but to go over the mountains to withdraw their troops, right? Hey, it turned out to be Brother Lin's wife. She was naturally resourceful and unusual.
"Master Gao Dazhao, I, Ma Bin, only admired Brother Lin before, but now even you and I admire each other." Ma Bin said with a smile.
The smile on Gao Muqing's face slowly faded, and he said softly: "Master Ma, you guessed wrong this time. This matter is not my fault. The person who started this fire was not me. It was General Lin Hu."
Ma Bin was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said: "What a boy, you are so awesome. You are already a blockbuster even if you don't cry. This is a great achievement. Where are the others? Why don't you see him? Uncle Ma is here, why doesn't he come to greet him?
?Did you oversleep because you were so happy?"
Gao Muqing and others were silent, bowing their heads and saying nothing.
Ma Bin frowned and said, "What's wrong? Did I say something wrong? Why do I think you are all so weird? Green Dance Girl, you...why are you crying? What's wrong?"
Lu Wu couldn't help crying, and when she heard Ma Bin's question, she burst into tears, leaving Ma Bin at a loss and confused.
Gao Muqing tried his best to calm down and briefly recounted the incident to Ma Bin in a low voice. After listening, Ma Bin was stunned and speechless for a long time.
"How could this happen? This is so ruined. If Brother Lin knew about it, he wouldn't be heartbroken to death. Brother Lin cares very much about Xiaohu. Hey, what should we do?" Ma Bin rubbed his hands, smacked his lips and stamped his feet.
road.
He didn't say anything. When he said this, Gao Muqing's face turned even paler and he bit his lower lip without making a sound. The little princess hurriedly said: "Brother Ma, the matter has come to this, and it is useless to complain. To be honest, we are all thinking about it."
Come and look for the little tiger. You want to see people when you are alive, and you want to see the body after death, so that you can give an explanation to your husband and the little tiger’s parents and wife.”
Ma Bin nodded
He said: "That's right. We have to find the body. How can we let him be exposed in the wilderness? Come on, let's go find it together. The place where Xiaohu and the others were attacked is nearby, right? Let's go find him and take him home."
.”
The girls nodded, and Wang Huai, who was accompanying them, stepped forward and led the way up the hillside on the north side. After the fire burned, the hillside was covered with ashes. When your feet stepped on the hot ground, the ashes of vegetation flew and drifted away in the wind.
This situation is like the flying ashes of paper money, giving people an ominous premonition. The dense forest on the hillside has now been burned into black dead trees, with all the leaves and branches burned.
It was all clean, and the tree trunks that stood there were turned into upright charcoal. The scene was extremely terrifying and strange.
Everyone cautiously entered the black, lifeless woods, and soon they found many corpses among the ashes between the trees. The corpses were burned beyond recognition by the fire, and their entire bodies were as black as charcoal. Some of their bodies were twisted.
, some had black mouths open, and some had their hands and feet burned off, leaving only a black torso. Seeing such a terrifying scene, Green Dancer Fang Huanqiu Qianqian and other women covered their mouths and couldn't stop fucking.
Ugh, his face was full of fear.
"Sisters, why don't you go down and wait, don't follow us here." The little princess said softly.
Lu Wu shook his head and said stubbornly: "No, I want to find Xiaohu, I'm not afraid."
Seeing Lu Wu like this, the other girls refused to leave. The little princess sighed and had no choice but to give up. In fact, she herself was extremely frightened, and the scene in front of her became the most terrifying scene in her nightmare for a long time.
But she is the eldest wife of the Lin family, and she must hold on no matter how scared she is at times like this.
Ma Bin took it upon himself to identify and examine all the corpses he found. In fact, it was meaningless to look at the appearance, and the clothes and armor on his body were burned clean. The only thing that could be distinguished was the shape of the weapons scattered nearby. Sword Soldiers
Although the blade was deformed in the fire, the overall shape is still there. The Jurchens' mace and crescent knife are completely different from the Luoyan Army's Greedy Wolf Long Sword, and the identities of the enemy and ourselves can be easily distinguished. But this
It only targets a single dead soldier. A group of charred corpses are lying together, and weapons are scattered around in a mess, making it impossible to distinguish the corpses of the enemy from our own. Let alone find Lin Hu's corpse.
This made Ma Bin a little embarrassed.
Lu Wu provided a way to identify them. When they were in Hangzhou, Lu Wu once asked Xiaohu and Lin Jue for amulets from Lingyin Temple and asked them to take them with them. Lin Jue didn't believe this, so he threw them away without knowing where.
Xiaohu cherished it very much. But it was a small Buddha statue carved from wood. It was only as big as a thumb, as thin as paper, and was easily damaged and dropped. So Luwu came up with an idea and spent a small ingot of gold to make one the size of a broad bean.
He put the amulet in the small gold box and hung it around Xiaohu's neck with a red thread. Xiaohu was still young at that time, so he hung it as a decoration like a gold lock. Later, Lin Jue joked, don't go out on the street and get slapped.
After pulling it off, it had to be made stronger. So Lu Wu asked someone to make a small silver-plated iron chain out of thin iron wire to use as a hanging thread. After that, Lin Hu always carried the amulet. As far as Lu Wu knew, he
Never took it off.
With this identification standard, it will be much easier. Small gold boxes hanging on iron chains are not afraid of fire. They may be deformed, but they can definitely still be identified and are still on the corpse. According to this identification standard, the horse is not afraid of fire.
