The dense forest has been spreading towards the mountains further away, and in this vast forest, several figures are struggling to move forward along the rugged mountain road.
Zheng Qing stretched out his hand to support Mr. Song and looked back nervously. Li Cheng, who was walking in front, stretched out his hand to support the tree trunk and gasped: "Is there someone catching up behind you?"
"Not now." Zheng Qing replied hurriedly, "but those bandits will definitely not give up when they see an empty village."
"It's okay if it's just those bandits who refuse to give up." Li Cheng couldn't help laughing, but there was an unconcealable bitterness in his laughter. "It's a pity that those barbarians won't let us go if they know about it.
"
Zheng Qing was stunned for a moment: "Why is uncle so sure?"
Li Cheng chuckled lightly: "Those who catch wind of such a sneak attack by the army will die, and the scouts are responsible for clearing out these obstructionists..."
Pointing at himself and then Mr. Song, Li Cheng chuckled and said, "How could we not know about the things we two old men did fifty years ago?"
Zheng Qing took a breath. It was obvious that the current situation was worse than he expected. After all, he was still just a young man under twenty. Although he followed Li Xingchen and went on a killing spree last night, he still had a lot of trouble, both in terms of his mental endurance and his ability to deal with it.
The enemy's level of understanding is incomparable to that of Li Cheng and others.
"What, are you scared?" Li Cheng turned around and looked at Zheng Qing.
Zheng Qing immediately puffed up his chest: "Why are you afraid? No matter it is the northern barbarians or those damn bandits, as long as they want to harm us, we will kill them back. We will never be afraid!"
Li Cheng chuckled lightly, and Mr. Song also patted Zheng Qing's shoulder, and took the lead to continue moving forward on crutches. Li Cheng winked at Zheng Qing. Although Zheng Qing was honest and honest, he still understood what he meant.
He just took a few young people to follow him at a distance.
Walking two steps faster to Li Cheng, Mr. Song lowered his voice and said, "Why did you lie to them? In this situation..."
"In this situation, we are all going to die here, right?" The smile on Li Cheng's face has faded, "I didn't lie to them. I asked A Qing to find someone to send a message to Xin Chen in the village. At that time, it was actually
Someone already told them what was going to happen."
Mr. Song was silent for a moment, shook his head and said: "You and I have lived our whole lives. We should die early and be reborn early, but for Ah Qing and Ah Fei... In fact, as early as last night, you had already figured it out.
Unexpected dangers may occur today. You don’t have to deny this. After fighting on so many battlefields, you still have this feeling. Even fifty years later, you can still feel the danger, but you still let Xing Chen go down the mountain.
Already."
"Isn't it fair?" Li Cheng turned his head to look at Mr. Song and sighed softly, "Those two children may be the only ones left alive in the entire village."
"No, Xin Chen and Li Qiu are indeed the best choices. One is brave and resourceful, and the other is clever. Let them find reinforcements. Even if they are looking for a needle in a haystack, they are more likely to succeed than letting the others do it.
Mr. Song walked up slowly and said calmly, "What's more, there is no fairness in these troubled times. Fifty years ago, there was a flash flood, and only three of us among seven thousand brothers managed to survive. So what's the point?"
fair?"
Li Cheng laughed and said: "Then that's the end of it!"
"Even though I know I can only do this, I still feel a little uncomfortable in my heart, and I feel unhappy if I don't vomit." Mr. Song smiled self-consciously, "Let's go, we're almost there."
The sound of footsteps suddenly sounded behind them. Li Cheng and Mr. Song subconsciously looked back, and Zheng Qing caught up with them on both hands and feet: "Come up... The bandits are coming up!"
Li Cheng frowned and nodded towards Mr. Song. The pace of the two of them speeded up. Zheng Qing led several young people behind him to cut down the trees on the road and lay them across the road, so that they could block the road.
A moment is a moment.
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"Hurry, follow up!" Xiao Shilian roared in a low voice, and a famous soldier on the mountain road rushed forward with a medal in his hand.
The rugged mountain road retreated quickly under their feet. The veterans who followed Xiao Shilian had experienced many battles. Although it was their first time to walk in such deep mountains and old forests, their steps were no faster than Li Xingchen who was leading the way.
They are slow.
The few Northern Zhou sentry scouts just now had very hard bones. When they found themselves in the hands of the Nanchen army, they bit their tongues and committed suicide without hesitation. Even the old soldiers guarding Xiao Shilian were shocked, knowing that they were in the hands of
The prepared rag has not been stuffed yet.
The decisiveness of these sentinels made everyone, including Li Xingchen and Xiao Shilian, shudder in their hearts. What kind of secret was worth guarding with their lives?
Now that these sentinels are dead, only a few unlucky bandits are left. Unfortunately, these bandits who are about to wet their pants obviously don't know anything, but they still learned from them that the bandits are searching the village.
The road to the back mountain.
At that time, Li Xingchen secretly screamed, and Xiao Shilian also knew that it was too late. Whether it was to figure out the purpose of this Northern Zhou army or to defeat this group of bandits to complete the task assigned by Xiao Maha, the key was
The key is to quickly find the location of the villagers in the village. As long as we can first occupy the dangerous spots in the back mountains, we can take the initiative on the entire battlefield.
Of course, Xiao Shilian had already made preparations and dispatched more than ten people to escort the bandits back. Maybe they could find out something when they were interrogated by the army, and their presence could at least prove that Xiao Shilian's previous speculation was somewhat reasonable.
"How much longer?" Xiao Shilian gasped as he struggled to catch up with Li Xingchen. This was his first time walking such a long mountain road.
"It's almost there." Li Xingchen replied in a low voice, raised his head and pointed, "Look, it's right..."
Li Xingchen's voice stopped suddenly.
When Xiao Shilian looked in the direction of his finger, his expression also changed drastically.
On the shady side of the hillside not far away, there are several houses that are difficult to detect. If it weren't for Li Xinchen's fingers, no one would have discovered that there was a mystery hidden in the lush greenery. But what shocked Li Xinchen and Xiao Shilian was that
It's not the house that can be found even if you search carefully, but farther away, the black and pressing wave moving forward.
Although the activity has ceased, the huge and suffocating team can still be clearly seen.
"General!" Several veterans said with trembling voices, "They are barbarians!"
Xiao Shilian took a breath of cold air: "Someone... knows."
Without realizing it, his voice had even changed its tone.
But Li Xingchen didn't care so much, grabbed Li Qiu and rushed towards the village quickly.
"Major General, my subordinates will escort the Major General and leave as soon as possible!" an old soldier said in a hurry.
Several other veterans also stood up and were about to speak when they saw Xiao Shilian raising his hand to stop them.