() The next day, Dulang summoned the escort group. A large group of wolf riders gathered together again, with a look of impatience on everyone's face.
"Prince, we have searched carefully for miles around, but we haven't found any trace of human beings hiding... Did you guess wrong..." Xiaomu Wulang reported to Dulanghui with a grimace.
"asshole!"
Dulang was furious: "How could you guess wrong? Did you really search carefully?"
"We searched really carefully. There were traces of two to three hundred people. This chaotic place is also covered with large forests. Even though it has been snowing for the past two days, it is still easy to tell if someone is camping - but we really don't know anything about it.
No traces were found." Xiaomu Wulang said in frustration.
"How is it possible..." Dulang wondered.
…
He looked around: "Human beings definitely don't camp randomly in the forest, otherwise they must have been hit by our soldiers yesterday, but where could they be... By the way, have you searched some caves or something?"
"He suddenly remembered the cave that Long Er told him to find, but he asked like this.
"We've searched everything we can, unless we can't find it." Xiaomu Wulang spread his hands.
"That's weird..." Dulang's eyes were wandering around, but he muttered.
…
Suddenly, his eyes froze!
"Look, isn't that ice wall weird?" He raised his saber, but pointed at an ice wall on an ice cliff not far away.
"There's nothing weird... We looked there at the beginning yesterday." Xiaomu Wulang looked at it and said doubtfully.
"Idiot! Please find out for me why... the ice starting from a certain point on the ice wall looks like water flowing down the ice wall?! But there is no ice above or to the side not far away.
Traces of water flow?! There is no cover here. Could it be that the sun does not shine above or below, but only shines on that point on the ice cliff?!"
Dulang said solemnly, but strode over.
"That's right! Why didn't I think of it! Something strange!" Xiaomu Wulang suddenly realized.
"Quick! Follow up!" He ordered cheerfully to the wolf riders behind him.
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"Where are we now?" Xie Ning suddenly stopped in the hurried and silent team.
Everything is still normal. The police troops scattered in all directions have not reported any encounters with barbarians so far. However, Xie Ning is still a little uneasy, but he has attracted a demon warrior to ask.
Mo Zhan opened the map he carried with him and looked at it, then looked up at Xie Ning.
"General, we should be currently... in the northeast of the Snow Forest in the Far North, at about half past twelve o'clock vertically and about two o'clock horizontally. The barbarian regiment should be deployed outside the Far North Forest, at about four o'clock horizontally -
—Too close and they're likely to be spotted."
"How long does it take to reach the coastline?"
"If everything goes well, it will probably take about ten days. But I'm worried that the scholars won't be able to hold on..." Mo Zhan replied, but he glanced or looked pale, but silently gritted his teeth and marched, or
They were the scholars who were unconscious on the backs of the demon warriors.
"It doesn't matter, the equipment is on the sled, and most of the people are on the back of the demon war - it just destroys half of the team's combat effectiveness." Xie Ning gritted his teeth, but said: "But how can we fight? Once discovered or
If you are caught, you will die."
…
"Is there enough food?" Xie Ning thought for a while and asked as he looked at the forest where he would usually encounter a few monsters, but this night he didn't see any. The whole forest seemed empty.
"General, this is what I want to report to you." A trace of bitterness suddenly appeared on the face of the demon warrior: "Our food... is running out. The barbarians have almost captured all the magical beasts in the forest, and
But we originally planned to hunt monsters for food, and we didn’t bring any supplies..."
"The demon warriors are fine, just bear with it for a few days, but the scholars..." He hesitated, his worried face clearly visible.
…
"Then try to compress the food for the magic war and distribute it to the scholars - we can't stop now. One more minute of stopping will be one more minute of danger. When we leave, although the ice wall is sealed again as it is, nothing can be
Artificial work will always leave traces, and we can't take all aspects into consideration in a hurry. I'm worried that the barbarians will find the hole and chase it."
"And now we can't find food. The barbarians will definitely have a camp for grazing monsters not far to the south of us, but we can't rob it - if we rob it, we will expose ourselves. Everyone, just hold on and get to the beach.
Well, at least you can fish there.”
Xie Ning sighed, but said solemnly.
…
Just as he was talking, he saw a sled approaching at lightning speed. Xie Ning's eyes narrowed, but he had an ominous premonition - it was the sled of the rear guard.
"General, we are indeed following the pursuit troops!" The sled suddenly stopped in front of Xie Ning, and a pale-faced Demon Zhan jumped down. The afterglow of the wind element's magical energy had not yet dissipated from his body.
, he said hurriedly.
"Seriously?" Xie Ning's face suddenly changed, but he asked urgently.
"Yes, General. We followed your instructions and made a lot of message trees along the way. We also climbed up the tree at regular intervals to look through the telescope, and several fell down in a row - the red on the top of the tree.
We will not admit the mistake in the banner! It could only be that the organized troops are chasing us." Mo Zhan said anxiously.
"It seems that there is a cunning barbarian commander behind us..." Xie Ning murmured.
…
"We have been discovered? Are we being chased? What news tree?" Yang Linkai asked loudly beside him.
"It's like this, sir. The general taught us to make some small traps. A rope buried in the snow is connected to a tree. If someone steps on it, the tree will fall - so that we can find it from a long distance.
Is anyone chasing you?"
"Not long ago, our rearguard team discovered that several missiles had been knocked down in a row - it could only be that the pursuit troops followed our traces and chased us, and they were probably faster than us."
Mo Zhan looked at Yang Linkai and replied respectfully.
"That's really bad..." Yang Linkai murmured with a pale face.
"Xie Ning, order the troops to march quickly. We can't save our energy." He suddenly turned to Xie Ning.
"But we won't last long like this." Xiao Ledong added sadly: "Everyone is hungry. It's better to march at a normal speed. I'm afraid we won't last long if we march at a rapid pace - but it's impossible for the sled to catch us all.
, we can’t keep using the magic energy sequence to push the sled on the road, no one can afford it.”
He looked at the sleigh team that was carrying scholars driven by the magic war, and said with a grimace.
…
"That's fine..." Xie Ning took a deep breath.
"The avant-garde team has discovered many camps where barbarian logistics herd monsters. Since they have been discovered, we are not worried about being exposed. We will go south to a barbarian logistics camp without stopping. By then, we will have full stomachs.
The speed is at least much faster than it is now. As long as the weather is strong enough, we still have hope of escaping."
Xie Ning reached out to catch a snowflake and murmured.
"But... what if there is an encirclement and suppression?" Yang Linkai frowned.
"About ten of us have been surrounded and suppressed. I don't know why the barbarians attach so much importance to our small force, but since they do, I don't believe that the barbarian commander will only chase from behind, but will not mobilize troops from the front.
Surround us - if it were you, would you be such idiots?" Xie Ning said solemnly.
…
"Then what should we do? The barbarians will catch up with us sooner or later. There will be pursuers and interceptors...how on earth did they find our traces?" After hearing this, Academician Qian who came over suddenly became panicked, but he was extremely anxious.
asked.
"Academician, now is not the time to find out how they found our traces. The barbarian pursuers should still be a day or two away from us. As long as the snow doesn't stop, they will have to search carefully to find our traces. They won't get up quickly.
"
"Even in the worst case scenario, you don't have to worry. Although only half of our team is combat-ready, they are all elites - even if you put a big magic war in, you can serve as the leader of a reconnaissance force of several hundred people.
Official. So, if the barbarians were to deploy their troops to pursue hundreds of reconnaissance troops... then they would really have a hard time."
Xie Ning said solemnly.
…
"Order the vanguard group to move forward as much as possible to search for the position of the barbarian intercepting troops. Let's move slightly to the south first, set up a camp, and get enough food, and then..."
"What happens next?" the three of them asked in unison.
"Then let's see if the method taught by Grand Ancestor can be used..." Xie Ning also murmured.
"Grandpa Taizu? What method did Grandpa Taizu teach us?" Xiao Ledong murmured in confusion, but saw that the young man had already turned around and went to the team to give orders.
He looked at Yang Linkai in confusion, only to find that Yang Linkai's face was also full of confusion.
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"It seems that the human reconnaissance force we are chasing has a cunning commander... I hope he can come up with this kind of vigilance method." Dulang looked at the rope in the snow and murmured.
"Prince, didn't he expose himself like this?" Xiaomu Wulang asked doubtfully.
"Idiot, if there is a pursuit force behind him, then it means that he himself has been exposed. What does it matter if he is exposed again? If there is no pursuit force behind him, then no one will step on these ropes, so how can he be exposed? Mu Wulang,
Can you use your brain a little bit? It's because we, the barbarians, have so many idiots like you that we let that bastard Long Er show off his power."
Dulang looked at Xiaomu Wulang with hatred.
…
"Then what should we do?" Xiaomu Wulang didn't change his expression, accepted the criticism humbly, and asked even more humbly.
Dulang looked at him steadily, but sighed: "What else can we do? Chase! This damn heavy snow has made our wolf cavalry's mobility advantage almost gone. But there are interceptions in front and pursuers behind. Humans,
Unless you can fly, I don’t believe you can escape!”
Du Lang said harshly, but he whipped the giant wolf king beneath him. The giant wolf king let out a long howl in pain and started running hard in the thick snow.