"Yang Qing, you are excellent and worthy of being a model for the whole army, which I personally recommend!"
Hearing this, Yang Qing was extremely excited.
It doesn't matter if he is praised, the words "model for the whole army" are mentioned again, which is an honor and high recognition for Yang Qing.
Not to mention the convicted Gao Zhengan, even Li Gu, who had just been promoted half a rank, was extremely envious of Yang Qing at this moment.
With so many people in the army, only two people were awarded such honors by Zhao Yanxun, and the other was Cui Xing'an, who was called upon by the entire army to learn from him.
"Thank you for the compliment, Your Majesty!" Yang Qing saluted and paid homage.
Zhao Yanxun signaled Yang Qing to get up, and then glanced to the northwest, where were the rolling mountains. The sun was almost setting on the hillside at this moment.
So the question fell in front of Zhao Yanxun, should he catch up now, kill the black bear and seize the meteorite?
If it's dark, it's definitely dangerous to go into the mountains, which must be carefully weighed.
If we don't go today, the black bear with the meteorite may go far away or even disappear, which will undoubtedly be a loss to Zhao Yanxun.
"Wang Zong..."
"I'm here!"
Wang Zong and Zhang Meng have returned with their subordinates and are standing nearby watching.
"You take your subordinates and the reinforcements from Yuan County and return to the county seat!"
"As you command!"
At this time, Zhao Yanxun looked at Li Gu and asked, "The sun will set in an hour, can we rush back to the county seat?"
After thinking again and again, Li Gu firmly replied: "Yes!"
"You leave now!"
These subordinates were sent away because this place does not need so many people. The only thing that needs to be dealt with now is a bear.
"As you command!"
Although they are two armies, they only have about 200 people in total, so there is no problem in leaving at will.
Immediately afterwards, the two armies lined up and rushed towards Yuan County.
After ten minutes, the place became much clearer, leaving only Zhao Yanxun, Zhang Meng and other guards, as well as Yang Qing and his men.
After taking a look at the trench around the military vehicle, Zhao Yanxun said to Yang Qing: "You continue to station here and clean up the corpses inside!"
"I accept your order!"
After saying that, Zhao Yanxun got on his horse and said to Zhang Meng: "Go... into the mountain!"
Zhang Meng is a restless person. He didn't enjoy killing zombies just now. Now he wants to go into the mountains and continue cutting. Of course he is willing in his heart.
When Zhao Yanxun left first, Zhang Meng shouted to the left and right at the top of his lungs: "Brothers, follow the prince to kill the bear!"
With the sound of horse hoofbeats, Zhao Yanxun and his entourage gradually moved away, and finally disappeared into the distant woods.
"Don't be stunned, get to work quickly and move the bodies out of the trench!"
"Move far away and burn him!"
As Yang Qing finished speaking, the soldiers began to get busy, and Yang Qing himself was not idle either.
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A quarter of an hour later, Zhao Yanxun and his party stood in front of a tree. To be more precise, it was a broken tree.
Where the bark is broken, you can see black hairs mixed with it.
Zhang Meng picked up the black hair, showed it in front of Zhao Yanxun, and said: "Your Majesty, this should be the hair of that beast!"
Zhao Yanxun nodded, glanced towards the direction where the tree fell, and said in a deep voice: "Keep chasing!"
Then everyone got on their horses and continued moving forward.
This stretch of mountains is the boundary between Yuan County and Chengde. The mountains are high and densely forested, making transportation extremely inconvenient.
So at this moment, none of them had ever ridden a horse, and they were all relying on their feet to move forward.
The horses were all left outside, and twenty men were left alone to guard them.
So now, including Zhao Yanxun, there are only thirty-five people going into the mountain together.
In these mountains, the terrain is extremely complex, and they can only find the general direction to trace.
If we usually find a mountain hunter to lead the way, we can go much faster, or at least avoid many detours.
Unfortunately, there was no one alive in the mountain at this time, and most of the houses we encountered had collapsed.
After everyone walked a few hundred meters, someone suddenly shouted: "Your Majesty, there are footprints here!"
They moved forward in a spread-out manner, with more than 30 people separated by about one meter, and a large net of more than 30 meters was opened.
This is a puddle. The soil around the puddle is soft, so the footprints are left.
The footprints changed from shallow to deep, then from deep to shallow until they disappeared, once again pointing the direction to Zhao Yanxun and others.
In fact, the key to their ability to track the footprints was Zhao Yanxun's perception, which allowed them to constantly correct their direction.
"Go...to the west!" Zhao Yanxun pointed forward and said.
Without hesitation, everyone continued to rush deeper into the mountains and forests in the direction pointed by Zhao Yanxun.
There are no roads in the mountains, and it is extremely difficult to travel in armor under such conditions.
They had to fight their way through bushes, thorns, mountain streams, and they were exhausted after all the hard work.
By this moment, the sky was getting darker and darker, and it would be dark in half an hour at most.
"Your Majesty, there is a house ahead!" Zhang Meng pointed to the front and said.
This place is deeper into the mountains and forests. They haven't seen a house for a long time, so there is a place here that is naturally surprising.
In fact, Zhang Meng didn't finish his words. He actually wanted to rest here tonight. After all, it was almost dark.
Zhao Yanxun also noticed this problem, so he said: "Go over and take a look... take a rest by the way!"
He let the others pass, but he jumped onto the tree and climbed directly to the top along the trunk.
When walking in the mountains and in a dense forest, the field of vision is extremely narrow and it is difficult to have an overall concept of the surrounding environment.
That's why Zhao Yanxun climbed up the tree and came to a relatively high position, just to see the surrounding situation clearly.
The mountains are so long that if they keep walking eastward, they can get out of the mountains in only four or five miles, so they don't necessarily have to rest in the mountains at night.
Just as Zhao Yanxun was thinking, he heard an exclamation not far away, followed by a loud roar.
"Be careful, be careful..."
"Don't panic, get in formation... get in formation!"
Hearing Zhang Meng's roar, Zhao Yanxun knew something was wrong, so he quickly looked under the tree, where there were three guards staying behind.
"What's going on?"
While asking questions, Zhao Yanxun turned on system awareness.
Unfortunately, his perception range was fifty meters, and Zhang Meng and others were outside the range, so Zhao Yanxun didn't know the situation clearly.
"Your Majesty, there is... there is a bear!"
Could it be that there is no place to be found after wearing iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get there?
Zhao Yanxun wasted no time and slid down the tree as quickly as possible. The next moment he pulled out his knife and quickly rushed in the direction of Zhang Meng and others.
"roar……"
This was the roar of a bear. Zhang Meng and others retreated in formation, their expressions full of solemnity.
Even Zhang Meng, who had extremely strong martial arts, felt terrified in his heart when he saw these two beasts in front of him.
That's right, what appeared in front of Zhang Meng were two huge black bears.
"Brothers, don't panic, let's advance together and retreat together!"
The guards present were the most elite force in the palace. Although they were frightened at this moment, none of them retreated without permission.
Just when one of the black bears was about to attack, a sharp arrow shot out with a whoosh and pierced the black bear's eye directly.
Unexpectedly, the black bear ducked and the arrow missed its vital point and directly hit its back.
