"Strategist, strategist! We are here! Ten miles ahead is Huguan!"
Amid a cry of concern, Guo Jia struggled to open his dull eyes, and what he saw was Zhou Cang's already dark and thin face.
"Military...you have suffered!" Looking at Guo Jia's haggard face that was no longer human, Zhou Cang felt sour and couldn't help but sigh.
After nearly three days of high-intensity marching, eight hundred Julu sergeants marched nearly 200 miles through the winding Taihang Mountains! They finally arrived here on the evening of the third day!
However, the negative effects of the forced march were also huge. In the last two hundred miles of the mountain road, even the Julu Army, which is famous for its marches, had more than 200 people left behind. After three days, even a hard-working man would have to One can imagine the pain and suffering Guo Jia endured despite losing a layer of his skin due to exhaustion and persisting despite being seriously ill.
In the past three days, Guo Jia has been in a coma most of the time. Occasionally he wakes up and urges Zhou Cang to march faster, without caring about his own body!
Today, his already thin body is only skin and bones, his face is sallow, his eye sockets are sunken, and his cheekbones are raised high on his thin cheeks. There is no hint of the suave, handsome and handsome person in the past.
"What day is it today?" Guo Jia said weakly. If Zhou Cang hadn't been close, he could hardly hear Guo Jia's voice.
"It's already the fifteenth day," Zhou Cang choked and said. Every time he saw Guo Jia, he would feel extremely ashamed. He, who always prided himself on being a man, couldn't help but burst into tears. His master Qian Dingzhu Wan asked him to do a big job. The person is in his own hands, but now the person suffering from the disease does not look like a human being, and the ghost does not look like a ghost. Not to mention that the master will punish the crime when he goes back, even if he sees it, he will not feel sorry for himself.
"It's been fifteen days... My lord will definitely be working on the key points in the past two days. Please ask me to come over and have a look... Let the sergeants find a hiding place to camp for a day and rest, and attack the city the next day. Remember. .....No fire shall be lit for these two days, and the defenders shall not discover their whereabouts..."
"But...Military Advisor! 555555...I...I, Old Zhou, can't help you!" Zhou Cang exclaimed, and then suddenly subconsciously shut up, these days He had known that Guo Jia had a stubborn temper and would never go back on something he had decided. If he argued, he would only waste the military advisor's energy in vain, but... no fire was allowed for two days. It would be okay for the sergeants to eat some dry food, but If Guo Jiaru didn't take medicine, how could he survive these two days...
At the thought of this, the eight-foot-tall Kansai man could no longer control his emotions, his eye circles turned red, he twisted around and choked with sobs...
However, he was so excited that Zhou Cang took Guo Jia to investigate the military situation. After returning to the camp, Guo Jia gave Zhou Cang some instructions. After such exhaustion, Guo Jia felt like the world was spinning, his vision went dark, and he fainted. ...""
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"Huhu... Huhu..." After cutting down the last Bingzhou soldier in front of him, Su You breathed out loudly and sat down on the ground. He was counting backwards all around him. Su You didn't care about the hundreds of corpses, lying on his back on the corpse of a Bingzhou soldier with half a thigh missing.
"It's been three days, it's been delayed for so long, it's almost time to break out." Panting heavily, Su You murmured to himself.
It has been three days since he blocked this army. Since that day, Su You has fought seven or eight battles with this Bingzhou army. With the narrow terrain of mountains on both sides, at least 700 Bingzhou soldiers fell.
In this valley that is already soaked in blood, Su You's troops are not feeling well either. Not even 200 of them can breathe now.
In order to concentrate his troops, Su You quickly moved half of the sergeants on the west hillside to the east hillside to garrison together. With the help of bows and arrows, the casualty ratio between the Julu Army and the Bingzhou Army once increased to more than one to five!
Unfortunately, all the arrows were fired on the first day, and the Bingzhou soldiers' attack was more crazy than expected. They seemed to attack in endless turns. With their absolute advantage in strength, the casualty ratio of both sides gradually decreased.
After resting for a while, Su You stood up staggeringly. There was a cut on his calf and he staggered a little when he walked.
When the soldiers around him saw Su You approaching, they all saluted him tremblingly. Su You pushed him down one by one. He looked down the slope, his thick eyebrows frowning into an inverted triangle.
Down the slope, the Bingzhou Army had blocked the valley road from both sides and forced a breakout. It seemed that it was not that easy.
"Let's see and then talk. Let the sergeants eat first." Su You murmured as he really couldn't think of any ideas.
In the Bingzhou Army camp three miles away, Hao Zhao also looked in the direction of the Julu Army with a complicated expression.
He was also surprised by the tenacity of the army in front of him. A mere four to five hundred men were able to block the attacks of more than two thousand people from his own side, and also caused more than seven hundred casualties to his own side!
The soldiers in this unit in front of me are not as powerful as the black-tasseled armored soldiers in terms of equipment or martial arts, but when it comes to their will to fight, they are no less powerful!
Hao Zhao secretly frowned, it has been three days, and I don’t know what happened to Huguan, so I can’t delay it any longer! Today, no matter what, I have to pull out this nail stuck in my throat!
Hao Zhao immediately sent an order: "Go down here, bury the pot and make rice, and continue the attack in the afternoon!"
The orderly soldier next to him heard the promise, but his heart was full of worry. After three days of fierce fighting, the morale of the sergeant was low. Who could bear it if this went on?
Hao Zhao looked up and suddenly saw streaks of smoke rising from the hillside in the distance, apparently starting to cook.
Looking at the rising smoke, Hao Zhao's heart moved, he thought about it, and said: "Wait a minute! Give me an order. Within half an hour, everyone in the army must chop a load of firewood. No one can exceed the time limit."
Whoever, kill!"
"As you command!"
Su You had had lunch and was lying on a pile of dead grass facing the sun. It was late autumn weather now, and the wind was chilly in the mountains at night. After eating and basking in the sun for a while, his extremely tired body could recover a lot.
Suddenly, there was a noise from the sergeants around him. Su You sat up and saw hundreds of Bingzhou soldiers, each holding a bundle of firewood. Su You's sergeants were pointing and wondering what the Bingzhou army was doing.
Su You was also looking on the slope in confusion, but now there were no rocks on the slope, otherwise many people would have been killed by them.
Suddenly, Su You saw the Bingzhou Army lighting up torches to light the large piles of firewood piled down the slope. In a blink of an eye, the Bingzhou Army lit dozens of piles of firewood at the foot of the hillside. The mountain wind roared, and the firewood burned instantly.
The burning was so intense that it was almost like a prairie fire!