When Yang Fangyun walked in, his pace was a little hurried: "I just got the news. Your Excellency has conquered four places. The soldiers are invincible. Now he is leading the army to cross Danda Mountain!"
Deng Xia looked happy, but Yang Fangyun suddenly said: "But the second battalion of Shi Fengrong, the rear army, is dragging his feet and refusing to join the army as soon as possible. My first team has arrived at Danda Mountain, but the second battalion is not connected to the river."
The card has not arrived.”
The joy on Deng Xia's face disappeared in an instant. He took the map and looked at it for a long time: "Once you cross Danda Mountain, you will definitely launch an attack on Jiang Dazong. Before the rear army arrives, the first team will be alone!"
Yu Lei said slowly: "I heard Shi Fengrong's name when I was in Chengdu. This person is timid and afraid of death, and jealous of talented people. Your Excellency has made such great contributions, how can Shi Fengrong not be jealous? Again
In addition, Danda Mountain is dangerous, so I don’t think Shi Fengrong will send troops easily."
"What should we do? Your Excellency goes deep alone, but Shi Fengrong refuses to move. Could it be that..." Deng Xia suddenly became anxious.
"It doesn't matter." Yu Lei smiled slightly, as if he was confident: "Actually, regarding Shi Fengrong, I have already told you before sending the troops, and I have made preparations. You guys come..."
Yu Lei talked for a while, and Deng Xia and Yang Fangyun looked surprised and uncertain.
When he finished speaking, Deng Xia raised his head and said doubtfully: "This, is this really what the adults said?"
Yu Lei did not comment: "Whether it is what the adults said or not, this is the only way to help the adults."
Deng Xia and Yang Fangyun looked at each other, gritted their teeth, and nodded.
Yu Lei smiled: "Then let's split up and prepare a fast horse for me. I'm going to Shi Fengrong's place!"
...
The whistling wind blew past my ears, and my feet were deep and shallow.
Although Jia Haoyang has repeatedly explained the horror of snow-capped mountains, when he experienced them in person, he realized that snow-capped mountains are far more terrifying than what people describe.
The mountain wind roared with terror. The snow under the feet seemed to be able to swallow people up at any time.
The preparations were quite sufficient. During the rest day, in addition to Jia Haoyang's busy work, Wang Hengyue also repeatedly ordered his subordinates not to walk quickly, not to run, not even to eat well, all in order to avoid altitude sickness, even
Jia Haoyang was also a little surprised as to why adults knew this.
But no matter how well prepared they are, altitude sickness still inevitably appears among the brothers.
The soldier began to breathe with his mouth wide open, "huffing and puffing". His body felt extremely uncomfortable, and every step forward felt so heavy.
A soldier fell to the ground with a "plop". No matter how his brothers helped him, he refused to get up and would rather die in the snow.
"Get up, if you don't want to die, get up..." Wang Hengyue also felt uncomfortable and kicked the brother.
The soldier who fell on the ground reluctantly got up. Jia Haoyang hurriedly took the butter tea in the cowhide bag and drank it. The soldier drank a few sips, and then he felt better.
"Give all the butter tea to me, save some. There's still a long way to go..." Wang Hengyue said, panting heavily.
"God, I would rather die now." Peter's face was very ugly, and he staggered step by step: "If this happens, we don't have to fight the rebels, and we can die here. Merciful God, bless us."
Wang Hengyue stood on a branch and said as he walked: "Peter, you have to ask the mountain god to bless you. Your god belongs to you foreigners and it won't work here."
Peter thought this was very reasonable and hurriedly crossed himself on his chest: "Merciful God and merciful mountain gods, please protect us and don't let us die here..."
Walking onto the road, Xu Mu in front swiped his foot and almost fell. He glanced down and his face turned pale. Is he still alive if he falls?
"Damn it, who wants to be an official over there?" Xu Mu cursed angrily, "I can only crawl over there with half my life left."
"Sir, you can use this." Huang Zixuan, who acted as Wang Hengyue's personal guard, brought a thicker branch.
"I call it Shuzhi. Now we use branches. It's stupid. No need." Wang Hengyue felt uncomfortable in his stomach and retched a few times, but nothing came out: "Let the brothers follow one by one. Be careful and speak loudly."
Please lower your temper for me."
Further forward, there was no grass growing and it was impossible to walk. Fortunately, Jia Haoyang was prepared in advance and asked each soldier to carry a bundle of firewood and lay it as they moved forward.
After all the hard work, they climbed to the third mountain peak. At this time, most of the brothers had begun to have chest tightness, dizziness, and numbness in their hands and faces. Their faces and fingernails were all purple. The horses and men were breathing rapidly, and their hearts seemed to jump out of their bodies, and they walked away.
After taking ten or twenty steps, you have to stop to take a breath and take a break.
When I looked back, I could see the mountains all around. I felt dizzy and my heart was beating fast. Many brothers were almost crawling. Even a few majestic horses began to pant rapidly.
Suddenly there was an exclamation from the front. It turned out that a soldier in the first row who was walking in front accidentally stepped on the ground and fell off the cliff.
There was no chance to save him. The brothers could only watch him fall but were unable to do anything.
"Let's go, let's go." Xie Shuixiang's voice was hoarse, and there was even blood oozing out from the corners of his nose and eyes: "Brothers, let's go, let's go, don't stop..."
Halfway through his words, his throat became completely speechless.
The brothers took one last silent look at the bottom of the cliff, and then walked forward silently.
No, it's not walking away, it's already crawling.
"Wang, I can't do it anymore, I can't do it anymore." Peter waved his hands repeatedly and rolled to the ground: "I really can't walk anymore, you go, don't worry about me anymore."
"Get up, you damn foreign devil!" Wang Hengyue hit him with the branch in his hand: "I order you to get up. You are my soldier. If I don't let you die, you will not be allowed to come up!"
After saying just a few words, I already felt short of breath and couldn't say anything.
Li Yifeng and Huang Zixuan, one on each side, desperately pulled Peter up. Peter looked depressed. Ever since Wang Hengyue recognized him, he had never seen him like this before.
"This damn snow mountain..." Wang Hengyue cursed in his heart.
We have only climbed more than half of the mountain, and there is still nearly a third of the mountain road to go. God knows if I can climb it, and God knows how many brothers will die here.
What's even more terrible is that the first team is like this. What about the main force of the second battalion led by Shi Fengrong? Will they come? Do they have the courage to get over here?
Perhaps, this snow-capped mountain is the most difficult hurdle to overcome in the entire counterinsurgency!