Chapter 357 358 Traitor
Shen Hui and Chen Lin endured the abdominal pain and slowly followed Yang Rui's footsteps with a wooden stick.
Yang Rui looked for the road signs along the way and changed the direction with a knife, climbing towards the mountain. Suddenly he found two hungry wolves staring at him in front of him.
Yang Rui pulled out his sword, and the wolf rushed over and bit Yang Rui's leg. Yang Rui struck the wolf on the head with the knife and cut off the wolf's scalp. However, a piece of flesh was bitten off his calf by the wolf, and the white bones were exposed immediately. , dripping with blood, the other wolf grabbed Yang Rui's chest with a claw, opened its fangs and bit his neck. Yang Rui hurriedly slashed the wolf's back with a knife. The wolf whined and fell down. The wolf with a piece of its scalp cut off fought back. He came up and bit the bowl that Yang Rui was holding the knife in. Yang Rui pulled out the dagger with his left hand and stabbed it on the wolf's neck. He stirred twice and the wolf fell to the ground with a cry.
Yang Rui sat paralyzed on the ground, knowing that it was not suitable to stay here for a long time, so he staggered forward with the handle of his knife on his hands.
When Li Yu and Ji Xiang walked along the front of the army, they continued to pursue the increasingly obvious traces left behind. Ji Xiang shouted to Li Yu from behind: "Madam, it looks like we are about to catch up with General Shen. What should I do?" Do you think their marching speed is too slow? Could something have happened?"
Li Yu had discovered this situation a long time ago, and was also wondering whether Shen Shuo and the others had made a mistake.
Medical officer He had already found all the herbs and started brewing them. He saw that the forest was littered with exhausted soldiers.
Shen Shuo looked at the soldiers lying on the ground, and thought of the howling wolves and tigers at night, and began to worry. He thought to himself that he should prepare firewood while it was still early, otherwise he might become the first soldier in history to suffer from diarrhea. The army was wiped out by tigers and wolves.
Shen Shuo summoned a few officers and soldiers who were in better condition and ordered: "You guys should find more firewood and pile it up nearby."
"Yes, General." Several people quickly took action, cutting down dead trees, picking up firewood, and piling up firewood.
Yang Rui dragged his injured leg forward and sat down on a boulder. He panted and looked at the uninhabited mountains and old forests in front of him. Then he looked at his wrists and calves. There were blood stains on the places scratched and bitten by wolves. There was seepage, and there was also a dull pain in the chest. Looking at the gloomy dense forest in front of him, Yang Rui felt a little heavy. He took out the gold wound medicine and sprinkled it on the wrist with a piece of flesh hanging on it, and on the painful calf where the white bones were exposed. Feeling dizzy, Yang Rui tore off his clothes and bandaged the wound, ate some dry food and continued to move forward.
Shen Hui and Chen Lin drank the medicine twice in succession before they felt that their stomachs were not so uncomfortable. Chen Lin said to Shen Hui sadly: "General Shen Shen, I never thought that Yang Rui turned out to be Qi Ren's spy. If Didn't we just find out the news just before we set off? If Yang had prepared some poison and put it in the soup pot for us on the way, wouldn't we all be finished?"
Shen Hui thought about it and suddenly felt a little lucky. If it was really a pot of poison and was poisoned by a spy to kill thousands of officers and soldiers, it would be really fucking embarrassing. "Old Chen, I didn't expect that you are still a wonderful person. You said this to me." My mood has improved a lot, tell me! This Yang Rui looks pretty good at ordinary times! You see, he has been promoted to the rank of general, and he is the fiancé of the Wei family. I heard that the Wei family is as rich as the state-owned family. With endless money to spend, are you afraid that you will not have a good future after marrying Miss Wei? How could you become a spy for Qi Ren? It would be unbelievable if you hadn't witnessed it with your own eyes."
Chen Lin suddenly became worried, "General Shen, do you think there are spies like Yang Rui under our general's command?"
"It's okay for you and me to talk about this. When everyone arrives, don't speak randomly. You can't afford to shake the morale of the army." Shen Hui reminded Chen Lindao.
Chen Lin turned his head and cupped his hands towards Shen Hui, "Thank you, General Shen. I have been with you for so many years, and I can speak freely in front of you. In front of others, I am just a saw-mouthed gourd."
"Knowing that you were careful, I always called you along." Shen Hui said with a smile.
As they talked, the two followed Yang Rui's traces and walked to a mark. Shen Hui and Chen Lin looked at the altered traces and felt worried. Chen Lin looked at Shen Hui: "General Shen, What do you think we should do?”
"I'll take a look around and then make a plan." Shen Hui walked around the area and saw the traces left by the scouts in front of him, "Old Chen, let's follow the traces left by the scouts! You can see that the mark was obviously made not long ago."
"Just go as you say." Chen Lin swallowed the dry food in his hand and followed quickly.
Over there, Medical Officer He had already given herbal medicine to the soldiers who had diarrhea. After drinking the herbal medicine for more than half an hour, most of the soldiers' diarrhea stopped. Shen Shuo breathed a sigh of relief and thought about Yang Rui. He had pulled it up with his own hands. If he continued to pull it up and delayed the military plane, and Qi people broke in, he would have no choice but to die as an apology.
After several days of traveling day and night, plus several delays from Shen Shuo and the others, Li Yu and Ji Xiang arrived not far from Shen Shuo and the others before dark.
At night, Shen Shuo ordered people to light a fire, gather all the officers and soldiers in an open space, and sit together in a circle to protect themselves from wild beasts. At the beginning of Haishi, the forest in the distance was already pitch black. A soldier looked at the forest above for a while and shouted to Shen Shuo: "General, look at the green trees on the slope above. , are they the eyes of a wolf?”
Shen Shuo and everyone looked back, and found out that the wolves were indeed coming. The wolves stood on the mountain and stared at the crowd below with green eyes, as if they were considering whether they could defeat this large group of humans.
Shen Shuo estimated that there might be thirty or forty wolves in this group. "Soldiers on the periphery, prepare their crossbows and swords to meet the enemy."
The soldiers on the outside prepared their crossbows and knives after listening to the order, and confronted the wolves on the outside. The soldiers on the inside burned the fire even more intensely, and the fire illuminated a nearby forest. The wolves saw the fire and the large group of people. , watching Shen Shuo and the others stop moving forward, Li Yu and Ji Xiang also saw the fire burning on the mountain hill below.
Ji Xiang climbed up the tree and looked at the fire in the distance, and said excitedly to Li Yu: "Madam, there might be General Shen and the others in front of us, or let's catch up."
Li Yu took a few sips of warm water and glanced at the auspicious sign on the tree. "Don't be excited. You don't know. You'd better rush down and have a good rest so we can get on our way."
"Yes." Jixiang slid down from the tree unhappily, picked up the water bag and drank a few sips of water, then added some horse feed to the horse, then leaned against the big tree and closed his eyes to rest.
Shen Hui and Chen Lin climbed up to a tree and sat on the branch to rest against the trunk. Chen Lin suddenly saw a fire in front of him. He shook Shen Hui and whispered, "General Shen, look at the fire in front of you."
Shen Hui opened his eyes and saw that it was indeed the case, and thought to himself: How did this thief go so far? Shen Hui pulled Chen Lin and said, "Let's get down from the tree and cover ourselves up quietly to catch this traitorous thief."