Chen Ping and Ma Zhuangsheng heard the news and ran to the top of the mountain in one breath.
Looking at the empty stronghold and the two rope heads on the rock wall, the two of them understood that Qin Feng and the remaining Tianji Camp guards had swung down the cliff along the rope.
Before leaving, he also lit the rope, and the flames continued to burn along the rope. In this way, the soldiers patrolling around could not find any sign that Qin Feng had evacuated.
Ma Zhuangsheng's eyes widened. General Chen Si had given the order to destroy Qin Feng at all costs. Now Qin Feng actually used a golden cicada to escape. Wouldn't the entire strategic plan fall short?
When he thought of this, Ma Zhuangsheng became furious, secretly blaming himself for seriously underestimating Qin Feng. He shouldn't have been so hesitant at the beginning and just charged in!
"Behead the tooth general who is responsible for patrolling the mountain!" Ma Zhuangsheng was furious.
However, Chen Ping stopped the messenger, patted Ma Zhuangsheng on the shoulder, sighed, and comforted: "The patrol officers are not to blame for this, Qin Feng had already run away before you came.
"Look, the rope's head is covered with dust, which proves that Qin Feng has been evacuated for several days. During this period, we were trapped in an empty mountain..."
When Chen Ping learned that the enemy's general was Qin Feng, his heart was always in doubt. After all, in order to deal with Qin Feng, General Chen Si even changed the frontline strategic arrangement and urgently transferred back five thousand elites.
Facing such a powerful enemy, if you are not careful, you may be exploited by the opponent.
The matter has come to this, and there is no point in being upset and regretful.
Chen Ping made a decisive decision: "General Ma, quickly send messengers to inform all ministries and issue official documents on sea arrests. As long as Qin Feng is still in my territory of Dadi, he will not be able to escape!"
Hearing this, Ma Zhuangsheng's eyes dimmed for a while: "If it is true as you said, Qin Feng has been running away for several days, is it still too late to hunt him down now?"
Chen Ping's attitude was resolute: "My main army is still within the territory of Liang State, and the border line is always under my control in Dadi. If Qin Feng wants to forcefully break into the country, he will definitely be discovered by the patrolling cavalry and suffer disaster."
"If you go north, you will go deep into the hinterland of Dadi. Qin Feng will not be so stupid. If you go east, you will risk entering neighboring countries. The neighboring countries are our vassals of Dadi, and they will definitely seize Qin Feng and send him away. Please take credit before your superiors.
"So, Qin Feng can only go west, but the western front is a territory that stretches for thousands of miles, and there is more than a thousand miles of no-man's land. There are only two results, either being blocked by no-man's land, or Crossing no man’s land is a dead end!”
After hearing Chen Ping's explanation, Ma Zhuangsheng felt confident and no longer hesitated. He immediately sent out a large number of messengers and sent orders to the surrounding ministries at the same time to search for Qin Feng at all costs!
At this time, Qin Feng had led the guards deep into the no-man's land of Beidi. In order to save energy, all the supplies on the carriage had been thrown away, even the armor was discarded without hesitation, leaving only the weapons at hand.
As for the horses in the trailer, they had already been slaughtered, and the hot blood was drank by the guards.
The marching style of looking at plum blossoms to quench thirst has lost its effect. Qin Feng and the guards can only rely on willpower and walk forward towards the endless front.
"Brother Qin, where are we? How far do we have to go before we get out of the no man's land?" Ning Hu asked feebly.
There is a huge temperature difference between day and night in the Beidi territory. It is freezing at night and unbearably hot during the day. After several days of exposure to the sun and cold wind, even the most elite Tianji camp guards have reached their limit. Everyone is exhausted physically and mentally, and their expressions are... decadent.
Human beings are so small compared to nature.
Beidi No Man's Land is a well-known area for both Beidi people and people living in the northern border of Liang State.
Since entering the no-man's land, Qin Feng has been silently calculating the distance.
According to the map drawn by Jin Yiwei, the span of the no-man's land from east to west is about 1,300 miles.
At first, Qin Feng and others were able to walk a hundred miles a day, but later they could only walk more than forty miles a day. According to time estimates, everyone should have reached the center of the no-man's land by this time.
In other words, we are only halfway there.
Qin Feng knew very well that if the water source could not be found, everyone would never be able to leave the no-man's land alive. Having just escaped from Qingyu Mountain, to find myself in such a desperate situation here is like walking out of the dragon pool and into the tiger's den again.
"There are still two hundred miles, everyone, hold on!" Qin Feng lied and didn't even write a draft. After all, in this situation, once hope is lost, everyone will die.
Ning Hu sighed: "There were only two hundred miles left yesterday, why are there still two hundred miles left today?"
Seeing Ning Hu dejected, Qin Feng raised his leg and kicked it, and said angrily: "Yesterday it was two hundred and forty miles, today it is two hundred miles, what's wrong? Shut your mouth, complain less, and save energy."
A person can live up to four days without water, but in fact the body will have a very serious physiological reaction on the second day. By the third day, Qin Feng has begun to have hallucinations, often hearing the sound of water, or seeing things. There was a lake not far away, but when I arrived, I found it was empty and there was nothing.
On the evening of the third day, some guards had already collapsed due to lack of water. Qin Feng could only order that all the urine that had been stored be taken out and everyone drank it.
Drinking urine, especially urine that has been stored for several days, although it can prolong your life, is extremely harmful to the body.
With this little urine, everyone lasted two more days.
At noon on the sixth day, with the scorching sun in the sky, Qin Feng, who was groggy, found that the number of people around him was getting smaller and smaller, so he asked everyone to stop. After some counting, there were only more than 80 people left on the scene, and the remaining 20 people. There were many people, all left behind.
Qin Feng had no choice but to let the guards rest where they were. He took two guards who were in slightly better condition and turned back to look for the stragglers.
Almost all the energy was exhausted, and only three people were found, and two of them were dead and the other was in shock.
Clearly, the laggard situation has been going on for some time.
Qin Feng didn't even have the energy to be angry and upset, and almost dragged the shocked guard back to the temporary camp, rolling and crawling.
Unfortunately, due to the inability to replenish fluids, the shocked guard died that night.
Qin Feng sat paralyzed on the ground, panting feebly, his eyes looking lonely.
When we were in Qingyu Mountain, after every battle, there were only single-digit attrition, but during this long journey, more than 20 people died of thirst alone...
Qin Feng felt so depressed that he wanted to die, and even thought of giving up more than once.
But looking at the more than eighty brothers around him, and recalling that their parents, wives and children were waiting for them to go home, Qin Feng gritted his teeth and stood up again.
"Walk……"
"While there is less water loss at night, continue on the road and wait until daybreak before resting."
"Get the fuck up."
