"Let's look at other places first. If you don't find anything else, go down the mountain and look at the bottom of the cliff." Yan Lie said slowly, obviously having prepared for the worst, although the old King Qin didn't want to believe this in his heart. As a result, but now there is no other way but to take one step at a time.
"There's something discovered here!" A group of soldiers exclaimed from the direction going down the mountain on the right.
Everyone hurried over to check, and sure enough they found a piece of cloth hanging on half of the tree stump. It was obviously the cloth from the clothes of a Yan State soldier, and there were drag marks on the ground.
"It looks like someone has gone down here. Let's go take a look." Yan Lie said.
A group of people walked down the forest, and one after another found traces of people's footsteps, but no corpses or other animal footprints were found. Following all the way down, you can clearly see that some branches lying on the road have been cut down. In this deep mountain and old forest, located at the border between the two countries, no hunters usually come here. The only possibility is that Li Xiao people have been here.
Yan Shu waited for a long time, but did not see Yan Lie and the old King of Qin come back. She felt extremely anxious, so she led the remaining troops to look for them. The deeper I walked into the forest, the more depressed and uncomfortable I felt.
The old King of Qin heard some movement behind him, turned around and saw Yan Shu coming through the dew. "Xiaojie, why are you here? Didn't we ask you to wait for us?" Old King Qin approached and asked with concern.
Looking at the corpses on the ground, Yan Shu's face turned pale with fright. She couldn't hold it back and suddenly vomited.
"Xiao Yan, are you okay?" Old King Qin patted Yan Yan on the back and asked.
Yan Shu shook her head, a feeling of helplessness spread from the bottom of her heart, and tears fell out uncontrollably. "Uncle Qin, have you found Li Xiao?"
"Not yet, it means Li Xiao is still alive, don't worry too much." Although the old King Qin was not sure now, knowing that Li Xiao might be in danger, he really couldn't bear to make Yan Shu sad.
Yan Shu felt a little more comfortable. She looked around and asked, "Where is my brother? Why didn't you see him?"
"He was leading people to check around. Li Xiao should have disappeared near here." Old King Qin answered truthfully.
Yan Shu knew that he was getting closer and closer to Li Xiao, so he also wanted to search for him together.
"Xiao Yan, let's wait here first, wait for them to explore the road first, and it's not too late for us to go after finding clues. It's better not to get separated now." As an elder, the old King Qin naturally puts Yan Yan's safety first. , there is no danger nearby, how can she be allowed to take risks.
Yan Shu was still thinking when she saw Old Qin Wang suddenly pull Yan Shu and fall to the ground. Yan Yan was stunned. Before she could react, she saw a dense rain of arrows shooting from deep in the forest.
"Protect the King of Qin, protect the Ninth Princess." The soldiers nearby shouted and quickly set up their shields to protect the old King of Qin and Yan Yan. There were also brave and skilled soldiers who blocked the arrows with their swords. The arrow rain lasted for a full quarter of an hour before it gradually subsided, and then deafening shouts were heard gradually approaching.
The Li State Army finally came again. It can be said that they chose this place as a perfect place. There was a cliff not far away. They just wanted the Yi State Army and the Yan State Army to retreat and annihilate them in one fell swoop. But this time the Liguo Emperor went on a personal expedition, bringing with him a hundred thousand soldiers and horses. He didn't believe that he couldn't defeat the old King of Qin and Yan Lie, who only had a few thousand men.
According to the initial strength of the troops, this battle was indeed an outnumbered battle, but the Yi State and the Yan State had been prepared for a long time, with nearly 50,000 troops on both sides already in place, just waiting for an order to come to support.
