At this moment, Liu Mo felt that things were out of control for the first time.
At noon that day, the sky began to become dark and cloudy, and heavy rain could pour down at any time. Under the leaden sky, everyone's face was full of gloom.
The bumpy road, the constant sound of footsteps, and the constant roar of thunder made people upset.
Almost everyone would only say a few words when necessary, but remained silent most of the time. All well-trained soldiers know that even if they have a hundred thousand questions, they cannot speak casually.
Military morale is the greatest guarantee of victory in war. They also believed that Liu Mo could calmly resolve the current crisis.
But now there is a problem that is difficult to solve. Now they are like headless flies.
Deep into the hinterland of the Zhou Dynasty, there is no target, no retreat, and no reinforcements or supplies!
Liu Mo was in a bad mood, and he doubted his decision for the first time. Should he have led his troops back to Daxia, or gone north to support the Sixth Prince? The prerequisite is to know the other party's movements.
After convening a military meeting, Liu Mo also discovered a bigger problem: internal conflicts began to arise!
Except for Zhao Da, all the generals including Zhu Min questioned him.
Liu Mo was unable to explain. Everything happened too suddenly, leaving him at a loss.
The sixth prince's army actually disappeared without a trace in just a few days, which was even more unexpected to him.
After the meeting, Sun Kan mounted his horse and headed to the front to investigate.
The rest of them waited for rest and recuperation before setting off again, because the scouts brought news that the Zhou Dynasty's pursuit troops appeared in the rear.
Didn't go long. While walking through a forest with sparse trees, Liu Mo saw the remains left by humans, discarded food scraps, and a giant sword that had broken in a previous battle and was discarded on the roadside.
Cairns of seriously wounded soldiers, but the scavengers would not spare these poor soldiers.
Among the overturned stones everywhere, terrifying faces looked at him. Under the rotting flesh, the outline of the skull was still clearly visible.
"Are these the troops of the Sixth Prince? Or the Zhou Dynasty?" Liu Mo couldn't figure it out himself. All the armor had been taken away and the corpses were rotten and could not be identified.
Reluctantly, they had no choice but to move on.
Tens of thousands of Daxia soldiers followed Liu Mo through the woods, but Liu Mo felt extremely guilty and helpless at this moment, and his heart felt extremely heavy with every step he took.
It's almost before night falls. The scouts came quickly to report that Zhu Min's troops were already chasing them.
Before that, Liu Mo asked Zhu Min to take charge of the rear and destroy the pursuing Zhou army.
After hearing the report from the scouts. Liu Mo immediately asked the soldiers to go to the front and asked Sun Kan's forward troops to stop.
There were 1,100 soldiers when we left, but only 600 soldiers when we came back.
Zhu Zhen walked at the front. His forehead, chest, and hands were all covered in blood, whether it was his own or the enemy's.
"Brother Zhu, are you okay?" Liu Mo immediately stepped forward and asked with concern.
"It's okay, these bastards can't hurt me!" Zhu Min said, wiping the blood on his face.
"Well, are the Zhou Dynasty's pursuers still pursuing them?" Qi Shu asked.
"It is safe now, and they did not pursue us again. At the beginning, the Zhou Dynasty's pursuers kept their distance and did not launch an attack, but more like surveillance.
I killed a wave of them and they retreated. I feel like they must be watching us from the dark. "
"What are they doing?" Zhao Da asked in confusion.
"It's very simple. If they pursue us now, we will definitely fight back hard. They will suffer a lot of damage." Liu Mo explained.
"Oh?" Zhao Da was not a military commander, so he naturally didn't understand, and his face was full of doubts.
"But if they deliberately let us go, we will have no food now. If we are hungry for 10 days, we will be slaughtered by others." Liu Mo explained.
"Master Liu is right. The most important thing for us now is to find food and water. Otherwise, we will starve to death if we don't use Zhou Dynasty's offal."
Liu Mo nodded, "By the way, Brother Zhu, have you detected the movements of other friendly troops?" Qi Shu asked.
However, Zhu Min shook his head and said, "No! They seemed to have disappeared from the world."
"We can only rely on ourselves?" Zhao Dali asked nervously.
"What are you afraid of? What are the bastards of the Zhou Dynasty?" Zhu Min said sharply.
Liu Mo could tell that although Zhu Min's voice was loud at this time, his confidence was obviously insufficient.
His face darkened and he continued, "Sun Kan, where do you think the Sixth Prince's troops might have gone?"
"Sir, I have no clue about this matter." Sun Kan said bitterly. "But if they are alive, they should continue to evacuate to the north!"
"North!" Liu Mo frowned, "Are we going to cross the swamp?"
"Impossible," Zhu Min said, "Such behavior looks like courting death!"
"Then where do you think they will go?"
Perhaps in their eyes, the Sixth Prince's troops had been completely wiped out!
"Stop talking so much," Liu Mo interrupted their conversation, "Hurry up and leave early. Before night comes, you have to find a safe place to spend the night!"
Late at night, few people can truly sleep peacefully.
And in this cold night, there was always chatter and noise, which made Zhu Min want to get angry. In the end, he learned that there were stragglers who were crawling along the tracks to find the main army.
And these soldiers are all the troops of the Sixth Prince!
Seeing the appearance of these soldiers, Liu Mo was in a good mood.
So he asked people to prepare food for them to have a hearty meal, and then asked about the sixth prince's situation that night.
However, the news he heard disappointed him.
"Where are your people?" Liu Mo asked. "What happened?"
"Back to the Governor, on the third day after taking Hetu City, nearly 200,000 Zhou Dynasty troops appeared outside the city."
"What?" Zhu Min couldn't believe his ears, "How is this possible? Where did they come from?"
"This little guy doesn't know that the Sixth Prince was also surprised when he saw them!" The soldier replied, "The Sixth Prince's generals even thought that you, Governor Liu, had rebelled.
After all, according to the deployment, your troops are in the middle to strangle the Zhou Dynasty by the throat! "
Liu Mo was stunned. How did the Zhou Dynasty's troops slip past under his nose?
At this time, Sun Kan suddenly realized, "Master Liu, what if this war is completely a conspiracy?"
conspiracy? Liu Mo's heart trembled. "A conspiracy set up for me and the sixth prince?" he thought to himself, "The eldest prince's troops did not attack the Zhou capital at all, but Yang Yizhi led all the Zhou troops to ambush at the junction of Hetu City and Yongxing .
What we are waiting for is that the Sixth Prince and I will throw ourselves into a trap! "
How poisonous!
