Li Ke recalled Gao Zhuang's stiff, blue and black face, and wondered what methods Wu Meiniang used to turn a person like Gao Zhuang into an inhumane killing machine.
The corpses of Li Tai's black-armored warriors were turned upward one by one. After removing the head armor that covered their faces, they all revealed stiff and black faces like tall men.
How did people become like this?
The combat effectiveness of this kind of blue-and-black-faced warrior has far exceeded that of the blue-striped and black-clad warriors I encountered before. It is far beyond the scope of normal people and is so terrifying.
Wu Meiniang's power is not only good at taming wolves, but also good at taming people? Training people like beasts?
Drum trumpets.
The surrounding soldiers continued to surround him, and the mountains and plains were filled with the fierce roars of the captain Zhe Chong and the captains of the team.
This was a big move arranged by Li Zhi in advance. Under the order of the marching commander, a large number of soldiers had already entered the mountainous area, waiting for the call at this moment.
The fat governor of Quanzhou came on horseback and jumped in front of Li Zhi: "Lan Tianhui, see the general manager."
Li Ke was speechless. He didn't expect that such a fat Lan Tianhui would have such skills and be able to jump off the horse so dexterously and violently.
"No courtesy." Li Zhi shouted, and then ordered: "Follow me forward immediately, dig three feet into the ground, and catch Li Tai."
This guy obviously liked hearing people call him "Grand Steward." He also learned the tone of the Marching Steward with interest.
And others also like the feeling of working hard in front of Li Zhi. Nonsense, if you don't serve the marching commander appointed by the Queen Mother, who else can you serve?
Lan Tianhui, the governor of Quanzhou, led a group of people and immediately shouted: "I have the order."
The main army roared, flags flew, and Li Zhi led the governor of the whole state to advance toward the west where the smoke was still thick.
The soldiers in other directions kept firing loud arrows into the sky, constantly reporting their advancement speed.
The encirclement shrinking towards the thick smoke is getting smaller and smaller. Li Zhi believes that his late attack method will definitely be able to catch Li Tai.
"Do you think Li Zhi can catch Li Tai?" Fang Rou asked while bandaging Li Ke.
"I don't know." Li Ke looked up at the sky. The abominable auspicious clouds in the sky didn't know where they had gone.
"I don't believe it." Fang Rou stared into Li Ke's eyes.
"Don't believe it?... Oops." Li Ke discovered that one of his wounds was being pinched severely by Fang Rou.
"Be honest." Fang Rou was very dissatisfied with Li Ke's perfunctory answer.
"Let go, it hurts." Li Ke begged for mercy in fear. The stinging pain from the wound almost broke his teeth.
Fang Rou let go of her sharp claws like iron pliers: "Don't always look at the sky, look at me, and talk properly."
Li Ke's teeth were sour and Na Na replied: "You don't allow me to stare at you..."
Drums and trumpets were coming from the direction of the thick smoke at the west end, and they were still surrounded enthusiastically.
Li Ke did have an opinion in his mind about whether Li Zhi could catch Li Tai.
Without tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, it would be impossible to completely surround this barren mountain with a radius of dozens of miles.
Although Li Zhi has the status of Shannan Road's marching commander, he has the ability to mobilize all nearby soldiers.
However, Quanzhou and several neighboring states are not places where Dingguo is prosperous. Even if they mobilize all their strength during this season, the total force cannot exceed a few thousand people.
Why are there so few people? Because half of the troops in Zhechong Prefectures in various states and counties have moved up to Chang'an or Luoyang, the government soldiers who stayed in the local farming areas simply cannot gather enough participants to cover the barren mountains.
Cleaning up barren mountains requires far more manpower than fighting on the plains.
Moreover, the soldiers who had been delayed in spring plowing must be feeling angry and may not seriously carry out the orders of General Manager Yun Da, who has no military exploits at all.
Not just anyone can be the Commander-in-Chief of the Marching Army...
Therefore, Li Ke estimated: "There is a high probability that Li Zhi cannot find Li Tai."
Fang Rou nodded, agreeing with Li Ke's view.
Li Ke felt comfortable in his heart, enjoying the sight of his eyebrows and eyes so close...
but! Fang Rou's hand in bandaging Li Ke's wound suddenly stopped: "Jiang Zheng, you'd better not ask me to bandage your wound again in the future."
Ah, why? Li Ke was startled and felt a bad feeling in his heart.
Sure enough, Fang Rou put away her slender hand and replied: "I seem to have given you the wrong medicine."
ah? Li Ke wanted to cry but had no tears.
I put the wrong medicine, what's the point?
The whole state is governed.
"Xiao Guo, your body is the best in our heavy iron team." Li Ke praised Guo Haofu while lying on the unicycle.
Guo Haofu responded with a smile: "I heard that the Imperial Guards have been seriously injured many times, and they will definitely be able to recover quickly this time."
Everyone in the heavy railway team knew that Fang Rou had given Li Ke the wrong medicine. She wrapped the wound medicine for the animals in layers, almost making Li Ke scream to death.
However, everyone also knew about the relationship between Li Ke and Fang Rou, and they all secretly laughed and said that Li Ke was very lucky...
Hey, is this considered a blessing?
Li Ke sighed and asked Guo Haofu to push the car into the yard.
Xuwenda, who had completely white beard and hair, was resting in the courtyard, writing various prescriptions for healing blood and wounds hand by hand under the sun.
"It's hard work to talk about old people." Li Ke respected Xu Wenda, a veteran.
Shuwenda nodded, raised his hand and pushed a prescription over, which was one of many prescriptions.
Li Ke couldn't help but wonder when he took it. The prescriptions contained common trauma medicines, and the names of most of the medicines were known even to veterans of the heavy railway team.
Xu Wenda stroked his white beard and slowly explained: "Some of the soldiers searching for Li Tai in the mountains have returned, bringing back many supplies left behind by the Vietnamese soldiers."
These supplies were inspected by law enforcement officials across the state.
In addition to the common military equipment, the most special thing is the military medicine that Li Tai carries with him.
The total of these drugs in proportion is this prescription.
All the medicinal herbs on the prescription are produced in Youzhou and the north of Youzhou.
The medicinal herbs in the northern land are completely different from those in the south. Originally, a large amount of herbs were transported to the south, but in recent years, there have been very few.
Most of the people Li Tai brought this time were soldiers from Youzhou, and naturally they used herbs from Youzhou.
It's just that ordinary people don't distinguish the details.
This time, Li Tai carried more Youzhou herbs than the whole state obtained through formal channels last year.
And Li Zhi's search of the barren mountain is not over yet, and he doesn't know what else he will find that Li Tai defeated and abandoned.
Li Ke lamented that Xuwenda, a veteran who had fought for Datang for half his life, was indeed no ordinary person.
Xuwenda could judge the current situation in Youzhou from the supplies carried by the Vietnamese soldiers. The place where he had fought was once his place of glory.
Unexpectedly, the chaos has reached such an extent that so many Youzhou soldiers are willing to follow Wu Meiniang.
