"Go up and ask about the situation."
"It's my lord."
The adjutant did not dare to be hasty, so he personally packed a few bottles of external wound medicine and left the camp. He found a commander in the group of wounded soldiers, showed his identity, chatted with him for a while, thanked him for the wound medicine, and then trotted off. Returned to the camp.
"what's the situation?"
"Back to my lord, those people are the remnant soldiers who retreated from Jianchuan. It is said that they were originally a team of 5,000 people. Now they only have 3,000 people left, and most of them are injured, so they were allowed to rotate down. "
"How long have they been on the front lines?"
"That's exactly half a month, if you include today."
In just half a month, five thousand people were beaten down to only three thousand? ! Wu Kai's brows wrinkled slightly. He didn't say anything, but in his heart he had to raise the danger of the front line to a higher level again.
"What else did you ask?"
The adjutant's face wasn't very pretty either. He tensed up and said in a suppressed voice: "The general said that the killings in Jianchuan are very fierce now. You can see a river further ahead, and the water in the river is red. It's the blood left over from the previous fighting. In addition, he told me that the water in the river is no longer drinkable. There are too many floating corpses. Drinking that water will 90% make you sick, and the situation will be even worse."
"How about drinking water?"
"That one always says that all the water used is deep well water opened by high-level monks on the front line using magic. It is clean and there is no need to worry about being contaminated by the water from the ground river.
In addition to water, there are also many heavily armed tusked elephants here in Jianchuan. Those remnants of the army just now were encountered by a group of more than 500 heavily armed tuskers on the rocky beach and were maimed. "
Wu Kai's heart skipped a beat when he heard the two words "heavy equipment" and "tusker tribe" connected together. Seriously, whatever you worry about will come to you. He had been worried about running into those powerful barbarian tribes before, not because he was afraid, but because once he encountered casualties, they would be lost.
Imagine what it would be like to see a tusked elephant wearing heavy armor and carrying a giant blunt weapon, which is about a foot tall and weighs more than a thousand kilograms in total, rushing toward you? Even a big horse would be killed directly, right?
There are ivory elephants participating in the battle in Jianchuan. No wonder the casualties on Jianchuan's side are so high. But it seems clear that it should be able to withstand it. As long as reinforcements can come in one after another, the situation will definitely be much easier after Jianchuan is slowly built into a defense zone full of fortifications.
afternoon. Except for those who needed daily patrols, all the soldiers under Wu Kai stayed in their respective tents to rest. You can sleep and chat, but you can't move around. Most of the soldiers are now busy writing letters home. Because once you enter Jianchuan, you cannot contact the outside world privately unless you want to retreat like the remaining soldiers before. This is the military regulation.
As for the issue of tone, Wu Kai left it to the adjutant to convey it. He didn't care too much, because the two thousand people under his command were basically veterans who had been with him for at least two years, and there were also many who had been with him for three to five years. There are very few new recruits, so the rules to be followed when going into battle are very clear. The soldiers themselves remember this thing like gossiping, which is something that always makes them lose their heads in the military, and are unlikely to commit it.
After a day's rest, the soldiers' physical strength improved a lot. Then at dawn, after having a particularly hearty breakfast, they set off towards the northeast.
In the afternoon, Shen Zhengshi officially crossed the border of Jianchuan and entered the front-line combat zone.
Less than half an hour after entering the Jianchuan realm, Wu Kai saw the bloody river. It would be more appropriate to call it a creek, which is only one foot wide and seems to be less than two feet deep. The water quality inside is not very good and is a bit turbid. If you look carefully, you can indeed see some very light blood red.
As for the smell...you can smell the fishy smell even when riding a horse passing by this stream. I'm afraid I can't drink this water.
Continue to follow the road and go deeper into the war zone, and the creek beside it has not been turned away for the time being.
"Sir, look!"
In fact, there was no need for the adjutant to remind Wu Kai, who was riding a horse and saw a cart and two soldiers dressed as auxiliary soldiers at a corner of the creek ahead. One of them was holding a long hook with a hook and was hooking a floating body in the creek and dragging it ashore, and then the other person was responsible for dragging the body onto the cart.
When Wu Kai and others passed by, they noticed that there were already three corpses on the cart, all of them were barbarians with humanoid and animal faces.
In fact, this is just a place to fish out corpses. There are many waters in Jianchuan. Although there are no big rivers, there are quite a few small rivers measuring three to four feet. As we went deeper, we saw no less than five small rivers and streams, all with auxiliary soldiers fishing for corpses.
"The usual tactics of the barbarians. They don't have the habit of respecting corpses. They throw the corpses into the water as a means of causing disease and restrict our access to water."
The barbarians themselves are not affected by the floating corpses in these waters, because they are in the upper reaches of these waters, and the floating corpses cannot flow to them even if they cause diseases.
Wu Kai didn't pay much attention. Although he had not experienced the last battle with the barbarians, he had gone out to fight against the barbarians. They were a group of uncivilized barbarians with no bottom line at all. The method of throwing corpses is too normal for barbarians.
"Go and tell the people below again that you are not allowed to drink water from all rivers and streams here. When you get there, you can quench your thirst with well water."
"It's my lord, I'll tell you again now." The adjutant didn't find it troublesome. After all, if you get sick in the military... it would be terrible.
While marching quickly to Youzheng, an order was given to repair the rocks on the beach.
"Why are you repairing here?" Wu Kai glanced at the sun that was already turning to the west above his head and felt puzzled. Under normal circumstances, it would still be dark for half an hour. At this time, they would either set up camp or speed up their march to the military station and rest. Before coming, he had studied the terrain map of Jianchuan and knew that the nearest military station was not far from where they were now.
After repairing for less than half an hour, the envoy came over to convey the order for Wu Kai's troops to set off immediately and act as the vanguard. They would march five miles and report the situation with each stick of incense.
It's already this hour and we still need to change the forward camp? Are you going to travel all night? !
Wu Kai did not dare to neglect, and immediately asked people to beat drums to break camp, and then handed over the baggage to his colleagues behind to take care of him. He led more than 1,500 soldiers to quickly cross the main formation of the mixed army, ran to the front, and received the order The card travels five miles first to act as a pathfinder and warning. And just behind him, the rest of the mixed army also finished repairing and started moving behind.
It was the beginning of Xu when he arrived at the military station, but Wu Kai did not receive an order to stop repairing. Instead, he urged him to continue moving forward, and every order contained the sentence "keep alert to prevent enemy attacks."
It was not until the beginning of Hai that Wu Kai received the exact order, asking him to continue exploring one mile further, and that he would march all night tonight and must reach the next military station before dawn.
