Although the number of mounts has been greatly reduced, their total number of people has miraculously remained the same as when they first entered Etru. It's just a matter of how much combat power they have.
Now they have to sit at least three people on each mount, which doesn't matter, because even if each of their mounts is the smallest, it will not be a problem to carry seven or eight people.
From now on, these civilians of Etru officially join the Alien Suppression Corps. Meng Qingxiao is not going to give them any preferential treatment. Not to mention that they are full of fear of Kangaroo Space, even if they want to re-enter, it will be impossible.
Meng Qingxiao specially held a mobilization meeting for all employees.
"I don't want to say anything alarmist, but this is the fact. Our bullets can hardly cause damage to the enemy, and our enemies are all equipped with armor-piercing bullets."
"Our most powerful bombs now are grenades, and our enemies always throw bombs weighing several tons at us."
"Compared with them, our only advantage is that we have extremely fast mounts. However, this advantage is gradually disappearing now because our enemies are also quickly domesticating high-speed mounts."
"Compared with them, our only advantage is that our driving skills have been refined over time. Without some special means, it would be impossible for them to catch us."
"The above is our current situation. I want to ask you, are you afraid?"
"Don't be afraid!" Only some people shouted, while more people lowered their heads and remained silent.
Meng Qingxiao could see clearly that those who were not afraid of shouting were all the warriors of the powerful Han country who had been following him, while almost no one from Etru shouted out.
Meng Qingxiao was not surprised. It was strange that they were not afraid, so he continued: "It is normal to be afraid. I am also very scared. I am afraid that I will not be able to go back alive to see my parents, wife and children. My child has just Born, I haven’t even met him yet.”
"You can be afraid, but not afraid. Fear can arouse your desire to live, but fear will make you lose your fighting spirit."
"People with a stronger desire to survive are more likely to activate their potential and less likely to die."
"Once you have fear in your heart, you are not far from death. You will lose the basic ability to judge, and your hands and legs will be weak from fear. By then, even if there is a chance to escape, you will miss it in vain."
"However, there is one thing I must emphasize!" Meng Qingxiao suddenly became stern, "Whoever ignores the safety of his comrades in order to escape, or even frames his comrades, if I catch him, I will shoot him , I won’t listen to any explanation, and I don’t care who he is, I can’t save him even if the King of Heaven comes.”
"Do you understand everything?"
"clear."
"Louder, let's see who doesn't understand yet."
"clear!"
"Very good." Meng Qingxiao smiled, "Your voices successfully alerted the enemy. Now let's start."
They don't know where they are now, but since they have passed Ulan City, it means that they are less than 1,000 kilometers away from the motherland. With the speed of their mounts and the time to rest halfway, it only takes three or four hours. Can be reached.
Of course, this is an ideal situation. Now their enemies have laid a dragnet, and a large number of beasts armed to the teeth are patrolling around. As soon as they encounter them, they will fire immediately, without any nonsense at all.
Casualties cannot be avoided at all. Meng Qingxiao's current strategy is to put the beast with the strongest defense at the front and rush forward. At the same time, he uses the little bees of the technical team to always pay attention to the movement in the distance. If it is a small group of enemies, they rely on The numerical advantage will crush them all the way. If it is a large group of enemies, they will try to go around them as much as possible.
Their speed is still dominant. Although the enemy has formed a large number of beasts, they have no time to train and are not as good as them in running.
In this case, the traps, bear traps and mines they had always imagined were finally used by the enemy.
This time, the enemy was determined to let them run into a trap. They deliberately dug a pocket and surrounded them from all sides, but there was only a gap in the south direction. This was a super big bait.
Meng Qingxiao was wary, but there were enemies all around. They had their arrows ready to go and had no choice but to rush forward.
"There may be traps ahead, everyone must be more vigilant!" Meng Qingxiao was caught in the middle of the crowd and shouted loudly.
It is important to note here that they are still using walkie-talkies. With thousands of horses galloping, it is impossible for the people around to hear them by shouting. Zhang Ying and the others also took great pains to do this and tried every means to avoid the enemy. of monitoring.
Meng Qingxiao's reminder was valuable. Although they still inevitably stepped on the trap, they minimized the loss.
There were hundreds of landmines planted by the enemy in front. These mines were not very powerful, but they were just enough to blow off the mount's legs. The enemies also planted them in a hurry, so there were not many of them.
When the cavalry army is running at high speed, once the mounts in front stumble, the cavalrymen on them will almost certainly die. Even if they do not fall to death, they will be trampled or kicked to death by the mounts behind that cannot avoid them. The soldiers leading the way are all Already have this awareness.
However, there are some who are lucky enough to survive. They will be quickly rescued by the soldiers behind them and then continue to run forward.
At this time, the climbing ladder that Zhao Xuchen once taught was used by everyone. Those mounts that could no longer run would be trampled under the feet of the mounts behind them, and they would jump up high to remind the cavalry behind them. At this time, everyone would move towards Split left and right, and continue forward with some detours.
Just like this, another day passed, and they barely traveled more than 100 kilometers and lost hundreds of people.
This is war. Those who cannot adapt will be gradually eliminated. Those who have adapted need to learn to die on the other side. No one knows whether the next person to die is you. You must be prepared to sacrifice at any time.
After escaping the minefield, they got a short rest, and the enemy did not pursue them. Although Meng Qingxiao felt strange, he still ordered everyone to take a break.
Dinner had been prepared long ago. The cooks cooked it for everyone in the kangaroo space while breathing oxygen. The amazing thing was that a fire could be made in the kangaroo space. This made everyone realize that the reason why they had difficulty breathing in this space was that Maybe it's not that the oxygen is too low, but that there are too many other gases.
They still have a lot of people, so eating is still troublesome. In order to avoid this trouble, they basically eat barbecue. Large pieces of animal legs are grilled over a large fire. The parts they don't want to eat or that are inconvenient to grill are thrown to their mounts. eat.
The roasted animal legs will be thrown out wildly by the kangaroo's two little paws, and then the soldiers will come to pick them up in an orderly manner.
Drinking water is also provided from the kangaroo space. All soldiers have marching kettles. When they are resting, they will tie all the marching kettles into a string and the kangaroo will throw them into its dimensional space. The cooking soldiers inside will Help them fill up the water.
The water there is not polluted and is very pure. You don’t have to worry about diarrhea after drinking it.
The soldiers of the Qiang Han Kingdom have a tradition. Every officer has a small book, which records the names of all the soldiers in his unit. If a soldier dies, he will draw a line in the book, Check off that soldier's name.
At this moment, Meng Qingxiao looked at the list of his soldiers, and his heart was very heavy. The first name under his name was Min Keyong, and now he had checked it out with a red pen. He originally had some resentment towards Min Houde. , but at this moment he felt that he had no face to face the old man.
Just when Meng Qingxiao was looking at his notebook in a daze, a soldier came towards him with a marching water bottle in his hand, as if he wanted to ask the commander if he wanted to drink water.
Audrey, who had been sitting next to him, suddenly became angry at this moment. She grabbed his right arm, jerked it back and dislocated it, and then used her palm knife to knock the opponent off and hit him. holding the kettle, and at the same time, he hit his lower body hard with his knee, easily restraining him.
Meng Qingxiao woke up with a start and quickly sat up. Just as he was about to ask Audrey what was going on, he saw a weapon fall out of the soldier who was restrained by Audrey.
A pistol that was not from their world. Meng Qingxiao was still very familiar with this gun after fighting enemies from other worlds for so many days.
Meng Qingxiao bent down to pick it up and asked, "What's going on?"
Audrey said: "Ask him yourself."
The soldier lowered his head and said, "I picked up this gun."
Meng Qingxiao understood immediately. He sneered and said, "I didn't ask you about the gun. Why are you so anxious to explain?"
The soldier was lying on the ground and shouted: "Commander, I just want to come over and ask you if you want to drink water. I don't know why she attacked me."
His shout immediately alerted many people, and several division-level cadres who were resting aside also came over to check on the situation.
Bao Tong's loud voice had already shouted out in advance: "What's wrong, commander? Is someone sneaking up on you? Is there an enemy sneaking into our team?"
Meng Qingxiao immediately frowned, thinking to himself, you idiot, should I prepare another loudspeaker for you? Are you afraid that others won't know?
Before Meng Qingxiao said anything, Yu Rucheng, who had also followed, had already begun to say displeasedly: "Shut up, if you don't speak, no one will treat you as a mute."
Bao Tong finally came to his senses and realized that he had been reckless. He slapped himself in the mouth and said, "I'm sorry, Commander, I've been stupid again."
Before he finished speaking, Li Xiaoguo's exclamation sounded again: "Be careful!"
While Bao Tong was stunned, Li Xiaoguo had already knocked him down, and at the same time gunfire rang out.
Someone attacked Bao Tong secretly, but was blocked by Li Xiaoguo at the critical moment. Yu Rucheng on the side rushed to the rescue and killed the soldier who attacked Bao Tong.
"Xiaoguo!" Bao Tong shouted, and hurriedly picked up Li Xiaoguo.
Li Xiaoguo opened his mouth and a large amount of blood poured out of it, but he still insisted on saying one sentence: "I finally gave my life back to you."
He died laughing.
"Medical cabin, Ayou, take out the medical cabin quickly!" Bao Tong shouted.
Wan Qiyan touched the artery on Li Xiaoguo's neck, shook her head gently and said, "It's useless, he is already dead."
A bullet hit Li Xiaoguo's heart. If he wasn't an evolver, he wouldn't be able to say a word and would die.
Even an evolved person would not have the strength to speak after being shot through the heart. He must have a very strong obsession to persevere until he utters those words before he dies.
Bao Tong thought of what Li Xiaoguo said when he forgave Li Xiaoguo for being betrayed during their first joint team military training: "Bao Tong, I owe you a life."
"You don't owe me anything, brother! My good brother, how can you be so stupid!" Bao Tong cried bitterly, his voice hoarse.
When you are so strong that the enemy cannot defeat you from the outside, then he will definitely find a way to defeat you from the inside.
Meng Qingxiao's hands and feet were cold, and he suddenly realized this, but the price he paid was so high.
"How did you find out that he was going to attack me?" Meng Qingxiao still chose to ask Audrey.
Audrey replied calmly: "His kettle is used by Min Ke. You have been staring at Min Ke's name tonight, so I am deeply impressed."
She was able to recognize that it was the kettle used by Min Ke because the bottom of each kettle had the names of the soldiers. The names were written by themselves, so the fonts were written in various styles.
Min Keyong only wrote the word "Yong". This is the word that is least like his name, but it is also the most special word, which is impressive.
However, people who don't know the inside story will turn a blind eye, which is why the enemy exposes his flaws.
Min Keyong had been sacrificed, his body had been left behind, and Meng Qingxiao didn't even have the ability to go back and look for it. This was the most painful thing for him.
But now, his enemies are using Min Ke's relics to attack him.
"Go and take him down for interrogation, and dig out all the information from his mouth." Meng Qingxiao ordered tiredly, "Also, conduct a thorough investigation of our team immediately and uncover all the lurkers."
At this moment, both Fei Junding and Yue Zuze were protecting Meng Qingxiao, and several of his guards also ran over, surrounding him three levels inside and three levels outside.
