The sun has set, and it is not easy to walk at night in the mountains and forests, so the forestry arrangement is to spend the night in this small mountain village. During the day, I saw the scene in the village, and everyone did not go into the courtyard, but nested together in the open space in front of the door.

It's not that the dead people in the house are taboo, everyone is a soldier, what kind of battle can they fight if they can't see the dead? But the dead are not the same as the dead, knives and guns are exchanged on the battlefield, and if you die, you will die. But like the old people and children who died in this village, they could feel the resentment in the daytime, and everyone felt cold on their backs.

After resting at the door, Lin Lin said: "Third Brother Peng, you take someone to guard here." The others followed me into the village, and brought out the corpses to collect firewood and burn them, hoping that they would return to bliss. ”

With the popularity of Buddhism among the people, there were many people in the lower classes of the Song Dynasty, and more and more people cremated the bodies of the poor after their deaths.

After receiving the order, Sun Qilang and a native soldier returned to the courtyard behind him, took out a white cloth dipped in water, covered his nose, and carried out the corpses of the old man and the child who had become smelly.

As soon as he walked out of the door, the yellow dog, who was lying motionless on the ground, stood up, whispered twice, and followed closely behind Sun Qilang.

Carried to the river, chose an open place, and put the body on the ground, Sun Qilang went upwind and took off the white cloth and let out a sigh. This white cloth was also sent down by Xu Ping, and they were all disinfected with alcohol, and they were also instructed to boil it again in time after using it.

The yellow dog lay next to the corpse, its head buried deep in its two paws, staring at its master.

The sky was still faintly bright. Forestry and the others carried all the corpses in the village to the river. The crowd picked up a pile of dead branches. I sprinkled a little kerosene with me and lit a fire.

The red firelight reflected the sky red, and the surrounding mountains and forests were also painted with a layer of red, like the morning glow at night. The firelight reflected the silence of the small mountain village, and the warmth drove away the gloomy cold.

Everyone sighed as they watched the fire gradually extinguish, and turned back to the clearing in front of the village.

The yellow dog, which was lying on the ground, stood up and shook itself. followed Sun Qilang's side.

Even though it was the height of summer, the night in the mountains was still cool. Although these people were already accustomed to walking in the mountains, they still couldn't sleep this night, and it was dawn in a daze.

Early in the morning, as soon as the sky was slightly bright, Forestry took his men to prepare breakfast. Although it was on the edge of the village, the village was already empty, and he still ate the dry cakes he brought with him.

Sun Qilang didn't sleep well last night, leaning on a big tree and napping alone. The yellow dog somehow took a fancy to him, and lay quietly at his feet.

Suddenly. There was a crisp sound of "popping" in the mountains and forests in the distance, shattering the tranquility of the early morning in the mountains. Countless frightened birds shot into the sky like arrows.

Accompanied by the birds, the distant sky blooms with brilliant flowers, hanging in the sky in the early morning without stars and moons and suns for a long time.

"Pack up your things and rush to the place where the arrow is called!"

Forestry jumped up from the ground and cleaned up the stove in front of him as he spoke.

Sun Benlang was awakened from his daze, looked at the traces of flowers in the air, and after a while, asked the people around him: "Could it be that our people have discovered the whereabouts of the people and horses in Guangyuan Prefecture?" ”

"Which knows? Anyway, just rush over. ”

There was a rush in front of the village, several sergeants packed up their equipment, and Forestry and Peng Saburo were squatting on the ground to study the place where the arrows sounded on the map, and the route from here.

The yellow dog got up from the ground and looked at the air a little dazed, not knowing what was happening. So much has happened in its monotonous life course in the past few days, so much so that it has broken its dog's head.

Following Sun Qilang's feet, the yellow dog ran around, and after a little more incense, the whole team went into the reckless mountains and forests again.

Climbing over two hills and crossing a small river that had burst out of the ground, the forestry men finally reached the spot they had estimated the arrow to be sent from. After a careful search, I finally found the mark left by the agreement. Follow the signs and continue to the mountains and forests ahead.

According to the current situation, it will definitely not be able to meet the agreed meeting place at noon, but in the mountains and forests, you must take the arrow first. There are also many kinds of arrows, and the one that was sent into the air just now is a relatively high level, and only the head or above can be carried on the body, and the plan has changed.

In the afternoon, the arrows appeared in the air three more times, and the forestry forces finally joined up.

This is a continuous hill, the mountain is not high, it is also very gentle, the stone mountain is mixed with the earth mountain, the mountain forest is dense, the river will rise out of the ground, and then burrow into the ground, changeable.

Seeing Du Lian, the head of the capital, he reported his whereabouts in the past few days and what happened on the road, including the small mountain village where he was stationed last night, and the forestry industry learned the reason for the incident from Du Lian.

The day before yesterday, a small group of people in Guangyuan Prefecture was discovered, although there were only twenty or thirty people on the other side, the team did not take the hand, so they used their arrows to recruit their companions and follow them. Following all the way here, I found a foothold of Guangyuan Prefecture soldiers and horses here, there were more than 100 people in total, and the two squads that caught up were still unable to attack, so they continued to recruit people.

Knowing the situation, Forestry returned to the spring where his team was staying, gathered everyone, pointed ahead, and said, "Do you see?" Turning over the hill in front of it, it was a stone mountain, and there was a big karst cave on the mountain, and people from Guangyuan Prefecture gathered in it. Listening to Du Dutou, there were more than 100 of them in total, as well as men and women who were captured all the way, and I don't know how many were in the cave. We are waiting here to gather the manpower and pack up these more than 100 people here, which is a big victory for this trip. ”

Peng Sanlang said in a deep voice: "How do you know that there are more than a hundred people in Dudutou?" Why don't you know how many men and women have been taken captive? So many people live in the cave, what do they eat and drink? ”

Sun Qilang nodded: "I was also about to ask, but the third brother is still fast-talking." ”

Forestry said: "I asked Dutou, and they have already arrested the three of them and interrogated them separately. It's all the same. There were more than 100 people from Guangyuan Prefecture. Carry food with you. Plus snatched around, enough to support a month or two. As for the water to drink, in addition to a small stream at the bottom of the mountain, there is also a pool of water in the cave, and I don't know which river seeped into the hole, and the water surface did not decrease no matter how much it was used. The men and women of the captives regarded it as money in their pockets, and refused to let anyone know, and among them they could not even tell the chief. ”

"Understood. So what do you want us to do? Peng Saburo asked.

"Just wait here, and no one is allowed to wander around, lest they miss their whereabouts. Send a sentry at the foot of the mountain, and report it in time when you see someone coming there. ”

Everyone expressed their understanding, scattered around the water spring, and looked for local news by themselves.

Sun Qilang found a big tree, sat down on the dry roots, and took out dry bread to fill his stomach.

The yellow dog followed all the way here, and he didn't bark, just followed Sun Qilang's side. See Sun Qilang sit down. The yellow dog also lay next to him and looked at Sun Qilang.

Sun Qilang broke off a piece of dough and threw it over. He said: "You are also a poor animal, and all of a sudden there is no one in the family, and you have become a lost dog." As long as you don't scream and don't make a fuss, follow me, there will always be a bite to eat for you, so you won't go hungry. ”

The yellow dog whined twice, swallowed the bread in his mouth.

The sun slowly set behind which hill, and the night came up from all sides, quietly enveloping the continuous green hills.

The night in the mountains is extraordinarily quiet and full of life, and the breeze passes by, bringing the sounds of various small animals in the mountains, which are lively and not cluttered.

Suddenly, a red rocket emerged from the dense jungle into the sky, exploding with a thud, and bright red flowers bloomed in the dark night sky.

Sun Qilang watched the red flowers bloom in the night sky, slowly melting into the boundless darkness, and muttered in his heart, I don't know how many people will rush over this arrow tomorrow morning.

Separated from the place where forestry and others stayed is a small stone mountain, and there is a cave the size of a house halfway up the mountain. Along the entrance of the cave is a huge karst cave, and I don't know which river came out of the belly of the mountain and rushed out of this big cave. There is a road from the entrance of the cave to the bottom of the cave, which is several feet high and extremely empty, enough to accommodate thousands of people without appearing to be crowded in the slightest.

At the entrance of the cave, two barbarians leaned against the stones, one of them had a short spear beside him, and looking at the traces left by the arrows in the night sky, one scolded: "What is it, it has been strange from time to time in the past two days, and it does not make people quiet." Ah Niu, do you say that the mountain god is full of food and fart? ”

Another said: "You're the fart!" Even if it's a mountain god, how can he collapse into the middle of the sky? Not to mention, which fart can still bloom? ”

The person who spoke at the beginning said disdainfully: "What do you know, how can immortals be the same as people?" I haven't heard of the Han people sneezing and it rains when the dragon king sneezes! Our barbarian mountain god, what's wrong with farting to the sky and blooming? ”

"It's nonsense, you're all a child's idea!" The other kept shaking his head.

"It's not the mountain god fart, so what do you say?"

"If you want me to say, maybe it's those guts guys in Bozhou, hiding in the mountains and forests to scare us with something I don't know. They didn't dare to fight us, they just hoped that we would leave quickly! ”

"What can bloom in the sky? You can still make that much noise! ”

"Bozhou is close to the Han people, I don't know what strange things have been made."

Speaking of the Han people, the two shrunk their necks together and didn't say a word again.

At this time, Nong Zhigao was just a child, and in the years before his uprising, only the Han army came from outside the mountains and was invincible. In the minds of the barbarians, the army of the Han people is like a heavenly soldier and a general, with incomparable deterrent power, and only these mountains are their guardian saints, which can stop the footsteps of the Han people. If the Han people were also able to reach the mountains, how could the barbarians resist?

Inside the cave, hundreds of people gathered in a mess, bonfires were lit in the east and west, and torches were inserted in the walls not far away, illuminating the cave clearly.

In the center of the cave, small groups of captives were held together, some with ropes, and some were marked to indicate which small chieftain belonged to them.

The barbarian soldiers with swords and guns around them, some staggering, some listless, watched these people.

And in the dark corner of the cave where the fire was not illuminated, from time to time there were whispered cries of women, and some barbarian leaders shouted and cursed.

The mountains shrouded in night were plunged into boundless darkness.

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Sorry, I'm late today. By the way, now it's time for the end of the third volume, and I don't know the clues that I found that I wrote, so the next week or so will be changed to one update every day, as far as possible around nine o'clock in the evening, everyone understands. So far, some readers have responded that the plot has become a little flat, and I hope to use this opportunity to sort it out and write a climax. The protagonist has been in this small place for five or six years, and he should also have a nice ending. I will explain separately when the two shifts are resumed.

I hope readers can understand. (To be continued.) )