Chapter 675: Receiving the Squad

At the junction of Yongzhou and Liangzhou, it has been a barren place for nearly half a year.

The barren grass all over the mountains is more than one person high, and two months after the defeat of the coalition army in Chang'an, a dozen and a dozen hundred-strong troops galloped out from Jincheng, bypassing Weishui and speeding straight towards the east.

After bypassing Weishui, all the squads sped away in more than a dozen directions.

They seem to be conducting a carpet search.

And there is a squad among them, and the general who leads the army is Ma Chao.

Riding a white horse and a hundred soldiers behind him, he will go deep into Yongzhou to find the vanished Chu River.

Out of the Golden City, about seven days later.

Ma Chao led the people to a ruined mountain range, where there were traces of people burning with fire.

It's pitch black for miles around!

There were still some charred corpses on the ground, and there were more than a dozen illegible corpses lying on top of the mountain.

Wooden stakes are laid out in the depths and shallows of the perimeter, and the roots of these stakes are deep into the earth and are not completely burned.

Ma Chao looked at the traces around him and frowned: "It seems that after a battle here, all the people trapped here are dead...... Either that, someone caught fire and burned the people here! ”

The surrounding soldiers had spread in three directions, and a total of thirty people were divided into three teams to investigate in the three directions of the left, rear, and front.

"General, let's take a sip of water!"

Beside him, the two guards who were always following Ma Chao, one took out a kettle, and the other took out a bag of dry food and handed it directly to Ma Chao.

Ma Chao took the kettle, drank two sips of water, and was about to take the dry food when he suddenly smelled a smell of blood.

"Someone's coming! Order the brothers, the ring defense formation! ”

As soon as the words fell, the guards immediately passed the order, and all of a sudden, more than seventy soldiers surrounding the small hill had formed a circular defensive formation.

Since this time it is mainly to respond, and there are still a small number of zombies in Yongzhou and half of Liangzhou, most of the things they carry are sharp weapons for defense and attack.

Boom!

A dull sound sounded, and the soldiers took their wooden shields from their horses and stood in front of them, the soldiers in the first row with long knives, and the soldiers in the second row with long spears.

Then the soldiers in the ring formation, which was slightly higher, took off the bags on their backs, took out the folding bow and crossbow from the inside, loaded the crossbow arrows, and aimed them around.

These pieces of equipment weigh two hundred catties, and with more than a hundred catties of people, the bearing capacity of the war horse must be at least close to four hundred catties.

Therefore, these war horses are all special captive war horses, and each one is the best of the best.

Da! Da! Da!

After a while, the exploration team on the left and right sides came galloping, but the team of ten people was all damaged, there were still seven people left on the left, and five people on the right.

"Report! Thirty miles to the left, an army of 400 bandits is coming! ”

"Report! Twenty miles to the right, an army of 500 bandits was attacking! ”

Ma Chao frowned when he listened to their report, Yongzhou and Liangzhou have become zombie lands, half a year has passed since the beginning, how can anyone still be alive?

And how did they survive?

Is it dependent on eating wild animals?

Or is it ......

Ma Chao thought of a bad result, frowned slightly, and looked ahead.

It's just that he didn't see the soldiers he sent out coming back, but instead saw a cloud of smoke and dust belatedly coming from the front, and it seemed that there was a team of at least a hundred people.

"Report, in a dense forest in the rear, an army suddenly appeared, they looked like savages, and they were armed with sophisticated weapons!"

The soldiers on guard from the rear flew in, entered the battle formation, knelt on the ground and said to Ma Chao.

Ma Chao's brows furrowed, and he immediately suddenly realized: "We are surrounded by them!" These people are all together, and apparently they have already discovered us and deliberately brought us here...... What is their purpose? Some bandits, where do they have the guts to fight with the elite cavalry, unless I have what they desperately need...... Grain! ”

Thinking of this, Ma Chao seemed to understand something, looked at the soldiers around him, and then ordered in a deep voice: "Everyone get on the horse and abandon ......"

"General, our horses can't run anymore, they're too tired and need to rest, just one day! One day they'll be on their way! ”

A lieutenant next to him suddenly knelt on the ground and said loudly.

In the past seven days, they have been running constantly, and the rest time in the middle is very short, so the war horses are already tired, if it were not for this, Ma Chao would not have ordered the army to stay.

However, in the current situation, to let the cavalry fight against the opponent in foot combat is really a consumption of the cavalry's combat power.

Ma Chao sighed, no matter how he turned over and just got on the horse, the war horse that had just rested for an hour was almost shaken off Ma Chao with a shake of his legs.

Not good!

Ma Chao thought in his heart, if the war horses are like this, they will definitely not be able to run for long, if they run forcibly, they will definitely be able to escape, but these war horses will die here, once the war horses are tired and die, if they want to survive in the wasteland, this chance is probably very small, not to mention that there are zombies everywhere here......

"Brothers, listen to my military orders and defend with all your might! All you have to do is defend until dawn tomorrow! ”

Ma Chao took a breath of cold air, looked at the enemy troops slowly gathering in the sky in the distance, and said with a touch of determination in his eyes.

The surrounding soldiers suddenly drank and said loudly: "We swear to live and die with the general!" ”

These are the elites who followed Ma Chao all the way from Feng Yi to Jincheng, and when facing zombies, they moved forward bravely, defeated the cowardice in their hearts, and won victory after victory.

And these people, every one of them has engaged in foot combat, although foot combat is not their strong point, but when it comes to sweeping the city, they must do so.

Therefore, although these people are not yet strong soldiers in foot combat, they are much stronger than ordinary infantry.

Da! Da! Da!

The surrounding enemies kept surging up, and Ma Chao could see what they were wearing.

As soon as these people came, the horses showed uneasiness, and they were alarmed by the blood and death of these people.

There were 2,000 people surrounding Ma Chao and them, all dressed in everything, some even naked, some with a broken arm, and some with scars all over their bodies.

These people can survive in a place full of zombies, and they do have the capital of pride.

It was precisely for these reasons that they did not dare to attack this well-equipped cavalry squad easily.

"Friends from afar, xiexie, you have provided fresh meat! On behalf of my subordinates, let me thank you! ”

In the enemy camp ahead, a voice rang out.