Chapter 16: No one is behind you
Call......
The wind is blowing.
Instead of blowing away the gray mist, the sudden night breeze brought a strong fishy sweet smell.
Gu Juan only sniffed, and then felt that his head was a little dizzy, and his eyes began to blur, so he poured some water directly on his sleeve in a hurry, and raised his hand to block his mouth and nose.
The fishy sweet taste was suddenly blocked, and Gu Juan felt that he quickly returned to normal, and the feeling of dizziness disappeared.
But he didn't dare to be careless, because the fishy sweet smell was so weird that no one dared to guarantee how effective a wet cloth covering his nose would be.
However, this gust of wind came and went quickly, but it disappeared without a trace in a moment, and Gu Juan suddenly heard the sound of gasping around him, and he couldn't help but secretly say that the soldiers of the Zhennan battalion were indeed worthy of being the elite of a hundred battles, and their ability to respond to emergencies was excellent.
"Obviously, I was moving in the direction of moving away, but why did I go back to the same place? In the darkness, Tengyuan's voice sounded, with a little surprise and doubt.
After a moment of silence, he ordered again, "Take out all the compasses, mark them along the way, and then withdraw!"
Soon after, the soldier at the front stopped with a pale face and saw the stone gate archway standing in front of him again.
It was like a big mouth of a black hole, mocking them mercilessly.
"Stand in place and defend in a ring, the war horses are blindfolded, the spears are outside, the swords are lined up, and the crossbowmen are ready!"
Faced with the strange situation in front of him, Tengyuan immediately took the second step to deal with it, no longer trying to leave, but he couldn't enter the village rashly, but decided to stay on the spot, and wait until after dawn.
Time passed little by little, and the gloomy and dull atmosphere gradually spread in people's hearts, and Tengyuan had nothing to do about it, but to keep walking back and forth in the ring formation to boost morale.
Compared with the bloody battle on the battlefield, this mysterious and unknown danger will bring more fear to the old soldiers.
Call......
It's windy again.
The fishy-sweet smell was even stronger than before, and the gray mist was silently covered with a layer of scarlet.
In an instant, violent coughing and suppressed cries came and went.
"Take me away, I'll die if I stay here any longer!"
Xu Yuan shouted in panic, with a hint of crying in his voice.
"There must be some kind of poison mixed in with the mist. Gu Juan came to Tengyuan's side and stretched out his hand to the Shimen archway not far away.
"Lord Teng, I just discovered that with the village stone plaque as the boundary, the fog is isolated. ”
"I know, but it doesn't seem that simple. Tengyuan sighed and said, "The mysterious enemy hiding in the shadows seems to have been forcing us into the village. ”
Luo Sheng suddenly appeared beside Teng Yuan, "General Teng, in this poisonous fog, even people like you and me who have cultivated internal breath can't hold out for too long, let alone these ordinary soldiers. ”
"Yes, so in many cases, not having a choice is actually one of the most helpless choices. ”
Tengyuan's eyes suddenly burst into light, and he shouted, "Everyone obeys orders, a team of ten people is a team, the team is in a triangular attack array, the distance between the two teams is thirty steps, we must be able to support each other, and prepare to enter the village!"
After a pause, Tengyuan's face was gloomy, he pulled out the long knife hanging on his waist, gritted his teeth and said, "I heard it clearly, this village is strange, after entering, no matter who it is, don't leave a bloody mouth, kill a bloody road, and pass through the village as quickly as possible!"
"You let everyone enter the village?" Xu Yuan's voice suddenly shouted from behind, "Now everyone can see that there is a big danger in the village, I order you as the prince of the world, and immediately protect us from here!"
"The prince doesn't mention the matter of innocent villagers now?" Tengyuan sneered, "It's a pity, this is the army that goes out to fight, and I am the leading general, who dares to disobey orders and engage in military law!"
"You ......" Xu Yuan pointed at Tengyuan and was speechless, and the two guards who were close to him stepped forward a few steps at the same time, drawing their swords and pointing at Tengyuan.
"Just the two of you, still want to kill me in the military formation?" Teng Yuan sneered, without any movement at all, the soldiers of the Zhennan battalion hula and surrounded him, bending bows and arrows, holding knives and raising guns, and all weapons were pointed at the two guards.
Teng Yuan snorted coldly, "The prince and the girl are safer with me, relying on the two of them, after all, they are still not as good as our battle-hardened battle formation." ”
"Change formation and enter the village!"
The Zhennan army quickly changed its formation, with a team of ten people and a group of three or five people in the team, taking care of each other before and after, left and right, and quickly crossed the stone pai at the entrance of the village and entered the interior of the village.
There was dead silence in the village.
There was no sound except for the footsteps and breathing of the soldier who had just entered, not even the cry of a single bug, as if entering a completely silent space.
Suddenly, the first group of soldiers to enter stopped and stood outside the gate of a house.
"Big Bull?"
"Great, we all thought you were dead!"
Looking through the half-open dilapidated wooden door, a man could be seen standing in front of the hall, tilting his head to look at the five soldiers outside, and then beckoning to them.
A few people just wanted to go in, but they heard a whoosh, and the man was shot into the chest with a feathered arrow, and the feathers at the end of the arrow were still trembling slightly.
"The general has just given the order, and he will not leave him alive...... Are you deaf or stupid, have you forgotten?"
The commander of the retreat put away his longbow and walked over quickly.
"But, that's a big bull...... a soldier was just about to speak, but he stopped suddenly, looked inside the door in disbelief, and his face instantly turned pale.
"How could it be, how could it suddenly be like this?"
What he saw now was that in the shadows in front of the hall, a corpse of unknown people was hanging under the eaves, its feet a few inches off the ground, and one hand eerily raised in the air.
The corpse had already begun to decompose, dripping with an unknown viscous liquid, and a foul smell gradually diffused.
This man must have been dead for many days.
"It's been rotting like this, at least seven or eight days. Gu Juan came to Wu Chang's side at this time, covered his nose and glanced inside the door.
"Leave him alone, move on. Wu Chang also felt a little stuffy in his chest, and he didn't want to stay in front of this courtyard for even a moment.
Gu Juan didn't want to return to Xu Yuan, who was almost mentally deranged and short-tempered, so he directly moved forward along the dirt road in the village with this soldier.
After going deep into the interior of the village, the houses began to become dense, and the doors of many of the houses were open, and the scenes inside were mostly terrifying and bloody, even the old soldiers who were the captains of the army felt their hearts tremble, and the younger ones had already vomited the contents of their stomachs.
"Stop!"
After running forward for a distance, Gu Juan suddenly shouted to stop, and then reached out and grabbed Wu Chang.
"Gu Dart Master, but what did you find?" Wu Chang waved his hand violently, and the ten-person squad quickly formed a battle formation, looking around vigilantly.
"Chief Zhou, behind us, there is no one. Gu Juan looked at the dark night behind him.