Chapter 365: forest

The army of Jinpengbao has new news every day: the west side occupies a city of Shule country, the eastern mountain pass builds a level of Wanfu Mokai at a miraculous speed, and there is a country surrendering to the one-step king in the distant sea. As soon as he becomes the king of Xiaowan, it is very likely that he will be able to get a real king from the North Court...
In order to conceal his own failure, Du Guzhen insisted that Da Xueshan had been completely annihilated, and he also hoped in his heart.
In a series of major events in the Western Region, the Dragon King and the Snowy Mountain were so forgotten. Only a few people still remember the army buried in the last blizzard of the winter, and believed that there must be survivors.
Blizzard was the destroyer, and more than 300 seriously injured Snowy Mountain soldiers failed to weather the harsh weather and died in the wilderness.
Blizzard was also a savior, not only helping them remove the burden in an extremely cruel way, but also completely obscuring the team's trail.
The soldiers who struggled did not even have the opportunity to bid farewell to the deceased.
They traveled south for a month, passing through the deserted Gobi and the desert, trekking through the swamps all over the traps, coming early in the spring, suddenly full of greenery, and the dragon king led the team to a forest edge that no one had ever heard of. .
The forest is boundless, like a violent ocean, full of alert and hostile to strange visitors.
Gu Shenwei did not dare to rush forward, so he ordered a camp outside the woodland, rested his body and stocked livestock, and took the opportunity to solve many internal problems.
The swordsmen began to miss the snow-capped mountains of snow all year round. Although they were also barren land, the swordsmen were familiar with the way of survival there, and the deserts, swamps and forests made them feel guilty.
The feeling of homesickness was only lingering in the hearts of swordsmen. Slowly, more and more people are talking about their minds, and the voice of turning home is rising every day.
The knives and lords of the genus can not be more stable. They are loyal to the Tuo and the Dragon King, but they still have a typical knives character, hoping that they will be rewarded, and the rewards will be as early as possible.
Today, even the most distant returns are illusory.
This team of more than 1,000 people has not yet split. One is because of the loyalty and fear of the Dragon King, and the other is that there is no way to escape. No one wants to go back and repeat the hardships of the past month.
Gu Shen’s belief in the heart is more and more determined, and persistently believes that if he continues to go on, he will soon find the hidden mountain road leading to the sea.
Even after several guides were discouraged to admit that they lost their way, Gu Shenwei did not waver. Jinpengbao is now in full swing. Daxueshan must avoid its head. Even if it can’t reach the distant sea, it must be temporarily in the wilderness of the south. Hidden for a year and a half.
Gu Shen is once again asking for help from God.
The three warlocks slaughtered and sacrificed on a hillside, throwing the internal organs and burning fat, and they were ambiguous.

God keeps us going south.
A warlock predicts the future from the form of visceral spread.
But... there are surprises and disasters in front.

"I saw death, countless deaths." The second warlock observed the appearance of the smoke rising. "You can stand behind the huge golden gods behind death... The dead will not be forgotten... great merit."
"Pick up the sword." The third warlock relied on meditation to make a prophecy. His words were the simplest and the quickest.
On the third day of the camping of the Daxueshan army outside the forest, a pair of peek-eyes appeared in the cracks of the trees, more and more, and the hostility became more and more obvious.
The fugitive army ran into the legendary Linzhong residents.
This is a group of savages, wrapped in animal skins and leaves. The weapons are wooden long bows and javelins, and they speak a strange language that no one can understand.
Gu Shen’s initial practice was to show them well, send a few horses and dozens of swords, and hope to get together and find a guide familiar with the terrain.
The savage people's thinking habits are different. Gu Shen did not understand at the end, which one of his actions offended them.
The savages began to attack, staying up late into the camp to assassinate the sentinels, or hiding in the vicinity of the water source, shooting sharpened wooden arrows from the dense grass, familiar with the tactics, secrets of the traces, comparable to the top Jinpeng killer.
After the assassination of the tenth warrior, Gu Shen abandoned the strategy and declared war on the Lin Zhongye.
He composed his swordsman and swordsman into a team of 50 people. There were more than 20 teams. They entered the forest in batches, and they took care of them before and after, and gradually promoted them. They fought around the trees and the wild people.
The Snowy Mountain soldiers have been sullen for a long time, and they have no mercy in their hands. They killed more than 100 savages in five days. Finally, they found villages where savages live.
The young people in the village are not killed, they are escaping into the forest.
Everyone killed the red eyes and had the urge to kill the village. Gu Shen’s killing in the heart was also provoked, but he kept restraint at the last minute, just snatched some food and took away five old people and a dozen. Children.
It is very difficult to communicate with the elderly. It takes ten days to understand each other through gestures and guesswork.
The old people have never heard of a place similar to Xiaoyaohai. They only know that the more they go to the forest, the fewer the villages, but the more ruthless they live.
Gu Shenwei ordered the camp to enter the forest. Twenty soldiers escorted two old people who had confirmed their way to leave one day in advance, and issued a simple order to each forest village in the way: supply a small amount of food, and assign ten to twenty young men to join. The army, the disobedient, is to declare war.
The first two villages were more powerful, not only refused to pay the grain, but also killed a messenger and took the initiative to go out against the village.
The matter is very simple. Gu Shenwei only sent three or four teams of 50 people to solve the battle. The wild people's weapons and equipment are too simple. Even if they are familiar with the terrain, they can't beat the prepared soldiers.
The next journey was relatively smooth. The residents of Linzhong had heard of this army of unknown origins. They did not flee from the wind, but they honestly executed the orders for the delivery of food.
This also brings up a problem. The Dragon King and his army can't go straight, always go from one village to the next, and sometimes they will circle.
No way, more than a thousand people have to eat, from the support of these villages, they can not stay in the strange forest for a few days.
Even so, from the Dragon King, everyone's food must be quantified, the village is too small, and the extra food provided is limited.
After the savages were incorporated into the army, the situation improved slightly. Although these people also had to eat, but familiar with the rules of the forest, they always found prey and other foods. Although they did not necessarily have an appetite, they did alleviate the situation of hungry.
The forest is extremely large, and the wild people have limited knowledge of its size and direction. Apart from guiding the army to the neighboring villages, it can hardly provide much help.
They have been wandering for almost three months in the forest, attacking dozens of villages, relying on the meager supply to barely survive, the grievances of the soldiers are becoming more and more obvious, and they dare not express themselves publicly, and they use other methods to vent. Once, A team of 50 people slaughtered a village, killing all men, women and children. The reason was that only one of the soldiers was attacked by a dark arrow.
Gu Shenwei can only confiscate the sword and humiliate them. There is no way to enforce strict military orders.
The forest is like a set of complicated and tight clothes. The foreigners are always bound, and the towering ancient trees and rainy toxic mosquitoes are pushing the soldiers into the edge of the violent.
Waiting for it, even the prestige of the Dragon King is not enough to suppress the resentment of the whole army.
Gu Shenwei does not intend to look back. He has been looking for a road through the forest. For this purpose, he has specially designated several knives who have literary and hyphenated characters. Every village that he has visited has been drawn on the drawings. The legends of the wild people are also All are recorded, in this way, finally outline the general shape of the forest.
Then, he sent out ten groups of scouts, and explored the road in different directions, ordering them to find a dead end and returning. If there is no obstacle, they should turn around for up to five days.
Most of the scouts came back early, and the front is not the deep gorge or the mountain that is difficult to climb. There is no way to go.
Only a group of scouts brought back a little hope. The report said that it can continue to move southwest. Although there are also mountain blocks, there are small roads in the mountains.
According to the legend of the savage, there are no villages in the southwestern mountains, but there are often monsters, and Gu Shen feels that the direction is most likely to cross the forest.
The army was dispersed and collected as much food as possible. After ten days, they gathered together to march to the southwest.
The mountain road was more rugged and difficult. Even the savage savage who joined the army was frightened and ran away on the way, but the soldiers were still excited when they thought they could walk out of the forest.
In the spring, the food will be exhausted, and the remaining animals will be slaughtered. In a sunny and warm afternoon, the Daxueshan army finally got rid of the siege of the forest.
In front of me, it was a paradise. I walked for two months in the old forest without seeing the sky. I saw a piece of fresh flowers and grass, and countless birds and beasts. Everyone was shocked.
I don't know who opened the head. Everyone shouted "Dragon King" in unison. The doubts in my heart were swept away. Even if they couldn't get to the sea, their trip to the South would not be a white trip.
The wild people who followed the army became more and more panicked, and many of them were still unobtrusive for the first time.
Gu Shen gives them the opportunity to choose: they can stay in the army, go to see the wider world, or turn back to the forest.
The panic has stimulated the ambitions of many wild people. More than half of them are willing to stay. The number of people is more than 300. As a result, the Daxueshan army has one more source. Gu Shen has compiled them into one and directs them.
The good things always followed, and on the third day of the forest, the scouts in front of the roads brought back the news that the whole army was invigorated: more than a hundred miles away, stood a city.
The Daxueshan army accidentally hit a country that was isolated from the world. After contacting the leaders in the city, they knew its name.
The country of Xiangji, the legendary place where strange flowers and strangers were born. Many years ago, Gu Shenyi once heard about this country from a doctor's mouth. I did not expect that one day I would actually set foot on its land.
He did not even think that the fate of himself and the Daxueshan army would have a major turning point here.
(I wish you all a happy New Year! Happy family! Thank you for your support, so that I can take the courage to continue writing this book.)