imperial psychologist

Chapter 705 Accidental Discovery
In the darkness, the team collectively turned back.

The supply unit that was originally at the end became the front line.

Wang Meng's order to return to the city was very urgent. Except for some heavy military equipment that could not be discarded and had to be carried with him, the rest of the food and cooking utensils were all thrown into the mountain stream.

Bo Ling smelled a mixture of blood and burning scorching from the Xue brothers who had returned to the team, and even heard a series of curses from the captured golden man behind him.Although he couldn't understand what the golden man was cursing, from his exasperated tone, Bo Ling knew that it was probably unpleasant.

Sure enough, after listening for a while, Xue Zian rode his horse back and cut off the man's calf in the snowstorm.

In the darkness, a shadow flashed across the gushing stream of blood.After a burst of screams, Xue Zian withdrew the knife indifferently, and calmly said a short sentence in the golden language.

The captives died down.

Just when Bo Ling was secretly surprised, a familiar figure stopped beside her on horseback.

"Ha." The man's gray-white cloak unfolded in the night wind, but the pocket on his head covered most of his face, and the contours of his facial features were hidden in the shadows, "You can't go to Yanzhou now."

Bai Ling looked sideways, seeing the deer hunter chasing him at some point.

"It's you... why are you here?"

"If you want to know, ask Wang Meng." The deer hunter said in a clear voice, "That boy asked me to bring you a message."

"...is it the same?"

The deer hunter looked forward, "He wants me to tell you that he escaped, so don't worry in Yanzhou, if you don't meet, just wait a few more days, he will come after him soon... But now it seems that you It should be converging at both ends."

"He's looking in both directions now?" Bai Ling frowned, "What about Mu Cheng?"

The deer hunter didn't answer, but turned his horse's head around, waved his hand in the air, passed through the horse team that had captured many golden men, and disappeared into the night alone retrograde.

Regarding the departure of the deer hunter, neither the two guards at the side nor the two brothers of the Xue family expressed any surprise.

"wait--"

Just as Bai Ling was about to catch up, Xue Ziping, who was at the back of the team, quickly reached out to stop him, "Where is Mr. Xiao going?"

"I have something to ask him."

"No matter what, let's talk about it after returning to the city!" In the snowstorm, even though Xue Ziping raised the volume, his voice was still thin, "Don't fall behind now!"

The corners of Bai Ling's mouth sank slightly, and he finally followed Xue Ziping's suggestion.

The road to Yanzhou from both ends is mostly uphill, and it is relatively difficult to walk, but the return journey is much faster, taking less than half the time it took to come.

Before seeing the city gate looking at both sides, the sound of huge gunfire shook everyone's eardrums tight.

The ground shook with the sound of the guns, and small stones and clods of soil kept rolling down the side of the mountain.

When approaching the county seat, Wang Meng took his men up to the highlands first, and looked down at a large open space at both ends facing the north city gate in the night.

The wilderness that was still silent and uninhabited during the day yesterday had banners unfurled today, and the campfires of the enemy in the distance spread to the horizon like countless galaxies on the ground.

In the distance, the big flag standing in front of the queue of golden men was tumbling in the wind. Bai Ling squinted his eyes and looked at it for a while. Text.

On the other side, the soldiers looking at the city from both ends are also waiting.

It seems that the Jin people have not really launched the first siege, but just spread out their camps one by one with great fanfare.

"No wonder the general urgently called us back for support..." Wang Meng murmured, "It has already begun."

Bo Ling leaned over beside Wang Meng, and when he heard the sound of "start", he couldn't help clenching his clothes a little.

"The most urgent thing is to get in touch with the city." The older guard said beside Wang Meng, "so that we can enter the city."

"How many defenders are there at the moment?" Xue Ziping asked suddenly.

"There are less than 1 permanent defenders." Wang Meng said softly, "Combining with the new teams that entered the city today, there should be about [-] to [-]."

"That should be fine." Xue Ziping looked at Wang Meng, "The city defense here is strong, the terrain is steep, and the two sides outside the north city are dense forests. With 5000 people stationed, we can easily deal with the enemy...Why does General Chang want us to come back? No matter how you look at it, it should be stepping up to Yanzhou."

Wang Meng did not answer.

Looking at the golden soldiers in the distance, he faintly felt that this matchup seemed different from previous years.

As for the difference, he couldn't say for a while.

At this time, a messenger trotted over, saying that almost all the gates on both sides of the city had been sealed, and the night was dark, they could not distinguish between friends and foes, but whenever they saw soldiers approaching, they would be greeted with gunfire. inaccessible.

At present, all the pigeons brought out from the two sides have been released, and I hope they will take the initiative to give some news tomorrow.

"It should be like this." Wang Meng frowned, and looked at Xue Ziping again, "The gold thieves who ambush in the ice road just now, can we catch all of them?"

"It should be complete." Xue Ziping said, "Zian and I have blocked the roads at both ends before you led the troops to kill, and we didn't let go. If you are sure that all the corpses left there are dead , then there should be no fish that slipped through the net."

"That's good." Wang Meng said in a low voice, "The golden soldiers can set up an ambush on the ice road in advance, so they already knew that we were going to pass there, but they may not have predicted that we would turn back... Hey, where is Wei Songqing?"

Wang Meng looked left and right. He originally wanted to ask Bo Ling for his opinion on the current situation—but he had seen the young man lying beside him just now, but now he was gone.

"I just saw him walking north alone," Xue Zian replied, "Maybe it's convenient for him to go."

"Call him back." Wang Meng said with a frown, "We're going to retreat a little further to the south."

On the north side of the hill, Bo Ling climbed up a huge rock with hands and feet.

In the bitter cold wind, her two hands have been propped on the stone surface to maintain balance.

Squatting on this gigantic rock, the north city gate looking at both sides is no longer visible in the field of vision, but the terrain further north can be seen at a glance.

In the second half of the night, the wind was strong, but the snow stopped for a while, and the howling north wind blew away a piece of cloud from time to time, making the sky and the earth flickering.

There is a whole piece of dense forest at her feet, and there is a long embankment beside the forest.After the first snowfall, the river on land here either freezes or dries up. It seems that the long embankment here is the latter.

"Hello!" Bai Ling heard Xue Zian's voice behind him, "The deputy general is calling you back, we are going to continue south."

"Well. Come."

Under the moonlight, Bai Ling took one last look at the golden man's banner in the distance, and then carefully touched the rock folds on the boulder and slowly returned to the mountain road.

She originally climbed up here to see the terrain at the bottom of the mountain, but she didn't want to see more interesting things here.

　Tomorrow is a special Qingming.

　　May the dead rest in peace, may the living work hard, may the motherland prosper, and pay tribute to the heroes.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)