Chapter 586 Dangerous

When did those golden sword monks arrive at the military camp? Anyway, Zhang Qian and Gan Lin didn't realize it before, and they never expected that the Zhuanzhuhai would act together with the most mysterious and legendary monk force in the kingdom.

There are two battalions under Zhang Qian's command, with a total of 2,000 people. Among them are 1,000 spearmen, 500 heavy soldiers, 300 swordsmen and shieldmen, and 200 bowmen. Gan Lin's men are similar to Zhang Qian's, the only difference is that the sword and shield hand and the crossbow hand are slightly different.

And the golden sword monks who came to cooperate with Zhang Qian's troops were a total of 25 people. They were divided into five teams and scattered among the two battalion marching formations. Basically, people in this group would not say a single word to Zhang Qian.

When entering the bamboo sea before dawn, everyone tied up the cuffs and necklines of their clothes with ropes, and replaced all the boots with belts on their feet. Gao Bang also tied them tightly with ropes to ensure that no insects would crawl in. And the rest of the exposed skin was covered with a thick layer of dark green ointment.

The smell of the ointment is very bad, although it is not enough to make people sick or smudge the eyes, but it also has an unpleasant rancid smell, like a rotten egg that has been rotten for four or five days.

Ordinary soldiers felt very self-conscious, and honestly put on a thick layer of ointment while cursing, it smelled a little bit, but it was life-saving.

Those with self-cultivation must also wipe it off, because it is also a waste to rely on the zhenqi mask to keep mosquitoes away, and every ounce of zhenqi in the sea of ​​thousands of miles of bamboo may save your life. Secondly, it is said that many mosquitoes in the Thousand Miles of Bamboo Sea have the characteristics of some ferocious beasts. If the strength of the true energy mask is not strong enough, they will not be able to stop them at all. The difference between low-level monks and ordinary people in the Bamboo Sea is not that big.

Zhang Qian's cultivation was also in the God Gathering Realm, which was not low, but he didn't care whether the ointment was smelly or not, and just put it on. However, the golden sword monks who accompanied him did not touch this stinky ointment. But this is not because the Golden Sword monks claim to be able to deal with the mosquitoes in the bamboo sea, but because they have other ointments, which are colorless and odorless, and they are said to be more effective than those used by Zhang Qian and the others.

No one said anything about this difference in treatment. For the golden sword monk, it's normal that they are a little different. Besides, they may have to rely on each other to survive in the bamboo forest.

After entering the bamboo forest, Zhang Qian consciously slowed down his speed and waited for the rain in the back. This was what they had discussed before.

"You can't slow down, you must reach the first rest point within the scheduled time, and speed up your pace!" Only an hour later, Lin Yeping sensed Zhang Qian's little thoughts, and immediately found Zhang Qian and stopped him sternly.

"Lord Lin, the resting point on the map is not far from our current location. I have discussed with Gan Lin's department behind me and waited for them. It will be safer to keep watch before and after, right?" Zhang Qian never thought of hiding it. The other party, now coordinating together is a person on the same boat, and basic trust is still required.

"No." Lin Yeping still shook his head. Seeing that Zhang Qian still wanted to explain, he interrupted: "The inside of the bamboo sea is no better than the outside. It allows you to go as fast as you want? The distance from here to the rest point and the distance between the two The starting interval of the battalion is fixed. If you slow down now and wait for the people behind you, there will be a lot of delay in the difficult places ahead, and you will not be able to reach the rest point at the scheduled time.

What do you think will happen if you miss a rest point in the bamboo sea? "

what happens? Zhang Qian wanted to ask, but in the end seeing that Lin Yeping's face was covered with frost, he could only suppress his curiosity. Then he sent a message to Gan Lin behind him with a thousand-mile note, and the front and back guards that had been discussed before ended without a problem.

Think about it too. If they could watch each other, there wouldn't be such a distance between the two groups of people entering the Bamboo Sea. Zhang Qian could only secretly think that he had taken it for granted.

Under Lin Yeping's urging, Zhang Qian had no choice but to speed up his march to catch up with the previous progress. After half an hour, the outpost that opened the way at the front sent back the news that he found the situation ahead. Zhang Qian immediately went out to check more and more people.

Just one mile away from the front of the brigade, there were three corpses lying on a small open space less than four feet to the right of the route marked on the map. The corpses were dressed in the same uniform of the Jingjiu Frontier Army as Zhang Qian's troops.

"This is the person in the front team?"

Although the corpse died in a miserable state, as if it had been poisoned, there was no corpse smell at all. It was obvious that it had been dead for only two days, and it should be the three soldiers from the two battalions in front of Zhang Qian's troops.

"Don't get close to the corpse. Watch your feet! If you see it, it's the iron vine needle orchid written on your brochure." Lin Yeping also followed, and directly reminded the soldiers who were about to approach the corpse to be careful.

The corpse was poisoned and looked miserable, but there was no obvious trauma on the body. If you look carefully, you can see that the soles of the three people are stepping on some tiny vines like withered grass. These vines crawl on the fallen leaves on the ground and grow, with thin thorns, which are inch long and as hard as iron needles. It is easy to puncture the sole. And these iron needles are highly poisonous, and within a few breaths, ordinary people can be killed, and the death situation is just like this.

As soon as Lin Yeping opened his mouth, several soldiers around who were thinking of going forward to turn over the corpses immediately broke out in cold sweat, and the nearest section of iron vine needle orchid was less than two feet away from their feet.

"This kind of poison not only kills but also produces poison in the corpse, so that the living things poisoned by these things can only rot slowly in place and become the nourishment of the iron vine needle orchid, and will not be dragged away by the beasts in the forest .

That's why routes are marked with red lines on maps and marked along the roadside. This place is dangerous, and if you are not careful, you will die on the spot, so be careful. "

Zhang Qian nodded, and said to the adjutant next to him: "There is no need to deal with these corpses. Put up a wooden sign to remind the people behind to be careful of the iron vine needle orchid under their feet. The rest continue to move forward."

Compared with the people in front, Zhang Qian would not keep these corpses to drag down Gan Lin's troops behind him, so he set up a wooden sign, which can not only alert the people behind, but also prevent the people behind from accidentally repeating the same mistakes.

Moving on, the fallen leaves on the road are getting thicker and thicker. It is like stepping on a layer of carpet. It is soft, but it makes people very uncomfortable. Because God knows if something will suddenly emerge from under these fallen leaves to sting you.

When the third person was stung by a bug that suddenly crawled out from under the fallen leaves and died quickly, someone began to tie some bark or wood chips to his feet, and stepped on them after probing forward with a weapon in his hand.

This kind of poisonous insect hiding in the fallen leaves is difficult to prevent, at least not with the insect repellent ointment on the body alone.

Now Zhang Qian has seen why Lin Yeping didn't allow him to slow down the marching speed before. Isn't he forced to slow down now? If he walked slowly before, including the marching speed on this section of the road, he would definitely miss the rest point. If Zhang Qian stayed overnight in this environment, Zhang Qian couldn't help but feel nervous.