Yazhou is located southwest of Yizhou. According to Yuan Shoucheng's diary, the transport ship flew to that place after losing control. The expedition team searched through the mountains to the west according to the clues provided by Li Yan.

After five days of trekking, Li Yan and Qin Huaiyu and his group had arrived in Yazhou. After a short rest in Yazhou, they continued to advance into the mountains and soon found the marks left by the expedition team.

Looking at the endless primitive jungle in front of him, Li Yan frowned. He walked through such a primitive jungle, not to mention encountering enemies, even facing various natural creatures, would cause casualties to the army.

"Qin Huaiyu!" The army stopped in front of the jungle, and Li Yan shouted.

Qin Huaiyu was exploring inside the edge of the forest. When he heard Li Yan's voice, he immediately returned and said, "Your Highness, what are you asking for?"

"Soldiers who use flashlights are arranged at the front, at the end and in the middle. The jungle is so dark that many things cannot be seen clearly are prone to danger." Li Yan ordered that although he swept many supermarkets, Li Yan still did not get a lot of flashlights. He could only allocate the elite troops and concentrate their superior resources.

Qin Huaiyu responded, and then asked the messenger to issue an order. When he turned around, Qin Huaiyu said again: "Your Highness, you'd better not go in, right? Just wait for us to go in. There will be no problem with so many people."

"We have to go in sooner or later, it's the same." Li Yan said, touching the golden key hanging around his neck, and he had to start some things himself.

After sighing heavily, Qin Huaiyu was quite helpless. No one in Yizhou can be missing Li Yan, so he is under great pressure. If Li Yan is a little bit too long, he has to carry his head back, "Go forward!" Qin Huaiyu roared, and then he returned to Li Yan, intending to protect Li Yan throughout the journey so as not to have any unexpected situations.

In contrast to modern times, the natural environment of the Tang Dynasty was very excellent, with undeveloped primitive jungles everywhere. After all, there were only 20 to 30 million people on the vast land at that time, and the restrictions of various tools made people afraid to enter the jungle easily, because Li Yan's jackals, tigers and leopards were too numerous, which was no less than the animal density in contemporary zoos.

Walking through the sparse jungle area in the front, the weeds and trees in the jungle began to grow dense, and the sunlight could only shine through limited gaps into the thick deciduous layer of the jungle, but this faint light and heat could not dispel the darkness of the jungle and the moisture that was sandwiched with rotten plants.

The reconnaissance soldiers were looking for the marks left by the expedition team in front and came back from time to time to report the situation. Otherwise, the army would not dare to advance rashly. If such a huge forest was lost in it, they would be finished without the barbarians.

After a day of trekking, the army still had no choice but to order to rest in the jungle for a night before continuing to move forward. After trekking in the jungle for a day, the soldiers were also exhausted. Dozens of people gathered in a circle and found some firewood in the jungle and lit a bonfire.

"I didn't expect that place to be so far!" Qin Huaiyu complained. If this was a war, he had no temper at all, but there were invisible enemies everywhere in this jungle. Along the way, many soldiers were bitten by poisonous insects, and a large area of ​​their bodies were swollen. If it weren't for the war doctors accompanying the team, I'm afraid there would be many soldiers who would have suffered casualties today.

Li Yan recalled the expedition member's words, "The expedition team took three days to walk out of this forest. Now they have their way forward. We should be much faster than them. Now go back and have a good rest. Maybe we will arrive tomorrow."

Nodded, he was frightened and was only dependent on his legs. Qin Huaiyu was also tired. He fell asleep in Li Yan's tent and said he wanted to protect Li Yan in close proximity. This made Li Yan very helpless. His shocking snoring was already deadly enough.

Based on the map, he studied the route provided by the expedition team. After confirming that he had not gone astray, Li Yan put down the map and prepared to go to bed. As soon as he lay down, he suddenly heard dense gunfire and dense shouts from the soldiers.

Qin Huaiyu suddenly woke up, grabbed the silver spear next to him and rushed out. Li Yan held the submachine gun he had just put down in his hand and rushed out.

"What's going on?" The flashlight outside the tent was very complicated at this time, but the unified ones were shining deep into the jungle. The soldiers even used a shoulder flashlight. This flashlight was equipped with a battery and was very bright. Things a hundred meters away could be illuminated clearly. Li Yan told him that it would not be used until the critical moment, because there was no place to charge here, but the soldiers still took it out at this time, and it must have encountered a very dangerous thing.

Qin Huaiyu was talking to a soldier at this time. When he saw Li Yan coming out, he looked solemn and said, "We were attacked. A regiment far away from the army lost more than half of it, but the people who attacked us did not please him, leaving more than a hundred bodies."

"Go and take a look!" Li Yan's face was strong after hearing Qin Huaiyu's words. Now they are the enemy and I am the one who is completely targeted by others in the dark.

Qin Huaiyu nodded and asked the soldier to lead the way. He looked around vigilantly and guarded Li Yan to go.

When he arrived at the accident site, Li Yan saw the casualties and the barbarians mentioned by the expedition team. These people were all wearing fur clothes, including deer skin, tiger skin, wolf skin and other different furs. Li Yan even saw a black and white fur, which was very similar to the skin of a giant panda. These people were all dark-skinned and covered with blood-like horizontal blood marks on their faces.

"Your Highness, this is the weapon they used." Qin Huaiyu handed the spear to Li Yan.

The spear is about one-5.5 meters long and is pure woody, but the end of the spear is very sharp and dark green. It is obviously something is applied, "How about the injured soldier?"

"They were all stiff and could not move at all, and the war doctor had no choice." Qin Huaiyu said.

Li Yan nodded. It turned out that the expedition members said the situation was exactly the same. According to the expedition members, this toxin seemed to be unable to kill people. The barbarians took advantage of the fact that they captured the alive expedition members back.

"Let the soldiers not take off their armor!" Li Yan glanced at the corpse on the ground. The soldiers in this regiment were not wearing plate armor. I guess they took off all of them because they felt uncomfortable at night. Otherwise, with these wooden spears, how could these barbarians hurt the soldiers wearing plate armor?

Qin Huaiyu was also a little annoyed and scolded the lieutenant of the regiment, saying that he would settle the score with him later when he went back. The lieutenant felt guilty. A big man cried like a child.

Li Yan sighed when he saw this. During this period, the Yizhou army won a series of victories in a series of wars, and it was very easy to win. This made the soldiers relax their vigilance. After returning, he must kill this style, otherwise the arrogant soldiers would be defeated. Back then, the Japanese army was so elite that they were still defeated by the people with machetes in some battles, not to mention that he was still in an era of high-end cold weapons and tactics.

Because of such a thing, the soldiers did not dare to be careless. They all put on armor, and the patrol team increased several times. They patroled back and forth in the temporary barracks, and the light of the flashlight did not shoot into the jungle.

The soldiers who went to pursue were called back by Li Yan. If you go out to pursue them on such a night, you will suffer a loss even if you have flashlights. After all, this is on the territorial territory of the barbarians, and there may be traps everywhere. However, this attack also made Li Yan understand that the transport plane is not far from them.

Because of the increased vigilance or the counterattack of the soldiers, the barbarians were also scared. In the second half of the night, no other unexpected events occurred.

The next day, early in the morning, Li Yan ordered to continue moving forward. On the way, as the expedition team said, they encountered many traps, but because they were all wearing thick armor, some soldiers were injured, but no casualties were found.

Li Yan and Qin Huaiyu walked in front of the middle of the team, and with the heavy protection of the soldiers, it was safer. Just as Li Yan calculated last night, after trekking for another two hours, the cheers of the soldiers suddenly came from the front, and the brightness in the woods became increasingly brighter.

Li Yan's face showed a hint of joy, and they finally arrived at their destination. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!