When they broke through the encirclement and returned to their camp, only less than two hundred of their more than a thousand elite soldiers remained.

During the evacuation, the elite soldiers had to help Ouyang Yuqing relieve her fatigue.

When they tried to switch people to carry Ge Qiang, he held on tightly and refused to let go.

At this moment, Ouyang Yuqing felt immense guilt. Over a thousand elite soldiers had perished, with more than eight hundred killed because of a traitor in the army.

Back in the camp, Ouyang Yuqing, with a stern face, ordered the camp's medical staff to treat Ge Qiang and the other elite soldiers' wounds.

At this moment, Ouyang Yuqing had countless wounds on his body, but he didn't care about them.

He began to deploy his loyal subordinates to search for the traitor.

After Ouyang Yuqing had finished setting up everything in the military camp, he also fainted due to his injuries and exhaustion from carrying Ge Qiang all the way.

When Ouyang Yuqing woke up and was about to visit Ge Qiang, he learned that Ge Qiang had mysteriously disappeared for some unknown reason.

Ouyang Yuqing dispatched soldiers to search for three days, but still found no trace of Ge Qiang.

Ouyang Yuqing felt guilty, thinking that he shouldn't have fainted back then.

After searching for many days without success, and with the frontline troops still needing to fight, he could only send people to Ge Qiang's hometown to search for him and provide subsidies to Ge Qiang's family.

However, the soldiers who were searching for Ge Qiang did not find him at his home.

The soldiers, having returned empty-handed, reported their fruitless search to Ouyang Yuqing.

Ouyang Yuqing was also troubled by not being able to find the person. He sent his soldiers to search Ge Qiang's hometown many times, but all the searches were fruitless.

Since he couldn't be found, the matter had to be put on hold for the time being.

At this moment, Ge Qiang did not want to cause Ouyang Yuqing any psychological burden.

When he woke up, he saw that he had lost one arm and one leg, so he cruelly ran away from the army camp.

Determined not to be found by Ouyang Yuqing, he went into hiding.

While in hiding, his wounds became infected, and he fell into a deep coma.

When he regained consciousness, he headed straight for his hometown.

Perhaps it was his eagerness to rush home that moved Heaven.

On his way back to his hometown, he encountered a kind-hearted merchant who was escorting his goods.

Seeing that he was missing an arm and a leg and was having a hard time traveling, the merchant gave him a ride.

It was half a month later when Ge Qiang returned to his hometown.

At this time, due to serious injuries and the long journey, Ge Qiang, who was once a strong young man, was so weak that he looked as if he would collapse at the slightest breeze.

When Ge Peng saw his second brother return home, he cried his heart out.

They had a deep bond since childhood, and he couldn't bear to see his younger brother come back in this state.

Without saying a word, he went back into the house, took all the silver in the house, hitched up the oxcart, pressed his second brother onto the oxcart, and pulled him along to drive the oxcart to the county town for medical treatment.

Ge Qiang was very tired and exhausted on his way home.

He was injured and did not get adequate nutrition.

The merchants who took them in wouldn't be able to provide strangers with lavish meals.

He was malnourished at this point and fainted again on the oxcart.

When Ge Peng's oxcart arrived at the county clinic, he saw his second brother lying with his eyes closed, unable to be woken up.

With a heavy heart, he gently picked up his second brother and carried him into the clinic.

When the doctor at the clinic saw Ge Qiang carrying someone into the clinic, he immediately got up to prepare to help.

But when the doctors saw Ge Qiang, who was missing an arm and a leg, they hissed.

After a moment of shock, the doctor had Ge Peng carry the person into the medical room to take their pulse.

The doctor's diagnosis, after examining Ge Peng's pulse, plunged him into despair.

The doctor told Ge Peng, "He is currently severely anemic and malnourished."

Because Ge Qiang had sneaked out of the military camp, he was still running a high fever.

Therefore, Ge Qiang's lungs were also congested, and the doctor issued a critical condition notice to Ge Peng.

The doctor said that Geqiang's fever wouldn't break soon, and he would soon be gone.