Kong Ze asked, puzzled, "How do you know they're not enemies?"
"Of course, we should look at their torches. If they were truly enemies, they would be carrying torches, not just a few. Besides, if they were enemies, why would they be so blatantly using torches as targets?"
Kong Ze scratched his head, somewhat embarrassed: "Yeah, yeah, how come I didn't think of that?"
"I didn't expect that either." Li De felt no shame at all. He was just a roughneck. If it were a war, he would just charge straight ahead. Why would he need so many roundabout ways?
Dou Yong watched as the torches slowly approached, their light reflecting off the starry sky.
At this time of day, he is usually still awake. When he was a child, he often looked up at the starry sky at this time and fantasized about his future.
If we were still living in a time of peace, this scene would be something to appreciate.
But in today's world, who has the mind to appreciate it!
At this moment, the scout ran back, panting, and reported, "Reporting to the company commander, the guards that the commander left in Wangjiazhuang have arrived."
Li De nodded. The commander's guards had arrived, and he inexplicably felt a sense of security.
Although they were not far away, it took them a quarter of an hour to walk over.
Zhao Jun took the lead, and although he was exhausted, he still came over anxiously and asked directly, "Have you seen Han Liu?"
Li De looked puzzled: "Han Liu? Who is Han Liu?"
And who are you?
Li De was a company commander in Qiaozhen. He didn't know all the guards around his superior.
Seeing that Zhao Jun was wearing the uniform of a commander's bodyguard, one could tell that he was a commander's bodyguard, but he had no recollection of which one it was.
"Han Liu is the commander's bodyguard. He's come in, so I'll go back and report to him."
Li De shook his head: "I didn't see it."
Then he looked at Dou Yong, who also shook his head.
Dou Yong asked his soldiers directly, "Have any of you seen the commander's guards go into the mountains?"
Everyone shook their heads and replied, "No one noticed the commander's guards going into the mountains."
Zhao Jun panicked. How could no one have noticed? Although there was more than one path into the mountains, this one was the most obvious and widest.
Zhao Jun was originally from Wangjiazhuang, so he was quite familiar with the terrain there.
Dou Yong thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps they came in from another route. This forest is on fire, so going from the other side would get them closer to the fire."
The guard squad leader, Han Rang, approached Li De and asked with a stern face, "Why are you here instead of going in to put out the fire and find the commander?"
Li Degang was about to speak when Dou Yong interrupted, "Captain Han, don't worry, didn't you receive the message from my company commander?"
"What news? I didn't receive anything."
This is what made Han Rang very angry. Since Li De and the others were here, they must know the most about the matter. Why didn't they send someone out to deliver a message?
Dou Yong replied very sincerely: "As soon as we arrived here, we sent someone out to deliver the message, or he went directly to Qiaozhen to deliver the message."
Han Rang thought about it and realized that this was possible. These soldiers were from Qiaozhen, and Qiaozhen was the first place they would send messages to.
"Then why are you still lingering here instead of going to put out the fire?"
Dou Yong replied, "We went inside, but we encountered some bandits..."
Dou Yong gave a detailed account of the people he encountered in Linchuan County and their testimonies, emphasizing that the fire was started by the leader and that the leader was currently safe.
Upon hearing that the leader was safe, Han Rang finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the anxiety he had been carrying subsided.
"The leader is a lucky man, and Heaven will always protect him."
Dou Yong immediately had his soldiers prepare several large bowls of water for Han Rang and the others to drink, and then invited them inside.
Han Rang glanced at Dou Yong; this man was truly adept at reading people's expressions, but he didn't dislike him.
Everyone has their own way of doing things, and as long as it's done well, others will feel comfortable too.
Li De then spoke up: "Captain Han, it's really not advisable to go into the forest right now, the fire is too big."
Han Rang knew perfectly well that if the leader was not safe, they would go in even if it meant going into a sea of fire.
Han Rang's arrival did not solve the problem of food and drink for these people. They were all in a hurry to come and had no time to think about food and drink.
"The villagers will be coming later. They all brought fire-fighting equipment and some food. The commander didn't bring any food when he came out."
Thinking of this, Han Rang felt very uncomfortable; the commander was probably going hungry.
In the guard duty, the squad leader is responsible for managing seven people. Han Rang is a squad leader that Chen Xi values highly. If he does a good job, he can be promoted to company commander.
Because of Shen Xi's trust and reliance on him, Han Rang appeared around Shen Xi quite often, which is why Shen Xi allowed him to stay and lead his team to handle the aftermath of the Wang family's situation.
That is why Li De, Dou Yong, and others all knew Han Rang.
Dou Yong ushered Han Rang and the others into his room where he was resting: "You want to rest for a while? Our soldiers haven't been idle either. They've been working on the isolation zone, widening it, and going in to check the situation."
Dou Yong was right. The soldiers took turns resting and working. The forest fire could not be ignored and there could be no blind spots. If there was even the slightest negligence, it could spread.
Dou Yong knew that the soldiers were hungry and tired, but this was not the time to rest.
We could only take turns resting and endure the hunger.
Han Rang felt much more at ease.
"I was just about to ask you whether you have implemented quarantine measures. If you haven't, it's extremely unsafe for you to be here."
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