What a sin! The most handsome lazy man in the village married a crazy woman.

Chapter 432 Soldiers Frozen to Death

Nangong Jingxuan selected 3,000 men from the Flame Army and formed a death squad. Under the expectant gazes of the soldiers and civilians in the city, he opened the city gate and walked out.

The heavy snow buried all the road signs, making it difficult to tell the direction at a glance.

Walking in the endless snow, Nangong Jingxuan and his group's breath turned into ice. Although they were wearing thick clothes, they still felt very cold. The kind of coldness went straight to the bones.

They walked for a very long time, and when they were hungry they just ate some dry food. These dry foods were not hard cakes, but dry noodles. There was no need to knead the dough, just cook it over a fire. In addition to dry noodles, there were also energy bars, compressed biscuits, etc. These foods were made according to the method taught by Shangguan Tang.

Maybe Nangong Jingxuan really has some luck. When others go out, they either encounter strong winds or heavy snow. However, their team has been out for three to five days and there is no snow. However, the snow on the ground still hasn't melted.

"It's already spring, but the weather hasn't warmed up yet. Is it going to be cold all year long?" complained a subordinate.

Nangong Jingxuan heard what he said and said calmly: "It won't always be this cold. If spring doesn't warm up, summer will always come."

As he spoke, he looked up at the surroundings and found some familiar places.

"Go another hundred miles north and you will see Yulong Pass." Nangong Jingxuan pointed in a direction.

The soldiers behind him were extremely happy.

"We have arrived at Yulong Pass, great! I wonder how General Su and General Zheng are doing? There should still be food in Yulong Pass!"

Nangong Jingxuan listened to these words and said, "There should be some food, but it may not be much. I told Guan Xiaoniu that when we pass by Yulong Pass, we should send someone to tell the soldiers at Yulong Pass about the granary, and then go to look for the granary together. I wonder if he did it?"

If they had done so, Zheng Huanxin and his men would definitely have taken action, and might have found the granary long ago.

We continued walking for another fifty miles and were about to reach Yulong Pass when we saw piles of snow rolling down from the mountain on the left.

"Oh no! There's an avalanche. Everyone run!"

The team began to flee, running towards the right front.

The heavy snow came rolling in, shaking the earth.

Nangong Jingxuan led the team to run for a long time, and when they stopped, they found that they had deviated from the original route.

"What is this?" Suddenly, someone exclaimed, "Corpses! I saw corpses. Lots of corpses!"

Nangong Jingxuan's heart skipped a beat. He went to where the sound came from and saw a group of soldiers digging out more than a dozen corpses from the snow.

The clothes worn by these corpses were the exclusive attire of Yuan Dynasty soldiers.

"Commander, it's the grain-collecting team! They are the soldiers who followed General Guan to collect grain!"

The Fire Army soldiers collapsed and screamed, using both hands to continue digging in the snow. After digging all the snow in the area, they found more than a dozen bodies. Together with the previous ones, there were a total of twenty-seven bodies, all of whom were members of the food-collecting team.

The bodies were frozen stiff, some had their eyes wide open, some had distorted faces, their expressions were all painful, unwilling, and miserable.

This shows how much fear there is before death.

Although they had long guessed that the food-collecting team might have met with an accident, Nangong Jingxuan and his companions were still extremely sad after seeing it with their own eyes.

"No wonder they didn't come back, it turns out they were buried in the snow!"

"General Guan's body is not here. They sent out a thousand people, but we only found more than twenty bodies. The rest may still be alive. We will definitely find them if we keep looking."

Nangong Jingxuan closed his eyes in grief: "Now is not the time to be sad, we still have important things to do, cremate them and take the ashes away."

Some of these bodies still had identification documents on them, but some no longer had them.

Nangong Jingxuan and his group found firewood, cremated the bodies, took the ashes, and continued on their journey with the soldiers' ashes, looking for the food-collecting team along the way.

Shangguan Tang finally arrived near Yulong Pass, but before entering it, he encountered another avalanche. After escaping with all his might, he found that he had deviated from the route and came to a valley not far from Yulong Pass.

The snow in this valley is thicker than outside. It looks like an avalanche occurred not long ago and all the snow fell in this place.

The sled slid on the snow, and soon it became dark. Because there was white snow everywhere, the road could be seen clearly even at night.

"There's a cave over there. Let's go in and rest for a while. We'll set out again at dawn. If we walk two hundred miles south, we'll find a granary I left behind." Shangguan Tang put away the sled and walked into the cave while talking to Baihu. "It's been so long, I wonder if the granary is still there?"

As soon as he stepped into the cave, Shangguan Tang found something wrong.

Baihu's eyes instantly became alert.

"Is there something in there?" Shangguan Tang asked softly, and calmly took out a fire starter from the space and blew it to light it.

Wherever the firelight illuminates, there are people one after another.

These people were lying on the ground, covered with tattered straw mats, without making any sound.

She made some noise on purpose, but these people didn't wake up.

Shangguan Tang took out a lantern and lit it. Under the light of the lantern, she could see more clearly.

The cave was very large, with thick snow inside. The ground was covered with messy weeds and leaves, and on them lay soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Flame Army.

Hundreds of flame soldiers were lying motionless in the cave. The scene was extremely shocking.

Some of them hugged each other, some huddled in the corner, and some squatted in a hidden place to keep watch.

Shangguan Tang's heart tightened, and he squatted down to feel the breath of the person under his feet, but found that the soldier's body had already stiffened and he was dead.

"he died!"

Shangguan Tang hurriedly said to Baihu, "Dabai, don't touch them, they are all our people, you guard the cave entrance."

As she said this, she went up to check the breath of others.

This one had no breath, and neither did that one. One, two, three, four... I checked the breath of fifteen people in a row, and none of them was alive.

Shangguan Tang's eyes were red with pain: "Hurry up and get up, I'm here to bring you food!"

"Is there anyone alive? If there is, please answer me!"

Shangguan Tang shouted as he took out charcoal from the space and burned two large fires.

"Look, there's a fire, you can keep warm!"

She then took out steaming stewed pork and roast chicken, and the aroma spread throughout the cave.

"Do you smell the meat? Hurry up and get up. I'll give you all of this to eat."

"I have a lot of food here, hurry up and get up!"

Putting the food on the ground, Shangguan Tang called people one by one, trying to wake up the soldiers, but only one person woke up. In the cold cave, Shangguan Tang was so anxious that he was sweating profusely.

Suddenly, she saw a familiar face.

"Guan Xiaoniu!" Shangguan Tang rushed over and dragged out Guan Xiaoniu who was pressed underneath.