Chapter 43: Tracking in the wild

At this time, Fu Qi came immediately. He remembered that the back whistle should be under Wu Shaoting's command. It seemed that Wu Shaoting was responsible for guarding Taiping Gate this month. So, Wu Shaoting rushed to the scene as soon as possible after receiving the news of Zhang Xiaoya being robbed?

"Where is your sir?" Fu Qi asked immediately.

"Mr. Wu took people to pursue the bandits. He asked us to stay and guard the scene and to pick up the troops later." The soldier said before.

"What? He knows the whereabouts of the bandits?" Fu Qi was immediately surprised. As he said, he turned over and jumped off the horse's back, and the new soldiers behind him also got off the horse one by one.

When Fuqi walked forward, he saw that there were only four soldiers on guard on the side of the car.

The four soldiers recognized it as Guangzhou General Fuqi, and quickly bent down and knelt down.

"Get up, everyone gets up. You just said that Wu Shaoting took people to chase the bandits. What's going on? Does he know where the bandits ran?" Fu Qi asked immediately.

The soldiers on the back then said what had happened before.

Originally, Wu Shaoting led eleven soldiers to the scene and found a group of villagers from Huma Village flocking around the car. He immediately stepped forward and grabbed all the villagers and interrogated them one by one. These villagers were timid and afraid of trouble and dared not hide the situation, so he told all the clues he knew.

According to the information provided by the villagers, Wu Shaoting judged that the bandits who kidnapped Zhang Xiaoya were heading southwest along the mountain road. He first surveyed the ground situation nearby, and based on footprints and other traces, he inferred that the number of bandits was about eight to twelve. Afterwards, he left four soldiers guarding the car and chased after the bandits with seven other subordinates.

"What, Wu Shaoting and the other seven dared to chase the bandits?" After hearing the description of the sentry soldier, Fu Qi was very amazed.

However, he was also a little more impressed by Wu Shaoting. In addition to being very brave, this young man was also very skilled. He found clues in just a few hours. He could assert that if the patrol battalion was really allowed to take charge of this matter, I am afraid that there might not be a breakthrough in three days and three nights.

"Go back to General, because we only had eleven guns in the back, Lord Wu brought eleven soldiers out. He also said that in the event of a kidnapping case, we must take action as soon as possible, otherwise the hostages will become more dangerous. So he went after him before you came to support you. However, he said that he would leave a mark on the road so that the supporters could follow the mark." The soldier had explained everything that he had made honest comments.

"This Wu Shaoting is really a trick." Fu Qi nodded slowly and said.

Then he turned around and ordered the new army behind him, "Listen to everyone. Wenju, you and your subordinates stay. Zhuyi and I will lead another team to chase Wu Shaoting, and wait for Huang Shilong and Mo Shicheng and others to come. You will pass on my order to set up checkpoints on the radius of 50 miles southwest and block martial law."

The first Biaobiao general Zhao Sheng, whose name is Wenju, was a little worried after hearing Fuqi's orders, and immediately said, "General, if you don't let Bei Zhi and Lao Mo go to support Wu Shuai Guan, how can you take risks?"

The second agent of the bidder Mo Qingyu, whose name is Zhuyi, also felt something was wrong, so he echoed Zhao Sheng's words and said, "General, please stay here to stay. The last general and Lord Zhao will definitely complete the task."

Of course, Fuqi would not joke about his life, not to mention that he was a civil servant and did not understand military affairs. However, he felt that since Wu Shaoting was leading the way in front, it should be a relatively safe thing to support him along Wu Shaoting's mark. What's more, he had to do enough of this scene so that Zhang Zhi would fully support him.

"I have decided, that's it." He said firmly.

Zhao Sheng and Mo Qingyu had no choice but to act separately according to the order.

The southwest direction is a mountainous terrain, and there are many trees and grass, so it is impossible for war horses to walk on this terrain. Therefore, Fuqi and Mo Qingyu took more than 100 new soldiers to walk. In order not to cause too much noise, they only lit twenty torches, and the distance between them was very large, to find the marks left by Wu Shaoting.

At the same time, Wu Shaoting led Wang Yun, Chen Qun and five other soldiers to track down almost seventeen or eight miles away from the scene of the incident. As a special forces soldier in the 21st century, Wu Shaoting naturally mastered a set of individual reconnaissance skills. What's more, after traveling to this era, he also learned some of this content when he was at the German School. Of course, the actual reconnaissance of this era is far from the actual reconnaissance of the 21st century, but at least he has learned some references in theoretical knowledge and tips.

At the beginning, the sky was not completely dark, and Wu Shaoting's investigation traces were still very smooth at that time. He also knew that he had to shorten the distance with the kidnappers before dark, otherwise the chance of finding this group of people would be greatly reduced once they were at night.

Wu Shaoting calculated that Ah Cheng ran back to report the news at the site of the incident, rushed to the scene to investigate, and then began to track it along the traces. There was about three hours of blank time. According to the speed of the kidnapper walking with a hostage, it would not exceed 30 miles at most for three hours. At the same time, it is not ruled out that there would be a rest on the road or find a place to stay after nightfall.

In other words, his current location is only about ten miles away from the kidnapper's position.

"Sir, sir." Wang Yun gasped and shouted from behind.

"What?" Wu Shaoting turned around and looked at his subordinates. Although the seven soldiers were very tired, they had been trained in high intensity and could still hold on physically. If it were the past, they would have been so tired that they would have been lying on the ground.

"Let's take a break, my brothers haven't had dinner. They are thirsty and hungry. Even if we catch up with the bandits now, I'm afraid we can't beat them." Wang Yun said while wiping the sweat on his forehead.

Wu Shaoting thought about it and felt that what Wang Yun said made sense, so he said, "Okay, everyone, take a break first. You haven't forgotten the marks you made on the road, right?"

Wang Yun sat down on a stone, nodded and said, "It's best to follow your instructions. Use a knife to carve arrows on the conspicuous tree, even a blind man can see it."

Chen Qun walked up, spit the leaves in his mouth on the ground, and said, "I'll push you to your lungs. If the blind man can see them, I'll give you my head."

Wang Yun gave Chen Qun a angrily glance and said, "I'm saying this."

Wu Shaoting looked around. He was in a place where he was now in a dense forest, and the terrain was somewhat tilted. He probably walked into the deep mountains. However, he knew that Guangzhou had a hilly terrain and even if there were mountains, it would not be very high.

At this time, the other five soldiers rushed up one after another. Seeing that the team officer Wang Yun and Chen Qun were resting, they all sat down on the ground. A soldier smashed his dry tongue, sighed with a bitter face, and said, "I could have eaten meat tonight, but now I'm so hungry."

"Don't throw your mother away and stop the sound. When you say you eat meat, I'm hungry." Another soldier immediately cursed.

The soldier had to silence before.

When Wu Shaoting heard this, he suddenly had an inspiration in his mind, yes, it's time to eat, and the bandits are naturally going to have to eat! Since they are eating, they will definitely light a bonfire in the dark sky. If the bandits don't light a bonfire, it can prove that they have returned to the bandit's nest, which means that the bandit's nest is nearby.

The military quality of this era is very backward, not to mention that the kidnappers are not regular soldiers, so they certainly don’t worry about the firelight in the darkness that can spread more than ten miles away.

Thinking of this, he immediately walked to Wang Yun.

Wang Yun stared at Wu Shaoting in a daze and asked, "Sir, do you have any instructions?"

Wu Shaoting said: "Get out of here quickly."

Wang Yun stood up from the stone, and he was still a little confused: Are you snatching me too? There are so many stones there, right?

Wu Shaoting lifted the folds of his official uniform, stepped on the stone, and then climbed up to a big tree next to the stone. However, he fell down halfway through the climb. Fortunately, Wang Yun and Chen Qun hurried forward to support him, otherwise they would be embarrassed.

"It's a fucking awkward, this dress is so fucking awkward. The old army's combat power has been weakened by 20% when wearing this suit. It's a fuck!" Wu Shaoting cursed.

"Sir, are you going to climb a tree?" Wang Yun asked in confusion.

Wu Shaoting ignored Wang Yun and took off his shirt. Fortunately, he was wearing a single robe today so he would not go bare-shirt. He threw the robe to Wang Yun, who was beside him, and then climbed up the big tree stepping on the stone again. This time, he lost the shackles of the official robe and climbed onto the branches very easily.

He raised his eyes and looked forward. It was pitch black in the southwest direction, but there was a very obvious fire light flashing in the northwest direction. Naturally, there was no village in this deep mountains and forests, and even the village would not have only one fire light. It can be imagined that the tenth fire light was where the kidnappers were.

He took advantage of the reference object to see that the fire was less than fifteen miles away from him.

Wu Shaoting was secretly happy and was about to come down from the tree. Just as he turned around, he suddenly saw more than a dozen weak flames moving towards the southeast, and couldn't help but guess: Could it be reinforcements?

He jumped out of the tree, patted the dust on his hand, and said, "There is a fire in the northwest direction for about fifteen miles, and 80% of the kidnappers are resting. Let's hurry to the northwest immediately. Wang Yun, leave another mark to point out the new direction."

Wang Yun asked nervously: "Sir, if you really encounter bandits, are there too few people here?"

Wu Shaoting said: "I have seen the torches of reinforcements just now. They are coming here, but it will take some time for them to arrive here. It's dark now that it's hard to track the traces. If the kidnappers put out the fire and run away afterwards, then all our efforts will be wasted."

"But……"

"Don't worry, we just follow the kidnappers and wait for reinforcements to let them suppress the bandits. You have to think clearly that Zhang Xiaoya is Zhang Zhi's daughter. If we save her, we will make great contributions. Even if we don't get promoted, we will at least make a fortune. Master Zhang will give you a free reward for a year." Wu Shaoting said seriously, he is using his interests to stabilize the morale of the army.

"Mr. Wu said so well, hehe, brothers, let's get rich... Uh, no, let's chase the bandits." Wang Yun smiled and quickly called on the soldiers to stand up and prepare for action.

The soldiers all heard Wu Shaoting's words. Since they just followed the bandits without having to exchange fire directly, and there were a lot of silver rewards afterwards, they were immediately full of motivation.
Chapter completed!