Chapter 689
Watching Qin Qi lead people away, the escorted soldiers began to exchange heads and ears from time to time:
"General Xiahou has always governed the army strictly, if he knows about our affairs, it will be a dead end!"
"But what can be done, who made us unlucky, nothing happened every time, but this time we were caught by Qin Qi!"
"What kind of thing is that Qin Qi, didn't he become a deputy general by relying on the nepotism of his uncle Cai Yang?"
"Hmph, who let us not have a good uncle? Who is not a these days, that Qin Qi himself has not done anything bad, pretending to be serious in front of us!"
When the escorting officer heard this, he turned around and said, "How many of you are still restless, what are you muttering about?"
Everyone immediately laughed and said: "Brother Zhao Wu, we are all from Qingzhou soldiers, and now that we have fallen into this field, should you make it convenient?"
The officer named Zhao Wu said angrily: "It's not that you are to blame one by one, since you chose to follow the lord, you should have accepted the previous bad habits, the lord has not treated us lightly, it is you who don't know what to do!"
A little soldier said: "Although the words are so good, but Brother Zhao Wu, now we have made a big mistake, and it is difficult to escape the blame, we are all brothers who have been rolling and fighting on the battlefield for so many years, and we are not afraid of life and death, but since we have committed such a crime, even if we die, the family will definitely not be able to raise their heads for the rest of their lives, and they will not be able to get pensions, have you watched our dozens of people's families being despised and starving to death at home?"
Zhao Wu hesitated for a moment and said: "I naturally don't want to, but if you do something wrong, you should always be punished, otherwise how will General Xiahou govern the army, our Qingzhou soldiers have not violated the law once or twice, and the lord has also reprimanded General Xiahou many times, you don't want to watch your wife and children be despised by others, are you willing to watch General Xiahou be despised by other generals of the lord?"
Everyone said in unison: "Of course we don't mean that, Brother Zhao Wu, you are good, let us go, never return to the army again, be a group of thieves to rob the rich and help the poor, Brother Zhao Wuge, you only reported to General Xiahou that the escort was attacked by the enemy, and all of us died, so the people in our family will be able to get compensation!"
Zhao Wu fell into deep thought, and after a long time, he took out his saber, cut the rope that bound him, and said to everyone: "Brother, I don't want to watch you have something, but this is the only way, you don't want to be a thief, I heard that Guan Hai, a subordinate of the governor of the state, has gained a foothold in Yangzhou, you can go to him!"
Everyone hugged their fists and said: "Thank you Brother Zhao Wu for your advice, we will go to Yangzhou now!
"There will be a date later!" Looking at the back of his former brother who was gone, Zhao Wu said to himself angrily, "I hope I didn't do anything wrong!"
The soldiers beside him said to Zhao Wu: "Brother Zhao Wu, what if they do evil things again?"
Zhao Wu smiled: "That's their business, I can save them once or twice, but I can't save them every time! Let's go, let's disguise ourselves, go back to see General Xiahou, hiss-" As he said that, he drew his knife and cut a few wounds on his body and arms. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The rest of the soldiers followed suit, and then followed Zhao Wu and hurried south.
At this time, the fire in the mountains and forests gradually decreased due to the proper rescue of the army led by Xiahoudun, and the rest of the sergeants also cut down the isolation zone separated from the fire.
He turned back in amazement, and the army turned back in disbelief, their robes blown up by the sudden strong wind.
"It's not good, the wind direction has changed, it's the northeast wind!" Xiahoudun exclaimed.
As he spoke, the fire seemed to be being stirred up in someone's hands, and it suddenly headed towards the southwest.
At the same time, through the sound of the wind, Xiahoudun seemed to faintly hear a woman's cry for help from the dense forest.
"Did you hear anything?" asked the person beside him.
The soldiers beside him listened carefully and hesitated: "General, it seems that there is a woman's cry for help!"
Xiahoudun had an epiphany: "It's not good, it must be trapped in the forest by the fire, go and rescue!"
Everyone looked at each other and said, "General, the fire is too big, I'm afraid I won't be able to rush in!"
Xiahoudun said angrily: "Human life is at stake, are you afraid of death?"
While speaking, Qin Qi had already arrived with someone, and seeing that Xiahoudun was angry, he stepped forward and said, "General, why are you so angry?"
Seeing that it was Qin Qi who came back, Xiahoudun said in a lighter tone, and said: "It's so easy to extinguish the fire, I can't imagine that the wind direction is suddenly reversed, the weather is really strange!"
"No matter how strange the weather is, fortunately, the last general has already found more than twenty wooden barrels from the vicinity, although it doesn't play a role, but at least it's better than nothing!" Qin Qi said to show Xiahoudun, and asked the soldiers to move all the wooden barrels over.
"Don't hurry up and put out the fire!" Xia Houdun glanced at it and immediately ordered.
"No!" the people did not dare to slack off, and immediately set up the barrels on the back of their horses, and then turned over and rode in the direction of the river.
At this time, Xiahoudun realized that the number of people Qin Qi brought back seemed to be wrong, so he wondered: "Qin Qi, why does it seem that there are dozens of people missing?"
Qin Qi knelt on the ground and said: "General Hui, time is in a hurry, I haven't had time to explain to you yet, just now there were many soldiers in the village who took advantage of the chaos to rob the villagers' property, and even raped their wives and daughters.
"Is there such a thing?" Xiahou frowned, picked up Qin Qi in admiration, patted him on the shoulder and said, "I can't imagine that Meng De has recruited these Qingzhou soldiers for so long, and they still don't change their bad habits, I am really ashamed of Meng De's trust in me, there is no way to govern the army, I have committed a great sin, I have to ask Meng De for my guilt when I go back!"
Qin Qi said: "We all see the general's words and deeds, it is they who are not evil, and they must be punished heavily!"
Xiahou said: "Qin Qi, you are worthy of being Cai Yang's good nephew, you are fair in your work, decisive and decisive, and you will definitely have a bright future!"
Qin Qi said: "How can the last general He De be so praised by the general? I just don't want to insult my uncle's name as the Golden Gun General!"
At this moment, the cry for help in the forest came faintly, and Xiahoudun said to Qin Qi: "The fire is too big, you guard here, I will bring some people into the forest to save people!"
Qin Qi also knew that there was a woman trapped in the forest, and when he saw that Xiahoudun wanted to go in to save people, he immediately stopped and said: "The general is the main general, don't have anything to do, the last general will bring people in, if it is the enemy's strategy, it is good to relieve the general's troubles!"
"Hehehe, there is no need to say more!" As he spoke, Xiahoudun had already come to the forest trail and said to several soldiers holding wooden buckets full of water: "Splash water on me!"
Several soldiers immediately understood, held the bucket high, and drenched Xiahoudun from head to toe.
At the same time, dozens of soldiers followed suit, splashing water from their heads, soaking wet, and gathered behind Xiahoudun.
"Happy!" Xiahoudun wiped his face, held the unicorn tooth in his hand, and said to the soldiers behind him, "You go in with me to save people, Qin Qi, I'll leave it to you here!"
Qin Qi arched his hand and said, "General rest assured!"
Xiahoudun walked in the front, slashed the charred trees with his sword, and entered the forest in an instant.
The northeast wind was getting stronger and stronger, Qin Qi felt that he was almost about to be blown down, he looked at the fire that spread again, and inadvertently looked at an open area on the mountainside not far away, where it seemed to flicker and flicker, and it looked a little abnormal.
Qin Qi looked at it fixedly, and said with a puzzle in his mouth: "What kind of person is it, he is still walking in the mountains in the middle of the night, could it be a ghost fire?"
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but fight a cold war himself.
Looking at the reaction of the troops under the mountain, the maker of the ghost fire on the mountain seemed to be very satisfied, he smiled lightly, and made the phosphorus fire bigger, the light of the fire reflected his miserable green face, and I saw that he was dressed in a Taoist robe, but he was described as a ghost, which made people shudder.
"Haste as the law!"
He muttered from time to time, and finally stopped his movements, and said to the black-clothed man who had been standing quietly beside him for a long time: "Cao Cao is really not simple, Fancheng hasn't swallowed it yet, and he has already sent troops to meddle in Xiangyang!"
The man in black smiled: "Cao Cao's appetite has always been very big, and he can't wait to take the world into his pocket in an instant!"
The Taoist priest snorted: "Does he think that his opponents are all fools?"
The man in black said quietly: "That's why I want to ask Mr. for help, and take a moment of the majesty of the thief!"
The Taoist priest said: "I don't know where the lord's soldiers have gone?"
The man in black said: "Cao Cao strictly sealed the news of the attack on Fancheng, so that the lord only learned about it for half a month, and when he came down, the lord had already transferred troops, horses, grain and grass, and it should be here at this moment!"
The Taoist priest said disdainfully: "It's too slow, fight with Cao Cao, and if you don't get fast, you will die!"
The man in black nodded: "Yes, but fortunately, Jia Xu mediated it, Mr. was too worried!"
The Taoist priest raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "I have long heard of Jia Xu's ability, and I finally have the opportunity to see it!"
The man in black pointed directly at the Xiahou troops in the firelight and said, "That's natural, but I don't know how Mr. will deal with these turtles in the urn?"
The Taoist priest looked at the man in black meaningfully: "You said that it was a turtle in the urn, do you want me to say more about the rest?"
"That young man's name is Qin Qi, looking at his appearance may ruin our good deeds, it seems that we will end him first!" The man in black had already flown down the mountain as he spoke, "As soon as Qin Qi dies, he will destroy Xiahoudun and let Cao Cao lose his arm!"
Looking at the back of the man in black, a smile appeared on the corner of the Taoist priest's mouth: "Don't go and have no return!"
"Who is it?" Qin Qi's soldiers saw a black shadow descending from the sky, and before they could react, several people had already been fatally wounded and died.
"There are assassins!" the soldiers besieged the man in black, only to see that the man in black fearlessly avoided the attack of the crowd, and even killed several people silently.