Chapter 11: Disappearance
In order to completely hide the traces of the second prince, the emperor sent to the other three directions this time, and the people who disguised themselves as the second prince's team were also masters, and their task was to wipe out all the killers sent by the emperor's family, and then find an opportunity to go north to meet the team around the second prince, these forces were all left by the emperor to the second prince's help. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The second prince is also a powerful person, at a young age, when discussing this plan with the emperor, he also participated in the planning of this interception and counter-interception of the north.
The killers under Huangfu Qingyun are actually very good, but the power is scattered in four directions, and it is not expected that in the team of chasing and killing characters, the masters are like clouds, and if there is no one, most of them will be lost, and there are spies who want to deliver news back, but in each direction, the second prince has arranged a hundred people to lurk behind the killers, they will not take the initiative to attack, but if anyone wants to send a message to Zhongdu, they will be killed one by one, and then send a false message back to Huangfu's house in Zhongdu.
When the second prince arrived in Taibai Town, he commanded his subordinates to be stationed in Taibai Mountain, where he wanted to meet the people of the Guigu family, wait for the killers behind to catch up, and then wipe out the whole army. No message can be left to be brought back to the capital.
Half of the killers under Huangfu Qingyun were selected from the guards he had privately raised, and the other half were bought from the killer organizations in the rivers and lakes.
The three personal guards under the second prince are all very capable people, among which Gan Tang was sent by the second prince to the back to block the back of the gang that pursued them. Du Li and Tang Li worked together, one was responsible for integrating forces with the people sent by the Guigu family, and the other was responsible for protecting the second prince.
The Guigu family sent the clansman Guigu Yanli to meet the second prince, Guigu Yanli is good at archery, this time not only brought elite soldiers with excellent archery skills, but also brought a crossbow, the killer has strong martial arts and is good at hand-to-hand combat, but if you shoot them far away, you can save a lot of time and effort.
The place where they set up the ambush was a mountain pass ten miles north from Taiping Town, where a small road branched off, and this path passed through the mountains and winded north. In order to avoid harming the innocent, they made a false impression that the people who followed them would think that the second prince and his party had taken a small path.
Guigu Yanli was very careful, and sent an additional twenty strong men to wait for the fish that slipped through the net three miles away from the most dangerous place at the official road pass. Gan Tang took a hundred people to detour behind the killer, hanging far away, as long as the other party sent spies behind, he would be killed immediately.
When they arrived at the intersection, the leader of the other party really took most of the men to follow the traces deliberately left by the second prince and traced them in from the path. There are two spies and three killers, who are sent to continue tracking along the official road, and of course, there is also a point of no return that awaits them.
Originally, Guigu Yanli still wanted to send the second prince to the snowy region first, but the second prince must stay and watch the battle in person. Guigu Yanli was sent to the north of the snowy region to defend his homeland since he was a child, and he can be regarded as a person who has experienced a hundred battles. The person who appreciates the act of cheerfulness the most, so he does not be polite to the second prince, and watches with great interest the actions of this prince who is said to be the most promising prince of the empire.
The second prince was not stage frightened at all, and personally ordered the soldiers brought by Guigu Yanli, and arranged them in two directions, with fifteen people in each column, two columns in a group, one column kneeling, one column standing, and taking turns to release arrows. There were also five people in a column at the front and back, two columns each, taking turns to release arrows. Then I clicked on the people I brought, twenty people on the left, twenty people on the right, fifty people in front, fifty people in the back, just waiting for the tracking killer to enter this range, you can guard the front and back, left and right.
When the killers come to the encircled pass, they will first encounter the rain of arrows, and no matter how strong the martial arts are, they must not take care of everything, and if someone wants to flee around, the second prince's manpower is to intercept and kill the fish that slipped through the net in the rain of arrows.
Then the second prince and Guigu Yanli stood at the highest place on the left side of the pass to watch the battle, and there were more than 50 guards around them.
Due to the proper arrangement, when the remaining twenty or so killers entered the pass, they could encounter a rain of arrows all around, and they were all equipped with unique skills, and they were inevitably hit by a few arrows. Most people choose to retreat back and forth, but there are also those who are brave and brave, judging that their target is on the peaks on the left and right, so they want to go straight to the top with light skills.
The second prince looked at them calmly, and when they had climbed to two-thirds of the height, he ordered a column of soldiers on the mountain peak to shoot arrows at them. These killers, with their own strength on the steep peak, are already at the end of the crossbow, and then encounter the rain of arrows that come directly, it is not possible to catch up, and it is difficult to retreat, in an instant, these killers with extraordinary skills have fallen into the valley.
Although Guigu Yanli knew that his side was far larger than the other party, and he still had bows and crossbows on his side, which was more than enough to deal with more than 20 killers, he still couldn't help but be nervous, for fear that the second prince would suffer any damage under his eyelids. It wasn't until I saw these killers being killed one after another that I let go of my heart.
The second prince saw that under the valley, the enemy was almost dead and wounded, so he ordered to clean up the scene, check whether the enemy was alive or dead, shoot all those who were lucky enough to be alive again, and then bury them, and then erase all traces of fierce battles.
At this time, the men who had intercepted the enemy before and after all returned to confirm that all the enemies who were tracking them had been ambushed. The second prince breathed a sigh of relief and regrouped the team, but he no longer returned to the official road, copied the path, and entered the snowy territory. After that, he changed into the clothes of the soldiers under Guigu Yanli, disguised himself as the Guigu Corps, and went straight to the snowy Yunzhou. The ghost valley is thousands of miles in Yunzhou.
Qingyun, the emperor of Zhongdu, has not received a report from the Quartet for ten days, he knows that there is something wrong, but he can't be separated, so he has to send people from the Huangfu family to the Quartet to inspect the situation, but ten days have passed, and there is still no news of any second prince in the Quartet, not only the second prince is missing, but even the person who was sent to hunt down the second prince has mysteriously disappeared.
Huangfu Qingyun secretly hated in his heart, knowing that he had won the scheme, and he had lost hundreds of good players. He always thought that the emperor would change the prince of the dynasty before the crown prince chose a concubine, but he didn't expect that at this most sensitive juncture, the emperor would send the second prince out, and now the whereabouts of the second prince are unknown, and it is estimated that only the emperor and the queen's cronies know.
After all, Huangfu Qingyun is cunning and cunning, although he suffered this setback, he was still not discouraged, and while actively preparing for the prince's selection of concubines, he secretly planned to start with whom to inquire about the whereabouts of the second prince.
In fact, Huangfu Qingyun thought about it a lot, the whereabouts of the second prince were in Zhongdu, except for the emperor and queen, no one else really knew. Zhuluo Forty-seventh, although his ability is average, but he has been planning for ten years to send the second prince out, except for everyone who followed the second prince to the snowy region, only Guigu Qianli and Guigu Yanli know the truth.
Huangfu Qingyun then secretly arrested a few people around the emperor and tortured him, but he couldn't find the result. And the emperor looked for an opportunity to let the crown prince know that the hand of the imperial family had reached the palace. Although Huangfu Qingyun vigorously denied it, the crown prince is not a fool, although he does not care on the surface, but since the second prince left, the prince's attitude towards the emperor and queen has eased, and he is still angry at the behavior of the Huangfu family to blatantly bully his father and queen mother. It's just that he has been familiar with Huangfu Qingyun since he was a child, and over the years, his personality has been a lot more introverted, even if he has a mustard in his heart, he will not show it.
Mama Qu, who was next to the prince, once said with a smile to the prince, "Your Royal Highness's personality will not hide her temper for her own people, so she will be angry with the emperor and the queen and the two princesses." Although the prince did not comment at the time, he still thought deeply in his heart. Although he hated his second emperor brother, he also knew that he was a compatriot, so at least he never had murderous intent against him, like the third prince of the Lifei Huangfu family, the prince really beat him hard, if it wasn't for the queen mother to stop it, the third prince would have broken his leg.
For the crown prince, Concubine Li is a member of the Huangfu family, and the third emperor brother has the blood of the Huangfu family, and now the Huangfu family supports his position as the prince, which does not mean that the third emperor brother will not be used against him in the future. So he really had murderous intent towards the third prince at that time. Because of this incident, the emperor also punished the prince heavily, but this time the punishment was accepted by the prince with the most peaceful attitude, because he knew that his father also did not like the third emperor's brother. Now that the second emperor brother is gone, it is the best, so as not to be in a dilemma.
Huangfu Qingyun arrested several people around the emperor and queen for interrogation in a row, but he couldn't find a result, so he asked the queen mother to take action and spread the news of the second prince's disappearance to the ears of the two princesses. The fifth princess likes her second brother the most, so she can cry and go to the queen to ask for the second royal brother. The queen had already prepared for this, took out the gifts and letters left by the second prince before, and handed them to the second princess and the fifth princess, "Your second emperor brother went to do something for your father, because the matter is confidential, so everyone thinks he is missing." You see, these are the gifts and letters that your second brother asked the queen mother to pass on to you when he was leaving. Your second royal brother knew early on that our fifth princess and second princess would cry because they missed him. ”
After all, the second princess is older and sensible, although she is worried in her heart, but she tries not to let the tears in her eyes stay, while the fifth princess is crying profusely, looking at what her second emperor brother left for herself while hiccups, and finally collects her tears.
The queen looked at it, her heart was slightly relieved, and she asked the aunt in charge to serve the two princesses to clean their faces, and then told a few stories to comfort the two daughters, and finally coaxed the two little princesses.
At this time, Minghua, the second prince who had just arrived in the snowy region, could not appear in the snowy region with his true identity, so he pretended to be the son of the old man of Guigu Yanli and went to see Guigu Qianli. Guigu Qianli left him by his side again, took him personally, and renamed him Xingxi.