Chapter 451: The Bridge Meets the Dead
"Report!" The former convenient bridge was destroyed by ...... rebels."
Suddenly, the exploratory horse and Pegasus returned, and the temporary bridge above Weishui was actually destroyed. In fact, Qin Jin was not worried about the destruction www.biquge.info of the bridge, and the entire Tianbao fifteen years were in a rare drought, even if the Weishui was withered and could only reach the waist, and the cavalry could easily wade through the water even if there were no bridges and ferries.
However, after arriving at the south bank of the bridge, Qin Jin was stunned again, compared to the destroyed bridge, but the deserters on the north and south banks of Weishui.
Yes, yes, there is no doubt that they are deserters. I saw these people wearing the armor of the forbidden army in groups of three or five, or gathered together, or scuffled and pushed, a scene of extreme chaos. Although the military discipline of the forbidden army of the Tang Dynasty is difficult to compare with that of the Shenwu army, it will never be corrupted to this point.
"Envoy, it seems to be a deserter!"
Qing Xuzi's voice sounded at the right time, this old Taoist had been silent since he left Chang'an, and he seemed to be quite unimpressed with Qin Jin's choice.
"The forbidden army escapes will be dispersed and cross the river as soon as possible......"
Qin Jin didn't intend to embarrass these fugitives, instead of wasting effort on useless people, the most important thing was to catch up with the Son of Heaven and the crown prince as soon as possible.
With the order to cross the river as soon as possible, the cavalry were ready to wade, and the scouts had already gone deep into the river to find a suitable depth for the army to cross.
Qingxuzi brewed for a long time, and then encouraged his cheeks and said:
"Poor Dao thinks that the destruction of the bridge is actually the will of God!"
Looking at the muddy water, Qin Jin didn't look back, only asked lightly.
"What is the will of God, please make it clear to the real person!"
In the face of Qin Jin's rare politeness, Qing Xuzi was flattered, he also knew that this young envoy seemed to have always been unaccustomed to himself, and now he suddenly came politely and thought that what he had just said had worked, and he talked eloquently in excitement.
"Asking the king to cross the river to chase the Son of Heaven is nothing more than blackmailing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, no matter who the two are in the upper position, it is better to protect the young prince......"
However, at this time, most of the people around him were Hu people from the Tongluo Division, and they were not very proficient in Chinese, and Qing Xuzi's voice was deliberately lowered, so there was no need to worry about leaking out.
Qin Jin glanced at Qing Xuzi, and asked without being salty:
"In the eyes of a real person, who should be protected?"
Seeing that Qin Jin was humbly asking again, Qing Xuzi was even more proud, reached out and stroked the goatee under his chin, and said:
"In the opinion of poverty, it is advisable not to be more than ten years old. ”
Li Longji has many heirs, and there are indeed a few princes who are still in the prime of life, but Qin Jin does not plan to use Qing Xuzi's suggestion.
"It's time to cross the river!"
Seeing that most of the people had already waded to the other side of Weishui, Qin Jin did not answer, and then urged the reluctant war horse under his crotch to enter the waist-length river. Originally, Qing Xuzi was waiting for Qin Jin's appreciation, but who knew that after his suggestion was spoken, there was no follow-up, and when he returned to the future, he saw that Qin Jin had already arrived in the middle of the harmony.
He hurriedly urged the war horse under his crotch to also enter the water, but this old way's riding skills were obviously not as good as Qin Jin's, and the war horse was reluctant to enter the water, and the old man who was riding on his back was still shouting. The horses finally lost their minds and began to flutter back and forth in the river.
Where has Qing Xuzi seen a startled horse, and when he saw this, he leaned down and hugged the horse's neck tightly, for fear of being turned upside down. Who knew that after such a reaction, the war horse seemed to be frightened again, not only fluttering up and down back and forth, but also spinning in place.
After Qin Jin heard Qing Xuzi's exclamation, he turned around and happened to see Lao Dao, who was dressed in a sloppy gray robe, falling into the mud, extremely embarrassed. It's strange to say that after Qing Xuzi fell from his horse, the war horse that had just been fluttering with its hooves miraculously settled down in an instant.
Only a series of snorts came over me, and it looked like a mockery of Qing Xuzi's stupidity.
Qing Xuzi could tolerate Qin Jin's ignorance of him, but it was extremely difficult to tolerate a beast's ridicule of him. He got up from the muddy water, intending to teach the beast a lesson with his whip.
"Real person, please get on the horse quickly, if you walk slowly, you won't be able to catch up with the envoy!"
After hearing this, Qing Xuzi turned his head to look in the northwest direction, and saw that Qin Jin's war horse had left the north bank a hundred steps away. Looking at his body again, except for this Shenwu Army cavalry who talked to him, there was no one left. Including the fugitives who gathered here in a dense roar, they didn't know when they left without a trace.
"You, why did you fall too?"
His mouth opened and moved, and Qing Xuzi finally only squeezed out such a sentence. But he heard the horseman laugh and laugh:
"I was ordered by the envoy to take care of real people along the way...... Real people, please hurry up, you can't catch up if it's late!"
The horseman is a Han man, and his attitude is very polite, but when he said the last sentence, his tone obviously brought out the color of anxiety.
Qing Xuzi woke up like a dream, Qin Jin was in a hurry to chase after the fleeing Son of Heaven and the Prince, of course he would not stop and wait for him, once he lost contact with the team, there were fugitives and soldiers everywhere along the way, if he met someone with bad intentions, he would never be able to deal with it with the two of them alone.
As soon as he thought of this, Qing Xuzi was no longer responsible, and regardless of the embarrassment covered in mud, he turned over his horse, hurriedly waded into the water, and chased after him to the northwest.
Qin Jin rushed all the way to the northwest, secretly thinking about Qing Xuzi's suggestion just now. Under the weight of the two sides, I still feel that the young prince definitely does not have the appeal of Li Longji and Li Heng. If he really followed the advice of Qing Xuzi and found the prince who was still in his prime in Chang'an City, then the sons born to Li Longji would inevitably follow suit and stand on their own feet. At that time, let alone unite the hearts of the people of the world, the Tang Dynasty will immediately fall into the crisis of the melee of the princes. If in the past, the princes were all kept in captivity in the Ten Princes' Mansions, none of them dared to think otherwise. Now that the Son of Heaven has fled, many of the princes in the Ten Kings' Mansion have taken advantage of the chaos to escape, and Qin Jin believes that Qing Xuzi believes that there will never be only one and a half people who are ambitious.
While he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard a wail in front of him, but saw a group of rebels surrounding a man who fell to the ground to rob him.
If the fugitives just ran away peacefully, Qin Jin wouldn't bother to pay attention to them, but now that he was robbing in broad daylight, it was no wonder that he was ruthless.
"The fugitive should have been beheaded according to his crime, but now he is harassing the people, and there is no forgiveness for his immediate killing!"
At the sound of the order, dozens of cavalry accelerated and rushed over, dozens of sabers were raised high in the midst of whining and shouting, and in an instant, flesh and blood flew sideways, and more than a dozen bloody heads rolled to the ground.
It was only miserable that the person who was surrounded by the fugitive soldiers and robbed was covered with blood, but after this person changed from the beaten state, he actually stood up and slammed it to the ground in the direction of Qin Jin.
"General Xie's life-saving grace!"
Despite the blood dripping from the sticky hair, the man's voice was not panicked at all.
Qin Jin couldn't help but be surprised, this person was by no means an ordinary person.
After thanking the man, he wanted to turn his head and leave, but he fell to the ground when his feet were weak. Qin Jin hurriedly asked people to check the injuries on this person's body, but found that his right leg was swollen and thickened.
Since this person's performance just now was also special, Qin Jin also paid special attention to this person, and when the soldier picked up this person's hair, he couldn't help but let out a burst of exclamations.
"Is that you?"
And the person who fell with a leg injury also recognized Qin Jin, and almost lost his voice at the same time:
"It's you!"
The person in front of Qin Jin was none other than Li Yu, the most favored strategist beside the crown prince Li Heng. However, Li Mi did not know what the purpose was during the mutiny, and he assassinated Qin Jin behind the back of the prince, trying to eliminate Qin Jin's forces in one fell swoop.
Later, the Shenwu army regained its advantage under the leadership of Qin Jin, Li Longji turned the danger into a disaster, the prince lost power, and Li Mi, the culprit, was naturally imprisoned. It's just that Qin Jin doesn't care about whether this person is alive or dead later, because he still has a lot of trouble, so how can he have time to pay attention to the fate of an irrelevant person?
Unexpectedly, Li Miqi was not only not dead, but actually appeared on the way when Qin Jin chased Li Longji and his son.
"Li Mi, how are you here?"
After recognizing that the person in front of him was Qin Jin, Li Mi's expression revealed a trace of unease, he may have known that he had plotted to assassinate Qin Jin, and now that he had fallen into the hands of Qin Jin, he was afraid that he would be unable to escape death. And in this kind of chaotic situation, as long as Qin Jin wanted to do it, killing him was as easy as crushing a bed bug.
"Li is unlucky, since it is in your hands, what else is there to say? If you want to kill or chop, listen to it!"
After looking at Li Mi, who was embarrassed but wanted to be tough, Qin Jin sneered:
"Kill you? Do you think you're qualified? Look at you like a lost dog!"
Li Mi, who had never been timid in the face of death, suddenly cried loudly, crying extremely sadly.
This scene stunned Qing Xuzi, who had just caught up, obviously this thing was still stubborn before the blink of an eye, why was he so sad when he was scolded by Qin Yuanjun?
"You're too strange, a seven-foot man can't think about it, crying here. ”
However, Li Mi only couldn't hear it, and still cried to himself, as if Qingxuzi didn't exist. Qing Xuzi only felt that he was being ignored as air by this embarrassed fugitive again, and suddenly the fire surged upward, and the anger he had just received on the horse came out, and he planned to vent it on this unlucky bastard.
However, a scene that stunned Qing Xuzi happened. Qin Jin, who had just mocked and scolded this person to the fullest, turned over and dismounted and stretched out his hand to support him.
"Since you appeared in the north of the bridge, why did you abandon the prince again?"
Li Mi suppressed his crying, and although his eyes were still full of hostility when he looked at Qin Jin, he still replied:
"Of course Li Yu will not abandon the prince!"