Chapter 55: Cheng Wu Explores the Thief
"Wu'er, do you dare to go to the county seat for your father to find out?"
On the hill of Quqiu, a man in his forties stood in the wind, although his temples were white and his bones were as tall and straight as a young man.
In front of him, the young man knelt down and said, "Father has a life, and the child will not dare to disobey." ”
With a wave of his hand, the middle-aged man sent his son to test the thief camp, squinting at the city looming between the mountain mist, his face expressionless.
He is Cheng Li, who knew the five soldiers when he was young and studied Confucianism. When Duan Ying pacified the Qiang Rebellion, Yanzhou was not peaceful, bandits and bandits rebelled continuously, and he joined the army to serve the country with enthusiasm. After all these years, the rigor of family learning has won the praise of the people, but this person is ...... He reached middle age.
Who didn't have some ambitions when they were young, some people forgot their original intentions when they walked, and some people couldn't cool the blood in their chests after drinking ice for ten years.
Cheng Li belongs to the latter.
Cheng Wu led a few servants with sticks down the mountain, this canal hill is green and green, but it usually seems to be a beautiful scenery. But he couldn't appreciate such a scene, and he didn't even dare to walk the mountain road for fear of encountering the Yellow Turban Thief, so he had to walk through the dense forest with grass and trees, which was difficult to walk.
Out of the mountains, Cheng Wu and a few domestic servants looked like beggars, their robes were torn by branches, and Cheng Wu's face was scraped with a blood mark from the branches.
At this time, he could really see the outline of Dong'e County, the east gate in front of him was closed, the city gate tower had been burned down, leaving only black and red charcoal emitting black smoke, and there was not even a figure on the three-zhang city wall, and a city was not a little angry.
Bypassing the east city, Cheng Wu carefully walked around to the south gate with his servants three miles away, and it was the same situation, empty.
Cheng Wu had no choice but to continue walking towards the west gate, looking at the city wall with his eyes blank, hoping to see Wang Du's garrison.
Who knew that as soon as he arrived, he hadn't made a detour to the west gate, and a servant in front of Cheng Wu hurriedly shrank around and pulled Cheng Wu back.
"The eldest prince, Wang Du, Wang Du is not in the city, he, he has camped in Ximen!"
"What?"
When Cheng Wu heard this, he hurriedly pulled the servant to lie down, looked at the blue Confucian robe on his body, and rolled on the ground ruthlessly.
"Eldest son, what are you doing here?"
"Don't make a sound!" Cheng Wu got up from the ground with his eyes wide, looked at his body full of earth, and then nodded secretly, and pointed to a stone in the distance to the servant and said, "You guys are waiting for me over there, and I'll go and find out." ”
"Don't go, the eldest son, just let the little one go."
"Stay there!" Cheng Wu glared and pointed to the stone in the distance, lifted his robe and tied it on the tie, and the cat bent his waist towards the west gate.
Cheng Wu saw it right, this Wang Du was not a person who dared to seize the city at all, and his subordinates camped five miles outside the city.
Wang Du's camp was set up five miles outside the county seat, and Cheng Wu trotted eight miles outside the city, and walked carefully around Wang Du's camp for three miles from a distance, and walked more than ten miles this time.
Cheng Wu was unaware of the soreness in his legs, and just walked all the way to write down Wang Du's camp placement, the location and defensive strength of each camp gate, and the garrison arranged by Wang Du.
Since he was a child, his father passed on to him with military strategy, political knowledge and bravery in his blood, although his knowledge was only fifty percent of his father's, but this courage was ninety percent of his father's youth.
There is also a small village, Cheng Wu still didn't see where the grain and grass in Wang Du's camp was, it seemed that it should be the last small village next to the northwest corner of the city, but the mountains and forests that covered him were gone, and in front of him was a vacant land connected to the official road, if he wanted to see it, he had to expose himself.
Gritting his teeth, Cheng Wu pulled back more than a hundred steps, walked out of the woods, completely exposed himself on the road, and touched towards the small camp.
He saw several men with yellow scarves sitting on the ground at the gate of the camp, and he saw the bright ring knives and sharp spears, and he saw ...... A caravan.
This is it, this small village is where Wang Du placed grain and grass, and finally let the master find it!
"Damn, you little bunny is sneaky and fart-inspiring!"
Suddenly, there was a loud shout from behind Cheng Wu, and all of a sudden Cheng Wu's heart rose to his throat, and he turned his head, and more than a dozen men with yellow scarves on their heads came out of the woods carrying the game they had just hunted, and they were only a hundred steps away from Cheng Wu.
'Fuck, when can't you hunt. Cheng Wu scolded secretly, pulled his legs and ran towards the north gate, more than a dozen powerful men don't say now, even if he usually has a ring knife in his hand, he may not be able to hold it.
As soon as Cheng Wu ran, the Yellow Turban man opened his bow and shot, and the arrows flew and landed beside Cheng Wu, there was no time to look back, Cheng Wu was bent on running for his life now, and he didn't care about the bow and arrow behind him for a long time.
They are yellow turban thieves, and they are not the flying generals of my big man, so it's strange to shoot the master!
Cheng Wu ran in front, and more than a dozen yellow turban men chased behind, and the distance of 100 steps was slowly shortened.
Just after running out of two miles, he could just see the north gate, Cheng Wu's legs were already like being filled with lead, panting heavily, his throat was sticky, and his chest was about to explode.
He had just walked more than ten miles in fear, and he was already tired enough.
Run to the east gate, run to the east gate and meet the servants and be saved, run, run!
I want to run fast, but my body can't exert any more strength.
The man in the yellow turban behind him was running more and more, as if playing, holding a short bow and shooting scattered stars to scare Cheng Wu, and the man led by him also shouted in his mouth while running: "Boy, you run for Lao Tzu again!" Run again! ”
Seeing that Cheng Wu was running slower and slower, the distance between the two sides continued to shorten until more than ten steps, Cheng Wu couldn't run anymore, and when he looked back, he saw a man in a yellow turban pointing at him with a bow and arrows.
I'm afraid I can't dodge this arrow.
"Boom!"
The bowstring sounded in response, the body of the yellow turban thief with the bow and arrow suddenly collapsed, the sound of the horse's hooves roared, and more than ten Han soldiers rushed out of the forest fifty steps away, and the head of the handsome woman held two arrows in the mouth of the general, and the bowstring in his hand trembled, and took out an arrow from his mouth again, and did not aim at the bow and pulled it full of hands, and then it was a thief who fell to the ground.
Han rode out of the forest to the handsome young man shot three arrows in just a few breaths, Cheng Wu sat on the ground with a gray face, not even the pain in his chest was relieved, in front of him was a dazzling blood splash, and then came back to his senses that the handsome young man drove the horse in front of him.
The young man lowered his bow and arrows to the horse's hips, and Cheng Wu noticed that the end of his riding bow was tied to a foot-long black horsetail.
The young man narrowed his peach blossom eyes, held the hilt of the knife at his waist in his right hand and said to Cheng Wu: "Yang Feng, who are you under the command of the captain of the Changshui Battalion of the Xiabei Army?" ”