Chapter 47: Thousands of Miles to the Emperor's Grace
Lin Zhan and Xuan Liang, who were ambushed in the jungle to the west, did not expect the effect of the four guards to be so good. After the soldiers of the three ethnic groups rushed into the dense forest one after another and chased after the four guards, Lin Zhan and Xuan Liang decisively rushed into the station of the ethnic group in the north and went straight to the stables that had been explored in advance. At this time, there were only ten people left guarding the stables, and the rest joined in the pursuit of the four guards. Lin Zhan and Xuan Liang led sixty soldiers and easily captured all of their forty-five war horses.
Not daring to stay, leading the war horse, the group went straight to the southwest of the ethnic group station, at this time the two of them coincidentally changed the initial agreement to only rob the northern ethnic group, took the sheep, and snatched the twenty-eight war horses of the ethnic group in the southwest, before running towards the direction of the meeting place.
After Lin Zhan and Xuan Liang ran out for more than twenty miles, they found that there were still people chasing them behind them.
"Minister Lin, you lead thirty people to drive the war horses to the north for a while, and then I will lead the thirty people to block the pursuers behind me, and then go to chase you."
"Xuanliang, you must pay attention to safety."
This is not the time to argue, whether it is a person or a war horse is very important now, Lin Zhan didn't say a word, left thirty soldiers for Xuan Liang, and led the other thirty people himself, driving seventy-three war horses, and turned to the north.
Xuan Liang ordered the thirty soldiers to divide into two groups, one group to shoot, and the other group to prepare, so that there would be no room for shooting. After two or three rounds, most of the people who pursued them were shot down, and the remaining small part, who didn't know what powerful weapon Xuan Liang used, turned around and fled back in panic. Xuan Liang didn't pursue, but just asked the soldiers to pick up the arrows they shot, and then turned around and chased after Lin Zhan in a hurry.
For the sake of safety, Lin Zhan and Xuan Liang did not rest all the way, and rushed to the meeting place agreed in advance in one day and two nights. While arranging for people to go out to meet the four guards, let the soldiers rest in turns. Lin Zhan and Xuan Liang also slept instead.
"Minister Lin, if you only grab seventy-three war horses, will there be a little less?"
Seeing Xuan Liang's dissatisfied expression, Lin Zhan smiled and said:
"Don't be dissatisfied, have these seventy-three horses as seeds, take good care of them, and in a few years they will multiply a great herd. The next thing to think about is that we, the one hundred and six, must return safely. ”
The four guards didn't come back together, Wei Qian was the first to come back, and then Wei Tian and Wei Fei, two days after the three of them came back, they hadn't seen Wei Wu return, which made them all very worried.
"Minister Lin, I'll take someone to pick up Brother Wei Wu, I've been waiting here for a long time, I'm afraid that those three ethnic groups will come over."
"It's okay, but don't come here again, we will drive the war horse up the river, and wait for you about three hundred miles to the south."
Xuan Liang led twenty soldiers and went to meet Wei Wu along the way they came. Until he could see the three ethnic groups in the distance, Xuan Liang did not find the figure of the eleven people of Weiwu. After a moment of contemplation, Xuan Liang made a detour from the south of the three races. I didn't dare to walk in a wide area, but walked slowly through the jungle. Occasionally, I also encountered the soldiers of the three clans who pursued the four guards, and Xuan Liang and his party hid as long as they could dodge, but they couldn't dodge, so they suddenly shot for a while, and then turned around and fled.
Seeing that there were fewer and fewer arrows in his hand, and he still hadn't found Wei Wu, Xuan Liang was a little worried. Xuan Liang has been guessing in his heart about Wei Wu's whereabouts. After so many days, Wei Wu should not go to the original better meeting point, in this case, he will definitely travel in a southwestern direction. Xuan Liang decisively led twenty soldiers and, according to his guess, pursued Wei Wu in the southwest direction.
Traveling day and night along the way, more than a hundred miles away from the second meeting point agreed with Lin Zhan, Xuan Liang finally found Wei Wu and his party of eleven people. Seeing that although they were tired, there were no casualties among the soldiers, and they were very relieved to each other. didn't care about resting, until they caught up with Lin Zhan, they chose a deep jungle and let Wei Wu, Xuan Liang and other thirty or so people have a good rest for a day.
"Wei Wu, why didn't you get to the initial meeting point in time?"
"Minister Lin, it's really unlucky. I don't know if the people of that group are crazy, no matter how many of them we killed, they just didn't flinch, and chased after us for three days and three nights. We did not dare to turn around and go west, so we had to flee all the way east. Fortunately, the jungle is very dense and easy to hide, otherwise they would have been caught long ago. Several times, we passed by the people who were chasing us. ”
"You can't have an accident, otherwise when I go back, the emperor will definitely punish me."
"Haha, don't worry, Minister Lin, aren't we coming back safely?"
Is it really safe? As they were about to set off, they heard a faint trumpet from the north, and the three tribes followed the trails they had left behind.
"We can't go south, we'd better go west, get rid of them, and then turn south."
Xuan Liang disagreed with Lin Zhan's idea. interface says:
"Minister Lin, we can't get together and walk, it's too big a goal. Didn't they follow the trail? Let's divide into three groups and leave more traces for them to see how they chase them. ”
"That's a good idea, so how do you go about it?"
Minister Lin led thirty people, as well as Wei Wu and Wei Qian's eldest brother, to drive the war horse to turn around and march southeast. Wei Tian and Wei Fei's eldest brother led thirty people to the west, found the road they had originally walked, and after throwing off the pursuers, they returned directly to the Mengyue River station. ”
"What about you?"
"I will lead forty men to meet the pursuers, and after holding back for a while to give you time, I will continue to march towards their people's garrisons, so that they will not have time to pursue you."
"No, that's too dangerous."
"Don't worry, Minister Lin. I'm not going to risk actually attacking their station, I'm just putting on a show, as long as I attract them all back, I'll find an opportunity to escape and go straight back to the Mengyue River station. The three of us will no longer assemble and go back alone. ”
Although Lin Zhan felt that doing so would put Xuan Liang in a dangerous situation, Xuan Liang's strategy was indeed the best way to escape. After obtaining the consent of the four Wei Wu, Lin Zhan also agreed to Xuan Liang's construction.
"We gave the arrows we carried, except for five for each person, and handed over the rest to Xuan Liang's forty people."
Due to the consumption of a lot of arrows brought a few days ago, the arrows that were finally allocated to Xuan Liang's forty people were only more than ten per person. After the qiē was properly disposed of, the three groups of people and horses exchanged treasures and took separate actions.
It's just that Lin Zhan and Siwei and the others, no one expected that this time they were separated, until a year after they returned to Mengyue River, they did not wait for Xuan Liang and the forty soldiers led by him.