Chapter 51: The Ancient Grassland
Looking around, the other three people, some with short weapons, some with their bare hands, also quickly swam towards their position.
If these people were allowed to complete the encirclement, then it would be very troublesome for him, so Yang Yun quickly looked around, chose the space between the two people with the largest distance, and tried to swim forward, trying to get out of the other party's encirclement.
I didn't think that these people still had a tacit understanding, and several people moved quickly, blocking the direction of Yang Yun's advance. In the distance, although Qi Wei and the others had the upper hand, they were tightly entangled by several soldiers, and there was no way to rush over for the time being.
Seeing that Yang Yun could no longer escape, Tang Hongyuan and the four of them all showed joy on their faces, and swam towards Yang Yun who was surrounded in the middle, and the murderous intent on their faces was clearly visible.
Five-meter, three-meter, two-meter...... Several people were getting closer and closer, the blades in their hands were raised high, and their faces were fierce, as if they had seen Yang Yun being pierced by the sword.
Tang Hongyuan moved the fastest, and he had already reached Yang Yun, raised the thin sword in his hand, and was about to stab at Yang Yun. But the strange thing was that Yang Yun did not have a trace of fear on his face, but a trace of smugness.
Taking a closer look, Tang Hongyuan was so frightened that he turned around and fled, because in Yang Yun's hand, there was a small cylinder at some point, and the small hole in front of the cylinder was facing him. But at this time, it was too late, Yang Yun pressed the button on the back of the cylinder with his fingers, and countless steel needles shot into Tang Hongyuan's head and neck, he struggled a few times, and sank to the bottom of the river unwillingly.
Seeing this, the other three immediately turned around and fled, but it was too late, and Yang Yun deliberately led them to his neighborhood in order to let the flying spring energy that Chi Li gave him play its best role. At this time, if it was on the ground, these people could block or dodge the steel needles shot out of the flying spring energy, but they couldn't use them in the water, so these three people were shot by the steel needles one after another and sank into the water one after another.
At this time, Qi Wei and the others also killed all the soldiers who blocked them and came to Yang Yun's side.
"Your Highness, are you alright?" Seeing that Yang Yun was safe and sound, Qi Wei let out a sigh of relief.
"I'm fine! Get the situation under control, this guy's body had better be found, and I want to see who wants my life. Yang Yun wiped the drops of water on his face and said loudly.
This fight, which started very abruptly and ended very quickly, was not noticed by most people. Yang Yun believed that the people who attacked him with Tang Hongyuan this time were only a few people, and most of them were still in the dark.
At this time, a large part of the large ship had sunk into the water, and there were many survivors standing on the surface of the water. On the river, there was chaos at this time, and many people who had fallen into the water were constantly struggling on the water, and various supplies were floating around.
Sending Yang Yun to the boat, Qi Wei and the others began to be busy again, he first gathered all the small boats, beckoned all the guards and soldiers to rescue the people who fell into the water, and then sent the small boats full of people to the shore.
The boat that Yang Yun was sitting on had in addition to a few personal guards such as Yanqin and Liu Yue, as well as a few boatmen with particularly good water characteristics such as Cheng Erniu. Therefore, although the boat was bumpy all the way, it did not encounter much danger, and the boat reached the shore of the river without danger, and after Yang Yun and the guards went ashore, Cheng Erniu and other boatmen rowed the boat to the middle of the river, because there were still many people struggling on the river.
In the middle of the river, Qi Wei, Liu Yuan and others have already controlled the situation, and they are organizing people to send people who are not very good at water to the boat first, and send them to the shore in waves.
On the other side of the river, the soldiers and civilians of Quanzhou obviously knew about the changes in the river, and many ships were hurrying to arrive. Some of the guards and soldiers who had just come ashore also went into action, finding some dry wood and lighting a fire to keep warm and dry their clothes.
More and more people rushed to the rescue, and there was a busy scene on the river, which lasted for two or three hours, and the rescue and salvage finally came to an end, and the river returned to calm.
"Your Highness, all the salvage has been completed, more than fifty people have died, and some materials have been blistered or washed away, but there is no loss in some important things wrapped in oiled paper. Tang Hongyuan's body has also been found, and the letter was found from his arms. Qi Wei handed the letter to Yang Yun, the letter had been soaked in water, but fortunately, it was fished out in time, and after it was dried, the handwriting on it could be seen clearly.
The letter was addressed to Tang Hongyuan, and the main content was to ask Tang Hongyuan to find an opportunity to kill Yang Yun on the road, and then flee back to the state of Chu. It's a pity that the letter is not signed, so I don't know who the author is. There was no way, Yang Yun had no choice but to put the letter away and return to Xijing to make plans later.
"We also caught the captain of the boat who was in charge of the trip, and he confessed that it was Tang Hongyuan's men who kidnapped his family and forced him to hit the boat on the reef. I have already handed over the person to Yuan Sima, who had just arrived, and asked him to take it back for trial. Qi Wei continued.
In order to stabilize the entire team, Yang Yun did not disclose the real reason for Tang Hongyuan's death, and announced to everyone that he had died in a fight with some attackers who tried to attack the envoy team, and would return to Xijing to ask for credit for him later. Then, Yang Yun announced that the entire team would be disrupted, reorganized, and controlled by Qi Wei.
At the same time, Sima Yuan Teng, who came in a hurry from Quanzhou, suggested to Yang Yun that the team should return to Quanzhou to rest for a few days and then start again, but Yang Yun refused. So the team rested in place for the night, and the next day continued its journey towards the territory of Liuyi.
Liuyi is a nomadic people, and they do not have clear national borders, so when Yang Yun and the others entered the Wangu Grassland where Liuyi was located, they did not encounter checkpoints along the way, so they were not subject to any interrogation. Even on the first day they entered the Eternal Prairie, they didn't even see a single person.
The vast and boundless prairie is like a giant green carpet woven by heaven, and the feeling of softness and elasticity when walking on the grass is very beautiful. As the team continued to move forward, everyone finally saw the cattle and sheep on the grassland, and with this as a clue, they finally found some small tribes.
The Liuyi people in these tribes obviously did not welcome Yang Yun and his party, and they were always a little unreasonable when they asked them, and the hatred in their eyes was very obvious, and it was estimated that if they were strong enough, they would definitely attack this team without hesitation.
Seeing this scene, Yang Yun felt extremely helpless, over the years, there have often been wars between Dafu and Liuyi, and many people's relatives and friends have died at the hands of each other, so they have accumulated some grievances with each other, and it is not a simple matter to resolve these grievances.
However, Yang Yun had already been mentally prepared for this phenomenon, and he instructed the entire team to treat these rogues as well as possible. At the same time, a large number of leaflets prepared before the departure were intact because they were wrapped in oiled paper, and every time they went to a tribe and saw a Liuyi person, they gave them a leaflet written in Liuyi script and told them about the measures taken by Dafu to treat the Liuyi people.
The team walked forward for more than ten days, encountering more and more Liuyi people, and the tribes passing through were getting bigger and bigger, Yang Yun instructed everyone to go further, the more careful they became, and avoid conflicts with the Liuyi people as much as possible.
As the team continued to penetrate deeper into the Eternal Grassland, Yang Yun discovered a phenomenon, these Liuyi people seemed to have a very bad temper, and there were often fights. Along the way, Yang Yun has discovered countless fights, and most of the Liuyi people who are fighting have stopped fighting when they saw Dafu's team. But there are still some people, who may have played a real fire, and still do not hesitate to fight to the death with each other.
Liu Yuan has gone deep into the Wangu Grassland where Liuyi is located many times, and has a good understanding of the situation here. According to him: Liuyi is a typical people who rely on their fists to speak, and whichever tribe is strong, he has more right to speak.
Tuoba Ye, the king of Liuyi Khan, is the leader of the largest tribe in Liuyi, the Gen tribe. The totems of all the tribes of Liuyi are the ancient beast gods, and the Jigen tribe, in addition to believing in the ancient beast gods, also regard the white sheep as their tribal divine beast.
In addition to the Khan King Tuoba Ye as their supreme leader, there are also two leaders of the left king Yeda and the right king Kuban, who are second only to the Khan king. Among them, Yeda, the king of the left, is the leader of the Feihuang tribe, and the tribal beast is Pegasus; And the right king Kuban is the leader of the Shanhua tribe, and the tribe's divine beast is an ape.
The Roots, Feihuang, and Shanhua are the three largest tribes in the Liuyi, each with more than 100,000 people. The rest of the small tribes are attached to these three tribes, and there are also many contradictions between the power groups represented by these three tribes, and the fights between the Liuyi people are often fought between various forces, and the same force is relatively united.