Chapter 288, Life and Death Tribulation 9
Half of the carriage was filled with people, and the other half was filled with grain, money, and cloth. γLatest chapter reading. γ
Li Dang took a thousand men and horses, protecting Li Yan's people, watching them go to Xi'an, these carriages have been walking for nearly an hour before they completely left Huayin City, Li Dang breathed a sigh of relief, he explained a few words to Li Yan, and then went to find Ji Mengdie.
Their task was even more arduous, and the 6,000 men and horses they led had to confuse Sun Chuanting so that he would not dare to attack.
Ji Mengdie waited for Li Kang, knowing that Li Yan had already left the city and went to Xi'an, she was also relieved, she ordered the people to stop and start camping.
The problem now is that you can delay it for as long as you can, as long as you wait until Li Yan is halfway through, you can retreat.
In fact, Sun Chuanting didn't care much about Huayin, in his opinion, Huayin was just a small city, and it was his real purpose to use Huayin as a bait to attract the Qin army's brigade, so he attacked Huayin first. Now that the main force of the Qin army has arrived, all of Sun Chuanting's attention has moved to Ji Mengdie's side.
He didn't care about the movement in Huayin City, because there was no need for it.
But there was a team of men and horses, but at this time they were in ambush fifty miles outside the west gate of Huayin, and the leader was Li Congzhou.
He had already received Ziyi's message, and immediately began to act, quietly brought the men and horses out of Huashan, ambushed here, and then sent scouts to inquire about the movement.
Li Congzhou was afraid that someone would recognize him, so according to Ziyi's instructions, he covered his face with a cloth, and a thousand of them were wearing the uniform of the Qin army, while the other two thousand or so were wearing the uniform of the official army.
These 3,000 people have been lying in ambush here for a long time, waiting for Li Yan to send them to the door.
Suddenly, I heard the sound of horses' hooves, and a scout ran over and reported to Li Congzhou: "General, there are many carriages coming out of Huayin City, and there are Qin troops escorting them, and they are less than ten miles away from here. β
Li Congzhou asked urgently: "Is it Li Yan leading the team?" β
The scout said: "There is a flag in the army, and there is a Li character written on it, it should be him." β
Li Congzhou nodded: "Very good, prepare quickly." β
His 3,000 men and horses all clenched their weapons and stared at the road not far away, there were more than 300 cavalry among these 3,000 people, led by Li Congzhou himself, waiting for Li Yan to come.
At this time, Li Yan was very stable on the surface, but he was also anxious in his heart, and he was a hundred times more careful along the way, for fear that some officials and soldiers would come to intercept and kill. He sent scouts to investigate in front, as long as he found the officers and soldiers, he immediately reported that his two thousand Qin troops had been reduced by more than 200 people after the battle that day, and the rest was divided into three parts by Li Yan, one part was led by him, leading the way in the front, some were broken in the back, and the rest were distributed in the middle of the team, taking care of the people at any time. Due to the large number of carriages, the people did not have to walk, so the speed of travel was very fast, and every time he walked out of the road, Li Yan felt a little more stable in his heart.
As he was walking, suddenly there was a sound of horses' hooves in front of him, and a scout came running. Li Yan was shocked, afraid that he would encounter the official army, so he hurriedly ordered the Qin army around him to wait for the battle.
The scout came to Li Yan and bowed his hand to him: "Li Gongzi, a group of people have been found in front. β
Li Yan said: "Is it an official army?" The scout shook his head: "It's not the official army, it's our people." Li Yan was stunned for a moment, and secretly thought that in addition to Li Dang and Ji Mengdie, King Qin sent someone to answer him? Then he asked, "Our people?" Who will the Lord be? β
The scout said: "There is no flag in the army, I don't know who it is." β
As he was talking, he heard a voice from the distance, it was the sound of a large group of people marching, Li Yan ordered the people around him: "Everyone stop, prepare to fight." β
He was accompanied by eight hundred Qin troops, and these people listened to Li Yan's orders, drawing their swords one by one, and many of them took off their bows and arrows.
Far away, sure enough, a group of people came, Li Yan stared into the distance, those people were wearing Qin military uniforms, and they were indeed their own people. But he did not dare to be careless, and ordered the archers to step forward and shoot the horns of the formation first.
When this group of men and horses reached a few dozen paces away, Li Yan ordered a soldier with a high voice to shout: "The front army stops, where are you?" Thou shalt not come near, and if he comes any further, he shall fire his bow and arrows. β
After this shout, the group really stopped, and then there was also a loud shout: "Don't release arrows, we are all our own people, we are General Wang Qian's people, we were ordered by the king to come to meet Li Gongzi, dare to ask if it is Li Gongzi?" β
Li Yan rode forward at this time, he looked at this group of people, and found that there were only about a thousand people, and his heart was a little calm, so he shouted: "I am Li Yan, where is your main general?" β
At this time, someone over there shouted: "The villain is, General Wang has an order, be sure to escort Li Gongzi and return to Xi'an safely......"
While the two sides were talking, Li Yan suddenly heard a big chaos behind him, and when he turned around, he found that the team behind him was in chaos, and many carriages were rushing wildly.
"What's going on?" Li Yan asked the people around him anxiously.
At this time, a soldier ran from behind and came to Li Yan: "Li Gongzi, there are officers and soldiers catching up behind." β
Li Yan asked, "How many people are there?" β
The soldier said, "I don't know, it looks like there are no less than two or three thousand people, but they are all infantry." β
Li Yan was a little relieved, since it was the infantry who came, then they couldn't catch up with the carriage, but they couldn't be dragged here, who knows if there would be cavalry after these officers and infantry? So he ordered the whole army to move quickly.
At this time, the Qin army in front also discovered the abnormality and shouted: "Is it that the official army has caught up?" Li Gongzi go quickly, we will break the queen for you. β
This group of centaurs shouted and rushed up, at this time Li Yan only cared about the people behind him, and didn't care about this centaur, and when he turned around, this centaur had already rushed in front of him.
Li Yan shouted: "What about your lord?" β
I saw a tall horse galloping in front of Li Yan's horse, the person on the horse looked fierce, holding a big knife in his hand, and went straight to Li Yan's horse, listened to his question, and responded: "I am the main general." β
Li Yan looked up and saw that he had never seen this person, he had been in the Qin army for several years, and ordinary generals had seen it, but he had no impression of this person, and couldn't help asking, "What's your name?" What is the official position in the Qin army? β
The big man said: "I don't have a name, if you want to know, I'll call me Lord Yama." β
As he spoke, he raised the big knife, put his head on the top, and slashed at Li Yan.
This was a big surprise to Li Yan, he already felt that this group of people was a little suspicious, but because the back was too chaotic, he was distracted and forgot to be vigilant, so this knife was cut down, and the two were so close that Li Yan wanted to dodge again, it was too late.
Seeing that this knife was about to cut Li Yan's head in half, fortunately, Li Yan was accompanied by guards, and these people were quick to move, raised the weapons in their hands, and greeted them upward.
When there was a loud bang, the two single knives were shaken to the ground, and the big man's big knife was also blocked, Li Yan came back to his senses, lifted the reins hard, and the horse jumped back.
The big knife still fell, but it didn't hit Li Yan, but fell on the horse's head.
Fortunately, this knife was blocked by the soldiers in the middle of the way, otherwise this knife would have cut off the horse's head. So Rao was, and a large gash was cut on the horse's head, and blood flowed profusely.
The war horse neighed, the man stood up, and then carried Li Yan and walked away.
Li Yan wanted to hold the horse, but the injured horse had already gone crazy and couldn't pull it at all, so Li Yan had to lie on the horse, hold the horse's neck with both hands, and let it run wildly.
When those guards saw it, they were taken aback, they couldn't care about the carriage behind them, and hurriedly followed Li Yan, they wanted to rescue Li Yan.
The big man scared Li Yan away with a sword, and he didn't give up, leading hundreds of cavalry and chasing after him closely. Li Congzhou was also among these cavalrymen, commanding them, and he must catch up and kill Li Yan.
The remaining men and horses began to create chaos in the ranks, intercepting the Qin army from fighting, and preventing these Qin troops from coming to the rescue of Li Yan.
All of a sudden, the team was already in chaos, and everyone couldn't care about others, just fighting on their own. Those coachmen fought desperately, rushed away from the road, and galloped towards Xi'an, while the Qin soldiers desperately blocked Li Congzhou's men. The scene was chaotic, and these people couldn't take care of Li Yan anymore.
Li Yan looked behind him while running, and saw that not far behind, thirty or forty Qin soldiers were following him, and behind him, there was a black oppressive enemy, about a few hundred people, who were chasing him.
And his horse, which was already running slower and slower, was bleeding all the way because of serious injuries, and it was already about to die.
Li Yan secretly scolded himself for being careless, it seemed that this was a trick of the enemy, on the one hand, he pretended to be the Qin army in front to confuse himself, and on the other hand, he attacked in the rear and disturbed the Qin army.
But he still has many questions in his mind, if it was the official army who came to attack him, then how would the official army know that he would withdraw from Huayin, if the official army did not know that he was going to withdraw from Huayin, it would never be possible to ambush and intercept it halfway, at this time a thought popped up in his mind, maybe this force was not an official army.
If it wasn't the official army, could it be the Qin army, Ziyi?
Li Yan thought of this, his heart suddenly chilled, he thought, in case Ziyi colluded with the official army, then it was very likely that Sun Chuanting would be informed of the action of Ji Mengdie and Li Kang, and Sun Chuanting must have known that Li Kang and the others did not have many men and horses while sending troops to intercept and kill him, wouldn't it be dangerous.
Come to think of it, there is only one possibility.
What made him even more chilling was that Ziyi had returned to Xi'an, and when Sun Chuanting attacked the city in the future, Ziyi would open the city gate to welcome the official army into the city, not only Xi'an would not be protected, but even the life of King Qin would be worried. The Qin army has tens of thousands of horses, is it going to be buried in the hands of Ziyi!
Li Yan was so anxious that he was now eager to fly back to Xi'an and tell King Qin about this.
But his horse could no longer run, and with a long neigh, the porphym fell to the ground, unable to struggle. Li Yan was thrown off the horse, fell not lightly, and in a daze, he only felt a few pairs of hands help him up, push him onto the horse, and continue to run forward.
And behind him, the hooves of countless war horses are getting closer and closer......
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