Chapter 419 Snow Falls
At the gate of Wuzhou Beicheng, the beggar Shi Lie Zhining, who was held hostage by Ye Qing, was pale, although the shoulder had been simply bandaged, but the bone-eating pain, especially when the horse's back was bumpy, made him almost faint several times in pain.
From the post house to the gate of Beicheng City, the Jin soldiers who closely followed Qishi Lie Zhining and Zhang Xuansu along the way were divided by Ye Qing one by one, and dozens of Jin soldiers stayed in this alley and were not allowed to follow forward, and in that alley, dozens of Jin soldiers were placed, and they were no longer allowed to protect Qishi Lie Zhining to move forward.
In short, after arriving at the gate of Beicheng, the guards behind Ye Qing and the Jin soldiers behind Qishi Lie Zhining, Zhang Xuansu and others formed a situation of equal numbers in numbers.
Qishi Lie Zhining is not a military general in the absolute sense, so he does not have much understanding and sensitivity in leading troops to fight, otherwise he would not have been surrounded in the city by Wan Yan Yong once he used his troops, and then began to serve as the right man under Wan Yan Yong.
Although he knew that Ye Qing had divided the Jin soldiers along the way in order to allow him to escape smoothly, Qishi Lie Zhining didn't know what effect Ye Qing's move could play.
"Send you a thousand miles, finally say goodbye, Lord Ye, it should be almost here, right?" Zhang Xuansu's face was pale, his lips were blue, and his whole person was swaying on the horse's back, and he was in danger of falling off the horse at all times, and said to Ye Qing in a cold voice.
"In that case, why don't you give us another ride alone?" The gun in Ye Qing's hand was put down again and said to Zhang Xuansu.
"You...... Ye Qing, don't go too far, sending you to the city gate is already our biggest limit. Zhang Xuansu's face turned cold, and he angrily refused Ye Qing's unreasonable request.
"That's good, even if I turn around, I will be chased by you, and you won't be relieved until you drive us to the grassland, so it's better to take advantage of the fact that the number of people is equal now, and I, Ye Qing, will win a Bo again." As he spoke, he pulled the crisp bolt again, and the muzzle of the gun was pointed directly at Qishi Lie Zhining.
"Ye Qing, you ......." Zhang Xuansu was shocked.
Ye Qing divided the golden soldiers one by one along the way, until the gate of the North City, and now the number of people on both sides is equal, if he doesn't want the jade to burn, Zhang Xuansu can only let Ye Qing send it.
After all, after Ye Qing took out the thing called a gun and fired a shot at Qishi Lie Zhining, they completely lost the initiative.
Qishi Lie Zhining was helped off the horse by the Jin soldiers, looked up at Ye Qing not far away a little weakly, and said in the face of the wind and snow: "Ye Qing, no matter which city gate you choose to escape from, you have no chance of surviving, take advantage of the fact that the old man is unharmed now, go back to the city with the old man, the old man is not to blame in the past, and all this old man should not have happened today." Presumably Your Majesty will not blame you, after all, the old man is a lesson from the past, when he killed nine of His Majesty's envoys in a row, His Majesty was able to choose to forgive magnanimously, and then appointed the old man as the right man of Dajin. With your talent, and the little prince pleading for you, Ye Qing, your career in Dajin is much higher than that of the old man, why don't you stay and assist Your Majesty in unifying China. ”
Qishi Lie Zhining was like a demon, even though the bandaged wound was still oozing blood, but in his heart, he still wanted to keep Ye Qing for Dajin and Wan Yan Yong.
This sincerity even touched Ye Qing on horseback. He didn't know that as long as he nodded and agreed, then his next life path could be said to be a smooth road, and he could even go straight to the golden phase.
But in the end, Ye Qing still shook his head, looked at the weak, but clear and sincere eyes of Qishi Lie Zhining through the wind and snow, and continued to shake his head slowly: "If I swap places with Lord Shi, will Lord Shi give up Dajin and vote for me Da Song?" Apparently not. Lord Shi has witnessed the prosperity of Lin'an and the prosperity of the people, and naturally knows that if he stays in Lin'an, Lord Shi will have inexhaustible wealth, but Lord Shi finally chose to return to Yanjing, a cold and windy place, why? I'm the same as Lord Shi, the so-called loyal ministers don't care about the two masters, this sincerity, Ye Qingyong remembers it in his heart. If he is lucky enough to go north again in the new year, Ye must go to Lord Shi's grave to visit Lord Shi. ”
"Do you think you can escape back to Lin'an alive? Twenty miles behind you, there is the endless grassland, now the sky is full of wind and snow, not to mention that you have come to the grassland for the first time, even if you have lived in the grassland for a long time, in this weather, you dare not say that you will not get lost in the snowstorm. And even if you don't get lost, there's no guarantee that you won't freeze to death in the wilderness. Master Ye, listening to the old man's words, going north to the grassland is like stepping into hell, and for you, there is no chance of survival. Even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about the subordinates behind you who risked their lives to protect and rush out of Wuzhou City. Qishi Lie Zhining pushed Zhang Xuansu's hand away, faced the wind and snow in his face, staggered to Ye Qing's horse, and said in person.
"Lord Ye, Zhang Mou said something about the heart of a villain and the belly of a gentleman, in the past few days, when you accompanied the little county king, the entire Wuzhou, except for the direction to the grassland, was firmly guarded by my golden iron hooves, so under such an impregnable and impregnable defense, you have no chance to return from the grassland, sneak back to Yanjing with your people, and then leave for Lin'an." Zhang Xuansu stepped forward to support Qishi Lie Zhining, and at the same time held the reins of Ye Qing's horse's head with his other hand and said.
At this time, looking at the crumbling and sincere Qishi Lie Zhining so retained, Zhang Xuansu couldn't figure out why Ye Qing was still able to feel like a rock.
This is the first time that Dajin has treated a Song person like this since the founding of the country, but this Song person still does not appreciate it.
"Everyone has a national integrity in their hearts, and I am the same, I can't lose this integrity." Ye Qing slowly withdrew the reins from the hands of Qishi Lie Zhining and Zhang Xuansu, and said heavily: "I will no longer embarrass Master Zhang." But I also sincerely warn the two adults, do not send pursuers to cross the line of the ruined Great Wall, otherwise, ...... At one's own risk. ”
"Ye Qing, you ...... Do you really want to go your own way? The grassland is like hell, and it can be said that there is no return. Qishi Lie Zhining wanted to grab the reins in Ye Qing's hand again, but Ye Qing had already shaken the reins, turned the horse's head, and ran towards the grassland in the face of the wind and snow.
Ye Qing ...... The old man is waiting for you in Wuzhou City for a month, if you haven't returned to Wuzhou City after a month, the old man ...... Ahem....... ”
The wind and snow poured straight into Qishi Lie Zhining's mouth, and with his coughing and intermittent words, Ye Qing's back slowly disappeared from their sight, leaving only pieces of messy horseshoe prints, which were still covered by the heavy snow at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Your Excellency......." Zhang Xuansu supported Qishi Lie Zhining, who was coughing repeatedly, and his pale cheeks were bloodless.
"Dispatch the kidnapping horse, kill without mercy! Ye Qing must not be allowed to return to Lin'an alive, either he will die at the hands of the Tatars on the steppe, or he must die in the hands of my Dajin's iron horseman, and pursue it immediately! As Qishi Lie Zhining finished speaking in a gloomy voice, a mouthful of blood instantly spurted out of his mouth.
The blood melted a piece of snow under his feet, and it also made Qishi Lie Zhining's messy beard even more messy and dazzling after being stained with blood, and as he was helped into the carriage that came in a hurry, the even weaker Qishi Lie Zhining said to Zhang Xuansu again: "Don't live, as long as you die, there will be no forgiveness." ”
"Yes, my lord, Xia Guan personally led the people to pursue." Zhang Xuansu stood on the side of the carriage and said hurriedly.
As the carriage carrying Qishi Lie Zhining slowly returned to the city, the melodious sound of the horn instantly resounded in all directions of Wuzhou City, and the horses stepped on the snow and even the sky, as if the ground of the entire Wuzhou City was trembling slightly with the sonorous and powerful iron horses of the abducted horses.
When Qishi Lie Zhining had not yet arrived at the post house, Dajin's main force of iron cavalry, the kidnapper, had already raised a burst of snow and fog from the gate of Beicheng, facing the wind and snow in his face, under the leadership of Zhang Xuansu and other Jin generals, he quickly chased in the direction of Ye Qing's departure.
Ye Qing was not in a hurry along the way, and some of the wounded soldiers were the first to gallop in the direction of the grassland before Ye Qing and the others, after all, as long as they were not far ahead, it was like a long wall of snow, and the old Liu Tou and Po Li San, who had not been seen for more than a year, were waiting not far away.
"I hope they have rushed to camp outside the Great Wall, otherwise, if we enter the grassland, in such weather, I am afraid it is very likely that we will pass by Lao Liu Tou and them, and I don't know how many times we have to go around." Ye Qing was wearing the fur that Wan Yan Jing had given him, and the others were also wearing thick fur.
It's just that with the advance of the wind and snow, the sweat after a fight has already cooled, and at this moment, facing the wind and snow, no one's body is comfortable, all of them are wearing clothes like fished out of the ice water, and people are not allowed to shiver on horseback.
"Hold on a little longer, and we'll be over the Great Wall soon." Even if Zhao Qi'er didn't speak, her teeth were chattering, and as soon as she opened her mouth to speak, Zhao Qi'er had a feeling that she couldn't find her mouth.
"No, we have to slow down, we have to wait for the pursuers behind us to catch up. Are all the people in ambush? Ye Qing tightened the fur on his body, but his body was the opposite, but he felt even colder, as if it was not the fur that was wrapped around his body, but the ice cube tightly.
"It's arranged, as soon as the gunshots go off in a while, they will immediately light the fuse, and the snow road under their feet will probably have to be blown out of a big hole." Xu Qing rubbed his cheeks vigorously, but no matter how he rubbed it, he always couldn't feel the slightest temperature of the flesh on his face, and it was still so stiff, as if it had been frozen.
"Asking for hardship, let's do it." Ye Qing recalled the words of Qishi Lie Zhining and Zhang Xuansu in his mind, and he couldn't explain it to Xu Qing and Zhao Qi'er for a while, why Qishi Lie Zhining was able to sincerely recruit himself on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was able to kill the killer, and he would send their elite iron cavalry to pursue him and the others.
Of course, whether he will pursue or not is still Ye Qing's guess, which also includes his apprentice Wan Yan Jing, who has hinted repeatedly in the past two days.