Chapter 016: Reunion with Wu Heng
The next day, the two continued to get on their horses and hurry, and finally arrived at Yanyun City in Zhao on the third day when the sun had not yet set.
When the two of them stood outside the city gate, looking at the tall city wall of the largest city in the north of Zhao Kingdom, Zhao Kuo even had the urge to cry, it was not easy to step on a horse, in order to get here, so many people were sacrificed along the way, and so many hardships were suffered, and now it has finally arrived.
When Zhao Kuo led Ma and Yan Ning to enter the city, they were stopped outside the city gate by several officers and soldiers guarding the city gate.
"You two stop, if you want to enter the city, you must let us search before we can enter"
"Search? Why don't the people in front of them have to be searched? Just the two of us need to be frisked? Zhao Kuo asked, pointing to the people who entered the city in front of him.
One of them replied impatiently: "Don't talk nonsense, we all know the others, just the two of you are fresh faces, recently Qi Guo has always sent troops nearby, saying that it is to fight bandits and bandits, who knows if they want to plot against my Yanyun City?" I NOW SUSPECT THAT THE TWO OF YOU MAY BE SPIES SENT BY THE QI COUNTRY, SO YOU CAN ONLY ENTER THE CITY AFTER A STRICT SEARCH" SAID AND POINTED TO ANOTHER PERSON: "YOU GO SEARCH FOR THAT MAN, I WILL SEARCH THIS LITTLE LADY PERSONALLY, HEHE" AFTER SAYING THAT, WITH A YINDANG EXPRESSION, HE OPENED HIS HANDS AND WAS ABOUT TO TOUCH YAN NING'S BODY.
Zhao Kuo can see it, where is this suspicion of what kind of spy they are, it is obvious that these people saw Yan Ning's good looks and wanted to take advantage of her in the name of body search.
Zhao Kuo directly kicked the person who wanted to search for Yan Ning, kicking him to the ground, "Presumptuous, you are so bold enough, do you know who I am?" ”
"Who do I care who you are, and you dare to kick me? See if you don't want to die, give me a call" After the officer and soldier who was kicked down got up, he beckoned several other people to come and beat Zhao Kuo.
Zhao Kuo was stunned again,, this is going to beat him? It shouldn't be like this. According to the scene I saw on TV in my previous life, shouldn't I ask who he is first? Then he reported his name, and when the other party heard it, he immediately came to him and begged him for mercy? How come after coming to this world, the people here can't speak a few words before they start fighting?
Zhao Kuo saw that several people on the other side were rushing towards him, and he hurriedly retreated in fright, and shouted to a few people: "I am the fourth prince of Zhao State, do you dare to beat me, do you want to find death?" ”
"You still dare to pretend to be His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince? Brothers, beat him to death."
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Nima, Zhao Kuo is bitter in his heart, he wants to cry, no one believes the truth in this special way, this is going to be beaten again?
It's no wonder that these officers and soldiers guarding the city don't believe that he is the fourth prince of Zhao at all, no matter which prince of the country, he doesn't have a bunch of guards when he goes out, and then look at Zhao Kuo, it doesn't matter if there are no guards, wearing coarse cloth clothes, plus the dust and dust for several days in a row, the whole body is dirty, and no one will believe it.
That's it, Zhao Kuo ran in front, and several officers and soldiers followed closely behind to chase him, no way, Zhao Kuo didn't know martial arts, and one dozen and one estimate were enough, let alone one dozen and four, so he could only run.
At this moment, Zhao Kuo heard a familiar person's voice, it seemed that someone was calling him, and when he looked not far away, General Wu was running towards him with more than a dozen people shouting, His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince.
When Zhao Kuo saw General Wu, he was so excited that he was about to cry, now he is a prince who can be regarded as someone to protect, it is not easy, he was chased by the Huns along the way, beaten by the son of Qi Guo's Taishou, and threatened by Qi Xuan, who likes to dress as a man, finally arrived at Yanyun City, and was chased and beaten by the officers and soldiers of his own country, it is really difficult for me to cross the person. Now, someone can protect him.
Zhao Kuo sped up and ran to General Wu's side, and after meeting with General Wu, General Wu saw several officers and soldiers chasing Zhao Kuo behind him, and more than a dozen people behind him hurriedly drew their swords, and scolded, "Bold, you actually dare to chase and kill my Royal Highness the Fourth Prince of Zhao State, are you impatient?" ”
At the same time, after discovering the movement here, a group of Yanyun City defenders who came out of the city also arrived, and saw that more than a dozen people on Zhao Kuo's side were holding blades, and they were also busy pulling out their weapons, facing Zhao Kuo and them, one of the generals who looked like a leader asked: "Who are you waiting for, dare to be presumptuous in the territory of my Zhao country."
Zhao Kuo didn't speak yet, and the person who was kicked by Zhao Kuo just now pointed at Zhao Kuo and replied: "General Xiahou, just now this person was about to enter the city gate, and the last general saw that his whereabouts were suspicious, so he stopped him, and was ready to search his body to ensure safety before letting him enter the city, who knew that he not only did not cooperate, but also attacked the last general."
"You are presumptuous, you dare to make trouble in the territory of my Zhao State, all the soldiers, take them down" After hearing this, the Xiahou general ordered his soldiers to arrest them.
"You are bold, this is my Royal Highness the Fourth Prince of Zhao Kingdom, you want to arrest Your Highness, do you want to rebel?" General Wu roared loudly.
When General Xiahou heard General Wu say this, he immediately raised his hand and signaled his soldiers to stop first, and asked: "This general has never seen the dignity of His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince, you said that he is His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince, what evidence do you have?" ”
"You haven't seen His Highness's face, so do you recognize this token?" General Wu took out a token from his bosom and held it in front of him.
"It's... This is the token of the Lian Family's Black Flag Army? When General Xiahou saw the token, he exclaimed.
"I am Wu Heng, the commander of the cavalry battalion of the Black Flag Army of the Lian family, since you know my Black Flag Army token, what doubts do you have? Why don't you meet His Royal Highness the Four Princes?"
The general Xiahou immediately knelt on the ground and shouted: "The last general, Xiahou Zhuo, meet His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince, His Royal Highness Chitose"
When the other soldiers behind him saw this, they also hurriedly knelt on the ground and shouted: "Meet His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince, His Royal Highness Chitose"
Zhao Kuo straightened his chest, looked at the people kneeling in front of him, and thought that he was now like a prince, and then shouted to them: "Get up"
Then everyone stood up, but only the four people who were chasing Zhao Kuo just now to beat him to death were still kneeling on the ground with their heads down and trembling.
After Xiahou Zhuo saw this, he walked to Zhao Kuo's side, hugged his fists and bent over: "Your Highness, these four people committed a crime just now, and almost injured Your Highness, so you should be beheaded according to the law, and please give an order to Your Highness."
After hearing this, Zhao Kuo looked at Yan Ning, who had already rushed to his side, and waved his hand to Xiahou Zhuo: "Forget it, those who don't know are not guilty, who let them not know me before, besides, they didn't hit me just now, speaking of which, I kicked him and took advantage of it."
After hearing this, the four people kneeling on the ground hurriedly kowtowed and shouted: "Your Highness Xie spares your life, and Your Highness Xie does not kill your grace"
"But... These people just wanted to despise the princess of the Yan Kingdom, this can't be forgiven, you let people pull them down, and each of them will reward them with twenty boards, so that they can have a longer memory, and don't want to go up and take advantage of the good-looking women when they see them."
"The last general commands" Immediately, Xiahou Zhuo waved his hand, and the four of them were pulled down to play the board.
"The last general will escort His Royal Highness and the princess into the city"
Zhao Kuo nodded to him, and then entered Yanyun City under the escort of everyone, and stayed in the city's special residence for royal personnel.
After entering the residence, Xiahou Zhuo reported again: "Your Highness, the last general has already sent someone to inform the city guard, and soon the city guard will come to see His Highness."
Zhao Kuo nodded to him, and then asked Wu Heng: "General Wu, more than 1,000 of you stayed behind to resist the enemy army that day, and now there are only a dozen of you left?" How did you get out? ”
Who knew that after Wu Heng heard this, he knelt directly on the ground and shouted sadly: "The last general begs His Highness to return to the Zhao capital to let my emperor send troops to conquer the Xiongnu and avenge our dead brothers."
Zhao Kuo hurriedly helped him up, "General Wu, please get up, the Huns have killed countless Zhao troops this time, this revenge is no longer shared, even if you don't say it, after returning to Zhao Capital, I will try my best to persuade my father to send troops to level the Huns, you quickly tell me how you broke through that day"
Then Wu Heng recalled: "That day, I led the army to stay to resist the enemy, but there were more and more enemy troops, and the more soldiers of our army fought, the fewer and fewer soldiers we fought, and I and dozens of other soldiers were kicked down by the enemy in the battle, and they survived, and then a few days, we carefully probed the enemy's movements around the periphery, while trying to find Your Highness, at the beginning we still had more than 50 soldiers who survived, but then we met two groups of small number of enemies, and after the battle, only a dozen of us were still alive." In the end, we saw that we couldn't find Your Highness, so we planned to return to Yanyun City first, and then send the defenders of Yanyun City to look for you, but we never thought that we had just arrived outside Yanyun City and saw Your Highness, which is really blessed by God."
"It's really hard for you, by the way, do you have any news of General Lian Feng along the way?"
Wu Heng shook his head.
Zhao Kuo then asked, "Have you found out any news about General Lian Feng?" And there is no news about Li Xuan and the princess's four maids? ”
Wu Heng still shook his head, "There is no news of General Lian Feng along the way, and the last general guesses that General Lian Feng may have died on the battlefield."
Zhao Kuo sighed and said in a low voice: "No news is the best news, there is no certainty that they are dead, maybe they are all alive and alive"
At this time, Xiahou Zhuo, who had been standing aside, opened his mouth and asked: "Your Highness, General Wu, the last general is brave, there is something unclear, and I hope to inform you."
"You say"
"The last general heard that His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince, you led the army to Tianmang Mountain to pick up the princess of Yanguo, why did you encounter an ambush by the Huns, which caused the whole army to be almost wiped out? The Huns are far away in the north, and there is still a Yan country in the middle, they can send troops to Tianmang Mountain on a large scale, don't the Yan army know anything? ”
"General Xiahou, what do you mean at this time? Do you suspect that my Yan State and the Xiongnu colluded to attack your Zhao army together? After hearing this, Yan Ning on the side frowned and asked.
Xiahou Zhuo bent down and clasped his fists and saluted Yan Ning: "The princess is angry, the last general has no such intention, just said the doubts in his heart, and asked the princess to forgive."
"General Xiahou didn't know, the Huns attacked Tianmang Mountain, even the Yan army escorting the princess was also killed and wounded, the road back to Yanyun City was blocked, General Lian Feng had to lead us into the mountains and forests, ready to return to Yanyun City from the path in the mountains and forests, who knew that the Huns have been chasing after us, General Lian Feng in order to let us be safe from the pursuit of the Huns, he led the army to resist the enemy, now life and death are unknown, and then the enemy caught up again, but General Wu led the army to resist the palace, causing us to disperse, It wasn't until today that we met again. ”