However, Ouyang Qian was teary-eyed, because Dugu Jun was not found among the more than 100 rescued Khitan slaves, and after asking these people, they also didn't know anything about Dugu Jun's situation, Ouyang Qian couldn't help but feel disappointed, and then fell into a new anxiety and sadness. Xia Xue could only patiently comfort and promised Ouyang Qian that she would definitely find Dugujun and rescue him. Xia Xue asked Yeluna, Yeluxin and other Khitan friends to help continue to investigate Dugujun's news, and secondly, asked Li Kang, Jiang Yong, and Song Gang to also go separately to contact other black-clothed guards to see if there was any new information in their dozen or so teams.

Xia Xue looked at Ouyang Qian's pretty face with a sad and gloomy face, and couldn't help frowning, and her heart was secretly worried. She knows that the current territory of the Turks is very vast, from the Great Khingan Mountains in the east, to the Aral Sea in the west, to the Baikal Lake in the north, and to the Amu Central Plains in the south, such a vast territory, and most of the Turkic tribes are nomadic people, living in pursuit of water and grass, constantly migrating, scattered and living, if Dugu Junzhen was captured by the Turks and sold to a certain Turkic nobleman, then in the vast territory of the Turkic Khanate, the Turkic tribes that are still migrating in the desert steppe like stars, to find a slave, it is really as difficult as looking for a needle in a haystack.

"Dugu Jun, where are you now?" Xia Xue's beautiful, fair and flawless face couldn't help but glow with a faint sadness.

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The shouts of killing were gradually thrown behind in the distance.

There was darkness all around.

Zhao Quan desperately hugged the neck of the war horse, feeling that the flesh and blood of the man and horse were combined, his consciousness gradually blurred, and he finally lost consciousness.

Consciousness gradually returned to his mind, and he suddenly woke up, only to feel that his whole body was in pain and thirsty.

I couldn't help but groan and opened my eyes.

An autumn sun hangs in the middle of the sky.

For a while, Zhao Quan not only didn't know where he was, but also didn't know what had happened.

He sat up reluctantly, and was shocked to see the war horse lying lying in the distance, his head and neck twisted unnaturally, and his mouth and nose were full of condensed saliva and filth.

Zhao Quan was shaken all over, and finally remembered what happened before he fell unconscious last night.

Yesterday, when I went out to inspect with four black-clothed guards, I saw a group of more than 3,000 Turkic cavalry pressing more than 500 captives to Tongliao City, and checked the prisoners one by one through a telescope, and found that one of the prisoners who was wounded and supported by people was particularly like Dugu Jun, they wanted to sneak into the prisoner camp at night to probe, but they did not expect to be discovered by the Turkic sentries, which caused a fierce battle, and was besieged by the Turkic cavalry. sacrificed his life to save his life.

Zhao Quan couldn't control his emotions anymore, and left tears while hugging the corpse of the war horse!

It can be said that he was able to escape this time, which can be said to be a miracle. It is conceivable that the Turkic cavalry must have sent out men and horses to search for him.

Thinking of this, Zhao Quan had a strong desire to survive, first examined his injuries, and couldn't help but thank the queen for the light and strong body armor specially made for them, although he was hit by several arrows and was hit by the blade many times, but there were only three gaps, injuring the flesh and skin, among which the wound on the back shoulder blade was the deepest. The other wounds were on the hands and feet, which were extracutaneous injuries and did not affect movement.

He untied the leather bag from the corpse of the war horse, took out the clothes inside, and then endured the pain to take off the leather military uniform on his body with the flesh and blood that had congealed into a hard lump, tore off the clothes to bandage the wound properly, changed into his daily samurai uniform, and tied the climbing waist rope, and his mood was a little better.

After drinking the clear spring in the kettle carried by the war horse, it was already dark at this time, and he wanted to bury the war horse with some effort, at least take some soil to cover it, but the sound of the horse's hooves came from the wind in the distance, so he had to bow respectfully to the war horse, and then embarked on the road of escape with a sad mood.

Because the angel queen had trained them in the wilderness, Zhao Quan was familiar with speeding in the mountains, and at first, whenever he climbed a high place, he saw the torches of the pursuers. They clung to him like a talisman, making it impossible for him to identify the direction toward Shenzhou.

By daybreak, although he had temporarily left behind his pursuers, he had lost his way and ran towards the steep mountains.

When he sat down to rest in the dense forest at the top of a slope, his bones seemed to be scattered, and not only was his heart chaotic, but his body was even more exhausted. Many wounds on the body oozing blood, the pain was unbearable, and the feeling of a tiger falling into Pingyang really made people depressed.

If it weren't for the rigorous training he had received from the Angel Military Academy, he wouldn't have been able to survive at this moment. But he knew that this moment was the most important moment of escape.

Since it is easy for the enemy to find the place where the horse has fallen, they will search for him while he has not traveled far on foot, and if he falls asleep at this moment, he may have fallen into the hands of the enemy when he wakes up.

Zhao Quan gritted his teeth, lifted his spirits, and after recovering a little strength, he calmed down.

After a while, his whole body calmed down, his body relaxed, and he quickly regained his energy, so that after about half an hour, he jumped up, drove his tired mind and body with a strong will, and continued to flee.

He chose the lofty mountains that were difficult for man and beast to climb and climb with rope hooks, which must have greatly surprised the enemy, otherwise if he took the plains and wilderness, how could he be faster than the four healthy legs of the horse.

When it was dark, he lay down beside a waterfall, his whole body aching, and even his fingers lacked the ability to move.

After a moment's deep sleep, I woke up to the dawn of the morning.

The first thing in my ears was the "boom" sound of the waterfall falling, mixed with the singing of cicadas and birds, and the surroundings were peaceful.

Zhao Quan opened his eyes and sat up, only to see the waterfall on the left rushing from the high cliff like silver, the waterhole next to it was impacted by the waterfall, the white waves rolled like snow, whirling and splashing, spectacular and abnormal.

Look around again, the mountains are around, the strange rocks and different rocks are innumerable, the wild trees are intertwined, and the wonders emerge in endlessly.

Zhao Quan couldn't help but wonder, why didn't he think the scenery here was anything special yesterday?

Stimulated by this vibrant environment, he surged up a strong fighting spirit, vowing to rush to Shenzhou alive to report the important information he had found to the queen, which was the queen's agreed secret liaison place in Liaodong.

Because he had received wilderness survival training under the guidance of the queen at the Angel Military Academy, Zhao Quan was able to collect wild vegetables and fruits in the mountains and fields to satisfy his hunger, without worrying about hunger.

The weather gradually turned cold, but fortunately, the queen asked all the personnel to Liaodong to carry spare winter clothes, so that he did not have to suffer from the cold.

It took two days to reach the outer edge of the adjoining mountains.

As the sun rises, the sun shines on the fields outside the mountains, dyeing golden yellow among the grass and trees, presenting a vibrant atmosphere.

There is a big lake not far away, when the cold wind blows, the water ripples, and the reflection of the trees next to the lake changes into colorful and distorted patterns, and Zhao Quan is even more relaxed and happy, and he forgets about fleeing.

Lush forests and shrubs, endless meadows and swamps of wild plants enclose the mirror-like lake.

Tents have been erected on the meadows beside the lake, and herds of horses and sheep are grazing leisurely in the grasslands, and the atmosphere is peaceful.

Zhao Quan watched for a while before he collected his mood and headed in the direction of Shenzhou.

Before dawn, he walked nearly thirty miles, his legs were sore, and finally he hid in a dense forest to rest.

He was still not at ease, so he took some effort to climb to a place with dense branches and leaves, and half-lie on the horizontal branches, before closing his eyes and pretending to sleep.

The tree grows at the edge of a dense forest high above the ground, overlooking the plains and the avenue leading to Shenzhou. I fell asleep in a short time.

I don't know how long it took, but the sound of horses and human voices woke him up.

Zhao Quan opened his eyes and was startled, only to see that there were Turkic soldiers inside and outside the forest, not to mention thousands of people, who were searching for this area.

Immediately sweating, I realized that I was overtired, and I didn't wake up until the enemy came to me. If it weren't for the recess formed by the three thick tree trunks, you might have fallen under the tree in your sleep.

He didn't dare to move half of his fingers, and he didn't dare to look at the situation until the Turkic soldiers passed under the tree.

The barking of dogs sounded somewhere in the forest at this time, and Zhao Quan's scalp was even more numb, so he could only resign himself to fate.

At this moment, due to the large number of people, he was not too worried about the sensitive nose of the hound, but if he ran alone at night, and it was the dead of night, it was difficult to guarantee whether he could avoid the eyes and ears of the dog.

After the pawn was over, Zhao Quan did his best to avoid the heavy pursuers, and came to the west bank of a large river that night.

As far as the eye can see, the two sides of the strait are calm, and there is no sign of people. But Zhao Quan was sure that there must be an enemy outpost set up in a dense forest somewhere, monitoring the movement of the river.

He carefully observed, assumed more than a dozen possible hiding places for the enemy, and then hid in the trees and waited for the night to come.

I quickly fell asleep after being tired, and when I woke up, the world turned into a pure white world, and although there were a few snowflakes on my face, I didn't feel cold.

The first snow has finally arrived.

Zhao Quan brushed off the snow powder on his body, and looked at the snowflakes that were still sprinkled endlessly with a heavy heart. Although the wind and snow can hide his whereabouts, it is not suitable to escape, and if he jumps into the water at this time, and crawls out of the river wet, he may freeze to death. Moreover, the footprints left when the snow stops are even more difficult to hide from the enemy's pursuit.

At the moment, he has only three options.

The first is to cut wood and make a raft so that we can cross the river. However, this is time-consuming and dangerous. Unless he could be sure that the enemy's outpost was not nearby, if he alarmed the enemy, he would not even have a chance to resist in the middle of the river.

The second is to run upstream along the river and make a detour to Shenzhou, but the distance will be nearly 500 miles farther than the route set earlier, which is really not cost-effective.

The rest is to go downstream, which is farther away from crossing the river but easier to get out of danger.

After making a decision, he hurried on the road and down the river.

Running out of more than ten miles in one go, Zhao Quan's knees were weak and he fell to the ground. It turned out that there was a lot of snow on the ground, and it was very difficult to walk. I couldn't turn around in one breath, and when I landed, I almost fainted.

The ice and snow against his face woke him up, and he saw that it was dark all around. Zhao Quan struggled to get up, staggered through the snow and moved to a nearby bush, got in, and sat down to rest.

The starry night was still so beautiful, but his heart was in a hurry, and his body was tired to death, and he had no leisure to admire.

He closed his eyes, endured the urge to faint from the lack of oxygen, and gritted his teeth and persevered. It was only after he finally calmed down that he gritted his teeth and continued to move forward.

By dawn, the snow had finally stopped.

Zhao Quan looked back and saw the footprints dragging like a long tail on the snowfield behind him, and he couldn't help but secretly complain.

After walking a little longer, knowing that sooner or later the pursuers would find out if they continued like this, he stopped, inspected the situation first, made a plan, and hurried towards a nearby wood.

After entering the forest, he pulled out a Tang knife, chopped down a slightly thinner pomegranate tree, and then sharpened it into two five-foot-long skis with a dagger. Four more small holes were drilled, and the hook was cut in two, and the holes were pierced so that the toe cap and the tree board could be tied securely. The best thing is to scrape a guide groove through the head and tail at the bottom of the plate, and everything looks like it. By dusk, the skis were finally finished.

When Zhao Quan was at the Angel Military Academy, the Angel Queen taught them how to make simple skis, and she specially instructed them how to ski with skis. At that time, I didn't think so, I didn't think it was much use to learn these things, I didn't expect that today would save my life, it seems that in the future, the queen will let you learn everything by heart, the beauty queen is really a god, Zhao Quan sincerely admired in his heart.

After finishing the skis, the ski poles were made.

The snow pole has a wide head and a sharp tail, and a horizontal branch is tied at about three inches near the tip, which acts as a "snow wheel".

When everything was in order, it was late at night. It took him a lot of effort to cut the durian wood, which was as hard as iron, and he rested for a while before he started to act again.

He hooked his skateboard poles on his back and ran on foot towards the riverbank. Although it is still difficult, the mood is very different from before.

Toward dawn, he walked three miles to the bank of the great river.

Deliberately climbed to the edge of the water, leaving clear footprints, and then regressed and stepped on the original footprints and returned to the riverbank. Then put on the skateboard, tie it up, and start the skiing feat with a whow.

Taking advantage of the slope formed by the undulating terrain, he kept accelerating, from slow to fast, and made a big circle, and returned to the dense forest just now, and then hid at the top of a large tree that was high above the nearby trees. I feel that my spirit is extremely excited, and it will take a long time before I can calm down and close my eyes and pretend to sleep.

By midday, the enemy had finally arrived.

Zhao Quan opened his eyes when he heard the sound and was startled. I saw that the mountains were full of Turkic cavalry, not to mention more than a thousand. They followed the clear trail he had left behind, and ran at full speed towards the woods.

Zhao Quan watched them chase through the woods towards the riverbank, and when they reached the end of his tracks, he suddenly stopped to discuss. After a while, the Turkic soldiers dismounted, cut down trees and built rafts, and were busy.

Then it snowed again, heavier than the previous one.

Snowballs slowly descended from the gray sky, covering up the footprints of the original hoofprints for a short time.

Zhao Quan secretly asked God to help me.

In this way, when the enemy could not find his footprints on the other side, they could only scatter and search, and the more they pursued, the farther away they would be from him. Da Xue was the most unfavorable to him, but now it has become his talisman.

Just as I was rejoicing, the barking of dogs sounded in the distance. A group of more than 100 Turkic soldiers on foot, dragging a few hounds, arrived along the river.

Zhao Quan suddenly knew in his heart that this team was the same as the cavalry team that was building a raft on the shore, but because of the heavy snow, he found his footprints on the snow and hurried over, so the bloodhound team was only nearly an hour behind.

I couldn't help but secretly scream that if it was this team of hounds who arrived first just now, my plan might not be successful. Now the snow alone is enough to wipe out all the smell of yourself.

It was not until dusk that all the Turks had crossed the river.

Zhao Quan waited patiently for two more hours before climbing down the tree, taking advantage of the opportunity when the moon was dark and the wind was high and the snow was full of snowflakes, he picked up his snow stick, flew like a bird in the endless snow, turned around and galloped towards Shenzhou.

With this tool of "flying in the snow", he is full of hope for the future for the first time since he escaped.

At dusk the next day, when he had eaten all his dry food, he was hungry and tired. Because of the cold weather, it is no longer possible to pick wild fruits to satisfy hunger as before.

When hunger grabs him like a bird of prey, loneliness is not loneliness, and rest is not rest.

He first put his skis, ski poles, crossbows. The bow and other objects found a place to bury them, set up signs to mark them, and then climbed a big tree, swept away the snow, and shrunk at the tree, waiting for the dawn to come. By midnight, snow was falling from the sky, and he shivered with cold. Under the pressure of hunger and cold, he had to grit his teeth and endure it.

Suddenly, I shivered, my brain was groggy, and my consciousness was gradually blurred. When I woke up again, my whole body was sore, and I realized that I had fallen from a tree, and my body was covered with snowflakes. The winter sun came out early, and the weak sunlight poured into the forest from the tops of the trees. He finally got up, only to feel that his face was burning like a hot fire, and his will was on the verge of collapse, and he actually fell ill at this fateful moment.

Zhao Quan only felt that both his mind and body were extremely weak, but he knew that if he didn't continue his journey, when the cold night came, he would not want to have his life to see the sun tomorrow again. He struggled to his feet, stumbled, fell and staggered to the edge of the forest. Barely came to the edge of the sparsely wooded forest, but finally couldn't support it anymore and collapsed.

I don't know how long I was unconscious, but when I woke up, the noise of the wheels grinding against the snow came to my ears.

When he opened his eyes, he saw a mule convoy passing by at the official road from outside the forest to Shenzhou. The sun had long since disappeared, the sky was cloudy, and another heavy snow was brewing.

Zhao Quan knows that people's physical strength is always limited, and at this moment of freezing cold, if he has to spend day and night in the world of ice and snow, he is afraid that he will freeze to death in a few days.

Zhao Quan knew that this was a life-and-death situation, so he saw that no one was paying attention, so he ran out with all his might, rushed to one of the mule carts, climbed into the car, got into the tow truck with the tight lid of the cloth tent, and fell into something that seemed to be wheat, and then lost all consciousness.

The sound of people outside the car woke Zhao Quan up. Although he was still cold and hot, his body was sore, and his head was as heavy as lead, he felt a little better than before, but his throat was burning like fire, and he needed to drink a lot of cold tea to dissipate it.

Zhao Quan lifted the tent covering the trailer and saw that in the heavy snow, the houses on both sides were standing, like in a nightmare, and suddenly arrived in Shenzhou City.

The hussar drove slowly towards a certain destination.

Zhao Quan was unsure whether to slip out of the car, and the hussars turned into a side alley and entered a house. Zhao Quanyun gathered the little fighting spirit and strength he had left, waiting for the opportunity.

The hussar convoy finally stopped in front of a warehouse at the back of the house. By this time it was already dark, and the transporters apparently did not intend to unload the goods at once, but only untied the mules and dispersed.

Zhao Quan secretly called it a fluke, stayed for a while, and tried his best to let himself fall from the car to the snowy ground. He knelt on the ground and looked at the situation around him, and saw that the warehouse was dark and gloomy, but the direction of the front yard was brightly lit. From his point of view, he also knew that this mansion must be the mansion of some magnate, surrounded by high walls.

Right now in a vast rectangular open-air backyard, there was nothing but the dozen or so cars that had stopped to carry goods. On one side of the courtyard is the stable of the horses, and on the other side it appears to be the house where the servants are staying, clinging to the courtyard wall. A dog barked, and it sounded somewhere in the front yard.

Zhao Quan's soul was immediately scattered, and in this era, most of the powerful families raised vicious dogs, and they were released to patrol the village yard when they slept.

With Zhao Quan's current physical strength, it is impossible to climb the wall and go, the only way is to find a place to hide and try to leave tomorrow. I don't know where the strength came from, Zhao Quan got up and touched the warehouse. At this moment, he seemed to feel that his physical strength was recovering, and his spirit was much better.

When I arrived at one of the warehouses, I found that the door was so locked that I couldn't enter. Zhao Quan's heart was anxious, and he touched the warehouse door one by one. When I arrived at a warehouse at the end, I found that only this warehouse door was unlocked, so I pushed the door down and entered.

This warehouse seemed to be a firewood room, and Zhao Quan found a hidden place to lie down.

The whole body was sore, like a broken shelf, how could I withstand the repeated fatigue when I lay down again, and fell asleep.

The next day, someone came and took away a few bundles of firewood, not noticing his presence at all.

At this time, his physical strength had recovered most of it, and he secretly thought that it was not appropriate to stay for a long time, so he secretly climbed the wall and left before the vicious dog was released, and came to the street.

Snowflakes fluttering in the sky, few pedestrians on the street, even passers-by are hurrying, Zhao Quan took a few deep breaths, paused his spirits, confirmed the direction, and hurried to the secret meeting point determined by the queen in Liaodong - Shenzhou Chengxi Inn.