Chapter 173: Tracking

"It's almost dawn, I guess they're back! There are only three of them in Wandu, and there are twenty-eight of us here, and it is an ambush, and we can't kill him? One of the men in gray said.

Wan Yutong, who was tied to the wooden pillar, heard the conversation of these gray-clothed people, and his face changed greatly, and he immediately asked, "Who are you?" Why are you tying me up? Why did I hurt my grandfather? ”

The leader of the gray-clothed man turned his head and looked at Wan Yutong and smiled: "The little lady wants to know?" I just won't tell you! ”

At this moment, another voice came from a distance, and several people in the house heard it.

"Like a horse neighing? Sixth, go out and see if they're back! The leader of the men in gray commanded.

"Yes, sir!"

The sixth man opened the wooden door and walked out, when the sky was just dawning, and there were three torches moving in the distance.

"Why are there only three of them? That's not right! The sixth man was full of doubts, looked at it for a while, his face changed, and he immediately turned around and ran into the cabin.

"Boss, the situation is not right, it's not that they are back, there are only three people, I guess it's just that they failed, and the three people who came should be Wandu Gui and the people he brought!"

The gray-clothed man's face instantly became solemn, he quickly walked out of the cabin and looked at it, and quickly confirmed the statement of his subordinates, and immediately turned around and shouted: "Quick, take these two little ladies, let's withdraw!" ”

The remaining three gray-clothed men in the house immediately untied Wan Yutong and Xiaocui tied to the wooden pillar, but did not loosen their ties, and the two gray-clothed men put knives around their necks, pushed them out of the cabin and followed the leader in the direction of the back of the cabin, and soon disappeared into the snow.

Zhao Junsheng, Hua Mulan and Lu Xuanbo dismounted when they were only about a mile away from the cabin, put the horses in place, and let the three bantam horses look for weeds under the snow to eat in the same place.

The lights shot out of the wooden house, Zhao Junsheng and the three of them were very careful, and quietly came to the eaves of the wooden house, and under Zhao Junsheng's signal, Lu Xuanbo inserted his sword into the crack of the door and removed the door bolt.

However, when Lu Xuanbo pointed his sword at the wooden door, a cold wind blew, and the wooden door was blown open, and the fire burning in the house was blown into flames.

Lu Xuanbo, Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan did not hesitate and quickly rushed into the wooden house in turn.

The house was empty, except for the flames of the burning firewood.

Zhao Junsheng walked under a wooden pillar with a knife, picked up a ball of rope and looked at it, and then walked to the wooden table, where he saw several pottery bowls on the table, and the water in the bowls was still steaming.

"They should have spotted us in advance, looking at the untied ropes and the steaming tea, they should have just left, we chased!" Zhao Junsheng turned around and walked out of the wooden house as he spoke, and Hua Mulan and Lu Xuanbo also followed out with their swords.

There were some deep footprints on the snow outside the eaves around the wooden house to the back of the house, Zhao Junsheng bent down with a knife and followed the footprints forward, Hua Mulan and Lu Xuanbo saw this, carrying swords and scattering left and right, each on guard.

This barren mountain range, uninhabited, is full of thick snow, occasionally withered grass exposed in the snow, and everywhere there is no end in sight, if it were not for a footprint on the ground leading to the distance to show that there are people walking here, this place is really extinct.

After moving away from the cabin, the sky was already completely bright, and Zhao Junsheng, Hua Mulan, and Lu Xuanbo all exhaled a long white hot breath from their mouths, and they followed the footprints on the snow to speed up and chase forward, and the footprints on the snow became clearer and clearer.

"There are a total of six people's footprints, counting Miss Wan and the maid Xiaocui, which is consistent with the four guards here that we interrogated!" Zhao Junsheng said as he walked with a knife.

Hua Mulan wiped a handful of snot from her frozen red nose and said, "Then let's chase after it, we must not have an accident with Miss Wan and them, otherwise we will not be able to explain it in public or private!" ”

Zhao Junsheng saw that Hua Mulan was so cold that his nose was runny, so he hurriedly took off the cowhide water bag on his waist and handed it to her: "Take a sip of wine and warm up!" ”

Hua Mulan didn't know that Zhao Junsheng's cowhide water bag was filled with spirits, so she opened the stopper and poured it into her mouth, and after taking a sip of wine, she wrinkled her face and spit out pink tongue again and again.

"Hmm······ Whew······ What kind of wine are you, and why is it so spicy? When Mulan said this, her face was already flushed with wine, and her whole body became hot.

Zhao Junsheng took the wine bag and poured it into his mouth, "Enough, right?" After speaking, he threw the wine bag to Lu Xuanbo.

He asked as he untied the thick cashmere scarf around his neck and put it around Mulan's neck: "Wearing a scarf, it should warm up."

Zhao Junsheng wrapped a scarf around Mulan's neck, covering his mouth, nose and most of his face with a scarf, only his eyes were exposed, and a cape and hat were placed on top of his head to block the wind and snow.

"How does it feel to do that?"

Mulan nodded: "Well, it's much warmer!" ”

Lu Xuanbo was pouring wine into his mouth, and when he saw this scene, it was like eating a handful of dog food, and he turned his head and continued to follow the footprints of the snowy mountain.

Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan put on their scarves, and the two of them sped up to keep up with Lu Xuanbo.

After chasing for about half an hour, Lu Xuanbo saw several figures flashing in front of him, and immediately said to Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan: "They are in front!" ”

"Speed up, chase!"

The three of them quickly caught up, and their speed suddenly more than doubled.

Several gray-clothed men escorted the master and servant of Wan Yutong, and when they heard the movement from behind, they turned their heads to look at it, and were immediately shocked, "They are catching up, go quickly!" ”

With two women who were not very willing to cooperate, several gray-clothed people couldn't go fast anyway, and they were soon caught up by Zhao Junsheng, Hua Mulan and Lu Xuanbo.

"You two stay and stop them!" The leader of the man in gray pointed to the two behind him and ordered.

The two of them turned around and pounced on Zhao Junsheng and the three of them with their weapons, and were hacked to death in the snow by them.

"Stop!" Zhao Junsheng shouted as he ran after him.

The remaining two gray-clothed men panicked, one escorting the other and fleeing quickly.

Zhao Junsheng took out his crossbow and stopped to aim at the gray-clothed man holding Wan Yutong hostage, and with a "whoosh" sound, the crossbow arrow shot out, but the figure in front shook a few times, and the crossbow arrow did not hit the gray-clothed man holding Wan Yutong hostage, but it shot the gray-clothed man holding Xiaocui hostage.

Xiao Cui got out of control and regained her freedom, but her hands were tied behind her back, and she couldn't move, so she tripped and fell on the snow when she wanted to escape, and her whole body was deep in the snow.

Hua Mulan and Lu Xuanbo quickly caught up, and they jumped past Zhao Junsheng and pounced on the only remaining gray-clothed leader.

When the leader of the gray-clothed man saw that Zhao Junsheng had a miniature version of the repeater in his hand, he was immediately frightened, and he blocked Wan Yutong in front of him, dragged her back, and shouted at Zhao Junsheng and the others with a knife on Wan Yutong's neck: "If you come again, I will kill her!" ”