In the early morning of the third day when Ling Hu Yong arrived in Qinglong Town, the fog was thick, and no one was seen after ten steps. Yesterday, after Nangong Han's diagnosis and treatment, Ling Hu Yan was half better, but she was still weak and was lying in bed. Ling Hu Yong got up early to feed the horses, and saw that Hu Nu Erniang also got up early and was already sprinkling and sweeping the courtyard.

Suddenly, there was the sound of horses' hooves on the post road. Who is so early? Linghu Yong refreshed his mind, and a jujube red horse ran over, and when the horse ran closer, he turned over and came down, with blood stained on his body and face, and went straight to the inn, shouting: "Pavilion chief, it's not good." ”

only heard Sima Wrong "clang" in the house, and he should have heard "something big is not good" and fell to the ground in shock. He hurried out and buttoned his shirt as he went.

When the man saw the pavilion chief, he said weakly: "Pavilion chief, the big thing is not good!" Last night, the mail truck of a dozen of our post guards was hijacked on the Cuihan Post Road. The brothers suffered heavy casualties. The Pavilion Elder hurriedly sent someone to Shantang Post to deliver the information, and reported to Duguyue, the head of Tongguan Station, that Captain Nalan of the Hanguan Camp had taken people to the place of the incident......" After speaking, he fainted. Sima Cuo hurriedly said to Ling Huyong: "Please ask the old gentleman to go and ask Nangong Han for treatment." The other said to Erniang: "Go and call Mrs. quickly." ”

After Nangong Han arrived, he saw that the post guard was injured in many places, and he was hit by an arrow in the arm. The injuries on the body were not opened by knives and axes, but were caught by other hidden weapons, with the calf being the most dangerous, the tendons and veins were broken, and the white bones were exposed, and the blood was gushing at this time, which was very terrifying. Surprised, could it be the flying claw? I haven't seen this murder weapon for many years.

Sima Cuo explained: "This is the post guard of the Tongguan General Station, and it is said that the mail truck was hijacked last night. ”

"What is it about the mail that makes the thief so worried?"

"I don't know, it should be precious." Sima replied wrongly.

Nangong Han didn't have time to think about it, so he hurriedly pinched the popliteal fossa with his hand, and the thought was in a hurry, and the golden medicine was still in the silk shop. I hurriedly shouted: "Who will help me with the hoop?" I saw Ling Huyong find a thin rope and tie it neatly on his thigh.

After Nangong Han saw it, he couldn't help asking: "The old gentleman is so familiar with the method of stopping bleeding, he must have stayed in the army." ”

Linghu Yong was shocked, and immediately replied calmly: "In Huating, fishermen go out to sea to fish, and often have their hands and feet cut by anchors and fishing nets, so many of us know this method of stopping bleeding to save our lives." ”

"Oh, that's it."

When Nangong Han took the golden medicine and put it on, he untied the tied rope slightly, and there was no bleeding. But the pawn's breath was still faint, and he didn't wake up. Nangong Han hurriedly asked Sima Cuo to melt a bowl of syrup with hot water, and poured it down, and after a while, the post guard slowly came to his senses, and pleaded weakly: "Quickly go and tell the post chief, quickly go and save my brother." And he passed out again.

Nangong Han said: "I have lost too much blood, I have to go to the butcher's house to ask for a pot of cow blood, cook it to remove the fish, and feed it slowly." But this leg is useless. ”

Nangong Han dealt with the injured and asked: "This post guard is also escorting the post, why don't you stay at the post station if you rush forward so late?" ”

Ling Huyong interjected: "From Luoyang to the east, there is no post station in the first fifty miles to Hangu Pass, and there are few inns and people. Fortunately, my father and daughter did not encounter the thieves. If it does, my father and daughter's life will be at risk. ”

Sima said after hearing the mistake: "From the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the pre-Qin, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Hangu Pass is a place where soldiers must fight, there is the Yellow River in the north, there is Funiu Mountain in the south, only a passage in Hangu enters the Guanzhong, this is to rush dozens of miles before and after the battlefield, how many soldiers of the past dynasties died in vain, the war is together, if you don't leave your hometown, you will die, who dares to live here." ”

Sima thought about it and suddenly remembered something? He asked, "Hangu Guanyou was closed at the beginning of the day, why did your father and daughter arrive in the town so late that night?" ”

Ling Hu Yong's words caused the pavilion chief to question, and he hurriedly said: "That night, my father and daughter did arrive at the pass after the unitary time, and were almost shot by the sergeant at the pass. This is a benevolent act of Captain Nalan, and I also ask the pavilion chief and Mr. Nangong not to say that they will go out, it is difficult for Captain Nalan. ”

Although Sima Cuo and Nangong Han nodded their heads again and again on the surface, they were suspicious in private.

At this time, Sima Cuo's wife arrived on horseback, and just as Ling Huyong and Nangong Han were questioning Sima Cuo's wife to invite him on such a major matter, they understood seven or eight points when they saw Mrs. Sima's outfit. Where is this women's dress? Wearing a tight-fitting beard and leggings, he rode a white horse, holding the reins in one hand and a green wooden whistle stick in the other. If it weren't for the imperial court's ban on the use of weapons by the people, this woman would definitely carry a Mo knife.

She rode her horse to the inn and tightened the reins, and the white horse raised its head and stood up with its front feet off the ground, and after neighing a few times and landing on the ground, it also flicked a few hammers on its hind legs. When she turned over and dismounted, she asked, "Sima Cuo, what's the matter with me?" Is it going to invite the old lady out again? ”

Sima Cuo cautiously stepped forward and said with a smile: "Madam, the mail car escorted by the Tongguan General Post was hijacked, and what happened on the boundary of Qinglong Town was also bothered Mrs. to go to Shantang Post to inform me that the mail car was hijacked, put it six hundred miles to expedited, and send it to Tongguan General Post to inform the post chief Duguyue." ”

"The mail truck has been hijacked, so why not rush to the mail robbery now, catch the mail robber and cut it down.! Dare to do it in the realm of my Qinglong Town, it's really earth-shattering. ”

"Madame, calm your anger, let the soldiers go, you go first."

"Humph! The old lady cheapened them. I saw her turn over and get on her horse, gallop away, and disappear into the fog.

Only then did Sima Cuo introduce to Ling Huyan and Nangong Han: "This is the cheap Wan Qianmei, her ancestors are all people on horseback, and she still likes to rush and kill in her generation." Alas. ”

Ling Huyong watched Wan Qianmei go away, and he was very anxious in his heart, thinking that if Ah Yan was not seriously ill, they could also leave for Tongguan.

Nangong Han smiled inadvertently and said to Sima Cuo: "Mrs. Sima is brave, Qinglong Town can be safe." But a few words popped up in my heart: "Ji Ji Si Chen, the pavilion chief is afraid of the inside."

Ling Hu Yong felt right, Nangong Han was indeed the son of Nangong Xuan, Nangong Xuan was young and outstanding, skilled, proficient in medical skills, regarded as a generalist, and was deeply liked by Princess Taiping and hired as a subordinate. And Ling Huyong, back more than thirty years ago, he should have called him Ling Huzhao, he was the guard next to Princess Taiping. Ling Hu Zhao enlisted in the army in his early years, far away from his hometown, and fought against Tubo with the Tang Army, and later entered Yulinwei with military exploits, and served under the command of General Yulin of You. Until one day, someone entered the palace to assassinate Princess Taiping, happened to meet Linghu Zhao on duty, he and several guards desperately escorted, Princess Taiping felt his loyalty and bravery, and was promoted as a close attendant, and then won the trust of the princess, and gave him his personal maid, ready to choose an auspicious day to get married. At that time, the struggle between the princess and the crown prince became more and more fierce, and the struggle for imperial power was imminent. During this period, he was ordered by the princess to go to the Tianchi of Taibai Mountain to get holy water, and on the way back, he got a hurried report from his subordinates on the outside line, the prince had taken the preemptive strike, the main figures of the princess's party were killed, the princess was imprisoned, the general trend has gone, and the prince is ordering to arrest the princess's party everywhere. Linghu Zhao knew that the princess was in prison, and in order to repay the princess's kindness, he did not flee, but sneaked into Chang'an, waiting for an opportunity to rescue the princess. Unexpectedly, in preparation, the princess was given death. After the death of the princess, many old people who were not deeply implicated were forgiven by the prince, took refuge in the prince, and changed their faces, and Nangong Xuan was one of them. And he knew that after the princess died, he burned all the inside, burned incense in the face of Daming Palace on the White Deer Plain, wept bitterly for three days, and then turned over the Qinling Mountains, took Hanzhong, entered Bashu, entered the Minjiang River, returned to Huating along the river, and changed his name to live in seclusion.

What Ling Huzhao didn't expect was that Nangong Xuan's son, Nangong Han, was also Yulinwei, a scout sent by the Son of Heaven to spy on information from all over the world, and directly obeyed the orders of the Son of Heaven's favorite hussar general Gao Lishi. Judging from the information collected from all over the place, the rebellion of Fan Yang Jiedu has been revealed, but the Son of Heaven still does not believe it, Xu is confident, maybe he feels that An Jiedu does not have the courage. When he heard that the post office mail car had been hijacked, he was looking for some reason to go and investigate. According to reliable sources, the princes' party was busy transporting a batch of documents from the Eastern Capital Imperial Court to Chang'an, including the population, acres of land, military service and other matters in the Eastern Regions of the Tang Dynasty. The day and night escort may be trying to avoid the eyes and ears of the Son of Heaven.

In the thick fog, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves, and when he was a sergeant recently, he came down to see Sima Cuo: "Sima Pavilion Chief, the captain sent me to quickly ask the Pavilion Chief and Zhuge Langzhong to go to the cypress slope of ten miles outside the Guan, where there are still six or seven wounded."

Sima Cuo just shouted to Erniang: "Go and invite Zhuge ...... quickly"

Nangong Han hurriedly interrupted: "Old Mr. Zhuge is old and can't stand the rush. I am not willing to go for Mr. Zhuge . ”

Sima Cuo thought for a while, and hurriedly said: "Yes, then trouble Mr. Nangong to clean up the ointment first, and we will set off immediately." ”

After packing up the horses, Nangong Han suddenly asked Ling Huyong: "Is the old gentleman willing to go?" ”

"The old man wants to take care of his daughter in the inn, and the old man is afraid of swords and swords."

Nangong Han replied: "In this way, it is not difficult to be an old gentleman." So he got on his horse with Sima Cuo and the sergeant, and rode away.

When we arrived at the cypress slope, there were more than a dozen people lying on the ground, a few of them breathing, and a few sergeants were stopping the bleeding of the wounded. One of the lieutenants greeted him and hurriedly asked, "Pavilion Chief, Mr. Zhuge didn't come?" ”

Sima hurriedly said: "Mr. Zhuge is old, so he can't come so quickly. It just so happened that this Mr. Nangong was here, and he had excellent medical skills, and he had just treated the post man who rode back to report the news. ”

"It turned out to be Mr. Nangong, and I am Nalan Yanghe, the captain of Hangu Guan Yi, please heal a few of the post guards who still have breath as soon as possible."

Nangong Han inspected the wounds, all of them were deeply wounded, the muscles and veins were exposed, and the blood was gurgling and oozing. Most of those who had lost their breath were shot by arrows and died.

Captain Nalan said that before the morning arrived, he saw a horse rushing forward, holding a postal flag in his hand, because the chief post guard had traveled back and forth many times, and was familiar with most of the post guards, seeing that he was seriously injured and the mail car was hijacked, he switched and asked him to report to Qinglong Town first. He brought a few sergeants to this place, when a post guard was still awake, and informed the general process of the hijacking of the mail car: the post robbery was about the time of Mao, everyone thought that the day was about to dawn, and there were more than a dozen strong post guards, so they relaxed their vigilance, sat around the fire to the fire, half asleep, suddenly threw two pairs of flying claws on the cliff wall, blink of an eye, "click, click" a few sounds, seven or eight brothers were already flesh and blood, wailing. The other brothers, who were not injured by the flying claws, picked up the Mo knife and tried to trip the flying claws, but a row of arrows came from the mountain, and the dead and wounded were all lying on the ground and unable to move, watching the mail truck being driven east.

Sima mistakenly said: "Why don't you catch up with the east and see if you can catch up." ”

Nangong Han said: "It's useless. The mail hijackers should have hidden the mail cart in a mountain crevice. There should be only two people robbing the post this time, and a crossbow machine was installed on the mountain, and when the post man was sleepy, he suddenly threw down his flying claws and swept wildly, injuring seven or eight people, and then pulling the crossbow machine, how could more than a dozen post soldiers still have the power to resist. ”

Captain Nalan asked, "How so?" ”

"If the other party has five or six masters, how can they use these techniques, just take advantage of their unpreparedness, and kill the generals, and there will be no one left. Their goal is in the mail, not in the people. The guards guarding the important mail wagons are all well-trained sergeants, and they can knock down this cadre in an instant, which is amazing! It's not an idle person. ”

"Sir, I know a lot."

"I've just read some military books and know some formations."

"Sir, do you know who the other party is?"

"Hu people."

"Contemptible people are also Hu people."

"Haha! Captain, no, there is no disrespect. ”

"Do you know where the gentleman is?"

"Fan Yang."

Nalan was taken aback, and immediately approached and whispered, "Please be sincere, sir." ”

Nangong Han took out the jade token from his sleeve and carried everyone behind his back for Captain Nalan to take a look. Nalan was startled at first, and then said softly: "Meet General Huaihua Lang next." ”

At this time, Sima Cuo was about to come over, but Nangong Han hurriedly interrupted Captain Nalan and said humbly: "Captain, the injured have been dealt with properly. It's okay to go back to Qinglong Town first? ”

"These injured people still need to be transported to Qinglong Town one by one, and the injuries are so serious, and I have to worry about Mr. Lao's attention. I just saw Mr.'s treatment methods, which is worthy of being a wonderful hand. Please also ask the gentleman to stay, and it will not be too late to come back after it is dealt with. ”

Sima Cuo also said: "Mr. Nangong, the captain is reasonable, please ask Mr. to be more attentive." As for the remuneration, Mr. don't worry, when the Dugu post chief comes, I will explain it to her. ”

"Oh. That's fine, the healer is benevolent, not taught. However, this Hangu to Tongguan, more than 130 miles, 600 miles of urgency, I am afraid that it is still on the way. ”

"It should be there in half a day." Sima Cuo said.

"In this way, Dugu Yi Chang may be able to arrive before dark."

As he was talking, two jujube red Saibei Hu horses galloped from the west post road, but only one person dismounted recently, wearing a long robe, a hood covering a bun, a thin face, delicate, wearing a tight robe, a sash belt, a jade tiger head waist buckle is particularly conspicuous, and a horizontal knife is hung on the waist.

Sima Cuo said, "The post chief is here. ”

Nangong Han: "So fast? ”

"She leads two horses, and she changes them every ten miles?" Captain Nalan said.

Duguyue didn't greet the three of them as soon as she got off the horse, looked around the scene, and scolded: "A group of stupid pigs! How can you camp here? Hanging on three sides, one in front, can you still survive? A bunch of stupid pigs! ”

"It was windy last night, so I should have been sleepy and too cold to hide here." Captain Nalan said.

"Even if you can't pass the level during the unitary time, you can still move to camp in front of the gate." Duguyue replied.

Nangong Han had just met Wan Qimei in the morning, and now he saw Lonely Moon again, he couldn't help but feel a little funny in his heart, and wanted to deliberately ridicule Dugu Yue: "Don't you dare to ask the post chief, what kind of materials are you holding?" ”

Only then did Duguyue catch a glimpse of a white-faced scholar, who hit her angrily, and she was angry: "Who are you?" Dare to inquire about the secrets of the imperial court here? ”。

Nangong Han pretended to be scared: "Post chief, you're not a good person, I don't believe you ask the captain and the pavilion chief......"

Sima didn't know what to do, knowing Duguyue's fiery temper, he hurriedly came over and persuaded: "The post chief is angry, this is Nangong Langzhong, and the post guards who were seriously injured just now were all saved by him." ”

Duguyue was still dissatisfied and said, "Hmph! Lang Zhong sought medical treatment for injuries and illnesses, and was less nosy. ”

Less leaning. Sima Cuo said: "It has been peaceful for decades, and I used to hear that there were often wars at the border gates, but now why is there such a tragic murder and carjacking case at the feet of the Son of Heaven." ”

Duguyue thought for a while and said, "This matter has to be reported quickly." ”

……

Everyone returned to Qinglong Town, and the news of the robbery and killing of the post guard escorting the mail car had already spread all over Qinglong Town.

And a few people who understand the mystery know the mystery early, and those who should come will definitely come. There are still a few people in Qinglong Town who seem to be calm, secretly stirring the ups and downs of Qinglong Town.

At night, Duguyue did not sleep for a long time, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince secretly arranged for her to transport some important information from the eastern capital to Chang'an as soon as possible, which was to prevent Fan Yang'an from rebelling to break through Luoyang. For this reason, she also deliberately sent more than a dozen strong post guards to escort her, but she didn't expect to be robbed. It can be seen that the rumors that Fan Yang wants to oppose are true.

Don't look at her hot on the surface, she is difficult to see people, but she is actually as careful as a hair. She had already seen that Nangong Han was not just as simple as Lang Zhong, but also ...... Just as she was thinking about it, she suddenly heard an unusual sound outside the house, she immediately turned over, held the horizontal knife in her hand, went out, jumped onto the eaves, and saw two black shadows heading towards a path on the mountain east of Qinglong Town. Without thinking, she followed. I was secretly happy in my heart: "I know that the carjacker must be from Qinglong Town, and it's strange to see that the old lady doesn't kill you alive tonight." ”

Hangu Pass can block the passage of chariots, horses and troops, and there are many trails on the mountains on both sides of the pass that can be freely traversed. The two people in front of them did a good job, walking on the trail at night, there was no sound, which made Duguyue chase very hard, she accidentally made a noise a few times, and I don't know if the other party noticed. After about an hour, they walked twenty miles and came to a valley, and the two seemed to stop and lie on the ground and listen to something.

Duguyue was secretly shocked in her heart, it was the earth listening technique. This technique can know that there is no one within 100 steps. But for a breath, I only heard a sharp noise in the air. Duguyue was shocked, "shook the arrow", and rolled behind the rock next to her. I only heard "boom, boom, boom...... and at least a dozen flew over and plunged into the stone slab. When he was avoiding a catastrophe for himself, there was a whistling sound in the air again, something was thrown over, only to hear two loud noises of "bang, bang", and two bursts of strong light flashed in front of him, so bright that Duguyue's eyes couldn't be opened. Just when she was thinking that her life was going to be handed over here, she felt that there were three more "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh" sounds in front of the valley, and then "swish, swish", some women were injured and moaned, and some people said in nonsense, "Go separately, don't go back to Qinglong Town for the time being." ”

Duguyue understood, she was followed by a master, and this master saved her.