171. Go in person

No, I'm going to make a break with him personally. ”

As Zhiying expected, when Cui Yi heard that Cui Jie and others were hiding in Bailonggang, regardless of the generals' scramble, he resolutely decided to personally lead the troops to clean up.

Xu said sincerely: "The emperor has a noble dragon body, why do you want to go to such a barren and wild place for such a trivial matter?" Guo Ziyan defected to the enemy and treason, inciting the countries of the Western Regions to invade the Central Plains, the heavens are intolerable, and the last general is willing to go forward on behalf of the emperor and take the head of his head to sacrifice the souls of the soldiers who died in my Great Chu! ”

Cao Qian also said: "The other party is no more than 10,000 people, and it is really not worth the emperor's labor!" ”

The Dai Ping and Dai Jing brothers also tried their best to express their willingness to fight on his behalf, but after listening to their gossipy words, Cui Yi still said: "I understand your kindness, but this is a grievance between me and the brothers of the first emperor, I must solve it personally, and none of you can replace it." Needless to say, Zhongxing, you lead 10,000 people to stand by, Yuan Ke takes 30,000 people to Yangming Pass, and set off immediately, and when the head of the traitor is delivered, you and Dai Jing immediately send troops to Humeng Tuo'er, since they don't want to be a vassal state of Dachu, it is better to simply merge into Liangzhou, and save me from worrying about this group of jackals every day. ”

"But ......"

"No, but I have made up my mind, and you just do it."

The generals couldn't convince him, so they had to set their sights on Bailizan, hoping that he would come forward to persuade Cui Yi.

Bailizan touched his beard and thought about it, and said: "There must be a reason why the emperor arranged this, the generals should not insist on it anymore, whatever the emperor says, everyone will do it." ”

The generals wailed - let you persuade the emperor, why did you persuade us in turn? Last time, the emperor insisted on going his own way, and almost lost his little life, and the imperial concubines rushed all the way to martyrdom, if there is any accident this time, we all want to accompany the funeral!

But no matter how tragic the howl in his heart was, the emperor's words still had to be heard, and several people retreated with sad faces.

"The emperor didn't let the generals follow, is there another hidden reason?" Bailizan asked Cui Yi, but his eyes looked at Zhiying.

Holding Ying smiled and said nothing, Cui Yi said: "What is the secret? I want to end the first emperor with my own hands, is it a hidden secret? ”

Bailizan smiled helplessly, and was about to turn around and go out, when suddenly Cui Yi said again: "After Zhiying left, the Rong family has already announced to the world that the first emperor is dead, and now Guo Mao's side is just a stand-in. ”

Bailizan's heart sank, and his eyes once again turned to Zhiying, who was still smiling, and his expression was intriguing.

No wonder she dared to leave her children to come to Liangzhou, it turned out that she had bought the Rong family, Bailizan couldn't help but sigh at the eclecticism of holding the profit and employing people, and secretly prayed that the Rong family would not take the opportunity to give birth to any moths, as long as she was safe, no one would be able to shake Cui Yi's throne in the future.

Xu Cheng set off with people that night, and Cui Yi sent troops to Bailonggang early the next morning.

The sky had just dawned, the barracks were already brightly lit, and everyone was nervously preparing, Cui Yi stood in front of the camp gate, exhaling a cloud of white gas from his mouth, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Your Majesty, please get on the horse." A soldier led his horse to him.

Cui Yi responded casually, reached out to catch the reins, touched the man's hand, and instantly retracted.

The soldiers lowered their heads, looking respectful and bowing their heads to their ears.

Cui Yi: "......"

Looking left and right that no one was paying attention here, Cui Yi whispered frantically: "You are crazy!" ”

The soldier in front of him put the oversized helmet on top with a horsewhip, revealing the face of a woman who was red from the cold--Zhiying smiled and said, "Don't call, hurry up and get on your horse and get ready to go." ”

Cui Yi was angry and funny, pointed his finger at her, but he couldn't say anything after all, so he had to be discouraged: "Don't make trouble." Zhiying smiled mischievously, handed over the reins and horsewhip, Cui Yi thought for a while, and said, "You sit behind me?" Or the golden crow for you to ride? ”

Zhiying begged for mercy and whispered, "You're afraid that others won't recognize me, aren't you?" Don't talk nonsense, I asked General Cao to prepare another horse for me. Cui Yi had no choice but to ride on the golden crow and go out of the camp first.

Cui Yi was very surprised, when did Zhiying learn to ride a horse, remember that she has always been in a carriage!

But watching Zhiying skillfully step on the stirrup and get on the horse, he put his heart back again, since the acquaintance, Zhiying's surprise to him has not stopped, riding a horse or something, can only be regarded as a trivial matter.

Only Zhiying herself knows that she can only ride a horse and walk slowly, and if she wants to run, someone must take the reins with her, and she must hold the horse's neck the whole time during the horse's gallop...... Although the action is not very elegant, but at least it will not fall, riding a horse is still too far away for her, the daughter of the boudoir, if it weren't for the desert can't walk the carriage, she won't be crammed temporarily, and now learn to ride a horse.

The team set off. Bailonggang belongs to the Chaoyan mountain system, and it is only less than three days' journey from Liangzhou Mansion, and the terrain is precipitous, like a tiger standing on a dragon plate, easy to defend and difficult to attack -- but on the other hand, if you can't attack the mountain, the people on the mountain can't come down, as long as you surround Cui Jie and them on the mountain, and surround them for ten days and half a month, the rebels who have run out of food will naturally be defeated.

Zhiying is very low-key along the way, trying not to speak so as not to be heard by others, resting in a tent with Cui Yi at night, there will always be personal soldiers to serve in the generals' tents, not to mention that Cui Yi is an emperor, so it also arouses the suspicion of others.

It's just that for Cui Yi, the fact that the two of them have different beds in the same room is really depressing - this is not to be shown for the time being.

At the foot of the mountain, Cui Yi left his fellow generals to command people to surround the mountain, blocking all roads that could go down the mountain, and he rode up the steep slope on horseback. Zhiying followed him, so nervous that the rhythm of breathing was faster than usual, and he kept looking around, for fear that a killer would pop out of some corner or something......

"What are you looking at?" After Cui Yi walked for a while, he finally noticed her strange appearance and asked strangely.

Zhiying pursed her lips and shook her head, a little nervous, the corners of Cui Yi's mouth twitched, and she couldn't help but say: "It is impossible to have ambushes in this kind of terrain, and it is impossible to say if it is a little further on." ”

The soldiers who were close to him were all surprised, Cui Yi has always been an unsmiling facial paralysis since he was a prince more than ten years ago, even if he explained things, he had a strained face, although he did not speak evilly, but he rarely had a good face.

But he's actually warm today? Sound? Thin? Pointing out a millimeter? No? Rise? Eye-catching little soldiers!

Everyone's eyes were a little weird.

Zhiying was unaware of this, looked at the mountain road in front of him, and asked, "What's going on ahead?" ”

Cui Yi pointed to the shrub-covered hillside in front of him and said: "A place like this is easy to ambush killers and stumble, but it's winter, and it's easy to leave traces when setting traps, and you can't generalize." ”

As soon as the words were finished, a rope rose in the snow, and the golden crow screamed in surprise in the snow ballast, almost lifting Cui Yi off the horse, and the soldiers on the left and right exclaimed in surprise, and rushed forward to protect him, Cui Yi himself was not busy retreating, but waved his arm to let Zhiying: "Quickly retreat!" ”

Not only that, after the tripping rope was triggered, the bell on the pine tree also rang, and the sound of jingling bells spread to the top of the mountain, and at the same time, countless ambushes hidden in the mountain forest jumped out one after another, waving the scimitar in their hands and pounced on this side.

The first time Zhiying encountered an ambush, she was squeezed crookedly on horseback, and she couldn't run away if she wanted to, but fortunately, there were not many ambushes, and she was killed after a while The captives who killed the captives gradually subsided, Cui Yi put the Xingyuan sword back to the sheath, and hurriedly rode over: "Are you okay?" ”

"I'm fine, what about you?" Zhiying lay on the horse's back in an embarrassed position.

Cui Yi wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, and said, "You wait in place." Then he turned and went to interrogate the ambushers.

The ambush on the mountainside were all Humeng nursery people, and the few who were arrested pretended not to understand Chinese at first, and pretended to be stupid, Cui Yi didn't say a word, drew his sword and stabbed one, and the rest were all stunned, Cui Yi then pointed at another person with a sword: "Say, how many people are there on the mountain, and who are they?" The man hesitated for a moment, and Cui Yi immediately cut off his head mercilessly.

At this time, all the captives were frightened, and one by one they scrambled to speak, and in a short time they were able to explain the situation on the mountain.

Zhiying listened not far away, and also had a general understanding of the current situation. In addition to the hundreds of people that Cui Jie brought all the way to the Western Regions from the capital, there were also 3,000 royal guards of Humeng Tuoer, who were sent by King Humeng Tuoer to protect him.

Three thousand to ten thousand, if there is no Guo Mao, it will be a piece of cake, it will be difficult to say if he is there, Zhiying thought secretly.

Cui Yi was also thinking about the same thing, he hadn't seen this Guo Ziyan once until now, the closest distance was through the carriage curtain, but he had calculated it I don't know how many times, and he almost died in Taurgan, after listening to the prisoner's words, he didn't dare to rush to order the charge, but turned his head and asked Zhiying: "What now?" ”

Zhiying thought for a while and asked rhetorically: "Do you want to die or live?" ”

The Humeng Nursery soldiers looked at each other.

"If you want to die, go down the mountain, there are still 50,000 troops waiting for you at the bottom of the mountain, and you will be in a different place before you reach the foot of the mountain."

Zhiying deliberately exaggerated to intimidate them, and as soon as she said this, the Humeng Nursery soldiers immediately replied loudly: "I want to live!" We want to live! ”

"If you want to live, you go up the mountain and tell Guo Ziyan that you don't have to resist anymore, just because a puppet who looks like the first emperor wants to incite the countries of the Western Regions to jointly invade the Central Plains, it's too naΓ―ve," Zhi Ying said matter-of-factly, "I also tell your compatriots, if you are willing to become a prop used by Guo Ziyan, no one will stop you, but please think about it, think about your parents, wives and children in your hometown, whether it is worth dying for a puppet." ”

The Humeng Nursery soldiers all looked surprised, you look at me, I look at you, and talked in a low voice in the local dialect for a while, but the leader just now came forward to reply: "I will bring your words." ”

Cui Yi opened his mouth, the soldiers loosened their clamps, and the Humeng Nursery soldiers drooped their heads and walked towards the mountain.

"What now?" Cui Yi asked.

Zhiying snickered: "Wait for someone to come down and send them to death." ”