Chapter 39: Escape
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Looking at Li Cheng with a relaxed look on his face, Old Man Song hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help but speak: "We have been carefully searching in this barren mountain and wild mountain for many years before we found this rare paradise, the peach blossoms in the streams under the mountains, and the lush green bamboos on the mountains, even if it is really said that it is the peach blossom source written by Tao Yuanming, it is reasonable, but why was this gang of bandits able to find here, and even sent so many people for the first time?" ”
Li Cheng Huoran looked sideways at Old Man Song who was standing beside him: "What do you mean······ There are people in the village who have problems. ”
Old Man Song couldn't help laughing: "When did you become so suspicious?" Even fools in the village knew that there was no benefit in doing so, not to mention that the people in the village had to get everyone's unanimous permission to go out, and they had always traveled in groups, so there was no possibility of such contact with the bandits. Besides, what do you think the bandits will have such leisure and fun? ”
Stretching out his hand to stroke his beard, Li Cheng said with some shame: "It's a certain overheart, people will be cranky when they get old." But according to you, how should that be explained? Before, the bandits were pressing, and we were busy dealing with it, so we really didn't care about this problem, but now that we think about it carefully, it seems that this is really mysterious······"
Old Man Song sighed, glanced at him and said with a smile: "Do you remember what the general said about you at the beginning?" ”
"Why did you suddenly mention this?" Li Cheng looked at his old buddy in astonishment, smiled bitterly, and his memory traveled through fifty years in an instant to return to that high-spirited era, "It can be the choice of pioneers, but it is difficult to be the talent of generals, this sentence can be remembered clearly." ”
The crutches in Old Man Song's hand tapped lightly, and he sighed: "Isn't this comment actually talking about me and Lao Zheng?" Being a pioneer but not a general is actually saying that our horizon is narrow, and in fact, compared with the generals who can play the entire Northern Wei Dynasty in the palm of their hands, no one is qualified to say that they have a broad horizon. But you have to admit that there are some things that we really can't see through, or find out too late. ”
Although Li Cheng didn't know why Old Man Song suddenly moved Chen Qingzhi out, he also knew that his old man had always acted for a reason, and after pondering for a while, he suddenly vaguely understood something, and looked around at the faint green mountains around him, and couldn't help but gasp: "The surrounding mountains are victorious, if you march in the mountains with an army, it will be difficult to be noticed······
"The main thing is to keep going east······" Old Man Song said with a worried look, "You can go all the way to the downstream of Luliangshui." ”
In an instant, Li Cheng felt irrepressible chills all over his body, and the chill spread like vines from his ankles all the way up to his entire back.
Although Li Cheng had been in the mountains for a long time, after all, every inch of land on this Huai had left their figure of following Chen Qingzhi to move forward bravely, so he knew very well what it would mean once the downstream of Luliangshui fell into the hands of the Northern Zhou army.
If the Northern Zhou army cut off the lower reaches of the Luliang River, the Southern Chen army that went out would be cut off from the back road, and then Wu Mingche and Xiao Maha would not need to face the threat of the grain route, but the problem of becoming a lone army. No matter who of the two of them is, they can't allow themselves to leave Nan Chen's main army here, so when the time comes, Nan Chen will inevitably be a breakthrough battle, or even a fiasco.
"I thought we would be able to hide far away, but I didn't expect to be involved in this chaotic battle early." Li Cheng couldn't help but show a bitter smile.
Fifty years of hard work, fifty years of hiding and hiding, in the end it is useless work.
Old Man Song turned around slowly on crutches and didn't say anything.
And Li Cheng looked at the vast mountains in the distance silently.
What Old Man Song wanted to say, he had actually figured it out, or he himself knew it very well.
After all, there is no way to solve the problem, and the only best way to solve the problem of troubled times is to dominate the world.
But neither the current Li Cheng nor the old man Song have this ability, and even they and Chen Qingzhi fifty years ago do not have this ability. So they could only run away, and they escaped for fifty years.
However, after 50 years of evasion, there is still no escape.
As the old man Song said, if the Northern Zhou really wanted to go here and go straight to the lower reaches of the Luliang River and outflank the back road of the Nanchen army, even if there was a small "military division" in their hands, it would be useless, and all the people who knew about it along the way had only one word "death".
As a long-established general in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and shouldering the pressure of only winning and not losing in this battle, Wang Liang will not care about the life and death of one of his subordinates.
Footsteps hurriedly sounded, and a young man who was standing guard at the bottom of the mountain ran over breathlessly: "Oh no, big thing is bad!" ”
Li Cheng and Old Man Song both turned their heads. And Zheng Qing hurriedly stepped forward with two people: "What happened, why are you so panicked?!" ”
"Soldiers, a lot of soldiers!" The young man spoke incoherently, stretched out his hand and gestured at the bottom of the mountain, his face full of panic.
"It's really coming." Li Cheng gasped.
And Old Man Song grabbed his sleeve: "It's too late to say anything else now, hurry up and go, go to the back mountain to hide first." These northern barbarians will never let us go. ”
"Let's go, let's go!" Li Cheng nodded, and immediately yelled at Zheng Qing, "Send someone to the back mountain as soon as possible, so that everyone can hide!" ”
Zheng Qing also came back to his senses at this time and nodded hurriedly.
And right down the hill, the bamboo forest shook violently, and the black-pressed soldiers and horses passed through the road below the mountain like a wave, and a thousand soldiers formed a queue and rushed up the hillside to the village, no one knew where these sudden troops came from, but it was certain that they did not intend to leave alive on both sides.
All those who saw this had only a dead end.
And just as Old Man Song had speculated before, the killing of those bandits was not just to disturb Nanchen's rear and spy on the grain route, but to empty the wings for the army's sneak attack.
It's just a pity······ It's a pity that Li Cheng and the others understood too late.
In fact, even if they knew it earlier, what was the use, in front of the Northern Zhou army that came under black pressure, their one hundred and ten people were just ants, and they could be trampled to death with one foot.
"That's right, Aqing!" Li Cheng shook off his steps and walked out of the village, and shouted to Zheng Qing, "Send another clever person to find him along the road down the mountain from Xinchen, tell him about the situation here, and tell him ······ else."
Zheng Qing and Old Man Song both looked at Li Cheng in surprise.
The wind blew Li Cheng's sleeves, and the old man's beard stretched out: "Let him not come back, just remember to take revenge, don't come back!" ”
Old Man Song bit and didn't speak.
Zheng Qing nodded solemnly.