Of the seventeen people under his hands, only eight remained, three of whom were seriously injured, and the remaining five were each injured to varying degrees.

This Cui Hongxue is poisonous enough, except for the horses he took away, the remaining dozen or so horses in the canyon were all cut by him, and he couldn't go far at all.

The wounded were placed on horseback, they were wearing clothes found from other people's rooms, and they were wrapped like zongzi, Cai Cong was also wounded, and there was a big hole in the stone on his back, and now they couldn't find a single intact person in their group.

They had to walk for a full day, and for a while the horses could not walk, and then the people fell into the deep pit covered with snow, and all kinds of hardships made them physically and mentally exhausted, and by the time they came out of the canyon, it was already evening.

Cai Cong looked at the white land in front of him, he really didn't know where to go, there was no reference at all, the carriage they left outside the valley was gone, and he didn't know if it was sent by the old man to get rid of it, or if he broke free from the reins and ran away.

"Boil some snow water to drink, everyone eat something, and then go over there!" Cai Cong pointed in the direction according to the way he remembered, and the others nodded and picked up some dry branches to make a fire according to Cai Cong's instructions, they were exhausted, and a seriously injured person had fallen into a coma due to his injuries, and the situation was not optimistic at all.

It is extremely difficult to boil the water in the alpine area, the burning snow melts, and it is warm, Cai Cong first feeds a few wounded people to drink water, and then feeds them the soaked dry food paste to eat, no matter what, the injury will definitely worsen if you don't eat.

When everyone had finished eating, it was completely dark, the wind was strong, and the road was out of sight, so they could not go on the road at all.

A few bonfires were lit, Cai Cong and a group of people slept together, he and a few lightly injured people took turns to keep vigil, and there were wild beasts howling from time to time at night in the prairie, but fortunately, the bonfire did not attract the beasts, but attracted Cai Cong's red horse.

The red horse is more than two years old, and the divine horse is running like a red cloud, only to see it running towards Cai Cong with a sigh, listening to the voice probably asking Cai Cong where he has run for so long.

Cai Cong happily hugged the horse's head and patted it, but in his heart he sighed that these hundred and ten people were useless, and they were not as useful as a horse.

But before he finished complaining, he heard a sound of horses' hooves and saw the light of fire, no need for Cai Cong to call the others to wake up, standing beside Cai Cong and looking into the distance vigilantly.

"Hou Ye, it's Hou Ye, hurry, hurry, it's Hou Ye."

There was a voice in the distance, Fang Yuan heard this voice, and his whole person relaxed, sitting on the ground and looking at his palms and Xu Jie who was wrapped in the quilt, he muttered, "My good brother!" Why don't you wait for the Lantern Festival to come later? ”

"Fang Niu visited Master Hou, it is really a capital crime to save the driver late."

A person knelt on the ground and kowtowed on the horse's back, looking at his face was somewhat similar to Fang Yuan, his face was full of beard at the moment, his body was full of sourness, and his eyes were bloodshot, he probably hadn't had a good rest for a long time.

"Get up! Don't tell Ben Hou about the capital crime, because you are late, your brother broke his finger, Xu Jie and several of them are dying, and nine brothers died tragically, you go and say sorry to them. ”

Cai Cong said calmly, since the rescue team is handed over to you, then you must be worthy of everyone's trust, and if you can't arrive on time now, you are derelict in your duty, no matter what the reason, you are derelict in your duty.

Fang Niu was shocked and saw that there were only eight people left, his brother had strips of cloth wrapped around him, and the others were injured, his tears fell all at once, and he knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing.

Fang Yuan stood up and kicked him in: "Cry, cry, cry, you were fighting to be responsible for the rescue, but now you almost killed Master Hou, what crime do you think you should be guilty of?" Somebody will bring me a knife. ”

Fang Yuan said angrily, since the rescue had arrived, he was not the weak Fang Yuan, but the personal guard of the Marquis of Chang'an, in charge of more than three hundred people.

Immediately, someone handed the knife to Fang Yuan, whether he couldn't bear to see Fang Yuan kill his brother or not, the order could not be disobeyed. Fang Yuan took the knife and put it on his younger brother's neck, and asked with tears in his eyes: "Because you can't delay the time, the tired Hou Ye is in danger, nine brothers are tired to death, and the other people who are tired are seriously injured, I will kill you today, do you have any complaints?" ”

"There is no redemption for death, and there is no complaint." Fang Yuan cried and closed his eyes, his heart was full of remorse, why did he want to snatch the rescue mission recklessly? If my brother came to do it, it might be possible to rescue him in time.

"Since you have no complaints, don't blame my brother, I will take good care of my father and mother, you can go with peace of mind!" Fang Yuan closed his eyes as he spoke, and swung his knife fiercely.

"Phew!"

A sound of iron intersecting sounded, the two brothers of the Fang family opened their eyes in unison, an iron bow blocked the knife, Fang Yuan looked up, which white-haired marksman it was.

"Chang'an Hou Mingjian, our group was intercepted and killed by unknown people, and when we killed that group of people, the heavy snow had already covered the marks you left, and your subordinates did not dare to close their eyes day and night, looking for the mark, even if they did, they would not die for their crimes." The marksman said lightly, but the process was by no means so simple to kill that group of people, and it was very likely to be a tragic fight.

"Death is avoidable, but living sin is inescapable. You are all fifty rods, this is the time to employ people, write it down for the time being, and then I will deal with you when I return to Chang'an. Now go back immediately. Where is this place? ”

"Xie Hou Ye's grace not to kill, this is the Iron Mountain, has gone deep into the Turks, we must leave as soon as possible, go to Baidao, on the way to catch a few Turkic soldiers, they said Baidao, Dingxiang City has been captured by our army, we can go to the nearest Baidao, otherwise the consequences of encountering the Turkic army are unimaginable."

"In that case, set off immediately and head to the White Road." Cai Cong immediately ordered, this Iron Mountain is not a good place, if Li Jing attacks Iron Mountain, there will be rogue soldiers everywhere around here, they are only more than a hundred people, in case they encounter a large group of rogue soldiers, then they will be miserable.

The group hurried onto the road, slowly moving through the snow. When he walked out for more than ten miles, a large group of Turkic soldiers appeared in front of him, and Cai Cong looked at at least seven or eight hundred people, he was really afraid of something. The distance between the two sides was not more than 200 meters, and they met at a corner, and the two sides could not avoid it.

"Master Hou, what should we do?" Fang Yuan's subordinates were all sweating, this was not a romance, a hundred people against seven or eight hundred, it would be good to be able to escape, it was almost impossible to win against them.

"Mother's avoidance is unavoidable, then let it go, give me a fight with them." Cai Cong gritted his teeth and puffed out his cheeks and said, damn, this way is enough to be aggrieved, at this time you can't be so aggrieved anymore, let him put down his injured subordinates and lead people to escape by himself, he can't do it, he just dies in a crazy battle.

(End of chapter)