Chapter 43, Ambush (2)

Luo Dai took the cavalry and had a hedge with Zhang Rujing's cavalry. There were many losses on both sides in this hedging, but in general, Zhang Rujing's losses were smaller. This is mainly because Zhang Rujing's cavalry had been slower before, and their physical strength was better regardless of men and horses. However, Zhang Rujing obviously only wanted to hold off Luo Dai, and Luo Dai had more soldiers in his hands, and he gradually repelled Zhang Rujing by relying on the advantage of numbers.

Repelled Zhang Rujing, Luo Dai continued to chase, at this time, Zhang Bingzhong's troops were obviously a little flustered, they left a lot of things, what were copper coins, what clothes, trying to use this method to slow down Luo Dai's advance. This is also the usual method used by the "rogue bandits" to deal with the officers and soldiers. It works a lot of the time, but this time, it still works. The pursuing soldiers stopped to pick up copper coins, pick up clothes, and even tear up a piece of clothing for whom. If Zhang Rujing turns around and fights back at this time, I am afraid that Luo Dai will suddenly suffer.

"Don't pick things up, don't pick things up!" Luo Dai tried hard to stop his soldiers, but no one listened to him. After all, only what you pick up at this time is your own. As for the possible chest full of gold and silver in front of him, even if he had grabbed it, he would not have fallen into his own hands. So at this time, who listens to him?

As a result, it took a lot of work for Luo Dai to reorganize the guys who were picking things up everywhere. Then when they chased after them again, Zhang Rujing once again organized the defense...... Then Luo Dai A went up, then Luo Dai broke through, and then Zhang Rujing's people dropped things again, and then Luo Dai's soldiers stopped to pick up things......

Luo Dai was so anxious that he pulled out his knife and slashed several people, so that he could be regarded as putting the team in order again, and then chased after him. At this time, the convoy escorted by Zhang Rujing had already retreated to the mountain pass.

Luo Dai led people and chased him to the mountain pass, whether he wanted to continue to chase inside, he was a little hesitant, after all, there might be an ambush in the mountain. But at that moment, a carriage on the other side jolted, and a box fell from the cart, and fell on a large stone with a thud, and then the whole thing shattered, and a large pile of white flowers and golden things rolled to the ground.

Looking at those yellow and white, Luo Dai's ears rang, his eyes were red, and he shouted: "Sons, rush up!" ”

In mid-air, the young man with a delicate face and a bear's back smiled slightly and withdrew his outstretched fingers.

At the same time, beside Zhang Bingzhong, a fat monk raised his head and seemed to look into the sky intentionally or unintentionally.

"Monk Yongxin, what are you looking at?" Zhang Bingzhong asked.

"The poor monk is looking for gas." The monk replied.

"What do you see?" Zhang Bingzhong asked again.

"The enemy's army is shrouded in black air, and its army will be destroyed." The fat monk said lightly.

This time, Luo Dai lowered his head and charged, and Zhang Rujing suddenly couldn't resist it, so he had to push the two cars down in a narrow place to block the road. After the two cars overturned, the yellow and white rolled to the ground again. Luo Dai stared at the more than ten cars in front of him with red eyes at this time, and couldn't care about these two cars at all, seeing that these two cars couldn't move away for a while, he abandoned the war horse, took the elite selection, got off the horse, and chased after the two cars.

The more than ten cars in front ran hard, and Luo Dai chased after him vigorously. If he had been a little more sober by this time, he should have noticed that the speed of the cars was abnormally fast, not at all the speed that a car full of gold and silver could run. But at this time, he was red-eyed, but he didn't think about it at all, and he only wanted to catch up and stop so many gold, silver and jewelry.

After chasing hard for a while, the convoy in front seemed to have something wrong and stopped suddenly. The thieves above also threw off their carts, cut the reins of their horses, and dragged them away. Luo Dai chased after him, and more than a dozen cars fell into his hands.

Luo Dai ran to the front, looked at the enemy troops who were running away, looked back at the cars, and shouted to his subordinates: "Quick, take the box apart and see." ”

A soldier cut the rope that bound the box with a knife, smashed the lock on the box with the back of his knife, and then couldn't wait to lift the lid of the top box......

"General, it's empty!"

"General, this one is empty too!"

Luo Dai's heart was cold, and he suddenly felt that his nose seemed to smell something, just like during the Chinese New Year......

"Spread out! There is fire. Medicine ......" Before Luo Dai's voice fell, more than a dozen cars exploded one after another.

Luo Dai was swept up by the explosion and slammed into the ground. His mind was buzzing, but his body didn't seem to be in much pain, but his whole body was limp and he couldn't move. After a while, it seemed that someone came up to him, grabbed his helmet, and pulled his face up to look at it. Luo Dai also opened his eyes and recognized that it was the thief Zhang Rujing.

"This guy's life is really big, he won't die like this!" Zhang Rujing said, "You dragged him back, and I was happy to show the handsome!" Zhang Rujing said with a smile. He then looked in the direction of the mountain pass, where there were already shouts of killing, and through the smoke that had not yet completely dissipated, he saw that the flags of the officers and soldiers there were all in disarray.

At the beginning, Luo Dai and Zuo Liangyu said that even if he was ambushed, with the strength in his hands, it was by no means something that Zhang Bingzhong could eat all at once, and as long as he could hold on for an hour or two, Zuo Liangyu's army would be able to catch up and attack the thief army with him, and he would have the opportunity to play a beautiful center flower. This is not a good idea, however, it is all based on the premise that he can still effectively command the troops, and the most elite strikers around him can still fight. But now, Zhang Bingzhong only used a few carriages filled with empty boxes and boxes full of gunpowder to kill Luo Dai and his most elite group of Xuanfeng in an instant. Now the officers and soldiers are not only leaderless, but the rest are also "scum with only five combat effectiveness" in Huang Tian's words, and in a panic, they were rushed and killed by the elite "rogues" led by Zhang Kewang, and they immediately dispersed.

When Zhang Rujing saw it, he smiled and said: "You can't let the boss, as well as the third and fourth children, take all the credit." Brothers, let's kill it too. ”

……

The night was dark, and it was already past the third watch, and Emperor Chongde came out of the study, and he had been reviewing the music for three hours in a row. At this time, the last piece of music had already been reviewed. Emperor Chongde came out of the courtyard for a walk. The eunuch Wang Chengen carried the lantern and carefully accompanied the emperor a little behind, but stretched the lantern out as far in front as possible so that the emperor could shine on it.

Looking out from the courtyard of the Qianqing Palace, you can see that there are two trees outside the courtyard wall, one is a jujube tree, and the other is also a jujube tree. Above this jujube tree is the strangely high sky. Emperor Chongde raised his head, looked up at the coldly blinking stars in the sky, identified the direction, and soon found the North Star.

The North Star, also known as the Purple Microstar, has been a symbol of emperors since ancient times. Since ancient times, it has been believed that the North Star, and the astrological changes that occur in the star fields near it, are indicative of the situation of the country and the emperor. When he first ascended the throne, Emperor Chongde didn't really believe in this set of theories, but by now, he has been able to easily find the North Star among the stars, and even understands a lot of astronomical terms.

Now, Emperor Chongde looked at the North Star, he felt that the brightness of the North Star was a little dim, and the starlight was a little flickering, quite a bit of a "Emperor Star is shaking", so he sighed, and thought that there was no such message on the Qin Tianjian side recently, maybe he really thought too much. However, I just saw the Huguang report, and Xiong Shanhuo suffered another defeat in Fang County.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to save the bear mountain fire." Emperor Chongde thought, "It's not just that you can't protect the Xiongshan fire, but even Mr. Yang, I'm afraid it's hard to protect it." I'm afraid that Mr. Yang is also drafting a self-invited replacement for Xiongshan Fire Inspector Hu Guang at this time. It's just, it's just that I can't get him here? However, if you don't need Mr. Yang to go to Huguang to supervise the teacher, who can you use? ”

Just thinking about it like this, Emperor Chongde felt a little dizzy, he held his head with one hand, and stretched out the other hand to support Wang Chengen's shoulder.

"Your Majesty...... The emperor should go in and rest. Wang Chengen said in a bit of a panic.

"Help me in." Emperor Chongde said weakly.

Wang Chengen and several other little eunuchs helped the emperor into the room and sat down on a chair.

"The slave and maid will go to the imperial doctor." Wang Chengen said.

"No, you don't." Emperor Chongde raised his head and said, "I'm just a little tired. Wang Banban, you ask someone to pass a bowl of ginseng soup. ”

Wang Chengen answered, turned around and glanced at a little eunuch, and the little eunuch withdrew.

After a while, several little eunuchs came in, and the one at the front was holding a bowl of ginseng soup. Wang Chengen took it from him, bowed his waist, handed the ginseng soup up, and said, "Your Majesty, the ginseng soup is here." ”

Emperor Chongde was pretending to sleep with his eyes half-closed at this time, and when he heard the sound, he opened his eyes, took the ginseng soup, and slowly drank a few sips. Then he raised his head and saw that Wang Chengen was bowing down and looking at himself with a worried face, and said, "I feel much better." So he took a few more sips, and then said to the little eunuch who had just brought in the ginseng soup, "Is there any ginseng soup?" If you have one, bring another bowl to the king's companion. ”

The little eunuch knelt down, kowtowed, and went out. Wang Chengen also hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "The emperor's favor to the slave and maid, the slave and maid are hard to repay. ”

Emperor Chongde sighed, and was about to say something more, but when he raised his eyes, he saw the lantern that was placed next to him when Wang Chengen helped him in just now. It was a very special lantern, not made of papier-mΓ’chΓ© or tiles, but made of transparent glass, and some pictures were carefully drawn on the glass, which looked very delicate.

Emperor Chongde frowned and said, "I'm afraid this thing is worth a lot of money, right?" Now that the imperial court is short of money, how can it still use such a thing? ”

Wang Chengen knelt down and said, "Long live, this is not bought with money, but it was entered by the Taixi man who had just become a painting official." ”

"Oh, Tessie." Emperor Chongde nodded, and suddenly remembered the Mass prayer of the Taixi Cross Sect, and said: "Wang Companion, I heard that the Taixi Cross Sect also has a way to pray for the blessing of God......