Chapter 109: Returning to the City [Part II]
"Bastard!"
Zhao Zheng's eyes were about to crack, because of extreme anger, his teeth were bitten and "creaked". Sun Sheng was attracted by Zhao Zheng's gnashing of teeth, and then leaned in and asked in a low voice, "Master, what's wrong?" ”
Zhao Zheng didn't seem to hear Sun Sheng's question, just blindly gritted his teeth and stared at Zhuang's mouth, Sun Sheng was confused by Zhao Zheng's strange behavior. Following Zhao Zheng's gaze, he leaned forward, but he didn't even breathe, and Sun Sheng's originally puzzled face was instantly full of surprise.
"Tsk...... Master...... The senior brother must not be able to stand the torture of the 'underworld' people, and wants to kill himself by cutting off his tongue! Sun Sheng said in admiration.
Sun Sheng did not feel the slightest fear because he saw Zhuang having his tongue broken, but became extremely excited, he didn't expect that a cowardly and incompetent little Qin slave with a low status would have such courage, and he couldn't help but admire Zhuang a little more in his heart.
"Huh?"
Zhao Zheng originally thought that Zhuang's broken tongue was done by a "ghost" person, but when he heard Sun Sheng say this, he immediately stabilized his mind and looked into Zhuang's mouth, and when he saw the uneven wound on Zhuang's broken tongue, his eyes suddenly became extremely flushed.
"Sheng'er, you won't go back to the city tonight." Zhao Zheng said with red eyes.
"Why?" Sun Sheng asked.
Zhao Zheng looked up at the vast night sky, and then stroked Zhuang's scarred body and replied: "At this time, when it is ugly, Zhao Ji will go home after dawn, so that the teacher must rush home before dawn so as not to leak the secret of heaven." Your senior brother has been injured a lot this time, we have to settle your senior brother as soon as possible, you will stay outside the city tonight to take care of you, and when everything is taken care of at dawn, the division will go out of the city to find you. ”
"But Master, where are we going to place Senior Brother?" Sun Sheng asked.
Zhao Zheng pondered for a moment and replied: "Time is pressing, we can't go to find a hiding place anymore, go straight to Hanshan, your senior brother's residence is in a hidden hole in the mountain." ”
Sun Sheng was puzzled and said: "But Master, Handan Mountain is just outside Handan City, I'm afraid it will be ...... so close."
Zhao Zheng waved his hand when he heard this, and interrupted: "Do you know that 'it is dark under the light'?" ”
Where did Sun Sheng know what "dark under the lamp" meant, so he had to shake his head slightly to indicate that he didn't know. Seeing this, Zhao Zheng grinned meaningfully and said, "You'll know soon!" After speaking, Zhao Zheng got up and wanted to carry Zhuang again.
Although Zhao Zheng fully accepted the consciousness, knowledge and physical fitness of his previous life, due to his height limitations, it was still a little inconvenient to use the body of a six-year-old child to carry the body of a teenage child. Seeing this, Sun Sheng hurriedly took the first step to stop and said, "Master, let's let the apprentice come!" As he spoke, Zhuang was already on Sun Sheng's shoulders.
"It's good ......"
Zhuang was carried by Sun Sheng on his shoulders and looked much more coordinated than he carried, Zhao Zheng smiled helplessly, then got up and waved his hand at Sun Sheng, and then ran south without looking back, Sun Sheng followed like a shadow when he saw this.
The three of them were still nearly twenty kilometers away from the north of Handan City at this time, and it seemed to be a little difficult for Zhao Zheng to rush home within an hour on the muddy night road, but Zhao Zheng couldn't care so much at this time, just ran forward. At the same time, Zhang Mancang was also in a hurry to the south, because the night was dark and slippery, the war horse was not fast enough to run one foot deep and one foot shallow, so anxious that Zhang Mancang couldn't stop throwing the whip on the horse, so that the horse's very resentful neighing sound continued in the wilderness, echoing with the wind.
"Fuck! How could the methods used by those two disciples to be killed be the same as those corpses of 'Qin Xuan' in Xiali Village? Hiss...... It's hard to ......"
Zhang Mancang's thoughts flew, the whip in his hand became more and more rapid, and the war horse couldn't stand the pain, so he galloped forward with an extremely strange attitude. The crisp sound of horse whips, messy horses' hooves, and rapid wheezing, outside Handan City, an old man and three young people rushed in the same direction to grab time. Just when Zhao Zheng and the three of them were still more than ten kilometers away from Handan City, Zhang Mancang had already ridden a muddy war horse with legs and rushed to the foot of the northern city of Handan City.
"Hey, the one above, open the city gate with this general!" Zhang Mancang raised his hand and pointed at the city gate with a horsewhip and shouted.
Zhang Mancang's voice echoed leisurely on the city wall, and I don't know if Zhang Mancang's call for the door was not loud enough, or the officers and soldiers on duty did not want to pay attention to him, and there was no response from the city gate tower. Seeing this, Zhang Mancang shouted a few more times, but the sound was like a mud cow entering the sea without any reaction. Zhang Mancang was already anxious, and when he saw that there was still no movement on the city gate, he couldn't help but be angry, and scolded at the city gate: "You blind crumbs! Lao Tzu is full of warehouses, quickly open the city gate for Lao Tzu! ”
Zhang Mancang yelled and scolded so loudly that the dogs on the city wall kept barking. After a few breaths, on the city wall, several heads poked out of the city through the battlements.
"Who is the one who spends the night? Dare to speak foul language and make nonsense outside the city gate, pretending to be my general! At the entrance of the city wall, a guard of the two horses scolded Zhang Mancang.
The words of the two Sima made Zhang Mancang tremble violently with anger, causing the already embarrassed horse to involuntarily stumble back and forth. Zhang Mancang was furious, and whipped the horse's ass fiercely, causing the horse to move a few steps forward, and then scolded again: "It's really blind to your dog's eyes!" If you don't open the door again, be careful Lao Tzu will kill your dog! ”
Because it was late at night, and there was a moat between the two, although Zhang Mancang came together towards the city gate, the officers and soldiers on duty in the city could still only faintly see Zhang Mancang's figure against the starlight.
"Lord Sima, how is this good? If the old man in the city is really General Zhang, then we will be in trouble! Beside the two Simas, a Wu Commander who followed left and right whispered.
Hearing this, the two Sima frowned slightly, and couldn't help but feel worried. Zhang Mancang, as the general of the first army in charge of the defense of the capital, although he often visited the city to inspect the city defense, as a grassroots officer, the two horses did not have many opportunities to see Zhang Mancang, and it was even more rare to hear the general's admonition with his own ears. Now with only a vague figure, the two horses did not dare to act rashly to open the city gate for Zhang Mancang no matter what.
"If this person is General Zhang, I won't open the door tonight, and I will be hit by a few military sticks at most tomorrow! However, if this person is not General Zhang, but a thief pretending to be a general to coax us to open the city, then wouldn't my king and even the people in the city be wiped out? The two Sima squinted their eyes and said coldly while staring at Zhang Mancang.
The captain on the side didn't think that there would be an ambush by the Qin army around the city, but after all, he was careful to make the Wannian ship, although he had different ideas, but he also agreed with what the two horses said.
"So what are we going to do now?" Wu Chang asked.
The two Sima snorted coldly, "Let him go......" and turned to leave. However, as soon as he took two steps, he suddenly stopped and said to Wu Chang: "Oh, that's right! Send men on horseback to the other gates, and inform them of the situation here, so that they may be on guard tonight, lest any trouble happen!" ”
"Hey!"
Hearing this, the chief hurriedly received the order, and then disappeared into the darkness of the night, and it was not long before four or five horses scattered in other directions with neighing. On the city wall, the original calm was restored again, and only the huge flag "Hulala" fluttering in the wind at the battlement. Zhang Mancang saw that a few people at the battlement suddenly turned to leave, and couldn't help but cry out in his heart: "Damn, how is this good...... How is it a good ......"
Zhang Mancang originally wanted to go into the city to ask Xia Wuqi about the situation at the house of Old Doctor Liu, but now he was blocked outside the city by his own soldiers, although he was very angry in his heart, but he was actually very relieved in his heart, "Alas...... The other city gates may not be long before they know about this, and they will definitely run into a wall if they look elsewhere......" Thinking of this, Zhang Mancang did not continue to shout towards the city, but turned his horse and continued to walk south. Just when Zhang Mancang whipped the horse and was about to arrive at the camp, the ruined city wall of Handan finally came into the eyes of Zhao Zheng and the others.
Zhao Zheng asked as he ran, "It's almost there, how is it?" Do you need to take a break? ”
Sun Sheng didn't reply, just silently followed behind Zhao Zheng. Zhao Zheng saw that Sun Sheng didn't squeak, so he turned his head to look at Sun Sheng, only to see that Sun Sheng's slightly immature face was resolute and abnormal, and the sweat on his forehead kept "trickling" down.
"I'll go, Lao Tzu really picked up a big baby!" Zhao Zheng said ecstatically in his heart.
In Zhao Zheng's view, although the 12-year-old Zhuang is skinny, he still weighs more than 30 kilograms after all. Being able to carry a heavy load of more than 30 kilograms and continue to run for nearly 20 kilometers, Zhao Zheng asked himself that it was impossible for him, and it was impossible for his comrades-in-arms in his previous life to do it.
"Weight-bearing marathon? I'll go! If this guy lived in Lao Tzu's time, he would not have been recorded in the history of the world, and he would not have won a world-class trophy or a soft hand? Zhao Zheng smacked his tongue in his heart.
Not to mention that Zhao Zheng and the three of them ran all the way to Zhuang's hideout at the southern foot of Hanshan, just to say that after placing Zhuang properly, Zhao Zheng walked alone towards the place where he had sneaked out of the city before. At this time, it was dawn, the sky became unusually dark, and the air seemed to be much colder than before, and a great sleepiness suddenly welled up in my heart.
"I have to go back quickly......" Zhao Zheng muttered in his heart as he ran towards the southeast corner of the city wall.
Everything seemed to be going very smoothly, but just as Zhao Zheng was climbing down, perhaps because of physical exhaustion, Zhao Zheng suddenly weakened his hands and feet when he was halfway down, and he accidentally slipped through the cracks in the city wall. Fortunately, the soil was soft after the rain, and the hands and feet were able to exert their strength on the wall, and although they fell, they did not cause any damage.
"Huhuhu...... Damn, Lao Tzu's hands will have to be scrapped if I grind for a while......" Shaking his hands that were grinding a little painfully, Zhao Zheng grinned and scolded.
Just as Zhao Zheng was scolding his mother, someone on the city wall suddenly shouted, and then, a burning torch rained down on Zhao Zheng's surroundings......