Chapter 50: Distress on the Road
This Taihang Mountain traverses the north and south, is the Central Plains must fight for the dangerous place, Cheng Zhou Luoyang once used this as the northern barrier, the Jin State used this as the eastern city wall, and now, but let the strong Wei State include more than half of this natural dangerous land in their own borders, Taihang Mountain is therefore less than a lot of passes. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
However, there are many more east-west roads, after all, the current land of Wei is a big "several" character, half of which is in the land of Hedong and Hexi west of Taihang, and half of it is in the land of Hebei and Daliang east of Taihang. And it just so happens that there are many horizontal valleys in the east and west of Taihang Mountain, which is the main road of merchants since ancient times, and the famous Taihang Bacheng in later generations said that these horizontal valleys.
And it just so happened that this time Wei Hou was in a hurry to return to China, so he decided to cross the territory of South Korea in a hurry, and directly inserted it from the lower edge of the right side of the word to the left side, so it was inevitable to cross the Taihang Mountains, so the Wei army's marching route was chosen at Yiguan.
Yiguan is in the south vein of Taihang Mountain, Yiguan is the axle, Yiguan is named here because the narrowest part of this road can only be used for a carriage to pass, since ancient times it is a traffic artery, a strategic place. The Wei army chose to pass through here firstly because this road was the closest to Anyi, and secondly because this road was developed very early, although some sections were narrow, but the road was relatively flat, which was conducive to the walking of large armies.
In fact, whether it was the Jin Kingdom in the past to fight for hegemony in the south, or the Qin army's eastward expedition to the countries in the future, it was from here that they all embarked on their journey.
Both sides of the Yiguan are now in the hands of the Wei State, and the westernmost side of the Yiguan Pass is the Yiguan, or the Yicheng, which is the West Gate Fortress in the east of the Wei State's territory, and the defense is naturally Korea in the west.
Wei Hou walked from here, of course, to take a shortcut, but it was a hardship for the royal family, before passing through the Yiguan Pass, it was only two or three hundred miles away from the river, but he was desperate for home and could not return, but halfway Zhou Bian still sent a few capable pawns, with his own letters to Luoyang and returned.
After sending off the messenger, the Wei army's troops moved sharply northward, and soon the terrain became steeper, the mountains on both sides became steeper and steeper, and a small road was twisted and sandwiched between the mountains. Not far from entering the road, I passed by a small abandoned earthen city, just fell on the high platform on the side, overlooking the main road of Yiguan, if a thousand people have to defend this city, I am afraid that there are tens of thousands of people under the city, and it is difficult to pass.
After asking many people, I learned from an old Wei general that this city was rumored to have been built by the Shang Dynasty and has been abandoned since the Zhou Dynasty. Hearing this, I can't help but sigh.
Go further, the terrain is more and more precipitous, the mountains on both sides are like high platforms, the top of the mountain is almost flat, stretching continuously, the mountain wall is almost vertical, all kinds of faults are clearly visible, as if they were chiseled, if you don't see it yourself, how do you know that nature has such a ghostly workmanship?
Although this is still Wei soil, the Wei army still slowed down the pace obviously, the first is that the mountain road is more difficult to walk on the ice, and the second is for safety reasons, the Wei army sends scouts to explore the road to the front and the cliffs on both sides every day, in case someone sneaks up, after all, Wei Hou attaches great importance to his own life, so there are dozens of unjust souls along the way.
In these dozens of miles of road, the Wei army walked for two whole days, until the evening of the second day of entering the road, before dark, the army walked out of the road, the terrain on both sides began to flatten, and not far in front of the pass.
It was when the sky was about to get dark, the cold air came up, and the people who had just walked out of the dangerous road looked at the Yiguan City in the distance, which had already ignited the guiding fire, and everyone's mood relaxed.
However, no one expected that at this time, the Wei army was suddenly attacked.
Indeed, no one thought that when there were high mountains and cliffs on both sides, they were not attacked, but when there were mountains and forests on both sides and their own city passes in front, the Wei army was attacked.
The first thing to sound was the sound of breaking strings, and the sound of swishing suddenly sounded, which made the well-trained Wei soldiers immediately nervous, the soldiers on the periphery raised the shields in their hands, and the Wei soldiers on the inside were tightly attached to the frame of Wei Hou, and quickly surrounded several layers, but until the sound of swishing ended, the Wei soldiers were surprised to find that the arrows were not shot at Wei Hou's side.
At this moment, they suddenly heard a woman's scream, and the Wei soldiers turned their heads to look in the direction where the scream came from, but saw that the place where the sound came from was actually the car of the Son of Heaven with the flag of King Zhou.
The target turned out to be Zhou Tianzi, and the Wei generals who reacted shouted one after another, but none of the Wei soldiers surrounding Wei Hou did not move, and it was hundreds of General Baning's subordinates who moved, and quickly wrapped a cadre of the royal family in the middle.
In fact, at the moment when the bowstring sounded, the hundred guards of the royal family also moved, wanting to form a human wall to protect their king in the middle, but the speed of people jumping into the carriage was as fast as the speed of arrows, and when the guards did not have time to protect the frame, they could already hear the sound of arrows breaking through the car board.
When Fan Yu and Su Rui rushed over, there were already more than a dozen arrows swaying on the Son of Heaven's car, and the shafts of the arrows were still shaking outside, and the buzzing sound had not stopped, as if they were showing their strength to the soldiers who were rushing over.
It was so bluffing that Fan Yu's eyes were about to crack, and the tiger's eyes were full of tears, and a "king" immediately roared out.
The roar shook the sky, startling everyone around them.
With a roar, Wei Hou lifted the curtain of the frame and looked over.
With a roar, King Wei Sima jumped out of the chariot and ran over.
With a roar, Banin's subordinates pointed their spears at the mountains and forests where the arrows flew.
In the roar, there was a sudden outburst of shouts and killings from an unknown number of people in the mountains and forests.
However, all this failed to cover the roar, this roar was heartbreaking, and this roar was sad.
After the roar sounded, he didn't expect that the owner of the roar didn't have time to jump on the frame of the Son of Heaven to check it clearly, and there were several swishing sounds, Fan Yu turned his head to look, but saw more than a dozen short spears rushing into the sky, and they rushed towards the frame of the Son of Heaven.
This is a hand-thrown spear, although the speed is not as fast as the arrow, but the strength is far ahead, the enemy has not given up, Fan Yu was suddenly angry in his heart, rushed forward two steps, jumped into the carriage, kicked on the frame of the carriage with his left and right feet, turned around and leaped up, pulled out the sword at his waist in mid-air, and slashed towards the short spear that swooped down.
After a few bells, the first few short spears were cut away by Fan Yu, the weight of the short spear itself and the huge impact force made Fan Yu's iron sword and the short spear smash a lot of sparks, and the short spear that flew flew didn't know where it flew again, but Fan Yu couldn't control it, because Fan Yu took advantage of the momentum to fly into the sky to intercept the short spear, Fan Yu had already fallen, but there were still a few short spears in the air like huge birds, flying above Fan Yu's head and rushing towards the Son of Heaven's car.
Looking at the short spear flying overhead, Fan Yu's eyes widened, his mouth opened wide, and he wanted to jump again, but how fast could the manpower pass the flying spear in the air? Fan Yu could only watch the short spear fly towards the carriage.
But fortunately, at this time, Su Rui had also jumped into the carriage, stepped on the body of the carriage with one foot, hooked the wheel, leaned forward, brandished a spear that he didn't know where he snatched it from, and smashed all the remaining short spears fiercely.
Fortunately, this second batch is a hand-throwing spear, although it is for the situation with armor, it is full of strength, but the speed is limited, and the two people are blocked by force, and there is no short spear next to the Son of Heaven's car.
Looking at it again, there were no arrows or short spears flying again, and the rest of the royal guards also set up a formation, forming a human wall to surround the frame of the Son of Heaven, Fan Yu and Su Rui only then approached the carriage, and at this time, the outermost shouts of killing had already sounded, and the rushing assassins had already stood next to Baning's Wei soldiers.
Pushing away the coachman who was desperate to hold the frightened war horse, Fan Yu rushed to the front frame of the carriage, violently lifted the thick curtain on the door, and stretched out his head to look into the car, but before he could see it clearly, his head collided with a hard thing, and Fan Yu's eyes were golden.
Under the collision, Fan Yu didn't retract his head, turned his head to look, but saw that Su Rui on the other side was also covering his head, it turned out that in a hurry, the two generals actually collided together.
After glaring at Su Rui viciously, Fan Yu stretched out his head to look into the car again, this time Fan Yu's strength was a little smaller, but he just saw that there were blood stains in the car, but he was torn off, Fan Yu turned his head and looked, he was about to get angry, but when he saw that it was Dr. Wang Sunman who climbed into the car hard, he didn't hold it, but pulled himself.
Fan Yu had to stop his anger and leaned into the car again, but this time he was simply pushed away.
"Get out of the way!" After a roar, a doctor pushed away several people huddled in front of the frame, and his whole body got inside.
It turned out to be Dr. Ning Yue, but now Fan Yu lost his temper even more, so he had to squeeze his head into Ning Yue's side and look into the car.
At this look, Fan Yu's heart that had been hanging for a long time finally let go, it turned out that although the sky was dark, he could still clearly see that although there were several arrows in the carriage that broke through the car wall, revealing arrows, only one arrow saw blood, but it was inserted in the left arm of the little maid Qiaonu. At this time, the young man was holding the trembling Qiaonu in his arms, and he was in a hurry to stop the bleeding and pull out the arrow, as if he was comforting Qiaonu.
On the other side, the little maid Tian Qian covered her mouth with her hands, shaking all over her body. It turned out that the three of them were half lying in the carriage, but because the young man was cold and hugged the gentle township, if it wasn't for the arrow bloodstains, what kind of ** full car it was.
Well, Fan Yu looked carefully a few times and made sure that the king was not injured at all, so he sighed, retracted his head slightly and looked to the side, but found that Ning Yue's other side also squeezed in a head, it was Su Rui, and there was a head on Su Rui's head that stretched out, it was Wang Sunman, suddenly, Fan Yu suddenly found that there was heavy breathing and heat coming from his head, Fan Yu looked up, but due to the angle, Fan Yu recognized it several times, it turned out to be the Wei army Sima Wang Wrong.
"Is the king okay?"
"The king is frightened!"
Several cries rang out at the same time, pulling back Zhou Bian, who was still a little unfully awake from the fright.
After Zhou Bian was helped out of the carriage and got off the carriage, the battle outside was over, obviously in front of the strong Wei Wushu, dozens of assassins were not enough to see at all, they couldn't even break through the outer Wei soldiers' defensive circle, and none of the royal guards on the inside did not move.
By this time it was already dark, and torches had been lit in all directions. As soon as he got off the carriage, Zhou Bian saw a long-bearded old man with a lame right leg walking quickly with a wooden box, and then Sima Cuo came up, it turned out that this was Wei Hou's imperial doctor, specially sent to treat the king's maids, Zhou Bian nodded with satisfaction, no matter what, Wei Hou's attitude was put out.
But this Wei Hou is really afraid of death, he is still lame when he is old like this, and he braves the snow to rush to Wei State, and he has to take him with him, which is really hard for this doctor, but I heard Wang Cuo say that the treatment of this doctor is also very high, and there is a special carriage.
Seeing that the doctor got into his carriage, Zhou Bian nodded, and accompanied by Wang Cuo Baning, Ning Yue and others, he walked towards the battlefield just now.
The front was surrounded by a circle of torches, passing through layers of soldiers, and after approaching, Zhou Bian saw that the neatly placed on the ground was a black-clothed corpse.
"Your Majesty, these are all dead soldiers, except for a few who escaped, the rest of the thirty-eight are all here. The short crossbows they used were from Korea, the short spears and spears were unknown, and the bodies of these people were also searched, and no marks were found. ”
A Wei army general who was already here said with his hand.
"It is my fault that these thieves have disturbed the king." Baning also saluted Zhou Bian.
After waving his hand, Zhou Bian suddenly remembered the assassination next to Luoshui more than a year ago for no reason, the assassination target was Zhou Gong at that time, and the assassination tool was also Han crossbow. But if you think about it, this should be a coincidence, as the two assassinations don't seem to have any connection.
But why did this assassination choose itself as its target? You must know that there is a Zhouzi Wang flag on your frame, but in fact, it is not dark yet, so you should be able to see it clearly.
After thinking about it, Zhou Bian was about to bend down, wanting to inspect these corpses with his own hands.
I didn't want to be at this moment, but a sharp female voice suddenly screamed from the carriage behind him, which frightened Zhou Bian and immediately straightened up and looked back, but there was no sound anymore.
"King, this should be when the doctor pulled out the arrow for Qiaonu, Qiaonu couldn't help but call for a moment of pain."
"I'd better go back and have a look."
"It's okay, it's dangerous here, but my king was almost assassinated in the Wei army, and the Marquis of Wei has to give an explanation." Ning Yue's words were said by mistake to King Wei Sima.
"There should be." The king bowed his hand.
As soon as the royal family was done, they immediately turned around and walked back.
When he got into the carriage, he saw that Qiao Nu had indeed fainted, his right arm was torn, and the doctor was still treating the wound. Fortunately, the carriage was surrounded by iron plates, otherwise the arrow would have pierced the wall of the carriage, and the slave would not have been stabbed only in the right arm.
"King, this assassination should be aimed at Wei Hou, but he doesn't want Wei Hou's life, but he doesn't want Wei Hou to dominate." The group stood in front of the carriage, and in the cold night, Ning Yue spoke.
"Why?" Zhou Bian asked.
"If the king is killed in the Wei army, who will be the prince of Wei in the future? And Wei Hou lost the king under the banner of helping the royal family, and Wei Hou must not mention the matter of hegemony in the future. This is a false suspicion. Ning Yue replied.
"Reasonable." After saying that, Zhou Bian fell into deep thought, was Ning Yue's guess true, and if it was true, then who did it?
There was no solution for a while, but the movements in the carriage were quite fast, and it didn't take long for the doctor to come out, and after briefly saying that there was nothing to do, he saluted and left, Zhou Bian immediately jumped into the carriage, and then checked the lights again, and then gently put Qiao Nu in the carriage with Tian Qian.
And at this time, Wei Jun's statement also arrived, and it was King Sima who came by mistake.