Chapter 14: The Princess Attacks
After leaving Hedong County, the group stepped on the official road, and the speed was a little faster. The official road is not smooth, and if the speed is fast, it will inevitably be bumpy.
Li Xuanba woke up, glanced at the lowering city wall behind him, sighed, and lay back in the carriage.
Since Li Xuanba regained consciousness, he has not yet left the city, but he did not expect that the first time he went out of the city, he would go to Luoyang, and the person he was about to face was the notorious Emperor Yang of Sui in history, Li Xuanba's heart was almost broken. Of course, Yang Guang, who was frowning in the palace at this time, was still called Emperor Ming.
The so-called official road is not only for the people of the imperial court to walk, but also a road that can accommodate two carriages driving side by side.
Li Xuanba was lying in the carriage, but he couldn't sleep anymore, so he opened the curtain on the right side and looked at the scenery outside the window. In addition to the scenery, Li Xuanba also saw all kinds of people, most of whom were refugees who had fled from other places, and most of them were old, weak, women and children.
Since the second expedition of Emperor Ming of Sui to Goguryeo in the ninth year of the Great Cause, anti-thieves have sprung up like mushrooms in various places, and so far, these anti-thieves have not hurt the foundation of the Great Sui court, but have displaced millions of people.
Living in the war years, it is the sorrow of these people, Li Xuanba looked at it for a while, couldn't bear it, put down the curtain, and pulled out the book casually and flipped it.
When they arrived at the post station, Qiushuang brought the food prepared by the post station to the carriage, and Li Gou also served Li Xuanba to eat in the carriage.
The general and a few people sat down on a stool outside the post station, chatting while eating, while the other soldiers could only sit on the ground, but fortunately, the food at the post station was enough, and they were not worried about not having enough to eat.
After eating, the group continued on their way. In just two days, they were almost at the junction of Hedong County and Henan County.
Both sides of the official road are covered with dense forests, and in order to ensure the safety of the princess, the general sent two teams of spies to walk through the dense forests to prevent ambushes in the forest. There have not been a large number of thieves in Hedong County and Henan County so far, and the arrangement of the partial general is more like a routine matter, so when the two teams of spies did not report the situation in time, the partial general did not realize that there might be danger.
The sound of sharp arrows breaking through the air sounded, and everyone didn't have time to react, so several people died under the arrows, and when the soldiers reacted, the second round of arrows had arrived in front of them, and several people's lives were taken.
The general rode his horse to the forefront, and in the first round of arrows, he was already seriously wounded, fell from his horse, and fainted, and the rest of the soldiers did not command, and suddenly they were in disarray. Fortunately, Li Zhu shouted "protect the princess", and more than 30 soldiers remembered and surrounded Li Xuanba's carriage.
The coachman who drove the princess's carriage reacted swiftly and blocked several arrows from the princess's carriage with his whip. But those arrows came from all directions, and Rao was very skilled, and there were still a few arrows on horseback, on the carriage. However, the material of the carriage is a little special, those arrows did not penetrate in, and Yang Ling and Qiushuang were not affected.
But the two horses pulling the carriage were stimulated, neighed, and ran desperately, the coachman tried it, and found that the two horses were out of control, so he immediately entered the carriage, picked up Yang Ling and Frost, and jumped out of the carriage. Then, at a very fast speed, the two of them were put into Li Xuanba's carriage.
All this was done in the light of light, and after the coachman had done this, the second round of arrows fell, and by this time, there was only one carriage left on the official road.
The coachman who was driving for Li Xuanba was given a cold look by the princess's coachman, so he jumped out of the carriage, picked up a dead soldier's weapon from the ground, and stood on the side of the carriage.
It is also strange to say that after the princess's carriage was destroyed, the arrows shot from the dense forest became disorderly, or rather, the archers were afraid and did not dare to shoot arrows at Li Xuanba's carriage, and they shot two more symbolically, and then quieted down.
Seeing that the rain of arrows had stopped, the princess's coachman immediately made a decision and said goodbye, and several soldiers dispersed and helped the wounded to their horses, while the rest of the soldiers still surrounded the carriage and walked towards Henan County.
This incident was so strange that even Li Gou realized the seriousness of the situation, and he followed behind the carriage on foot without saying a word. As for his horse, it had been given to the unconscious general.
"What's going on out there?" Before Li Xuanba could react, the princess and Qiushuang appeared in the carriage, and he couldn't help asking.
"There are traitors attacking the princess." Qiushuang glanced at Li Xuanba thoughtfully and replied.
At this time, Yang Ling was only wearing normal clothes and did not make any disguises, Li Xuanba didn't have time to care about the princess's fat and thin, turned his head and asked, "Are you all right?" ”
"The villain is fine." Li Gou and Li Zhu replied at the same time.
"The princess was attacked, you don't care about the princess, you only care about the people in your house." Qiu Shuang said angrily: "Do you know, the princess almost died just now"
"Autumn frost, don't say it." Yang Ling faded his disguise, looked a little unconfident, and lowered his head to stop him.
"Please forgive me, princess, you have entered the carriage, I have observed it, and the two of you are not injured." Li Xuanba saluted and continued: "But I don't know about those people outside, so I care more." He turned his gaze to Qiushuang and said, "And in my heart, they are not inferior. ”
There was silence in the carriage.
When I arrived in Henan County, the carriage stopped in front of a county yamen, Hanshuang helped the princess to get out of the car first, the coachman served on the left and right, Qiushuang Daoming the identity of the princess, took out the seal, how dare the official slack off, first invited a few people in, and then went to report.
After the incident, Li Xuanba stayed in the carriage, and at this time the princess had left, Li Xuanba immediately got out of the carriage and called Li Gou and the others to his side. Li Gou told what happened, Li Xuanba looked at the soldier who was hit by the arrow, and immediately asked Li Zhu to deal with it.
"The traitor has already surrendered, and his subordinates are scattered, how can there be a traitor attacking the princess?" Li Gou frowned and said, "The princess entered the palace without any explanation, and she must have distrusted us." ”
The princess's carriage was hit by several arrows, but Li Xuanba's carriage was not damaged at all, and as soon as the princess hid in Li Xuanba's carriage, those archers suddenly lost their crosshairs, to say that this is just a coincidence, it may be difficult for a three-year-old child to believe it.
Li Xuanba knew that the attack had nothing to do with him, but he didn't believe that it was just a coincidence, and wanted to blame it. But the only thing that can't be explained is, who will blame Li Yuan?
Moreover, those archers seemed to know the princess's itinerary and had already been ambushed in the forest, and only the Li Mansion and others knew the princess's whereabouts.
"Lord Zhongyongwei, princess, please come in." When Li Xuanba was pondering, a servant ran out of the palace and passed the princess's order, and Li Gou was just about to accompany Li Xuanba in, but was stopped by the official.
"You help Li Zhu outside, and I'll explain to the princess." Li Xuanba explained, and then walked into the government with the officials.
Li Gou understood that if the princess really wanted to embarrass Li Xuanba, he would only go in to accompany the funeral, and it would not change anything at all, he saw Li Xuanba enter the mansion, and then someone closed the door, Li Gou put away his eyes and placed those injured.
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