Seeing a person suddenly running out of the reeds, this made the officers and soldiers startled at first, and then they were all overjoyed and shouted: "I found Qi Yanming, brothers hurry up and intercept him!" ”

The entire river bank was already full of officers and soldiers, so the man who came out of the reeds did not run far at all, and was soon intercepted by the officers and soldiers in front. However, this mud-covered guy was extremely bold, and in the face of the dozens of officers and soldiers who surrounded him, he did not have the slightest intention of surrendering, but raised the long knife full of gaps in his hand, and roared angrily and fought with the officers and soldiers who surrounded him, and as a result, he injured several people, and even the palm of an officer and soldier was cut off in half by him.

Seeing that the person in front of them was so fierce, those officers and soldiers who were originally full of arresting people and making meritorious contributions immediately woke up, and they no longer dared to be careless at the moment, and raised their weapons one by one to fight with the other party. As the saying goes, two fists are hard to defeat with four hands, and these officers and soldiers are the elite of the Beijing camp, and they are not at all comparable to those guards who farm, so the surviving thief was quickly knocked out of his weapon, and then he was pounced on by several soldiers, and the other party was captured alive at once.

"Let go! Let go of Lao Tzu! There is a kind of one-on-one confrontation with Lao Tzu, what kind of hero is he when there are many people? Although the surviving thief was captured alive by several soldiers, he was not convinced, and shouted for someone to fight him alone.

Hearing the other party's words, the officers and soldiers all laughed loudly, and one of them pointed to the struggling thief and said: "You are really a bastard, we are fighting a war, and the emphasis is on victory as the king and defeat as the villain, no matter who you are, as long as we can defeat you, it will be our credit!" ”

"Yes. This guy can't be the same Qi Yan name. Just this brain can become an anti-thief leader. No wonder we were all defeated as soon as we arrived! At this time, another officer and soldier with a big mouth also laughed with weapons.

Hearing the ridicule of the two officers and soldiers, the arrested man was angry and angry, and he just wanted to scold a few more words, but then he saw the general in this group of officers and soldiers who was always dressed up and scolded the two officers and soldiers who spoke: "Okay, what are you arguing with a person who is going to die, why don't you hurry up and find the person who knows Qi Yanming, and let them recognize whether this person is Qi Yanming!" ”

Hearing the general's speech, the officers and men immediately did not dare to say anything more. Some people helped the injured soldiers to be treated, and some of them quickly went to find the prisoners who knew Qi Yanming, and after a while, they found four or five, but to the disappointment of these officers and soldiers, after seeing the captured people, one of the prisoners recognized the identity of the other party, but he was not Qi Yanming.

However, although this person is not Qi Yanming, he is Qi Yanming's brother-in-law Zhao Pu, and he is also a general under Qi Yanming. It also has a very high prestige among the rebels, which also makes the surrounding officers and soldiers feel a little better. Although he failed to catch Qi Yanming, this Zhao Pu is also a big fish, and it is estimated that he can exchange a lot of silver and military merits.

After Zhao Pu made such a fuss, the remnant sun in the west has completely fallen, and the banks of the river are also pitch black, which also brings great trouble to the search, and these officers and soldiers fought a big battle with these rebels last night, and they were busy cleaning the battlefield and looking for people during the day, so it can be said that they didn't care about eating and drinking all day, so many people relaxed, and the few remaining reeds on the river were just burned by them and looked at it casually, and they didn't use bamboo poles to explore the water, and they didn't find any traces of anyone hiding after the worst of all. So he hastily collected the troops and went back to the camp to eat and sleep.

After the officers and soldiers on both sides of the river left, in the ashes of the reeds that Zhao Pu ran out of before, a pitch-black head poked out of the black muddy water, and when he saw that there were no more officers and soldiers on the riverbank, he slowly walked from the river to the bank, turned his head to look at the direction where Zhao Pu was escorted, and then fell to his knees all of a sudden, suppressed his cry and whimpered: "Brother, you exchanged your life for your brother's life!" ”

It turned out that the person who knelt on the ground was Qi Yanming who Shenying sent people to look for, he was also with Liu Liu and Liu Qi yesterday with people to prepare to break through, but he didn't expect to be ambushed, but Qi Yanming was very shrewd, after he saw the ambush, he knew that there were traitors in his army, I am afraid that they are more than lucky this time.

Qi Yanming saw the current situation clearly, so he quickly made the decision to escape. Although it is a bit embarrassing to escape from the battle, don't forget that Qi Yanming and Liu Liuyan are both from Xiangma, and the biggest feature is that they come and go like the wind, and if they can't beat a strong enemy, they will have to run past the enemy, so there is nothing to be ashamed of for Qi Yanming.

However, the battlefield seems to be very chaotic, and it is dark night, it seems that it is not difficult to escape, but in fact, it is not the case, Shenying is very strict in his use of troops, and he also wants to wipe out Liu Liu and Liu Qiyi in battle, so the surrounding arrangements are very tight, even if it is an escape veteran like Qi Yanming, he can't find a chance to escape from the battlefield. And although the dark night gave him a layer of cover, it also made him unable to see the surrounding situation clearly, so he didn't dare to run around on the battlefield full of murderous machines.

It is precisely because of this that Qi Yanming, the most rebellious, saw that his side was defeated like a mountain, and even Liu Liu and Liu Qi were killed one after another, which made him no longer care about anything else, and pulled his brother-in-law Zhao Pu to hide in the reeds in the river, although he knew that the officers and soldiers of Lu Dao would definitely search here after the war, but this was already the safest hiding place on the battlefield, and at the same time, he also hoped that the officers and soldiers would not search so strictly after winning the battle.

It's a pity that the truth was beyond Qi Yanming's expectations, even if the officers and soldiers won the battle, they did not relax the search of the river at all, and when the officers and soldiers got closer and closer to them, Qi Yanming learned from the discussions of those officers and soldiers that they were so serious about searching themselves, which made him feel a burst of despair.

However, as the so-called endless road, the reeds where they hid were relatively remote, and when they searched for them, the sun was already about to set, and as soon as it got dark, it would be impossible for the officers and men to search so carefully, and then they might have a way out. But what made Qi Yanming desperate was that by the time the officers and soldiers searched them, there was still a ray of sunlight in the sky, and the officers and soldiers were already holding torches to burn the reeds on their side.

It was also at this critical moment that Zhao Pu, who was hiding with Qi Yanming, whispered in his ear, "Big brother take care", and then ran out with a weapon, and finally succeeded in attracting the attention of all the officers and soldiers to him, and after confirming Zhao Pu's identity, the sky was completely dark, and Qi Yanming finally escaped.

Thinking that Zhao Pu died because of himself, Qi Yanming knelt on the riverbank and cried bitterly for a long time, and finally woke up from his grief after the last moment, now his position is not very far from the camp of officers and soldiers, and he is not completely out of danger, so the most important thing for him now is to escape, otherwise Zhao Pu will die in vain.

Thinking of this, Qi Yanming looked up at the direction of the officer and soldier camp, his eyes were full of cruelty, and at the same time, he also whispered in his mouth: "Brother, you go first, as long as the eldest brother and I can escape, he will definitely take the army back to the capital one day, drive that faint monarch down from the dragon chair, and seize Shenying to avenge the brothers!" ”

After Qi Yanming made these oaths to the battalion of officers and soldiers, he immediately limped away in the opposite direction of the battalion without looking back, before his right leg was shot with an arrow, although it was treated simply, but after soaking in water for a day, the entire wound was already swollen, so he urgently needed a place to rest now, and then treat the wound.

Qi Yanming walked along the river to the lower flow of Lu, he was originally a native of Bazhou, so he was very familiar with the terrain of this area, Zhilu Road along the river to the south is not far away, it is a low mountain, there is a deserted ancient temple in the groves of the valley, there is very remote, there is no need to worry about the officers and soldiers to find it, there can be a rest for themselves, by the way to deal with the wound.

After arriving at the broken temple, there is really no trace of anyone coming here, Qi Yanming lives here with confidence, as for the wounds on his body, it is inevitable that he will be injured when he was a ringing horse before, so he also knows a lot of herbs for treating external injuries, the only trouble is that there is no food, and he has to catch some birds and birds and other prey as food, and he is worried that the fire will attract officers and soldiers, so he can only eat raw meat every day.

After seven or eight days in the ruined temple, the arrow wound on his leg was still a little painful when he walked, but it did not affect his normal walking. In addition, Qi Yanming is not idle these days, whenever he has free time, he will think about what he should do next?

First of all, it is impossible for Bazhou to stay any longer, after all, the rebellion has failed, and all the troops that have been gathered with great difficulty have been wiped out, Liu Liu, Liu Qi, and Zhao Pu are also dead, it can be said that Qi Yanming is now alone, and there is no need to think that he also knows that now the imperial court must be wanted by the Manchurian world, if he is not careful, he may be arrested by others and sent to the government for reward.

But if he left Bazhou, Qi Yanming didn't know where he should go, he used to have a lot of friends, but since he rebelled, I'm afraid those friends won't be able to hide from him, let alone help him.

But it's still that sentence, there is no endless road, Qi Yanming was thinking about his future way out, and suddenly thought of seeing a letter from Liu Liu and Liu Qi before, the letter was written to them by Yang Hu from Shandong, and the general meaning of the letter was that he admired their feat in Bazhou very much, so he planned to take people from Shandong to join them.

Of course, now that Liu Liu and Liu Qi are dead, it is impossible for Yang Hu to bring someone here, but this gives Qi Yanming a chance, maybe he can go to Yang Hu to stay for a while, and then see the situation before making plans. (To be continued......)