Chapter 151: Ambush and Siege
Looking at the scout kneeling in front of him, Sima Yue's face was gloomy, Wang Yan and Chang San didn't say a word, and looked at Sima Yue. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ After a long time, Sima Yue spoke: "How long have they been gone?" β
"Lord Wang, the secret passage we found last night, we smeared it overnight and entered Liujiazhuang, some people's stoves in Zhuangzi are still hot, there are dishes on the table that have not moved chopsticks, and we are in a hurry, except for our belongings, many things have been left, and even the mourning hall has not been removed, so it should not be more than seven or eight hours now."
"Did you search for any missing places, such as secret passages and secret chambers?" Sima Yue asked after him.
"The subordinates sent people to search carefully, there is no place to hide people, and there are hundreds of people in Liujiazhuang, it is impossible for the small Liujiazhuang to hide, and then on the secret passage leading to the outside, a large number of footprints and traces of migration have also been found, and the scouts who were ambushed at the secret passage in advance have been tracked all the way over, and they have also left secret marks, so the subordinates must have fled to Xuzhou along this road out of the mountain."
Wang Yan interjected: "Lord Wang, they are dragging their families with their mouths, and they are also carrying Yang Ke's coffin, they must not go fast, we have to hurry up and chase all the way without further ado." β
When Sima Yue heard this, he ordered loudly: "Order, order the 1,000 cavalry that accompany you, and follow me with the whip and whip up the horse, and the rest of the foot soldiers will follow." The order was quickly passed on, the pro-army surrounded Sima Yue, Wang Yan and Chang San, followed by a thousand cavalry, turned the horse's head, turned around from the entrance of the secret passage, and went straight to the direction of Xuzhou City, the horse's head rolled up the smoke and dust in the sky, the hooves sounded like thunder, the bell jingled together, the momentum was amazing, under the guidance of the big banner waving in the wind, like a rolling long dragon.
The team that marched all the way galloped wildly, and the people and horses galloped wildly for most of the hour, and still could not see the figure of the fleeing people in front of them, but only a few passers-by who were sparsely pulled by the euro, and saw the large group of people and horses, and they could not avoid it. Seeing a mountain pass from afar, Sima Yue asked Chang San while beating his horse: "What is ahead?" β
"Lord Wang, that's Guifeng Mountain, through this valley, in front of Xuzhou." Chang San ran on the business road all the year round in his early years, and although he no longer had to practice it in recent years, he still remembered these old ways clearly.
"Lord Wang, this mountain road looks a little evil, do you want to stop for a while, let the scouts go to investigate, and then make a decision." Wang Yan persuaded.
Sima Yue didn't take it to heart at all: "This is in Donghai County, no matter how dangerous the terrain is, will there be ambushes?" Although Yang Ke led the army that followed, but it was at least two days away from them, if he really wanted these people to escape back to Xuzhou Mansion, it would be a big trouble, hurry up and speed up, and he must intercept them outside Xuzhou. According to their footsteps, they should be in front. Sima Yue gave a categorical death order, and after everyone received the order, he forcibly urged the sweat-soaked war horses to blow towards the valley like a hurricane.
The winding valley is not very deep, but the road is very narrow, only enough to accommodate two horses in parallel, and the valley is flanked by not steep slopes, which is considered a relatively tall canyon in Tokai County. More than 1,000 cavalry turned into an endless long dragon, Sima Yue walked in the forefront under the escort of the pro-army, he still thought that the horse was walking too slowly, and kept raising the whip to urge the mount, his heart was always up and down, Sima Yue was most worried about a group of people fleeing into Xuzhou City, and once the army accompanied by Yang Ke converged, it would be impossible for him to destroy their mouths, and he could not see what kind of attitude the imperial decree had towards him. The more anxious they were, the more they accelerated their speed, and the pro-army had to follow him and Wang Yan, Chang San and others, gradually, they broke away from the rear team, leaving most of the cavalry behind, looking at the valley mouth in sight, Sima Yue rushed forward, and took the lead in rushing out of the valley, under the escort of dozens of accompanying pro-troops, just turned a corner, and got on the road, Sima Yue shouted excitedly: "Catch up, catch up with them, hurry, rush over, kill them." Before he finished speaking, the people accompanying him had already seen a group of people in the distance helping the old and the young, there were hundreds of people, looking like they had been tired all the way and walked the same way, and they were sitting in a group on a clearing lot. Everyone couldn't help but perk up, and said in their hearts: "I finally caught up, and I didn't work hard in vain." β
Just as everyone was whipping their mounts more vigorously and squeezing the last bit of horsepower, Wang Yan suddenly shouted: "Lord Wang, no, we have been trickedγγγγγ β
Before the words fell, Sima Yue had already seen that the group of men, women, and children in Liujiazhuang who were sitting on the ground saw them, not only did they not panic and fear, but instead pointed at their team, talking and laughing. What surprised him even more was that the rows of soldiers with bright armor and ready for battle were stepping behind those people in a semicircle, surrounding them in their own direction, and the layers of troops numbered as many as tens of thousands of people, sealing their own front road densely.
Sima Yue was also a person who saw the opportunity very quickly, and immediately shouted: "Withdraw, withdrawγγγγγγ β
Before he finished speaking, there was a loud rumble above the mouth of the valley, and the rolling wood and stones were like a landslide and the ground cracked, landing out of thin air, and just now I looked up to the top of the mountain, and countless soldiers appeared, stretching their bows and arrows, aiming at the cavalry in the valley, and shouting together: "Long live the purpose, surrender and don't kill, long live have a will, surrender and don't killγγγγγ β
Sima Yue was desperate to see that the valley mouth was tightly sealed by rolling wood and stones, and the people outside couldn't get in, and the people inside couldn't get out, so he couldn't help but stare blood-red with a pair of eyes, and scolded: "It's a plan, it's a plan, Yang Ke, you are a despicable villain, you can't die wellγγγγγγ β
"Lord Wang, it's not interesting to scold people behind your back, why don't you be invited into my camp and let you scold me Yang Ke in person, so that you can vent your evil anger?" A voice remembered, Sima Yue turned his head to look, and two people rode out of the opponent's military array, one with white hair, but old and strong, majestic, it was Wen Yang. The other man had never seen him, nor was he wearing armor, he was dressed in white, riding on a tall white horse, his clothes were in the wind, his eyes were like stars, his posture was handsome, and his bearing was graceful and calm. At this moment, a fool can guess that he must be the Yang Ke who cheated to death.