Chapter 016: Prisoner of the Wilderness
Bu Yunfei, Baye Gu, and Cui Shuquan rode forward, but saw that on both sides of the road, the ancient trees were towering, the strange stones were numerous, the mountain peaks were directly in the clouds, and on the rocks on both sides, there were still traces of smoke and fire, which were left by the war a month ago. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Cui Shuquan exclaimed: "Big brother, little brother has always thought that the 200,000 army of Brother Shuhan, even if he stretches his neck and asks the Yan army to cut it, it will take ten days and half a month to cut it, where will he be defeated in a battle." When I arrived here, I believed that Na Ge Shuhan was unjustly defeated! If there is really a sound horse here, the rolling wood and stones fall at both ends, the way out is broken at both ends, and then the sulfur saltpeter is thrown down, and we will become roast chickens! ”
"Brother Cui also understands the art of war!" Baye Guzan said.
"Where is it, the little brother is just talking casually, how dare he get an axe in front of the eldest brother!" Cui Shuquan said.
Bu Yunfei nodded: "Although it is said casually, it is also to the point of the art of war." This is the perfect place for ambushes! Ge Shuhan is a veteran of a hundred battles, how can he not see the danger, but he was succeeded by Cui Qianyou, speaking of which, it is not to blame Ge Shuhan for being incompetent, nor is it that Cui Qianyou is wise, this is all the emperor's mediocrity! ”
"The emperor is so dim, on Ma Weipo, why does the eldest brother have to sacrifice his life to save him?" Baye Gu said in a muffled voice.
Bu Yunfei shook his head and sighed: "Then what should we do?" Seek refuge in Li Heng or An Qingxu? ”
Cui Shuquan said: "Seventh brother, eldest brother, this is knocking out the front teeth and swallowing it!" If we don't save the emperor, what can we do? Li Heng and An Qingxu, both sides are our opponents! ”
Baye Gu also hated and said: "Li Heng's dog thing wants to kill his father, and An Qingxu's dog thing has killed his father." These two dog things, even if they are not Lao Tzu's opponents, Lao Tzu will kill them! ”
Cui Shuquan said: "On the boundary of Shaanxi County, it is now a thief realm, but in the eyes of the younger brother, it seems to be a happy land, and there are no thieves in the territory, but it is a peaceful scene." ”
Bu Yunfei said: "Therefore, for the people, it doesn't matter who is the emperor, the important thing is that as long as the emperor can take care of things!" ”
Baye Gu said in a muffled voice: "What the eldest brother said is not bad, what if Li Longji is the emperor, it is not the people who suffer from it!" Big brother, you have a good heart, if you become an emperor, you will definitely not let the people suffer! ”
"Banoko, you're crazy, whisper!" Cui Shuquan was so frightened that he hurriedly looked back.
"Cui Shuquan, you are afraid of a bird, this ghost place, there are no ghosts, Lao Tzu just shouted in his throat, and no one can hear it!" Baye Gu said with a big thorn.
Cui Shuquan was relieved, gritted his teeth and said: "What Seventh Brother said also has some truth, if the eldest brother becomes the emperor, he will not be angry with those birds!" ”
The surrounding area is densely forested, and there is only one path that winds through the mountains and rocks.
The three of them talked and laughed, unconsciously, out of more than 20 miles, there was a cliff more than ten zhang high in front, the cliff wall went straight to the sky, but it was smooth as a mirror, and I don't know which era, someone carved the "mirror cliff" two big words on the cliff, although the age is old, but it is still clear and decipherable.
The road turned a corner under the mirror cliff and extended to the southeast, and behind the boulders, there was an eerie forest.
Bu Yunfei grabbed the reins of the horse and stopped.
Cui Shuquan became nervous: "Big brother, is there an ambush here?" ”
"It's not like an ambush." Bu Yunfei frowned: "It's just that there's something strange here?" ”
"What's the matter?" Banoko asked.
"The ruts on the road will be broken here!" Bu Yunfei said.
Cui Shuquan and Bayegu looked down, and sure enough, there were two ruts on the road, winding along the road, and when they reached the mirror cliff, they stopped abruptly. Along the way, the three of them had been walking along these two ruts, and Cui Shuquan and the two of them only talked and didn't notice the ruts on the road.
Cui Shuquan said: "Big brother, from the younger brother's point of view, this rut came in from the direction of the pass, and it was in the same direction as us. ”
Baye Gu said in a muffled voice: "Nonsense, the eldest brother has been staring at this rut all the way!" And use yourself to be clever here! ”
Cui Shuquan sighed: "Big brother doesn't even let go of this little subtlety!" ”
Bu Yunfei said with a smile: "Cui Shuquan, you are also a general now, you have to be careful everywhere when marching and fighting!" Now the three of us are pioneers! The task of the vanguard is to detect the enemy's situation, and the slightest circumstance must not be easily let go, and if there is a slight abnormality, it is necessary to be vigilant to prevent accidents, otherwise, the brigade of men and horses will suffer! ”
"The lesson of the eldest brother is that the younger brother must be careful in the future!"
Bu Yunfei nodded: "These two ruts are new, and the footprints before and after the ruts are also very neat, indicating that not long before we entered the pass, a team of people drove a carriage into the Kunshan trail on foot. As long as the rut keeps moving forward, it means that the road ahead is safe! Now the rut is broken here......"
"They were robbed by the ringing horses!" Cui Shuquan hurriedly drew his sword.
Baye Gu reprimanded: "Cui Shuquan, be quiet!" There are neat footsteps on this road, and there are no signs of fighting. ”
Cui Shuquan breathed a sigh of relief: "Then why is it broken...... I know, there must be a road behind this mirror cliff! Big brother, they are not the same path as us, they are going to another road. In that case, let's go ours. Could it be that without ruts, we wouldn't be able to walk!. ”
Bu Yunfei said: "As far as I know, there are no other roads on either side of the trail for seventy miles, if there is a road, how can Ge Shuhan be wiped out!" ”
"Big brother, it doesn't matter if he has a way or not, let's just go our way." Cui Shuquan said.
"Fart!" Baye Gu shouted: "Feng Changqing, Ding Kui, they are still following us, if there is some embarrassment here, they are here, won't they have to suffer!" ”
Bu Yunfei nodded: "What Baye Gu said is right, as a pioneer, you must be discerning, otherwise, you will miss the army!" Let's go check it out! ”
The three of them urged their horses to the bottom of the mirror cliff, but they saw that the rut was turning to the left against the cliff wall, just opposite to the direction of the road, and turned behind the mirror cliff.
Behind the mirror cliff is a field of dry reeds, full of a man's height, and the rut ends here.
The dry reeds are thick, swaying like waves in the mountain wind.
The three dismounted, tied their horses to a small tree by the roadside, and then stepped on foot into the reeds.
The reeds were extremely luxuriant, but they were lying on either side, apparently someone had just walked by, and there were faint traces of wheels crushing underground.
Cui Shuquan was about to start, but Bu Yunfei grabbed him: "You can't follow them!" ”
"Big brother, didn't you say that if you follow the rut, you will be safe?" Cui Shu was puzzled.
Baye Gu reprimanded: "Cui Shuquan, you are an elm head, just now you followed the ruts on the road, naturally nothing happened, now they are in the grass, God knows what those people are doing!" ”
Cui Shuquan stuck out his tongue: "I know, they can't figure it out if they want to set up an ambush and kill people inside!" Big brother, how to get around? ”
Bu Yunfei looked up and looked left and right, but saw a mountain beam to the west, and the mountain beam was lined with trees, and said, "Go up to that mountain beam first!" ”
The mountain beam is on higher ground, you can overlook the surroundings, and when you reach the mountain beam, even if you encounter an ambush, you can be condescending and invincible.
The three of them turned around and went west and came to the bottom of the mountain beam, but Cui Shuquan cried out bitterly.
The mountain beam is several zhang high, but when you see the white rock forest, it is a cliff. Cui Shuquan was born as a son, and although he also suffered some hardships a few days ago, he has never walked such a difficult road.
Cui Shuquan said: "Big brother, let's go in a different place, where can we climb up!" ”
Ba Yegu didn't answer, stretched out his ape arm, and climbed up against the cliff wall like an ape, and after a while, he went up the mountain beam, pulled out his waist knife, cut some vines, entangled them, and put them down.
Bu Yunfei grabbed the vines, turned around and said, "Cui Shuquan, if you can't climb up, stay here!" As he spoke, he also climbed up.
"Big brother also looks down on his brother!" Cui Shuquan spat and foamed, and also learned to step like Yunfei, grabbed the vines, used his strength to eat, and climbed up.
The three of them went up the mountain beam, looked around, but they saw it really, only to see that among the dry reeds, they were pressed out of a small path by the cart, which was not very conspicuous, if they were in it, it was not easy to see, but on the top of this mountain beam, condescending, and saw very clearly.
The trail runs almost parallel to the mountain beam, and it also goes all the way north, up the mountain.
The three of them walked along the mountain beam, walked a hundred paces away, and saw that the path turned westward, gradually ascended, and approached the mountain beam, and gradually merged with the mountain beam.
"Big brother, they are going in the same direction as us!" Cui Shuquan said.
Bu Yunfei nodded. The trio walked through the bushes.
After walking a hundred and ten steps, I saw a prisoner car parked not far ahead.
The doors of the prisoner's cart were wide open, but there was no one inside. The prison cart was also empty.
Cui Shuquan sighed: "Big brother, don't look at it, the ruts on the road are this prisoner car!" Someone must have hijacked the prisoner's car! ”
Bayegu nodded: "I heard that Sun Xiaozhe's house was in Chang'an City, searching for Tang officials everywhere, either killing them, or escorting them to break Luoyang and hand them over to An Qingxu." The person in this prisoner car is also an official of the Tang Dynasty. I don't know which way the hero is, but he is also a little bloody, and he rescued him! ”
"It doesn't matter which way he goes, they hijacked the prisoner car, so naturally they didn't dare to take the main road, they should have fled into the mountains!" Cui Shuquan said: "A false alarm, big brother, we should go back!" ”
Suddenly, I heard a faint voice coming from the valley in front of me.
"Let's take a look." Bu Yunfei said, pulling his legs and walking towards the valley.
"Big brother, you're also nosy." Cui Shuquan said, but saw that Bu Yunfei and Baye Gu had already taken more than ten steps, so they had no choice but to follow quickly.
The jungle in the valley was dense, and the three of them went down the valley, sneaked lightly, and walked out more than ten steps, but they saw that in the depths of the forest, under a hundred-year-old pine, stood a person in prison uniform, that person was strong, with blue eyes and short hair, although he was wearing prison clothes, but he was very majestic.
A group of soldiers in helmets and armor, armed with knives and guns, surrounded the prisoner.