Bayegu and Cao Menglin took two hundred soldiers and opened the way in front.

As the "Zhengyin Pioneer" of Cangyandu, Bayegu has two hundred soldiers under him, all of whom are good at one in a hundred. These soldiers are sturdy, marching and fighting, trekking through mountains and rivers are familiar with the road, but there is a problem, that is, the amount of food is very large, originally brought five days of dry food, to yesterday can only drink gruel, this morning set off at midnight, this is almost noon, everyone has not eaten - the dry food in the pocket has been exhausted, even the slag is left.

Baye Gu rode on his horse, his heart restless. When I looked up, I saw that the snow was covered, the mountains were heavy and the water was restored, and there was no one to live.

"General Baye, isn't it time to rest for a while?" Cao Menglin rode over and said panting. Nowadays, everyone calls themselves Cangyandu, and they all call each other generals, of course, this so-called general is not recognized by the imperial court.

On the mountain road, the soldiers staggered, stepped on the snow, walked all the way and slid two steps, all tired and crooked, and weak.

Baye Gu reprimanded: "Nonsense! In this icy and snowy place, everyone is hungry and can't get up when they rest! ”

What Bano Gu said is right, the team is hungry and cold, and once it stops, there will be people who will never be able to get up again.

Cao Menglin said with a bitter face: "General Baye is reasonable, but if you keep going like this, if you can't find a village, everyone is afraid that you won't be able to get out of this mountain." ”

Baye Gu raised the vajra and pointed forward: "Isn't there a village in front!" ”

"Where is the village, why didn't I see it?" Cao Menglin looked along the vajra pestle, but saw that the snow was covered with snow, the forest was dense, and there was a shadow of a village.

"You didn't see it, it's blind!" Ba Yegu shouted, turned around and shouted to the soldiers: "There is a village in the col ahead, everyone cheer up, follow me, and go to the village to eat steamed buns on the hot kang!" ”

As soon as the soldiers heard that there was a village in front of them, they immediately came to their senses, and they all took steps one after another, followed behind the wild ancient horses, and struggled forward.

Cao Menglin and Bayegu walked side by side, walked more than a hundred steps, looked at the mountain col from afar, and did not see the village, Cao Menglin was puzzled, but saw that Bayegu was very serious, so he had to ask in a low voice: "General, is there really a village in front?" ”

Baye Gu looked at the soldiers behind him, lowered his voice and said: "I heard that the eldest brother said about Cao Mengde's accident to quench the thirst of Wangmei, although it is not a desert here, it is cold and snowy, and the situation is similar. As long as we can cheer everyone up and get out of this mountain, the rest of the things will be easy to do! ”

"General Baye's wisdom and courage are both complete, congratulations!" Cao Menglin suddenly realized.

The team shook their spirits, walked out of the five miles, and entered the mountain pass, but Cao Menglin was crying out bitterly in his heart, not only was there no shadow of the village in front of him, but he saw that the mountains were high and the water was deep, the forests were dense, and there was a forest and a sea of snow!

Cao Menglin hurriedly said: "General Baye said that there is a village in this mountain col, but he said it too much, and when the soldiers arrived here, they couldn't see the village, so they were afraid that they would be even more depressed, and they would complain that the general was lying." ”

The reason why Wangmei's thirst quenching is established is that it can relieve the immediate difficulties, but if things get worse and worse, this allusion will be smashed!

But he saw the vajra in Bayegu's hand and pointed at it: "That's not the village!" ”

Cao Menglin looked at the vajra pestle, but shook his head: "General, I still haven't seen it!" ”

"Pick up your feet!"

Cao Menglin had to stand up with his feet on the stirrups and stretched his neck, but he saw that under a mountain beam not far away, under the forest, several blue-tiled roof ridges were exposed, although they were covered by branches, they were undoubtedly houses.

Cao Menglin sighed: "I heard General Bu say that General Baye has been with the Buddha for several months, and he has a deep relationship with the Buddha. ”

Bayegu claimed that there was a village in front of him, but he just copied the allusions of his predecessors, where did he think of it, but he was beaten crookedly! This Baye Gu is not only strong in martial arts, but also a lucky general!

"It's hard to say whether it's blessed or not." Bayegu shouted: "Hurry up and let the brothers hurry and go into the village to rest!" ”

The two urged the war horses, the soldiers followed, and the group came to the entrance of the village, and Cao Menglin took the reins and stopped.

"Why don't you leave?" Banoko asked.

"General, there's something strange in the village!"

"How's that going wrong?"

"General, in such a wilderness mountain village, all the people living in the mountain people are mountain people, the mountain people have always been timid and afraid, I waited for the armor and trotted all the way here, the village should have heard the movement a long time ago, and when I saw soldiers and horses coming, I either defended the village or fled out of the village, it must be noisy. But now, the village doesn't hear the sound of chickens and dogs, let alone people! ”

"So, there's an ambush in the village?" Banoko asked.

"It's hard to say if there is an ambush!" Cao Menglin said: "It's just that General Bu ordered me to wait in front to open the way, and be careful in everything." In my opinion, let's not enter the village at the same time, first send a few smart soldiers into the village to have a look, if it's okay, everyone will go in again. ”

"You're careful, too!" Ba Ye Gu shook the vajra and shouted: "In the battle of Cangyan Mountain, Lao Tzu was beaten by Cai Xide, and it is best to ambush here, just let Ba Mou's vajra sulk!" ”

Cao Menglin said with a smile: "General Baye's bravery, naturally he didn't say anything. It's just that the soldiers are tired and difficult to fight, and once the fight starts, General Baye will have nothing, but the brothers are only afraid that they will suffer some losses. My Cangyandu has just made a banner, if I lose my brother in the first battle, wouldn't it damage my Cangyandu's prestige! General Bu is there, and it's not easy to explain. ”

Baye Gu thought for a while: "What you said also makes some sense, just listen to you!" ”

Cao Menglin sent five soldiers with clever hands and feet into the village. After a while, the soldier came back and reported to Baye Guyu: "General, there is no ambush in the village!" ”

Bayegu was greatly disappointed: "It turns out that there is no ambush!" Enter the village! ”

"Wait!" Cao Menglin said: "Why is there no sound in the village? ”

"General Cao, the village is empty."

"No one?"

"It's not like no one." The other soldier said hurriedly.

"Is it someone or nobody?" Bayegu became agitated.

"General Yubayo, there are people in the village, but they are all dead!"

"Dead people? How many? ”

"Inside and outside the house, everywhere!"

Ba Yegu was impatient: "Long-winded! Just go in and have a look! ”

Cao Menglin was very hesitant and stopped moving, but saw that Bayegu had already urged the war horse and rushed into the village, Cao Menglin had no choice but to say: "The whole team keeps up!" "Urge the war horse and follow behind Baye Gu.

Entering the village, Cao Menglin gasped.

I saw that in the village, the houses were dilapidated, the smoke was burning, and under the ruins and broken walls, there were dead bodies everywhere. The death was horrible, some were disemboweled, beheaded, burned, and even hung on trees and skinned. Although there are many ways to die and they are extremely cruel, they have one common characteristic, all of them are young adults. It was clearly under fire.

Baye Gu glared angrily, and shouted: "It must have been done by An Lushan's dog!" ”

"How so?" Cao Menglin asked.

"The eldest brother said that the An Lushan rebels will soon be killed in Shaanxi County, so we should be careful all the way. If it weren't for those traitors, who would have done such a hurtful deed! They must have fought a big battle with the Tang Army here, and these killed should all be Tang Army! ”

Cao Menglin shook his head: "I don't see it!" Although these corpses are horrific deaths, they all have heads! Even if they were decapitated, the head was still on one side. This is not like the An Lushan rebels, if it is a rebel, they should cut off the head and go back to ask for a reward. But those people weren't interested in the head. ”

Baye Gu glared and asked, "Then who did this?" ”

Cao Menglin pondered for a moment and said, "I think it's a ringing horse!" ”

Bayegu was taken aback: "This is Shaanxi County!" It's not far from Chang'an. Are there ringing horses here? ”

"It's no longer the time of the day! Not to mention this Shaanxi County, even Guanzhong, it is not peaceful! Cao Menglin sighed: "It's just one point, it's their job to kill people and sell goods, but they don't need to kill people like this!" ”

At Cao Menglin's feet, there was a corpse that had been cut in two by a guillotine, the upper half of the corpse was naked, and half of its skin had been peeled off.

Ba Ye Gu's eyes were cracked, and he hated and scolded: "Dog, this gang of murderers, if they fall into the hands of Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will chop them into meat sauce!" ”

The two walked as they talked, and came to a high-gate compound, which was stained with blood.

Cao Mengde said: "It looks like a big family, to see if there is anything to eat in it, you have to let the soldiers fill their stomachs." ”

Ba Yegu nodded, and the two turned over and dismounted, and walked into the courtyard gate.

In front of it was a large house, half of which had collapsed, and the embers were still burning, and bursts of black smoke were emitting. The house was in ruins.

The two went around to the back of the big house, behind which there was a firewood room, and there was a pile of firewood in front of the door, which had not yet collapsed. The two of them came to the firewood room, pushed the door, and the door creaked open, and it was pitch black inside.

Bayegu shouted, "Does anyone have any? Echo the sound. ”

Before the words fell, he suddenly felt a cold wind rushing towards him, and a black shadow rushed out of the firewood room and rushed straight to Ba Ye Gu, who reacted very quickly, and turned sideways and let go of the black shadow. The black shadow rushed forward and pounced.

Ba Ye Gu hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Ba is abrupt, may I ask ......?"

Before Bayogu could finish speaking, the black shadow raised a steel knife and slashed at Bayogu. Ba Ye Gu didn't have time to think about it, so he took advantage of the situation to use the white crane to show his wings, pressed down with his forehand, and teased with his backhand.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the white crane wings are on the defensive, but proficient martial arts scholars are using this move as an offensive, this is a move to "block" the momentum, is to change the passive to the active attack move, the point is that when the enemy will not fire, the enemy's will send the force, intercept back, and attack the enemy's middle road. In order to use the white crane's bright wings as an offensive, it must have extremely rapid adaptability, and be able to be one step ahead of the enemy between lightning and flint! It is extremely difficult to do so.

Ba Ye Gu was caught off guard, using the white crane to show his wings, and quickly changed from passive to active, one is that he is a master of art and bold, and the other is that Ba Ye Gu reacts extremely sensitively, just at the moment when the opponent makes the knife, he realizes that the speed of the opponent's knife is extremely slow, and he is completely a vulgar hand.

Since the other party is a vulgar hand, the enemy and I don't know, Ba Yegu only exerted one percent of his strength, both hands out, the forehand pressed to the opponent's chest and abdomen, the backhand teased, and the opponent's wrist holding the knife was pressed, and the body was in hand. The steel knife had already fallen into the hands of Ba Ye Gu, and Ba Ye Gu's right hand hit the opponent's chest.

Hearing only the sound of "ah", the black shadow screamed miserably and fell to the ground.

But Baye Gu was taken aback, threw away the steel knife, and shouted at the black shadow, "It's a woman! ”