Chapter 0537 - Spring is as Promised

Niulanshan is the junction of Shunzhou and Danzhou, there was a county town of Liaoxi in Yanzhou in the north thirty miles, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the city was destroyed by war, and the population was lost too much and was abandoned, only a town of twenty or thirty families was left to sit between the original ruins, called Huairou Town. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At dusk, the town at sunset looks quiet and peaceful at first glance, and the countryside is quiet and beautiful, but on closer inspection, there is a deathly silence, and there is no smoke to be heard, and there is no sound of chickens and dogs barking.

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves broke the silence of the mountain, and more than two hundred red-robed and black-armored iron horsemen galloped from the mountains, appeared on the outskirts of the town and formed a small team, and immediately divided into three roads to slowly form a circle and searched the town.

The leading officer was Zhuang Shao, he was wearing fine scale armor, wearing an iron helmet with turned ears, and holding a long-handled and thick-backed dragon-patterned ghost head sword, Le Ma watched on the spot for a while, obviously saw something, couldn't help but show disappointment, drove the horse slowly towards the town, and more than ten cavalry soldiers behind him hurriedly followed.

"Lu Zheng! Do you smell anything? Let's go find out first! Zhuang Shao ordered with a calm face.

Since the news of the imminent destruction of the city from Youzhou two days ago, Gao Zhongyi asked him to lead his troops to widely distribute reconnaissance cavalry in the south side of the Great Wall in the north of Tan, Shun and Ruzhou, so as to intercept the defeated soldiers from Youzhou.

"It smells of blood! I don't know how long it will take to cross the border, let's take a look before I ......" Lu Zheng responded, and rushed to the archway in the south of the town with two horses to dismount, in order to prevent ambushes, the soldiers took off the small round shield, and slowly walked into the south gate of the town back to back, and immediately saw a shocking blood stain.

"It's still fresh...... Lu Zheng bowed quickly, stretched out his fingers and scraped a little blood to look at it, and then smelled the fishy smell, his eyes were happy.

Soon, the other two soldiers who had climbed over the wall into the town also noticed it, and a large group gathered there and cursed in shock and anger. Hearing the sound, Lu Zheng walked along the long street in the center of the town, and saw two large piles of human heads piled up in front of the grass pavilion announced by the old man in the village, and a wooden board was inserted on it, which was written in blood: Death to the pursuers!

"Lu Zheng will take a few people to stay, let's go to the ground!" Zhuang Shao didn't know when to follow, he took a few steps forward, picked up a human head with a long knife in his hand, and put it in front of him expressionlessly.

Thirty miles north of Huairou Town is Mutianyu, where the mountains and mountains stretch gracefully from east to west, and the Great Wall crosses over the mountains. Due to disrepair, the Great Wall of Yanshan has collapsed in many places, and the army of more than 10,000 people is still impassable, but the small cavalry can easily cross the ridge.

Yelu Chusi escaped from Youzhou City, defeated on the south bank of Wenyuan, was chased all the way to Shunzhou by Gao Huaide, only led dozens of horsemen to be wounded, and a few died on the road, and fled to Huairou Town in the afternoon, leaving only eighteen horsemen. The mountain road to the north here is very difficult to walk, in order to have a full meal and get rid of the pursuing soldiers, Yelu Chusi slaughtered the village and killed nearly 200 villagers.

Yelu Chusi didn't often do such a thing as indiscriminate killing of innocents, but now it seemed to be worth it, and when he arrived in the valley at the southern foot of Luoshan, there were no more pursuers behind. There was a stream ahead, and Yelu Chusi planned to rest here for a while, so he ordered his soldiers to drink and feed the horses, took out an oily chicken leg from the leather bag on the horse's back, stuck the spear in the ground, sat on a big rock by the stream, and munched on it.

"Uh...... Jerochus! Do you still recognize thistle? ”

Suddenly, a voice came, and in the sound of horses' hooves, a knight in the distance came out of the grove at the foot of the mountain, stopped his horse at the other side of the stream, and calmly untied the black cloth cover on the long weapon in his hand, revealing a seven-foot-long, golden dragon head stretched out two curved golden snake heads, and a dragon tongue about a foot long spit out from the dragon's mouth in the middle, which was like a broad-bladed short sword.

The whole long army looks like a trident, but the snake spears that stick out on both sides are small, so they are called "pistols". Although it is ranked among the eighteen weapons, it actually belongs to Qimen weapons. The dragon and snake are combined, domineering and ruthless, this is called "three-edged dragon and snake pistol".

Person! I haven't seen it for many years, but this three-edged dragon snake is really piercing, Yelu Chusi saw that the pupils of his eyes contracted for a while, his face turned pale, his heart beat wildly, and he instinctively threw away the delicacy in his hand, got up and grabbed the spear, and saddled his horse to escape.

"Don't be in a hurry to leave! Look at the scenery on this plug, spring is like a promise! If your neck blooms, watering this mountain, in early summer it will be full of bright red, more beautiful than the wolf poison flower outside the capital! ”

"Thistle Pingwen! What benefits did the Han Er of the Southern Dynasty give you? My Da Liao's kindness to you, even if you betray the Linhuang Mansion and fall into the grass on Lu Longsai, you will turn a blind eye to you and close one eye, and now you want to take revenge? Yelu Chusi's face turned blue and white for a while, and he shouted angrily.

"Hey...... If you don't mention this nurturing grace, it's okay, and I ask you? Who was the father Ji Xiaoliang who killed him back then? Seeing that Yelu Chusi didn't answer, Ji Pingwen chuckled lightly and said, "If you don't know, I'll tell you." In the eleventh year of Tianxian, Yelu Deguang led his troops south to destroy Tang Lijin, returned to Yuyang, Jizhou, and tortured and killed Ji Xiaoliang, the state defense envoy, and plundered his wife's room to return to Linhuang Mansion, and at that time, a certain was the five-year-old mute idiot......

In the same four years, the Jin Emperor Shi was enthroned and refused to be a minister, Yelude Guang extinguished the Jin Dynasty and returned to the north, died in Luanhe County to kill Hu Lin, and was salted by my two good brothers Lin Huzi and Wei Sandao with salt like a dead fish, and the coffin was burned after being stolen in Ma Mengshan when he went north, and he can also tell you that this is the most proud thing that Ji and the master have done in this life! ”

"You rebel! Are you telling the truth? Yelu Chusi couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and his heart was very shocked. After that incident, the Empress Dowager Shulu was extremely angry, sent people to arrest thousands of Xi people near Mameng Mountain, and invited thousands of shamans to hold a grand and grand spiritualism ceremony.

"We dealt with each other when we were in Beijing, and you know I never talk in a panic, right?" Ji Pingwen smiled indifferently, as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him.

However, my mind still can't help but think of the majestic Shangjing City on the hill on the south bank of the Wolf River, as well as the two cooks Lin Huzi and Wei Sandao that Shi Jinjiao gave to Yelu Deguang...... Later, the leader of the bandits became his master.

"Traitor! I'm going to kill you......" Seeing that the eighteen cavalry soldiers behind him had remounted their horses, Yelu Chusi's heart was a little calmer, and he roared angrily and beat the horse forward, and suddenly turned around and ran.

It's a pity that at this moment, another sound of horses' hooves came, and more than two hundred horsemen appeared on the small mountain road when they came, and gradually dispersed at the mouth of the valley.

"Chu Si! There's no turning back! For the sake of you and my past relationship, my brother won't make a move, but he will stop it! You can lead eighteen horsemen to fight with me, and if you can escape, you will not be spared death!" Ji Pingwen laughed, and his tone of voice carried a strong confidence.

Babble, yes...... Yelu Chusi's eyes turned red, and he let out a desperate and frightened roar, pulled the horse's head and legs to clamp the horse's belly, and urged the war horse to lift the spear and pounce on Ji Pingwen, and the eighteen cavalry soldiers behind him opened their bows and shot a round of arrows, but without exception, in a circle of golden light wheels, they all flew out.