While they were talking, Miao Peilan had already thrown all three corpses into the river, and the remaining three of the four war horses, except for the one that fell into the valley and was injured, had already broken their legs and ran back in the chaos. Miao Peilan pointed to the war horse that fell and injured on the river valley and said, "What should I do with this horse?" ”

Zuo Shaoyang said: "This is the best grain, kill him, cut off the meat and hide it, and then transport it back when we come back from collecting medicine." -- Move quickly, the horses run back, and I'm afraid that the enemy will soon come to check on the situation. ”

Li Dazhuang said: "Okay, I'll come!" ”

He was about to go down the river valley, Miao Peilan's face changed, and he said, "It's too late!" The enemy has come! ”

Zuo Shaoyang was taken aback, listened carefully, and heard the roar of horses' hooves faintly. Hurriedly said: "Hurry uphill and hide!" Fast! ”

Miao Peilan picked up a pair of bows and arrows on the ground, put a basket on her back, and supported Zuo Shaoyang with Li Dazhuang, climbed up the hill, and got into the woods.

As soon as I got into the woods, I heard the sound of horses' hooves on the official road below, and someone shouted: "There is our horse below, and it has been injured in a fall, it should be here!" ”

"Search! Search around! ”

Hearing this, Zuo Shaoyang and the others climbed up the mountain desperately. Then I heard the enemy shouting below: "There are footprints on the hillside!" ”

"Chase! It may be the enemy who injured our brothers, catch up with them and break them into pieces! ”

Miao Peilan hurriedly stood and looked down, but it turned out that the woods on the hillside were dense, blocking the sun, and the snow below was difficult to melt, and the snow was very deep.

Miao Peilan handed the basket and bow and arrow to Li Dazhuang, bent down and carried Zuo Shaoyang on his back, and climbed up the mountain desperately. Although Li Dazhuang is a man, he is not as fast as her, panting and following behind, falling farther and farther, Miao Peilan had to stand and wait for him to come up, and pulled him up the mountain with one hand.

She pulled one on her back, and fled up one foot deep and one shallow foot in the snow, but the speed was still very fast, and the enemy soldiers who were tracking up below were thrown down, and the sound gradually became quieter, and finally she could not be heard. Miao Peilan still didn't stop, panting and climbing up.

Seeing that he had climbed halfway up the mountain, Zuo Shaoyang remembered what the officer said when he left the city, the mountains were guarded by enemy troops, and the enemy would shoot them with arrows to kill the people who tried to escape from the mountains beyond the halfway up the mountain, and said urgently: "Peilan, don't go up, there is an enemy on it, first step backwards and step on the original footprints and go down, and when you hear the voice of the enemy, you will go sideways in the direction of Guiguling, we are going to collect medicine!" Brother Li, you sweep away the footprints on the ground with pine branches in the back, so that the enemy army can't find us. ”

Miao Peilan hurriedly agreed, and Li Dazhuang carefully stepped on the footprints on the ground, slowly retreated down the mountain, retreated for a while, and faintly heard the enemy soldiers catching up from the mountain bluffing: "I see you, come out quickly, otherwise you will release the arrow!" "Hurry up and come out and surrender!"

Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly said: "Okay, go sideways!" Brother Li swept away the footprints! ”

Miao Peilan carried Zuo Shaoyang on her back and walked sideways in the direction of Guiguling, and Li Dazhuang picked a pine branch and swept away the footprints on the ground behind her. After walking out of the distance sideways, he couldn't hear the voice of the enemy anymore, so Zuo Shaoyang said: "Okay, Peilan, the enemy can't find us now, let me down, I'll go by myself." ”

Although Miao Peilan had great strength, she climbed the hill with Zuo Shaoyang, who was more than 100 pounds on her back, and after running such a long way, she was still so tired that she was panting and her feet were weak.

After walking a little further, he saw honeysuckle, and sure enough, it was all over the mountains.

They set out to look for fallen flowers. Because the flowers have not yet bloomed, but there are many withered flowers that have fallen before on the ground, and some of them fall on the cracks of the stones or scrape under the rocks, and they have escaped the rain and withered.

The mountain was full of honeysuckle, and soon enough of them were collected, and then Zuo Shaoyang began to look for other medicinal materials he needed.

This Guiguling is really a treasure trove of medicinal materials, and I soon found the half-branch lotus, white-flowered snake tongue grass and other medicines I needed, but the purple-backed geranium seeds growing on the high mountains were nowhere to be found. This medicine grows on the high mountains at an altitude of 1,000 to 4,000 meters, and it seems that it can only climb this ghost valley peak.

Guigu Peak could already be seen from a distance, and sure enough, half of the mountain peak was hidden in the clouds. It was very steep, Zuo Shaoyang looked up at the peak, sighed, and said to Li Dazhuang: "It will take at least a day for this peak to climb up and down, Brother Li, you bring the medicine back first, I'm worried that Miss Cao'er's illness won't survive tonight." Miss Cao'er's medicine is already complete, and when I go back, I will let my father prepare it for Miss Cao'er. Pei Lan and I climbed the Ghost Valley Peak to pick purple-backed geranium seeds, and it is estimated that we will not be able to return to the city until tomorrow morning. Qiao'er's suppuration of the wound is not life-threatening for the time being, if you give the medicine you have collected now to my father to Qiao'er, it should be able to alleviate the suppuration to a great extent. ”

Li Dazhuang said: "I'll accompany the young master to climb the mountain......"

"You're too slow, it's not as fast as Pei Lan carrying me on his back, in case you encounter an enemy, Pei Lan still has to take care of the two of us, it's better for you to bring the medicine back first." Perrin only takes care of me, so it will be relatively easy to encounter enemies, and it is easy to hide if there are few people. ”

Li Dazhuang was a little embarrassed: "Okay, I'll bring the medicine back first." Young Master, Peilan, you must be careful. ”

Zuo Shaoyang said: "You also have to be careful, don't panic when you encounter the enemy, don't fight hard, just say that you want to go back to the city if you get lost picking wild vegetables." Enemy troops generally do not shoot civilians. ”

"Okay." Li Dazhuang agreed, and went down the mountain with a basket of herbs on his back.

Zuo Shaoyang hid his crutches in the snow and said, "This thing can't be used, it's too conspicuous, it aroused the enemy's suspicion just now, you just need to walk with your support." Later, if we encounter enemy troops, you must not speak, pretend to be dumb, in case the enemy hears your female voice. And, don't do it unless you have to. ”

Miao Peilan agreed, supported Zuo Shaoyang with a basket on her back, and the two began to climb in the direction of Guigu Peak.

After crawling for a while, suddenly, I heard someone in front of me shouting, "What are you doing?" ”

The two of them were taken aback, and hurriedly looked up, only to see three enemy soldiers standing opposite, all of whom were aiming at them with bows and arrows. It turned out to be an enemy patrol.

Zuo Shaoyang didn't dare to say that he was Xiao Langzhong collecting medicine, so he immediately raised his hands and said with a bitter face: "Don't let go of the arrows, we are ordinary people who have fled from the city, we have nothing to eat in the city, we are about to starve to death, and we want to go out and escape a way out, a few brothers are okay, let us go?" ”

"No one is allowed to go over, go back immediately, or the arrow will be released!" The three of them drew their bows and arrows.

The distance between the two sides was more than ten steps away, and there was no way to sneak attack, so he could only think of other ways, Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly said: "Okay!" We'll go back right away! Don't let the arrows go. ”

As he spoke, he held Miao Peilan's shoulders and slowly walked down the mountain.

After walking for a while, Zuo Shaoyang looked back, estimated that he was an arrow away from those enemy posts, and said to Miao Peilan in a low voice: "You take the basket and I carry it, and then you carry me, the enemy sentry is not very dense, there is a gap between the two sentry posts, let's rush up from here, it is estimated that it is the gap between the enemy sentry posts, don't stop, just rush up!" The distance between the two sides is almost more than a stone's throw away, and it is difficult to shoot us. Even if you shoot, the strength is not great, don't be afraid, you are fast, let's compete with them and climb up the mountain! ”

"Good!" Miao Peilan took a deep breath, carried Zuo Shaoyang on her back and climbed quickly towards the mountain, and just rushed up for a while, she heard the enemy shouting in the distance: "Stop!" Don't stop and shoot arrows! ”

Zuo Shaoyang whispered to Miao Peilan: "Don't stop, speed up!" At the same time, he shouted: "Don't release arrows, we are sent to the yamen, we have an emergency to report, don't release arrows!" ”

An archer was a little stunned, put down his bow and arrows, and turned back and said, "It's our people." The other archer said, "Inquire first, and then speak, - hey, you stop!" ”

Zuo Shaoyang shouted loudly: "No, we have something urgent to report, we can't wait for ......!" ”

As she spoke, Miao Peilan's speed increased to the fastest, and in the blink of an eye, she rushed to it.

The soldier finally reacted and shouted, "Shoot the arrows!" They refuse to stand, they are definitely not our people, let go of the arrows! ”

Immediately, several sharp arrows flew and landed a few feet away from them. The two sides were already almost an arrow away from each other, and Miao Peilan's speed was very fast, and she was already beyond the range of the bow and arrow when she spoke.

At this time, the enemy army in front of the left also found them, shouted to stop, Zuo Shaoyang's old trick was repeated, and shouted that it was to come back to report the situation, this time the enemy quickly reacted, and ordered to release the arrows, but Miao Peilan's speed was very fast, and the distance between the two sides was almost to the farthest range of the bow and arrow, plus there were trees to cover it, and most of the arrows of the enemy archers were blocked by trees, and those that were not blocked fell before they reached the side.

The enemy shouted and chased after him. Zuo Shaoyang has been holding the longbow in his hand, this bow is only used by ordinary soldiers, and the strength required is not too great, he pulled the bow for the full moon, turned around and shouted: "Look at the arrow!" An arrow was fired.

The arrow of the bow they picked up was a white feather one, and when it was shot, it carried a white light.

Zuo Shaoyang has never learned archery, and the two sides are about 100 steps apart, so he can't shoot accurately, but he shoots from top to bottom, and the arrow goes like a rainbow, although the arrow is a few feet higher than the enemy's head, but it swept off a leaf, and the snow on the tree fell one after another, and the pursuers below were startled and shouted: "Be careful, this guy has a bow and arrow!" ”

The reason why Zuo Shaoyang shouted loudly for the other party to look at the arrows was that he hoped that the enemy would know that he had bows and arrows and would not dare to approach too closely.

Because the enemy was afraid of their arrows, they didn't dare to approach too closely, and this time, they couldn't catch up with Miao Peilan. She was soon left far behind. Later, I couldn't even hear the sound.

(To be continued)