Chapter 37: Ambush

Wei Xiang was imprisoned in the prison car, with more than 40 pounds of iron chains and shackles on his body, only to feel dizzy, his fierce appearance was still the same, but his face was bloodless, lying on the prison car, and he couldn't stop moaning in a low voice, like a terminally ill tiger, lying on his stomach weakly.

He was escorted by the jailers of Yangzhou City, because before he was captured, Wei Xiang had more than 80 people under his command, all of whom were difficult ruffians and hooligans. Just in case, there were as many as a dozen escorts this time. He also used a prisoner's cart and chained him to prevent the prisoner from escaping or being rescued.

Wei Xiang has suffered enough along the way.

Originally, escorting prisoners was a chore, and there was a lot of attention to it.

It was necessary to be vigilant at all times, to travel quickly day and night, and to guard in groups at night, and at the same time there was a clear rule that the officials who escorted the prisoners were not allowed to buy food or drink food or water in any restaurant. They can only live in the post station, and they can only eat in the post station.

These are all rules to prevent the robbery of prisoners, and if they are found to have violated them, they will be severely punished.

It is conceivable that these people are all small servants who can't be smaller, what delicious food will the people in the post station prepare for them?

Not to mention the hard work along the way, not eating well, and not sleeping well, it is completely living and suffering.

At first, when the jailer saw Wei Xiang's terrifying face, he was a little jealous and didn't dare to do anything to him. But with the bumps along the way, Wei Xiang gradually couldn't bear it, and his body became more and more weak. Originally, he was injured badly, his wounds were not well healed, and his cell was clammy and cold, so his body did not recover.

After being tossed like this, the body immediately crossed over, and he couldn't afford to fall seriously ill. Although it looks like a tiger, it has become a sick cat that does not survive.

In the face of Wei Xiang, a sick cat, the official vented all his grievances and reluctance on him, making him suffer enough and paying the price for what he did.

Wei Xiang also regretted his mistakes at the moment, regretting and annoying very much.

It turned out that when he was implementing the plan, Wei Xiang had already recognized Li Yifeng in the dark one step first, but he didn't say anything, and he had the intention to put Li Yifeng to death. He has no deep enmity with Li Yifeng, but he and Zhou Zhenwei are not pleasing to each other. Because when Wei Xiang was serving under Dou Jiande, he met Zhou Zhenwei during a ransack of the village, causing Zhou Zhenwei to break a leg.

Now that the two are working together, they should have abandoned their previous suspicions, but Zhou Zhenwei's status is much higher than Wei Xiang's, Wei Xiang's heart is unbalanced, and he secretly hates him.

Wei Xiang knew that Zhou Zhenwei was the most precious of his five descendants, especially the eldest disciple Li Yifeng. So he planned to kill Li Yifeng pretending not to know in order to hit Zhou Zhenwei. He knew that Li Yifeng had the true inheritance of Zhou Zhenwei and was quite good at martial arts, so he sent a crossbowman to ambush him. He made a lot of calculations, but he missed the existence of Duhe, so that the people sent out to ambush were almost wiped out.

After capturing Li Yifeng, Wei Xiang had a new idea, Li Yifeng killed so many of them and handed him over to his boss, so that Zhou Zhenwei could be accused of conniving at his apprentice to do bad things to him, so that Zhou Zhenwei could be better hit. Therefore, he was only tied up, and it did not hurt his surname.

It wasn't until the end, when the two sides agreed to fight, that Li Yifeng knew that the robbers of this ship were people from the organization to which he was loyal. But the situation at that time was already on the verge of arrows, and he had to send it, Wei Xiang couldn't pull his face to plead with Li Yifeng, and Li Yifeng also hated them to the bone because of the mother and son killed by Zhang Feng, and refused to recognize each other.

It is precisely because of this that the situation has been created, if Li Yifeng had been secretly notified before the move, or if he had been killed directly after he was caught, there would have been no such thing as now.

Wei Xiang thought that at most he would die, but where did he think that Du He would not kill him, let him suffer this feeling that life is worse than death, it is really hateful, it is really hateful!

Thinking that he was a hero, but now that he was bullied by dogs in Pingyang, Wei Xiang had a feeling that he was going to commit suicide by hitting tofu.

He lay weakly in the prison car, and he didn't even have the strength to lift his hand.

In his current state, suicide is also a luxury.

His eyes were half-open and half-closed, and his resentful gaze swept over all the officials: in the past few days, he had already written down the appearance and tone of all the officials, and as long as he had the opportunity, he decided to kill the whole family of these officials, but it was not so, and he could not eliminate the hatred in his heart.

At this moment, a high song sounded on the official road and sang "Yo...... Sister, sister, wait for me...... I'll look for you tonight......"

The crisp Jiangnan ballad was sung back and forth on the official road, and Wei Xiang's eyes stared at the yellow-clothed young man who was singing, his eyes revealing the hope of survival, and a trace of hideous smile.

At the corner of the official road, two gray-clothed people wearing hats walked on the official road, looking at the young man in yellow who was walking quickly. One of the croppers, who was slightly older than his thirties, laughed, "Are our opponents such fools?" Won't he sing it all the way so that outsiders don't doubt it? ”

Another man in his early twenties looked at the man in gray and glanced around vigilantly, and said, "Haha, I finally don't have to follow anymore, tonight, he will treat everyone as fools and stupid." It's still the deputy of the horse, if it's just me, I really want to let them be deceived. ”

Deputy Ma's real name is Ma Yanfei, he looks very popular, he is the kind of person who looks at it and forgets when he turns around, it is too ordinary and too mediocre, but it is such an ordinary person, but he unexpectedly has a delicate heart and a belly of ghosts.

He is the deputy specially arranged by Duhe to Ba Yuxing, except for Ba Yuxing, the captain, the entire Liuxiang team is the largest, and the people in the team jokingly call him the deputy head of the horse.

Today, it was Ma Yanfei's turn to be on duty, and when he was staring at Wei Xiang to watch his movements, his body suddenly shook slightly, and his weak body was obviously slightly excited.

Ma Yanfei was immediately alert, vaguely aware that someone was secretly communicating with Wei Xiang again, and soon noticed a young man in yellow who was singing, and when he sang in his voice, his eyes lit up, but he couldn't be sure.

So secretly followed, if the young man in yellow has a problem, once he goes out of the street, the singing will stop, but he just walked less than 100 meters, then the young man in yellow will no longer sing, obviously this is not because he is in a happy mood and sings high, but intends to use his singing voice to ventilate the news with Wei Xiang.

Ma Yanfei said: "You continue to stare at Wei Xiang, and I will go and inform the captain." ”

Du He had already expected that someone would inevitably come to rescue Wei Xiang when he left Yangzhou, and he had already arranged for people to keep an eye on Wei Xiang from time to time, in case he was saved and fell short.

Ba Yuxing is a man who lacks wisdom and wisdom, but he is more serious, meticulous, diligent, and does not dare to neglect Du He's orders as if they were holy decrees.

For his requirements, he did his best as much as possible, and it can be said that Wei Xiang was under the supervision of the moon at all times.

When Ba Yuxing heard that he had already confirmed the other party's actions tonight, he waved his strong arms and said with a smile: "After watching for a few days, it's finally time to make a move...... Little ones, cheer up, Childe has completely handed over this task to us, if we mess up, what face do we have to meet him. Brother Ma, what do you think we should do now? Will it be dispatched while they are moving, or will it be intercepted on the road? ”

Ba Yuxing's biggest advantage is that he knows what he knows, he is self-aware, and he never messes around, although he leads the team, all orders will be discussed with Ma Yanfei before making a decision. Ma Yanfeixu is 8 years old and Ba Yuxing is five years old, and Ba Yuxing affectionately calls him Brother Ma.

Ma Yanfei pondered for a moment and said, "I think it's better to intercept it on the way." It was close to the early hours of the morning, and at this time, the officials who were escorting them would spend the night at the post station. If you start in the post station, things will be out of control. This is not in line with Childe's request. Therefore, blocking along the way is the best policy. ”

Ba Yuxing also understood what Ma Yanfei meant: "It's just how to judge the route of their escape after they succeed, and what if those characters are ruthless and kill all the officials who are transported when they succeed?" ”

Ma Yanfei smiled confidently: "Don't worry about this, captain, with Wei Xiang's body, it is impossible to escape after a long journey, we are now near Tianchang County, this is the hinterland of Jianghuai, mostly farmland, there is nowhere to hide." Only in the northwest is there an Erlong Mountain, which can be hidden and recuperated. Since they were able to take the risk to save Wei Xiang, they would not ignore his life and death. Erlong Mountain, their only way to go. This into Erlong Mountain, Changtianxia is the only mountain road, we can ambush near the post station in advance, as long as we are sure that they go northwest, we can arrive at Changtianxia ambush first. As for the latter, I think that this worry is unnecessary, and what a great sin it is for this prisoner to kill the servants. They would never dare to make such a big fuss, I'm sure of that! ”

Ba Yuxing was overjoyed when he heard this, patted Ma Yanfei on the shoulder, and ordered.

It was about eleven o'clock in the evening.

The clouds obscured the crescent-like moon, making the night even more blurred, and more than a dozen figures in the four fields approached the post station.

The inn was built in the wilderness, a large lonely house, and a lantern outside the main entrance showed them the way.

In a simple courtyard of the post station, ten officials slept in the house, and the remaining two stood in the middle of the courtyard to guard the Wei elephant to prevent others from robbing the prisoners.

Wei Xiang was lying in the prisoner car [***], he couldn't sleep with excitement, he thought that he would definitely die, where did he think that Zhou Zhenwei would send someone to rescue him, and it was the old three Duan Ganzhi among his five descendant disciples, and the person who sang loudly on the official road to inform him was Duan Ganzhi.

Thinking about the treatment he received along the way, Wei Xiang was like a poisonous snake, looking at the two backs in front of him and revealing their eerie fangs.

Suddenly!

In the silent night, there were two soft "whoosh" sounds.

Wei Xiang was stunned, and found that the two guards had fallen to the ground, and he didn't know whether they were dead or alive, and at their necks, a small mango needle was stuck there, and it didn't appear anymore, as if it had grown there.

Several black shadows crossed the wall, and Duan Ganzhi walked in the front, holding a thin bamboo in his hand and a long sword hanging from his waist. He was dressed in yellow, and his hands and arms were as long as apes, which were longer than ordinary people, and the fainting of the officials was his masterpiece.

When he didn't worship Zhou Zhenwei as a teacher, he was an Orion in the Lingnan Mountains, and he was good at using anesthetics, and the anesthetics he developed could make people unconscious and faint to the ground in an instant.

Duan Ganzhi withdrew the needle and placed it carefully.

The other men in black searched the officer's body and shook their heads, indicating that they did not have the key.

"Pry!" Duan Ganzhi whispered a word.

The others understood, and used daggers to pick open the iron nails at the corner of the prisoner cart and rescued Wei Xiang from the prisoner cart.

Wei Xiang whispered impatiently: "Why is it so troublesome, it is easy and convenient to kill them directly to retrieve the key!" He snatched the saber of the man in black beside him, smiled fiercely, and slashed down at the underground servant.

Duan Ganzhi took a mango needle in his hand, inserted it into his neck first with a clever technique, smiled coldly, and said in his heart: "If it weren't for the overall situation, I wouldn't have bothered to save you." still want to make things bigger, is it really that the Tang Dynasty is bullied arbitrarily? ”

He asked Wei Xiang to be carried out of the post station quietly without alarming anyone.

According to the original plan, Wei Xiang's body was extremely weak, and he could not withstand the long-distance escape, and the only way to recuperate quietly was to recuperate in one place. At that moment, Duan Ganzhi gave the order to go to Erlong Mountain.

In the darkness before dawn, a long procession of about fifteen people quietly entered the Changtian Gorge, illuminated by only a few torches.

They walked quickly, robbing a prison in the Tang Dynasty was a very big felony, once they found that all counties in various places would receive official documents wanted in the first time, only before dawn, on the mountainside, they could be considered safe.

It's just that they never expected that there were already more than 30 people in ambush in this place, and they had been waiting for a long time.

As soon as Duan Ganzhi came out of the mouth of the gorge, dozens of tree trunks and countless large stones suddenly rolled down from the top of the cliff above, and for a moment the dust and debris filled the sky, the roar was deafening, and the momentum was amazing.

The wood and stone pushed down immediately blocked the narrow valley mouth, and just when they were panicking, the light of the torches on the ground was lit up everywhere, and the members of the thirty Liuxiang team held torches high and poured out from all directions, and in an instant, Duan Ganzhi and his party were surrounded thoroughly.

Duan Ganzhi saw the surrounding scene clearly, and his heart had sunk to the bottom. Most of the people he brought were good hands in the Zhenwei Martial Arts Gym, not to mention facing more than 30 people, even if it was 100 people, they were confident to break through the encirclement.

However, the mysterious people who surrounded them all had crossbow arrows in their hands, and they were chain crossbows that they could not buy, and only the army had.

(To be continued)