Chapter 147: Ambush
I don't know how long later, in his sleep, Yang Qiuchi saw his first concubine Qin Zhihui standing on the slope of the back mountain in Guangde County, waving to him from afar, although it was far away, somehow, he could see the sweet smile on her face clearly.
Yang Qiuchi was about to run towards her, but she didn't expect a woman to run behind her, grab ahead of her, and run towards Qin Zhihui, looking at the back, it was her second concubine Song Qing.
I saw Qin Zhihui holding Song Qing's hand, and the two smiled sweetly at Yang Qiuchi, and then slowly flew towards the clouds.
Yang Qiuchi shouted loudly: "Zhihui! Sunny! ”
At this time, he only felt that the heavens and the earth were shaking, and his body was like being in the rapids of a river, Yang Qiuchi was in a hurry, flew up, and grabbed Song Qing behind. Song Qing tried hard to break free, Yang Qiuchi hugged Song Qing into his arms, hugged him tightly and said, "Qingqing, don't go, don't leave me!" Sunny and sunny. ”
Suddenly, his head hurt, he was flicked a finger, and Yang Qiuchi screamed in pain, and finally woke up, and he really hugged the body of nephrite jade Wenxiang in his arms, waking up like a dream, thinking that it was really Song Qing, and he didn't have time to think about how Song Qing suddenly appeared in his arms, hugged him tightly, and shouted anxiously: "Qingqing, don't leave me!" ”
For~! With another flick of his fingers, Yang Qiuchi sighed, and then he woke up completely, let go of his hand, and the girl in his arms struggled to sit up, and said angrily: "Crazy you!" ”
The fire in the room had been burned, and only some red coals were left, and with the faint light of this coal, Yang Qiuchi could see clearly that it was not Song Qing who was holding him just now, but Song Yun'er.
Yang Qiuchi looked at Song Yun'er in a daze, not knowing how he ran into his arms.
Song Yun'er was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly explained: "I saw that you kicked the quilt away, so I came over to cover the quilt for you, but I didn't expect you to really talk in your dreams, a mud doll." If you want to call her, it's okay, why are you holding me? ”
Yang Qiuchi smiled a little embarrassedly, but thought in his heart, you have martial arts, don't say that I am asleep, even when I am awake, I really want to hug you, if you don't want to, I can't hug you even if I have two more hands. knows that this girl is good to herself, but she can't pierce this layer of window paper, so as not to embarrass everyone.
Yang Qiuchi was about to speak, but suddenly froze, the smile on his face gradually disappeared, he pricked up his ears and listened for a while, feeling strange, except for the snoring of Hu Jiang and the guards, the surroundings were quiet, and he couldn't even hear a dog barking.
Something is wrong, the post where they live is in the village of Beishao Village, when they just came to Beishao Village the night before, the dogs in the village barked in a mess, and before they went to sleep, they also heard dogs barking from time to time, why is there no sound now.
Song Yun'er saw that his voice was solemn, and was about to open her mouth to ask him, but Yang Qiuchi put his index finger up on Song Yun'er's red little mouth, signaling her not to speak. Song Yun'er blushed, slapped his fingers away, pricked up his ears and listened, but found nothing.
Yang Qiuchi got up, walked quickly to the window, gently opened the window a gap, and listened for a while, but there was still no dog barking, but faintly heard the sound of hulala, staring at it, only to see that in the misty moonlight, there was a black shadow moving slowly in the sky.
Song Yun'er also came to Yang Qiuchi's side. Yang Qiuchi pointed to the dark shadow in the moonlight in the sky in the distance and asked, "Yun'er, you have good eyesight, can you see what it is?" ”
Song Yun'er stared intently: "It seems to be a flock of birds." ”
When Yang Qiuchi heard this, his face changed, and he exclaimed: "Not good! ”
"What's wrong?" Song Yun'er asked in surprise.
"It's likely that a strong enemy is coming!"
"Ah~!" Song Yun'er exclaimed, "Where?" ”
"None of the dogs in the village barked, and they had probably been killed by the infiltrated enemy outpost, so that we would not be alerted when the large army entered. The birds on the horizon must have been alarmed when a large group of people passed by, and that direction was the official road we came from Chuzhou to enter the village! ”
"Could it be a group of pedestrians from Chuzhou?"
"No, it's almost four days now, if you set off here before Chuzhou closes the city gate, you will arrive a long time ago, so it won't be delayed until this time."
"Could it be a patrol of officers and soldiers?"
"You're funny in the head?" Yang Qiuchi finally couldn't help but say a modern word, "It's been many years since the Battle of Jingjing, and if you don't fight, what are the officers and soldiers doing when they have nothing to patrol?" ”
Although Song Yun'er didn't understand what "show teasing" meant, she also knew that Yang Qiuchi was laughing at him, and she slapped him lightly with a pretty face.
Yang Qiuchi was not in the mood to flirt with her now, and said in a low voice: "Inform the others and leave here immediately." ”
Song Yun'er smiled: "Coward, what are you afraid of?" Soldiers will block ......"
"Unstoppable! The enemy is prepared, determined to win, I'm afraid it's not something that the 20 or so of us can handle, if nothing else, you just look at the frightened birds to know that there must be more people than us. ”
At this moment, the door was pushed open, Nangong Xiong flashed in, and said in a low voice: "Young Master! Something is wrong, it seems that there are enemies! ”
Song Yun'er asked in surprise: "What did you find too?" ”
"Neither the men sent to change the sentry nor the previous sentries have returned!"
Yes~! Song Yun'er exclaimed.
Yang Qiuchi said: "There must be a strong enemy coming!" It should be from the direction of Chuzhou in the south, wake up Lord Hu, lead the horse, and retreat immediately! ”
Nangong Xiong used to be born in martial arts, and Yang Qiuchi's remaining thirteen brocade guards were all well-trained, and when they got the order, they didn't panic, and immediately went out of the courtyard to be on guard. The few catchers were quite calm, and escorted Zhao Banxian out to the courtyard, ready to get on the horse.
After Hu Jiang was woken up, he still couldn't figure out what was going on, and was about to ask. Just then, I heard a noise outside the courtyard.
"Who?" It seems to be Yang Qiuchi's guard who asked.
Immediately after that, when the sound of the long blades intersecting, a scream was heard.
A guard ran in and reported to Yang Qiuchi: "Young Master, there are two masked people lurking outside, and after we found out, they attacked us and others, and we have already killed them." ”
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Yang Qiuchi's expression was even more solemn: "No, these two people are likely to be the vanguard of the enemy army who infiltrated the village in advance to look for our situation, and the enemy brigade will arrive in a blink of an eye." Evacuate! ”
Where did Hu Jiang go through such a battle, his face changed in fright, and he asked in surprise: "Young Master Yang, this, what should I do?" ”
The southern retreat route has been controlled by the enemy, and it is impossible to escape back to Chuzhou, and there are steep peaks on both sides of the east and west, so you can only flee to the north.
At this time, the horses were ready, and Yang Qiuchi ordered Hu Jiang to be helped on the horse, and everyone also got on the horse.
Nangong Xiong and several guards opened the way in front, Song Yun'er followed Yang Qiuchi closely, the crowd quickly protected Hu Jiang, escorted Zhao Banxian, and after the rest of the guards were broken, the group quickly raised their horses and withdrew to the north.
Except for the two masked enemies who were killed, there was no enemy on the road, obviously the enemy had not had time to surround him, and his whereabouts were discovered by Yang Qiuchi, who withdrew from the enemy's encirclement in time.
However, they soon heard the rattle of horses' hooves behind them, and the enemy was in hot pursuit. Listening to the voice, there were more than 100 enemies. The roar of the horses' hooves was particularly shocking in the quiet of the night.
After running for more than ten miles, the sound of the hooves of the chasing soldiers behind them became more urgent, and they were already chasing closer and closer. Song Yun'er asked Yang Qiuchi nervously as she ran: "Brother, you go first, I'll resist them." ”
"Nonsense!" Yang Qiuchi shouted, "How can you stop so many of them by yourself?" ”
"What then? If you run without a goal like this, you will be caught up sooner or later! Why don't we scatter and run, and I'll protect you into the mountains and forests! ”
"Don't worry, I have my own way!" Yang Qiuchi said with certainty.
Yang Qiuchi thought of a method in his heart, but he didn't know if it was useful, but what he needed now was to stabilize the morale of the army.
After running for a few more miles, the mountains on both sides became more and more steep. Yang Qiuchi ordered to stop advancing, then reined in his horse and observed the surrounding terrain.
Yang Qiuchi ordered two catchers to protect Hu Jiang, escorted Zhao Banxian to continue to advance, and the rest of the people dismounted, and the two catchers pulled these horses to continue to move forward with Hu Jiang and the others, and after running out of the five-mile road, they hid in the mountains and forests and waited for them. Ordered the remaining brocade guards to climb the cliffs on both sides of the cliffs.
Song Yun'er asked, "Brother, this is a good idea, if we sneak into the mountains and forests, they won't find it." ”
"It's not!" Yang Qiuchi said, "Let's go to the cliff and check to see if there are any rolling logs and stones!" ”
It turned out that when he found that a strong enemy was coming, Yang Qiuchi thought of a strategy to retreat. According to Mi Lizheng, this Beishao Village was the choke point to Chuzhou, the northern gate of the capital, in the Battle of Jingjing. The mountains on both sides are so steep, such a terrain, in ancient times, there would definitely be rolling logs and rocks to attack the enemy and even cut off the road if necessary, but I don't know if so many years have passed, and these devices are still there.
However, at this point, there is only one way to gamble.
Listening to Yang Qiuchi say this, Nangong Xiong was originally born in martial arts, and knew the truth of using soldiers, seeing that the mountains on both sides were an excellent place to set up ambushes, and it was likely that there were rolling logs and stones back then, and he exclaimed in surprise: "That's right!" The young master is right. With a wave of their hands, everyone climbed up the cliffs on both sides.
Nangong Xiong and Song Yun'er closely protected Yang Qiuchi, and led people to climb the cliff. Sure enough, the rolling logs and rocks that were piled up like a hill of defenses back then were still there, and everyone was very excited.
It turned out that when Zhu Di, the king of Yan, attacked Yingtianfu, he avoided the dangerous and unfavorable terrain around Beishao Village, and made a detour to attack Yingtianfu, the capital, so the rolling wood and stones in Beishao Village were not used. It's their luck.
Nangong Xiong was very familiar with the use of this rolling wooden stone, and immediately made arrangements.
As soon as the arrangements were made, the roaring hooves of the pursuers had already chased into the canyon, and by the misty moonlight, the black shadows of the pursuers could already be seen clearly.
The pursuers couldn't have imagined that Yang Qiuchi and the twenty or so people would turn upside down and ambush more than 100 of their pursuers, because the sky was dark, and they didn't find out in time that the mountains on both sides were steep, and the enemy might set up an ambush, not to mention that the rolling wood and stones piled up on both sides of the cliff a few years ago were still there, and there were people in Yang Qiuchi's guards who knew how to use these devices. By the time they found that the mountains on both sides were too steep and they had the courage to chase them in, and they might be ambushed, it was too late.
Seeing that the enemy had chased into the ambush circle, Nangong Xiong shouted loudly and ordered to roll the wooden stones. Suddenly, rolling logs and huge stones piled up like small mountains roared down.
On both sides of the cliff, the thick logs and boulders tumbled and fell, like a landslide, and smashed towards the pursuers of the official road below.
Screams, wails, clashing, neighing horses resounded through the valley, and the pursuers were only a hundred or so men, and under the rain of huge trees and large stones, they were in a mess with no way to escape, and suffered heavy casualties.
With a cup of tea, the rolling wood and stones on both sides of this section of the valley were put down by the brocade guards.
Then, Nangong Xiong shouted: "Brothers, kill!" "The leader slaughtered down the cliff. Song Yun'er protected Yang Qiuchi and guarded the cliff.
The official road was already full of falling logs and boulders, and most of the more than 100 pursuers had been stoned to death by this overwhelming burst of rolling logs and stones, and those who did not die were also seriously injured, and almost none of them were spared.
Nangong Xiong and other brocade guards restrained the pursuers who were seriously injured and fell to the ground screaming and wailing, and gathered together, only less than ten people were still alive, and all of them were seriously injured, and the rest of them had all been smashed into meat sauce by these rolling logs and stones.
At this time, the sky was already dark, and after searching the battlefield to confirm that it was safe, Nangong Xiong shouted to Yang Qiuchi and the two of them.
After interrogating the surviving pursuers, it was learned that these people were indeed Jianwen Yudang, the remnants of the concubine who had been defeated in the last ambush and kidnapping Ming Chengzu.
Yang Qiuchi broke the Jianwenyu Party case in a row, and the annihilation that was installed was recognized by Yang Qiuchi, and finally became Yang Qiuchi's concubine. Jianwen Yu was furious, and finally made up his mind to pull out this thorn in the flesh.
They sent people to follow Yang Qiuchi to Beishao Village, waiting for the opportunity. After discovering that Yang Qiuchi was tired and asleep, the flying pigeon sent a message to mobilize more than 100 people from all the remnants to come to sneak attack, but they did not expect to be Yang Qiuchi's more than 20 people, using rolling wood and stones to successfully counter the encirclement and suppression, and annihilated these remnants in one fell swoop.
Although Nangong Xiong knew that Yang Qiuchi was the special envoy of the Jinyi Guard, he was very in awe of Yang Qiuchi, but he still couldn't admire it. However, this battle has completely changed Nangong Xiong's impression of Yang Qiuchi.
Yang Qiuchi was very alert, and discovered the signs of the enemy's attack in advance, and when the enemy several times his size was attacking, he was calm and calm, and not only led them to escape from the encirclement before the enemy's encirclement was closed, but also immediately thought of a way to retreat from the enemy, and succeeded in one fell swoop.
Now Nangong Xiong knows why Yang Qiuchi can become a high-ranking official like the Jinyi Guard's commander and envoy at a young age.
Yang Qiuchi assigned two guards to call Hu Jiang and the others back, and after cleaning the battlefield, it was already dawn.
(To be continued)