After resting for a while, more than 500 people set off again, fortunately, with one person and two horses. The people are light and fast, and they are gradually dozens of miles away from Kyoto. Walking here, it is already far away from Kyoto, sparsely populated, and in front of it is a low hill with a continuous forest at the foot of the mountain.

Chen Kefu and his entourage did not walk on the official road, but on a small road, and at this time, they needed to cross this hill. Shu Bao and Brother Biting Jin led more than ten brothers to open the way, and Chen Kefu and others followed. As soon as they entered the mountain road, the mountain road was uneven, and the snow on the road made it impossible for everyone to go fast, so they had to walk slowly.

The mountain road is difficult to walk, Chen Kefu and his party can only move forward slowly, but they don't know that the original road plan will only be discovered in the afternoon, and at this time, the soldiers and horses who were the first to go out of the city in Kyoto to pursue him were only about an hour later than him. Unlike Chen Kefu, who has family members in his team, he doesn't move fast. Those who pursued were all wolf-like hussars, desperately pursuing out of the city along the way.

Although the people of the Secret Service Department set up suspicious soldiers on the 19th Road, what they didn't expect was that almost one-third of the people in the entire Eastern Capital City had gone out of the city to chase Chen Ke back.

All the soldiers and civilians combined, there are 300,000 or 400,000 people, of which about 10% have horses.

Hundreds of thousands of men and horses, like a net removed from the eastern capital, have been spreading the net from the eastern capital in all directions. It's like a comb, under such intensive combing, suspicious soldiers all the way are discovered and pursued. The suspicious soldiers led away most of the pursuers, but there were still a large number of men and horses constantly searching for them. There are even many people who even gallop directly on horseback and rush farther away.

After Pei Yun returned to the house, he immediately dispatched all the generals in the house, led by Pei Ming, the second son of the family, and dozens of family nephews, and rushed directly to the border of Henan County and Xingyang County according to his orders. According to Pei Yun's idea, Chen Kefu will inevitably return to Liaodong if he defects, and the only way to return to Liaodong is to take it away from the Tiger Prison is the fastest.

For the suspicious teams of the Praetorian guards along the way, Pei Ming, the son of Pei Yun, the son of the whole team, was indifferent at all, he didn't believe that Chen Kefu would be discovered so easily. Like his father, he was convinced that Chen Kefu must have been heading for the Tiger Prison. Along the way, he took three hundred families to copy the path and went straight to the direction of Xingyang.

"Childe, the family member who explored the road in front reported that he had just found that there were fresh traces on the road ahead of him, which were large horseshoe marks. According to his observations, a team of thousands of horses is likely to be Chen Kefu's people. A child of the Pei family stepped forward to report to Pei Ming.

Pei Ming took out a handscroll from his bosom, which was a suspicious team sign issued to him by the Praetorian Guard.

He took it out and looked at the nine land suspicious soldiers marked on it, and none of the teams were going in this direction.

"Could it be the pursuing soldiers and horses of the imperial court?"

"It's possible, but maybe it's small. We came here without stopping, and it was a small road, and it was unlikely that thousands of imperial soldiers and horses would take this path, unless they found something. A smile appeared at the corner of Pei Ming's mouth, "That means that it is very likely to be Chen Kefu in front?"

Pass my order, all speed up, we will catch up immediately, no matter what, we also have half a chance to catch up with Chen Kefu. If it is really Chen Kefu, I will not only take revenge for killing my brother today, but also pick one up

The Marquis. Pursue! "Pei Ming is less than thirty years old, and he was originally a martial arts general in the Praetorian Guard, but he was removed from the Praetorian Guard by Yang Guangqing last time, and now he is idle at home. If Chen Kefu can be caught this time, he

However, he can be promoted three levels in a row and be named a marquis. Not to mention the gold and silver rewarded, even if he is promoted to three levels, he will also be a member of the third-grade purple robe.

More than 300 people were like taking a big tonic, and when they heard that Chen Kefu might be in front, they all roared. A clamp on the horse's belly, the horse galloped, and after a while, he had rushed into the mountain road, and chased for a while, and finally saw a group of men and horses in front of him from a distance.

"Report to the second son, I found a team of about 500 people in front, all of them are one person and two horses, and there is no banner of the imperial court!"

Pei Ming's eyes were excited, and he said loudly, "It is impossible for the pursuers of the imperial court to be matched with two horses, this must be Chen Kefu and his group." Brothers, kill it, capture Chen Kefu alive, and get promoted and make a fortune at this moment, kill! ”

With Pei Ming taking the lead, the rest of the family members also moved forward bravely, as if the more than 500 people in front of them had all turned into golden coins in their eyes.

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As soon as Pei Ming and the others appeared, Chen Kefu and the others had already discovered it. At this time, it was only three hours away from Kyoto, and the other party had already caught up. This surprised Chen Kefu, but also couldn't help but feel a little

His brow furrowed. The appearance of these people shows that the imperial court has discovered him in advance, and the time of discovery is very early. This means that there are pursuers coming all the way, and there must be more pursuers elsewhere.

"Array, meet the enemy!" At this time, there were no veterans of the Liaodong Army in the team, and Qin Qiong became the one who commanded the troops.

Under the order, dozens of generals such as Cheng Yanjin, Luo Shixin, and Wei Chigong had already summoned nearly 400 elite guards to quickly form a defensive circle. surrounded Chen Kefu and those family scribes

In the array. The 300 guards transferred by the Special Service Division are basically veterans who have served in the Liaodong Army. The veterans who have been in battle for a long time are well-trained, and as soon as they hear the order, they immediately react quickly and set up the formation.

"Honor! First quarter! Several more commands sounded, and the guards took off their crossbows from their saddles and twisted their arrows. Although when Chen Kefu returned to the Central Plains, in order to avoid trouble, he only brought a bow and arrow, not a crossbow machine.

However, the secret service department has amazing energy in the Central Plains, and they have already transported a large number of crossbow machines from Liaodong to store them in a secret stronghold outside Luoyang City. This time, the guards Chen Kefu left Beijing, and the guards were not only equipped with armor, but also all of them

Liaodong's continuous archer crossbow was prepared.

Although Pei Ming over there was born as a Praetorian Guard officer of Zhengwupin, his status as a Praetorian Guard officer was only obtained by virtue of his father's status as a close minister of the Son of Heaven. Although compared to his dead eldest brother Pei Pin, he wants to

It's a lot stronger, but he's still just a noble son, and he's good at vassal elegance, but he hasn't experienced real combat with real swords and guns. At this time, he took dozens of Pei's children and led three hundred family members to take care of the family, a nest

Charging like a bee.

Two hundred steps, one hundred steps!

"Crossbow arrows, let's go!"

Qin Qiong roared, and the rest of the generals also commanded their own orders to release arrows and shouted out words one after another. The eyes of the guards of the Liaodong Army were tightly locked on the guards who were screaming wildly, and the guards who were charging forward with jī moves, their fingers lightly tapped, and a crossbow arrow came out of the string with a sound of breaking through the air, piercing into the target's body.

For the guards of the opponent's Liaodong Army, they didn't have any pressure at all to deal with these unruly families in front of them. None of them even used the continuous shooting of the crossbow, and everyone was full of confidence and methodically shot arrow by arrow.

Faced with the sudden burst of crossbow arrows, the housekeepers in cloth clothes even forgot the action of holding the wooden shield in their hands to block it. They just watched in horror as the crossbow arrows whistled and finally pierced into their bodies, and the powerful crossbow arrows brought them off their horses and fell down the mountain road, where they were trampled by the hooves of the horses behind.

After the three crossbows of 400 people were fired, there were no more than 300 Pei family disciples and family members left. Before they could react, they could only let the war horses lead them, follow the people in front of them who kept falling, and continue to send them to the Liaodong guards to die.

"None of them will be killed!"

Looking at the remaining dozens of people who were lucky not to die under the rain of arrows, Qin Qiong calmly gave an order.

"Boom! Boom 1 boom! ”

One after another horizontal knives were unsheathed, and the outermost Liaodong guards had cold eyes, and they leaped out of their horses, harvesting the last life like a god of death.

"Wow!"

Qin Qiong threw Pei Ming, who was trembling, in front of Chen Kefu's horse, "Dashuai, he said that he is Pei Yun's second son." ”

Chen Kefu looked at the person in front of the horse, and he could vaguely see Pei Yun's shadow between his eyebrows.

However, the tiger father and the dog, although he does not despise Pei Yun's personality, Pei Yun is also quite capable. Who would have thought that his son would be so bad, and shook his head, "Say, why are you chasing me?" If you tell me everything you know, I can give you a good time! If not, I'll let you know what it feels like to be worse off than dead! ”

"Lord Chen's life, I said, I'll say anything, don't kill me." Pei Ming pleaded with a pale face: "It's Tang Guogong, it's Tang Guogong's son, who found out that Lord Chen ran away with someone in the morning."

Therefore, Li Yuan entered the palace and told the emperor the secret, and His Majesty issued an order that whoever captured Lord Chen alive would be made a marquis, with a reward of 10,000 coins, 10,000 acres of land, and the official was promoted to the third level. As soon as the news came out, half of the men in Kyoto went out of the city to hunt down Lord Chen, and the little one became greedy for a while, so he came with his family. Please spare your life, the villain will never dare again. ”

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Chen Kefu nodded at Qin Qiong, Qin Shubao raised the crossbow arrow in his hand, and an arrow shot into Pei Ming's eyebrows.

Luo Shixin returned to the front of the battle with the guards, "Commander, all of them have been checked, and there is no living mouth." ”

Chen Kefu and the generals glanced at each other, and their hearts were a little heavy, "Everyone, everyone heard what he said just now. I didn't expect the emperor to find us in advance, and now we can only hurry up and rush back to Liaodong first. Let's go! ”

The team set off again, but this time everyone consciously picked up the pace. Fang Xuanling immediately stepped forward and rushed to Chen Kefu's side, he glanced at Li Xiuning in the team, "Why did Li Shimin and Li Yuan do this?" ”

With a sneer, Chen Kefu smiled and said, "When the disaster comes, they fly separately, this is just human nature." Speaking of which, I also implicated the Li family, and he did this just to protect himself, there is nothing right or wrong! ”

Having said that, Chen Kefu's heart was still very uncomfortable. If it was just Li Yuan doing this, he would feel better. But Li Shimin first found out about this matter, and then told Li Yuan, which made him heartbroken

It is very uncomfortable. I think that at the beginning, he took care of Li Shimin like his own brother, and cultivated him from a gentleman to a man who was both civil and military. But who would have thought that until now, Li Shimin was the first to treat him like this

Person.

Everyone rode their horses and galloped wildly, and drove for more than an hour, until they reached the edge of a small river, and Chen Kefu ordered the horses to rest. Calculate the time, and it is already early afternoon. The first month of the month gets dark early, and there is more than one at most

The hour is getting dark. Chen Kefu sent Cheng Yanjin to scatter the guard with dozens of people. After a quarter of an hour's rest, we had to travel overnight. Although he was tired of traveling day and night, he already knew that hundreds of thousands of people were searching for him

Everyone, it's just risking yourself to camp here.

Chen Kefu was a little tired and ate dry food on the side, which was not physical exhaustion, but mental exhaustion.

There was a sound of squeaky footsteps in the snow, and Li Xiuning, dressed in men's clothes, walked up to him and sat down, "Husband!" ”

Chen Kefu felt the hand she held him, as cold as a sound of ice. When he raised his head to look, he saw that Li Xiuning's eyes were red and swollen, obviously he had just cried for a long time.

Looking at her appearance, Chen Kefu also understood that she had heard Pei Ming's words before. It's hard for her, on one side is her father and brother, and on the other hand, she is her husband. Now that her father and brother have turned their backs on her husband, she, the person caught in the middle, is the saddest.

"I'm sorry!" Li Xiuning said softly.

Holding the cold hand in his arms, Chen Kefu smiled, "We are husband and wife, so why say I'm sorry." In fact, the most difficult thing about this thing is you, this time it was a complete accident, and it was me too

It affected my father-in-law. They are doing this for the good of the Li family, I can understand that. Madame doesn't need to be sad, isn't my father-in-law okay now, and we're okay, everyone is fine. ”

It was getting dark, the north wind was howling, and everyone's heart was extremely heavy.

Several black dots appeared from the snow in the south, gradually revealing their figures, but they were Cheng Yanjin and other people who went to explore the way. Chen Kefu patted Li Xiuning's back and helped her tie her up carefully.

"It's time for us to hit the road!"

Before Chen Kefu's voice fell, Qin Qiong, who was standing on a stone and looking around with a clairtelescope, shouted, "Alert!" There is an enemy! ”

Hearing this voice, Chen Kefu's face couldn't help but change, he didn't care about anything else, and took off the clairvoyant mirror to look. I saw that the previous black dot was clearly visible in the clairvoyant mirror, but it was Cheng Yanjin and others. only

There were six or seven people who had gone with him before, but now there were only three left. And in the clairvoyant mirror, it was clearly seen that the three of them were galloping wildly, and one of them had a white feather arrow stuck in his armor. And in them

Behind him, a black line came like a tide.

"Enemy attack! Array! Array! Chen Kefu roared, turned around and ran towards the war horse!。