Chapter 53: Suspected Imperial Army
The moon is dark and the wind is high.
In this dark forest camp, there was silence outside, and the player soldiers had already taken turns to rest, only Lu Chen was still squinting and struggling.
Li Long, who had no independent guard, lay asleep in his tent.
Then.
There was a rush of fighting outside.
Lu Chen stayed in the camp tent with a silver spear in his hand, waiting quietly, ready to wake up Li Long who was asleep, for fear that the enemy would attack them.
Waiting.
The fighting outside the camp did not stop.
Suddenly.
Yang Feng, who broke in, shouted: "Lord, the bandits in front have suddenly increased, there are about nearly 10,000 people, they have broken through the defense line of the Inhuman guards, and have begun to kill towards the inner camp. ”
Lu Chen stared at the red eyes, pondered for a while and asked, "Yang Feng, do you see that there are only bandits in front?" ”
"My lord, only there are bandits in front."
Lu Chen hesitated for a while, woke up Li Long, and approached the carriage with Yang Feng.
Li Long rode a war horse to kill a bandit who rushed up, he looked at the opponent's weapon, was stunned for a moment and said: "Su Datuo, you see they are using scimitars, they don't look like Han people, could it be that the Hu people secretly entered the territory of Yuzhou?" ”
Lu Chen's spear slashed the other party's bandits at will, although there were many of them, they could still be controlled, Li Long's words made him look at the size and dress of the bandits a few more times, and they were indeed much taller and more powerful than ordinary Han people.
"Why did they assassinate Liu Hua? Doesn't make sense? Lu Chen asked suspiciously.
Li Long was also puzzled.
Then.
Yu Wenyuan happened to meet the two of him and said: "There must be a follow-up to the escort mission, looking at the follow-up mission of this battle, it should be okay, maybe there is some beauty battle, haha." ”
Li Long glanced at Yu Wenyuan with disdain.
That's when it happened.
The back mountain suddenly burst into flames.
"Kill!"
I saw the arrows in the sky landing in the camp tent with firelight, and the fire burned the camp tent in an instant, and several screams suddenly sounded in the central camp tent, and the guards quickly began to move towards the central guard.
Meantime.
The three hundred masked bandit cavalry behind sprinted.
This moment.
The change of the battlefield was fleeting, and the advantage at the beginning turned into a defeat.
They could only watch as the three hundred cavalry rushed into the Praetorian Guard, the player guards fended off the bandits in front of them, and the Praetorian Guards resisted the cavalry with all their might.
When Li Long was about to rush up to fight, they saw a cavalryman holding a horse lance and stabbing a Han army guard to death with a single shot, and Lu Chen and the others were instantly stunned in their heads.
He immediately grabbed Li Long.
Li Long was puzzled: "What? ”
"Don't go, it seems to be a Xianbei guard." Lu Chen stared at the cavalry who rushed into the camp of the Han Army's Praetorian Guards, shook his head and explained: "I remember the weapons in their hands, the only one who can kill the Praetorian Guards is the Praetorian Guards, although I don't know how the Xianbei Praetorian Guards appeared in Yuzhou, but believe me that I am not mistaken, our task is only to protect the eldest princess Liu Hua." ”
When Li Long heard Lu Chen's explanation, his back was cold.
That's when it happened.
Zhu Hong and Lin Jun, who were slightly injured, came with the player lord.
"Those cavalry are so powerful that they stabbed two of my guards to death with a single shot, big guys, what should we do next?"
The player lord was full of panic, obviously frightened, but fortunately there were guards, and they were able to escape.
They couldn't participate in the battle of the Praetorian Guard, so they could only wait quietly.
Just when everyone is at a loss.
Lin Jun said suddenly: "Our task is to escort the eldest princess Liu Hua to Langya, why don't you just take Liu Hua away, we don't need to fight with the enemy at all, now the guards are just being contained, we just need to take Liu Hua and leave, in this way, we don't need to hurry slowly, just drive the eldest princess Liu Hua's carriage to hurry up." ”
Zhu Hong endured the scar on his arm and hissed, then looked at everyone, and seeing that everyone didn't speak, he suddenly said: "I think this method is feasible, as long as you can complete the task." ”
Several of them glanced at each other and thought for a while, rather than being tortured by the bandits day and night, it was better to throw off their arms and fight once, and they would be given a bad review if it was a big deal, but it was better than failing the mission.
Li Long took the lead in saying: "I think it's okay." ”
Yu Wenyuan also nodded.
Finally, they looked at Lu Chen, the only one who had not yet spoken.
Lu Chen didn't speak, he glanced at Lin Jun, then at the Xianbei Guard, and then at Li Long and the others, faintly worried in his heart.
He is different from Li Long and others, the task is to escort, but the punishment for failure is different, and he does not dare to rely on these players for this task related to his fate.
He pondered for a long time.
Then he raised his head, looked at Li Long and the others and said, "Our soldiers are divided into two routes, all the way to take Liu Hua on the post road, and all the way to attract bandits into the city, what do you think?" ”
"There aren't many people in the first place, and we're escorting them separately, isn't this looking for death?"
As soon as the words fell, they were greeted with the strong opposition of the player lords, and they added up to only a hundred players, plus the guards under their command were only three hundred, if they were still separated, not to mention whether they could complete the task, and whether their lives could be saved along the way escorted by the post road was a question.
Li Long and Yu Wenyuan were also a little puzzled.
And at this time.
Zhu Hong suddenly asked, "In this case, I don't know how we will distribute it?" ”
Lu Chen nodded with a cold face and said: "The five of us took the post road to escort Liu Hua, and the rest of us all approached the county seat, whether we can live or not depends on their own ability." ”
Li Long and the others were stunned, they didn't expect Lu Chen to be distributed like this, this was more dangerous than dividing the two roads equally, but the others were able to live.
Lu Chen said coldly: "If everyone agrees, we will act like this." ”
The player lords did not speak.
Such a choice is more beneficial to them, and no one wants to lose their lives because of an escort mission.
Li Long and the others glanced at each other.
Speechless.
It was Zhu Hong who took the lead in nodding in response.
Lu Chen sighed secretly, he had already calculated in his heart, if they didn't agree, Lu Chen would directly kidnap Liu Hua and ride the snow to Langya alone.
"Let's go."
Lu Chen shouted, walked alone to the twenty Fanghua woman with a silk scarf covering her face, and asked, "But Her Royal Highness the eldest princess?" At the edge of Xiazhen, Hou Su Xiaochen specially welcomed His Highness to leave this place and escorted His Highness back to Langya's house. ”
The woman shook her head and said softly, "The one in the carriage is Her Royal Highness the eldest princess." ”
Lu Chen frowned lightly and shouted, "Her Royal Highness the eldest princess is here?" Hou Su Xiaochen, who was on the edge of Xiazhen, came to escort the eldest princess back to Langya's house. ”
There was no response from inside the carriage.
Li Long and the others in the distance glanced at each other, and secretly said in their hearts, there are several meanings for not responding.
Wait for half a ring.
Lu Chen glanced at Li Long and the others in the distance, and then, seeing that they were also spreading their hands, he slowly dismounted, walked to the carriage, slowly lifted the curtain with his hands, and exhaled.
"What? Empty. ”
Lu Chen and the others were stunned, this carriage was empty, and then he checked the other carriages, empty, empty, or empty, all empty.
How can it be?
The eldest princess Liu Hua has long since left? Or did she not get into the carriage at all?
Thinking of this, Lu Chen's face instantly darkened.
He grabbed the woman and stepped on the snow black horse, and shouted to Li Long and the others, "The carriage is empty, let's leave here first." ”
"What?" Li Long looked at the woman who was being held by Lu Chen with a questioning face, and then showed an inexplicable smile.
They secretly said in their hearts, it is rumored that Su Xiaochen has a special habit, and sure enough, he is worthy of being the first color of the Three Kingdoms ~ embryo.
And Lu Chen naturally didn't know what they thought, at this time, the woman wanted to struggle, but because the speed of the snow and the black horse was too fast, she didn't dare to move.
Lu Chen probed the woman's information and had completely determined that this woman was not the eldest princess Liu Hua, and guessed from Lu Chen's illusion that she was at most a maid.
According to the urine nature of the system, if you dare to hug the married eldest princess Liu Hua, such an impertinent move, the warning announcement of the threat has already been sent, I remember the last time I was in the restaurant inn, I obviously didn't do anything, and I was pulled by the system A wave of hatred, although there has been no assassination so far.
If it weren't for the eldest princess Liu Hua, then what would be going on with this task.
Li Long and the others quickly followed.
When the bandits looked at Lu Chen and the others and threw down the carriage and fled, they immediately sent a small part to chase after them, and then all the player guards were killed, and the three hundred guards had been defeated, and the bandits swarmed up one after another, lifting the curtains of the five carriages, only to find that there was nothing inside.
"Damn, they ran away, chase me quickly."
Lu Chen and the others took the player lord to the fork, and they divided into two roads, Li Long and the others followed Lu Chen non-stop towards the border of Xuzhou, and the others went to Xuchang County to take refuge, and the bandits who caught up were killed by Li Long and others, stopping on the way to rest for a while.
Lu Chen looked at the woman with tears on her face, turned her head with a dark face and walked to Li Long and the others, there was no explanation, anyway, the task was to send people back to Langya's house, she was the only one in the carriage, and it was the same to send her back.
Yu Wenyuan rubbed over and touched him and asked in a low voice, "Hey, Su Datuo, are you sure she is not Liu Hua?" ”
Lu Chen glanced at it and replied lightly, "Well, she's not." ”
Yu Wenyuan and the others couldn't believe it, the task had been written to escort the eldest princess Liu Hua, but now they said that the woman was not Liu Hua, this was a lie from the woman, or something was wrong with the mission.
Lu Chen said calmly: "That woman has already deceived me once, and I have asked her identity many times and refused to answer, but the only thing I can be sure of is that that woman is not Liu Hua, no matter what, we must send her to Langya Fu's house to try, maybe our guess is correct." ”
He was also very worried in his heart, if the mission was not as he imagined, wouldn't this mission be regarded as a failure, and the end would be worse than anyone else's.
Li Long and the others looked at each other a few times, nodded slowly, they rested, Lu Chen picked up the woman on the snow and continued to move forward.
Although the woman was unwilling, Lu Chen and the others had no choice, their war horses could not carry the two of them for a long time, and Lu Chen didn't want this woman to ride alone, in case she ran away alone, or was killed, wouldn't she be a trap for herself.
In three days, they arrived at the border of Xuzhou.
Seeing that he was about to arrive in Langya County, Yang Feng reported that an army was found in front of him, suspected to be the garrison of the Han Dynasty.
Lu Chen and the others were still a little worried in their hearts.
They are almost at their destination, and if something goes wrong, their journey in the past few days will be in vain.