Chapter Seventy-Nine. Pursuers
In the middle of the small mountain village, in an ancestral hall with a fairly intact building, a group of Emei disciples lit a bonfire in the fire pit in the house, cooking porridge and bandaging the wounds of the wounded.
Suddenly, a girl in a goose yellow gauze dress hurriedly ran in.
"Senior Sister Jingxuan, it's not good! Someone's coming! ”
Hearing this, all the Emei disciples were shocked, and Jing Xuan also hurriedly stood up: "Are those Mengyuan lackeys and minions catching up?!" ”
Before they could figure out the situation, they were already panicking, after all, they had just experienced such a bloody battle, and everyone was already frightened.
"Senior sister, what should we do?!"
Now that Emei is in trouble, even their master exterminated Shitai, who died in the battle on Mount Emei, and now the backbone that these Emei disciples can rely on is only Jingxuan, the senior sister.
Jing Xuan looked around at all the junior sisters, all of them were injured, their faces were extremely tired, and their faces were full of panic... There was a sense of despair and desolation throughout the ancestral hall.
Jing Xuan opened his mouth, and said in a hoarse voice: "I'm sorry, senior sisters, it's I, the senior sister, can't protect you... Sisters, pick up your swords, and let's fight those Tartars to the death one last time! ”
In their current state, they can't escape, and the only thing they can do is fight to the death!
This group of Emei female disciples is really worthy of the name of the Emei heroine, and in the end, although they are terrified in their hearts, the feminine spirit on their bodies that looks at death as if they were at home is not inferior to men at all.
It's better to say that they are definitely more imposing than the vast majority of men in this era!
When Lu Zhi and Fan Yao came to this ancestral hall, a group of Emei disciples were already waiting here, and when they saw each other clearly, they were stunned for a moment.
"Lu... Young Heroes? ”
Jing Xuan knew Lu Zhi, and reacted the moment he saw him, it must have been that the junior sister who reported the news was too nervous, and she hadn't seen anyone clearly, but when she saw the figure, she hurriedly ran back to report the news, so that there was such an oolong.
"Master Jingxuan, who are you?"
Lu Zhi asked a little strangely, he had noticed the Emei disciple who was keeping vigil at the entrance of the village before, and when he saw her return to the village, he thought that she recognized her identity and ran back to report the good news to everyone.
But no matter how you look at it, they all look like they are going to the battlefield as if they were going to die, right?
"Senior sisters! Don't be nervous, this is Lu Qingzhi's junior disciple of the Wudang faction, not a Yuan Ting Tartar. Jing Xuan spoke up and relieved those junior sisters.
Lu Zhi also hugged his fists at everyone: "I was ordered to go down the mountain this time, just to meet the sisters of Emei." ”
As he spoke, he introduced Fan Yao to a few people around him: "This is Fan Yao, the right envoy of the Ming Sect, and I was able to find you so quickly this time, thanks to his help." ”
Since Fan Yao has the heart to sell a good deal to the Emei faction and ease the relationship, Lu Zhi is also happy to say a word for him.
After all, now the actions of the Yuan court are almost crazy, and the most urgent thing now is to fight against the Meng Yuan, if the Ming Sect can ease relations with the Emei faction, it will naturally be better.
But things are obviously not so easy, after all, between the Mingjiao and the Emei faction, the grudge is really not small, the extinct senior brother Gu Hongzi died because of Yang Xiao, so the extinction can be said to hate the Mingjiao.
And some time ago, when the major factions were besieging Guangming Peak, Jingxu, the extinct disciple of the extinction lineage, was also sucked by Wei Yixiao and died... Obviously, these many grudges are not so easy to unravel.
In fact, after hearing Fan Yao's name, a different color immediately flashed on Jing Xuan's face, and his face gradually turned cold.
If it weren't for the fact that Lu Zhi was also present at the moment, and Fan Yao was here to rescue them, if it was not good to attack, then Jing Xuan would probably have stabbed him directly with a sword!
Facing the cold faces of the Emei disciples, Fan Yao didn't care, as if he had expected it a long time ago, and after arching his hand at them with a smile, he stepped aside.
Lu Zhi said: "Okay, women, the situation is urgent, I won't greet you too much." ”
"There are still four hundred-man teams in ambush nearby, and they may detect that something is wrong at any time and surround us, so please clean up immediately and leave with me."
Jing Xuan nodded, and knew this, so he immediately did not delay any longer, and instructed the junior sisters: "Senior sisters, with the help of the Wudang faction, we will leave with Senior Brother Lu, and we will reorganize and recuperate in the coming day, and then return to recapture my Emei Mountain Gate." ”
"Then let's leave here."
Everyone soon left this abandoned small mountain village and headed south, preparing to make peace with the Wudang disciples led by Song Qingshu and Zhang Wuji, and then return to Wudang.
The time of the night passed quickly, and when the sky was bright, Lu Zhi had already led people to catch up with Song Qingshu and them, and continued to rush all the way without stopping.
Even after a night's journey, everyone was thirsty, hungry, and tired, but they could not stop to rest at this moment.
Last night's operation, because it was night, the chance of being detected was not very large, and the night march of the army was very troublesome, so it was normal not to encounter pursuers.
But now that the sky is dark, it won't be long before those people in the Yuan Court should be able to realize that something is wrong, and if they are caught up by the army all the way, things will be really tricky.
For two days in a row, everyone was on the way, and rarely stopped to rest on the way, only when they couldn't hold on, Lu Zhi would let the team stop, rest for a while, eat some dry food, seize the time to take a nap, and then continue to hurry.
But the speed of the team is still a little too slow, not to mention Ji Yun's village, let's just say that among the Emei faction, there are also many people with injuries, which seriously affects the speed of the team.
In the early morning of the third day, Lu Zhi found Master Jingxuan, Song Qingshu, Zhang Wuji, Ji Yun and others, and said to them.
"No, the team's speed is still too slow, and the injuries on the bodies of several heroines in the Emei faction can't bear to rush like this."
"So the team must stop and recuperate, and as for the pursuit... Leave it to me, and I'll go back and stop the soldiers and lure them away. ”
"Mowgli, Qingshu, the team will be handed over to you, and when the team is almost rested, you will take them on the road again, don't worry about me, after I lead away the pursuers, I will catch up."
At this time, Fan Yao also said loudly: "It's better to let me be with you Lu Shaoxia, and multiple people can take care of it." ”
For Fan Yao's kindness, Lu Zhi did not refuse, and the help of multiple masters like Fan Yao could indeed relieve him a lot of pressure.
"It's fine."
After hurriedly ordering a few people, Lu Zhi and Fan Yao turned around and rushed back in the direction they came, looking for the traces of those pursuers along the way.
Facts have proved that his decision is very necessary, because less than ten miles behind the team, Lu Zhi and the others saw the chasing soldiers of the Yuan Court, if it was not for him to turn back and snipe immediately, I am afraid that in a few hours, this group of Yuan soldiers will catch up with them.
In the woods, Lu Zhi and Fan Yao looked at the neat queue of Yuan soldiers, and their eyes were solemn.
These four hundred people are definitely the elite of the Yuan soldiers, veterans of a hundred battles who have experienced many battles, otherwise it would be impossible to have such spirit, and such an army has always been the most troublesome enemy for their martial arts people.
If you say that there are four hundred bandits and thieves, Lu Zhi will not have any pressure at all, give him a little time, and he can even easily wipe them out.
But if it were such an order and a forbidden and imposing elite army, even if it was him, he would not dare to say that he could defeat them.
Even though he could easily kill several or even dozens of people with his powerful force at the beginning, as long as he fell into their encirclement, the steady stream of armies and attacks was enough to drag him down and grind him to death in the encirclement!
Of course, that's only theoretically, and theoretically Lu Zhi can still use that guerrilla strategy to slowly eat up this army one by one.
So it depends on the situation.