Chapter 15: Scuffle

"Today's hunting depends on their ability, and His Royal Highness the Prince, the team that hunts the most, will reward a sword and a horse." In order to increase the atmosphere, the crown prince Liu Xie took out his own treasure as a reward.

Liu Xie rode a red horse wearing a golden helmet and golden armor, and ran in front of the horse with a bright red cloak, followed by Zhou Yu and rode a white high-headed horse, wearing bright silver armor, a sword hanging from his waist, a pot of arrows on his back, and a treasure carving bow hanging on one side of the horse. Wang Yue and Shi Ah followed closely with a team of guards.

"Originally, I had a sense of foreboding this time." It was Cao and Cao Mengde, who had never shown up, who had been dismissed and driven back to his hometown of Qian County when Yuan Shu and Zhou Yu were gambling in Luoyang City last year. The reason is that the twenty-year-old Cao Cao was promoted to filial piety, and he was appointed as the northern lieutenant of Luoyang in Luoyang, Kyoto. Luoyang is the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty and is a place where imperial relatives and nobles live, and it is difficult to govern public security. As soon as Cao Cao arrived, he affirmed the ban, strictly enforced the law and discipline, and made more than ten five-color sticks, which hung around the yamen. The uncle of Jian Shuo, one of the ten permanent attendants, was forbidden to walk at night, and Cao Cao showed no mercy and executed Jian Tu with a five-colored stick. Luoyang ordered Zhou Xian to maneuver with Cao Cao in many directions, but there was no way for the eunuchs to be powerful, and in the end Cao Cao could only be dismissed and driven out of the eastern capital Luoyang. Recently, Cao Cao changed his previous style, came to Luoyang and began to make some family members with his father Cao Song's relatives and friends, so he and Yuan Shao mingled together.

"Meng De, I didn't expect you to have such a vision, there is indeed something wrong. Except for some people we usually know, there are many strangers with a murderous aura. Just don't know who the unlucky people are today? Could it be—" Yuan Shao suddenly stopped speaking, and he instantly thought that the crown prince might be in danger.

"Originally, your conjecture was correct, you and I sent our entourage back to Luoyang City to report the news. We rushed to find out the whereabouts of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, hoping that our guess was wrong. Cao Cao immediately sent someone back to Luoyang City for help, and he and Yuan Shao quickly whipped up and ran deep into the jungle.

Deep in the jungle, Zhou Yu and Zhou An were escorting the crown prince Liu Xie to retreat up the mountain, and Wang Yue and Shi A in front were blocking a group of black-clothed people with their guards. The crown prince Liu Xie is so big, where has he ever seen such a formation, he was completely stupid, and was dragged by Zhou Yu all the way.

At the beginning of the crown prince Liu Xie, he rode his horse and whipped all the way to a place with high forests and dense grass. Suddenly a sika deer appeared, Liu Xie took off the bow on the side of the horse and began to shoot arrows with a bow, and the arrows shot directly on the buttocks of the sika deer like meteors. The strange thing is that the sika deer did not run or scream, and Zhou Yu, who came from behind, saw this scene and hurriedly shouted: "Your Highness, quickly retreat - there is an ambush!" ”

As soon as the words fell, a group of masked black-clothed people flashed out of the grass and woods, and they were holding bright knives and rushed directly in the direction of Liu Xie, one of the black-clothed men said; "A few of you bypassed to block the entourage behind, and the others took the opportunity to surround the prince, cut off the head and immediately retreat according to the original plan."

Liu Xie looked at the group of black-clothed people who were gradually approaching him, and immediately turned around and ran in the direction of Zhou Yu. Zhou Yu grabbed the reins of the horse, took off the treasure eagle bow, pulled out an arrow and shot at the man in black who was chasing Liu Xie, and the man in black fell to the ground and howled when an arrow hit. At the same time, Zhou Yu shouted loudly; "There are assassins - Wang Yue and Shi Ah quickly brought guards to block the man in black and protect the safety of His Highness."

Wang Yue and Shi A drew their swords and quickly welcomed Liu Xie back, handing him over to Zhou Yu and Zhou An for protection, and the two of them led people to block the black-clothed man who killed him. Zhou Yu took Liu Xie to retreat up the mountain on horseback, and the black-clothed crowd behind him couldn't give up.

This is a wave of masked people in yellow clothes and yellow scarves from another direction, they are also the black-clothed people and Wang Yue who divided the people and horses into two parts to block the chase, and the other wave of people is also chasing the traces of Zhou Yu and Liu Xie. Zhou Yu was a little puzzled, and secretly scolded that the crown prince Liu Xie was really the reincarnation of a broom star, and he lost the country when he first became the emperor in history. Now that I think it's all redundant, it's important to escape.

The sky gradually darkened, and Zhou Yu took Liu Xie around to avoid the pursuit and Wang Yue's escort was separated. The two found a place where no one was and sat down, and Zhou Yu handed the kettle he was carrying to the crown prince Liu Xie, "Your Highness, drink saliva and rest, we have to find a place to hide and wait for reinforcements." ”

"Gong Jin, thanks to you this time! Otherwise, my life will be hanging in the balance, I don't know who is going to kill me, I must find out when I go back, and destroy them to the Nine Clans! There is also the promotion of the father, the house and the land, I will let the father reward whatever you want! The frightened prince Liu Xie regarded Zhou Yu as a life-saving straw, and wrote a blank check to Zhou Yu while drinking water.

"Thank you, Your Highness, the minister will first calculate the direction where we are, and find the right direction before returning to Luoyang City." Zhou Yu was very grateful to the crown prince Liu Xie on his face, and thought to himself that he still wanted to find out who was going to kill him based on his IQ, it was really a fool's dream! The top priority is to find the right direction and escape at night, otherwise if you are caught up by the assassins, it will not be a problem to escape with your own kung fu, and if you take Liu Xie, you will probably have to explain yourself here.

The sky was gray and couldn't see the stars clearly, Zhou Yu relied on the experience of his previous life to touch the trunk of the tree, the slightly drier side was the south, and the humid side was the north, and when they went out in the morning, it was the south gate of Luoyang City, so he took Liu Xie to the north basically in the same direction. How do you know that the direction of subjective speculation is actually deviated, and the farther away from Luoyang.

The prince Liu Xie was assassinated, life and death are unknown, Luoyang City is surging, after the son of heaven Liu Hong heard the news, Long Yan was furious and ordered to close the four gates of Luoyang City to strictly investigate suspicious people, the general He Jin mobilized the soldiers and horses around Luoyang to scatter into the mountains to search for the whereabouts of the prince.

The assassination attempt failed, and the two groups of assassins also hid in the mountains to find the whereabouts of Zhou Yu and Liu Xie, waiting for an opportunity to assassinate them again.

Zhou Yu and Liu Xie had already found a family to change out of their armor, put on a coarse cloth short coat and dressed up as farmers to continue to find their way in the mountains. A gray wolf quietly followed them, unbelieving that they had become prey in the wolf's eyes.

"Whew-" The gray wolf lost patience and bypassed the two of them and let out a long howl to block the way.

"Male... Gong-Jin, what is this thing? Dogs? How to look at its eyes as if it is going to eat us. "The crown prince Liu Xiechang has never been out of the palace at such a young age, and he doesn't know that this thing in front of him is the most cunning and fierce wolf.

"Your Highness - this is a man-eating wolf, in a while, Your Highness, you run first, and I will drag this wolf first." Zhou Yu said this in the innermost, but the palms of his hands holding the sword were full of sweat, wolves are social animals and rarely act alone, what makes his scalp explode is the fear of encountering wolves.

"No—now I don't believe anyone, only you, Gongjin! The two of us can't deal with a wolf. Liu Xie said it nicely, but he was actually afraid that he would be eaten by wolves after leaving Zhou Yu, and Zhou Yu would protect himself in front of Zhou Yu.

Just when the two of them were facing each other, an arrow suddenly shot out from their side and went directly to the wolf's face, and the arrow penetrated the gray wolf's head directly, leaving only a section still shaking, and the wolf lay on the ground with its eyes open, twitching and motionless.

"Who—come out!" Zhou Yu turned to the tree behind him and shouted.

Whoosh - A tall and mighty man came down from the tree, with an earthen bow and arrow in his hand and a short knife at his waist.