Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Tiger's Mouth and the Wolf's Den
More than a dozen swords, guns, swords and halberds were facing him, Ma Xiao couldn't resist, two big men came over with ropes and tied him up, carried him back to the compound like a chicken, and the weapons on his body were also confiscated, tying him to the door of the firewood room, the leading "Nine Bosses" in the cavalry looked at the wanted notice in the firelight, carefully looked Ma Xiao up and down several times, and then laughed at the people around him, "Hahahaha, eh!" With this kid, we didn't come out in vain this time, brothers, stay overnight tonight, and return to Cloud City tomorrow morning with this fortune boy, and exchange the reward money to drink wine and eat meat into the cave room, hahahaha!"
The cavalry in the courtyard cheered and jumped when they heard it, they were very happy, and Ma Xiao's eyes changed their appearance, and a few people even sang together in their hometown dialect, looking at the eager and excited expressions of the soldiers in a courtyard, Ma Xiao was finally scared, and there was no way to get out after thinking about it, it was really a knife for me to be a fish, and Ning Junshan, who was killed by this day, harmed himself to such an extent, Ma Xiao silently gave all the vicious words he could think of to Ning Gongzi who was enjoying himself in Taizhou City, but no matter how effective the curse was, he couldn't save himself now, the rope on his body was strong, no matter how he twisted his body, it didn't help。
Just when Ma Xiao sighed ill-fated, he suddenly saw a familiar figure in the cheering crowd walking in from the outside, holding a handful of firewood in his arms, this person was wearing the black military uniform of the Chu Army, wrapped his face with a scarf, lowered his head and did not have eye contact with the people around him, walked straight to the middle of the yard, added firewood to the fire, and looked at Ma Xiao at the same time as he squatted down to add firewood, the two looked at each other and immediately shifted their gaze, I was afraid that they would be noticed by others, and Ma Xiao finally had a bottom in his heart when he saw the appearance of this person.
It was the second watch of the night, the cavalry ran around for a day, and soon fell asleep again, only four people were left outside to keep vigil, two of the older ones had already been wrapped in sheepskin and snoring by the fire, and the other two also sat on the sheepskin jacket and chatted while roasting the fire, at this time, a man went out of the house and came to the courtyard, crossed his hands in his sleeves, and walked towards the fire with his head down, Ma Xiao opened his eyes and knew that the time had come.
The two night watchmen stopped talking when they saw someone coming, stared at the person together, and didn't say hello when they saw him, they walked straight, the two looked at each other, and found that they didn't know this person, and quickly stood up in confusion, and just about to ask the person that person had come to the front, and at a very fast speed, he showed a dagger from his sleeve and slashed at each of the necks of the two, and the action was as casual as driving away the mosquitoes on the shoulders of the two, and then stepped forward and grabbed the belts of the two, the two people who were on the night watch suddenly leaned back, and the two heads fell into the sheepskin jacket on the ground, the person pulled the belt and gently put the bodies of the two on the ground, the whole process was silent, and Ma Xiaoxin was extremely shocked to see this scene。
Easily took the life of the night watchman, the man looked down at the person who was still sleeping on the ground, took off the scarf and showed his face, it was Lao Wang, seeing that the action just now did not wake up the sleeping person, Lao Wang turned to Ma Xiao, waved a few times behind him, "poof, poof" twice, and the rope tied to Ma Xiao's body was opened.
"Hurry up and follow me!" Lao Wang ordered in a low voice, his tone was unquestionable, Ma Xiao nodded and walked out with Lao Wang, just walked a few steps and suddenly remembered his weapon, and quickly turned around to get it, the round shield and javelin were okay to say, and they were hung in the stable unattended, but the Yanling knife was taken away by the little leader "Heitou" who slept in the room, and it was definitely not taken back, only the dagger was pressed under the sleeping veteran.
How could Ma Xiao be willing, squatting beside the veteran and holding the end of the dagger and gently dragging it, who knew that when the veteran was asleep, the snoring sound was shocking, and it seemed that the thunder could not move, and he woke up with a slight movement of the dagger, sat up suddenly, stretched out his dry hand full of calluses and grabbed Ma Xiao's wrist, "Little thief, you want to run, Lao Tzu's reward has not been received yet." ”
This veteran is thin and thin, but the strength is great, Ma Xiao can not break free, Lao Wang walked out of the courtyard and found that Ma Xiao did not follow, when he looked back, he found that he was squatting on the ground to take a dagger, just wanted to stop but it was too late, the voice of the veteran woke everyone up, all the rooms in the courtyard made a sparse noise, and he was about to rush out to get someone, Lao Wang scolded and ran back again, the short knife backhand cut off the veteran's hand, grabbed Ma Xiao and ran out, the veteran struggled desperately on the ground and howled, at this time the houses had been knocked open, and several Chu soldiers who reacted quickly had already chased after them with weapons。
I don't know what kind of kung fu this old king used, the left rib is sandwiched by Ma Xiao, his feet are running wildly on the snow as if they are not touching the ground, the moonlight is full of silver light under the reflection of the crystal white snow, and the night can see the scene a few miles away, although the Chu soldiers chasing behind can see clearly, but the person went very fast, the Chu soldiers chased farther and farther away, and gradually only a small black shadow remained, fortunately, the Chu soldiers behind drove their horses to come, and everyone got on the war horses to continue to chase.
Ma Xiao, who was caught in the ribs, only felt that the cold wind was gusting, and he couldn't open his eyes, Lao Wang's legs moved quickly like a phantom, and then he had a new understanding of Lao Wang's strength, and he had just escaped from the tiger's mouth but was worried about his future.
After running out of a stick of incense, the two came to a low hill, the village was no longer visible, the old king finally stopped, and threw it away, and the small body of the horse rolled several times on the snow before he stood up with difficulty, until this moment he found that the old soldier's severed hand was still clutched on his arm, and he was so frightened that he quickly took it off and threw it out.
"Idiot, next time you make an unauthorized claim, be careful that I will cut off one of your hands!" Lao Wang scolded viciously with his back to Ma Xiao.
"Thank you, Brother Wang, for saving your life," Ma replied stupidly.
"Hmph, let's go, they will catch up soon" Without waiting for Ma Xiao to answer, Lao Wang lifted his feet and left.
Ma Xiao didn't dare to slack off this time, and hurriedly followed, "Brother Wang, how did you know that I was killed here?"
Lao Wang didn't answer at first, and the two walked a long way on the hill one after the other before replying, "I heard that one of your miscellaneous servants was sent out to perform military affairs, I thought it was very strange at first, and within a few days of your departure, there were several waves of people like you who were transferred out of Taizhou in a row, and the routes of the march were all different, I knew that this was a bureau in the army, and you were just the bait in this bureau, this is the usual trick of the Pei army, in order to confuse the Chu army and cover the real purpose" Lao Wang walked quickly, and continued without looking back" Anyway, you are also half of my heir, and I feel sorry to die outside like this, so I chased you all the way to this route, and only found you yesterday while I was in the chaos."
"This time it's really thanks to Brother Wang, otherwise I would have been escorted to exchange for reward money, and my head would not be guaranteed" Ma Xiao, who had to trot to keep up, pretended to be grateful, in fact, he had already begun to beat the drum in his heart, this Lao Wang took so much pains to chase so far, it seems that he is determined to get this foundation.
The two of them had just gone down the hill, and Lao Wang, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped for some reason, showed the dagger he had just used again, and stared at the front tightly, Ma Xiao also followed Lao Wang's gaze but there was nothing, I don't know what Lao Wang saw, and when he was puzzled, he suddenly saw a figure in the distance who seemed to be approaching here quickly, Ma Xiao asked nervously, "Are they chasing? No, the direction shouldn't be this way?"
Lao Wang seemed to know who the person on the other side was, and whispered, "Oh no, how did you meet him here?" After speaking, he turned around and picked up Ma Xiao again and ran in the direction of the village, the speed was even faster than just now, which made Ma Xiao even more puzzled, didn't he throw himself into the net when he ran back, but he didn't dare to ask, he could only be caught in his arm and let the cold wind pour into his neck.
The people behind had already discovered the traces of the two of them, and a voice came from behind: "Hahahaha! Senior Brother Wang, our senior brothers have been separated for a long time, and seeing each other here is a foreign acquaintance, why don't you stop and reminisce about the old days, you turn around and leave, and don't say hello, what's the reason?"
Ma Xiao turned his head to see, there were a total of three figures behind, far away, but this voice seemed to be talking in his ears, it was really magical, and then the three of them ran on the snow with the same kung fu as Lao Wang, thinking that they were indeed brothers in the same sect, but judging from the current situation, the latter three did not come to Lao Wang to catch up.
Lao Wang frowned, did not answer, but the speed increased a little, but the distance between them continued to close, less than half a pillar of kung fu Ma Xiao saw a team of cavalry with torches in front, it was the Chu army that came to capture them, there was really a siege in front of the pursuers, why did Lao Wang choose this road of no return.
The cavalry in front also saw a few people running towards them, and hurriedly unfolded the team, blocked the way, and raised troops to meet each other, but Lao Wang had no intention of slowing down at all, and rushed directly into the cavalry team, waving the dagger in the air continuously, easily cutting off the stabbing weapon, and the pace under his feet kept changing and adjusting the direction, shuttling between the horses, as if entering a no-man's land. For a while, the cavalry team turned over on their backs, making a mess, and soon the three black-clothed men also rushed into the cavalry team, and the cavalry only regarded them as accomplices, and immediately adjusted the formation to fight with them, until then Ma Xiao saw Lao Wang's purpose, and he planned to drag the three into the chaos from the beginning.
As soon as he saw the three of them enter the military formation, Lao Wang was not in a hurry to leave, only swinging between the cavalry, but he never injured a single person, his eyes had been paying attention to the three Taoist priests who were chasing him, and he saw an opportunity to suddenly make a move, taking advantage of the chaos to flash behind one of the young paths, and easily opened a hole in his chest, the little Taoist priest did not notice for a while under the pain, and was smashed by a copper hammer of the cavalry next to him, smashing his head like a pumpkin.
This scene immediately angered one of the middle-aged Taoist leaders with a long beard, only to see him shout "Brother Yu!" with one foot out and bent sideways, both fists slammed forward, "Tom!", hit the war horse in front of him, the war horse couldn't resist, and flew out a few feet away to the ground, and struggled on the ground a few times before moving. This punch suppressed all the cavalry around him, and he did not dare to step forward.