Chapter VII Dead
Drive! Under Du San's drive, the war horse let out a neigh, and Yang Kai's four hooves galloped towards the city gate.
Meng Shiyun grabbed the saddle tightly with both hands, seeing that she was getting closer and closer to those Yi soldiers, and several Yi soldiers were rushing towards them with knives, so scared that she was about to fly out of her body; She was also scared when the officers and soldiers came to raid her home last time, but there was no bloody thing happening in front of her eyes that time, and at that time, there were her grandmother, mother and other relatives around her, and she always had something to rely on in her heart, and she would not be as pillarless as she was at this time.
Just when she was about to scream in fright, Du San had already held the single knife in his hand, and a few slashes and a few rushing soldiers fell to the ground; The blood spurted into the air, and then fell to the ground along with the falling snowflakes, some of which were splashed on Meng Shiyun's skirt.
Meng Shiyun had seen the murder so closely, and the horror in her heart at this time was simply incomprehensible, but for some reason, at the same time of panic, her heart that was originally clenched and hung in her throat relaxed a little, and she felt the strong chest of the young man behind her, and a powerful big hand was tightly wrapping her waist, which made her feel a little steady.
The war horse rushed out of the city gate in a puff of smoke, and without the shelter of the city wall, the wind and snow suddenly became even more bitter, blowing on the face as sharp as a knife. A large road went straight ahead in the snowy night, and finally disappeared into the darkness that the fire could not reach.
Running along the road for more than twenty miles in one go, seeing that there were no pursuers coming behind, in order to let the horse save his strength, Du San tightened the reins and let the horse gradually slow down.
At this time, the road was full of refugees who were in a hurry like lost dogs, the wails of women and children, the sighs of the elderly, and the angry and helpless shouts of men could be heard everywhere, making this cold and snowy night even more full of fear, helplessness, confusion and desolation.
Du San looked at these refugees, his eyes were full of vigilance, in this kind of time when everyone was in a hurry to flee for their lives, the horse, as the most convenient means of transportation at the moment, was undoubtedly a hot thing. If it was just him, he wouldn't be worried at all, but now with Meng Shiyun, he must have multiple eyes to prevent some unscrupulous people from breaking out.
After about a cup of tea, Du San took Meng Shiyun to a three-way intersection, looking at the road leading to two different directions, Du San didn't know which one to take, because he hadn't decided where to go.
Just as he was hesitating, he suddenly heard an uproar from the left front, and someone shouted: "The soldiers are coming!" The soldiers came...... "The refugees who were going in that direction suddenly turned back one after another.
Du San's brows furrowed slightly: "How come there are Yi soldiers here?" But he did not hesitate for long, and then turned his horse and ran towards the road on the right, and the refugees were also flocking to this side. Fortunately, the road is quite wide, and it is obviously a relatively major thoroughfare, although there are many people, but it does not seem crowded.
It didn't take long for the wind in the night ahead to suddenly become stronger, and at the same time there was the sound of water flowing, and it turned out that there was a large river ahead.
A wide wooden bridge leads to the other side of the river, and refugees flock to it. Du San walked to the bridge and hesitated, but at this time he couldn't think much about it, so he also stepped on the bridge. However, as soon as I reached the halfway point of the bridge, there was a sudden commotion in front of me, and I heard someone scolding non-stop: "You are trying to kill everyone!" ”
All kinds of shouting and scolding were mixed together, it turned out that a person drove an ox cart to the bridge, maybe the things on the ox cart were a little heavy, and now there were many people on the bridge at this time, and the wheel actually collapsed a piece of the bridge plate, and it was stuck in the collapse and could not get up. The ox cart blocked the aisle to death, and everyone couldn't get through, and the people around wanted to help him push the cart up, but the wheels were stuck very dead, and the cart was heavy, so he couldn't push it at all.
In a hurry, some grumpy people began to scold, and no matter what was loaded in his car, he climbed directly from the car, regardless of whether the things in the car would be trampled on or not. With one person taking the lead, other people have followed, and although the owner is anxious, he is helpless.
But even so, the passage was still greatly obstructed, and the refugees who kept pouring in behind did not know what was happening in front of them, and they only thought that the Yi soldiers would soon catch up and must flee quickly, so they all desperately squeezed the bridge, and in a blink of an eye, the entire bridge was crowded without a single gap.
The ever-increasing pressure made the wooden bridge, which had been in disrepair for a long time, begin to tremble slightly, and constantly make a creaking sound. Du San, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, quickly realized the danger on this bridge.
He wanted to abandon his horse and take Meng Shiyun on foot, the sooner he left the bridge, the better, but as soon as he got off the horse, before he could pick Meng Shiyun down, he felt a violent shaking of the bridge under his feet, and someone shouted loudly in panic: "The bridge is going to collapse!" The bridge is coming down! ”
The people on the bridge suddenly fell into a panic, and for a while you pushed and squeezed, and it became a mess. But the more this happened, the heavier the load on the bridge, and finally there was a loud bang, and the bridge was broken in two.
Du San hurriedly stretched out his hands and wanted to take Meng Shiyun off the horse, but suddenly felt that his feet sank, and the whole person was unstable. He was taken aback, and subconsciously wanted to reach out to grab Meng Shiyun, but the overturned crowd knocked him away at once.
In a burst of panicked screams, Du San felt that his body was soaring into the air and falling rapidly, followed by a loud bang, and the cold river water instantly soaked his whole body, and the whole person fell into the water. The turbulent water instantly swept Du San to the bottom of the river and rushed out of the distance.
Fortunately, he was not bad in the water, and he surfaced after a few struggles in the rapids.
He exhaled a breath, and flawlessly cared about his own safety, and hurriedly looked left and right, but in the dark, he vaguely saw the water churning, and there were people on the water from time to time, and the sound of splashing and cries for help came one after another, constantly coming from all sides, but- where was Meng Shiyun?
"Miss ——!" Du San felt that his chest instantly cooled a lot, and he shouted a few times in a row, but he didn't hear any response. So he swam towards the nearest few people who had fallen into the water, but found that they were neither.
At this time, Du San didn't care about saving other people, and after finding out that it was not Meng Shiyun, no matter how strong that person's desire to survive was, he didn't hesitate to push him away, and then went to find the next one. It took a lot of time to toss a cup of tea, but he never found Meng Shiyun's whereabouts.
And immersing yourself in water on such a cold day is also a great test of people's physical fitness, and ordinary people will be frozen in only a few quarters of an hour, and those splashing and cries for help will soon be drowned in the sound of surging water.
Although Du San's physique was much stronger than ordinary people, he still couldn't withstand the erosion of this bone-chilling madness, and his limbs were quickly numbed by the cold, and his physical strength gradually failed. Just when he thought that he was going to be buried at the bottom of the river, his hand suddenly scratched a hard object, although he couldn't see clearly in the dark, Du San knew that it was a floating bridge log.
The desire to survive made him burst into strength in an instant, and he struggled to hold on to the bridge log, and paddled along the current to the shore. It's just that because the water flow is too fast, the bridge wood is not under his control at all, so Du San has to lie on the bridge wood and go downstream.
I don't know how far it was, Qiao Mu was finally stuck and stopped at an inlet, Du San climbed ashore with difficulty, physically and mentally exhausted and disheartened, so that this young man, who was usually physically and mentally iron, actually knelt on the snow and cried towards the dark river.