Chapter 16: Breaking into Battle
Princess Jinyang came to Huizhou this time to come to Huizhou on the order of His Majesty to come to Lingyan Temple on Jiuhua Mountain in Huizhou to make a vow and pray for the blessing of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
When Emperor Chengzong toured the south, he passed through Huizhou and came to Lingyan Temple.
Lingyan Temple is as its name, because the temple is built in front of the stone wall cave, so the former court gave the name of "Rock Temple", Emperor Chengzong's southern tour is to make a wish in this temple, after the wish is achieved, and the royal pen is given the name of "Lingyan Temple".
The temple is divided into two courtyards, the front yard is relatively flat, the back yard is built by the mountain, and there are several Buddha statues in it. There is a large rock cave at the southeast slope, the peaks and peaks are steep, the rock is abrupt, the clear spring trickles, the rock shape is like a covered house, it is the place where the Buddhist family cultivates and refines the form.
At the end of the reception banquet, Princess Jinyang and the wives took a sliding pole and went to Lingyan Temple under the escort of five hundred officers and soldiers.
The team walked through the rugged mountain road, and even though the road up the mountain was groomed, it was still very narrow. The captain of the escort had to divide the officers and men into two long lines, sandwiching the sliding rod in which the nobleman was seated.
The surrounding forest was dense and the depths were dark, and the terrible cries of the apes could be heard from the mountains, and the soldiers tightened their faces and clenched their spears and bows and arrows.
Princess Jinyang's sliding rod was arranged in the center of the procession, accompanied by the pottery female officials in the palace.
At the feast she had drunk wine, and now she was a little stronger, and was reclining on the sliding pole and pretending to sleep.
"Princess, it's almost there." The Tao lady helped Princess Jinyang pull the velvet blanket that slipped off her body.
"Oh, yes." Princess Jinyang answered lazily.
Looking up, the large rock wall where the Lingyan Temple is located looms at the end of the road.
"It's finally safe, General Chang said that the mountain road is the easiest to be ambushed, and the slave and maid can always be worried about this way." Lady Tao said with palpitations.
"How can it be so easy to encounter an ambush," Princess Jinyang said with a smile, "I am not the imperial sister back then." ”
As soon as she finished speaking, as if God wanted to refute her words, there was a sudden commotion in the front of the team.
"What man!?" The shouts of the sergeant in front came, and there was a thunder in the silent mountains and forests, and the female officer Tao couldn't help but shudder, "What's the matter?" ”
"Anyone?" Princess Jinyang sat up straight, squinted her eyes and looked at the front of the team.
At the front of the line, a green figure loomed.
When I looked closely, it was actually a little girl. He was dressed in an ordinary blue shirt, but his hands and feet had been tied up with cloth bands, and his clothes were covered with dust and tears, which made him look a little nondescript.
"Zhu Ying?" , "Isn't this Miss Zhu Jiu?" "What's going on? How did she get to be like this? "What is she trying to do?"
At this moment, it seemed that a female dependant in front of him recognized the little girl.
"Miss Zhu Jiu?" Princess Jinyang frowned, she had heard of this name, although the Duan family deliberately concealed the news, but the Imperial Family's Swift Wind Pavilion, which was in charge of intelligence, was not a vegetarian, and when investigating Duan Lizheng's net worth background, it was mentioned that this young lady seemed to be the fiancée who had been married to Duan Lizheng since childhood.
The woman slowly approached, she stood alone on the way up the mountain, inexplicably with the momentum of a husband and a wife.
"Hey."
A girl's crisp and loud voice came from ahead.
"I want to see Princess Jinyang."
"See me?" Princess Jinyang smiled, it is not difficult to understand what such a woman is thinking, she must be worried about losing her fiancé.
Although she is only a weak woman, women in such a situation are often very paranoid and don't know what kind of crazy things they will do.
"Nope. Chase her away. Princess Jinyang's lack of interest leaned back on the sliding rod.
"Hey, Her Royal Highness the princess doesn't see you, hurry up, or we're welcome!" The soldier who received the order from behind shouted at the girl.
Old Taijun Bai and Li, who were in the back position, also saw Miss Zhu Jiu standing at the front of the team at this time, Old Taijun Bai rubbed his old eyes and said angrily: "Who released this evil obstacle!" Hurry up and escort her home for me! ”
A secret smile appeared at the corner of Lee's mouth.
"Ugh."
Zhu Luan lowered his head and sighed.
Then she looked up.
The soldier standing in front of him only felt that a familiar aura suddenly appeared on the girl's body, and his heart froze, he clenched his spear and said, "You ......"
His words were suddenly interrupted by General Chang.
"Take it!" General Chang shouted, pointing to the girl in front of him.
"Take it?" As one of the best soldiers in the Great Zhou, the soldiers of the escort team had already had a conditioned reaction to the commander's order, and subconsciously raised the spear in their hands, but it was the first time they attacked the defenseless weak woman, and their movements hesitated for a moment.
"If you don't see me, then I'll come to see you." A clear female voice floated in the air, and at the same time, the girl's figure moved!
A ghostly figure swept by, and Zhu Luan accurately captured the gap in the soldier's movements, and swooped through, connecting the two of them.
The movements and angles are extremely tricky.
It was as if he knew all about the movements and timing of the soldiers.
"Array!" General Chang shouted, "Defensive formation! ”
The soldiers came to their senses and roared in unison, and in groups of ten soldiers, gunners and archers combined, they formed a solid and ever-changing formation.
This formation was created by Princess Yingluan in the early years, and later improved by the hussar general to defend the country, and it can be done with a very small number of people, and it is extremely simple and practical in a short-term small-scale defensive battle.
General Chang has used this formation countless times to protect high-ranking officials and nobles, and he highly respects this formation.
However, everything that happened after that completely subverted General Chang's cognition.
I saw that the girl's figure was not stopped, like a fluttering kite swept through the soldiers, no matter how the formation changed, she could avoid it just right, the speed was extremely fast, and it seemed to be chaotic to run around, pushing left and right, but the tight formation was rushed out of a small gap, just enough for her to pass alone.
The girl's hands and feet seem to be a little vain, and her movements are not clean and neat, although she has avoided it several times, but she is still injured by a weapon, but whether she is stabbed by an iron spear, grazed by a feather arrow, or falls down a heel, she doesn't care, she doesn't seem to care about danger, and she doesn't know the pain.
Watching this scene from a distance is even more bizarre, weird to a little terrifying, the slender woman and the soldiers who are waiting for the battle constitute a great contrast, the woman in green clothes is like a divine help, almost in the blink of an eye rushed through thirty zhang, the five big and three thick soldiers in the place instead staggered, collapsed.
The narrow mountain road and screaming noblewomen exacerbated the chaos of the scene, and General Chang, with blood-red eyes, rushed up, but was blocked by the dense crowd and sliding poles, and watched the woman float towards the place where Princess Jinyang was.
It's overwhelming.
How can it not be stopped?!
It's just an ordinary girl!
How could the defensive array be useless!
General Chang shouted wildly in his heart, and the girl had rushed to the front of Princess Jinyang's sliding rod in a blink of an eye!
Princess Jinyang narrowed her eyes, clasped her fingers inward, and put them on the trigger of the hidden sleeve arrow in her sleeve.
Suddenly, her eyes widened.
The rapid running and dodging caused the jade pendant hanging around the girl's neck to be thrown out.
It was a white jade bell, like a beautiful little white flower, swaying, emitting a familiar crisp ringtone.
"Jingle Bell...... Jingle ...... Jingle ......"
Princess Jinyang is in a trance.
Lady Tao screamed in horror.
Princess Jinyang came back to her senses, and with a flower in front of her, a woman in Tsing Yi turned over with a harrier and climbed onto the sliding rod with a strong wind!
Her expression tightened, her fingers touched the Hidden Arrow, and she was about to launch it, when a cold object suddenly stuck to her forehead!
Princess Jinyang's pupils shrank, her eyes moved slowly, and when she raised her eyes to look up, she saw that the girl's five fingers were open, and a wrist guard with cold light on her wrist was sticking to her forehead.
This blackiron bracer looks so damn familiar.
If it happened to be the dark iron bracer she knew, this girl only needed to clench her fist, and the poisonous needle and short knife would instantly penetrate her head, and there would be no place to die.
I heard the girl whisper in her ear, "Eldest princess, let these people stand down, otherwise you will pack up and prepare to kiss Goguryeo." ”
Princess Jinyang's whole person seemed to be frozen.
Gales are whistling with more than a decade of past.