Chapter 64: Stalemate
Facing Chen An, who quietly appeared behind him like a ghost and whispered threats, Yin Cheng couldn't help but feel a burst of creeps, because he had never thought that the other party had such terrifying skills.
According to the information he obtained, although the other party had slaughtered Chen Qing and his party in an unnamed small river on the outskirts of Qingzhou, through on-site investigation and analysis, he destroyed the wooden bridge as soon as he clashed with Chen Qing, forcing Chen Qing and others to go down to the river to fight with him, and he skillfully used the advantage of inconvenient mobility in the river to take the means of breaking one by one, so as to slowly kill Chen Qing and others, if it was changed to flat terrain, Chen Qingda could surround and kill the other party through numerical superiority, in the final analysis, if it were not for Chen Qing's careless relationship with the enemy, the result would have been a tragic death in the hands of a nobody。
When Yin Cheng learned that the target was about to arrive at Yanshan Pass under the escort of Yunqingmen Dart Xing, he immediately sent his subordinates to search for the traces of the other party on the grounds of investigation, and finally planned to ask the whereabouts of the token by inviting the king into the urn, he was full of confidence in this, after all, he commanded a well-trained army, completely different from Chen Qing's gang of rabble in the rivers and lakes and green forests, as long as the other party stepped into his own territory, Yin Cheng had absolute certainty to make it difficult for the target to fly.
In order to prevent the other party from suddenly attacking in the banquet that had been ambushed in advance, he also deliberately set up a large round table far away from each other, but in the end, who would have thought that he could directly ignore this distance, and instantly flashed behind him strangely, which is impossible to prevent at all, it is unimaginable? Also, what is the matter with the dagger in his hand? Could it be that the soldiers in charge of the search are all blind men without eyes?
There is no doubt that he and Chen Qing, whom he despises, have made the same mistake.
That is, overestimating oneself and greatly underestimating the strength of the other party.
"Bold thief, let my family captain go, or we will break your body to pieces!"
The sudden change caused the soldiers besieging the hall to fall into silence, and then a strong riot immediately broke out, and one of the colonels, who seemed to be the commander of these soldiers, stood up and shouted angrily at Chen An, who was threatening to blackmail Yin Cheng.
"Captain Yin, do you think your life is important or our life is important?"
The dagger that Chen An put on Yin Cheng's neck went a little deeper, and it didn't seem to take the soldiers around him into account at all.
"Stand down for me!"
Yin Cheng shivered coldly, now that his life was in the hands of the other party, he couldn't help it.
The colonel was stunned for a moment, then waved his hand with a cold face and signaled the soldiers in the hall to slowly retreat, and finally left him alone at the gate to wait and see.
"This strong man, now you can remove the dagger from my neck, right?"
Looking at the empty lobby, Yin Cheng finally calmed down.
"Captain Yin, you don't have room to bargain with me now. Chen An still pressed the dagger against his neck. "If you want to live, you'd better answer me a few questions. ”
"Strong man, please ask, the lower official must know everything without saying anything!" Yin Cheng said as he carried Chen An behind his back and glanced at the little colonel at the door.
"Who is secretly instructing you to murder Tang Xuanfu's family?" Chen An said.
"If you go back to the strong man, it is a Confucian scholar, and everything is secretly instructed by the Confucian scholar in the imperial court to do this!" Yin Cheng said busily.
"Only Confucius scholars?" Chen An said in disbelief.
"Maybe there are other court officials, this point is really not clear to the lower official, after all, the lower official is just a small lieutenant in Yanshan Pass, and he is completely acting on orders!" Yin Cheng said with a cold sweat on his forehead.
"What about Tang Xuanfu's collusion with the Northern Captives with the intention of treason?" Chen An asked again. "I want you to tell me everything you know!"
"This ...... Tang Xuanfu's intention to commit treason is a rumor that has suddenly erupted recently, and the specific details are not very clear to the lower officials, according to the statement that the Confucian scholar instructed the lower officials to deal with the two, Tang Xuanfu asked his wife and daughter to secretly bring out an important token related to the Zuo Gong's secret treasure from the Jingshi, and planned to go to the north as a step to enter the body after getting the token, in order to prevent the Zuo Gong's secret treasure from flowing to the north, so the Confucius scholar was bound to intercept the two of them, and at the same time forced the whereabouts of the token of the Zuo Gong's secret treasure...... Ah......h
Before Yin Cheng could finish speaking, Chen An suddenly stabbed him in the right shoulder with a dagger.
"You're lying. ”
"The thief is presumptuous! How dare you hurt our Lord Captain!"
Seeing this, the little colonel at the door immediately became furious, his angry shouts were like a signal, and countless soldiers armed with bows and crossbows rushed out of the front hall and backyard at once, and the arrows were aimed at Chen An and the others.
"Huh...... finally didn't disappoint Lao Tzu. ”
Yin Chengqiang endured the pain in his shoulder and sneered, he turned his head sideways to look at Chen An, as if he was not afraid of the dagger he put on his neck again.
"If you dare to kill Lao Tzu, you and the daughter of Tang Xuanfu you want to protect will soon become a hornet's nest full of arrows...... Ah......h
Chen An didn't say a word, and the dagger stabbed a bloody hole in Yin Cheng's right shoulder.
"Don't threaten me, because I'm never afraid to gamble with people. ”
"Say, how can you spare Lao Tzu's life!"
Yin Cheng's face turned pale, seeing Chen An's resolute and ruthless heart, he knew that he had really encountered a hard stubble that could not be eaten by oil and salt this time! Even if the other party showed a trace of hesitation just now, he dared to stalemate with Chen An, but he didn't, which showed that he didn't take his threat to heart at all.
"Prepare a horse for me and let us leave Yanshan Pass immediately!" Chen An said coldly.
"It's not difficult to let you go, but how do you make sure that you let Lao Tzu go afterwards?" Yin Cheng said in a deep voice.
"I'll let you go after you've left Yanshan Pass safely. Chen Andao.
"Heh, do you take Lao Tzu for a fool?" Yin Cheng said with a sneer. "What if you kill Lao Tzu when you leave?"
"Then your men will be free to hunt us down. Chen An said indifferently.
“......”
Yin Cheng's face was cloudy and hesitant for a long time, because he didn't believe that Chen An would let him go so easily, but what if he didn't believe it? Could it be that he really wanted to die with the other party? Now that his shoulder was bleeding nonstop, if he didn't treat him in time, his life would still be lost.
"I grant your request. ”
With Yin Cheng as a hostage, the surrounding soldiers did not dare to act rashly, Chen An took out a spear from the weapon rack in the front yard when he was about to coerce Yin Cheng to leave the Governor's Mansion, after all, the dagger in his hand had a limited attack, once Yin Cheng was in the middle of the way, it was difficult to guarantee that he really had to fight a bloody way against thousands of troops and horses.