Chapter 85: Entrustment
In fact, not long after Chen An left Chailing, the Chuzhou Gongwei Division, who realized the seriousness of the situation, immediately reported to the capital, and said that the other party might rob the prisoner halfway, and it was necessary to take strict precautions, and if possible, it was best not to easily clash with the other party.
Chen An's strength is obvious to all, but the question is that the Dali Imperial Court will succumb to the threat of a reckless man?
Therefore, the guards who escorted Tang Zhiyao back to Beijing were equipped with the most elite knights, and even carried a bed crossbow, a big killing weapon on the battlefield, as long as Chen An really dared to block the road and rob the prisoners, then they would not blame them for killing each other on the spot.
"It's Xuanzhou Chen An?"
Huo Ping, the commander in charge of commanding this guard, had already read the investigation files about Chen An, and even knew all about the killing of Cuishan Lake Villa on the outskirts of Chailing not long ago.
Especially when he heard from Gong Weisi that if the daughter of the criminal officer Tang Zhiyao unfortunately died, he said that he would set off a bloody storm in Beijing, such an arrogant style made Huo Ping have the intention of killing in his heart, and such lawless people staying in the world will only be a scourge!
"Any advice?"
Chen An immediately shot at him, and his face was as cold as ice as he stared at the guards waiting in front of him.
"You want to rob prisoners?"
Huo Ping asked unceremoniously.
"I just want to know, even if Tang Zhiyao is guilty, but what is his daughter's guilt, why should she be innocently implicated?"
Chen An's spear was pointed sharply at the little girl who was suffering in the prisoner car behind the guards, and said sharply.
"Since ancient times, collaborating with the enemy and treason has been a great crime of the nine clans, if you want to blame it, you can blame her for being born in the wrong family and carrying a shameless father who betrayed the country and sought glory!"
Huo Ping snorted coldly and said solemnly.
The old man has never collaborated with the enemy and treason, all of this is the old thief Kong Lingming's false persecution of the old man......
Tang Zhiyao, who was imprisoned in the prison car, woke up at some point, and after hearing Huo Ping's words, he immediately stood up excitedly and grabbed the wooden fence and shouted loudly.
"Shut up, old thief!"
As a result, someone on the side of the prisoner car immediately took out a gun and knocked Tang Zhiyao to the ground.
Chen An didn't care about Tang Zhiyao's life or death, but with the style of these guards, the scene that happened just now may not have appeared on the little girl's body, and when he thought about it, he could no longer control his emotions.
"Whether you want to kill or kill Tang Zhiyao has nothing to do with me! I just need to take his daughter!"
He held his spear tightly and aimed it at Huo Ping, and green tendons appeared on the back of his hand.
"Bold! court criminals, how can you say that you can take it away?!" Huo Ping suddenly said angrily. "Ben will give you one last piece of advice, if you don't get out of the way...... No mercy!"
"Even if you want to kill me?!"
When the words fell, Chen An raised his eyebrows and shouted, and then rode his horse and launched a charge towards the other party without hesitation!
"Shoot him!"
After seeing that Chen An actually took the initiative to kill, Huo Ping quickly raised his saber and pointed forward, and the three bed crossbows beside him immediately made a bowstring sound that pierced the clouds and cracked stones, and in an instant, three arrows shaped like javelins let out a sharp scream and shot at Chen An.
When Chen An ordered Huo Ping to release the arrows, he jumped up from the horse without waiting for the arrows to shoot in front of him, and the three arrows that shot at him instantly nailed the war horse under his crotch to the ground, the tragic situation was indescribably terrifying, if it was shot on a person, there was absolutely no possibility of survival, even Chen An was no exception.
After a round of arrows, Huo Ping divided half of the guards knights and took the opportunity to cover up, and as soon as Chen An landed, he ran into a large number of oncoming knights.
In the face of the surging torrent of cavalry, Chen An flashed left and right through the gap in the cavalry charge, and suddenly stabbed seven or eight cavalrymen under the horse, and when all the cavalry was raging like a raging wind, a corpse suddenly fell on the ground.
"Shoot the arrows!"
Unexpectedly, the three bed crossbows on the opposite side were filled with gaps, and when the cavalry finished charging and scattered left and right, the earth-shattering bowstring sounded again.
With such a close distance, even if Chen An reacted quickly, it was too late.
He dodged sideways, and though he desperately dodged the two deadly arrows, he couldn't dodge the last arrow that came at different angles.
At the last moment, he narrowly blocked the stout arrow with the iron gun in his hand, but the powerful kinetic energy generated by the arrow directly crashed him out of more than ten meters away, not only the iron gun in his hand was seriously bent, but even countless wood chips after the arrow exploded in an obstacle were inserted into his body, and the wood chips splashed on his face almost blinded one of his eyes.
Chen An couldn't help but spit out blood, and struggled to stand up from the ground tremblingly.
He saw that Huo Ping had sent the last of his cavalry guards to charge at him.
He raised his head to the sky and let out a long roar, then threw his crooked iron spear at the position of the bed crossbow in front of him.
In an instant, the iron spear pierced through the body of a cavalryman like a meteor and quickly fell on top of a bed crossbow that was urgently reloading with arrows, and the violent impact instantly blew the bed crossbow apart, and even several soldiers with the bed crossbow were seriously injured.
Chen An pulled out his long knife and flew forward, kicked a knight who was caught off guard, and then took the opponent's war horse by the way, taking advantage of the fact that the other knights had not yet reacted, Chen An directly brandished the long knife and slashed left and right to kill more than ten knights, and then rode his horse to meet the first team of knights who came back from the counterattack.
When Chen An and the cavalry were entangled and inseparable, the remaining two bed crossbows that had already been filled could not be aimed and shot, and if they accidentally injured their own people, it would undoubtedly seriously damage morale.
Seeing that Chen An was getting more and more courageous, killing all the cavalry chasing him, Huo Ping could no longer help but order the soldiers who controlled the bed crossbow to shoot Chen An regardless of the enemy!
It's a pity that Chen An, who has been guarding against bed crossbow shooting, will not give the other party a second chance to hit him.
The two arrows naturally missed, and Chen An took advantage of this opportunity to kill Huo Ping.
At this moment, there were very few guards left around Huo Ping, and it was basically impossible to resist Chen An head-on.
Unexpectedly, Huo Ping directly turned his horse's head and galloped towards the prisoner car where the little girl was being held, and at first glance, he planned to threaten Chen An with the little girl's life.
"You dare!"
Huo Ping's actions naturally couldn't hide from Chen An, but he was still a hundred steps away from the other party, and he couldn't stop it at all, so he simply and decisively threw the long knife in his hand at Huo Ping.
Hearing Chen An's roar, Huo Ping subconsciously glanced back at the other party, only to see a long knife flying in, which frightened him so much that he almost lost his soul, and his body instinctively raised the knife to block his chest.
A piercing sound of metal collision sounded, and although Huo Ping successfully blocked the long knife thrown by Chen An, the long knife in his hand also flew out of his hand.
At this time, Chen An arrived in time to pat the horse, and flew to hug Huo Ping and fell off the horse.
After the two rolled on the ground for a few laps, Chen An hit Huo Ping in the jaw with an uppercut that knocked him unconscious in an instant.
"Be merciful to the strong man!"
Just as Chen An was preparing to end Huo Ping's life, Tang Zhiyao's panicked and anxious voice of dissuasion suddenly sounded in his ears.
Chen An was stunned for a moment, and then recklessly smashed Huo Ping's throat bone with a punch.
"It's over......"
Tang Zhiyao saw Chen An kill Huo Ping, and immediately collapsed in the prisoner car and muttered to himself.
intercepted and killed the envoy of the imperial court, even if the murderer had nothing to do with Tang Zhiyao, he couldn't clear his suspicions and charges, once the imperial court investigated it, they would have nowhere to escape from the ends of the earth.
Chen An silently walked to the prison car where the little girl was being held, removed the wooden fence with his bare hands, and stretched out his hand to hold the unconscious, dirty and sloppy little girl into his arms.
Fortunately, the little girl's breath was only slightly weaker, and she did not have symptoms of cold and fever.
"Hmm-"
Perhaps sensing something unusual, the little girl slowly opened her misty eyes, and when she saw Chen An's hideous face flowing with blood, she once thought that she was in a dream.
"Uncle, it turned out to be you...... Yaoyao dreamed of you again......"
"It's not a dream. ”
Chen An pinched the little girl's nose and said.
"Not a dream...... Woo woo woo ......" The little girl came back to her senses, her eyes were immediately full of crystal tears, she raised her hands around Chen An's neck, and cried without scruples.
"Uncle, I miss you so much, you finally came back to save Yaoyao, do you know that many people came to arrest Yaoyao and her father a few days ago, do you know how scared Yaoyao was at that time......
"Don't worry, the bad guys who captured you are all dead. ”
Chen An hugged the little girl and looked around, not long after he killed Huo Ping, the rest of the soldiers all fled in groups.
"Lord Tang, what are your plans for the future?"
He walked to the prisoner car where Tang Zhiyao was being held and said calmly, after all, she was the father of the little girl, even if he wanted to take the little girl away, he had to inform the other party of anything.
"I?hehe......" Tang Zhiyao, who was exuding a cloak, no longer had the majesty of the day, he leaned against the wooden fence of the prisoner car, tilted his head sideways to look at the daughter in Chen An's arms. "No matter what, I have to go back to Beijing to meet Your Majesty to declare my grievances and clear my charge of collaborating with the enemy and treason, otherwise I will have no shame to see the ancestors of the Tang family again when I go down to Huangquan!"
"Yaoyao can't go back with you. ”
Chen An knew that Tang Zhiyao's return to Beijing would inevitably be a road of no return, and he would never let the little girl follow him to death!
"Thank you...... In the future, please take good care of Yaoyao. ”
Tang Zhiyao smiled bitterly and shook his head, a trace of old tears secretly crossed the corner of his eyes.
"Uncle! Uncle...... I don't want to be separated from my father......
The little girl in her arms couldn't help but struggle when she heard the conversation between the two, and cried with her hands and feet.
Chen An slapped the little girl with just the right palm, he just nodded at Tang Zhiyao, and then walked to the war horse that stopped without looking back.
"Brother Chen!"
Behind him, Tang Zhiyao suddenly shouted.
Chen An stopped.
"In Gupinglang Mountain, Yanzhou, there is a paradise village along the river, if you encounter a large-scale search by the imperial court, you can take Yaoyao to live there temporarily to avoid trouble......"