The five hundred guards cavalry were divided into five teams, each team of 100 people, separated by more than 100 paces and began to accelerate, and the two teams of more than 100 people in front were the vanguard led by Zhao Dapeng, whose task was to open the way in front of the head, and if they encountered interception, they must be swept with strong firepower. The 200 men in the middle protected the horses of the three prisoners, led by Song Nan himself, while Wang Yong led a hundred cavalry to respond to the rear to prevent the enemy from attacking from the flank.

Such an arrangement shows that Song Nan attaches great importance to the three prisoners, and dedicates two-fifths of his troops to protect them, which can be regarded as the most solemn treatment these prisoners have enjoyed in their lives.

The elevation of the main peak of Liangye Mountain is only one hundred and forty zhang, which is not a tall mountain range, but the mountain is continuous, the vegetation is luxuriant, and on the slopes on both sides of the valley road leading to the north of the mountain, the lush primeval forest is dense and flourishing, and there is no way to know whether there are bandits hidden in the dense forest on the hillside in the valley. The initial five or six miles of valley were unimpeded, but after a period of downhill road, the valley in front of it slowly rose, and after rushing uphill, two relatively prominent mountain cliffs appeared in front of them, like two open gates lying hundreds of steps away.

Song Nan took a breath of cold air, the terrain is treacherous, if there is an ambush, I am afraid that it will be here; The road ahead was still unobstructed, and as a general rule of thumb, if the bandits were to ambush, the mountain road would be clogged with a large number of trees and boulders, but now there was nothing to be seen.

Zhao Dapeng in front also understood the danger of the terrain here, and ordered the charging horse team to stop moving forward, and rode his horse to Song Nan and hugged his fists and said: "My lord, the terrain ahead is steep, if there is an ambush, it will definitely cause a lot of losses to my men and horses. ”

Song Nan frowned and stared at the two cliffs in front of him, the distance between them was less than forty steps, and the formation of the charging team to the bottom of the cliff would be compressed, if there were bandits in ambush on the cliffs on both sides, and a chaotic stone feather arrow would indeed cause great casualties, and it would be impossible to fight back.

Wang Yong came from the rear to inquire about the situation, and Song Nan pointed to the cliff and asked, "Brother Wang, what do you think?" ”

Wang Yong said: "It's really a bit difficult, if you want to say that you can rush through it hard, unless someone throws down a giant tree to block the way, but if you rush hard, you can't guarantee the safety of adults, and those three prisoners may also die here." ”

Song Nan nodded and said: "They don't care about the life or death of criminals, they are not here to rescue, but to extinguish the mouth." ”

Wang Yong nodded and said, "Otherwise, the lowly will lead people to touch them from both sides, and go around to the cliffs on both sides to see if there are any ambushes." ”

Song Nan frowned and said: "The method is feasible, but we are short of time, the pursuers in the rear are speeding up, and it will take a lot of time to go around to the back of the cliff to solve them, I am afraid that I will be caught up and entangled by the soldiers and horses behind, it will be a big trouble." ”

Wang Yong thought for a while and said: "My lord, I ask to bring someone to touch the mountain beam, if there are bandits who can be solved on the spot, and then occupy the cliffs on both sides, and give the follow-up pursuers a counter-ambush, so that the adults can get rid of the entanglement of the chasing soldiers, just hurry up and rush to Yanping Mansion, my Fujian Jinyi Wei Thousand Households General Office is located in Yanping Mansion, you can call the local Jinyi Guard's brothers to immediately take the escort, all the way to the capital safely." ”

Song Nan was a little hesitant, it was a good way to leave Wang Yong to set up an ambush to intercept the pursuers, but the problem was that the manpower was really limited, and there would not be too many people left for Wang Yong.

Wang Yong urged: "My lord, don't hesitate, it's a matter of the imperial court and your safety, only this way, the humble position is confident that it can block the pursuers, and it is unlikely that the pursuers behind will want to do anything to me, if they outflank the attack, the humble duty will take the brothers to drill into the dense forest, what can they do?" ”

Song Nan said: "Okay, just use your methods, but remember not to come hard, even if you are the king of the mountain for a few days, don't work hard, there will be heavy tasks entrusted to you in the future, our brothers still have a lot of big things to do, you can't be impulsive." ”

Wang Yong arched his hand and said: "Your Excellency, relax your heart, and remember your words in your humble duties." ”

Song Nan immediately ordered that fifty guards from the front team and the squadron each be handed over to Wang Yong's men, and at the same time ordered the guards to hand over most of the food, water and ammunition to Wang Yong and his guards, so that they could have something to eat when they were trapped in the mountains and forests. The brigade retreated hundreds of paces, and in an invisible place under the hillside, Wang Yong led two hundred guards into the dense mountain forest in two ways, and detoured from the side to the cliff in front.

In order to verify whether there was an ambush on the cliff in front of him, and also to attract attention, Song Nan ordered his guards to vigorously drive more than 200 empty horses away. More than 200 horses were beaten and galloped madly down the cliff to test the bandits' reaction.

Sure enough, when the war horse charged to the bottom of the cliff, countless figures appeared on the top of the cliff, and huge boulders fell like raindrops, attacking with bows and arrows; Suddenly, there was a mournful neighing of horses, and when the smoke and dust cleared, except for dozens of horses galloping out, the remaining more than a hundred war horses all fell in a pool of blood under the cliff mouth; A large number of stones and trees almost blocked the crossing, and the situation was extremely tragic.

Everyone was secretly surprised, if they rushed over without thinking, at least half of the five hundred people would be knocked down, and whoever died and lived could only rely on the will of heaven.

Song Nan heard the sound of the fire bolt being fired, which proved that the bandits here were also funded by King Ning, and all the information was confirmed, and King Ning's crime had been confirmed, which made Song Nan completely relieved. Now that it is a fact that this person's plot is wrong, then things are much simpler, and there is no need to hide it with falsehood.

Time has passed very long, and there are frightened birds flying above the dense woodland on both sides from time to time, it must be the result of the two teams of Jinyi guards groping forward in the mountains and forests, Song Nan can imagine the difficulty of trekking in these dense forests, there are thorns and shrubs everywhere, there is no light on the top and no soil on the bottom, the direction is difficult to distinguish, and the slow movement is also reasonable.

However, Song Nan couldn't help but be anxious, the cavalry in the rear came to report repeatedly, the chasing soldiers had approached thirty miles away, and if they couldn't solve the problem here after delaying for another hour, the chasing soldiers would block themselves on this dead end.

I don't know how long it took, the rear Ti cavalry reported that the pursuers were already ten miles away, looking at the dust over the mountain road behind the sky to cover the sky, but I knew that there were a lot of pursuers, and they were chasing with all their might. Song Nan hurriedly stomped his feet and rubbed his hands, and suddenly heard the familiar roar of Mrs. Song's fire on the cliff in front of him. said that it was familiar because Mrs. Song's fire was fired in two consecutive shots, and once she heard the continuous 'boom' sound, she could basically conclude that it was her own person who made a move.

After two roars, the cliff suddenly became a mess, and the firepower of the Jinyi guards equipped with the full pair of firearms was obviously many times stronger than the bandits in ambush on the cliff, and Wang Yong knew that the time was urgent, and he ignored the order of a qiē to attack, and under the condition that more than 20 guards were killed, it took a meal to subdue more than 300 bandits on the cliff.

After receiving the signal sent by Wang Yong's order that guò could be passed, Song Nan was overjoyed, the pursuers in the rear had arrived not far away, and the roar of horses' hooves seemed to be heard in his ears, Song Nan immediately ordered the guards to remove the wood and boulders under the cliff, and clear out a passage, and the three hundred guards had just passed through the chaotic place of the guò cliff one after another, and a large number of pursuers in the rear appeared from the dust.

Song Nan urged everyone to speed up, and in his busy schedule, he looked back at the costumes of the chasing soldiers, which were the soldiers and horses of the Daming local guard, and the armor was customized, which was obvious at a glance; This also shows that Zhu Chenhao has been able to mobilize the soldiers and horses of some guards in Jiangxi to work for him, in a sense, this is already the beginning of the rebellion.

Led the troops to pursue the soldiers and horses of Yongningwei of Jianchang Mansion, which was close to Ganzhou Mansion, and led the pursuit of Yongningwei Commander Ma Rui, he was already the dog of King Ning's order, when he received an order from Zhu Chenhao, King of Ning, to gather two thousand cavalry to block a team that went north from Jianchang Mansion and killed everyone, Ma Rui quickly gathered this soldier and horse. He is not a fool, when he sent a scout horse to find out that it was the soldiers and horses of the Jinyi Guards who suppressed the bandits in Sanbo Mountain, Ma Rui's heart was like a mirror, it must be that these Jinyi Guards came to Jiangxi to find out what information, so the prince wanted to kill them all by himself. Ma Rui hesitated for a moment, but he soon realized that it was no longer appropriate to consider these things now, and King Ning's business was his own business, and he had to complete this matter to the letter, so as to save the day.

When he heard that Song Nan abandoned the road to the north of Jianchang Mansion and turned east to borrow Fujian, Ma Rui immediately chased after him with soldiers and horses, he knew that a group of bandits in Liang Yeshan were also the prince's people, although he didn't bother to deal with them at all, but this time I am afraid that they would have to help intercept and delay the time of the Jinyi guards. Without him opening his mouth, someone sued him, just pursue, Liang Yeshan was the burial place of the team, he understood that the news had been transmitted to Liang Yeshan, so he chased him day and night.

At this moment, he could already see the backs of the Jinyi guards running wildly, the rocks and sassal trees under the cliff in front of them, as well as a large number of horse corpses and human corpses, showed that it was here that the Jinyi guards were blocked by the bandits of Liangye Mountain, and it seemed that the casualties were not small, he didn't even pay attention to the clothes of those corpses were all dressed as bandits, and the broken bodies and pools of blood everywhere after falling from the cliff covered up the huge firearm wounds on their bodies, otherwise he would have doubted.

"Give me chase. This time it's time to see where they're going. Marry exclaimed with a sneer.

The cavalry rushed to the bottom of the cliff like a torrent, and the passage that had just been cleared could only be ridden more than ten in parallel, but this was enough, but when a large number of officers and soldiers poured under the cliff, the large stones of the grinding plate above and the huge sandalwood fell like raindrops, and suddenly this place became a hell on earth, and a large group of soldiers and horses were smashed on the hard mountain road, the bones were broken and the brains flowed, and the screams and groans and exclamations rang out.

"Fuck, my own people, what kind of fame." Ma Rui raised his head and roared at the cliff, and in his field of vision, a dozen bandits in ordinary armor were throwing things down with all their might.

One of the bandits stiffened as if to say something, but in an instant he flew down like a big bird with his head down, and Ma Rui could see clearly that it was a brightly armored brocade guard captain who kicked him in the ass and kicked him off the cliff.

"Not good, there are ambushes on the cliffs." Ma Rui ordered loudly: "Retreat, retreat, there is an ambush." ”