Chapter 31 King Hu Meets King Hu
"Draw the knife!" With Meng Chong's order, the guards in Huwang Town all pulled out the sabers pinned to their waists, but these blades were all rusty guys, and a few of them even had their blades rolled up. Lao Cai, who could see the excitement in the doorway, shook his head vigorously.
Liu Jiu skillfully picked out the two conical arrows behind Lu Lu with a knife, and applied them with wound medicine that stopped bleeding very quickly, and then looked at Meng Chong, and said slowly: "General Meng, today's incident is indeed a big accident, I was going to Daqi to do things for Lord Shilang, but I encountered an enemy attack that has not been seen in nearly a hundred years. β
"Don't pretend garlic for me, you are all martial artists, the general Jianghu style can't be completely lifted and the suspension bridge can still jump up, say, are you Daqi's fine work?" Meng Chong abandoned the saber in his hand that was not even good-looking, replaced it with a whip that he had been used to for many years, and looked at Huang Ming, who finally entered the city like a juggler, and seemed to be extremely jealous.
Sun Changhong rubbed his wrist that seemed to be sprained when he fell from outside the city gate, groaned, and said to Meng Chong: "General Meng, can you let me go down to the city tower to take a look?" β
In fact, Meng Chong's heart was bottomless at this time, he had never fought since he was a child, how could he have seen this kind of battle, let alone him, even his grandfather's grandfather had never seen so many Qi troops. If the city is broken today, I am afraid that the rank of captain handed down by the ancestors will be gone in his generation, but he is not a fool, and hurriedly asked: "Someone called a traitor just now, but the Great Qi Army is rushing for how many of you?" β
"General don't bother with this matter, we are either traitors to Daqi." After Sun Changhong finished speaking, he looked at Meng Chong, his eyes were clear, and he looked very calm. Meng Chong seemed to be intimidated by some kind of momentum, and after avoiding his gaze, he gritted his teeth and called out more than a dozen personal soldiers to accompany Sun Changhong to the city tower, Sun Changhong stopped and looked into the distance, and then estimated the torches that gradually became surrounded outside the city, and generally saw the number and heels of the Qi soldiers under the city tower, and walked down quickly after half a cup of tea.
At this time, Lu Lu's wound had been bandaged, and Sun Changhong whispered to the others: "It's Ma Song's soldiers, excluding those that can't be seen clearly from the trees, about one thousand and five." β
Lu Lujin said: "Childe, these soldiers can't eat Huwang Town, we can wait and do it." When the time comes, the Mongols will send troops out to find reinforcements in the back, and the siege will be broken. β
Liu Jiu went to tell the hidden danger of this plan, "But if the officers and soldiers downstairs shout at them to hand over the prince, even if we wait at that time, we may not be able to protect His Highness." β
"What Master Liu said is very true, and this is also one of my worries, so my idea is to go around the ancient town from the back gate to the ancient town of Handprintun, and then find a way out after disguise." Sun Changhong planned and then moved, no longer whispering to Liu Jiu and others, but walked over and said to Meng Chong: "General Meng, since the city gate has been surrounded by the Qi army, as Jiang Shilang's protΓ©gΓ©, I am willing to take people to the back gate to go to Muyintun to transfer troops, and I also need to borrow a tiger talisman like General Mengzhong." β
"What kind of token to borrow, no!" How dare Meng Chong lend the tiger talisman to these warriors who can fly the eaves and walk the wall, these are all characters that can only be described in the Zhiwei! Liu Jiu said in a deep voice, "This place is King Hu Town, and it is the place where King Hu fought against Daqi, if his old man is alive and sees the general so indecisive, it still chills King Hu's heart?" β
Meng Chong's eyes rolled and he clapped his hands and said: "There is no token, but Mr. Cai Yan has lived here for more than 70 years, whether it is Hu Wangzhen or the defenders of Muyintun, you take Cai Yan and let Cai Yan and the old lieutenant Liu over there speak, it is better than anything else." β
The surrounding defenders were also coaxing: "Yes, yes, let Cai Lao'er go to Mutintun, Lao Cai is the cheap uncle of Liu Duwei, when the Cai family's daughter married in the past half a year, she was divorced and remarried, but this nepotism is better than the tiger talisman." β
Cai Yan stood up, pinched his waist with both hands and was about to scold, but was knocked unconscious by a defender next to him with a stick, and the defender hugged his fists and said to Sun Changhong: "Sir, the back door was dilapidated a few years ago, and now there is only a dog hole, if a few people feel condescending, they can fly out according to the magic power when they came in, but this Cai Lao'er, don't forget to bring it to his son-in-law, after all, the two of them haven't seen each other for more than 30 years." After saying that, the surrounding soldiers laughed, and even Meng Chong laughed too.
"Don't deceive people too much, don't forget that the city is still surrounded by Qi soldiers outside!" Lu Lu was very angry, but he was held down by Wang Guiyou so he didn't rush over to fight with the sergeant.
"Hmph, sir, don't look at us, there are more than 200 defenders, just this point of people with the strength of the city, it is not a problem to defend for ten years, King Hu is on top, the hardships of five hundred years ago, hasn't the Qi country suffered enough?" Meng Chong regained his old expression, and said arrogantly: "Although I don't know what happened when Mr. went out of the city, and I don't know if this Qi soldier's invasion is related to Mr.," Meng Chong looked at Liu Jiu and these warriors again, "As long as Mr. leaves my Huwang Town, it is okay to take Cai Yan to Muyintun to report the news, you can go anywhere, and it can be regarded as having some explanation to Jiang Shilang of the Ministry of War." β
Sun Changhong was so deep that he didn't lose any temper with Meng Chong even though he did this, and then he said slowly: "Then thank General Meng, but in the future, when the general's boss comes, I will tell him that it is the Eastern Red Army of Daqi Ma Song who came to attack my Huwang Town, and Ma Song is also regarded as the four-grade miscellaneous general of Daqi, and he has raised a lot of archers who are good at shooting, and he is used under the great prince Bingwang." β
Meng Chong was stunned for a moment, then he hugged his fists and thanked Sun Changhong, and flashed a road, "Give up a few horses, secretly open the back city gate, and send Mr. to borrow troops from Handprintun." β
The generals reluctantly gave up the three horses, because Sun Changhong couldn't hold the reins with a wrist injury, so he went to one with Liu Jiu, one with Wang Guiyou and one with Lu Lu, Huang Ming was reluctant to share one with this Cai Yan, but what else could he do with three horses? had to tie Cai Yan tightly to the horse, and then stepped on the horse. In this way, the six men and three horses were once again led by the guards to the back door, quietly opened a side door, and went straight to the handprint.
After traveling for four or five miles, he met a group of Daqi scouts composed of four or five people, and was easily solved by Liu Jiu with a pair of fleshy palms, either smashing the opponent's Tianling cover with one palm, or breaking the opposite neck with one grab. Huang Ming found that this quick-tempered brother Liu, although his skills were not as good as Zhang Zhen, he was ruthless in killing.
After running for more than ten miles, everyone turned from the forest path to the main road, and Wang Guiyou, who was in the front, took the lead in clamping the horse's belly and began to march quickly without leaving any horsepower.
At this moment, Cai Yan's whisper came from behind the horse: "Hehe, you young children, how can Ma Song really come to kill the surnamed Sun, even if he really kills him, how can a four-grade miscellaneous general bear the charge of killing him?" That's the crime of the Nine Clans, most of them are because something happened to his family, don't let him go back to be the master of the house, people wish you went to the easternmost Sanjiang City to find Liu Yu to drink tea, otherwise you will shout under the city just now to let them hand over the Prince of Daqi, when the time comes, do you see whether the fool Meng Chong will kill him or not? This Prince of Great Qi, dead or not? β
Huang Ming broke out in a cold sweat after hearing this, Meng Chong and the others really couldn't help their own wave of people, but there was a bottomless old man behind him! Huang Ming looked back and saw that Cai Yan was still pretending to be dead, and after a moment of silence, he shouted: "Brother Guiyou, stay!" β
Wang Guiyou hurriedly tightened the reins, and at this time, Liu Jiuqu's opinion of Huang Ming was no longer comparable to before, so he quickly turned his horse's head and ran back, asking, "What's the matter?" β
Huang Ming told them the gist of what Cai Yan had just said, Sun Changhong was not shocked when he was humiliated at the city gate just now, but after hearing it, his face turned pale, and beads of sweat dripping down his head. He dismounted and bowed deeply to Huang Ming: "The strong man shot the traitor Zuo Youchow before, and saved me from Lu Lu, and now he wakes up the dreamer, such a great favor, please accept my Sun Changhong's worship." β
Huang Ming hurriedly dismounted and helped Sun Changhong up, Lu Lu also waited for Sun Changhong to come up with an idea, only to see Sun Changhong turn over and get on the horse without the slightest hesitation, "There should be an accident in the court, otherwise this Ma Song would not be like this Meng Lang." I want to break through the Eastern Red Army and go straight to the Cup, are you willing to inherit the unification with me? β
"Weichen is willing to die for His Highness! Not to mention the shrimp soldiers and crab generals of the Eastern Red Army, even if it is the forbidden army of the imperial city, as long as they dare to stop His Highness from entering Beijing, Lu will cut one by one! Lu Lu, who had a wound on his back, knelt down from his horse, endured the severe pain, and said loudly.
"I have a plan," Huang Ming's face suddenly changed, and he continued: "Now Ma Song's Eastern Red Army doesn't know that we have left Huwang Town, and in a while, we can take a detour along the mountain road to the west and return to the west side of the front gate of Huwang Town, eight hundred steps to enter the main road, bypass the main force besieging the city, and gallop south, there is still a high possibility of breaking through." β
"What if this Ma Song stays behind?" Although Liu Jiugo felt that Huang Ming's plan was feasible, it was not foolproof.
"The reason why Hu Wangzhen blocked Da Qi five hundred years ago is not unreasonable," Huang Ming sighed, what is this Cai Lao'er, could it be that he is the real defender of this Hu Wangzhen? Although he had doubts, he still felt that Cai Yan's strategy of whispering to him was feasible, so he conveyed Cai Yan's statement to everyone: "If a few of us go over the mountain and abandon the horses, we can return to the Xuling Tomb within a few months, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is in a hurry to return to Daqi to inherit the unification, and it can't be delayed for a quarter of an hour, then only the road in front of Huwangzhen can go, I can wait a while and go back to the same way to pick up the clothes of those scouts, or I can hide from Ma Songjun for a while, and fight for us a little more opportunity." β
Everyone thought for a moment and felt that there was no other way, but Sun Changhong praised this method, so he went back to pick up the clothes on the dead people according to what Huang Ming said, and then rushed to the path in the direction of Xishan, on the way Sun Changhong explained to Huang Ming and others why there was such a change today. It turned out that Sun Changhong and Zhang Aya, the eldest daughter of the prime minister Zhang Fu's family, had admired each other since childhood, but Sun Changbo, who was the eldest brother of the emperor, made a statement to his elderly and frail father a few days ago, saying that the prince could not be without a concubine for a day, and he was willing to go to Dazhong, which is adjacent to Daqinan, to propose marriage to the prince and marry the princess.
"It was at this time that the chief beside me then advised me to go out and hide for a few days, so as to minimize the contradiction between me and the eldest prince, and not to embarrass the queen mother, I thought of the relationship with Miss Zhang Aya, and agreed, but the queen mother was not worried that I would go far away, so she borrowed Liu Shi to go to Shili Jingpo and gave me a ride, and promised to send me back to Beijing after I let go of Liu Jiu's father who had drunk and slashed Jiang Shilang of Sanzhou with a sword."
"It's just okay not to fight, but if Ma Song sends troops here, it must be King Bing in the middle of the court who took advantage of his father's critical illness to frame me as the incarnation of a mirage, even if the layer of window paper between me and King Bing is pierced, fortunately, Huang Zhuangshi said that the situation is broken, otherwise when I want to understand, I am afraid that Daqi will change the sky! Now that I go back, even if I inherit the unification, Daqi will be greatly damaged, and the national strength will definitely be greatly damaged in many years. After speaking, he sighed one after another, and everyone hurriedly comforted him.
The six of them began to slow down their horsepower, dismounted and wrapped the horse's shoes in a thick cloth, and gently wiped the horse's nose, Huang Ming saw that Lao Cai was still there, and Wang Guiyou and Liu Jiu didn't notice anything unusual, so they didn't say anything.
Continue to move forward, seeing that the trail along the mountain has come to an end, and the road ahead begins to tilt in the direction of the city tower, Sun Changhong is okay, Liu Jiu and Lu Lu are a little breathless, Huang Ming hangs at the end, but what he thinks about is to review the game of flags that the three brothers of the Zhang family surrounded and killed him, and the game of chess is alive, so what about this game?
Cai Yan looked at Huang Ming, who was quite calm, and after laughing, he said in his heart: "Tell them, the more casual they are, the longer they will hide it, and after they almost find out the support situation on the other side, they will have a better chance of surviving if they run wildly." β
Huang Ming said so, Liu Jiu went to regain his smile, touched the wine gourd, but found that he had already drunk it, and threw it out with a smile, "Your Highness, when my father is released from prison, I have to let my grandfather and my grandfather go to your house to have a good drink." β
"Master Liu, after today's events, you are a real friend of tribulation, not to mention the bad wine in the house, even if you want to open your martial arts hall under Liu Yu's nose, why is it difficult?" Sun Changhong smiled heartily and rubbed his swollen wrist.
"Then Liu Fuyin won't knock me down with one punch, an outsider, if you can't do it." Liu Jiu went to take it seriously, and replied seriously, and frowned after speaking, it seems that the ancestral martial arts hall in the family has really opened to Sanjiang City, the holy land of martial arts.
Laughing aside, after really walking out of the trail and running to the avenue, it is another scene.
Thousands of torches surrounded the town, illuminating the lights brightly, besieging but not attacking. Liu Jiu went to follow Sun Changhong's arrangement, and said in a deep voice: "A few of you, go to the rear to see when the team of galloping reinforcements will come." β
"No!" Huang Ming and the others replied in unison, then picked up the horse's belly and ran quickly to the south, and when they encountered an archer in the tree, they waved their hands and shouted: "On the order of General Ma, find out the reinforcements!" β
This plan really worked, and the Eastern Red Army along the way really made way for this small group of people, seeing that there were more and more people, Wang Guiyou, who was running to the front, buried his head deeper and deeper.
After about a mile of travel, the road gradually widened, and the three riders opened up the distance, Liu Jiu went to secretly call luck, because where he passed just now, the trees were densely packed with archers, and if he took out of the trail, he would run wildly, and run here to Xuan.
Several people shouted the slogan as usual, but one person on the tree shouted: "The whole army of the Eastern Red Department has been dispatched, how can there be any reinforcements, it is clear that they are either deserters or go back to report the news, catch these few for me, and those who dare to move will be shot to death!" β
"Wait, General Ma's order..."Lu Lu shouted, but saw more than ten horsemen rushing towards him, the leader was middle-aged and five short and stout, wearing a black coat and no iron jacket, holding a silver short gun, with a black face and a bald head, and he exploded the thunder when he opened his mouth: "Put your bullshit, don't you want money for my old horse's military order?" Kill them for me! β
The afterglow of the torch illuminated the road clearly, seeing that the two sides were about to meet each other, how dare the clever archers shoot, Wang Guiyou and Liu Jiu went to stimulate the warrior talisman almost at the same time, Liu Jiu went to the head and chest are two blocking talismans, which are considered to be defensive talismans of general rank, but the red talisman that Wang Guiyou pasted to his right arm is weird, not to mention that the arm has grown up a circle, and it also makes the whole body of the right arm glow with dazzling red light.
"Tsk, blood burning talisman, it's really rich, it's really rich." Cai Yan's voice sounded behind Huang Ming, but at this time, the old man had broken free from the rope and sat up, in such a tense situation, it seemed that he was stretching his waist?
Ma Song on the other side looked at it in his eyes, he was really scared, others may not understand the power of the martial artist, but he was too big in a siege and suppression of horse thieves, and he tasted a lot of suffering! shouted, "When the warrior attacks, it must be the traitor Sun Changhong!" Kill me! It's just that it's too late to turn the horse's head at this time, and Wang Guiyou, who was dismounted from the horse, was punched and flew out more than ten zhang away, and was heavily embedded in the mountain rocks for several inches, and it was impossible to live.
The archers were shocked and angry, the general was dead, so they no longer cared about whether they had hurt their own people, and shot at Sun Changhong and the others, Sun Changhong was instantly hit by two arrows in his back, but when he heard two bells, the arrows fell to the ground, leaving no trace on him.
Only then did Huang Ming know that His Royal Highness the Prince had a treasure armor that was no less than his own talisman armor, and at this moment, there was a swishing burst of shooting, Huang Ming was not difficult to take care of himself, and the horses under him had been hit by several arrows and could not move forward, Huang Ming had no choice but to turn over and dismount, Cai Yan happened to fall on his back, and said in the mood: "The main general is dead, and the general trend has been decided, and it is only a strong bow instead of a strong crossbow, as long as you carry this wave of shooting, you will be done." β
Huang Ming finally opened his mouth and said to Cai Yan: "Senior, you are so powerful, can't you help us solve it?" β
"Hehe, what does it matter to me in your generation? Going out of the city is just to see that you are 'familiar' and kind, and I want to find a place where no one is there to talk to you. β
Huang Ming listened to Cai Yan's nonsense while running wildly with the old man on his back, thinking to himself that Lao Tzu came all the way west from the east and the sea, where have I seen you a bad old man? How to talk about familiarity? Seeing that the rope of the horse was suddenly lifted on the road, Huang Ming pulled his legs and jumped nearly a foot into the air, at this moment, the two old archers saw the trajectory of Huang Ming's fall and shot over, seeing that they couldn't dodge, and even the old man began to gloat a little and said: "It's over." β
I never thought that although Huang Ming couldn't use the Xuan Qi to take off in the air, he relied on the mantra of reciting the small step to the air and suddenly used the Xuan Qi to fall, and in an instant, the person had stepped on the ground, and after the two arrows fell into the air, they were nailed to the trunk of the tree, and even Cai Yan behind him couldn't help but sigh lightly.
Running forward for a few hundred steps, he had obviously run out of the dense area, Huang Ming looked at Liu Jiu and Wang Guiyou, who were more advanced than him, among which Wang Guiyou was carrying Lu Lu on his back and rushing with him, and the general close-quarters armor were not their enemies, and Liu Jiu went because he had a talisman to protect himself, and he didn't care about his own painless arrow wounds, and tightly protected the prince and the horse, so the horses did not have any differences, and they rushed to the front with the prince.
"Look, it's okay, leave them alone, let's find a place to catch up."
Huang Ming had no choice but to shout ahead: "Brother Liu! Brother Guiyou, the green mountains do not change the green water, forgive the little brother can not accompany him into Beijing, there is a step in advance, don't pass by! β
Although Liu Jiu and Wang Guiyou were surprised why Huang Ming would leave suddenly, the situation was urgent, and they couldn't care so much.
Without waiting for Wang Guiyou and Liu Jiu to respond, Huang Ming crossed the bend and plunged into the forest.
On the treetops of the moon, Huang Ming had been shuttling in the forest for more than half an hour, and it was estimated that it would be impossible to come to chase the soldiers behind, so he jumped on a big tree and asked the old man bitterly: "Senior, can you come down?" Your leech-like exercises are about to suck me dry. β
The old man jumped down from Huang Ming's back with a "hey", staring at Huang Ming's face, his expression was a little gentle, "Withdraw your face and speak." β
With just this sentence, Huang Ming couldn't care about anything, and he was about to run away, but the old man's left hand quickly put on Huang Ming's shoulder, and Huang Ming was like being immobilized, and his upper body couldn't move at all.
"Sit down and talk." Cai Yan pressed his left hand down lightly, and his right hand quickly pointed towards Huang Ming's forehead, cheeks, jaw, and ears.
"Yo, I think you're not very old in your later life, but you still think of you as old, such a handsome appearance, with this face, is it a waste of other girls who have no face to be a person?" After Cai Yan looked at Huang Ming's jade-like face, he seemed to be a little ashamed of himself, and whispered: "It's much more handsome than when I was young." β
"Who the hell is the senior?"
"You wear my face every day, and you ask me who I am?" The old man held the dough that fell off from Huang Ming's face, and laughed in a low voice: "This dough is peeled off from my face, and so far, it has been five hundred years. β
The old man let go of Huang Ming's hand, changed Cai Yan's pungent tone, and said in a mellow voice that he hadn't used for a long time: "My name is Liu Yun, have you heard of it?" β
Huang Ming was taken aback, remembered the content of the inscription yesterday, and blurted out: "You are King Hu!" β