Chapter 21: Awakening
Yangzhou Huiji County.
Feeling the pressure and pain on his shoulders, Chen Wentian woke up.
What followed was a crazy headache that made him gasp for breath.
When he was more conscious, Chen Wentian turned his head and looked around with difficulty, and it seemed that he was lying on a simple stretcher, being carried away......
"Lord of the village, Lang Jun seems to be awake!?"
The person carrying the stretcher seemed to have noticed his awakening and shouted at Shang Qing in front of him.
Chen Wentian wanted to get up when he heard the shouting, but found that he was weak and his headache was stronger.
But he seemed to remember how he had been injured and unconscious.
At that time, the situation in Dulong Gorge was critical, and he gave Shang Qing a dangerous plan in a hurry, pretending to be Li You's subordinates to lead the officers and soldiers into the village, but in fact, he took advantage of the unpreparedness of the officials and troops to ambush the officials and soldiers here, and then escaped from the path of cutting Longkou.
It's really reckless to think about it now, if the official army and Li You agree on some code or something in advance, or if the military discipline is stricter, then they will not be able to escape the poison!
Fortunately, God blessed, because his voice was too conspicuous, Shang Qing chose a clever male guard to go with him, claiming that Li Post's subordinates had deceived the officials and soldiers......
When a young general in the official army heard that there was an internal response coming, he only asked if he had seen a group of soldiers retreating in the direction of the cottage, and the two naturally replied that they were hiding in the bushes on the side to avoid the thieves.
After learning that Li You had put his colleagues outside the back mountain into the cottage, and was currently fighting fiercely with the villagers, and asked to bring people to reinforcements quickly.
The young general didn't doubt it anymore, and ordered his subordinates to speed up their pace and move quickly in the direction guided by Shang Qing's personal guards, which seemed to be also meritorious.
Because Shang Qing realized that the official army was teasing her and delaying time at the mouth of Dulong Gorge, he decisively gave up the ambush, threw some big stones to the mouth of the canyon to block the road, and returned to the cottage with everyone.
When the young general saw it, he judged that there must be a change in the cottage, and these ambush soldiers would retreat in a hurry.
After he commanded his subordinates to clean up the piled up stones a little, he hurried down the canyon, originally holding the idea of attacking the thieves with Li Post and others, but at this time, he let down his guard and pursued with all his might.
As everyone knows, after Shang Qing and the two finished speaking, they followed the young general on the grounds of being a guide, and the distance gradually narrowed......
When everyone marched forward for hundreds of steps, the three hundred soldiers of Huangshanzhai suddenly appeared from both sides, ambushing the enemy.
And Shang Qing took advantage of the moment when everyone was stunned, shouted, and suddenly pulled out the short blade in his sleeve against the neck of the young general, and the clever personal guard also took advantage of the situation to grab the young general's weapon and then drank to stop his personal guard......
"Lang Jun, are you finally awake, are you better?"
Chen Wentian was still in his memories when he was interrupted by Shang Qing, who rushed to hear the sound.
"I'm fine......"
Hearing Shang Qing call him Lang Jun, Chen Wentian replied a little unnaturally.
"It's all because the concubine is careless, so Lang Jun was seriously injured!"
Shang Qing looked at Chen Wentian's appearance and remembered his mistake, and immediately apologized again and again.
At that time, she had already controlled the young general, and the officials and soldiers did not dare to move, Chen Wentian immediately led the soldiers to Shang Qing's side and surrounded the young general.
Shang Qing and the others immediately took the junior general as a hostage, ordered the officers and soldiers to get out of the way, and then slowly moved towards the mouth of the dragon.
Originally, everything was going well, but who knew that there was an accident at the mouth of the dragon.
Shang Qing and Chen Wentian saw that they were about to reach the entrance of the path, and the officers and soldiers followed behind with their hands and feet, so they were a little relaxed.
Seeing the situation, the young general suddenly waved his right hand, slapped away the short blade that Shang Qing was holding against his neck, and then quickly hit Chen Wentian's eyebrows with an elbow with his left hand, and then rolled his center of gravity downward, and he was out of the control of the two!
As soon as the officers and soldiers in the rear saw that the main general was out of danger, they rushed over like crazy......
And Chen Wentian received a full elbow blow and fell on his back, and the back of his head hit a stone, and he was unconscious on the spot, and he didn't wake up until just now.
"How can I blame you, I also relaxed my vigilance when I saw the path in front of me, so I couldn't dodge. But what's next? ”
Chen Wentian smiled, and then asked.
Shang Qing listened to it and then told Chen Wentian about the follow-up situation.
At that time, she looked at Chen Wentian, who was injured and unconscious, and then looked at the officers and soldiers who rushed over with some hesitation.
A few guards beside her took the lead in pulling herself, asking her to quickly take Chen Wentian and Shang Ke to escape first, and a few people brought more than 100 soldiers to block the official army.
Shang Qing had no choice but to agree with tears, and immediately picked up Chen Wentian and pulled Shang Ke into the path......
Later, when they went out of the trail, the subordinates of Li Post saw that they had no time to take care of it, so they fled to the southeast without authorization, and they fled all the way north with the remaining dozens of people.
"You mean, we fled all the way north after leaving the Dragon's Mouth Trail?"
Chen Wentian didn't wait for Shang Qing to finish speaking, and keenly grasped the last detail.
"Yes, this is out of the Yellow Mountain, and the officers and soldiers should not be able to catch up for the time being."
Shang Qing knew that Chen Wentian was worried that the official army would continue to chase after him, so he comforted him.
"What if the officers and soldiers come after them on horseback? This place should not stay for a long time, we should hide our footprints and quickly go west into the mountains! ”
Chen Wentian immediately reminded and gave suggestions.
Shang Qing only reacted at this time, quickly led everyone to change direction, and left a few people to clean up their footprints.
It is said that in Zhang'an County, in addition to more than a dozen horses used for scouts and messengers, there are only some horses pulling carts, and there are no decent cavalry at all, so Shang Qing did not think of it for a while.
But this group of officers and soldiers is obviously different from the previous county soldiers, and it is very likely that they are county soldiers who will be judged, so it is normal to have some cavalry.
However, in this way, if Shang Qing and the others fled north along the official road, they would probably be caught up by these cavalry.
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When everyone entered the mountain, the sky gradually darkened, and Shang Qing found a leeward place for everyone to rest.
Since they didn't have any food to bear, everyone was so hungry that they were growling, but now they didn't have time to go out to find food, and they didn't dare to make a fire, so they had to spend the night.
Fortunately, there is a mountain stream not far away, so they will not be cut off from water......
The little merchant was tired for a day, frightened again, drank some mountain spring water, and fell asleep on a flat stone early.
Shang Qing seemed to be preoccupied and sat still.
And Chen Wentian rested for a while and then tried to get up, shook his swollen and painful head, and after gradually getting used to it, he motioned for Shang Qing to go farther away, he had something to say.
"Business...... Ziyi, what are your plans next? ”
"I want to find a safe place to shelter from the limelight first, and then go back to rebuild the cottage, the officers and soldiers will definitely not stay there for long, as long as we still have people, there is hope to go back......"
Chen Wentian listened to Shang Qing's words, shook his head secretly, and said:
"There's a ...... I don't know how to tell you......"
"Don't worry, I know you're really good for the cottage, and I should have listened to you a long time ago!"
"No, no, Shang Qing, I didn't mean that, I mean...... My amnesia, that is, my soul loss, was cured. Maybe it was because of that young man's hard blow, I woke up and remembered everything......"