Chapter 90: Design to escape the pursuit
Seeing Zhang Liang sitting beside him, the coachman's tired face showed a reassuring look, slowly closed his eyes, fell towards Zhang Liang, and completely fell into a coma.
Zhang Liang held the coachman, leaned over to check the coachman's body, trying to find out the crux of the coachman's coma, when Zhang Liang saw a blood stain on the coachman's right chest, he was shocked for a moment, and hurriedly reached out to the coachman's wound and gently probed it, the touch of a broken arrow came from Zhang Liang's fingertips, Zhang Liang then understood the reason why the coachman shouted that he was driving, and it was obvious that the arrow in the driver's chest was hit when he lifted the car just now.
In order not to worry Zhang Liang, the coachman actually broke the arrow inserted in his body, and recklessly drove the carriage away from the pursuit of Ji Pu and others, and when he broke the arrow, he had already torn the wound at the middle arrow, and the bumps along the way aggravated the coachman's injury.
Blood was still pouring from the driver's wounds, and soon the coarse cloth shirt on the driver's body was soaked. Zhang Liang looked at the coachman sadly, stopped the coachman into his arms, slowly picked up the coachman and slowly put him in the carriage.
Looking at the coachman in a coma, Zhang Liang was messy, and now the coachman fell into a coma, and there were Ji Pu and others chasing after him, which made Zhang Liang feel anxious and fell into a dilemma for a while;
There are still eighty miles away from Chen County, and the coachman is so seriously injured that he obviously can't withstand the bumps, and if he wants to save the driver's life, he can't drive at a gallop, and the pursuing thieves can quickly catch up with him.
Just as Zhang Liang was thinking about the time to escape, there was a fork in front of the road, the main road was to Chenjun, and the other fork was to Dangjun.
"Appeal ......"
Zhang Lianghe stopped the slow-moving carriage, jumped out of the carriage, and then observed at the fork in the road.
After observing the fork in the road, Zhang Liang immediately returned to the carriage, drove the carriage in the direction of Chenjun, and after galloping along the direction of Chenjun for two or three miles, Zhang Liang suddenly stopped, drove the carriage into a forest on the side of the road, and hid the carriage in a dense bush.
After hiding the carriage, Zhang Liang broke a branch from the tree beside him, gently brushed away the rut marks in the forest, and then turned around and returned to the carriage and hid.
Half an hour later, five or six fast horses galloped past in front of Zhang Liang's eyes, and it was the thieves who were chasing him, because Zhang Liang hid it too well, Ji Pu and the others did not find Zhang Liang's car hidden in the forest.
After the people left with their horses, Zhang Liang tied a branch to the left and right behind the carriage, and then drove the carriage out of the woods where he was hiding, and returned the same way along the route just now.
In order to mislead the thieves pursuing him as much as possible, Zhang Liang drove back to the right side of the road as much as possible, and tried not to touch the rut marks left by him when he came, because in this way, even if Zhang Liang returned to the original road, there was still only one rut mark on the road, and the thieves who pursued him could not guess Zhang Liang's whereabouts for a while.
After driving the carriage to the previous fork in the road, Zhang Liang did not hesitate to catch the carriage in the direction of Dangjun and slowly drove towards Dangjun.
Seeing that he was out of danger, Zhang Liang relieved himself and found a hidden place to bandage the wound of the coachman.
After briefly treating the coachman's wounds, Zhang Liang drove the carriage and set off again, heading straight for Dangjun.
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After Ji Pu and the others pursued ten miles, one of them noticed that something was wrong and quickly stopped his horse.
Seeing that his brother suddenly stopped, Ji Pu and the others had no choice but to follow Lerma and stop.
"Big brother, something is wrong, we are on our way, and there are no new rut marks on the ground at all."
After listening to what his brother said, Jipu carefully examined the avenue under his feet, and saw no signs of ruts except for some intermittent rut marks.
Since they found the rut mark extending towards Chen County at that fork in the road, Ji Pu and the others judged that Zhang Liang had fled to Chen County, and then pursued along the road leading to Chen County, until this time, they had already pursued ten miles from the fork in the road. If it weren't for their brothers who found out that something was wrong, they would have foolishly continued to pursue.
So Ji Pu and the six turned their horses' heads and chased back along the way they came, and when they reached the woods where Zhang Liang was hiding before, they found the rut marks left by Zhang Liang.
"Big brother, the rut marks disappeared here, will Zhang Liang's dog thief hide here?"
"Brethren, follow me into the woods."
Jipp jumped off his horse as he spoke, then tied his horse to a large tree, and went into the woods first, and searched carefully.
After a careful search in the woods, Jipu and the others found nothing, so they had to leave the woods and come to the path next to the woods.
"Big brother, there is a situation."
Just as Jipp was about to leave the woods, a brother cried out eagerly.
When Jipu rushed over, the brother pointed to the broken branch of an elm tree and said to Jip, "Big brother, look. ”
I saw that there were two broken branches on the elm tree, and the incisions were very neat, and it was obvious that the branches in these two places had been cut off with a sharp blade.
Looking at the cut in the elm tree, Ji Pu frowned, racking his brains to guess Zhang Liang's intention to cut down the branches, even if Ji Pu wanted to blow up his brain, he couldn't guess Zhang Liang's intention to cut down the branches, so he had to leave the woods in a daze and explore Zhang Liang's traces again.
There was only one rut mark on the road in front of him, indicating that Zhang Liang's car had indeed arrived here, but why he could not find it anymore, could it be that the carriage flew away from here.
Ji Pu and the others had to search for the fork in the road leading to Dangjun, but unfortunately they did not find any clues.
After half an hour's effort, Ji Pu and the others had already searched the road near the fork, but it was a pity that the effort was in vain, and there was no trace of Zhang Liang's car at all.
Just as Ji Pu and the others were about to give up, several people who came from the direction of Dangjun passed by Ji Pu and the others.
"Brother Yan, it's the first time I've seen someone hanging and dragging a branch behind the carriage, it's really strange."
"Isn't it, so am I, and the person driving the car is also a weirdo, pulling a face, as if someone owes their family a few and a half taels."
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Listening to the content of the small talk of these passers-by, Ji Pu and the others looked at each other, obviously the strange person that the two little brothers said was very likely to be Zhang Liang.
So Jipp quickly stopped the people who were hurrying and asked them for information about the driver of the car and the person who drove it.
Through the descriptions of several passers-by, Ji Pu concluded that the person was Zhang Liangqi, who was chased and killed by himself.
"I understand the purpose of Zhang Liang's dog thief to cut down the branches," one of Jipu's brothers suddenly realized.
"You understand what's the use now, hurry up and get on the horse, it's important to chase and kill Zhang Liang."
Jipp glanced at the brother speechlessly, and then urged.
After a while, Ji Pu and the others set off again and chased out in the direction of Dangjun.