At this time, Xiang Yan's troops, who were evacuating, were about to arrive in the middle position, and the Qin army that was ambushed above cut the ropes one after another, and a large number of falling rocks rolled in, and for a while, the Chu army below was smashed by the falling stones.

Seeing this, the guards immediately didn't care about these soldiers, immediately abandoned their horses, and ran forward along the mountain with Xiang Yan, who was gradually unconscious, Xiang Yan's consciousness gradually blurred, but he could still see the miserable appearance of the Chu army, and tears flowed from his eyes.

The sound of the wailing of the soldiers of Chu and the crushing of the flesh by the falling stones seemed to be a miserable and sad piece of music in Xiang Yan's ears, and at this moment Xiang Yan seemed to understand the pathetic emotions of Qu Yuan's "Conjuring".

While blocking falling rocks and arrows with their lives, the guards carried Xiang Yan on their backs and headed towards a safe place, not noticing that Xiang Yan on his back had passed out.

The black horse under Fan Zeng kept stepping on its hooves in place, and the low chirp kept ringing out. At this time, Fan Zeng's face was anxious, according to the speed of the march, now Xiang Yan should have arrived here with people, looking at the empty canyon without people, Fan Zeng's heart became more and more heavy.

Just when Fan Zeng had already prepared for the worst, and was about to evacuate, the voice of Xiang Yan's guards sounded behind him.

"Mr. Fan!!" The guard's voice was extremely poignant.

Fan Zeng hurriedly dismounted and turned around, and the five guards were running towards him with a dirty face, but the smile on Fan Zeng's face had not yet unfolded, and he saw Xiang Yan behind the first guard, and Fan Zeng's footsteps shook at the moment, and he almost fell.

Although Fan Zeng has a very high prestige in the army, this prestige is pinned on Xiang Yan, who is not only a Bole for him, but also a teacher and friend. Fan Zeng shook off the support of the guards around him and ran towards Xiang Yan.

When the guard saw Fan Zeng running over, tears instantly burst out of his eyes, and Fan Zeng asked while holding the guard's arm

"General, what's the matter?"

"The general was hit by the arrow of the Qin army, if it weren't for the close-fitting soft armor created by Chu Mo, the general probably wouldn't be able to hold up now." The guard cried and said, "We encountered an ambush by the Qin army at the exit of the first line of heaven, the other party had already prepared, blocked the exit with falling rocks, and tens of thousands of crossbowmen took turns to shoot arrows, fortunately, the general commanded in time, and the brothers retreated in time, but the Qin army put down the falling stones on the way." Twenty of us brothers, fifteen of us opened the way with our lives, and only then did we rescue the general. ”

Looking at the grief of the five guards, the tears in Fan Zeng's eyes also flowed, and looking at Xiang Yan who was unconscious behind the guards, Fan Zeng hurriedly said

"Put the general down."

The guards hurriedly put Xiang Yan down, Fan Zeng grabbed Xiang Yan's wrist and began to check Xiang Yan's pulse, Xiang Yan's pulse was extremely weak, if he didn't treat it, I'm afraid Xiang Yan wouldn't be able to hold it out and leave.

"How's the general doing?" The guard asked, kneeling.

Fan Zeng didn't speak, but the heaviness on his face had already said everything, the guards stopped crying one by one, their eyes were red, they had already guessed that Xiang Yan's situation was not optimistic. Fan Zeng took out a small box from his arms, and under the eyes of everyone, Fan Zeng opened the box and took out one of the pills inside.

This is when Fan Zeng was traveling in Yunmengze, he was accidentally given the holy medicine by the immortals, there are three in total, each of which is a life-saving holy medicine, the first one when he was seriously injured and was about to die, after taking one, he saved his life. The second one he dedicated to the king of Xianchu and helped Xiang Yan in exchange for the stability of grain and grass and the stability of military power in his hands. And this is the last one.

"Water." Fan Zeng shouted.

The guards on the side untied the water bag and handed it to Fan Zeng, who took out a jade knife from the box and divided the pill in two, put half of it into Xiang Yan's mouth, and then poured water into Xiang Yan's mouth.

Everyone watched Xiang Yan swallow the pill and breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts.

"Cut off the feather arrow, you must be steady." Fan Zeng said.

"No."

The two guards on the side stabilized the long arrow, and one of them took out a short knife and cut off the arrow outside the armor.

"Unarmour." Fan Zeng said.

The guards carefully removed the armor on Xiang Yan's upper body, revealing the golden soft armor inside, and when they took off the soft armor, the blood stains on Xiang Yan's back had already glued the back and soft armor together. Even though the guards were already extremely careful, the moment they took off the soft armor, the pain in their back made the unconscious Xiang Yan still couldn't help but snort.

Fan Zeng saw that the soft armor was removed, and he didn't pull out the arrow behind Xiang Yan, the arrow had already submerged into Xiang Yan's back, and when he pulled out the arrow, there was a slight difference, and Xiang Yan would die on the spot. Although Fan Zeng knew a little about medical skills, he couldn't pull out the arrow without any difference. Fan Zeng put the remaining half of the pill into the box, crushed it into a fine sandy shape, and carefully sprinkled it near the wound on Xiang Yan's back.

After everything was done, Fan Zeng said with a sigh of relief

"Put on the soft armor for the general."

"Mr. Fan, is the general's condition stable?" Xiang Yan's bodyguard asked.

"Leave it to fate, the general's life is temporarily saved, if he can't be treated, the general will not survive." Fan Zeng shook his head and said.

"What then?" The guard asked.

Fan Zeng glanced at the guard and said in a deep voice

"Now that the Qin army has surrounded our rear road, General Longqi is leading the Longteng Army to break through, but I don't think there is much hope, so I hope you can put on the armor of the general, on the one hand, to boost the morale of our soldiers, and on the other hand, to attract the attention of the Qin army, I will lead someone to find a way to send the general out."

Hearing Fan Zeng's words, the guard did not hesitate at all, and immediately said

"Leave it to me!"

After speaking, the guard got up and took off his armor, put Xiang Yan's armor on his body, and then turned over on Fan Zeng's horse.

"There is no life here, take care." Fan Zeng bowed to the guards and said.

The rest of the guards also bowed to the guards on their horses, and it could be said that the guards were using their lives to create a way for them to live.

"My husband deserves to die, my life was saved by the general, and now I should return it." The guard said.

"Do you have any last wishes? If we return to Chu with the general, we will definitely help you achieve it. Fan Zeng asked.

The guard thought for a moment and said

"There really is one, when my hometown worships the dragon god, the wizard said that he wanted to make my four-year-old sister and three-year-old brother sacrifices, to be sacrificed to the dragon king, after learning the news, I made a sacrifice, was caught by the people, and was about to sink into the river, it was the general who saved me, and also saved my younger brothers and sisters.

Later, the general told me that there is no dragon god in this world, and these are just rumors promoted by some people in order to collect money, so I want to ask Mr. Fan, when will my Chu State get rid of these scum who are arbitrarily collecting money in the name of sacrifice and ignoring the lives of Chu people? ”

Fan Zeng was a little embarrassed, he originally thought that the guards would say anything to take care of his family, but he didn't expect to ask such a fatal question. In addition to the fear of ghosts and gods in the Chu people, it is more that the powerful clans in order to collect wealth and oppress the people in a fair and honest way, so they cooperate with the wizards to constantly promote various mountain gods and goddesses such as water and other gods, so as to ignorate the people, so that the people can hand over their money as a matter of course, and willingly give their daughters to the dragon king as a bride, but in fact, they went to the home of the powerful and were regarded as a confinement.

This matter has long been no secret among the high-level of the Chu State, but who dares to say that the money they enjoy is not filial piety from their subordinates in this way, even if the kings of Chu in the past dynasties know about it, they are all silent, because this kind of atmosphere in the Chu State has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and only a few of the powerful people in the country have not participated, and everyone else has participated, especially the countless wizards under the three families of Qu Jingzhao.

The Qu family even turned the original Qu Yuan myth into the river god of the Miluo River, and turned the sacrifice of the people to Qu Yuan spontaneously into the current Miluo River sacrifice, using Qu Yuan's reason to protect the people to let the people contribute money, just contributing money is not enough, the Qu family let people secretly provoke the relationship between the clans in the nearby villages, so that they can compare with each other who donated more money, so as to collect a lot of money.

This sacrificial wind has benefited the magnates of the entire Chu State, and the people of the Chu State need such a god to protect them, so no one dares to expose the true face of the sacrifice, because if you touch this, you will face the resistance of the top and bottom of the Chu State, the magnates, and the people.

Although he Fan Zeng is pretentious and thinks he has resourcefulness, but in the face of such a general trend, his resourcefulness is useless.

Looking at Fan Zeng's expression, the guard seemed to understand something, and said with a laugh twice

"Mr. Fan, don't think about it, I was hit by a mountain ghost just now, I hope you can treat my family well when you go back, and tell them that I died for the Chu State."

After saying that, the guard whipped on the horse's buttocks, the horse neighed, raised its front hooves and galloped towards the exit, leaving Fan Zeng and the others, Fan Zeng asked Xiang Yan to put on ordinary armor, and rushed forward along the valley with the rest of the guards.

At this time, the entrance to the first line of heaven.

The corpses of the Qin army and the Chu army are scattered at the entrance, like a purgatory on earth, occupying the advantage of terrain and equipment, the casualties of the Chu army are about several times that of the Qin army, the Qin army relies on the terrain advantage and strong bows and crossbows, blocking the entrance, because of the narrow exit, the cavalry of the Longteng Army can not charge the Qin army on a large scale, and the Qin army relies on bows and crossbows No matter how many people the Chu army rushes out, they will be killed by the rain of arrows.

However, the Qin army's crossbow arrows were limited, and only by seizing the exit and forcing the Chu army into the valley could the Qin army be able to encircle and annihilate the Chu army.

Wang Ben stood on the chariot and looked at the Chu army in front of him, who relied on grain, grass and ordnance as a cover, and had a headache for a while. The Chu army occupied the mountain pass and could not come out, and their crossbows and crossbows with bunkers could not shoot the Chu army in the valley, and he also thought about sending people to occupy the mountains on both sides, but once he showed traces of dividing his troops, Long Qi immediately let the army break through, and the two sides were stalemate for a while.

Brothers, I'm back, tomorrow's update is during the day, everyone rest early

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