Chapter 202: Solve the mystery with a secret again
Jiang Liu and Xiao Feiyan performed light skills and soon caught up with Yang Xingmi and the others. The four of them turned the ridge, and the rumbling and screaming of the avalanche behind them slowly subsided, gradually becoming inaudible.
Jiang Liu's heart was a little heavy when he thought that he had taken the lives of hundreds of people at once, so he had to comfort himself with words like "If I don't kill them, they will kill me."
In contrast, after escaping death, Yang Xingmi's mood was much better, and he could be described as elated. He lay on his son's back, talked eloquently, and praised the courage of the river, and he would be rewarded. Jiang Liu smiled slightly when he heard this, but Xiao Feiyan sneered and snorted coldly, Yang Xingmi laughed and ignored her.
After walking for a while, he heard that Yang Wu was tired and a little out of breath, Jiang Liu carried Yang Xingmi on his back, Yang Wu thanked him repeatedly, and Yang Xingmi smiled and said: "Boy, how about I make you a hundred-step general?" Jiang Liu didn't care much about being an official, and said politely: "Thank you for your kindness, but Jiang Liu is ashamed." Yang Xingmi said: "I think you're good, you don't have to be polite." ”
Yang Wu intended to say a few more words to Xiao Feiyan, and kept asking questions, but Xiao Feiyan was lukewarm, and only occasionally replied. The four of them talked like this, and when they went down the hill, there was no trace of the pursuers. After traveling for dozens of miles, I have reached the official road, and the sky is slowly brightening. Everyone had just put their minds at ease, when suddenly a group of cavalry in front of them galloped forward, all in black helmets and black armor.
The hearts of everyone who had fallen were raised again, and they all said in their hearts: "Oops, just got out of danger, are you chasing the soldiers again?" At that time, the four of them were exhausted, and they wanted to run away again, but they were afraid that they had more than enough heart and not enough strength.
When the cavalry approached, Yang Wu suddenly smiled and said, "It's General Chai's Black Cloud Army that has arrived." Sure enough, this group of soldiers marched to ten zhang away from Yang Xingmi, shouted in unison, and dismounted at the same time. The two leading generals led all the soldiers to kneel on the ground and said in unison: "The last general is too late to save the car, please forgive the prince." Jiang Liu took a closer look, and the leader was Chai Zaiyong, the young general Li Hou who had fought with him.
Yang Xingmi jumped off the back of Jiang Liu, took a few steps forward, raised his hand to salute, and said with a little excitement: "Use it again, you have a meritorious role in saving the driver, what is the crime? It's too late for me to reward you." Come, everybody, get up. And they all bowed their heads and stood up together.
Chai Zaiyong glanced at Jiang Liu, his face showed a slight look of surprise, Jiang Liu smiled at him and said, "General Chai, hello." Chai Zaiyong nodded in greeting, and just as he was about to speak, he heard Yang Xingmi say: "Use again, do you two know each other?"
Chai took a few steps forward, stopped a few steps in front of Yang Xingmi, and arched his hand: "Back to the prince's words, my subordinates have been with this ...... on the Huangchuan front The little brother has met once. He originally wanted to say that he was an envoy, but he felt that it was inappropriate, so he changed his name to little brother.
Yang Xingmi looked at the two of them, with a suspicious look on his face, and muttered: "Oh, I didn't expect you to be old acquaintances." ”
Jiang Liu said: "It's not an old acquaintance, it's a one-sided relationship." He was worried about Chai Zaiyong instructing Qingqing to steal the Beacon Fire Order, and couldn't help but tease: "General Chai is really powerful, King Wu's palace was attacked by a sneak attack, and the general immediately flew to save him, and General Fei had already gotten the news." ”
Yang Xingmi's face changed greatly, he took a few steps back, his face was frosty, he looked at Chai Zai coldly, and said, "Use it again, what do you say?"
Chai Zai scolded Jiang Liu to sow discord, quickly pounced and knelt on the ground, kowtowed and said: "King Wu is angry, please listen to the next one." ”
Yang Xingmi was still expressionless, and listened to Chai Zaiyong continue, "The subordinates confronted Zhu Wenjun on the front line, and fought several battles, but the enemy army was defeated, and the enemy army no longer responded to the battle. A few days ago, my spies caught the enemy's fine work, and after careful interrogation, I got a shocking secret, saying that someone was plotting to kill you. ”
"Oh" Yang Xingmi snorted coldly and said, "What kind of detail is this, you can know such a confidential thing?"
Chai Zai was honestly afraid, and in the cold winter, beads of sweat oozed from his forehead. He knocked his head on the ground three times with a "bang" and continued: "At first, my subordinates thought that the enemy was talking nonsense, and they couldn't believe it. So I personally interrogated Na Xiaozuo, who said that he was originally a staff officer, so he knew the inside story, and later he was demoted to Xiaozuo for making mistakes. I used all kinds of torture, but he always insisted that it was true. ”
"The subordinates would rather believe it, immediately repair a book, and the flying pigeon will pass the book to the lord to you. Li Hou can prove this. Li Hou stepped forward, knelt on the ground, and said respectfully: "I released the carrier pigeons with my own hands, and a total of eight pigeons were released." ”
Chai Zaiyong continued: "The subordinates were afraid that something would happen to the carrier pigeon, so they immediately led the troops back to Luzhou and was escorted by King Qin. When I arrived in Luzhou, I knew that you were not in Luzhou, thinking that the snowstorms in Luzhou had been continuous in the past few days, and you might have been blocked on the road, so I immediately rushed to it non-stop, but I didn't expect it to be a step late. Fortunately, the prince is blessed with Qitian, otherwise the sin of his subordinates will be great. With that, he kowtowed again.
Hearing this, Yang Xingmi's face turned slightly pale, he held the firewood with both hands and then used his arms, and laughed loudly: "Use it again, my good brother, how can I not believe you." Pull him up hard, "We got into trouble together, if it weren't for you saving me in danger many times, how could there be Yang Xingmi now." ”
Chai Zai filled his eyes with tears and choked up: "With the words of the prince, I will smear the ground with my liver and brain, go up the knife mountain and go down to the sea of fire, and I will not give up." ”
Yang Xingmi patted him on the shoulder and said, "Good brother, really good brother." The two looked at each other and laughed. Jiang Liuxin said: "This firewood is a person who values love and righteousness. ”
The two laughed for a while, and Chai Zaiyong leaned into Yang Xingmi's ear and whispered a few words. Yang Xingmi frowned, and then Yang Wu said, "Who is the person who attacked our palace?"
When he asked, everyone fell into deep thought. Yang Xingmi glanced at Jiang Liu and Xiao Feiyan, and finally stared at Jiang Liu majestically, and said, "Jiang Liu, what do you think about this? These assassins know you, right?"
Jiang Liu weighed in his heart, whether to tell Yang Xingmi that those white-clothed people were from the Shangqing faction. While hesitating, he suddenly heard Xiao Feiyan sneer: "How do you know? What if you don't know? Remember, King Wu, your life was saved by us." Also, I might as well remind you that it may be your general's carrier pigeon that has exposed your whereabouts. ”
Everyone was shocked when they heard this, and then they all came to their senses. Xiao Feiyan was right, Yang Xingmi returned from Shudi, and the schedule and route were highly confidential, and only the commander of the forbidden army who escorted him and Yang Xingmi himself knew about it.
Where to go today, which way to take tomorrow, ordinary guards and generals will not know until they are about to set off. No matter how shrewd the enemy was, he didn't know where Yang Xingmi was going, so he deliberately leaked the news that he was going to assassinate King Wu to Chai Zaiyong.
Chai Zaiyong knew the news, and the Pegasus report would definitely be too late, and he would definitely use carrier pigeons to send a warning. As long as you track the whereabouts of the carrier pigeons, you can know where Yang Xingmi is, which is definitely a clever strategy.
But the problem is that pigeons are extremely difficult to track, and who has the ability to track them? unless this person can fly against the wind and follow them all the way. However, there is another possibility, which is that the carrier pigeon has been tampered with. Who is this person? Everyone's eyes couldn't help but look at Li Hou, who had released eight carrier pigeons.