Chapter 45: Escape from the Mountains
It is worthy of creating Murong Dragon City, which is the same as his unique martial arts, and he has used his strength to the extreme:
In the name of Duan Yingsi, to gain the trust of the Empress Dowager Zhou's mother and son and the later Zhou Zhongchen, and with the help of Chai Zhongxun's name, to drive the Later Zhou Zhongchen, and the price he himself paid from beginning to end was only: a fake Duan Suke, rescue Duan Yingsi, and rescue Chai Zhongxun, but in the end he can harvest a country - compared to the bloody founding war, this cost is simply negligible.
However, while being frightened by Murong Longcheng's foresight, Ding Yu suddenly had an urge to laugh out loud. It's just that no matter how scheming Murong Longcheng is, he can't guess that Duan Suke, who has never been taken seriously by him, actually kills his right-hand man and further replaces the puppet he has carefully prepared. led to Murong Longcheng's overall plan, which was doomed to failure from the beginning.
But for Ding Yu, this is not enough. The plan to destroy Murong Dragon City was not his purpose, his purpose was to save Duan Yingsi's life. And Duan Yingsi still has no doubt about Murong Longcheng, so Ding Yu still needs to play the role of fake Duan Suke until he can find a way to make Duan Yingsi break with Murong Longcheng.
The next day, as soon as it was dawn, the group got up and cleaned up the camp, and after hastily eating some dry food, they turned over and got on their horses. Because the Empress Dowager Zhou's mother and son did not know how to ride, the two of them rode together with Duan Yingsi and Ding Yu respectively, and the comatose maid Jing'er last night had already woken up, presumably the Empress Dowager Zhou's mother and son had explained the reason to her, so she did not show panic, but only obediently accepted the arrangement and rode with Huang Shaowen.
The group followed the mountain road, rode their horses back to the southwest, and every time they walked, the sand in the wind dismounted and fell to the ground to listen to the sound, and about the third time, he raised his head and said to Murong Longcheng: "Lord, there are a lot of horses' hooves over there in Fangzhou City. ”
Murong Longcheng nodded, looked back and ordered everyone to dismount, connected all the horses with ropes, and let one of the horsemen of the palace continue to ride the one with the head, while the others walked into the mountain and shook off the pursuers through the dense mountain forest. Although they had to take turns carrying the three Empress Dowagers of Zhou, with everyone's light skills, walking through this dense forest was faster than riding a horse.
This did work at first, but when the wind heard that the pursuers were indeed heading in the direction of the horse caravan, everyone slowed down to conserve their strength.
Unexpectedly, it was less than an hour, and a large number of pursuers fell behind them, so everyone had to change direction again, pass through at full speed, and finally after running for several miles of mountain roads, they threw off the pursuers. Just as everyone breathed a sigh of relief and wanted to rest in place for a while, the sound of horses' hooves was heard again in the wind.
After repeating this three times, Murong Longcheng realized that there must be efficient tracking methods in the chasing team. With his many years of experience in the military and rivers and lakes, there are three ways to track it:
The so-called "sight" means that the eagle is embellished with a target in the sky, and from time to time it makes an eagle or circling and flying to guide the direction of the pursuers, but he looked up at the sky and did not find the eagle eagle, nor did he hear the eagle before, so it can be ruled out;
And "listening" is like sand in the wind, judging the distance and direction of the other party by listening to the sound on the ground. But they walked on a mountain road, and the sound of their footsteps was not as clear as on flat ground, and they abandoned their horses to hurry with light, so that even the most experienced spies could never have fallen on them by the sound of their footsteps;
In this way, it can only be "smell", borrowing the hound's sense of smell to capture their scent.
He asked the people to change their clothes and captured a few mountain deer alive, tied them to their clothes, and then released them. This time, it took two hours for the pursuers in the rear to find the right direction again.
In this way, Murong Longcheng could be sure that the people in the rear must have relied on "Wen" to track them down.
Murong Qi gritted his teeth and said, "Father, let me kill their arrogance!"
"Shut up!" Murong Longcheng said with a calm face, "It's good to hurry up and protect the king and the queen mother!"
Murong Longcheng was not angry in his heart, how could the Murong clan have tried to be like a rabbit and be chased all over the mountain! This is a great shame for the arrogant Murong Longcheng. In fact, he wanted to kill himself and kill the "nose" chasing behind, and then it would be a hundred.
It's just that he is not like the pursuers behind, once he breaks away from the team, he will never be able to meet in this Daba Mountain. And Chai Zhongxun and Empress Dowager Zhou were too important to his plan, if something went wrong when he left, it would be beyond his reach.
Among the remaining people, Duan Yingsi also cannot afford to lose; the generals and the Wang brothers only have first-class martial arts, and it is difficult to stop a large number of elite Song troops; although Murong Qi's martial arts have advanced to the super-first-class realm, they are still inexperienced, and the pursuers behind him are likely to be veterans in the Baokang army, so let him face it alone, and he will not suffer a big loss.
After thinking about it, he finally decided that at this critical juncture, he should not make extraneous branches, anyway, as long as he could only suppress his anger again and again.
In this way, the two groups of people chased and fled in the Daba Mountain, and they were entangled for three days. In the past three days, Duan Yingsi, Murong Longcheng and the others have not slept a single night, and the dry food has been eaten as early as the first day, and they don't dare to make a fire to hunt after that, relying on the wild berries and wild fruits in the mountains to satisfy their hunger.
Fortunately, the groom of the royal family was from the mountains, and knew which plants to eat from their roots and fruits, and also knew how to collect dew and non-toxic sap to drink, so although they were tired, they did not fall ill or lose their strength.
There were no stars and no moon this night, and the dense forest under the night could not reach out and lose five fingers, and the pursuers behind them could not be tracked even if there were dogs, so everyone got a chance to breathe.
Empress Dowager Zhou, Chai Zhongxun and Jing'er were already so tired that they were about to collapse, and they fell asleep as soon as they fell to the ground; although Huang Shaowen was also a first-class master, he was very old, and he had to carry Jing'er on his back, so his physical exertion was extraordinary, and he soon fell asleep.
Murong Longcheng arranged for three generals to take turns to keep vigil, and then he was about to sleep, but he saw Wang Shiping, the second eldest of the Wang family's brothers, coming over with the Wang family's groom, Wang Shiping said: "Uncle Murong Shi, my subordinate seems to have made some discoveries. ”
At this time, Ying Si and Ding Yu had not slept yet, and when they heard this, they also approached.
The horseman glanced at Duan Yingsi and Ding Yu, and stopped talking for a while. Murong Longcheng said unhappily: "If you have something to say, you don't need to scruple." ”
"Yes!" the groom agreed, and said softly: "The villain has been thinking about it for three days, and he always feels that it is not easy to chase the soldiers behind him. In addition to changing clothes these days, I also used all kinds of grass sap and tree sap to paint all over my body, and the villain dared to pat his chest and say that if he had been tracked by a dog in the back, he would have been thrown off a long time ago. ”
Murong Longcheng groaned, "Are you saying that the people behind aren't chasing us by the dog's nose?"
The groom nodded heavily, and then said with some hesitation, "I suspect that some of us have done something to make the latter chase so closely." (To be continued.) )