Chapter II: Encirclement, Pursuit, and Interception
There were four people and four horses on the bridge, it was Lu Fei, Zhao Hengshan, Luo Tianchu and Yue Yun, they were all overjoyed to see that each other was safe and sound. It turned out that under the leadership of Yue Yun, the four of them led Jin Bing to run into the evening and entered the forest while it was dark. After entering the forest, wrap the cotton cloth around the horse's hooves and lead the horse forward. The golden soldiers did not carry torches, and their horseshoe prints could not be found in the darkness, nor could they be heard. Wanyan Saili knew that the four of them had extremely high martial arts, and they did not dare to disperse the soldiers, and the team searched for Tianming, but the people were sleepy and lacking, and they still couldn't find their traces.
Among them, many Jin soldiers began to have diarrhea again, and they collapsed and couldn't walk. Wan Yan Saili had no choice but to order to rest in place and continue the search after dawn. It wasn't until the evening of the next day, when the frustrated Wanyan Saili was about to give up and ran into Ni Hongyan's master and apprentice who had returned, that he learned the whereabouts of the other group of people in the Blood Knife Castle, and immediately chased after him all the way.
In fact, after Yue Yun and them walked out of the forest, they hid their men and horses in the long grass, and after Yan Saili led the troops away, they turned back in the opposite direction, no wonder they couldn't find their traces. After finding the wooden bridge, Yue Yun said that this was the only bridge to cross within sixty miles, and his companions would pass through here, so the four of them recuperated on the bridge and waited for their companions.
From morning to noon, Zhao Hengshan was already impatient, and said, "Let's go back and find it, they may be in trouble." Lu Fei said: "If they arrive just in time when we leave, won't they go wrong?" Zhao Hengshan said angrily: "In case they are caught by the Jin soldiers, it will be in vain for us to wait for as long as we want." Lu Fei said: "That's it, Xiao Luo and I will go to pick up, if they come after we leave, or Jin Bing chases after us, we don't have to wait for us, when Xiao Luo and I come back, we will find a way to cross the river to find you." Yue Yun took the initiative to ask: "The junior brother is familiar with the terrain, Brother Luo's mount, the divine horse, let's go and investigate." Lu Fei nodded and said, "It's okay." ”
When they were about to leave, they suddenly saw a group of men galloping from the west, and the snow and dust were rising behind the team, and the Jin Guo Brigade followed closely behind. Surprised and delighted after recognizing that it was his own person, Yue Yun glanced at the pursuers behind him and said, "Quickly retreat to the shore at the end of the bridge!" They obeyed Yue Yun's words and came to the end of the bridge together. Yue Yun hung up the red spear, jumped off the horse, took out the big knife from the leather bag, and slashed towards the bridge pier. At this time, his companions had crossed the bridge one after another, and when they saw that he had a clear intention of destroying the bridge, they all drew their weapons to destroy the bridge piers. At this time, the Jin soldiers chased after the bridge, and Wan Yan Saili saw that they were destroying the bridge, and shouted: "Rush over, don't let them tear down the bridge!" A group of cavalry rushed to the wooden bridge first.
Two piers have been split but have not collapsed. The heroes of Bloodblade Castle stood on one side of the bridge, pushing the bridge to the other side with all their might. They were so powerful that they 'clicked' and deduced the bridge. More than a dozen Jin soldiers rushed over and fell into the river with their horses. After the wooden bridge fell into the river, the planks were washed away by the turbulent river, and the bridge body was broken from it, leaving only a small half of the bridge on the opposite bank.
Wanyan Saili was furious, knowing that whether it was a detour or a bridge, it would be delayed for half a day, and the thieves would have run away at that time. Zhu Yushi pointed to Wang Renxiao and Qiu Lihai on the other side and said: "Xiao Luo, where is our big enemy! It's a pity that we can't take revenge now!" Luo Tianchu clenched the hilt of his sword and said angrily: "Let those two dog thieves live for a few more days, and enshrine their heads in front of the eldest brother's spirit sooner or later." Zhao Hengshan said loudly: "Brother Zhong's death started because of the Sprinkle family, and the life of the Sprinkle family has been stored to this day, and now the enemy is in front of him, and he can let it go!" Saying that, he jumped into the river desperately, Lu Fei and Jiang Feiyan hurriedly pulled him down, Lu Fei said angrily: "When is it, still make a mistake!" Zhao Hengshan shouted: "You go first, the Sprinkle family will take their own lives!" Yue Yun shouted: "Do you want to be a live target? Jin Bing is about to release arrows." ”
Suddenly, the sound of the bowstring shook frequently, the sky broke through the sky and roared, and a rain of arrows fell, and everyone hurriedly protected their bodies and rode backwards, and in the blink of an eye, the arrows fell all over the ground, but fortunately, no one was hit by the arrow. Lu Fei urged everyone to retreat. Wanyan Saili was unwilling, and let the golden soldiers cut down trees and build bridges. Gao Qingyi said: "There is another ferry bridge sixty miles upstream, which will be there in half a day. It takes a day to build a bridge, why does the general give up the near and far?" Wan Yan Saili said: "The snow can leave their hoof prints, although it is slow for half a day, they still know the direction of pursuit, although the detour is fast, but they lose the enemy's trace, and the gains outweigh the losses." ”
Along the way, Luo Tianchu and the three of them were depressed because they couldn't take revenge, and it took a while to get better. Luo Tianchu suddenly found that He Yuelian was also in the team, and he couldn't close his mouth in surprise, seeing that she and Zhu Yushi looked intimate, his heart was suddenly overjoyed, and he hurriedly asked Zhu Yushi about it. Zhu Yushi blushed and recounted the previous events, Luo Tianchu was overjoyed when he heard it, thinking that Xiao Zhu had finally fulfilled his dream, it was really not easy.
He Yuelian found that Ling Xue'er was no longer so eccentric when she was by Luo Tianchu's side, but was very docile, so she rode forward and laughed a few words in her ear, making Xue'er's face fly red, and the two played and laughed for a while, He Yuelian was very curious about Gu Wang Ying again, Zhu Yushi said briefly, He Yuelian frowned when she heard it, she didn't like poisonous snakes and beasts since she was a child, and she was very afraid of the poisonous Erying, so she persuaded Zhu Yushi to practice less Gu art in the future.
Zhu Yushi suddenly remembered Jiang Nu'er and broke out in a cold sweat. If He Yuelian knew that they had kissed their mouths, the consequences would be unimaginable. He Yuelian saw that he was in a cold sweat, and her heart was not belonging, and she said with concern: "What's wrong with you?" Zhu Yushi smiled reluctantly: "No...... It's nothing. "I made up my mind that after the first battle of Monk Yuan was over, as long as I was still alive, I would go to 'Caoyang Village' again, explain the reason to Jiang Nuer, and end this relationship. Although he also likes Jiang Nu'er, but now that he has Yuelian, he is also helpless.
Yue Yun led them to avoid the main road and walk on the deserted, rugged and difficult path. The roads are thorny and swampy, so you can only lead your horse on foot, but you haven't met a single golden soldier, which is a great luck. He did this for three days, and left the border of the Kingdom of Jin. The sun was warm, the snow was melting, and everything was full of life, but they were as embarrassed and ragged as beggars. The dry food brought out had already been eaten, and they had hunted some game along the way to satisfy their hunger, so that Xue'er and He Yuelian really couldn't eat the bloody raw meat, and they couldn't help but want to vomit just by seeing Yue Yun's mouth full of blood. What is surprising is that Zhao Huanhuan, who is a member of the royal family, can not only eat raw meat, but also eat liver and lungs with relish.
As everyone knows, under Zhao Huanhuan's weak appearance, she has amazing endurance. After Jingkang, the royal family became captives overnight, and the abuse they suffered can be imagined, many royal families committed suicide because they couldn't bear it, but Zhao Huanhuan survived strongly. In front of the nobles of the Jin Kingdom, she wore everything, she wore nothing, she had eaten everything and had not eaten anything, and the suffering she suffered was absolutely unimaginable, because she believed that as long as people lived, there must be hope.
He Yuelian hadn't eaten all day, Zhu Yushi couldn't bear it, and asked Yue Yundao: "Now that we have shaken off the Jin Bing, can we cook the venison and eat it?" Yue Yun shook his head and did not speak. Zhu Yushi had no choice but to sit back and persuade He Yuelian to eat some. Yue Yun suddenly said: "If the little brother remembers well, there is a remote village twenty miles ahead, with more than a dozen families. We can go to the village and buy some dry food, enough for three people to eat for three days. From now on, the men ate raw meat, and the emperor and the two young ladies ate dry food. Everyone was overjoyed, thinking that they could finally have a full meal and take a hot bath, but they couldn't be happy when they heard the latter sentence. Gu Yao said: "We have a lot of money, why can't we buy more dry food?" Yue Yun said: "There are only a dozen families in that village, and the families are poor, and it is rare for each family to have two sets of change of clothes, but we have fifteen people, and we are afraid that they will not be able to get the whole village if we have to prepare all the dry food." What's more, if Jin Bing passed by that village and casually asked, he knew that it was us who bought so many things, and his whereabouts would be exposed. ”
Everyone had to admire his carefulness, Ling Xue'er and He Yuelian glanced at each other, and Ling Xue'er said: "We don't eat dry food anymore, and this meat is ...... Eat too. Saying that, she forcibly took a bite of raw meat, held her breath, swallowed it without chewing, only to feel a fishy smell filling her mouth, and her stomach turned over a few times, but fortunately she didn't spit it out, but the second bite really couldn't be bitten. Yue Yun said: "The eldest lady doesn't have to be reluctant, the younger brother will go to buy dry food in person later, and there will definitely be no accident." Ling Xue'er and He Yuelian thanked one after another.
Yue Yun came to Zhao Huanhuan again, knelt down on one knee and said: "The last general will cause His Highness to suffer all the way, and his crime is not light, and he will accept the crime after escorting the emperor to a safe place." Zhao Huanhuan burst into tears, helped him up and said: "General, please get up, the general's suffering is comparable to the slave family, the slave family is only grateful, and dare to blame." "Everyone in the Blood Sword Castle thought that Yue Yun's martial arts wit was impeccable, but it was a pity that he was too pedantic and old-fashioned.
Yan Weifeng lost too much blood, and he had eaten a lot of venison and deer blood in the past two days, which happened to be a great complement to the deficiency, and his face became ruddy. Dong Guo asked the knife and could barely eat, but he was still languishing and couldn't walk.
And they walked through the mountains for ten more days, and they were still on the territory of the kingdom of Qi. Qi Guo, as a puppet of the Jin State, must also be in full swing to arrest them, so he didn't dare to show up and live a life of eating and sleeping in the open. On this day, they came to the territory of Xuchang and hid in the woods twenty miles away on the outskirts of the city to rest. By this time it was already dark, so he planned to spend the night in the woods. The dry food had long since been eaten, and only a few dried venison remained. Jiang Feiyan said: "Xuchang is a big city, I will go in at night and come back with some clothes and dry food, and I will keep it unnoticed." "Everyone knows his name as a 'thief', and they all approve of it.
But at this moment, the torches in the forest suddenly brightened, and the heads of the people shook between the firelight jumps, and instantly surrounded everyone, not to mention 3,000 soldiers. Everyone was shocked, and Yue Yun said loudly: "It's not good! Those soldiers were all Han Chinese, wearing earthy gray military uniforms, although they did not have flags, they were definitely soldiers of the Qi State. The fire was as bright as day, and the three generals rode into the encirclement, they were dressed in military uniforms, very mighty, and the general in the middle was thin and small, with a deep gloomy owl, cold eyes, and a steel fork in his hand. The man on the left is fat, with a three-wisp goatee on his lower jaw and a copper hammer in each hand. At the head on the right is a young general, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, a vigorous figure, and a tiger-headed silver spear. Luo Tianchu, Ling Xue'er, and Dongguo Wendao all recognized him, it was Yang Zaixing. Yang Zaixing's cold gaze slowly swept over everyone, and he recognized them, but he didn't show the slightest expression. Lu Fei recognized the lean man in the middle, it was Li Cheng, the leader of the horse thieves who was expelled from Sichuan by Ling Junlai, and afterwards he took refuge in the Qi State, and he was deeply reused, and he had a grudge against the Blood Knife Castle, so he sent Yang Zaixing to Tianshui City to hijack the silver car, but it was broken by Luo Tianchu.
Li Cheng pointed at everyone with a steel fork and shouted, "Where is Ling Junlai hiding?" Lu Fei sneered: "If the Lord Ling Castle is here, do you still have the life to speak?" Li Cheng also sneered: "It doesn't matter if you're not there, it's also a great achievement to catch you." Jiang Feiyan said with a smile: "Do you still remember the cowardice of rolling out of Shu after the defeat, when you were so scared that you were incontinent, like a lost dog, and now you have found a new owner here to show off your might, you must know that wild dogs are wild dogs, and they can never be changed." ”
Li Cheng said angrily: "Fart! If it weren't for your sneak attack that night, the victory or defeat would not be known, and after learning that you had done something bad in Yanjing, I would definitely pass through this place, and I would have waited here for the rabbit, so that I could avenge the revenge of the year." Yue Yun suddenly said: "Li Cheng, Kong Yanzhou, do you still recognize me?" Li Cheng and the fat man on the left looked at him together, and after seeing his eyebrows clearly, he couldn't help but change color, and exclaimed: "Yue Yun!" The two of them looked around nervously, for fear that the Yue family's army was nearby. Yue Yun said: "We have fought many times, and we will lose every battle, I never believe that you can calculate my retreat route, and you can also set up an ambush here in advance, who gave you the idea." Kong Yanzhou laughed dryly twice and said, "After eating so much of your Yue family's army, can't you become smart once? What's strange?" Li Chengzhou also laughed: "What if there are a thousand defeats? The one who laughs to the end is the winner." Now aren't you just flying with wings and letting us fish and meat?" Yue Yun sneered: "Do you really think you have won?" Kong Yanzhou said after a while: "There are three thousand soldiers and horses surrounding you, and there are archers on the periphery to block the road, even if we want to lose, it will not be easy." Besides, it's hard to guess your retreat route, and don't forget that there are people outside. Yue Yun let out an "oh" and said, "Who is that person?" Kong Yanzhou pointed at Yang Zaixing and said, "It's this General Yang." ”