The hilly landscape has many trees, which can provide cover.
A group of people rushed into the nearest forest and walked slowly among the trees under the cover of night.
The Turks pursued along the road and had to slow down their pace even when entering the forest.
A woman got off her horse first, squatted down at the fork in the forest, and carefully searched for traces on the ground.
At the fork of the mountain road, two groups of messy horse hoof prints can be seen on the ground with a little bit of night light, seemingly going in two directions.
"Hmph!" the woman sneered, "The Han people are so smart that they think they can get rid of us in the forest. This kind of calculation to coax children is simply ridiculous."
After speaking, the woman whistled.
Within half a minute, a silver-gray wolf king rushed out of the darkness and came to the woman's side.
The woman whispered in his ear, and the wolf king shook his head, paused for less than half a second at the fork in the road, and immediately chased towards the left road.
There was a movement in the forest, and there were countless wild wolves following each other in the darkness.
With a proud look on her face, the woman turned back and waved: "Chase!"
A group of people followed the wolves and chased them into the forest for another quarter of an hour.
Suddenly, the Turks saw the wolves ahead and stopped.
A group of wolves gathered around a clearing, seemingly finding something.
A strong Turkic man in the rear asked excitedly in Turkic: "What's wrong?"
"Go down and have a look!"
The woman at the front of the team was the first to come down again.
Several Turks also dismounted and walked to the place where the wolves stopped in confusion.
Seeing the people coming, the wolves made way for a path. When the woman and a few Turks came to the front, they saw a tattered piece of clothing lying in the open space.
The clothes exuded a pungent smell of urine.
There was nothing in the open space except clothes.
Seeing this scene, several Turks frowned.
"No, I fell into a trap!"
The woman shouted softly, but the sound of tree shadows flashing came from above her head.
Several Turks raised their heads, and two arrows shot out from the darkness!
Whoosh…
Two piercing sounds broke the silence under the moon. The woman's pupils shrank, her body leaned back, and her whole body turned sideways on the ground like a loach. She watched the arrow grazing her hair.
But the companion beside her was not so lucky. A Turkic man was stabbed in the head by an arrow above his head and fell to his knees straight on the ground.
He fell down and became silent.
In the woods, the Turks shouted, and a group of people instantly prepared for battle.
The strong man carried two bows on his back, took them down, combined the two bows into one, clamped a heavy iron arrow in the middle, and pulled it suddenly without any reason.
This heavy iron arrow was extraordinary, and it was as powerful as a thousand stones in the hands of this man. Although he could not see where the attacker was.
But when he fired the arrow, there was a roar in the darkness, seven or eight small trees in front were cut in half, and fallen leaves flew all over the sky above his head. There was a cry of surprise in the darkness, and there was movement in the ink-like darkness.
The woman below looked at the direction of the movement, pressed her hands on the slots of the leather boots, and pulled out two crescent knives, one with each hand first, and threw them out into the darkness. The knives spun rapidly in the air, but then disappeared straight away.
in the dark.
Dang!
A firelight was wiped out in the darkness, the woman's eyes darkened, and she took out the second crescent knife, chasing the location where the firelight appeared.
This second crescent moon knife did not attack to kill the enemy, but to see the direction in which the first knife came back. The second knife chased the first one. The two knives collided in the air. The paths of the two knives suddenly turned sideways.
One knife to the left and one to the right, and two more beautiful arcs were drawn in the dark night, chasing a point in the darkness and going there at the same time!
Dang Dang!
Two more sounds!
In one breath, two crescent-shaped knives flew back. The woman spun around, caught the knives, and put them in front of her eyes for a look.
The blade of one knife was chipped, and the other knife was stained with warm blood drops.
The woman sneered and licked the blood like a snake charm. The strong man behind had already determined the position, and then shot out a heavy iron arrow sandwiched between the two bows, and pulled it forward!
"Go quickly!"
A sad cry came from the darkness.
Another woman cried in panic: "Uncle He!"
"Miss, hurry...go..."
When the Turks heard the sound and found that they were not far away, they suddenly became happy and whistled, and the wolves immediately rushed towards the darkness.
But the Turks did not expect that the wolves would rush into the darkness within two seconds.
A fire suddenly ignited in the forest more than ten meters ahead. First, a few wolves fled back in panic, and then more wolves screamed and ran around in the forest with their bodies covered in fire.
"Ah!" The Turkic woman roared heartbrokenly and wanted to rush into the fire ahead.
Before he took a few steps forward, there were screams from the horses behind him.
"Despicable Han Chinese! Someone secretly shot our horse!"
At this time, several Turks could not sit still, all drew their weapons, and rushed directly into the fire regardless of the raging fire ahead.
After the flames, there was only a middle-aged man dressed as a guard, who was nailed to a big tree by a black arrow.
The middle-aged guard's face was pale and lifeless, with only a glimmer of light remaining.
After meeting a few Turks, he actually smiled a little more, but his mouth was full of blood when he smiled: "It turned out to be Turks... the Twelve Heavenly Wolves of the Royal Court..."
Several Turks had expressionless faces, as if they did not pay attention to this person at all. A few men walked in front and continued to search for traces on the ground.
The woman whistled again, and a blackened wolf walked out of the smoke and pounced on the middle-aged man in the tree.
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"Uncle He...Uncle He..."
In the forest, Li Shuwang tried his best to control his crying.
At this moment, the heroine no longer has the high-spirited spirit she had just now. The farewell of life and death a second ago allowed this girl to finally reveal the weakness that belongs to a woman.
She cried, leaning weakly against the man she called a woman.
Even now I still can't believe what happened before.
It was her guard who died, but that was the guard who had been with her for ten years!
Ten years of guarding have already surpassed the feelings of master and servant. Who would have thought that in just an instant, a relative would be lost like this?
Everyone was very nervous. Several of the guards knew how skilled the dead man was, but they could not survive ten seconds at the hands of the Turks.
Bai Song's heart was beating fast, but he also tried his best to control his emotions. He was not good at riding horses and had to control the horse to walk carefully in the forest while carefully holding the helpless girl.
"The other party is the Twelve Heavenly Wolves of the Turkic Royal Court, the twelve most elite guards around Jieli Khan! Brother He killed one person with two arrows and spread the word, which is enough to make him famous all over the world! Brother He died to protect the young lady, and it was a well-deserved death! If my subordinates can do the same, they will die without regrets."
"No! I won't allow you to die! We agreed to go back together!"
The team was silent. Only Bai Song whispered in Li Shuwang's ear: "I'm sorry, I didn't... didn't expect... things would be so serious."
"Why... why do the Turkic King's guards appear here? And there are so many of them!"
"Cough cough cough..." At some point, Mr. Lu, who was unconscious, woke up, coughed a few times, and said weakly, "Xiaguan... It's Xiaguan who drags everyone down... Those people are here for Xiaguan...
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"No!" Li Shuwang's guard continued, "If it was just to assassinate the Lord, the Turkic King would not send his most elite soldiers here. I don't understand..."
The guard rode his horse and looked up at the sky, lost in thought.
"Could it be...could it be because of me?" Bai Song said weakly.
"Mr. Bai is joking. Even if he wants to target the young lady, the Turkic King will not make such an arrangement."
"I killed a Turkic prince in Ji County."
"What?" There was a low cry from the team.
All eyes were fixed on Bai Song.
Bai Song said seriously: "It was the Turkic prince who contacted the Zheng family and personally escorted the private salt out of the city. On that day, I planned to kill him. They all said he was a Turkic prince, and they didn't know which one it was.
Turk prince? If I’m not mistaken, there should be many Turkic tribes. Shouldn’t the one I killed be the son of Jieli Khan?”
"Mr. Bai, what are the characteristics of that Turkic prince?"
"I don't remember much about what he looked like, but he was very good at throwing stones. He could kill without blinking an eye."
"It's him! Jieli Turustu, the prince of the Turkic Kingdom!" The guard suddenly became excited and turned to look at Li Shu, "Miss! The young master's revenge has been avenged! Prince Jieli is dead!"
Bai Song was a little stunned when he saw the woman in his arms suddenly straightened up and stared at him seriously!
"You're lying! Legend has it that Prince Jieli is immortal and invulnerable! How can you, a weak scholar, kill him?"
Regarding this, Bai Song didn't want to explain more and directly changed the subject: "Now is not the time to talk about this! We should find a way to avoid those wolves. The fire just now didn't kill those beasts, so we can't go far.
We can only hide around the thick smoke of mountain fires. The smell of smoke can cover up the smell of our bodies. Now that we know that those Turks are difficult to deal with, we cannot move forward so recklessly."
"Their horses are gone, we can get rid of them."
"But this is a mountain forest. Horses cannot move fast in the mountain forest. We have to find a way to go back to the wilderness to leave them behind."
"Mr. Bai, what do you think we should do?"
"It's better..."
Bai Song opened his mouth and suddenly hesitated.
The strategy just now was thought up by himself, but it resulted in the tragic death of a guard.
Bai Song was worried that his decision would hurt everyone again, so he didn't dare to speak.
Li Shuwang took a deep breath, forced himself to cheer up, took the reins from Bai Song's hand, lowered his head, and said in a deep voice: "You were not at fault for what happened before. If it weren't for your plan, we wouldn't be able to breathe now."
If you have any plans, just say so."
Bai Song thought for a while: "Abandon the horse and turn around."
"Abandon the horse?"
"Letting the horses roam freely in the mountains and forests can distract the attention of the Turks. We took the opportunity to turn back, and while the mountain fire was still there, we walked out of the mountains and forests along the way we came. Now Mr. Lu's injuries have not been treated, and we cannot all arrive together.
We have reached our destination. Leave some people to go to the nearest county to take care of Mr. Lu and recuperate from his injuries, and leave a horse to send some people to the front line."
The guard nodded: "This method is feasible! The general is waiting for treatment on the front line, so I have to let the young lady take Mr. Bai back first."
