The first batch of Forbidden Army sergeants who arrived were all with relatively good footwork. They arrived panting at the top of the mountain and saw several corpses lying on the ground. One of them was killed by an arrow, and the other two had bloody throats.
Drenched with blood.
Next to the body, there were pools of blood that had not yet dried.
Seeing that there was no one on the mountain, only the vanguard climbing up the mountain and roaring from time to time in the mountain wind, they were all stunned. Could it be that the young master of the Jing family was killed?
If that were the case, wouldn't Commander Cheng be in trouble?
However, there was a sergeant who was more courageous. He saw that the forward did not look crazy, and would roar from time to time. While guarding against the forward's attack, he slowly approached the edge of the cliff, and then heard Jiang Long's shout.
sound.
"The young master of the Jing family is not dead, he is under the cliff!"
The sergeant immediately shouted.
When the other sergeants heard this, they didn't care much and rushed to the cliff together.
"Someone is really talking!"
"It should be the young master of Jing Mansion."
"Well, otherwise this big dog wouldn't be so quiet."
Several sergeants were talking to each other, pointing down and talking.
The forward just glanced at the sergeants lazily and ignored them. His majestic body crawled on the cold stone ground. The mountain wind blew, and the thick long hair on his neck rose and trembled. It continued to move.
There he kept interacting with Jiang Long, as if he was afraid that if he stopped, Jiang Long would be silent the next moment.
After a while, Qin Yu also caught up with the cliff.
After he was sure that Jiang Long was okay, he sat down on the ground, breathing heavily.
He ran from Luohan Hall to here in one breath, which exhausted him.
When Qin Yu took a breath and regained some strength, Cheng Wu finally arrived with a large number of forbidden troops.
A team of dozens of people with shining armor and armed with spears or arrows climbed to the top of the mountain.
"Pull Mr. Jing up first."
When Cheng Wu heard from his subordinates that Jiang Long was fine, he breathed a long sigh of relief. The nerves that had been tense along the way could finally relax.
As soon as his order came to the ground, a general wearing an iron helmet strode out of the crowd, stepped forward and picked up a rope tied by the masked man before, and loudly responded: "Yes!"
Cheng Wu nodded to it.
The general pulled hard on the rope in front of everyone, indicating that it was strong and could bear the weight of a person.
Then he called some sergeants to help.
But when he turned around, his eyes flashed coldly, and he secretly used his fingers to tear a big hole in the middle section of the rope while avoiding everyone's gaze.
He threw a rope in his hand off the cliff and shouted: "Mr. Jing, I will pull you up."
Two sergeants had already come over and reached out to grab the rope to help.
Jiang Long heard the sound first, and then saw a rope hanging down from the entrance of the cave.
Because he knew it was safe, he was inevitably a little relaxed.
However, after still grabbing the rope, I instinctively pulled hard to test whether the rope was strong.
But then, a soft sound was heard, and the rope broke into two pieces!
He just subconsciously pulled the rope, and his body was already leaning out. The rope broke, causing him to stagger suddenly. If he hadn't quickly held on to the cave wall with his free left hand, he would have definitely fallen into the abyss.
"careful!"
A sergeant holding the rope saw this and shouted in surprise.
Qin Yu and several guards who had just arrived and had not recovered their strength saw it from a distance, and their faces instantly turned pale with fright, and they immediately ran over quickly.
"Go away!"
First, he looked down and saw that his young master was fine. Qin Yu then roared angrily and pushed the three people holding the rope with his hands, making them unsteady and fall to the ground.
Cheng Wu instinctively took a few steps forward, but his face turned pale with fright. Who would have thought that at the last moment, an accident would happen?
At this time, a captain of the Imperial Army glanced at the general who fell to the ground, stepped forward quickly, leaned over and whispered a few words into Cheng Wu's ear.
Cheng Wu's eyes immediately shot out two murderous glances!
The corps commander whose head was beheaded by Jingfu guards at the gate of the temple was the centurion's son-in-law.
After hearing his order just now, the centurion was the first to speak out and rush to pull Jing Jianglong up.
Little did he know that this centurion wanted to take the opportunity to throw Jing Jianglong to death in order to avenge his dead son-in-law!
He knew clearly that the steward of the government had previously threatened to take the lives of his entire clan if Jingjianglong was killed, no matter what the reason, but this centurion still dared to do something secretly!
Cheng Wu gritted his teeth with hatred at this moment.
However, although he had firmly grasped the steel knife in his palm, he did not step forward to attack.
He is the deputy commander of the Forbidden Army, a centurion with ten centurions under his command. However, although he is one level higher than the centurions, he does not have the power to privately deal with the centurions who are only one level below him.
Furthermore, there are many factions in the Forbidden Army. If he really touches this centurion, then the backers behind this centurion will definitely not let him go.
The centurion who fell to the ground was still pretending to be embarrassed, but when he realized that Cheng Wu was looking at him with murderous intent, he realized that his little actions had been seen through. However, he had just tried to pull the rope in front of everyone.
There is no obvious clue as to whether it is strong or not.
So he simply stopped trying to cover it up, quickly got up and dusted himself off.
A flash of unwillingness flashed across his eyes, the Jing family boy was really lucky.
The centurion's plot to assassinate Jiang Long was not only to avenge his son-in-law, but also had another motive.
He and Cheng Wu are not from the same faction. If he can get rid of Cheng Wu with the help of the Jing family after killing Jing Jianglong, his backers will definitely credit him with a great contribution, and maybe he will be promoted by then.
Inherit the vacated deputy commander's position.
The Forbidden Army does not have the opportunity to go to the frontier to kill enemies on the battlefield, so promotion is difficult.
At this time, there was an opportunity in front of him. Besides wanting revenge, the centurion also wanted to take a chance!
After Jiang Long retreated into the cave, he was also frightened.
He raised his hand and wiped it, and there was already a layer of white sweat on his forehead.
After hearing Qin Yu's question on the top of the mountain and replying, he calmed down a little.
Then he was secretly annoyed that he was careless, why he forgot that the guards of the palace had killed a captain of the imperial army before, and Mrs. Jing also made Cheng Wu lose face.
The other party has every reason to assassinate himself and take revenge!
After thinking about it, Jiang Long's face darkened for a while.
Qin Yu no longer believed in the imperial army. He and several guards in the palace untied their belts and tied them into ropes. They carefully tested whether the ropes were strong before throwing them off the cliff. "Young Master, I will pull you up this time!"
Hearing Qin Yu's voice, Jiang Long was a little relieved, but after grabbing the rope, he still tested the strength of the rope.
There was an abyss of tens of feet beneath his feet, and he almost fell into it just now, so he couldn't help but be careless.
Holding the rope with one hand, Jiang Long stepped on the cliff and steadily climbed up the cliff step by step.
Only then did he finally feel relieved.
"Woof woof!" The striker ran over wagging his thick tail and licked Jiang Long's palm.
Jiang Long knew that the forward had fought with the masked man before, so he squatted down and checked carefully. He was relieved until he was sure that the forward was not injured.
At this time, Qin Yu suddenly asked: "Young madam, where are Shui Lan and Du Juan?"
"I'm here!"
A girl's voice came from the mountainside. Everyone looked and saw Du Juan and a group of Jingfu guards walking over quickly.
"Let's go down the mountain to find the young lady."
There were wild beasts in the mountains and forests. Jiang Long was worried that Lin Ya would be in danger, so he took away the stones, picked up the envelope that the young man had left before, and said, regardless of rest.
Then he just said hello to Cheng Wu and hurried down the mountain.
Qin Yu and the others followed closely behind.
"Commander, us?" At this time, a corps commander stepped forward and asked.
Cheng Wu was very dissatisfied with Jiang Long's indifferent attitude towards him. This guy not only caused him to run such a long way, but because of him, he was threatened by a steward in the Jing Mansion in front of many of his subordinates!
But no matter how unhappy he was, after thinking for a while, he still motioned with a stinky face to many of his subordinates to follow Jiang Long's pace.
Who knows if there are masked killers hiding in the mountains and forests?
If Jiang Long was killed by a cold arrow, wouldn't he have to be buried with his whole family?
So no matter how unwilling he was, he still wanted to protect Jiang Long's life.
"What are the casualties of the guards in the mansion?"
Jiang Long asked as he walked quickly down the mountain.
Qin Yu was not sure. He was not with the guards before, and he only saw one of the guards injured before he came.
One of the Jingfu guards thought for a while and said: "Young master, don't worry, we have all been on the battlefield. The scenes we have experienced before are much bigger than this. We have all learned from a few people before.
Formation to unite against the enemy.
Even though we haven’t fought life and death for a long time, we often divide ourselves into teams to compete with each other, and the hard work we have done has not been thrown away.
Besides, the target of these masked men is you, so they shouldn’t spend too much energy fighting with us guards.”
"Well, injuries are inevitable, but everyone's lives should be safe." Another guard said, and then said with a hint of gratitude: "This is also thanks to you, young master, for letting us split up and escape. Otherwise..."
Otherwise, you will have to fight head-on with the masked man, and there will definitely be countless casualties!
"It's my fault." However, Jiang Long waved his hand, "If I hadn't stayed to see the scenery of Jialan Temple, those masked men wouldn't have had the chance to attack."
"It is our duty to protect the young master!"
A group of guards shouted loudly.
Jiang Long stopped and turned around, his eyes swept over the faces of the guards one by one, and a warm current rose in his heart.
Arriving at the place where Shanxia had previously separated from Lin Ya, Jiang Long asked Qianfeng to smell the scent, and then pointed forward with his finger.
The striker just understood what he meant.
He ran into the woods, sniffing the scent and running towards Lin Ya.
Jiang Long and many guards quickly followed up.
Cheng Wu had a dark face and led many imperial troops to follow behind.
When Jiang Long came to the small pool, he found a faint scent of blood floating in the air. He was shocked. Could it be that Lin Ya was in danger?
But Qin Yu, who was tall and sharp-eyed, said in surprise: "The striker has prey in his mouth. Is it a wolf?"
After hearing this, many guards jumped up and looked curiously, and sure enough they saw a gray animal pressed under the forward's body.
When I got closer, I found an area beside the pond where the dead grass was messy and there were many claw marks on the ground.
A guard stepped forward to check and said, "There should have been more than one wolf here before!"
"Ms. sir!"
Jiang Long had clearly seen the animal that died under the striker's mouth. It was indeed a gray wolf. He felt anxious in his heart as to where Lin Ya was. At this moment, Lin Ya's voice sounded from a tree not far away.
sound.
He looked up following the voice and saw Lin Ya, with disheveled clothes and disheveled hair, trembling and hugging her thin shoulders, sitting alone on a branch.