Huyan Jia sat up suddenly. In the darkness, he touched his side and found that Hu Yanyi's seat was empty.
He kicked Huyanding awake and asked, "Where did the second brother go?"
"I don't know, it seems... I need to go to the toilet..." Hu Yanding said in a daze.
"not good!"
Hu Yanjia pulled out his knife and rushed out, but he was awakened by a scream.
Hu Yanding did not dare to sleep anymore, so he drew his sword and rushed out after him.
On the deck, Chen Qing was seen holding Fang Tian's painted halberd, looking at the woods on the shore.
"General, did you hear the screams too?"
Chen Qing nodded, "Not only were there screams, but there were also war horses neighing and birds flying in fright. Where is Hu Yanyi?"
Chen Qing discovered that one person was missing.
He went to the toilet at night and never came back.
Chen Qing's eyes narrowed, he jumped onto the board of the boat, ran towards the woods, and shouted from a distance: "Leave one person to watch the boat!"
"Lao San, you stay and watch the boat!"
Hu Yanjia confessed and ran out with Chen Qing.
After running for more than a hundred steps, Chen Qing stopped and Hu Yanjia quickly stopped.
"There was fighting here and there was blood on the ground!"
Chen Qing pointed at the horse hoof prints on the ground, and Hu Yanjia saw the blood stains on the ground, and the horse hoof prints were very messy.
"There are war horses running wildly, and there is a pool of blood here. Someone must have been killed!"
Chen Qing had rich experience. The pool of blood on the ground spurted out from his neck. A strong intuition told him that this was the Jurchen's killing method.
"Second brother..." Hu Yanjia's eyes suddenly turned red.
"Look around you!"
Chen Qing gave an order and he followed the blood trail dragging on the ground to find it.
Hu Yanjia inspected the surrounding area, but there was no movement. When he saw Chen Qing stopped not far away, he quickly ran up.
Under a thick dead tree trunk, Chen Qing used the tip of his halberd to push aside a pile of leaves, revealing a headless corpse. The clothes he wore were clearly that of Hu Yanyi.
"Second brother!"
Hu Yanjia rushed forward, caressed the corpse and began to cry.
Chen Qing looked at the corpse with stern eyes, "I will not offend anyone unless they offend me. Since they took action first, don't blame yourself for being ruthless."
...........
Chen Qing did not alert the boatman, but said that Hu Yanyi had gone back to deliver the letter.
The boatman was also missing one person, but the boat boss didn't care and ordered the boat to sail.
After walking for about three miles on the waterway, the boat boss finally found Chen Qing. He knelt down and clasped his fists and said: "General, we are just ordinary boatmen. We have no malicious intentions. The missing boatman was not originally with us. He was temporarily installed by the superiors. We
I didn’t dare to ask more, I didn’t even know his name.”
Chen Qing looked at him for a long time and then asked: "Is it his arrangement to hang the lanterns on the official ship?"
"That's not the case. This is a rule. We are taking money from the government, and the guests we are transporting are officials. We should hang official ship lanterns!"
"Should? You mean you don't have to hang up?"
"It's true that you don't have to hang it, but if you hang the official ship's lantern or put the official flag, the front of the ship will stay out of the way when the ship is sailing, which is of great benefit to our ship. So if you can hang it, of course you should hang it, and you won't be afraid of being interrogated on the road."
"Except for the missing boatman, where are the other boatmen?"
"General, the other boatmen are my brothers who have been with me for more than ten years. I guarantee they are not from the government."
Chen Qing stared at his eyes for a while before nodding, "Okay! I believe you this time. I will go ashore when you get a little closer to the shore. Then you continue to walk slowly, and I will naturally catch up with you."
"
The ship's boss Dal nodded again and again, and asked timidly: "General, is Second Master Huyan dead?"
"So you'd better tell the truth. If I find you lying, none of you will survive."
The boss of the ship shuddered and said, "I don't dare, you are telling the truth."
Chen Qing asked him to prepare to dock. He carried a pot of arrows and a bow bag containing a far bow on his back. He inserted a sharp dagger into his leather boots and walked out of the cabin with the Fangtian Painted Halberd in his hand.
Hu Yanjia stepped forward and whispered: "General, I'll go with you!"
Chen Qing shook his head, "You will drag me down!"
Hu Yanjia's face turned red immediately, "I will never drag the general down."
Chen Qing smiled slightly and said: "I'm not looking down on you. Your martial arts are only suitable for close combat, but the opponent has at least a dozen of the most elite Jurchen cavalry. Your martial arts can't be used. I will try my best to kill your brother."
bring back."
Hu Yanjia felt sad in his heart. He knew that Chen Qing was telling the truth. The second brother's martial arts skills were no less than his own. However, two or three of them met and were killed by the enemy. It would be a drag if he went there himself.
"Okay! General, be careful."
The ship slowly approached a moored cargo ship, and Chen Qingyi jumped on board. He held Fang Tian's painted halberd and quickly disappeared into the darkness.
Hu Yanjia sighed inwardly. He had tried Chen Qing's Fang Tian Painted Halberd. It weighed more than fifty kilograms and it was difficult to pick it up, let alone use it as a weapon. Hey! He should practice his martial arts skills on the battlefield.
...........
Chen Qing squatted on a big tree. Below was a path, which was the only way to go along the river. The other people were riding horses. It was very inconvenient to walk in the woods, so they had to walk along this road.
It was just the fifth watch at this time, and the sky was still dark, but the weather was clear, the moon was clear, and the stars were shining brightly, coating the earth with a layer of silver.
Chen Qing held a bow and arrow in his hand and stared at the south. At this time, two teams of small black dots appeared in front of him, one behind the other, dozens of steps apart. The two teams were estimated to have about thirty people, both riding horses.
Chen Qing snorted coldly. The group in front must be Jurchen cavalry. They disdain to walk with the Han people.
The front group of cavalry was very fast and skilled in horse control. The leader was a Jurchen centurion named Na Huyan, who was Wan Yanchang's deputy general. He was ordered to follow Chen Qing and keep track of his whereabouts at all times.
But before, several Jurchen cavalry killed one of Chen Qing's men, which meant that they were exposed. Na Huyan was angry and annoyed, and scolded the several cavalry.
He had no choice but to be extra careful to prevent Chen Qing from escaping on horseback.
The horse was gradually approaching the big tree where Chen Qing was. At this moment, a wolf-fang arrow shot at him. The arrow was so fast that Huyan had no time to react.
‘Pfft!’ A sound hit his forehead, and the arrow pierced his head. The man suddenly screamed, ‘Gudong!’ and fell off his horse.
The war horse was suddenly frightened and sped up. Chen Qing was waiting for the war horse. He threw his halberd to the ground and the halberd was inserted into the soil.
Just as the war horse passed under the tree, Chen Qing jumped down, happened to be riding on the horse, grabbed the reins, raised the front hooves of the war horse, and let out a wild cry.
The ten Jurchen cavalry behind them shouted and rushed forward with murderous intent. Chen Qing grabbed Fang Tian's painted halberd, deflected a few incoming wolf-fang arrows, and rushed towards the Jurchen soldiers with a straight line of war horses.
The war horses ran wildly, and the people were like ghosts, passing through the crowd of Jurchens. Three heads flew up, and the eyes of the Jurchen cavalry were red. They were surrounded from all sides. Chen Qing slashed from the left and stabbed at the right, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep. It was unstoppable, and in an instant it was back again.
Four Jurchen cavalry were knocked off their horses and killed with a stabbing blow.
The remaining three people saw that he was too strong and were so frightened that they turned around and ran away. Chen Qing saw at a glance that one of them had a human head hanging from the neck of his horse. He took out his bow and arrow, hung up his halberd, controlled the horse with his legs, and stretched his bow while galloping.
He set up an arrow and shot three arrows in succession. The three Jurchen cavalry were all hit by arrows in the back of their necks and fell from their horses.
In less than a cup of tea, all eleven powerful Jurchen cavalry were killed by Chen Qing. Wang Bo and others who were watching the battle not far away had never seen such bloody killings before. They were so frightened that they trembled and urinated quickly.
Incontinent.
Chen Qing raised his halberd and looked coldly at Wang Bo. Wang Bo seemed to be stared at by the god of death. He screamed in fright, turned around and ran away. The rest of his men also turned their horses and followed him.
Not long after, more than twenty warriors fled without a trace.
At this time, a person ran out of the woods, but it was Hu Yanding. Chen Qing was startled, "Why are you here?"
Hu Yanding said with a smile: "You just don't allow eldest brother to come, but you don't allow me to come. You must have someone to help the general clean up the battlefield!"
Chen Qing said angrily: "Don't worry about anything else, just gather the horses together. Your brother's head seems to be on the neck of a war horse."
Huyanding was startled and ran towards several war horses. Not long after, he heard Huyanding's painful cry.
Chen Qing shook his head. He had experienced too many deaths and no longer had any concerns about life and death in his heart.
