Sure enough, right in front of the team, the guard who attacked someone shouted: "The Royal Forest Army is marching, please get out of the official way!"
"Yes, yes," Magistrate Lang hurriedly dismounted, nodded and bowed respectfully to the two guards who were exploring the road, and then hurriedly ordered the team of 500 people to retreat into the rice fields on the roadside.
The two guards continued to explore the road, and then several groups of reconnaissance riders passed by one after another. After two of them asked about the purpose of the Suizhou army, they returned to the rear team to report the news. When He Qizhou saw the formation, it really looked like the Royal Forest Army was marching and preparing for war.
I felt increasingly uneasy.
Sure enough, in less than half an hour, a light cavalry force of 2,000 people passed quickly. He Qizhou saw Xu Xuan in front of the team, surrounded by dozens of Ouchi guards. Their goal was obviously the same as the Suizhou Army - Bai Lian.
Mountain!
"Brothers, what just came is Eunuch Xu, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Household. He brought the elite of the imperial army to conquer the Yang bandits! Eunuch Xu praised us for being patriotic and loyal to the emperor, and asked us to stay outside the village after arriving at Jiangjun Village in Jiangjun County. We cannot let a traitor go!
Let's go quickly!" The master loudly encouraged the soldiers who retreated to the rice fields, but his voice was a bit sour. It was already impossible to achieve great achievements. It would be good to leave an impression on the father-in-law who came from Beijing.
Perhaps the enthusiasm of the prefect had been extinguished and no one came to urge the team to march quickly. From noon to late night, they only walked more than fifty miles. The reason why they walked so many miles was because they originally planned to meet Jiangling in Suizhou.
We set up camp and stayed overnight in a small village. Only when we arrived at the entrance of the village did we see the Royal Forest Army guarding us. They said the village was too small and asked the Suizhou Army to stay overnight outside the village.
The team of 500 people marched lightly, without even a cart or ox, let alone a marching tent. They stayed overnight in counties or villages for the first two days, borrowing local inns, inns, and ancestral halls.
Waiting for the big house, I only thought about it. The magistrate, who was addicted to generals, brought a big tent and carried it by a horse-drawn carriage. This time, it was better. The autumn cold and dew were heavy, and the five hundred people could only find a shelter from the wind three or four miles outside the village.
After lighting the fire all night, both officers and soldiers were scolding the old soldiers led by the dog eunuch behind their backs!
At midnight, He Qizhou quietly left the camp, covered his face with a piece of cloth, avoided the guards at the entrance of the village, and sneaked into the village quietly, with only one target - Xu Xuan!
Xu Xuan's residence was easy to find. The lights were always on in the tallest and largest courtyard in the village. But He Qizhou quickly gave up the idea of assassinating him. There were guards standing on the four corners of the courtyard wall, and two teams of guards were outside the courtyard wall.
I kept patrolling, but there was no way to approach quietly! Moreover, the houses near the compound were guarded by guards. It was obvious that they had all been requisitioned, but I don't know where the gentry and common people in the house had gone.
Just as he was about to leave the village and make further plans, He Qizhou suddenly heard a child crying in a house south of the compound. Then there was a yelling and scolding, and there were faint sounds of begging for mercy. He quietly went to visit and jumped up to the main house.
Hiding behind the roof, behind the fireproof gable, he was just out of sight of the guards on the wall of Xu Xuan's compound, and could still clearly see what was going on in the woodshed where the cries came from.
I saw about ten people, old and young, crowded into the woodshed in the backyard of this house. A child of two or three years old was crying and fussing, and a man who looked like a guard was constantly smoking in the woodshed.
A man slapped his face and yelled: "Tell him to stop crying! You have disturbed my family, please be careful with your heads!"
The woman holding the child knelt down on her knees, begging for mercy and asking the guards to stop beating the man. As a result, the child's crying became even more difficult to stop. When the attacker was helpless,
Another guard broke into the woodshed and shouted: "My father-in-law is angry and won't let anyone sleep. I'll just knock him out!"
"No, I'll let him sleep right away!" The woman was horrified and kept kowtowing her head.
"Fuck you!" The attacker immediately hit the woman's acupuncture points. When the woman fell to the ground, her hands were still holding the boy tightly in her arms.
The child was too young and the acupuncture points were not all in place. The guard was about to hit the child's neck when he heard a strong wind coming from behind him. He quickly turned around and waved his sleeves to block, but the speed and power of the attack were far beyond the guard's imagination.
After being caught in the big sleeves, he still rushed forward quickly and hit the guard hard on the chest, knocking him to the ground.
When another guard who was delivering a message for the father-in-law saw this, he shouted urgently: "There is an assassin..."
It took a moment for the word "guest" to be spoken, because two more "hidden weapons" were coming towards this person. This guard was obviously more skilled than the previous one. He struck out with his left and right palms one after another, knocking down two "hidden weapons"
", it's just that after taking action, it seems that both palms can't be raised, but the word "客" is screamed out particularly sharply!
The "hidden weapon" was the tiles on the roof. He Qizhou knew very well that no one could knock out a child without any damage, but he didn't expect that the guard would really hit him hard, so he didn't throw it until the other party knocked down the child's mother.
Get out the tiles!
He Qizhou flew towards the woodshed at the same time as he took action, wanting to kill the two of them before the other party shouted. However, the skills of the two eunuch guards were really not weak, so he was still a step slower, waiting until he jumped into the woodshed to kill one of them with one hand.
, several guards stationed at this family's home had already rushed to the woodshed, and a guard on the south wall of the compound across the alley also asked: "What's going on?"
"Anyone who dares to step into Jiangling - die!" He Qizhou shouted, turned around and walked out of the woodshed, and met the four eunuch guards who were living in this house. All four of them had the strength of the fourth and fifth veins. He Qizhou knew that he could not do anything.
There was a delay, so he attacked very harshly and killed all four people! In just a few breaths, he killed four people one by one. At this time, the stronger guards guarding Xu Xuan were constantly rushing towards this place from the adjacent compound.
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He Qizhou used his golden finger to relieve the woman's acupuncture points, and then rushed south without looking back. People yelled and screamed along the way. Most of the two thousand imperial guards also occupied private houses. Almost all the people in the village were
Arriving at the threshing floor in the south of the village and sleeping rough, when He Qizhou rushed out of the south entrance of the village, except for a few skilled Ouchi guards who followed him out, the others, including the imperial guards, had just woken up from their sweet dreams.
Soon a figure rushed to the front of the pursuers, still wearing white pajamas.
"Eunuch, it seems that He Qizhou ran away to the south towards Jiangling Mansion!" shouted a guard guarding the south of the village.
"Sure enough, we are going back to Jiangling. Don't chase us. Be careful of falling into a trap. We will triple the number of night guards and set off on time tomorrow morning!" Xu Xuan hesitated for a moment between pursuing or not chasing, then he gave an order in a dark voice, turned around and walked back.
The mansion where you live.
He Qizhou took a long detour and returned to the camping ground in the north of the village. One of the strong men who had been traveling with him in the past few days seemed to have woken up and asked in a low voice: "Little guy, where have you been? There seems to be movement from the imperial guards in the south.
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"It's cold and I can't hold my urine..."
"Oh! Why do you act like this at such a young age? You haven't had a lot of good meals since you were a child, right? Or do you go shopping in brothels as soon as you have money?"
"Uncle, how many times did you pee before I went to pee? You still have the nerve to tell me?"
"Go to sleep, go to bed, we have to fight tomorrow..." The man found that he could no longer continue the conversation.
He Qizhou woke up early in the morning and found that no one had summoned the troops to set off. In the big tent not far away, two officers were arguing with the prefect and the master, and their voices gradually became louder.
"Master Magistrate, we are here to put down the rebellion, not begging for food!" Li Qianshi said.
"Yes, there is not much food left for three days. If we leave Suizhou and there is no battle to fight, we can only reach out to Jiangling to ask for food. I can't afford to lose face like this!" Tong Fusi, the Military Inspectorate, seemed
Also put aside your picks.
"Two, two, I didn't expect the Royal Guards to come so quickly, but they have already reached Jiangling. Is it possible that they are going back in despair?" said the prefect.
"Yes, we have to catch a few rebels, right? As long as we catch them, it will be easy to get supplies!" the master urged.
"If it doesn't work out, I will provide the money to buy grain from Jiangling Prefecture!" the prefect said through gritted teeth.
"But we are not allowed to enter Jiangjun Village, how can we arrest him?" Tong Fusi raised an unsolvable problem, and the tent fell silent for a while.
"Young man, I have a way!" An idea flashed in He Qizhou's mind, and he rushed outside the tent and shouted.
"Who? Let him come in and talk!" the prefect immediately shouted, and He Qizhou was immediately taken into the tent by the guards outside the tent.
"Who are you? Tell me, what can you do?" the prefect asked.
"The younger one's name is Zhou Qi. He grew up in his uncle's house in Jiangjun Village and is familiar with the terrain there. The road leading to the Yang family's house at the foot of Bailian Mountain is like a trance circle. Even people who have always lived in the village have entered it.
If you don’t go, let alone those foreign generals..."
"What do you mean, are you kidding us?" Li Qianshi said impatiently.
"Sir, I haven't finished speaking yet."
"Let him continue," the magistrate said.
"The small one means that no matter how strong the Imperial Forest Army is, they won't be able to attack it for a while. Although the small one doesn't know the way into the front mountain, one time while hunting, he accidentally discovered the road to the waterfall from the back mountain."
"Really? I heard that the Yang family's hut is really under a waterfall. Tell me, how to get there?" The prefect's eyes began to shine.
"I should still remember that after so many years, a lot of thorns and shrubs may have grown up blocking the way, and then it will be necessary to open a remote forest path." He Qizhou said.
"What's so difficult about this? We're going from the north of the mountain, right?" asked the prefect.
"That's right, we'll be there in another thirty miles at most. Let's take a detour from the direction of Nanmen County, which will be closer than entering from the south of the village." He Qizhou said.
"Without further delay, what are you waiting for? All generals, listen to the order and set off as a team!"
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"Boy! Do you know the way? My saber is blunter than a hatchet. Even if I rush in, I can't fight!" A soldier who followed He Qizhou on the secluded road said angrily. Due to the newly recruited regiment training,
Most of them held spears, so they used the swords of the soldiers to open the way.
"It's definitely true, we're almost there, only seven or eight miles left at most." He Qizhou wiped the sweat from his forehead while waving his knife to clear the way.