Xu Xuan swept He Qizhou's thigh with a desperate kick, which indeed allowed him to break free from He Qizhou's shackles! He Qizhou, who let go of his hand, relied on Xu Xuan's sweeping power to switch from Yin dimension to Yang dimension and then to Chongmai.
Another punch hit Xu Xuan hard on the temple!
Xu Xuan only felt the world spinning for a while, and only one word came to his mind - escape! But he had only turned halfway and before he could take a step forward, He Qizhou's fist came again, aiming at his left temple!
The five Ouchi guards who took the lead in rushing out of the bamboo forest were only twenty feet away from the battlefield by the water pool. The large group of imperial guards behind them were still running in the bamboo forest. Those five people happened to see He Qizhou punch after getting up, and then stopped in surprising unison.
He stopped! Xu Xuan had no power to fight back except being beaten! One punch, two punches, three punches... six punches! Until the sixth punch, a muffled sound of "porphyry" came out softly. If
If you didn't listen carefully, you would have thought it was the sound of bamboo exploding when the thatched hut was burning.
But those guards all knew that it was Mr. Xu who had broken his skills! If they rushed forward, they would be beaten to death by He Qizhou with just one punch! So they would not rush forward before a large group of imperial guards rushed in!
No, after the Royal Forest Army comes, they will not rush forward!
He Qizhou punched the sixth punch, which was six punches with all his strength. With the sound of "porphyry", Xu Xian's cervical vertebra was broken, his mouth full of teeth spurted out with blood, and his entire left cheek collapsed deeply.
, and then fell limply to the ground.
He Qizhou raised his head and glanced at the bamboo forest leading to the pool. Dozens of imperial guards were rushing out. He thought about running towards the cliff, but felt his feet weakened and almost fell to the ground. In order to break Xu Xuan's iron cloth shirt
, unknowingly, all the strength was used up, so that even one step could not be taken!
He Qizhou did not fall to the ground, but fell on Lin Chuan's back! Yang Shan and Lin Chuan did not listen to He Qizhou's advice and still slid down the rope. By the time they landed, He Qizhou had already thrown the first punch!
The two of them did not dare to hesitate after He Qizhou killed Xu Xuan. Lin Chuan carried He Qizhou on his back, and Yang Shan picked up the sword and ran back to the cliff quickly. After grabbing the rope, several people above the cliff used their strength at the same time to quickly pull the three people away.
Pull upward.
The five Ouchi guards who rushed in first came to their senses and rushed forward to hit the three people who were rising rapidly with pebbles. However, they were too far away and the flying stones were no threat at all. He Qizhou killed Xu.
After Xuan, he looked back at the bamboo forest and even scared the five people back a few steps.
"Hurry up and shoot the arrows!" Commander Qianhu of the Royal Forest Army, who was leading the team through the bamboo forest, also spotted the three fleeing people and quickly ordered his men to shoot arrows. However, they were further away and the flying arrows could not even touch the stone wall beside the waterfall.
He Qizhou, who was lying on Lin Chuan's back, only felt the severe labor pain accompanied by the pleasure of killing Xu Xuan. He truly felt what "pain and pleasure" meant. As the rope continued to rise, the scenery in front of him also increased.
Changes are taking place, and the joy quickly turns to pain:
The familiar thatched hut is about to burn to ashes, and the books that accompanied my childhood and devoted my adoptive father's efforts were burned to the ground;
The pool that I have jumped into countless times has been covered with a thick layer of grass ash, just like the lifeless sky. Only where the water falls, countless black tears splash;
The trees on the southern slope were sparsely cut down, but thousands of soldiers were still pouring towards the waterfall. At the foot of the hillside were harvested rice fields, rivers in the fields, swinging willow branches, and farmhouses in black and white;
In the distance are the mansions connected together, but I can't see my own courtyard clearly, let alone remember Yang Zheng's appearance. In a daze, wherever I look, it seems that I have left my laughter everywhere.
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In the forest northwest of Bailian Mountain, a battalion of Suizhou soldiers had been wandering around the rock formations on the mountain for a long time. At the same time, several officers and the prefect had also been blaming each other for a long time. The prefect was not upset because He Qizhou carved big characters on the tree.
He followed his words, but it was because after the "guide" who was familiar with the terrain disappeared for no reason, he suspected that he was trapped in a trap. After discussing with the master, he decided to go against the carvings on the tree trunks and led the army back from the original route.
We quietly entered the mountains last night. Not many people could remember the way they came. A battalion of people walked in the rocky valley and soon lost their direction. The three days of army rations had been exhausted. As the soldiers below complained,
Gradually, several officers began to complain. With so many people marching, the birds and beasts in the mountains had already dispersed. If they continued to march, they would have to chew the bark of the trees!
The prefect had no choice but to obey the public opinion and lead the army from a valley back to the hillside where they camped yesterday. Fortunately, the Suizhou army followed the advice of the military advisor and left a mark after setting off from the camp early in the morning, so they were able to return smoothly.
When we arrived at the camp, we saw fire rising into the sky in the southwest, very close to the valley we just passed.
The master was a smart man and asked the prefect cautiously: "Sir, should we march towards the light of the fire? It must be that the Imperial Forest Army has invaded the Yang Bandit's lair in Bailian Mountain."
"What if we still can't get out? Besides, they've already invaded, what benefits can we gain by going?" said the officer Li Qianshi, and the Wucha Si Fusi and others on the side immediately followed suit, almost
No one wants to take this risk.
The magistrate actually wanted to try his luck again, but he abandoned his carriage and went on foot into the mountains. After walking back and forth, he was already a little exhausted. Thinking about the lack of food, he could only say helplessly: "Then follow the carvings on the trees.
"Let's march, it's better not to catch Bandit Yang than to starve to death."
Magistrate Lang didn't know that he was only one step away from making a great contribution. If he could march in the direction of the fire, He Qizhou and others would definitely be blocked by the Suizhou Army. But without such persistence, his energy was exhausted for a while.
He Qizhou found a way out.
Yang Shan, Lin Chuan, He Lian and the three strong men who pulled the rope were the last to evacuate the Bailian Mountain Falls. After He Qizhou took a breath, he wanted to get down and walk by himself, but Lin Chuan refused, and Yang Shan and the two
They took turns carrying him on their backs as they walked through the mountains. He Qizhou no longer shied away and just carried his energy on their backs to recover. We still had hundreds of miles to go to Qimen Mountain, and we really didn’t know how many fierce battles we would encounter on the way!
Therefore, the most important thing is to restore combat strength as soon as possible!
In the battle with Xu Xuan, although the seventh meridian was opened, the injury to the Du meridian was more serious. There was still a faint pain in the right chest, and it was not known whether the sternum was broken. He Qizhou had no time to fix the injury, but the injury would be temporary due to his martial arts.
Several meridians are closed, and we will wait until we enter Qimen Mountain.
Yang Shan, Lin Chuan and others were fast on their feet, and He Lian was also good at walking on mountain trails. The six of them quickly caught up with the team in front, and the long queue gradually gathered together. An hour later, everyone walked out along the Suizhou Army
The trail leads out of Huishan.
He Qizhou had recovered 40 to 50% of his strength at this time. After leaving the mountain, he insisted on walking on his own. After another two hours, he entered the jurisdiction of Nanmen County and caught up with the old, weak, women and children who had evacuated last night. A group of about 200 people A strange team marched towards the hinterland of the Qimen Mountains on a country road
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"Master Shen, we don't have a lot of people to go up at once. If we don't have enough people, we will definitely not be able to defeat the traitor He Qizhou..." An Ouchi guard looked up at the nearly vertical, forty-foot-high cliff and asked for instructions. As soon as Xu Xuan died, Shen Gang, the commander of Qianhu of the Royal Forest Army, became the highest officer of the army.
"Go and ask the nearby villagers where the cliff leads?" Shen Qianhu asked in a deep voice.
Many people came to guide the way. Most of the villagers who participated in logging lived nearby. When they heard that the son of the great rebel He Qingshan had escaped, they all gave advice and pointed out that just north of Huishan is Suizhou in Huguang Province. After leaving the mountain, There is a flat river, and to the east is Nanmen County of our province. However, there are no mountain roads in the direction of Nanmen County, and even hunters in the mountains rarely pass there.
When Shen Gang thought that so many people were fleeing, they must have gone to Suizhou, so he quickly ordered his cavalry team to pursue them. Nearly two thousand people left Jiangjun Village and rushed all the way to Suizhou along the western foot of Huishan Mountain. Sure enough, they intercepted them at nightfall. There was a large group of people, but these people were not from the Yang family, but Suizhou soldiers whom they had seen on the way here.
After surrounding the Suizhou army who might be manipulating the Yang family, Shen Gang inquired about the whereabouts of the Yang family. He cursed the Suizhou magistrate who led the troops to open the mountain road, and told him to wash his ass and prepare to go to jail! He led his troops to the east foot of Huishan Mountain and pursued the Yang family who had entered Nanmen County overnight.
The prefect of Suizhou, who had just walked out of the mountains and forests, was in agony. All he heard along the way was the complaints of his soldiers. The soldiers, whose chests were pressed against their backs due to hunger, were still asking when the military pay would be distributed. After finally getting out of the mountain, He was surrounded by the Royal Guards Corps again, and they suspected that he was having an affair with bandit Yang. If he hadn't promptly presented him with a thousand taels of silver notes to buy military rations, he might have been detained on the spot.
"Sir, what should we do now?" Master asked tremblingly.
"What else can we do? The whole army obeys the order and goes home! Master, get out of here now!"
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When Zhang Luyao went to Jiangjun Village in Jiangjun County for rescue, he was still the magistrate of Nanmen County. In the past two years, the people of Nanmen County had suffered less under his governance, and they mostly loved this magistrate sincerely. , so as soon as we entered Nanmen County, we quickly raised three carts and five or six horses.
However, there were many wounded people in the team and they were not walking fast. Starting from Bailian Mountain, they only walked about a hundred miles in one day and two nights. They had just entered the Qimen Mountains and were still more than 20 miles away from Migu. The mountain road was difficult. Okay, just twenty miles will take at least two or three hours.
Seeing that the sky was getting brighter, countless Nanmen County villagers discovered this team on the way into the mountains. Zhang Luyao was worried that the officers and soldiers were chasing him, so he left two people several miles behind the team to monitor the pursuers. Zheng Yuan took the initiative again. He asked Ying to lead two brothers on horseback into the mountains to explore the way. Although the officers and soldiers besieging Migu had all withdrawn to attack Bailian Mountain, there might still be a small number of ambushes hiding in it.