He Qizhou had no choice but to put his long bow on his back and speed up the sweep. After barely escaping the second wave of arrows, a desperate thought arose in his heart. At the speed of the Yulin Army's pursuit, the Yang family and the veteran's family members who escaped from Jiangjun Village were It is almost impossible to get out of this valley.
At this time, Zhang Luyao and others had stopped a hundred steps in front of He Qizhou. Apparently they had expected this, and everyone had a look of despair on their faces.
He Qizhou shouted angrily in his heart: Fight! When faced with the third wave of arrows, he no longer rushed forward, but turned back and rushed towards the group of crossbowmen who had entered the valley and were firing crossbows on horseback.
Each wave of arrows contained almost fifty arrows. As He Qizhou charged in the opposite direction, most of the third wave of arrows fell behind him. The remaining few arrows were also plucked away by He Qizhou with his frost-defying sword, and he was about to stick to the valley. He ran to one side to reduce the threat of the fourth wave of arrows. Unexpectedly, only a few crossbow arrows flew towards him this time. However, he saw that the hundreds of cavalry crossbowmen were on their backs, and behind them, a group of crossbows suddenly rushed out. A group of people came and turned the formation of the Royal Forest Army upside down!
"Quick, stop, stay where you are!" Shen Gang's order came from the formation. As the crossbowmen at the front of the team stopped, almost all the imperial guards who had rushed down the hillside stopped.
"Get out of the way, quickly make a passage in the middle!" As Shen Gang's military orders continued to be issued, the Imperial Guards moved to both sides of the canyon, and a passage emerged. I saw someone riding on a horse with Shen Gang, walking towards He Qizhou, And behind them, more people without military uniforms followed. He Qizhou's eyes lit up and he shouted excitedly: "Mr. Li!"
The person who came was none other than Li Jichen. He did what He Qizhou wanted to do but failed to do. Behind Li Jichen, more than a hundred horses suddenly came out. Most of the horses were from the Royal Forest Army, but the people on the horses were not from the Royal Forest Army. He Qizhou saw He passed many of them: Lu Zhenyao, known as the Double Swords of Jinling, Lu Hongwen, and many young disciples who had helped in Jiangling Mansion. It looked like Li Jichen actually brought the entire Jinling Sect over!
"Let's go up the mountain first, there is a bigger pursuer behind me!" Li Jichen said with a wry smile to the overjoyed He Qizhou.
"Okay, let's go quickly!" He Qizhou said.
"The person who asked you to stop here will let you go once you enter the mountain!" Li Jichen said coldly to Shen Gang in front of him.
"Yes, yes, listen carefully, stay where you are, no pursuit is allowed!" Shen Gang shouted. As expected, no one in the Imperial Forest Army under him dared to attack anymore. In fact, he didn't even need to call, and few people dared to rush forward. Li Jichen led When the troops attacked from behind, hundreds of people were killed or injured in just one moment, especially the six masters surrounding Shen Gang who lost their lives without even having a chance to take action. If you were subdued with just one sword strike, how could anyone else dare to risk their lives?
"Why are you here?" He Qizhou walked quickly beside Li Jichen and asked happily.
"It's a letter from Mu'er. Jinling has sent a large army and will catch up here soon. We'd better find a way to enter the Secret Valley quickly!" Li Jichen said.
There were also several casualties in this round of the Jinling faction's attack. Almost half of the disciples from the mountain sect came this time. After everyone snatched the horses of the Royal Forest Army, they followed Zhang Luyao and others with their dead and wounded fellow disciples, and then followed in turn Pass through the valley, follow a mountain trail, and continue to the depths of Qimen Mountain.
The Imperial Forest Army, which was left in the valley and suffered heavy losses, began to hesitate. One of the two deputy commanders said that they would wait for Shen Gang's return, and then send people to request reinforcements, raise food and fodder, and continue the pursuit; the other suggested sending a small number of people. While watching, the others went out to rest and wait for military orders from above.
Half an hour later, the two people's suggestions quickly came to fruition. The result was to continue the pursuit, because an army of ten thousand people came in from the same direction in Shannan. The target was the defecting Jinling faction. The leader of the team was an official from Nanzhili. According to the inspector, another team of 5,000 people each came from the north and east sides of the mountain to encircle them. They wanted to eliminate the Jinling sect and at the same time eliminate the Zheng family that had become a hidden danger and entrenched in the Qimen Mountains!
In the open plains, the two thousand Royal Forest Army will not be afraid of hundreds of martial arts masters, but in the mountains, it is a different matter, not to mention there are top masters like Li Jichen, Lu Zhenyao, and Lu Hongwen. This is why the Imperial Forest Army does not dare to The reason for the pursuit. But it is different now. With an army of ten thousand people accompanying us, how can we be afraid of a mere hundred people? Therefore, the two deputy commanders agreed that the two armies would act together and be under the unified command of the inspector general. In addition, they decided to exempt Shen The general's commanding and envoy duties are carried out so as not to be used as a trap.
The merged team was led by the infantry shield-swordsmen. After walking for more than ten miles, they found Shen Gang who had been abandoned on the side of the mountain path and had his acupoints tapped. At this time, the fleeing team was already one step away from the south entrance of Mi Valley. .
"Quick! The army from Shanbei is coming over the mountain. We are small and can't stop it. We are ready to withdraw. At least five thousand people are coming from Shanxi, which is less than ten miles away!" Zheng Yuan, sweating profusely, summoned everyone to speed up and enter the West Valley outside Mi Valley. , and then moved to Migu where the Zheng family lived.
"Master, the pursuers in the south are only six or seven miles away." A disciple from the Jinling Sect who was behind the team and was on guard reported.
"There is no danger to defend here. Let's quickly retreat to the cave in the northeast corner!" Zheng Yuan brought dozens of tribesmen out, and they all carried the old people who could no longer walk on their backs. Children, and the disciples of the Jinling Sect were also busy. Then, he picked up the wounded from the veteran and ran together quickly to the cave in the northeast corner of the West Valley.
On the more than ten miles of mountain road after getting rid of the Royal Forest Army and entering the valley, Li Jichen explained why he brought most of the Jinling Sect here. It turned out that Xu Mu had sent Pegasus, a postman loyal to the Zhang family, to warn Li Jichen of the Jinling Sect during his escape. Inform Jiang Shan of the usurpation of the throne, and hope that Li Jichen will rescue the Yang family and go to Jinyang to help the King of Jin in his rebellion.
Originally, Li Jichen was very hesitant. After all, it was a large sect that had been inherited for hundreds of years and could not be easily destroyed in his own hands. However, Jiang Shan moved very quickly. Suddenly, a large army appeared outside Jinling City. Before long, the King of Wu He received an imperial decree and asked him to go to Beijing to meet the saint.
The King of Wu also had eyes and ears in the capital, and he roughly knew what happened on the day of the burial. He also knew that Jiang Shan was preparing to deal with the King of Jin. He was worried that this would be a disaster, so on the one hand he conspired with the Chen family to plot a rebellion, and prepared to move across the river to rule. On the other hand, they contacted Lu Hongwen, the leader of the Jinling Sect, who had a good relationship with him, and asked him to participate in the grand event.
I never thought that the Chen family had long been determined to be loyal to Jiang Shan. Most of the southern Zhili garrison had been bribed by the Chen family. Together with the large troops transferred from neighboring provinces outside the city, Prince Wu's Mansion was breached in less than half an hour. Wang Xuanliang committed suicide, most of the people in the palace were killed, and the rest were captured.
Li Jichen knew that King Wu had approached Lu Hongwen, and when he thought of his relationship with Xu Mu, he decisively dismissed his gang and led his close disciples to Jiangjun County overnight to rescue the Yang family and then go north together. The group forced their way out of Jinling.
Behind the city, the army that had just captured Prince Wu's Mansion followed.
Before Li Jichen and his party arrived at Jiangjun County, when passing through Nanmen County, they saw a cavalry group entering Qimen Mountain from a distance. After asking the nearby villagers, they deduced that the imperial court was chasing people from the Yang family, so they followed them.
, unexpectedly came from behind to cover up the enemy, subdued the enemy leader, and rescued everyone in Jiangjun Village.
Among Li Jichen's disciples, there was another person whom He Qizhou was familiar with. It was Luo Yu who had been rescued in Jiangling City two years ago. At this time, he had become a disciple of Xu Mu's senior sister Liao Ying. The fourteen-year-old Luo Yu was born in Tingtingyu.
He Qizhou was a little afraid to recognize him. Luo Yu was overjoyed when he saw He Qizhou and kept shouting "Gonggonggonggonggong".
He Qizhou was also very happy that the other party could grow up peacefully after escaping from the tiger's mouth. However, Luo Yu's grandfather suffered from depression and died last year.
Luo Yu's master, Liao Ying, was the second among Li Jichen's three disciples. He devoted himself to cultivating Taoism and never liked wandering in the world. Once, he was almost deceived by Master Yuanbao into Quanzhen Qingxiu, and Li Jichen chased him back. Yuanbao and Li Jichen almost had to fight each other.
There was a big fight over this matter.
This time, Li Jichen originally wanted Liao Ying to take Luo Yu to find a Taoist temple in the mountains to continue his spiritual practice, but Liao Ying insisted on accompanying his master. After returning from the Western Regions, Li Jichen looked a lot older.
At the age of ten, his beard and hair turned from black to completely white in half a year.
Liao Ying was an orphan girl rescued by Li Jichen. Seeing how old Li Jichen was, she made up her mind to accompany her eighty-year-old master on his final journey. When Li Jichen took the lead in attacking the enemy formation, she stayed with her master.
The imperial guards she defeated even surpassed Li Jichen. It was precisely because of this that Shen Gang was captured so quickly.
Compared with Li Jichen, Lu Zhenyao's condition is much worse. Although the heat poison has been cured, the injury he suffered at the time was too serious. More than a year later, his skills have been restored to the initial state of Yongquan at most, and his strength is not as good as before the injury.
Thirty percent.
Before entering the valley, He Qizhou also quickly talked about the changes that happened in Jiuzhou Pool, which made Li Jichen more determined to help Jin Wang Jiang Lang fight against Jiang Shan.
In the valley on the west side of Mi Valley, with the help of Zheng Yuan and others, a group of more than 300 people quickly arrived at the big rock in the northeast corner. The cave behind the big rock was the only road leading to Mi Valley. Li Jichen couldn't bear it
The horses were killed and more than a hundred were left to block the southern entrance of the valley.
At this time, many officers and soldiers had already rushed down the steep slope in the north of the mountain hundreds of feet away. In the wide mouth of the valley in the south of the mountain, the horses blocking the mouth of the valley had been dispersed. The Yulin Army and another South Zhili Army appeared at the mouth of the valley, everywhere.
There were so many heads that it was hard to see how many there were at the moment.
"Jinling disciples, listen, let's resist the pursuers on this big rock, and we will retreat after everyone else has entered the cave!" Li Jichen shouted. He heard Xu Mu and He Qizhou talk about the dense valleys in the mountains.
A disciple of Jinling, with the favorable geographical location, he was able to withstand an attack from the army.