Seeing Zhang Liang sitting next to him, the driver's tired face showed a look of relief. He slowly closed his eyes and fell towards Zhang Liang, completely falling into a coma.
Zhang Liang supported the coachman and leaned over to examine the coachman's body, trying to find out the crux of the coachman's coma. When Zhang Liang saw a blood stain on the coachman's right chest, he was shocked and hurriedly stretched out his hand towards the coachman's chest.
He gently probed the wound, and the feeling of a broken arrow came from Zhang Liang's fingertips. Only then did Zhang Liang understand the reason why the coachman called him to drive. It was obvious that the arrow on the coachman's chest was caused by the arrow when he was lifting the car just now.
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In order not to worry Zhang Liang, the coachman broke the arrow stuck in his body, and drove the carriage desperately to get away from Ji Pu and others' pursuit. When he broke the arrow, he tore the arrow where it hit.
The driver's injuries were aggravated by the bumps along the way.
At this moment, there was still blood seeping from the coachman's wound, and soon the coachman's coarse shirt was soaked. Zhang Liang looked at the coachman sadly, stopped the coachman in his arms, and slowly picked up the coachman.
Slowly put it in the carriage.
Looking at the comatose coachman, Zhang Liang was confused. Now that the coachman was in a coma, and Ji Pu and others were chasing him behind him, Zhang Liang felt even more anxious and was caught in a dilemma.
There are still eighty miles to go from Chenjun, and the coachman is so seriously injured that he obviously can no longer withstand the bumps. If you want to save the coachman's life, you can't drive at a high speed. If you can't drive at a high speed, the pursuing thieves will be able to catch up quickly.
Get on yourself.
Just when Zhang Liang was thinking hard about his escape, there was a fork in the road. The main road was leading to Chen County, while the other forked road was heading to Dang County.
"Xu..."
Zhang Lianghe stopped the slow-moving carriage, jumped off the carriage, and then observed at the fork in the road.
After observing the fork in the road, Zhang Liang immediately returned to the carriage and drove the carriage towards Chenjun. After galloping along the direction of Chenjun for two or three miles, Zhang Liang suddenly stopped and drove the carriage into the road beside the road.
In a woods, the carriage was hidden in a thick bush.
After hiding the carriage, Zhang Liang broke off a branch from the tree beside him, gently brushed away the ruts in the forest, then turned back to the carriage and hid.
After a while, five or six fast horses galloped past Zhang Liang's eyes. They were the thieves who were chasing him. Because Zhang Liang was so well hidden, Ji Pu and others did not notice Zhang Liang's chariot hidden in the forest.
After those people rode away, Zhang Liang tied a branch on each side behind the carriage, then drove the carriage out of the woods where he was hiding, and returned along the same route. Zhang Liang drove the carriage.
After a few dozen steps, he stopped the carriage, got out of the car and checked along the route he had just taken. It was obvious that the branches tied to the back of the carriage had worked and successfully wiped away the ruts left by him.
In order to mislead the thieves who were chasing him as much as possible, Zhang Liang tried to keep to the right when driving back to the fork in the road, and tried not to touch the ruts he left when he came, because in this way, even if Zhang Liang returned to the original road, there would still be only one rut on the road.
Seal, the thieves who were chasing him could not guess Zhang Liang's whereabouts for a while.
After driving the carriage to the previous fork in the road, Zhang Liang drove the carriage in the direction of Dangjun without hesitation, and drove slowly and leisurely towards Dangjun.
Seeing that he was out of danger, Zhang Liang felt relieved and found a hidden place to bandage the coachman's wounds.
After briefly treating the coachman's wounds, Zhang Liang drove the carriage and set off again, heading straight for Dangjun.
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After Jip and others pursued for ten miles, one of them noticed something was wrong and quickly reined in his horse and stopped.
Seeing that his brother suddenly stopped, Jip and the others had no choice but to rein in their horses and stop.
"Brother, something is wrong. We were just rushing on our way, and there are no new ruts on the ground at all."
After listening to what his brother said, Ji Pu carefully examined the road under his feet. Except for some intermittent ruts, he saw no traces of new ruts.
After detecting the ruts extending towards Chen County at that fork in the road, Ji Pu and others concluded that Zhang Liang had fled to Chen County, and then pursued him along the road leading to Chen County. Until this time
, they had already pursued for ten miles from the fork in the road. If their brothers hadn't noticed something was wrong, they would have continued the pursuit foolishly.
So Ji Pu and the others turned their horses and chased them back along the way they came. When they reached the woods where Zhang Liang had been hiding, they discovered the ruts left by Zhang Liang.
"Brother, this is where the rut marks disappeared. Is that Zhang Liang the thief hiding here?"
"Brothers, follow me into the woods."
Ji Pu jumped off the horse as he spoke, then tied the horse to a big tree, took the lead into the woods, and searched carefully.
After Ji Pu and others carefully searched the woods, they found nothing, so they had to leave the woods and come to the path next to the woods.
"Brother, there is a situation."
Just as Ji Pu was about to leave the woods, a brother called out urgently.
When Jip rushed over, the brother pointed to a broken branch of an elm tree and said to Jip: "Brother, look."
I saw two broken branches on the elm tree. The cuts were very neat. It was obvious that the branches in these two places had been cut off with a sharp knife.
Looking at the cut on the elm tree, Ji Pu frowned and racked his brains to guess Zhang Liang's intention of cutting down the branches. Even if Ji Pu wanted to explode his brain, he couldn't figure out Zhang Liang's intention of cutting down the branches, so he had no choice but to guess.
He left the woods awkwardly and looked for Zhang Liang's traces again.
There was only one rut mark on the road in front of him, indicating that Zhang Liang's carriage had indeed arrived here, but why he could not find it again? Maybe the carriage flew away from here.
Ji Pu and others had no choice but to search for the fork in the road leading to Dang County. Unfortunately, they did not find any clues.
In half an hour, Ji Pu and others had searched the road near the fork in the road. Unfortunately, their efforts were in vain, and there was no trace of Zhang Liang's car at all.
Just when Ji Pu and others were about to give up, several people coming from the direction of Dangjun passed by Ji Pu and others.
"Brother Yan, this is the first time I've seen someone dragging branches behind a carriage. It's really strange."
"Isn't it? Me too. The driver of the car is also a weirdo. He has a face, as if someone owes their family a few and a half taels."
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After listening to the chatter of these passers-by, Ji Pu and others looked at each other. It was obvious that the weirdo these two boys were talking about was probably Zhang Liang.
So Jip quickly stopped a few people on the way and asked them about the driver of the car and the person driving it.
Through the descriptions of several passers-by, Ji Pu concluded that the man was Zhang Liang who he was chasing.
"I understand Zhang Liang's intention of cutting the branches," one of Ji Pu's brothers suddenly said.
"Now that you understand the use, get on your horse quickly. It's important to chase Zhang Liang."
Ji Pu glanced at the brother speechlessly, and then urged.
After a while, Ji Pu and others set off again and chased in the direction of Dangjun.