Rebellious officials bow their heads

They were ambushed!

This was the first thought in Zhao Ke's mind. He got up from the ground, drew out his sword and shouted sharply: "There is an ambush! Get up quickly, don't disperse!"

The soldiers around fell covered in mud, stood up grinning, and led the horses that were spinning around, but there was a sound of pulling crossbows and firing arrows from above.

Everyone raised their heads one after another, and saw countless wolf repelling cavalry in black armor standing in the tall bushes, appearing from the mist like ghosts, with arrows and crossbows in their hands aimed at them from all directions.

The leader was tall and tall, with a bow like a full moon, pointed his sharp arrow at Zhao Ke, and shouted to the soldiers of the Dusi battalion: "Don't move, or his head will be lost!"

As soon as these words came out, many soldiers who wanted to rush to the past froze in place.

Zhao Ke saw his rough face covered with stubble, as if seeing a ghost crawling out of hell, and said in disbelief: "Pang Qing! Why are you still alive?"

Pang Qing gave a "hmm" and wrote lightly, "I'm still alive."

"You, weren't you killed by those two people?" Zhao Ke's mind was in a mess, his eyes couldn't hide the fear, "I clearly saw your head..."

"Hang on the flagpole of the Yuan family." Pang Qing finished the sentence for him, "If I don't die, how can Yuan Xuanfeng, an old fox, let down his vigilance and cross the river easily?"

Zhao Keru was struck by lightning, and he reacted instantly, shaking his lips and said: "They, they, those who won the three competitions were actually placed by you..."

Pang Qing ignored him no more, and ordered his subordinates: "Go and tie him up for me."

A few wolf scouts here tied up Zhao Ke who was struggling, and in the bustling corner of the Dusi army, one of the soldiers suddenly rushed out of the encirclement while everyone was not paying attention.

One of Pang Qing's subordinates immediately raised his hand and was about to shoot an arrow, but he stopped him.

"Let him go." Pang Qing said, "After all, we have to leave someone to report to that old fox."

He turned his head and glanced at the sky, "It's time for them to enter Heiyan Mountain."

A hundred miles away from them, a group of hundreds of soldiers was marching towards the depths of Heiyan Mountain. Everyone tensed their nerves and were highly vigilant about their surroundings.

Xu Yan, who was at the front, was sitting on horseback, looking straight ahead with a sense of dullness.

Jing Yuan followed at a distance, and neither of them made a sound, except for the restless sound of horseshoes, only the occasional chirping of birds in the forest.

And outside Heiyan Mountain behind them, Yuan Xuanfeng's [-] Dusi Battalion soldiers were stationed, waiting for the news that Xu Yan and the others entered the mountain for exploration. As time passed, the valley became peaceful, but the people outside Anxious because of waiting.

Ye Liuzhou didn't rest with the army, but was leaning on the tree trunk with a grass in his mouth, chewing for a while, his lazy eyes fell on the soldiers not far away.

The soldier was standing next to a healthy white horse, combing its fur while watching Ye Liuzhou's every move.

Suddenly there was a commotion in the army, and a figure quickly passed through the crowded army, shouting anxiously: "Report——"

Following the movement, the soldier turned his gaze away, but he didn't notice that a dagger behind him was silently pressed against his neck, but for a moment, the soldier fell softly before he could make a sound.

Jing Fuling retracted the dagger into the scabbard hanging on her waist, gestured to Ye Liuzhou opposite with a smile, and led the horse away before Du Sijun found out.

Ye Liuzhou also untied the horse from the tree trunk, and followed her into the woods.

The figures of the two disappeared into the lush green forest, so naturally they didn't hear the uproar coming from behind.

"Report to General Yuan! General Zhao Ke was caught in the bushes by the repelling wolf cavalry. I beg the general to send troops back!" The soldiers who had escaped before fell to their knees and hurriedly reported without breathing.

"How could this be?!" Yuan Xuanfeng turned pale in astonishment when he heard the words, "How much did the bush denounce the wolf soldiers? How could he be caught with five thousand soldiers in his hand?"

"Yes, it's Pang Qing... Pang Qing is still alive!"

As soon as these words came out, the black army was in an uproar!

If it was really Pang Qing who had been licking blood on the battlefield for many years, then even if he led 500 people, he could still take down Zhao Ke's 5000 people.

Yuan Xuanfeng's expression changed drastically, his eyes were bloodshot, and he looked at Heiyan Mountain with hostile eyes, "It's them—"

His voice seemed to be soaked in blood, every word was extremely vicious: "Xu, Yan, Jing, Yuan."

Yuan Xuanfeng took a deep breath. Since this was the case, his elegant demeanor was gone, only his face was full of fierceness, and he shouted angrily: "Bring Ye Liuzhou and Jing Fuling here! I'm going to peel their skins!"

After waiting for a while, someone tremblingly replied, "They're gone..."

Yuan Xuanfeng's face was distorted instantly.

All the soldiers below were silent and looked at each other, their morale was already a little bit loose.

"Where's Cao Qihan?" Yuan Xuanfeng asked suddenly, "Has he come back yet?"

"There has been no news from Mr. Cao on the west side."

Yuan Xuanfeng didn't make a sound for a while, his chest heaved violently, as if he couldn't even breathe.

A lieutenant asked cautiously: "General, should we go to Heiyan Mountain next, or go back to save General Zhao Ke?"

Hearing these words, Yuan Xuanfeng regained his sanity that was about to collapse, and said coldly: "Go back and save this incompetent Zhao Ke? I'm afraid Pang Qing had already ambushed behind. The wolf cavalry is in collusion and is waiting for us to throw ourselves into the trap."

"Then general, if we continue to stay here, I'm afraid they will outflank us, and we will have no way out," said the deputy general.

Yuan Xuanfeng thought for a moment, then turned his horse's head, "Send the order, go east, bypass the bushes and return to Lingbei!"

-

When Xu Yan and Jing Yuan came out from Heiyan Mountain with their troops, there was only a horseshoe print left outside, and the mighty [-] army had disappeared.

Seeing this scene, the general who followed Xu Yan obviously didn't expect it, and said dumbfounded: "How did the generals leave?"

Jing Yuan got off the horse, checked the direction of the horse's hooves on the ground, and said, "Going east."

Xu Yan said in a deep voice to General Pi: "It may be that the repelling wolf cavalry made a surprise attack, and the general led the troops to chase eastward."

General Pi was hesitant. He had previously received Yuan Xuanfeng asking him to monitor the two people in front of him and get rid of them if there was any abnormality. However, the two of them stayed safe along the way and reminded the soldiers to pay attention to the rocks. .

General Pi looked at the horseshoe prints, then at the hundreds of soldiers behind him, he had no idea, so he asked, "Master Xu, what do you think is going to happen next?"

Xu Yandao: "Catch up with General Yuan and join the army first."

General Pi and his group didn't want to stay in the wilderness, they were afraid of encountering wolf repelling cavalry, so they made up their minds and speeded up and galloped eastward.

Facing the cold wind all the way through the plains, it was near the north of the mountain. There was a village in front of it. Before it approached, a sound of fighting was heard in the distance, and then the continuous thatched cottages were burned by raging fire, and the sky was filled with black smoke.

"—Help!" An immature child fled outwards, but was stabbed in half by a long knife. The child fell down, behind him was a man laughing wildly, the knife in his hand was still ticking There is blood dripping down the ground.

The village was in chaos, and a group of bandits in different costumes were killing people while transporting food out.

This bloody scene was obviously extremely exciting, Xu Yan immediately galloped over, and Jing Yuan pulled out his Chuan Luan sword.

A group of soldiers behind them looked at each other in blank dismay, the leading general hesitated for a moment, and waited outside without moving.

Xu Yanze entered the village on horseback, and the first thing he saw was a woman surrounded by more than a dozen bandits. It turned out to be Jing Fuling. She was covered in blood and only had a dagger in her hand. Facing a circle of swords and swords, she was obviously caught in a hard fight.

One Xu Yan and Jing Yuan went to deal with the bandits nearby, and the other went to rescue Jing Fuling.

"Please let me go, mother! Help me..." A seven or eight-year-old girl was being dragged away by the bandits, while her mother was crying and begging for mercy, pulling her daughter's skirt. After being slapped severely by the bandits, he fell to the ground and still refused to let go.

But how could she defeat the opponent's strength, the fabric was torn apart in her hands, and seeing her daughter was about to be taken away, the woman let out a heart-piercing scream of despair, and suddenly the wind rang in her ears.

The black iron wire drew an arc in the air, and with a flash of silver light, it pierced through the bandit's chest, and the next moment blood gushed out as the wire was pulled away.

Xu Yan dealt with the last bandit, looked around, turned to Jing Fuling, frowned tightly and asked, "Didn't I tell you to join Pang Qing in the bushes? Why did you come here? Ye Liuzhou What about people?"

Jing Yuan also looked at Jing Fuling, waiting for her answer.

"I...we, we didn't expect to meet a large wave of bandits on the road. We took a detour and bumped into the fleeing Dusi soldiers. We were blocked in front and back. The situation was too chaotic. The two of us got separated..." Jing Fu Ling panicked incoherently, "He, Huang—"

Just when she was about to utter the word "Emperor", Jing Yuan suddenly stretched out his hand and pulled her up from the ground, interrupting her.

Xu Yan didn't notice what she said later. After learning that Ye Liuzhou was missing, his temples throbbed suddenly, his mind was in chaos, his fingers were deeply clenched into his palms, and were deeply cut by the black wire that hadn't been put away yet. The severe pain awakened his reason.

"Ye Liuzhou may be hiding now." Xu Yan's hoarse voice sounded.

He lowered his head and looked at the blood overflowing from his palm, "I will notify Pang Qing and let his people search the bushes, if they can't find it..."

Jing Yuan opened his mouth and said: If he can't find it, either he was captured by the bandits, or he fell into the hands of the soldiers of the capital. "

Jing Fuling's face turned pale. Under such circumstances, it is obvious that Ye Liuzhou has already lost his life.

At this time, the soldiers outside the village couldn't wait any longer, and the general rode over, looked at the burning house and the bandits on the ground, and said to Xu Yan: "Since it has been resolved, let's go as soon as possible..."

Before he could finish his sentence, when he met Xu Yan's raised gaze, he was startled by the fierce light in his eyes, and backed away involuntarily.

"Tie up the bandits who are not dead on the ground." The young man in front of him said, his tone was very calm, but there was a bit of bone-chilling coldness hidden.

General Pi was flustered and didn't dare to look at him any more, so he got off his horse and ordered to his subordinates, "Tie up the living bandit!"

He moved a little further away, and Jing Yuan said to Xu Yan: "The chances of the bandits keeping Ye Liuzhou are very small, the biggest possibility is that he is with Yuan Xuanfeng, and Pang Qing hasn't sent the signal yet, Yuan Xuanfeng must have fled back to the capital. "

Jing Fuling said worriedly: "We have been exposed, and Yuan Xuanfeng will definitely hate us. If Ye Liuzhou is with him, he knows that we will rescue him. If he has the idea of ​​killing everything, he may not kill Ye Liuzhou..."

Immediately afterwards, Xu Yan smiled coldly, "But it will make his life worse than death."