Three thousand miles in exile

After Cao Zhuang over there defeated the cavalry led by General Xi Rong, he immediately pursued the fleeing Xi Rong cavalry.

Soon the scouts of the Han army came to report that the grain team attacked by the Xirong deserters caused a mess on the battlefield and countless casualties.

Cao Zhuang was extremely angry. If the deserters from Xirong in Hanzhong were not cleared, they would become hidden dangers if they were allowed to wander around, and there would be countless sneak attacks.

This time, Cao Zhuang no longer chased impulsively, he led the cavalry to join Zhang Taining's large army, and the two of them combined to wipe out these cunning wolves.

At that time, in order to wait for the exact news of Song Fenglin's murder, Pei Gongli had been wandering around Mashanyi with more than 3 deserted troops.

Earlier, there was news that the Queen of Han had been captured. As a result, Pei Gong came to the battlefield excitedly, but what he saw was a fake substitute.

He was very anxious. On the one hand, he had people deceive Liu Zhan with the intention of destroying the double's face, and on the other hand, he was anxiously waiting for the news.

He set up such a big scheme just to kill Song Fenglin, even though he knew how dangerous it would be to stay in Mashanyi, he didn't care about it.

Cao Zhuang and Zhang Taining soon learned of the existence of this Xi Rong cavalry from the scouts.

In order to avoid the Han army, Pei Gongli and his cavalry wandered around Mashanyi, going to two places a day, very cunning.

However, Pei Gongli is a layman who doesn't understand the art of war and tactics at all, but he doesn't know that he has fallen into the siege of the Han army.

In the end, Pei Gongli led the Xirong army into a dead end, and they were forced by the Han army to a hilly land at the border of Yu County.

The Han army rushed forward in an encirclement situation. The group of Western soldiers who had been led to a dead end by Pei Gongli resisted stubbornly. In the end, they couldn't get out even though they were killed. The remaining thousands of people surrendered.

"General Cao, we captured Prime Minister Xirong alive!" Some soldiers escorted Pei Gongli up.

Even though half of his face was ruined and he looked emaciated, Cao Zhuang still recognized him at a glance.

"It's you?!" Cao Zhuang was furious. "You really voted for Xirong!"

This is an old acquaintance, and Cao Zhuang is no stranger to him.

There was news that Prime Minister Liang had defected to the enemy before the war. At first they didn't believe it, thinking that this guy must have fled to the south of the Yangtze River, but they didn't expect that he really defected to Xirong!

"Take it back to the king of Han." Cao Zhuang ordered.

Pei Gongli was just laughing, laughing and crying as if he was crying, he was already insane. "Take me to see Liu Zhan, I want to see with my own eyes whether he is crazy, hahaha!"

"What do you mean?" Cao Zhuang's heart sank, but he knew how insidious and cunning this guy was.

"You don't know?" Pei Gongli laughed so hard, as if it was such a joyous thing, halfway through the laugh his expression suddenly turned dark.

"Your queen is in the food team, she should be beheaded right now, hahahaha!"

Not only Cao Zhuang, everyone present was blown up.

At dusk, the setting sun is setting.

Forty thousand Mo Dao cavalry galloped in the wilderness, Li Futian led the way, and Liu Zhan rode wildly all the way.

Passing by the place where the food team was first attacked, Liu Zhan didn't look sideways, and ran directly to the place where Zhang Xiaoman died in Hengshanling.

Liu Zhan was very sure that Zhang Xiaoman would not abandon Song Fenglin, since Zhang Xiaoman did not die at the place where the food team was robbed, they must have broken through.

The team arrived outside Hengshan after nightfall, and Li Futian sent soldiers to clean up the battlefield. Many of the remains of the soldiers had been moved to the ground and waited to be buried on the spot.

Liu Zhan jumped off his horse, snatched the torch from the soldier's hand, and went straight to the corpses to check them one by one.

"Help find it quickly!" Cao Ming touched his face, and took the torch to help look through the remains.

Hundreds of remains were quickly read.

No, people are not here.

Liu Zhan looked up and took a deep breath.

"Go into the mountain!" He gritted his teeth.

At night, the mountains and forests were so dark that it was difficult to walk. More than 1 people held torches in their hands and dispersed to move forward. It can be said that it was a carpet search.

The news came back shortly beforehand.

"King of Han, here are the remains of the guards!"

Liu Zhan pushed aside the bushes and crossed in two steps in three steps.

The situation in the woods in front of him was extremely tragic. The number of dead soldiers on the ground was several times that of the personal guards, who were still holding the Mo Dao tightly in their hands until they died.

One can imagine how dangerous the situation was at that time.

Liu Zhan's heart was scorching like a raging fire.

A group of people pushed forward along the battlefield here, and found the remains of the guards and Western soldiers about a few hundred meters away. Liu Zhan walked in the front, and he had to open every body of the guards.

Since Song Fenglin had disguised himself, he naturally couldn't let go of any possibility.

In this extremely tense mood, I pushed forward all the way and encountered two fierce fighting locations.

"It's too slow." Liu Zhan panted. He disliked the hindrance of the armor, pulled off the armor, and walked in the front in a black dragon-patterned jacket, holding a torch.

"King of Han!" Cao Ming followed closely.

Throughout the night, Liu Zhan did not stop searching for a moment.

Before I knew it, it was dawn.

There was no trace of Song Fenglin along the road, so he must have successfully broken through, Liu Zhan thought in his heart. When he pushed aside the bushes in front of him, he saw a whole cliff.

All of a sudden, Liu Zhan felt the bone-chilling cold, and his limbs and bones seemed to freeze.

The trail broke off in front of the cliff.

Cao Ming and others who were following on the left and right were so shocked that they opened their mouths wide and could not utter a word.

There were two or three thousand personal guards surrounding Liu Zhan, and the rest were scattered throughout the forest. However, the forest was completely silent at this moment, no one made a sound, and everything seemed to be frozen.

No one knew Song Fenglin better than Liu Zhan. If he was cornered, he would not stay and be insulted.

Lifting his head and taking a deep breath, Liu Zhan's eyes were so scarlet that he could bleed.

Who can understand this heart-piercing pain!

At the same time, Song Fenglin slowly opened his eyes in bursts of pain.

What came into view was the simple straw roof, Song Fenglin was in a daze for a moment, and the moment he opened his eyes, he thought he had returned to the Liu family back then.

"Mr. Song, you are awake! Thank God." Zhao Qianhu, a man of eight feet, almost cried.

"Where is this place?" Song Fenglin turned his head. The mud house was very simple, even the walls were leaking through holes.

"It's Chen Orhu's family who lives on Hengshan Mountain. After we fell off the cliff, we were rescued by Chen Orhu's family." The cavalry captain knelt on one knee in front of the simple bed. "Little one, go get you something to eat."

Song Fenglin wanted to move his feet, but found that his legs were in dull pain, and his whole body was in pain. When he jumped off the cliff, he deliberately chose a direction with many bushes. Before he fell into a coma, he remembered being scratched by a big tree all the way.

In the team of thousands of people, only he and Zhao Qianhu were left in the end.

"Are you awake? Oh, what a blessing." Mrs. Chen came in with tapioca soup. "Sir, eat something, pheasant stewed cassava soup."

"Thank you, ma'am." Song Fenglin couldn't get up, so he could only nod his head.

Two dirty children grabbed Aunt Chen's legs, looking around in curiosity and fear step by step.

The life of Orion on the mountain is difficult. What is rare is that Chen Orion and his wife did not take advantage of the fire in such a difficult life. Instead, they took the two unconscious people home for treatment.

Song Fenglin's eyes were gentle, he took out the jade pendant from his bosom. "Come on, let's play with it."

"Oh, it's impossible for such a valuable thing." Aunt Chen refused to accept it, and the two children didn't dare to go forward to take it.

"A small thing is not worth the aunt's life-saving grace." Song Fenglin insisted, and finally the two children bravely came up to take it.

"Thank you sir." Aunt Chen bowed while pressing the two children.

"My old man is brewing medicine. The yams in the mountains are very effective in treating iron damage. You can see that Zhao Huwei can go to the ground after taking two doses of medicine." Aunt Chen is talkative, and Song Fenglin quickly learned everything from him .

This is a mountain range connected to the Qiyun Mountain Range, just to the east of Peizhou, and it is the southernmost point of the Qiyun Mountain Range.

Chen Liehu's family has lived on the mountain for a long time, and the whole family is a black household. They dare not go down the mountain on weekdays, so they don't know what is going on in the outside world.

Because Song Fenglin woke up, Zhao Qianhu was busy tossing a suckling pig for Song Fenglin to eat.

Looking at the roast suckling pig, which was delicious in color and fragrance, Song Fenglin didn't have any appetite.

"Liu Zhan must be very anxious if he doesn't know my whereabouts. You go down the mountain and inform him." Song Fenglin thought about it and still felt that Liu Zhan should be informed first.

Zhao Qianhu resolutely refused. "Mr. Song, your safety is more important than anything else. The subordinates can't let you go up the mountain alone. We still have to wait for you to recover from your injuries before we go down the mountain together."

Song Fenglin's eyes were full of sadness, he was worried about Liu Zhan and Zhang Xiaoman at the same time.

At that time, four full days had passed since he was attacked. Song Fenglin couldn't sleep or eat well, but both of his feet were sprained, and it hurt when he went to the ground.

Chen Liehu came to apply medicine to his ankle, saying that it would take ten and a half months before he could move around.

How could Song Fenglin wait for him to insist on going down the mountain.

Zhao Qianhu knew that he was seriously injured, and that he couldn't move freely due to injuries, so he avoided seeing him, and it dragged on for another two days.

On this day, the mountain where Chen Oru's family was located suddenly became restless.

"It's not good! Brother Zhao, could it be that the thief has come up the mountain?" Chen Liehu was the first to notice the movement and rushed back.

"I'll go and have a look! You stay indoors!" Zhao Qianhu held the Modao with his heart hanging in his throat.

Now that Song Fenglin had hurt his foot, and he was the only one left by his side, Zhao Qianhu didn't dare to think about it if the soldiers from the West went up the mountain.

Carefully pushing aside the bushes, Zhao Qianhu touched the front, and almost cried when he saw the red tassels on the weapons of the soldiers going up the mountain.

Zhao Qianhu rushed out of the bushes.

The captain who led Soushan recognized him at a glance. "Old Zhao!!"

All the soldiers cheered.

"King of Han!!"

The personal guard who got the news ran with wind on his feet and almost tripped over tree roots several times.

"King of Han!!" He shouted from a long distance away. "The queen is all right! Found it!"

At that time, Liu Zhan had not closed his eyes for three days and two nights.

They found traces and bloodstains under the cliff but there was no one, so they rekindled their hope to search deeper.

Really thank goodness.

In the mud house, Song Fenglin couldn't sleep well. He was so painful that he couldn't sleep at night, and he could only catch up on sleep during the day.

Suddenly he heard a commotion outside the small courtyard, and the two children cowered behind Aunt Chen in fright.

A steady stream of soldiers came out of the woods and surrounded their small courtyard. Chen Orion and his wife were also very frightened by the battle, until they saw Zhao Qianhu.

"The king of Han, this family saved the queen and his subordinates."

The dragon pattern underwear on Liu Zhan's body was filthy. Even though he was in a mess, his sturdy aura made people dare not look directly at him.

Chen Liehu's family shrank and lowered their heads, not daring to look at Liu Zhan.

"Great reward, take them to Cenzhou to resettle them properly."

At this moment, he didn't care about thanking his savior, so he strode into the room where Song Fenglin was staying after leaving a message.

Song Fenglin was no better than Liu Zhan, the clothes on his body were also filthy, and there were several small scratches on his fair face.

Until this moment, the boulder hanging in Liu Zhan's heart finally fell.

Sitting on the edge of the bed, Liu Zhan stretched out his hand to bring him into his arms, pressed his face against Song Fenglin's warm face, and let out a long breath that was pent up in his heart.

"I'm so worried." Liu Zhan murmured with deep fear.

Song Fenglin woke up from his sleep. At first he thought it was a dream, but after a while he realized that it was not a dream. Liu Zhan really came here.

Tears fell from the phoenix eyes, and Song Fenglin put his arms around his broad shoulders. "make you worry."

Liu Zhan gently stroked his face with the corner of his lips. "It's because I didn't arrange well."

Song Fenglin shook his head. "The battlefield is changing rapidly, how can you cover everything, you are not a god."

These three days and two nights were the most difficult three days in Liu Zhan's life. When he found Song Fenglin jumping off the cliff, he almost went crazy immediately.

For the rest of their lives after the catastrophe, the lost and recovered, the two of them didn't speak any more, they just hugged quietly.

Outside the house, Cao Ming arranged for the soldiers to rest on the spot.

"Go and get some food, the King of Han hasn't eaten for three days." Cao Ming made arrangements, and the soldiers gathered in the courtyard to rest for a while.

Knowing that the visitor was not a thief, Chen Liehu's family relaxed and helped Zhao Qianhu get food.

Soon the smell of meat came from the small courtyard.

Liu Zhan searched without sleep for three days and two nights, and now that the dust had settled, Cao Ming made up his mind to let Liu Zhan sleep before going down the mountain.

Everyone also sleeps before going down the mountain. There is still a long way to go down the mountain, so how can we survive without rest.

About three hours of sleep was not enough, and a soldier hurried up the mountain to report.

"Report to the King of Han! General Cao has captured the leader of the thief who attacked the queen, and he is now under arrest at the foot of the mountain!"

Previously, Liu Zhan was all about looking for Song Fenglin. Now that he thinks about it carefully, these Xirong cavalrymen really came by coincidence. They attacked the food team impartially in the most open wilderness, and it happened that Song Fenglin was in the food team.

Obviously this was a premeditated ambush!

Outside the forest in Hengshanling, the [-] troops led by Cao Zhuang and Zhang Taining, and the Modao cavalry brought by Liu Zhan were all waiting here.

In the evening, there was finally movement in the woods.

Cao Zhuang and other generals rushed out of the camp to meet them.

Song Fenglin injured his foot and couldn't walk. Liu Zhan carried him off his horse, and a soldier immediately brought a stool for Song Fenglin to sit on.

"Bring up that fellow!" Cao Zhuang shouted angrily.

In just two days, Pei Gongli became even more unhuman. The man who laughed wildly from time to time was stunned the moment he saw Song Fenglin.

Liu Zhan strode up and kicked, and Pei Gongli was kicked into the air.

How worried and anxious Liu Zhan has been in the past few days, how angry he is now!

Not only Liu Zhan was angry, but all the soldiers present glared at him.

If Cao Zhuang hadn't stopped him, they would have smashed this guy into thousands of pieces, because Cao Zhuang knew that Liu Zhan had to deal with this guy, so as to calm the anger in the King of Han's heart.

Pei Gongli spat out a mouthful of blood in embarrassment, his mouth was full of blood, but his half-destroyed ugly face was still smiling.

"You owe me your life!"

In the imperial capital, Liu Zhan personally promised to owe him his life.

"Hahahaha! You can't kill me! Is the majestic King of Han going to break his promise?" Pei Gongli laughed wildly, halfway through the laugh he coughed up blood.

For that kick just now, Liu Zhan used [-]% of his strength.

"Kill you?" Liu Zhan stepped on him and grinned, his eyes dark and cold. "This king will let you die so easily?"

Pei Gongli thought that he had seized Liu Zhan's weakness and his promise, thinking that he could live by dragging his feet.

He was wrong.

"Ha." Liu Zhan sneered. "Killing you will dirty this king's knife, and this king will make your life worse than death."

"I'm already dying, what else can you do to me!" Pei Gongli laughed and mocked.

The surrounding soldiers scolded angrily, which can be described as outrageous.

Liu Zhan raised his head and laughed loudly, but the smile didn't reach his eyes, the dark eyes were full of cruelty.

"There are famous people who are punished by chopping off their limbs, gouging out their eyes, pouring out their ears, cutting out their tongues, and shaving their noses. This king will let a doctor with superb medical skills execute the punishment to protect you from death!"

The last word Liu Zhan almost said through gritted teeth.

"If you can't save your life, before you die, this king will order someone to execute you Ling Chi, gouging out your flesh with a knife, and suffering a thousand cuts!"

The place was dead silent.

Liu Zhan knew that he had never been a saint, and the only one who could be killed in the sea of ​​swords and blood was the god of death. He always had a cruel and violent side in his heart.

Without Song Fenglin, without his consolation and persuasion, Liu Zhan didn't know what kind of person he would become, perhaps like a demon-killing god who would never come back.

Pei Gong's departure from this plan really provoked all the cruelty in Liu Zhan's heart!

Only then did Pei Gongli fully realize Liu Zhan's cold-bloodedness.

The short time we spent together in Daizhou, Ruichang, made him think he knew this man well, and that he had some affection for him.

As everyone knows, it was his self-righteous fantasy from the very beginning.

This fantasy made him increasingly paranoid.

Pei Gongli trembled all over. "You can't treat me like this, you made me like this! If you keep me by your side from the beginning!"

This man has gone insane.

"Crazy!" Song Fenglin interrupted with a cold reprimand.

The white clothes on his body were stained with blood, but even so, his demeanor made Pei Gongli feel ashamed, and it was a height that Pei Gongli could not reach no matter how he decorated himself.

"The King of Han is the lord of the Ming Dynasty, how can I accommodate a courtier like you!" How could Song Fenglin let Pei Gongli continue to slander Liu Zhan with crazy words.

"You betrayed the Lord and harmed the country and the people, disregarded the righteousness of the nation, and feared that the world would not be chaotic. From Zhou Chan's chaos to the Liang Lord's insensibility, you have written everything!"

The fall of the Zhou family escaped disaster because Pei Gongli stood in line in time. Later, when the Liang was established, Pei Gongli jumped up and down, making the court a mess.

In the end, this person has treachery in his roots, and he can stir up trouble no matter where he is.

As early as the time when Liu Zhan rescued Prince Rui from being injured, Song Fenglin had seen through his true nature, a villain who pursued profit and power, betrayed his family and master.

Therefore, even though Pei Gongli came to beg several times when he was in northern Xinjiang, Song Fenglin turned a blind eye.

Whether the people around Liu Zhan are good or bad, loyal or traitorous, none of them can hide from Song Fenglin.

What's more, he is still a villain who has the mind of a charmer.

Song Fenglin knew it from the beginning.

Seeing that Pei Gongli set up such a big plan just to kill him, there is still something he doesn't understand, until now, this person has not given up, and still has evil thoughts in his heart.

"Pick his tongue, lest this fellow insult the King of Han's reputation with his nonsense." Song Fenglin ordered coldly.

"The last general will personally execute the execution!" Guo Donghu immediately stepped forward, drew out the dagger from his waist, and the two pressed Pei Gongli, but in the blink of an eye, only the sound of pain and wailing remained.

Song Fenglin will not let Liu Zhan bear a stigma, he will personally deal with this treacherous villain.

"Come here, tell the military doctor, don't let him die."

The military doctor who was originally with the team to treat Song Fenglin in the first place, at this time he was ordered to step forward to stop the bleeding of the thief.

The soldiers pressed him down, and the military doctor poured wound medicine on him.

Pei Gongli was trembling all over, only at this moment did he look desperate, Liu Zhan and Song Fenglin would indeed spare his life, but what awaited him was life rather than death.

The author has something to say: Because the line that Pei Gongli has a crush on Liu Zhan is too disgusting, so I didn't write it explicitly, but only hinted it a few times

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