Troubled times: Start practicing spiritual practice by taking care of your sister-in-law

Early October in the second year of Yong'an.

Fengzhou.

After the King of Huai vomited blood and fainted, the generals under him evacuated from Jing County with the King of Huai and nearly 7,000 troops according to the order issued by the King of Huai before he fainted. The remaining Huai Army stayed in Jing County to hold back the Chen Army led by Yue Ruyan.

However, with such a big incident, the morale of the Huai Army had long been in chaos and low, and the generals who stayed behind to guard the rear were the men of the King of Chong, and the soldiers behind were also the men of the King of Chong. After all, when the King of Huai fled from Fengzhou, there were only a few thousand troops.

Abandoned by the King of Huai, the morale of the army was in chaos again, and the generals in charge of guarding the rear did not obey the King of Huai's order to hold back the Chen Army.

When Yue Ruyan led the Chen Army to the city, the generals behind the rear directly opened the city to surrender, and told Yue Ruyan the direction in which the main force of the Huai Army fled.

Yue Ruyan did not hesitate at all. She immediately led the Chen army to pursue, and sent a pigeon to the Chen army that landed on the north bank of Fengzhou, asking them to chase and intercept the direction of the Huai Wang's escape.

One day later, when the Huai Wang woke up and learned that the Chen army was chasing him and the generals who were guarding the rear had surrendered, he was so angry that he started coughing violently. However, after analyzing the current situation, he knew that it was not the time to blame. The nearly 7,000 troops were too big a target, and it was obviously unrealistic to want all of them to escape.

The Huai Wang wanted to have someone guard the rear again, but he was afraid that the Jing County Kaicheng surrender would happen again. He was reluctant to let his own guards guard the rear.

Therefore, he ordered a three-way breakout and retreat to Yanzhou.

Now he didn't know that the Anping Wang had turned to Chen Mo.

After the breakout, the retreat speed was faster because the number of people was small, and the Chen army behind him didn't know where the Huai Wang escaped from, so they were forced to divide the army to pursue.

Mid-October.

The Chen army that landed in Fengzhou from the north bank, under the leadership of Li Yunzhang, intercepted two routes of the Huai army, and the Huai King was not found in these two routes of the Huai army.

This also let Yue Ruyan know the movements of the Huai King, and began to gather heavy troops to chase and intercept the Huai King.

On October 19th.

A small unit of the Chen army found the trace of the Huai King in Xianhou Mountain in Lanshan County.

But because the general leading this small unit was not the opponent of the Huai King, the Huai King and the three thousand guards escaped.

This also completely exposed the trace of the Huai King.

On the 22nd, the main force of the Chen army arrived and besieged the Huai King and the guards in Xianhou Mountain, annihilating more than two thousand guards of the Huai King.

Only the Huai King and his less than a hundred personal soldiers escaped.

The reason why the Huai King was able to escape was because the Xianhou Mountain was too big, and the Chen army only had Yue Ruyan, a top-grade warrior.

Yue Ruyan could not take care of every corner of the Xianhou Mountain.

The King of Huai was also lucky. He chose a way out where Yue Ruyan was not stationed and killed his way out of Xianhou Mountain.

The Chen army could only continue to pursue.

To be honest, as the number of Huai army became smaller and smaller, and the King of Huai became smarter, he did not take the official road or the relatively open road, but took the mountain road and crossed the mountains, which made the pursuit more difficult.

After all, the King of Huai was a top-grade warrior. If you sent too few people to search, you could not catch him at all. If you sent too many people, there would be omissions.

This made the pursuit work last from the 22nd to the end of October.

In the vast night, the King of Huai and more than 30 personal soldiers walked on a mountain road with the help of moonlight.

These days, although the King of Huai was not caught by the Chen army, the nearly 100 personal soldiers who followed him lost a lot of losses during the escape, such as getting lost, being unable to run, and falling off the cliff. Now, including the King of Huai himself, there are only 32 people.

Thirty-one people, this is undoubtedly the most miserable time for the King of Huai.

When they evacuated from Fengzhou, there were still thousands of guards.

In the past, when he was a prince in Tianchuan, he had more than 31 guards around him.

At this moment, the King of Huai was disheveled and his clothes were tattered. These days, he has been fleeing and has hardly stopped, and has hardly washed his face.

Because the Chen army mainly searches along rivers and streams in the mountains, it is easy for the King of Huai to be discovered if they are close to water sources.

Not taking the usual roads, but only taking the mountain roads, the King of Huai and his party have lost their way and have been fleeing to the southeast.

In the vast night, it seems that there are countless beasts lurking.

The wind on the mountain is very strong. The evening wind blows, with a whistling sound, straight towards the King of Huai and his party, almost blowing them unable to open their eyes.

At this moment, the thunderous sound of horse hooves rang in the ears of the Huai Wang and his men, and countless torches lit up on the mountain opposite them. A large flag with yellow and red characters was illuminated by the fire, and the red "Yang" character looked particularly creepy.

Under the light of the fire, the Huai Wang and his men saw these people wearing rattan armor.

"Your Majesty, it's Yang Xian's rattan armor army." The Huai Wang's personal soldiers trembled.

"Huai Wang, I have been waiting for you here for a long time." On the mountain, Jiang Li shouted at the Huai Wang opposite.

When Jiang Li learned that the Chen army on both sides was chasing the Huai Wang, and the pursuit was in a half-moon shape, Jiang Li, who entered Fengzhou from the southwest, immediately changed his marching direction based on his own experience and went to the southeast of Fengzhou, that is, to the direction of Yanzhou.

Waiting at the junction.

In other words, the Huai Wang did not lose his way at all.

Not only that, he was about to reach Yanzhou.

Unfortunately, he was blocked by Jiang Li.

Jiang Li waved his hand, and the surrounding rattan armor soldiers rushed down the mountain road in front of Prince Huai and others and surrounded Prince Huai and others.

The face of the Huai King changed, and he said in a deep voice: "Let's go, get into the mountains."

The Huai King turned around and went into the mountains behind him.

"Swoosh"

The sharp sound of breaking wind spread very far in the dark night sky. The Huai King and his men heard the sound, and their faces changed immediately. The Huai King shouted: "Get out of the way, it's a bed crossbow."

Jiang Li and his men had been waiting here for a long time, so they were naturally prepared.

The Huai King and his men had already entered the encirclement of the rattan armor army. It was not so easy to escape.

As soon as the voice fell, two unlucky soldiers were shot through by the bed crossbow, and the huge force pushed the bodies of the two men out of the mountain road.

"Release!"

A sharp shout sounded, and countless arrows flew towards the Huai King and his men.

The Huai King was a third-grade warrior.

Jiang Li was only a fourth-grade warrior. Although he relied on the number of people, it was not so easy to catch him alive, so Jiang Li wanted to fight to the death.

He didn't dare to rush up and fight the Huai King alone.

"Swish, swish, swish"

"Puff, puff."

Most of the soldiers of the King of Huai were shot into hedgehogs by arrows.

Even the King of Huai was struggling to dodge.

Because of the days of running away, the innate spiritual energy in his body was almost completely exhausted, and the innate spiritual energy he absorbed was dragon energy. The dragon veins in Fengzhou were scarce, and he could not replenish it.

So, he had no body spiritual energy defense at all.

It was difficult for these ordinary arrows to hurt him, but if he was shot by a bed crossbow, he would not escape death.

In the blink of an eye, the King of Huai became a lonely man.

But he also successfully got into the forest.

Under the cover of trees and night, arrows were difficult to work.

And Jiang Li obviously discovered that the King of Huai's innate spiritual energy was exhausted, and was overjoyed: "Let's go together, regardless of life or death."

If the innate spiritual energy is exhausted, you can't use magical powers.

And human power will eventually reach its limit.

In other words, Jiang Li has a chance to capture him alive.

But he will not be careless, nor will he use the lives of his men to fill it.

After all, if you want to exhaust the strength of the King of Huai to capture him alive, you may have to pay the price of thousands of casualties.

"Kill!"

After killing a rattan armor soldier who rushed towards him, the King of Huai threw away his sword, picked up the long spear on the opposite side, and then swept out with a gun.

Even if the warriors in the supernatural realm cannot use supernatural powers, their blood and qi are still there. Killing the soldiers is like mowing the grass. With a sweep, the rattan armor is broken, blood and flesh fly, and the ground is full of debris, leaving a blood line on the ground.

Such a bloody scene frightened the rattan armor soldiers and they dared not move forward.

But this is only temporary.

A voice came: "Whoever kills the rebel King of Huai will be rewarded with a thousand gold and be granted the title of a marquis of ten thousand households."

Hearing this, the rattan armor soldiers immediately got excited.

There are many such examples in history.

Let's not talk about it in the distant past.

Take the case of Emperor Taizu, who was raising an army to overthrow the tyranny of the previous dynasty. A soldier, who only managed to grab the thigh of a prince of the previous dynasty, was directly made an earl and recorded in history books.

"Kill..."

"Kill him."

Arrows were flying, blades were dancing in the mountains and forests, and blood and flesh were flying everywhere. Most of them became the souls of the Huai King.

Before the Huai King escaped a hundred steps, more than a hundred corpses were left in the middle.

However, the Huai King also suffered a lot of injuries. Although they were only flesh wounds and harmless, they were seen by the rattan armor army, which boosted their morale.

It turned out that the top-grade warriors could also be injured by ordinary soldiers like them.

The Huai King did not linger in the battle. In this situation, he consumed too much physical strength. After seeing that he had killed a hole, he immediately fled quickly with the speed advantage of the top-grade warrior.

"Hurry up and chase him, don't let him run away."

He ran away and they chased.

Although the speed of the Huai King was superior, he was going into the forest, and there were no roads in the forest. Sometimes the Huai King had to open the way, so the distance between him and the rattan armor army was not particularly large.

And this escape and pursuit lasted all night.

Originally, the Huai King was only one step away from Yanzhou.

After being messed up by Jiang Li, the Huai King was getting farther and farther away from Yanzhou.

Finally, on November 1st.

The Huai King's escape was completely over.

The Chen Army led by Yue Ruyan arrived.

Surrounded on three sides, the Chen Army and the rattan armor army had nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses.

The Huai King had no way to escape.

The most important thing was that after escaping for a night, the Huai King's physical strength was almost exhausted.

As the encirclement became smaller and smaller, the Huai King was besieged on a mountain called "Longlonggang".

This mountain is not big.

Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a demon dragon causing trouble between heaven and earth, and then the immortals captured the demon dragon and finally sealed it in this mountain, so it was named Suolonggang.

But this is just a myth after all.

In order to prevent the King of Huai from escaping again.

After the two armies surrounded Suolonggang, they searched the mountain step by step.

The King of Huai was driven to hide in the land temple on the mountain.

Yue Ruyan and Jiang Li arrived.

This was the first time the two met.

Jiang Li roughly guessed the other party's identity, and bowed to Yue Ruyan and said: "I am General Jiang Li under Lord Yang's account. After receiving the letter of help from Duke Anguo, the Lord immediately sent me to lead the army to Fengzhou to assist your army."

Yang Xian did receive Chen Mo's request for help.

But the so-called first time is completely bullshit.

He had been watching from the sidelines before, and it was nothing more than seeing that the Chen army won a great victory in the battle of Huaizhou, and then he really brought troops in.

Yue Ruyan was naturally aware of this, but there was no actual evidence to expose it. After all, they really came to help, even if it was a little late.

"Yue Ruyan, a general under the command of Duke Anguo, meets General Jiang Li." Yue Ruyan said politely.

"General Yue is too polite." Even if Yue Ruyan's identity was not Chen Mo's woman, just the fact that she was at the supernatural realm was an existence that Jiang Li could not afford to offend.

He looked at the land temple not far in front of him and said, "Since General Yue is here, we can capture the King of Huai alive."

"No need." Yue Ruyan said coldly.

Jiang Li was shocked and knew that Duke Anguo wanted to kill the King of Huai.

After all, the King of Huai was Chen Mo's father-in-law.

Thinking of this, Jiang Li sighed in his heart.

Thinking of the King of Huai, as the most powerful vassal king of the Song Dynasty, married the Xiao family, dominated Huaizhou and Jiangnan, was rich in the world, had many soldiers and generals, and sent troops to defend the king a few years ago, with more than 500,000 troops to attack Xu Guozhong. Although he returned without success, it was also magnificent.

It only took a few years.

I saw him build a tall building, and I saw it collapse.

The last journey of his life was to linger in this dilapidated temple.

Jiang Li pondered for a while, then bowed and said: "Don't bother General Yue with this matter. Give me the time of an incense stick, and I guarantee that I can capture it easily."

After that, he was about to call on the rattan armor army below to surround and kill.

Yue Ruyan waved to stop Jiang Li, she wanted to give King Huai some respect.

"Don't bother General Jiang." Yue Ruyan walked towards the land temple in person.

Jiang Li was startled, thinking that Yue Ruyan was going to do it herself, and couldn't help thinking that this was a ruthless person.

In the dilapidated land temple, King Huai sat on the stone steps covered with weeds, breathing heavily, looking at the land statue, his eyes leisurely, as if he saw the land temple when it was just built, just like himself at that time.

At this moment, a sound of footsteps interrupted King Huai's thoughts.

King Huai looked up and saw a figure that was particularly dazzling under the sunlight.

King Huai laughed bitterly and said, "Are you here to take my life?"

King Huai held the spear in his hand, stood up with difficulty, and shouted, "Then let me see your ability."

"Bang Dang."

But who knew that the other party threw a dagger in front of him and said in a cold voice, "I think you were once a powerful vassal king, and you probably don't want to die in the hands of a woman. I'll give you some dignity, and you can decide for yourself."

King Huai was stunned for a long time, raised his bitter face, and his memory returned to his youthful years. In the end, he laughed crazily: "Chen Mo, I will wait for you in the underworld."

After saying that, he picked up the dagger on the ground and wiped his neck.

After waiting for a long time, Yue Ruyan stepped forward to check the life of King Huai.

After seeing that the other party was really dead, Yue Ruyan snapped her fingers.

After a while, a big fire broke out in the land temple.