Chapter 32: In Crisis
Arriving at the opposite bank, under the watchful eye of the garrison, the group went ashore again. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The other party's generals and generals came to visit Shang Chaozong, who had not completely rebelled here, and was still nominally a member of the imperial court, and Shang Chaozong was still the prince of the imperial court, so he had to come to visit him. In general, this side is quite polite and polite to Shang Chaozong, and they all know that Shang Chaozong is not a person from the imperial court, not an enemy.
The generals here were supposed to hold a banquet to entertain them, but Shang Chaozong politely refused, as long as he had some supplies, he didn't have a good impression of these rebels who supported the army and respected themselves, and he was also a royal family anyway.
However, this side was still polite, and specially sent a team of ten people to escort Shang Chaozong and his party, saying that they wanted to escort Shang Chaozong out of Guangyi County.
Shang Chaozong did not refuse, and he couldn't refuse, knowing that it was called escort, but it was actually surveillance, after all, what he was holding in his hand was five hundred elite cavalry, and he could charge into battle when he put on a formation, and he could not stop thousands of infantry in formation, and he could fully cooperate with the actions of the imperial court.
The group went on the road again, followed by a small tail, the leader of the team was named Qu Wu, and he followed and monitored not far along the way, and the situation along the way will be reported to the post station.
Entering the territory of Guangyi County, in fact, it is not far from Xiaonan Mountain, and the next day I finally arrived at the foot of Xiaonan Mountain, and a hilly forest area next to the official road is the so-called Xiaonan Mountain.
Shang Shuqing turned his head and shouted, "Brother!"
Shang Chaozong raised his hand with a solemn face, the reason why his face was solemn was because several people here had judged that Niu Youdao would part ways with them sooner or later, and he couldn't keep it.
When the group saw that the gesture was forbidden, they all grabbed the reins, and the people stopped on the road.
Shang Shuqing, who was sitting on horseback and wearing a gauze hat, leaned forward slightly, and turned his head to look at Niu Youdao on the other side, "Master, aren't you going to deliver a letter?" ”
"Oh, have you arrived?" Niu Youdao looked like he knew.
Chu Ze was the centurion in charge of the outpost to explore the way, and pointed to the road into the mountain not far away: "Nanshan Temple enters from this road!"
Niu Youdao turned around and pointed to the package hanging on Yuan Gang's horse's back, and said, "Monkey, the letter is in the bag, you can help me run!"
Yuan Gang nodded silently, flicked the reins in his hand, rode out of the team, turned around in place for half a circle, raised his whip and pointed at one of the guards in the team, and said politely: "You, accompany me for a trip!"
The guard's name was Su Jieren, and when he saw that he pointed at him, he couldn't help but be stunned and looked at his leader. Shang Chaozong turned his head and gestured, and he rode out. Yuan Gang flicked the reins and galloped towards the mountain road, and Su Jieren followed him.
"Be on guard!" Lan Ruoting shouted, and at the same time glanced at Guan Tie on the side.
Guan Tie understood, nodded slightly, and led a group of men and horses to go to a direction to guard, and most of the five hundred cavalry were ordered to disperse the guard.
Qu Wu, the young general of Guangyi County, who was in charge of surveillance, led people over and asked, "Lord Wang, what's wrong?"
Lan Ruoting replied with a smile: "It's nothing, I sent someone to Nanshan Temple to deliver a letter, and it won't take much time for someone to come back." ”
Qu Wu said "oh", led the people back, and kept looking around......
"Follow me!"
Yuan Gang, who was galloping on the mountain road, suddenly turned around and shouted, and the mount turned around, turned down the mountain road, and rushed into a dense forest with gentle terrain.
Su Jieren followed the corner and rushed in. Not far from entering the dense forest, Yuan Gang in front suddenly stopped his mount and silently observed the surroundings.
Su Jieren stepped forward and stopped, and said suspiciously: "Brother Yuan, aren't you going to Nanshan Temple to deliver a letter?"
"Get off the horse!" Yuan Gang gave a sentence, lifted his legs and jumped off the horse, took off the horseback package, and took out a set of clothes from it, which was Niu Youdao's clothes.
As soon as Su Jieren got off the horse, he took the clothes thrown by Yuan Gang by surprise and hugged them in confusion.
Yuan Gang raised his chin at him and signaled, "Change your clothes!"
"Why?"
Yuan Gang: "Let you change it, where is so much nonsense!"
Su Jieren was a little helpless, so he had to do it, his movements were a little slower, and Yuan Gang shouted again, "Hurry up!"
After changing his coat three times and two times, Yuan Gang stepped forward to pull his hair again, wanting to change his hairstyle.
This time, Su Jieren quit, covered his hair and retreated, and said vigilantly: "What are you going to do?"
Yuan Gang was not reluctant, "If you don't want to, go back, go back and tell the prince that you don't want to run errands for me, and let the prince change someone who is willing." ”
"......" Su Jieren was speechless and helpless, and finally stopped.
After a while, Yuan Gang changed his hairstyle to Niu Youdao's ponytail that was tied to the back of his head very casually, and a letter was slapped on Su Jieren's chest, "What you have to do is very simple, pretend to be a master and go to Nanshan Temple to deliver a letter, you just say that you are a disciple of the Shangqing Sect Niu Youdao, and you send a letter on the order of the head of the sect, and ask to see the host! Sending a letter is secondary, and the main task is to observe the situation in the temple, remember?" The last sentence is purely to stabilize Su Jieren, blurring the existing danger.
After some advice, the two got on their horses again and walked out of the dense forest, returning to the mountain road to continue walking. Running to the location of Nanshan Temple on the top of the hidden mountain, Yuan Gang once again hid in the mountain forest alone, and Su Jieren rushed to the top of the mountain alone.
Hiding in a remote place in the forest, Yuan Gang set up his horses, quickly hid to the top of the mountain, and finally hid in the canopy of a large tree to observe, and witnessed Su Jieren enter the temple gate.
"Host, there is a person outside, claiming to be Niu Youdao, a disciple of Shangqing Sect, saying that he came to deliver a letter to the host on the order of the master. ”
In the main hall of the backyard, the host Yuanfang was drinking tea and talking with Song Yanqing and others, and a disciple came to report it.
Before Yuanfang could reply, Song Yanqing had already stood up, his eyes were shining, and he said, "Sure enough, it's here!" turned around and said to Yuanfang: "Let people in!" beckoned Xu Yitian and Chen Guishuo again, and led the two to the side room to temporarily avoid, and the window paper in the compartment was sent to Song Yanqing to poke a few holes.
Yuanfang was quite helpless, he didn't want to get involved in the right and wrong between the cultivation sects, that was not something that his little demon could afford to provoke, but there was no way, he could only wave his hand to the disciple who reported it, "Please come in!"
Soon, Su Jieren, who had been observing the surroundings all the way, came, saluted after seeing Yuanfang, and took out the letter from his arms and presented it with both hands.
Song Yanqing in the small room frowned, how could he not know Niu Youdao, the person who came just made a pretence of Niu Youdao, not Niu Youdao at all, turned back to Xu Yitian and Chen Guishuo and said, "You go out and see what's going on!"
The two of them took the order and walked out of the middle room directly, and they didn't avoid the fake cow at all, and left quickly.
Yuanfang opened the letter, shook out the letter inside, looked up and down, left and right, turned over and over, didn't understand what it meant, but didn't find any handwriting, it was clearly a blank paper!
Song Yanqing, who walked out, stretched out his hand and snatched the letter, glanced up and down at Su Jieren, and then looked back at the content of the letter in his hand, his eyes were stunned, what is the situation......?
At the gate of Nanshan Temple, Xu Yitian rushed out quickly, ran down the steps to the bottom of the mountain, and looked at both sides of the way.
Yuan Gang, who was hiding in the canopy, paid attention quietly, his eyes flashed again, and he saw a figure flash out of the temple wall, and he paused on the wall a little, turned into the air, and landed on the treetops outside the temple.
The person who came was Chen Guishuo, and Xu Yitian teamed up to check it out.
Yuan Gang secretly complained, it was really a coincidence, Chen Guishuo floated all the way to the direction where he was hiding, and now he didn't dare to change his position and hide, and it was very likely to be discovered if he moved, so he didn't move, and he could only hope that Chen Guishuo didn't notice.
However, he was not so lucky, Chen Guishuo, who floated from the canopy in front of him, had not yet landed on the canopy here, his eyes flashed, and he had already locked onto him, his pupils shrank suddenly, and with a bang, he drew his sword, shook his sword and shook out the sword flower, and pounced directly at Yuan Gang who was hiding.
Yuan Gang's body slid down, stepped on the fork of the tree trunk, took advantage of a sprint to jump, and also flew out, flying from one side of the tree to the other side of the tree.
With a few smacks, the branches and leaves shattered and flew, and in the flickering of the sword light, the branches and leaves of the crown that blocked the obstruction were twisted and shattered by the sword shadow in Chen Guishuo's hand, and his feet kicked on the tree, and he didn't stop, and the people pierced the canopy directly through the rain and swallows, and one person and one sword continued to chase and kill Yuan Gang.
Yuan Gang, who flew to another tree, pulled a branch and fell to the ground, dodging and running wildly among the trees, he saw that the other party was as light as a swallow and could fly on the treetops, and he knew that he was in a crisis, it was not an ordinary warrior at all.
Chen Guishuo, who was chasing behind, did not land, and stepped left and right on the trunk of the tree in the forest, the speed was not comparable to Yuan Gang's escape speed, and in an instant, he waved his palm in the air, and a 'Xuanqing palm' burst out with a whistling sound, and the palm of the air bombarded Yuan Gang.
Yuan Gang, who sensed the danger, didn't have time to dodge, his back stiffened and arched, there was a bang, and he was slapped hard, and the acceleration of the human shock flew out, suddenly widening the distance between him and the pursuer, and continued to run wildly.
Chen Guishuo was shocked, but he didn't expect the other party to be slapped by himself like a nobody, and continued to jump towards Yuan Gang, who was dodging with the help of trees in the forest, and chased after him again, learned a lesson, and stabbed out with a sword in the air.
Yuan Gang dodged sideways, took the trunk of the tree in front of him with his arm, and his body went around the back of the tree, which can be said to have circled around the tree, and a punch roared out, blasting towards Chen Guishuo behind the tree.
Chen Guishuo, who was chasing with a sword against the trunk of the tree, might as well have Yuan Gang come out from the other side, but he didn't expect Yuan Gang to dare to counterattack, listening to the fist wind, the strength seemed to be quite strong, and he slapped it out with a palm in a hurry, and punched hard.
There was a bang, and Yuan Gangzhen's figure lost control and rolled backwards down the mountain.
Chen Guishuo also landed a few steps back, and only stabilized the slope with his hind legs, a little frightened, this guy has a lot of brute strength!
Yuan Gang's punch also completely aroused Chen Guishuo's murderous intent, flew up again, and soon caught up again, the sword light soared down, covering Yuan Gang below, this time there was no intention of leaving a living mouth to interrogate, but to hurt the killer!