Chapter 45: Chasing Xiao Luan (2)(1/2)
"Bang--"
With a loud noise of cracks and shattering, Xiao Luan turned out the room along the window, flipped her body in mid-air, and used her left hand to support her on the ground, forcibly twisting her entire posture, knocking on the ground with one knee, and after sliding back half a foot, she stopped retreating with the sword in her right hand.
After Xiao Luan, a figure jumped out of the window, and it was Yang Qi, the leader of the Black Crows.
After Yang Qi jumped out of the window, his left foot was on the ground, and his whole body seemed to turn into a sharp arrow and shoot at Xiao Luan. The short blade that appeared in his hand was also stabbed straight towards Xiao Luan's head.
Unfortunately, Yang Qi was still one step slower. Xiao Luan, who had stabilized his body at this time, waved the sharp sword in his hand, bounced open Yang Qi's short blade with one sword, and stabbed Yang Qi's face with the flow.
However, he had never succeeded. Yang Qi looked calm and left his head open, avoiding Xiao Luan's sword. At the same time, the short blade in his hand reversed and stabbed Xiao Luan's shoulder with his backhand.
With a stinging sound, the short blade in Yang Qi's hand pierced into Xiao Luan's shoulder, and he was about to pull the blade backwards, completely destroying Xiao Luan's hand.
"Damn it! What a broken armor!"
Xiao Luan cursed inwardly, leaned back, and while his back hit the ground first, he kicked Xiangyangyi's chest with both legs.
At this time, Yang Qi was in a state of turbulence and had no way to leverage the force, so he had to subconsciously protect his arms in front of his chest and withstood Xiao Luan's blow and kick it hard.
It has to be said that Yang Qi's strength is definitely underestimated. When he was kicked away by Xiao Luan, he actually flipped over in the air and landed steadily two feet away from Xiao Luan - although he also hit the ground with one hand first.
Although his arms, especially his left arm, which had suffered most of the impact, was numb and sore at this time, compared to Xiao Luan's right shoulder hanging, Yang Yu's injury was nothing.
"Mr., Master?"
The soldiers of Fu Wei, who were not far away, were stunned after seeing this scene. They couldn't understand why Yang Qi, the "Mr. Gong's entourage", suddenly attacked their Young Master Xiao Luan, but they still surrounded him in time.
At this time, Ya Wu had already dealt with the two followers who followed Xiao Luan into the house and rushed out of the house quickly. Unfortunately, Xiao Luan, who was injured on his right shoulder, had been surrounded by more than a dozen Fu Wei soldiers, and there were twenty or thirty Fu Wei soldiers, who faintly surrounded Yang Qi, Ya Wu and others.
"Has you missed?"
『Um…』
Standing side by side with Yang Qi, Ya Wuyi put on a warning posture while exchanging a look with Yang Qi.
In fact, it was not their intention to do it suddenly.
Because when he came, Beigong Yu revealed to them that Xiao Luan, as the legitimate son of the Xiao family of Nanyan, had very good martial arts skills. In order to ensure that everything was foolproof, in the plan, Beigong Yu would get Xiao Luan drunk - even if it was only half drunk, it would greatly increase the chance of Yang Qi and Ya Wu subduing Xiao Luan.
But unexpectedly, Xiao Luan actually noticed something was wrong. In fact, when I think back now, Xiao Luan's sudden words to Beigong Yu might have been just for a trick. However, Beigong Yu, Yang Qi, and Ya Wu were tense and were too nervous at that time, so when Xiao Luan deceived them, Yang Qi and Ya Wu subconsciously had the idea of "taking action immediately."
As Beigong Yu reminded before, even if Xiao Luan was completely awake, even if Yang Qi and Yu Wu were two, the possibility of subduing Xiao Luan on the spot was not high.
At this time, Xiao Luan kicked the case in front of him at Ya Wu. While smashing Ya Wu back, he pulled out the sharp sword from the sword sheath and forced Yang Qi to retreat, and quickly flipped out of the window.
At this time, Xiao Luan's two guards also reacted and rushed towards Ya Wu angrily.
Although Ya Wu finally successfully killed Xiao Luan’s two guards, he also missed the opportunity to join forces with Yang Qi to attack Xiao Luan and subdue him.
"Dang--"
Xiao Luan reached out and pulled out the short blade left by Yang Qi on his right shoulder, and after taking a look at the blood on the short blade, he threw it on the ground.
At this time, his emotions, unprecedented anger, and still had some fear of escaping after the disaster - because just now, he was almost wiped out by Yang Qi on the opposite side, and even at the risk of being captured by mistake.
He had never thought before that, since he was a child, and had never slacked off for a day in the past few decades, he would one day be almost snatched by an assassin - even if the other party was obviously not an ordinary assassin.
"Beigong Yu——!!"
He reached out to stop the soldiers of Fu Wei who were a little turbulent because he saw him injured. Xiao Luan yelled at the house angrily.
As soon as he finished speaking, Beigong Yu walked out of the house without any joy or sorrow.
After looking at each other for a few times, Xiao Luan gritted her teeth and said, "I never thought that one day you would betray me!"
"I never thought about it..." Beigong Yu sighed with some melancholy.
Indeed, he had followed Xiao Luan for twenty years and had never thought before that one day he would surrender to the Wei court. Even when he was tortured by Zhang Qigong, he had never thought of surrendering.
Until he met Prince Zhao Run, until Prince Zhao Run gave the temptation that he could not refuse.
Perhaps it was because of what I felt from Beigong Yu's tone that Xiao Luan calmed down a little and asked coldly: "Court, what are the benefits that I promise you to betray me?"
Beigong Yu shook his head slightly, then corrected: "It's the prince. His Highness the prince promised me to restore the status of the Beigong clan and make me the revival of the Beigong family." Speaking of this, a few apologies flashed in his eyes and he whispered: "Maybe for you, revenge is higher than anything else, but I have thought about it for a long time. For me, revenge on the Ji Zhao royal family did not make the family prosperous again..."
After listening to Beigong Yu's explanation, Xiao Luan also understood the reason.
For the children of these big families, the word "family" is like engraved in the soul. Even if some families are inevitably dirty among brothers and uncles, when the entire family is facing a crisis, I believe that all the tribe members will do everything for the family.
What is a family?
The family is "root". From the perspective of blood and inheritance, it shows where they come from, what kind of heroes have appeared from generation to generation, and what big things have been done in this world. These are all a sense of belonging and honor that is remembered in the heart.
Perhaps ordinary people cannot understand the meaning of "family", because most of them only remember the ancestors of the three generations, and they only consider whether they can eat and wear well. In the eyes of people from large families, such people are at best just "duckweed" and don't even have "roots".
"... So I am willing to bow my head to the foolish lord?"
Xiao Luan could understand Beigong Yu's desire to revive the family, so the anger in his heart also slightly subsided.
"It's the prince." Beigong Yu corrected the words again. Then he took two steps forward, came to the vicinity of Yang Qi and Ya Wu, and said to Xiao Luan: "Xiao Luan, you can't defeat such an opponent, why do you still have to resist to the end?... His Royal Highness told me that he had no hatred for Xiao. The reason why he hated you was just because you used it and eventually betrayed King Yi Zhao Yuanqi, which caused the latter to finally drink poisonous wine and ended up in bleakness... This is private hatred, not national hatred."
"..." Xiao Luan was stunned for a moment, and a complex look appeared in her eyes.
He may have thought of King Yi Zhao Yuanqi, and this close friend who was once a very good relationship.
"Let's stop here." Beigong Yu said seriously: "If you are willing to stop here, the crown prince's mind may not let you leave your descendants and inherit the incense of Xiao..."
"Haha." Xiao Luan laughed when she heard this and said in a sarcastic tone: "That's really good, but, just as you said just now, for me, revenge on the Ji Zhao clan is the only obsession in my heart... Beigong, I'm very disappointed."
After saying that, he raised his hand to Beigong Yu, Yang Qi, and Ya Wu, and ordered with a cold face: "Kill them!"
At this moment, a few Fuwei soldiers rushed over outside the small courtyard. They ran and shouted urgently: "Young Master, a group of people came in from outside the courtyard. They were very skilled, and brothers could not stop it..."
Xiao Luan frowned and was about to speak, when he saw Yan Lei, who had received Beigong Yu two days ago, reached out and stopped him, whispered: "Young Master, you can't stay here for a long time. You go first. As for that traitor... I will kill him on behalf of your husband."
After saying that, a soldier from Fuwei led Xiao Luan's mount over.
Seeing this, Xiao Luan nodded and turned his head decisively, because he realized that Beigong Yu defected to the Wei court this time and wanted to arrest him, then, the two crows under the command of the prince Zhao Run would be ambushed outside the manor. If he didn't leave at this time, he would not be able to leave later.
Thinking of this, he rode his horse and left.
As he guessed, in just a moment, the Qing Crows and the Black Crows had already been killed. Although Yan Lei and others chose to leave behind to buy time for Xiao Luan's departure, they still could not stop the Qing Crows and the Black Crows. In just a short moment, about a hundred Fu Wei soldiers in this small courtyard were all killed by the twin crows. Even Yan Lei, despite Beigong Yu's repeated persuasion, was pierced by the two black crows in the chest.
Just as the battle was over, Zhang Qigong frowned and came here. Seeing that there was no figure of Xiao Luan on both sides, he asked Beigong Yu, "Where is Xiao Luan?"
Beigong Yu shook his head and said, "He has seen through it."
As he said that, he told Zhang Qigong all the things that happened just now.
Although Zhang Qigong was upset, he also knew that the mistake was not Beigong Yu or Yang Qi, and the Jaw Five people were blamed for being too alert.
Thinking of this, he asked, "Where has Xiao Luan gone now?"
"It should have escaped back to the military camp." As soon as Beigong Yu finished speaking, Jaw Wu added: "After now, my brothers from the Green Crows have followed, maybe they can be intercepted..."
As soon as I said this, I heard a loud noise coming from the east outside the manor.
Seeing this, Zhang Qigong hurriedly led his people out of the courtyard. From a distance, he saw an army with the name of Guard, about 200 people, intercepting and killing more than 20 members of the Green Crow and Black Crow.
As for Xiao Luan, there was no trace.
"Is it the guards brought by Xiao Luan?"
Zhang Qigong frowned.
"Master Commander..." Ya Wu and Yang Qi looked at Zhang Qigong with a silence.
Of course, Zhang Qigong understood their thoughts, and decisively pointed to the troops of the guards in the distance, and said gloomyly: "No one left!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the black crows and the green crows behind Zhang Qigong, who quickly stepped forward to support his companions.
Although the guards were fully equipped with armor and seemed to be a regular army of the State, they were vulnerable in front of the Qing Crows and the Black Crows. Except for some of the Crows being injured by the crossbows of the guards, almost all of the Black Crows and the Blue Crows were not damaged.
"Who are you waiting for? How dare you attack our defending army!"
A chief of the guards was chopped to the ground by the ghosts of the black crows in a roar.
『Things are troublesome...』
Looking at the corpses of guard soldiers everywhere, Zhang Qigong felt a headache.
Because when he came, the prince Zhao Run specifically instructed him to try not to cause trouble in Wei State and do something that would affect the relationship between Wei and Wei.
But now, a team of about 200 regular troops of the State of Defense were killed by the Qing Crows and the Black Crows.
At the same time, the injured Xiao Luan ran back to the military camp just as Beigong Yu guessed.
Before entering the camp, he looked back - he knew that there must be pursuers from the Green Crows behind him, but he was not panicked. After smiling mockingly at the Green Crows, he rode his horse into the barracks with 8,000 guard soldiers.
The expression seemed to be saying: I am in this military camp, do you dare to come?
Seeing Xiao Luan enter the military camp, several green crows looked at each other and finally returned the same way and reported to Zhang Qigong.
A moment later, Zhang Qigong brought Beigong Yu, Yang Qi, Ya Wu and others to the vicinity of this military camp and watched the camp from afar.
Although Zhang Qigong had to consider hiding in this military camp at this moment, the 8,000-man army camp and the ally of Wei State, the military camp of the Wei State, Zhang Qigong had to consider this.
"Prince Zhang, it's better for me, Qingyao, to attack the camp at night and capture Xiao Luan." Ya Wu suggested from the side.
Zhang Qigong shook his head and said, "Xiao Luan must have been prepared. If he rashly breaks into the military camp, he may be ambushed. Not to mention the loss of manpower for the two crows, he will also ask the Weiren to learn about our identities..." Speaking of this, he sighed and said, "It is related to the relationship between Wei and Wei. You need to report to the Crown Prince and ask him to make the decision."
Seeing this, Ya Wu nodded and said, "Niyi will send someone back to Daliang to report this to His Highness the Crown Prince!"
After saying that, several green crows were sent back to Daliang.
To be continued...