The traces of the mountainous terrain are in a mess, and become more and more chaotic as you go north, and there are traces of them going in all directions.
Shen Lie and Xie Zhong both thought that the headless flies in the south who had lost their backbone would flee and cause chaos, but unexpectedly they headed southeast together.
The group of soldiers and horses heading north were in disarray.
After searching northward day and night, Shen Lie and the secret guards discovered the fleeing soldiers of the loyal army who were about to attack the village on a hill.
These soldiers had no idea that they were being targeted. On the eve of the operation, two key members of the group of soldiers who stood up temporarily were hit by arrows in the forehead at the same time and fell to the ground dead.
The remaining hundred people were shocked. Waves of arrows were fired from in front of them. They turned around and ran back. As they approached the entrance of the canyon, the people running in front suddenly stopped and the people behind them bumped into them. The earth swords and earth sticks in their hands were almost unharmed. to one's own people.
Everyone yelled and cursed, and then they all looked up and forward with emotion.
Under the slanting light of the pale moon, the two opening and closing cliffs turned the canyon into an open fan shape of the sky. Dark blue stars hung down from this fan shape. A young man was sitting on the horse with a leash, holding an unsheathed horse in his right hand. Long sword. His figure is tall and thin, his appearance is handsome, his eyebrows are too cold, as if everything in this world is inferior to his eyes, he is arrogant and cold, like an immortal descended from heaven.
Everyone was shocked, and some even retreated subconsciously.
The open space in the middle became the dividing line, with one side alone and the other side huddled together.
The side with more people was invaded by a wave of fear, which quickly spread among the crowd.
Someone suddenly shouted: "You, you are Shen Lie!"
He wanted to drink vigorously to make himself appear weighty, but his voice was obviously trembling when it reached his mouth.
Shen Lie's clear voice seemed like ice springs in the cold night wind: "I only leave one alive, who can answer me first, when and where was the last time you saw Xie Zhong?"
Everyone, you look at me, I look at you.
One man suddenly threw away the weapon in his hand and ran out in a big stride: "General Shen, let me speak!"
"I said so too!"
"Let me tell you!"
Everyone else ran out and scrambled to kneel on the ground.
"I haven't seen the Prime Minister for a long time! I heard that the Prime Minister was taken away this morning!"
"It's General Zhuo who said that the king and the prime minister are both dead. He doesn't want to lead troops and tells us to get out!"
"Yes, yes, it was General Zhuo who drove us away. He had already driven away several groups before us!"
"General Shen, why don't you accept us?"
"We will definitely obey your advice and act like cattle and horses for you!"
Shen Lie said: "Who is General Zhuo?"
A soldier looked at his companion: "What is General Zhuo's name?"
Others looked at me for a long time, and one person said: "Zhuo Xilie!"
"That's right, General Zhuo's real name is Zhuo Xilie. He is from Menzhi. He just joined our army last month!"
"What nonsense are you talking about? It's no longer the Zhenguo Army, it's the Loyalty Army!"
"That is, the Zhenguo Army was before, and now it is the Loyalty Army! General Shen, we also called Hanhe Army, Youguang Army, Chengye Army and Rongde Army!"
Shen Lie was not affected by their messy words, and his voice was always cold and unhurried: "Since last night, Xie Zhong has not shown up?"
The soldiers nodded.
"Wasn't he captured?"
"We followed General Zhuo to surround the villages on the eastern hills. We heard that something happened in the valley, and General Zhuo took us away!"
"Yes, that's right. Over in the river valley, wasn't it because of you, General Shen?"
Shen Lie listened to their words, and a touch of sarcasm arose in his heart. It seems that Xie Zhong hid himself very thoroughly. In all his actions in the past two days, he not only cut off his arms to survive, but also did not hesitate to make Lingde chaos. He took a knife and cut off pieces of flesh from his body.
This is, all limbs cut off.
While being decisive and ruthless, it can also be seen that he is an extremely confident person. Not everyone has the courage to give up his family fortune like this.
Shen Lie raised his hand and gently pulled the reins. Longying raised his head and gathered momentum, excited by the killing intent.
The soldiers who were talking unconsciously stopped and looked at him.
Shen Lie said quietly: "You didn't say it was useful. I wanted to keep one alive, but it seems that none of you can do it."
Everyone opened their eyes wide and hurriedly wanted to beg for mercy again, but they heard the sound of arrows whistling in the wind, and dozens of crossbow arrows were fired from both sides and behind them in an instant.
The people on the outermost periphery fell to the ground, and the people in the middle crowded together and tried to escape, but they could not escape the next wave of arrows.
In an instant, like the wind blowing through ears of wheat, all the soldiers fell.
"Master!" Ye Zheng and the others came over.
Shen Lie looked at the corpses on the ground and said coldly: "Repair the sword."
"yes!"
The secret guards drew their swords and walked towards the corpses. Those who had already been hit by arrows in the brain would not care. Those who had fatal injuries not in the brain would be stabbed again by them.
A few people were still lingering on, shouting for mercy, but still died miserably at the hands of weapons.
After confirming that there would be no more survivors, Shen Lie rode away with the secret guards.
In the next few days, they followed all the way, and in addition to skirmishers, they also met many soldiers and horses of the Daping Dynasty.
Until he left Lingde and pursued Jinxiang County in Guide, Shen Lie completely lost track of this group of people.
Besides them, there were also Cao Chunshan's Pingpi soldiers who were chasing Zhongxin's army along the way.
The Zhongxin Army heading to the southeast was completely wiped out by Cao Chunshan. Messenger troops came from the north, informing them that there were still a large number of Zhongxin Army soldiers heading north.
Cao Chunshan immediately turned around and headed north, continuing the pursuit. Within a day, he saw three piles of corpses one after another.
They were all soldiers and horses of the loyal army. They were either killed by arrows or swords. Judging from the condition of the corpses, they were dead no more than three days ago, and the nearest one was even last night.
Based on the information provided by the loyal soldiers who had been killed in the southeast when they were trying to save their lives before they died, Cao Chunshan concluded that it was Shen Lie who did it.
"Great!" Cao Chunshan was ecstatic, "That means Shen Lie hasn't left Ling De yet!"
Annihilating the loyal army of thousands of people is already a great achievement. If he can capture Shen Lie again, he will not only be awarded a title, but he will also become famous all over the world, spread by thousands of people, and leave a book for future generations.
Cao Chunshan couldn't care less about rest, and immediately summoned all his soldiers and horses, strictly ordering not to let go of any clues on the road. Now, finding Shen Lie was more important than finding the loyal army.
In addition to the existing troops, Cao Chunshan also sent people back to mobilize troops and increase manpower. The morale of the entire army soared, and they took the slogan of killing Shen Lie and vowed to find him.
The next day, he saw several piles of corpses, all of which were scattered loyalists who died tragically. Cao Chunshan was in a very good mood: "It seems that Shen Lie has a lot of hatred with the loyalists. This is very good. No matter how many people he killed, they can all be remembered." On top of us, we will take down Shen Lie later. Brothers, your career is just around the corner!"
"Report!" A scout quickly rode back, "General, general!"
Cao Chunshan was chewing a sesame seed cake, looked up and shouted: "What's the matter!"
The scout dismounted, knelt down and gasped: "General, at the foot of the Lijiatun hills three miles northeast, the bodies of a group of Xingping troops, about twenty people, were found!"
Cao Chunshan's smile just now was still at the corner of his mouth. Hearing this, he froze and immediately threw away the sesame cake in his hand: "Let's go! Lead the way quickly!"
