() So, Yan Yingyuan said to Gu Baichuan: "You escort my brother-in-law to Tongzhou for help, and I will stay behind."
When Zhong Jinwei heard this, he interrupted: "No, we must go together, and we must stay together. Leave all the money to them, and maybe they can let us go."
Gu Baichuan looked at the horse thieves in the distance. The horse thieves were speeding up and chasing them here. So he said to Zhong Jinwei: "Sir, you have to go. These horse thieves are coming for you. There was no mercy in what they did just now.
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After finishing speaking, he said to Yan Yingyuan: "It's better for me to cut off the queen. I have the responsibility of protecting you."
Yan Yingyuan shook his head and said: "It's not that I can't see clearly, Brother Gu. You are no match for me in martial arts right now. I still have a glimmer of hope after I cut you off."
Zhong Jinwei didn't want Yan Yingyuan to stay under any circumstances. Not to mention that Yan Yingyuan was a person he admired in history, and because of his status as Archi's eldest brother, he couldn't let him die. So he interrupted their argument and said, "Let's go together."
Run as long as you can. If you really can’t run away, then fight with them. Maybe you’ll meet others on the road.”
It was probably a fool's errand to meet a passerby who could save them on the road. But at Zhong Jinwei's insistence, Gu Baichuan and Yan Yingyuan stopped arguing. The two of them protected Zhong Jinwei from the left and the right, and rushed towards Tongzhou.
Zhong Jinwei knew that whether his group could escape depended entirely on the speed of his horse. At that moment, he secretly gritted his teeth, chomped on the horse's ass, clamped his legs tightly around the horse's belly, and started running with concentration.
As the saying goes, when a person is in danger, his potential is unlimited. Zhong Jinwei rode faster than ever before.
But even so, they still couldn't get rid of the group of horse thieves. They were still chasing them closer and closer.
There are two reasons. One is that the equestrian skills of the horse thieves are not comparable to those of Zhong Jinwei and the other three. After all, this is one of the basic skills for them to make a living; the second reason is that their horses have been resting before, and they are still one person and two horses;
The horses of Zhong Jinwei and his party had already carried them for more than twenty miles.
Yan Yingyuan looked back while running, and realized that if he ran for a while, he might be overtaken. He also saw that several of the horse thieves were already taking their bows, which made it even more dangerous.
Yan Yingyuan thought about it secretly, looked at Zhong Jinwei's back, took the bow in his hand, and quietly slowed down his horse.
Zhong Jinwei focused on controlling the horse and ran forward without realizing that he had distanced himself from Yan Yingyuan.
Gu Baichuan was also observing the enemy situation behind him from time to time. He saw Yan Yingyuan's actions and guessed Yan Yingyuan's thoughts. He only regretted that his horse riding skills were not good, so he had to turn around and give Yan Yingyuan a fist, and then ran forward to protect Zhong Jinwei.
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Soon, the shouts of the horse thieves were clearly heard. Yan Yingyuan estimated the distance, turned around, and shot an arrow backwards.
The horse thief who was targeted happened to be the leader of the horse thieves, Mo Da. He was also an expert at shooting arrows. Seeing Yan Yingyuan's movements, he did not dare to raise the arrow. When the arrow was about to be shot, he leaned down and stuck to the horse's back, and the arrow
It flew over about an inch above him.
Immediately, a horse neighed and screamed from behind. Yan Yingyuan's arrow hit the neck of a horse thief riding behind Mo Da. Because Mo Da blocked his view, the horse thief did not see the arrow's incoming force and waited for the horse to hit.
When the arrow overturned, there was no time to escape and change the horse, and he was thrown out with the horse. People who were thrown out while moving at high speed would basically not survive.
When the horse thieves here saw him, the few people who could shoot arrows took out their bows and started to fight back at Yan Yingyuan.
However, because their bows are not strong, they do not have the arm strength of Yan Yingyuan. Moreover, they are chasing, while Yan Yingyuan is running. Yan Yingyuan is moving in the same direction as the arrow, while the horse thief and the arrow are pointing in the opposite direction, and the power of the arrows is different.
Yan Yingyuan fired several arrows one after another. After all, the horse thieves behind him were not very capable, and three more people were shot. Because they wanted to pretend to be ordinary travelers, the horse thieves were not wearing armor, and they turned over and fell down on their backs as soon as they were shot.
The speed of the horse thief was obviously slowed down. When Liang Biao saw that he was further away from his target, Liang Biao became anxious and reminded the leader of the horse thief, Mo Dao Dao: "Think of a way quickly. If this continues, they may escape back to Tongzhou."
Mo Da originally thought that it would be much easier to deal with Yan Yingyuan after he finished shooting the arrows, but what Liang Biao said made sense. Their idea was to stop entangling the young master who ran in front.
So, Mo Da issued an order to the horse thieves: "Leave the few who are shooting arrows to entangle the bastard in front. The others leave the official road, go around from the left and right, and intercept the two bastards in front."
As soon as Mo Da finished speaking, fourteen horse thieves divided into two groups, ran down the official road, made a wide arc, avoiding Yan Yingyuan, and went after Zhong Jinwei and Gu Baichuan.
Liang Biao was not good at shooting arrows either, so he didn't even have a bow. Running behind him would be of no use. In addition, he was most concerned about Zhong Jinwei's life and death, so he chose to leave the official road and pursue Zhong Jinwei.
When Yan Yingyuan saw that the horse thieves behind him were divided into three groups, he immediately understood their intention. But he was alone and had no way to deal with it. He wanted to run to join Zhong Jin to defend them, but behind him were several horse thieves who could shoot arrows.
If the horse thieves provoke Zhong Jinwei, I'm afraid Zhong Jinwei will be in more danger. The only way to deal with the most dangerous horse thieves is to deal with them first.
Therefore, Yan Yingyuan calmed down and either hid or used his bow to deflect arrows while waiting for the horse thieves behind him to come to the best shooting range.
After a while, the distance got closer. Yan Yingyuan no longer hesitated and drew his bow and fired arrows continuously. The sound of "bang bang bang" was endless, and he fired five arrows in one breath.
I didn't expect that the five horse thieves behind them who could shoot arrows were also very good at shooting. They hid or hid, but they just shot two horse thieves.
Just when Yan Yingyuan finished shooting the arrows and let his arms relax, the horse thieves fired arrows back. Each person shot one arrow, so three arrows were shot at Yan Yingyuan.
Yan Yingyuan's shot of the horse thief was at the best shooting distance, and the horse thief's shot of him had a similar shooting effect. He was immediately confused.
Yan Yingyuan knew that he couldn't let the horse thief behind him continue shooting like this, otherwise sooner or later he would make an oversight and be shot.
He urged his horse to speed up, and after gaining a little distance, he turned around and started shooting again.
He fired many arrows in one go. This time he no longer shot people, but specifically horses.
The horse thief didn't expect that he had changed the shooting target, nor did he expect that he would shoot so many arrows at once. For a moment, the horse was hit by arrows one after another.
A horse thief failed to escape from the horse and rolled to the ground with the horse.
Another horse thief jumped onto the backup horse, and after being shot again, he slowed down, rolled over, jumped out of the horse, and landed safely on the ground.
Only Mo Da was left to protect his horse and was still chasing Yan Yingyuan. He hated Yan Yingyuan in his heart and was always looking for opportunities to retaliate and prepare to shoot the horse.
When Yan Yingyuan saw that there was only one horse thief behind him, he felt relieved. But when he saw that the horse thieves outflanking him on both sides were getting closer and closer to Zhong Jinwei, he couldn't help but feel anxious again. He had to quickly deal with the last one and rush over to protect his brother-in-law.
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Having made up his mind, he reached for the quiver behind his back to grab an arrow, preparing to kill that person. One-on-one, he was sure to win.
But he stretched out his hand to fish for arrows and found nothing. When he felt along the hole of the quiver, he realized that he had shot all the arrows in a hurry.
Yan Yingyuan didn't have time to regret not bringing more arrows, so he threw the bow away and reached out to take the spear in his hand. Since there were no arrows, he just used the gun.
While running, Gu Baichuan still had enough energy to observe the situation behind him. When he saw that the horse thieves behind him were divided into three waves, one wave pestered Yan Yingyuan and continued to fight, and the other two groups were outflanking him, he secretly groaned in his heart.
But there is nothing we can do.
Not to mention the issue of being able to fight or not, he was outflanked by two routes, and no matter where he tried to block, he would always leave another route open. Zhong Jinwei was also a helpless person. As long as a horse thief approached Zhong Jinwei, Zhong Jinwei would definitely die.
As the horse thieves got closer and closer to Zhong Jinwei and Gu Baichuan, the threatening sounds of "wow wah wah" began to be clearly visible.
Seeing that there were no arrows among the approaching horse thieves, Gu Baichuan felt a little relieved. He released the reins with his right hand, pulled out the Dongchang special knife that had been inserted into the sheath, and held one in each hand, ready to fight.
There is still a long way to go from Tongzhou, and it seems that there is no way to escape from Tongzhou. Young master, take care, I have to take a step first. Gu Baichuan said to Zhong Jinwei in his heart.