Yan Ling was also looking at the map. While looking at it, he said, "I'm sure, he wants to take us to a place."
"What?"
Yan Ling took the charcoal strips and circled several locations on the map.
"These are probably the places in the mountains that are suitable for ambush. According to our route these days, the first one is too far, the second one has a cliff blocking the road, and the third one..."
He crossed out each one he said, leaving only a circle in the end.
"Red Forest Valley..." Xu Yin read softly.
Yan Ling nodded, turned around and ordered the commander: "Send the message, reinforcements will go to Honglin Valley first!"
"Yes." The leader responded and left.
"What are your plans?" Xu Yin asked.
Yan Ling raised the corner of her mouth and revealed a bloody smile: "He spent so much effort and even used his body as a bait. Didn't he just want to ambush us? For this goal, he must be able to endure more suffering, right?"
…
"Enemy situation! Discover enemy situation!"
Hearing the warning, the false emperor skillfully rolled off his saddle and dismounted, holding his sword tightly in his hand, looking for a bunker to hide from.
"Your Majesty." Yu Manqing also leaned over, back to back with him.
Soon the sound of fighting came from the outside, followed by the familiar smell of blood.
The Black Iron Guards were fierce and cunning. Every time they came at them fiercely, they would immediately retreat after they organized a counterattack. The Puppet Emperor was used to it, so he just had to survive this moment and move on.
This time was no exception. After a while, the false emperor heard the voice far away.
Just as he was about to emerge from his hiding place, he suddenly heard Yu Manqing shout: "Your Majesty, be careful."
The false emperor was pushed staggering by her, and before he could react, he felt the sound of breaking through the air passing by his ears, and with a "snatching" sound, a crossbow arrow was nailed to the tree trunk.
"Escort! Escort!" the chamberlain shouted loudly, and the guards nearby gathered around.
They reacted quickly, and the other party was not slow either. Arrows shining with cold light appeared from behind the bushes, and arrows rained down.
The false emperor was protected by the imperial guards holding shields. He had never felt that death was so close.
The arrows rained heavily, and the guard who had no time to move fell to his side. Blood overflowed, dyeing the grass and blades on the ground red.
If he had been a little slower, would he have died like this? Even if he escaped once, he would still end up like this when he reached his destination, right? Just like Yu Chong, who was shot through the heart by thousands of arrows and died with his eyes open.
After three rounds, the arrow rain finally stopped.
One of the guards shouted: "They have run out of arrows, let's go!"
The false emperor leaned on the ground without any strength, breathing heavily.
He finally got free and looked towards where the arrow had come from.
Among the dense trees, he saw a familiar yet unfamiliar Shuli face.
Meeting his gaze, she raised the corner of her mouth and said something silently.
The false emperor was stunned for a moment, and then he saw her raising the small crossbow in her hand.
He hurriedly pulled back, but it was still not fast enough, and his arm felt a sharp pain.
"ah!"
Yu Manqing was shocked when he saw this: "Your Majesty!"
A crossbow arrow stuck firmly in his arm, tearing apart the muscles.
The guards rushed forward, but those people turned around and ran away without any hesitation, and soon disappeared.
Hearing the guard's reply, the pseudo-emperor was not surprised at all and said: "Forget it if we can't catch him, let's continue."
"yes."
So he cleaned up the battlefield, applied medicine to heal his injuries, and continued his previous trip.
The false emperor's arm was almost penetrated, and blood seeped out from the bandaged cloth.
Yu Manqing looked at his wounds and couldn't help but hate her: "Xu San! It's her again! How did we offend her to press on like this!"
Where did she offend? He also wanted to ask.
He asked Xue Ru to go to Nanyuan, but wasn't Xu Huan alive? She went to Beijing to stir up trouble. In order to bring him down, she even dared to kill the general Yu Chong. That little grudge was worth taking such a huge risk.
Is it dangerous?
The more the false emperor thought about it, the more depressed he became, and that night he developed a fever. In a daze, scenes flashed before his eyes.
On the beautiful high platform, the fire is burning.
The gorgeous woman sat beside him and raised her glass of wine to him: "Your Majesty, let's have a drink together for the last time!"
He was filled with sadness and his heart was broken: "I never expected that the only person who would stay with me in the end was you, my beloved concubine."
The woman smiled softly, with tears in her eyes: "It is my honor to die with His Majesty."
The shouts of death below became more intense. Seeing enemies on all sides, and knowing that he would die today, he couldn't help but let out a sigh, raised his glass and drank it all.
"My beloved concubine..."
He was about to say some love words when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his stomach.
Realizing something, he looked up at the woman in front of him and exclaimed in surprise: "Is the wine poisonous?"
Facing the woman's calm face, he quickly thought of something and calmed down: "That's fine, die faster, maybe it won't be so painful... My beloved, you are more thoughtful."
"No," the woman who had been so tender just now had a cold face, "I just don't want His Majesty to die in the hands of others."
He was startled for a moment and looked straight at the woman in front of him.
"Hahaha..." Blood dripped from the corner of the woman's mouth, but the smile on her face became bigger and bigger. She had never smiled so unscrupulously in so many years by his side, so flamboyantly and indulgently that she no longer had to hide her hatred.
meaning.
"Your Majesty, you don't think I don't know, do you? You were the one who poisoned my father. You destroyed my family, caused A Yin to be tortured by the poison every day, and caused me to suffer all the humiliation. The Dongjiang Palace fell.
, you still haven’t let us go, Wei Si was also instigated by you, just to force me to enter the palace! For so many years, I pretended that I didn’t know and didn’t dare to tell A Yin. Today I finally waited for this opportunity and killed you with my own hands.
!”
He was shocked: "You..."
The woman wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and looked at him with cold eyes: "The hatred for killing my father is irreconcilable!"
The false emperor suddenly opened his eyes, his forehead covered with sweat.
He looked up and looked around and found that he was not on a high platform, but surrounded by vast mountains and forests. He just slept for a while leaning against a tree on the way to escape.
"Your Majesty, what's wrong with you? Does the wound hurt?" Yu Manqing was awakened by him and asked.
The pseudo-emperor's breathing gradually subsided and his eyes were fixed on her face.
The beloved concubine in the dream was obviously not Yu Manqing, that woman was much more beautiful than her. That face... was that of Xu San? No, even though she looked very similar, it was not her.
The false emperor held his head, and vague memories emerged.
Ascend the throne, pacify Dongjiang, establish a concubine...
He remembered that it was Miss Xu whom he had never met before in his life!
"Your Majesty?" Yu Manqing called again.
The pseudo-emperor had no time to pay attention to him. Confusing memories emerged in his mind. The scenes in the dream connected into a thread, and he finally got a clue.
He understood why things got out of control even though he clearly didn't reveal his flaws, and why Xu San insisted on putting him to death.
Before she left today, she also said those words.
The hatred for killing my father is irreconcilable!