Xu Yanbing temporarily lost his memory, so he could not recognize Li Xiao.
Gong Shuyu joined the Xu family after Xu Yanbing left Chang'an, so she had never met Li Xiao.
With the advantage, can Li Xiao capture Xu Yanbing or Gong Shuyu?
The answer is obvious...
Late at night, Li Xiao led more than ten people to block the back mountain path from Huilongpo to Beiting. This was what he found out from local hunters.
"One man is at the gate, and ten thousand men are not allowed to open it. As long as they guard this trail, they will not be able to escape from my grasp!" Li Xiao was very satisfied with this trail. Not only was the terrain difficult, but it was also very narrow.
He believed that his eldest cousin or eldest cousin-in-law would definitely choose this road, because this road was the shortest, safest and most convenient. It would be too difficult to return to Beiting from other directions. It would not be difficult for them to judge how strict the men of the plume of smoke were.
Blockade of Huilongpo Market.
Why not escape in another direction, which must be Beiting?
Needless to say, the eldest cousin sister-in-law, as the eldest daughter-in-law of Beiting Protectorate, where else could she go if she didn't go back to Beiting City.
As for Xu Yanbing, as the benefactor of shopkeeper Zhu, he is a natural enemy of a burst of smoke. A burst of smoke would kill even people like Heijiao who took the initiative to surrender without hesitation, let alone him, so currently only Bei
Tingcheng can provide him with protection, but he would not dare to run wild in Beiting City despite a burst of smoke.
Since both of them had to flee towards Beiting, all he had to do now was wait and see on this road which was almost the only choice.
The wind was strong that night and the clouds in the sky were thick. Li Xiao fought against sleepiness and was highly nervous. He did not want to let Xu Yanbing or Gong Shuyu pass because of his mistake.
He has great confidence in the personal guards of Prince Yu who follow him. They can fight against the masters of Qi Combination Realm. If they are facing the Xu Yan soldiers who are only in the Qi Transformation Realm, they will be able to do it with ease, let alone the martial arts.
The ordinary Gongshu Yu.
Li Xiao works very hard, but there are some things that he cannot predict. For example, after discovering that the key escape route is blocked, will Gong Shuyu cooperate with the "A Bing" who meets by chance?
In the long night, the most tiring moment is the time just after midnight and the ugly hour is approaching. Li Xiao and his bodyguards have not rested, and they plan to stay up all night to guard the main road.
But the functions of the human body cannot be changed solely by one's own consciousness. I don't know who in the team yawned first, and then everyone began to feel sleepy in their minds. Yawning is contagious.
Li Xiao had never stayed up all night since he was a child. Even when he was working as a medical doctor, he could only dance to the sound of chickens but not stay up all night. Therefore, as the leader of the team, he committed a big taboo. He did not
Reasonably allocate team members to take turns keeping watch.
This mistake is very easy to be caught by the opponent on the battlefield. As Xu Yan soldiers and Gong Shuyu who have experienced battles for a long time, there is no reason not to take advantage of this.
So Li Xiao was unlucky.
A loud noise alerted Li Xiao. He saw a large amount of snow and fog stirred up in the mountain forest not far away, but before he could see clearly, the strong wind in the mountains blew the snow and fog around him, instantly blocking his path.
Vision.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~"
The sound of breaking through the air immediately appeared, which was the sound of a large number of arrows being fired!
"Array! Array!" Li Xiao shouted loudly, commanding the guards who also lost their sight.
More than a dozen guards immediately retracted their formation and waved their weapons to resist the rain of arrows flying from the sky. However, even though each of them was very skilled, the dense rain of arrows covered the shooting in an environment with poor vision.
They are also inevitably injured by arrows.
Where did they get so many people? This kind of intensive shooting requires at least ten elite archers to do it!
But before Li Xiao could think about it, a black shadow appeared in the snow and fog and headed straight for Li Xiao!
The personal guards were already at a loss to deal with the dense rain of arrows. The sudden appearance of the black shadow was so fast and its movements were so weird that they had no time to protect Li Xiao.
"If you don't want your leader to die here, put down your weapons!"
The voice was very cold. When the guards reacted, the scene they saw was Li Xiao being held to the neck by a burly young man with a knife. Who else could that black figure be if it wasn't Xu Yanbing?
Li Xiao, who was held to the neck with a knife by his eldest cousin, knew that he had lost, and he lost very simply. He was very cooperative. He didn't want to be killed by his eldest cousin who currently "disowns all his relatives".
"All of us put down our weapons. We just want to get away without hurting anyone!" This time it was Gong Shuyu who spoke. She walked out of the gradually disappearing snow and fog, followed by Dong Zhu who looked excited.
Li Xiao saw that his cousin-in-law, whom he had never met before, looked calm and issued an order in a calm tone: "Dongzhu, tie them all to the tree! Keep three of their horses and release the rest!"
"Yes, miss!" Dongzhu had already prepared the rope in his hand.
Gong Shuyu and Xu Yanbing did not communicate much. It seemed that the two of them just cooperated in order to escape, and had no intention of deepening their friendship.
Seeing this scene, Li Xiao wanted to speak out several times to break up the drama, but thinking of the horror of Zhang Peng and Xu Wanyi, he endured it.
But at the same time, he also understood that in the future, after Xu Yanbing and Gong Shuyu knew the whole story, they would regard Li Xiao's hard-working search tonight as a "hard-working" performance!
At that time, Xu Yanbing would firmly think: Boy, you are acting so hard, are you afraid that my brother will not be able to endure the hardship?
Thinking of this, Li Xiao felt so miserable that he couldn't express it.
In Huilongpo, he was the only one who wanted to ruin this drama, but he was the one who pushed forward the first climax of this drama.
Soon, Dongzhu tied more than ten people, including Li Xiao, to a tree in the mountain. His technique was skillful and concise, and you could tell at a glance that he had done this kind of thing since he was a child.
"Miss Gongshu, thank you for your help. After this battle, there is no danger on the way to Beiting. I am eager to seek medical advice to treat my brain injury, so I will take the first step!" Xu Yanbing got on his horse, then bowed his hands and saluted, and finally did not look back.
He rode away.
Gong Shuyu said nothing, but watched Xu Yanbing's back disappear into the mountain road.
"This soldier is so rude. How could he break out without Miss's continuous crossbow cover?" Dong Zhu was very dissatisfied with this soldier who looked very much like Xu Yanbing.
"Miss, why don't you speak?"
Gong Shuyu took a deep breath, and then said slowly: "Have you noticed that this soldier's movement of getting on his horse is very similar to that of a major general!"
Dongzhu's eyes widened, and then he immediately denied it: "Miss! What are you thinking about? Aren't the movements of mounting a horse similar? I think you just think about the young general too hard, and you are in a trance!"
Gongshu Yu frowned and didn't say anything. He didn't know what he was thinking.
"Miss! Let's get on our horses and go. Hurry up and we'll reach Beiting City in one day and night's journey. Then we'll mobilize troops from the Protectorate's Mansion to extinguish that smoke!"
"Before we leave, destroy the organ we have set up, the Liannu. Don't reveal any secrets!" Gong Shuyu glanced at the horse bandits tied to the tree, and then gave the order.
"Yes! Miss!"
While the master and servant were destroying the machine-operated crossbow, the sound of horse hooves appeared again on the mountain road in the distance behind them.
Gong Shuyu and Dongzhu calmly mounted their horses, and under Li Xiao's resentful eyes, they galloped and disappeared into the vast night.
The wind picked up again, and Li Xiao felt his eyes sore from the blowing wind. He just wanted to cry for a while with this cold wind.
There is no good person in the Xu family, they all bully me!