"Oh!" Chen Xiliang raised his head and looked forward, only to see the mouth of a valley twenty feet away. He couldn't see anything wrong, but when his son said this, he felt like a huge mouth that was swallowing him.
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"Look at the dust rising in the valley and the birds hovering. There must be more than a hundred hiding in the valley." Chen Zhen chewed the cake and whispered: "But there is no sound at all. What is it if it is not an ambush?".
Chen Xiliang's heart tightened and he asked, "What should I do?"
"Go back to town..." Chen Zhen said, slapping his thigh, and loudly said: "Oh, Dad, look at how stupid I am. I left the baggage of my records in the town!"
"Oh!" Chen Xiliang said angrily: "Idiot, why don't you lose yourself too!"
"At that time, I just left..." Chen Zhen said casually.
"Hurry up and look for it!" Chen Xiliang scolded, and the father and son led the donkey and turned back. Chen Xiliang kept saying: "Hurry up, hurry up, if you lose it, I will tear your skin off!"
As expected, there was an ambush in the valley. Seeing that the two men were about to reach the valley entrance but then turned back, they were a little undecided. One of the leaders looked at the bearded Zhao Zonghan: "Boss, what should I do?"
"Damn it, I want to run away!" Zhao Zonghan spat out the grass stems in his mouth, pulled out his sword and said, "Chase!"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"Run!" Chen Zhen kept paying attention to what was behind him. When he saw a figure flashing out of the valley, he ignored the donkey and hurriedly pulled the old man.
Dad, Sayazi is running towards the town.
"Chase o, catch them and get a hundred taels of bounty!" Seeing them start to run, Zhao Zonghan's men also chased them at full speed, "Don't let them run away!"
After all, Chen Xiliang was getting older. After running for two miles, he was out of breath and started to mix garlic on his feet. Seeing this, Chen Zhen pulled him onto his back and started running wildly carrying his father.
"Liu Lang, put me down quickly." Chen Xiliang looked back and saw that the pursuers were getting closer and closer, and said anxiously: "Otherwise, neither of us can run away!"
"Then let's die together!" Chen Zhen said through gritted teeth. Before he could finish his words, he heard a whooshing sound, and a crossbow arrow passed by his ears. Then, several more crossbow arrows flew towards him.
It seems that the opponent came with the intention of killing, and even prepared a crossbow!
If he had just rushed into the valley ignorantly, the two of them would have been turned into hedgehogs!
Chen Zhen was worried that he would hurt his father, so he roared angrily, threw his father from his back to his face, caught him with both hands, switched from his back to his arms, and continued running forward.
Just as he was about to turn around the ridge, Chen Zhen suddenly stumbled and was hit by an arrow in the thigh!
He was extremely brave and fierce. After being hit by an arrow, he hugged his father and ran wildly. Blood was spilled all the way, which was shocking.
"He was hit by an arrow and can't run very far!" The killers were overjoyed and stepped up their pursuit. Chen Zhen's speed was indeed affected, and the distance between the two sides became closer and closer. A killer stood still, breathed evenly, stabilized his crossbow, and aimed at Chen Zhen.
If you press your back, you will trigger the crossbow.
The distance between the two sides is less than ten feet, and basically every shot hits the mark!
Hearing the sound of the bowstring, a ball of blood spattered. Chen Zhen was still running wildly, but the killer had an arrow in his heart and fell down with a look of horror... Before the other killers could react, there was another burst of bowstrings, dozens of them.
The crossbow arrows came and knocked down a dozen more.
"There's an ambush!" The killers woke up from a dream when they saw dozens of well-dressed men fighting down the ridge with their arms raised high. They didn't bother to pursue the target anymore, so they entered the battle with these sudden enemies!
Seeing the reinforcements coming, Chen Zhen gritted his teeth and ran across the ridge. He could no longer hold on, his knees gave out and he fell to the ground.
Chen Xiliang was thrown far away. He couldn't care less about the pain all over his body and quickly got up to check his son's injuries.
"Uncle, get out of here first!" A familiar voice sounded. Chen Xiliang looked up and saw Song Duanping, dressed in smart clothes, running down the hillside with a dusty face!
"Duanping, why are you here?" Chen Xiliang asked in surprise and joy.
"It's a long story." Song Duanping checked Chen Zhen's injuries, picked him up from the waist, and took Chen Xiliang up the hillside.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Song Duanping’s father has superb medical skills. Although he only learned about three-legged cats, he is still very good at dealing with trauma. Chen Zhen has already fainted.
, instead of giving him anesthesia, Song Duanping cut off the arrow shaft with a knife, took out the arrowhead with tweezers, looked at it and frowned: "The arrow is poisonous!"
"What should I do?" Chen Xiliang asked in shock.
"Fortunately, we have the rhinoceros horn brought back from Jiaozhi, which is the holy detoxification product." Song Duanping treated Chen Zhen's wound with deft hands and feet, and comforted softly: "Plus Liulang is as strong as an ox, he should be able to get through it.
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Chen Xiliang felt a little relieved, held Liulang's hand, and sighed: "It's all me who has dragged him down!"
"I blame us for coming too late." Song Duanping said with shame, "I almost missed the lives of my uncle and Liu Lang!"
"How do you know we are in danger?" Chen Xiliang asked.
"Sanlang has been watching Zhao Zongshi and his group come in, fearing that they would jump over the wall in a hurry." Song Duanping said: "Later, I found out that Zhao Zonghan was leading his gang to the east, so I guessed that they were going to attack my uncle."
"Crazy!" Chen Xiliang said hatefully.
"He was going to come in person, but he got caught up in something," Song Duanping said, "I took the initiative to ask for help and brought him in to protect my uncle..." He said with some embarrassment, "We arrived in Qizhou a few days ago.
Originally, it might have been better to keep a close eye on this gang, but I was worried that they still had a killer move, so I followed the signal left by Rokuro and tracked them all the way here, but I almost missed them first."
"That's it." Chen Xidian nodded and turned to look at the battlefield at the foot of the hillside, only to realize that the battle there was coming to an end... Although Song Duanping's men were young, they were all highly skilled in martial arts.
A few fish slipped through the net.
At this time, two men came up with a prisoner and said to Song Duanping: "Brother, look who this kid is?" They grabbed his hair and raised his face.
Song Duanping took one look at the blood-stained face with eyes full of hatred, and said with a smile, "Isn't this Brother Sixteen?"
Zhao Zonghan spat blood and said: "Song, since you know that I am the son of the dragon, how dare you kill my subordinates?!"
"Hehe." Song Duanping sneered: "You are only allowed to enter, but not you are allowed to enter. What kind of truth is this?"
"..." Zhao Zonghan was silent for a moment, then lowered his head and said: "This time I admit defeat, you let me go back, I
I will no longer help Thirteen fight you."
"Haha, it's so easy to say..." Song Duanping laughed as if he heard a joke: "You think this is just playing house!" As he said this, his face turned cold and he said solemnly: "When you come out to fool around, you must pay back.
of!"
"Of course, I will give you whatever you want!" Zhao Zonghan said repeatedly: "I understand these rules."
"Tell me, what are you planning next?" Song Duanping asked coldly: "Don't hide it from me!"
"I said, will you let me go?" Zhao Zonghan asked.
"You tell me first, and then we discuss it later," Song Duanping said solemnly.
"Okay, let me tell you, they plan to assassinate Zhao Shu and kill him once and for all." Zhao Zonghan said, "I can go."
"Let's go?" Song Duan's face showed a ferocious look, and he pulled out the knife from his waist.
"What do you want?" Zhao Zonghan said with fear on his face: "You must keep your word!"
"I didn't say let you go!" Song Duanping said as he suddenly took out the knife and stabbed him in the heart. It penetrated more than half a foot to the back of his heart and blood spurted out!
Chen Xiliang couldn't help but close his eyes.
Zhao Zonghan looked down at the handle of the knife on his chest, bleeding from his mouth, and said in disbelief: "You dare to kill me? I am the son of the dragon and the grandson of the dragon..."
"It's the same as a dead dog!" Song Duanping sneered: "You should have died a long time ago, you have earned it by living a few more years!" As he said that, he suddenly drew the knife, and blood suddenly flowed out. Zhao Zonghan screamed and fell to the ground.
On the ground, he died without even kicking his legs!
Chen Xiliang couldn't help but feel shocked when he saw Song Duanping, whom he had watched grow up since childhood, be so ruthless.
Song Duanping wiped the blood on Zhao Zonghan's body, put the sword back into its scabbard, and said to Chen Xiliang: "Uncle, don't blame me for being ruthless. The prince broke the law and the common people committed the same crime. They were all deceived. This guy is relying on a prince."
With his identity, no matter how big the crime he commits, the most he can do is to be imprisoned! Only in this way will he deserve what he deserves!"
"My uncle is not a fool," Chen Xiliang said: "Just taking him back to the capital is another crime for Zhao Zongshi."
"Alas, this kind of thing, regardless of life or death, cannot be brought to the table." Song Duanping said with a bitter smile: "Both sides used crossbows, and I am still the official of the imperial court..."
"That's right." Chen Xidian nodded, and after a long silence, he said sadly: "Finally, we have reached the point where we are fighting to the death..."
"There is no other way. They are desperate and can use any tricks." Song Duanping said: "We can only fight an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth!"
After saying that, both of them were a little silent. When they walked out of Meishan, they both had the lofty ideal of governing the country and making peace. How could they have ever imagined that they would be involved in such a dangerous whirlpool?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~After sighing, a serious problem loomed before us, that is, how to deal with the corpses all over the ground... Now is the time of peace.
, so many people died all at once, it was such a big deal!
According to Song Duanping's intention, these corpses should be burned.
Chen Xiliang said: "If you burn it, you will die and there will be trouble. You go, I will take care of it here."
Seeing that Song Duanping was worried, Chen Xiliang told him his own method. Song Duanping laughed and said: "You are still hot when you are old! Just listen to your uncle."
Chen Xidian nodded and sat on the hillside waiting for the town to come in. Song Duanping hid behind the ridge, secretly protecting his father and son.
After waiting for half an hour, he saw someone coming from the town. Chen Xiliang shouted for help. The person heard the sound and came over. When he saw the dead bodies on the ground on the dark side of the hillside, he was scared to death. But he still helped him and lifted the unconscious Liu Lang.
They got on a mule cart and sent the two men to the county seat.