Reincarnation of the powerful minister

At dusk, Su Yan and his party entered a small town along the bumpy loess road.

"The name of this place is Hengliangzi. Let's go to the town to replenish food and water, rest overnight, and continue to set off tomorrow morning..." Gao Shuo rode slowly on the horse, explaining to Su Yan who opened the curtains, suddenly looked up and looked around, and said in doubt , "When you go home in the evening, why is it so quiet, there is no smoke from the kitchen?"

Suddenly, a guard in Jinyi shouted, "Fireman! There's a Fireman!"

The flaming figure that appeared at the entrance of the town was stumbling towards them, and before he could get close, he fell down with a bang, his arms still stretched forward, as if he was still begging in pain until he died.

The brocade guards immediately stepped forward to inspect the corpse, and after extinguishing the lingering flames on their backs, they saw a scorched black knife edge slanting from the shoulder to the waist, almost splitting the person in half.This man had been fatally stabbed before he caught fire, and he was able to run so far before he died, which can be called a miracle after the potential of the human body exploded.

Chu Yuan gestured to the angle of the knife edge with his hand, and suddenly changed his color: "The scimitar...is a Tatar cavalry!"

"Quick! Get on your horses and get out of here!" He shouted at Jin Yiwei beside the carriage.

Before he finished speaking, a black-feathered arrow pierced the back of his head.Chu Yuan suddenly rolled to the side, and the three arrows were connected and nailed to the spot. The strength and accuracy of the arrows were astonishing.

The sound of horseshoes and wild shouts were blown by the wind.At the end of the dirt road, a small troop of cavalry appeared, wearing thick cowhide armor and fur hats, holding a hardwood composite bow and a machete at their waists, galloping and shooting.

Sure enough, they are Tatar cavalry!I don't know when they copied behind them, blocking the way of retreat.Fortunately, there were only 30 people, and Chu Yuan roared: "The front team will follow me to fight! The rear team will escort the adults through the town to leave!"

He divided the nineteen guards into two teams, the front and the back, and the front team, including himself, had 15 people who were responsible for fighting the enemy.The four people in the rear team were led by Gao Shuo, who were in charge of covering. With Jing Hongchai and two servants, Su Yan was surrounded by at least seven people to protect him, so as not to be singled out.

Chu Yuan gave an order, and the Jinyi guards took out their guns from their horses one after another, dismounted and looked for a shooting cover.

As a nomadic nation, the Tatars are not like the imperial system that belongs to the strict hierarchy of the Great Ming, but are composed of many tribes.A cavalry team is often the men of a tribe.

The ancestors of these nomads grew up on horseback, and all of them are excellent at riding and archery. They can even stay on horseback for three days and nights, eating and sleeping on horseback, and their mobility is unrivaled.

The Tatar light armored cavalry did not like to fight hand-to-hand with the Ming army. They were best at guerrilla warfare with bows and arrows. They started shooting arrows from fifty or sixty feet away. Once the enemy approached, they would drive their horses to move away and continue shooting arrows. It was very annoying.Chu Yuan knew that it was not easy to kill these rangers at the moment. If he couldn't fight in close quarters, he could only rely on long-range weapons—bows and arrows or firearms.

The dozen or so birdcracks they carried, which were transformed from Western arquebus guns, became the most suitable weapons at this moment.

Su Yan was bumped like a leaf in the wind by the galloping carriage.

He put his arms around the two young servants who were so frightened that their colors changed, and clung to the window frame. He listened to the sporadic sound of bullets coming from behind. The bomb operation is complicated and easy to misfire, so it has to be improved if there is a chance.I remember that in this era, there was a fierce gun modification man named Zhao Shizhen. I don’t know if he was born, but he shouldn’t be dropped by him... When I return to Beijing in the future, find him quickly and send him to Tiangongyuan...

The carriage stopped suddenly, and Su Xiaojing screamed.Su Yan's forehead hit the window frame, staring at him.Jin Yiwei, who was driving, shouted: "The houses in front of you are criss-crossing, and the road is too narrow, the car can't pass!"

"The speed of the carriage is too slow, it is best to abandon the carriage and replace it with a horse." Gao Shuo said, "It's just that the carriage is full of Mr. Su's luggage..."

"If you lose your belongings, just throw them away. Just take the imperial decree, official seal and documents with you." Su Yan covered his forehead and took a deep breath.

Jing Hong chased him into the carriage, picked up the package with the seal on his back, and helped him out of the carriage.Su Yan's vision recovered from the darkness where the golden light swirled, and he saw that the surrounding houses had obviously been robbed, and the corpses of civilians were strewn all over the ground, all of them were hacked and decapitated by knives, but few were hit by arrows, obviously they were tortured and killed.

Not far away, there was an old woman who died naked by the well, with blood dripping from her body, and the drooping child who was protecting her chest was also motionless.

After all, Su Xiaobei and Su Xiaojing were only 13-year-old boys, and they burst into tears when they saw this.

Su Yan couldn't help the redness in his eyes, he grabbed Jing Hongzhui's arm with force, his throat was choked up, "It's too miserable..."

Even an indifferent killer like Jing Hongzhui, who is used to life and death, couldn't help being shaken by this scene, gritted his teeth and said, "Damn the Tatars!"

Gao Shuo urged: "Master Su, go!"

"Which is the nearest garrison guard?" Su Yan asked.

"It's Dingbian! Go northwest!"

Just as Su Yan got on the horse, Gao Shuo suddenly tilted his ears, lay down and put his ears to the ground, and called out after a while: "There are cavalry coming again! I can't hear the direction of the horse's hooves!"

Can't hear the direction, that is, in all directions.

Another team of Tatars who had just left after the looting heard the gunfire, turned around and surrounded the town again.There were more than a hundred cavalrymen in this group, roaring like a gust of wind, and dozens of arrows shot at them from all directions.

Jing Hong drew out her sword and shot down the flying arrows. Suddenly, she saw several cold arrows flanking Su Yan who was on the horse's back. She hurriedly grabbed his belt and pulled him off the horse, and rolled around on the ground with him.

Su Yan's crown fell off, and the hairpin also fell off. His long black hair was scattered around his waist, and there was a lot of dust.

Seeing that there were only six or seven people in the field, the Tatar cavalry drew back their bows and charged forward with their scimitars.The leader stared at Su Yan, and shouted in barbaric language: "A beautiful woman with white skin! Don't kill her, grab her and present it to Lord Wuhalang!"

Jing Hong chased and pushed Su Yan into the carriage, and flung out a throwing knife, piercing the eye socket of the yelling Tatar.

The leader fell from his horse and died instantly.The cavalrymen froze for a moment, screamed like crazy, and swung their knives at them.

Jing Hong chased the tip of the sword and shivered with a cold light. He used strange movements and walked beside the carriage. Any Tatar cavalry who approached would be stabbed off by him.

Su Yan got into the carriage, and met Wang Chen who was bundled into a rice dumpling and was still struggling to turn his head.

Wang Chen: "Mmmmmmmmmm!"

Su Yan untied the cloth strip tied around his mouth.Wang Chen panted and asked, "Surrounded by Tartar cavalry? How many people?"

"More than a hundred people."

"I'm going to die now! Damn I didn't expect me to die so uselessly, like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered!"

Su Yan pulled out his self-defense dagger from his sleeve and approached him.

"You want to kill me... It doesn't matter, death by your hand is better than death by those Tartars!" Wang Chen waited for the slaughter with his eyes closed, but he didn't want the ropes tied to his body to snap and he regained his freedom.

Su Yan said: "Even if you want to die, you have to die by the law of the king, not by the sword of an animal. Go, run for your life!"

Wang Chen was stunned, and blurted out, "What should you do?"

"With Jin Yiwei and Ah chasing after him, try to rush out. If you don't get out, you can only live and die with them." Su Yan's face was calm and composed, and there was a lot of tension and fear in his heart. He didn't even dare to imagine himself falling Death at the hands of the Tartars.

Wang Chen struggled desperately, finally gritted his teeth and said: "If the twenty skilled Jin Yiwei can't get out, how can I escape by myself? I'd better follow you! Do you have knives, bows and arrows?"

Outside the carriage, a Tartar fell to the ground spurting blood, staring at them through the crack of the curtain with eyes of death, holding a scimitar tightly in his hand.

Su Yan said, "Here."

"You hide well, be careful yourself!" Wang Chen stretched out his hand to grab the knife, turned over and went out.

Chu Yuan and others at the entrance of the town repelled the small group of Tartars and rushed into the town to help.

Although these brocade guards were well-trained, they were few after all, and the Tatar cavalry were fierce and powerful. Under the two-phase fight, each of them suffered casualties.

Chu Yuan saw that his subordinates were gradually reducing the number of people, but the enemy was still a large number of dozens of people. Seeing that he was on the road to death, he was very anxious.He was loyal to Emperor Jinglong and was ordered to protect Su Yan to the death. Even if he was pierced by random arrows this time, he would never let anything happen to Su Yan. He immediately shouted: "Jing Hong chases you! Take Master Su away, we will stop him! "

"Stop it with what? With your lives?" Jing Hong chased and flew out on the wheels, pierced the two of them with a sword, then turned back, landed on the roof of the car, and took a breath.

With few enemies, he killed the enemies while taking care not to be shot by the arrows in the carriage. His internal energy was continuously consumed, and he was a little powerless at the moment.Fortunately, Wang Chen came out of the carriage, picked up a bow and quiver belonging to the Tartar, and shot Leng Zi to kill him with arrows, which relieved his pressure.

"What nonsense! You don't hate Jinyiwei the most. We are dead or alive, and it has nothing to do with you! Take Master Su away!" Chu Yuan roared, and cut off the arm of a Tartar cavalry head-on. Cut a knife.

Jing Hong chased her teeth, pierced a tartar and dragged her off the horse, caught the arrow with his body, and shouted: "Wang Chen, protect your lord and get on the horse! Go northwest, I will take a step back!" "

He had to block the arrows shot from behind for Su Yan.

Without further ado, Wang Chen pulled Su Yan out of the carriage, hugged the horse, and rode one himself.While holding Su Yan's rein, he let the two horses gallop side by side, and swung his knife to break through the gap.

"There's Xiaobei and Xiaojing!" Su Yan shouted.

Wang Chen shouted: "Take care of yourself first!" As he spoke, he pumped his hips hard.

Su Yan's equestrian skills are mediocre, so he can only bend down and hug the horse's neck tightly, praying that the Tatar horse will not throw him off.

"She's running away! Catch the woman! Kill the rest of the men!" cried the Tartar, who had taken over the chiefship, in barbaric language.

A Tatar cavalry rushed over, threw a noose, caught Su Yan on the horseback, and pulled it back violently.

Su Yan was pulled into the air by this force, and hit the cavalryman's chest.The Tatar screamed strangely, and pressed him face down on the horse's back with force. Su Yan almost heard the sound of his ribs breaking, and his eyes turned black from the pain.

His body really wanted to faint, but his will would not allow it. Holding his breath, he pulled out the dagger from his sleeve, turned around sharply with the saddle in his hand, and swung it towards the tartar's throat from bottom to top.

The Tartar felt very alarmed, and leaned back, the sharp blade only cut through the belt of the leather armor, revealing the strong muscles inside and the obvious wolf head tattoo on his chest.It was a blue-eyed black wolf with ferocious sharp teeth, as if it was about to break through its skin.

The smell of sweat from not bathing all year round, mixed with the smell of cattle and sheep, made Su Yan feel like crying.With tears in his eyes, he wanted to raise the dagger to stab again, but the opponent grabbed his wrist and twisted it forcefully, and the dagger dropped to the ground.

Su Yan struggled and pushed subconsciously, trying to push the opponent off the horse, but the tartar remained motionless as if rooted to the horse's back.

The wolf's head on the opponent's chest was rubbed into a blur. Su Yan stared at the dirty black of his fingers: Is this tattoo still fading?Tartars can't even afford tattoo dyes, so they are too poor, right?

The Tatar was full of anger, and barbaric words kept coming out of his mouth.Although he couldn't understand what the other party was cursing, Su Yan could see the bloodthirsty intent of a beast in his eyes, and felt a chill down his back, as if his neck would be broken in a second.

A feathered arrow flew like a meteor lightning, pierced the Tatar cavalryman's neck hard, and knocked him off the galloping horse.

Su Yan was almost torn off and hung upside down on the horse's back. He heard Jing Hongchai's call from behind: "My lord, hold on to the reins, put your feet on the horse's belly, and stabilize your figure!"

The night fell on the desolate wilderness, the wind whistled in my ears, and the world seemed to return to the ancient chaos amidst the violent turbulence.The bones of Su Yan's whole body were shaken to pieces, he endured the pain in his wrist, grabbed the rein with all his strength, followed Jing Hongzui's prompt, hooked his feet tightly around the horse's belly, and tried hard to move back to the saddle.

——Hold on, Ah Zhui is coming, hold on for another five seconds!

Five, four, three, two, one... [-], [-]... Su Yan tried his best to count. Although he really wanted to count to two or three decimal places, he knew that he had reached his limit.His tongue was bitten off at some point, his mouth was full of rusty taste, blood saliva poured down the intake pipe, and he coughed violently.

With no one to drive the horse, it galloped wildly and rushed to the edge of a gorge. At this moment, it leaped vertically and crossed the five or six zhang wide gap in the ground.

Su Yan was thrown off the horse's back at the exhaustion, his blue robe was blown by the strong wind in mid-air, his long hair fluttered like a waterfall, like a blue bird that lost its wings in the night.

Jing Hongchai, who was chasing behind, had red eyes that were about to bleed, kicked his toes on the saddle, pushed his lightness kung fu to [-]%, and caught him at the last moment when his internal strength was exhausted.The two rolled down the steep slope.

The world was turned upside down, Su Yan only felt that he was tightly protected by a fiery embrace.While rolling, he kept bumping into rocks and trees, because he had another physical body as a buffer, so he didn't hurt his vitals.

Ah Zhui...he wanted to speak anxiously, but passed out the moment he fell into the water.

"Cough, cough cough..." Su Yan spat out a few sips of water, suddenly woke up, and turned over with difficulty.

The surroundings were pitch black, except for the sound of rushing water in the riverbed, and the air was dull as oar.Su Yan gasped in pain, his sanity gradually returned to his brain, and he yelled in a panic: "Achai! Ahchai!"

no respond.

He crawled on the gravel beach, groped around anxiously, and suddenly touched a wet hand, along his arm, all the way to the man's face.

It's Jing Hong chasing!Su Yan suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and felt dizzy.

Jing Hongzhui remained motionless, as if in a coma.Su Yan was worried that he was drowning, so he performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation and artificial respiration for several minutes, but he did not wake up.

He felt that the skin touched by his hands was getting colder and colder, and the smell of blood was thick in the air. He suspected that the other party's arteries and veins were ruptured, leading to hemorrhagic shock.But because there was no light, and the fire fold in his arms was also wet in the river, he had to untie all the opponent's clothes, starting from the head, and groping down the body inch by inch, and finally found a wound on the right back waist.

The wound was about three to four centimeters long, and I don't know how deep it was, but judging from the length, it didn't look like a knife wound or an arrow wound, and was still bleeding.Su Yan suspected that the other party was stabbed by a sharp rock or branch when he rolled down the steep slope with his arms in his arms. He immediately tore a strip of cloth from the hem of his clothes, wrapped it around his waist several times, and tied the wound tightly to stop the bleeding.

Thunder rolled in the sky, and there were faint flashes of lightning, as if it was going to rain heavily.

Summer rains are the most likely to cause flash floods, and sometimes the water level can rise five or six meters overnight.There are steep slopes on both sides of the river, and the river section is narrow. Once there is a heavy rain, the water level will inevitably rise.

River Beach couldn't stay any longer.Su Yan was in a hurry to move to a relatively safe place before it rained, but his eyes were darkened, where should he go?

He put Jing Hongchai's clothes back indiscriminately, grabbed the opponent's arm and wrapped it around his neck, half supported and half dragged up the hillside, fell down a few times in the dark, and finally woke up Jing Hongchai.

Jing Hong sucked in a cold breath as if recovering her soul, and called out hoarsely: "My lord."

Su Yan asked guiltily, "Did you fall to your wound?"

Jing Hongzhui felt that the kidneys were about to be pierced by the stone on the ground, and stood up clutching the wound, "It's okay, I can barely see at night, my lord hold me tight."

Su Yan hurriedly supported him, "You've lost a lot of blood, you'd better find a place to rest first. The river beach below is dangerous at night, I want to find a relatively safe place up the slope."

Jing Hong chased her head and said in a low voice, "Let's go."

At this time, the night sky was full of thunder and lightning, and the heavy rain poured down, drenching the two people who were supporting each other into drowned chickens in a blink of an eye.

The hillside is steep and slippery, and in many places, it is not until you step on it that you find that there is no way ahead and you have to turn around.Jing Hongzhui was seriously injured, and her internal energy was exhausted. She dragged Su Yan to climb up for half an hour, but she still couldn't climb out of the gorge.

Originally, the place where they rolled down was not so high, but after falling into the water, they were swept away by the rapids for an unknown number of miles, and finally ran aground in this inaccessible deep valley.

Su Yan leaned on a big rock, supported the crumbling Jing Hong Chase, gasped in the heavy rain: "It's high enough. I can't climb up on the left and right. It's pitch black. It will be even worse if I fall again. Find a flat place Let’s nest in a place for the night, and we’ll talk about it at dawn.”

Jing Hongzhui was speechless and just nodded.

Lightning tore through the pitch-black sky, and in the fleeting light, he pointed to a rock depression not far away.Su Yan wiped the rainwater off his face and said, "There is a cave!"

The two worked hard to climb into the cave, and found that although it was not spacious, it was more than enough to accommodate several people to shelter from the rain, and there was a complete and flat rock inside, protruding from the rock wall, like a natural stone bed, The lower edge is nearly two feet above the ground, which can avoid insects and ants.

Su Yan found that Jing Hongzhui had fallen into a semi-conscious state again, and hurriedly laid him flat on the stone bed, looking at the entrance of the cave where the rain was pouring, secretly anxious.

If the blood loss exceeds 20-30%, symptoms such as blood pressure drop and shock will occur. If the blood loss reaches 50%, it will cause severe shock and even death.Su Yan didn't know how much blood Jing Hongzhui had shed, and there was no fire, no food, no medicine right now, could he survive this night?

Are Chu Yuan and the others still alive, can they escape from the siege of the Tatar cavalry, can they find this place?

Ever since he traveled to ancient times, this was the most helpless time for Su Yan. Before, even with a sword and ax, he felt that as long as he didn't lose his wisdom and courage, he could find a chance of life.But this time, he realized almost desperately that there was nothing he could do except rely on God's good fortune.

"Back when I dragged you home from under the bridge hole, you healed from your injuries, and you'll be fine now, right?" He touched Jing Hongzhui's face in the dark, and murmured, "I'll put you I will give you luck for the rest of my life, you must get better..."

The cheek under the palm is abnormally cold, which is a dangerous signal, and moisture will accelerate the loss of body temperature.

In the dark, Su Yan took off all the wet clothes on Jing Hongchai's body, and took off his own clothes, lying on the stone bed and hugging him tightly, as if ice and snow were in his arms, he couldn't help shivering several times.

Fortunately, it was midsummer in July, and even on rainy nights in the mountains, the temperature was not too low, there were always seventeen or eight degrees.Su Yan endured the wet and hard rock behind him, and chased Jing Hong in front of him, so that the wound on his lower back was facing up, and tried to keep him from touching the stone surface.

He thought bitterly: Fortunately, Ah Zhui is not big, otherwise I would really be crushed... Hey, I look thin, but it is actually quite heavy. Is it because the density of bones or muscles is so high...

At this moment, Su Yan was so exhausted that he couldn't even feel the hunger. He only felt that there was no place in his body that didn't hurt.But he had no time to take care of himself, he just hoped that he could warm up the ice cubes on his body, and fell asleep drowsily amidst the thunderstorm.