Fu Song

Chapter 258 Attack
"It's time to eat!" Censor Huo Huai walked up to the prison cart, looked at a prisoner inside who was locked hands and feet, and even had his head fixed through the thick fence at the mouth of the bowl, and said, "Qin Kai, if you don't If you mess around, I will untie these chains, so that you can relax a bit, and after walking this far, you also know that you will not die, so why bother to do more useless work and suffer more?"

In the cage, Qin Kai, whose hair was loose and bloodstained on his face and head, closed his eyes and remained silent.

Huo Huai sighed, waved his hand, two attendants walked over, one pinched Huo Huai's mouth open, and the other poured the soup from the bowl into Qin Kai's mouth, at this moment Qin Kai was struggling desperately He got up and tried his best to spit out what was in his mouth, but the two people who served him were both old criminal names from Yushitai, with extremely rich experience, Qin Kai who was being held had no room to resist at all, and swallowed involuntarily. with food.

In order to keep this Qin Kai from starving to death, Huo Huai put in a lot of effort. Qin Kai, a prisoner, eats much better food than he, a seventh-rank censor. They all use good things to make porridge that is easy to swallow. I poured it down on him.

Huo Huai, who watched the two criminal names feed Qin Kai, then stuffed Qin Kai's mouth again, shook his head, walked to the side and sat down, took a bowl of porridge from his subordinates, and ate it with a steamed bun up.

During the years when Huo Huai was the censor, he was also ordered to escort many prisoners back to the capital, but this time was the most difficult time for him, and it was also an unforgettable time in his life.

This ruthless man is too special.

Because he has been begging to die.

And the means of begging for death are all-inclusive, if Huo Huai hadn't received a special warning before leaving, reminding him to be careful that these civil servants who came out of the army are very hot-tempered, so be careful if they commit suicide , now Qin Kai is already a dead person.

If someone dies in his hands, he, as an official, will be finished.

Huo Huai is still young, just in his early thirties, and still has a bright future ahead!
He had no choice but to fix Qin Kai in the prison car like this. He had to drink food because Qin Kai was on a hunger strike, and his mouth had to be gagged because this guy could chew his tongue, and his head had to be fixed because he would hit the prison car with his head.Huo Huai has never met such a difficult guy, especially this guy is a civil servant.

Generally speaking, if a person wants to die, if he continues to be stopped by others, as the number of failures increases, the will to die will also weaken, but the person in front of him obviously does not belong to this type of person. For months, this guy never gave up.

There are still five days, and there are still five days before you can enter the capital. After entering the capital and handing over the person to the prison, you will be able to work on your own. This time, you must take a good rest when you go back.

This itinerary is truly mind-blowing.

It seems that King Jing really has a problem!
Looking at Qin Kai in the cage, Huo Huai thought.If there is no problem, if he has a clear conscience, why does this guy immediately want to commit suicide when he sees the people from Yushitai approaching him!
Originally, the young Huo Huai had always admired King Jing, but after this trip, his idea was shaken.

This is such a big deal that I dare not let the court know, this person wants to die so much!

As a young censor whose blood is still hot, Huo Huai is naturally not very clear about some things.And he, who has never done practical work, naturally does not know how difficult it is to accomplish something.Especially in the past many years in Hebei, King Jing has done many things that were unmatched by the predecessors, but behind these achievements, there are naturally many things that are not known to outsiders.

In everything, there are light and dark sides, and plenty of gray areas.

If you want to accomplish something, you will touch some taboos if you are not careful.

And these things must be concealed. Once revealed, there will be an uproar.

Of course, Huo Huai couldn't understand these things. In his heart, black is black and white is white.

Perhaps one day, when he becomes a grassroots official, an official who does things directly, he will realize the difficulty of accomplishing one thing.

But now, he is a censor and a professional official who picks faults. He doesn't need to experience these things, he just needs to find out the faults of officials.

Qin Kai is different, he knows that Cui Ang is the head of Yushitai now.

He knew that Cui Ang and King Jing had become rivals.

When Yu Shitai came to arrest him, he naturally wanted to open a gap from him, and he did know too much.

He didn't have the confidence to survive the torture at Yushitai at all.

When he was in the army, he had seen scenes of interrogation of spies and spies many times, even a tough guy couldn't stand the variety of torture instruments that made one's hair stand on end. Be more skilled in things.

If he didn't die, he would definitely betray King Jing under such torture.

This is something he would rather die than do.

Therefore, even if Huo Huai threatened his family, Qin Kai still had the determination to die.

Unfortunately, he did not die after all.

Seeing that he was getting closer and closer to Bianliang, Qin Kai became more and more desperate.

If you can't die on the road, if you enter the prison, you can't even think about dying.

Huo Huai sat under the tea shed, looking at the surrounding environment.This is a three-way intersection, where three different paths merge into one to enter Beijing. People from different places will involuntarily breathe a sigh of relief when they come here, and sit down and drink a cup of tea to relax.So although this tea shed is simple, its business is really good. It is noon now, and there are many people sitting in the shed, and some sit outside when they see that there is no room in the shed, but most of them are peddlers. A scholar with a bookcase on his back.

Huo Huai looked at these people carefully.

When leaving Beijing, Zhong Cheng Cui Ang specifically confessed that this trip is dangerous.Although going out to arrest people is a secret act, but once they are arrested, it is no longer a secret. Someone must be thinking of killing people to silence them.

There were fifty soldiers accompanying him, two detainee teams, and ten prison names. If you want to kill people to silence them, you will hit the iron plate. If you can't kill people, you will catch yourself.

Along the way, Huo Huai was on guard, not daring to relax at all. One was to prevent Qin Kai from committing suicide, and the other was to guard against someone who would assassinate him. Seeing that he was about to set foot on Gyeonggi, he didn't see anything wrong. , it seems that even if someone has this heart, they are now retreating in spite of the difficulties.

As for those people who were secretly protecting, Huo Huai now has some understanding, probably a mile or so away from him, and they pretended to be a cargo convoy with a dozen horses and twenty or thirty guys.The person in the lead had a black hemorrhoid on his face and a long tuft of black hair growing on it. He had a fierce look on his face, so he didn't look like a caravan guy?
Afternoon in spring is the most drowsy time. After lunch, I feel drowsy even more after eating.

The soldiers sat on the ground, one by one the chickens pecked at the rice, even Huo Huai himself felt his head sinking, and his upper and lower eyelids were fighting.On the contrary, the criminal names of those prisons, surrounded by the prison car, are full of energy.

Huo Huai, who was drowsy, suddenly saw a scholar who was sitting on a bench drinking tea outside the tea shed stand up, and then the man drew a knife from the tall bookcase at his feet.

With a swipe, Huo Huai's sweat broke out immediately, and the drowsiness disappeared instantly.

"Assassin!" he yelled.

Following the scholars drawing their knives, inside and outside the tea shed, vendors took out big knives from their goods, and those who carried the burden shook off their burdens and picked up their poles. The farmers, barefoot and holding dung forks in their hands, all rushed to the place. prison car.

As if to destroy the dead, the soldiers on the outer layer were quickly broken through by these assassins, and then these people fought with the criminals outside the prison car.

All the criminal names are masters, and all of a sudden, the assassins can't do anything about it.

Qin Kai in the prison car became excited, his eyes widened, he watched the fighting outside, and kept twisting his body.

A soldier raised his hand and shot a loud arrow, calling for help from the reinforcements behind him.

Huo Huai stumbled around a big bend, ran to the side of the prison car from behind, climbed up, and held a knife picked up on the road in his hand, but his hand was used to holding a pen, and now he was holding a knife. Quite at a loss.

If you stand tall, you can see farther and more clearly.

Huo Huai was a little anxious.

The criminals are masters, but these assassins are obviously more skilled. At this moment, three of the ten criminals have been killed, and the opponents are not damaged at all.

The sound of horseshoes came from behind.

Huo Huai saw nearly twenty riders galloping towards them, and the leader was the guy with a long tuft of black hair on his face.

But almost at the same time, there was also the sound of horseshoes in front, and Huo Huai saw that nearly thirty horsemen galloped towards them.

Where is this man from?
Huo Huai was at a loss.

The next scene broke his heart.

Because the thirty or so riders who came from the front were all dressed in black and covered their faces.

In broad daylight, coming with a mask and a knife, of course it is not a right way.

With the sound of horseshoes, half of the masked cavalry who came from the front bypassed the prison cart and rushed to the cavalry who came behind to help.The other half went straight to the soldiers surrounding the prison van.

The muffled killing sound resounded from the mouths of the masked cavalry. They held up the sabers in their hands, and their bodies rose and fell with the bumps of the horses running.

Huo Huai saw helplessly that the reinforcements brought by Hei Mao only had three or four riders left under a single charge, while the other party only had three or four people fall off their horses.

Not only Huo Huai was frightened, but Heimao who came with reinforcements was also stunned.

The subordinates he leads are all heroes in the world, Cui Ang raised dead soldiers, and they are extremely capable in single-handed combat. If ordinary people meet them, they will be dead.

But today, what they encountered was not ordinary people.

"Army!" Hei Mao screamed.

Not only is it an army, but it is also an extremely elite army that kills without counting. When the soldiers were just fighting hand-to-hand, Hei Mao saw the eyes of those people who were exposed outside. Instead of dodging, he slashed down with a straight knife.Playing is the idea of ​​one life for one life, of course, if you are a little slower, then only you will die.

It was already a subconscious reaction of his subordinates to avoid swords and guns, but if they dodged like this, they lost the opportunity and avoided the first knife.

This is not fighting in the rivers and lakes, this is the rush of the army.

Knowing this, Hei Mao didn't hesitate at all, and ran away on horseback.

There are not many such troops in the world.

The biggest possibility is the frontier army. Judging from their riding skills, I am afraid that they are frontier cavalry, which can compete with Liao cavalry.

Choi Young killed a lot of people, but still a lot of people slipped through.

Hei Mao didn't expect that these people could get war horses, and they could gather together in a big way.

No matter how courageous Hei Mao was, he did not dare to confront the frontier cavalry on horses, that would be courting death.

Since he couldn't fight, of course he had no choice but to escape.

As for whether Huo Huai and Qin Kai are dead or alive, that's none of his business!
It is only right to survive by yourself first.

The masked cavalry circled their horses back, and the soldiers who were struggling to resist just now dispersed in a blast. The scattered infantry encountered the cavalry, and they had no resistance at all.

The prison van stood alone by the side of the road, and the soldiers fled.Only Huo Huai was left standing on top of the prison cart, waving a waist knife indiscriminately.

"My official is the imperial censor of the Song Dynasty."

The leading masked cavalry rode up on their horses, and knocked Huo Huai, who was screaming, unconscious with a single blow on the back of his sword.

"Are you?" Qin Kai stood up, looked at each other and asked.

"King Jing asked us to save you!" The masked knight waved his hand: "Get out of here first."

A horse was brought over, Qin Kai got on the horse, surrounded by a group of knights, and left quickly.

Half an hour later, they arrived at the bank of the Yellow River, where a boat was already waiting, and they all abandoned their horses, boarded the boat, and went down the river.

"Those horses, I'm afraid they will leave clues!" Qin Kai pointed to the dozens of horses scattered by the river, somewhat puzzled by the behavior of these people abandoning the horses.

"Mr. Qin, it's all right." The leading masked knight held up his mask and said with a smile, "We snatched these horses from a post station. They should also find out now."

Qin Kai looked at the other party and felt that the other party looked familiar: "Where have I seen you?"

"Xin'an Army, Qin Min, I've met Mr. Qin!" Qin Min clasped his fists to the ground.

"Qin Min? Are you still alive?" Qin Kai was overjoyed. "How is His Royal Highness King Jing now? Since His Royal Highness King Jing sent you here, do you want to take action? It should have been like this a long time ago, how can we sit still and wait for death!"

"Mr. Qin, it's a long story at this time, let's talk slowly on board!" Qin Min said.

The boat drifted away.

Thirty miles away from the attack site, a messenger from the capital knocked impatiently on the gate of the post station. He wanted to change horses here, but it was already noon, and the post station did not open.

"Open the door, open the door!"

There were bursts of strange noises from inside the door. The messenger hesitated for a moment, kicked the door open, and was immediately stunned.

(End of this chapter)