Delong

Chapter 149: A Journey Through the Sea of ​​Bitterness (16)

In the dark night, the air filled the air.

Zhang Xing and Qin Bao rode through a dark area, stopped their horses suddenly, and turned their heads to face each other. Two or three hundred paces behind them, more than a dozen Wu tribe cavalry had already panicked, and even heard the obvious sound of falling into the water. voices and cries for help.

Qin Bao took out the bow and arrow on his back, bent the bow and set an arrow, trying to blindly shoot an arrow towards the trap, but he put it down directly after drawing the bow.

"What?" Zhang Xing turned around and asked.

"It's a bit far away." Qin Bao answered simply. "Insufficient damage, useless."

"I'll try." Zhang Xing stretched out his hand to signal.

Qin Bao was a little surprised, but he immediately handed over the bow and arrow.

Zhang Xing took it, and drew his bow to aim in the direction of the ice trap he had set up, but he didn't rush to shoot the arrow. Instead, he circulated his zhenqi all over his body, and the silver-gray icy zhenqi spread out from the top of his head and under his feet, almost It wrapped his whole body, and naturally wrapped his arms to spread, and then waited for the overflowing true energy to flow forward and backward along the arrow, and then lightly flicked the bowstring, letting the arrow fly out with a silver-gray streamer, heading straight into the distance.

Unfortunately, there were no screams.

In fact, Zhang Xing's archery skills are very bad, Liu Guang almost missed the ice trap they set up on the small river by dozens of steps...Of course, it seems that most of the Wei soldiers' archery skills are quite bad, this is because there is a standard Steel crossbows, and they are used to fighting with a large army that bullies the few... However, the original cries for help and noise stopped immediately.

"They were frightened and didn't dare to move." Qin Bao was excited for a while. "Directing arrows with true qi is a combat skill that many masters of strange scriptures have mastered three or four veins. How did the third brother do it?"

"I'm very talented, full of energy, and I'm willing to waste it, so it's just a little more obvious in the body... And I just thought of it, I tried it... Let's go now!" Zhang Xing said while turning his horse's head, Quickly headed up the river.

Qin Bao immediately shut up and followed suit.

Zhang Xing is not being perfunctory... The stage of the Eight Meridians of the Extraordinary Meridian is considered to be stronger and more practical than the stage of the Main Meridian. Fighting skills such as bravery... But Zhang Xing has always guessed that no matter how dazzling the fighting skills sound and look, in essence, it should be that the eight meridians of the strange meridians have opened up meridians of another level, so that people can borrow the meridians of the strange meridians Use zhenqi either externally or internally to the core organs that were out of reach before.

In other words, the amount of true qi stored, the stability of true qi release, the range of true qi release, and the skill of using zhen qi are the essence of these bells and whistles.

In fact, a lot of zhenqi can already be attached to melee weapons in the late stage of the Zhengmai stage, and the essence should be the same.Including the discovery of the symbolic thing of controlling qi at the stage of condensing pills, it should also be due to the larger amount of true qi stored and the faster and more stable release.

It was because of such a concept that he was so blessed just now. Watching Qin Bao shoot an arrow, he suddenly remembered the posture of Dulan Khan shooting the arrow when he saw that the Wu Clan army was united in true energy at the bottom of the city. , and then decided to try such a stupid way.

Others would never do this, because it would be too much of a waste of energy.

In this way, the two of them rode their horses for several miles, and came to a place marked by a small fire, and stopped suddenly. Then they dismounted and found the pontoon bridge that had been put on the river beforehand and carefully made by using the ice and true energy. Only then did he turn around and signal.

Qin Bao immediately extinguished the fire, took his tumor-spotted beast, followed Zhang Xing, crossed the simple pontoon bridge made of mixed ice and wood, and then mounted his horse again, but he was ahead of Zhang Xing and lured them in front of them. The enemy's mountain passes.

When he got close to him, sure enough, the dozen or so riders hadn't turned back yet, and there were only three or four people in the small camp at the pass, and they had completely let down their vigilance.

Hearing the sound of horseshoes, one of them stood up and asked something in the Wu language.

But what greeted him was a throat-piercing iron arrow.

The arrow arrived first, and then the two riders followed... One of them wielded a big iron gun, and there was an electric light on the iron gun that exploded, directly throwing another Wu tribe warrior who had just got up onto the fire; the latter calmly got off his horse, He met an elderly Wu tribe soldier who hastily picked up his spear, and then swung his knife with a cold air, easily cutting off the opponent's spear, and then cut it from the opponent's neck to the side and down, after exhausting all his strength , Unexpectedly, he couldn't take the head, but it was enough to ruin the opponent's life, so he simply withdrew his knife and pushed the Wu tribe warrior with his head tilted into the fire.

The remaining warrior of the Wu clan was already frightened and out of control. He didn't dare to resist at all. He just fled in embarrassment into the wilderness in the dark night. A simple wooden raft for the pass.

"Third brother." When he was about to turn around and lead the horse to run over, Qin Erlang suddenly stopped and pouted into the dirty tent.

"No need, it's important to hurry." Zhang Xing understood, but immediately shook his head.

It turned out that the two of them suddenly realized that there were still people in the tent... or witches... However, in the current situation where the human culture dominates, even the witch tribe might call themselves human.

Qin Bao also nodded. At this time, time is the key. They have wasted a lot of time for this pass.

However, at this moment, someone took the initiative to open the tent from the inside, and then two women who were obviously clothed but disheveled ran out from the inside, knelt down towards Qin Bao who was the closest, and led a slightly younger The long one even cried and pleaded directly in the language of Jin:
"Master, save us!"

Qin Bao was stunned for a moment, completely stunned.

"Where are you from?" Zhang Xing sighed, and immediately stepped forward, on the contrary, he was more suitable for this kind of scene than Qin Bao, who was born and bred.

"Hunyuan." The older woman hurriedly replied.

"Is this pass east or west?"

"west."

"What about the family?"

"We are all in the camp of the witches, and we were brought out specially."

Zhang Xing took a deep breath, and immediately turned his head to tell Qin Bao: "Go and search, you need dry food and money, and then see if there are any local women's clothes, no matter if there are any, you have to pull a few dirty skins of Wu people... "

Qin Bao acted immediately as if he had won the backbone.

"Sister-in-law." Zhang Xing knelt down, held each other's hand, and said seriously. "There are too many Wu people. Your home is in the west, and the whole city has been occupied. There is no way to go back, and there are only two of us, and there are bigger things to do. So, don't cry now, listen to me carefully, one How many words can be memorized one by one..."

The woman instinctively wanted to withdraw her hand, but still gritted her teeth and nodded her head.

"First, we will immediately give you dry food, money, clothes, and leather for heating in winter. If you take them, don't go home. You will be arrested again when you go home. Just cross the pass with us and hide in the mountains to the east. , can survive a day is a day..."

"Secondly, you must remember that Wei's army should come in a few days, but don't be too happy when it comes. This is not only the witch clan coming to plunder, but the world is going to be in chaos. It will definitely harm the common people, especially those of you who are homeless... So, unless you encounter wild beasts, try to wait for the emperor's guard of honor to leave before going home to see..."

"The last one, if you want to go home and find that the man in the family has not returned, don't stay too long, take the money we gave you, and follow the army far south from the main road, go to Taiyuan first, stabilize first, and then if you are afraid to meet again When this kind of thing happened, I slowly followed the Fenshui River across Taiyuan to Linfen, to Hedong, and went to Wenxi County in Hedong to find a Zhangjiazhuang with a big locust tree, where I worked as a servant for others, which was better than staying on the border. Safety……"

After Zhang Xingxu finished talking, Qin Bao had collected a lot of things, and after Zhang Sanlang got up, he also took out some gold and silver and dry food from his bosom, and handed them to the two women.

At this time, in the dark night to the west, the chaotic sound of horseshoes sounded again, but stopped in the dark night.

"Let's go!" Zhang Xing had already got up, and then kept urging him. "Go first, we'll be stuck here for half an hour."

The two women also seemed to know that it was the Wu people who had come back, so they just kowtowed to the ground, and then one of them wrapped up dry food and money with clothes, and the other carried leather, and fled to the east in a panic.And Zhang Xing and Qin Bao also got on their horses, and each took two horses from Wu Ren, followed them slowly across the pass, and stood in the darkness again.

More than a dozen Wu tribe warriors seemed to have noticed something, and they didn't dare to go back to the pass camp, and Zhang Sanlang and Qin Erlang didn't dare to open their mouths easily, just stood up and waited.

"Third brother."

After waiting for a while, the smell of barbecue began to permeate. Seeing that the confrontation was very obvious, Qin Bao couldn't help but speak. "I shouldn't just think about fame..."

"I shouldn't even think about fishing in the city." Zhang Xing also sighed momentarily. "You should always take care of the situation at hand."

"Third brother changed his mind?" Qin Bao was slightly surprised.

"What do you think?" Zhang Xing asked in surprise.

"Big Wei..."

"How is it possible? After this incident, unless Zhongcheng makes up his mind to abolish the saint and make the king of Qi or the grandson of Luoyang emperor, I will only be less optimistic than before..."

"Why don't you like it?"

"It was Great Wei that survived in name only, and all heroes rose together, stepping on Great Wei's corpse to establish a new foundation."

"Will the confrontation continue for a long time, and become the situation where the Western Wei, Eastern Qi, and Southern Chen confronted each other?"

"No..." Zhang Xing's tone was still cold. "Da Wei can last more than ten years after meeting this saint, including the tolerance of the first emperor before the world. The winner of the three families will naturally think that they have won the fate, so everyone hesitates and shrinks, but this time many people will not shrink... And as I expected, it is not bad, Dawei is incurable, and the chaos will be extremely extreme Intense, but it is impossible for someone to maintain a place for a long time to form a separate regime, or it is because people are determined and peaceful."

"But..." Qin Bao hesitated to speak.

"I know what you want to say." Zhang Xing replied calmly. "But still the same sentence, the general trend is the general trend, and the present is the present...Since you have disagreements about the future of the general trend, don't worry about him, just like me, do the present, and move forward...I believe that the two of us will eventually get together. Will come together."

"Yes." Qin Bao earnestly replied. "If it wasn't for the third brother just now, I really don't know what to do..."

Zhang Xing didn't say a word.

Because a sad fact is that even if he made the best choice at the moment and pointed out the most suitable path, there was still no guarantee that the two women would survive.

Every step is not guaranteed.

Maybe you will encounter wild beasts when you enter the mountain, or maybe you have escaped from the military disaster, but in the end you are nostalgic for your hometown and dare not go south, and the next time will be the same. He was immediately kidnapped and sold by gangsters.

On the one hand, I am self-satisfied, and on the other hand, I keep saying that I put people first, but in reality, even one person may not be saved, so what is the overall situation if I save one or two people?At the same time, after experiencing the Second Expedition to Dongyi, the Bank of Yang Shen, and this incident, the situation has gradually become clear, and the chaotic world will eventually arrive, but I still can't make up my mind, and I am still thinking about it, with many worries.

Simply ridiculous.

However, it was precisely because of this that he secretly felt that Bai Yousi was attractive, right?
Speaking of which, the other party still didn't stop me this time, did they expect me to take that step, or did they not want to say more because of the visualization?Or because of morality, he didn't want to destroy the loyalty of himself and Qin Bao?
While thinking wildly, Qin Bao suddenly flashed out, raised his hand and shot an arrow, but shot to the ground a Wu clan warrior who was secretly trying to get close to the fire.

The latter was hit by an arrow in the leg and fell down on the spot, but still crawled forward desperately, but tried his best to reach the edge of the fire that was only a few steps away, dragged out the half-cooked corpses in the fire, and beat them hard. , and then tried to crawl again, but climbed two steps, turned back again, and cried loudly while hugging the meaty corpse on the spot.

It turned out that after the corpse was dragged out, it was headless, and in the panic, the young Wu tribe warrior didn't realize that it was his own dragging that left the head of the corpse in the middle of the fire.

Qin Bao, who had returned to the dark place, turned around with a dazed expression... Obviously, this scene had no less impact on this honest boy than the previous scene where the two women came out.

Zhang Xing sighed: "At this time, it is the enemy and the enemy, so there is no need to show mercy... But I suggest keeping him, because it can hold back this wave of people and act as a deterrent."

Qin Bao nodded and put away his bow.

They waited for a while in the wailing, and at the same time shot down a witch again. When the appointed time came, Zhang and Qin didn't hesitate anymore, they got on their horses directly, rode their horses eastward along the road, and tried their best to meet them eastward.

In this way, the two were ordered by the military to meet the reinforcements in the direction of Youzhou, first sent to surround by Niu Dugong, and then galloped lightly. In two days, they left the range of Mayi and Yanmen and entered the range of Hebei, and then spent another two days crossing the mountains The only avenue in the world finally arrived at Huairong, an important town between Hebei and Jin.

Then, they were surprised to find that on the same day, no more than half an hour ago, an elite cavalry under the general manager of Youzhou arrived here, before they even had time to set up camp.

After going through the little things in the process of breaking out, Zhang Xing had already put aside his negligence, and immediately took the initiative to greet him, showing his seal and ribbon, declaring his identity, and requesting to meet with Zhong Lang, who led the team.

In the chaos, the other party also summoned him immediately... The two sides met outside the military camp that had not yet been erected outside Huairong County.

"Deputy Chief Inspector Zhang Xing and Baishou Qin Bao of Taixi Town Fusi Fulongwei in Jing'an Taixi Town have come here with the imperial decree." Deputy Chief Inspector Zhang rode his horse forward and cupped his hands against the coming general in the field. "Dare to ask the general's name and position? Is it a decree to come to serve the king?!"

"That's right. I'm General Luo Shu, the Seventh Zhonglang of Youzhou General Manager's Mansion." That general was dressed in white armor, tall and majestic, with eagle eyes and thin beard, and a flash of light in his eyes. He greeted him alone. A strong team will be accompanied by young people dressed up. "Come here by decree. You claim to be imperial envoys. Where is the decree document, let me check it first."

This is a capable thorn.

Zhang Xing made up his mind immediately, but without delay, he immediately took out the will and his seal ribbon from his bosom.

But at this moment, a shocking scene appeared.

Qin Bao, who was following behind, was about to untie his ribbon, but he was stunned when he heard the opponent's name, and then he, who had always been a showman, immediately passed Zhang Xing regardless of etiquette, and then attracted the young captain behind the opponent With angry eyes wide open, he also stepped forward directly, even raising his gun directly.

But then, the words in Qin Bao's mouth made all four people on the scene stunned.

"May I ask General Luo, is your wife's surname Qin? She is from Qizhou, or Dengzhou..." Qin Bao immediately responded nervously. "I'm Qin Bao. After my grandfather passed away, my father took our family to Dengzhou."

The Zhonglang general named Luo Shu was stunned for a moment, and immediately turned his anger into joy: "Is it my nephew? Your father wrote to me several times before he was alive, and told me about you!"

Hearing this, Qin Bao immediately rolled off the saddle and got off the horse, knelt down on the ground, greeted each other with great respect, and at the same time couldn't hide the joy on his face: "I am Qin Bao... When will my uncle become a general of Zhonglang?"

The Zhonglang general was also overjoyed, he quickly got off his horse and picked him up, waving his arm and asked, "Kanxi dogs are all villains who are jealous of the virtuous and capable. I just got promoted this year, so I managed to regain my strength with difficulty." I lost the lintel... But you, Erlang, haven't heard from you for a long time. I only know that your family moved from the county town to the countryside, and I don't know where it is. After a long time of missing messages, your aunt keeps talking...how did you come here? Still doing it? Fulongwei?!"

The young team, each holding something high on the horse, fell into an embarrassment with Zhang Xing... There is no way, this scene was too unexpected.

Of course, it must be that the team will be more embarrassed, because he also needs to recognize his relatives, but immediately withdraws the gun, slips off the horse, sees the gift, and smiles at each other:
"Is it the second cousin? I am Luo Xin. I have always heard from my mother that there is a second cousin. We have never met before."

As he said that, he naturally saluted seriously, which attracted Qin Baofu to rush to hug him again.

When Zhang Xing heard the names of the father and son and saw the relationship between the two of them and Qin Bao, his eyelids twitched, but his face didn't blush and his heart skipped a beat. After bowing his hands, he immediately put his hands behind his back and said with a smile: "They are all from my family, so it's easy to talk...General Luo, you came so fast, do you want to seek meritorious service, or are you just nearby?"

Luo Shu just came to see Zhang Xing, but he kept silent and only looked at Qin Bao.

Qin Bao understood, stretched out his hand and grinned: "Uncle, don't worry, this is Brother Zhang San, you just treat him like a dear brother to me."

Zhang Xing forced a dry laugh.

PS: Good night everyone.

(End of this chapter)