A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 107 Escape, hiding place

Bai Qing led six Bai clansmen and dozens of Baizhi guards. One of the Bai clansmen was still a ninety-year-old man. Naturally, he could not walk very fast. When he came out of the secret passage, he happened to be bumped into by a Qin army scout. Although he was killed in time, But he was still run away by a clever scout.

Bai Qing knew that this would definitely lead to a pursuit by the Qin army, but with Bai Huai, the Qin army would surely catch up. Soon, everyone came to a small mountain village and knocked on the door of a house on the edge of the mountain village.

As soon as the family opened the door, they saw the heavily armed troops outside the door. They were shocked and could not move. I heard that the Qin army had conquered the Taihang Mountains. These couldn't be the Qin army!
At this time, Bai Qing came out from the side and came to the head of the household. He said softly: "We are from the Bai family, and we are here to seek help!"

When the head of the household saw Bai Xin's attire and the divine seal between his eyebrows, he immediately believed it, because Bai's divine seal cannot be faked. He quickly wanted to bring Bai Qing's people into the house, but Bai Qing refused and said: "Now we are being hunted by the Qin army, but there is a ninety-year-old elder in our team. His legs and feet are inconvenient and he cannot bear the long journey, so I want your help hiding!"

When the head of the household heard that he was helping to hide, he was a little hesitant. When Bai Qing saw this, he quickly said: "Don't worry, it's just an old man. Qin Jun won't be suspicious. You can just say that he is the grandfather of the family. If your family can help, I, Bai, will definitely give you a big reward." .”

The head of the household thought of Bai's previous kindness and Bai's credibility, and agreed. Bai Qing saluted the head of the household, then handed Bai Huai into the hands of the head of household, explained to Bai Huai, and then quickly led the people to continue their escape.

The head of the household helped Bai Huai into the house. His family members immediately came out to ask. They were a little surprised to see Bai Huai. After the head of the household explained, they all agreed to help Bai. Finally, after the head of the household and his family agreed, they helped Bai Huai into the house. Let him put on ordinary people's clothes, dirty his face, put a piece of cloth on his forehead, and pretend to be sick.

Soon, the courtyard door was knocked again, this time very hard. The head of the household opened the door and saw several fierce Qin soldiers at the door looking at him. He suddenly became nervous. Qin Jun asked: "How many people are there in the house?" ?Who are they?"

The head of the household replied tremblingly: "Reporting to the military master, there are five people in the family except me, namely Zhuo Jing, my grandfather and my two children."

Qin Jun pushed the head of the household away and walked inside. The head of the household had no time to react and chased after him. Qin Jun pushed open the door of the room and saw an old man with a cloth on his head and a mountain village woman with a wet cloth. He kept wiping the sweat from the old man's body, while the two children beside the mat were sobbing. He looked like the old man was about to die.

When the head of the household entered the house and saw the scene, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief. When he saw Qin Jun turning around, he immediately pretended to be sad and said to the Qin Jun squad leader: "My ancestor fell down because he didn't stand firm this year. I have been bedridden, and today I suddenly felt weak, so I have to see God."

When Qin Jun saw this, he cursed secretly and left quickly. The head of the household followed quickly. When Qin Jun walked away, he closed the courtyard door vigilantly and quickly entered the house. When his wife saw the head of the household coming back, she asked if he had left. The head of the household nodded to indicate that he was leaving. Then he looked at Bai Huai and saw that his eyes were closed tightly. He asked his wife. The wife said, "The noble man is too tired and fell asleep!"

The head of the household nodded to show that he understood, and then asked everyone to go out and let Bai Huai have a good rest.

On the other side, Bai Qing and others had been trying to get rid of the pursuers behind them, but they were too tight. Even though everyone in the Bai family was familiar with the mountain roads and terrain, they could not get rid of them. Bai Qing said: "We can't go on like this, we will definitely be surrounded. We must kill the hawks and dogs behind us, so that we can get rid of the pursuers."

Then Bai Qing asked a few people to continue running forward, and he led the Bai Zhiwei to ambush on both sides of the mountain road. After a while, several Iron Eagle warriors caught up with them, and suddenly the leader stopped in front of the ambush circle of Bai Qing and others.

"It's too quiet!" said the captain of the Iron Eagle Warriors: "Peng Guo, Ji Ju, you two go and investigate on both sides."

Just as the two were about to go to both sides, more than a dozen arrows were shot from the woods, and then a dozen White Guards rushed out to fight with them. This was when Bai Qing realized that there was no hope of ambush and launched an attack in advance.

A few quarters of an hour later, although the Iron Eagle warriors tried their best to resist, the White Guards forcibly killed them after suffering three casualties. Bai Qing and others had no time to collect the body and ran forward quickly.

After a while, another group of Iron Eagle warriors came to the scene of the battle. They saw the corpses of more than a dozen warriors and the corpses of three White Guards, and knew that the prey was in front. But they thought they were not as powerful as the dead team, so they didn't dare to get too close.

So Bai Qing and others relied on their familiarity with the terrain and the help of some mountain people to successfully get rid of the pursuers. After waiting for a few days and finding that there were no pursuers, they decisively headed to Bai's hiding place, Huaishuyuan.

Bai Qing and others arrived in front of a mountain wall. Bai Qing walked to a huge stone and reached out to fumble behind the stone. He soon found a lever. When he pushed it to the side, he saw that a strange figure appeared on the smooth mountain wall. The hole allows two or three people to pass through.

The stone door opened slowly, and several Bai Zhi guards came out immediately. When they saw it was Bai Qing and others, they immediately stepped forward to salute. Bai Qing told them not to be too polite, and then led everyone into the cave.

After waiting for the last person to enter, the cave slowly closed with a "bang!" sound, and the mountain wall became smooth again. This is the hiding place that Bai spent more than forty years building. Entering the cave, you first pass through a long gap in the cliff, and then you see a valley surrounded by towering peaks. The entire valley has only the entrance where Bai Qing and others entered just now, but it has been made by Bai's skilled craftsmen. A mechanical door that blends in with nature.

There are many mechanisms on both sides of the gap in the cliff. If the enemy comes in, they will have to pay a heavy price. Even the last mechanism is to destroy the gap, making the valley completely isolated from the world.

The entire valley can accommodate nearly a thousand people. There is a stream flowing down from the cliff. The stream flows out of the mountain through an underground river. To be precise, this underground river is also a passage, but if you are not afraid of death, you can try it.

The valley can be cultivated, and there are fruit trees, locust trees, and some commonly used medicinal herbs, which is enough for thousands of people to live a carefree life. The Bai family built a total of nine valleys like this.

Bai Qing saw the people who came to greet him. Most of them were orphans, young and old, and almost all were family members of the Bai family. Among them were his mother and grandmother, as well as his brothers. Among them were the male Bai family members, including the infant son. There are only a dozen left with those he brought back. Bai's core strength has been lost almost half, and the half lost is the most powerful half. Bai's entire strength is not even one out of ten.

Bai Qing knelt down to his mother and grandmother. He didn't say anything, but kowtowed three times. When the others saw that no one of their own men came back, they understood, so they turned around and left silently. Bai Shizi, who was a few years old, looked at his mother and asked, "Where is my father?"

His mother replied: "Father, he has become a hero, turned into a star, looking at us in the sky?" The child seemed to understand, but he didn't see that his mother was already wet with tears. Placket.

Bai Qing followed his family into the courtyard of the head of the family, because he was now the head of the Bai family, the head of the family who was constantly shining in the history of Zhuxia. He swore that he would re-establish the family and would not let Bai From then on, the family wiped out everyone.

Wang Ben asked his army to search the Taihang Mountains for three months, but Mao was not found. He even let the beasts in the mountains kill many soldiers. At the same time, King Qin Yingzheng sent an order asking him to kill the white thieves. Why did he still return? Not going back to school?

Wang Ben had no choice but to order the assembly and then return to the court with his troops. Immediately afterwards, the hundreds of thousands of troops surrounding the Taihang Mountains dispersed, and the Taihang Mountains, which had been surrounded for nine years, were unblocked again. And officials from the Qin State also poured into the Taihang Mountains in large numbers, preparing to accept the Bai State's heritage.

In October, Wang Ben returned to the court. Based on Wang Ben's merits, the King of Qin was promoted to a prince and named him Tongwuhou. Coinciding with the rise of the Xiongnu tribes in the north, King Qin Yingzheng sent his father and son Meng to lead an army of 400,000 to the north to garrison Qin's borders.

Although the Bai family has closed the mountain, there will still be a small mountain village outside the mountain for external relations. This small mountain village is just a disguise for the Bai family, and is actually the Bai family's external liaison base. After learning that the Qin army had withdrawn from the Taihang Mountains, Bai Qing immediately sent people to take Bai Huai back to Huaishuyuan. Bai Qing also began to fulfill his responsibilities as the head of the family and prepared to sort out the family's assets and losses.

Soon, Bai Qing immediately went to inspect the nine valleys. After obtaining the data of each valley, he realized how huge the Bai family's losses were.

First of all, in terms of assets, the Bai family no longer has any real estate except for the gold and silver jewelry in the Gold and Silver Valley and several valleys. Although the wealth in the Gold and Silver Valley has been accumulated for hundreds of years, it has been used a lot. In the early days, the Bai family did not vigorously develop the Taihang Mountains during the founding of the country, and almost used up all their free money;
Then there was a period of time after the establishment of the Bai Kingdom. Because there was no big move, a lot of wealth was accumulated; but when Zhuang Zu Bai Wei decided on the strategy of conquering the world, the Bai family's hundreds of years of accumulation went to the army.

In order to maintain the combat effectiveness of the army, it was definitely not enough to rely solely on the support of the Taihang Mountains. Later, due to the continuous defeats and the unique system of pensions and widows and children of the Bai Kingdom, the pensions paid to soldiers who died in battle were astronomical sums. Bai's extravagant wealth has also been basically exhausted.

So when Bai Qing arrived at the Gold and Silver Valley and saw that there were only dozens of boxes of treasure in Nuo Da's valley, he felt a palpitation in his heart.

Because of Qin's pursuit, the Bai family had almost no income during the period of Qin's existence. In order to maintain the Shadow Guards and the remaining hundreds of White Guard troops, the Bai family had only expenses.

These treasures can maintain Bai's current scale for at most ten years, and no more. So in order to save money, Bai Qing planned to give up some shadow guards. In addition to the full support of the shadow guards in and around Taihang Mountain, the intelligence in other areas except for one stronghold in the main county, all turned to silence, self-reliance, and waited for another call.

Fortunately, in addition to the Shadow Guards, the Bai family also has the Bai clan and the Su, Yuan, Quan, Hei and Sun clans scattered throughout the world, so they will not become blind.

Bai Qing went to the Book Valley again and saw the letters all over the valley and the letters in the wooden house. He knew that this was the hope for the rise of the Bai family.

After that, he went to Xue Valley, Baigong Valley, Zangbing Valley, Liang Valley, etc. to announce to them the succession of the new head of the family.

(End of this chapter)