The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 23 023 Walking with America
Mi Zhen was wearing a long black robe, her long black hair was tied in a bun on the top of her head, and she was wearing a scarf on top of it. She looked graceful, handsome, and suave, and she could be called a dragon and phoenix among men.

If Mi Zhen is really a man, I'm afraid she will fascinate thousands of girls to death.

Panting, she ran to Zhang Yan's side, took a few breaths before saying, "Why didn't you wait for me?"

Zhang Yan snorted coldly, and said, "Who am I? It turns out to be Miss Mi. Didn't you say you won't go back with me?"

"Who wants to go back with you? If it weren't for my second brother, I wouldn't have gone back with you."

After Mi Zhen finished speaking, she turned around and got into the carriage. After waiting for a long time, but there was no movement, she lifted the curtain on the window and shouted outside: "Why don't you leave?"

Seeing Mi Zhen's domineering look, the driver of the car was extremely upset, and hurriedly said to Zhang Yan: "My lord, she..."

"Don't be as knowledgeable as her, let's go." Zhang Yan said.

The coachman glanced at Mi Zhen, jumped onto the carriage, raised the whip in his hand high, with a crisp "snap", the whip landed on the horse's back, the horse neighed, galloped out, pulled the carriage and ran away .

Mi Zhen let out a cry, rolled backwards, and hit the frame of the carriage directly, her head ached incessantly.

Seeing this, Zhang Yan hurriedly rode his horse to chase after him, and reprimanded the driver: "How do you drive? Stop quickly!"

The coachman held the reins of the horse and gradually stopped the carriage. Zhang Yan chased after him, reined in the horse, turned over and jumped off the horse, went straight to the side of the carriage, opened the roller blind of the carriage and saw that Mi Zhen panicked and her eyes widened. It is full of resentment.

"My lord, I... I didn't do it on purpose, and I didn't think of it..." The coachman hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy.

"Miss Mi, are you okay?" Zhang Yan ignored the coachman, but asked Mi Zhen with concern.

Mi Zhen rubbed her arms, and said resentfully: "Look at me, do you think I'm okay? What kind of coachman did you hire, he can't even drive a car well, so what's the use of him?"

With a gloomy face, Zhang Yan turned his face to the driver kneeling on the ground and said, "Fortunately, Miss Mi is fine. If he makes a mistake, it's not too much to cut off your dog's head. Get lost!"

"Yes, yes, I'm going, I'm going!" the coachman ran away in despair.

At this time, Chen Deng and the others gathered around and asked with great concern. They were relieved to learn that Mi Zhen was safe and sound.

In the end, Zhang Yan no longer hired a coachman, and simply drove the carriage himself, heading towards Tancheng.

After Chen Deng and others sent Zhang Yan away, the driver who slipped away ran back again, stood beside Chen Deng, and asked, "My lord, how did I behave just now?"

"You did a good job. I will reward you with a drink later." Chen Deng patted the coachman on the shoulder and said with a smile.

It turned out that this driver was arranged by Chen Deng early in the morning.He came up with this method in order to create more opportunities for Zhang Yan and Mi Zhen to get along alone, which shows that he has good intentions.

Zhang Yan was driving the carriage, slowly moving forward on the official road, while Mi Zhen in the carriage was lying quietly inside, the two of them didn't even speak a word along the way.

When it was noon, Zhang Yan was hungry, so he parked the carriage by the side of the road.

"Why did you stop?" Mi Zhen's voice came from inside the carriage.

"It's noon, it's time to eat, aren't you hungry?" Zhang Yan said while tying the horse's reins to a tree beside the road.

When Mi Zhen got up early, she hadn't had any water or rice yet, so she was already hungry, but she was still too embarrassed to say so.Now when Zhang Yan asked, she touched her shriveled stomach, and there was a strange cry of "Gululu", how could she not be hungry?

She opened the roller blind of the car window and poked her head out to look outside. Except for the two of them, there was no one in this area for several miles, and the whole land was covered with snow and was a vast expanse of whiteness.In such a place where there are no villages before and no shops behind, what food can there be?
Zhang Yan fastened the reins of the horse, walked around to the back of the carriage, and when he appeared in Mi Zhen's line of sight again, he had a few large pancakes baked with coarse grains in his hand.

He took out a pancake, and handed it directly to Mi Zhen, "Here, eat something to fill your belly, and buy something to eat when we reach the next town."

Mi Zhen didn't even look at the pancakes, she just put down the roller blind, and said coldly: "You just give me this kind of food? Don't eat it!"

"Oh, I forgot, you are the daughter of a rich family, and you are served at home with rich clothes and fine food. How can you eat something made of this kind of coarse grain? If you don't eat it, you will lose it! Anyway, I am not the one who is hungry!"

Zhang Yan ate it in big mouthfuls on his own, and he ate five pancakes in a row to fill his stomach.

He put the rest of the pancakes away again, then unhooked the horse, jumped into the carriage, lightly waved the whip in his hand, yelled "drive", and started on the road again.

Along the way, Zhang Yan encountered several villages and towns, but there was not even a single person in the villages and towns. There were barren land and abandoned villages everywhere. In some places, the corpses of refugees who had frozen to death on the side of the road could be seen.

Xuzhou was originally a paradise, but it is a pity that Cao Cao's arrival brought great harm to Xuzhou, and the people were displaced and homeless.

The area around Pengcheng was originally a prosperous place, but after this battle, it became dilapidated. There were at least 10,000+ people who died under the sword of Cao Jun.

While the population has dropped sharply, it has directly made Pengcheng depressed.Along the way, Zhang Yan has not encountered a decent village.

After walking for more than an hour, Mi Zhen who was sitting in the carriage suddenly shouted: "Stop, stop!"

Zhang Yan asked: "What's wrong?"

"If I tell you to stop, just stop, why are you talking so much nonsense?" Mi Zhen said impatiently.

Zhang Yan smiled wryly, reined in the horse, and gradually pulled it to the side of the road.

Before the car was stable, Mi Zhen couldn't wait to get out of the carriage, jumped out of the carriage, and ran towards a woods by the roadside, looking very anxious.

"Miss Mi, what are you doing so fast?" Seeing this, Zhang Yan hurriedly asked.

Mi Zhen said: "You don't need to worry about it, just stand there and don't move, don't come over!"

She ran farther and farther, looking back from time to time, and after a while, he ran into the woods, and then disappeared without a trace.

Zhang Yan shook his head with a smile, and said to himself: "Don't think I don't know what you're doing, isn't it just to make things convenient for you? As for running so far? It's not like I haven't seen a woman before? Cut! "

"what--"

Suddenly, Mi Zhen's scream came from the woods.

Zhang Yan immediately became alert, he turned his head and looked into the woods, but saw Mi Zhen running out of the woods in panic.

He took out his saber from the carriage, pulled out the blade with a "shua", and shouted at Mizhen, "What happened?"

Mi Zhen yelled in panic: "A dead person! A dead person! A dead person in the woods..."

Holding the long sword, Zhang Yan ran towards the woods, ran into Mi Zhen head-on, and shouted at her: "Hide in the carriage!"

At this moment, Zhang Yan's face looked extremely stern, and his eyes were full of light, like a poisonous snake, which made people feel cold.

Mi Zhen brushed past Zhang Yan, and when she saw Zhang Yan's murderous face, she immediately felt a chill all over her body.

Zhang Yan walked like flying, and soon ran into the woods, and a strong smell of blood came to his nostrils immediately.

Relying on his sense of smell, he galloped towards the direction of the bloody smell. After running less than 100 meters, he saw a baby who had been dead for a long time under a big tree. When it was cut open, blood flowed all over the chest, and it had been dead for a long time.Behind the big tree, there were still three corpses lying face down on the ground, with fatal injuries behind them.

In addition, there were two headless female corpses whose clothes had been stripped off, their flesh and blood had already been mutilated.

After Zhang Yan saw it, he felt shuddering. Although he was used to seeing dead people, such a cruel murderer really disgusted him.

He held the long sword in his hand tightly, and scanned the surroundings with sharp eyes. Except for a series of messy footprints extending westward, there was no other clue.

"what--"

At this moment, Mi Zhen suddenly let out a scream from the carriage, and then there was no more sound.

Aware of the danger, Zhang Yan jumped out of the woods immediately, and suddenly saw several horse thieves appearing near the carriage. One of the horse thieves jumped onto the carriage, grabbed the horse's reins, shouted "drive", and galloped away. out, and the rest of the horse thieves accompanied him as guards.

In a short time, the horse thief robbed the carriage and Mi Zhen who was sitting on the carriage. When Zhang Yan ran to the main road, the horse thief had already left him, and it was too late to chase after him.

"Damn it! I fell into their trick to divert the tiger away from the mountain." Zhang Yan thrust his long sword into the ground angrily.

Zhang Yan, who became angry from embarrassment, sorted out the whole incident carefully, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong.

Along the way, because he was driving a carriage carrying Mi Zhen, his speed was very slow, and he still hasn't left the boundary of Pengcheng.Calculated, it is not far from Pengcheng, only fifty or sixty miles away.If there were horse thieves here, how could he not know at all?
He pulled out his long sword, wandered around, and finally found clues behind a small hill. The footprints on the snow were messy, mixed with horseshoe prints, and there were some leftover dry food on the ground. Been waiting here for a long time.

This shows that someone already knew that he would pass by here, so they set up an ambush on the way he must pass. This also shows that in Pengcheng, someone secretly communicated with the horse thief...

Zhang Yan didn't dare to think about it anymore. He followed the horse thief's escape direction and started chasing with his own legs. The heart leopard is brave, dare to break ground on Tai Sui's head!

(End of this chapter)