The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 24 024

Zhang Yan followed the horseshoe and rut marks left by the horse thief. After chasing for nearly an hour, the sky gradually darkened. It happened that there was an abandoned village not far ahead, so he decided to go there for a short rest.

This village is not big, with only a dozen families. The houses are dilapidated, and some of them have already collapsed.

Zhang Yan found a relatively well-preserved house, and as soon as he opened the door, a smell of dust that had been dusty for a long time came to his nostrils.

He found some dry firewood, took out a fire pocket from his arms, and lit a bonfire.

The fire illuminated the entire room. He looked around and saw that there were cobwebs all around, which showed that no one had lived in it for a long time.

"Gollum..."

There was a buzzing sound in Zhang Yan's stomach. After walking such a long distance, he was already tired and hungry.It's a pity that there are few people here, and it is even more difficult to find something to eat.

The cold wind was howling outside, and although there was a bonfire in the house, the broken house was leaking everywhere, and the cold wind kept blowing in, making Zhang Yan feel a bit of chill.

He was wrapped in clothes, lying by the campfire, enduring the hunger and cold, sleepy, he gradually fell asleep.

I don't know how long he fell asleep, but Zhang Yan suddenly felt the ground tremble non-stop. When he opened his eyes, he saw thousands of cavalry galloping towards him. Before he could react, they had already The bloody flesh trampled by the messy horseshoes...

"what--"

In the dark night, in a deserted village, a strange cry suddenly came out, which made people feel extremely creepy.

In the dilapidated house, Zhang Yan suddenly woke up and circled around, only then did he realize that he was dreaming just now.

At this time, the bonfire lit beside him had already been extinguished, and the bitter north wind was blowing, making Zhang Yan, who was sweating from shock, feel cold all over his body, and sneezed inadvertently.

Everything that happened during the day was like a dream.Thinking about it carefully, the purpose of this group of horse thieves seems very clear, which is to snatch Mi Zhen from him.

However, he did not know where this group of horse thieves came from.The only thing he knew was that he had been running behind these horse thieves all the way to the southwest.

To the southwest of Pengcheng is Xiapi.Could it be that this group of horse thieves was in the same group as Que Xuan, who was killed by him before?

Zhang Yan didn't dare to think about it any further, for fear that he would overcomplicate things.

After sitting for a while, Zhang Yan suddenly heard a slight sound of horseshoes coming from outside the village. The sound of horseshoes approached from far away, and even the ground began to tremble slightly.

Zhang Yan frowned, and rushed to the wall with a stride. He looked out through the gap in the window, but saw a few people riding horses coming in from outside the village. clear their faces.

"It's really hard to find anywhere, and it doesn't take much effort to get here. I was worried that I had nowhere to find you, but I didn't expect that you would be so good that you would take the initiative to send them to your door."

Zhang Yan could see clearly that these five people were exactly the gang of horse thieves who robbed Mi Zhen during the day.However, Mi Zhen disappeared.When he saw the horse thieves approaching the house, he jumped up and climbed onto the beam, condescending, while eavesdropping on their conversation, while preparing for a surprise attack, catching them by surprise.

Five people jumped off their horses one after another and walked straight into the well-preserved house. One of them complained: "It's his grandma's bad luck. We agreed to give us two hundred gold, but in the end, we paid When I was a human, I only had a hundred gold. I haven't asked him to argue, but I drew a sword and put it on my neck. You two, you usually look very fierce, why do you wilt at that time? ?”

The other four lowered their heads and said nothing.

This man was the leader of the four of them. Seeing that the four of them were silent, he immediately became angry. He raised his hand and hit one of the four of them on the head. He said angrily, "I told you not to speak, and I told you to pretend to be me!" Dumb!"

The four of them seemed to be very afraid of this man, they couldn't fight back when they beat them, they couldn't fight back when they scolded them, and they worked hard without complaint.

Seeing this, the leader of the thieves was no longer as knowledgeable as they were. He took two steps towards the house and took out a fire pocket from his pocket. The faint light illuminated the house, and he suddenly saw a pile of burning bonfires on the ground. Still smoking.

He was taken aback immediately, pulled out the saber from his waist in an instant, became nervous, and shouted to the four people around him: "There is someone!"

As soon as the voice fell, a black shadow fell from the sky, but seeing a flash of cold light, the thief's head was cut through his throat, and he couldn't shout anymore, blood gushed out from his cavity, fell to the ground and kept doing In a dying struggle.

The sudden scene surprised the other four people, but before they could react, the black figure quickly shuttled around them, three cold lights flashed one after another, and three more people had their throats cut.

The remaining bandit turned pale with fright, and put his trembling hand on the scabbard, but he never dared to pull it out, because there was still a bloody long sword on his neck.

"Forgive me, strong man. I have an 80-year-old mother on top, and..." Seeing that his companions were all killed in the blink of an eye, and his own life was at stake, the bandit dropped the weapon in his hand and hurriedly beg for mercy.

Before the thief finished speaking, Zhang Yan interrupted the thief and asked sharply: "As long as you answer my question truthfully, I will not make things difficult for you!"

"I say, I say, as long as I know, I will say it, just ask the strong man not to kill me." The thief's legs were shaking, and a torrent flowed from his crotch, and his face turned pale with fright.

"Where is the carriage you robbed during the day?" Zhang Yan asked directly.

"The carriage is running too slowly, and it is easy to leave ruts, so we drove it in other directions."

"What about the person sitting in the carriage?" Zhang Yan asked again.

"We gave her to a man and she was taken by that man."

"Who? What does it look like?"

"That man was wearing a mask, and we don't know what he looks like. He found us on his own initiative and told us that as long as we can help him catch someone, we will get a rich bounty...so do we Entrusted by someone, as for who he is, we don't know."

"If you see that person again, will you recognize him?" Zhang Yan asked.

"I will definitely recognize him, even if he turns into ashes, I will recognize him. This one who received a thousand dollars promised to give us two hundred gold as a thank you, but he said that we were late, so he deducted half of our money... ..."

Seeing the trembling bandits, Zhang Yan was terrified. Guessing that he would not dare to tell lies, Zhang Yan tied him up, found some money from the other dead people, and put it directly into his own pocket. .

"Where did you hand over someone, just take me there!" Zhang Yan urged.

The thief was not at all unwilling, and was pushed out of the door by Zhang Yan. Zhang Yan jumped on the back of a war horse, tied the thief with a rein, and let him ride a horse, and went straight to these thieves. Zhen left for another person.

It was late at night and the road was difficult, but Zhang Yan didn't care, let the thief lead the way, and he followed behind. In order to prevent the thief from cheating, he deliberately tied the thief to the horse's back so that he could not move.

Soon, the two came to the place where they handed over people one after the other. The place was already empty, not to mention looking for someone, not even a fly could be found.

Zhang Yan stared with a pair of tiger eyes, and looked around ferociously, but there was not even a single figure. At this moment, he might have already gone far away.

With an idea, Zhang Yan suddenly jumped off the horse, squatted on the snow, and inspected it carefully, hoping to find some clues in the snow.

It's a pity that Zhang Yan almost searched all the surrounding snowdrifts, but he didn't even find a single jewelry.Only then did he remember that when he came out this time, Mi Zhen was dressed as a man, so why would she wear so many jewelry?
In desperation, Zhang Yan had no choice but to chase after the ruts left by the carriage.

This time, Zhang Yan was riding a war horse at a much faster speed, and he still brought the bandit with him, so that he could use the bandit as his shield in case of any danger.

In addition, Zhang Yan is not very familiar with the terrain here, if he gets lost, it will be terrible.

Chasing wildly all the way, after running for more than ten miles, he was already close to the junction of Pengcheng and Xiapi, but at this moment, Zhang Yan saw a three-way intersection in front of him.

He reined in his horse and shouted to the bandit beside him, "Where do these two roads go?"

"The one on the left leads to Xiapi, and the one on the right leads to the East China Sea."

Zhang Yan's location is at the border of Wuyuan County, which is located at the intersection of Pengcheng, Xiapi, and Donghai. Even if he commits a crime here, he can quickly flee to other places.

He looked at the ruts on the ground and saw that the road was extending towards the East China Sea, and he felt a little suspicious in his heart.

Turning around, he said to the bandit, "Have you ever heard that man talk?"

"I heard."

"Then have you ever heard what accent he speaks?"

"It's our Xuzhou dialect, which seems to be biased toward the Xiapi area."

Wuyuan County is located at the intersection of the three places. Although the public security is poor, it is a watershed. Although Donghai, Pengcheng, and Xiapi belong to Xuzhou, the dialects of the three places are different. Only the local Xuzhou People can hear it.

There is no mandarin in this era, and people speak a local accent when they go out. Even if they all speak the official dialect of the time, the local accent is hard to change, and they will pop out a local accent from time to time.As the so-called local accent is hard to change, Zhang Yan just relied on this detail to make a judgment.

"Follow me, go to Xiapi!"

"Go to Xiapi, but don't the ruts go all the way to the East China Sea?"

"Stop talking nonsense!"

Zhang Yan pulled the reins of the horse abruptly, and the war horse sitting on the bandit's seat followed up, almost knocking the bandit on the horse off the horse.

The two fast horses chased along the official road towards Xiapi.However, in Zhang Yan's heart, there was a trace of uneasiness.

Xiapi is the territory of Ruo Rong. First, Que Xuan robbed the gold that was transported to Pengcheng, and now Mi Zhen was robbed again, and the robbers retreated towards Xiapi. Could it be that Ruo Rong was the mastermind behind all this? ?
(End of this chapter)