Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 480 Such a coincidence of Pan Mei

Yue Zhengye wiped the blood from his hands in the snow beside him, and said, "Don't think about committing suicide, you are still useful to Mr. Chief Commander."

"Help him stop the bleeding and keep him alive."

Ye Chen gave instructions to the subordinates beside him, and then slowly walked towards the snow valley below the mountain, coughing up blood all the way, and the blood gradually flowed down his back all the way.

Lian Jicheng followed behind him, trying to help him, but he stubbornly threw his hand away.

Lian Jicheng was lucky, he didn't die under the crossbow rain today, only suffered a slight injury to his left arm.

But the rest of the Huaxia Weifu did not have such good luck. The subordinates who followed Ye Chen back to the capital, excluding the more than 100 people who were taken away by Hu Sanguang a few days ago, had a total of 110 people. All of them were wounded and debilitated.

Go all the way to the valley.The people of the Huaxia Weifu along the way bowed slightly to salute. This is a respect from the heart for the chief commander. Everyone knows that if it weren't for the chief commander who was not afraid of death, he made a surprise attack.Today, everyone in the Huaxia Weifu is afraid that they will all die in this valley.

The officials of the Huaxia Weifu gradually gathered behind Ye Chen, dragging the only survivor, back to the valley, beside the broken carriages.

Ye Chen squatted beside his overturned carriage, pulling out the broken shaft with his fingers, and occasionally glanced at the dead Qi Whip in the carriage. injury request.Although his injuries looked serious, they were all external injuries. With his special physique, it would not take long for him to heal on his own.

When the incident happened, Ye Chen was taken aback, but after the incident, it is not difficult to deduce the reason behind the incident - all this is the revenge of Yufeng, the elder of the temple, and it is also the revenge of a certain military boss who did not want Ye Chen to be killed. Chen returned to Kaifeng alive only because Ye Chen knew the names of some people from Nantang Liu Jinyu.The names of some bigwigs in the Song court who had various relationships with the temple.

I was still careless and always thought that no one would dare to ambush in the valley so close to Kyoto, so I asked the black knights to return to camp early.It's just...there are only a few bosses in the Song Dynasty who have the motivation to do this, but who has the strength to mobilize so many military masters, and even move the city guard crossbow?Only one of them has this strength, but this person is far away in the northwest. The people he sent may be able to break up and come here from thousands of miles to ambush him. After the longbow is disassembled, he can also bring it here. Kaifeng can also get it, but what about the city defense crossbow?

The city defense crossbow is the second doubtful point in this sniping incident. It takes time for the sniper to move and install the crossbow.It needs a lot of movement, why didn't the Imperial Guards in Kyoto, who are in charge of the safety of the four fields of Kyoto, notice it at all?

And what chills Ye Chen the most is why the other party can calculate the time of his return to Beijing so accurately. You must know that if they want to kill him, these troops would never dare to lie in ambush near the capital for too long.Unless they can accurately know the time when they pass by here.

What's even more frightening is that even though it's close to the capital, Ye Chen didn't relax his vigilance and released the spies three miles away, and this place is less than a hundred miles away from the headquarters of the Huaxia Weifu. According to the order, with the headquarters Yamen as the center, there are some strongholds and hundreds of spies in Huaxia Weifu with various identities within a radius of a hundred miles. Didn't these spies find any abnormalities in the valley?Until Lian Jicheng was the first to warn

Numerous questions flooded Ye Chen's mind, especially some questions made him feel cold all over.

Today's game is different from the Wuyue Yixian Peak game, and the Dadongshan game in the Southern Tang Dynasty. The reason why I survived the previous two mortal games is because the enemy is clearly the Holy Church and the Maitreya Sect.Today, the enemy in this game is not only some or even a few bigwigs in the Song court, but also the inside of the Huaxia Weifu is likely to participate.

Thinking of this, Ye Chen's expression changed, because he suddenly thought of another possibility——Kingto's great change.

Today's game is a dead game. There is no doubt that the opponent has used such a powerful force and meticulous preparation.Just to kill yourself.In addition to Yufeng's revenge or the fact that the military boss wants to kill people, there is another most terrifying possibility-Jin Wang Zhao Guangyi ordered the army to take action. If this is the case, it must be that the capital has undergone major changes, or is about to undergo major changes. That's why the other party is so unscrupulous and dares to despise the emperor Zhao Kuangyin. However, if there is real turmoil in the capital, even if the imperial city changes its owner and Kaifeng is sealed off, the Huaxia Weifu is outside the city. Li Junhao, Bai Canghai, Xu Fangyi's three powerful subordinates and the ghost doctor were all in the headquarters, and when he left Kaifeng for Jiangnan half a year ago, it wasn't that he had made some arrangements and precautions against this possibility.In short, if there are major changes in the capital, he should definitely receive the news as soon as possible—unless the Huaxia Weifu also experienced major changes... But how is that possible?

Ye Chen thought gloomyly, and finally shook his head affirmatively, resolutely denying the last possibility of this horror.

This is a contradictory proposition. If there is no chaos in the capital, it cannot explain why some people dare to do such a big thing.And if Kyoto is really in chaos, why didn't I get an early warning?
"My lord, it's time to make a decision." Lian Jicheng's expression was desolate and resolute, and he whispered in Ye Chen's ear. He has been with Ye Chen for a long time, and he is the deputy envoy of the Assassination Department. Regarding Jin Wang Zhao Guangyi's rebellion Ye Chen did not hide the truth from him.So what Ye Chen thought, he also thought, and he has always been different from Hu Sanguang in front of Ye Chen, speaking more directly, now he continued to say in a deep voice: "My lord, we are retreating back to Tianfu, first get in touch with the headquarters, Or go directly to Kyoto."

Ye Chen was silent, glanced at the seriously injured subordinates around him, and knew that he had to make a decision immediately.

If the capital is really in chaos, my group will die if they return to the capital.

However, at this moment, a rush of horseshoes came from outside the valley, and the horses neighed.In the blink of an eye, a group of about 200 cavalrymen drove into the valley. These cavalrymen were well-armoured, with swords and guns at their sides, full of iron and blood. One could tell at a glance that they were the most elite hundred-fighting cavalry of the Song Dynasty. The black cavalry is only inferior, and it is not comparable to the cavalry of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Even in the Great Song Army, there are not many such cavalry.

The faces of many people on Ye Chen's side changed, and Ye Chen's expression was also concentrated. At this time, a group of elite cavalry from the Song Dynasty came. Can't believe it.

But Ye Chen immediately saw the general leading the team at a distance where others could not see the faces of these cavalry clearly.

The leading man was a middle-aged man in his 30s, with a serious face, a short beard fluttering under his jaw, and a sword by his waist, but there was a hint of puzzlement and surprise in his solemn expression.

When he saw the mountains and valleys full of corpses, the overturned, broken carriages full of iron arrows, and the crossbow arrows on the ground that went deep into the cracks in the rocks, the general's solemn expression was beyond comprehension. , more infinite shock and hidden anger.

The general raised his right fist and shouted loudly, "Be on alert."

The two hundred cavalry behind him immediately became vigilant, watching everything in the valley.

The man drove into the valley with a gloomy expression, and when he saw Ye Chen sitting beside the carriage, he was taken aback, stepped forward, and rolled over very gracefully when he was twenty steps away from Ye Chen.He clasped his fists to salute Ye Chen first, and said, "I have seen the prince! I don't know what happened here, could it be that the prince was assassinated?"

Ye Chen coughed twice, stood up and returned the salute, looked at him and said, "General Pan leads an army of [-] troops in the Jiangbei Camp, how could he appear here?"

The person who came was No. 1 in the young and strong faction of the Great Song Army, the Jiedu envoy of Shandong Dongdao, and the county magistrate of Daiguo, who was promoted to the envoy of Xuanhui South Academy, and now Pan Mei who is in command of Jiangbei Camp.

Pan Mei was startled, and said: "My lord! This officer is returning to Beijing to report on his duties."

Ye Chen was taken aback when he heard the words, and then remembered that at the end of each year, the emperor of the Song Dynasty would order some military and political officials from various places to return to Beijing to report on their duties. It's just why the timing and route of Pan Mei's appearance are so coincidental.Thinking of this, Ye Chen said calmly: "As General Pan saw, I just experienced an assassination here, and the murderers were all soldiers from the Great Song Dynasty."

Pan Mei's complexion changed, her expression was unbelievable and unbelievable, she gritted her teeth and said, "Who... who did it? It's so courageous. I think His Majesty will interrogate himself if he is caught alive."

Ye Chen shook his head and said, "It's a pity that all the dead men came here, and they all committed suicide in the end." The survivor with the broken arms, Lian Jicheng and others had already hidden him without Ye Chen's orders. .

Speaking of which, Ye Chen looked at Pan Mei, and without waiting for the latter to speak, he continued: "I also want to thank General Pan for sending troops to deter and restrain the [-] elites of the Southern Tang Dynasty, otherwise, would I be able to escape from the Southern Tang Dynasty alive?" It's really two words..."

At this moment, there was another sound of horseshoes. Ye Chen and Pan Mei stopped talking and turned their heads to look.

The people who came this time were from the Huaxia Weifu. It was Xu Fangyi who hurried over with two hundred Huaxiawei. Song, Xu Fangyi can still appear at this time, which means that the capital has not undergone major changes.

Seeing Ye Chen standing there from a distance, Xu Fangyi heaved a sigh of relief immediately. When the group was twenty steps away from Ye Chen, they got off their horses and ran forward for more than ten steps. Under the leadership of Xu Fangyi, they all knelt down on one knee and shouted Said: "My subordinates are late, please punish me."

Ye Chen remembered this, frowned slightly, turned to Pan Mei and said, "General Pan, why don't you go ahead, I'll deal with official business in the government and then go back to Kaifeng."

(End of this chapter)