Chapter seven hundred and sixty fifth: unexpected encounter
Murong Hai's admiration for Tuobayan now is like a continuous river. Since the day of breaking through the decisive battle, Tuobayan led their more than 800 cavalry to magically emerge from the inexhaustible gaps on the chaotic battlefield. After escaping from Heaven, in the following days, they almost crossed half of Zhengyang County. In the eyes of all Yan soldiers, this would definitely be an extremely difficult escape journey. Under the leadership of Tuobayan, it has almost become a cat-catching game between them and the pursuers.
Tuobayan showed an unparalleled keen judgment on the battlefield. He could always guess the movements of the Ming army first and shift them in advance, turning the dangers he had been captured again and again into ridicule of the Ming army under his command.
They have been running away for half a month, and they have not lost one person, which has to be said to be a miracle.
"Brother, aren't we going to Shayang County? You said before that we were going to pass through Qingtong Gorge, so the direction we are running is a bit wrong?" In Murong Hai's mouth, the name of Tuobayan has changed from the previous General Tuoba to the current eldest brother. In fact, almost all these 800 cavalrymen call Tuobayan this is now.
The change in name means their convincingness. If it was said to be in business in the past, then now I am looking for Tuobayan as their backbone.
Tuobayan was standing in the stream to clean the bristles for his war horse. It was necessary for a cavalry to protect his war horse. This was another brother of theirs.
Holding a brush and brushing the hair of the war horses hard, Tuobayan smiled and said, "You're stupid. If we had been running towards Qingtong Gorge before, the Ming army would have guessed what we wanted to do. It didn't need many people. It only took hundreds of county soldiers to block Qingtong Gorge. We would be locked up in Zhengyang County? Although we run happily now, we will be blocked by them one day. So I have to let them not touch our real purpose and take them around. Our 800 people are not too much, but not too little. If we start to destroy, it is still very powerful. Look, the Ming army is trying everywhere and setting up checkpoints everywhere, for fear that we will burn, kill and loot?"
"Brother, I think I can do this for a while!" Murong Hai showed fierce eyes and waved his fist hard. "However, I have to avenge the brothers who died in Zhengyang County!"
"You are stupid, you are so stupid!" Tuobayan picked up the brush and knocked Murong Hai. It seemed ferocious, but it showed that he did not treat the other party as an outsider. "We are running for life now! Do you want to make the Ming people angry? Let's take a village first, get some food, and don't hurt people's lives. The Ming people can still tolerate it. They have other major things to do now. If they really have to do too much, the county soldiers will not come to chase us. If a regular army comes, we can run so smoothly? The generals of the Ming army are all crawled out from the sea of corpses and blood, and have much more experience than us. I don't want to mess with them. Now it's important for us to escape."
"Brother said it." Murong Hai thought for a while and nodded, "The wise men who pursue us are really not good. What should we do next?"
"Next, of course, we have to get some reserved food, and then we have to turn around and run to Qingtong Gorge non-stop, fleeing through there with lightning speed to Shayang County. When the Ming army reacted, they could not catch up with us. This time, there was no longer any stop in the middle. Because this time, no matter how stupid the Ming army was, we would judge what we wanted to do." Tuobayan walked out of the stream with a smile, holding the sword, and took out a handful of beans from the bag on the ground to feed the horse.
"Snatch another village?" Murong Hai's eyes lit up. To be honest, these days, every time they escaped for a period of time, they would rob a village. Not to mention, the people in Zhengyang County are really rich. They have lived a very nourishing life. They have meat and drink wine. Although they are escaping, they are much stronger than before.
"We will act when the brothers who went out to inquire are back." Tuobayan smiled, "Now, let's take a full sleep first, and then act at night."
"Okay, listen to my brother." Murong Hai said excitedly.
On the quiet night in Liuquanhu Village, it was broken by the sound of hurried horse hooves. The dogs in the village barked just a few times and were viciously cut off their heads by the army that broke into the village.
"Leave a hundred cavalry and block all roads out of the village. No one is allowed to step out of the village." Tuobayan held a knife in his hand and issued an order loudly: "I will say it again. Only rob food, meat, and money are allowed. No one is allowed to hurt people. Those who violate the order will be killed!"
"As for your order!" The cavalry responded in unison.
"Murrong Hai, go with me to the richest family in this village. Our travel expenses and whether we can live a free life in Qi in the future depends on this last one today!" Tuobayan said with a long smile.
"Okay!" Murong Hai shouted excitedly.
After entering the village, hundreds of riders scattered, and the horse's hooves broke through the gate. The Yan soldiers rushed into the house with their knives, rummaging through boxes and cabinets, and began to rob. They looked directly at the owner of the original house as if nothing was left. In front of these fierce guys, the owner of the house had no other way except to shiver in the corner of the house and tremble.
Everything went smoothly. This village was really rich, every household had surplus grain, wine and meat, and gold, silver and fines were the most common among the villages they had robbed. The barbarians all laughed from ear to ear. My elder brother said that this time they were going to Qi State. This time they were unfamiliar with people who were not familiar with the place and outsiders, so there would inevitably be many inconveniences, and it would be easy to do things if they had money.
Everything went smoothly. There was only one place where something went wrong, that was, the team of men brought by Tuobayan and Murong Hai personally went to rob the richest family in the village.
When the horse's hooves were as big as a war horse, and the cavalry rushed into the yard, several crossbow arrows suddenly shot out from the darkness in the yard, shooting the two barbarian soldiers off the horse on the spot.
The horn of warning gatherings sounded. The cavalry scattered in the village quickly gathered here. This seemingly ordinary landlords' home actually hid a dragon and a tiger.
Tuobayan pulled out crossbow arrows nailed to their bodies from the two dead subordinates and frowned. This was the standard crossbow arrow of the Ming army. How could it appear in the home of a rich man in the countryside?
This kind of crossbow arrow is unique to the Ming army, and outsiders cannot obtain it or imitate it. This made Tuobayan very surprised. There was no light lit in the house that he entered three times. Obviously, the other party was also very experienced. Tuobayan tried to rush twice himself, and each time he was forced back. The person hiding inside was very skillful.
"Brother, I've surrounded me outside. I've been raised by a bitch. I've hurt our two brothers. If you catch them, I'll peel him off." Murong Hai's eyes were filled with anger.
Tuobayan snorted, carried a torch, leaped over the roof, staring at the darkness and said sternly: "Let the people in the house listen, I will only give you a quarter of an hour. If you don't come out to surrender, I will set fire to the house. Don't think about escaping. There are thousands of cavalry outside, thousands of bows and arrows waiting for you. If you don't want to be burned into charcoal or shot into hedgehogs, then get out for me."
The torch reflected Tuobayan's face, looking extremely ferocious, and the crying of a woman's doll immediately came from the room.
"Start the timing now!" Tuobayan roared.
At this moment, a sound rang in Tuobayan's ears, "Are you General Tuobayan?"
Tuobayan was stunned. The rich landlords in this small village actually had people who knew him?
"Who is it? Get out of here." Tuobayan roared.
"General Tuoba, misunderstanding, misunderstanding, they are all their own people, and they are their own people!" A surprised and happy voice came from the darkness.
"Who are you, who is fucking your own person!" Tuobayan snorted coldly.
A figure appeared from the darkness, jumped onto the roof, and looked at Tuobayan.
Taking advantage of the light of the torch, looking at the person who appeared in front of him, Tuobayan could hardly believe his eyes, "Li Wei?" He never expected that he would meet Li Wei here. In the battle of breaking through, Li Wei, Ge Xiang and some of their masters were all incorporated into the first attack lineup. With Murong Jing as the vanguard, they never expected that they actually escaped, escaped here, and bumped into him head-on.
"It's Li, General Tuoba, why did you come here? Did we win?" Li Wei asked in surprise and joy.
Tuobayan was too lazy to answer Li Wei's words: "Why are you the only one, Gexiang?"
"Gexiang is also behind the scenes. This matter is a long story. General Tuoba is all his own people. Let's go down and talk. It's not a big deal to stand on the roof like this. It would be bad if anyone else missed the move, don't you think?" Li Wei smiled.
Tuobayan stared at him for a while, snorted, jumped off the roof, and Li Wei also jumped down.
The lights in the house gradually lit up, and Ge Xiang also appeared in front of Tuobayan.
Li Wei was happy to fall from the sky. In the battle of breaking through the siege that day, he and Ge Xiang luckily broke through the first blockade, and never dared to fight again. They hid eastward and escaped from the battlefield with good martial arts skills. They fled all the way. They were natives from Zhengyang, and the road was familiar, which made them escape farther and farther. The family in this village was a distant relative of Li Wei. They were planning to hide here for a while before Xu Tuobayan planned to suddenly appear in front of them with a cavalry.
The two of them suffered a lot in order to avoid the pursuit of the Ming army along the way. They couldn't imagine that Tuobayan could actually appear with a cavalry of so many people and rob with great fanfare.
Chapter completed!