Zhending Mansion.
"Master Lu, I just inquired. Du Chong's carriage and horses have just passed by two hours ago!"
Lu Fang reported to Lu Zhishen that although Lu Zhishen was now the Privy Councilor of Qi, he was more accustomed to being called Master Lu or Lu Tisha.
"Running so fast?"
Lu Zhishen was a little surprised. He had been rushing so slowly but still failed to catch up with Du Chong.
"I heard that Du Chong has raised a lot of good horses. It seems that he has been ready to escape."
Guo Sheng said.
"This guy must want to go to Jingxing to Taiyuan Mansion to join the Jin vassal. Brother Wang Jin, you lead the troops to Zhending Mansion, and I will lead the troops to take a shortcut to Jingxing!"
Lu Zhishen immediately ordered that because they wanted to capture the city, the army was not very fast. Now that Du Chong was almost arriving at Taiyuan Mansion, it was obvious that he could not wait any longer.
Lu Zhishen took Lu Fang and Guo Sheng and took a shortcut to Jingxing.
Jingxing.
"Finally we're here!"
Du Chong looked at the vast mountains ahead with a trace of regret in his eyes. He preferred to be an official in the Song Dynasty. He was a Jinshi, and he was at home in the world of scholar-bureaucrats in the Song Dynasty.
"There is no old friend from Yangguan in the west!"
Du Chong suddenly came to poetry. Thinking of Wang Wei's poems, he could be regarded as leaving Yangguan in the west.
"kill!"
Just when Du Chong was looking at the mountains and was in a great mood for poetry, and was preparing to write a quatrain, there was the sound of horse hooves and shouts of death in the mountains.
"Sir, are there bandits?"
The housekeeper looked at Du Chong in panic.
"Bandits!"
Du Chong became nervous. The money he had collected all his life was on the frame at the back.
"Quick, guard!"
Du Chong shouted to the accompanying guards.
"Sir, someone is chasing you!"
One of the guards discovered that there was also a large army coming to kill them at the foot of the mountain.
"What's going on? The officers and soldiers are suppressing bandits?"
Du Chong's brain was a little exhausted, but he immediately came up with an idea, that is, the defenders of Zhending Mansion came to suppress the bandits. It would be great if they were government troops. With his identity, he could get away with spending more money.
"No, it's...Qi State!"
Du Chong looked at the army at the foot of the mountain, but when the black flag appeared, he realized something was wrong. The black flags were from the Qi State, and the Song flags were mainly red.
"Quick...run!"
Du Chong immediately gave the order, not caring whether there were bandits on the mountain at this time. He dug up the Yellow River and flooded Liangshan Po. This was a deadly enemy, and he would not be well off if he fell into the hands of the Liangshan people.
Du Chong was fully prepared for his escape this time. The gold and silver on the carriages were very heavy, so each carriage was pulled by four horses, and the speed was not much slower than the cavalry.
"This guy can really run!"
Wanyan Loushi was so filled with hatred that he chased Sun Xu from outside Taiyuan Mansion all the way to Jingxing Pass, but he still could not capture Sun Xu.
Wanyan Loushi saw Sun Xu staggering in front of him and seemed to be fainting. He immediately took off the bow and arrow from the saddle, opened the bow and shot an arrow at Sun Xu.
At this time, Sun Xu's face was pale and bloodless, even his lips were white, his eyes were dim and he couldn't open them, and the iron and leather armor on his body were in tatters.
Through the armor, one could see multiple wounds on Sun Xu's body. The raised flesh of the wounds had turned white, with no blood seeping out. The blood on his clothes and armor had already solidified and turned black.
Wanyan Loushi's archery skills were quite good, and he hit Sun Xu with one arrow. This time, he no longer wanted to capture him alive. He wasted too much time on Sun Xu. The arrow hit Sun Xu's heart. go.
Sun Xu was already a little delirious at the moment. He relied entirely on will to persist, and the war horse under his crotch was already at the end of its strength, and the horse's mouth was full of foam.
The war horse jolted, and Sun Xu, who had already lost his strength, swayed, and the flying arrow shot directly through Sun Xu's shoulder.
"ah!"
Sun Xu screamed, and the heartbreaking pain on his shoulder made him wake up. He lowered his body to avoid the arrow.
"Horse! Horse! Hurry up!"
Sun Xu touched the war horse's neck and whispered. He knew that the war horse had reached its limit, but now he could only hope that the war horse could hold on.
The war horse seemed to feel everything, and suddenly accelerated with a neigh, instantly widening the distance from Jin Guo.
"Cum for me and kill him!"
Wanyan Loushi ordered to the cavalry around him that he would kill Sun Xu with arrow-covered shots, and that he would hang Sun Xu's body outside Taiyuan Mansion to dry.
"Deputy Commander, enemy!"
The soldiers pointed to the foot of the mountain and said.
"Reinforcements, follow me! Kill all these weak Song people!"
Instead of being afraid, Wanyan Loushi led his army to charge away. Since the battle with the Song army, he finally knew what it means to be useless, what it means to collapse at the first touch and run away.
"Are there any reinforcements?"
Sun Xu felt that death was approaching at this moment. He only felt that he was very cold. The shoulder that was pierced by the arrow did not bleed much. The blood on his body was almost dry.
"Ah...Jin Jun!"
Du Chong was overjoyed at first when he saw the charging Jin army, but he immediately realized something was wrong. The two armies were confronting each other, and he was between them.
"Move over!"
Du Chong immediately led his men to the side of the road to avoid the main battlefield.
"Who is that person? Sun Xu?"
Lu Zhishen saw the man being chased by the Jin army and recognized him. Although Sun Xu was from Hedong, he had been stationed in Shuozhou all year round and had a good relationship with the Western army.
"Those people are...Qi State!"
Wanyan Loushi also recognized that the person coming was not the Song army, but their old rival, the Qi army.
"Who are you? Ruda!"
When Sun Xu saw the black flag in front of him, he stopped his horse. The Song Dynasty did not have such a standard flag, and the one in the front with a bare head, wearing armor, and holding a Zen staff was none other than Luda from the Western Army.
Wanyan Loushi looked at the Qi army arrayed opposite, and then at Sun Xu between the two armies. Now Sun Xu had no way to escape.
Lu Zhishen ignored Sun Xu. He led the army forward and did not attack Sun Xu. Instead, he stood in front of Sun Xu.
"Ruda!"
Sun Xu's chapped, bloodless lips wriggled twice, and a hoarse voice sounded.
"kill!"
Lu Zhishen did not answer, but waved his Zen staff and led the army to charge.
Wanyan Loushi on the opposite side saw that the number of enemies was almost the same as theirs, so he also led his troops to charge. He defeated the Qi army in front of him and wanted to rectify the name of the Jin Kingdom.
Lu Zhishen directly faced Wanyan Loushi. Lu Zhishen hit Wanyan Loushi with a stick. Wanyan Loushi raised his spear and struck at him. Lu Zhishen was so powerful that he almost knocked Wanyan Loushi's spear out of his hand with one blow.
Only then did Wanyan Loushi realize that the monk in front of him was unusual, so he cheered up and started fighting with Lu Zhishen.
"kill!"
Lu Fang and Guo Sheng led their soldiers and rushed straight from the two wings. They were like arrows and instantly inserted into the Jin army's formation, causing chaos in the Jin army's formation.
On the battlefield, after just one round of confrontation, the Qi army took the advantage. The two wings continued to attack the Jin army's flanks, causing the Jin army to retreat continuously.
On the front, Lu Zhishen blocked the Jin army's most crazy attack, and Wanyan Loushi's team couldn't make an inch forward.
"How can this be?"
Sun Xu rubbed his eyes with the hand that could still move, and looked at everything in front of him in disbelief. The invincible Jin Army was actually beaten in such a mess.
(End of chapter)
