Xiang Yan sighed: "It's a pity that I didn't keep an eye on Zhao Min at that time. If Zhao Min failed to reunite with his brother, I'm afraid the Tatars might not have the heart to ambush the righteous people." Zhou Zhiruo smiled and said: "You were then I don’t know Zhao Min, how could I think so much?” Xiang Yan recalled the scene where he met Zhao Min and laughed dumbly: “When I came out of the village, I didn’t meet anyone. I thought Zhao Min was The female ghost scared me so much that I choked."
Zhou Zhiruo said: "Her men must have thought you had blasphemed Zhao Min, so they were scared away." Xiang Yan blushed and said with a guilty conscience: "I blasphemed Zhao Min, why did her men run away?" Zhou Zhiruo said "After all, Zhao Min is just a little girl. Could it be that the men she brought with her could just run errands for her? Didn't King Ruyang tell them to protect Zhao Min?" Xiang Yan said: "There should be some warning. Yes, this is human nature."
Zhou Zhiruo added: "But under their protection, Zhao Min was still blasphemed by you. How do you ask them to explain to King Ruyang? How can they tell King Ruyang, 'Your Majesty, under our protection, the princess was raped?" It's blasphemy. But we have killed the pervert who blasphemed the princess and avenged the princess." Xiang Yan nodded and said: "Yes. Zhao Min's men did not protect Zhao Min well, whether it was Zhao Min or you. King Yang will not let them live. If they don’t want to die, they have no choice but to escape."
Xiang Yan remembered something again and asked Zhou Zhiruo: "Sister, isn't Emei in the southwest of Dadu? Shouldn't we go through the south gate or the west gate when we return to Emei? Why should we take the east gate?" Zhou Zhiruo said, "We are in Dadu. We made a scene and killed King Ruyang again, greatly offending the Tatars. The Tatars would definitely not let us go back so easily. Master estimated that the Tatars would arrange troops to intercept us in the west and south, so he decided to do the opposite. Following the path, we chose to go east.”
Xiang Yan asked: "Then when can we return to Emei?" Zhou Zhiruo said: "Let's go east first to avoid the Tatars' eyes and ears, then turn south, change to the waterway when we reach the canal, and break up with the Beggar Gang after arriving in Shandong. They went up the Yellow River back to Luoyang, and we continued south to Jiangnan, then up the Yangtze River to Sichuan, and then back to Emei."
While the two were talking, the Beggar Clan and the Emei Clan had already counted the number of people and were heading east all night. They stopped to rest and share dry food at dawn. After a short rest, everyone got up and went on the road again, and did not set up camp to rest until dusk.
At the third watch, when Xiang Yanzheng was drowsily asleep, he was suddenly awakened by the voice of Master Jiejie: "The enemy is attacking, Emei disciples stand up to meet the enemy!" Another clear and sweet voice sounded in his ears: "The enemy is attacking, the disciples of Emei are rising to meet the enemy!" Beggar Clan disciples meet the enemy!"
Xiang Yan got up in a hurry and came out of the camp to find Master Jingxuan, the eldest disciple of Master Jue, commanding all the Emei disciples to form formations to meet the enemy. Xiang Yan was worried in his heart: "I haven't learned Emei's formation, where should I stand?" He raised his head and looked around, and saw Yuan soldiers coming from the left and right, holding swords and spears.
When the Yuan soldiers were approaching, Xiang Yan glanced at them and found that the Emei disciples and the Beggar Clan disciples had already set up their formations. The Emei disciples were resisting the Yuan soldiers on the left, and the Beggar Clan disciples were resisting the Yuan soldiers on the right. Xiang Yan stood outside the large formation composed of Emei disciples, and he and the other two female disciples were at the forefront of resisting the Yuan soldiers on the left.
Xiang Yan felt fierce in his heart: "When Zhao Min and I were just two people, I wasn't afraid of Yuan Bing. Now that I have read the "Nine Yin Manual" for so long, there are so many Emei disciples and Beggar Clan disciples helping me. , am I actually afraid of the Yuan soldiers coming?"
The war drums sounded, and Yuan soldiers rushed towards him. Three Yuan soldiers held scimitars and rushed towards Yan Xie fiercely. Xiang Yan sideways dodged the scimitars of the three Yuan soldiers, and reached out to grab the blade of one of them. He swung the scimitar continuously, and three clear sounds of "Plop", "Plop", and "Plop" sounded one after another, and the three Yuan soldiers Bing's corpses fell to the ground one after another, Xiang Yan's confidence increased greatly.
Zhou Zhiruo once said that Xiang Yan's "Qi Family Sword Technique" was too superficial and of little use against martial arts figures like Xiang Zhou Zhiruo. He could only provide weapons to the opponent. But using "Qi Family Sword Technique" to deal with ordinary Yuan soldiers is more than enough. After all, the "Qi Family Sword Technique" is a sword technique that Qi Jiguang invited the martial arts masters from the Central Plains to jointly create for the Qi Family Army to deal with Japanese pirates. Ordinary Yuan soldiers are not stronger than Japanese pirates. It is natural for Xiang Yan to use "Qi Family Sword Technique" to deal with ordinary Yuan soldiers. It's a no-brainer.
Master Miejie's voice sounded again: "All the disciples break out individually." The clear and melodious voice from before also said: "The enemy is strong, so brothers in the gang break out individually."
Xiang Yan was stunned, and when he looked up, he saw figures of Yuan soldiers all around him. There were so many Yuan soldiers that they overwhelmed the Emei disciples and the Beggar Clan disciples.
Xiang Yan cheered up, chose a direction and rushed out. Four more Yuan soldiers came towards Yan Wei, waving their machetes at Yan, and with all their strength, within a few breaths, the four Yuan soldiers fell to the ground again. Xiang Yan stepped forward and continued to attack another Yuan soldier.
The battle continued, and Yuan soldiers fell to Xiang Yan's sword one after another. Another Yuan soldier appeared in front of Xiang Yan and slashed at Xiang Yan. Xiang Yan's pupils shrank, knowing that he had met a master, he waved his sword to meet the enemy, and the two swords clashed. Each took a step back.
Xiang Yan suddenly felt that the crutch in his hand was really in the way. He gritted his teeth, threw the crutch away, and quickly stepped forward and slashed at the Yuan soldier. Yuan Bing waved his sword to meet the enemy. Xiang Yan was quick with his sword and chopped the Yuan soldier to death first.
After Yuan Bing died, Xiang Yan relaxed slightly and only felt pain in the broken bone of his left leg. Xiang Yan was very frustrated: "It seems that the joint of the broken bone has not grown strong yet, and I don't know if there will be any trouble in the future."
