Chapter 704 Misfortune
The sound of the iron pieces of skirt armor hitting each other echoed in the corridor, and the sound of the knife scratching on the stone floor was like a file hitting the skull, which made people's hair stand on end.
Just when Taishi Ci and Guo Shu were about to shoot at the black shadow that came out, there was a burst of explosion in the air. Before anyone could react, Wang Yao's head on the far left exploded with a bang.
A huge iron ball smashed his head directly, and red and white splattered all over the wall.
It happened so fast.
Wang Yao's military force was not weak. He joined the army as a son of a good family in Handan. Although his temper was a bit explosive, he had already accumulated merit and became a Youyi envoy at a young age. It can be said that he has a bright future.
But a "simple" escort cost Wang Yao his life, without even using his martial arts.
When Wang Yao was beheaded, Taishi Ci and others hunkered down and hid under the earth wall.
Guo Shu asked Taishi Ci with a livid face:
"I didn't ask you, Taishi Ci, because I knew that this person's identity was not simple, but you must tell me now, who are we escorting this time? It's worth Yuan Jun's big fight."
When Taishi Ci heard this, he was still frowning, and he suddenly cursed:
"Taigugu Pass may be lost, and there must be a traitor in the pass."
But Guo Shu didn't care about this. He grabbed Tai Shici's collar and cursed:
"Tell me, who is this person?"
The death of his subordinate Pao Ze made Guo Shu no longer able to control his emotions.
Taishi Ci pressed his neck and shook off his hand, humming:
"I don't know either, I just know he is a big shot in Yuan Jun."
As he spoke, Taishi Ci became angry and punched the prisoner in the eye with his fist. The man snorted but did not say anything.
Taishi Ci exhaled and looked at Guo Shu apologetically:
"I didn't expect this. Originally, I recruited you just to keep the number of people small and unobtrusive. Even the time of departure was improvised. But who would have thought that we would encounter an ambush by Yuan Jun here? Look at the situation in front of you. This is too much. There must be someone at Guguan giving these Yuan troops permission and information. We are in a bit of danger now.”
Guo Shu punched him with hatred, turned his head and cursed at the prisoner:
"Who are you? If you don't tell me, I will cut off your head and throw it away."
The prisoner looked at Guo Shu and snorted coldly.
But then a heartbreaking pain came from his ears, and then he saw Zhang Xiang cutting off his ears with a dagger.
The man couldn't bear it any longer and burst into heart-rending wails.
His wailing also frightened Yuan Jun in the corridor, and they all stopped. Then a familiar voice came from the corridor:
"Don't mess around, otherwise you will be unable to survive and die."
It was Han Meng who said this.
But Zhang Xiang ignored Han Meng's threat and directly threw the prisoner's ear into the back of the corridor.
Then, a fierce quarrel broke out in the corridor. In the end, perhaps Han Meng persuaded everyone, and these people withdrew from the corridor.
Relying on Zhang Xiang's decisiveness, Guo Shu and others got a chance to breathe. Guo Shu first walked to Wang Yao, looked at the iron bullet embedded in the wall, and then looked at the broken head, feeling sad in his heart.
And because Lao Liu was so close to Wang Yao just now, he got wet with a lot of red and white things, and he sat on the ground in a daze.
Guo Shu saw it and said nothing. Instead, he looked at Zhou Yu and others opposite and said gloomily:
"Why were you just sitting on the wall and watching?"
Zhou Yu replied:
"We have no crossbows and are few in number, so we can only form formations to protect ourselves. I assure you that we have no intention of sitting idly by."
Guo Shu ignored him and didn't even bother to look at the beautiful woman. He lowered his head and discussed with Tai Shici:
"Now that we are guarding this corridor and we have hostages in our hands, what do you think the enemy will do?"
Taishi Ci thought for a while and replied:
"If I were them, they would definitely attack in formation first, then use their powerful crossbows to shoot at us, and then attack us later."
Guo Shu nodded and asked:
"How to break it?"
Taishi Ci glanced at the prisoner and said cruelly:
"We can only use this person to make the enemy use rat weapons as a weapon."
Guo Shu did not reply, but asked a little more:
"If we break out from the dock wall now, what do you think our chances of winning are?"
Taishi Ci shook his head, the answer was self-evident.
So, the two sides were locked in a stalemate, and time passed little by little.
Suddenly, Old Liu, who had been dumbfounded, woke up, then suddenly rushed out, opened the animal skin curtain, and ran wildly out of the snow.
Deng Dang and Lu Meng wanted to arrest him, but Zhang Xiang shook his head and stopped him.
Sure enough, a moment later, a scream came from outside the hall, and then there was silence again.
This time, everyone knew that going out would be a dead end.
Perhaps killing Lao Liu made Yuan Jun have other ideas, and Han Meng's voice came from the corridor:
"You know the purpose of our coming. Let me tell you this. If you want to threaten us with the hostages in your hands, your efforts will be in vain in the end. Because if you don't take him back, we will all die. If he dies in your hands We will definitely torture you to death before we die, so I will give you a chance. If you let the people go, I promise to give you four horses and let you go."
Before Han Meng finished speaking, he bewitched another group of people in the hall, namely Zhou Yu and the others:
"You are just a group of passers-by who have been implicated. In this way, I won't make it difficult for you. You can leave now. There are horses left by these people in the stable, and I promise to give them to you."
These words were indeed useful, and the people on Zhou Yu's side were really relaxed.
Among them, Zhou Yi and Liu Yu discussed for a while, and after chatting with Queen Mother He, they decided to agree to the enemy's conditions.
In their view, Yuan's army was a traitor to the party and Taishan's army was an enemy bandit. They hoped that both of them would suffer losses.
But Zhou Yu did not agree with this short-sighted view. He told his father Zhou Yida:
"How can we listen to what they say? If we betray Guo Shu and the others, the Yuan army behind us will come to intercept and kill us. They will not let anyone know that they intercepted and killed the Taishan Army."
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Zhou Yu's words made Guo Shu and Taishi Ci on the opposite side feel very fond of each other, especially Taishi Ci who praised loudly:
"Finally, there is someone who stands out. Don't be so stupid."
Zhou Yi and Liu Yu looked livid, but in the end they agreed with Zhou Yu's judgment.
For this son and descendant, the ability and knowledge displayed during this escape made the two old people heartbroken. Zhou Yu judged this, and they believed it.
Seeing that his efforts to sow discord were of no use, Han Meng in the corridor continued:
"Don't be stubborn. No one will come in such a heavy snowstorm. You can only believe me!"
Guo Shu, who had been silent, suddenly took up the topic and asked:
"It's okay if you want us to release the person to you, but you have to answer me a few questions first, otherwise I won't be able to judge the authenticity of your words."
Han Meng said in a dull voice:
"You asked."
Guo Shuxian asked the first question:
"Who are we taking into custody this time?"
At this time, the hostage was being gagged by Zhang Xiang, and the pain of his broken ear made him sweat all over his forehead. But when he heard Guo Shu's question, he was still very excited. He whined and wanted the other person to stop talking.
But Han Meng did not see this scene. After pondering for a moment, his voice came from the corridor:
"Since you have come to this point, it doesn't matter if I let you know my identity. He is my lord's eldest son Yuan Tan. He was captured by your You Yi when he was training in our army. That's why this happened."< br>
At this moment, when they heard that the person in their hands was Yuan Shao's eldest son, Guo Shu, Tai Shici and others were relieved of their doubts.
That's right, only such a big shot is worth spending so much time on.
But they didn't see that when Han Meng over there reported Yuan Tan's name, Deng Dang and Lu Meng, who had been guarding the area with cards, looked at each other and then regained their composure.
Han Meng is still saying:
"So you know that if you don't bring Shaojun back, I, Han Meng, will definitely die. So you'd better listen to me and send Shaojun to me. In this way, I guarantee with my family name of the Han family in Yingchuan, you can Live.”
Guo Shu did not answer directly, but asked a second question: "How did you infiltrate here? And how did you know that we would transfer here?"
Han Meng did not answer these two questions. He first asked:
"In this case, you first let go of Shaojun and let him go to a place where I can see him. I will tell you the next two questions."
But Guo Shu and Tai Shici ignored him. Instead, they drew their bows and arrows and shot at the animal skin curtain.
Then two screams came from outside.
But just as they were calming down, a loud noise suddenly came from the wall behind them.
I saw that the entire wall of earth was smashed by a giant hammer from the outside, and then in the dust, four or five elite soldiers in full armor poured in from the entrance of the cave.
They pressed Zhang Xiang to the ground, and then pulled Yuan Tan away from the cave before anyone could react.
Taishi Ci reacted quickly, picked up the iron spear and stabbed Yuan Tan, but Yuan Bing blocked him with his body.
Finally, when he tried to chase him again, Yuan Tan had already been pulled away from the cave.
All of a sudden, the situation took a turn.
Without any hesitation, Taishi Ci came out of the cave and chased after him. Guo Shu and Zhang Xiang followed closely behind him, as did Deng Dang and Lu Meng.
When Taishi Ci got out of the hole, he saw at a glance that Yuan Tan was pulled to the side of a giant man in iron armor, and around them there were a dozen warriors looking at him ferociously.
The warrior on the side helped Yuan Tan take off the rag from his mouth and was about to speak. Suddenly seeing Tai Shici dare to follow him, he immediately let out a sharp roar:
"Kill them for me! Kill them all."
Then the giant man in iron armor smiled ferociously and rushed towards Tai Shici.
Just when he was about to hit Taishi Ci, Taishi Ci suddenly threw out a halberd and stuck it in the man's face.
However, this man did not fall to the ground. It turned out that he blocked the halberd with his iron arm.
Taishi Ci failed to achieve any success with his attack, so he immediately raised his iron spear and stabbed the man.
But this lightning-fast strike was caught by this man with one arm, and he even had to pull Tai Shici over with the iron spear.
Taishi Ci was surprised by this man's great strength, then he let go, then took off the Iron Bone Duo and smashed the warrior shamelessly.
At this moment, the warrior couldn't stand it anymore and kept retreating.
While Tai Shici was fighting with the warrior here, Guo Shu and Zhang Xiang rushed out and went straight to Yuan Tan.
The warriors around Yuan Tan obviously did not expect that this group of Taishan soldiers would be so fierce and dare to catch up directly. Their original plan was to pick up Yuan Tan and then have Han Meng attack from the other side of the corridor.
But now Han Meng led his men to fight out, but these Taishan Army warriors ran out instead.
Although there were about ten of these people, they were obviously no match for Guo Shu and Zhang Xiang. Even Deng Dang and Lu Meng were brave enough to kill several people on their side.
After a while, everyone around Yuan Tan was killed. If the armored man hadn't retreated to protect him, Yuan Tan would have fallen into the hands of Guo Shu and others.
But even so, under the attack of Tai Shi Ci, Guo Shu and others, the armored giant could only be beaten passively, and the armor on his body was already in tatters.
But he made it.
In the hall, when Han Meng and Gao Lan rushed out with the remaining thirty people, they saw that there was no one in the Taishan Army. After hearing the sound of fighting outside, they didn't know that they also ran out.
So Han Meng asked Gao Lan to take ten people to kill Zhou Yu, while he rushed out with the remaining twenty people.
As soon as he came out, he saw only Wen Chou guarding Shaojun alone, and the bodies lying on the ground in the snow. Han Meng took a breath, never expecting that this Taishan Army was so powerful.
But now, even if we fight hard, we have to get stronger.
Han Meng first swung out his spear, and immediately pinned Zhang Xiang, who had his back to him, on the snow. Then he rushed up and stabbed Deng Dang, but the sword was blocked by Lu Meng next to Deng Dang.
Wen Chou in front also picked up a spear and swung it at Taishi Ci. Taishi Ci was unprepared and was hit directly on his helmet, buzzing and shaking.
At this time, with Wen Chou in front and Han Meng behind, it was extremely dangerous.
Just when Han Meng was about to sneak attack Guo Shu from behind, an arrow was shot directly and stuck in Han Meng's throat. He choked in his throat for a long time, and finally fell to the ground unwillingly.
At this time, Guo Shu and the others saw that it was "Zhou Jin" who held a bow at the entrance of the cave and shot the arrow.
Then, the Zhu brothers, Quan Zong, and Yu Fan ran out from behind him. They used Huanshou swords to kill the remaining Yuan troops.
The situation has undergone a huge reversal.
At this time, Wen Chou couldn't care about anything else and quickly kicked Guo Shu away, then jumped onto the horse beside him with Yuan Tan on his back.
Then he rushed out of the dock wall before anyone could react.
At this time, Wen Chou had huge doubts in his heart. How could Gao Lan be so weak and attack all of a sudden?
But suddenly there was a howl from behind. Looking back, he found that Shaojun Yuan Tan had a ring-headed sword stuck in his back. Looking to the side, a soldier tied with a yellow scarf actually caught up with his horse. He also stabbed Yuan Tan.
Wen Chou was furious. He slapped the horse's head, and the horse's hind legs kicked towards the man until he vomited blood and flew more than ten feet away.
After doing this, Wen Chou ignored everything else and rushed towards the outside of the dock wall with Yuan Tan on his back.
Just like that, after a brief fight, everything returned to calm.
Taishi Ci recovered his dizzy mind, then checked the unconscious Guo Shu, then looked at Zhang Xiang who was impaled on the ground, and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that his thigh was only stuck to the ground.
But listening to Lu Meng's crying voice at this moment, Taishi Ci knew that Deng Dang was in danger. He did not expect that this man could burst out with such potential and catch up with the galloping horse.
He didn't know exactly what force supported Deng Dang in stabbing him, but Deng Dang was undoubtedly a man.
At this time, they were dead and wounded, but he and Lu Meng were the only two who could still fight.
Seeing "Zhou Jin" and others slowly pressing over from the opposite side, Tai Shici's heart gradually sank.
But who knew that Zhou Jin just glanced at them and then smiled:
"The snow is going to stop, and your carriages and horses will no longer be needed. Why don't you leave them to us, even if they are worth my arrow."
After saying that, they were ready to hitch the carriage and leave this place of trouble.
At this moment, Guo Shu woke up and said loudly:
"Wait!"
Hearing this, the people on Zhou Yu's side pulled out the Huanshou Sword again, and Zhou Yu also turned his head indifferently and asked:
"Does Mr. Guo still want to keep us?"
Guo Shu looked at Zhou Yu steadily, then at the beautiful woman wrapped in a cloak, and said with a smile:
"I have a bag of wine here for you. Guo Shu will remember that you saved my life, and there will be a generous reward in the future!"
After saying that, he wanted to touch his waist, but as soon as he touched it, he felt empty.
Zhou Yu smiled, and finally he left a sentence:
"Just remember this drink, maybe we can have a drink later."
Finally, Zhou Yu and his party walked farther and farther south in the wind and snow.
Taishi Ci and Lu Meng dragged Guo Shu and Zhang Xiang into the wall of the dock. The bodies of Lao Liu, Deng Dang and Wang Yao were also laid out.
In their current state, they can only wait for the snowstorm to end before they can leave.
At this moment, lying by the fire pond, Guo Shu sighed and said:
"We got into trouble this time."
Taishi Ci always thought that Guo Shu was talking about Yuan Tan, but it was not until what happened later that he finally understood what Guo Shu meant at this moment.
However, although he didn't know what Guo Shu really meant, there was one thing he was right about: a big change had occurred at Taigu Pass in the south.
But unfortunately, they could only keep warm by the fire pit and wait for the wind and snow to end.