Chapter 3o1: Stay away from the West River

Among the nine cities in Hebei, only Bingzhou has the smallest population, so it is no exaggeration to call it a large land and a sparse population.

Bingzhou is facing the Yellow River to the west, with mostly plateaus and mostly loess on the surface. The area under its jurisdiction is basically the current Shaanxi-Shenzhen Loess Plateau area.

The special terrain and sparse population make this place a natural racetrack for cavalry. When the wind blows, yellow and sands are everywhere, and thousands of troops are galloping; it is a picture that is bloody.

Of course, cavalry is just the main group of Bingzhou compared to other types of troops. Compared with major cavalry production areas such as Youzhou and Liangzhou, Bingzhou still has a considerable gap.

The situation in Bingzhou has roughly been introduced here, but Cui Yangyang's side is about it.

More than a month ago, at Cui's 60th birthday party, in the enviable eyes of the whole village, Cui Yangyang brought v Wu Ying and the people who came to pay their birthday to have a banquet together, and the scene was so lively.

Halfway through the birthday party, just as everyone was in high spirits, Wen Chou and Sun Shangxiang led fifty tiger and leopard cavalry to come suddenly. Although the number of fifty tiger and leopard cavalry was not large, it was quite shocked for these villagers who had never seen any world.

Afterwards, Wen Chou and Sun Shangxiang found Cui Yangyang and told him about Sima Yi and Cao Piyi's harm to Wu Fan. Cui Yangyang was shocked after hearing this, so he hurriedly said goodbye to Cui's father with V Wu Ying, returned to Luoyang, and then went to Yunnan.

Everyone left Cuijiazhuang and rushed south. However, when they were about to arrive at Huguan between Shangdang and Hanoi in three days, a tiger and leopard cavalry sent out in advance hurriedly came back to report to Wen Chou: Ma Tengma and others had just arrived at Huguan.

Wen Chou heard the news and was immediately involved.

Of course, Wen Chou would not be afraid of the enemy. However, his mission this time was not to fight with the enemy, but to escort Wu Fan's wife and children. In this case, of course, he should try his best to avoid fighting with the enemy, so as not to hurt Wu Fan's wife and children.

However, Huguan is the only pass to Bingzhou to Luoyang. If you don’t go to Huguan, you have to return to Jinyang. At present, these people have reached the boundary of Shangdang, walked east from Jinyang, passed Yecheng and Hanoi, and finally arrived in Luoyang.

Not to mention the additional 1 a day during this period, it is absolutely impossible to pass through Yecheng alone.

It’s not right to advance or retreat, what should I do?

Wen Chou is in this circle.

At this time, Sun Shangxiang suggested to Wen Chou: first find a nearby village to hide, and send a tiger and leopard cavalry to ask Wu Fan for help, asking Wu Fan to lead his army back as soon as possible.

As soon as he finished speaking, the Huguan front suddenly raised the rolling yellow sand, accompanied by someone shouting the horse's neighing. It turned out that the explorer sent by Ma Teng showed Wen Chou and his group, and went back to report to Ma Teng, and Ma Teng immediately led three thousand cavalry to capture him.

Seeing this, Wen Chou stood before everyone, and he had to fight the more than 3,000 people to the end with his own strength to win time so that Cui Yangyang and others could escape. Of course, Cui Yangyang and others would not agree. Although Wen Chou was brave, he was still much worse than Wu Fan. He had basically no chance of survival when he did this, and it might not be able to hold these thousands of cavalry. The most likely result was that Wen Chou died in battle, and Cui Yangyang and others were later captured.

Under the persuasion of Cui Yangyang and Sun Shangxiang, Wen Chou finally gave up the idea of ​​fighting to the death and led everyone to escape.

However, less than ten miles away from everyone, because Cui Yangyang's mother V was riding in a slow carriage, Ma Teng led the cavalry to chase after him quickly. While Wen Chou and Sun Shangxiang led the tiger and leopard cavalry to drag the pursuers, a wandering arrow entered the curtain of the carriage and hit Cui Yangyang's shoulder.

Cui Yangyang endured a huge pain in his shoulder and asked a tiger and leopard cavalry who was escorting the carriage to detour Jinyang, take the Yecheng, Puyang, Chenliu, and Xuchang routes to Yunnan to report to Wu Fan.

As for why we didn't go to Shangdang nearby and Jinyang to ask for help? The reason is very simple: even Wu Fan doesn't know which cities in Hebei are turning to Cao Pi and Sima Yi, so Cui Yangyang and the others have no way to know. Therefore, they can only ask Wu Fan for help directly to avoid escaping from the wolf's nest and entering the tiger's mouth.

Not long after the tiger and leopard cavalry appeared, they were caught up by a hundred light cavalry sent by Ma Teng. After killing more than twenty people, the tiger and leopard cavalry was also seriously injured and fell from a mountain ridge with his own horse.

Fortunately, the ridge was not very high, and was blocked by trees on the way, and the tiger and leopard cavalry just fainted. It was late at night, and the dozens of cavalry standing on the ridge could not see the situation below the mountain. They only thought that the tiger and leopard cavalry had fallen to death. When they could not find the way down the mountain, dozens of cavalry drove their horses back and reported to Ma Teng.

The tiger and leopard rider woke up a few hours later, walked out of the valley in the dark, used the silver she had on her body to buy a horse at the post station, and then urged the horse to go quickly. Finally, he met Wu Fan in advance and reported the news to Wu Fan.

Let’s talk about Cui Yangyang. After the desperate battle between Wen Chou, Sun Shangxiang and nearly 50 tiger and leopard cavalry, because it was too late, he was lucky enough to escape from the pursuit of the cavalry led by Ma Teng. He walked another way in the wilderness and forest, and finally stopped.

As dawn approached, Wen Chou and Sun Shangxiang finally found the carriage that Cui Yangyang's mother V was riding. There were only five left in the fifty tiger and leopard cavalry, and all of them were killed in battle except for the tiger and leopard cavalry who reported to Wu Fan.

Speaking of this, it is necessary to stay at the carriage and the coachman, both from the Luoyang Governor's Mansion. Cui Yangyang rode this carriage when he set off to his hometown in Hebei. The coachman was from Cui Jiazhuang and was a fellow villager with Cui Yangyang. He was a little relative. It was based on Cui Yangyang's relationship that he had such a coachman's errands in the Governor's Mansion, and he received wages that were enviable to his fellow villagers every month.

In other words, if it weren't for this relationship, the coachman might have dropped the carriage and ran away as early as when Cui Yangyang's mother v was separated from Wen Chou and others. Even worse, in this deep mountains and forests, he might have had a malicious intention towards Cui Yangyang's mother v; after all, Cui Yangyang's ornaments were arbitrarily taken out a piece of gold worth dozens of taels of gold.

As for who the coachman’s surname is, it doesn’t matter, and there is nothing he has to do afterwards. But after that, I’ll just briefly introduce his situation.

Cui Yangyang was extremely weak when she was pounding with arrow wounds for several times. She lost a lot of blood and made her face pale. There was no blood on her mouth and delayed for a while. I'm afraid she would be worried about her life.

Seeing this, Sun Shangxiang suggested to Wenchou: Since Cui Yangyang's injury urgently needs treatment, he cannot hide in the village according to the previous plan and must enter the county town. The key is to find a doctor to treat the arrow injury.

The nearest county town here is Xihe County under Shangdang County. Wen Chou and two tiger and leopard cavalry took off their armor and rushed to a nearby village. They bought a few clothes from the villagers at a high price. After they brought them back, they all changed into them. They burned the luxuriously decorated carriages to avoid being out of their whereabouts. The group pretended to be a traveler and walked on the main road and headed to Xihe County.

Bingzhou had already left the war territory and was peaceful. It was very convenient for all counties to enter and exit the city. No soldiers were set up to investigate and question the people entering and leaving the city.

Therefore, the group entered the city smoothly and found a clinic to treat Cui Yangyang's arrow injury. Then they moved into a restaurant and settled down for the time being.

Since no one expected this group to stop in the middle, they did not carry a lot of silver. Wen Chou bought clothes before, and Cui Yangyang had already taken a lot of silver. He treated the arrow wound and left the remaining silver. The money for entering the restaurant was replaced by a y bracelet on Cui Yangyang's hand.

There is a county magistrate in Xihe County that all businesses in the county must report to the government if they receive a silver deposit with valuables.

Cui Yangyang's Y bracelet is worth at least twenty taels of gold, which is enough for the group to eat and live in the restaurant for half a year. The shopkeeper didn't say anything after accepting the Y bracelet, but immediately sent a friend to the county government to report the matter to the county magistrate after Wen Chou and others left.

The county magistrate of Xihe County, named He Shao, was a genuine civil servant. The purpose of his formulation was to prevent theft. In several years, he had indeed relied on this method to capture several thieves who came here to sell stolen goods in Hexi County.

After hearing the restaurant staff say that, He Shao frowned slightly. A y bracelet worth twenty taels of gold? This group of people are either thieves or disguised as good-looking people.

After asking the restaurant staff to retreat first, He Shao was thinking about how to understand the details of the people who were staying in the restaurant without disturbing the people who were staying in the restaurant. At this time, more than a dozen officers and soldiers suddenly broke in outside the county yamen, and the eyes of a man with a single arm holding a double-headed gun were very sharp. Without even looking at the several yamen runners who stepped forward to block him, he walked towards He Shao directly.

This person is Ma Teng's son. After Wu Fan's one arm was deposed by Ma, he switched to a double-headed gun.

When He Shao saw the people's clothes and the soldiers following him, he knew that it was not simple. He hurriedly stood up from his seat and was about to ask, but the horse was already saying:

"I am Ma Mengqi, the general of Weibei in the First Army. At the order of the second prince, I captured Cui Yangyang and his group related to the assassination of the King of Wei. You ordered the entire city to be closed and the troops in the city were led to cooperate with our army to search the city."

He Shao was stunned when he heard this and asked:

"I wonder which Cui Yangyang is the one that General Ma said?"

Ma Dao:

"It's Wu Fan's wife who is related to the criminal who assassinated the King of Wei. Could it be that you want to disobey the orders of the second son because you are a subordinate of Wu Fan?"

He Shao was shocked, but he replied quickly:

"How dare you? I am so proud of it. This is what General Ma said, the city is closed and searched."

Ma glanced at He Shao again, snorted, meaning "You know your identity", and then led his subordinates to leave.

While He Shao ordered the four cities to be closed and no one was allowed to enter and exit. He also ordered three hundred infantry soldiers and began to search the city.

At the same time, Ma also led the soldiers to search door to door in the city. He Shao thought of the mysterious people who were staying in the restaurant, and his heart moved and led the soldiers to the restaurant.

After entering the restaurant, He Shao asked some soldiers to guard the door. After asking the restaurant shopkeeper, He Shao led more than 30 soldiers to the front of the room where Cui Yangyang was on the second floor.

Four cities in Xihe County were closed, and Cui Yangyang and others naturally knew about the search of the whole city. At this time, except for the five tiger and leopard cavalry, Wen Chou and others were all in this room and discussed what to do next.

The sudden knocking sound shocked several people. He Shao's soldiers reported that they were the county magistrate leading the team to search and asked the people inside to open immediately.

Wen Chou had to get up and come to the front and open it. He was determined to see something wrong and would just go out of the city.

After the room was opened, He Shao led a dozen soldiers in, glanced at Wen Chou and Sun Shangxiang's faces, and then came to the front again, but it was Cui Yangyang lying on the faces and Wu Ying who was standing in front for a long time.

Finally, He Shao turned around and said to the soldier following him:

"There is no one we are looking for in this restaurant, so let's go somewhere else."

After leaving this sentence, He Shao led his troops away.

Cui Yangyang and others in the room breathed a sigh of relief.

That night, after searching the whole city, Ma, except for He Shao, who had searched, no Cui Yangyang and others were found, and they were stationed in the military camp outside the city.

He Shao came to the restaurant alone again, asking him to open the room where Cui Yangyang was. As soon as he entered the room, he bowed to Cui Yangyang and gave a deep gift.

He Shao's actions made Cui Yangyang and Sun Shangxiang in the room stunned. Wen Chou was not here. Then, He Shao explained the reason in detail to the two of them.

It turned out that He Shao was the first to stand out in the Xuchang literary examination room under the "Recruitment Order" issued by Cao. After Wu Fan was appointed as the disciple, he was just in charge of Wu Fan's Second Legion to attack Hebei as the legion. He Shao was directly appointed by Wu Fan as the county magistrate of Xihe County, which had just been taken by the Second Legion.

In the following years, He Shao visited Wu Fan three times. The most recent time was that last year, Wu Fan took two concubines Qiao and Sun Shangxiang, and He Shao also rushed to Qianling with many people who went to congratulate him.

During these three visits to Wu Fan, He Shao saw Cui Yangyang and Wu Ying twice.

For Cui Yangyang and Wu Ying, He Shao was just an inconspicuous official under Wu Fan and would not have any impression of him at all. But Cui Yangyang and Wu Ying were different for He Shao. This was the wife and only V-son of the immediate boss, so naturally he should pay attention to it.

In other words, during the day, He Shao actually recognized Cui Yangyang and Wu Ying at a glance

After hearing He Shao's words, Cui Yangyang and Sun Shangxiang looked at each other and were extremely relieved. Finally, they found someone they could trust. This feeling was like exploring hard in the dark for a long time and finally finding a little light.

Afterwards, He Shao told Cui Yangyang and others not to panic, especially not to walk out of this restaurant. Next, he would arrange for everyone to leave Xihe County and escape from Ma Tengjun's arrest.

After that, He Shao returned to his mansion.

After thinking about it, He Shao ordered someone to find the county lieutenant.F
Chapter completed!