Chapter 309 Chapter 308
The night was dark and everything was silent. Heavy snow fluttered down the treetops and fields, as light as a butterfly.
Amid the rolling mountains, a faint rustling sound was heard. From a distance, it sounded like small animals coming out to look for food. When I got closer, I could see clearly that it was the sound of someone walking at night, and the sinking of feet on the fallen leaves and snow.
Click... click... one after another, night walkers climbed up the narrow hillside, from dusk to midnight, and from midnight to the second watch, slowly sneaking into the heart of the mountains from the farmhouse at the foot of the mountain.
Shuangrui took out the missed watch he brought with him, was suddenly startled, and quickly leaned close to his master: "Master, it's already the second watch, should we..." Should we continue to go deeper into the mountains?
Zhao Lan held a sword in one hand and a bamboo stick in the other to guide the way, and continued walking forward as if he didn't hear Shuang Rui's words.
The temperature in the forest was so low that the breath turned into ice. Shuangrui stopped and felt his nose sore and his mouth cold. He quickly blew out air to keep warm. While warming himself, he looked around to observe the surrounding terrain and movements.
Sudden--
A sharp crow's cry was heard from the silent mountains. "Wa-wa-wa", rough and hoarse, like a wail, creepy and terrifying.
The group of people suddenly stopped and looked around.
In the dark night, murderous aura suddenly rose.
Ning Qilang subconsciously held his knife in front of him and approached Zhao Lan, his eyes wandering. He heard footsteps coming from his ears. “Here they come!” With his many years of combat experience, he immediately estimated the number of people. “About two thousand.”
"There are so many?" Shuang Rui was startled and immediately waved his hand. All the secret guards gathered around Zhao Lan and looked around vigilantly.
In the dark night in the mountains, the cold light reflected by the white snow is as bright as day.
The rustling sound was getting closer.
It’s here…it’s finally here.
Zhao Lan raised his eyes and looked towards the place where the footsteps stopped. It was a mountaintop, where a group of men in black and fur appeared. The one leading them was wearing a mink coat and was wantonly ostentatious.
The two men looked at each other.
Sparks flew everywhere, seeming to light up the dark forest.
"Little Prince Zhao, I finally waited for you."
Gou Chunwen stood on the top of the mountain, looking down from above, as if he was the king dominating the world, insolent and arrogant.
Zhao Lan raised his lips slightly, "As Chief Gou wishes, I, Zhao, am here."
Although he is just a young boy who has just gotten rid of his childishness, he seems to have been tempered by time and has the calmness and maturity of a rock.
Gou Chunwen instantly suppressed his wildness and faced this member of the Zhao clan, with whom he had secretly dealt for many years, with great caution. The night was dark and snowy, and the north wind blew through the treetops on the hilltops and towards the two men who were facing each other.
One is full of violence, with bared fangs and claws, like a devil in the night.
The moon is bright and clear, and the whole body seems to be surrounded by the splendor of ten miles.
Snow fell silently.
Neither of the two sides spoke a word. They were secretly counting the number of the other side and looking at the weapons in their hands.
Finally, Zhao Lan asked, "Where are the people?"
"Who?" Gou Chunwen asked knowingly.
Ning Qillang was about to swing his sword to ask back when he saw him wave his hand and arrows shot like meteors, densely packed towards Dayin's army marching up the hill.
Like a magic trick, the marching men suddenly raised their shields to block the arrows, while dodging behind trees to avoid them.
As expected of his opponent, he came well prepared. However, Gou Chunwen had lured him into the mountains of Qiushan County just to make sure he would never return. He waved his hand again and said, "Go." He commanded the archers to cover the soldiers as they rushed down to kill the enemy.
Ning Qilang finally understood why Zhao Lan had to bring his Ning Family Army to search the mountain. It turned out that he had known about this guy's move. While retreating behind the trees, he took the time to ask him, "Zhao Zijin, when you asked me to save the little beggar, did you plan for this day?"
Zhao Lan didn't have time to reply. While keeping an eye on Gou Chunwen, he asked Xiao Liu to go find someone. "Take your dog and break out of the encirclement and go to the mountains to look for someone. You must find Ah Jin."
"Yes, Master."
Under the cover of military armor, Xiaoliu sneaked into the deep mountains.
The whip wounds on her body were so severe that she had a fever. Su Ruojin was in a daze, as if she had slept, but also as if she had not slept. Her teeth were chattering from the cold.
"Ajin...?"
"Uncle Xue?"
Su Ruojin and the others were no longer in the cave with the stove. They were thrown into a dark, cold cave without torches. Not only were they shivering from the cold, but they couldn't see the people opposite them when they opened their eyes.
"Uncle Xue?" Her hands and feet were tied, and she couldn't even reach out to feel where the person was.
Xue Changcheng's injuries did not cause a fever. His mind was clear and he had not slept. His eyes had already adapted to the darkness. He could probably hear the direction where the young lady was and called out to her, "Ajin?"
Su Ruojin tried to wake herself up a little, and then she realized that Master Xue was not around. He seemed to be across from her. She thought of Yang Siniang again, "Arong? Arong?"
"Stop yelling, she's not with us."
"Could it be that the one with the surname Gou..." Su Ruojin was so frightened that she seemed to have lost her illness. She sat up in shock. She wanted to hear Xue Changcheng stop her from saying anything, but no sound came out of the dark cave for a long time.
"Ah..." She couldn't hold back her tears any longer, "Arong...Arong..." Oh my God, how could there be such a beast in this world, who even kills his own child? May God bless him with a horrible death.
Xue Changcheng also sighed, "I never thought that a man named Yang would betray his country."
Su Ruojin cried and retorted: "He is not the real Lord Yang at all. The real Lord Yang was killed and replaced by him twenty years ago."
It was so shocking that Xue Changcheng couldn't believe it. "What?"
"Except for the Emperor and some people from the Investigation Department, no one else knows about this."
Xue Changcheng was stunned and didn't even feel the pain from the whip.
Su Ruojin cried and was unwilling to be frozen to death and starved to death. She endured the wounds from the whip and rolled towards the light. "Uncle Xue, we are talking here and no one came in to stop us. Is this place some kind of pit?"
After being reminded by the young lady, Xue Changcheng also reacted and rolled towards the place where the light was. "It seems that there are no guards. Could it be that it is late at night and they have gone to sleep?"
Is that so? That means this place must be very remote, so that the enemy can leave them here without worrying about their escape.
Wait, Su Ruojin seemed to hear some sound, and quickly calmed herself down, put her ear against the wall of the cave and listened attentively with bated breath.
clang!
Hit!
It sounded like the sound of weapons clashing.
Su Ruojin was afraid that she had heard it wrong, so she sat up and listened again.
Clang...clash...kill...
Now she heard it clearly, "Uncle Xue, it's the sound of fighting."
Xue Changcheng was also delighted, "Ajin, we are saved."
Su Ruojin felt that the fever seemed to be cured by the sound of killing outside, and excitedly suggested, "Uncle Xue, how about we find a way to untie the ropes tied to the other party?"
"good."
The two began to think of ways.
At the top of the hill, the two groups of people had already fought together.
Zhao Lan and Ning Qilang are young generals who have fought in the battlefield. They are superior to Gou in terms of combat experience and youth and physical strength. However, Gou has always looked down on the children of officials in Dayin, thinking that they are just playboys who are weak and cannot even tie a chicken. How could they beat his warriors who came from the grassland? These people are all warriors from the grassland, who can fight three or even ten at a time. With his extraordinary ability, it is no big deal for him to beat a member of the Zhao royal family.
I don't know if it was the life in exile that made Gou crazy, or if there was really something wrong with his brain. They were obviously two young generals who defeated the entire Liaoxia Kingdom, but he actually thought that these two people would definitely be defeated in his encirclement tonight.
After all, he had been planning for two years to bring Zhao Lan in, and he had finally trapped him in an encirclement, but the result was nothing like what he had expected.
Seeing his warriors being hacked to death one after another, he became furious and shouted, "Quick...quick...bring the muskets over here."
The craftsman in black quickly handed him the loaded musket.
Bang!
It was like a firecracker exploding in the soldiers' ears. The two groups of people who were fighting instinctively looked towards the direction of the sound, only to see their leader holding a black thing in his hand, and shooting it out like an arrow.
Bang!
The two bullets collided, and actual fire flew out, lighting up the snowy night like lightning.
Gou Chunwen's musket fired one bullet at a time, but Zhao Lan's musket was a revolver and could fire six rounds at a time.
Gou Chunwen's bullet was intercepted, and his eyes were red with anger. He turned around and reached for his loaded musket. When he turned his head, he subconsciously stared at Zhao Lan with vigilance. He saw that Zhao Lan had not put down his hand holding the musket, and continued to aim at him and pull the trigger...
Wait, will Mr. Zhao continue to pull the trigger? By the time he realized what was happening, Zhao Lan had already aimed and fired.
Bang!
The bullet passed through Gou Chunwen's chest. He subconsciously lowered his head to look at his heart, blood gushing out.
No!
A man who didn't know anything about firearms died in the trap he set himself.
He was unwilling to accept this... unwilling to accept this. He held his breath and stared at Zhao Lan who was slowly approaching.
Ning Qillang had already been stunned by the mysterious weapon, and stood there motionless as if he had been cast under a spell. It was not until Zhao Lan's figure blocked his view of Gou Chunwen that he suddenly woke up and hurried over.
Zhao Lan looked down at Gou Chunwen lying in a pool of blood. He curled his lips and said calmly, "Are you the only one setting the trap?"
Gou Chunwen covered his bleeding chest with one hand and pointed at him with the other, "You..."
"That's right." Zhao Lan admitted, "I've been waiting for your plan, your trap. When I found out that you had been following your little daughter, I knew the opportunity had come."
"Cough... um..." Gou Chunwen spat out a mouthful of blood, "Do you know I will arrest Su and Xue?"
"If you dare to touch Ah Jin, you're seeking death." Zhao Lan's eyes tightened, full of ruthlessness.
Unexpectedly, after all his desperate planning, he was still defeated by the enemy in the end. Gou Chunwen even left a backup plan for himself. If he was defeated, he could take Su Xue and the others as hostages to escape.
But he didn't expect that his greed for the mysterious weapon, the musket, would become his death curse.
After sneaking into the Dayin Dynasty for more than twenty years, it was all in vain.
He refused to accept it! He refused to accept it even if he died!
Gou Chunwen closed his eyes, ending his life of bringing disaster to Dayin.
At daybreak, Zhao Lan and his team found the cave where Su Xue and the other were and rescued them.
Ning Qilang searched through more than a dozen caves before he found the unconscious Yang Si Niang and rescued her.
The deep mountains of Qiushan County is Gou Chunwen’s lair. Judging from the layout of the cave, “it has been there for at least five years.”
During Ning Qilang's search for Yang Si Niang, he discovered that "the man surnamed Gou was refining weapons here. The two deepest caves were filled with knives, spears, swords, halberds, axes, hatchets, hooks, and forks."
Everyone stood in front of the cave filled with weapons and took a deep breath. If they let Gou succeed and become bigger and stronger, the dynasty would really change.
Fortunately, fortunately!
This encirclement and suppression operation captured nearly 1,500 people alive, and nearly 500 people were killed in battle. Thousands of weapons were seized, which destroyed the Liaoxia Kingdom's stronghold in the Dayin Dynasty.
As Su Ruojin and Xue Changcheng were seriously injured, they were sent down the mountain first to recuperate in the farmer's house rented by Zhao Lan.
Five days later, Su Ruojin saw Zhao Lan and Ning Qilang coming out of the mountains. The wounds on their bodies had begun to scab over.
"Ajin..." Zhao Lan hugged the young lady as soon as he saw her, "I'm sorry, I'm late."
“No…no…”
Surrounded by a group of people, Su Ruojin was not as thick-skinned as Zhao, and she didn't know where to put her hands.
Ning Qilang touched his nose and looked away.
It's unbearable to watch.
Xue Changcheng's face turned red. Are all young people nowadays so vigorous?
He coughed lightly and said, "This humble official greets Prince Zhao."
Yang Si Niang had woken up when she went down the mountain, but she still looked like a lost soul. The thought that her father was no longer her father was too much of a blow to her, and she has not yet recovered from the great fear.
Ning Qillang sighed helplessly when he saw the pale young lady. He stood beside her calmly to block the cold air at the foot of the mountain in February for her.
He waited until Zhao Lan had hugged her enough before he took the young lady's hand and went into the house. "Have you eaten the roe deer meat and wild chicken soup that I asked someone to stew for you? This is very nourishing."
"have eaten."
The two of them sat in front of the stove and made a fire.
Things on the mountain seemed to be almost done, Su Ruojin asked him, "Brother Jin, when are you going back to the capital? I want to go home."
Zhao Lan originally wanted to settle accounts with the young lady, but when he heard that she missed home, he sighed helplessly, "Ajin, if anything happens to you this time, I won't..."
Su Ruojin was startled and quickly reached out to cover his mouth, "Brother Jin, stop talking nonsense."
The crowd that was about to follow in: …
There’s no end to the dog food today, right?
Everyone tactfully left and Shuangrui closed the door.
Ning Qilang looked at the young lady who looked like a puppet, reached out and pulled her into another room, and sat her in front of the stove to warm herself by the fire.
Mr. Xue: ...
Am I redundant?
In the hut, Zhao Lan took the young lady's hand, feeling distressed and helpless: "You... In order to lure out Gou Chunwen, I have plenty of ways, and you don't need to risk yourself."
Seeing that her behavior was discovered, Su Ruojin lowered her head and said, "Brother Jin, I hope I didn't cause you any trouble."
Zhao Lan's endless sighs only turned into two gentle words, "You..." He hugged the person in his arms again, "I can't do this again in the future."
How can he live without her?
This time, Gou Chunwen was able to capture Su Ruojin who was protected by secret guards. If she hadn't done it on purpose, Gou Chunwen would have had no chance at all.
The reason why Su Ruojin did this was mainly for Ye Huaizhen and Hua Ping. In order to avenge his father, Ye Huaizhen had to see Gou Chunwen dead before he would let go of his obsession. She had this idea when Ye Huaizhen left to catch people.
So when Gou Chunwen took action, she went along with it, but she also firmly believed that Zhao Lan would find her. If... She didn't seem to have thought of any unexpected events.
Perhaps, you could say this is the protagonist's brilliance. In the end, this spy who once killed Prince Dayin and the Emperor finally died.
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