Chapter 165 Hunting for Yu Yangji
After hiding in the dense forest for twelve days, Yun Chen and his team finally found Yu Yangji's trace.
This was all thanks to Yun Chen who deliberately arranged for people to set fire to trees in one place, and in another place, they kept reining in their horses and neighing to make sounds of pursuit. Yaoyao and Huo Gannian's team surrounded them on three sides, forcing those fleeing in the dense forest to go in one direction.
The next step is to see who has the faster pace.
Walking in the forest is different from walking outside the forest. There are branches and vines everywhere, making it extremely difficult to walk. There are no roads in many places, and you need to use a knife to cut them out before you can walk.
A team of people could only travel 80 miles a day while clearing the road.
Yun Chen came up with an idea. He divided the fifty people into two teams. One team would travel eighty miles during the day and rest at night. The other team would travel the eighty miles that had been opened at night, and if they had enough energy, they would travel another forty miles and rest during the day.
The two teams took turns marching and could cover a total of 120 miles a day.
The journey was difficult and arduous, so Yun Chen asked Huo Luyu to ride on the same horse with him.
In order to prevent Huo Luyu from being thrown off while running, Yun Chen also used a belt to tie Huo Luyu's waist and then tied it around himself.
He only told others that the new guard had suddenly fallen ill and was not feeling well and was unable to ride a horse.
Along the way, Huo Luyu held Yun Chen's back tightly. No matter how bumpy the horse's back was or how the branches on the roadside whipped his legs like whips, Huo Luyu gritted his teeth and said nothing.
After running in the woods for another five or six days, Yun Chen's team finally caught up with Yu Yangji and others.
As the team was running wildly, Yun Chen saw from afar seven or eight trip ropes filled with sharp wooden sticks appearing in front of them.
She quickly shouted "Wake up!" and drew her sword, pointing it to both sides.
After receiving the instructions, the people at the rear immediately pulled the reins hard. Although they could not stop the horses' hooves, they turned their horses' heads in front of the trip rope and rushed into the tall grass nearby, using the grass to cushion the horse's strength, and no casualties were caused.
Then, Yun Chen cut the belt around his waist with a sword and kicked the horse on the head, causing it to change direction.
She herself flew over the tripwire and rushed forward with her sword.
Huo Luyu was thrown into the grass by the horse. Regardless of the pain in his body, he immediately got up and went to look for Yun Chen.
Huo Luyu had no martial arts skills and knew that she was a burden. Fortunately, she had no chance to fight with anyone along the way, otherwise she would have been exposed long ago.
Not wanting to get in Yun Chen's way, but also being very worried, Huo Luyu obediently hid in the tall grass, only a pair of worried eyes showing from behind the branches, staring at Yun Chen.
In the past, she only saw Yun Chen as loyal, clean, open and straightforward. Now, seeing Yun Chen in action with her own eyes, Huo Luyu finally understood why she had earned such a powerful title as "Xuandu Guard" and became Huo Gannian's most trusted and trusted personal guard.
As soon as Yun Chen entered combat mode, his clear and bright eyes were filled with determination to kill.
She was as light as a swallow, but her punches and kicks were fierce and powerful, and her sword swings were like splitting mountains and chopping rocks, with a force as powerful as thunder.
A slender cold sword whistled and danced in the air, leaving blood splattered wherever it passed, but it never missed.
The remaining guards of the Yu family were lying in ambush here to cover their retreat. There were not only the four people that the spies had found before, but more than twenty people.
Although the number of people was more than expected, for Yun Chen, even if she did not bring a team today, she alone was enough to eliminate them.
Yu Yangji's power collapsed, and the Yu family guards hid and fled. In the end, only the personal guards who were skilled in martial arts and loyal to their master were left.
Yun Chen made a quick gesture, calling on the guards to spread out and surround the enemy. She then engaged the enemy in person, leading them to an open space not far away.
Soon, the Yu family guards were forced to retreat into the open space. Yun Chen led his team to surround them tightly, preparing for the final kill.
After a quick glance in the encirclement, Yu Yangji was nowhere to be seen, but Yun Chen knew that the ones in front of him were the last guards of the Yu family, and Yu Yangji must be hiding not far ahead.
Not liking nonsense, Yun Chen swung his sword again to kill, but during the exchange of weapons, he heard a familiar voice, panting and teasing:
"Damn it! Among all the Huo Gang's chasing teams, I just had to run into a scoundrel like you! God is really trying to kill me!"
Yun Chen took the time to look over and found that it was Xu Zhan.
In less than half an hour, the Yu family guards were killed or wounded everywhere.
The few people left alive were held to the ground by the Huo Gang guards and repeatedly interrogated, but they refused to reveal Yu Yangji's whereabouts.
Ask one, kill one, and the next one still refuses to tell.
Yun Chen pulled the sword out of the throat of a Yu family guard and walked to Xu Zhan, who was lying on the ground spitting blood due to his injuries.
A Huo Gang guard looked at Xu Zhan and said, "Brother Yun, do you want to find a way to force him to tell me?"
Yun Chen waved his hand, "He won't tell."
She squatted down and looked at Xu Zhan, only to see that he had a wound on his collarbone near his trachea, and two on his waist.
The most fatal one was a knife wound that penetrated the sternum, and bone fragments could be seen.
Yun Chen helped Xu Zhan up and leaned him against a tree.
After feeling a little better, Xu Zhan coughed violently, gasping for breath, blood trickling from his mouth, and forced a smile:
"Boy, we are destined to meet... It's a shame I didn't get to have a drink with you..."
As Xu Zhan spoke, his body tilted and he was about to fall. Yun Chen quickly held his shoulders and asked seriously:
"Brother Xu Zhan, do you have any last words? I'll bring them to you."
Xu Zhan seemed to be amused by Yun Chen's serious look. He grinned, shook his head, and raised a bloody hand, with his thumb and index finger spread out and slightly bent, and said with a smile:
"Come, touch one..."
Yun Chen also made the same gesture and lightly touched Xu Zhan's face.
Then, Xu Zhan let out a long sigh and closed his eyes:
"Good boy... give me a quick death..."
Yun Chen bent his forearm to clamp the sword, wiped it repeatedly, then raised the sword and swung it down, cutting Xu Zhan's neck with one stroke.
The ground was filled with guards from the Yu family, all of whom were heroes who would rather die than betray their master and would fight to the last moment.
A Huo Gang guard sighed:
"The Yu family never takes the lives of their guards seriously, but I think all the Yu family's backbone lies here."
The members of the Huo Gang were deeply moved. They saluted with their swords to express their condolences, then got on their horses and continued on the road to hunt down Yu Yangji.
Without the protection of the last group of guards, Yu Yangji could hardly move forward in this deep forest and was soon caught up by Yun Chen and others.
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