Chapter 861

After Xie Xingzhou lost hundreds of people and horses in the woods, his face became ugly.

If he was ordered to suppress bandits before, and there were not many elements to avenge min Hongyi, then now he really wants to find out and kill those cunning guys one by one!

I'm tired of fooling him to untie the boat!

Later, he stepped up his guard and brought in officers and men from the city who were proficient in the strange door.

The eight trigrams array in the forest was broken, and the army finally passed through this dangerous place and came to the entrance of the village.

A stream connects the canyon to the village, and the wooden bridge on it has been cut off.

However, the river is not wide, so it is not a problem to re log and build a temporary simple wooden bridge.

"Just bother Lu Chang." Xie Xingzhou said.

"Hum!" Elder Lu rode on his horse, turned his head lightly and made a gesture to the two disciples behind him.

Knowing this, the two disciples pulled out their swords and cut off two big trees with a sword.

The Deputy General of Xie Xingzhou called several capable soldiers, tied the wood with ropes, embedded the arc part downward into the dug mud pit, and fixed both sides with long guns to prevent the wooden bridge from overturning.

This operation only took two quarters of an hour, which can be described as amazing speed.

The war horses of the Jin army refused to cross this unreliable "dangerous bridge" and were not able to cross directly like the black wind king. Xie Xingzhou and his party had to turn over and dismount and walk across the bridge.

A deputy general flattered and said, "I heard that the black wind riding in the state of Yan is very powerful. When we win them, I'll catch the black wind king and give it to general Xie."

Xie Xingzhou didn't respond on the surface, but in fact he was a little moved.

Heifeng cavalry is the most powerful iron cavalry in the six countries. In addition to the excellent fighting skills of cavalry, it is even more important to choose one horse. In particular, each Heifeng king can be called the God of war in the horse.

When he was young, he had the opportunity to witness a fierce black wind king. He was so frightened that he couldn't sleep for three days. So far, in retrospect, the feeling of palpitation is still there.

Now, of course, he can't be frightened by a horse, but if he can conquer such a god of war horse, it won't disgrace his name as a fierce general over the years.

... I don't know if the Lord is interested in the black wind king. If so, he basically doesn't have his own share.

In such a moment, Xie Xingzhou had planned the fate of the black wind king in his mind.

The Jin army entered the village.

The deputy general sighed: "this village is not small enough to accommodate hundreds of people." He commanded his men, "you search door to door!"

"Yes!"

The soldiers took orders and divided into two teams. One team searched the villagers' residence and the other team searched the ghost soldiers' camp.

The result was disappointing. They didn't even see a person except a few wild boars that couldn't be taken away.

"Escaped?" Xie Xingzhou frowned, called two spies who stayed last night and asked, "did you find anything last night?"

Spy a reported: "if you return to the general, we have been lying in ambush at the entrance of ghost mountain last night. Make sure no one came out of ghost mountain."

Xie Xingzhou entered a stove room at random, put his hand into the stove and felt it.

Cool.

He ordered, "check the other stoves."

"Yes!"

The soldiers checked one by one and found that there was no temperature in the stove. In today's weather, if there was a fire in the morning, how could there be residual temperature in the stove at this time.

Suddenly, another soldier came quickly, saluted with his fist and said, "general! There's something on the top of the mountain in the East! "

Xie Xingzhou went down with his family to the place mentioned by the deputy general.

Surrounded by green mountains, the lake is boundless. Ghost mountain is surrounded by water on three sides. There is only one entrance and exit, which is the mountain in the south.

At this time, on the shore of the East Mountain, everyone found a large number of footprints and traces of ships stopping, and even some scattered items, such as shoes, purse, etc.

In addition, a small boat was parked on the shore. The bottom of the boat was leaking. It was opened from a new cut in the wood board, which was newly left.

Combined with the evidence that the stove didn't light a fire in the morning, the people's minds couldn't help but make up the scene that the villagers fled overnight. The lights were dark, they couldn't see the road, they lost something on the ground and accidentally damaged the boat.

Everything is reasonable. There is no second explanation.

If min Hong is here, he will lead the army around the lake to catch people, but his mind is not so simple.

"Zhong Cheng." He called his deputy general, "where is the other side of the lake?"

"I haven't been to the small one." Zhong Cheng said that he was a detailed work of the state of Jin inserted in Pucheng. He was very familiar with the terrain of Pucheng, except ghost mountain, which was like a forbidden area.

Xie Xingzhou said, "repair the boat and send two people who know the nature of water to row over and look for it."

"Yes!"

In fact, the decision of Xie Xingzhou has long been predicted by shangguanqing, and shangguanqing is not worried.

Because there is only a small broken boat here, which can seat two or three people at most, and the lake is very large. Go ahead and there are green mountains on both sides.

There is a very steep waterfall at the end of the green mountain. Most people who have not been there can't come back.

Of course, to solve the boating brain will not only make one-hand plans.

Sure enough, Xie Xingzhou immediately ordered the remaining Deputy Generals: "look around, look at every mountain, pay attention to the hidden caves and entrances, and don't let go of any clues."

The crowd took orders and dispersed.

Gu Jiao sat at the mouth of the cave. She already knew that the Jin army had entered the mountain and heard the news that shangguanqing took the villagers to evacuate. At the moment, the Jin army was searching for clues.

The two Jin soldiers dug away the bushes outside the crack. From the outside, they couldn't get in. They stabbed them in with their swords and left in disappointment.

Jin army came one after another, but they couldn't find the cave behind the crack.

There are trees and grass outside the cave. There is food and water inside the cave. I don't worry about starvation.

Gu Jiao looks at Xuanyuan Qi, who is still in a calm state beside her, and continues to meditate and guard him.

……

The Jin army's search continued until the evening. They almost searched the whole ghost mountain and still found nothing.

In the big rock cave with the gurgling stream, three hundred ghost soldiers are stationed by the stream. Behind them are more than 500 villagers in the village.

Several ghost soldiers who came back from the main channels reported the situation on the ground to shangguanqing.

"They seem to have stopped searching."

"But Xie Xingzhou didn't immediately order the withdrawal of troops. He seemed to be waiting for the Jin army searching for the lake to come back."

"Most of the two Jin troops were killed. He can't wait."

Shangguan Qing nodded when he heard the speech: "if he can't wait, he has only two guesses. One is that they had an accident, the other is that they were killed by us. Xie Xingzhou may guess the latter. There are no other ships here. He has to carry them in the city. Coupled with the search on the lake and the coast, it can delay for several days. "

After he said that, he turned his head, looked at the nervous villagers sitting on the ground and said, "don't be afraid. We are very safe now. If they can't find it, they will naturally believe that we have successfully transferred."

"Well... What about then?" Asked a villager.

"Then the imperial army will come!"

It's Tang Yueshan.

He stepped forward and said to the eager villagers, "today, the imperial army is attacking Liang Jun. after fighting, he will come to Pucheng to clean up the Jin army!"

The villager said excitedly, "so... We will all be saved?"

Tang Yue said, "of course! In five days at most, the imperial army will arrive! "

Attack Liang Jun, capture Nangong's house and recover the new town. Five days is enough at Lao Xiao's speed.

Lao Xiao's daughter-in-law is still here. If not on the fifth day, Lao Xiao must guess that he and the girl are in trouble and will speed up the attack on Pucheng.

"How do you know?" Another villager asked.

"I......" Tang Yueshan opened his mouth and wondered how to explain his identity.

Shangguanqing put his hands behind him and opened his mouth calmly: "he is Marshal Tang sent by the imperial court."

All of you here are border natives. You don't know much about senior officials of the imperial court, but when you hear that you are the Grand Marshal, everyone immediately believes his words and rekindles hope.

They laughed at each other and put their hearts back to their stomachs one by one.

Tang Yueshan whispered, "is it a little..."

Shangguan Qing raised his eyebrows and said, "I didn't say which country Marshal or court."

Tang Yueshan: "

What else did he want to say? Suddenly he noticed the movement on the top. He was busy with a silent gesture.

The villagers were very cooperative. Even Xiaoying, who was more than one year old, covered her mouth with her little hand under the sign of her brother.

Xiaoying is good. Xiaoying doesn't talk.

The cave suddenly became silent.

"Well, camp here tonight!"

They heard the voice of the Jin army.

Pucheng has developed border trade. Before the outbreak of war, there were many shops opened by Jin Merchants in the city. People here basically know a little about Jin dialect and Yan dialect.

The Jin army actually set up camp on them, which is really wrong.

Shangguan Qing gestured, "just don't make a noise. Don't worry."

Everyone nodded. It happened that it was late now. Everyone slept. When they woke up, the Jin army should leave.

"Don't sleep if you snore." Shangguanqing whispered.

As soon as Tang Yueshan lay down with his bow in his arms, he sat up with a black face.

……

At night, people on the ground and underground fell asleep, and ghost mountain fell into silence.

Tang Yueshan didn't dare to sleep too much. Holding a bow, he sat down in an open space, leaning his back against the wall and squinting from time to time.

In the middle of the night, he heard an unusual movement, which seemed to be a very hard groan.

He frowned and looked strangely at the sound source. With the light of the night pearl on the wall, he saw that it was a pregnant woman with a big belly groaning in pain.

Tang Yueshan remembered that she was the mother of xiaonvwa (Xiaoying).

Her husband was killed by the Jin army in Pucheng. She was rescued to ghost mountain by shangguanqing with a pair of children.

The ghost soldiers on duty patrol elsewhere. Only Tang Yueshan is still awake at the moment.

Tang Yueshan looked at her with a confused face. He didn't understand what had happened to her?

The next second, Tang Yueshan saw her draw out a dagger and bite her teeth to cut her neck!

Tang Yueshan jumped, flashed quickly, clasped her wrist, lowered the volume and asked, "what are you doing!"

The moment she took out the dagger, he almost regarded her as a fine work. Who expected that she would hang herself?

The woman's surname was Zhang. She was soaked in cold sweat and her whole face was pale.

Tang Yueshan was vaguely aware of something. He looked at her painful expression and her bulging stomach: "you... Are you going to have a baby?"

"What happened?"

Shangguanqing woke up from his sleep and walked over.

He looked at the water stains under the woman's skirt, frowned, and calmly said, "the amniotic fluid is broken, and the child is going to be born."

Zhang was pregnant for only eight months and didn't reach the due date at all. Maybe too much pressure led to premature delivery.

Zhang endured a wave of terrible pain, his eyes flushed and choked: "I can't give birth... Can't..."

Jin Jun is on the ground. Once her children are born, the cry will expose all their hiding places.

With tears in her eyes, she cried in pain and despair: "yes... Xiaoying will die... Xiaohui will die... You... Will all die..."

She can't ruin the lives of a pair of children and the whole village because of a fetus in her abdomen.

Shangguanqing looked at Xiaoying snoring beside her, looked back at the sleeping villagers and made a decision in his heart.

He said positively, "I'll take you to another place to have a baby. You have to bear it a little."

Zhang sobbed, "no, won't it be exposed?"

Shangguan Qing said, "many premature babies don't cry very much. If we go away, we may not be found. If... I mean, if I really get there, I'll take care of him myself. "

Tang Yueshan was surprised.

He understood.

He looked up at Guan Qing in disbelief. I can't believe he could say such a thing from the child's mouth.

For him, cruelty is a harder choice than kindness.

But if you don't, thousands of people will lose their lives.

Rather than let Zhang's hands be covered with the blood of his children, he would rather do it himself and let himself bear the shadow that can't be erased in the rest of his life.

Zhang nodded with tears.

Shangguanqing woke up an old woman in the village, called several ghost soldiers and ordered some matters. The ghost soldiers found the emergency stretcher in the cave and carried Zhang away.

Shangguanqing woke up another aunt and asked her to help look after Zhang's children so that they wouldn't feel uneasy and afraid when they woke up and found their mother missing.

"What happened?" Asked the aunt.

One after another, some villagers woke up. Because they were trapped in the cave, everyone's spirit was very tense, and they would be afraid of any disturbance.

Shangguanqing stood under the cold pearls and said calmly, "I'll solve it. Let's go to sleep."

He exuded an aura of faith. Without any more questions, they nodded and went to bed honestly.

Together with him, Tang Yueshan went to the place where Zhang's family produced - a small cave at least 100 feet away from here, which was originally used for storage.

Zhang lay flat on a stretcher on the ground.

The old woman is not a stable woman, but she has a little experience in production compared with men.

She accompanied Zhang's production inside, while shangguanqing and others all guarded outside the cave.

"Is there any wood?" The old woman came out and asked.

"How big?" Shangguan Qing asked.

The wife said, "don't be too big. It's so that she can bite in her mouth to avoid making too much noise and hurting herself."

Shangguan Qing pulled out the cork on the water bag: "is this OK?"

The old woman shook her head, "this won't work."

"What about this?" Shangguanqing pulled out the wooden hairpin on his head again.

The old woman shook her head again: "not either."

Shangguanqing hesitated, took out a very old wooden dagger from his arms and handed it to the old woman.

The old woman said with a smile, "that should be about the same."

Then she took the dagger and turned into the small cave.

Tang Yueshan noticed that shangguanqing looked disappointed for a moment.

Is that little wooden dagger a treasure?

But it doesn't look expensive. If he likes, when he becomes his own son, he will carve ten or eight for him!

Zhang's labor pains began during the day. At this time, the palace mouth had been fully opened, but she just couldn't give birth.

"Oh, I'm afraid it's not good..."

The old woman came out anxiously and said to shangguanqing, "Zhang's dystocia..."

A woman's birth is through hell. Once she encounters dystocia, she is likely to die.

Tang Yueshan punched his palm and muttered, "if only the girl were here!"

"What's the matter?"

A familiar juvenile voice suddenly appeared at the other end of the channel, and the two ghost soldiers were on alert quickly.

"It's me."

Gu Jiao said.

Shangguanqing waved his hand and two ghost soldiers stepped aside.

Gu Jiao pushed open a secret door and climbed out.

She patted the dust on her body and whispered, "it's hard to find here."

Shangguanqing looked at her suspiciously: "are you from the back mountain?"

Gu Jiao said, "otherwise? Come from the camp of the Jin army? "

Shangguan Qing was surprised: "is there a tunnel in the back mountain? And connected here? "

"What? You don't know? " Well, she didn't know either.

She was bored walking around xuanyuanqi's cave. As a result, she accidentally ran into a mechanism and fell into a tunnel.

She wanted to walk back, but she ran into them around.

Tang Yueshan took her by the wrist and came over: "you're just in time! A woman has dystocia! Go in and have a look! "

"Primipara or primipara?" After Gu Jiao asked, she saw that they were confused and forced. She said, "have you ever lived before?"

"I had two children." Shangguan Qing said.

Gu Jiao: "when did it happen?"

Shangguanqing: "the details are not clear. She has endured it all the time."

"OK, I see." Gu Jiao entered the small cave produced by Zhang.

Zhang's face was pale and he bit a small wooden dagger in his mouth.

There was no dry place on her, and even the stretcher under her was soaked with sweat.

"Do you feel like you're going to be courteous?" Gu Jiao asked.

She nodded with difficulty.

Gu Jiao examined her, and the palace was fully open, but the fetal position was incorrect.

There are no conditions for cesarean section.

Fortunately, her amniotic fluid was not completely broken, and the fetus was still able to swim in the womb. The fetal correction technique stolen from the old traditional Chinese medicine in previous lives should also be used.

"I hope it's useful to you."

……

Time passed minute by minute.

Shangguanqing and Tang Yueshan are outside the cave. They seem calm, but their palms are sweating.

Tang Yueshan never dreamed that he would one day watch a woman deliver the baby.

This... What's the matter?

He paced up and down the aisle, whispering to himself.

"It's been a long time. Won't it be impossible to give birth?"

"No, no, that girl is so good at medicine..."

"Why didn't you find it so dangerous for women to have children before..."

"My sister-in-law has worked hard tomorrow. Go back and make up for her."

With Zhang's last dull hum, a baby covered in blue and blue was born.

It's a baby boy

Although less than a month, it is not small.

"Why... No... Crying?" Zhang looked weakly at the baby in Gu Jiao's arms.

Gu Jiao grabbed the little guy's feet, slipped up and slapped him on his little ass.

The unresponsive little guy finally moved. He tightened his fist, opened his mouth and cried——

The cry was so loud that shangguanqing and Tang Yueshan were shocked that their hair was blown up!

What about the agreed premature baby?

A full-term baby doesn't cry as loud as you?

In the camp on the ground, Xie Xingzhou and elder Lu opened their eyes almost at the same time.

The two had great ears, but they were not sure whether they had heard wrong.

They walked out of their tents.

When Xie Xingzhou saw Lu Changlao coming out, he was half sure: "are you..."

Lu Chang was the same. He nodded: "I thought I heard wrong. It seems that general Xie heard it."

Xie Xingzhou said, "isn't it the ghost crying in the middle of the night?"

Lu Changlao said lightly, "if general Xie believes in ghosts, I have nothing to say."

Xie Xingzhou said coldly, "hum, even if there is a ghost, the general will find the crying ghost!"

Old Lu said, "the sound seems to come from under the ground."

They leaned down and put their ears on the ground.

Just then, lightning flashed across the sky, followed by a thunderbolt.

"Wow -"

The baby's cry was perfectly covered up by thunder.

They stood up.

Xie Xingzhou asked, "elder Lu, what do you think?"

Elder Lu said with a smile, "the command of this operation makes general Xie. I obey general Xie's orders."

Xie Xingzhou looked up at the lightning jumping on the dome like a dragon, smiled and said, "they are lucky. No, we are lucky."

Elder Lu's face also showed a smile that he was determined to win: "although the thunder was dense and covered up the baby's cry, it can be determined that there was someone underground. As long as we dig three feet, we will be able to dig them out! "

……

Underground.

Zhang had fainted from fatigue.

Gu Jiao held the crying little guy and stuffed his own thumb into his own mouth.

He didn't suck twice and fell asleep.

The people in the passage breathed a sigh of relief.

Tang Yueshan held the last chance and asked, "the first sound was not covered by thunder just now. Shouldn't it be so unlucky to be found?"

Shangguanqing sent ghost soldiers to investigate the situation. The information was that all Jin troops on the ground were awakened by Xie Xingzhou.

"It seems that... We have been found and are preparing to dig. It's just that they don't seem to be sure of our specific location. They started digging from the village. "

Ghost soldier report.

Tang Yueshan closed his eyes. Sure enough, where is luck in the battlefield?

A little carelessness is life.

He looked up at Guan Qing and said, "what now? You don't really want to kill the child, do you? "

Shangguan Qing looked at the child in Gu's arms and frowned: "it has been exposed. It's useless to kill him."

Gu Jiao asked Shangguan Qing, "how long can you stop it?"

Shangguanqing smelled the speech and gave Gu Jiao a deep look: "what do you want to do?"

Gu Jiao lowered her head, took the little guy's finger out of his mouth and said, "he will still cry when he wakes up. When the thunder stops, the Jin army can easily lock your position. I'll take him away. "

Shangguan Qing said, "where are you going? The ghost King's nest? It will also be exposed. "

Gu Jiao said, "no, go back to Quyang."

Shangguan Qing was shocked: "you..."

Gu Jiao said calmly, "I'll go back to Quyang to help the soldiers. Give me two days. Heifeng and the imperial army will be under the city!"

This will be the last battle!

"It's useless." Shangguanqing turned around, "even if you get out of ghost mountain, you can't get out of Pucheng."

It's easy to get into Pucheng, but difficult to get out of Pucheng. Besides, the gate must be more strict in case of such a big thing.

Even if he did it himself, he might not be able to successfully send people out of the city.

Gu Jiao said, "if you can't get out, you have to try. In addition, you guard the ghost mountain and I'll find a way out of the city myself. Just tell me which channel can get out of the ghost mountain. "

In her dictionary, there is no retreat.

Shangguan Qing asked, "are you sure you want to do this? It's dangerous. "

She is not afraid of danger, but——

She thought of xuanyuanqi.

At this time, she still had that strong intuition: if she left here, she might never see him again.

Those secrets will be sealed forever.

A thousand lives, and the truth she wants to trace.

Without any hesitation, she made a choice in her heart.