The group mounted their horses and pursued them wildly.
In front of them, the coachman kept his whip swinging wildly, driving the carriage as fast as he could. Inside the carriage, Qing’er was holding on to the window for dear life, her body swaying uncontrollably with the swaying of the carriage.
Hearing the sound of hoofbeats behind him, the leader of the guards stopped his horse and ordered the two guards closest to him, “You guys escort the carriage first, we’ll break off the rear.”
The two guards didn’t delay and continued to guard the carriage at a furious pace. The lead guard stayed behind with the other seven and turned his horse around to look at the group that was galloping towards him.
“Granny ……”
The bearded man had already cursed loudly before they reached the front, “How dare you lie to me! Let’s see how I’ll deal with you.”
The words fell, the big sword in his hand was already full of stance.
The leader of the guards reached into his pocket and took out the medicine packet given by Song Wangyue, and raised it with the wind, while the other seven guards moved in line with him.
The bearded man running at the front saw their movements and was busy shouting, “There’s poison, hurry ……”
Before he could finish his words, the powder drifted into his nose and he felt his body go limp, the big sword in his hand fell to the ground and he rolled off his horse.
This roll seems to have triggered some kind of mechanism, and the people behind him followed one after another and rolled off their horses. The lucky ones rolled aside, the unlucky ones landed on the ground and were trampled by the horses.
Seeing this, several guards took a deep breath and, without stopping, turned their horses around and left, quickly catching up with the carriage in front of them and escorting them all the way back to the city.
The official road was full of people lying all over the place. Some carriages came by from afar and, seeing the scene in front of them, stopped their carriages in fear, not daring to lean forward.
The bearded man looked in the direction where the carriage had disappeared and almost burst into flames. He had never expected to lose all his men after only one encounter, how would he explain to his master?
The effects of the medicine came and went quickly, and after half an hour the men felt their strength returning to their bodies and got to their feet.
“Head ……”
The man with a face full of flesh looked at the bearded man and his teeth chattered, this little thing they did not do well, back to the master will certainly not spare them.
The bearded man ripped off the beard that was stuck to his face and fell to the ground fiercely, a little over half an hour, enough for those men to escape, even if they went after them now with fast horses they would not be able to catch up.
“Go back!”
With those words, he not-so-sharply rolled onto his horse, and the men behind him went up with difficulty, following him towards the capital.
Only when they had gone did the coachman, who had stopped far away, dare to wave his whip and slowly drive the carriage onwards.
The Second Prince’s residence.
The Second Prince was writing, one stroke at a time, very carefully.
The butler came in from outside and bowed, “Your Highness, they have returned.”
The pen in the Second Prince’s hand gave a beat, and then he looked at the butler.
The butler lowered his head, not daring to look at his master’s face. Knowing that Song Si and his wife had returned home for New Year’s Eve, his master had arranged all this, first having someone pretend to be a mountain bandit to make a move on them, and when it was a close call, his own master’s men passed by that way and saved them.
But the plan failed to catch up with the change, and before those men could strike, they were counted out by the Xiao family’s guards, and many people were injured.
Looking at him with such a look, what could the Second Prince not understand, throwing the pen in his hand to the ground fiercely, “Rubbish!”
Besides, Song Si and the two of them, after the incident, rode in a carriage that passed by that woods and walked unhurriedly in the direction of the capital.
At the same time, the border gate.
Captain Wei had almost recovered from his wounds, so he had a gift prepared and went to Captain Wu’s house first.
The two of them had been friends for many years, so Captain Wu didn’t bother to accept the gift and asked, “Have you sent it to Song Yin yet?”
If it wasn’t for Song Yin, he wouldn’t have survived, not to mention Captain Wei.
“I would like to send it, but I don’t know where the boy lives?”
I used to think that he had no home or job, but it was only when I went to the general’s residence for dinner on New Year’s Eve and saw him change his clothes that the crowd knew that Song Yin had a place to live in this city.
“The general should know. Wait a moment, I will accompany you there.”
Inside the general’s residence, Shen Yan was looking at a military opinion map, when he heard the report, he didn’t even raise his head, “Let them in.”
The butler responded and went out to usher the two men in.
The two men saluted in unison, “Greetings, General.”
“Are you well?”
“In reply to the General’s words, I am almost well.”
“Something wrong?”
The two men looked at each other and Lieutenant Wei spoke up, “Thanks to Song Yin’s rescue that day, we both survived, so we wanted to go and thank him in person.
Shen Yan lifted his head.
“I don’t know either.”
The two men froze at the words.
Shen Yan gestured for them to sit, “Song Yin should be in the army at this time, if you want to know, I will send someone to call him back.”
“In the army?”
The two men were surprised, with Song Yin’s merits that day, not to say that he was promoted to equal status with them, a promotion to the rank of a Thousand Chief was still enough, a Thousand Chief was allowed to not have to live in the military camp.
“He asked me for five hundred men, saying he wanted to train a strange army.”
“A strange army?”
Lieutenant Wei and Lieutenant Wu looked at each other again, simultaneously thinking of the time when King Qin had also trained a strange army.
It was just that after King Qin’s accident, this odd army disappeared overnight, so they did not send anyone to look for it as they were not fair for King Qin at that time. Later, the emperor even sent someone to transfer this strange army back to the capital. When they found out that these men had disappeared, they could see the look on the face of the man who had sent them. They thought at that time that it was very likely that the emperor was not transferring this odd army back to the capital, but wanted to kill them.
Shen Yan took in the expressions on both of their faces and said, “You all saw Song Yin’s skills that day, and he has his own way of leading troops, so I promised him that if he could really train a strange army like the one he had years ago, we wouldn’t lose so many people in future battles.”
“He, he, he ……”
Lieutenant Wei stammered several times but didn’t say anything, except that in his heart he felt that Song Yin and King Qin were even more alike.
Shen Yan glanced outwards, by this time Song Shen should also have finished training, raised his voice, “Send someone to the barracks and call Song Yin here!”
The housekeeper responded and sent a sharp young man from the house to the barracks, and quickly called Song Yin to come.
The wind and sand at the border were so strong that no matter how handsome a person was, his face would change within half a month of arriving here, except for those who grew up here.
“Song Yin, how did you grow this face skin, how come it hasn’t changed at all?”
Song Yin paused in his steps at his words, his face as normal, not half-hearted, “My father and mother gave it to me, I was born like this.”
After saying that, he gave Shen Yan a salute.
Shen Yan gestured for him to sit down.
Lieutenant Wei was just casually asking, not thinking about anything else, “Song Yin ah, I and Lieutenant Wu ……”
Before he could finish his words, the butler hurried in, “General, it’s not good, madam has fallen and is in labor!”