Chapter 242 Hundreds of Strategies to Avoid the Enemy
Yang Liang's army was stationed near Jizhou (Today's Tianjin). Now Li Zhiyun's team has walked more than 100 miles northeast. Its location is still in Youzhou. A hundred miles further forward can reach Guzhu. However, Guzhu is still under the jurisdiction of Youzhou, which shows the vastness of Luoyi's jurisdiction.
Guzhu is a large town. During the Shang Dynasty, it was a vassal state called Guzhu Kingdom, which was later Tangshan. The name Tangshan was only found in the Tang Dynasty. When Li Shimin fought in Goguryeo, he stationed troops in Guzhu Dacheng Mountain. Therefore, the world renamed Dacheng Mountain to Tangshan, and then replaced Guzhu, calling the entire town Tangshan.
Even from Guzhu, it is more than 1,600 miles away from Tutai Mountain (Changbai Mountain). It is definitely a long way to go in this era without modern means of transportation.
"Let's run quickly, even if the war horses are exhausted, they must arrive at Guzhu as soon as possible." Although Li Zhiyun had made sufficient arrangements to confuse Yinshi Master, Yu Shang was still a little worried.
Li Zhiyun also did not dare to take it lightly, but did not fully agree with Yu Shang's opinion and corrected: "It is right to run, but you can't ride a horse, and you can't start running now."
For the three fully armed men, riding a horse is indeed much more labor-saving than using light skills. However, regardless of the traces of the horse's hooves or feces, they will leave clues to the enemy. Although it is impossible to estimate how long it will take for the Yinshi Master to search for a thousand squads, once he completes his investigation and finds that only this team leaves the three riders, he can follow the traces.
In comparison, walking is different. At most, you can only leave footprints. This place is not a place where people are inhabited. How can there be no pedestrians? It is normal to have footprints.
Yu Shang was originally a female spy from Goguryeo. She was extremely meticulous. She was so shocked by the power of Yinshi Master. When Li Zhiyun heard that, she immediately woke up and said ashamed: "Your husband is still thinking carefully."
Li Rongrong only understood halfway and asked, "Why can't you run now? You can escape from the enemy's pursuit as soon as possible!"
She was very smart and praised her since childhood for her parents and masters, but after meeting Li Zhiyun, she was miserable. Although she knew that she was not as changeable as Li Zhiyun, she always wanted to know what was wrong with her.
Li Zhiyun said: "If you want to run, you have to use light skills. Can the stride of using light skills be the same as that of ordinary people walking? Suppose that Yinshi Master has tracked this down, just by looking at the distance between the footprints, you can tell that the footprints are left by us."
Li Rongrong suddenly realized and immediately blushed on her face. She didn't say anything, but she was blaming herself in her heart: Why can't I understand such a simple thing?
Li Zhiyun had no time to take care of the two women's emotions, and then said: "So we must walk, not only walk, but also walk separately, and not talk to each other. Before we set off, we quickly take off our armor and buried it."
This time Yu Shang and Li Rongrong both understood. If the three of them were walking together, then after the Yinshi Master arrived, you only need to ask passers-by if they had seen three Sui soldiers.
After understanding it, he no longer talks. After burying his armor, Li Zhiyun and Yushang left first. After walking a mile, Li Rongrong set out again. He walked at the end and was two miles away from Li Rongrong who was walking in the middle. In this way, no matter who he met, he would not think that the three of them were all the way.
In this way, the three of them walked more than ten miles before they began to perform their light skills. There were requirements for performing their light skills. The three of them adjusted the order and led the way from Li Zhiyun, who had the best vision, to lead the way. As long as there were pedestrians on the opposite side, they immediately changed to walking slowly. Yu Shang behind and Li Rongrong at the end had to slow down.
After doing this, there were constant pedestrians along the way. It was early winter and the weather was cold and the busy farming season was over. Most people turned to hunt and then went to Peking to sell with their prey or livestock. This formed the endless stream of pedestrians along the way.
In this case, the three of them really couldn't lift up their speed, and they walked and stopped quickly. They didn't see the outline of Guzhu City from afar in the evening. In the vast twilight, Guzhu City was very quiet and peaceful, like a hermit who was invincible with the world.
When we walked into the city, we could see that this place was far less prosperous and lively than Peking. Perhaps it was at dinner time, and there were no pedestrians on the street. The three of them found a restaurant to buy some cooked food, but they did not eat in the restaurant, so they quietly found a Laifu Inn to stay.
The three of them were also very careful when staying in the hotel. Li Zhiyun and Yu Shang entered the inn and opened a single room. Li Rongrong later entered the inn and opened a single room alone. No matter who seemed to be two groups of guests, they didn't know each other.
There is no need to travel day and night. On the one hand, Li Rongrong's internal injuries have not yet recovered and she cannot support the 1,600-mile marching. On the other hand, after leaving Guzhu City, there are 300 miles of sparsely populated roads. During this period, there may be thieves, and the three of them must maintain sufficient combat power.
The three of them were very low-key. They didn't come out after entering the room. They just waited for check-out and left the city early the next morning.
Li Zhiyun and Yu Shang are serious couples. They sleep in the same bed but have no husband and wife, just because they are young. Both of them are lying in harmony with each other, and they are both tossing and turning. Li Zhiyun suddenly remembered something and secretly taught Yu Shang a set of martial arts.
It was midnight, after Li Zhiyun finished teaching Yu Shang, he quietly opened the door. After seeing that there was no one on the left and right, he knocked on Li Rongrong's door.
When Li Rongrong saw Li Zhiyun visiting in the middle of the night, she didn't let her palms catch a candle. At first, her heart was beating. It seemed that he was interested in me! When Li Zhiyun expressed her intention, she couldn't help but feel disappointed. However, when Li Zhiyun said she wanted to teach martial arts to herself, she immediately became excited. Li Zhiyun's martial arts must be amazing, but she should see what's magical.
However, after listening to Li Zhiyun's story, he was even more disappointed. What kind of bullshit martial arts? Isn't this an ordinary martial art? Even the yellow-level martial arts are not considered a yellow-level martial arts! Did you come over to tease me in the middle of the night?
Then I thought, maybe it was possible for Li Zhiyun to deliberately use the excuse of teaching martial arts to get close to him, so I suppressed the questions in my heart and said nothing, just do whatever you like, anyway, I plan to follow you.
Li Zhiyun didn't know what Li Rongrong was thinking. After teaching the basic steps and basic moves, she asked the latter to demonstrate it and checked it correctly before saying: "Now I will teach you a way to use internal force, which is in line with this set of martial arts moves. You can listen."
Li Rongrong was disdainful. It would be fine if you teach me martial arts moves, but you also have to teach me internal skills? Do you know that the magical skills I practiced are the best magical skills in the world. It can imitate any internal skills in the world. Do you also teach me internal skills?
Although I was disdainful, I felt embarrassed to say that after all, Li Zhiyun was kind to her and promised to avenge her family. Alas, if you want to be crazy, then be crazy. Can I admit it?
Li Zhiyun knew that she didn't agree with Li Rongrong's eyes, so she said, "Don't look down on this skill. At the critical moment, we all rely on it to save our lives. I didn't lie to you."
He immediately told Li Rongrong about the internal power of the "Yinfeng Sword" and told her that this skill must be used to use the long sword in her hand to be effective. After that, he went out to go back to the room.
He didn't have to worry about Li Rongrong not learning it. He knew that Li Rongrong had either practiced the little Wuxiang Gong or the Wanxiang Divine Art, otherwise he would not have performed many martial arts. He even suspected that Li Rongrong's sect had some connection with Wang Renze, but this matter had nothing to do with him, so he was too lazy to ask more questions. He was not a researcher of the origin and branch of martial arts.
Like the bone-transparent needle sent to Yu Shang, the Yinfeng Sword sent to Li Rongrong is not strictly considered internal strength, but just a method of exercising strength. Otherwise, the exchange price in the Xunxia system would not be cheaper to 1,000 chivalrous value. You should know that the price of internal strength in the Xunxia system starts from 10,000 yuan.
As soon as I returned to my room, I heard someone knocking outside the inn door. The sound was very loud and the whole shop heard it.
The shop seemed to be awakened by the knock on the door and asked resentfully: "Who? What are you knocking on the door in the middle of the night?"
In a small town like Guzhu City, it is extremely rare to enter the city and stay in the inn in the middle of the night. Normal passengers stay overnight in the morning. If they cannot arrive here before dark, they must stay in other towns, prefectures and counties. At the same time, the knockers cannot be the surrounding bandits. Will bandits knock on the door when they go down the mountain to rob the town? So the shop dares to angrily criticize the people.
"Does there three Sui army soldiers move in in your store?" The person who came was not angry and asked the shop through the store door. With just this sound, Li Zhiyun and Yu Li Nu in the two rooms were scared to death. The person who asked was actually Yin Shi Master.
The three of them were prepared so well that he actually found Guzhu City! How did he find it?
In Li Zhiyun's opinion, no one except him and Li Rongrong knew Yu Shang's true identity. Even Di Zhixun, who was inseparable from Li Zhiyun, did not know, and Yang Su, who had been raising Yu Shang for more than ten years, should of course not know that the Yin Shi Master sent by Yang Guang and Yang Guang, so why could he catch up in this direction?
Even though Luo Yiluo Cheng and his son knew that they were going to Goguryeo to seek revenge on Yoon Gaisuwen, they did not know Yu Shang's origin, and the other three of them did not tell anyone in Yang Liang's army about going to Goguryeo.
On this basis, starting from Jizhou with Jizhou as the center, there may be Yu Shang's escape route in every direction around it. Why did Yinshi Master find Guzhu City? Or did he have already surveyed all directions around it? If it is the latter situation, how many places he has traveled in this nearly one day and one night? It feels terrifying to think about it.
Not to mention that Li Zhiyun and the other two were afraid in the guest room, they only said that the shop did not know how powerful the person came. When they heard the inquiry, they were even more angry: "What Sui army soldiers? I didn't see it! Are you staying in a hotel or looking for a beating? It's disturbing Qingmeng in the middle of the night, do you believe that all the guests in the inn will get up and beat you up?"
Suddenly, there was a loud "bang", as if the inn gate was blown away by someone. Then the gang shouted, "Oh, my..."
I don’t know what he was going to say “My”, but in short, he got a ruthless sound. The Yin Shi Master’s voice sounded from afar: “This is the consequence of being rude. You have to be glad that you don’t know martial arts. If you know some martial arts, I will kill you today!”
The next moment, the room of more than a dozen people in the inn had fire candles. Most of them went out to check the truth, but Li Zhiyun did not go out and took off her coat in a few seconds. "Wife, take off your clothes quickly and let's change it."
This place cannot be kept. How many inns can be found in a town like Guzhu City? Although there has been no statistics, there are not many. As long as Master Yinshi asked him and found nothing after he found anything, he might look back and find him. At that time, he would not have time to run away.
Yu Shang was completely convinced by Li Zhiyun. Without asking, she took off her green skirt and handed it to Li Zhiyun. After putting on the clothes that Li Zhiyun took off, she picked up the green hat from the spring stool at the end of the bed and handed it to Li Zhiyun.
Li Zhiyun was embarrassed when he took the hat. He thought to himself that he was destined to be cuckolded by Yu Shang? But he said, "It doesn't matter whether you wear it at night or not, you will wear it during the day."
The couple changed their clothes, carried snowboards and waited for their luggage and came to Li Rongrong's room. Li Rongrong was not stupid either. After hearing Yin Shishi's inquiry, they knew that Li Zhiyun and his wife would definitely set off overnight, and even if they didn't leave, they would not stay in this inn. Therefore, they were ready and just waited for the couple to leave together as soon as they arrived.
Li Zhiyun immediately ordered: "You two go to the north of the city, go out of the city wall, meet five miles north of the north city gate, wait for me to arrive and then run together."
He did not say how he went to the meeting point. In fact, he was preparing to follow Yu Shang. Yin Shi Master’s target was Yu Shang. As long as Yin Shi Master grabbed Yu Shang, it would be meaningless for him and Li Rongrong to run away, so he had to follow Yu Shang.
Guzhu City's inns are all on both sides of the central street from south to north of the town. Normally, no matter how Yu Shang and Li Rongrong choose, as long as they go around from the east and west to the north of the city, they can avoid the eyes and ears of Yin Shishi Master.
At that moment, the three of them flipped out from the back window of the inn, and went their separate ways, and soon they arrived at the north of the city.
Guzhu City belongs to Youzhou, and there is no city defense in the north of the city. Even Luo Yi doesn't think that Goguryeo has the strength to attack Youzhou, so how could he set up defense here? He just needs to pay attention to the Turks in the northwest direction.
The city wall without the guardian army patrolling guards was not very high, but it was more than two meters away, and there was no moat outside the wall. This height could be easily jumped down for Li Zhiyun and the other two without worrying about falling and injured. The three of them arrived at the meeting place one after another. After meeting, they did not say a word, and at the same time ran north with light skills. The next stop was Lu Long, three hundred miles away.
Chapter completed!