Tang Dynasty good doctor

Chapter 460 Rescued
There are so many caves in the hollow mountain, almost the whole mountain is empty, and there are interconnected caves in all directions. If it is the first time to enter and there is no one to guide the way, it is easy to get lost.

After entering the cave, Wang Ping'an ordered several guards with better martial arts to rush to the front, without holding torches in their hands, and whenever they came across a corner of the cave, they would shoot arrows to explore the way to prevent robbers from ambush at the corner.

At the back was Wang Ping'an leading the way with a map. The guards found some torches in the cave, lit them up, and followed Wang Ping'an.Every time he reached a fork in the road, Wang Pingan yelled loudly to let the guards in front of the road to shoot arrows to ensure the safety of the brigade.

Along the way, I ran into many robbers on the road.When the robbers saw the officers and soldiers of the brigade entering the mountain from here, they did not dare to stop them. When they saw them from a distance, they scattered and fled.In addition to the robbers, they also encountered a lot of Turkic soldiers. When the Turkic soldiers saw Wang Ping'an, they gathered together and rushed in with him!
Almost without any effective resistance, Wang Pingan rushed to the central cave, that is, outside the big cave where Qu Zhisheng lived. As soon as he rushed to the entrance of the big cave, he heard someone shouting loudly, followed by random arrows!

Surrounded by a group of hardcore men, Qu Zhimao looked at the entrance of the cave, his heart was full of anger, he counted all kinds of accidents, so he didn't count that he caught the wrong person!
Tonight, he lay down earlier, wanting to gather enough strength, and estimated that the two messengers sent would be back by dawn tomorrow at the latest, so he had to think about what to do next.But not long after I lay down, a young man came to report that there was a fire at the pass, and officers and soldiers came to kill him!
Qu Zhimao was taken aback. The officers and soldiers were crazy. They knew they had hostages in their hands, but they dared to attack by force. Could it be that they didn't want Fang Xuanling and Wang Wendu to live?
He immediately ordered the bandits under his command to prepare for the battle. The bandit group of Zakong Mountain had a total of one thousand and twenty-three young men. Although most of them were not very effective in combat, they were better at being familiar with the terrain and taking advantage of the favorable location.

The robbers picked up their weapons one after another and blocked several important exits. After a while, the two messengers came back.The two of them are Qu Zhimao's die-hard fighters, so naturally they won't betray him, after running back.The messenger told Qu Zhimao that Wang Ping'an, Gu Lantian, and the governor of Guazhou, the three of them had arrived together, leading an army of nearly 2000 people, and went into the mountains to encircle and suppress them!

Qu Zhimao was startled and angry, and asked the officers and soldiers why they were so bold. Aren't they afraid that Fang Xuanling would lose his life because of this?
The messenger fooled Wang Pingan, and in turn, Wang Pingan fooled them too!The messenger told Qu Zhimao that the wrong person was arrested. The two people arrested and those guards were not the real Fang Xuanling at all, but a substitute. In the county seat.When the rice was distributed in the city, I heard that they were still receiving thanks from the people in the castle!

Qu Zhimao was dumbfounded immediately, no wonder Fang Xuanling and Wang Wendu were so easy to catch.The two of them foolishly insisted on going to Guazhou instead of staying at Yumenguan.
Wang Pingan, Wang Wendu, and Gu Lantian three robbed the military power, and Fang Xuanling was messing around inside. Of course, Qu Zhimao couldn't know about this kind of thing.At that time, I only thought that Fang Xuanling and the others were very easy to catch, and that the good thing about falling in the sky was met by him, but now that I think about it, it seems that it is indeed related to a substitute.Otherwise, Fang Xuanling has nothing to do and is not staying at Yumenguan, why would he go to Guazhou!

After figuring this out, Qu Zhimao yelled that he was fooled, his anger was burning, and he ordered the officers and soldiers to show some color!Zikong Mountain has never been surrounded by officers and soldiers, and the terrain is complex, so he thinks it can still be resisted.According to normal thinking, the government and army have always been unwilling to use all their strength to suppress bandits. If the casualties are too large, they will just bluff and withdraw their troops in all likelihood!

Not long after, Su Ding conveniently led his troops into the mountain, and fought fiercely with the robbers at the main cave entrances.Qu Zhimao made a mistake again, the government and army would not put all their strength into suppressing the bandits, and if soldiers from various counties came, they would retreat after seeing the heavy casualties.But this time it was not ordinary officers and soldiers, but Turkic soldiers!
Su Dingfang didn't care about the life and death of the Turkic soldiers. He didn't care whether the casualties were heavy or not.
How dare the Turkic soldiers retreat, besides, they are all elite soldiers, and few of them will be afraid of death. Even if they are fighting against the Tang army, they may not run away, let alone fighting a group of robbers!
After several ferocious charges, the Turkic soldiers suffered heavy casualties, but the robbers suffered even more casualties. The Turkic soldiers did not collapse, but the robbers collapsed first, and lost several important caves in a row. To the big cave!
Qu Zhimao was even more anxious, but at this moment, a group of officers and soldiers came out of a remote cave, and I don't know how they found the way, but they came to Dayan Cave!
Qu Zhimao shouted: "Use a train to block the entrance of the cave, hurry up!"

The robbers hurriedly pushed out several broken cars with bundles of dry firewood and large bales of hay. After dropping kerosene, they lit the broken cars and pushed them to the entrance of the cave. Block it!
It is known that the trapped empty mountain can no longer be defended.Qu Zhimao made a decisive decision and led his men to escape from the big cave from behind, looking for a secret way to escape to the outside of the mountain!

As soon as the cave was on fire, the guards retreated one after another, shouting, "Master, we can't get in. Those carts are stuck in the crevices of the rocks, and we can't push them away with weapons alone!"

Holding the map, Wang Pingan took a closer look at it by the light of the fire, and said, "If you don't go from here, there is another way, but it seems quite difficult!"

He turned his head and asked Huizheng: "The black line you drew is also a road, but why is it a straight line?"

Huizheng looked at the map, shook his head and said: "The local people who asked at that time, they couldn't tell clearly, they only knew that there was a road here, but they couldn't tell how to go, but there must be such a road!"

Wang Pingan hummed and pointed to another cave entrance. This cave entrance was narrow and dark, and it was windy. It was quite different from other cave entrances. However, according to the drawing on the map, it directly led to the bottomless pit. straight line!
With a wave of his hand, Wang Ping'an said: "Go this way, explore the way!"

Several guards ignited the arrows, opened the bow and released the arrows, and the arrows shot into the cave, illuminating the inside, and the cave seemed to extend downwards, not flat.

Wang Pingan shouted: "The cave going down, that's right, it must lead to the bottomless cave!" With a wave of his hand, the guards rushed into the cave and ran forward. He walked in the middle of the crowd, holding a map, and trotted stand up.

This dark cave is extremely long, but fortunately, it is a straight line as drawn on the map, with no turning points in between.After walking a long distance, I felt that the wind in the cave was getting stronger and more gloomy!
Di Renjie followed behind Wang Ping'an and whispered, "Brother, why does this cave give people the feeling that it leads to hell!"

"Have you ever been to hell?" Wang Pingan asked back.

Di Renjie snorted, and said, "Of course I haven't been there. If I had been, would I still be able to come back alive?"

Wang Pingan laughed and said: "Then how do you know that it leads to hell? Isn't this nonsense!"

He ran a long way again, and suddenly heard a guard shouting in front of him, and then another guard shouted!A guard let go of his throat and shouted: "Stop, stop, don't push forward, there is an abyss ahead!"

Wang Ping'an and others stopped quickly, held up torches, and looked ahead.It's a pity that there is light around me, but it's pitch black in the distance. Instead, I can't see anything, I can only hear voices.

I heard some guards shouting: "Hold on, don't let go!"

Another guard shouted: "Who is so wicked, throwing things down? There are people on the top, and there are people hanging from the top!"

Wang Pingan hurried forward, pushed aside the guards, and came to the shouting place in front.At the end of the cave, there is a dark open space in front of it, but it is not an open space, but a deep vertical hole that cannot be seen to the bottom, like a well.But the cave they walked in was above the well wall, five or six feet away from the top of the deep cave!

At the edge of the cave, the guards hugged one after another. The few people in front were still lying on the ground, and they seemed to be pulling people up.

Wang Pingan shouted: "What's the matter, what happened?"

A guard turned back and said: "I ran a little faster just now, the brother in front didn't hold his feet and fell from the hole. Fortunately, his skills were better, and he grabbed the stone outside the hole and was climbing up. We are pulling him !"

Wang Pingan said: "Okay, it's good that it didn't really fall!" He followed the gap between the crowd and looked up, but because the hole was too small, he couldn't see anything.After a while, the guard who ran first was pulled up.

As soon as the guard came up, he shouted: "Someone is hanging up there, there are several big baskets, I can see them clearly!"

Wang Pingan ran to the entrance of the cave. The guards were afraid that he would fall, so one of the guards untied his belt and let him hold it.Wang Pingan raised his head and looked up, and saw a faint light from the cave wall above, and he could clearly see a few dark things hanging from above, whether it was a big basket or not, but he couldn't tell!

He called up: "Hey, is there anyone up there, is it Mr. Fang?"

This is a bottomless pit, and those dark things above are naturally big baskets, and Fang Xuanling is sitting in the basket!
Fang Xuanling shouted down: "Yes, the old man is here, but he is not sick?" He was a little weak now, and his voice was not loud enough. Just now he heard someone shouting from below and threw the water bottle down.

There was light on the top, but it was pitch black below. He couldn't see Wang Ping'an at all. He could only judge by the sound that there was someone below, and it seemed to be Wang Ping'an!

Wang Ping'an was overjoyed when he heard Fang Xuanling's voice, and finally found the old man, he was such a big trouble, he did everything he could to find something for himself!He shouted: "Master Fang, please stay safe and don't be impatient, the officials will send someone up to rescue you!"

He turned his head and asked: "Who is good at climbing? Now you have the credit for standing up. If anyone rescues Fang Xiangye, he will rise to the top in the future, and there will be nothing to stop him!"

The guards shook their heads together. It is not difficult to climb high, but the problem is that it is extremely difficult to climb high on the wall of the bottomless pit.And Wang Ping'an's most powerful subordinates are all in the vanguard, fighting against the robbers guarding the cave!
(End of this chapter)