[Forty-one] Pursuit outside the city
This scene made Jiang Chengjia's heart tremble, and he further confirmed his guess: In the capital, there is only the Dongfu Office except the Tingwei Mansion. Dou Yuelan could not shoot the arrow inexplicably. These three loud noises could only be done by his elder brother. The arrow shot the battle flag shows that the elder brother wanted to remind her. If the capture of the thief in the city was successful, he would not need to shoot the flagpole at all.
She turned her eyes for a moment and had a guess in her mind: the vision that appeared in Pingcheng Gate was most likely a plan for the enemy to attack the east and west. If the soldiers in the city were in chaos, Zhou Yuanmo was behind the scenes. In order to protect the troops he had accumulated in the capital over the years, he would definitely use a strange move to disrupt the defense of his brother and the king, deliberately attacking dull, and use another method to break through the siege and cover his people to evacuate safely.
Although Zhou Yuanmo was extremely in his behavior, he was very meticulous. He was very likely to consider both the success and failure of today and set a way out for himself. He was bold and meticulous and prepared for Luoyang for a long time. In order to escape successfully, he would definitely make a secret passage leading to the city. This secret passage also needs to be hidden from the eyes of Emperor Wei, Ning Zheng and the ministers in the court. Therefore, the most dangerous place is the safest place.
After thinking about it, she determined that Zhou Yuanmo was most likely to set up a secret passage, and immediately led her people to the west of the city without stopping.
The battle flag collapsed, which shocked the ambushers guarding outside the city. Fu Chen's eyes flashed strangely, and he thought to himself: Is it really as Jiang Chengjia said that something big happened in the city?
He was very uneasy. However, the sound of fighting in the Pingcheng Gate was still endless. Such movements made him dare not easily lead troops to the west of the city to look for a girl. After a moment, a sequel came from the city gate, as if someone was hitting the city gate Changshuo, intending to break out. Fu Chen became even more nervous, holding his breath and staring at him, for fear of missing the opportunity.
The spiritual fog was extremely harmful. Even if Ning Nanyou led people to extinguish the source of the fog, most of the soldiers from the Dongfu Division and the Tingwei Division were injured. The imperial guards led by Jing Ting were also hit by the toxins of the fog, even if they were only mild, weakened most of the troops. There were only about 500 thieves who took advantage of the situation to attack, but they were all agile and held unknown powder in their hands and splashed them everywhere in front of the city, causing the soldiers affected by the toxin to attack their own people like crazy. Dou Yuelan and Jing Ting struggled to hold on, and could no longer withstand the offensive in less than half an hour. They could only find someone to report to Jiang Chengyi and ask for more soldiers in Jiang Mansion to support him.
Unexpectedly, before the scouts in the Imperial Guard had run out of three miles, they heard three loud noises in the air. The battle flag on the wall squeaked and shook twice, and then fell suddenly, making a shocking thunder. After about a cup of tea, everyone saw Lord Jiang from the Dongfu Division leading two thousand troops again, galloping towards Wei Dou Tingwei and Commander Jing, "Please open the city gate, two sirens!"
Dou Yuelan held the sword tightly and was struggling to resist the enemy's attack. When he heard the roar of the river lion, he felt as if he was thunderous. He stared at the speeding Lang Jun incredibly, and said in confusion: "Master Jiang, why do you want to open the city gate?"
At this moment, a man in black waved the long sword in his hand and wanted to slash Dou Yuelan's shoulder and neck. Jing Ting was quick in his eyes and quickly raised the spear in his hand, and hit hard, shaking the killer with inadvertent intentions three meters away. He was extremely agile and quickly came to Dou Lang's side, and said back to back to defend the enemy: "Master Dou, be careful!"
Dou Yuelan turned around and saw this scene. His chest was thumping and his feet were weak: "Mr. Dou thanked Commander Da for saving his life."
Facing the strong enemy, Jing Ting's eyes were dark and he said to the people behind him decisively and firmly: "Mr. Dou, let's open the city gate as Jiang Zhusi said! Maybe he has other arrangements outside the city!"
After he reminded him, Dou Yuelan finally reacted, immediately withdrew his doubts, and shouted to the soldiers surrounding him: "Open the city gate!"
After several twists and turns, the soldiers who were able to escape from the enemy followed the orders and rushed towards the city gate. Jiang Chengyi also led two thousand troops to the front of Pingcheng Gate and surrounded the remaining more than 400 men in black.
During the fight and encirclement, the city gate chief Shuan was pulled away by the mansion soldiers, and the heavy and clumsy Zhuhong gate opened. The more than 400 men in black were driven out of the city by Jiang Chengyi and rushed to the suburbs. Fu Chen, who was secretly guarding Linjiao, saw this scene and immediately issued an order: "All the soldiers obey the orders! Assist the Jiangzhushi to capture the thieves!"
The team behind him was already ready to move. After receiving the order, they stood up from the forest, raised their guns and swords to the front of Pingcheng Gate, and cooperated with Jiang Chengyi inside and outside to surround the thieves.
Dou Yuelan and Jing Ting were covered in scars and came out of the city gate. Seeing the densely packed soldiers running from the suburbs, they were shocked.
It turned out that Jiang Chengyi had set up an ambush outside the city. If the city gate was broken, he could join forces with the troops to catch turtles in the jar. Four hundred men in black faced more than 3,000 soldiers, and knew that being captured was an inevitable result, so he did not dare to act rashly again.
Jiang Chengjia, who was looking for a secret passage in the west of the city, heard the deafening sound of running outside the Pingcheng Gate, and knew that his brother and Fu Chen were most likely to have succeeded.
She led her men and horses to search carefully, and sure enough, she found a secret secret passage leading to the Xiguo District of the city. This passage was overgrown, dark and dark, and was covered by the alley and was extremely difficult to find. It was empty inside, but the moss on the stone bricks were crushed and trampled by people. She immediately turned her head and looked for traces in the direction where the secret passage was opened. Under the gray sky, she found an extremely subtle drag mark on the Changlin ancient road leading to the deep mountains of the suburbs of Beijing. Looking further forward, she saw a pile of messy footprints printed on the dusty mud road.
She looked at these traces, as if they were left not long ago. The number of footprints was huge, and there must be quite a few people evacuated from the city. They did not have any tools such as cattle and horses to transport. They had to take into account the number of people in the team just by taking into account the number of people in the team, so they must not go far.
After proposing these judgments, Jiang Chengjia immediately ordered people to chase after them.
The ancient road extends to the deep mountains and passes from here. There is a very difficult path to walk. You need to cross the mountains before you can get out of Luoyang.
The woman in blue led the team leader finally evacuated from the secret passage. When she reached the end of the ancient road, she saw a towering mountain and couldn't help but sigh. The deep mountain path is not only far away, but she is extremely easy to lose direction. She is not familiar with this road, but she has to choose here. All the passages where the people traveled long are mandatory supervision by Jiang Chengyi. Even if she forcibly breaks through, she may not find a way to survive.
The woman in blue wiped off the sweat beads from her forehead and ordered her subordinates to go to the mountains to explore the way first. She was about to let everyone rest in front of the mountain for a while, a rustling sound suddenly came from the dense forest. She immediately became alert and kept everyone silent. She pulled out a short knife from her waist and quietly approached the place where the sound came. Just as she was about to lift the knife and stab the forest, a muddy person suddenly rushed out of her inside.
The woman in blue immediately raised her foot and wanted to give her a fatal blow. Unexpectedly, the man was extremely skilled and dodged. A carp thrust, stood up from the ground, and shouted, "Princess Feiyu."
As soon as the familiar voice came out, the woman in blue quickly stopped attacking and looked at the ragged and dusty man in front of her and said in surprise: "Zhou Yuanmo?"
The man's face was stained, but his feminine eyes were particularly obvious: "Princess, I am indeed a subordinate."
Fei Yu was surprised at first, then he said with some confusion: "You are so fast? Where are the remaining five hundred people? Why didn't you keep up?"
Zhou Yuanmo's eyebrows trembled, and his voice became cold: "They were all arrested... and taken to the Dongfu Department."
He knew in his heart that if he had not been to take care of his escape, he could have saved these people. But for the sake of the overall situation, they had to sacrifice. Because he could never fall into Jiang Chengyi's hands, nor could he return to the Huaiyin Marquis Mansion.
Fei Yu was silent for a while and snorted coldly: "The second disciple of Duding Villa is really cruel and ruthless. In order to save his life, he abandoned his brother who had been with him for many years."
She secretly sarcastically, but the man in front of her said without changing his face: "If the princess wants to mock me, she doesn't have to pick it at this time. The Jiang girl has noticed our movements and sent someone to chase me like this."
"What?" Fei Yu's face changed, she looked at the ancient road, cursed in her heart, and then ordered the renovated team to set off immediately.
Zhou Yuanmo was extremely familiar with the mountain road leading to the ancient road, which happened to help Fei Yu a lot. However, Jiang Chengjia's people had already followed him after him. The mountain road was difficult to walk, and they could not walk for long before they could be caught up by Jiang Chengjia.
Halfway through the deep mountains, Fei Yu suddenly stopped and said to Zhou Yuanmo: "Where is the silk book I handed over to you before leaving?"
Zhou Yuanmo glanced at her, took out silk from his arms, and reached out and handed it to her: "What is the princess...what do you want to do?"
"If you want to explain to you if you take back my own things?" Fei Yu said unhappily.
Zhou Yuanmo stopped talking and stopped talking. Fei Yu held the silk book and whispered to his personal bodyguard for a while. The guard then took the silk book from her, walked against the team, and hurried down the mountain.
Then, Feiyu started her steps again and walked towards the depths of the mountain with her skirt. Zhou Yuanmo took this scene into his eyes and became suspicious of the relationship between Jiang Nu and Feiyu.
Jiang Chengjia was not allowed to ride a horse, so he could only wait anxiously in the west of the city. After dealing with the remaining matters of Pingchengmen, Jiang Chengyi rode his horse toward the west of the city. A long distance away, he saw his sister standing at the intersection of the ancient road, looking up.
He pulled the reins, stopped the horse, untied his cloak, walked towards the girl, and unfolded his cloak to put it on her: "You are weak, and you cannot stand in the wind even in summer."
Jiang Chengyi held the girl's hand and stood to the side of the road entrance. The girl's shoulders trembled at first, and then she looked up and saw who the person was, so she dared to relax: "I have sent someone to find the traces of the thief. I don't know if I can catch them before they leave Luoyang."
Chapter completed!