Li Longji closed his eyes, shook his head with difficulty, and tears flowed out of his eye sockets.

"Grandfather is old, follow you, even if he is not killed by the thieves, he will definitely die of exhaustion on the road. Rather than this, it is better to stay, drag those thieves, and delay them for a while, won't the grandson be safe?"

At this time, Li Longji's heart was extremely complicated, and since he could remember, he had witnessed and experienced the brutal palace struggle in the post-martial period. At that time, he told himself again and again that if he didn't want to be a victim of others, he had to abandon all family affection and distractions. In fact, he did just that, and he didn't even kill his own son.

However, there will be a day when people will grow old, even if the instinct of self-preservation drives him to have such and such thoughts, but at this farewell moment, the family affection of the grandparents still collapsed their reason, and decided to give up their old lives, but also to buy time for this grandson to escape.

Hearing that his grandfather was going to stay, Li Yu's tears were like rain, and his heart was like a knife, but he couldn't do anything.

"Go, go, go!"

Finally, Li Longji used all his strength to push his grandson outward, and his tone gradually turned sharp.

Li Yu really wanted to be willful, and yelled that he would not leave. But when I thought that I still had my grandfather's high hopes on my shoulders, if I really stayed, not only would the sacrifice be meaningless, but also let down my grandfather's empty heart.

"Grandfather take care, grandson is not filial ......"

After realizing that he couldn't help but go, Li Yu stopped struggling, only knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times, and then stood up and ran out of the Manna Hall without looking back.

Outside the hall, Li Yu only felt that the shouting and killing sound was almost only a wall away from him, knowing that after the palace gate was breached, the rebels would soon find the Manna Palace.

Li Yu looked left and right but couldn't see the left prison gate that escorted him all the way into the Taiji Palace, so he asked the sergeant on duty outside the hall where he went. The sergeants only knew that he had taken some of them back to block the palace gates, and now it was not known what the specific situation was.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will go to Yanjia Hall with the last general, and if you delay any longer, you will be surrounded!"

Shouting was the left guard who had been following him to lead Hou Concrete, Hou Concrete really showed amazing foresight at this time, and he didn't have to wait for his orders, he had already calculated where to go next.

From the Ganlu Hall to the Yanjia Hall and the Chengxiang Palace, either take the Xuanwu Gate, or take the Anli Gate, out of Chang'an City to the West Inner Garden, the West Inner Garden is far less strict than the Chang'an City defense, and the grasp of escaping is naturally more than a few points.

Li Yu finally relented at this time and shouted:

"Those who are willing to fight with me will be brothers in life and death with me Li Yu from now on, and I swear here today that I will never lose up!"

In fact, those who are still following Li Yu's side at this moment are basically out of loyalty to him, otherwise they would have escaped early in the morning when the East Palace was breached. Rao is like this, and the soldiers of the sixth rate of the East Palace are still excited when they hear the prince swear like this.

"May you protect Your Highness, never lose each other! May you protect Your Highness, never lose each other!"

This shout just exposed Li Yu's hiding place, and the shouting of killing got closer and closer to the direction of the Ganlu Palace.

The left guard led the waiting concrete and almost jumped up in a hurry at this time.

"Your Highness, when has this been, and you still say that you will never lose each other? If you can't escape, everything is empty talk!"

Li Yu no longer hesitated, and immediately followed Hou Concrete and other cadres to go straight to the north city, and finally they chose to go out of Chang'an City by Anlimen, because in the eyes of the world, there has been a prince in Xuanwumen who died there, and it seems that it has become an ominous place for the prince, and people instinctively avoid this ominous palace gate.

The guards of Anlimen did not prevent Li Yu from going out of the city, and after learning that the person who came was the prince and the sixth rate of the East Palace, he silently ordered the palace gate to be opened and let go of the city.

It wasn't until he entered the woods in the north of the West Inner Garden that Li Yu breathed a sigh of relief. He did breathe a sigh of relief nervously when he passed through the Anli Gate, because the guards of the Anli Gate would be Li Fuguo's people, and he was really afraid that this person would not let him pass through the closed door, and if he took some more trouble to seize the door, he didn't know how much time he would have to delay.

Hou Xu, who had been broken, drove the horse to catch up with Li Yu and said with emotion:

"If it weren't for His Highness's wishes, I'm afraid it would take a lot of trouble for us to get out of the Anli Gate!"

Li Yu sighed and said:

"It's my Tang Dynasty who still has a heart!"

Thinking of the Zhang family and Li Fuguo, Li Yu gritted his teeth with hatred, seeing that after the chaos, Datang was about to embark on the road to recovery, and now it is good, and I don't know how much bloody rain it will cause. What worries him even more is that although the An's traitors were defeated and retreated to Hebei, they have not yet been cut down after all, and if the Shenwu Army misses the opportunity to completely eliminate the rebels because they are dragged back by the chaos in Chang'an, it will be even more hateful!

The shouting of killing seemed to be getting closer again, and Hou Lian reminded:

"The thieves are afraid that they will be chased out, Your Highness, please follow the last general to the west immediately!"

Li Yu suddenly hesitated, according to the emperor's grandfather's instructions, he should go to Feng Yijun to find Taishou Du Fu, if he went west, wouldn't it be the opposite of the south?

"The Emperor Taishang once explained that he asked us to go to Feng Yijun, Taishou Du Fu is a loyal and upright person!, he will never embarrass me"

Hou Concrete said sharply:

"Has Your Highness forgotten the story of the emperor at the end of the Han Dynasty? Du Fu has the name of loyalty and integrity, and he is not a minion of someone in Qin? Let's go to the army lightly, do you know if we are not sending sheep into the tiger's mouth?"

With such a powerful reminder, Li Yu couldn't help but fall into silence, on the one hand, there was a voice in his heart reminding him that his grandfather would not harm him. But at the same time, there is another voice that laughs all the time: How stupid it is to put your own life and safety in the hands of others!

"Your Highness, don't hesitate any longer!"

"Let's go west!"

Hou Concrete's plan was very simple, Longyou and Hexi were the places where the forces of the various factions in the Tang army were the weakest to penetrate, and they could first go to Longyou to recruit troops and horses, and then settle down in Hexi. At that time, even if Empress Zhang and Li Fuguo sent a large army to conquer, the vast Qilian Mountain Snow Mountain would become an insurmountable barrier for those thieves.

In just one day and night, Li Yuhou and others entered the junction of Longyou Dao, Qinwei and Wei Prefectures. Hundreds of miles further west, is the important town of Jincheng in Longyou.

Officials along the way learned that the prince was touring west, and they went out to greet him and sent troops to escort him. Those with a keen sense of smell also expected that something must have happened in Chang'an again, but no one refused Li Yu's transit because of this.

When the army left Weizhou and entered Lanzhou County and passed through Didao, the number of entourage sergeants around Li Yu also increased from less than 1,000 to nearly 10,000. In such a large team, the soldiers only accounted for about 30% of them, and the rest were all civilians who transported supplies.

This trip to Hexi is thousands of miles away, and the road is extremely difficult, and it is even more sparsely populated, and it is absolutely impossible to have enough food.

The scout horse in charge of the front suddenly brought back a lot of ragged and scarred deserters.

Hou Concrete's intention is to behead all these people, in order to correct military discipline, but the deserters are crying and shouting injustice, they are the defenders of Hezhou, and they were defeated by the Tubo soldiers and horses, and they had to flee to Weizhou and other places as a last resort.

"Nonsense, the Tibetan people have just been fighting in the past year, and their hearts have not yet gained a firm foothold, so how can they easily raise troops? Isn't it a lie arranged by fear of death?"

Li Yu was also inclined to Hou Lian's statement, but now they were on the way to escape, so even if they hated these people as deserters, they still committed compassion under their crying, and only beheaded a few of the unlucky team who took the lead.

Due to the episode of desertion, Hou Concrete couldn't help but be alert, and decided to abandon the established route of Long Castle and Kangwolf Mountain, and instead crossed Zhaoshui to the southwest and went to Anle County, Benbao Prefecture.

Li Yu felt that Hou Concrete was a little too loud.

"It's just deserters, are we going to change our course?"

"At this critical moment, we must always be cautious, we can't have the slightest luck, if there is nothing to do, if something happens, in this right place, who else can help Your Highness to solve problems for Your Majesty?"

Hearing this, Li Yu was speechless, he knew that Hou Lian's words were completely reasonable, as the saying goes: Be careful to sail a 10,000-year-old ship, there is no big mistake!

I only heard Hou Concrete say again:

"In addition, there is also a Zhenxi army stationed in Hezhou, which was also set up by the old minister of Geshu when he was on the right side of Longyou, and Du Wanquan is an old friend of the last general, and he is a credible person, if this person is recruited to His Royal Highness's side, wouldn't it be a big help?"

After Li Yu heard this, one was happy, and the other was worried. But in the end, there were no words of opposition.

At this time, some of the words that the emperor's grandfather had said in his ears when he was a child suddenly became much clearer, and the way of the emperor is to be the master of the people, and the way of the emperor lies in a check and balance, if the subordinates are all harmonious, the unlucky one is the master.

At that time, Li Yu intuitively felt that this was an unbelievable paradox, and that the harmony between the two kings and the wise and virtuous was not exactly what the ancient kings were pursuing? Until now, he was caught in the dilemma that he might encounter at any time, and he suddenly figured it out. Hou Concrete was afraid that Qin Jin would follow Dong Cao's example, so what about himself? And soon there will be one more soldier and horse envoy Du Wanquan of the Zhenxi Army.

It was already noon when the group crossed the valley of Jinjian Mountain, and suddenly got a warning from the horse, and the long and low whistle resounded through the mountains, which was a warning method used only in times of emergency.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!"

Hou Concrete was frightened, realizing that there was an unpredictable danger ahead, and on the one hand ordered people to protect Li Yu to retreat, and on the other hand, he organized men and horses to arrange defenses in the river valley.

A general jumped off his horse, put his ear to the ground and listened for a while, his face changed dramatically.

"It's not good, it's cavalry, and the scale is by no means a minority!"

The valley of Jinjian Mountain is several miles wide, and there is only a knee-deep river in it, which is said to be a tributary of Zhaoshui. Moreover, the terrain in the valley was very flat, enough for the cavalry to spread out the attack formation, and all this was not in their favor.

Although Hou Concrete reacted quickly, he was still a step late, and the earth suddenly shook violently, and bursts of thunder and roar were coming from far and near.