"Tomorrow, we will go back to Haiyang City." Full of wine and food, Liu Shangwu wiped his mouth and said softly.

So early, there are still a lot of things that have not been done, and there is not even a serious sitting in the shop for a while. Liu Zuochen muttered secretly, but he was embarrassed to say it, thinking about it, it had been a while since he returned to Kyoto City, and he didn't do anything serious.

"However, there are a few people who will go with you." Liu Shangwu glanced at Liu Zuochen's blinking eyes, "The third prince and your cousin,...... And Princess Ruxuan! ”

"Poof......" Even if Liu Zuochen turned around in time, he didn't spray Wu Jiang on the other side of the table, but he still sprayed Zhang Kang.

"Childe, can you be careful? This ......" Zhang Kang dusted the tea with his hands in a panic, thinking that his newly made clothes had only been worn for a day, where did he care about Liu Zuochen's sadness?

……

No matter how warm the wind is, it is a bit biting in the middle of winter, and the horses are snorting and snorting white air, and the farther away from Kyoto, the more pedestrians are sparse, and the more desolate they feel. According to the previous speed, he should have returned to Haiyang City at this time, but the trip was slowed down by the addition of three additional people and a group of entourage.

Maybe it's because of his mood, or maybe it's because of the environment, Liu Zuochen looked depressed all the way, even if Zhang Youneng and Wu Liuyi were crazy from time to time, it didn't make his mood improve. glanced at the carriage in the center of Princess Ruxuan, listened to the "giggles" of silver bells, and thought in my heart, my cousin is now fighting with her!

"Zuo Chen......, come here."

Liu Shangwu, who poked his head out of the car window, looked more and more hairy, and greeted Liu Zuochen at the back of the team.

In the spacious carriage, Liu Shangwu sat by the brazier and frowned slightly, and said to Liu Zuochen, who got into the carriage: "Pay careful attention to the pedestrians on the road, there are dozens of miles of mountains and dense forests ahead, and it is estimated that at this speed, it may not pass before dark." ”

"Father, have you found any clues?" Looking at Liu Shangwu hesitantly, Liu Zuochen thought that he had not found any suspicious pedestrians on the road, and he could find the clues by sitting in the carriage? Besides, such a large group of people is not something that ordinary thieves dare to offend.

After years of garrisoning the border and half of his life, Liu Shangwu naturally cultivated an extraordinary clairvoyance and ears. The day before yesterday, it was clearly distinguishable that the military horses were trampling past, and although the number of people who were sparse and lala was small, Liu Shangwu could be sure that they were by no means good. Liu Shangwu raised the curtain and looked at it, it was suspicious for people in common clothes to ride young and strong military horses, not to mention that there should be two teams of people running to the front and back.

"It's not an ordinary thief, it should be a group of people who are in the army, before entering the mountains, let the big guy cheer up, if there is a wind and grass......" Liu Shangwu stared at the flickering charcoal fire and said slowly, suddenly raised his head and ejaculated, and said in a deep voice: "Kill or kill!" ”

What a discovery! Liu Zuochen was a little irritable while being dazed, "I'm thinking about it... I actually followed the halfway from Kyoto City, and I really didn't die of a thief!? Who the hell is this guy? ”

"I can't care so much, ensuring the safety of everyone is the most important thing at the moment! Arrange to go. ”

Liu Shangwu's words were quite helpless, how could he not know who was in charge of this team, how could he not know who was ordered by him?

The mountain road is quite spacious.

The cold wind blew through the treetops, whining and swooping to the ground, so that the dust and grass clippings that looked up at the birds flying freely could fly for a while, and then they fell slowly to the ground, and they could not tell whether the wind or the dust and grass clippings were tired of it, and so they flew up and down, and flew up and down again and again.

Looking at the overgrown slopes on both sides, Liu Zuochen secretly breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, there was no dangerous place with cliffs, if the rocks were thrown down from the top of the mountain, even if they had been prepared, they would inevitably have casualties. Turning around and looking at the carriage, he couldn't help but smile slightly, the carriage covered with a sandwich iron plate had absolutely no problem resisting ordinary arrows.

"Get ......" The sound of the horse's hooves of the pathfinder in front of him attracted everyone's attention.

"Childe! At the bend of the road two miles ahead, someone blocked the way with trees. The visitor gasped and added, "You can see that they are all newly cut trees." ”

Liu Zuochen raised his arm to stop the march of the team behind him, and everyone nervously pulled out their long knives, took off their crossbows and looked at the depths of the mountains and forests on both sides.

In addition to the snorting of the military horses and the whistling of the wind, the occasional low song of forest birds sounded.

"Childe, listen."

"Huh?" Liu Zuochen looked at Wu Jiang suspiciously, tilted his head and tilted his ears sideways, and also raised his ears but found nothing.

"Strange ......" looked at Wu Jiang in the dense forest in the distance with a hesitant expression, "It's a danger signal shared by border gates, why is it here." ”

A personal soldier who accompanied Liu Shangwu this time interjected: "Just now, I also heard it, and I thought it was a hallucination, but it seems that someone really reported to us." ”

Turning around, Liu Zuochen looked at Lao Tzu Liu Shangwu's carriage, and he already knew in his heart, presumably this was Li Ziqin's thief who used Chen Xu out of his heart, whether it was Chen Xu or Chen Xu who arranged someone else to pass on the message, which is unknown.

"What's wrong? Why don't you go? His Royal Highness the Third Prince, got up from the carriage station and asked in a loud greeting.

"It's okay, Lin Micao told the guards, let's hurry! His Royal Highness the Prince went back to the car and sat down peacefully, the province suffered from the wind and cold, and we couldn't afford it! Liu Zuochen, who also replied loudly, turned around and ordered: "Keep going!" ”

The three princes looked back and forth, left and right, and went deep into the mountains, and the appearance of all the soldiers on guard fell into their eyes, and they had already guessed that there was no difference between eight and ten. He was even more angry in his heart, and he didn't know what his father thought in his heart, so he condescended to Haiyang City, and after thinking about it all the way, he couldn't figure out how to express his feelings when he saw the danger approaching.

The team began to move again, noticeably slower than before. Passing by the trees that were still moving away, Liu Zuochen deliberately glanced at the traces of new felling.

"Buzz...... Knock Knock...... Herod'......"

The sound of heavy crossbows, followed by the loud sound of crossbow arrows hitting the wagons, and the neighing of frightened horses.

"Uncle Wu carefully guard, you come with me......" Liu Zuochen flew off his horse and commanded, and in a few jumps in succession, he had already taken the lead in the direction where the heavy crossbow was fired.

Zhang Youneng and Wu Liuyi's several people were already uncomfortable during this time, and at this time, they were like a tiger out of the cage when they got Liu Zuochen's order, and they dodged the arrows shot down from the mountain behind Liu Zuochen, and after a while, they were covered by the woods and weeds.

"Fence the carriage ......"

Before Wu Jiang's words fell, another heavy crossbow arrow shot at the carriage that Liu Shangwu was riding, which had been shot over, and shot at the bottom of the carriage with a "bang", the wooden board shattered and burst out pieces of sawdust, and the iron plate recessed into the boss, which still did not shoot through.

"General ......" When the guards accompanying him were guarding the carriage, no arrows were fired, and the sound of fighting was already heard on the mountain, Wu Jiang remembered that there were not many people with Liu Zuochen, and hurriedly ordered: "Quick, go and support Gongzi." ”

When Liu Zuochen took the lead in cutting down a person, a burst of rapid arrows shot away, and he had to hide behind a tree and make a gesture to Wu Liuyi behind him, and he could hear that the enemy who failed in the attack had begun to retreat under the cover of the archers, so that Wu Liuyi led the two people to make a detour from the side to distract the attention of the archers.

The voices of the mountain support staff were already clearly audible, causing the enemy archers to shoot more arrows into the crowd.

Liu Zuochen couldn't help but feel a little anxious, rushing over from the front in such a rush was undoubtedly the enemy's target, and hurriedly gestured for Zhang Youneng to turn around and lead the support staff to copy from the two sides.

Wu Liuyi on the right hand had already exchanged hands with the enemy, Liu Zuochen glanced at the gap, and rushed towards the enemy who was retreating with bows and arrows under the cover of the trees.

quickly handed over the hand-to-hand fight, so that the enemy was quite concerned about their own personnel and lost the power of the bow and arrow, so that Liu Zuochen and his party quickly fought with them.

"Kill!" Zhang Youneng led people to rush into the battle circle.

They never expected that when Liu Zuochen and his party were attacked, they did not focus on defense but rushed to the top of the mountain to fight with them, and they fled, and the dozen or so people who did not have time to escape were either killed on the spot or were injured and fell to the ground.

"Say! By whom? Speak up and spare your life. ”

Wu Liuyi's white face was covered with blood, and he handed the long knife to a person's forehead and asked sharply.

"We are on the orders of the Kyoto Garrison Division to carry out the mission!" Raising the signboard of the garrison division may be able to save a small life, the person who answered thought so.

It's another group of ghostly ghosts who have been bewitched to come to die! Liu Zuochen muttered and slowly squatted down, "Let me ask you, do you know who the attacker is?" Who are you traveling with? ”

The person who answered shook his head blankly and looked at Liu Zuochen with a vague impression, and suddenly remembered, "You are Lord Xiao Liu!" ”

Liu Zuochen nodded and smiled bitterly, "Alas! It's too late to know......"

"Lord Xiao Liu, spare your life! …… This adult said, if you say it, you will avoid the death of a small one! ”

"Why don't you understand? The person you attacked was the number one general, Liu Shangwu! Do you really think you'll be able to escape alive? "Let a few of them be enlightened ghosts even if they die, Liu Zuochen feels that it is very necessary, firstly, so as not to feel guilty about themselves, and also so that they do not live in the world that is known in the world.

Standing up and looking at him with a blank look in his eyes, Liu Zuochen suddenly felt that they were very pitiful! It's so pitiful, I don't know why I gave away my life in a daze! It's so pitiful that I couldn't take one last look at my family in order to carry out the order! Can't bear to watch them stare at him with innocent eyes, Liu Zuochen turned around, "Quickly clean up the battlefield and return to the team!" ”