At dawn, the situation in Xiangyang Mansion City in the smoke and dust became more and more chaotic, and the streets and alleys were full of defeated soldiers. The "Zhenhua Gate" of the East Changmen has been controlled by the West Battalion, and the Li'an Militia Battalion defending the "West Chengmen" in the west has also been defeated by the impact of the West Camp Elite Cavalry. Because of the protection of the urn city, it was not attacked by the western camp as a target for attack, and hundreds of officers and soldiers were still stationed. However, Lu Zhenguo had no intention of meeting the troops to counterattack, he believed that the defeat of the officers and soldiers in Xiangyang Mansion was decided, and the only thing he could do now was to gather the remaining troops and evacuate as soon as possible.

Zhang Xianzhong, of course, would not let Lu Zhenguo escape, after the collapse of the Li Anmin Department, he did not stop, divided the hundreds of cavalry into three roads, led one way to the county government office, and the other two roads were led by the cavalry generals Wang Hui and Bu Ning to pursue Lu Zhenguo.

Lu Zhenguo was asleep when he was attacked, and he had elbows and armpits, and he had no time to put on armor and helmets in the chaos, so he ran away with only a single coat and a horse. The horse was not a horse that he was accustomed to riding, but a horse in charge of carrying goods in the battalion, because his barracks were not far from Gongchen Gate, but he could catch up with the speeding Xiying cavalry halfway through.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the officers and soldiers on the left and right dispersed in a hurry, and Lu Zhenguo patted his horse bitterly and prayed to heaven and earth. A few arrows flew and hit the horse's buttocks, and Lu Zhenguo felt the strength of the mount under his crotch plummet. Before he could get out, the pony screamed uncontrollably and fell uncontrollably towards the burning house on the diagonal side.

The king shouted, "Catch it alive!" As soon as he exited, several Xiying elites rode their horses and marched quickly, each throwing a rope to trap Lu Zhenguo.

But without waiting for these Xiying elite horsemen to succeed, in the direction of Gongchen Gate, in the soaring flames, countless cavalry equipped with horses and horses suddenly appeared. Their armor reflected a strong light, splitting the raging flames of Zhangyu like a stream, almost like the Shura Yaksha who stepped on the karmic fire to seduce the soul and ask for his life, and Lu Zhenguo, who was about to fall, also disappeared in their towering figures in an instant.

"Which ministry do you belong to?" Wang Hui subconsciously thought that the comer was an unexpected encounter with the same camp, and pulled the reins and asked. However, his round eyes immediately welled up with infinite horror, and everywhere in his eyes, those cavalrymen who only cared about silently attacking, where did they have the slightest intention of stopping.

The king secretly screamed and turned his horse to retreat, but the knights of unknown origin on the opposite side suddenly accelerated in an instant, and the cascading iron horses filled the not spacious streets, and the erect riding spears were slightly upturned, dense like thorns and sharp thorns. It was like a square brush made of steel, and swept towards the Xiying elite cavalry who had no way to retreat.

Lu Zhenguo, who was being coerced, closed his eyes tightly, only to hear the sound of continuous swords and soldiers intersecting in his ears, breaking, screaming, wailing, colliding, hissing and other sounds mixed in, at a certain moment, Lu Zhenguo even had a slight tinnitus in a trance, and when the tinnitus was ringing, he felt as if the heavens and the earth were shattered.

Like a tidal wave of iron flowing to the mouth at the other end of this street and alley, the voice in Lu Zhenguo's ears gradually returned to clarity. Just as he was slowly pacing with his horse, he heard someone call out to him.

"Lord Lu...... Lord Lu ......"

Lu Zhenguo suddenly woke up, at this time someone carried him off the horse, he was supported and looked at it, but saw a backlight, facing himself.

"Master Lu, Zhao is a step too late, please forgive me." The mellow voice is familiar.

Lu Zhenguo's eyes were dull, and he wanted to get closer to talk to the people on the horse, but as soon as he took a step, his legs and feet did not obey the call, and he was weak and weak. He gasped for a deep breath and looked at his lower body, only to see that there was a constant flow of heat seeping through his trousers, accumulating into a small puddle.

"Lord Zhao......" Lu Zhenguo only said three words and couldn't continue, even though he had seen the identity of the person on the horse, but his mouth trembled, and he couldn't speak clearly.

Zhao Dangshi knew that his soul had been affected too much, and he couldn't adjust it for a while, so he said left and right: "Send Lord Lu down to rest first." As he spoke, he raised his voice and shouted, "Old horse! ”

"The subordinates are here!" Ma Guangchun, who was neatly draped, urged his horse forward, half of his armor had been stained with blood in the charge just now.

"Beheaded a thief?"

Ma Guangchun nodded and whistled twice, and soon, the sentry officers in the camp, Guan San'er and Ma Guangning, stretched out their hands, each carrying a head out of the ranks.

"I have just checked my identity, Wang Hui, Bu Ning, and the two horsemen who offer thieves are all awarded the head. There were 200 horsemen, more than half of them were killed and wounded, and the rest of the people scattered. ”

Zhao Dangshi said with a smile: "I have rushed nearly two hundred miles in one go, and I can still have this combat power, it is really a good son of my Feijie right battalion!" ”

At that time, there was a burst of rockets in the sky east of the city.

Zhao Dangshi frowned and said: "Old Han's luck is not as good as ours, he flew to the left camp to go to Zhenhua Gate, it seems that there are thieves guarding there, so it is inevitable that there will be a fierce battle." ”

Ma Guangchun said: "Lord, this time, we have been running for 200 miles from Lutoudian day and night, and we have already made up our minds to become benevolent if we don't succeed." The thief thought he had a plan, but he didn't know that tonight was his death! ”

Zhao Dangshi said: "The thief is really good at forcibness, we are nearly a hundred miles away from the capital city than him, but we are still one step slower than him." Speaking of this, a horse's belly is clamped, "I can't delay any longer, according to the original plan, it will be divided into two groups, one group will go to Xiangwangfu with me, and the other group of old horses will support Lao Han!" ”

"Yes!" Ma Guangchun nodded in agreement, and immediately went to their respective places.

The rocket in the sky above the east of the city can also be seen clearly by everyone in the backyard of King Xiang's mansion.

Hua Qing saw Zhang Hui'er being pierced through the throat by a long lance in front of him, and forcibly endured the discomfort to hide his face and turn around. A person swaggered towards Zhang Hui'er's corpse from behind her, pulled out the lance, looked around at the shocked Zhang Kewang and other soldiers in the West Battalion, and said lazily: "The thief killer, Jiangdu Hao Mingluan." At the same time, he tilted his head and looked at Zhang Hui'er, who was staring at him, with contempt on his face, "'Four Tigers'?" I think 'four cats' is more appropriate. ”

"Hao Mingluan?" How can Zhang Kewang not be familiar with this name. He suddenly became angry and scolded sharply, "What a Hao Mingluan, I forced the eight kings before, and now I have killed the general of my battalion, and I have a deep hatred in the sea of blood, how can I allow you to be presumptuous!" Speaking of this, he ordered Wang Jiye, "General Wang, quickly take down this guy!" ”

"Yes." Wang Jiye agreed, and then waved his knife, "Brothers! Take down the 'wall' of thieves with me! ”

Zhang Kewang's nickname is "a wall", he thought he had heard it wrong at first glance, and stared at Wang Jiye. But seeing Wang Jiye's face was iron-clad, facing him and raising his sword, more than ten soldiers in his department had already brandished knives and guns under his order.

"Brute, ...... you" Zhang Kewang made a lot of calculations, but he didn't expect Wang Jiye to suddenly attack, and the several soldiers of the Western Battalion who were blocking in front didn't have time to react, they were all chopped to the ground, he panicked and fought and retreated.

"'A wall', I haven't seen it for a long time."

Zhang Kewang was in a hurry to catch up with Zhang Hui'er at that time, except for Wang Jiye who led the troops to accompany him, there were not many other soldiers, and he was outnumbered and soon fell behind. Hao Mingluan was watching the excitement with a long lance, and among the relatives in the Xiangwang Mansion, nearly ten people came out one after another. They tore off all the women's hats and robes that were wrapped around them, and they were all strong men. When the first one was dark-skinned and toothy and sneered. Xiangwang Zhu Yiming was dumbfounded, it was dark and the soldiers were chaotic, and he didn't pay attention to how this group of people got into the queue.

When Zhang Kewang saw that person, he immediately gritted his teeth and said bitterly: "Hei Bangjun, it is rumored that you are dead, and it turns out that you have already become the lackey of the Zhao thief!" He scolded again, "The surname Wang, the surname Hei, Xiangyang Mansion is in the hands of the Eight Kings, you and other shameless traitors can't live tonight, don't be rampant!" "Hei Bangjun and Wang Jiye are brothers who worship the son, and it is conceivable that the reason why Wang Jiye turned against the water must have been bewitched by Hei Bangjun.

"Can't survive tonight? Not necessarily, I'm afraid Hei Bangjun smiled dryly, "Mr. Zhao has already calculated that you will come to steal the city, and he will wait for you to jump in by himself." I, these people, were ordered to protect the relatives of the Xiangwang Mansion, and there are tens of millions of officers and soldiers outside, what can your battalion win! ”

Hei Bangjun and Wang Jiye are very clear Zhang Kewang knows very well, even these people are now so swearing, it is conceivable that Zhang Xianzhong's surprise attack on Xiangyang Mansion City that he thought was a stroke of genius has actually come to naught. But even so, he didn't mean to give in, the guards around him died one by one under the onslaught of Wang Jiye and others, he fought more than once, and the hard work and hard work in the past came in handy at this moment, Rao is Wang Jiye, Hei Bangjun added up to more than 20 people, and it was difficult to subdue him for a while.

Hao Mingluan stood in place and watched for a moment, and when he saw that more than 20 people couldn't take a single hit, he suddenly felt irritable. Yawned, and as soon as I picked up the lance, I wanted to go into battle in person. Before he moved, the outside of the courtyard first made a noise, and after a while, countless stubborn armorers rushed in, a handful of golden armor and red robes, heroic posture, raised a knife and said loudly: "The thief has been defeated, and those who descend to my Zhao camp will not die!" ”

Hao Mingluan smiled when he saw this, put the lance back again, and said from afar: "Lord! ”

The voice fell, and several soldiers flashed out of the queue, pushing a young general with a lot of flowers to the ground, Zhao Dangshi pointed a knife at him, and said sternly: "The thief Zhang Dingguo has been bound, and the thieves in the house are all defeated, and those who know the times are Junjie, don't do it in vain!" ”

Zhang Dingguo curled up, crying to Zhang Kewang like rain of tears: "Big brother, I'm useless!" ”

"Dingguo ......" Zhang Kewang looked at his closest second brother, and then looked around, and suddenly found that in the backyard of Xiangwang's Mansion, I don't know when the situation reversed, and he was the only one left in the western camp who was still fighting alone. Listening to Zhang Dingguo's mournful cry not far away, he immediately felt sad from his heart, and the spirit of hard work finally collapsed. He threw the waist knife that had cut countless gaps with his mouth open, and raised his head and wailed.

Controlling the situation in Xiangwang's Mansion, Zhao Dangshi breathed a sigh of relief, ignored the eyes of Xiangfan's relatives, walked quickly to Hua Qing's side, took her into his arms with force, and said with self-reproach: "It's still too late, I almost made you wronged." ”

During the period before and after the withdrawal of Zhao Ying's army from Xiangyang, Zhu Yiming was planning to send Huaqing back to Hanzhong Ruifan, so he met Huaqing almost every day, Zhao Dangshi could not repeat the old trick to take Huaqing away in advance, and in order to avoid arousing Zhu Yiming's suspicion, only a few first-class experts, including Hao Mingluan, were sent to hide in the mansion for protection, but even so, the actual situation was still sinister. Thinking back a few quarters of an hour ago, it can be said that life and death are at a close distance. Thinking of this verse, he had no scruples.

Although Hua Qing was still panting slightly, he said in his mouth: "It's not too late." His hands also tightly wrapped around Zhao Dangshi's waist.

Zhu Changfa saw the two hugging each other, clapping his hands, while Zhu Yiming was half shocked and half embarrassed, looked around uneasily, and deliberately coughed twice and said: "Mr. Zhao, thank you for your help!" ”

Zhao Dangshi let go of Hua Qing at this time, Hua Qing lowered his head and hid in a panic among his relatives, he didn't blush and replied: "The prince doesn't have to be like this, guarding Xiangyang Mansion is Zhao's duty, but it's a pity that the thief took advantage of the loophole, so that the prince and other golden branches and jade leaves were frightened." ”

Zhu Yiming said in his heart I was indeed frightened, glanced at Huaqing, pulled Zhao Dangshi aside, and said in a straight voice: "Mr. Zhao, one yard is one yard, what is the relationship between you and the county lord?" ”

Zhao Dangshi said: "What is the relationship, the prince must have seen it." ”

"This ...... This is not necessarily a good thing. Zhu Yiming didn't expect him to express his meaning so directly.

Zhao Dangshi said disapprenously: "Please also ask the prince to fulfill it." ”

Zhu Yiming was a little angry in his heart, and said, "How can Xiao Wang be fulfilled?" This is not a joke. ”

Zhao Dangshi said lightly: "There is no Zhao today, and the Xiangfan will be burned, and there is nothing to laugh at." Zhao hopes that the prince will be fulfilled, and what he saw and heard tonight does not need to reveal half a word. The situation in Xiangyang Mansion City has been fully controlled, and the few worries he has left have basically disappeared, and he has nothing to fear.

"What do you mean?" Zhu Yiming listened to his cold and tough tone, which was very different from the past, and secretly took a cool breath.

Zhao Dangshi suddenly loosened his eyebrows, smiled, and said: "What do you mean that the prince knows in his heart, you and I have been working together for a long time, this tacit understanding, Zhao believes that the prince still has it." After speaking, he saluted, turned around and walked away without looking back, and while walking, he raised his hand and ordered the soldiers in the courtyard, "Good students take care of the prince's family, don't give the thieves a chance to take advantage of it!" ”

The soldiers of the Zhao battalion moved when they heard the order, and in the middle of the stumbling, Zhu Yiming stood in place, his long sleeves hanging low, and watched Zhao Dangshi's scarlet cloak disappear into the inky night, with mixed tastes.