The full moon takes over from the setting sun, bringing some light to the darkness of the night.

Ten horses are still galloping. Slowly, some horses slowed down.

Liu Chen choked up and choked, unable to control the direction at all.

Pei Shen looked behind him. Zhou Heng shouted from behind: "They haven't chased after them yet." ”

Tian Mao also slowed down and roughly circled everyone.

How could there be one less, he checked again, and was sure that it was ten, and by the light of the moon he carefully identified the people on each horse.

Where is the old Zhang Tou?

"Old Zhangtou!" Tian Mao began to shout, but no one answered.

"Where's Old Zhangtou?" Tian Mao continued to shout, and Pei Shen and Ye Jiwen also shouted after looking around for a week.

"Who saw Lao Zhang's head?" Tian Mao asked. Zhou Heng wiped the blood from his face with a puzzled expression, saying that he didn't know.

At this time, Wei Si sighed and suddenly realized: "After I left the city, I vaguely saw that the city gate was closed, could it be that Lao Zhangtou closed it? If it was really Lao Zhangtou who did it, I am afraid that it will be more auspicious now." ”

Zhou Heng, who could hear this, didn't have any mud and water, and ran in the direction he came.

Seeing Zhou Heng leaving, Pei Hurt hurriedly caught up and shouted, "What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to save Lao Zhangtou, we can't leave Lao Zhangtou behind. Zhou Heng's face was full of tears.

Although Pei was also very sad, he still kept his senses. and Tian Mao who rushed to pull the reins of Zhou Heng's horse.

"You're fooling around, you're going back like this, you're going to die. Tian Mao yelled hysterically at Zhou Heng.

"Do you think you can save Lao Zhangtou by going back like this? Do you want Lao Zhangtou to die in vain? You are wasting the time that Lao Zhangtou bought for us. ”

After hearing Tian Mao's words, Zhou Heng couldn't break down anymore and began to cry completely unbridled.

The two of them pulled Zhou Heng and didn't know how to comfort him, the only thing he could do was to caress Zhou Heng's back, so that he couldn't be upset by his sad emotions.

After some delays in the precious world, the three of them once again joined up with the group that was still waiting in place, and continued to walk towards the north.

Although the rest of the road was non-stop, the atmosphere was indescribably depressing.

"Old Zhang Tou, formerly known as Zhang Mingjun, a native of Shanwang County, Daxing Country, you can rest assured that I will always remember you, and I will go to your hometown to build a grave for you. Zhang Heng gradually calmed down, just wiping his tears and muttering.

"Don't worry, we will definitely avenge Lao Zhangtou. I swear that I will definitely use my hand to rejuvenate the great prince Liu Yuan. We can have the end of this because of his orders. Tian Mao also said.

is still a dead man, Tian Mao mixed all these sorrows with the faintly rising hatred enough to count all of them on Liu Yuan, the great prince of Daxingguo. He secretly swore in his heart at the moment that anything could be achieved slowly, and Lao Zhangtou's revenge must be avenged as soon as he had the opportunity.

Lao Zhangtou bought a full quarter of an hour at the cost of his life.

In addition to a wide official road in the north of Mingyu City, there are countless other roads, large and small, and the terrain is complex, although the moonlight is bright, it cannot shine on every part of the earth, which makes the traces of the horse's hooves on the ground not easy to be detected, so that Tian Mao, who has no destination, can only speed up the speed of the horse's hooves.

The Daxing soldiers, who had been delayed for time, completely lost the traces of Tian Mao and others as soon as they left the city gate, and more than a dozen urgently mobilized pursuing soldiers had to carefully observe every fork in the road in order to determine the direction of escape.

Tian Mao and his entourage did not follow any fixed route in the dark night, the only thing they could be sure of was that the horse's hooves were all the way to the north, and it was enough to go north, and only by constantly going north could they escape from the pursuit of Daxingguo.

He did not dare to delay for a moment, and did not care whether the horse's uninterrupted hurried march would not be able to continue.

"Everyone hold on, the soldiers who are chasing after now must be frightened, after all, this is a territory that has not yet been occupied, and we must hurry as soon as possible before dawn. If it was dawn, the big eagle raised by the army would surely have spotted us. At that time, all my actions would be very passive in the eyes of the expeditionary force. ”

No one answered Tian Mao's words, firstly, the atmosphere was indeed quite depressing, and secondly, after having been on the run for so long, everyone's spirits were very tired.

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After the child hour, the horse's speed decreases significantly. This is still a war horse carefully selected and cultivated by the army, and even now it can still have the physical strength to continue running.

It doesn't hurt to be slower, Tian Mao and they have another thing to worry about, what if these horses can't run at all?

Suddenly, there was a cacophony ahead.

An old voice shouted: "Wake up, everyone, the Daxing wolfdog of the dog day is chasing, you run quickly, I will fight with them." ”

There are more and more voices on both sides of the road, this is the refugees who escaped from Mingyu City, they are a group of old, weak, sick and disabled people, and they have walked for almost two days with difficulty, and they have only walked less than 100 miles.

"Rush over and don't linger here. Tian Mao immediately decided.

A group of people rode past the old man one by one, and the old man waved his crutches and turned around in place a few times without hitting Tian Mao and the others, and almost let himself fall to the ground.

Hearing the shouts of the old man, many people around him began to wake up in a daze, and when they saw the saber and the military horse, they were so frightened that they immediately fled in all directions.

This little episode did not delay Tian Mao's time, but it made Tian Mao understand what kind of situation he would face if he continued to move forward.

Judging from the situation that will be encountered in the front, Tian Mao thought about it seriously and said to everyone: "Everyone take off the armor on their bodies, there must be refugees fleeing ahead, don't cause panic again, and at the same time reduce the horse's endurance." ”

When everyone heard the suggestion, they immediately understood the purpose of doing so, and they all took off their armor in three or two, and continued to the north with only standard weapons.

Sure enough, just as Tian Mao thought, the pace to the north woke up several waves of refugees on the side of the road, because there was no Daxing armor, although it caused panic, but there was no shouting. What's more, they chased the horses in a trance and kept shouting: "Give me some food, help." ”

The constant encounters of refugees and the aimless escape made the atmosphere more and more desperate, and even Pei Shen collapsed: "What is this all about? How many families and how many lives have been broken by this invasion." ”

Lin Jinyu accosted: "Yes, but who cares about this? We've all become the same people as them, haven't we?"

"Damn, Lao Tzu must avenge Lao Zhangtou. Zhou Heng was still immersed in the death of Lao Zhangtou and did not come out.

The quietest is Liu Chen, who has been speechless. When he touched him lightly, he shivered, and every time he was startled.

"Let's run separately at dawn, although we have escaped from the sphere of influence of the Daxing Army, but the goal of a group of people like ours is too big, and it is not excluded that there will be cultivators involved in this pursuit, if we can mix in the refugees, the chances of survival are much greater." ”

This is the determination that Pei Shen made up after such a long period of careful consideration, and only put forward this opinion at the moment.

"I have no opinion, Pei Hurt said yes, let's escape like this, it's okay to escape, once discovered, then no one can escape. Wei Si was the first to agree.

"What, there are cultivators coming after us. Liu Chen didn't hear the point of Pei Shen, but only heard the three words of cultivator, and suddenly became extremely nervous.

Seeing that Liu Chen was about to collapse completely under extreme fear. Wei Sixian hurriedly comforted:

"Don't think about it, this is still an uncertain thing, how can we send a cultivator to chase and kill us!"

Liu Chen was occupied by the word "cultivator", and he begged with tears: "You said that we should go back and take the initiative to admit our mistakes, will they let us live?"

Tian Mao and Pei Shen both sighed and didn't pick up his topic, and several people looked at Liu Chen speechless for a while, and their eyes told him that this was whimsical.

Liu Chen cried in a low voice.

The pace is getting slower.

"We're going to run away like this until we're going to go. Lin Jinyu sighed.

It's the same question that everyone is thinking about right now, and it's one that no one knows about.

Especially Tian Mao, he understands what kind of word this 'head' is.

The first is the last thing he wants, and when he dies, it's a head.

The second is a situation that all of them want, and that is that no one is chasing and killing.

How do you get out of the hunt?

"First, worship the Xiuzhen sect and become a cultivator, Daxing will definitely not come to chase and kill again. Second, flee to a city where there is an army garrison, and a few squads alone will not dare to chase them into the city, unless they send a large army. Third, find a way to avoid the critical period of the next few days, and when the Daxing Expeditionary Force has the next big move, the pursuit of us will definitely be a little less. ”

"Yes, I wish there was an army of green kites stationed in the city ahead. Zhou Heng prayed.

"Although I also hope so, but the main force of the green kite has been lost in Daguan County, and most of the nearby cities have no garrisons to garrison. Pei Shen directly poured the cool water.

"It's a possibility. "Tian Mao and Pei Shuang have basically the same idea.

"Blame a few of us for being too weak. As long as we have a little strength, we dare to fight with them. ”

"As long as we have a little bit of strength, Lao Zhangtou will not die. ”

"As long as we have a little bit of strength, we will not fall into the end of fleeing. ”

"Hey, blame yourself for being too weak. ”

Zhou Heng sighed indignantly several times in a row.

"Damn, Lao Tzu must be a cultivator, and Lao Tzu must avenge Lao Zhangtou. ”

Tian Mao patted Zhou Heng's shoulder to express comfort, he understood Zhou Heng's feelings for Lao Zhangtou.

Lao Zhangtou and Zhou Heng's father are of the same age, so Zhou Heng is usually the most naughty and poor person with Lao Zhangtou.

Now that Lao Zhangtou is dead, the saddest person must be Zhou Heng.

"Lao Tzu must be a cultivator. ”

"Lao Tzu must be a cultivator. ”

Zhou Heng muttered, gradually calming down.