In the dark tunnel, Li Ang and Cao Anmin followed Cao Shaoqin like a spider's web. "Lord Cao, how did you know that there was such a secret passage out of the city?" Seeing that he had been walking for more than half an hour, and there was still no end in sight to the corridor ahead, Cao Anmin couldn't help but be secretly surprised by the scale of this underground corridor.

"At the beginning, it was our craftsmen from Daqin who built the rice king, even though they repaired and rebuilt it many times later, but this underground corridor is not so easy to change." Cao Shaoqin replied without looking back, "When the minister came, he transferred a copy of the six kings of the river from the secret room in the big interior. "Cao Shaoqin has always paid attention to doing things, and there will never be any omissions and mistakes.

After walking for more than half an hour, Cao Shaoqin led everyone to a wall, he frowned, then looked at the copy of the map in his hand, looked at several Dongchang henchmen beside him, and nodded.

Seeing those spies from Dongchang banging on the wall, Li Cunxiao, who was following Li Ang, couldn't help but be a little puzzled, he looked at Li Ang and asked, "Father-in-law, what are they doing here?" ”

"It's empty behind that wall, they're just looking for a place to start." Just as Li Ang answered, the spies of the East Factory had already begun to smash the wall, but after a while, the wall blocking them fell to the ground.

In the smoke and dust, Cao Shaoqin said to several henchmen, "You guys go in first and have a look!" After speaking, the people from Dongchang walked in with torches, and then Cao Shaoqin took Li Ang and Cao Anmin to follow in.

Walking in the dark corridor, Li Ang felt that something was wrong. But he couldn't say why, so he took a deep breath. When he was about to calm down and think about it, he suddenly thought about what was wrong: it was the smell, if this secret passage had been sealed for a long time, then there should have been a musty smell, but now it was completely absent.

Li Ang grabbed Cao Anmin and stopped the people behind him at the same time. "What's wrong?" Cao Anmin frowned. Puzzled, the others also looked at Leon, they didn't know what was wrong.

"It doesn't taste right." Leon whispered, then said what he meant, "I suspect it's a trap. After a moment's hesitation, Leon voiced his guess, and though he knew it sounded unacceptable, his instincts gave him a premonition of danger.

Cao Anmin only hesitated slightly, and then chose to believe Li Ang, because the taste in this secret passage is indeed not like the taste of a secret passage that has been sealed for a long time. To be on the safe side, he decided to listen to Leon.

Cao Shaoqin, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped. looked at Cao Anmin behind him and said, "Your Highness, what's wrong?" ”

"Master Cao, something is wrong here?" When Cao Anmin answered, Li Ang and Gao Changgong were already protecting him, with a solemn face.

"What's wrong?" Cao Shaoqin's face was as pale as a dead man and looked at Cao Anmin. Suddenly, he showed a somewhat strange smile, and then he lit the oil lamps on both sides of the corridor, and said quietly, "Your Highness, you should be on your way." ”

"You are a traitor, everything is calculated by you." Looking at the floor lamp on the wall of the secret passage, Li Ang's face became extremely cold, if this is really a secret passage that no one has used for a long time, then the lamp here should not have lamp oil to illuminate.

"Traitor?" Cao Shaoqin shook his head and said quietly. "Who did I betray?" As he spoke, footsteps could be heard behind him. The Dongchang agents who walked in front stood behind him with a group of black-clothed people, and they looked at Li Ang coldly.

Cao Anmin, who was protected by Li Ang and Gao Changgong, looked at Cao Shaoqin, who had been looking at him, and asked in a calm voice, "Why did you betray Gu He and his father, who is the person behind the scenes?" ”

"Your Highness is wrong, the minister has never betrayed you and Your Majesty." Cao Shaoqin laughed, "From the very beginning, the minister has never been loyal to you and His Majesty, how can you talk about betrayal?" ”

"And who are the landallegiants you are allegiance to?" Cao Anmin put aside Li Ang and Gao Changgong, and faced Cao Shaoqin directly, he clenched his fists tightly, suppressed his anger, and said quietly, "Tell Gu, who is the person you are loyal to?" ”

"Your Highness, don't you understand?" Cao Shaoqin shook his head and sighed, "The minister's allegiance is to Great Qin, not to a certain person!" ”

"Loyal to Daqin, then what you mean is that you are not a traitor, and those loyal and brave soldiers who died for loneliness are all worthy of death." Cao Anmin's voice was as cold and hard as steel, and then he roared, "Answer, waiting for your answer?" ”

"They died honorably, Your Highness." Seeing that Cao Anmin's face turned blue because of anger, Cao Shaoqin said quietly, "This world is not as simple as good people and bad people, Your Highness, you should understand." ”

"For Great Qin, your father is not a good emperor, and in the past thirty years, Great Qin has lost its hegemony, and the lives of the people have become difficult." Cao Shaoqin muttered to himself, "It all started with your father. ”

"What do you mean by that?" Listening to Cao Shaoqin accusing his father, Cao Anmin couldn't help but change color and said, "Those mistakes were made by the previous cabinet, what does it have to do with my father." ”

"Do you really think that's the case?" Cao Shaoqin laughed mockingly, "Who do you think brought the Confucian literati to power, and who acquiesced in what they did, do you think that just those Confucian literati who can only play tricks can control the government?" ”

"Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty once supported Confucianism, and he adopted Dong Zhongshu's doctrine as the official school of the Han Dynasty, in order to monopolize the power and make this world his own, and finally he succeeded." Cao Shaoqin looked at Cao Anmin, a chilling light flashed in his eyes, "Your father plans to do the same, so he also supports Confucianism, you should know." ”

"I don't think your father should sit in that seat anymore." Cao Shaoqin said calmly, his tone seemed to be saying one thing, "A more talented person should replace him, so that Daqin can be stronger and stronger, instead of weakening in the hands of a single husband." ”

"Plotting to usurp the throne." Li Anghu, who has not made a sound

"You're just a rebel." ”

"Rebellion!" Cao Shaoqin shook his head in disappointment and sighed at Li Ang. "What a stupid man, a soldier should be loyal to the country first and foremost. The second is the individual, even the emperor cannot be above the country, this is the legacy of Emperor Taizu of the Great Qin Land to our descendants, if you say rebellious words, the emperor who wants to go against the instructions of Emperor Taizu is a rebel, not me. ”

"Your Majesty has long since corrected his mistakes. He belittled the Confucian literati and re-ruled the world with the family, which is fundamentally untenable. Li Ang said coldly, "Okay, don't cover it up with those lame words, just say it, who is the landlord behind you?" Minion! ”

Cao Anmin looked at Li Ang who was speaking, he didn't expect Li Ang to have such a sharp and mean side, especially the last sentence of 'lackey' is really happy.

Cao Shaoqin didn't get angry because of Li Ang's words, he just laughed. Then he sighed, "You don't understand. I don't know what the truth is..."

"Who is your master?" Cao Anmin interrupted Cao Shaoqin and asked loudly, he just wanted to know who was behind the scenes.

"Do you think I'm going to say it?" Cao Shaoqin shook his head and waved his hand, and the person behind him drew his knife and killed Cao Anmin.

"Take Your Highness away!" Gao Changgong and the soldiers of the King Army beside him. The people who stopped Dongchang shouted at Li Ang. Li Ang didn't hesitate, he immediately pulled Cao Anmin and Yuan Luoshen and them to escape to the corridor behind him.

"You go after the prince." Cao Shaoqin, who had not moved, finally made a move in person, and the long sword pinned to his waist was unsheathed, bringing a touch of color in the dim corridor, and in the sound of gold and iron, he blocked Gao Changgong.

"The King of the Army used to be invincible, but that was a thing of the past." Holding Gao Changgong's long knife, Cao Shaoqin had a hint of banter on his face, "But if you continue to live." Maybe one day you'll be as strong as your grandfather, but unfortunately you can't wait for that day. "Between words. Cao Shaoqin's long sword spun sideways sharply and slashed across Gao Changgong's shoulder, but to his surprise, no blood spilled.

"Golden Silk Soft Armor." Looking at the golden armor under the black military uniform, Cao Shaoqin muttered to himself unexpectedly, and then the long sword in his hand stabbed at Gao Changgong, the golden silk soft armor could prevent his slashing, but it couldn't resist his stabbing attack.

Gao Changgong resisted Cao Shaoqin's stabbing attack like a storm, and fell into passivity, he now understood Cao Shaoqin's previous sentence, 'Your Great Commander personally did it with me, it's almost the same, you are far behind.' The meaning of this sentence, although Cao Shaoqin's sword skills in front of him are not the way on the battlefield, but if he fights alone, there are really not many people who can beat him.

"You're a nice young man." Cao Shaoqin looked at Gao Changgong, who was struggling to resist his long sword, and said to himself, "I really don't want to finish you off with my own hands, it's a pity!" ”

"You talk too much nonsense." After Gao Changgong blocked Cao Shaoqin's thirty-seventh stab, he took advantage of the moment when Cao Shaoqin's sword was old and needed to regain his breath, he slashed out with all his strength, and replied coldly.

"It's a good knife, but this is not a battlefield where tens of millions of people fight, and your knife can't do it." Cao Shaoqin easily dodged Gao Changgong's slash, with a little regret in his tone, and then he stabbed the long sword in his hand into his chest under Gao Changgong's incredulous gaze.

"It's good for young people to have self-confidence, but it's not good to think too highly of themselves." Cao Shaoqin shook his head, looked at Gao Changgong, who was grabbing his sword and wanted to swing his sword to cut at him, and pulled out the sword blade suddenly.

As the long knife landed, Gao Changgong's body fell to the ground, Cao Shaoqin didn't look at him again, he had always been very confident in his sword, looking at the black-clothed subordinates who were entangled by several soldiers of the army king team, Cao Shaoqin couldn't help but shake his head, compared with the absolute elite army king team of Daqin, these dead soldiers he trained were still too bad, if Gao Changgong had these soldiers to help him just now, maybe he would have died. "But, alas, it's me who won." Cao Shaoqin swung his sword and stabbed at the soldiers of the King of the Army.

The battle in the secret passage was coming to an end, and when the last soldier of the army team fell at Cao Shaoqin's feet, the black-clothed dead soldiers were already dead and wounded. "All go to the prince, you want to see people in life, and you want to see corpses in death." Returning the sword into the sheath, Cao Shaoqin walked towards the darkness behind him.

When everything returned to silence, in the secret passage filled with the smell of blood, Gao Changgong turned over, he was not dead, Cao Shaoqin's sword did not pierce his heart, because his heart was on the right side, which was very different from ordinary people. Gao Changgong found the medicine from his arms, tore his clothes, and applied medicine for himself. Although he is not dead, he is not far from death.

Heavy breathing intervals. Gao Changgong stood up against the wall, and staggered to the end of the secret passage, if he turned around and went back to the ground now, he would just go to death, and it was worthless, he wanted to live. If the crown prince had any chances, he would tell the emperor about the conspiracy and avenge all those who had died. In the secret passage, his figure slowly blurred.

On the other side, Li Ang took Cao Anmin through the cobweb-like underground tunnels, and he didn't go back the same way from the beginning, because he knew that Cao Shaoqin was a terrible enemy, and he must have all the arrangements to dare to do it here, usually, like them. Generally, they will return the same way they came, and they will go out from the original import. In that case, you will fall into a trap.

It turned out that Li Ang was right, although the first path he chose was guarded, but after killing those people, they picked another path at random, and they never encountered Cao Shaoqin's people again, but the dead soldiers behind them were still tracking them.

"There must be a master of tracking among them. Otherwise, it would be impossible to follow us all the time. Li Ang suddenly stopped, looking at Cao Anmin and the others beside him, "I need someone to lure them away?" ”

"I'll go." Li Cunxiao and several people said at the same time, looking at the last three righteous sons, Li Ang's expression was complicated, he didn't want any of the last three righteous sons to die, but the current facts must be

Diverting the dead men who were tracking, he hated for the first time his powerlessness to be able to use a sword. How can he need someone else to lure away the enemy for him?

"Master, let me go." Thule, who had been silent, spoke. Then Li Cunba stood beside him and said to Li Cunzhi and Li Cunxiao, "Take good care of your father-in-law." Then he looked at Cao Anmin, "Master Prince, Cunba has always been very stupid, and he always can't learn the tunes you teach, I hope I can learn them in my next life." ”

"Father-in-law, take care, being able to follow you until now is the happiest thing in Cunba's life." Li Cunba finally knelt in front of Li Ang and kowtowed three times.

"Come back alive." Li Ang looked at Thule and Li Cunba, and in the dark corridor, he turned his head sideways, almost gritting his teeth and making a sound.

There was no answer, only the footsteps of Li Cunba and Thule departing echoed in the long corridor.

Looking at the approaching fire in the distance, Li Cunba looked at Tulle who was standing on the other side of the intersection, clenched the long knife in his hand, listened carefully to the approaching footsteps, and waited for the opportunity, although he knew that the chance of survival was not great, but he still had to fight it, because his father-in-law wanted him to go back alive. It's just that he didn't agree, because once a man agrees to something, he must do it, and this is what his father-in-law taught him.

Finally, the fire reached the Yongdao crossing guarded by the two, and at the moment when the first dead soldier walked out of the ground, Li Cunba swung his knife, and his long knife slashed into the shoulder of the dead man, and then slashed across his neck and cut off his head.

Li Cunba kicked down the headless corpse, and together with Tule, he entered the Yongdao and fought with the dozen or so dead soldiers, who were no longer dead, this was a war between dead soldiers and dead soldiers. In the sound of heavy breathing, Li Cunba didn't care about the blades that slashed at him, he just avoided the vital points and fought those dead soldiers one by one.

The war was simple and tragic, and when Li Cunba and Thule each killed their last opponent, they fell to the ground, their wounds resting on ordinary people, already dead, and they only survived until now with a single faith.

Li Cunba and Tulle died laughing, because they knew that no dead man could track down Li Ang, and they did what they had to do, so they walked peacefully.

When Cao Shaoqin arrived, all he saw was corpses all over the ground, and after a moment of silence, he looked at Li Cunba and Tule, who were leaning against the wall at the entrance of Yongdao, with a dying smile on their faces, and said to his henchmen beside him, "Bury the two of them." With that, he turned and walked out of the corridor.

In the darkness, they stopped as they walked past the tenth Yongdao crossing. "You are the crown prince of Great Qin, you should be stronger than all of us." Li Ang walked up to Cao Anmin and looked at him and said quietly.

"I'm the prince, but I'm also human." Cao Anmin suddenly shouted, and then he sat down on the ground against the wall and muttered, "I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't have done this." ”

Li Ang sat next to Cao Anmin, he looked at Li Cunzhi and Li Cunxiao beside him, and then looked at Yuan Luoshen, now there were only the three of them left by his side, and the others were all dead. Like Cao Anmin, he thinks it's all his fault. It's just that he won't be knocked down, he will lick his wounds in silence like a wounded beast, until he has the strength to fight again.

Cao Anmin raised his head and looked at Li Ang beside him, "Lone will not let those dead people die in vain. "Finished. He stood up.

Li Ang opened his eyes, he heard Cao Anmin's words, and knew that he had cheered up, then he had to fulfill his obligations as a courtier, take the prince out of danger, and then take revenge.

"It's almost night." Li Ang said quietly, "We have to get out of here, go back to the ground, and know the current situation." ”

Cao Anmin didn't speak, he knew this time. The only person he could rely on was Leon, and Leon thought the same thing as him. He nodded, and then followed Leon to find the exit.

In the dark alley, Li Ang crawled out of the mouth of the waterway, and then he pulled out Cao Anmin and Li Cunzhi. Looking at the dark alley, Cao Anmin couldn't help asking. "Where are we?"

"I don't know." Li Ang replied, "Your Highness, you wait here for a while, and I will go out with Cunzhi to have a look." With that, he and Li Cunzhi walked out of the alley and onto the dark street.

Half an hour passed, and just when Cao Anmin was a little worried and wanted to go out to look for it, Li Ang and Li Cunzhi came back, and they came back with a bag of clothes. "Your Highness, change your clothes first." After Li Ang took out a royal blue dress and handed it to Cao Anmin, he took the clothes to Yuan Luoshen. "Roselle, you also changed your clothes."

After changing clothes. Li Ang threw the changed clothes into the waterway, and then led Cao Anmin out of the alley. "Where did you find these clothes?" Walking in the shadows of the street, Cao Anmin asked in a low voice.

"Stolen." Li Ang replied as he carefully led Cao Anmin into another small alley, where voices were heard from time to time, and fires flickered. Looking at the women in thin clothes, Cao Anmin knew what this alley was for.

"Is it safe here?" Cao Anmin came to Li Ang's side, "I've heard people say that bitches are ruthless and dramas are meaningless, I'm afraid it's not appropriate to hide in this kind of place, right?" ”

"Your Highness, it's safe for us to go to the place." Li Ang replied in a low voice, "The dark cavalry battalion sent by the minister earlier has a secret stronghold in all the six kings, and no one knows about it except for the minister. ”

Cao Anmin didn't speak again, but followed Li Ang to the door of a small house in the alley, and then they entered the door.

Walking to the inner hall, Li Ang saw Xun Rizhao, Xun Rizhao had been collecting intelligence for him in the river, and in more than half a year, he had also prepared a lot of secret strongholds for him, which even the chief did not know.

"My lord, what happened?" After Li Ang sat down, Xun Rizhao couldn't help asking, and then he saw Cao Anmin, and after looking at it carefully for a while, he recognized him, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, why are you here?" ”

"It's a long story." plum

After Rizhao saluted Cao Anmin, he told Xun Rihao everything and you sent me those addresses after I entered the city, otherwise, I really don't know where to go. ”

"Rizhao, what is the situation in the city?" Li Ang immediately asked about Xun Rizhao, the matter of the post house was so big, he didn't believe that Mi Guo could hide this matter.

"Your Highness, my lord, the people of the Mi country openly declared that you were the rebels of Great Qin and assassinated their lord, and now they want you all over the city." Xun Rizhao replied, telling what he knew.

"The people of the United States say that we are a fake mission, is it true?" After listening to what Xun Rizhao said, Li Ang couldn't help but change color, and Cao Anmin beside him also frowned, now they can be sure that the people behind Cao Shaoqin have prepared a big conspiracy, and they have fallen into it, and now they are in a desperate situation.

"My lord, why don't I send someone to contact the Anxi Army." Seeing that Li Ang and Cao Anmin were silent, Xun Rizhao couldn't help but say.

"No, Cao Shaoqin must have a backhand, and we must not reveal our whereabouts." Li Ang vetoed Xun Rizhao's meaning, then looked at Cao Anmin, and then the two said the same word together, "Wait!" ”

"Wait?" Xun Rizhao couldn't help but be stunned, in his opinion, Li Ang and the prince are crazy, in such a situation, they still have to stay in the city, if there is a case, then how can it be.

"Yes, we'll wait." Cao Anmin nodded heavily, and said in a deep voice, "I want to see what Cao Shaoqin is hiding and what kind of tricks he wants to play." ”

"Rizhao, is it safe enough here?" After Cao Anmin finished speaking, Li Ang looked at Xun Rizhao, "Is there any other place where we have a safer place than here." ”

"My lord, for the sake of safety, I think you and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should live in the underground secret room first." Xun Rizhao thought for a while and said, "As for other places, they are not as safe as here. ”

Li Ang didn't say anything more, and went straight to the basement with Cao Anmin and Yuan Luoshen, and not long after they entered the basement, the soldiers of the rice country who were patrolling the night broke into the house, searched everywhere, and finally returned in vain, so that Xun Rizhao couldn't help but secretly say 'luck'.

Just when Li Ang took Cao Anmin to find a safe place, Gao Changgong woke up, and after waking up, he found himself lying on the bed, but he remembered that he had fallen on the side of a street after walking out of the secret passage.

"You're awake." Just when Gao Changgong was thinking, a female voice sounded, and then a gust of fragrant wind floated in front of Gao Changgong, looking at the beautiful girl in front of him, Gao Changgong frowned and asked, "You saved me." ”

"The way you frown is beautiful." Seeing the frowning eyebrows of the man she rescued, Mi Lian covered her mouth and smiled, and then took a bowl of porridge and sent it to Gao Changgong, "Can you drink it yourself?" ”

Looking at the girl in front of him who was smiling innocently, Gao Changgong took the porridge bowl and asked, "Who are you and where is here?" ”

"This is the royal palace of the rice country." An unforgettable voice from Gao Changgong sounded, the porridge bowl in Gao Changgong's hand fell to the ground, he looked at Cao Shaoqin who walked in, gritted his teeth and said, "It's you?" ”

"Princess, would you please go out for a moment?" Cao Shaoqin looked at Mi Lian, who looked at Gao Changgong in puzzlement, and said quietly.

After Mi Lian walked out of the room, Cao Shaoqin moved a chair and sat in front of the bed, and then he looked at Gao Changgong, who wanted to get up, but collapsed on the bed because of the wound, shook his head and said, "It's better for you to lie down, otherwise you may not be able to save the life you picked up." ”

"I didn't expect your heart to be different from ordinary people, growing on the left side." Seeing that Gao Changgong was quiet, but his eyes were cold and glaring at him, Cao Shaoqin's death-like pale face showed a hint of self-deprecation, "You are the third person to save your life under my sword, don't worry, I won't attack the same person twice." ”

"Then if I want to kill you, won't you make a move?" Gao Changgong said disdainfully, in his opinion, what Cao Shaoqin said was very hypocritical.

"With the way you are now, can you kill me, any child can kill you." Cao Shaoqin didn't care, he looked at Gao Changgong and said, "If you don't want to die, you should cooperate with me." ”

"Cooperation, you dream." Gao Changgong's expression changed, and then he said coldly, "As long as the prince is still in court, the time for you and the person behind you to die will come." ”

"You are indeed right, but then the prince must have the life to return to Chang'an." Cao Shaoqin looked at Gao Changgong's angry eyes and said lightly, "The prince can't escape from my palm." ”

"Hmph, I'm not ashamed." Gao Changgong sneered, "General Zhao Ying of the Dragoon Army will come soon, and he won't be able to see the prince by then, what do I think you should do?" ”

"Who said he couldn't see the prince." Cao Shaoqin also laughed, then he stood up, and outside the door, a young man in a gorgeous costume walked in, looking exactly like Cao Anmin, he walked to the side of the bed, looked at Gao Changgong with a shocked face, and said, "Aren't Gao Qing's family happy to see Lone?" ”

"You traitors." Listening to the vivid voice of the young man in gorgeous clothes and the prince, Gao Changgong almost gritted his teeth.

"The title of traitor should be given to Gao Qing's family, so it is more appropriate for you to use it." The young man in Chinese clothes looked at Cao Shaoqin, "Cao Qing's family, this traitor will be handed over to you." With that, he walked out of the room.

"What the hell do you want to do?" Gao Changgong forced himself to calm down, he looked at the departing figure of the young man pretending to be the prince, and asked word by word.

"In your words, it is to seek the dynasty and usurp the throne, and in my words, it is to save Daqin." Cao Shaoqin looked at Gao Changgong and said, then he walked to the door, "You can't fight us, I advise you to think about it, I will come to you in three days, whether it is life or death, you decide for yourself!" ”

"'We', what 'we',..." Looking at Cao Shaoqin who was leaving, Gao Changgong fell from the bed and fainted.