But at this time, Gao Huaiyuan didn't have time to take care of these surrendered troops, let them surrender to the officers and troops who came later, and he led his men to speed up the pursuit in the direction of the north of the city. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

As a result, it has been chased to the north gate, and it is even more chaotic here, a large number of rebels who want to escape from Huzhou City with some property wrapped in the city, scrambling to escape from the north gate, but the more chaotic the faster it is, the result is that the north gate is blocked, and no one can get out of the city.

Gao Huaiyuan saw the chaos in front of him, he had a headache, and after leading the soldiers to slash and kill, he dispersed the crowd at the north gate and was about to go out of the city to pursue, but at this time, a person suddenly jumped out in the dark shadow near the city gate and shouted: "General stay!" ”

Gao Huaiyuan immediately stopped his horse and stood still, and the guards stepped forward one after another and pointed their knives and guns at the person who jumped out.

As a result, when I saw that this person was wearing the clothes of a junior in a wine shop, and there was no weapon in his hand, he respectfully walked over and saluted Gao Huaiyuan: "The little one is the junior of the Drunken Immortal Building, may I ask if the general is chasing a rebel leader?" ”

Gao Huaiyuan immediately heard that this person belonged to his intelligence system, so he was overjoyed: "Not bad! I am lofty! Have you ever seen King Ji and his entourage flee to? ”

This Xiao Er may have seen Gao Huaiyuan before, but Gao Huaiyuan was not impressed by him, Xiao Er's face was excited, and he immediately nodded and said: "General Qiyu, just now the little one saw a few people who couldn't get out of the city, so he used a rope to fall down the city on the city wall, and after the little one saw them out of the city on the city wall, he took a small boat and went northeast along Tiaoxi!" ”

Gao Huaiyuan was immediately taken aback after hearing this, although he had soldiers and horses in the north of the city, he arranged people on the line of the canal leading to Taihu Lake.

And King Ji fled along Tiaoxi towards Taihu Lake, then he is likely to avoid the intercepted soldiers and horses, detour into Taihu Lake, if he escapes into Taihu Lake, and then want to arrest him, it is estimated that it will be difficult to do, so he asked this Xiao Er: "Are you familiar with the terrain of this place?" ”

Xiao Er immediately replied: "Familiar! The little ones are very familiar with the locals! ”

"Good! You take us and the others and go out of the city to chase after them immediately, if you can catch the bandit leader, this official will definitely reward you heavily! Gao Huaiyuan immediately said to this little er.

Xiao Er immediately nodded and agreed, a personal guard dismounted and gave the horse to this Xiao Er to ride, and the group did not make any stops, and then rushed out of the north gate of Huzhou City, and under the guidance of Xiao Er, they began to chase quickly towards Taihu Lake along Tiaoxi.

Although there are rebels everywhere at this time, where do the rebels at this time dare to confront the official army! At this time, they only have one thought left, quickly flee and pull down, it is best not to be caught by the official army, God knows that they have made such a big thing, how will the court in Lin'an catch them and deal with them today!

So don't look at Gao Huaiyuan, there are only dozens of people, but no one dares to stop them, let them gallop past them, and then turn around and run away.

When Gao Huaiyuan ordered his subordinates to chase along the riverbank, he asked the little two from time to time, but this boat, Xiao Er kept shaking his head to say no, so they lit torches and continued to pursue along the riverbank, and on the way, they ran into a group of people who were also fleeing in the southeast direction.

I saw that after this group of people saw the torches of Gao Huaiyuan and their group, someone immediately turned over to block, Gao Huaiyuan felt that this group of people seemed to be a little wrong, not like an ordinary deserter, the person who could make people turn around and block them must not be ordinary people, so he immediately led the troops to catch up, and after a period of fighting, he slashed and killed the generals who tried to block them, and found that the clothes worn by these people were either the clothes of the state soldiers or the clothes of some patrolmen, and he felt that there was a problem here, so he rode his horse and chased after him, Together with his own soldiers, he surrounded them.

With the help of the light of the torch, Gao Huaiyuan immediately saw that there was a young white fat man among these people, although he was not wearing an official uniform, but he could also see at a glance that this person should be an official, and this white fat man stopped panting, looking at Gao Huaiyuan and the others with a frightened face.

"Who are you waiting for, why don't you report your name soon?" Gao Huaiyuan pointed the knife in his hand at the white fat man and asked him loudly.

This person was so frightened that his face was pale, and he knew that there was no reason to be spared today, so after taking a few deep breaths, he calmed down a little, pointed at Gao Huaiyuan and said: "You wait for the traitor, Shi Miyuan abolished the prince, but you want to help the abuse, this official is Xie Zhouqing, the governor of Huzhou, I know that it will be difficult to survive today, but this official will never let you bring me to Lin'an to be humiliated!" But before I die, I beg you, these people are innocent people, and after you take my head, I hope the general will let them go!" ”

After saying that, Xie Zhouqing suddenly snatched a sword from his subordinates, and without waiting for his subordinates to dissuade him, he wiped the sword on his neck, and the carotid artery was immediately cut by him, and blood gushed out, Xie Zhouqing staggered back a few steps, and then stared at Gao Huaiyuan, as if there was something uneasy.

Gao Huaiyuan knew that even if Xie Zhouqing was arrested alive and returned to Lin'an, he would not be able to escape death, and he might even be imprisoned in the city, so he did not stop Xie Zhouqing from committing suicide, seeing that he was still staring at himself when he was dying, a kind of unbearability rose in his heart, and he nodded slightly and said, "You can go with confidence!" I won't kill these people! Let them go! ”

After listening to Gao Huaiyuan's promise, Xie Zhouqing showed a look of gratitude in his eyes, rolled his eyes, and fell down on his back.

Gao Huaiyuan asked Xie Zhouqing to behead him, and those Xie Zhouqing's subordinates stared at Gao Huaiyuan with angry faces, as if they were going to eat him alive, Gao Huaiyuan looked at them coldly, and said, "I promised Lord Xie not to kill you, you can go!" It's no wonder that this official is anything, and this official is also acting on orders! Why don't you go quickly? ”

Those few people looked at the officers and soldiers around them, and seemed to be a little disbelieving them, Gao Huaiyuan waved his hand, and these guards immediately dispersed to make way for them, so these people believed that Gao Huaiyuan was not lying to them, although they were not grateful to him, but they no longer glared at him, after a few people knelt down, they kowtowed to Xie Zhouqing a few times, and they all stood up and turned their heads to walk out of Gao Huaiyuan's encirclement, and soon disappeared into the darkness.

Gao Huaiyuan sighed, then waved his hand and said, "Take Xie Zhouqing's head and continue to chase!" ”

Everyone silently followed behind Gao Huaiyuan, and the group continued to chase their horses along Tiaoxi to the northeast.

After the group chased them for more than ten miles, the little second suddenly grabbed the reins of the horse, pointed to a boat on the river and said to Gao Huaiyuan: "That's the boat!" The little one saw that they were on the same boat! ”

Gao Huaiyuan saw that there was a canopy boat sailing towards Taihu Lake on the river, so he immediately led the horse and led the people forward, intending to find a boat in front of him to block the way of the awning boat.

And at this time, on the canopy boat, the pale-faced King Ji Zhao Hong was lying on the side of the boat looking at the torches that appeared on the riverbank, and said to the one-eyed dragon Xiao Liang in a panic: "How is this good!" Xiao Aiqing, how is this good! ”

Xiao Liang was already a little desperate about this, and after looking around, he immediately pointed to the other side of the river and said to the rower: "Hurry up and sail to the other side, you can't sail forward!" Here are all reeds, the saint gets off the boat here, passes through the reeds, and walks east to reach Taihu Lake, as long as Your Majesty enters Taihu Lake, the traitors want to catch Your Majesty again, it will be very difficult! ”

So the canopy boat immediately sailed towards the opposite shore, and soon broke into a reed swing and stopped, several guards carried Zhao Hong, jumped into waist-deep water, and fled to the shore with water.

Gao Huaiyuan rushed for a while in a hurry, and finally found a small boat by the river, so he immediately abandoned the horse and boarded the boat, everyone rowed hard with only two oars but the speed was too slow, everyone simply used the scabbard as a pulp, rowed together, and searched in the direction where the awning boat was found, and soon found the abandoned awning boat in the reeds, so everyone immediately abandoned the boat and went ashore, and chased it on foot along the traces of Zhao Hong's escape.

Seeing that the torches behind him were getting closer and closer, Xiao Liang gritted his teeth and said to Zhao Hong: "Your Majesty will go first, Weichen is here to block the pursuers, Weichen can't follow Your Majesty!" Please be careful, Your Majesty, and get out of here as soon as possible! ”

Zhao Hong looked at Xiao Liang with some reluctance, he didn't expect that there were still people in this world who were willing to die for him, which made him a little relieved, and wanted to persuade Xiao Liang to stay and follow him, but looking at the torches getting closer and closer in the distance, Zhao Hong opened his mouth, but he couldn't say anything.

Xiao Liang ordered the few remaining guards: "Your Majesty's safety is in your hands!" You must escort Your Majesty to a safe place, otherwise, Xiao will not spare you and wait! ”

Several guards nodded again and again, two of them were also Zhao Hong's personal guards, seeing that Xiao Liang was an outsider, they were willing to break off for Zhao Hong, so they also took out their waist knives, saying that they would follow Xiao Liang to intercept the pursuers.

Seeing Zhao Hong stumble and disappear into the night with the support of several guards, Xiao Liang and the two guards turned their heads in the direction of the torches.

A guard who walked in front pursued the traces left by the people in front of him all the way, and led Gao Huaiyuan and others to chase after Zhao Hong in great strides, but he didn't pay much attention to the situation in front of him, and suddenly a few sharp arrows flew in the dark, and the guard who walked in front was caught off guard, and immediately fell to the ground with an arrow, letting out a miserable snort.

Several guards immediately protected Gao Huaiyuan, and the rest of the guards rushed to the direction of the arrow like a leopard under the leadership of Li Ruohu, Gao Huaiyuan pushed away the little second who was blocking him and said: "This official doesn't need you to protect him, you should be careful!" Keep chasing, don't let go of the thief! ”