The herald ran along the avenue towards the imperial city with full of questions, encountered several teams blocking the Liang envoy along the way, saw the herald and let him pass, the herald ran all the way to the south gate, the south gate defenders saw the herald, just asked and opened the city gate, the east, west, and north three gates all had news back, but the south gate was slow to see the movement, at this moment saw that there was a herald coming, naturally opened the door and let go.

Li Yuanchang looked out of the hall with a cold expression, the Liang army that broke through from the east, west, and north gates was all annihilated, and not a single living mouth was left, but the bodies of Wei Hui and Wang Yan were not found, which shows that the two did not break through from the east, west, and north gates, the south gate was their target, and the team that broke through to the south gate was not used to attract and contain the troops in the city, which was a miscalculation of the secret spies.

Lu Chuan stood aside, his expression calm.

"Report!" An urgent shout came from outside the hall, and the herald trotted into the main hall, and fell to his knees with a pop.

"What? Could it be that Liang Envoy successfully broke through? Without waiting for the herald to speak, Li Yuancheng asked with a sneer.

The herald shivered, remembering the instructions of the Tuoba general, and deliberately bypassed the matter of the Liang envoy, kneeling and hugging his fists.

"Your Majesty! Zhou Yuanli, the general of the south gate of the imperial town, just held His Majesty's token, saying that he had something important to go out of the city, and after General Tuoba let him go, he felt that Zhou Yuanli was sneaky, so he went into the city to check and found that the defenders of the south gate were dead! General Tuoba suspected that General Zhou had killed his compatriots and betrayed His Majesty, so he had gone to chase after him, and specially let his subordinates attack His Majesty! ”

"Zhou Yuanli went out of the city with my order?" Li Yuanchang said in a cold voice, his expression was gloomy and playful, and he had already thought of several possibilities in his mind. "Lu Chuan, what's going on?"

"The old slave doesn't know." Lu Chuan replied calmly.

"You don't know?" Li Yuanchang's voice brought out a trace of anger, and he continued to ask the herald. "Tell me what you see, hear, and know, and if you have the slightest concealment, I will punish your nine clans!" Li Yuanchang stared at the herald, his eyes glaring.

The herald was frightened by Li Yuanchang's sentence to the Nine Clans, and he told all the previous things he had seen and heard, without hiding anything at all, Li Yuanchang listened, his expression gradually became distorted and hideous.

Li Yuanchang's first thought was that Zhou Yuanli was a fine work of Da Liang in the Great Xia Kingdom, and those ten mysterious people were envoys of Da Liang, but after thinking about it carefully, he always felt that something was wrong, the four generals of the imperial city had been investigated in detail, and there was no omission of his background and experience, how could he be a fine work of Da Liang?

He wants to use the rescue of Liang to make him defect to the Liang? If so, why? If not, who are the ten mysterious people?

"Your Majesty! One of the ten mysterious people seems to be a woman! The herald suddenly remembered and blurted out, at this time he completely forgot the look that the Tuoba family would give him when he came, telling him not to talk much, all he was thinking about now was how to not be punished by the Nine Clans, and he had no time to think about it.

Woman?

The herald's words hit Li Yuanchang's sensitive point, and Li Yuanchang shouted loudly. "Zhao Zhong, go to the harem to see if there are any people in my harem!"

"Whoa!" There was a promise from outside the door, Zhao Zhong gathered people and went straight to the harem, in the main hall, Li Yuanchang was inexplicably irritable, there were not many women in the harem who could make him care, there were only a few people, if those few people were lost...

After half a pillar of incense, with a rush of footsteps, Zhao Zhong rushed into the main hall, his already white face was pale and bloodless at the moment, and his face showed a frightened expression.

"Your Majesty, it's not good! The eldest princess is missing, and the palace maids who are waiting for the princess are all dead in the side room! ”

Zhao Zhong knelt on the ground, not daring to look up at Li Yuanchang's expression, Li Yuanchang did not reply, and the hall fell into a dead silence.

In the middle of the night, Li Yuanchang's indifferent voice rang out.

"So, Zhou Yuanli kidnapped the eldest princess?" His voice was low, as if asking himself.

"Zhao Zhong, the commander of the herald Tuoba, before dark, I want to see Zhou Yuanli's head!"

"Whoa!" Zhao Zhong hurriedly responded, turned around and walked out of the hall, and did not look up to see Li Yuanchang's face from beginning to end.

The herald who knelt down in the hall was like falling into an ice cave, his body trembled, he heard it clearly, the eldest princess was missing, and it was very likely that Zhou Yuanli had taken it away! The herald didn't dare to imagine if that mysterious person was really the eldest princess...

The herald slowly raised his head, although he was afraid to death in his heart, but he was curious about Li Yuanchang's face at this moment, his eyes met very unfortunately, and the color of devouring people was like a sharp sword flying forward, the herald straightened up suddenly, the blood on his face instantly faded, and became pale as paper, his body trembled twice, and a short whimper sounded in his throat, his eyes turned black, and the person fell backwards, falling heavily to the ground, and there was no movement.

The herald was frightened to death by Li Yuanchang's expression, and even Lu Chuan, who was guarding the side, was already soaked with sweat.

"Lu Qing, don't you have anything to say to me?"

Turning around, kneeling on the ground, thunderbolting, in one go, Lu Chuan kept slamming his head on the ground, and his voice trembled.

"Your Majesty! It's the old slave who is negligent! Please spare your life! Let the old slave make up for it! ”

"Go, if you can't bring back the eldest princess, you can cut yourself." Li Yuanchang said ruthlessly.

"Whoa!" Lu Chuan replied in a low voice, got up and turned into the curtain.

..

After receiving the order, Tuoba Ruith hurriedly went out of the city, and after learning that Zhou Yuanli had defected out of the city, Tuoba Ruith was very surprised, and there was also a touch of doubt lingering in his heart, the general of the south gate of the imperial town, whether it was an official position or a salary, was not low, why did he defect, Zhao Zhong did not mention the disappearance of the eldest princess, he just wanted to arrest Zhou Yuanli back with Tuoba Ruisi, and it was best to bring the eldest princess back together.

At the same time, Lu Chuan had already mobilized a large number of secret spies, went out of the city from the secret passage, and chased in the direction where Zhou Yuanli fled.

As the sun sets, the sky gradually darkens, and the setting sun stains the sky with a touch of red, and today's sunset is a little redder than before, like blood.

At the Qingping Pass, the patrolling soldiers found that a group of people were rushing towards the pass, and hurriedly bent their bows and arrows to make a defensive posture.

As the procession approached, the people who closed it could see the clothes of the visitors through the dim afterglow of the setting sun, and the armor of the palace guards was still very recognizable.

Without waiting for the closing to ask questions, the palace guards who took the lead in the closing were already holding their waist cards high and taking the lead.

"Zhou Yuanli, the general of the south gate of the palace town, collaborated with the enemy and treason, and kidnapped the eldest princess! The sin is unforgivable, we are ordered by His Majesty to send orders to the commander of Xiazhou Zhenzhou, surround Donglin, capture Zhou Yuanli, rescue the eldest princess, and wait for the door to open quickly! ”

Zhou Yuanli treasoned and kidnapped the eldest princess! The defenders on the pass were shocked by this news, and the captain on duty glanced at the palace guards under the gate, and was frightened and puzzled, so he did not rush to make the decision on his own, and hurriedly asked the deputy captain to inform the general guarding the pass.

"Don't open the door quickly! Where is the general guarding the pass! ”