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"Yu'er—" Zuo Ying shouted hoarsely on horseback.

The strength and sanity of her heart did not allow her to struggle desperately, crying and crying to live and die with Scarlet Feather, and she knew very well that even if she immediately went back and used her body to fend off Scarlet Feather, it would be impossible to save Scarlet Feather or make the situation better.

She lay on the back of her bumpy horse, staring at the place where she had parted with Scarlet Feather, against the scorching light of the burning castle towers in the distance. I saw that the figure of the scarlet feather white clothes that had been stained with blood was quickly buried in the sword light and sword shadows of the thieves......

Zuo Ying's eyes were only left with a piece of turbidity. She felt as if she had suddenly fallen into an abyss, into a bottomless despair.

There were no wounds on her body, but the sharp pain invaded her whole body from the deepest part of her heart in an instant. After going through the wind and rain and lifting weights as light as her, there is no way to transfer or reduce this pain, she can only bear it silently and motionlessly.

For Ashina Wuji, who was riding a horse, he didn't have a moment to care about life and death, and he already knew by hearing that at least four or five horsemen were approaching behind him.

The pursuers behind him are all one person and one horse, it is impossible to run slower than the horses ridden by Ashina Wuji and Zuo Ying, if they want to come up together to chase and intercept, they have such speed and opportunities. There is only one reason why they didn't catch up immediately, and that is to be afraid of the Guanxiao in Ashina's hand that has killed countless people tonight.

In the case of not daring to get close, long-range weapons are naturally the best choice.

Sure enough, Ashina heard two string sounds behind him, and hurriedly bowed down, and the two feather arrows of "whoosh" and "whoosh" grazed behind him!

Compare with him Ashina indefinitely compared to the bow horse? These chops are obviously a little tender!

When he lay on the horse's back, he was not simply dodging the arrows, but using his body as a cover, secretly removing a horned bow from the saddle. When he straightened up, the horned bow in his hand was already set up with arrows. His feet clamped the horse's belly, and as he turned backwards, he drew the bowstring full, and with an arrow he fired, and one of the thieves fell from his horse. He quickly drew another arrow from the quiver hanging from the saddle and mounted it, and shot it at the other thief!

The thief was also hit by an arrow and fell, and at the same time, he and several other thieves who were also dodging in panic collided with each other. They all fell off the horse. When the rest of the people saw their companions like this, they also slowed down, not daring to continue the chase.

Ashina is indefinite and does not love war. Take this opportunity to speed up the horses and whip up the whip, and run in the direction of the east city gate. The sparse thieves behind him soon disappeared.

Only then did he have the opportunity to take a look at Zuo Ying in front of him. I saw that she was still lying on the horse's back, motionless, and I didn't know if she was seriously injured and couldn't move in pain, or if she was simply dead, and she didn't make a sound at all.

He holds the bridle in one hand. Wrapping Zuo Ying's body with one hand, he helped her up and let her lean on her chest. Seeing that her eyes were open, although they were not bright, and her eyes were red, and she was looking aimlessly ahead, he confirmed that her body should be fine.

Ashina has been patrolling around the city wall every day for days and days, and he knows Ziyang City very well. He knew that he was now close to the East Gate, which was the farthest away from the West Gate, where it had fallen first. If you can get out of the West Gate in time, and then escape to Beiqiu City, the closest city to Ziyang City, which has not been besieged by thieves, you can be saved.

But for the escape, even if it's just a return. Ashina really has no experience. With the strength of his tribe and his own bravery, he was invincible in the desert, and hardly knew what it was to flee; Who would have thought that when he first arrived in the Central Plains, he would spread this kind of disaster relief and create a cult to start a war, so that he could not defend it when he was overstretched, and finally ended up in defeat and fleeing.

Although the people who died tonight were not his Turkic warriors, nor were they close to him, since he had agreed to be the commander of the defense of Ziyang City, he was ready to live and die with the officers and soldiers of Ziyang City. Even when the gates of the city were breached, and the thieves, several times the strength of his army, were about to rush to the city, he still did not waver in the slightest cowardice.

If it weren't for Liu Mian, the lieutenant of Ziyang County, who forced him to die and persuaded him that Ziyang City could be taken again, and His Majesty would have been irreparable if he encountered an unforeseen situation, he would definitely not have left the officers and soldiers who were defending and ran to chase Zuo Ying alone.

In the evening. Invincible in the sand, he became a defeated general who abandoned his subordinates and fled, not only was his undefeated record rewritten, but also broke through the bottom line that he had always insisted on. This is a great shame for him with a strong temperament. He didn't lose anyone, but what he lost was the brilliance of his body, as important as the feathers of a goshawk and the mane of a lion, which had always shone on him with courage and fearlessness. Losing these, he almost lost his direction and ambition, and his mood at the moment was no better than Zuo Ying's. He had injuries on his body, and they were not lightly injured, but the pain in his heart had long overshadowed the pain in his body.

At this time, Ashina Wuji and Zuo Ying had already approached the East City Gate.

Ashina saw from a distance that there were no soldiers guarding the city gate, and the city gate had been opened to a crack large enough for a man and a horse to pass through, and there were some messy footprints and horseshoe prints on the ground under the city gate, it seemed that the soldiers here knew that the city had fallen and fled. The footprints and horseshoe prints were probably left by the fleeing soldiers and the brave people of the city.

After a night of fighting, before I knew it, the sky was already clouded and white. Looking through the gap between the two gates, the white and red colors of the distant horizon seemed to give them a glimmer of hope, a hope that was slim but within reach.

However, Ashina didn't know that less than 20 meters outside the city gate, there was already a thief army who had rushed from the city wall first, set up a tripping rope, and ambushed in the grass and trees on both sides of the road, using the sky as a cover, waiting for the people who fled out of the city to enter the trap.

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Less than half an hour later, the sky was getting clearer. Ziyang City officially announced that it had changed hands, all the flags on the city were replaced with the flags of the Six Dust Sect, the gates of the Quartet were closed, and the whole city was under martial law, and no idle people were allowed to enter and leave at will. There were no pedestrians on the road, and the members of the Six Dust Sect were diligently washing away the bloodstains left by last night's fighting. And the West City Gatehouse, which has been mostly burned to charcoal ashes, is still emitting wisps of white smoke.

There was a small group of Liuchen Sect members escorting dozens of people who had been tied up by the Five Flowers into the Taishou Mansion.

At this time, the person sitting in the outer hall of the Taishou Mansion was the general of the Six Dust Sect named Xu Dazhi. Those who were escorted into the Taishou Mansion were sent to kneel in front of him. Among these people, there are men and women, some old and some young, most of them are disgraced, and even have skin injuries on their bodies and faces, which obviously look like they have been bumped. There were also young ones who were so frightened that they couldn't stop crying.

A Six Dust Sect disciple stepped forward and saluted, "Senior Brother Xu, these are the people we have intercepted from the various city gates trying to escape. ”

Xu Dazhi glanced at these people, frowned slightly, and said to the side: "Bring someone to recognize it immediately!" ”

Left and right said yes and took the order to go. Bring a captured Ziyang City soldier in a short time. They led the soldier to the kneeling crowd on the ground, and shouted, "Recognize it!" Are there your empresses and royal husbands in here! ”

The soldier trembled and carefully identified the kneeling men on the ground one by one. He was in a nervous mood, and when he saw that the people on the ground were all cowering in fear, he was shrunk and cowered, and almost all of his faces were gray and bloodstained, and he couldn't confirm it over and over again.

Xu Dazhi saw that the soldier had been grinding for so long, and he impatiently patted the case, which frightened everyone below.

"If you can't recognize it, you will drag them all down and be executed!" Xu Dazhi shouted angrily.

"Spare your life! Spare your life! ”

"How can we be the Empress and the Queen?"

"My lord! The villain is just a little common man, and he just fled with his family! ”

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The kneeling crowd suddenly cried and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.

A strategist-like man stepped forward and whispered to Xu Dazhi: "Senior Brother Xu, I foolishly think that we have just entered the city, and we should only appease the people, not kill them. The indiscriminate killing of innocent people is contrary to our Six Dust Teachings, and it also damages the image of our Six Dust Sects. This captive can't be recognized, so we'll find a few more. If you can recognize the faint monarch from it, it is naturally the best, if you can't recognize it, it only means that she is in the city, as long as we search quickly, it will be difficult for her to escape from Ziyang City even if she has wings. ”

Xu Dazhi breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and said, "Just do as you say." ”

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In the middle of a mansion in Ziyang City, Ashina Wuji was lying on a simple bed, his eyes half-squinted, his mouth open and closed like a fish on the shore, as if he was about to faint at any moment.

"Imperial husband, wake up!" Zuo Ying held Ashina's indefinite face and said eagerly: "You can't fall asleep, you know?" Don't fall asleep! If you fall asleep now, you will never wake up again, and you will never be able to go back to the desert to see your father, mother, and brother! ”

"Hmm......" Ashina let out a difficult response from his nose.

The blood-soaked clothes on his body had faded, and his original blood-stained body had been simply wiped by Zuo Ying, and it was only then that the two deepest wounds on his body were on his abdomen and left chest. The wound in the abdomen was stabbed by the fake Xu Hong, and a round of strenuous activity without treatment made the wound crack even greater; The wound on the left chest was more than a foot long, and the bone was deep and visible. Both wounds were still oozing blood, which was shocking and horrific.

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