Li Ran watched as the Shu army spread over from all directions.

This battle was fought in the second half of the night, and by the afternoon, Li Ran was standing at the head of Jinxian County, and he could already see the defense line of the imperial court army retreating step by step under the charge of round after round of Shu soldiers.

Zhou E pushed Li Ran down the city wall, An Xiaorui had already gathered everyone, all wearing variegated muslin clothes that were no different from Li Ran's, got on the horse, mixed with the crowd of refugees who were already small, and went out of the city gate.

The people of Jinxian who escaped from the city gate were all heading to Xiangyang, and Li Ran's group of nearly 100 people, although the clothes were ordinary, nearly 100 good horses gathered together, but they were very conspicuous.

"Let's go separately from them." Li Ran looked back and forth, and said to Zhou E, who was next to her.

"Hmm." Zhou E glanced at An Xiaorui, nodded in response, motioned to everyone, and rushed into the farmland that had just been cultivated, and rushed towards the woods not far away.

As soon as he rushed into the woods, on the side of Jin County, a group of light cavalry scattered into a fan shape, crossed Jin County, and rushed forward, and the flow of people fleeing in the direction of Xiangyang suddenly became chaotic, turned around, and ran back to Jin County in panic.

"Gotta go!" Zhou E's expression became stern.

"Over there." Ahn Hyo-rui pointed to the side and back.

"Not over there, go back!" Zhou E listened intently for a while, and motioned to the other side of Jin County.

"Okay." An Xiaorui replied very quickly, and a good word came out, and he had already taken off the narrow knife and held it in his hand.

"There are too many people, divide into two ways, you take them that way."

Zhou E looked at Yu Po, pointed to Ziqi and the others, and motioned them to go in the direction that An Xiaorui pointed out just now.

"Okay." Yu Po responded simply, and rushed out first with Zi Fei and other girls and mothers-in-law who were just good at riding.

Zhou E watched them rush out of the place where they shot, took off their guns, rushed in front of An Xiaorui, rushed out of the forest, and rushed straight forward in the opposite direction of Yu Po and them.

Li Ran lay on his horse and followed closely behind Wang Cuima.

Just after Jin County, behind the defeated imperial army, more than a dozen horsemen chased and killed.

Zhou E gestured at An Xiaorui, watched the rout run past not far away, and rushed out against more than a dozen light horses.

Li Ran was surrounded by Wang Cui and others in the middle, holding her breath and looking at Zhou E and An Xiaorui, who were rushing very fast.

Zhou E's moves were simple and simple, Li Ran could only see her spear stabbed out, and then stabbed out, An Xiaorui's long knife slashed left and left, overflowing with cold light.

The light of the knife and the flesh and blood are intertwined, under the red sunset, the spear stabbed, the cold light of the long knife, the blood sprayed, the flying limbs, and the corpse that fell off the horse, making Li Ran feel in a trance that everything in front of him should be framed with a screen, or, after a while, there will be a shout, and then the corpses all over the ground will get up, laughing and talking, patting the dust, drinking drinks, and celebrating the successful completion of this scene.

"Let's go!" Wang Cui whipped Li Ran's horse.

Almost intuitively, Li Ran leaned over the horse's back, shook the reins, and rode forward.

Zhou E rushed to the front, An Xiaorui followed, and more than a dozen elites followed on both sides, dodging forward in a group of elite cavalry, killing the enemy who could not be avoided.

Li Ran leaned over the horse's back, staring at Wang Cui in front of him, and had no time to care.

When it was dark, everyone rushed into a depression, and it was dark and quiet in front, with the sound of horses' hooves and the sound of swords and guns in the back of the horses.

"Alert." Zhou Ele stopped his horse, and while instructing An Xiaorui, he jumped off the horse, strode up to the high place next to him, hid next to a big tree, and looked around.

"Looks like it's not going in the right direction?" Seeing Zhou E rushing back, An Xiaorui looked at her and said.

"Hmm." Zhou E's face was gloomy, she stood in front of the horse, crossed her hands on her waist, looked around, raised her hand and nodded a few people, "A few of you, be alert, stay away."

For the rest, dismount, eat, and rest for a while, we have to kill back. ”

"Where is this?" Li Ran jumped off the horse and walked to Zhou E's side.

"I don't know, but it's definitely not ours." As Zhou E spoke, she touched the dry food and water on the horse's back.

"Can you go back around?" Li Ran looked back at the dense sound of murder behind him.

"Then I don't know how far I have to go." An Xiaorui also got off the horse, touched a piece of salted meat, and touched a piece of cake out.

"Find a place to hide and wait for our people to call?" Li Ran looked at the forty or fifty people around him who were busy drinking water and eating.

"Whether it's fighting over or back, it's too dangerous for the GIs to press over, and we can't wait here.

General Zhou is right, if you kill it now, you still have a few chances of winning. ”

An Xiaorui said with a smile while biting on the salted meat.

"Don't worry, at most, this little bit of people will definitely be able to send you back safely, what about Momono? You follow her, and when Wang Cui and the others also rush up, she will be handed over to you, and at that time, no matter how you can return to our land, you take care of her. ”

Zhou E bit a salty cake while shaking her neck and moving her shoulders.

"Go forward, go around." Li Ran said succinctly.

"I told you, if you are reassured, you can rest assured, I will definitely let you go back alive......"

"I'll go back alive, what about you? What about them? Li Ran interrupted Zhou E's words.

"On the battlefield, life and death are ordinary, at least these people are not afraid of death." An Xiaorui pointed at everyone and smiled.

"But it's not worth dying like this.

Going forward, but with a little more detour, the chances of everyone making it back alive are much greater, aren't they?

I, you, and them, rush back now, or go around for a few days, or a dozen or dozens of days, or a few months and half a year and then go back, it doesn't make a difference, isn't it?

We're all idlers. ”

Li Ran looked at Zhou E.

"Handsome ......" Zhou E wrinkled her eyebrows and looked at Li Ran.

"I'm not dead, even if I'm dead......"

Li Ran's words paused, and after a moment, he looked at Zhou E and said with a smile: "It's just a little detour, don't you often say that I am a blessed person." ”

"If you go back now, you may not be able to do everything, it's better to move forward."

Momonon bit the cake and pointed to the back of the dense killing sound, and scratched his fingers in a circle.

"Those of us, except for you and his own soldiers, the rest are hard detectives, and they are all good hands, right? How appropriate it is to go forward, the girl is right, at most it is to take a little more detour.

It's really uncertain to turn around and kill back at this time. ”

"I think there's a bit of truth to that." An Xiaorui looked at Zhou E, and then at Li Ran.

He wasn't quite sure what Zhou E meant by the handsome sentence just now, General Xie was such a hard-hearted person...... Well, worry must be worry, but nothing else......

An Xiaorui thought a little distracted.

"What do you two see?" Zhou E turned her head to look at Wang Cui and Shen Mai.

"Go forward, don't die, try to live." Wang Cui replied very simply.

"Okay. Then don't stop, let's hurry up, if we want to go around, we have to go farther, at least we have to cross the oak city. ”

Zhou E ate the cake in two bites, waited for the horse to eat almost, and led everyone to get on the horse and move forward.

When the sky was close to dawn, the sentinel found a hidden woodland facing the cliff, everyone got off the horse, Zhou E and An Xiaorui were busy arranging people to take care of the horses and go out to visit.

Li Ran gathered a pile of withered thatch and leaves, and curled up to sleep.

……………………

Oak Castle in the early morning.

More than a dozen cavalrymen with fresh blood stains on their armor, escorting four or five carts, rushed into the temporary marshal's mansion in the north of the city.

Qi Yi stood under the leafy camphor tree, watching the girls and mothers-in-law who came down from the cart one by one.

Several carts were empty, turned around and were pulled out, and Zi Qi and the others were huddled together, carefully looking around.

Qi Yi took two steps back and sat down, carefully looked at the crowd a few times, and motioned to the servant standing next to him, "Call the one standing at the front." ”

The little girl agreed, trotted all the way over, lit a purple eggplant, and motioned for her to come with him.

Zi Ji carried a heart and followed the little guy to Qi Yi.

Qi Yi put down the teacup, looked at the purple eggplant carefully, and asked with a smile, "What's your name?" How old is this year? Where to be on an errand? ”

"The maid's name is Ziji, and in the nineteenth of this year, the maid is waiting by the princess's side." The rules of the purple eggplant.

Purple Eggplant's submissive cooperation made Qi Yi a little surprised.

"The princess's big girl Zi Qi?"

"Yes." Purple eggplant should be.

"What about those who are with you? Are they all waiting by your princess's side? Which is green eggplant? Qi Yi stared at Zi Qi's expression.

"Half of them are waiting by the princess's side, half of them are rough, and there are a few martial maids. The one who stood with the servant just now was the green eggplant. ”

Purple eggplant lowered her eyes and answered all questions.

"Oh." Qi Yi's eyes narrowed slightly, and he sighed in a proper, picked up the cup, and took a sip of tea before asking, "What about your princess?" ”

"I don't know, there are a lot of us, and when we go out of the city, we are divided into three or four or five groups."

"Who's with your princess?" Qi Yi looked from Zi Qi to Qing Qi and the others who were staring nervously at this side.

"General Zhou."

"Zhou E?"

"Yes."

"Apart from Zhou E, who else is guarding your princess?"

"The only thing that the servant knows, is General Zhou." Purple eggplant lowered her eyes.

"A while ago, your prince didn't send additional guards to your princess's side?" Qi Yi leaned at the purple eggplant.

"The servant doesn't know, General Zhou, and those guards are all outside."

"How is your prince treating your princess? Isn't it great? Qi Yi changed the subject.

"The servant doesn't know, when the prince comes back, the servant has to go outside to listen to the summons."

"Oh." Qi Yi sighed tastelessly, "I heard that your princess doesn't like to talk, and often doesn't say a word for three or five days?" ”

"The maid has never heard of it, whatever the princess commands, she will say."

Qi Yi was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, "It's all said, it's interesting." How many people did Zhou E bring with you princess? ”

"It's about the same as our group." Zi Qi lowered his eyes, there were about twenty people in their group.

"Who are they? What is it called? ”

"The maid doesn't know."

"What do you princesses like to eat? What about the prince? ”

"The princess is never picky about eating, in contrast, she loves fish and sheep, fish likes to be steamed, and she can do whatever she wants, and she doesn't like to be greasy. What the prince likes to eat, the servants don't know, the prince's diet and daily life are all taken care of by the Shinan Shiye, and the servants are never allowed to get close. ”

"You all used to wait by Old Madam Shen's side?"

"Yes."

"How is your princess treating you? What about the prince? ”

"The princess waited for us wonderfully. The prince is also good. ”

"I heard that the Xie family is very stylish from top to bottom, but you are easy-going." Qi Yi squinted at Purple Eggplant.

"This is the princess's order, the princess said, we are all involuntary subordinates, if we encounter something like today, ask what to say, don't have to suffer in vain for the sake of the bones, and even lose our lives."

"You didn't say anything, you don't know anything, it's almost the same."

"The maid really doesn't know, the princess never let the maidservants know what the maidservants shouldn't know, the princess said, this is for the good of the maids." Purple eggplant lowered her eyes.

"I can't trust you, can I?" Qi Yi looked at Qing Qi and the others who were watching him carefully.

Purple eggplant lowered her eyes and didn't speak.

"Take her down." Qi Yi motioned to the little servant.

The little guy stepped forward, took the purple eggplant around the camphor tree, and went to the back.

Qi Yi motioned to another servant and called the green eggplant over.

Qi Yi called more than 20 girls one by one to ask, sat down and sipped half a cup of tea, stood up and entered the house.

In the room, Jian Mingrui put down the battle report and looked at Qi Yi: "How was the trial?" ”

"It's interesting."

Qi Yi sat down opposite Jian Mingrui and said the words of Zi Ke briefly.

"There are more than two dozen people, and the rhetoric is almost identical. They are all slaves of the Xie family. ”

"The Xie family's strict ability to govern the family is one of the best among the family." Jian Mingrui smiled.

"Well, they all know everything, but they don't know anything.

It was said that it was Miss Li's orders, and this Miss Li ......"

Qi Yi's words paused, and he was silent for a moment before he looked at Jian Mingrui, and there was a hint of admiration in his tone: "This benevolence is in the same vein as Renzong." ”

"This is a very strict precaution, even the big girl who is waiting close to her doesn't know anything, to prevent it from happening, hum." Jian Mingrui snorted coldly.

Qi Yi looked at him for a moment, and said with a smile: "According to the information report that came over, Miss Li and her party should have followed the gap we left and went west."

There should be more than two dozen people around her, so she has to quickly cast a net to search. ”

……………………

When she woke up, Li Ran opened her eyes, looked at the bright sunlight shining through the dense leaves, squinted to avoid the star of sunlight that happened to shine on her face, and sat up.

Not far in front of her, Zhou E, Wang Cui, and Tao Nong were sitting together, talking in a low voice, and next to Zhou E, An Xiaorui spread his hands and feet, sleeping sweetly on his back.

Li Ran got up and moved over to sit next to Zhou E.

"Where is this?" Li Ran took the water bag that Tao Nong handed her, looked at Zhou E and asked.

"South of Oak City, a hundred and ten miles away from Oak City."

Zhou E handed half a piece of bacon to Li Ran.

"Let people go to the nearest county town to inquire, just now I and Xiao Wu deduced twice, there should be a fight on Jinghu North Road, so that they have the opportunity to sneak attack, and when the report comes back, we will set off to the south, but in a day or two, we can enter Jinghu North Road."

Li Ran slowly bit the salted meat, listened intently and thought, and hummed lowly.

(End of chapter)