Perhaps he didn't expect Xu Rui to be able to solve the first wave of killers so quickly, the checkpoint was obviously set up in a hurry, and he didn't even have time to drag out the stumbling stump.

Seeing that the carriage showed no signs of slowing down, several soldiers-like guys hurriedly rushed out with spears, and at the same time, a few people behind him pulled their bowstrings and aimed at the shadows.

Xu Rui took a deep breath and immediately pulled the trigger, and the black phoenix crossbow suddenly let out a terrifying bowstring sound, and more than a dozen arrows swept out, like a volley of archers.

There was a scream at the checkpoint, and the soldiers who were blocking the carriage fell to the ground and fled, and the shadow drove the carriage past with a blast, directly hitting the last two deadly guys and rushing out.

As soon as the carriage left, the soldiers who were hiding on the side immediately got out and pulled out their bows and arrows to aim at the carriage, but before they could really release the arrows, Xu Rui, who had changed the magazine, fired again, and there was a chaotic sound of "clanging", and the ground was instantly filled with arrow feathers, which frightened the soldiers and shrank back.

However, at this moment, the carriage suddenly tilted and turned sharply to the left, and Xu Rui stumbled and fell back into the carriage from the sunroof of the car.

"Young master, there are a lot of people suddenly killed in front and on the right, we can only turn to the south of the city now!"

The shadow driving outside the carriage screamed and told Xu Rui the reason for the sharp turn, Xu Rui's heart sank, and his brows furrowed even deeper.

At the moment when he crossed the sentry post, he had already seen that the banner of the sentry was indeed the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, but if the previous judgment was correct, there was only one possibility, that is, the team of soldiers patrolling the Five Cities had defected.

Even the secret chess in the army has been dispatched, what else is impossible? It seems that the dark chess has made a bloody investment this time, and it does not hesitate to expose the important chess pieces buried in Changxing City, and also to get rid of itself in one fell swoop.

Thinking about the fact that he killed more than 20,000 invincible Wuling pro-army, he would take revenge at any cost if he was the king of Wuling, not to mention that he had made such a big move recently, I am afraid that he would have been regarded as a threat by someone with a heart.

"Young master, the south of the city is not only mixed with fish and dragons, which is convenient for ambushes, but also the streets are narrow and winding, and it is impossible for the carriage to pass through quickly, maybe the thieves have already laid traps waiting for us, if we really get to the south of the city, it will be even more dangerous."

When An Ge heard that the carriage was heading to the south of the city, he immediately reminded him worriedly.

Xu Rui didn't know the situation in the south of the city, but the dark chess had obviously been planning for a long time, and he was pouring into the nest, and as soon as he made a move, it was a killing game, and now all the ways to survive must have been blocked, and he had no way to go to the sky and the ground, so it was difficult to fly.

The pursuers are getting closer and closer, time is life, and with every second of delay, their vitality will pass by a minute......

At the critical moment, Xu Rui's mind turned sharply, and he searched his stomach to think of a way to break the game.

Suddenly, a flash of lightning crossed his mind.

"Out of the city, all the places we can go must have been laid a net, so that the outside of the city is safe, we just need to go out of the city, drill into the ravine, this black light is blind, they can't take us for a while!"

Hearing this, An Ge was happy at first, but shook his head in disappointment after only a moment.

"Young master, it's getting late now, and the city gate has long been closed, not to mention that the nearest city gate is the south city gate, if we want to get there, we must pass through the south city, don't we just fall into their trap?"

Xu Rui shook his head and said, "It is absolutely impossible to go out of the city through the city gate, but there is still a place to go out of the city right now." ”

"Really?"

"The Wei River Waterway! The Wei River flows through Changxing City, isolated by a water gate, and now it is not wartime, unscrupulous businessmen often buy the water gate guard, open half of the water gate, and take advantage of the night to smuggle some prohibited things in, we can use this road out of the city! ”

"Young master, since you can go to the Water Gate, why don't you go directly to find the defenders on the Water Gate for shelter?"

Xu Rui shook his head and said: "We have no power or position, and it is fortunate that we rushed to the city rashly, and we were not regarded as rebellious ministers and thieves, not to mention that the secret chess is pervasive, even the soldiers and horses of the five cities can be mastered, how do you know that the defenders on the water gate are not their group?" ”

An Ge sighed and said helplessly: "Okay, it seems that there is only this one way to go at the moment, but the pursuers behind us are about to catch up, and we may not be able to hold out to the dock." ”

Xu Rui gritted his teeth and said: "Young master, I still have a hole card, once it is used, it will be endless, it was originally a last resort and absolutely cannot be used, but now it seems that it can only be taken out in advance." ”

As he spoke, Xu Rui opened the door of the carriage and asked Ying Yu, "Can we turn to the southwest wharf?" ”

Ying Yu hesitated for a moment and said, "The pursuers are chasing too closely, and there must be an ambush ahead, so the slave can only take a risk." ”

Xu Rui thought for a while and said, "I'll open the way for you in a while, and I'll run to the southwest dock as soon as I have the opportunity." ”

On the other side, Li Kuang is taking a team of Jinyi guards to patrol the city routinely, since the battle of Jingyang, he has been promoted from the six products of 100 households to the five products of the pacification because of his merit in breaking the dark chess.

Because of Han Baixing's perverse behavior, Jinyiwei was very passive after the Battle of Jingyang, and a well-informed official immediately impeached Jinyiwei for abusing his power and delaying the fighter, which really made them tremble for a while.

However, fortunately, the generals of the Northern Wuwei were silent, and Emperor Hongwei, in order to quickly pacify the dynasty, defeated Jingyang by thunderous means and closed the coffin, and did not give the Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces the opportunity to continue to attack the Jinyi Guard.

However, after such a trouble, as a motherless child, Jinyiwei will inevitably be further excluded and attacked by Dongchang, and its internal tremors are even more trembling, and they can't stop worrying.

It just so happened that the law and order in Changxing City had been quiet recently, and the high-level leaders of Jinyiwei sprinkled people from all walks of life, wanting to dig out some big cases to stabilize Jinyiwei's position.

Today happened to be Li Kuang's duty, and during the day he received a tip-off that some people in the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division were corrupt and bent the law, accepted bribes, and used military channels to help lawbreakers smuggle salt and iron.

Li Kuang wanted to fish out a few big fish from this clue, so he took people with him and prepared to rush to the Nancheng Administration Office at night.

However, he waited for most of the night, and the secret post responsible for monitoring the Nancheng Terracotta Division did not come to report, and there was no movement in several informants mentioning that they would be involved in smuggling.

Li Kuang felt that something was wrong, so he simply took people directly to the Nancheng Terracotta Division to find out.

"How's it going inside?"

Li Kuang rushed to an alley opposite the Terracotta Division in Nancheng and asked the secret post in charge of surveillance.

The dark sentry arched his hand at him and said, "Lord Hui, except for the two city patrol teams, the soldiers and horses of Nancheng have not moved a single soldier. ”

"Not a single soldier moved?"

Li Kuang frowned: "Even if there is no smuggling, normal patrols should be there, how can it not be a single soldier?" ”

After a moment of silence, Li Kuang beckoned to the people behind him and said, "It's not right, let's go in and take a look." ”

About two dozen brocade guards answered, took out the famous embroidered spring knife, and followed Li Kuang to the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Mansion.

As soon as he entered the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Division, the ominous premonition in Li Kuang's heart became heavier and heavier.

Originally, there was no one in the soldiers and horses division who was supposed to be five steps and one post, and there was no one in the soldiers and horses division, except for the lanterns hanging high, the entire yamen looked like a ghost house.

He immediately raised twelve points of caution and led people straight to the back hall, but what he saw in the back hall made his eyelids jump wildly.

Everyone saw a corpse lying on the ground in the back hall, and the director of the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Division who was in charge of duty was tied up and chained to a chair.

His throat had been slit, blood was spilling all over the ground, and he had been dead for a long time.

Li Kuang grabbed the secret sentry in charge of surveillance and asked, "Did you really only see two city patrol teams coming in and out?" ”

The dark sentry was already frightened by the scene in front of him, and kept nodding his head and said, "Go back...... Lord Hui, there are indeed only two patrol teams, and the number of people will never exceed a hundred! ”

Li Kuang pushed him away and said hurriedly: "There is a problem with those two teams!" Something happened, something happened, the soldiers and horses of Nancheng were slaughtered, the entire Nancheng patrolled thieves, dredged streets, ditches and prisoners, fire prohibition and other things no one cared about, and now Nancheng has become someone else's world at all! ”

He paced back and forth, contemplating his current situation.

Someone dared to slaughter the soldiers and horses of Nancheng, which means that the other party has a great plan, could it be that someone is plotting against him?

But if it is a rebellion, shouldn't it be to take the inner city directly, why would it do it to the southern city where dragons and snakes are mixed? Or has the five Terracotta Divisions already met with an accident?

Thinking of this, Li Kuang was startled, and a chill ran down his spine.

At this moment, there was a sudden "boom" in the distance, and the huge yamen shook a few times.

Hearing this loud noise, Li Kuang suddenly grew his mouth, because he was too familiar with this sound, it was the heavenly thunder that Xu Rui used to kill Wang Man outside Lingdong City!

"Ancestor, tonight's incident is not your handiwork, is it?"

Xu Rui was already inextricably linked with dark chess, but now when he saw that something had happened in Nancheng and heard the thunder in the sky, a thought that made Li Kuang feel suffocated suddenly came out.