Xiao Ce chased after him, and said to Li Hanning on the other hand: "If there is really a case on the side of Fengyang City, now that the day has passed, it will be too late for you to rush back." ”

Of course, Li Hanning knew this, but even if it was too late, she had to go back and take a look.

It would take at least a day to return the same way, as if it was too late, Li Hanning had to turn around and ride his horse towards the plain on the side, even if it seemed that such an open place was the easiest to have an ambush, and he always had to try it at such an urgent juncture.

When Xiao Ce was about to give a reminder, he was already half a step late.

From afar, he saw a man rushing out from behind the hillside and shouting at them, "What man! Hold it! ”

When the two of them rode through a small plain and almost reached the hillside, the two of them were surrounded by hundreds of people hiding in the vicinity, and seeing that they were outnumbered, Li Hanning and Xiao Ce had no choice but to restrain their horses.

Xiao Ce looked at the people on horseback, Xiao Ce always felt as if he had seen him somewhere, but now was not the time to give him time to think about this.

I saw a man in neat armor walking slowly through those people, and where he walked, everyone else unconsciously made way for him.

The man walked closer, stood in place, and said to Xiao Ce:

"You are Xiao Ce, the second son of the King of Luoyang, it is really better to meet than to be famous, the second son will naturally not remember people like me, but I know you."

The man glanced at Li Hanning on horseback on the side again, and then said to his subordinates who were standing on the side: "The identity of the people who can follow Xiao Ce should not be low, take these two people down together." ”

Li Hanning glanced at these people around her, the enemy is outnumbered, there are so many people ambushed here, she is still with Xiao Ce now, and the other party recognizes Xiao Ce's identity again, even if they break through hard, they are afraid that they will be seriously injured, and the other party seems to have no intention of killing them for the time being, it is better to follow the past first, in terms of judging the situation, Li Hanning and Xiao Ce have a tacit understanding, Li Hanning and Xiao Ce just glanced at each other, and quickly understood what the other party meant.

After Li Hanning and Xiao Ce dismounted, they followed those people to a place similar to a camp behind the hillside, Xiao Ce looked around and said to Li Hanning in a deep voice:

"Look at the flags hanging outside, there should be people from Qi'an here."

Li Hanning had heard this name Li Zhao talk about it before, and the good thing at the moment was that Qi An was also a person who rebelled against the imperial court, and the bad thing was that although his ability was not big, his ambition was not small, and his subordinates knew Xiao Ce's identity, but they still pressed them here as prisoners, and they probably didn't want to let them go.

The soldiers behind them pointed their spears at them and shouted, "Go in." ”

The two of them entered the camp they led the way into, in the middle of the camp was an iron prison, and there were heavy soldiers outside, and there were people outside who locked the iron prison, but fortunately, no one was watching in the camp, only the two of them were locked here.

The two of them were silent for a while, Li Hanning here was still worried about the situation in Fengyang City, and Xiao Ce seemed to be much more relaxed over there, and smiled as if relieved:

"I really didn't expect that yesterday you and I were still your opponents on the battlefield, and today we have become prisoners who are locked up here."

Li Hanning glanced at the iron lock, this thing is complicated in workmanship, she has encountered similar situations in the past and can be pried open with a hairpin hidden close to her body, but when she came out today, she was wearing a suit of armor, and it was difficult to hide other things close to her body, but she didn't bring it today.

Li Hanning said to the slightly noisy man on the side: "Yes, the world is changing and things are impermanent, and this is the case. ”

Always.

Xiao Ce said on the side: "Not only that, even if you and I are still prisoners under Qi An's subordinates now, we may not be able to be superior people after going out in the future." ”

Li Hanning saw that he couldn't open the iron rope, glanced at Xiao Ce and said: "Xiao Ergongzi has fallen into this field now, and he can still have such energy, which is very comparable." ”

Although her tone was a little worse when she said this, the meaning of the praise was sincere, and there were indeed few people with a mentality like Xiao Ce.

Xiao Ce listened to these words, as if he had thought of something, and didn't fight again, just sighed softly and said, "It's because the front is too revealing that I was forced by my eldest brother everywhere." ”

So much so that he fell into the current situation of being a prisoner.

However, Li Hanning is very clear about this point, he has already hidden it well, but like the Xiao family, with Xiao Sheng's position and ability, he has to take precautions against his younger brother in advance.

"Actually—"

Li Hanning was about to speak, but he heard footsteps from far and near outside the tent, and a group of several people got closer and closer to the tent where they were, and immediately stopped, Xiao Ce also found an abnormality at the same time, and looked at the place where Li Hanning's eyes were looking, this time the person who came was Qi An,.

Qi An had seen Xiao Ce when he was still in Chang'an in the past, so he naturally knew him.

"It turns out that it is really your second son Xiao, Changfeng told me that I caught you, I didn't believe it originally, I didn't expect you to fall into my hands one day."

Xiao Ce didn't answer him.

For Qi An, what he has always hated the most is people like Xiao Ce, who thinks of himself as high, but because of his good birth, it is just the same as Li Zhao, who always looked high in the early days, but what can he do now, who still remembers the two of them in the troubled times, one has become a lost dog, and the other has now become his prisoner.

Where can such two people be proud?

Qi An sneered at the two people in the cage, then his eyes sank, and he commanded the people behind him: "Pull out the two people in the cage, kill them together, and send the heads back to Luoyang, I want to see what the King of Luoyang will look like when he sees Xiao Ce's head, and the white-haired person sends the black-haired person." ”

Several people behind him were about to step forward after listening to Qi An's order.

Li Hanning heard Qi An say this, and subconsciously protected Xiao Ce in front of him, if such a big cage wants to pull them out, it is necessary to open the iron lock in front of them, as long as the prison door is opened, there is no problem for her to put down those few pawns, and then as long as she finds Qi An as a hostage, at least she can ensure that they leave this camp safely.

It was when the two sides were at their most tense that Lu Changfeng stood up, knelt down in front of Qi An and said:

"Lord Qi think twice, if the adults really kill Xiao Ce, the king of Luoyang will definitely raise troops to retaliate against us, Luoyang soldiers and horses are nearly 200,000, Xiao Ce has been famous in the army for a long time in the past, if the Luoyang army comes for revenge, it will definitely put our army in danger, not to mention that Li Hanning is Li Zhao's retainer, we can't offend Luoyang and Huai'an at the same time, if that's the case, and the court won't let us go."

In this way, they have become the target of public criticism.

Hearing this, those pawns stood in front of the cage and didn't dare to make any more moves, just quietly looked at Lu Changfeng and Qi An.

Qi An pondered for a moment and then glanced at Lu Changfeng and said, "Since we have already arrested Xiao Ce, it is equivalent to offending Luoyang, and it is impossible for us to send people back safely, in your opinion, what should we do now?" ”

Lu Changfeng quietly glanced at the two people in the cage from a distance, and then said to Qi An in front of him: "I have a plan, our current military camp location is Fengyang City in less than a day, and now the Luoyang soldiers and horses are being led by Xiao Sheng to fight with Huai'an, since the two sides are not dying, we can send Xiao Ce to Huai'an City, as long as we hold Li Hanning in our hands, Huai'an City will not dare to act rashly at that time." ”

Xiao Ce stood in the cage and listened to them from a distance, until he heard this sentence, he only bowed slightly: "Sure enough, it is a good strategy to kill three birds with one stone."

It can not only further provoke the contradiction between Huai'an and Luoyang, but also kill Xiao Ce, who Qi An wants to kill the most, with a knife, and also keep their neutral position between Huai'an and Luoyang.

But they were obviously discussing giving Xiao Ce to their enemy Huai'an, but Xiao Ce still admired Lu Changfeng's dedication to Qi'an so much, which made Lu Changfeng a little surprised, Xiao Ce was so high-spirited at such an age, but at the same time, he also had such a tolerant temperament.

Qi An glanced at Lu Changfeng, and then at the people present, as if he felt that he was somewhat unable to hang on his face, Fang Cai's insistence almost caused a big disaster, and he coughed softly with some embarrassed faces and said:

"I naturally think the same way, it's just that Changfeng said it first, so it's decided, lock the two of them here first, and wait to see the situation in Fengyang City before making a decision."

Everyone followed Qi An and withdrew from the camp one after another, leaving only Lu Changfeng standing still in place.

Li Hanning understood that he had something to say, they didn't know each other, and this one who had something to say was naturally Xiao Ce, but the two of them were in an iron cage right now, and there was nowhere to go if they wanted to, so Li Hanning had to turn his back and walk to the other side of the cage.

In the end, Xiao Ce opened his mouth first, Xiao Ce looked at Lu Changfeng who looked hesitant in front of him and said, "It seems that General Lu has something to say to me?" ”

An hour ago, when Xiao Ce saw Lu Changfeng for the first time, he just felt that he was a little familiar, and for a while he couldn't remember where he had seen him, and he couldn't even remember his name, until Qi An came in just now and mentioned such a sentence, thinking about it carefully, although he was not impressed by Lu Changfeng, Lu Changfeng obviously knew Xiao Ce when he first saw him.

Lu Changfeng glanced up at Xiao Ce, who was in prison: "Second son Xiao may have forgotten that you had a life-saving grace for me in the past. ”