At night, it rained misty drizzle in Chengdu, and the rain fell from the sky like a needle, falling on the face and hands, making the night in mid-spring a little cooler, on the wall of a mansion not far from the back door of the Imperial History Observatory, Wu Furong led more than 60 internal guard warriors to patiently wait for the back door to open.

Zhang Heng inadvertently got the news that Yang Pei had already confessed, Wan Guojun took the first step in the afternoon, Wu Furong immediately judged that this was coming to Junchen to escort Yang Pei back to Beijing, and soon, Zhang Heng ordered his henchmen to send news that there would be movement at the back door tonight.

Wu Furong got the order of Princess Taiping, kidnapped Yang Pei, and did not allow Yang Pei to enter Beijing, Wu Furong is also a member of the Wu family, of course, her original intention is to hope that the Xingtang Dynasty will be completely eradicated, so that the Wu family can completely replace the Li family and dominate the Tang Dynasty, but she is now taking refuge in Princess Taiping and getting the reuse of Princess Taiping, she dare not and cannot disobey Princess Taiping's order.

"Commander, there's movement," a samurai called out in a low voice.

Wu Furong was in good spirits, and looked at the back door with all her attention, only for a moment, the back door opened quietly, and more than a dozen knights escorted a carriage out slowly, the carriage was covered with black cloth all around, pulled by two horses, Wu Furong recognized at a glance, this was a cage carriage, and Yang Pei must be among them.

"Up"

Wu Furong shouted, more than sixty warriors jumped off the wall, rushed to the carriage, the sudden ambush made a dozen knights in chaos, at this time they had left the back door of the official office, it was too late to go back, more than a dozen knights did not dare to fight, rushed into the darkness, only a moment, more than a dozen people ran without a trace, dropped the cage carriage.

It was too easy to succeed, which made Wu Furong have a bad feeling in her heart, she rushed forward and swung her sword to split the black cloth, and tore the black cloth apart, only to see that the cage was empty, how could there be any Yang Pei?

Wu Furong was dumbfounded, she knew she had been fooled.

At the same moment when Wu Furong attacked the carriage, another carriage had already left Chengdu, and headed north under the escort of dozens of black warriors, this carriage was not a cage carriage, but an ordinary carriage, in the carriage, Yang Pei was lying on the wall of the carriage with heavy shackles, he was already desperate, knowing that he would definitely die when he entered Beijing.

Next to the carriage, Lai Junchen was wearing a black and black samurai uniform, mixed with more than a dozen black warriors, it was difficult to distinguish him, his face was quite proud, and he played Wu Furong hard tonight, he couldn't help but want to laugh when he thought of Wu Furong's expression when he pulled the black cloth.

Wu Furong never dreamed that there was a secret passage in the Yushitai, leading to a private house opposite the gate, and that private house was also the property of Chengdu Yushitai, they transferred Yang Pei in the afternoon, and as soon as it was dark, they set off from the back of the house.

However, although Wu Furong was fooled, Lai Junchen was still a little worried, he was worried that not only Wu Furong wanted to intercept Yang Pei, such as Li Zhen, he has not shown up so far, and the real Xingtang Society, will they watch Yang Pei being escorted into Beijing?

After interrogating Yang Pei for four days and still finding nothing, it seems that Yang Pei also found that Lai Junchen did not dare to execute him, so he was even more unwilling to confess, although Lai Junchen got Yang Pei's confession pressed his fingerprint, but he did not get the exact evidence, of course Lai Junchen will not give up, he wants to escort Yang Pei back to the capital and then continue the interrogation, when he arrives in the capital, he has a way to make Yang Pei speak.

Lai Junchen looked at both sides, they had not completely stepped out of the range of Chengdu, and there were houses all around, so he ordered: "Speed up"

The carriage picked up speed and quickly headed north

On a three-story wooden building next to the official road, Li Zhen and Di Yan had been waiting for almost an hour, and there was still no sign of escorting the prisoners on the official road.

"I'm eight points sure that Junchen will leave tonight, but I'm only six points sure that he's going to go this way, so I'm actually only five points sure. ”

"Fifty percent sure?"

Di Yan said unhappily: "I'm only fifty percent sure that you will let me wait here for a night, and even if he comes, there are only two of us, how can we save him?"

"Adapt to the situation"

Li Zhen leaned against the window and said with a lazy smile: "We don't necessarily save people now, we can follow them, they go all the way north, there is always a time when they are negligent, and then the opportunity comes." ”

Di Yan glared at him for a long time and said: "I have done so many things with you, this time is the most unreliable, you don't have a plan, you know to wait here stupidly, you knew this, what are you doing in Chengdu?"

"Why didn't I have a plan? Didn't I go out this afternoon? How else would I have known they were leaving tonight?"

"You—" Di Yan asked curiously again, "What did you do in the afternoon?"

"I actually went to check on Wu Furong and their movements, and I found out that they were preparing to ambush them at night, so I guessed they got the news that Junchen was leaving tonight, but I dare say they will get nothing. ”

"Why?"

"Who is Lai Junchen, how can he be found so easily, he must have given Wu Furong fake news, so that Wu Furong will be in the air tonight. ”

Di Yan pursed her lips, "These are just your guesses, besides, how can you tell that Wu Furong is going to ambush tonight, what if people are just preparing first, and they will only ambush tomorrow or the day after tomorrow?"

"My guesses are generally more accurate, you see, they're coming," Li Zhen laughed as he looked at the official road in the distance.

Di Yan turned around and followed Li Zhen's gaze to look into the distance of the official road, only to see a team faintly appearing in the distance.

There was no light in the room, which made their eyes adjust to the darkness, and despite the drizzle outside, Di Yan could still see clearly that dozens of people on horseback were guarding a carriage that was cautiously approaching this direction.

Di Yan suddenly lifted her spirits and asked in a low voice, "How can we save people?"

But Li Zhen didn't answer her, Di Yan looked at him strangely, only to see Li Zhen closing his lips tightly, his eyes gloomy and sharp staring at the slowly approaching carriage, but the bow and arrow in his hand were slowly clenched.

Di Yan suddenly had a feeling of uneasiness in her heart, she knew that Li Xian had given Li Zhen a note, but she didn't know anything about what was written on that note, could it

Di Yan just wanted to ask Li Zhen, but at this moment, a shout suddenly broke out on the official road, Li Zhen and Di Yan were taken aback, and looked at the official road together.

The official road is lined with sparse houses and shops, while further north are desolate mountains and forests, making the inn where Li Zhen and Di Yan are located the last point of commerce in Chengdu.

At this time, just a few dozen steps south of the inn, countless black shadows surrounded Junchen's team from all directions, and the two sides mixed together.

Di Yan asked Li Zhen nervously, "Brother Li, are they Xingtang Society?"

Li Zhen shook his head slowly, he knew that it couldn't be the Xingtang Society, all the warriors of the Xingtang Society had withdrawn to Yangzhou, and they couldn't catch up at all, could it be Wu Sansi's people who wanted to compete with Lai Junchen for the dominance of the Xingtang Society, but this explanation seemed a bit far-fetched.

At this time, a thought flashed through Li Zhen's mind, "I know" Li Zhen blurted out, "I know who they are, it must be them"

"Who is it?" Di Yan asked anxiously.

"It was to ambush the officials of Dali Temple in Fangzhou and assassinate the gang of people under Lai Junchen. ”

Di Yan's eyes widened, weren't these people doing everything possible to provoke Junchen's attention to the Xingtang Society? How could they stop Junchen's investigation of the Xingtang Society at a critical moment? This seems to be a bit contradictory

In fact, Li Zhen also felt a little contradictory, but his intuition told him that the black-clothed man who ambushed Junchen and the murderer who ambushed Dali Temple at this time were the same people.

However, at this time, Li Zhen had no time to think too much, and the surprise attack of the man in black disrupted his plan, and he pulled out a long arrow from the quiver on his back-

There was already chaos on the official road, and the two teams were fighting fiercely together, Lai Junchen obviously didn't expect someone to ambush here, he was angry and anxious, and shouted: "Protect the carriage, don't let them rob people"

More than 20 black warriors were tightly guarding both sides of the carriage, desperately resisting the attack of the men in black, and Lai Jun knew that there was a military camp five miles away, so he immediately said to one of his subordinates: "Go to the military camp for help

His men turned their horses' heads and galloped in the direction of the military camp to the west, and Lai Junchen drew his long sword and urged his horse into the battle group.

There are about thirty or forty people in black, all of them are strong in martial arts, fierce in killing, they are in groups of three or five, killing the carriage from all directions, and their goal is also very clear, that is, to rob Yang Pei in the carriage.

In the darkness, there were swords and swords, shouts and killings, and screams kept coming from both sides of the carriage, and Lai Junchen personally waved his sword to fight, protecting the carriage to the death, he knew in his heart that only if they held out for another half an hour, the army would come to help.

"Hold on to me"

Lai Junchen shouted loudly, constantly motivating his subordinates to resist desperately, and the man in black couldn't attack for a while, and the two sides stuck together.

Inside the carriage, Yang Pei, who was originally dying, was also excited, he threw himself on the window, both sides of the window have been fixed with iron bars, "Who is it?

Yang Pei shouted loudly in excitement, turned around and threw himself at the window on the other side, shaking the iron bar on the window vigorously, he desperately wanted to stick his head out of the fence to see who had rushed to save him.

But the accident happened at this moment, a long arrow shot like lightning, the power of the long arrow was strong, 'poof, a long arrow shot into Yang Pei's forehead, shot into nearly half of the arrow, Yang Pei screamed, raised his head and fell.

This scene happened to be seen by Lai Junchen, his eyes were red all of a sudden, he swung his sword and slashed the rest of the people, and rushed to the carriage, only to see Yang Pei lying crookedly in the carriage, his mouth open, blood gurgling out along the shaft of the arrow, and Yang Pei's eyes were no longer alive.

Lai Junchen shouted, Huo Di turned his head to look, the place where the long arrow came was an inn, about fifty paces away, a window on the third floor of the inn was ajar, but no one could be seen.