Although Lao Li ordered to flee as soon as he noticed the anomaly in the woods in the distance, even if Lao Zhang's horsewhip was waved fast at this time, it would be useless.

In order to achieve the effect of the surprise attack, Muhua Li Falcon ordered all the grassland armies to advance at full speed more than twenty miles away from Jinling.

Therefore, Lao Li and the others soon saw a large number of grassland cavalry suddenly pouring out of the woods behind them.

"It's ······"

When Lao Li saw the costumes of these people clearly, he was completely dumbfounded.

"These guys in charge don't seem to be some grass army bandits?"

Xiao Lu was already trembling when he spoke.

"Nonsense, these guys are steppe barbarians."

Lao Zhang had served in the northern border before, so he was sure of the identity of the grassland everyone at the first time.

"How is this possible? Aren't the steppe armies all on our north side? Why did they appear outside Jinling? ”

Xiao Lu grabbed the wheels of the carriage and said with a crying voice.

"Who knows! Some time ago, I heard that the imperial court was completely broken by the steppe people in the northern border fortress, and hundreds of thousands of grassland troops entered the hinterland of my Dayu Dynasty in this way, thinking that these guys are part of these hundreds of thousands. ”

Although Lao Li's face was already pale, he was still trying to be strong and calm.

"Shopkeeper, what are we going to do now? Do you want to throw away these goods and run away immediately? ”

Xiao Lu had never been in contact with the real grassland army before, he had only heard about these people from other people's mouths.

In other people's descriptions, these steppe barbarians are ferocious and bloody, without a trace of humanity.

Even Xiao Lu had heard that some of these steppe barbarians were terrifying, and even took the initiative to eat the hearts of their enemies.

Therefore, these grassland armies are simply demons who come to the underworld for Xiao Lu.

After Lao Li heard Xiao Lu's urging, he only hesitated for a moment, and then immediately ordered the three of them to abandon the car and run away immediately.

"Now we are all chased by these steppes in the carriage, and once we lose the carriage, we will soon be trampled into mud by the iron hooves of the steppe army."

Xiao Lu couldn't help but shout loudly.

He even wanted to go up and grab Lao Zhang's horsewhip to drive the carriage himself.

But now, as the carriage was running wildly, the road, which had been relatively smooth, suddenly seemed bumpy.

As a result, the carriage's Xiao Lu couldn't even stand on his feet.

"But now, even if we don't lose the supplies on the wagon, we will soon be overtaken by these steppe barbarians."

At this time, Lao Li also began to waver a little.

"That is, we should jump out of the carriage and flee into the woods by the roadside at once, so that the cavalry of the other side will not be able to catch up with us quickly."

Xiao Lu added eagerly.

When Lao Zhang heard this, he felt that Lao Li and Xiao Zhang were very reasonable.

So he immediately let go of the reins of the horse, then stabilized his body, and stepped to Lao Li and Xiao Lu's side in one step.

"Lao Zhang, what are you going to do here?"

Xiao Lu saw Lao Zhang suddenly appear beside him, and he couldn't help but look at Lao Zhang nervously.

"Once the carriage slows down now, the steppe barbarians behind will definitely find us fleeing at the first time, and even if we hide in the woods, they will quickly find us."

Lao Zhang said while explaining while grabbing Xiao Lu.

"Lao Zhang, what are you going to do?"

Xiao Lu couldn't help but swallow his saliva when he heard the wind whistling in his ears.

"It's very simple, just jump out of the car!"

Lao Zhang said concisely.

"You're crazy, jumping off the carriage at this speed, even if you don't fall to your death, you'll be injured, if that's the case, it's better to let the steppe army catch it!"

When Xiao Lu heard this, he was immediately frightened.

"In that case, then you are waiting in this carriage to be captured by the steppe barbarians!"

Lao Zhang didn't talk nonsense to him, he immediately grabbed Lao Li.

"The shopkeeper remembers, when he lands, he must protect his head, and he actually rolls on the ground to remove the impact."

Lao Zhang observed the situation on the side of the road and found that there was a place overgrown with thatch not far away, so he immediately instructed Lao Li.

Lao Li nodded immediately when he heard this.

"Walk you!"

With Lao Zhang's low roar, Lao Li was directly thrown out by Lao Zhang.

Lao Li, who was thrown away, immediately curled up his body in the air, and then flew towards the thatched place.

The next second, he fell straight to the ground.

However, as he landed, Lao Li didn't feel much pain in his body.

Instead, he felt the ground he had fallen on softened slightly.

Then with a roll of him, Lao Li lay down on the ground smoothly.

Lao Zhang finally breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Lao Li land safely.

"You kid can't go down?"

Lao Zhang then turned his head and asked Xiao Lu again.

Xiao Lu, who was originally extremely nervous, immediately shouted after seeing Lao Li land safely.

"I jump, I jump, the old bones of the shopkeeper can land safely, and my little young body will definitely be able to hold it."

"You know, the shopkeeper was able to land safely because I remember that the place where he landed just now was a small puddle before, and then it dried up, and a lot of thatch grew on it, so the ground where he landed should be soft."

Lao Zhang said with a sneer.

"What? Then why didn't you just throw me there? ”

Xiao Lu couldn't help but scream angrily when he heard this.

"You yourself didn't want to jump out of the car just now, and now you blame me!"

The disdain on Lao Zhang's face was even worse.

"Is there any such softness ahead?"

Xiao Lu saw that Lao Zhang's face was displeased, and he immediately restrained his temper.

"No, there's only one place I remember!"

Lao Zhang directly shook his head and gave a negative answer.

"So am I being thrown down, or am I likely to be thrown to my death?"

Xiao Lu suddenly fell into despair.

"Yes, there is a possibility, but there is a high probability that you will not be killed by a fall, at most you will be injured by a fall."

Lao Zhang saw that Lao Li had already sat up and looked at the carriage they were in, and he was also a little anxious.

If you don't jump on the sides of the road in front of you, there won't be much flatness.

"So how should this be?"

Xiao Lu was once again caught in the middle of a tangle.

"You can't jump or not, if you don't jump, I'll jump by myself!"

Lao Zhang saw that Xiao Lu was still hesitant at this time, and the dissatisfaction in his heart had accumulated to the verge of breaking out.

"I ······ I ······"

At this moment, Xia Lu still can't make up his mind.

Seeing Xiao Lu hesitate, Lao Zhang could only snort coldly, and then jumped out of the carriage at once.

Xiao Lu, who was originally a little hesitant and had no master, turned his head and found that Lao Zhang's figure had disappeared.

"Lao Zhang!"

Immediately, he immediately lay on the edge of the carriage and looked at Lao Zhang, who had already rolled to the ground, and his heart was already terrified.

But when the carriage ran out for a long distance, he didn't see Lao Zhang stand up.

In his mind, Lao Zhang should have fallen to his death.

Xiao Lu, who was not afraid in the first place, didn't dare to jump down even more.

"It's a big deal, they were caught by the grassland barbarians, and when the time comes, I will directly kneel on the ground for them and beg for mercy, I believe they are still the reason for the people who lead the way and do things for them."

After Xiao Lu made up his mind not to jump down, he immediately thought about how he would beg for mercy if he was caught by the grassland barbarians.

"How are you, Lao Zhang?"

Lao Li, who landed first, quickly ran to Lao Zhang's side, and then immediately stepped forward to check.

"It's okay, it's just a twist!"

Lao Zhang quickly stood up with Lao Li's support.

Then the two limped to the woods next to the official road.

"Where's Xiao Lu?"

Lao Li asked as he walked, but although Lao Li seemed to be very concerned about Xiao Lu's safety, he never glanced at the carriage that was galloping all the way.

"Humph! As soon as the guy heard that jumping out of the car might be dangerous, he didn't want to jump at all, so I had no choice but to jump out of the car myself. ”

Lao Zhang snorted coldly and said.

In fact, if Lao Zhang had gotten up immediately after landing just now, maybe Xiao Lu would have mustered up the courage to jump out of the car.

But after landing, Lao Zhang did not get up at the first time.

As for what he thought about his whereabouts at that time, perhaps even he himself could not figure it out.

However, when Lao Li asked Lao Zhang, a sense of guilt still emerged in Lao Zhang's heart.

In order to suppress this inexplicable sense of guilt, Lao Zhang could only use a strong tone to suppress the guilt in his heart.

"That kid has always been greedy for life and afraid of death, and his mental skills are not right, if he wasn't from the owner's family, how would I want him to be such a guy."

Lao Li obviously saw that Lao Zhang had not gotten up after landing just now, and it was deliberate.

But he didn't blame him for this, on the contrary, he counted Xiao Lu's poor character.

And the reason why he did this may also have something to do with the implicit guilt in his heart.

But now that the carriage has gone away, Xiao Lu didn't dare to jump down by himself, so the wood was already in the boat, and they had no choice but to flee for their lives first.

Soon, the two of them hiding in the woods saw tens of thousands of steppe troops galloping in front of them on war horses.

"Jinling City is in danger this time!"

When he saw that the grassland army had completely disappeared in front of his eyes, Lao Li sat on the ground and said dejectedly.

"You don't have to be so pessimistic, the shopkeeper, although this grassland army has a lot of people, but my Jinling City has thick walls, as long as the Yaowu army and the city guard battalion in the city are properly defended, these grassland barbarians may not be able to attack Jinling City."

After all, Lao Zhang has been on the front line, so he still knows some common sense of battle formations.

"Now we can only pray that the people in the city will find these steppe barbarians sooner."

Lao Li immediately folded his hands and prayed to the gods.

But apparently the gods in the sky did not hear Lao Li's prayers.

It wasn't until the grassland army rushed to a place less than five miles away from the north gate of Jinling City, and the Yaowu soldiers on the head of the city discovered the abnormality.

"Look at how there are so many people in the distance?"

At the head of the city, a Yaowu sergeant pointed to the smokey grassland army in the distance and asked his comrades.

"Did the imperial court send reinforcements? Yesterday, I heard that the Imperial Court was preparing to deal with the vassal kings of Soshoji Temple. ”

A soldier of the Yaowu Army immediately stepped forward and said in a low voice.

As the grandson of Wailang, a member of the Nandu Military Department, he still heard some news that others couldn't know.

"And this? Isn't this Shoshoji Temple a family with His Majesty? How could His Majesty do anything to them? ”

Another Yaowu sergeant asked puzzled.

"Are you stupid? These vassal kings must have done something detrimental to His Majesty's majesty! ”

"Impossible, if these vassal kings just did something that damaged Your Majesty's face, Your Majesty would not be able to make such a big move!"

"In that case, are the soldiers and these vassal kings preparing to clear the monarch's side or directly preparing to rebel?"

"Then it's even more impossible, if it's a rebellion, where will these old vassal kings of Zongzheng Temple do it? How many troops do they have? ”

"If it's to rebel, it has to be those young vassal kings who stay in the vassal kingdom!"

“······”

The Yaowu army that surrounded him began to talk about each other.

They had even forgotten to continue to observe the strange army that was rushing towards Jinling City.

At this time, Xiao Lu, who didn't dare to jump out of the car, had already been chased by the grassland army.

However, Xiao Lu's expected scene of being captured alive by the grassland army did not appear.

The whistling steppe army faced a carriage in front of them, and they directly knocked the carriage over the side of the road with their war horses.

As for Xiao Lu on the carriage, they didn't even look at it, and directly trampled it into meat paste with their war horses.

And there are many people who have suffered the same as Xiao Lu, after all, although the number of people accompanying the North City Gate every day is not large, it is also compared with several other city gates.

However, not everyone is as unlucky as Xiao Lu.

Many people found these steppe people and immediately began to speed up and flee.

So soon, those who were lucky enough to escape arrived at the north gate of Jinling City first.

"Close the city gate, the grassland barbarians have been killed."

Some of those who fled for their lives rode through the city gates and shouted warnings to the guards on the city walls.

However, although these people shouted desperately, the defenders of the Yaowu Army at the head of the city never did anything wrong to respond.

It's not that they didn't hear the warnings of those people.

On the contrary, it was precisely because they heard the warnings of those people that these people did not make any moves.

Because they feel like the people who are warning are just joking.

"How can there be an invasion of grassland barbarians here in Jinling City?"

This was the thought in the minds of all the defending sergeants of the Yaowu Army.

In their opinion, unless the imperial capital completely fell, it would be impossible for the grassland army to appear outside Jinling City.

And there are tens of thousands of people.

But just when they felt that this statement was ridiculous, a soldier of Yaowu observed that a large number of steppe barbarians wearing fur and strange headdresses had really appeared in the smoke and dust in the distance.

"Go and close the city gate, it's really the grassland barbarians who have killed it."

The Yaowu sergeant who reacted immediately shouted loudly.

When he shouted like this, he pulled everyone out of their confusion.

Immediately, they also saw the steppe barbarians wielding scimitars and maces.

"Finish the inner gates quickly, and be sure to keep them out of the inner gates."

At this time, the city guards of the Yaowu Army, who reacted, immediately gave orders to these Yaowu soldiers.

"Captain, why don't we go and see that the gate of the city is closed?"

The young Yaowu sergeant on the side immediately asked.

"It's too late, it's not enough time for us to close the gates of Urn City."

The voice of the commander of the Yaowu army was full of loneliness and helplessness.