Chapter 329: Defeat (5)
Xiao Rongshen was overjoyed, pulled out his sword, and put his eyes on the gap to see, he actually saw a wilderness!
Xiao Rongshen poked a few more swords at the wall, poking the wall to pieces. Jumping up and kicking the wall, the earthen wall collapsed, and the smoke and dust rose up, choking Xiao Rong deeply. He stepped out of the mountain pass and looked around.
He seemed to have an impression of this place, it should be the wild mountain outside the capital. Xiao Rongshen looked back at the narrow cave he had just faced, and it was a little hard to imagine for a moment that he had walked in this path for so long just now. The lights have burned out, and if you want to go back from here, you can only rely on discredit. This road is too long, and it is too depressing, Xiao Rongshen really doesn't have the courage to walk back along here.
But what can you do if you don't enter from here? The four gates of the capital are sealed, and not even an ant can climb in.
"Digging a pit and burying oneself is really a death. Xiao Rongshen laughed at himself.
Xiao Rong wanted to try this and return to the palace from this path, but he had just walked out, and he really didn't have the courage to walk such a long first road again. When he saw a mountain spring nearby, he bowed his hands and drank the water.
After drinking water and resting enough on the grass, Xiao Rongshen returned to the palace according to the original way, and when he left, he deliberately found some long weeds to cover the entrance of the cave.
When Xiao Rongshen returned to the palace, it was already sunset. Fortunately, no one noticed his departure, Xiao Rongshen kicked the mechanism under the root of the wall, returned the two floor tiles to their original state, pushed the cabinet over to block it, and swept away the broken porcelain pieces on the ground.
Although the tea on the table was already cold, it was enough to quench his thirst, Xiao Rongshen grabbed the teapot and swallowed a few sips, and sat down on the steps.
Everything that happened just now was like a dream, if it weren't for the pain of a pinprick in his head, Xiao Rongshen really couldn't believe that everything just now was real.
That narrow path seemed to lead to the abyss of the underworld, and I felt scared when I thought about it. Xiao Rong leaned on the table leg of the dragon book case in a daze, this path can lead to the wild mountains outside the capital, and it is indeed a good place to escape. If Xiao Rongzhan breaks through the capital, he can escape from this place by himself, as long as he escapes Xiao Rongzhan's pursuit, there will be a comeback one day!
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The spring breeze rendered the grass and trees in Donglin Prefecture into emerald green colors, and Shoucai leaned on the door frame, eye-to-eye with Hua Yue.
The silver obtained from Ankang Town was sent to Guiyunzhou by Ling'er in an expedited manner, and it was already placed in the prince's military tent at this time. Rong Zhan looked at the box full of silver tickets, thinking about how to use the money. If it is simply used to recruit troops, it seems that there is no need for this. Now the new army of Donglin plus the people of Ming and Sanwei is enough to deal with Xiao Rongshen. He doesn't have a military talisman, and all he can mobilize is the palace guards, so how many people are there?
Since Lu Guo withdrew the army from Guiyunzhou, the people's evaluation of the Donglin New Army has become better. Zhizhou, who returned to Yunzhou, has also disappeared in the past few days, as if the world has evaporated. Everything was smooth, but he received two inexplicable letters, which made Rong Zhan very unhappy.
These two letters were sent from the palace one after the other, and the handwriting was written by the queen herself, but the content made Rong Zhan a little puzzled. The first letter asked him not to attack the capital, and the second letter asked Wonxi to return the silver withheld by Ankang Town. The reason in my heart is high-sounding, but if you look closely, it is full of loopholes.
There are only two possibilities, first, this letter was not written by the queen at all, but someone imitated the queen's handwriting and wrote these two inexplicable letters. Second, the queen was held hostage and had no choice but to write such a letter.
If it was the former, then where would the queen be, and would she have been poisoned by Xiao Rongshen? But if it was the latter, how would Xiao Rongshen torture the queen? Rong Zhan really didn't dare to continue thinking about it. As soon as he closed his eyes, he would see the queen standing in front of him with tears streaming down her face, crying and begging him to get her out quickly.
But no matter what the reason is, in the final analysis, it is a sentence, the queen's life is in Xiao Rongshen's hands. As soon as the news of his own troops spreads, Xiao Rongshen will immediately do something unfavorable to the queen.
If you want the world or your mother, Rong Zhan really can't choose, in his mind, mother and country have always been equally important.
"Won-hee?" he looked up and found that Won-hee was no longer in the tent.
Strange, he was still here just now, why did he disappear in a blink of an eye? Rong Zhan lifted the curtain and asked the guards on the left and right, "Have you seen Sect Master Wei?"
"Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, Sect Master Wei has gone out. ”
"Where did you go?" asked Rong Zhan.
"This villain doesn't know, I only saw Sect Master Wei with the sixth master and the old mother, and the three of them went out of the barracks, and eighty percent went to the town, right?"
"Go and get them back!" Rong Zhan commanded.
The two guards received the order, immediately gathered their men and horses, and hurried out of the barracks to find someone.
"Why don't they wear shoes?" Rong Run lowered his head, looked at the black satin boots on his feet, and then looked at the soles of the people* on the street, and suddenly felt a little out of place. It's like a group of idle people who suddenly break into a dull and mean old antique.
"Why don't I take my shoes off too. Rong Run smiled.
Yuan Xi and Rong Yun Zhong's mother originally went to the town to have a casual look, and there was no destination, so naturally, as soon as they wandered around, they forgot the time. By the time the guards sent by Rong Zhan found them, it was already close to midday, and the sun was so hot that people couldn't open their eyes.
In the early spring, Guiyunzhou was not very hot, but I felt that the day was huge and quite dazzling.
Rong Run raised his sleeves to cover his eyes, and said with a smile: "No wonder the descendants want to shoot the sun, if it were me, I would have to shoot this nasty sun down." ”
He shot down casually, and his eyes were only very scattered, but just this time, he saw a strange scene. He suddenly saw a small two-story building not far away, another window was hidden, and a stainless steel arrow stretched out from it, and the direction of the arrow was pointing to Yuan Xi.
"Be careful!" Rong Run subconsciously pushed Yuan Xi away, and the arrow swished, brushed along Rong Run's back, and nailed it to a nearby stall with a thud.
The stall immediately became agitated, someone pushed the cart, and the goods on the cart rolled to the ground in a mess, but he didn't have time to turn back to pick it up, and some people didn't even want the car. There were only a few masters left, still stuck in front of the stalls, but they were not so bold, but they were just squatting beside the carts, like explorers in the desert leaning on the leeward of camels.
"What's the matter! Catch him!" Rong Run pointed to the window just now, and several guards rushed out like sharp arrows. The archer was also very fast, and when the guards reached the window and saw the house, the building was already empty. Several guards rummaged through the room, only to find a token related to the Prince's Mansion.
Rong Run pushed in a hurry just now, Yuan Xi stumbled and didn't stand firm, and fell on Zhong's mother. Rong Run hurriedly stepped forward to help her: "Sister-in-law, are you okay?"
With Zhong's mother at the bottom, Yuan Xi is naturally fine, and Rong Run asked again: "Is the child okay?"
Yuan Xi shook her head, she was fine, but Mother Zhong was not lightly injured. At a young age, falling on the ground on her back is already very serious, and there is still a person on her body? Mother Zhong's ankle is broken, and it hurts when she moves.
"Go find a car and send Mother Zhong back. Won-hee commanded.
This happened in Guiyunzhou, and it happened under Rong Zhan's nose, how could he give up? One of the guards put the Hewang Mansion token they had searched on Rong Zhan's desk and said, "Your Highness, when we arrived, that person had already run away, probably taking advantage of the chaos to run away from the stairs. The little ones searched Fang's house and only found this one. ”
And the token of the Prince's Mansion? Rong Zhan pinched the brass token, and his heart was full of hatred. Xiao Rongshen, a despicable and treacherous villain, dared to send someone to assassinate his wife, not to mention his mother, who imprisoned him? Fortunately, the sixth brother Rong Run was present today, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.
If Rong Run hadn't pushed Yuan Xi away, that arrow would have stabbed Yuan Xi accurately, and she would have been killed. Xiao Rongshen, a ruthless bad seed, does not even let go of women and children.
"Sixth brother, pass on the order of the lonely general, the new army of Donglin will be drawn on the same day and go to the capital!"
Rong Run's face was a little happy, he had long wanted to transfer the army back to fight Xiao Rongshen to the death.
"Yes!
As soon as Rong Run left, Yuan Xicai asked: "Why are you suddenly going to attack the capital? Have you forgotten? The queen mother is still in Xiao Rongshen's hands? If we fight here, Xiao Rongshen will harm the queen mother." ”
Rong Zhan flipped the two letters in his hand: "Even if we don't fight the capital, Xiao Rongshen will not let go of the opportunity to torture the queen mother." In this case, it is better for me to take the capital earlier, so that the queen mother will suffer less. ”
Yuan Xi took the two letters and looked at them: "How could the queen mother write such a letter to us? The queen mother loves you and the sixth master the most, and the queen mother always hopes that you can ascend to the throne of God as soon as possible, how can she write a letter asking us not to attack the capital?"
"Don't you understand? With the character of the queen mother, even if she is coerced, she will never bow to Xiao Rongshen. The greatness of the queen mother happens to be here, the queen mother would rather sacrifice herself than wronged her children. It can be seen that all this is Xiao Rongshen's trick, he first asked people to imitate the handwriting of the queen mother, and wanted to trap us in Guiyunzhou for the rest of our lives. Look at the second letter, I'm afraid this is Xiao Rongshen's true purpose!" Rong Run disdainfully picked up the letterhead in his hand and lightly tapped it on the paper.
"See, do you want us to return the silver withheld by Yuexi! I think, this is Xiao Rongshen's real idea!"
Yuan Xi lowered his head slightly: "It makes some sense." ”
"Actually, it makes sense? It's a fact. Xiao Rongshen saw that the first two tricks failed to succeed, so he sent an assassin to assassinate you!" Rong Run's face turned a little pale, and said, "Isn't he afraid that we will attack the capital?