Shang Rang helped up the Yellow Nest and ordered the soldiers to fight hard. The soldiers of the righteous army were afraid of the fierceness of Zhu Wen's army, and when they saw the Yellow King fall to the ground for no reason, they were suddenly demoralized and had no intention of resisting. Huang Chao had no choice but to lead the rout army to retreat to the city of Tongzhou, and the generals saw that there was no way to retreat, so they laid down their weapons one after another and killed their heads.

Zhou Yuanzhi saw that Huang Chaozhong had betrayed his relatives and left, desperate, and no longer had the previous pride, remembered the father-daughter relationship for many years, and said to Xu Zhi: "Brother Xu, let's open the city gate and let my father enter the city, otherwise he will really be killed by Zhu Wen!"

Zhou Yuanzhi saw that Huang Chaozhong had betrayed his relatives and left, desperate, and no longer had the previous pride, remembered the father-daughter relationship for many years, and said to Xu Zhi: "Brother Xu, let's open the city gate and let my father enter the city, otherwise he will really be killed by Zhu Wen!"

Xu Zhi hadn't answered yet, so he said angrily: "Brother Xu, Huang Chao's defeat is his own fault, no wonder others, not to mention that if Huang Chao enters the city, he will inevitably be retaliated by Zhu Wen's madness, and the people in the city have doubts and will not agree!"

He Mengjiao and the others felt that it made sense when they heard the angry words, but when they saw Zhou Yuanzhi's heartbroken appearance, they were a little unbearable in their hearts, and they all turned their eyes to Xu Zhi, waiting for his idea.

Xu Zhi sighed: "Even if King Huang made a thousand mistakes, they have all passed, and since the uprising, he has also done a lot of good things for the people. Besides, he is Yuan Zhi's father after all, and we should save him for Yuan Zhi's sake. Li Cunxiao, Xue Atan, you and your eldest brother will go together to persuade the people guarding the city gate, open the city gate, and let the Yellow King enter the city!"

Li Cunxiao and Xue Atan hesitated for a moment, but still replied: "Brother Xu, Sister Zhou, don't worry, we will definitely rescue King Huang back to the city!" After speaking, the two jumped off the city wall with Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi, came to the west gate of Tongzhou, and discussed with the soldiers guarding the gate for a while before opening the city gate.

Just when the righteous army was desperate, Huang He turned his head and saw the city gate of Tongzhou open, and shouted excitedly: "Soldiers, God helps Daqi, God helps Huang Wang, the hearts of the people of Tongzhou are still towards us, let's help Huang Wang enter the city!"

Shang Rang also shouted: "Let's help the Yellow King enter the city for a while, and then it's not too late to fight Zhu Wen!"

Xu Zhi went out of the city, and before he had time to salute, he helped Huang Chao off his horse, carried it on his back, and took the lead in entering the city. Zhou Yuanzhi greeted Shang Rang and other generals, and asked them to enter the city quickly. Li Cunxiao and Xue Atan saw that most of the soldiers of the righteous army had entered the city, and immediately ordered the soldiers guarding the city to close the city gate.

The people on the city tower saw Xu Zhi and others suddenly open the city gate and welcome Huang Chao into the city, which completely angered Zhu Wen outside the city. Seeing that Zhu Wen was violent, he ordered the officers and soldiers to surround the city of Tongzhou, and said loudly and threateningly: "Listen to the people in the city, if you don't surrender, don't sacrifice the bandit leader Huangchao, and wait for the city to be broken, you will be guilty of the same crime as the grass coars!", the people heard this, and they were very panicked, and there was chaos on the city wall.

Xu Zhi listened to the discussion of the people, afraid that they would not be able to stand Zhu Wen's intimidation, and would open the city to surrender, and shouted repeatedly: "The people of Tongzhou, please don't panic, now that the Yellow King has led troops into the city, he will help everyone defend their homeland!"

Huang Chao listened to Xu Zhi's words, suddenly came to his senses, and ordered loudly: "Shang Rang, Lin Yan, Xu Jian, and Mi Shi listen to the order, you each bring 5,000 men and horses to the surrounding city walls to assist the people in guarding Tongzhou City! Huang He listens to the order, you lead the rest of the soldiers to patrol along the streets and markets to calm down the people's discussions and chaos!", after the five generals received the order, they acted separately, and then the chaos in the city gradually subsided.

Xu Zhi, Zhou Yuanzhi and others helped Huang Chao to the state government in the same state to rest temporarily. Huang Chao never thought that he would meet his daughter at the end of the road, his face was full of shame, and he said in a trembling voice: "Xu Zhi, Zhi'er, heroes, the old man is really to blame for betraying his relatives and leaving the country, and the only one who is sorry is you!"

Zhou Yuanzhi saw Huang Chao's eyes with tears, and said distressedly: "Daddy, let it pass the past rights and wrongs, grievances and grievances, in fact, the status of the country is all passing by the eyes." As long as our family can be together, even if we are ordinary people, it is a very happy thing!"

Huang Chao saw Zhou Yuan Zhihua's haggard appearance, and sighed: "Zhi'er, my father is confused, I regret that I shouldn't have listened to Zhu Wen's slander, I am suspicious of you, I have a suspicion, I am suspicious, the old man really regrets it, if there is no help from all the heroes, how can I fly across Hangu Pass, how can I capture Chang'an, how can I have the honor of my Huang Chao, but I am just confused, I cut off my arm, abused the people, lost my righteousness and little help, and ended up today!"

Xu Zhi persuaded: "King Huang, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, as long as you sincerely repent, treat the people well, and recruit heroes from all over the world, even if you retreat to a corner of the East China Sea, you can make a comeback and win the world again!"

He Mengjiao also said: "What Huang Wang and Brother Xu said is very true, no one in the world makes mistakes, as long as they know their mistakes, they will definitely make a difference!"

Li Cunxiao also persuaded: "King Huang, although Cunxiao is already the thirteenth Taibao of King Jin, he is also the brother of Brother Xu. Brother Xu, what Sister He said is very true, as long as King Huang changes his mind and is unyielding, he will definitely make a new career like Liu Bang, the king of Han!"

Huang Chao smiled bitterly: "Thank you for the persuasion of the heroes, Huang understands what you mean, but whether it is a comeback, or unyielding, it takes time and foundation, and now the old man has lost Chang'an, lost Guanzhong, and lost the hearts of the army and the people, so he can only wander around like a rogue, where does the foundation come from? It took the old man a full ten years from the uprising to the throne, how many decades can he have in his life?"

Seeing that Huang Chao lost confidence, he also interjected: "Huang Wang, I am a monk, please forgive me for the inappropriate words, I think when the Yellow King moved to the Central Plains, my Shaolin monks also secretly helped, that is, I hope that the Yellow King can lay down a peaceful world, and give the world a hope; How do you know that since King Huang entered Chang'an, he has forgotten his original intention, stayed away from loyalty, was close to treacherous evil, had extravagant pleasures, and bullied men and women, what is the difference between this and the dim court?"

Huang Chao heard this, and said ashamedly: "What the master said is that the old man is fame and fortune for a while, and he knows that he is wrong!"

He continued: "Although he is a monk, he is still indignant when he thinks of these past events!

Huang Chao replied: "Huang remembered the words of the master, and everyone didn't need to persuade each other, the old man's life was like a dream: he had ten years of hard study, and he also had the pride of commanding thousands of troops and horses; he had experienced the trek of thousands of mountains and rivers, the danger of swords and swords, and he also enjoyed the worship of thousands of people and the magnificence of honor. Now that the big dream has just woken up, the clouds of wealth and power have dissipated, and he has returned to the starting point of his life! The old man is tossing for another ten years, and the dream is still a dream after all, and he will wake up in the end!"

Zhou Yuanzhi saw that Huang Chao was disheartened, afraid that he would not be able to think about it for a while, and would do stupid things to kill himself, so he persuaded: "Daddy, this is life like a dream, a dream is like life, I don't know what Daddy's plans are in the future?"

Huang Chao saw that his daughter was looking at him worriedly, and said with a smile: "Zhi'er, people are old, there is no one who doesn't miss their hometown, my father plans to fight his way out of the encirclement, go to Zhongnan Mountain to pick up your mother, go back to his hometown in Shandong, find an inaccessible place to live in seclusion, live an ordinary life, and accompany her for the rest of his life!"

At this time, the night was dark, everyone was tired, and they were all ready to go back to the inn to rest, only Zhou Yuanzhi was still not worried about her father, and wanted to accompany Huang Chao to talk. Xu Zhi was helpless, so he had to stay with Zhou Yuanzhi.

Huang Chao's father and daughter talked at night, talking about a lot of past events in Caizhou, and when it came to the highlights, the father and daughter couldn't help laughing, and Xu Zhi listened to a lot of interesting stories about Zhou Yuanzhi's youth, and he was also very excited. Near the third watch, Huang Chao and Zhou Yuanzhi were a little thirsty, Xu Zhi went out of the state office's wing, took advantage of the moonlight, came to the well in the back garden, fetched a bucket of water with a wheel, and was about to send it back to the room.

Xu Zhi vaguely felt a dark shadow jumping onto the roof from the flowers in the back garden, he didn't dare to slack off, quickly stepped into the room, and whispered to Huang Chao and Zhou Yuanzhi: "Be careful, there are assassins!", and blew out the candles in the house after speaking.

Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi held swords to protect Huang Chao's side, and the three of them hid in the dark and did not move. At this time, the room was dim, only the faint moonlight at the window was scattered in the center of the room, and suddenly there were a few "bangs", and a few sleeve arrows flew in, Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi struggled to swing their swords to block the left and right sides of the Huang Chao, and shot down a few sleeve arrows.

After about a while, a black shadow jumped down along the beam of the room, holding a silver-white long sword, and followed the sound, only taking Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi.

Xu Zhi saw that the black-clothed man was dexterous, like an ape, and knew that he was a young assassin under Zhu Wen, and the assassin only pointed at Xu Zhi's eyebrows with his sword. Xu Zhi didn't dare to be careless, he swung his sword head-on, the heads of the two swords collided, Xu Zhi's Fengming sword was bent and deformed, but the opponent's sword was as hard as a rock.

Xu Zhi shouted violently: "Yuan Zhi be careful, this sword is the invincible White Rainbow Sword, and the assassin is Jiang Chao of the Jiang Temple!"

Zhou Yuanzhi replied: "Big brother should also be careful, don't fight with him!"

Jiang Chao saw that Xu Zhi recognized him, and simply smiled: "Xu Zhi, good eyesight, but you are by the side of the Huangchao rebel, it surprises me, it is very easy to assassinate the Huang rebel." Today, it seems that it is going to become a bloody battle between the two of us again!", after speaking, relying on the sharpness of the Bai Hong Sword, he stabbed at Xu Zhi's chest.

Xu Zhi turned to the side slightly, Jiang Chao sneered, and shouted: "Xu Zhi, you have been fooled, my trick is to transfer the tiger from the mountain!" , After speaking, he put aside Xu Zhi and raised his sword to only take the yellow nest behind Xu Zhi.

Huang Chao shouted: "It's not good, help!", Zhou Yuanzhi hurriedly stepped forward to block it with a sword, only to hear a loud sound, and the long sword in Zhou Yuanzhi's hand was cut off by Jiang Chao.

Xu Zhi then stabbed Jiang Chao in the back with the Fengming Sword, Jiang Chao didn't dare to move forward to assassinate Huang Chao again, so he had to turn around and swing his sword to pick up the Fengming Sword in Xu Zhi's hand. Xu Zhi didn't dare to block with his sword, but switched the Fengming sword to his left hand, and raised a table beside him with his right hand to block Jiang Chao's head-on sword.

Jiang Chao didn't think twice, and swung his sword to split the table in the air in half. Xu Zhi immediately jumped behind Jiang Chao, picked up the bucket full of water on the ground, and threw it at Jiang Chao.

Jiang Chao saw that there was wind behind him, so he hurriedly turned around and stabbed the bucket with the white rainbow sword, and suddenly the water sprayed out of the hole and drenched Jiang Chao's face.

Xu Zhi took advantage of Jiang Chao's hesitation and did not put away his sword, so he made a move "Golden Rooster Independence", retracted his sword and jumped up, flew and stood on the head of the shaking Baihong sword with one foot, and with the toughness of the Baihong sword, he swept Jiang Chao's eyes with a swing of the sword.

Jiang Chao was shocked, so he had to withdraw the Baihong Sword and retreat a few times in a row before he could dodge Xu Zhi's blow.

Zhou Yuanzhi suddenly remembered that Jiang Chao was afraid of igniting fire, and she reminded Xu Zhi: "Brother Xu, Yuan Zhi lights the candle, and if you throw the candle flame at Jiang Chao, he will definitely flee!", After speaking, she lit the candles on the candlesticks one by one.

Xu Zhi immediately understood Zhou Yuanzhi's intentions, he retreated to Zhou Yuanzhi's side, swung his sword to cut off a candle, and threw the candle at Jiang Chao with a swing of his sword, Jiang Chao was afraid of the flames and did not dare to block with his sword, so he took a few steps back. Xu Zhi waved his sword and shot a few burning candles at Jiang Chao, Jiang Chao hurriedly avoided it, and scolded: "Xu Zhi, what kind of hero are you using fire to plot people?"

Zhou Yuanzhi sneered: "Isn't Gang Leader Jiang also relying on the sharpness of the Baihong Sword in his hand? If you use an ordinary long sword to fight with Brother Xu, you will be Brother Xu's opponent, and you will be defeated in a few rounds!"

Jiang Chao said angrily: "What a sharp-toothed little girl, be careful that I ruin your beautiful face with a sword!"

Xu Zhi saw that the candle beside him was about to be used up by himself, Jiang Chao just dodged, and had no intention of escaping, he said to Zhou Yuanzhi: "Yuan Zhi, you escort Huang Wang away first, and I will leave it here." By the way, you let Miss He and Li Cunxiao come here to catch the assassins!"

Jiang Chao listened to Xu Zhi's words, his heart was very hesitant, before he left, he had in front of Zhu Wen and Yun Feiyang, made a military order, to take back the head of Huangchao, dedicated to the imperial court, ask a marquis of ten thousand households to do, and then follow Yun Feiyang back to Huainan and Zhenhai to serve. He also knew that if he didn't leave at this time, he would be besieged by Xu Zhi's many people, and he would never be able to leave again.

Jiang Chao saw that there was only a bright candle left beside Xu Zhi, he wanted to gamble his luck, he did not retreat, but advanced, raised the white rainbow sword, and stabbed at Xu Zhi again, who knew that after Xu Zhi swung the sword to cut off the candle, he did not throw it, but quickly flipped the sword head back and forth, stuck the burning candle to the sword head, and flew with the sword light.

Jiang Chao saw Xu Zhi swinging a sword with a flaming light towards him, how dare he step forward to fight, one turned back, withdrew a few feet away, and scolded: "Huang Chao, Xu Zhi, tonight is your fate, next time I will take your dog's life!", after speaking, he jumped out of the guest room, turned over and jumped into the grass in the back garden and disappeared.

Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi didn't dare to let Huang Chao live alone in the state office, so they had to transfer him to the inn where the heroes lived overnight.

After Xu Zhi finished washing, he saw Zhou Yuanzhi holding a letter in his hand, broke in, and cried: "Brother Xu, Daddy is gone!"

Xu Zhi saw that Zhou Yuanzhi was very sad, and comforted: "Yuanzhi don't have to worry, this army is in chaos, the Yellow King will not go far, we just get the Yellow King back!"

Zhou Yuanzhi continued to cry and said, "Big brother, Daddy won't come back, you will understand after reading the letter he wrote!", and handed the letterhead in his hand to Xu Zhi after speaking.

Xu Zhi unfolded it and took a look, only to see that it was written: "Zhi'er, Zhi'er personally enlightened: Thanks to Wu'er and all the heroes, regardless of the past suspicions, in times of crisis, to rescue Daddy back to Tongzhou, Daddy has nothing to repay in this life! Now Zhu Wen is besieging Tongzhou on all sides, and if Daddy does not leave Tongzhou for a day, it will affect you and thousands of people in Tongzhou." For today's plan, Dad can only save the people in the city by leading the troops to risk their lives to break out of the siege and lead away Zhu Wen's officers and soldiers, and now there are 5,000 righteous soldiers in the city. After you wait for Zhu Wen to evacuate, then let the people and soldiers in the city surrender to Li Keyong, the king of Jin who came from the west, I have heard that the king of Jin has always been benevolent and generous, and he will definitely treat the people in the city well, so as to avoid the disaster of slaughtering the city. ”

Xu Zhi saw this, turned around and saw that Zhou Yuanzhi was already crying, only to see that the letter wrote: "Daddy knows that he is guilty, he shouldn't listen to slander, abandon loyalty, kill the people, leave his wife and children, now Chang'an has been lost, the country is not there, the whole world regards Daddy as an enemy, and he wants to destroy it quickly. ”

At this time, He Mengjiao, Li Cunxiao, Xue Atan, Anger, and Idiot also learned that Huang Chao had left Tongzhou with his troops, and they all came to Xu and Zhou to discuss, and they saw Xu and Zhou with sorrow on their faces, and they all sat down quietly, only to see Xu Zhi read softly: "Although Daddy is old, but his pride is undiminished, and now he leads 100,000 righteous teachers, out of Xiongguan, through Chen, Cai, Bian, Song, into Yun, Yan, and the eldest husband is to die and return to his hometown, how magnificent! Before he dies, he can see Jia'er and his son-in-law, what a regret for the rest of his life! May my son and all the heroes be happy and healthy!" Huang Chao is a great deal!"

When everyone saw that Xu Zhi finished reading Huang Chao's letter, they never thought that Huang Chao, in order to protect the people of Tongzhou, would disregard his own safety, break through the siege alone, and lead away the official army, and they all sighed.

At this time, the shopkeeper of the hotel ran in and shouted excitedly: "Ladies and gentlemen, great good news, Huang Chao has led the troops out of Tongzhou City last night, and went east out of Wuguan, Zhu Wen led the official army to the east to pursue Huang Chao, our siege of Tongzhou has been lifted, and the world is going to return to the Tang Dynasty again!"