Besides, Zhu Wen and Li Zhen went down to the early court and left the palace, it was already noon. Li Zhen muttered to Zhu Wen: "Dashuai, we tossed for a night, and Huang Wang didn't even have a word of comfort, so he knew that he blamed us for not doing things well!

Zhu Wen said angrily: "If you just blame us for not doing things well, then it's okay to say." This morning, in front of all the civil and military forces, King Huang blamed Ben Shuai for being too ambitious, which was obviously suspicious of me in his heart and a great distrust of Ben Shuai!"

Li Zhen didn't expect this powerful relationship, and said in surprise: "Dashuai, if the Yellow King doesn't trust us, what we do secretly will inevitably be exposed, how can this be good?"

Zhu Wen sighed: "Now that our army is trapped in Guanzhong and embattled, this Chang'an will sooner or later fall into the hands of the officials and soldiers." The two of us are in this Chang'an City, not to be reused by the Yellow King, and unarmed, rather than sit and wait to be killed, it is better to return to Tongzhou as soon as possible, and rely on the soldiers to respect ourselves, which is the best policy!"

Li Zhen said with a smile: "Thirty-six plans are the best, the handsome man has a good strategy, while the Yellow King has not retracted his mind, we will immediately go out of the city and return to Tongzhou, and wait and see what happens!"

Zhu and Li rode two horses, took dozens of followers, went out of Chunming Gate, galloped all the way, and came to the edge of the Baqiao. Zhu Wen said to Li Zhen: "We just thought about hurrying, and we didn't even drink saliva, so we drank saliva on the edge of this Baqiao, rested for a while, and then hurried!"

Li Zhen replied: "Don't worry, the marshal is far away from Chang'an, and there should be no chasing soldiers!"

Zhu and Li sat on the river beach under the Baqiao, took a scoop of water, held it in their hands, and talked while drinking water. I didn't know that all this was clearly seen by Xu Zhi, Zhou Yuanzhi, He Mengjiao and others in the nearby dense forest. Zhou Yuanzhi wanted to rush out several times and kill Zhu Wen and Li Zhen, but was stopped by Xu Zhi.

Xu Zhi persuaded softly: "Zhu Wen and Li Zhen fled from Chang'an in a hurry with dozens of guards, there must be a reason for this, why don't we listen to their next conspiracy?"

Zhou Yuanzhi replied: "Brother Xu, I see that you are becoming less and less heroic, we fought hard to kill Zhu and Li, and there will be nothing bad!" He Mengjiao also nodded yes.

Xu Zhi had no choice but to persuade again: "Actually, I also wanted to kill them a long time ago, but there are many of them, if one blow misses, Zhu Li and the others will inevitably take advantage of the chaos to escape, and we still have four patients who need to be taken care of, and we can't chase them." So, we might as well listen to their conspiracy first, and then find a way to kill them."

Zhou and He listened to Xu Zhi's words, felt that it made sense, and looked at Li Cunxiao, Xue Atan, and Xue Atan, who were lying on the ground, ashamedly, and stupidly, and then stopped talking, and then all three turned their eyes to Zhu Wen and Li Zhen on the riverside.

I saw Li Zhen asking worriedly: "Dashuai, we didn't show the Yellow King, we went out of Chang'an without permission and returned to Tongzhou, in case the Yellow King is to blame, how should we deal with it?"

Zhu Wen took a sip of water and said with a smile: "This is easy to deal with, isn't King Huang in the court, in front of the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty, asking me to go back to the front line, contact the officials and soldiers, please go back to the princess?"

Li Zhen still didn't understand: "But Princess Yuanzhi was not actually taken away by the official army? Even if I contacted the official army, the official army couldn't hand over the princess? This matter was originally false, and we deliberately deceived King Huang." Dashuai, my subordinates still don't understand, how will this matter end?"

Zhu Wen said with a smile: "If you can understand the truth, then you are my Zhu Wen's second, and you will definitely be able to replace me Zhu Wen in the future!"

When Li Zhen heard this, he was sweating profusely, prostrate on the ground, and shouted repeatedly: "The subordinates are really stupid, how can they be compared with the big handsome!

Zhu Wen saw Li Zhen's nest appearance, and twisted his beard and laughed: "Look at your bear-like, no wonder you have been a slave all your life, don't you hurry up, Ben Shuai will tell you what is in his heart today? Forgive you and dare not betray me!"

Li Zhenxian flattered: "My subordinates have been following Dashuai since Caizhou Baiting, and the glory and wealth of his life are given by Dashuai, how dare the villain betray Dashuai, Dashuai wants the villain to get into the oil pot in front of him, and the villain will never frown!"

Zhu Wen said with a smile: "What we do when we go back to Tongzhou is like getting into a frying pot, Li Zhen, do you dare to follow Ben Shuai?"

Li Zhen replied: "As long as the commander commands, there is nothing that the subordinates dare not do, just like you ordered us in Juxian Tower, to kill the princess and Xu Zhi in the chaos, and the subordinates obviously know that this is a capital crime to destroy the nine clans, don't they also follow the commander?"

Zhu Wen said with a smile: "Very good, Ben Shuai knows your loyalty, so he will discuss the plan that has been planned in his heart for a long time with you, an ugly ghost scholar who is not afraid of death!"

Zhu Wen said slowly: "The heroes of this world, if you want to achieve great things, you must know the current affairs, before the Yellow King's righteous army was in full swing, Ben Shuai has been following the Yellow King, and now he has also achieved one person under ten thousand people." However, the flowers can't bloom often, and the moon can't be round and not lacking, and now the imperial court has begun to counterattack on a large scale, pressing step by step, and the Yellow King is greedy for the prosperity of Chang'an, vainly trying to hold Chang'an for a long time, waiting for a miracle to appear, we now have a big suspicion with the Yellow King, and what we secretly do behind his back will inevitably be exposed in the end, why don't we take advantage of this opportunity to return to Tongzhou, openly negotiate with the imperial court about the princess, and secretly leave a way out for ourselves!"

Li Zhen finally understood Zhu Wen's plan, but he was still worried: "We have killed so many officers and soldiers, will the imperial court easily accept us?"

Zhu Wen sneered: "This is like gambling and throwing a canopy, it depends on how big your guts and belongings are, after we return to Tongzhou, there are about 20,000 military horses in the two states of China, and use them as the capital to take refuge in the imperial court, and now the imperial court is bent on dealing with Huangchao, I guess they will definitely accept us!"

Li Zhen knew that Zhu Wen was very discerning, and he often expected things to be like a god and surprised when he led his troops to fight, and he secretly made up his mind to follow Zhu Wen and surrender to the imperial court.

When Zhou Yuanzhi heard this, she couldn't hold it anymore, jumped out of the dense forest, and scolded: "What a Zhu Wen, it turns out that you have been plotting against me and Brother Xu, just to keep the status below one person and above ten thousand, you betrayed my father and took refuge in the imperial court, but also to keep your glory and wealth, you are embarrassed to call yourself a hero, you are so capricious, three family slaves, do you still have a little faith?", after speaking, he waved his sword and only took Zhu Wen.

Zhu Wen knew Zhou Yuanzhi's martial arts, and shouted repeatedly: "Guards escort!", and fled after speaking. Xu Zhi and He Mengjiao also chased after them with their swords, and dozens of guards hurriedly took out their swords, while blocking Xu Zhi, Zhou Yuanzhi, and He Mengjiao, they shouted: "Dashuai, get on the horse!"

Xu Zhi stabbed several guards with his sword, and then swept away thousands of troops with another move, forcing back the siege of several guards, turned over and crossed the heads of several guards, and saw Zhu Wen and Li Zhen both running to a horse, and chased after him with his sword.

Li Zhen hurriedly said: "Dashuai, this is a subordinate horse! Your horse is over there!", after speaking, he pointed to another horse not far away.

Zhu Wen scolded: "Dog minion, when is this, still grabbing the horse with Ben Shuai, don't you let Ben Shuai get out of the way!", after speaking, he raised his foot and kicked Li Zhen away, turned over on the horse, and galloped with his whip.

Xu Zhijian was a step slower, so he had to throw the Fengming sword in his hand at Zhu Wen, Zhu Wen had also been on the battlefield for a long time, and when he saw the sword flying towards his heart, he grabbed the reins of the horse, and turned over and hid on the left side of the horse, escaping a catastrophe. When Xu Zhi picked up the Fengming Sword, Li Zhen also rode another horse and fled.

Zhou Yuanzhi and He Mengjiao were fighting with the guards, and the fight was inextricable, Xu Zhi roared, and entered the battle, with a move "Thousand Hands Guanyin", stabbed the wrists of several guards, and those guards dropped their swords, and saw that Zhu and Li had fled, and they also fled backwards.

Zhou Yuanzhi and He Mengjiao wanted to raise their swords to chase, Xu Zhi hurriedly stopped them, and said with a smile: "Poor Kou Mo chase, there is no hurry to kill Zhu Wen, let's go to Tongzhou and find another opportunity to get rid of him!", Zhou and He listened and nodded again and again.

However, it was said that Xu Zhi, Zhou Yuanzhi, and He Mengjiao helped Li Cunxiao and 4 people, walked for three days, and came to Tongzhou, only to see that the city of Tongzhou was chaotic and noisy, and the market was full of panicked people.

Xu Zhi and the others didn't know what was going on in Tongzhou City, so they had to find an inn to live in, Xu Zhi asked the innkeeper for three rooms and arranged for everyone to stay. At this time, the residual poison in the bodies of Li Cunxiao, Xue Atan, Liyi, and others was basically cured, and the four of them gradually recovered their physical strength and martial arts.

At this time, it was close to the solar term of Mangzhong, and the day was long, Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi saw that it was still early before dinner, and saw that there were few customers in the shop, so they talked with the shopkeeper.

Xu Zhi asked in a low voice: "Shopkeeper, do you know why there is a mess in this Tongzhou City?"

The shopkeeper also replied in a low voice: "The guest officer is not a local, right?"

Xu Zhi replied: "We are merchants going to Chang'an, just passing through Tongzhou!"

The shopkeeper smiled bitterly and said: "This is a mess, the villain still advises you to go home early, don't do this business!"

Zhou Yuan Zhiqi said: "Shopkeeper, why is this?"

The shopkeeper sighed and said: "Our Tongzhou is about to suffer a military disaster! Since the Yellow King Righteous Army entered Guanzhong, all of us ordinary people have welcomed us and looked forward to a few days of good life. The day before yesterday, after the defense of Tonghua and Hua made Lord Zhu Wen return to Tongzhou from Chang'an, he declared that the army of the imperial court had arrived outside Hangu Pass, and asked the people of the whole city to sacrifice the money and food of the army, and prepared to fight to the death with the official army outside the city of Tongzhou!"

Xu Zhi and Zhou Yuanzhi saw that after Zhu Wen returned to Tongzhou, they did not take refuge in the imperial court, thinking that he still had a little conscience, and they were a little relieved in their hearts.

Xu Zhi said with a smile: "Isn't this battle not fought yet? How can we not take risks in business, and seek wealth and danger, and besides, although there are many armies in the imperial court outside the pass, they are just waiting and watching, how can we fight in Tongzhou so quickly?"

Zhou Yuanzhi saw that the shopkeeper was very worried, and also comforted: "Besides, the battle has started, isn't there still the Yellow King's Chang'an reinforcements?"

After the people of the whole city have paid their salaries, how do you know that Zhu Wen withdrew from Tongzhou with soldiers and food and salaries the next day, and went to the imperial court!"

Xu Zhi heard this and scolded: "This Zhu Wen has accepted the benefits of the people of the whole city, and he has abandoned the safety of the people of Tongzhou and slipped away, he is really a treacherous scoundrel!"

The shopkeeper sighed: "Yes, now the people of the whole city are leaderless, there are less than a thousand native soldiers in the city, and the local scoundrels have also taken the opportunity to set fire to rob, and the whole Tongzhou has not yet started a war, and the people are already panicked and in chaos!"

Zhou Yuanzhi said distressedly: "The people in the city haven't escaped from Tongzhou City soon, do they want to wait for death here?"

The shopkeeper shook his head again and said: "Now the people of the whole city are discussing, how to escape? This east is the army of the imperial court, with Zhu Wen as the internal response, it will soon be killed; the western Huangchao learned that Zhu Wen surrendered to the imperial court, and will soon be killed back to Tongzhou, our people to the east is to die, to the west is also a death, only to hide in this Tongzhou to resign to fate!", after speaking, seeing a group of people at the door with a broken bowl called Huazi, hurriedly waved his hand to Xu and Zhou, and went to the door to send away.

Towards evening, someone in the street market in the west of the city shouted, "Everyone, close your house and don't go out." The Yellow King is about to lead his troops to the city!"

After a while, someone in the east of the city also shouted: "Oh no, Zhu Wen led the officials and soldiers back to kill, and they threatened that if we help Huangchao, we will slaughter the people of the whole city after taking Tongzhou!"

Zhou Yuanzhi and the others all looked at Xu Zhi anxiously, and Xu Zhi asked the shopkeeper: "Are the officials at all levels in the same state still in the city?"

The shopkeeper sighed: "These officials are all under Zhu Wen, and they have already defected to the enemy with Zhu Wen, and the current state government is an empty office!"

Seeing the urgency of the situation, Xu Zhi said to Zhou Yuanzhi, He Mengjiao and others: "Let's go to the state office, get the seal letter of the state official, beat the gong and drum, and gather the people of the whole city to go to the city tower to defend against foreign enemies." ”

Xu Zhi asked Zhou Yuanzhi, He Mengjiao, Li Cunxiao, Xue Atan, Li, and Lizhi to gather the people in the east, west, south, and north of the city respectively, and first closed the four city gates in Tongzhou, and removed some abandoned houses, prepared some wood and stone equipment, and climbed the city tower to meet the battle at any time.

Xu Zhi, Zhou Yuanzhi and others made all the preparations, and only then did they board the west gate of Tongzhou, only to see a round of remnant sun in the distance, jumping and falling, dyeing the sand field outside Tongzhou City into a blood-red color. Not far from the outside of the city, there are two teams of people and horses, to the east is wearing yellow clothes, holding the big "Qi" country name, "yellow" word banner of the righteous army, under the umbrella of Huang Luo in the center, Huang Bi immediately sat a king wearing gold armor, he looked calm, it was the emperor of the Great Qi country Huang Chao, his side was Shang Rang, Huang He, Meng Kai, Xu Jian, Ji Kui, Mi Shi and other generals.

Coming from the east to the west, there was a team of officers and soldiers wearing black clothes and soap armor under the banner of "Tang River Zhongxing Camp Recruiting Deputy Envoy Zhu", but Zhu Wen, Li Zhen and others stood in the center, and what surprised Xu Zhi and others even more was that Zhu Wen was surrounded by Yun Feiyang, Jiang Chengfeng, Jiang Chao, Ou Yangguang and other good players in the rivers and lakes, obviously Zhu Wen had an absolute advantage in the formation and momentum.

Huang Chao stepped forward and asked: "Zhu Wen, I have always regarded you as a brother, and you are also a general in the righteous army, above 10,000 people, but now you have betrayed your word and taken refuge in our mortal enemy, you are really shameless and scoundrel!"

Zhu Wen didn't have the slightest shyness on his face, and he also urged him to step forward and replied: "Huang Chao, you stole a small Guanzhong, and you claimed to be the emperor in vain, you look around you, this is full of troops and people of the Tang Dynasty, you blame me for being ruthless and unjust, but how can the enemy be loyal to the enemy, for the sake of our brothers, I advise you to abandon the darkness and surrender to the Tang Dynasty as soon as possible, and you can also avoid the suffering of war in the world!"

Huang Chao listened to Zhu Wen's words, so angry that he almost fell off his horse, and shouted loudly: "Zhu Wen, I am going to fight in person today, and I don't want to talk to you, a shameless villain, how about our two armies meet on this battlefield?"

Zhu Wen looked around at the generals around him, only to see Ou Yangguang shouting: "General Zhu, let me show my skills in the first game!"

Zhu Wen said with a smile: "General Ouyang is strong in martial arts, you will definitely succeed in the battle!"

Meng Kai saw that Ou Yangguang was holding a long sword in his hand, stepped forward to meet the enemy, and was overjoyed in his heart, picked up the eighty-pound big knife in his hand, and slashed head-on. Although Ou Yangguang's palm is fast and strong, it is only limited to close combat, and he is not used to riding horses at this time, so he is in a hurry at first, tired of coping.

Ou Yangguang knew that his saber was flexible and could not compete with Meng Kai's broadsword, so he had to turn around and dodge. Meng Kai saw that Ou Yangguang could only dodge and had no power to fight back, so he took advantage of Ou Yangguang's horse to turn around, and waved a big knife to cut off the hind legs of Ou Yangguang's mount, and the horse neighed and threw Ou Yangguang to the ground.

Just when Meng Kai was proud, Ou Yangguang got a "lion rolling hydrangea" on the ground, got under Meng Kai's horse's belly, and slapped it on the horse's left ribs with a trick of "black tiger digging out the heart", and the horse was like being hit by a thousand heavy burdens, his legs were weak, and he collapsed to the ground. Meng Kai fell to the ground, but he didn't prevent Ou Yangguang from swinging his sword and jumping away from his big knife, straight to his neck.

Zhu Wen saw that Ou Yangguang had won the first battle and captured Meng Kai alive, and praised: "General Ouyang, good skills, the general's move is really an eye-opener for the soldiers!"

At this time, the sunset has already set, and there is a dark red everywhere, reflecting on the "yellow" banner behind Huang Chao, which looks particularly desolate. Huang Chao sighed, and was about to order the drums to be sounded, and the whole army attacked to rescue Meng Kai. At this time, there was a sound of horses' hooves from behind the battle, and a soldier rolled down from his horse and shouted: "Your Majesty, it's not good, as soon as you led your troops out of Chang'an City, Chang'an City was occupied by Li Ke's black crow army!"

Huang Chao listened to the battle report, looked up to the sky and shouted: "Heaven is dead, the righteous army is dead, and I am also dead!" After speaking, he spat blood from his mouth and fell off the horse.

Zhu Wen was overjoyed when he saw this, raised the order flag, and shouted loudly: "All the soldiers listen to the order, Huang Shun has been frightened, and the whole army will attack, if you can capture Huang Chao alive, you will be rewarded with ten thousand gold, and ten thousand households will be sealed." After speaking, he waved his division and rushed over.