Early the next morning, they divided their troops into two routes and marched in the direction of Qingzhou and Hengzhou respectively.

Before leaving, at the gate of the city, Ji Xuan called Zhang Ping aside alone.

"The matter of Yuezhou is entrusted to Lord Zhang. Ji Xuan arched his hand to Zhang Ping and said.

Zhang Ping immediately knelt down and bowed, "Your Highness has killed Weichen, what Weichen committed before was a capital crime, His Royal Highness still forgives, Weichen is grateful, and he will do his best to serve the court in the future." ”

Ji Xuan helped Zhang Ping up, "People are not saints and sages, who can do nothing, knowing that they can improve Mo Dayan, with the talent of Lord Zhang, as long as they are attentive, they will be able to revitalize Yuezhou, which is not only the luck of the court, but also the blessing of the people of Yuezhou." ”

Zhang Ping said: "Weichen must always remember His Royal Highness's teachings. ”

Ji Xuan said: "Okay, then there will be a period later." ”

Zhang Ping bowed, "I wish Your Highness a smooth journey." ”

There were two people at the gate of the city who hid in the crowd and watched Ji Xuan and the others until they divided their troops and left.

"It looks like they're going to go to the remaining two states separately and provide disaster relief at the same time. ”

"The two men next to him are gone, and they have taken some of the forbidden army with them, and I think our chance has come. ”

"Could it be that they did it on purpose, to lure us out. ”

"They don't know that we have been secretly following, and besides, as long as they send someone to follow the surnamed Xue, it will be okay to see if they really went to Hengzhou. ”

"I see that he is accompanied by two young people, a man and a woman, could it be a new helper he has found?"

"What threat can two stinky dolls have!"

"Okay. ”

Qingzhou and Yuezhou are two days away, and it takes a day and a half for Ji Xuan and Chen Qi and his party to speed up, so they have to rest for a night on the way.

The Willow Forest Station is a county post station, named after the fact that it was built next to a willow forest. The size of the post station is not large, a large yard, several houses, a horse shed, and two miscellaneous servants.

Because they missed the last post station, it was already late when Chen Qi and the others arrived at the Willow Forest Post Station.

"Let's just spend the night here. Ji Xuan said to the guard.

"Yes!"

After answering, the guard officer shouted to the post station: "We are the disaster relief team of the imperial court, and we are going to stay here tonight, please come out to pick up the station." ”

The two handymen at the post station had already fallen asleep, and they had already heard the sound of the horse team, but out of inertia, no one got up to see who it was, and when they heard someone shouting to them, they did not dare to get up.

There must be a team of disaster relief in the imperial court, and the two of them did not dare to slack off, so they immediately dressed and got up, lit the lamp and went out to greet them.

The two of them carried a lantern out of the room, and were immediately shocked, although they had heard a lot of horses' hooves before, but through the faint light, they saw hundreds of people standing outside in the dark, and knew that the person who came must be extraordinary.

"I didn't know that the Messenger came, but I didn't greet him, but I wanted to atone for my sins. ”

The two handymen saluted, and then a skinny handyman spoke.

The guard dismounted, walked up to the two men, showed his waist card, and said, "We are on our way, we missed the last post station, and we will stay with you tonight, now vacate your rooms, and then clean them, and then go and prepare some horse feed." ”

The thin handyman looked at these hundreds of people and said in embarrassment: "There are three rooms here, and there are so many adults......

Ji Xuan said: "Just vacate two rooms, Miss Ding, you and Mrs. Yu will live in one, and we will live in one with Brother Chen and Hao'er." ”

"Good!"

Ji Xuan turned to the guards behind him, "I have wronged all the brothers tonight, and I will go to Qingzhou tomorrow, and this king will treat you well." ”

"Your Highness!" replied in unison the hundreds of guards.

"Your Highness, Your Highness......"

The two miscellaneous servants looked at each other, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed, "The little one didn't know that the prince had arrived, and he didn't salute, and he hoped that the prince would atone for his sins!"

Ji Xuan said: "Get up, those who don't know are not guilty." ”

"Thank you, Lord Wang!" the two saluted again, and then stood up.

Knowing Ji Xuan's identity, the two handymen did not dare to slack off, and quickly cleaned up the two rooms, and then vacated the room where they lived for the guard officer.

The guard said no, and then arranged for them to boil hot water and prepare horse feed.

After eating some dry food and drinking some hot water, except for the guards in charge of guarding, everyone else quickly fell asleep.

At this time, the two people who appeared at the gate of the city, with a hundred and ten people, slowly surrounded the post station from all sides.

The men were dressed in night clothes, walking lightly, and most of them had a bow in their hands, and arrows were already hanging from their strings.

"Put!"

With an order, all these people stopped, and then shot the arrow in their hand at the station, and then their other arrow was already on the bowstring, but this arrow was tied to the oilcloth, and at the same time, someone next to him had already lit a torch, and the archer quickly lit the oilcloth on the arrow, and then shot at the station again.

That "release" was not only an order to the sneak attackers, but also heard by the guards on guard.

"There are assassins!"

With a shout from the guards, the sleeping guards immediately woke up. These guards are all well-trained forbidden soldiers, although there is an enemy attack at this moment, although they have to face the rain of arrows when they wake up, they sleep with weapons in their hands, so when everyone opens their eyes, they wave their weapons to resist the rain of arrows, but some people are shot by arrows.

That "put" also woke up Chen Qiding and Muxi and them, but they didn't walk out of the room as soon as possible.

"Your Highness, there are assassins, please stay in the house, and the last general will lead people to meet you. The guard officer said outside the door.

Ji Xuan said: "The person who comes is not good, you must be careful to deal with it." ”

"Yes, it's not good, they are going to attack with fire, Your Highness come out quickly. ”

With the shouts of the guards, the rockets had already been fired, and the thatched roof met the fire and immediately burst into flames. At the same time, Chen Qijixuan and Ding Muxi and Yu Min had already come outside the house and stood in a safe place.

"Protect Your Highness!" With the order of the guard officer, several guards with shields in their hands immediately surrounded and protected Ji Xuan and the others in the middle.

Chen Qi handed Shen Changhao to Yu Min, "Sister Yu doesn't care about anything, just protect Hao'er." ”

Yu Min nodded.

Chen Qi said to Ding Muxi: "Sister Xi, don't leave with Brother Wei, these people outside will be handed over to me." ”

"Brother Qi, be careful!"

Chen Qi nodded, and then said to Ji Xuan: "Brother Wei, don't go anywhere, don't think about helping, stay here with Sister Xi, and leave the rest to me and General Lu." ”

Ji Xuan smiled: "Then there is Brother Lao Chen." ”

Chen Qi smiled and nodded, and then said to the guard: "General Lu, immediately order our archers to fight back, but don't attack, everyone retreats into the willow forest." ”

"Yes!" said the guard officer, bowed and retreated, and then ordered the guards to withdraw in an orderly manner towards the willow forest.

"I killed the enemy with Childe. Zhao Yuechen and the others all retreated into the willow forest and said to Chen Qi.

Ah Niu also said: "I'll go too." ”

Chen Qi smiled: "Uncle Zhao can, but you have to be careful, Brother Niu, you can stay here and protect His Highness with Ximei." ”

Zhao Yue Chen said: "Thank you, son!"

Ah Niu said: "I also want to try my martial arts." ”

Ding Muxi said: "If you have a chance, you will be with me." ”

Ah Niu was helpless, so he had to nod.

All this happened in an instant, and as the guard officer gave the order, the archers in the guard's ranks, under the protection of their companions, took their bows and arrows and began to return fire.

The guards returned fire suddenly, catching the Assassins off guard, and some of them were unable to dodge and were shot by arrows. In the panic, the rain of arrows of the Assassins slowly thinned out.

"Alternate cover, kill into the willow forest. The Assassin leader shouted.

Hearing this, the Assassins put away their bows and arrows, drew their swords, and swung them towards the willow grove.