"Did you hear that correctly? Is He Yue'er really coming from the official road from Yingcheng?" Seeing Ge Cifeng's silence, Xiang Liangyu had some ominous premonitions in his heart. He quickly rushed to the front of the army, grabbed the deserter who led him and asked Said: "Think it through for me!"
The leader of the deserters also had Linglong's thoughts. Seeing that Xiang Liangyu was so eager, he knew something was wrong, so he quickly changed his words and said, "Ah, no, Xiao... Xiao Xiao seems to have remembered it wrong. His name is Luo Yue'er, right? Brothers?"
"Yes, yes, it's Luo Yue'er." The other deserters quickly agreed.
"Hmph, since you heard wrong, then you are lying about the military situation! Come here, drag him down and kill him!" Xiang Liangyu usually treats the sergeants quite gently, but today he has a bad temper.
Dozens of powerful soldiers stepped forward to drag these deserters away. The deserters knelt on the ground and kept begging for their lives.
Ge Cifeng, who was silent on the side, finally spoke: "General Xiang, do you think I am a fool?"
"The general will not dare!" Xiang Liangyu's heart sank, he turned around and clasped his fists and said, "These are just a dozen deserters. They are talking in vain and are not credible!"
Ge Cifeng rubbed his fingers and said: "He Yue'er is the passing wife of Duke Wu Ding of the imperial court, and that Peng Yatou from Sichuan is also a woman. It is not impossible if the imperial court really sends He Yue'er to befriend Peng Yatou. Really, when we return to Chuxiang, we will face the danger of being attacked from both sides..."
Xiang Liangyu was angry: You still know that she is Wu Dinggong's wife, and you covet other wives. What a shame! But when he was angry, he still advised: "If we transfer to Yingcheng, it will take a lot of time. If we get to Jingcheng as soon as possible, we will have an extra safety guarantee. Your Highness, please think twice!"
Ge Cifeng turned a deaf ear and turned the horse's head: "Send the order, take the way to Yingcheng!" After saying that, he patted the horse and passed by Xiang Liangyu without stopping at all. After walking a long way, he turned back and said, "General Xiang, my father has been assassinated by the imperial court, and I am no longer the heir apparent."
Xiang Liangyu froze on the spot: "The prince is dead? He was assassinated by the court? How could I not know about this?" He grabbed a soldier beside him and said, "Tell me, what happened!"
The captured soldiers saw that Ge Cifeng was gradually going away, so they whispered that when the two armies were fighting, they told exactly how Ge Cifeng took out the head of King Chu Xiang and how the Chu Xiang army collapsed.
"You bastard! How dare you kill your father!" As soon as Xiang Liangyu heard this, he immediately understood the whole story and was so angry that he trembled all over.
Xiang Qi came over and whispered: "Second uncle, this is not the time to get angry, please be patient. If we have a quarrel with His Royal Highness at this time, it will not be good for us." Although Xiang Qi is dull, he is not stupid.
"Of course I know, I can't swallow this breath..." Xiang Liangyu sighed: "Our Xiang family has followed King Chu Xiang for generations, and we have killed countless bandits and rebels. But I didn't expect that their King Chu Xiang's Mansion would actually own Something like this happened at home... I feel ashamed of my ancestors..."
"I and other outsiders can't do anything about their family affairs...Second uncle doesn't have to worry about it." Xiang Qi comforted.
"Let's go, let's see what other tricks he wants to do. If he dares to mess up and ruin Chu Xiang's foundation, I will never let him go!" Xiang Liangyu turned over and mounted the war horse brought by the soldiers, heading towards Ge Cifeng's direction. Chase.
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Fu Qing was sitting in the carriage, constantly lifting the curtain and looking out: "Where are we? We won't miss them, right? Are Senior Brother Tang and the others following?"
He Yue'er said calmly: "We have done what we should do, there is no point in being anxious."
"I know there's no point in being anxious, but I'm anxious... If anything happens to you, Yi Xiaodao will definitely kill me!" Fu Qing tightened her grip on the Siqing sword without the scabbard in her hand, and agonized. Zhang Xiaoxian said.
He Yue'er just smiled sadly and said nothing more. She knew she still had some weight in Yi Xiaodao's heart, but she didn't know how much weight she still had. If he had some shortcomings and faced a beauty like Du Qing, would Yi Xiaodao kill her or marry her...
The more she thought about it, the more confused she became. He Yue'er shook her head, threw away the distracting thoughts in her mind, and stopped thinking about it.
Not long after walking, dust and smoke were rising on the official road in the distance, as if an army was approaching.
coming!
Fu Qing jumped off the carriage first and looked around. He didn't know if Princess Peng and everyone from the Tang Clan were following behind.
He Yue'er opened the curtain from the carriage and looked into the distance. But it was summer now, the land was dry, the army was passing by, and the smoke was so thick that it was really hard to see.
"Miss Fu, please go first. It's dangerous here. Just in case..." Before He Yue'er could finish her words, Fu Qing had already stopped in front of He Yue'er with a sword.
"Why are you coming down? Get in the car quickly. As long as you are in the car, you will be fine. Ge Cifeng attaches so much importance to you, and Chu Xiang's army will not attack the carriage. If you come down, the sword has no eyes, how can it accidentally hurt you? !" Fu Qing urged He Yue'er to get in the car.
While He Yue'er was hesitating, the coachman jumped off the carriage, grabbed Fu Qing and He Yue'er, jumped up and jumped into the dense forest on the roadside.
"You two girls, it's not safe outside. Please wait here and don't get hurt. I'll come back to you later." The driver lifted the bamboo hat on his head and handed it to the two of them to use as shade. It turns out that the driver is Tang Yunsong, the second disciple of the Tang Sect. After he finished speaking, he didn't pause much, turned around and hurried back to the carriage, still sitting in the carriage, pretending to be a coachman, and drove the carriage to the side of the road, as if to give way.
The army looked far away, but in fact it arrived in the blink of an eye. Soon, it surrounded the carriage and had no intention of passing.
Ge Cifeng sat on the horse and looked down at Tang Yunsong: "Who is it? What is in the car?"
"Back... back to Master Jun, there is no one in the car. It's empty. I sent someone to Yingcheng. I've delivered it. I'm driving back!" Tang Yunsong said with a nod and a bow. No one could see any flaws in his honest appearance.
Ge Cifeng rode up to the carriage, took a long gun, and gently opened the curtain. There was indeed no one inside.
"It's okay, let's go." Ge Cifeng was quite disappointed. The carriage's layout was not unique. There were hundreds of them in any county. It was not unusual at all.
Tang Yunsong bowed repeatedly to thank him and climbed into the car with great difficulty.
"Your Highness, be careful!" Xiang Liangyu took the lead and rushed in front of Ge Cifeng, pulling Ge Cifeng behind the horse.
"What happened?" Ge Cifeng was confused.
Xiang Liangyu pulled out the long sword from his waist and pointed it at Tang Yunsong: "As a coachman, you make a living on the carriage all the year round, but it is so laborious to get on the carriage? Who are you?"
As soon as the words came out, Ge Cifeng, Tang Yunsong and the surrounding soldiers were all shocked. Ge Cifeng frowned and said, "Is General Xiang too careful? Should we also care about other people's difficulty in getting on the train?"
"Your Highness, I conclude that this carriage must be a fraud! If you don't believe it, let those deserters come over and take a look at it and you will find out!" Xiang Liangyu insisted.
"Go, call those soldiers who have been demoted." Ge Cifeng waved his hand and gave the order, and a junior high school officer hurriedly went to find someone.
After a while, the principal hurried back to report: "Go back to your lord, the deserter has disappeared!"
"Your Highness, what do I say? Maybe this deserter is Sichuan and Shu..."
"That's enough!" Ge Cifeng shouted angrily: "Everyone is suspicious. If I hadn't treated you like that, General, how could those soldiers have escaped? They urged me to go back to Jingcheng, so that I could contact my father's old troops to deal with me. Yeah!"
Hearing this, Xiang Liangyu felt as if he had been struck by lightning: "Your Highness, the Crown Prince..."
"I'll say it again! My father is dead, and I am the King of Chu Xiang now! Let's go!" Ge Cifeng flicked his cloak, ignoring Xiang Liangyu who was stunned on the spot, mounted his horse first, and still led his troops towards Yingcheng. And go.
The long sword pointed at Tang Yunsong in Xiang Liangyu's hand slowly lowered. At this moment, he felt that the sword seemed to weigh a thousand pounds and he could no longer lift it.
"Second uncle..." Xiang Qi stepped forward, wanting to comfort him, but he opened his mouth. With his dull personality, he didn't know what to say now.
"Let's go, follow the prince... follow the prince." Xiang Liangyu sheathed his sword, reined his horse and followed Ge Cifeng from a distance.
As the horses crossed each other, Tang Yunsong said softly: "I'm offended." A thin needle came out of his hand and shot at the back of Xiang Liangyu's neck.
"Uh...ah!" Xiang Liangyu got a needle in the back of his neck. He rolled over from his horse and fell to the ground. He quickly reached out to pull out the needle.
Tang Yunsong succeeded with one strike, grabbed the roof of the carriage and flipped it upside down. He dodged several spears thrust by the Chu Xiang army and flew away into the distance.
"Chase! Cut him into pieces!" Xiang Qi hurriedly dismounted, helped Xiang Liangyu up, and pointed at Tang Yunsong with gritted teeth. The surrounding soldiers and generals were all Xiang Liangyu's relatives. They responded quickly and strictly abided by military orders. At the same time as Xiang Qi gave the order, a group of soldiers had already rushed out and caught up with Tang Yunsong.
"Don't... chase, this is Tiao Huli..." Xiang Liangyu opened his mouth with difficulty. Just halfway through, he felt his lips and tongue were numb. He couldn't say a word anymore. He couldn't even twist his neck. His whole body was frozen. In place.
"Second uncle! The meridians are injured. Quick, help the second uncle get on the carriage and lie down. He must be captured by me. He must be from the Tang clan. I want him dead!" Xiang Qi panicked. He was already with the second uncle. They have a close relationship with his uncle, not to mention that Xiang Liangyu is the backbone of the Xiang family. If he falls, the consequences will be disastrous.
"General Xiang, what should we do now?" Xiang Liangyu's large group of troops has already chased Tang Yunsong, and the personal guards are beside Xiang Liangyu, not knowing what to do.
Xiang Qi gritted his teeth and hesitated, then said after a while: "Second uncle's injury is serious, there is no time to delay, let's go back to Jingcheng quickly and find a famous doctor to treat second uncle!"
"Boom!"
There was a sound in the carriage, and it was Xiang Liangyu who was beating the wall of the carriage with his fist to show his disapproval.
"Second uncle!"
"Boom!" Another sound.
Xiang Qi understood what Xiang Liangyu meant and changed his words: "Go and catch up with the prince. There must be an ambush ahead. We can't let the prince miss anything."
"The assassin..."
"Let's call him back first..." Xiang Qi said helplessly.
A cavalryman hurriedly hit his horse and rushed to deliver the order. Xiang Qi bowed outside the carriage and said, "Second uncle, we have sent someone to deliver the order. Don't be angry."
The carriage fell silent, and Xiang Qi and others waited for the pursuers to come back and rendezvous.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, General Xiang's soldiers and horses have not followed." After walking for a while, a junior high school officer came over to remind Ge Cifeng.
"Hmph, I knew this old fox had bad intentions, so don't pay attention to him. Let's go!" Ge Cifeng ignored him and continued to drive forward. Now he just wanted to find He Yue'er.
Suddenly, countless shouts came from all directions: "Kill!"
The sound of killing suddenly started, causing the war horses to neigh and find it difficult to calm down.
"Capture Ge Cifeng alive!" Peng Baby had seen Ge Cifeng. Now he recognized the leader and couldn't help but roar with joy.
