"Maybe this is just a special case. Let's go to the next location." Su Xian was relatively calm.
"good."
Yang Zhilan carried Su Xian on his back and moved quickly among the mixed crowd.
Zhou Wei was still standing behind.
Arriving at the next location, the result was disappointing. All the bright and dark villages arranged here were gone, and there were still traces of the battle on the scene.
"Damn black masked man!"
They realized that the group of masked men had already been hiding in Tanzhou City, waiting for an opportunity. Su Xian's plan tonight gave them an opportunity to take advantage of.
Su Xian didn't know what their intentions were, but he actually messed up all the pre-arranged Mingzhuang and Darkzhuang. How could they sneak out of the city without anyone noticing?
After the masked man made such a fuss, the Nanchu court was bound to strengthen the defense of the city gates and walls, with three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, causing all the arrangements they had made in advance to become invalid.
It is true that in this chaotic situation, the abilities of Yang Zhilan and Zhou Wei are enough to carry Su Xian out of the city, but this is not smooth enough and they are easily discovered.
He didn't want to leave the rumor that "Su Zhe had escaped from the city".
His idea was to let Su Zhe die in the fire of Yang Mansion to complete the "golden cicada's escape" plan.
"Senior brother, what should we do next?" Zhou Wei asked.
Su Xian asked Yang Zhilan to put him down, pondered for a while, and said: "At the moment, it seems that we can only disguise ourselves and then force our way out of the city."
Although there are "three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry" on the city wall, the troops are not concentrated. After they disguise themselves, they can find a weak point and open a bloody path.
By the time the city guards gathered, they had already climbed over the city wall and ran an unknown distance.
Although this new plan is not as smooth as the previous plan, it can at least escape the city without exposing Su Zhe's identity.
Yang Zhilan and Zhou Wei are both rare masters. Even with Su Xian, who is a dragster, there is no problem.
"good!"
"Then let's do it."
Yang Zhilan and Zhou Wei nodded at the same time.
Then, their eyes fell on the corpses on the ground. There were masked men in black, soldiers of the Forbidden Army, and ordinary people in ordinary clothes.
Dress up!
"The city gate in front has been opened. Everyone, please escape from the city!"
Just then, someone shouted.
The people rushing around in the streets rushed towards the city gate in front of them, and the crowds were like water.
Su Xian's expression changed, and he immediately canceled his plan of "disguising himself and forcing his way out of the city". He moved his steps, followed the flow of people towards the city gate, and ordered:
"The plan changed and we followed the flow of people out of the city."
"good."
Yang Zhilan and Zhou Wei nodded and guarded Su Xian respectively to prevent him from getting separated.
In this way, they followed the flow for a while, and finally approached the city wall.
Looking up, the city wall as tall as a mountain was indeed full of people. The city guards were fighting fiercely with the masked men in black.
I saw torches standing horizontally, flags hanging upside down, and the noise and shouts of killing were deafening. It looked like a battlefield of fierce battle.
Under the city wall, the city gate was indeed open, and corpses were lying on the ground. Most of them were city guards wearing armor and stomach. Many people who had heard the news were swarming out of the city.
What are these men in black doing attacking the city wall?
Su Xian kept walking, with a question in his mind.
Could it be that they want to occupy the city wall and then capture the entire Tanzhou City?
Unlikely.
Su Xian himself was shocked by this idea.
Where did this power come from? To be so ambitious and audacious, you must know that Tanzhou City is the capital of the Southern Chu Empire!
At this time, the city gate was approaching.
With another twenty feet, they could sneak out of the city.
Su Xian secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He was too lazy to think about the real intention of the masked man in black. He escaped from Tanzhou tonight. At dawn tomorrow, they might return to the land of Daliang. Why should they care about these nosy things?
Close.
Twenty feet.
Fifteen feet.
We can leave the city soon.
However, at this moment, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from diagonally opposite the city gate, and someone shouted loudly: "Anyone who leaves the city without permission will be shot!"
Everyone turned to look, and it turned out that there was a large group of cavalry with silver helmets and silver armor, all wearing strong swords. There were about hundreds of them, galloping towards them.
Horse hooves stepped on the bluestone street, making a continuous clicking sound, like dense raindrops, the sound was terrifying.
This is the forbidden army of Nanchu.
"Mom!"
"Everyone, get out of here!"
The people who had not yet left the city were really frightened and fled in all directions.
Those who were close to the city gate fled along the city wall; those who were further away from the city gate turned around and ran back. In an instant, people were overturned, some were trampled, and cries kept coming and going.
Seeing this, Su Xian felt very unwilling, but he hesitated for a moment, and finally led Yang Zhilan and Zhou Wei to follow the stream and retreat along the city wall.
Right now, they were only more than ten feet away from the city gate.
I believe that with the abilities of Yang Zhilan and Zhou Wei, there will be no problem in taking him out.
However, in this case, Su Zhe's identity will definitely be exposed.
Su Zhe not only provoked the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty in Nanchu, but he was also proficient in the "Nine Needles of Returning Yang". If the monarchs and ministers of Nanchu knew that he was not dead, it would always be a problem.
In addition, there is the Yang family, especially Yang Ruoxian. In the future, he does not want to conflict with Yang Ruoxian as Su Zhe.
After all, the Yang family is a remnant of the previous dynasty, and he is a natural enemy. In the near future, he may personally destroy the entire Yang family...
After comprehensive consideration, Su Xian retreated and did not force his way out of the city.
However, when he and the people retreated to the foot of the city wall, he regretted it.
Oops!
Shouldn't have retreated.
He held his breath, his heart was in his throat, his face was frightened, his scalp was numb, and his whole body was feeling cold.
The ordinary people around were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and some even lost control of their legs and feet and lay directly on the ground, shaking with fear.
What did they see?
It turned out that there was an open space in front of the city wall, and in this open space, more than two thousand Imperial Guards in silver helmets had gathered to form two large square formations.
That's fine, the key point is that the soldiers all held crossbows in their hands, the bow strings were fully drawn, and there were three or five sharp arrows on each crossbow.
The crossbow machine was aimed at them at the foot of the city wall.
In other words, a total of six thousand to ten thousand sharp arrows were aimed at them.
And they retreated all the way here, and many people were separated, leaving less than two hundred people... so many sharp arrows could completely cover them all!
Nowhere to escape!
There is actually a trap here.
Su Xian understood instantly.
He really regretted that he shouldn't have followed the crowd just now. If he had broken out of the city in disguise, he might have escaped from the city.
But, after all, he is not a god and cannot predict the future. Under the circumstances at that time, who would have thought that there was a trap here?
Now that things have come to this, I have no choice but to comfort myself by saying, "A saint must make a mistake after all his worries."
"No one is allowed to move!"
Opposite, a general walked out from among the more than two thousand soldiers and shouted sternly at Su Xian and the others.
"There is a big fish among you."
The general glanced at Su Xian and the others with a solemn look, "I advise you to take the initiative to stand up. Maybe you can have a chance of survival. If not, just wait to be pricked like a hedgehog!"
Under the city wall, the common people had never seen such a formation before. When someone fired arrows, they would really be pierced into hedgehogs, and their faces turned pale with fear.
Su Xian couldn't help but tremble in his heart, big fish? What big fish?
Could that big fish be me... Su Xian suddenly understood that when he went out for spring outing in the city, Emperor Chu had solicited him many times. After all, he was proficient in Huiyang Nine Needles, who wouldn't be greedy?
The Emperor of Chu did not seem to be a benevolent king, and it was not impossible to use forceful means to capture Su Xian and serve him.
After thinking about this, Su Xian's eyes gradually turned cold.
He turned around and looked around. Behind him was a towering city wall. There were crowds of people on both sides. There was no danger to defend. In front of him were two thousand Forbidden Army soldiers carrying crossbows.
In normal times, this situation would not be difficult for Yang Zhilan and Zhou Wei.
Even if someone shoots with a bow and arrow, they can easily block the arrow.
But this is a full two thousand crossbow machines.
When the number of crossbows increases to a certain height, it is not so easy to block.
Su Xian lowered his head and asked Yang Zhilan and Zhou Wei on the left and right: "Can we escape under the dense rain of arrows?"
"Master, please rest assured, I will definitely be able to escape from the city safely!"
Yang Zhilan's expression was rare and solemn. One hand reached into her waist and grasped the hilt of the soft sword.
"Nvxia Yang is right." Zhou Wei also cheered up.
"That's good."
Su Xian let out a long sigh of relief.
He was originally worried that Yang Zhilan and Zhou Wei would not be able to cope with the two thousand crossbow machines.
It seems that he is overthinking.
The sense of security that Yang Zhilan brought to him was truly unparalleled, and it was not in vain that he took Yang Zhilan to the mountains of Shu to seek medical advice.
The rewards are huge.
Just like now.
However, he thought again, and with a slight movement of his eyebrows, he gradually felt that something was wrong with Yang Zhilan's words.
"I can leave the city safely, but what about you?" Su Xian's expression turned serious.
Yang Zhilan remained silent, looking at the two thousand crossbow machines with vigilance, her mind becoming more and more solemn.
Zhou Wei replied:
"Senior brother, you don't have to worry about us... After senior brother escapes from the city, he will immediately go to the pre-arranged meeting place. As long as he gets there, senior brother will be completely safe."
Sure enough there is a problem!
Su Xian's heart sank, what nonsense is this?
He escaped from the city alone, where will Yang Zhilan and Zhou Wei go?
He was not a three-year-old child. He asked with a stern face: "Tell me the truth, can you escape with me without getting hurt?"
Yang Zhilan and Zhou Wei looked at each other, then looked at Su Xian and shook their heads at the same time.
"Young Master, don't worry about us..." Yang Zhilan turned to look at him, as if trying to persuade Su Xian.
"No need to say more, I will never leave you alone, nor will I let you take risks in vain!" Su Xian's tone was unquestionable.
In fact, with the abilities of Yang Zhilan and Zhou Wei, they can control the battlefield with thousands of troops.
Not even a scratch on the skin.
But the situation now was different. The two thousand well-trained soldiers were aiming at them with crossbows. Each crossbow had three to five sharp arrows.
Thousands of sharp arrows were shot at the same time, which was equivalent to her fighting with two thousand soldiers at the same time.
On the battlefield with thousands of troops and horses, no big killer weapon like bows and crossbows will be used. The number of opponents faced at the same time is only ten or twenty people at most.
The two are not the same.
Even if he is as strong as Yang Zhilan, he is not absolutely sure, and he will have to shed his skin if he does not die.
If she still wants to save Su Xian and escape to heaven, she will definitely die!
Su Xian would never let her sacrifice like this be in vain.
Thinking back to the time when he spent so much effort to bring Yang Zhilan back from the gate of hell, the trip to Shu was extremely difficult and not easy!
It would be a pity if she died here!
There must be other ways...
"Don't release the arrow yet!"
At this time, not far to the left of Su Xian, someone shouted, then stepped forward and took two steps forward.
In an instant, everyone's eyes fell on this person.
The crossbows in the hands of the two thousand soldiers on the opposite side also turned their angles and aimed at the man.
It was a middle-aged man, dressed in ordinary people's clothes, with an ordinary face. If he didn't stand up, no one would notice him at all.
Just listen to him say:
"You Nanchu like to play this trick, using the lives of innocent people to force each other, right? Very good, you win, I'm right here, come and catch me."
As the man spoke, he opened his hands as if to be slaughtered.
"Take it!"
The general on the opposite side gave an order loudly. Several soldiers had already come forward and trapped the man into a rice dumpling with hemp ropes.
"Hahahahaha..." The general looked up to the sky and laughed, saying:
"You are a cunning thief. The court has been searching for you for several years but has never caught you. Now let me see where you can escape!"
"..."
When Su Xian and the common people saw this scene, they looked at each other with a heavy sigh of relief.
Especially Su Xian.
After working on it for a long time, it turned out that the "big fish" the general mentioned was not him, but someone else.
False alarm!
As for what crime that man had committed and why he was wanted by the Nanchu court for several years, Su Xian was not interested and did not want to know.
He lowered his head, looked at each other with Yang Zhilan and Zhou Wei, and communicated silently. The two of them also relaxed, and they should be fine now.
"Master Jun, we are all innocent people. We just want to take refuge out of the city. Please be kind and let us go out of the city."
The people begged one after another.
"Let you leave the city?"
The general glanced at the people under the city wall and snorted coldly. Then, his eyes stopped on Su Xian and said with a smile: "Master Su Zhe, where are you going?"
"What did you say?" Su Xian felt a chill in his heart and shouted, "Oh no, it's terrible, he was still being targeted by this person. What happened today may not be good."
The general shook his head and said:
"Young Master Su, you are well. Your Majesty has been thinking of you since my last holiday. It's a pity that Mr. Su has declined your Majesty's solicitations many times."
"what you up to?"
Su Xian's mind raced. First of all, under the threat of those two thousand crossbows, it was impossible for them to escape safely.
Su Xian would not let Yang Zhilan and Zhou Wei be involved in danger.
Then there is only one way——
drag!
Once they get rid of those two thousand crossbows, they will have a chance. Then Su Xian must show them what it means to be a super master!
At this time, he was not afraid of being discovered that "Su Zhe had escaped." After all, saving his life was important, and other troubles would be dealt with later.
"Simple, Mr. Su's medical skills are unparalleled, and His Majesty is just praising his talents. It just so happens that the Queen Mother feels unwell today. The doctors are unable to do anything, so they can only ask Mr. Su to move to the palace."
The general said.
"Entering the palace to treat the Queen Mother?"
Su Xian felt relieved, then moved again.
He was relieved because the Emperor of Chu wanted something from him, so their lives would be guaranteed in a short period of time.
The first move was about entering the palace. He had long wanted to enter the Chu Palace to look for the autobiography of the late Emperor of Southern Chu. This might be an opportunity.
"Okay, I promise you, I will enter the palace to treat the Queen Mother."
Su Xian made a quick decision and nodded in agreement.
In addition to the threat of the two thousand crossbows, he himself also wanted to go to the Chu Palace to take the opportunity to find the autobiography and reveal the secret of Prince Daqian.
As for safety issues, there is no need to worry, because in the palace, it is impossible for "two thousand crossbows to be aimed at them" again.
Once they find a loophole, they can escape from the palace at any time.
Furthermore, he was very angry that the Emperor of Chu dared to coerce him like this. He would not give up until he entered the palace and turned the Emperor of Chu's harem upside down!
If you see that the scholar has the skills, just remember the domain name:
