Half of Guyuan City has turned into ruins. In the dark night, the ruins are so empty that weeds grow in the heart.

Chen Ji struggled to identify the direction in the night, and the sound of horse hooves behind him was rapid. I don’t know how many Tiance troops came to pursue them across the sea of ​​fire.

The Tiance army was getting closer and closer, and Li Xuan suddenly said, "Go away, I'll stop them."

But Chen Ji just looked at him and pulled him to hide in a ruin. The smoke in the ruins was pungent, and Chen Ji held his breath and closed his eyes.

Li Xuan was worried. He had been dealing with the Tiance Army for a day, knowing that it was not that easy to avoid the Tiance Army's search, but he did not dare to remind Chen Ji.

Uneasy, the Tiance army rode their horses past the ruins. However, they had just galloped out not long ago. A black pheasant tailed armored soldier noticed something was wrong and tightened his reins and stood on his horse.

He listened quietly for a moment, then turned around: "Search, don't let go of any nearby ruins, maybe the two of them will hide in them!"

Dozens of cavalry and Tiance army soldiers rushed towards the ruins, and some people held a 18-meter-long horse spear and pierced each ruin, and wanted to plow it.

The Tiance army was getting closer and closer, and the sound of horse hooves was approaching.

Li Xuan's heart was trembling. He was about to set off to lead the pursuers away, but Chen Ji held them tightly.

The next moment, I heard a rapid sound of metal and iron clashing in the distance, followed by a sound of someone dragging a knife. In an instant, dozens of Tiance army soldiers turned around and looked at the sound.

The black pheasant tailed armored soldier pointed to his spear and said angrily: "Don't kill him!"

The sound of iron hooves gradually faded away, and Chen Ji then set off to escape in the other direction, until he ran out of Sanli, and then gradually slowed down and couldn't help coughing.

It's safe for the time being.

Li Xuan looked around in disbelief: Escaped?

He couldn't help but feel confused, and lowered his voice and asked, "What's going on? Do you have any support here? Is it the maid next to you or Miss Zhang Er? How should they escape?"

Chen Ji didn't say anything, and walked through a thick smoke on his own. Two swords were covered by night and returned to the markings on his waist. He judged the general direction and turned to Taohuaifang.

Li Xuan followed behind him silently, looking at his every move.

Passing by a well, Chen Ji stopped and listened to the movements nearby. He made sure that there was no one around and gently shook a bucket of water and wet the hem of his clothes so that he would not have to pass through the fire and smoke in the future.

Li Xuan followed suit and wet his clothes.

Chen Ji re-tied his messy hair and used a hairpin to tie it.

Seeing this, Li Xuan also tied up his hair.

Chen Ji rubbed the charcoal with his hand and smeared five black marks on his face.

Although Li Xuan was puzzled, he still wiped it out.

Chen Ji glanced at him: "What did Lord Li learn from me to do?"

Li Xuan hesitated for a moment before explaining: "You can be at ease in this Guyuan City, and it's absolutely right for me to learn from it."

Chen Ji said calmly: "Mr. Li doesn't have to learn it."

Li Xuan was slightly stunned: "Why?"

Chen Ji casually explained: "Mr. Li is kind-hearted, I am afraid that I won't live long, and it's useless to learn so many things."

Li Xuan couldn't speak for a moment.

Chen Ji suddenly asked, "What do you see instigated infarers in armor look like? Are the armor they wear on leather?"

Li Xuan was stunned: "How do you know that you also saw those infantrymen? Where did they come from and which number do they belong to?"

Chen Ji did not answer and continued on his way.

Li Xuan asked again: "I saw you using a knife before, where did you learn that archery technique? Can you teach me?"

Chen Ji still did not answer.

"Where is His Highness the Crown Prince?"

"Is Mr. Chen okay?"

"Do you think about whether you are still alive?"

Gradually, Li Xuan found that Chen Ji didn't want to pay attention to him, so he lost his voice.

Chen Ji led the way in front, and he followed in a mess behind, as if Chen Ji was the commander of the Yulin Army, and he was a young man who had just joined the ranks.

Chen Ji avoided the Tiance army who was searching for them, and kept changing directions to move towards Taohuaifang.

But just when there were two streets away from Taohuaifang, he suddenly pulled Li Xuan and hid in a burned ruin, and looked out quietly.

At the intersection ahead, Tian Ce was passing by with a torch. The neat iron cavalry slowly marched to the north, and infantry led the hunting dogs to accompany him.

The long team seemed endless, cutting off Chen Ji and Li Xuan's path in the middle.

Chen Ji suppressed: "Wait for them to come."

The two of them squatted behind the ruins and waited patiently, but they waited for half an hour, but the army had not finished.

Li Xuan looked over quietly and saw a magnificent soldier sitting on a war horse, holding a black flag in his hand swaying in the fire, with a circle of black pheasant tail sewn on the edge of the flag, and a word "Yuan" embroidered with gold thread on the flag!

Li Xuan lowered his voice: "This is the Central Army's big flag. The commander of the Tiance Army Yuan Zhen is going to enter the city!"

Chen Ji nodded calmly.

A moment later, Li Xuan suddenly said, "Chen Ji, in the 25th year of Jianing, he was fled to the battle of Qu Wushan... If he killed him, it might be possible to disintegrate the morale of the Tiance Army."

Chen Ji asked casually: "How old is Mr. Li this year?"

Li Xuan replied, "Thirty-four."

Chen Ji continued, "Has Mr. Li ever been on the battlefield?"

Li Xuan shook his head: "No, after marrying into Qi's family at the age of seventeen, he joined the Yulin Army. He will train the ceremonial guards every day and never go to the battlefield."

Chen Ji said calmly: "Mr. Li scolded Qi Zhenjue for being a playboy. How good can you be? You often look like you are not satisfied with talent, but in the Yulin Army, everyone looks up to you just because you are the son-in-law of the Qi family. You can rise to the top because of the Qi family."

"You always say that your ancestors are in the Long Live Army, which seems to be higher than other Yulin Army, but you turn around and be as innocent as a child. Lord Li, you are indeed better than thinking about it, but you are only stronger because you dare to die, that's all."

Li Xuan was slightly stunned and lowered his head in shame: "I just thought that Guyuan City has fallen. Since I died one after another, it would be more meaningful to die. Since I married into Qi's family, nothing except Qi's family help, I just..."

Chen Ji shook his head and said indifferently: "Mr. Li, these pretentious words need not be said to me, they have nothing to do with me."

Li Xuan was silent for a moment: "Sorry, I laughed."

At this moment, the Tiance Army suddenly stopped.

A team of Tiance army cavalry stumbling to the intersection with dozens of people.

Chen Ji hurriedly looked at it. Among the dozens of people, there were Zhang Xia, Zhang Zheng, the prince and Xiaoman. They were actually found by the Tiance Army!

Chen Ji was stunned on the spot.

Why?

Why are you searched for hiding in a cellar?

The underground cellar of the grain and oil shop is so hidden. As long as the bricks and stones at the entrance of the cellar are blocked, who can find the hidden secrets? Is it because they have forgotten to block the entrance of the cellar? It is impossible. Everyone may forget it carelessly, but Zhang Xia cannot.

Chen Ji looked at the swaying fire in front of him, and the fire was in his eyes.

The familiar feeling came back, as if no matter how hard he tried, the result would not change.

In the torch light, a soldier rode his horse to the front of everyone. He first asked a woman a few questions, then raised his spear and stabbed her chest and abdomen.

The Tiance Army betrayed another person and asked, stabbed him to death again.

Chen Ji bent over and approached silently until he could see Xiaoman's cursing mouth clearly, as well as Zhang Xia and Zhang Zheng's stubborn and unwilling expressions.

The soldiers on the war horse looked coldly over everyone, and then pointed the spear at the prince in the crowd, and said coldly: "Take him here to ask."

The Tiance army took the prince forward, and the soldiers on the war horses used the tip of their spear to lift the jade pendant on the prince's waist and asked in a deep voice: "Who are you?"

The prince replied slowly, "I am a Central Plains merchant who comes here to do business."

The soldiers on the war horse laughed, as if they heard a huge joke: "I dare to ask the Prince of Ning Chao, who is the merchant in the world who dares to wear a four-clawed dragon jade pendant? Come on, hurry up and report to the commander outside the city, we will catch Prince Ning Chao!"

"Yes!" An iron cavalry rode his horse and galloped outside the city.

The soldier on the war horse waved his hand: "Ning Chao stayed, kill the rest!"

Among the escorted people, a figure staggered out: "Don't kill us, we can also be useful! I am a Ning Chao Juren, Chen Wenxiao, the son of Zhan Shi Shao's son, and Zhang Zheng and Zhang Xia, the two of them, the left minister of the Ministry of Personnel, over there, don't kill us!"

The soldier on the war horse was stunned and then smiled even more presumptuously: "Okay, okay, what I like most in my life is this kind of backboneless literati of the Southern Dynasty! Put an iron chain around his neck and keep it by his side to be a dog for me!"

While speaking, Chen Wenzong rushed out of the crowd and pushed Chen Wenxiao down. He rode on Chen Wenxiao, and his fist fell on Chen Wenxiao's face like raindrops.

Some soldiers wanted to pull Chen Wenzong away, but the soldiers of the Tiance Army soldiers who fought on the horse sneered: "Let them fight, the southerners are accustomed to being able to bite dogs!"

Chen Ji held his breath in the dark ruins. Li Xuan clenched his fists beside him and gritted his teeth and said, "I'll kill people and lead the pursuers away, will you take the opportunity to save people?"

Chen Ji refused to answer. This was the main force of the Tiance Army's central army. They had hundreds of lives but were not enough for the other party to kill them.

He stared at the intersection and whispered, "Wait a minute."

Li Xuan was so anxious that he clenched the hilt of the sword, but he didn't know what Chen Ji was waiting for. He wanted to kill him, but when he looked at Chen Ji, he suppressed his words when he thought of what the other party had just said.

Two incense sticks, a group of people and horses came here like stars, guarding a middle-aged man with gray hair.

The middle-aged man never wore armor, only wore a black robe and a golden robe.

Yuan Zhen.
To be continued...