The wind and thunder surging as the shopkeeper fought with the thousand men.

Yuan Zhen was quietly watching the two of them coming and going among the hundreds of soldiers from the Guards, with his eyes as plain as if he was watching two crickets pushing around, feeling tasteless.

He sat on the horse and said in a low tone: "You and Li Jin have tried it before, and have never won once. Who gave you the courage to assassinate me?"

The shopkeeper has no time to answer.

He wanted to approach Yuan Zhen again and again, but was blocked by the thousand-man Li Jin again and again.

Originally, he was only seven steps away from Yuan Zhen. After fighting for a few breaths, he was ten steps away from Yuan Zhen.

When he retreated, layers of guards and soldiers filled the gaps of these ten steps, as if they closed a door.

Yuan Zhen slowly recalled: "When you were captured alive when you were a scout, I cherished your talent and saved your life. At that time, I knew you were just pretending to surrender, because you were too calm when you were tattooed, as if you were prepared long ago. You probably didn't know that even the timid person would shed tears of humiliation when he tattooed, but you didn't."

Yuan Zhen suddenly sighed and said, "At the beginning, I kept you, just to see what that guy Qing Wentao wanted to do, so that he could just use his plan. But not long after, he died at the hands of your own people in the Southern Dynasty. After his death, you were drunk every day in Fengshengzhou without any concealment. I missed your loyalty, so I had the idea of ​​conquering you. I thought that as long as you were long, you would always use it for me."

"Later you did a lot of things for me and killed a lot of people. I sent you back to Guyuan to lie dormant, and you really gave you a lot of useful information. Over the years, I have promoted you to the commander of the centurion and the commander of the thousand men, thinking that you would really submit to me in this way, but I didn't expect that you were just like Guyuan, smelly and hard."

"I'm too arrogant."

At this time, the shopkeeper and the thousand men fought, and they were gradually at a disadvantage. Chen Ji watched silently, without any turmoil on his face.

Yuan Zhen was too lazy to look at it again, waved his hand and said casually: "Take it down."

In the Guards camp, an official disguised as an ordinary guard suddenly pulled out his knife from his waist and jumped down from the horse's back.

The knife went straight to the extreme and slashed at the shopkeeper.

But just as the knife fell, the shopkeeper was in a ghostly shape, barely avoiding the blade and letting the blade stick to his back and chop down on the shadow under his feet.

What's strange is that in the dust stirred by the blade, the black shadow squirmed like thick smoke, and instantly turned into a flying snake with six legs and four wings, flapping its wings and flying into the night sky, and then dived towards Yuan Zhen.

The leader of the thousand-man was shocked: "Fat is the secret seal of mandala!"

Chen Ji was surprised when he heard this and subconsciously turned his gaze to Xiaoman, but Xiaoman's expression was as normal as he seemed to have known it.

When Fei Yi was swooping, the commander wanted to return to defense, but the shopkeeper clamped his arm tightly with his arm; the guardian wanted to return to defense, but the shopkeeper held the blade tightly, and even if his palm was cut, he would not let go.

The guardian abandoned his sword and ignored it, but it was too late.

Fei Yi, who had six legs and four wings, came to Yuan Zhen and opened his bloody mouth.

Another person in the Guards suddenly drew his sword, but Yuan Zhen sneered: "No need."

The fierce six-legged four-winged flying snake pounced down, and the huge wings condensed by black smoke covered the sky and the sun, almost covering Yuan Zhen. However, the sudden change arises, and the instant that the fat left in contact with Yuan Zhen, it turned into a handful of light smoke and dissipated, as if it was just an illusion.

Dissipated.

The shopkeeper was stunned and murmured: "How could it be?"

Yuan Zhen sat on the saddle and stood still, laughing loudly: "I am a second-rank official of Jing Chao. Wang Chao is lucky. How can a mere trick hurt me!"

Chen Ji's pupils contracted. He remembered that Lin Chaoqing, the commander of Jiefuwei, had also said to Yunyang and Jiaotu, "I have the fourth-rank official in Daning, so I should not take it out and show my eyes on it just a little trick."

It turns out that the officials of the two dynasties can really be used to prevent evil!

Isn’t this also a way to be an official?

As he thought, the guards pressed his palm on the shopkeeper's chest, but he saw the armor behind the shopkeeper's back, and the armor on the front chest shattered, and the armor pieces flew across. He spewed out a mouthful of blood and fell heavily to the ground.

The shopkeeper struggled to get up and said hideously: "No, even a second-rank official should be injured..."

Before he finished speaking, the shopkeeper watched Yuan Zhen take out an imperial edict from his sleeve and underestimated: "The second-rank cannot be used, adding an imperial edict by His Majesty's handwritten one is enough."

The shopkeeper sat down dejectedly on the ground: "So that's it."

Yuan Zhen put away the imperial edict and stared at the shopkeeper who fell on the ground: "You betrayed the crown prince of a country just to change the opportunity to approach me. But you also know that you can't kill me at the distance just now... Since you choose to endure, why not keep holding on?"

The shopkeeper fell to the ground without saying a word.

He just looked up and watched the dust rising during the fight slowly falling down, and the dust returned to the dust and the soil returned to the soil.

Yuan Zhen asked softly: "The Zhu family doesn't care about Guyuan, and the Zhu family doesn't care about you. Is it worth it to work hard for the Southern Dynasty?"

The shopkeeper coughed up a few mouthfuls of blood: "I didn't sell my life to the Zhu family, but to Guyuan."

Yuan Zhen was stunned, then looked up and sighed, "Guyuan... I have been dealing with Guyuan all my life, and you have also dealing with me all my life, and everyone has wasted their time here. Why bother? Why bother to lose your life for this city?"

The shopkeeper grinned and said, "I said that I didn't have the chance to kill you in the battle of Qu Wushan in Jianing in the 25th year of the year. Some people don't believe it; I said I was sent by the general, but they don't believe it either. It seems that as long as I do a day of careful work, people will become ghosts, the enemy will not believe in themselves, and people will not believe in themselves. It's not very interesting to live. If I don't live, I will go downstairs today to ask the general, why he chose me at the beginning, which is too biased."

Yuan Zhen was silent for a moment: "Say hello to him on my behalf... Kill me."

The commander Li Shen came to the shopkeeper with a spear and pierced the shopkeeper's heart hard.

The shopkeeper did not look at the commander, nor did he look down at the wound. He silently looked at the city walls in the distance, as if he wanted to engrave the high and low battlements in his mind.

Chen Ji looked at the shopkeeper silently and slowly closed his eyes. The light of the torch was blown by the wind and gently shook on his face.

He is not familiar with the shopkeeper and has no chance to get to know him anymore.

Yuan Zhen stopped looking at the shopkeeper and continued to walk northwards. His confidant whispered: "Master, the Pioneer Camp has just encountered an elite boys in Duokufang in the north. Bei Zhi is worried that there will be ambush there."

Yuan Zhen asked calmly: "Have the scout from the west returned?"

The confidant said, "I'm back, and the other side is empty, as if I've made a way out for us."

Yuan Zhen smiled: "What did Hu Junxian want to do when he made such a move? Since he wanted to keep me, Yuan, in Guyuan, then he would lift all the cards out to see. Why are you pretending to be a ghost?"

The confidant no longer speaks.

Yuan Zhen's expression gradually became arrogant: "I don't believe that the hidden soldiers in this city can stop me, Jing Chaotian cavalry, kill the northern defense line, and we will go out through the northern city gate."

The confidant asked in a low voice: "Master, on the way to rush, the people around Ning Chao's prince are probably burdened. What should we take away and what should we leave?"

Yuan Zhen looked back at the prince, Chen Liqin, Chen Wenxiao, Zhang Xia, Zhang Zheng...

He suddenly said, "Leave the prince and take the rest of the people away. Don't think it's burdensome. These people are of great use."

The confidant was stunned: "Master, don't take the prince? Why did the prince whom I finally got was left behind? Among these people, he is the most important thing."

Yuan Zhen laughed loudly: "What can a prince who is regarded as an abandoned son be replaced if he is taken away? Stay behind, keep him in Ningchao, and a prince with hatred in his heart will be of great use. He has to live and return to Ningchao court alive."

After saying that, he whipped his horse and rushed north under the guard camp.

Chen Ji was shocked and suspicious. Yuan Zhen’s way of thinking was very different from that of ordinary people. He actually let go of the prince he got?

He clamped his horse's belly and mixed it with the iron cavalry of the Tiance Army, and came to Chen Liqin and others. The Tiance Army turned over and dismounted, tied up all the prisoners' hands and feet with ropes, and prepared to take one horse and take another person.

Chen Ji's eyes turned around the prisoners. Which prisoner should he bring? Chen Wenzong, Zhang Xia, Zhang Zheng, and Xiaoman must save him, but he must save Xiaoman first.

Xiaoman is an official, and if there is any chaos later, he can help him.

But just as Chen Ji was about to take Xiaoman away, he turned around and saw a Tiance army approaching and tied Xiaoman's hands and feet with hemp rope.

Chen Ji frowned and was thinking about what to do, the Tiance Army turned his head and looked at Chen Ji, nodding slightly.

Li Xuan.

After Li Xuan took over the body of Tiance Army, he actually changed his armor and sneaked in while the shopkeeper was assassinating.

Chen Ji felt a little relieved, and came to Zhang Xia calmly, and took the hemp rope from the saddle without saying a word. Zhang Xia closed his mouth tacitly, letting his hands and feet be bound, and he just stared at the person in front of him quietly.

When Chen Ji tied Zhang Xia's hands together, he saw the other party's hands trembling slightly.

He straightened up and whispered, "Don't be afraid."

After saying that, he carried Zhang Xia and stood on the saddle.

Before leaving, Chen Ji looked back at the shopkeeper who was sitting on the ground, but saw the other party holding a handful of loess on the ground and Guyuan soil.

He took a deep breath and turned his horse on his back.
Chapter completed!