"Boss, what should we do?" Xiang Tao asked anxiously.
"Guard the north gate and wait for me to return.”After saying that, Chang Fan ran towards the Imperial City.
The little Emperor and Wu Jin were hugging each other and crying in the palace. The Emperor's family had fallen to such a state, and it was extremely desolate.
"Your Majesty, let's go. If we don't leave now, it'll be too late!”A eunuch advised with a panicked expression.
"This subject is willing to escort Your Majesty to the west for the time being. There are no rebel forces in the west.”The commander of the Imperial Guards, Lu Meng, also advised.
"I am also willing to protect Your Majesty with my life." Chang Fan ran in from outside.
" Xiao Fan!" Wu Jin rushed into Chang Fan's arms as if he had found a life-saving straw.
"It will be fine." Chang Fan said gently.
The 40,000 imperial guards escorted the imperial family members to the north gate, while the east and west gates pretended to break out of the encirclement to attract the enemy…
"Charge!" With Lu Meng's order, along with the original 20,000 guards at the north gate, 60,000 elites rushed out of the north gate. As the enemy had focused their attention on the three gates, the north gate was weak and the incident was sudden, the breakthrough was unusually smooth.
After running for about thirty miles, they could clearly feel the earth shaking. When they found that the emperor's carriage had escaped through the north gate, the enemy would definitely send an army to chase after it.
"General Chen, protect His Majesty and leave. I'll block them.”Lu Meng shouted.
"No, I can't! General, let me stay." The Right Commander of the Imperial Guards said firmly.
"Good brother, please." Lu Meng looked at Chen Fang with tears in his eyes. Everyone knew what it meant to stay.
"Let's go." Lu Meng led the way, leaving behind 40,000 people…
He didn't know how far he had walked, but the shouts behind him had long disappeared.
" Sir, it's too dangerous for us to do this. Why don't we…" Chang Fan suggested to Lu Meng.
"General Chang is right. Your Majesty, Princes, Princess, please get off the carriage and let me lead the imperial carriage to pretend to flee towards Han Changcheng. You can follow General Chang and flee towards the west.”Lu Meng suggested to the Emperor.
"Without a carriage, do you want us to walk?”Wu Jin asked in surprise.
"Little Jin, don't make a fuss. General Lu is right. We'll listen to him.”The Third Prince stopped Wu Jin.
"Milord, let the others pretend.”Chang Fan said to Lu Meng.
"Without me, the Great Commander, how could they completely believe that the Emperor was in the imperial carriage?”Lu Meng smiled bitterly. Chang Fan could see the determination in his eyes.
"General, take care!" Chang Fan cupped his fists and greeted him. It wasn't that he was afraid of death, but he was worried about handing Wu Jin over to someone else. People were always like this. When facing the person they loved, they would only feel at ease when they were by her side. Otherwise, even if the person protecting her was a hundred times stronger than them, they would still be very worried.
He watched as Lu Meng led 10,000 soldiers and horses to protect the imperial carriage as it headed south. Then, he looked at the members of the imperial family beside him. Millions of people fought to the death, not for the decadent Wu Country, but for the power and status of these people. Hundreds of thousands of people were guarding Tianjing, and they weren't guarding Tianjing City, but the people in the city. Now, 50,000 soldiers had sacrificed their lives just to give them a chance to escape. Was it really worth it? Chang Fan was a little confused. He shook his head vigorously and stopped thinking about these things. He looked ahead.
"Let's head west."
……
On the tenth day of the fifth lunar month in the fifth year of Shaokang, Tianjing City was breached. Emperor Wu Tian escaped and the Wu Kingdom was destroyed!
On the 29th day of the 5th lunar month, Lu Meng, the commander of the imperial guards who escorted the emperor's carriage, was surrounded and annihilated by 200,000 soldiers. However, Emperor Wu was not discovered.
"Boss, General Lu is finished. What should we do?”Liao Sikai hurriedly asked Chang Fan when he heard the news.
"Your Majesty, when the bandits realize that you are not with General Lu, they will definitely pursue us with all their might. Now that we have just escaped from their sphere of influence, we must split up. Otherwise, it is very likely that we will all be annihilated.”Chang Fan asked the little Emperor.
"General Chang, I will listen to you. I hope that you can leave some blood for our Emperor Clan.”The Third Prince said weakly.
"Very well, General Wang Tian. Take 2,000 soldiers and protect the Second Prince's family as they flee to the southwest. Once it's safe, find a place to live in seclusion and accumulate strength.”
"Yes, General!"
"General Shijie, please lead two thousand soldiers to protect the Third Prince and his family as they flee to the southeast.”
"Yes, General!"
"Generals Cheng Han and Huang Ba, please lead four thousand of your most elite soldiers to protect His Majesty and flee to the nearest Huyue Kingdom. The Huyue Kingdom has received a lot of favors from our country, so they should be able to help His Majesty.”
"Yes, General!"
"I'll leave everything to you generals." Chang Fan cupped his hands and said.
"Take care, General Chang." The five generals cupped their hands at the same time.
"Let's go!" Chang Fan led the remaining 2,000 men to escort Wu Jin to the west.
As they were escaping, the entire army had brought very little food. They had been relying on selling things for food along the way. Chang Fan's flute had long been pawned, and now, there were only a few pieces of jewelry left for Princess Wu Jin. The soldiers could only eat half their fill of coarse grain, and the army advanced with great difficulty.
The most beautiful one among them was probably Chang Fan. In the past, due to etiquette, although he and Wu Jin loved each other, they couldn't get too close. They didn't even hold hands. Only on Wu Jin's birthday did Chang Fan kiss her shamelessly. Now, Chang Fan could use the excuse of supporting a tired princess to touch Wu Jin's mesmerizing figure every day. Although he knew that this thought was very dirty, he was secretly happy every time he supported Wu Jin. However, when he saw Wu Jin's pained expression, he could no longer be happy. The princess was not like the soldiers. She had never suffered so much. Her temper had become very irritable.
"Xiao Fan, how do you eat this? The chicken is tasteless at all." Wu Jin complained again.
"This is a pheasant, much better than a domestic chicken. It's just that we don't know how to cook it, so you have to make do with it.”Chang Fan persuaded patiently.
"What about the water? You just washed your clothes in the river and now you're pouring it for me to drink.”
"Silly girl, haven't you heard of the phrase 'you won't get sick if you drink dirty'? This was all natural and healthy!”Chang Fan continued to coax her.
"A month ago, I was still living my life in the palace. Even now, I still can't believe that all of this is true. How can I live in the future?”
"Be good. Everything will be fine. Trust me.”
"Boss, Tong Zhan is back!" Zhang Fei's voice resounded throughout the entire military camp.
Chang Fan immediately ran out.
"Boss, I'm back. It's great that you're fine!”Tong Zhan ran over and hugged Chang Fan excitedly.
"Kid, you're still alive. It's good that you're alive, it's good that you're alive!”Chang Fan was also very happy.
"Quickly tell me about your experience. What's the situation outside?”Xiang Tao asked.
"When I went back, I found my father's grave. It was erected by the Marquis of Zhenbei. My father is a hero, and I swear to myself that I will never embarrass my father!”Yes, a true warrior would be respected even by his enemies!
" Later, I wanted to go back and look for you, but Tianjing was surrounded and I couldn't enter, so I went to Xiang Xin and Marquis Xiang. Later, when the capital was broken, Marquis Xiang defended the remaining three counties. I left him and didn't find your corpses in Tianjing, so I went to search for the soldiers who broke through, hoping to find you. " Later, I caught up with General Lu Meng. He told me that you had fled west, so I chased after you all the way. The day after I left General Lu, he fell into an ambush…" Tong Zhan was a little sad when he said this.
"General Lu is a hero! Then how did you find us?" Chang Fan asked.
"Li Yi's army chased after you. Later on, I heard from the avenue that there were about 10,000 people split into four groups. I guessed it was you. I also saw that the stoves on your side were in groups of five. So I followed you."
"I didn't know you were so smart! Haha!" Zhang Fei said with a smile.
That's right. Because of this small formation, Chang Fan and Xiang Tao had Tong Zhan. Zhang Fei and Liao Sikai, these three brothers, had only known each other for a short two years, but they had already formed a life-and-death friendship. However, Tong Zhan was not afraid of death and had chased after them from thousands of miles away.
"It seems that we are still not safe. It seems that we have to speed up.”Chang Fan said worriedly.
"Yeah, Boss! This time, I brought a few pieces of news, some good and some bad.”
"Hurry up and tell me!"
"The good thing is that the Third Prince seems to have successfully escaped the pursuit. The bad thing was that the Second Prince was captured and the Emperor fled to the Huyue Kingdom. He did not expect the Huyue King to be ungrateful and capture the Emperor to offer him to Li Yi. Now, Li Yi had imprisoned the Emperor in Zou City, neither killing nor releasing him.”
"Marquis Xiang is the closest to Zou City. Li Yi is trying to lure Marquis Xiang to save the Emperor!”Chang Fan analyzed.
"Even if I know it's a trap, Father will definitely go. No, I have to go back immediately!”Xiang Tao shouted.
"I'll go with you!" Xiang Xin was like Chang Fan's second parent. Chang Fan was also very worried when he was in danger. Now, he finally understood why Tong Hu insisted on visiting his father. Chang Fan actually didn't agree to let him go back then. That was because Chang Fan didn't know how Tong Hu felt! Now…he knew.
"Boss, the five of us just got together. We can't separate. Let's go together!”Liao Sikai said.
"Yes, yes!" Tong Zhan, Zhang Fei replied.
"No, it's too dangerous. Besides, who will protect the princess if she leaves? If anything happens to the princess, I'll ask the three of you!”Chang Fan said seriously.
That's right! Their mission was to protect the princess. What else could the three of them say?
Chang Fan didn't bid farewell to Wu Jin because he was afraid that Wu Jin wouldn't let him go. He didn't want to see Wu Jin sad and helpless. The two of them galloped towards Zou City and finally arrived at the foot of Zou City six days later.
In an inn, two young men dressed like businessmen were asking the waiter about the recent war.
"What?! Say it again!"
"The day before yesterday, Marquis Zhongyong led a few hundred men into Zou City to save Young Kang Emperor. Unexpectedly, there was a trap in the prison and they were captured by Marquis Weiwu Li Yi.”the waiter said softly.
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