Li Gexiao and Sanniang Xiaomei Chaihu secretly searched for the whereabouts of suspicious people. The town is located on a plain with a dense population, and the hilly terrain outside the plain has hidden houses. It is not easy to find it everywhere.

The hounds have been arranged to go to various roads, and Li Gexiao and Xiaomei Sanniang Bupleurum stay in the city, so that they can observe the changes everywhere, and at the same time, they must always protect the emperor.

In the restaurant, the waiter brought a bowl of stewed black-bone chicken soup. Xiaomei and Bupleurum looked at it with wide eyes, and sighed in surprise: "Wow, Brother Ge, aren't you too rich?" Stop running, take advantage of this moment to have a good meal.

Li Gexiao has worked hard for the past few days, his face has not been shaved, and his beard is showing his stubble. He has put his fluffy hair up in a bun, and he looks like a serious person. Yes, don't be greedy."

Bupleurum disguised as an old man, hunchbacked and hunchbacked, said stubbornly: "I don't eat women's things."

Xiaomei still cares about her own image. After shaving her face, she is even more fair and handsome, her glass-like eyes are radiant, holding an empty bowl, staring at the chicken soup and saying, "I don't want to either, but my body is very honest, and my cheeks are thinner." , too skinny to look good."

San Niang was extremely disgusted with the current young woman's bun, and she had to compromise temporarily for the sake of convenience. She took Xiaomei's bowl, handed it to Li Gexiao, and said with a smile: "Blessed and shared."

Li Ge smiled and raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and filled the soup.Then put the bowl of Bupleurum on it.Bupleurum started to smile, and Gulu drank: "Hey, it's so refreshing."

Xiaomei took a few sips slowly, nodded lightly, and said, "Yes, it's delicious and not greasy. It has the fragrance of anchovies but doesn't taste like a staple food. It's a good dish."

Bupleurum said with disgust: "A sissy is still chattering while drinking soup." Xiaomei shot back: "I call it savoring life."

Li Ge smiled and said: "If you have enough taste in life, let's taste people."

Xiaomei suddenly put away her playful words, looked around casually, and looked back: "There are 31 people present, six elderly people over 40 years old, three children under ten years old, and one person at the table behind me has a congenital heart problem. She is breathing heavily. There is no suspicious person so far."

Li Ge smiled and nodded, picking up vegetables.Xiaomei said again: "There is almost a suspicious person now."

Li Ge paused with a laugh, continued to pick up food, and said in a low voice, "Eat first." Everyone stopped playing and ate quietly, observing the movement.

Three men and one woman came in cautiously outside the door. After entering the door, they looked around for a week and sat down at the table next to the wall.The waiters hurried over to say hello, and those people only ordered a few random dishes, but the names of the dishes were all expensive things in this place.

Xiaomei raised her eyes from time to time and said: "The dishes are famous and expensive, most of which are heard and read from books; since entering the door, I have been careful and found a place to sit against the wall so that I can observe the people around; Kung fu is not weak."

Bupleurum stared at Li Ge and asked with a smile, "Lao Li, what are you doing?"

Li Ge looked at Xiaomei with a smile, Xiaomei nodded, seeing the other party getting up alone, Xiaomei also looked for an opportunity to get up and followed.The man asked about the latrine, and Xiaomei waited around the corner. From time to time, people would come out, Xiaomei took out a book, pretended to read and walked past the person, and bumped into him accidentally.Xiaomei hurriedly apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," while patting him: "Didn't hurt you?"

The man was very impatient, and stretched out his hand to push Xiaomei: "Get out of the way." Xiaomei moved a few steps away, and still apologized: "I'm sorry." After the person left, she returned to her seat triumphantly.

Xiaomei sat down, put the book on the corner of the table, picked up the chopsticks and continued to eat, and said in a low voice: "I got a brand, but I can't understand what the characters are. The quality is not bad."

For a while, those people were about to leave after eating, Xiaomei hurriedly read while eating, Li Ge smiled and brought food for San Niang, Bupleurum pretended to cough.The few people stood beside them and left for a moment.

Sanniang got up first and went upstairs quickly.Li Ge laughs at Xiaomei, supporting Bupleurum and going out to follow her.When those people went out, they parted ways, each going to the city and outside, they had no choice but to separate, Chaihu and Xiaomei followed the two together, Li Gexiao followed the other two alone.Sanniang saw people separated on the roof, and chased outside the city together with Xiaomei. There are Li Gexiao and Jin Yiwei in the city, so don't worry.

When those two people left the city, two people came out of the jungle leading their horses, and they got on the horses and galloped all the way.Sanniang went to the field to discuss with Xiaomei Bupleurum, Bupleurum went to investigate on horseback, and Xiaomei and Sanniang returned to the city.Xiaomei warned: "Brother Hu, you have to watch out for an ambush on their way."

Bupleurum replied: "Don't worry, I still have this vigilance, sissy, protect San Niang?"

Xiaomei nodded, and Sanniang replied, "Don't worry, you have to be careful."

Xiaomei and Sanniang hurried into the city, and talked about the relevant matters in the tower, and the guards checked more closely.In today's situation, it is impossible to prevent problems before they happen, and we can only do our best to eradicate people secretly.It is impossible to estimate how many people outside the city are waiting for the opportunity at this moment, the emperor must withdraw.

Li Gexiao ordered Jin Yiwei to search secretly with hounds, and the city tower stepped up its deployment to prepare for the battle.

Bupleur chased after them on horseback, the horses of those two people were indeed of a good breed, the speed was beyond his ability to catch up, and they gradually disappeared.In order to prevent the other party from ambush on the road, he was extremely careful.There was a secluded stream in front of him, with strange rocks on both sides, he didn't dare to go any further, he searched for a way to climb up the stone peak.Seeing the military flag fluttering in the distance, people the size of ants mightily move from the surrounding paths to the narrow narrow path in front of them.Bupleurum thought that his eyes were dazzled as he passed by, so he rubbed his eyes vigorously with his hands. The army on the opposite side was still like ants, pressing every step of the way, and came out from behind the mountain in an orderly manner, without seeing its tail.

"His grandma's." Bupleurum called out in a low voice, a trace of panic rose, hating himself for being so incompetent, he had to tell Li Gexiao and the emperor quickly.He looked around and saw a huge boulder half-hanging on the landslide. He hurriedly stepped on the loose sand and stones and pushed the boulder hard, but the boulder was too heavy.Seeing that the enemy was approaching in half an hour, he was alone and helpless, and became even more flustered.With only a dagger on his body, it didn't help, he stepped on the gravel and jumped down staggeringly, took a steel rod from the horse's back, ran up like flying, and planed the gravel at the foot of the huge boulder.It took a lot of effort to see that the boulder was loose. He stood still again and hit the boulder with all his internal strength. The boulder rolled over and rolled down, and the sand and gravel under his feet rushed down like a flood. Bupleurum staggered and fell on the falling sand. in the stone.He was desperately looking for something to climb, but his palm was pierced by the tip of the stone, and the steel rod slid down beside him. He quickly picked it up, stood up with the stick on the gravel, stumbled back to the horse, got on the horse, and galloped back to the city.

Sand and gravel rolled down, blocking most of the road.

Sanniang and Xiaomei failed to find Li Gexiao, so they had to go to the emperor first. The emperor was already preparing to evacuate. Seeing them coming in a hurry, they asked what was the matter.

Xiaomei replied: "We have found traces of the enemy, and there may be a heavy army ambushing outside the city."

Yunhe asked urgently: "Have you found out how many there are?"

"Brother Hu went to investigate, the number is undetermined." As soon as the voice finished, a general came to report: "Your Majesty, we have detected [-] troops coming towards our town, you go quickly."

Outside the house, there were already 200 guards in Jinyi, and [-] people holding shields stood in strict order to escort the emperor to evacuate.

"Om..."

The horn sounded, and the military situation was urgent.The people in the city have been ordered to go back to their houses, and the patrolling soldiers are in a hurry.Xiaomei Sanniang and Yunhe guarded the emperor and set off.Bupleurum galloped forward, and the shieldmen immediately surrounded the emperor tightly. Bupleurum yelled: "Your Majesty, it's my Bupleurum." Xiaomei heard the voice and said, "It's Bupleurum." Yunhe hurriedly ordered: "Let him come here."

Bupleurum approached and said anxiously: "The army has arrived at the stream, what's the situation with you?"

Sanniang hurried back: "I didn't find Li Gexiao, I was about to leave." Bupleurum said: "Well, you guys go first, I'll go find Lao Li." After speaking, he turned his horse's head and galloped away.Sanniang was also extremely worried, but she couldn't be impulsive at the moment, she suppressed her impatience and followed the team.

Before they left the city, they heard the report that the army was only three miles away from the city.A general shouted urgently: "The other party must have come for the emperor, and the emperor must leave the city and return to the palace as soon as possible."

A group of people galloped on horses, and when they reached the city gate to the south, they saw the guarding soldiers fighting with some people in strange clothes.The city walls collapsed, and corpses lay everywhere.I don't know how many capable soldiers are still outside the city, pouring in from the gap in a steady stream.

Xiaomei and the others had no choice but to protect the emperor and retreat.Send someone to Beicheng for help.The sharp-eyed people on the other side saw their group of troops and wanted to attack, but they were all ambushed and killed by peripheral soldiers.Before a quarter of an hour had passed, Tatar soldiers and horses poured into the city, and the defenders fought desperately.

Xiaomei swung her whip to urge her horse, and rushed towards the city gate.

"Meimei." Sanniang was worried and was about to rush over, but Yunhe pulled him back: "I'll go." He urged the horse to follow.

Xiaomei prepared the darts while speeding, and threw them like rain, the opponent's neck or body was hit by darts, and there were no misses.Killing the enemy all the way to the top of the city tower, I saw soldiers outside the city sticking together with the enemy, and more than a thousand elite cavalry were galloping towards them.

On this side, the general has already brought the cannon over, and the general waved the flag to signal the people on the tower to come down.Yunhe took Xiaomei and hurried downstairs.The cannon slammed into the gap in the collapsed city wall, blocking the enemy from outside the city.The cannons on the city tower also fired at the enemy, and more than half of the enemy's thousand people were killed or injured.

This side of the city wall was temporarily blocked, but there was another side of the army pressing down.

The enemy army broke into the wall, and they were attacked by the enemy, making it even more difficult to get out of the city.All the generals pleaded guilty: "The last general who failed to escort the emperor away deserves death."

Bi Yun presented the memorial: "Your Majesty, hurry up." The emperor opened the memorial and said in astonishment: "The Tatar army wounded and killed residents outside the Anding Gate, burned houses, and the family of Zhang Chengying and Qin Zhao from the Ministry of Rites were massacred..."

He was already sitting upright, but now he was even more flustered, holding the memorial tightly, his deep eyes seemed to suck people up.After a long while, he said, "How long is the firepower in the city enough to last?"

A general replied: "At most twenty hours."

The emperor nodded, looking like he was going to fight to the death, and said in a deep voice: "That's enough. Yifeng, you immediately lead people to break through and return to the palace to command the battle."

"Your Majesty." Yunhe knew what the Emperor was thinking, but he was also worried about his safety. He wanted to resign, but the Emperor suddenly ordered: "This is an imperial decree. I order you to return to the palace immediately and dispatch the seven towns to retreat from the enemy."

Sanniang said bluntly: "You are the emperor, what are you hiding here?" The implication is to persuade him to go back, the emperor should not be in danger.

Bi Yun also persuaded: "Your Majesty, you can't put yourself in danger."

The emperor said weakly: "Twenty hours is enough." But he didn't have a definite number on the actual situation.

Yunhe's handsome brows are slightly sad, the emperor will fight the enemy here for [-] hours, and these [-] hours are the time for him to return to the palace, the emperor is here, the army is here, he can transfer troops when he returns to the palace Surrounding from behind... sounds like a good strategy, but no one knows how difficult it is.But he has no other way, as a man, he should accept the order for his compatriots; as a minister, he should accept the order for the people of Daming;In just one sentence, in just twenty hours, the life and death of everyone, the life and death of the entire Ming Dynasty are all on his shoulders.Even if he dies, he will protect them well.

The sound of horns on the high platform is deafening, and downstairs is a well-arranged army running in unison to defend the city gate.

After the breakout team assembled, Yunhe bid farewell to the emperor. The emperor could not bear it, so he could only ruthlessly tell him: "Remember, only success is allowed."

It is extremely dangerous for Yunhe to go here, there must be countless soldiers ambushing on the road, and it is not easy to dispatch the soldiers from the seven towns, it is really difficult for him to go on the road alone with everyone's safety on his back.Xiaomei took a step forward and stood beside Yunhe, fighting on the same front with him.He couldn't explain why he did this, but he just couldn't bear to think about what might happen to Yunhe.But he was also worried about Sanniang Brother Hu and Ge Ge, and told him: "Brother Hu, you have to protect Sanniang, I must see Sanniang safe and sound when I come back."

Sanniang choked up and called him: "Meimei." Bupleurum's eyes were also hazy, and he said solemnly: "Don't worry." Pushing his fist to his chest, she said with a smile: "Xiaomei, you are a man. I, Chaihu, admire you. Come back safely."

With crystal tears in Xiaomei's eyes, she nodded.Bupleurum hastily put back the sound of whimpering, looked at Yunhe and said, "My lord, I can leave Xiaomei to you." Xiaomei turned back to look at Yunhe, and Yunhe also looked at him, the emotion in Yunhe's eyes was infinitely firm.He had to make himself firm, Xiaomei was so persistent, how could he express his gratitude?

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