Holding the talisman stolen by Adong's wife, Zu Qing successfully left Zhang's house. Of course, this is also because the city defense situation is getting worse and worse, and the Zhang father and son and important tribe members are not here. Even if they are wary of Zu Qing, everyone who will not promote this matter is well known.

The Zhang family's house is also in Huguo Temple. Not long after Zu Qing left here, several figures rushed out of a nearby building. It was Zu Qing's family general who had been arranged for the banquet a few days ago.

"Zhang Thief is finally willing to release Alang? If Alang doesn't come out again, we are already planning to rush into the rescue..."

Several generals were very excited to see Zu Qing finally escape.

After hearing this, Zu Qing's timid and determined figure flashed through his mind. Then he quickly calmed down and led his family back to his house from a remote place. Along the way, he began to ask about all the changes in the capital of Xindu for the past few days and what the matters he had ordered his family to carry out.

The current situation in Xindu is even worse than Zu Qing imagined. This can be seen from the tense atmosphere in Huguo Temple. Although Zu Qing and his team tried to choose remote paths along the way, many patrol soldiers could still see that the defense in Huguo Temple was several times higher than before.

All this is naturally because of the amazing combat effectiveness of the Jin army outside the city. According to the information found by the Zu family members recently, Zhang Chai personally led his troops out of the city to attack the Jin camp at night on the first night, and invested nearly 10,000 troops, waiting for work, and had an absolute advantage in military strength. However, in the end, he failed to suppress the Jin army on the battlefield, but was killed by the Jin army by nearly 2,000 people.

After this battle, it can be said that the defending city Jie army has completely lost the ability and confidence to continue to organize the field of battle. After several tentative attacks, the Jin army outside the city is now using the northeast corner of Xindu City as the main attack direction. This is a loophole in Xindu City defense. It was originally turned into the forbidden garden building area, but the fortifications stopped halfway because it was disconnected from the entire city defense system.

Earlier, King Shibin of Yan secretly sent him back to the capital, and chose to enter the city from this direction because it was directly connected to the Forbidden Garden. It was natural for the Jin army to launch an offensive from this.

"The king's army is still increasing its troops one after another, but few people in the city know about the specific number of troops."

The generals of the Zu family naturally would not be included in the first sequence of city defense operations, because they had no way to know the details of the Wang army. But in fact, even the Jie army soldiers who fought directly with the Jin army on the city wall lacked a comprehensive understanding of this.

The failure of the first night attack brought great pressure to the Jie army, and he did not dare to send scouts to fully observe the Jin army's forces. Although a few scouts were out of the city, they were either expelled and killed by the Jin army's scouts, or they simply went away and never returned. Now, Zhang Chai simply ordered the city to be completely blocked, and all people entering and leaving are forbidden, hoping to strengthen the belief that the defenders of the city will die together.

But in fact, such a method has little effect. Although the Jin army is only attacking the northeast corner of the city, the urban defense situation in other aspects is still extremely serious, because many guards in the city use their ministry to release people out of the city through hanging baskets, slings, etc. through their duties.

This has even become a huge profit in Xindu City. Many people who have completely lost confidence in Jie Kingdom would rather bear the exploitation of military soldiers and sacrifice their family's wealth, just to leave the city and survive.

Zhang Chai was not unaware of this, but he did not dare to investigate it strictly, because no one knew how many soldiers were involved and what kind of backing and organization there were behind it. Once it was strictly investigated, it was very likely that the soldiers guarding the city would directly mutiny and internal conflicts. Because it could only be achieved through continuous adjustment and prevention and recruitment of troops from the city to supplement the strength of the soldiers guarding the city, so that the effect of suppression could be achieved, but it was only a treatment of the symptoms but not the root cause.

Recently, many powerful residents in the Huguo Temple have been added, but the increasingly severe situation of city defense and Zhang Chai's continuous pressure to recruit, these powerful families have to throw private songs into the battle of defending the city, while their families have been taken to Huguo Temple, half for protection and half for retaining quality.

"The way out of the city is ready. The general of Yamen Gao Zhu is currently guarding the Mingde Gate in the southwest. He has made a secret agreement with his servants and others, and is willing to go out to Nantou with my family..."

A general came forward and whispered, saying that the city defense seemed tight, but in fact it was leaking everywhere, and there were still many partners they wanted to choose.

This Yamen General Gao Zhu, a native of Bohai, was forced to recruit manpower from various counties the previous year and led his troops to Xindu. He entered the city earlier because he was involved in the night of Huguo Temple. As a result, he fell into this situation and felt very upset. Before, Zu Qingshang had made an appointment with him several times when he was still in power, and then he ordered his family to continue contacting him. Now he has finally achieved results.

While speaking, everyone returned to the Zu family's house. Although Zu Qing was under house arrest by Zhang's father and son, there were not many people who knew about it. Now the battle for the city defense is in full swing. Many soldiers of the imperial guards only said that Zu Qing was also left by his father-in-law Zhang Chai to listen to it, because he did not dare to make things difficult for his family without authorization.

After returning home, Zu Qing found that his family had already finished packing, which saved a lot of time. In order to prevent Zhang Chang from coming to surround him when he learned that he had left, he could not stay in this residence. Because Zu Qing immediately summoned his family and ordered the retreat.

The old people who originally followed Zu's family in Beitou have now withered more than half. However, Zu Qing has also cultivated a group of confidants in Jie Kingdom in recent years, and all of them have gathered together, with about 200 people. Zu Qing divided the more than 200 people into two groups, one of which was responsible for escorting his cousin Zu Daozhong and a group of elderly and disabled families who were elderly and unable to move left Huguo Temple immediately and hid in the city temporarily, preparing to evacuate Xindu tonight.

As for another group of families, Zu Qing stayed by his side and continued to stay here, preparing to wait for an opportunity to do something.

When they heard that Zu Qing was unwilling to evacuate, the family generals advised him one after another. They naturally understood that every moment they stayed here would increase countless dangers, and there might not be a chance to escape in the future.

But Zu Qing had made up his mind and did not obey everyone's advice. He just said, "Zhang Zhe was treacherous and everything was ruined before. If I escaped, I would be really unwilling to accept it. Besides, my family...ah, no matter what the family reputation is, you have followed me for a long time. How could I bear to let you be even more reckless after returning to the south! There is no need to hesitate to this matter, I just want you to escort my brother back to the south safely, and Qing will give me the merits and benefits here..."

Some elderly family members were crying at this moment, and grabbed Zu Qing's robe and cried, "It's a pity that I can't help Alang to build things anymore. But in the past, I dared to cross the river and control Hu, but now I am afraid of death! Alang is unyielding in his prime and dares to sacrifice his life for his family. Even if we are old, we cannot help, and we dare not drag down our burdens because of greed! Alang goes quickly, we can keep it here for a little cover..."

After years of dependence on each other, the deep love has come to the bone. Zu Qing also understands that he is really lonely and has to force any pursuit, and it is even more difficult to cover everything. These people in the hometown are really helpless.

He bid farewell to his family members who were voluntarily staying behind on the scene and shed tears. It was still early at this time, and hundreds of people were walking in Huguo Temple, which was quite eye-catching. However, Zu Qing was not a nameless person in Xindu. In addition, Zhang Zhai's talisman was there, so ordinary soldiers did not dare to make things difficult for him.

Of course, Zu Qing did not dare to go to a tightly guarded place, such as Dongtai, which is not far from his residence. The conflict between him and Zhang Chai has not yet been made public, but the guards of Dongtai were taken away by Zhang Chai from his command before. Some generals must have had some defenses on him. If Zu Qing dared to break in, it would be like he would fall into the trap.

The number of residents in Huguo Temple has increased, and there has been many crowds and chaos. The number of patrol soldiers seems to have increased, but in fact the entire command system is already mixed, which also provides convenience for Zu Qing and his group. He sent Zu Daozhong and others to the side door where the remote monks' house are located. More than half of the monks and nuns who originally lived had already fled, and then they could go straight into the inner city after they left.

As long as he leaves Huguo Temple, the Zu family also prepares many pass-through warrants. Ordinary people may be unable to move in the city at this moment, but Zu Qing is naturally not a vulgar. Until now, he is still the son of Zhang Chai and the upstart of Jie Kingdom. Even if the soldiers patrolmen find his family wandering, most of them dare not stay. They can hide calmly and wait for the night to fall.

After the group separated, Zu Qing led dozens of confidant family members to sneak into Huguo Temple again. The master of Jie Shihu came to Buddha and became a Buddha, because the temple was of great size and was no less than a small city.

Zu Qing had also been a general of the imperial guards who held high power in the temple before. He was naturally familiar with the overall layout of the temple. It was not difficult to hide. Unless Zhang found out that he had run away, there would be no danger of exposure.

However, Zhang did not have such an opportunity at all. Not long after the afternoon, the northeastern city of the city was suddenly captured by the Jin army, and some of the Jin army even rushed to the main city wall. Zhang Chai, who was supervising the battle on the front line, immediately ordered the defending soldiers to fill it up. The two sides launched a desperate battle between the urn city, and the dead bodies were stacked almost filling the feet!

Imfython reported to Huguo Temple at the front of the city. Zhang Feng, who stayed at Huguo Temple, was also frightened and hurriedly dispatched the imperial guards in the temple to gather thousands of people under the west hall, ready to reinforce the city at any time.

With the soldiers so quickly drawn, there will naturally be loopholes in defense. If outsiders may find it difficult to take advantage of this chaotic opportunity, but this is not a problem for Zu Qing. Taking advantage of the withdrawal of soldiers from all sides and the military orders are in chaos, he led the crowd into the West Hall and intercepted hundreds of guards halfway through the military talisman to follow him.

The chaos lasted for more than an hour. At dusk, the crisis at the city entrance was temporarily lifted, but the thousands of troops gathered in front of the West Palace did not disperse, and half of them were recruited to the city entrance to supplement the losses of the previous fierce battle.

Zhang Chang, who stayed at the Guardian Temple, was also in a panic at the moment. Even without the huge pressure from the Jin army to attack the city outside the city, the chaos in the city was full of chaos and life was everywhere, so he could not figure out any clues.

He had just sent away the guards who reinforced the city defense. When he was about to enter night, he began to check the orders in the city today. Then he found that a talisman that was directly from his father and of a very high level was used many times today.

After realizing this, Zhang Qian was shocked. Although the orders in the city were in chaos at this time, there were traces to the orders that really rose to a certain level. Especially his father Zhang Chai, how many talismans were used, and how to use them, there were sufficient communication between the father and son, and there would never be such a level of life!

At this time, he remembered that his family was coming in a hurry in the afternoon, but he was busy mobilizing the imperial guards to deal with the city defense crisis and had no time to summon him. He quickly ordered someone to introduce his family. Only then did he know that Zu Qing had already left in the morning, and the time coincided with the record of the use of the talisman!

"Shu Zi, I'm really desperate!"

Zhang Qian cursed in his heart, and first wrote a handwritten order, ordering the key garrisons in various places to cancel the talisman order, and then began to think about how to deal with this incident.

Although he had lost his sheep and made a talisman order, it would take at least a few hours to cover the entire city. It had been a day since Zu Qing left, and he was a general of the imperial guards known to everyone in the capital. Zhang Chai had not publicly removed him from his post before. Now he held such a very high-level talisman in his hand. It is really hard to estimate what kind of changes would arise.

After pondering for a moment, Zhang Chang sent a guard to the residence in Zushi Temple. Although Zhang Chang also understood that the chance of blocking Zu Qing and his family was slim. On the other hand, he led several confidant generals to the main hall of the West Hall, and along the way, he sent someone to the guards on duty and walked to an inconspicuous room on the side of the West Hall.

Zu Qing was also extremely brave. He occupied a corner of the West Hall and summoned a considerable number of the guards through military talismans along the way. Although his own general seal order was taken away by Zhang Chai, he naturally inserted some of his family generals into the guards and served as commanders of different levels when he was in power. Although these people no longer offered services in the military talismans, many military talismans were consciously retained.

From the past New Year to now, the Jie Kingdom's imperial guards have been the most frequently changed troops. In addition, the royal army has frequently mobilized and supplemented the imperial guards, and the talisman system has long been in chaos. Because it is the military talisman retained by the generals of the Zu family, there is a great opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

Of course, if you want to exercise military orders and effectively dispatch the guards according to the normal period, in addition to matching the military talismans, you must also have a hand-made order. However, this set has almost been invalidated at present, and the soldiers can only identify the level of military talismans, and as long as it is a peak order, you must follow it.

In the world, internal thieves are the most unpredictable, let alone generals of Zu Qing's level intend to make chaos. He is now in the West Hall, gathering hundreds of scattered guards from both sides, and undoubtedly with other imperial guards ordered to enter the arch. As long as he does not appear publicly and is swaying in front of some imperial guard generals who are familiar with his identity, it is too difficult for Zhang to search him out in a short time.

The reason why Zu Qing chose the West Palace was because the West Palace was frequently dispatched within the current situation, which was an important distribution center for the soldiers in Huguo Temple, while the other key Dongtai was much more stable. If it were not for the difficult situation, Zhang Chai would never easily mobilize the imperial guards who stayed in Dongtai. After all, the Jie Lord Shi Hu was imprisoned there.

But the accident happened and could not be controlled. Just as Zu Qing was waiting for the night in the corner of the West Hall, two Zhang family generals suddenly appeared and ordered their guards to evacuate here.

With the vague light of the light, Zu Qing saw that the two Zhang family members had almost broken their hearts nervously. These two were Zhang's most confidant generals and were also familiar with Zu Qing. Suddenly walking to such a remote corner, it was inevitable that Zu Qing would be suspicious, thinking that his whereabouts had been exposed.

But the two men were in a hurry and ordered to drive them away. After they turned around and left, they did not stop and looked at them carefully, and then they missed Zu Qing, who was hiding in the darkness of the corridor!

Zu Qing looked at the backs of the two Zhang family members who were leaving, and felt suspicious. The reason why he chose to hide here was because he knew that this place was a very remote place in the West Palace and was the least likely to be exposed. Now internal and external affairs are busy, and these two Zhang family members appeared here, which really made people think about it.

While responding to the order, he followed the generals from the family to evacuate the place, and gave a wink to one of the family to track them up and find out.

After half a quarter of an hour, the general who was following the family returned the same way. After finding Zu Qing, he whispered: "Zhang Feng walked into the side wing behind the left, and his eyes were full of ghosts. There was a secret whistle in the room near the left and the room was hidden. The servant dared not look closely. Zhang Feng entered the room for a moment and left..."

After hearing this, Zu Qing frowned tightly, thinking hard for a while and had no idea. At this moment, the bell of the West Palace rang and it was time for the imperial guards to have their meals. The imperial guards on this site had to go to a fixed place to eat in batches.

During the meal, people were most chaotic when entering and leaving. Zu Qing originally planned to take advantage of this time to get closer to the inner hall of the West Hall, and then wait for an opportunity to launch it suddenly, and he could directly shake the inner hall defense. If he could take advantage of the chaos to kill Empress Liu or the Crown Lord, as long as any of them succeeded, the city would be in chaos, and then he would have no regrets even if he died.

However, now that the Zhang family generals suddenly appeared, they have been driven out of their original lurking positions. Coupled with the situation reported by the family generals, Zu Qing’s previous plan was a bit difficult to implement, and he had a vague guess in his mind.

After pondering for a moment, Zu Qing took out the talisman that belonged to Zhang Zhai, and asked the generals to hand it over to an imperial guard commander, and ordered the commander to go to the southeast of the west hall to enter the standby position.

After the hundreds of soldiers left, Zu Qing shook his eyes on the generals around him, and the group returned to their previous lurking position again, and led the way from the previously tracked general to the room where Zhang Chang had entered.

At this time, the night was quiet, and the high and low buildings cast large shadows. Zu Qing and his family had dozens of people walking between the palaces and pavilions, as if ghosts were present.

Suddenly, a sharp sound of gold warning came from the south side of the west hall, and the entire western hall area suddenly became riots. Hearing this sound, Zu Qing sneered at the corner of his mouth. Zhang Chai's talisman had been stolen for so long, and it must have been exposed. Especially in this Western Hall heavy defense area, it had already become a life-guiding talisman from the life-protection talisman.

With that talisman exposed, the guards in the front hall of the West Hall were alarmed and rushed towards the direction where the warning signs sounded, which made Zu Qing and the others move smoother.

“It’s exactly here!”

In the night, the Zu family led the way straight to one of the rows of rooms in front of the front. Zu Qing looked up and saw that there were many shades of trees in front and back of the room. As the imperial palace, the West Hall was originally forbidden to plant trees particularly densely, but the pine and cypresses were shaded in front and back, which showed that it was deserted.

"Who?"

Under the shade of night, a loud shout suddenly sounded, and then several figures rushed out, each holding a strong bow and sharp blade.

"kill!"

Zu Qing knew that there was not much time left for him, so he shook his tongue and ordered. Then the man rushed forward. Dozens of figures behind him rushed out, rushing straight forward like tigers and wolves. The two sides suddenly collided, and the bloody killing began. The left-behind people here did not show up before, but more than twenty people rushed out, all of which were extremely fierce.

However, the Zu family generals were not vegetarians. As a sneak attacker, they were also crowded with people. After the killing began, all the Zhang family members who were left here were killed and Zu Qingfang also suffered more than 30 casualties. In order to compete for time, they also paid a heavy price.

"In the quick search room, don't let go of any suspicious things!"

Zu Qing was caught in an arrow on his shoulder, but at this moment he had no time to deal with it. He gritted his teeth and broke the arrow shaft, signaled his family to rush into the compartment together, took out the fire to illuminate the room, and then started a quick and detailed search.

"Alang, there is something here!"

The compartment area is not large and the furnishings are not complicated. Soon a home leader climbed the beam along the wooden ladder, and then found a tightly bandaged brocade box on the beam.

Zu Qing took the brocade box, cut open the cloth wrapped outside, and after lifting the brocade box, he saw a seal placed in it. He put it under the lights to take a closer look. He saw a corner of the seal inlaid with gold, and the shoulders were engraved with "The Great Wei received the Han Dynasty's seal" and the side was "The Shishi Family of Heaven". The seal text of the square was "Actually appointed by heaven, and will live forever"!

It is indeed the imperial seal!

Seeing this seal, Zu Qing was so excited that he was trembling all over. He knew that after the Huguo Temple Incident at the beginning of the year, the seal of the imperial seal fell into Zhang Chai's hands, but Zu Qing did not know whether Zhang Chai had returned it to Empress Liu. However, according to his understanding of Zhang Chai, how could he easily give up this powerful weapon? Now that Zhang Chai is in power, even Empress Liu dares to tear her face and force the jade seal.

At present, Zhang Chai was supervising the battle at the top of the city, and was in a chaotic and dangerous situation, so he naturally did not dare to carry the seal with him. In the Zhang family in Huguo Temple, there was only a group of family members left behind, and even Adong's wife could easily steal the Zhang Chai's talisman order. It can be seen that the defense was loose and it was definitely not a place to hide the seal. As for Zhang Chai, who was left in the West Hall, he did not dare to collect the seal personally. This seal was originally taken by the Shi family from the hands of the Tuge Liu family. If the news leaked, the various forces in the imperial guards would inevitably fight to the death.

It seems dangerous to store the jade seal in the hidden secret place of the West Palace, but it is actually very safe. If Zu Qing had not been hiding in the remote and dark place and accidentally noticed a strange sign, he would have never thought that the Zhang family and his son would hide the seal here.

Zu Qing has already intervened in Zhang's family affairs very deeply, and he could not even imagine what others could have expected? And if there was no definite goal, even if the city was broken and the West Palace was in chaos, the chaotic soldiers would not attack this remote location. Even if some scattered soldiers wandered here without intention, the more than 20 Zhang's confidants were enough to deal with it. It should be noted that even the elite soldiers of the Zu family had to pay more than 30 lives to rush into it. How could ordinary defeated soldiers have such courage?

"Let's go! Go out of the city and go to the south!"

After unexpectedly obtaining such a powerful weapon, Zu Qing's mood was refreshed and open-minded. He no longer had to risk assassinate the nobles of the inner palace. As long as he could successfully leave Xindu, his great achievements were already expected!

At the same time, the battle on the south side of the West Hall was over. Zhang Qian was worried about Zu Qing's disappearance, and suddenly learned that the stolen talisman order actually appeared near the west hall, which was the storage place of Huguo Temple. After receiving the report, Zhang Qian was overjoyed and immediately ordered the guards in the West Hall to surround and kill the soldiers holding the orders.

The hundreds of soldiers suffered such unrestrained disasters for no reason, but survival was instinct. They were naturally struggling to resist when they were surrounded and killed, but they could not withstand the continuous source of guards to fight. They were soon killed and several seriously injured and dying people were taken to Zhang Chang. While Zhang Chang ordered a search for Zu Qing's corpse, he asked the dying people where they got the talisman order.

After half of the interrogation, Zhang Qi's face suddenly became ugly and he ordered: "Qujian Temple quickly blocked, no one was allowed to enter and exit! Those who violated the ban will be killed without mercy!"

After giving the order, he led a group of Zhang's confidants to rush to the room he had just checked.
Chapter completed!