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Chapter 181: The Station Breakthrough

[I didn't get well yesterday's cold. I was drowsy for a day. I only wrote two updates today, but I'm really sorry, I can only update two updates today.]

All the evidence found proved that the tall and thin man caught was Wang Shan, the head of Wujin County. Zhao Kai slapped the table heavily and glared at him, "Since he is a public official, why should he monitor me? Do you also want to rebel?"

Wang Shan was so scared that he said tremblingly: "I don't know if it was His Highness who came, because there were two murders in Changzhou in the past two days, two caravans have been looted and five merchants have been killed."

"So you suspect that I am the murderer?"

"I dare not be aware of the fact that the murderer is also a group of thieves, with about fifty or sixty people, which is very cruel. It is rumored that Fang La's subordinates received a report that there were a group of horse riders at the post station, so it was only then."

At this time, Li Yanqing next to him interjected: "This group of murderous people should have appeared in the past two days!"

"It is true. Although there are thieves in Changzhou, at most seven or eight people are in a group. There have never been thieves like this, fifty or sixty people. And the news has spread very quickly. In the past two days, people in Changzhou have paniced. Everyone thinks that Fang La is coming."

Li Yanqing smiled at Zhao Kai again and said, "Do your highness understand?"

Zhao Kai nodded. If he died in Changzhou, it would be the actions of the Changzhou rioters or Fang La, and it had nothing to do with Zhu Xie. If Zhu Xie wanted to kill them, he would definitely not be in Suzhou, the Yangtze River or Changzhou.

Li Yanqing asked Wang Shan, the head of the capital again, and said, "How far is this place from Wujin County?"

"About thirty miles!"

Li Yanqing asked someone to take Wang Shan down, and then suggested to Zhao Kai: "Double people are just an illusion. Zhu Jie has to deal with us, and at least hundreds of people must be dispatched. They should be nearby. I suggest going to the county town to temporarily avoid it immediately, and sending people to Jiangning to mobilize the army south."

Zhao Kai lowered his head and said nothing. The more important reason why he was unwilling to mobilize the army was that once the army was used, he would inevitably fight with Zhu Xie’s 3,000 dead soldiers, which would bring serious disasters to the people of Suzhou. This is something that Zhao Kai didn’t want to see.

Li Yanqing understood his psychology and advised: "Since Zhu Xie sent someone to deal with Your Highness, it means that he is ready to die. It is impossible to end a peaceful end. Although I also said whether the army can be used as much as possible, at this time, Your Highness can no longer be indecisive. If we do not use the army, we will not be able to deal with Zhu Xie's three thousand dead soldiers at all."

Zhao Kai was finally persuaded by Li Yanqing. He nodded and said to Li Yanqing: "It is not safe at night now. After dawn, I will send people to Hangzhou and Xiuzhou to mobilize troops."

Zhao Kai immediately summoned the guards and prepared to go to Wujin County to take refuge for a while, but at this moment, the guards guards on the outside were in abnormal situations, and hundreds of people were surrounding the post station from three directions.

The situation suddenly became tense, and the guard led Tang Qianzhi to come and said to Zhao Kai: "The situation outside is unclear. I am considering using the defensive advantages of the post station to confront the opponent. As long as we drag it until dawn, someone in the county will come to support me."

"no!"

Li Yanqing flatly opposed: "There are hundreds of people on the other side and only thirty of us. How can we resist it? It's only the first time we can't delay the dawn!"

He said to Zhao Kai again: "Our advantage is to ride a horse, and we should break out while the other party has not gathered together."

Zhao Kai pondered for a moment and said to Tang Qianzhi: "From now on, everything will be followed by Li Shaojun's arrangement!"

Although Tang Qianzhi was dissatisfied, the little prince had already issued an order. He did not dare to disobey, so he had to force himself: "Abide by the orders with humble duties!"

He asked Li Yanqing with a stern face and said, "Please give Li Shaojun instructions!"

Li Yanqing ignored his face and ordered him directly: "Call all guards to break through immediately, bring only necessary items, and do not bring any other luggage."

Tang Qianzhi hesitated and said, "It's just that the situation outside is unclear. Should I wait until the situation is clear before leaving!"

Li Yanqing sighed in his heart, why do these guards have no sense of crisis?

"Don't General Tang understand what I mean yet? Our opportunity is now. When the other party surrounds us, even if we break through, we will suffer heavy losses. Don't hesitate anymore and execute it immediately!"

Tang Qianzhi finally had no choice but to turn around and run out, "Everyone got on the horse immediately and prepared to break through!"

After a moment, all the thirty guards gathered together, Zhao Kai also turned over and the horse. Eight guards protected him closely. Li Yanqing said to Qing'er behind him: "You follow me closely, don't show off, do you remember?"

Qing'er nodded, "Little official, I understand in my heart!"

Li Yanqing turned around and looked again. Seeing that Wang Shan, the head of the capital, was riding on a horse and breaking through with them. Zhao Kai put on a piece of armor and an eagle helmet. Tang Qianzhi stepped forward and clasped his fists and said, "Li Shaojun, everyone is already there!"

Li Yanqing immediately whispered to the guards: "Tonight, you will either be killed or break through to survive. Everyone should not fight and rush out in one go."

Everyone agreed with a loud bang. Li Yanqing picked ten more strong guards as pioneers and shouted, "Come out!"

The gate of the courtyard opened, and more than 30 knights rushed out. Although there were only 30 people, their momentum was very terrifying. Everyone ran along the official road at lightning speed. Li Yanqing did not use a copper bow, but used ordinary bows and arrows, and his eyes were sharply staring at the situation on both sides of the official road.

Li Yanqing suddenly saw a group of black shadows appearing on the left. He did not hesitate to shoot arrows. Ten consecutive bead arrows shot away without stopping. His arrows were empty, and only a scream was heard, and a group of interceptors fell to the ground one after another.

At this time, arrows shot towards the guards from both sides. They did not shoot people, but shot the guards' horses. The war horses neighed miserably, and three war horses were shot and rolled to the ground, overturning the guards.

Li Yanqing shouted: "Don't throw them away, bring people with you!"

Two fallen guards were rescued by their companions, while the other guard was pressed under the horse and could not get up and run. Several men in black swung their swords at him. Li Yanqing shot several arrows in a row and shot four men in black overturned. He rushed forward and dragged the guard who was suppressed by the horse. The guard's foot was injured. He endured the pain and turned over Li Yanqing's horse. Li Yanqing whipped the horse hard and ran forward.

When the guards witnessed their companions being saved, their morale was immediately boosted. They shouted loudly and killed more than a dozen interceptors who rushed to Guandao. Everyone rushed out of the encirclement and rushed towards Wujin County, thirty miles away.

Half an hour later, everyone arrived at the gate of Wujin County. At this time, the gate was closed, and the soldiers guarding the city had already appeared, and the cavalrymen who were flying towards the city walls rushed to the city wall.

The head of the capital, Wang Shan, stepped forward and shouted: "His Highness Jia is here, open the city!"

The generals on the front of the city did not dare to neglect and urgently ordered the soldiers to open the city gate. At this time, Li Yanqing said to Zhao Kai: "Your Highness, please go to the city for a while. I will take a few guards to Suzhou to see the situation."

"It may not be safe to go to Suzhou now."

"Your Highness, I am worried that Zhu Jie will escape with his family after the situation is not good, so he can monitor his whereabouts."

Zhao Kai also felt that Li Yanqing's statement was reasonable. Once Zhu Xie escaped, he would not be able to explain to his father. He agreed to Li Yanqing's proposal.

The two immediately split into two groups. Zhao Kai stayed in Wujin County for a temporary escape. At the same time, he sent his confidant subordinates to take gold medals to the troops stationed in Hangzhou and Xiuzhou for help. Li Yanqing led ten guards to continue south to Suzhou to monitor Zhu Xie's movements.

The news of the failure of the robbery and killing of King Jia made Zhu Xie furious. He sent 300 dead soldiers to surround him, but he was still broken through and fled.

This was a adventure by Zhu Xie. Once successful, he could use King Jia as a hostage to bargain with Zhao Ji. He could flee to Hainan with wealth, but now that the interception failed, Zhu Xie was pushed to the cliff in an instant.

Zhu Xie was paced back and forth in the room like an ant on a hot pan. His only way out now was to escape from the sea with his family, but it was not easy to make this decision. If he had no choice, he would never take this path.

At this time, his father Zhu Chong walked to the door with a cane and said, "At this point, has my son thought of any retreat?"

Zhu Xie sighed, "I thought about it over and over again. It seems that there is no other way except to go to sea to escape. I have had some interactions with some Nanyang merchants in recent years. I heard from them that there are many islands there, so we can buy an island to put on his heels."

"Since that's the case, why are you still hesitating?"

"I really can't bear to leave my hometown just like this."

Zhu Chong sneered, "You can't bear to take the wealth you can't take away! You haven't escaped at this time. Do you really expect Zhao Ji to spare your life?"

Since my father could let go and he couldn't bear to let go, Zhu Xie finally made up his mind to lead the whole family to sea. The closest place to Suzhou is Huating Port in Xiuzhou.

Huating Port is the northern part of Hangzhou Bay today. Three years ago, Zhu Xie personally built a dock there, using sea boats to transport huge Taihu stones and go through the Yellow River to Beijing. However, Huating Port is mainly a salt port, and there are no ocean-going sea boats. If you want to take a boat to Nanyang, you either go to Mingzhou or Quanzhou.

Zhu Xie thought for a long time and finally decided to divide his troops. He asked his eldest son and brother Zhu Wang to lead 2,000 dead soldiers to Mingzhou Dinghai Port to grab the sea ship. He himself took hundreds of thousands of gold and silver soft soft boats to Huating Port, and from there he transferred to Mingzhou on the south bank of Hangzhou Bay to meet.
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