Zhou, Luozhou, Shangluocheng.

The city gate is closed.

The soldiers on the city wall raised their crossbows and aimed them at the people outside the city.

The guard only dared to stick out half of his head and stared at the enemies outside the city vigilantly.

Outside the city, a scribe was jumping up and down, cursing.

There were more than a hundred knights standing beside him, and there were four or five luxurious carriages. The knights were looking around uneasily at this moment.

The scribe rode his horse closer to the city again, pointed his riding whip at the defenders on the city wall, "Open the city gate for me! Open the city gate!!"

"If something happens to us, we will have to pay for it with the lives of your entire family!!"

Hearing the scribe's roar, the guard still did not dare to show his head.

The scribe was so angry that he wanted to move forward, but the crossbowmen on the city wall fired their arrows without hesitation. The arrows flew out and landed around the scribe. The scribe was so frightened that he rolled over and ran back to the knights.

among them.

"These people are crazy!!"

"Crazy!!"

The scribe sat on the ground, his face full of despair.

A man walked out of the carriage, wrapped in thick clothes, and the cold wind kept blowing at his body from all directions, and the man couldn't help but shiver.

He looked at the scribe, "Guo Jun, still can't enter the city?"

The person who got off the bus was none other than Wang Shiliang, the governor of Yuzhou in the former Qi State.

As for the scribe, it was Guo En who successfully persuaded him to surrender.

Guo En shook his head, "I can't get in."

After Quan Jingxuan surrendered to Yuzhou, in order to ensure that the results would not be lost in the subsequent battles, he sent Guo En to take the governor and other senior officials without stopping to leave the battlefield and return to Chang'an as quickly as possible.

Facts have proved that his considerations were indeed correct. Shortly after he sent away these prisoners of war, Yang Gu was defeated, so Quan Jingxuan did not dare to easily join forces north again and continued to wait and see the situation.

Wang Shiliang and others traveled day and night, hoping to return to Chang'an as quickly as possible.

The road of the Pseudo Zhou Dynasty was quite flat, and there were post stations along the road for them to rest. It was not bad at first. Although they were a little tired from the journey, they could walk with peace of mind.

This situation continued until they entered Xiyang County.

When we arrived in Xiyang County, the original peaceful atmosphere was gone forever. The doors of each of the three cities in the county were closed, and no one was allowed to enter.

The soldiers in the city have rushed to Chang'an to rescue him, and the remaining guards have received orders. Unless the Duke of Jin arrives in person, no one can come in.

It was also here that they learned extremely terrible news.

General Qi Guowei and King Pingcheng Liu Taozi are about to attack Chang'an.

Everyone was frightened. They wanted to go back, but they found that the Nanyang soldiers had destroyed the road, and out of fear, rebel soldiers appeared. They could only bite the bullet and continue to move forward, hoping to enter Chang'an as soon as possible, or find someone who could accept them.

their city.

Having arrived in Luozhou like this, I never imagined that the situation here would be even more critical.

There was obvious fear in Wang Shiliang's eyes, and he asked, "What if we go west?"

"Or find a place to hide first?"

Guo En stood up and regained his composure.

"My lord, don't be afraid."

"This group of people has stayed in the mainland for a long time and has not experienced war for a long time. They were frightened by Liu Taozi!"

"Liu Taozi just captured Huizhou. There are many cities and defenders along the way. If you want to just fight your way to Chang'an, there is no way."

"Besides, this place is still south of Chang'an. Even if Liu Taozi came to Chang'an, he would not go this way!"

Guo En said disdainfully: "Don't be intimidated by these people. If it doesn't work, we will find a village first and wait until the situation in Chang'an stabilizes before we continue on our way."

Wang Shiliang nodded, and Guo En asked him to get in the car. He then ordered the knights to form an array and protect everyone from here.

Wang Shiliang walked into the carriage, and Xu Biejia sat opposite him.

Wang Shiliang had many, many family members who all needed cars, but Xu Biejia was not in good health and could not ride a horse, so he had to ride with him.

Wang Shiliang looked at him and asked in a low voice: "There are many difficulties in this trip. Isn't it unnatural?"

Xu Biejia shook his head, "In internal and external troubles, surrendering and changing hands has been a practice since ancient times. It is not easy to talk about justice. It is just to trap and kill loyal people in order to please the enemy. This is unscrupulous."

Wang Shiliang's face darkened.

Xu Biejia sat quietly in the car, facing the old officer, with no awe in his eyes.

Since leaving Yuzhou and running all the way, his health has become worse and worse. Xu Biejia felt that this might be retribution for betraying his colleagues.

His health was getting worse and he didn't know whether he would reach Chang'an alive, and his family was far away in Yecheng, so Xu Biejia had no worries.

Wang Shiliang looked at him with cold eyes.

"Zeng Zi said: When a person is about to die, his speech is good. Now I observe that a person who is good at speech is a gentleman."

"When a villain is about to die, his true colors will be revealed, which is disgraceful."

Xu Biejia smiled and wanted to say something, but he coughed again.

At this moment, on the distant city wall, war drums were played suddenly, and the defenders became panicked in an instant, and they fired arrows towards the north.

Wang Shiliang was shocked and quickly stuck his head out, "What's wrong?!"

Guo En's eyes widened, he was also very frightened at this moment.

"I don't know! I don't know!"

"Thieves?! Rebels?!"

"Withdraw!! Withdraw!!"

The knights quickly protected everyone and evacuated, and Guo En led two knights to observe.

On the plain in the distance, a Liu-shaped flag fluttered in the wind, and the heavily armed knights were rushing towards them. Even under such a speed of charge, they could still maintain their formation intact and not mess up at all.

.

Something seemed to explode in Guo En's mind.

His face turned pale in an instant.

"Liu Liu. Liu Taozi!"

"run!!"

At this moment, everyone quickly began to run away.

Many people heard Guo En's words, and an officer shouted to everyone to speed up.

The carriage rushed away, Wang Shiliang held his body firmly, and his whole body was almost thrown out by the carriage. Xu Biejia ignored him and let go of his hands. The carriage shook violently. His body also swayed with the carriage, sometimes leaning forward.

Sometimes lying on his side, he couldn't help laughing.

"Prince, this is our retribution."

"Even if we drove him out, we shouldn't have killed him."

Wang Shiliang no longer had the strength to refute. His face was full of panic, and he was holding on to the left armrest, trembling all over.

Guo En ran away wildly, still observing the rear.

Horrible things still happened.

The cavalry did not attack the city. They circled outside the city and pursued them in their own direction.

The scouts at the forefront had even begun to aim their bows at them.

Guo En was shocked. He looked at the people around him, reined in his horse suddenly, and said, "General Quan has entrusted you with a big task, and I can't live up to it!"

"If you lead the general, lead the prince and others to take refuge elsewhere, remember, you must protect the prince with all your life, he cannot die!!"

Guo En suppressed the huge fear in his heart and led more than 20 cavalrymen to take out their bows, preparing to shoot the enemy scouts and lure them away.

The two sides just encountered each other.

"Swish swish~~"

The enemy's scouts drew their bows and fired. Guo En was shot directly through the neck before he could even say a second sentence, and he fell to the ground immediately.

The level of cavalry shooting of these scouts was astonishingly high. After a hail of arrows, few of them missed. The remaining knights could only run north at this moment, trying to lure them away.

The scouts immediately divided their forces into two groups, with no intention of letting each other go.

A carriage cannot outrun the cavalry.

When the scouts got closer and closer to the enemy and began to shoot with their bows, the Zhou army completely collapsed.

Even the officers could not suppress them. The knights fled in all directions, and the carriage was abandoned behind them.

Even before the army came into direct contact, these scouts started harvesting, and the carriage was forced to stop on the side of the road.
To be continued...