"Miss, if you keep holding on like this, your body will collapse." The maid said worriedly.

Liu Yanru pushed the maid away stubbornly: "Don't worry! If I get to Dongdu one day earlier, I can become the queen one day earlier, and I don't have to look at the faces of those two bitches anymore!"

The carriage suddenly bumped against a stone on the road and swayed violently. Liu Yanru was unsteady and fell directly into the car, her face pale.

The maid shouted to the coachman outside to be careful, and at the same time she quickly stretched out her hand to support the young lady, tears welling up in her eyes.

The convoy left Dengzhou this morning.

Originally, Murong Xue thought that Liu Yanru's condition had just improved and she could stay for two more days before leaving. Anyway, he had already sent someone to deliver a letter to Luoyi, so there was no need to worry over there. But unexpectedly, Liu Yanru

Extremely anxious, she urged Murong Xue to leave quickly, saying that she must not delay the auspicious day of the wedding.

That was a good day chosen by Qin Tianjian and could not be changed.

Of course, Murong Xue knew in her heart that this was just an excuse. What Liu Yanru really wanted was the identity of the queen.

During the few days they stayed in Dengzhou, Ma Yunfang and Murong Ling went out together every day, went shopping, and visited mountains and rivers. They were very happy. On the other hand, Liu Yanru could only stay on the hospital bed with only one person beside her.

The maid took care of me, and I was really depressed.

Therefore, as soon as the doctor said that the noble man was fine, Liu Yanru immediately decided to leave.

In the afternoon, Murong Xue came over specifically to say hello, and at the same time suggested that he could rest at the inn in Qinghua Town and stay one night before going to Nanyang.

But Liu Yanru rejected his kindness and insisted on rushing to reach Nanyang City before dark.

Murong Xue was worried that it would not be good for her if she disobeyed the noble Liu's ideas and made her angry and bad for her health, so she had no choice but to agree and ordered the troops to continue marching.

Yuan Bin was worried that it was getting late and Nanyang City would close its gates, so he proposed to lead a small group of light cavalry first, rush to the front, and notify the city defenders to wait.

Murong Xue agreed with this, so he assigned 20 people from the 300 cavalry to follow Yuan Bin first.

Things turned out just as Yuan Bin expected. The carriage couldn't go very fast at all. Seeing that the sun was about to set, the team was still twenty or thirty miles away from Nanyang.

In this wilderness, once it gets dark, you can't see anything. Murong Xue couldn't help but feel worried secretly.

"Hurry! Hurry up and hurry up! You have missed the station. You must go to Nanyang today!"

Following his order, the cavalrymen speeded up one after another, and the carriage drivers also whipped their whips vigorously to try to make the carriage go faster.

But just when the team had just turned into a mountain col, a sharp and piercing call of a night owl suddenly came from the dense forest on both sides of the road.

Immediately afterwards, countless crossbow arrows shot out from the darkness and rushed towards the guards.

In the blink of an eye, twenty or thirty light cavalrymen fell off their horses, and the whole team was in chaos.

Murong Xue was currently in the middle of the queue, chatting with his sister Murong Ling. When he noticed a sudden change, he quickly drew out his sword and guarded it beside Murong Ling's carriage.

Before Murong Xue could make a further reaction, two more rounds of arrow rain were released from the forest, followed by a large number of black-clad assassins jumping down from the tree crowns above their heads to attack the light cavalry.

The screams suddenly became endless.

In the darkness, Murong Xue could not tell the number of enemies for a while, so she could only order her surrounding subordinates to protect the three carriages to prevent the killer from approaching.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the soldiers took action, more than a dozen assassins suddenly appeared from a large bush nearest to them. Those assassins were very skilled in martial arts, and ordinary soldiers were no match for them. After a few face-to-face encounters, Liu Yanru's car

The guards beside the carriage were all knocked down.

Seeing the opponent surrounding the car, Murong Xue, who was not far away, suddenly became anxious. He waved his sword and charged forward with all his strength, hoping to get to the carriage one step ahead.

Unfortunately, when Murong Xue was only a dozen steps away from Liu Yanru, an assassin suddenly jumped out from beside him. His sword flashed and the sharp blade struck him like lightning and flint.

Murong Xue blocked with his sword, deflected the assassin's blade with a clang, and then kicked out, right on the opponent's chest, and kicked the person away. However, when he turned around again, he found that

The door of the carriage next to it opened, and Liu Yanru was gone inside!

Bad!

Murong Xue was startled and was about to rush over to look for her when a scream suddenly sounded from behind her: "Brother! Help!"

This is Murong Ling's voice.

Murong Xue looked back and saw seven or eight assassins besieging her cousin's vehicle. Ma Yunfang ran there from nowhere and led a dozen guards to fight fiercely with the assassins, desperately protecting Murong Ling.

Depending on the situation, they can't defeat the assassin. If they delay for a while, both Ma Yunfang and Murong Ling will die.

Murong Xue hesitated for a moment, then decided to save them both first, so she called to the nearby soldiers and pounced on them.

Since there were new troops joining and Murong Xue's martial arts was relatively strong, the assassins who besieged Murong Ling and the others did not dare to fight. They resisted for a few times and then quickly slipped away and got into the dense forest next to them.

At this time, the numerically superior light cavalry had gradually recovered from their panic and began to take the initiative and launch a counterattack. Seeing that they had lost the advantage of a surprise attack, the assassins quickly changed their strategies, fighting and retreating, and retreated into the forest.

Obviously, there are still their people in the woods, using their bows and crossbows to provide cover and block the pursuit of the light cavalry.

The fierce battle lasted for nearly half an hour, and the assassins finally escaped under the cover of night, leaving behind only more than thirty bodies whose identities were difficult to identify.

Murong Ling turned pale with fright and nearly fainted several times. Thanks to Ma Yunfang's warm words of comfort, she did not collapse on the spot. However, she could not hold back the nausea and vomiting.

Murong Xue's situation was even worse than hers, because Liu Yanru was really lost.

That's the queen! The emperor's fiancée! The future mother of the Holy Tang Dynasty!

Murong Xue went crazy and ordered the light cavalry to pursue them quickly, spreading out in all directions to look for people.

However, in the middle of the night and in the wilderness, where should we look for it?

Besides, there are only more than 200 of them, and they have lost dozens of brothers just now. Don't they need to protect Murong Ling and Ma Yunfang now? Aren't they afraid that those assassins will turn around and kill them?

No one dared to ask Murong Xue these questions, but Murong Xue knew it in her heart.

He was stunned for a long time, and then suddenly said urgently: "Quickly, go to Nanyang to bring reinforcements! Let Yuan Bin come with the army and blockade the entire ten-mile radius!"

At dawn, the soldiers and horses from Nanyang City finally arrived.

Yuan Bin jumped off the horse, rushed to Murong Xue quickly, and said in shock: "How could it be like this? Where are the nobles?"

"Liu Guiren was kidnapped by assassins," Murong Xue said with a somewhat ugly expression, "The other two are fine and are resting in the carriage behind."

Yuan Bin's expression dimmed and he comforted him: "General, don't worry. As soon as the Nanyang soldiers and horses received the news, they immediately followed your order and began to search the nearby ten miles. I believe there will be news soon. Alas, if I had known earlier,

I won’t go to the front station anymore.”

Murong Xue shook her head: "It's not your fault. No one could have imagined that the enemy would pursue us here."

Yuan Bin asked: "Can you confirm the origin of the other party?"

Murong Xue pointed at the corpses lined up in several rows next to her: "I've checked them, but it's difficult to confirm their identities. Why don't you help me check them out too."

Yuan Bin nodded slightly, walked to the corpses in a few steps, squatted down and looked through them carefully. After a while, he stood up and said, "They should be Li Kuang's people."

"Why do you see them?" Murong Xue couldn't help but asked curiously: "There are no marks on them."

Yuan Bin clapped his hands: "There is no sign, it is the most obvious sign. I just saw the underwear they wore, they are all silk fabrics from Xianwenfang, Hangzhou. This detail is not easy to detect if you are not an expert. But here is the problem.

Well, even Lao Jianhua’s men may not all wear uniform underwear. Such an arrangement is obviously suspected of framing the blame."

"One more thing. Mr. Shen has previously investigated the news, saying that some of the killers sent by Lao Jianhua were Japanese who came back with the navy. There are thirty-six corpses lying here. It can't be such a coincidence that even one of them is

You haven’t killed any Japanese, right?”

Murong Xue asked curiously: "Can you recognize the Japanese?"

"The same can be seen from the underwear, as well as the hairstyle and toes." Yuan Bin said: "Some living habits are difficult to change. The Japanese like to wear crotch pants and clogs, which can easily leave very obvious marks on the body.

."

Murong Xue nodded and was about to say something when suddenly an officer ran over in a panic: "Sir, I discovered it!"

"What did you find?"

"There are two women's bodies in total!" the officer replied, "just over there at the foot of the mountain."

After hearing this, Murong Xue suddenly felt that the blood in her body had gone cold, her head was buzzing, and she almost fainted.

Yuan Bin supported him and said, "Let's go and have a look."

The two got on their horses, led by the officer, and headed straight to the foot of the mountain in the distance. As soon as they arrived, Murong Xue saw two naked female corpses, it was Liu Yanru and her maid.

Damn it!

He could no longer hold on and fell off the horse.

When Murong Xue woke up again, she was already on the rickety carriage, with Murong Ling and Ma Yunfang beside her. Both of them had tears on their faces, and it was obvious that they had just cried.

"Brother, you finally woke up." Murong Ling choked and said, "Liu Guiren..."

Murong Xue groaned in pain and forced herself to sit up: "Where is this?"

Ma Yunfang responded: "Yuan Bin saw you fainted, so he took over your command. He said that those beasts must be cut into pieces, so he led his troops to chase them, while we went to Nanyang City first and waited there.

His news."

Murong Ling couldn't help but cry: "Brother, Yuan Bin said, Liu Guiren... was she really ruined by those evil people?"
Chapter completed!