At this time, the West City Gate had been blown up beyond recognition by explosives.
Zhao Gao and his men from the Thirty-six Cavalry of Bao Guard disguised themselves as soldiers searching the city and quietly approached the city gate.
When the people defending the city were not paying attention, they directly lit a few explosive packets and threw them over.
Two were also thrown on the city wall.
The area near the city gate was cleared instantly.
Even if those soldiers were not dead, they were all lying on the ground wailing, and they could only watch helplessly as the thirty-six men of the Bao Guard opened the city gate and rode away.
When Cao Kang's troops arrived, they were too shocked to speak.
The inner wall of the city gate was actually covered in thick blood. How did it get like this?
Did the person just break into pieces?
"Get out of the way!"
"Open all the city gates quickly!"
"Lord Sima has an order to pursue the fugitive with all our strength!"
"hurry up!"
At this moment, a group of people from a distance galloped towards this side.
The leader shouted loudly.
The reinforcements at the city gate quickly pushed the half-open door completely open.
"Where did they go?"
The leader asked to several soldiers whose heads were covered with blood.
"No...I don't know..."
The heads of several soldiers are still buzzing. Who knows where they are fleeing to?
"waste!"
The leader whipped his horse whip onto several people.
"Follow me!"
With dozens of people behind him, he chased outside.
Before the soldiers guarding the city could react, another large group of people rushed over from behind. They also rushed outside without saying a word.
The soldiers at the city gate were so frightened that they fled in panic.
"Could it be that those people before were the assassins who assassinated the Prime Minister?"
"Oh my god, we actually let them escape..."
"We are going to die..."
Seeing this posture, the surviving soldiers who defended the city realized what the problem was, and their faces instantly turned pale...
…
In a woods dozens of miles east of the capital.
A group of people were sitting there and resting.
It was Zhang Bao and the women's kitchen knife brigade.
"Sir, it should be safe now. You can rest for a while, otherwise the horses won't be able to bear it."
A member of the women's kitchen knife brigade said to Zhang Bao.
Zhang Bao nodded.
"Okay, let everyone rest on the spot, and send a few people to guard two or three miles behind us. Once the situation is discovered, come back immediately!"
Zhang Bao said to the man.
Zhang Bao asked Baowei's thirty-six men to first enter the palace through the tunnel, set a fire in the emperor's residence with kerosene, and then go straight to the west city gate, which was the weakest in defense.
After clearing the area with explosives, they immediately rushed out and fled in all directions.
Zhang Bao and the women's kitchen knife brigade followed closely. Everyone, including Princess Yongtai, disguised herself as men and pretended to be the pursuers. They tied the little emperor Yang Mo with a sack and placed him on his horse, taking advantage of the chaos.
come out.
Under Cao Kang's order and Zhang Bao's whip, the city defenders had no time to take a closer look.
Zhang Bao and the others rushed out.
Along the road, the men of Baowei's Thirty-Six Cavalry deliberately left traces and fled all the way north, while Zhang Bao and the others made a circle and headed east.
Zhang Bao knew that once Cao Kang discovered that the little emperor was missing, he would immediately think of pursuing him north.
If Zhang Bao and the others took the young emperor and fled north directly, they would probably not be able to escape.
What's more, now that Shaanzhou and Taizhou have started a war, and Jeju is also ready to make a move, it is really too risky to pass through the war zone.
So Zhang Bao decided to go east into Huizhou first, then detour to Dongzhou and then return to Hezhou.
There hasn't been much movement in Huizhou recently, and Dongzhou still has the Zheng family and Zheng Shiqi who can use it. Although there are a lot of detours, it is safer after all.
"It's almost there. There is a town about thirty miles ahead. Let's go to the town first!"
"When the time comes, change your clothes and pretend to be a passing businessman!"
"Let's go!"
Zhang Bao did not dare to stay for a long time. After resting for a while, he led everyone to continue walking towards the east.
…
At this time, Zhao Gao and the others were already caught in the chase of Cao Kang's men.
Their mission this time, to put it bluntly, is to attract firepower, and then find a way to escape. The mission is divided into two stages. The first stage is to let those people know where they are and where they are running. The second stage,
It is to make yourself disappear.
Although it was a bit difficult to handle, they were members of the Thirty-sixth Cavalry of Baowei after all.
I really don’t take this task seriously.
Along the way, wherever it was difficult to walk, they walked wherever they could. Wherever people couldn't walk, they crawled in wherever they could.
With horseshoes and saddles, as well as superb riding skills, Baowei Thirty-Six Riders can be very fast even on some rugged mountain roads.
Even when there were few people chasing behind at the beginning, he could still turn around from time to time to counterattack or something.
If Zhao Gao hadn't yelled and ran away quickly, a few people would have wanted to take the opportunity to ambush and eat the hundreds of people behind.
But later on, more and more people were chasing him.
All they could do was hide their heads and run away.
At first, after Cao Kang's men chased them out of the city, they didn't know which direction they were pursuing.
After seeing the whereabouts of Zhao Gao and the others, they began to surround Zhao Gao and the others from all directions.
Zhao Gao and the others couldn't care less.
Once again, they broke into pieces and fled in all directions.
…
And just when the capital was in chaos.
The battle in Nanxiang County, Hezhou has also been fierce.
For Ma Yaohan, the feeling now is like a long-charged fist hitting cotton.
There are more than 100,000 people and horses, which are blocked in Nanxiang County. Recently, tens of thousands of people have been cutting down trees, moving rocks and digging soil.
Since I didn’t bring any handy tools, I had to use a large knife as a substitute.
I'm almost dead from exhaustion, and I'm still spending a lot of money on the knife.
Before the war even started, they had already lost a lot of weapons.
Since the beginning of summer, several consecutive heavy rains have caused water levels in rivers throughout Nanxiang County to skyrocket.
The reason why Hezhou is called Hezhou is because there are many water systems in the territory, and there are more and more water systems as you go south.
In the past, it would have been unthinkable to connect these rivers, but with the help of explosives and Lao He brand hot air balloons, it was impossible to think of it.
The entire Nanxiang County has turned into a water network.
at this time.
On both sides of a very wide river.
Wu Dayong's men and horses faced Ma Yaohan's men and horses across the river. After tens of thousands of people collectively felling trees, digging soil, and filling rocks, Ma Yaohan and the others finally arrived here with difficulty. But after arriving here, Ma Yaohan
Dumbfounded.
On the opposite side of the river is a row of trebuchets.