On the long street, Wang Baokun led a large group of soldiers, escorting more than a hundred stones of grain, and was slowly heading towards the east gate.
A total of ten large vehicles were lined up on the long street, with Wang Baokun himself walking at the front.
Suddenly, there was a sound of horse hoofbeats behind him, which made Wang Baokun feel nervous, fearing that the palace had sent someone to arrest him.
The sound of horse hooves gradually came closer and finally stopped behind him, which made Wang Baokun even more suspicious.
Are they really here to catch him? Wang Baokun's hand is already on the handle of the knife.
At this time, Wang Baokun heard someone behind him say: "Hey, Lao Wang... why is it your turn to escort the food? Don't you guys deserve a few days of rest?"
"Is it possible that you feel uncomfortable staying at home and want to go out of town to have fun?"
Wang Baokun stopped, turned around and said: "Old Zhang, do you think I don't take a rest? Old Zheng has something to do at home and asked me to help him with an errand. If you have nothing to do... why don't you go for him?"
Hearing this, the horseman and "Old Zhang" laughed twice, then waved their whips and walked away.
"I still have an errand to patrol the city, and I can't help you with this!"
Seeing the man named Zhang leaving, Wang Baokun breathed a sigh of relief and quickened his pace to catch up with the team.
They escorted the grain and fodder forward, and each step forward gave them more hope, until they turned the corner and saw the city gate in front of them.
Nowadays, under the new system in Yuanyang City, the east gate is allowed to go out but no one is allowed to enter, the west gate is allowed to go in but no one is allowed to go out, and the north and south gates are basically closed.
So if they want to leave the city, they can only leave through the east gate.
At the east gate at this moment, except for the soldiers guarding here, basically no one else left the city.
But even if you are escorting military rations out of the city, they must be inspected. Only those who pass this check can leave the city.
There are currently two hundred-household stations in Yuanyang City responsible for guarding the city gates, and each hundred-household station is responsible for guarding two city gates.
For example, the east gate and north gate are guarded by hundreds of households on duty today.
The north gate side is guarded by only one general flag as no one can enter or exit, while the east gate side is guarded by two general flags in rotation, and hundreds of households personally sit on the tower.
Wang Baokun looked forward carefully. He was looking to see who the general flag was on duty at the city gate today. It would be best if it was someone he knew well.
But when he saw the face leading the flag, he suddenly felt disappointed.
He knew this person, but unfortunately they were not familiar with each other. He only heard people say that this person was a bandit.
The grain transport trucks arrived at the city gate one after another, and then successfully entered the Wengcheng. Wang Baokun handed over the receipt for transporting grain.
Huang Tianyan took the certificate and read it carefully.
Recently, the palace is investigating the food shortage case, and hundreds of thousands of households above have issued strict orders that any food transport team leaving the city must be carefully inspected.
Without Huang Tianyan's additional instructions, his soldiers began to inspect and worked extremely seriously. They had been doing this for the past few days.
"Mr. Huang, why are you so cautious?" Wang Baokun said with a smile.
We are both under the same banner, so even if we have no friendship with each other, there is no problem in knowing each other's names.
"Mr. Wang Qi, the adults above have given strict orders, but I don't want to make things difficult for you!" Huang Tianyan looked businesslike.
Wang Baokun said no more, but kept holding the handle of the knife, and he was ready to break through.
After about five or six minutes, all inspections were finally completed, and the food was basically verified to be correct.
"Open the door..."
Following Huang Tianyan's order, the outer city gate slowly opened, and Wang Baokun saw the scene outside.
The hope of freedom and survival lies ahead, but at this time Wang Baokun must be stable, and he cannot be any different.
"Let's go!" Wang Baokun said solemnly.
Behind them, Huang Tianyan led his soldiers and watched Wang Baokun and his party gradually walk out.
This is the first batch of food to leave the city today, but I don’t know how much food is going to leave the city today.
In ten or twenty days, the busy spring plowing will be over, and then he won't have to work so hard.
At this moment, a small flag officer next to Huang Tianyan muttered: "Strange...how can they be more than forty people!"
"What's the meaning?"
"Sir, General Wang Qi is supposed to lead thirty-three of his men out of the city, but why are there more than ten more!"
Huang Tianyan also felt a little strange, so he said to his subordinate: "Go over and ask!"
"yes!"
Soon, the little flag officer caught up with Wang Baokun and asked: "Mr. Wang Qi, we, Mr. Huang, asked us, why do you want to take more than a dozen people out of the city?"
Why bring more troops? Because Wang Baokun could not reduce the number of troops originally sent abroad. To do so, he needed to report to Baihu with legitimate reasons.
Wang Baokun had no legitimate reason, so he could only increase it temporarily.
"In order to transport food safely, we brought in more manpower. After all, things are not peaceful now!" Wang Baokun said with a smile.
This is a relatively reasonable explanation. Now Wang Baokun just hopes that the little flag in front of him will get out of here.
Fortunately, everything went as he expected. The flag officer returned after getting the answer, and Wang Baokun was able to continue leaving the city.
Soon, their team walked out of the outer city gate and only had to walk about twenty feet further before crossing the moat via the suspension bridge.
Li Lin quickened his pace, and then was pulled by Wang Baokun. At this moment, he had to stay calm.
"Huangdu turned around and walked back, why are you so anxious?" Wang Baokun scolded in a low voice.
Li Lin then slowed down. At this time, he already admired his superior.
At this time, the harsh sound of horse hooves sounded again on the long street inside the east gate.
Huang Tianyan walked into the inner city gate and heard the knight on horseback ask loudly: "Did anyone leave the city gate just now?"
Seeing that this person was an eunuch from the palace, Huang Tianyan immediately replied: "There is a group of people transporting food out of the city!"
"Who is leading the team?"
"General Flag Wang Baokun!"
"Okay, this guy is so slippery that he actually escaped from the city!" Qian Zhong said fiercely.
Just listen to him continue to say: "Wang Baokun is afraid of crime and absconded. You should bring someone to capture him immediately!"
"this……"
Qian Zhong said sternly: "If you don't go and let Wang Baokun go, you will also be guilty!"
This damn eunuch can't afford to offend him, so just obey him and stop Wang Baokun first.
"Did you hear that? Go ask Mr. Wang to stop. My father-in-law has something to ask him!"
Huang Tianyan did not order Wang Baokun to be arrested, but asked his men to stop him and let the eunuch talk about it when the time came.
The little flag officer just now returned again and shouted loudly: "General Wang, stop the flag, there is a father-in-law who wants to ask you something!"
This sentence could ruin things. As soon as he heard that a eunuch was looking for him, Wang Baokun knew that the matter was likely to be exposed.
At this time, there is no way to play calm anymore.
"escape……"
After the words fell, Wang Baokun was the first to rush out, and Li Lin and the other ten people also rushed out quickly.
As for the soldiers of General Zheng's banner, they were all stunned on the spot at this moment, completely unaware of what was going on.
Inside the Wengcheng, Huang Tianyan knew something was wrong when he heard the word "escape" outside. There was indeed something wrong with Wang Baokun.
"You idiots, if you don't hurry up and take someone away, if that man named Wang escapes, Eunuch Lin will not spare you!"
At this time, Huang Tianyan yelled: "Leave ten people, and the others will follow me to arrest them!"
