"Besides, they can even mobilize their troops, so how do we know if they have any back-ups? If they deployed manpower on the way here, wouldn't it be a trap for the princess to leave here? At present, all our strength is here

It’s safest to have the princess follow us!”

"That's all. Let the princess get off the carriage first!" Long Zhuang said helplessly.

Lu Xiaoxian helped Li Chiying and Jiang Xiaotong out of the carriage and took them to Wei Xianyun's side.

"Mr. Wei, what should we do next?" Lu Xiaoxian asked.

"I don't know!" Wei Xianyun shook his head and said, "We can only take one step and see what happens."

While they were talking, Yuan Zhen had rearranged his cavalry formation and launched another attack.

However, this time they did not attack as quickly as before, but slowly approached step by step. The chaotic sound of horse hooves hit everyone's heart, making people breathless and depressing.

At a distance of about fifty steps, the cavalry stopped.

Lu Xiaoxian rolled his eyes and shouted loudly at the soldiers: "Princess Yuzhen was personally canonized by His Majesty. You are the army of the Tang Dynasty. Attacking the princess is treason. According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, the following criminals will be punished by the Nine Tribes

!If you can find your way back, I promise to pardon your death penalty!"

Lu Xiaoxian's words caused the sergeant on the opposite side to immediately become commotion!

Wei Xianyun couldn't help but give Lu Xiaoxian a thumbs up. The person who mobilized the troops had different intentions, but the ordinary sergeants may not know it. Lu Xiaoxian took the firewood and destroyed the opponent's military morale with just a few words.

"Don't listen to them, the princess is a fake!" Yuan Zhen shouted, "Military orders are like mountains, and those who resist the orders will be beheaded on the spot."

The soldiers suddenly became quiet, and it was obvious that Yuan Zhen usually had strict military discipline.

Yuan Zhen waved his hand, and several columns of cavalry behind him dismounted, passed through the gap between the cavalry in the front row, and knelt on the ground with one leg in front of the cavalry.

Wei Xianyun couldn't help but gasped when he saw the weapons in these people's hands: they were holding cavalry crossbows.

The crossbow is the standard weapon of the Tang Dynasty army, and there are crossbowmen among the infantry. Compared with bows and arrows, strong crossbows have time to aim calmly, and can shoot far and accurately, so the cavalry and crossbowmen cooperate in combat and are more powerful. Because the crossbow is more stringed

It is laborious and time-consuming. Cavalry generally do not use strong crossbows on horseback, but cavalry crossbows.

Although the cavalry crossbow is not as powerful as the strong crossbow, it is more than enough to deal with flesh and blood like them.

"Get down!" Wei Xianyun shouted.

As soon as Wei Xianyun finished speaking, the crossbow arrows roared towards him with the sound of wind.

The crossbow arrows used iron as arrows, and the arrows were eight inches long. Ten arrows were fired from one crossbow. It was indeed astonishingly powerful. Several slow-moving people were immediately penetrated by the crossbow arrows and were instantly killed.

Everyone, including Li Chiying and Jiang Xiaotong, lay on the ground.

Yuan Zhen gave an order, and the men holding crossbows stood up again and led the cavalry forward.

Under the suppression of the opponent's repeated crossbows, the escort team could not move at all. Seeing the opponent getting closer and closer, Lu Xiaoxian became anxious and turned to look at Wei Xianyun.

Although Wei Xianyun and Ye were lying on the ground, he was not as embarrassed as them and looked very calm.

Does he have any countermeasures?

Lu Xiaoxian couldn't help but have a doubt in his heart.

At a distance of more than twenty steps, several black spots suddenly flew towards the sergeants.

"Boom" followed by several loud noises, suddenly smoke and dust flew everywhere, blocking everyone's sight.

When the smoke and dust cleared, two of the crossbow-wielding sergeants fell to the ground and howled loudly, while the others, with their faces swarthy, stood there stupidly at a loss. The cavalry horses were also frightened, and their formation was chaotic.

Make a group.

Is it a grenade?

This was Lu Xiaoxian's first reaction.

If it were in later generations, this would still be possible, but this was the Tang Dynasty more than a thousand years ago. How could there be grenades?

"What is this?" Lu Xiaoxian asked with a surprised look on his face.

Long Zhuang was well-informed and he replied: "If I guessed correctly, this should be the unique firearm of the Jiangnan Lei family, the Thunderbolt! This is my first time seeing it, and I didn't expect it to be so powerful!"

Wei Xianyun smiled slightly: "Director Long has good eyesight, and he is indeed the thunderbolt son of the Lei family."

Lu Xiaoxian stuck out his tongue: "No wonder Mr. Wei is not in a hurry, it turns out there is such a powerful killer weapon!"

Yuan Zhen was also shocked. Seeing that these people had become turtles in the urn, something suddenly changed.

He hurriedly ordered the cavalry to retreat, and they stopped about fifty steps away. The two sides once again formed a confrontation.

A strange scene appeared in the valley: a man on one side was lying motionless on the ground. A man on the other side was holding a crossbow and riding a horse, also motionless.

It can be seen that Yuan Zhen's cavalry is very afraid of Pilizi.

Lu Xiaoxian asked strangely: "Mr. Wei, since you have a thunderbolt in your hand, why don't you rush up and blow them up, and why are you still lying here?"

Wei Xianyun smiled bitterly and said: "This thunderbolt is extremely difficult to make. Even the Thunderbolt Hall of Lei Family in Jiangnan doesn't have many. There are only three left now!"

"Ah?" Lu Xiaoxian was dumbfounded upon hearing this.

"Mr. Wei, they are taking action again!" Long Zhuang whispered.

Wei Xianyun looked forward and couldn't help but groan secretly.

The soldiers holding the crossbows were divided into two, one held the crossbow in place, and the other moved away like a mantou mountain.

The opponent's intention is obvious, to occupy the commanding heights and then launch a crossbow at them.

If they really wanted to climb Mantou Mountain, the people lying here would have no choice but to die. Wei Xianyun originally wanted to send someone to stop them, but was suppressed by the repeated crossbows in front of him and could not move even half a minute, so he could only panic.

At this moment, more than twenty sturdy men suddenly appeared from behind the cavalry and launched a sudden attack on the cavalry on horseback.

The cavalry focused all their attention on the front. They did not expect to be attacked from behind, and they were immediately in chaos.

Yuan Zhen saw this and was about to give orders, but stopped when a sword was pressed against his throat.

"Order them to disarm!" The person who spoke was as cold as the sword in his hand.

"Impossible!" Yuan Zhen's words were equally cold.

"Really?" The long sword pierced Yuan Zhen's throat without hesitation.

The man cut off Yuan Zhen's head, held it in his hand and shouted to the sergeants: "I am Leng Qing, the chief arrester of the Criminal Department. Yuan Zhen has been executed for treason. If there are any more resisters, they will be treated as treason!"

The sergeants looked at Leng Qing blankly.

Finally, the first person put down his weapon, then the second, then the third...

…

"Brother Leng, why are you here? Did you fall from the sky?" Lu Xiaoxian said in surprise, holding Leng Qing's hand.

"Of course Mr. Leng's arrest did not fall from the sky!" Wei Xianyun said with a smile: "He has been secretly protecting the princess all the way out of Chang'an!"

"Nothing can be hidden from Mr. Wei's discernment!" Leng Qing hugged Wei Xianyun, and then said to Lu Xiaoxian, "The day before Princess Yuzhen set off, the Prime Minister invited me to come over and asked me to protect the princess along the way.

Therefore, I brought a group of subordinates to follow you secretly."

"Mr. Leng, do you mean to say that my father already knew that I was going to Luzhou before departure?" Li Chiying was very surprised.

Leng Qing nodded.

This was strange. Li Chiying couldn't figure it out. Based on her understanding of her father, if he knew about it, he would never allow her to sneak away to Luzhou.

"Third Junior Brother, why didn't you show up earlier? You made me anxious all the way!" Long Zhuang couldn't help complaining.

"I have few people, so I can't fight head-on. I can only wait for the best opportunity to succeed with one blow." Leng Qing apologized, "Senior Brother, I'm sorry!"

"Okay, this matter is in the past, don't mention it anymore!" Wei Xianyun looked at Leng Qing: "Have you asked those soldiers? What happened?"

Leng Qing nodded: "After asking, Yuan Zhen secretly mobilized his troops to ambush you, and the soldiers didn't even know about it!"

"So Yuan Zhen is the only one of them!" Wei Xianyun sighed: "If these people really control the army, the consequences will be serious."

Leng Qing agreed: "Because the soldiers didn't know about it, I arranged for them to be sent back to Zhechong Mansion in Luzhou."

"Mr. Wei, Mr. Leng is here to arrest Mr. Leng. Let's hurry up and get on our way!" Li Chiying urged.

"Princess!" Wei Xianyun said carefully, "I have an unkind request!"

"Say it!"

"I hope the princess will not go to Luzhou City and return to Chang'an!" Wei Xianyun expressed his thoughts.

"What did you say?" Li Chiying thought she heard wrongly.

"I hope the princess will give up her trip to Luzhou and return to Chang'an now!" Wei Xianyun repeated again.

After hearing Wei Xianyun's words, Li Chiying almost jumped up. Regardless of her own image, she yelled at Wei Xianyun, "No, absolutely not!"

What a joke, Li Chiying endured so much hardship in order to go to Luzhou, and almost lost her life. Now that Luzhou city is very close, Wei Xianyun wants her to return to Chang'an, how could Li Chiying agree?

Wei Xianyun didn't speak, just stared at Li Chiying quietly.

Li Chiying felt uncomfortable being stared at. If Wei Xianyun hadn't been along the way, she might have been kidnapped by those people long ago.

Li Chiying knew that she was a little out of sorts, so she softened her tone and said, "Mr. Wei, you have to give me a reason!"

Wei Xianyun frowned and said: "We have been attacked countless times along the way, but we have dealt with them all. Does the princess know the reason?"

"Of course it's all Mr. Wei, you have good arrangements!"

"No!" Mr. Wei shook his head: "On the one hand, we were well prepared and brought a lot of manpower. On the other hand, we did not stop in crowded places along the way, so it was relatively easy to take precautions. But now the situation is different.

Our manpower is exhausted, and the people in Luzhou City are multi-minded. We don’t know what other methods the other side will use. With our current strength, we will definitely not be able to cope with it. For the safety of the princess, I hope the princess can listen to my arrangements!

"

The battle along the way made Wei Xianyun realize that it was impossible to find out who was behind the mysterious power.
Chapter completed!