"No, Young Master Shen," Vice Admiral Lin said sternly, "You don't need to argue with me about these things now. We are already on the same boat. We can say whatever we want, just to survive. You have said many offenses before. It’s a small matter, so don’t argue with me anymore.”
"I don't care," Shen Lie looked at him, "Any decision in the world has risks, and this is the Ji family's business and has nothing to do with me. I don't want to cause more trouble to myself. I said it when I was walking on the left Okay, I will only contribute. If there are enemies, I will help kill them. If you want to retreat, I will help break up the rear. Other than that, I don’t want to interfere with any other decisions."
"What if the Ji family died because of their own improper decision?" Lieutenant General Lin was a little angry, "Look at how shrinking they are now! With this look, sooner or later they will be picked up, taken away, and stabbed at the food market. Cut it down and kill the chicken to scare the monkeys?!"
"That's their own business," Shen Lie said, "it has nothing to do with me."
"Are you going to die with them?" Vice General Lin said angrily.
"If danger is imminent and there is no way to save it, I will take my people and leave," Shen Lie replied. "They will bear the consequences of their decisions. I have tried my best to protect them."
"You!" Vice General Lin didn't know how to reply.
The young man's dark eyes were always calm. The wind and rain behind him came from the far end of the earth and hit him, but he stood upright without wavering at all.
"Is Ji Xiahe your good friend?!" Vice General Lin shouted.
"But Ji's family is not."
"You don't even care about your own friends' families?!"
"Don't I want to protect them?"
"Now you can completely save them from danger, but you don't care?"
Shen Lie suddenly smiled and looked at Vice General Lin: "Guo Yu wants you to find an opportunity to deal with me after you leave Songzhou. Even if you can't kill me, you will make me crippled. In this case, I don't know if Guo Yu has Have you not told anyone in the Ji family?"
Vice General Lin paused, frowned angrily, and stared at Shen Lie.
"Vice General Lin accused me, how could a human being not even save his friend's family? I would also like to ask Vice General Lin, how could a human being murder and kill the people who helped protect him?" Shen Lie said again.
A murderous look flashed in Vice General Lin's eyes, and the hand holding the reins quietly moved towards the saber on his waist.
At this moment, the sound of the scout's horse hooves came from behind, and a group of five people galloped back in the heavy rain.
"Lieutenant General!" A scout shouted loudly when he saw them, "Lieutenant General, there is an army three miles behind!"
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The sky was roaring with angry rain, blowing across the mountains and plains. Shen Lie and Vice General Lin rode horses to a cliff halfway up the mountain. Their vision in the distance was blurry, but it did not prevent them from clearly seeing the soldiers covering the entire horizon.
The sky was full of wind and rain, and the gray skylight shone on those silver armors. Tens of thousands of people walked in order and acted in the same way, as if they were lifeless, silent and quiet.
It wasn't for them, it was probably going to Guyan Town, but the route they chose was very close to the mountains where they were.
"General Zhu Lang said before that Emperor Tianding would send troops to Mouye after the Qingming Festival," Vice General Lin said. "If Mouye is not opened up, the Jiannan area will always be divided."
"We are going to be discovered." Shen Lie said, looking at the scouts running in all directions, some going back and some going out.
This is Song Zhiyi's territory. The fact that he still sends so many scouts to his territory may be related to the Ji family's escape.
Although it is windy and rainy now, the traces of their long march will not be eliminated so quickly. As long as a team of scouts rush this way, they will definitely be discovered.
"Let's go!" Vice General Lin turned around immediately, "Let's catch up, the faster the better."
Ji Xiahe and the few scouts were coming towards them. When he saw them coming down, Ji Xiahe stopped and waited for the others.
When Lieutenant General Lin saw him, he suddenly reined in his horse and stopped. He turned to look at Shen Lie and said coldly: "What is your plan in your heart?"
"What's the plan?" Shen Lie asked back.
"You know that Guo Yu wants to do something bad to you, but you still want to come here?" Vice General Lin stared at Shen Lie closely, "You don't want to do anything detrimental to the Ji family?"
"The biggest disadvantage to the Ji family is to just ignore them and let them stay in Guangzhui. I can just watch Song Zhiyi deal with them elsewhere. Why bother myself by traveling across mountains and rivers?" Shen Lie said.
Vice General Lin frowned and nodded: "Okay, I believe you. Don't worry, Guo Yu and I have no friendship at all. I can treat everything he says as fart. As long as you try your best to help the Ji family these days, I can respond." Come and help you deal with Guo Yu."
Shen Lie glanced at him, said nothing, and drove his horse towards Ji Xiahe.
Ji Xiahe didn't know what they said, and looked at Shen Lie with questioning eyes.
"The army is coming," Shen Lie did not slow down his horse as he passed by, "We have to move quickly."
When Ji Xiahe heard this, his hand holding the reins trembled and he hurriedly followed him.
The scouts who had come to report that they had discovered a large army behind them had been sent back by Vice General Lin to report the situation to several principals of the Ji family.
As a result, the team was much faster than before. Shen Lie and the others rode their horses until they reached the intersection of a deserted ancestral hall before catching up with them.
Ji Zhongchuan was at the back of the team, waiting specifically for Vice General Lin and Shen Lie.
As soon as he saw their figures, Ji Zhongchuan hurriedly rode up to meet them, repeatedly asking how urgent the situation behind them was.
Vice President Lin had long lost his patience with the Ji family and said coldly: "Now I know it's an emergency, the fire has already burned to my buttocks!"
After saying that, his mount ran forward and at the same time he ordered his troops to assemble.
The Ji family members suddenly panicked, and the team slowly stopped. Everyone looked at Vice General Lin in confusion.
The number of people brought by Vice General Lin was about 300, the Xiong brothers had less than 100, and the Ji family had even fewer people to support. Due to several decrees issued by Song Zhiyi last year, a family like theirs could not support more than five people. ten people.
It's true that there was no secret, but I was in such a hurry on this trip that I didn't have the chance to call inside the village outside the city.
Lieutenant General Lin knew that the Ji family was greedy for life and feared death. Now he was pressed for time and did not want to cause trouble, so he was too lazy to touch the fifty people of the Ji family. He organized his three hundred people and the ten people of the Xiong family into three teams and one team. Three hundred and twenty people followed him to the front for reconnaissance, clearing the obstacles first, leaving two teams. One team was with the 50 people from the Ji family, responsible for protecting the long team, and the other team continued to serve as scouts.
Ji Zhongchuan saw that he had already issued the order without consulting him, and he was quite unhappy. Especially when he heard that Vice General Lin and the Xiong brothers were going to lead troops and horses to leave first, he became even more panicked and pulled Vice General Lin: "You must not do this." !We have no experience in leading troops, but you do. Once you leave, what will happen to the rest of us?"
