The guards at Du'ankou suffered heavy casualties, but less than a hundred people escaped from this hell on earth.
Fires broke out one after another in the barracks. Xiong Kai led his men to rob the grain depot and burned all the remaining food that could not be taken away.
Hearing that the Ji family's men were coming from behind, Xiong Kai didn't want to wait for them. He went straight forward with his men and asked the Ji family to follow behind. At the same time, he sent someone to find Deputy Lieutenant Lin to come forward.
The soldiers and horses of the Ji family ran all the way, and the road was opened to allow them to pass unimpeded. When they entered Du'ankou, they saw piles of corpses in a sea of fire.
Shen Lie and Dai Yu were waiting on the road, watching the soldiers and horses of the Ji family approaching.
Ji Xiahe stood beside them on horseback. His hands were still shaking and his sleeves were covered in blood.
Just then he mustered up the courage to slash at five soldiers with his knife, killing three and seriously injuring one. The other was so frightened that his legs went weak, he crawled and ran, and was killed directly by a passing cavalry.
It's not that he has never killed someone before. He was a hero when he was young, and he drew a sword when he saw injustice on the road, but he has never killed someone in the way he does now.
When people from the Ji family approached, they were the first to see them, and their expressions changed.
Especially Ji Zhongchuan, his hands trembled when he touched Shen Lie's eyes.
Ji Xia and Paima walked over and called, "Second uncle!"
"Something happened," Ji Zhongchuan said with difficulty, "We were overtaken by someone, let's talk as we walk."
Ji Xiahe frowned and saw that many of them had blood on their bodies, especially their pants and boots.
Ji Xiahe immediately raised his head and looked at the carriage behind him: "Where is my mother!"
"She's fine." Ji Zhongchuan said.
Ji Xiahe breathed a sigh of relief: "I'm going to find my mother!"
He spoke to Shen Lie and Dai Yu, and then went to find Sun.
"Hurry up!" Ji Zhongchuan turned around and shouted, "It's almost dawn! Hurry up, everyone!"
After saying that, he hit the horse's butt and increased his speed.
When passing by Shen Lie, Ji Zhongchuan felt guilty and dared not see him, but he couldn't help but look at him and said, "Good nephew."
The young man had a cold face and a pair of beautiful black eyes looked at him meaningfully.
Ji Zhongchuan withdrew his gaze, raised his whip and shouted again: "Drive!"
The men of the Ji family passed by in a hurry, and no one dared to say anything.
Only when Ji Wenhuai's carriage passed by, his old hands lifted the curtain and looked at the tall young man riding on the horse by the roadside.
Shen Lie glanced at him and then looked behind him.
Ji Wenhuai wanted to say something, but seeing this look, he thought about it and decided to leave it at that.
Xiong Kaide was walking on the other side of Ji Wenhuai's carriage. He was about to rush after Xiong Kaijing. When he saw Shen Lie, he tightened his grip on the axe. He was disgusted with the young man.
The crowd ran by at a very fast speed, and towards the end, the number of carriages became visibly reduced.
Shen Lie looked at them, his mood getting darker a little bit.
There were two or three Ji family members following at the back of the crowd, and no one dared to speak if they caught Shen Lie's gaze.
Dai Yu looked at Shen Lie and whispered: "Something happened to Du Xuan."
"She should still be alive," Shen Lie said in a difficult voice. "If something happens, they will be calm and make up whatever they want."
"Du Xuan ran away?"
"It should be." Shen Lie said, but that was a bad thing.
He lowered his head slightly and looked at the ground in front of him, feeling a refreshing chill in his heart.
"It's my fault," Shen Lie added, "I had a vague guess that something would happen to him, but I still left him here alone."
"I'm going to go find Ji Zhongchuan and find out!" Dai Yu said angrily, "Our people disappeared from his place for no reason. He didn't even say a word. If he dares not to say anything, I'll twist his head!"
After saying that, Dai Yu turned his horse's head and wanted to chase him forward.
"Don't talk to him, he won't tell you directly," Shen Lie stopped him, "Go and call Ji Xiahe back. I'll go find someone behind to ask about Du Xuan's situation. We don't have much time!"
Dai Yu didn't ask much why and nodded: "Yes!"
The carriage in front was running very fast, and the entire team had already left Andu Port.
When Dai Yu caught up with Ji Xiahe, he was in Sun's carriage, pulling Sun to ask questions.
Mrs. Sun couldn't answer anything, and she didn't dare to answer at all. She just covered her face with a scarf, turned her head to the other side, and cried softly.
Ji Xiahe was furious, but didn't know what to do, so he kept calling his mother.
Dai Yu caught up and called him, and Ji Zhongchuan and others in front also heard it.
Ji Mingyou looked pale, and while galloping, he looked at Ji Zhongchuan: "Second brother, don't we do anything?"
"There are pursuers behind us, so how dare we waste time?" Ji Zhongchuan said.
And what happened will be known sooner or later. Now there is only a window paper. How long can it last before it is broken? Apart from that, what else can be done.
In contrast, Ji Zhongchuan was actually more worried about Xiong Kaijing.
Xiong Kaide was shocked by the girl with superb skills, so he didn't attack all the way. However, Xiong Kaide is a famously reckless man, and he has never seen the girl's skills. Maybe after knowing what happened, he will ignore it and ignore it. This disaster is blamed on them and they come here to cause trouble.
There are also those Lieutenant Lin's subordinates who opened the way. These soldiers dared to follow Lieutenant Lin and leave Guangzhui and rebel against Emperor Tianding. Their loyalty to Lieutenant Lin is obvious. What Ji Zhongchuan is most afraid of now is their rebellion. water.
Therefore, after all kinds of weighing and pulling, Ji Zhongchuan was now sometimes happy and sometimes worried about the pursuers behind him.
I hope they can pursue them quickly and create a sense of oppression so that Xiong Kaijing and the soldiers don't have time to settle things with them. At the same time, they are afraid of being caught by the pursuers, and they might just drag them to Lingchi.
His mood was really complicated.
The carriage behind was jolting violently, and Dai Yu called Ji Xiahe outside.
Ji Xiahe was sitting in the carriage, feeling even more irritable and about to lose his patience with the crying Sun.
But Sun didn't say anything. Using the wind light outside the carriage, Ji Xiahe saw blood in the carriage and traces of fingers scratching on the wood.
In fact, after getting on the carriage and seeing that only Sun was sitting alone in the carriage, Ji Xiahe vaguely guessed that others might have been killed.
But what makes him find it incredible is that all his cousins are there, and they don't look messy at all. If the pursuers did it, shouldn't these men be the first to die?
Dai Yu urged him again and again outside, and Ji Xiahe pulled Sun's arm: "Forget it! You can talk or talk, but I won't listen! I'm leaving now!"
He raised his hand to open the car curtain and shouted: "Stop!"
The carriage behind was equally fast. The driver took the carriage to the side of the road, reined in the horse and stopped.
Ji Xiahe got off the carriage and took the horse from the servant next to him. Suddenly he felt something was wrong. He raised his head and looked at Mrs. Sun in the carriage, widened his eyes and said, "Could it be that..."
Mrs. Sun hurriedly waved her hands and burst into tears.
Ji Xiahe's heart sank, and he suddenly understood everything.
At the same time, the sound of horse hoofbeats came from the front, accompanied by Xiong Kaijing's roar: "Where is Shen Lie!"
