The Jagged Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 87 Out of the City
Liu Chan and his party took the north gate of Jianye City, because there is a Yangtze River Wharf to the north.

As soon as they arrived at the north gate, they saw that in the dark night, only some pine oil torches were burning on the city wall, making crackling sounds, and the flames jumping in the breeze emitted a dim yellow light.

Under the city is a black lacquered iron gate that is tightly closed, and the huge iron gates span across it, which makes people feel a little oppressive.

In fact, according to the universally adopted regulations in the north and south, every city will close its gates as soon as it is dark, prohibiting residents from freely entering and leaving.Therefore, unless there is a special pass, it is impossible for the soldiers guarding the city to open the door for you at this time.But Liu Chan seemed quite calm, and reached out to touch the bronze medal in his waist.

Before Liu Chan's troops approached the city gate, the city guards might have stayed up late, yawned and shouted with a stinky face: "Now the city gate is closed, you can no longer leave the city, leave quickly!"

As Liu Chan, of course he didn't need to negotiate with a few small city guards.So, he immediately got out of the carriage without making a sound, let alone looking at the soldier, just took out the bronze medal and threw it to a guard, asking him to take it to the soldier who spoke.

Seeing Liu Chan's haughty expression, the soldier had already begun to guess Liu Chan's identity. He was probably the son of a famous family, so he didn't dare to act presumptuously.

When he respectfully took the bronze medal from the guard's hand and looked at it, he found the bronze medal of the gatekeeper of the city, and immediately squeezed out a smile on his face: "Please wait here, young master, and the younger one will ask for instructions first." Then he turned and ran towards a gatehouse above the city wall.

Soon, behind the soldier came a general in armor, but still a bit sleepy, obviously just woke up.The general stepped forward and respectfully returned the bronze medal to a guard, and saluted: "I don't know that the young master is going out of the city, but Du also came late to welcome you. Please forgive me, young master."

Liu Chan secretly laughed, this Du Yi didn't know who he was at all, but he respected him so much just seeing a bronze medal, this person might be an old stick.However, such a person is also the most fearful, and he should not be treated too well by others.

Therefore, Liu Chan followed suit and said impatiently on purpose: "Since my son is about to leave the city, you should open the city gate as soon as possible, and you will only delay things here!"

Du Yi really didn't understand Liu Chan's identity and where he came from for being so powerful, so he panicked.He immediately ordered the soldiers to rush forward and unload the iron bar weighing a hundred catties together.

Immediately, the city gate made a loud noise, and was pushed open. It was dark, like a giant beast opening its two huge front teeth.

Liu Chan was overjoyed, and ignored Du Yi, and after a cold snort, he ordered the team to leave the city, leaving Du Yi alone, still feeling extremely puzzled.He really couldn't think of where he offended that young master?Don't lose your job because of it.So, he immediately gathered a group of soldiers and asked them one by one if they had offended Liu Chan just now.

After all the horses had left the city gate, Liu Chan re-entered the carriage.But he found that Ou Yechang had woken up and was staring at him.Looking at Ouye's normal state, after this short period of rest, his complexion and spirit seemed a little better.

Liu Chan then asked Ou Ye, "Mr. Ou Ye, you are a local. Are there any remote villages nearby?"

Ou Yechang wondered: "Young Master Yang, why do you want to find a village? If you are afraid that my injury will hinder your schedule and you want to keep me, then there is no need. I will just get off the car now."

Of course, Liu Chan couldn't mean that, so he asked Ou Yechang to lie down again, and explained: "Sir, you misunderstood. Although we killed Bu Chan, leaving Jianye now is the right way. But with the influence of Bu Lianshi, I'm afraid we Leave the front foot, and the officers and soldiers will stop us from behind."

"How about that?"

Liu Chan smiled confidently and said: "The so-called 'you can't get a tiger's cub if you don't enter the tiger's lair', 'the most dangerous place is actually the safest place', I will let most of the guards leave to distract Wu Jun's attention, I took my husband and a few people to live in seclusion near Jianye for a few days. After the limelight passes, we will leave here together. This way, it will be safer."

Ou Yechang exclaimed in a low voice, sighing to himself how this Mr. Yang acted so boldly!Although these rangers of the rivers and lakes are used to seeing life and death, it is really rare for them to be as bold as Yang Huang.

The dim light of the oil lamp in the carriage reflected on Liu Chan's fair face, turning the originally rosy complexion into ginger yellow, but it could not conceal his determination and confidence.

But the slightly pungent smell from the flame of the oil lamp made Ou Yechang cough in a low voice, and said, "Isn't this too dangerous?"

Liu Chan was careful, so he stretched out his hand to hang up the car curtain to make the interior of the car more ventilated, and said, "Danger is inevitable. As long as we stay in Soochow, there will be danger everywhere. Don't worry, sir."

Ou Ye often felt that what Liu Chan said was really reasonable, so he didn't ask any further questions, anyway, he would just die in the end anyway.He said: "There are several forks in the road three or four miles ahead, and I will guide the way for you then."

Liu Chan nodded, called Zhao Feng who was at the front of the team, and told him that Ou Ye was waking up and that he didn't intend to leave Jianye.Then let him distribute the troops, leaving only about ten people around him.

Zhao Feng was shocked and said: "Young master, why did you change your mind at the last moment? It's too hasty? Didn't you already agree with Mr. Zhuge Qiao to go to Dantu?"

Zhao Feng was so anxious that he couldn't help asking Liu Chan two questions.Liu Chan didn't care about it, and said: "I told Zhuge Qiao that way at the time because I was afraid that he would be careless and people would find out my whereabouts. After all, there are too many smart people in this world, and I really had to. Actually, I have other calculations in my heart, you just do what I tell you first."

Zhao Feng didn't expect that the young master even Zhuge Qiao had been fooled, so he had to go to work, and soon after allocating the manpower, he came back to ask Liu Chan for instructions.

Liu Chan asked Zhao Feng to let the forty guards go to the pier as quickly as possible, rent a big boat by himself and go north, then turn back and go south to Qu'a to go ashore, and then go to Ganlu Temple to join him.Zhao Feng and the remaining ten guards stayed behind to protect themselves.

Zhao Feng asked: "It's the middle of the night, and we are fully armed. If the boat owner dare not rent it to us, what should we do?"

Liu Chan rolled Zhao Feng's eyes and said: "This is not Jingzhou, what are you hesitating about, you can't write, so you have to use force! Tell them, don't wait for us to pass, you must leave this place as quickly as possible!"

Then, Liu Chan asked Ou Ye to get out of the carriage and let him ride a horse.

Ou Yechang's body is still very weak, and he is not suitable for traveling, let alone riding a horse.Liu Chan apologized: "In order to deceive people, I have to work so hard, sir."

Ou Yechang didn't say anything, but said confidently: "Everything is according to Mr. Yang's orders. Ou Yechang's body has been in the wind and rain for decades, and he is not so delicate." Straighten your body upright.It can be seen that he does not dislike Liu Chan's approach.

So, Zhao Feng immediately sent the forty guards to leave first.Soon, the sound of galloping horseshoes came and went, and then gradually went away and disappeared without a trace, as if they had been melted by the thick night.

Only then did Liu Chan order the rest of the team to set off, and he found Zhao Feng again, and ordered: "You are an expert in warfare, you can find an easy place to ambush along the way, and then tell me."

Zhao Feng asked again with some puzzlement: "My lord, what are you using it for?"

"Naturally cut off the tail at the back."

"But no one is following us now."

"Whether others will follow us, I don't know. But Zhuge Ke absolutely has to guard against him. I don't think he will let us go so easily, at least when it comes to the Baihong sword!"

"But Mr. Zhuge Ke just helped us!"

Liu Chan smiled slightly and said: "It is true that I accepted his love, so I was able to leave Jianye City so easily, but it does not mean that his love is sincere. I have never met him, but he is so enthusiastic, and Giving tokens without hesitation really makes one have to doubt their motives.”

Zhao Feng nodded, already understood the meaning of Liu Chan's words.

After the men and horses walked for a while, Zhao Feng finally chose an ambush location in a roadside forest.

Liu Chan didn't know much about this. If Deng Ai was here, it would be most appropriate to entrust this task to him. After all, he is an expert in geography.But the current situation is that Zhao Feng is more experienced than Liu Chan in fighting, so since Zhao Feng has already selected the location, Liu Chan certainly respects his opinion.

But Liu Chan didn't want to follow Zhao Feng to lay an ambush here, and ordered: "Zhao Feng, you stay here with six people. If you find someone sneaking out of the city, you must arrest them and interrogate them. I want to fight with Ou. Mr. Ye is one step ahead, we will leave a mark for you along the way, and you will come over in two hours."

Zhao Feng looked up at the sky, and after two hours, it was already bright, so he replied, "I will obey your master's order!"

As he said that, he was about to turn around to allocate manpower, but was stopped by Liu Chan, who only told him that he was injured now, so if it was not necessary, he should not end up fighting with others, and just leave it to his men to deal with it.

Zhao Feng nodded, smiled honestly, said goodbye to Ou Yechang, then turned and left.Only then did Liu Chan, Ou Yechang and the remaining four guards slowly move on.

When they came to the forked road that Ou Yechang said, Liu Chan discovered that there were actually four forked roads, one of which had many horseshoe marks, which should have been left by the forty silver-armored guards' mounts.Liu Chan then asked Ou Yechang, "Sir, which path should we take now?"

Ou Ye often pointed to the southernmost one and said, "Take this road forty miles and there will be a reed marsh. There are some fishermen who know me well. We can hide there for a few days."

Liu Chan was overjoyed and said, "It's so good!"

But he looked at the horseshoe marks on the ground again, and secretly thought that Shi Hui should be brought out on this trip. With their ninja skills, is it still easy to remove these marks?So, now he can only ask Ou Yechang for advice, after all, as a ranger, he may not be able to do these things.

Ou Yechang was really good at it, first he praised Liu Chan's carefulness, and then pointed out the four guards how to remove the traces, and at the same time guided everyone to walk slowly towards the fishermen in the reed marsh.

(End of this chapter)