OBS Chapter 236: In His Mouth, the Living Become Dead
Chapter 236: In His Mouth, the Living Become Dead
Zhou Yichen's gaze swept across the others and stayed on Chu Xi for a moment, and his cold gaze instantly warmed up.
"Walk."
Chu Xi then imitated Zhou Yichen's actions, randomly selected a horse, and jumped onto it. As for the tied deputy general, Zheng Hao took care of him.
Zheng Hao took the tightly tied deputy general and placed him behind him, tying the other end of the rope around his waist to make it easier for him to ride a horse.
In this way, they rode away on horseback blatantly in front of more than two thousand people.
After a while, someone finally reacted to the intimidation from Chu Xi and the others, and turned his head to ask the centurion, "Do we... really not need to chase after them?"
"What are they chasing? Didn't you see that they were holding General Han's badge? And...if the city of Da Zhou really fell into the hands of the Western Chu people because of us, who will take the responsibility?" The centurion sighed earnestly.
They were indeed soldiers under General Wu, but they had been kept in the dark about this incident. No one was willing to betray their country.
Even though... they are just insignificant little people.
When the soldiers heard this, they thought of the young boy who seemed young and easy to bully, who beat them so hard that they could not fight back. Even the deputy general was easily defeated by him and fell to the ground vomiting blood.
..Moreover, the people were tied up and taken away, which made them involuntarily quiet for a while.
"..." They really couldn't afford the responsibility for the loss of the city, but...the mission was not completed, and they seemed unable to explain themselves when they returned to General Wu!
The centurion saw the dilemma from the silence of the crowd and said, "Just pretend you don't know about this. Don't tell them that they have gone to Licheng. As for the deputy commander, he was accidentally shot dead by a hidden arrow."
...My goodness, in his mouth, even the living become dead.
In fact, he personally...was more inclined to go to Xi'an City to provide assistance, but when he thought that they only had more than 2,000 people, he finally chose to put it aside for the time being.
The city of Xi'an was under siege, and even a young man with such high martial arts skills had to be sent out to ask for help. It can be seen that there were a lot of troops besieging the city, and these two thousand people would be going to die if they went.
It would be better to...find a way to get the news back to the capital first.
The soldier next to him didn't understand what the centurion said, but he thought that the centurion was right, and then asked with a look of embarrassment and confusion, "Should we go back and report now, or..."
The centurion looked deeply at the direction where Chu Xi and others left. The horse's hooves were raised, and the wind and sand were blowing, which was easy to dazzle the eyes. He didn't look for too long.
He quickly retracted his gaze and ordered, "Return to the city."
The deputy general had been taken away, and this centurion was the most experienced among the centurions.
When he gives the order, others will naturally follow it.
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With the help of horses, the speed of Zhao Xuan and his dozens of men increased significantly.
Zhou Yichen selected fifty personal guards to accompany him on this trip. In the battle in the canyon, six of them died and eight were injured.
The injured guards still traveled overnight with Chu Xi and others without stopping.
They didn't dare to stop on the way. Even if they were hungry, they would just take out their dry food and start eating while they were on the road.
Licheng is far away from Xi'an City, and they had to fight in the canyon, plus they had to travel on foot before.
Therefore, when they arrived in Licheng, they were still three hours later than expected.
Chu Xi and Zhou Yichen had already tried their best and did not even have a moment to rest along the way.
A plaque with the words "Licheng" had already been hung on the city gate, and on both sides were soldiers checking the identities of the people entering and leaving.
In addition to these soldiers wearing ordinary armor, there is another general who looks different from these soldiers and should be an official.
The general did not check the civilians, but just looked around with his sharp eyes, as if he was checking whether there were people of suspicious identity among the crowd.
Chu Xi and his group hurried to the city gate on horseback.
The sound of horse hooves came from far away, and the hair and robes of dozens of people fluttered in the wind.
Such ostentatious behavior would naturally attract the attention of the guards patrolling the city gates.
The sharp-eyed guards noticed at a glance that Chu Xi and the others' robes were stained with blood, and when they dismounted from their horses, they did so quickly and neatly, in an orderly manner...
It was quickly determined that they had been trained for a long time.
Even if they were not soldiers, they were guards of a private residence.
The Great Zhou had extremely strict control over the palace soldiers. Only those of very noble status, such as members of the royal family, were allowed to privately raise palace soldiers.
Other noble families, no matter how deep their foundation is, cannot raise children openly.
Licheng does not have a noble prince, so naturally it cannot afford to support such standard soldiers...
The identities of this group of people are suspicious.
This thought flashed through the general's mind quickly, and without thinking, he raised his hand and ordered his men to surround the dozens of them.
"Routine inspection."
Following his actions, the soldiers who had been checking other civilians stared at Chu Xi and others with vigilant eyes.
As someone who had fought on the battlefield before, the general felt that he didn't need to look, he could tell by intuition that the man had a lot of blood on his hands and would be difficult to deal with.
He is not afraid of anything else, but he is afraid of...
The visitor is not good.
While the general was inspecting Chu Xi and the others, his hand had already quietly reached for the sword at his waist.
As long as Chu Xi in front of him makes any unusual movement, he will draw his sword at any time.
Chu Xi took out the badge given by General Han and his household registration certificate, "Please inform us that we need to see your General Tang for something urgent. It's about military intelligence."
When the general asked about her identity, she noticed someone's eyes flickering, and the moment she met Chu Xi's eyes, she instinctively avoided them.
Although the other party reacted quickly, this instinctive and tiny action still betrayed him.
Therefore, she did not reveal her identity right away, and would not easily expose Zhou Yichen's identity.
Since spies can be planted among the defenders of Xi'an City, Licheng may not be a solid block!
The household registration certificate was only shown to the patrol guard. When he opened it and saw Chu Xi's household registration...his expression changed slightly.
As if worried that the household registration was fake, the other party looked at it again and again, and even wanted to put the official seal at the bottom corner in front of him to examine it again and again.
...It is true. No matter how carefully he looked at it, there was nothing wrong with the official seal.
He raised his eyes to look at Chu Xi again, and his eyes were no longer full of vigilance and alertness, but contained a bit of complex and indescribable emotions.
He listened to what Chu Xi said before, that the military intelligence report was extremely urgent.
Therefore, he closed the household registration certificate and returned it intact to Chu Xi, and then said solemnly, "The general is not here, but in the martial arts arena. I will take you there."
"Thank you." Chu Xi bowed to the other party, showing the elegance ingrained in the bones of a young master from an aristocratic family.
"You continue, I will take them to see the general." The general waved his hand, signaling the soldiers surrounding Chu Xi and others to disperse.