The old mother had long expected that the queen mother would definitely send someone to summon the little emperor. After finishing the manuscript, she didn't panic at all, and followed the maid to the queen mother's side with steady steps.

Hearing the movement, the queen mother raised her head.The queen mother's face became even uglier when she didn't see the little emperor at a glance. She frowned and asked, "Where's the emperor?"

"Go back to your majesty, Your Majesty has developed a high fever, and now Imperial Physician Wang is administering needles to His Majesty."

Before the old mama finished speaking, the Empress Dowager Da Zhou frowned deeply, "Why did you suddenly have a high fever? Didn't you notice that he was unwell before?"

Although the old mother wanted to say, didn't you drive him to the carriage behind because he was unwell?

But as an old court lady whose life and death are in the hands of others, she dare not speak out her true thoughts.

She half-bowed and replied, "Mrs. Hui, the servants found out about an hour ago, but at that time everyone was busy on their way, and we were afraid that we would fall into the encirclement of Xie's rebels by stopping the car rashly."

The Empress Dowager's face relaxed when she heard the words, she likes people who know the general situation and take into account the overall situation like this old nanny.

She waved her hand, "Forget it, let him recuperate in the car first."

The other courtiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty who fled with the queen mother and the little emperor were not as calm as the queen mother. They all expressed that they wanted to visit the little emperor in the carriage behind.

The two elder brothers of the Empress Dowager looked at each other, and then they also proposed to go with everyone to visit their apparent monarch.

The empress dowager, who was well aware of her brother's intentions, raised her hand, and the two maids in charge of serving her immediately supported her two arms.

With the support of the two, the queen mother stood up slowly, and then took the lead towards the carriage in which the little emperor was riding.

She said to everyone: "Then you go with Ai's family, it happens that Ai's family is also very worried about the emperor's health."

Everyone answered "Yes" in unison.

However, before they reached the carriage that the little emperor was riding in, the officers and soldiers of the imperial guards who were in charge of keeping an eye on Xie's movements in the rear had rushed to report.

"Report—" The five members of the scouting team got off their horses together, and then knelt down in unison outside the circle of guards not far from the Queen Mother and the courtiers.

The queen mother gave a look, and the old nun who was following her immediately trotted over, and put the bearded scout leader into the tight encirclement formed by the guards.

The scout leader didn't dare to look around. After being brought in, he immediately knelt down on his knees and reported the latest information they found during their investigation loudly and concisely.

"Report to the Empress Dowager, Xie's rebels have already caught up, and they are less than twenty miles away from us."

As soon as he said this, everyone present felt as if they had been immobilized. None of them mentioned to visit the little emperor, but all turned their attention to their real backbone—the empress dowager.

The empress dowager made a decisive decision, "Order everyone to set off immediately!"

As for the little emperor, who would care about him at a time like this!

Even the doctor Wang who gave the little emperor the injection before, after hearing the Queen Mother's order to "depart immediately", he immediately returned to the carriage that belonged to him with oil on his feet.

After a while of flying around, the fleeing army left behind a number of pots, pans and pans and other miscellaneous daily necessities and set off again.

Just like when they escaped from the capital before, this time they also increased the speed of their cars and horses to the maximum speed.

Running wildly all the way, the horses, which had been heavily loaded and accelerated before, naturally began to lose their strength immediately.

And this includes the carriages that the Queen Mother's confidantes ride in.

Firstly, there were too many people riding in this carriage, and secondly, the horses used were not as good as those used by the Queen Mother and the court officials.

It took less than a quarter of an hour for the team to run, and the carriage they were riding in, together with other carriages carrying servants from various families, gradually fell to the end of the fleeing army.

What frightened them most was that the imperial guards who were in charge of escorting the fleeing army only protected the empress dowager and high-ranking officials in front of them, and no one slowed down and stayed beside the carriage they were riding in to help them defend against the imminent attack. Those Xie rebels who came after them.

Seeing that Xie's team had already chased them, the crossbowmen were already galloping their horses and shooting a dense rain of arrows towards them, the eunuchs, maids and servants of the government who fell at the back of the team couldn't control it immediately. exclaimed.

Although the crossbowmen's accuracy was poor due to the galloping horses, they couldn't stand the fact that they had too many bows and crossbows, and the fleeing team composed of old and young of the Great Zhou had many people and carriages.

Xie's crossbowman wanted to shoot the fleeing carriage A, but his hand shook, and he shot the fleeing carriage B.

The second crossbowman of the Xie family wanted to shoot the second carriage of the fleeing team, but the horse jerked and he shot the third carriage of the fleeing team.

With such a mess of shots, most of the carriages at the rear of the fleeing team were shot at the horses or carriages soon.

Those who were unlucky and were shot directly at the horse basically either overturned the car and the horse directly, or the horse suffered pain, and then led the car and passengers behind to go on a rampage.

Those who were shot at the car, at most, killed one or two people sitting beside the car at first, but soon, their carriage was tripped by other horses and carts and overturned together.

There were also those carriages that were lucky enough not to be shot by the arrows. In this mess, they still couldn't survive alone.

In the end, the only ones that were not affected by the chaos were the carriages running in the middle and front of the line.

These carriages were protected by the accompanying Great Zhou Imperial Guards, and the few horses that ran out of control and rushed towards the middle of the team were all guarded by the Imperial Guards responsible for protecting these Great Zhou officials before they approached their target carriages. Simply beheaded.

Thanks to the narrow road here, the carriages running in the middle and the front of the fleeing team, because the carriages of the unlucky people behind helped them block the road, they quickly got rid of the Xie Jiajun who was blocked behind up.

At this time, the empress dowager and all the dignitaries and dignitaries, none of them thought of the poor little emperor who was riding with the empress dowager's confidant maids and eunuchs.

The boy was lucky. Although the carriage he was riding in overturned, he himself was not thrown out of the carriage.

In addition, there were a lot of people around him who used their bodies to passively act as natural shields for him, and he was not hurt by the edges and corners inside the carriage.

It wasn't until their overturned carriage stopped on the side of the road that he was pushed away from them again by the empress dowager's confidantes and eunuchs who looked disgusted.

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