Chapter 83
Chapter 83

Wei Xiaobao wondered: "No, this place is extremely secret, how could the little emperor send troops to find it so quickly?"

Li Lishi said in a deep voice: "There must be a traitor among us, and this place was exposed so quickly."

Qi Biaoqing said incredulously: "No way, they are all old brothers for many years, how could someone be willing to be a traitor to the Tartars? Besides, we have never had the opportunity to vent to the Tartars from the beginning to the end. Report it."

Li Lishi pointed out something: "Are they all there? I'm afraid not?"

Everyone suddenly realized that Feng Jizhong and Guan Anji had "coincidentally" not been there when they bombarded the Duke's mansion, so it was unavoidably suspicious.

"The one surnamed Li has no evidence, so don't talk nonsense..." Jia Laoliu was furious, seeing Li Lishi pointing the finger at his brother-in-law, how could he bear it?
Li Lishi said disdainfully: "Whether you do it or not, the big guy knows it well, I'm not the only one who said it."

"You..." Jia Laoliu was even more angry, stepped forward two steps, rolled up his arms and sleeves, wishing to have a fight with Li Lishi.

"Okay." Zheng Kezang shouted in a deep voice: "What time is it, and we are still messing around here. No matter whether there is a traitor among us, there will always be a chance to find out in the future. Our first priority right now is to find a way first , leave here first, and get rid of the Qing court's pursuers."

Everyone kept silent and did not dare to say more, but the seeds of doubt had already been sown.

Qian Laoben hesitated: "There is a secret road in the backyard, which leads directly to a mass grave three miles outside the town, but...just this secret road, Brother Li and Master Guan also know..."

When everyone heard the words, they looked at each other in blank dismay, unable to make up their minds for a while.

Hearing the voices of people outside the manor getting closer, Zheng Kezang said decisively: "No matter, let's leave this place first." After speaking, let Qian Laoben lead the way first, and everyone got into the secret passage.

Through the winding and rugged tunnel, Zheng Kezang and his party came to a barren mass grave, which was so gloomy that there was no one in sight, only countless crows crowing from time to time.

The tense and alert expressions of the crowd eased a little, but they still cautiously explored outside the mass grave.

"Swish, swish..." The sound of arrows suddenly sounded, and the arrows that covered the ground shot at everyone's heads and faces.

"There is an ambush, everyone be careful!" Taoist Xuanzhen reminded loudly.

Everyone hurriedly protected Zheng Kezang and Wei Xiaobao who was extremely poor in martial arts, drew out their personal weapons, swung them around, and warded off arrows.

Fortunately, Zheng Kezang and his group, except for Wei Xiaobao, are not weak in martial arts, they are airtight, and will not be injured by arrows in a short time.But manpower is exhausted, and over time, it will be very bad.

Zheng Kezang looked around, trying to find out the weak points of the ambush and try to break out.But the Qing soldiers were obviously well prepared, and there were shadows everywhere, in dense forests, among the wild grass, and it seemed that there were heavy troops besieging them.

Wei Xiaobao called out in a low voice: "Brother Zheng, you are so powerful in martial arts, you will definitely be able to rush out, leave us alone."

"Yes, my lord, don't worry about us anymore, hurry up and break through..." Everyone persuaded.

Zheng Kezang refused, and said in a low voice, "What nonsense are you talking about? This king is a man who is greedy for life and afraid of death. You all follow up with me, let's fight a bloody path..." In dense forests and wild grasses, it is most likely to be cleared by soldiers They will lay traps and ambushes, and Zheng Kezang is the first to rule them out, and the rest is just the way ahead. Zheng Kezang gritted his teeth and wanted to break out from here.

"Kill..." Suddenly, there was a burst of shouts from the dense forest on the left, followed by a series of screams of Qing soldiers and the clash of weapons.

In the dense forest, some accidents happened, but no more arrows were fired, which relieved the pressure of everyone.

Zheng Kezang frowned slightly. For a moment, he couldn't tell whether this was a conspiracy by the Qing soldiers.

"My lord, here, retreat quickly..." While Zheng Kezang was hesitating, he rushed out from the dense forest in the wind and shouted loudly.

Li Lishi hurriedly said: "My lord, be careful of fraud."

Zheng Kezang turned a deaf ear to it, and said decisively: "The support brother has arrived, protect Xiaobao, and break out from the direction of the dense forest with me." After finishing speaking, he took the lead and rushed towards the direction of the dense forest despite the rain of arrows.

"Yes!" Everyone accepted the order awe-inspiringly, guarding Wei Xiaobao, and followed closely behind.

"The emperor has orders. Capture Zheng Kezang and reward him ten thousand gold... Charge... Kill..." The Qing soldiers who were ambushing in the other two directions did not want to let Zheng Kezang and his party go like this, and rushed out one after another.

Zheng Kezang and his group rushed into the dense forest, but they saw the intense battle in the dense forest, with corpses lying everywhere, including Qing soldiers and brothers from the Qingmu Hall.

Feng Jizhong quickly came to Zheng Kezang, and quickly said: "My lord, my subordinates and Mr. Guan went out to check the situation, but found that the Qing soldiers surrounded Wei Xiangzhu's Duke's mansion, and we wanted to go back to warn, but we couldn't. I don't know, the Qing court would be so ruthless that they even bombarded the Duke's mansion, otherwise they would have risked their lives to warn them. Fortunately, the prince was so lucky that he escaped in advance. Later, we saw the tartars frequently mobilizing troops and horses, Not only surrounded our stronghold in the town thirty miles east of the city, but also set up an ambush at the exit of the secret road in the stronghold, and led the brothers in the hall to come to support."

Zheng Kezang praised: "Very good! You have done a good job! Fortunately, you are vigilant, otherwise today would be really dangerous. After leaving here, this king will definitely reward you a lot."

The center of Fengji was overjoyed, but he didn't show it on his face, and said: "My lord, this dense forest covers an extremely wide area and extends in all directions. The Tartars will not be able to find us in a short time. The subordinates have been here before, and they are not familiar with the dense forest. I'm familiar with it, so I have arranged a retreat with Guan and his son, let's go this way."

Zheng Kezang nodded and said, "Okay, you lead the way, we have to get out of here as soon as possible."

"Yes!" Feng Jizhong took the lead, leading the way first, leading everyone to the depths of the dense forest.

"Retreat! Set fire, burn the forest..." Seeing that Zheng Kezang and his party had gone far away, Guan An gave an order to lead the rest of the people in the Qingmu Hall to evacuate, and set fire to the dense forest with the ignition equipment that had been prepared.

In the dense forest, flames shot up to the sky in an instant, and thick smoke billowed. It was also inconvenient for the Qing soldiers to rush into the dense forest, and it was impossible to find the whereabouts of Zheng Kezang and his party.

Zheng Kezang and his party followed Feng Jizhong, followed the route he and Guan Anji had arranged, through forests and over mountains, and traveled quickly for several hours, but still did not get out of the dense forest, but they managed to temporarily throw off the chasing Qing soldiers.

Guided by Feng Jizhong, the crowd came to a hidden valley, where they planned to rest and wait for Guan Anji to join them.

In the valley, everyone looked at each other, but they didn't speak.From Kangxi's bombardment of the Duke's Mansion last night, to the Qing soldiers encircling and suppressing the secret stronghold, and finally even the secret exit of the secret road was ambushed by the Qing soldiers.All of these are strange, and all of them faintly reveal that there must be a traitor among the crowd.

(End of this chapter)

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