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Chapter 1401 True and False, Accident

"Ah ah……"

There were cries of pain and grievance from inside the house. Yang Ying's twenty blows were not carried out by Ning Yuanzhou, but by Ms. Ren.

In order to make this punishment effective, Ren Ruyi did not cheat and carried it out very seriously. However, he controlled the strength very well. It was within Yang Ying's tolerance range, so it must have been very painful.

A group of curious spectators were waiting quietly outside. When they heard the screams from inside, everyone had a different expression.

Among them, Ning Yuanzhou was the most distressed. After all, he had the best relationship with Yang Ying and treated Yang Ying like his own sister. Yuanlu was a little scared.

Yu Shisan stood with Zhou Chen and nudged him with his arm: "Old Zhou, your beauty is really hard-hearted. I am worried about your future life. Why don't you stay with me and be a playboy together?"

"Is this what you call hard-hearted? If it were me, her behavior of hurting her companions wouldn't just be a slap on the palm, but a caning."

"hiss."

Yu Shisan took a deep breath and said, "We are not from the same family. You two are both cruel. If it were me, I would never be willing to hit such a delicate princess. Women are meant to be loved, not punished."

Qian Zhao snorted coldly: "Your behavior towards women is ten times more abominable than caning."

Sun Lang nodded in agreement: "I think so too."

"Hey, can you two stop interrupting me? Did I provoke you? I'm discussing something with Lao Zhou, why are you butting in?"

Qian Zhao and Sun Lang turned their heads away tacitly and ignored him, which made Yu Shisan very angry.

Only when there was no more noise in the house did everyone disperse.

In fact, after what happened last night, everyone in the delegation felt very uncomfortable, but they were unable to express it due to Yang Ying's identity.

Anyway, Ning Yuanzhou's punishment decision and Ren Ruyi's actual execution made the people in the delegation feel a little relieved.

Just as Ning Yuanzhou said, when they went on the diplomatic mission, except for a small number of people, the brothers of Liudaotang all knew that it would be a life-threatening journey, but they still chose to go, which shows that they had already put life and death aside, just to clear the grievances of their brothers and restore the reputation of Liudaotang.

To be honest, there are probably not many people in the delegation who are loyal and convinced by Yang Ying, the fake prince.

The matter was considered over, Yang Ying received the punishment he deserved, and his temper became calmer than before. The delegation set off again that afternoon.

Another day passed, and the delegation arrived at Tushan Town, but this time they did not choose to stay at the post station, but came to a Tushan Inn.

In the afternoon, several people gathered together in Ning Yuanzhou's room in the inn.

Ning Yuanzhou received news from the branch of Liudaotang and learned that General Pingyuan Zhou Jian, a close confidant of King Danyang, had led 3,000 personal soldiers to intercept them, so he asked Sun Lang to find this empty inn to prevent Zhou Jian from ambushing them at the post station.

Upon learning this, the young Yuanlu was very confused as to why King Danyang would send people to kill them, while Zhou Chen and others were unmoved and did not find it strange at all.

There are many ways to kill someone, but how someone dies in the end is just a matter of words.

Ning Yuanzhou talked about Zhou Jian: "This Zhou Jian, I read his information when I was in Hell. This man is ambitious and a very brave general. He is not easy to deal with."

He pondered for a moment, then instructed Yu Shisan to go to Zhou Jian to investigate further. Yu Shisan received the order and left.

At night, Yu Shisan, who had just returned from the investigation, told everyone about Zhou Jian's army. He overheard Zhou Jian say that he would not let the delegation leave Tushan Pass alive.

This answer was not unexpected to everyone, so they started a discussion and thought of countless ways, but it seemed that no one could avoid Zhou Jian's army.

Ning Yuanzhou felt quite troubled and looked at Zhou Chen who had remained silent.

"Zhou Chen, what ideas do you have?"

Zhou Chen was calm and composed, and said in a pretentious manner: "Truth is also false, falsehood is also true, truth is true and falsehood is falsehood, falsehood is falsehood and truth is true."

Several people looked at Zhou Chen in confusion.

"What's true or false? It's all a mess. I asked you what ideas you have. What are you showing off here? Do you think you are a Buddhist master?"

Yu Shisan said something in annoyance. It was all nonsense and he couldn't understand it at all.

However, after hearing Zhou Chen's words, Ning Yuanzhou frowned and seemed to be thinking about something.

"You mean, to make the fake look real?"

"Ah."

Zhou Chen nodded. This idea was thought up by Ning Yuanzhou himself in the TV series. In this era when information transmission is difficult, this method takes advantage of the time difference.

"However, this method may fool Zhou Jian for a while, but if he receives intelligence from the capital, he will definitely chase us. The speed of the delegation is still incomparable to the marching speed of the army, so even if we speed up, we can't get rid of them before reaching Anguo. By then, we may have a tough battle."

"The difference is that if we fight them now, it will be a head-on confrontation. They have the initiative. With so few people like us, we are definitely no match for the elite troops in a head-on confrontation. So we should turn the passive situation into active one and take the initiative first, which will increase our chances of winning."

"understood."

Ning Yuanzhou understood immediately: "At present, this method seems to be the most appropriate. I need to plan it carefully."

In the end, Ning Yuanzhou went to Tushan Pass to deal with Zhou Jian.

Zhou Jian was indeed a military commander with strong fighting ability, but he lacked strategy. In addition, due to the information gap, he was completely fooled by Ning Yuanzhou, and he even personally let the so-called "fake envoy group" leave Tushan Pass.

With Zhou Chen's prior reminder, Ning Yuanzhou did not dare to be careless after leaving Tushan Town. Instead, he urged the delegation to speed up. It only took one day to reach Qifengpo. After another day of rest, they continued to set off for Shuzhou.

When he was about to arrive in Shuzhou, Ning Yuanzhou received another letter by carrier pigeon. The content of the letter stated that Zhou Jian had seen through their plan and was now leading thousands of troops in pursuit.

After receiving the news, Ning Yuanzhou did not dare to be careless and immediately began to make preparations.

They had actually anticipated this result a long time ago, so they had prepared themselves mentally and made preparations in advance.

After arriving in Shuzhou, the delegation did not stay, but simply replenished their supplies and set off again. They continued on the way to Cangcheng and stopped at a dangerous place.

On the way from Shuzhou to Gangcheng, the mountains and forests are steep, the roads are narrow and difficult to travel, and there are many places suitable for ambushes.

Yu Shisan rode his horse to Ning Yuanzhou's side and asked, "Old Ning, I haven't seen Old Zhou and Yuan Lu in the past few days. Where did they go?"

After leaving Tushan Pass, no one knew where Zhou Chen and Yuan Lu had gone. They only came back occasionally, always in a mysterious way. This was not the first time Yu Shisan had asked about them.

But this time Ning Yuanzhou still replied mysteriously: "They went to make preparations. If Zhou Jian catches up with them, he will definitely regret it."

"You guys are so secretive, what are you planning?" Yu Shisan was really curious.

Ning Yuanzhou did not answer him, but still smiled mysteriously. Yu Shisan wanted to punch him in the face.

Behind the delegation, in the middle of a narrow mountain road, Yuanroku was burying carefully.

After a while, Zhou Chen floated over, but he did not walk on the ground. Instead, he stepped on the mountains on both sides and came to Yuanlu.

"Have they all been buried? People will be here soon."

"Well, it's buried. Once they get here, they can detonate it."

"That's good."

Zhou Chen pulled Yuanlu to one side and waited quietly.

He and Yuanlu were not in the delegation these days because they were preparing to ambush Zhou Jian's pursuing army.

Yuanlu is a person from the Hungry Ghost Realm, and is best at manufacturing, especially thunder and fire bombs, which he made himself. Zhou Chen is also familiar with the manufacturing process of black gunpowder, so the two of them have worked together to produce a lot of black gunpowder in the past few days.

At this time, the gunpowder was buried underground, waiting for Zhou Jian's army to arrive and would explode immediately.

The amount of gunpowder was not large, but it was enough to cause a lot of losses to Zhou Jian's army. The most important thing was that it could also slow down their pursuit. If Zhou Jian could be killed on the spot, it would be even easier.

The two hid on one side. Soon, Zhou Chen heard the sound and whispered, "Here they come. Get ready. Leave after the explosion. Do you understand?"

"clear."

The sound was getting closer and closer. Zhou Chen and Yuan Lu saw war horses galloping towards them, with dust flying all over the sky. It was obvious that there were a lot of people coming.

Zhou Chen held down the somewhat nervous Yuanlu and comforted him: "Don't worry, listen to my instructions later. I tell you to light it, and you light it immediately. Don't worry about the situation, just get on the horse and leave immediately."

"Okay, Brother Zhou, you don't have to worry about me." Yuanlu swallowed and gave himself courage.

After all, this time they are facing thousands of troops, and even if they are just igniting gunpowder, it is still very tense.

Zhou Jian's men were approaching quickly. Zhou Chen was very patient. He waited until their vanguard had passed by before he whispered, "Light the fire."

As Genroku lit the fuse, a deafening explosion sounded soon after, followed by more explosions one after another, like thunder, covering up all the sounds in nature.

The surrounding ground collapsed, and the mountains on both sides collapsed. Countless rocks fell, smoke filled the air, people and horses fell to the ground, and the scene suddenly became extremely chaotic.

"Walk."

Zhou Chen just took a look and immediately pulled Yuanlu to where they tied the horses, untied the reins, and quickly got on the horse.

"drive!"

The two men disappeared from the area very quickly and headed straight towards the direction of the delegation.

It took Zhou Chen and his team four hours of running before they caught up with the delegation. When they caught up, the delegation had just finished their rest and were preparing to set off again.

Seeing Zhou Chen and Yuan Lu coming back, Ning Yuanzhou and others immediately went to greet them.

Ning Yuanzhou, who knew what Zhou Chen and the others had done, immediately asked, "How was it?"

Zhou Chen smiled and said, "Don't worry, we're doing the job. We've killed a lot of people and blocked their way. As for whether Zhou Jian was hit, we can't confirm it, but we can guarantee that they won't be able to catch up with us within a day or two."

"Great."

Ning Yuanzhou was overjoyed. They were already in Cangcheng. As long as they speeded up, they would be able to reach the vicinity of Xucheng in a day or two.

Originally Xucheng and even the later Caicheng and Jingcheng were all part of the Wu State's territory. However, due to the defeat at Tianmen Pass, the three cities of Wu State were occupied by An State, so these three cities are now part of An State's territory, and Xucheng has become the border between An and Wu States.

Although Zhou Jian was brave enough to intercept and kill the envoys, if they reached the border or within the territory of Xucheng, even if Zhou Jian had ten times the courage, he would not dare to cross the border and kill people.

Therefore, for the delegation, if they can reach Xucheng, they will no longer have to worry about being hunted down from within Wu Kingdom, and they will be temporarily safe.

"Then there is no time to lose. Let's set off immediately. As long as we reach the border, we will be safe."

Ning Yuanzhou was about to give the order to leave when Sun Lang suddenly screamed, "Yuanlu, Yuanlu..."

Zhou Chen turned his head and saw that Yuan Lu had suddenly fainted for some unknown reason. Qian Zhao hurried over to take his pulse.

After just a moment, Qian Zhao said with an unpleasant expression, "Yuanlu is in a very bad condition. He has a heart attack. Zhou Chen, what did you take Yuanlu with you for? Why did you make him so tired?"

Zhou Chen frowned slightly. He knew that Yuanlu's heart meridian was not complete, but although they had been working hard to make gunpowder these days, it was not too tiring. In addition, Yuanlu was in good mental state, so he did not think about this matter.

Who would have thought that even though everything had been done and the person had returned, Yuanroku would actually fall ill at this time.

Ning Yuanzhou said: "This is not Zhou Chen's fault. I asked him and Yuan Lu to do it. This is my problem. Qian Zhao, how is Yuan Lu now?"

Qian Zhao said solemnly, "It's best not to move any further. Find a place to observe for a night. I need a quiet place to perform acupuncture treatment."

Ning Yuanzhou felt very bad. He thought he would be able to reach Xucheng soon, but he didn't expect such a problem to arise.

"I can't care about so much. Saving Yuanlu is the most important thing. Let's go to the post station in Cangcheng first."

Yu Shisan said: "According to what Lao Zhou said, if Zhou Jian is not dead, he will probably catch up again in a day or two."

Ning Yuanzhou said in a deep voice: "I know, but Yuanlu's current situation..."

Zhou Chen held Ning Yuanzhou's shoulder and said with a serious expression: "Leave it to me. Yuanlu got sick because he was with me. Leave his safety to me. You escort the delegation to Xucheng safely. We will leave a few people to take care of Yuanlu. Zhou Jian's target is Yang Ying. We will be fine if we stay."

"Can……"

"Don't say but, Qian Zhao, stay with me. I promise you that I won't let Yuanlu get into trouble."

Qian Zhao hesitated for a moment and said, "What Zhou Chen said makes sense. The crisis has not been completely resolved yet, so the delegation cannot stop. I will stay and take a few more people with me to take care of Yuanlu. It's no problem."

Yu Shisan raised his hand and said, "I'll stay too. Lao Ning, I'll help you watch them. You can go with the princess and the delegation without worry. If everyone else stays, we'll be too conspicuous. If only a few of us stay, we won't be targeted at all."

Ning Yuanzhou's expression changed, and he finally gritted his teeth.

"Okay, that's it. I'll lead the delegation first. Zhou Chen, Qian Zhao, and Shisan, I'll leave two more people with you. When Yuanlu gets better, you can catch up. By then, I'll make arrangements with the border guards in advance."

Although he was very concerned about Yuanlu's safety, he also knew that now was not the time to hesitate and splitting the troops into two groups was the best option.

Therefore, after a brief adjustment, Ning Yuanzhou divided his troops into two groups. He led the delegation on the road, while Zhou Chen and his companions took Yuanlu to the vicinity of Cangcheng to rescue and treat the wounded.

(End of this chapter)