I started as an exile, and I relied on space to support my family of loyal heroes.

The other guards looked at each other and cautiously poked their heads out to stare at the city gate.

The guard pinched Shi Jian's philtrum several times before he saw Shi Jian's body tremble.

"Hiss~~" Shi Jian frowned, took a breath, shook his eyelids and opened his eyes.

"General, you are finally awake." The guard looked at the awakened Shi Jian excitedly.

Shi Jian opened his eyes and looked at the arrow hanging above his head. His whole face twisted in pain.

"My head..."

"General, an arrow has pierced your scalp." The guard supported Shi Jian and said hurriedly,

"Fortunately, the arrow didn't hit the skull, but it's hard to pull out. If it were pulled out, I'm afraid the skin on the top of the general's head would explode."

This arrow has barbs on both ends, so pulling it out will only increase the area of ​​injury.

You can cut off both ends to reduce the damage.

But... who would dare to use a knife to chop the arrow at Shi Jian's head?

Shi Jian frowned, his scalp aching and his whole body couldn't help but tremble.

Even if he were asked to pull out the arrow himself, he wouldn't have the courage to do so.

"How can their arrows shoot so far?!"

He was careless, thinking that the enemy's arrows could not reach here, so he didn't pay attention to the sound of the arrow breaking through the air, and only paid attention to the sound of footsteps and horse hooves.

The guards looked at Shi Jian with pursed lips, and no one said a word.

They also didn't know why the enemy's crossbows could shoot so far.

The best crossbows of Xiliang Kingdom cannot reach this small hill.

Shi Jian's cheeks trembled twice in pain, "Wang Dadao is useless, retreat quickly."

His injury must be treated in Lingxiao City.

"You guys cover this general."

Shi Jian's face turned pale, and he looked at the six guards with a sinister look. He raised his finger and pointed at the guard with the best martial arts skills.

"This general will ride on the same horse with you."

The guard's heart trembled, and he tried his best to look at Shi Jian calmly, hiding the fear in his heart, and replied, "Yes!"

He knew very well that Shi Jian was using him as a scapegoat.

But what can you do about it? As the general's personal bodyguard, you must be prepared to sacrifice yourself at any time to protect the general.

The guards bent over and led the horses to the side of the hill, with six horses standing behind Shi Jian's horse.

"drive!!"

The guard held the reins and half-hugged Shi Jian. As soon as he got on the horse's back, he whipped him. The horse roared in pain, raised its hooves and ran away.

As the guards galloped out on their horses, dozens of crossbow arrows shot at them.

The guards at the back each had one or two arrows stuck in their bodies.

Wang Dadao was extremely nervous the whole time as he watched the crossbow arrows whizzing past his head.

He looked at the group of people running out from behind the hill, his eyes full of regret.

Damn it, Shi Jian is so lucky that this couldn’t kill him.

His mother was right, good people don’t live long, but evil people live for a thousand years.

Shi Jian is a disaster.

"Ah!" Cong Chongqiu sighed heavily as he watched Shi Jian and his companions run away.

"It's just a little bit. Shi Jian is quite alert."

He calculated that the time when Shi Jian poked his head out and the time when the crossbow arrow was shot out was just right to pierce Shi Jian's head.

Who knew that Shi Jian would pause for a moment after sticking his head out.

He saw clearly that there was no plasma coming out of Shi Jian's head. It was probably shot into his hair and scratched his scalp a little.

Wang Dadao took a deep breath and looked back at the city gate tower, looking at Cong Chongqiu with pleading eyes.

"General Cong, I sincerely surrender to you and beg you to take me in."

As he spoke, Wang Dadao took out the Wu Ma family's token from his bosom with trembling hands and raised it above his head.

"General Cong, please take a look. This is a personal token of the direct descendants of the Imperial City's Wu Ma family. Those children are now in the Imperial City."

Cong Chongqiu frowned and looked at the token in Wang Dadao's hand, then raised his hand.

"Let go of the rope and hoist the man up."

It is impossible to open the city gate for a king.

As for whether Wang Dadao really surrendered, it didn’t matter. He and King Zhenbei just wanted to know how the empress wanted to exchange the Wu Ma family with them.

"Thank you, thank you General Cong!!"

Wang Dadao's face lit up with joy. He thanked him repeatedly excitedly and quickly jumped off the horse.

.......

Xiao Yunhao looked at the Wu Ma family's token on the table and looked at Wang Dadao in confusion.

"Shi Jian instigated the empress to detain the legitimate children of the Imperial City Wu Ma Family in the Imperial Palace, and let you use their tokens to threaten this king!?"

Is there something wrong with Shi Jian's brain?

For the first time, Xiao Yunhao felt that his brain was not enough.

Why use the Wu Ma family's direct descendant's child to threaten him? That's not his child.

This might be because Shi Jian wanted to take revenge on the Wu Ma family for not lending them grain, and then tricked the empress into doing this.

Cong Chongqiu was about to doubt his life after hearing this. What kind of words were these?

He frowned and looked at Wang Dadao.

"Tell me in detail, what did Shi Jian tell the Empress?"

He was actually a little impressed by Shi Jian, as he was able to convince the empress to take action against the Wu Ma family.

Everyone in the entire Xiliang Kingdom knows how much the empress values ​​the Wu Ma family.

Maybe it’s because the old patriarch is dead, the empress dares to challenge the Wu Ma family.

In fact... considering the time, the Wu Ma family should have been dealt with by the Queen Mother. There is no risk for the Empress to touch the Wu Ma family at this time.

Wang Dadao looked at Cong Chongqiu in a daze, then looked at King Zhenbei in panic.

What happened!!!?

Why didn't the King of Zhenbei react at all when he saw the token?

Wang Dadao licked his lips in confusion.

"Shi Jian took his men to the Imperial City to find the Empress and bring..."

Wang Dadao looked at King Zhenbei cautiously and continued to speak haltingly,

"Tell the Empress that the King of Zhenbei is a direct descendant of the Wu Ma family."

"What the hell!?" Cong Chongqiu looked at Wang Dadao as if he had seen a ghost.

"Why would Shi Jian have such a guess?!"

"Is this the message you sent back?"

He thought that Shi Jian instigated the empress to attack the Wu Ma family for the sake of the Treasure Pavilion, or in other words, to use the treasures in the Treasure Pavilion to exchange for the withdrawal of the King of Zhenbei.

But he never expected that Shi Jian would actually have the crazy idea that the King of Zhenbei was a direct descendant of the Wu Ma family.

This is really funny. Shi Jian has so much confidence in the Wu Ma family.

The Wu Ma family was indeed the most powerful family in Xiliang Kingdom, and they held up the sky with one hand, but it was a pity that they met their nemesis.

“No, no…” Wang Dadao was so anxious that he waved his hands around so fast that he almost caught a cold.

"What's going on?" Cong Chongqiu asked with a frown.

Wang Dadao's mouth twitched twice, he knelt on the ground, dug his palms into the ground, raised his eyelids and quickly glanced at the King of Zhenbei.

"Because...after returning from Chiyan City, I told Shi Jian that the Zhenbei King was staying in the Wu Ma family's house, so Shi Jian concluded that the Zhenbei King should be a direct descendant of the Wu Ma family."