Under Jiao's command, the coachman drove the carriage out of Yunnan City.
The cavalry behind was in hot pursuit.
They had already guessed the identities of Jiao and her group, so they tried their best to capture them and bring them back to the city.
After arriving outside the city, Jiao was completely dumbfounded by the scene before her.
The thousands of Tusi soldiers originally stationed outside the west city gate had long disappeared.
Only an empty camp was left.
"Where are the soldiers? Why are they all gone?" Jiao was in tears.
No one answered her question.
Those who knew the answer had already fled to Chuxiong with Mu Tianbo.
"It's over!" Jiao felt hopeless.
The carriage they were riding in could not shake off the enemy cavalry.
It won’t take too long, at most a hundred breaths or at least a few dozen breaths, before you are caught up by the enemy.
She will then face endless pain and humiliation.
It's death both inside and outside, so it's better to die with dignity.
Thinking of this, Jiao hugged her two sons tightly with her left hand, lifted the carriage curtain with her right hand and said to the coachman, "Stop the car."
"lady..."
"You can't run away. Go and save yourself."
"So... Madam, what about you and your two children?"
"Me?" Jiao smiled bitterly, "The Mu family would rather die than surrender. My two children and I are Ming people in life and Ming ghosts in death."
"The moat in front of us is our destination."
The groom burst into tears after hearing this: "Madam... take care!"
After saying this, the coachman abandoned his carriage and fled first.
Jiao was startled.
She thought the groom would die with her, but he escaped first.
"Oh!" Jiao sighed again.
She held her two sons tightly in her left hand, got out of the carriage, grabbed the whip with her right hand and swung it violently.
The mules and horses felt the pain and exerted force with all their four legs, driving the carriage towards the moat.
Just as the carriage was about to rush into the moat, the sound of arrows breaking through the air was heard nearby.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The sound of breaking air continued, and soldiers in pursuit were repeatedly falling off their horses.
Jiao looked carefully and found more than a hundred people rushing out of the city.
They rode on fine horses, wore cloth clothes, and held bows and arrows, shooting arrows at the pursuers continuously.
Under the dense arrows, three or four of the dozen pursuers were shot dead, and the rest fled in panic.
After driving away the pursuers, these people quickly came to the carriage.
At this time, Jiao was ready to jump into the river, but when she saw the other person's face clearly, she was shocked, "Jin...Jinyiwei?"
"Yes, Jinyiwei commander Wang Guoxing has come to rescue the madam and the two young dukes." As Wang Guoxing spoke, he had someone bring three war horses.
"Madam, can you ride a horse?"
“Yes, but I haven’t ridden for a long time.”
"Where are the two young dukes?"
"Mu Zhongxian can ride but he's not very skilled, and Mu Zhongliang can't."
"Okay then," Wang Guoxing reached out and grabbed Mu Zhongliang and placed him in front of him, and helped Jiao and Mu Zhongxian mount their war horses.
"There are others," Jiao then remembered that she was not the only one who escaped, but also her mother-in-law Chen and other female relatives.
But there were no other vehicles at the scene except their carriage.
Obviously got lost.
At this time, the sound of horse hooves came again from behind.
Look back.
Hundreds of cavalrymen under the banner of Sha Dingzhou rushed out of the city.
They came straight towards us after they left the city.
"Get on the horses and retreat!" Wang Guoxing shouted, escorting Jiao's mother and son and running towards the northwest.
The one who led the pursuit was Chen Changming, a general under Sha Dingzhou.
At first he had no intention of chasing, after all, he only had 500 cavalrymen with him, and if he was ambushed, he would lose his life.
But after seeing that the other side had only a few hundred people, Chen Changming felt that he was fine again.
Five hundred to one hundred, the advantage is on his side!
"Whoever captures Jiao alive will be rewarded with 10,000 taels of silver! Whoever captures Mu Zhongxian and Mu Zhongliang alive will be rewarded with 1,000 taels of silver!"
With his generous reward, the five hundred cavalrymen became excited as if they were injected with chicken blood.
They whipped their horses and chased after them.
Wang Guoxing and his group ran in front, and Chen Changming chased behind.
As Chen Changming was chasing, he found that the other party suddenly stopped.
Amid doubts, Wang Guoxing led his men to launch a counterattack.
Each of them held two grenades, which they lit and then used the potential energy of their charging horses to throw into the pursuing troops.
boom!
The violent explosion and pungent smoke instantly frightened the war horses and caused them to lose control. The five hundred pursuing soldiers were defeated and fled in all directions.
After dealing with the pursuers, Wang Guoxing did not dare to stay and continued to escort Jiao's mother and son towards the northwest.
They kept running until dusk, when they stopped in a small wood.
After arranging the visible and covert sentries, Wang Guoxing came to Jiao with dry food and water bags.
"Madam, you must be very hungry. Here are some dry food and water."
Jiao stood up and bowed deeply to Wang Guoxing: "Thank you very much, Mr. Wang, for risking your life to save me. If it weren't for you, my mother and I would have drowned ourselves."
Wang Guoxing smiled awkwardly: "It's just a coincidence, it's not intentional."
Jiao didn't dare to ask more, and Wang Guoxing didn't dare to say more.
They had previously been to Yunnan Prefecture City, and then went to Chuxiong to tell Yang Weizhi the news that Wu Bikui and Sha Dingzhou might be plotting a rebellion.
Yang Weizhi dared not not believe it, nor did he dare to believe it completely.
On the one hand, he organized troops to strengthen the city's defenses, and on the other hand, he sent people out to collect information.
Wang Guoxing disguised himself as a merchant and sneaked back to Yunnan Province.
This serves two purposes.
If Sha Dingzhou rebelled and captured the Yunnan provincial capital, he would just stay in the city as an insider.
If Sha Dingzhou did not rebel, he would continue to monitor Mu Tianbo and collect his information.
The first five-year plan to reduce the power of the feudal lords has begun.
Although Mu Tianbo is not a vassal king, he is richer and more powerful than the vassal kings.
The Mu family is always the emperor’s business.
The emperor can leave the Mu family alone, but the Imperial Guards cannot help but investigate.
After seeing Mu Tianbo running away alone, Wang Guoxing felt it necessary to save Jiao's mother and son.
Especially Mu Tianbo’s two sons.
The Mu family has a high prestige in Yunnan. As long as the Mu family continues to worship the emperor, the people of Yunnan will always be with the court.
So he took advantage of the chaos and followed behind, seizing the opportunity to rescue Jiao's mother and son.
Jiao looked at the dry food in front of her without any appetite. It was not that she was not hungry, but that she had no appetite.
She's been through a lot today.
My husband ran away, and my mother-in-law and two brothers-in-law are missing...
After distributing the dry food to her two sons, Jiao asked Wang Guoxing: "My mother-in-law and two uncles were lost in the chaos. Does Wang Tongzhi know anything about them?"
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