Zu Zhao took Zu Ji, Zu Ling and others and several officers and soldiers along a residential alley.
The sound of horses' hooves is crisp and disturbing, but wherever they pass, there is soon the sound of people moving. Several houses are still lit up, dogs bark in the courtyard, and figures stretch and shrink at the end of the alley. The roads became more and more congested, and the knights could only walk through them in columns. As soon as he walked out of this alley, Zu Zhao suddenly heard someone shouting behind him.
"Look, there's someone, there's someone on the eaves."
Zu Zhao immediately slowed down his horse, turned around and looked up, only to see that on the side of the crowded alleyway he had just passed, a black shadow was passing quickly. The other party's figure is very agile, and the bounce is very good, dexterous and smooth on the eaves, there is no difficulty at all, completely as if walking on the ground.
"It must be an assassin, catch up." Zu Zhao shouted decisively.
"But thieves are everywhere, what if they are loud and blowing?" An officer and soldier asked worriedly.
"You two, go and inform Captain Wen first, and say that we are chasing the thief here, and let him divide his troops to take care of it." Zu Zhao said.
The officer and soldier could only listen, and then went with his companions in the direction of the fire.
Zu Zhao and the others chased after the house where the black shadow jumped, and no matter how fast the people on the eaves ran, it was impossible for a horse to run. But the other party is light, and it seems that he has already planned the route, and he is specially taking some congested houses. It made the trackers downstairs miserable. Or because the horse is too tall to easily pass through the low eaves, it can only lie on the horse's back and walk carefully, and its state is very embarrassing; or the road is winding, and you have to advance and retreat when turning, like walking on thin ice; Or they may alarm the dogs in the people's homes, run out and bite the horse's legs, causing the mounts to suffer and start a frenzy.
Even though he is proficient in riding skills like Zu Zhao, he still has to secretly scold here.
He wandered around the house for a long time, and when he looked up again, the thief had fled far away.
Zu Zhao was calm and patient, he could see that the thief's body was fast, it was obvious that he was not an ordinary person, and it was very likely that it was the black arrow girl. In his opinion, the Black Arrow Girl is a big suspicion in this series of events, as long as she can be caught, many doubts that have been buried in his heart will be solved.
"The eldest prince, that person seems to be fleeing in the direction of the city!" Behind him, Zu Ji shouted.
Zu Zhao raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and the city was getting closer and closer. He couldn't help but wrinkle his brows, the vigilance near the city wall must have been strengthened at this time, and the thieves still dared to flee in the direction of the city, wouldn't they be in the net!
Continuing to chase forward, soon the house became sparse.
Just as he was about to chase him to the bottom of the castle, he saw the thief leap from the outermost roof to a cedar tree near the castle, and then he let his hands and feet grow barbs and climbed up quickly along the trunk of the cedar tree. When he reached the top of the tree, the thief raised his hand and shot a hidden arrow in the direction of the wall, with a rope hanging from the end of the hidden arrow.
Seeing this, Zu Zhao could immediately conclude that the other party was really the black arrow girl, Xuan'er kicked the horse's stomach hard, and accelerated his speed to chase in the direction of the cedar tree. Finally came to the bottom of the cedar tree, and he puffed up his strength and shouted: "The thief escapes!" The
man in the tree did not do anything, and clung to the rope and drifted towards the wall.
Glide to the middle of the wall and climb with both feet on the wall while holding on to the ropes. Three times, five times, they have already crossed the battlements of the city wall. There were a few exclamations from the city wall, and the officers and soldiers on patrol noticed the movement coming to this side, and it was not long before there were a few screams, the fire swayed, and the figure was longing, but the shadow of the thief was never seen again.
"Quick, quick, someone's jumping off the wall."
"Bold thieves, trespassing on the city. Where are the archers? "
Come, release the arrows, release the arrows to me."
Zu Zhao and his party circled around under the city wall, and it seemed that everyone had lost their minds.
The two officers and soldiers who were also following the group hurriedly stepped forward and asked Zu Zhaodao: "What should I do now?"
Zu Zhao was silent for a while, and said solemnly: "Where is the closest city gate?" Hearing
this, everyone knew that Zu Zhao was going out of the city to chase people, and they all looked at each other, and they didn't have a score in their hearts.
As an uncle, Zu Ling couldn't help but persuade him, so he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Eldest son, forget it." It's just that one thief is gone, and there are other pursuits in the city, so why should we be so obsessed. Besides, the night is dark and the wind is high, and the road is not clear, in case there are other thieves outside the city to respond, I am too weak, but I dare not be too big. When the
others heard this, they all looked worried.
Zu Zhao said in a loud voice: "I know that man's hand, this thief is a black arrow thief. If she is allowed to escape today, when will she be brought to justice again? As for whether there are thieves outside the city, I don't expect any. This time, all the assassins were holding the heart of death, so why should they respond? Moreover, if they really arranged to receive them, they would not have to go to great lengths to install the inner ghosts to the Taishou Mansion, and they would not act like this, but would first earn the city gate and then storm the Taishou Mansion. Zu
Ling and the others didn't know the specific situation in the Taishou Mansion, and they couldn't hear the words of any inner ghosts, but when he saw Zu Zhao so resolute, he already expected in his heart that there was no way to influence his opinion.
Zu Ji on the side didn't think so much anyway, but after listening to Zu Zhao's words, he shouted: "Since it is a black arrow thief, then you must catch up with it no matter what, and you must not let this thief escape." My ancestor Ping wants to avenge the one arrow of the day!
Zu Zhao glanced at Zu Ji, and sighed with emotion in his heart: Alas, it is actually an enemy with one arrow!
After making up their minds, everyone could only follow Zu Zhao and rush to the nearest city gate.
Of course, Zu Zhao will not be a little sure, he believes that the Black Arrow Girl and the other thieves who are now fleeing basically chose to flee temporarily when they saw that the situation in Taishou Mansion was unclear. The Black Arrow Maiden has no mount, jumping from the city wall, even if she has a rope and a good body, she will be more or less injured, and then she can't match the speed of her pursuit by escaping on foot.
Running to a city gate on the north city wall, the city guards received a message that the city tower was already in full battle. Braziers and torches illuminated the entire city, and swordsmen patrolled back and forth, and archers were all ready to fight at any time. The officers and soldiers accompanying Zu Zhao explained the reason to the guards at the city gate, after all, it was an accident in the Taishou Mansion, and the young general guarding the city gate did not dare to be too embarrassed, and finally opened the city gate to let the group pass.
Out of the city gate, Zu Zhao turned around and found that everyone was still hesitant, especially the two officers and soldiers, once they were alone, they were the most timid and afraid. He simply ordered again: "Just in case of accidents, there is also Lao and the two to go back to the city, and ask more officers and soldiers to come to support."
When the two officers and soldiers heard this, they breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, and nodded busily: "Yes, yes." "
Send away the officers and soldiers, the rest are the children of the ancestral family, although there are not many people, but this trip is more good to keep up, and it is much more convenient to unify the order and prohibition.
Zu Zhao didn't say much other nonsense, and galloped to the west.
There were traces and lights of officers and soldiers on the city wall, and the place where they gathered was the same place where the thief had escaped.
Looking for the sound of people to come to the city, the patrol soldiers above almost thought that Zu Zhao and the others were thieves who came to respond, but fortunately, Zu Zhao just stopped his horse and shouted loudly to the top of the city wall: "We are too guarding the door of the house, and we are ordered to chase the thief, in what direction did the thief who jumped the city wall flee to?" When
the patrolman saw that he was not a thief, he hurriedly put away his bow and arrows, and someone said, "Go due north, and you will not see it when you flee into the woods."
Zu Zhao raised his eyes and looked north, the northern suburbs were a barren suburb, and there were a few villages populated about three or five miles to the west and east, and the north was just a forest that gradually became dense.
At this time, there was another voice on the city tower: "Before the thief landed, I cut his rope in time, and it should not be light, and it is too late to catch up now." "
Nonsense, it's clear that I shot the thief with an arrow."
"Before you could shoot, I cut the rope, and even if I did, it would be after the thief fell."
Zu Zhao didn't bother to listen to these soldiers fighting for merit and profit, and looked down at the ground carefully by the light of the firelight on the wall.
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