When the lanterns first came on, a feathered arrow crossed the wall and directly hit the lantern with the word "Wu" hanging in the main hall.

Zhang He ordered someone to take off the lantern, and sure enough there was an inconspicuous letter tied under the white feather at the end of the arrow.Zhang He unfolded the volume of letters.

"It's a letter from Ah Weng." Zhang He called several principals of the Wu family over to read the letter together.

It turned out that Wu Han was traveling abroad, and only after receiving Wang Yan's letter did he know that such a major event had happened in the capital, so he hurried back to Chang'an.

When he returned to Chang'an, his father had already been killed, so he could only bear the grief in his heart and wanted to rescue his family first.

Although Wu Han had no power at this time, he was good at martial arts, and he made friends with several rangers in Chang'an.The letter said that after midnight, he would bring a group of friends to rob people.

Zhang He said to the maid: "Bring my bow and arrow."

The maid didn't know why, but she ran to get the bow and arrow obediently.

Zhang He explained to the others: "Ah Weng's move is very dangerous. I want to tell him the preparations we have made in the mansion, so that we can cooperate with each other."

After speaking, he wrote down his layout in the mansion on a piece of plain silk: a tunnel was dug in the rockery in the backyard, and when Wu Han started to move, the women and children in the mansion could leave through the tunnel first, and only a few A strong man guards the exit of the tunnel outside the wall.Zhang He also buried a lot of sharpened bamboo sticks in the ditch at the gate, covered with yellowish grass, which can resist a burst of government troops pouring in from the gate, but please ask the people brought by Wu Han to distinguish carefully. Just don't step on the trap by mistake.

After finishing the short writing, Zhang He said to Wu Cheng: "Please also ask the eldest brother to climb up the wall, look out secretly, and let me know when the patrolling soldiers are far away."

After receiving the bow and arrow from the maidservant, Zhang He estimated the direction of the feathered arrow shot by the other party, and aimed at a position. After Wu Cheng whispered "Let's go", Zhang He opened the bow like a full moon, and aimed at that place. An arrow was shot from the tower of the family, and it was stuck on the pillar.

A black figure flashed out quickly and took the arrow in. It was probably Wu Han.

After a while, Wu Han took out a lantern from the house, shook it towards Zhang He a few times, hung it under the eaves, extinguished it again, shook it a few more times, and finally lit it again.

Zhang He guessed that this series of actions was to make an appointment to start action with the light off as a signal.He waved his hand towards the Que Tower, indicating that he understood, and burned the feather arrow and the lantern that Wu Han sent the letter to ashes together - the officers and soldiers would visit the mansion every day, so they couldn't find these things.

In the middle of the night, the soldiers guarding outside had already started to yawn, and their shift would be changed in half an hour. This was the time when they were most relaxed, and the defense force at night was relatively weak. Weak women and children, after a few days of guarding, these officers and soldiers gradually relaxed.

Zhang Hezao was waiting in the courtyard, only to see that the high-hanging lantern suddenly went out after spinning a few times in the wind, which was a signal for Wu Han to make a move.

Zhang He pushed Wu Cheng, Wu Cheng immediately covered his stomach, pretended to be sick and came to the door as he had said in advance, yelling loudly, while beating the door and shouting: "Help, I'm going to be sick and die." , I'm going to see the doctor."

This movement quickly attracted the attention of the officers and soldiers near the door. The door was roughly kicked open, and a leader with a complexion as black as the bottom of a pot and who looked sleep-deprived stood at the door and cursed at Wu Cheng: "Howling in the middle of the night!" What mourning!"

Wu Cheng's maidservant also had a lot of fun, and immediately knelt down on the ground with tears streaming down her cheeks and begged: "Well, Captain, my master suddenly has a sudden illness, please allow us to take him to see a doctor."

The school lieutenant glanced at Wu Cheng disdainfully: "Isn't he still dead? What's the rush? Where can I go to see a doctor at night?"

Wu Cheng grabbed his sleeve: "Please, I know a doctor, he can save me."

The captain kicked Wu Cheng away, cursing and saying: "You have only a few days to live, why don't you go down early and be a companion with your dead ghost Wu Zhang? He is now broken into countless pieces The corpse is still thrown in Dongshi, and no one dares to collect the corpse, it's really pitiful."

Wu Chengcheng was still acting, but when the captain said this, his eyes turned red with anger, he stepped forward and grabbed the opponent and began to wrestle: "You villains who work for tigers!"

Seeing that the captain was about to pull out the saber from his waist, the servant girl was afraid that the master would suffer, so she also stepped forward and hugged the captain, and several of them got into a ball.

Taking advantage of the commotion on Wu Cheng's side, Zhang He hurriedly let the female relatives and children leave through the tunnel.

At this time, there were a few muffled groans from outside the wall. It should be that the patrolling soldiers were knocked out. Several black shadows jumped over the wall and landed on the grass.

The leading youth said to Zhang He, "A Weng is here to save you." It was Wu Han himself.

Several strong men who followed him hurriedly built ladders on the wall to help the rest of the Wu family get out of the wall.Another squatted on the top of the wall to let the wind out, and shouted to the people below: "Hurry up, the next wave of patrols is coming soon."

Wu Han frowned and said to Zhang He: "We will be discovered soon, and this speed is too late to take everyone out of the Wu family."

"Let's go to the main entrance to make things bigger." Zhang He said.

Sure enough, because of Wu Cheng's nonsense, many officers and soldiers had surrounded the main gate. Seeing that Wu Cheng was going to suffer, Zhang He quickly shouted: "Brother, run back."

Wu Cheng cleverly loosened the captain's clothes, jumped up from the ground, turned his head and ran towards Zhang He Zhanli.

"You want to run after the trouble?" Those officers and soldiers were also very annoyed. They were short of sleep in the middle of the night and had to deal with this kind of thing.

"Help, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh——" Wu Cheng shouted while running fast.

Zhang He bent his bow and set an arrow, and a few arrows stopped the pursuers. Wu Cheng took the opportunity to jump over the trap and hide behind Wu Han.

"You go to the back, someone will pick you up and leave Chang'an." Wu Han looked at the two underage sons lovingly, "I will take care of you here first."

"No, I'll stay here too." Zhang He shook his head, he couldn't leave Chang'an yet, he had to find Liu Zheng as soon as possible in this treacherous situation.

The father and son held a bow and arrow each, and they even had the momentum to resist the enemy, but they were a little small after all, so they could only resist the army for a while, and then retreated while fighting.

Many officers and soldiers were led into the traps Zhang He had dug in advance, and the sharp bamboo sticks in the trench pierced their calves, causing many of them to be injured and unable to catch up for a while.

At this time, there was also the sound of fighting outside the backyard wall. Obviously, the escape of the Wu family was discovered.Wu Han was worried, and led Zhang He over the wall, just in time to see a young man with a black cloth covering his face helping the few strong men brought by Wu Han to meet the enemy.

I don't know what kind of sword move that person used, but I feel that it is elegant and light, but it is as fast as lightning, and several people were knocked down in a blink of an eye, so the battle situation is still in favor of the Wu family.

"What is the origin of this hero?" Wu Han clasped his fists and asked.

The masked young man's voice was about the same age as Wu Guo's, with a hint of immaturity in his clear voice: "Mr. Wu Zhang was entrusted by his deathbed to protect his family."

"Thank you." Time was running out, and Wu Han didn't have time to say anything.

"Everyone has been transferred safely." A strong man said to Wu Han.

Zhang He looked around, and sure enough, he saw that the Wu family basically left, only a few of them were left, surrounded by officers and soldiers, and those in the wall over there continued to climb over, forming a three-sided encirclement. They could retreat behind them. There are only two narrow dark alleys.

Wu Han's younger brother is still here, with multiple wounds on his body, and it looks like he needs to be treated urgently.

"Let's split up and wait tomorrow under the big willow tree outside Beiguo Village in Chang'an City." After Wu Han suggested, he carried his brother on his back and went into an alley.

Zhang He also ran towards another alley.He didn't want to join Wu Han, but the most urgent task was how to get rid of the officers and soldiers who were chasing him.

In the panic, someone grabbed Zhang He's hand: "Follow me."

Immediately, Zhang He was dragged and ran towards a certain direction. Before the pursuers caught up, he climbed over the wall of a house and hid inside.

Footsteps sounded outside the wall, and Zhang He didn't dare to vent his anger, only to hear someone shouting loudly: "Where's the person?"

"Looks like it got lost around here."

"Do you want to go in and search?"

Hearing this sentence, Zhang He's heart that was a little relieved became agitated again.

The leading captain glanced at the gate of this house, and saw that the carvings in the middle of the vermilion gate were very special. This was the special commendation pattern on the gate after Xuandi Yuankang returned a large number of descendants of the founding heroes to their home in the fourth year.

Although most of these families have been in decline by this time, they represent the glory and status of their ancestors after all, and there is a relationship of mutual protection between them, so generally no one will come to them to offend them. Naturally, a low-level official like the school lieutenant would not deliberately make enemies for himself.

"Forget it, let's look forward."

When the footsteps and human voices gradually faded away until they disappeared, the masked young man took Zhang He out of the flower stand, and comforted him in a gentle tone: "It should be fine now, but Chang'an City will definitely be under martial law tonight, you If you can’t go out at night, let’s stay at my house for now, it’s relatively safe here.”

Zhang He blinked, why did he feel that the eyes and tone of the person in front of him caring for the younger generation were inexplicably familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

"Who are you?" He asked such a question directly.

The man took off the black cloth covering his face, revealing a face that almost made Zhang He scream, and replied with a smile, "My name is Wei Shang."

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