Chapter 70, out of the city at night

Zu Zhao took Zu Ji, Zu Ling and several other officers and soldiers along a residential alley.

The sound of horses' hoofs is crisp and disturbing, but wherever it passes by, there will soon be the sound of the people. Several families still have lights on their palms, and the dogs in the courtyard can't stop barking, and the shadows are stretched and shrinking at the end of the alley. The roads are getting more and more crowded, and the knights can only line up through it. As soon as he came out of this alley, Zu Zhao suddenly heard someone shouting behind him.

"Look, there are people, there are people on the eaves."

Zu Zhao immediately slowed down, turned around and looked up. He saw a dark shadow passing by quickly on the side of the crowded alley just now. The other party was very sensitive and bounced very well. He ran on the eaves deftly and smoothly, and he didn't even look at all, completely flat.

"It must be an assassin, catch up." Zu Zhao shouted decisively.

"But thieves are everywhere. What if they attack east and west?" An officer and soldier asked worriedly.

"You two, go and inform Lieutenant Wen first, and say that we are here to chase the thief and let him divide the troops to take care of him." Zu Zhao said.

The officers and soldiers could only listen to it and immediately went in the direction of fire with their companions.

Zu Zhao and others chased next to the house jumping in the shadow. No matter how fast the people on the eaves run, it is impossible for them to run. However, the other party is light and seems to have a planned route, specializing in some crowded residential houses. Instead, it made the trackers downstairs miserable. Or because the horses are too high to easily pass through the low eaves, they can only lie on the horse's back and walk carefully, which is very embarrassing; or the road is winding, and they have to advance and retreat when turning, such as walking on thin ice; or alarm dogs in people's homes, running out and biting the horse's legs, causing the mount to eat pain and causing chaos.

Even if he is proficient in riding like Zu Zhao, he still has to scold secretly here.

In this way, he wandered around the private 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 was quick and obviously not an ordinary person, and it was very likely to be the black arrow girl. In his opinion, the Black Arrow Girl is a big doubt in this series of events. As long as she can be caught, many doubts that have been buried in his heart will be solved.

"Father, that man 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 frowning. By this time, he must have been on guard near the city wall. The thief dared to flee in the direction of the city, didn't he throw himself into the trap!

Continue to chase, and soon the house became sparse.

Just as he was about to chase down the city, the thief jumped from the outermost roof to a fir tree close to the city, and quickly climbed up along the trunk of the fir tree. When he was about to reach the top of the tree, the thief raised his hand and shot a sleeve arrow in the direction of the wall, with a rope hanging at the end of the sleeve 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 fiercely and accelerated her pace to chase in the direction of the fir tree. When he finally came to the bottom of the fir tree, he shouted with confidence: "The thief is not running away!"

The people on the tree were indifferent at all, grasping the rope and drifting towards the wall.

Glid to the middle of the city wall, while stepping on the wall while grasping the rope to climb. Three or five times, it has already crossed the walls of the city wall. Several exclamation came from the wall. It was the patrol officers and soldiers who found movement coming this way. Before long, there were several screams. The firelight shook, and the shadows were longing, but they never saw the shadow of the thief again.

"Quick, come on, someone jumped over the wall."

"Bold thief, break into the city without permission. Where is the archer?

"Come on, shoot arrows, shoot arrows for me."

Zushao and his party swirling under the root of the city wall, as if everyone had lost their mind.

He also hurried forward with the two officers and soldiers of the group and asked Zu Zhao, "What should I do now?"

Zu Zhao said silently and solemnly, "Where is the closest city gate?"

Hearing this, everyone knew that Zu Zhao was going out of the city to chase people. They all looked at each other and had no idea.

Zu Ling, as an uncle, had to persuade him and rushed forward and said, "Sir, forget it. It's just that a thief has left, and there are other pursuits in the city. Why should I be so obsessed? Besides, the night is dark and the wind is high, and the road is unknown. In case other thieves outside the city respond, we are weak, but we dare not be too strong.

When others heard this, they also showed a worried face.

Zi Zhao said in a straight voice, "I know that man's hand. This thief is a black arrow thief. If she is free again today, when will she be brought to justice again? As for whether there is a response from thieves outside the city, I don't expect it. All the assassins are dying in this matter of Taishou Mansion. Why do they need to respond? Moreover, if they really arrange to respond, they don't have to spend a lot of time planting insiders to the Taishou Mansion, and they won't act like this. Instead, they will earn the gate first, and then attack the Taishou Mansion.

Zu Ling and others did not know the specific situation in the Taishou Mansion. As for the insider and other words, he was confused, but when he saw that Zu Zhao was so resolute, he had already expected that there was no way to control his opinions.

Zuji beside him didn't think so much anyway. After listening to Zu Zhao's words, he shouted, "Since he is a black arrow thief, he must catch up anyway and never let this thief escape. My Zuping wants to avenge the day!"

Zu Zhao took a look at Zu Ji and sighed in his heart: Alas, it's all an arrow!

Make up their mind that everyone can only follow Zu Zhao and run to the nearest gate.

Of course, Zu Zhao will not be uncertain. He believes that the Black Arrow Girl and other thieves who are now fleeing are basically choosing to escape temporarily because the situation in the Taishou Mansion is unclear. The black arrow girl did not have a mount and jumped from the city wall. Even if she had ropes and no matter how good her body was, she would be more or less injured. Next, she ran away on foot and couldn't beat the speed of chasing.

Running to a gate of the north city wall, the guards received a letter that the upper and lower towers were already ready. The brazier and torch illuminate the whole city, patrolling with knives and armor, and archers all buckle arrows on the strings and are ready to fight at any time. Zu Zhao's officers and soldiers explained the reason to the guard of the gate. After all, there was an accident in the Taishou Mansion, and the young general guarding the gate did not dare to have too much embarrass, and finally opened the 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 fell alone, they were the most timid. He simply ordered again: "In case of an accident, the two of you will go back to the city and ask more officers and soldiers to come to support."

Hearing this, the two officers and soldiers breathed a sigh of relief and nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes."

After sending away the officers and soldiers, the rest are the children of the ancestral family. Although there are not many people, it is much more convenient to keep up with this trip and can uniformly ban the ban.

Zuzu Zhao didn't say much other nonsense and rushed to the west.

There are traces and lights of officers and soldiers on the wall, and the place where they gathered is the place where the thief escaped.

Looking for the voice and came to the city, the patrolmen above almost thought that Zu Zhao and others were the thieves who came to pick them up. Fortunately, as soon as Zu Zhao stopped his horse, he shouted loudly above the wall: "I am the gatekeeper of the palace. I was ordered to chase the thief. What direction did the thief who jumped off the wall escape?"

Seeing that he was not a thief, the patrol soldiers quickly put away their bows and arrows and said, "If you go straight north, you can't see them if you escape into the forest."

Zu Zhao raised his eyes and looked north. The northern suburbs are a desolate countryside. There are several villages about three or five miles to the west and east, while the due north is just a dense forest.

At this time, another person said on the tower, "Before the thief landed, I cut off his rope in time. He should have fallen heavily. Now it's not too late to chase him."

"Nonsense, it's clear that I shot the thief with an arrow."

"Before you shot, I cut off the rope. Even if it was shot, it was after the thief fell down."

Zu Zhao was too lazy to listen to these soldiers competing for success. He lowered his head and carefully looked at the ground by the firelight of the wall.

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