The moon is bright and the stars are sparse tonight. It is a rare good day. The visibility at night is neither high nor low.
Before the official evacuation, Yan Liqiang took some time to run outside after dark and retrieve the iron box containing the magic insects that he had hidden in a secret compartment under a carriage in the Deer Garden.
The so-called hour of Hai is around nine o'clock in the evening. At a quarter before the hour of Hai, all the carriages and people in the Deer Garden were ready at the gate. There were a total of more than 40 carriages and more than 400 people. Those sitting on the carriages were servants, craftsmen and people in the palace who could not ride horses or were not convenient to ride horses. All those who could ride horses rode on rhinoceros horses and held various tools in their hands. As a royal garden, the Deer Garden originally had a large-scale horse farm. After Eunuch Liu was promoted, a lot of high-quality rhinoceros horses were sent to the horse farm of the Deer Garden. Therefore, the rhinoceros horses in the Deer Garden were definitely enough. In addition to pulling carriages and carrying people, there were hundreds of rhinoceros horses.
All the guards and eunuchs from the palace had changed their clothes and put on the uniforms of ordinary soldiers from the imperial cavalry. The palace maids and concubines in the palace had all boarded the carriages. In this way, the entire team was not so eye-catching. From a distance, it looked like just a group of ordinary soldiers.
In order to reduce the noise when traveling at night, Yan Liqiang had the wheels and hooves of all the four-wheeled carriages wrapped with cotton cloth, all the rhinoceros horses were equipped with bitts, and even the backs and sides of the headlights on the carriages were painted black, so that only the headlights could illuminate the road ahead. Seeing the blackened headlights, Yan Liqiang thought secretly that when he returned to the northwest this time, he would ask the manufacturing bureau to change the headlights on all the carriages to this style where the light only illuminates the front and does not scatter in all directions. This style of headlight is more like a car headlight, and will not be so conspicuous when traveling at night.
Yan Liqiang's rhino horse Caiyun Zhuiyue, which looked like it could transform into a dragon, was finally led out at this time. After being equipped, it became Yan Liqiang's mount. Caiyun Zhuiyue was larger in size and build than ordinary rhino horses, and had a domineering and fierce temperament. Yan Liqiang rode the horse in the team. When the rhino horses next to him saw Caiyun Zhuiyue coming, they didn't dare to make a sound. As for those that were originally blocking the road, Caiyun Zhuiyue raised her head and just made a little sound with her nose, and the rhino horses that were blocking the road quickly retreated automatically. Riding Caiyun Zhuiyue made Yan Liqiang feel like he was riding a gangster boss on a rhino horse, and it was almost like driving a tank.
Yan Liqiang himself was also wearing a full set of dark red riveted soft armor and a helmet. He held a meteorite spear more than ten feet long in his hand and a long sword on his waist. There were two bow bags hung side by side on the left side of Caiyun Zhuiyue's saddle. The big bow bag contained a dragon-shaking bow, and the small bow bag contained a thirty-stone horn python bow. On the other side of the two bow bags, there were three pots of arrows. Yan Liqiang looked radiant and majestic, like a general commanding an army. That kind of expression and demeanor made the palace maids' eyes shine, and even Liu Xitong and Meng Hui, several officers from the Luyuan, felt awe-inspiring when they saw him.
Before leaving, Yan Liqiang rode on Caiyun Zhuiyue and inspected the team from beginning to end. When Yan Liqiang returned from the end of the team and came to the middle of the team, the curtain behind the window of the carriage where Concubine Rong was sitting was drawn open, and then Concubine Rong's lazy voice came from the carriage.
"Master Yan, is it about time?"
This car was modified, with an iron plate fixed on all four sides of the carriage. The original windows were no longer visible, and there were only two rows of ventilation vents. Behind the vents were curtains. Behind the vents, one could just see Concubine Rong's charming eyes. In the carriage of this car, in addition to Concubine Rong, there were also Prince Min and Princess Anping. Elder Liu was sitting next to the driver's seat of this car, and the driver was a guard in the palace. Concubine Duan, Concubine Rui, and Concubine Yi were sitting in a car in the front. Yan Hong was sitting next to the driver's seat of the car in front, with his bow and several pots of arrows on the roof of the car. He was responsible for coordinating in the center. Yan Qing was at the end of the team, riding on a rhinoceros horse, and was responsible for pressing back.
"Don't worry, Madam, the time has come, we can leave immediately!"
"Thank you for your help along the way, Lord Yan!" Through the car door, the pair of big eyes moved around Yan Liqiang, shining a little.
"This is my responsibility..." Yan Liqiang said with a bow.
"Master, your horse is so majestic, I want to ride it..." King Min's eyes appeared from the other side of the vent, and he was putting his face in the carriage, looking outside curiously.
"Your Highness, please rest in the car first. When there is a chance in the future, I will teach you how to ride..."
"Okay, okay, I'll remember it..." King Min said happily.
Yan Liqiang nodded, then rode forward, while Concubine Rong pulled up the curtain inside. When passing the carriage in front of her where Concubine Duan, Concubine Rui, and Concubine Yi were sitting, the curtain of that carriage was also pulled open. The three noble ladies inside did not speak, but Yan Liqiang still felt that there were three pairs of eyes staring at him.
Yan Liqiang came to the front of the team, looked at the sky, then looked at the soldiers who had been riding horses and ready, and nodded gently to Liu Xitong. Liu Xitong raised the lantern in his hand and waved it twice towards the distance. Immediately, there was a noise from the distant courtyard wall, and a few faint sounds of sheep were heard. A moment later, Meng Hui came running over with more than twenty soldiers with sweat on their foreheads.
"Sir, four pigs, six sheep, and more than ten chickens, all put down!"
"Okay, get on the horse!" Yan Liqiang nodded, then closed his eyes and listened to the noise outside. After about three or four minutes, Yan Liqiang opened his eyes and said two words, "Open the door..."
The gate of the Deer Garden opened suddenly, and Yan Liqiang took the lead and rushed out first, followed by a large number of people, horses and vehicles.
There was not a single zombie outside the gate of the Deer Park or on the road at this moment. The zombies that were originally wandering outside were attracted to a forest in the distance.
The sounds of the horses' hooves and wheels wrapped in cotton cloth were a bit muffled. Although there was some movement, it was much better than when they were not wrapped in cotton cloth. Hundreds of horses and men and dozens of vehicles quickly rushed out of the deer park. In the blink of an eye, they were on the official road outside, and then rushed towards the west under the cover of night.
The team had been running on the official road for less than 500 meters when they inevitably ran into a group of zombies. There were about thirty zombies wandering on the official road three or four hundred meters away. When they heard the noise coming from the official road and saw the light from the carriage, they bared their teeth and rushed directly towards Yan Liqiang.
Yan Liqiang hung his spear on his horse, and the 30-stone horn python bow appeared in his hand in the blink of an eye. Then, the soldiers and the carriages and horses following Yan Liqiang only heard the sound of the bowstring shaking and the arrows breaking through the air, and saw arrows constantly shooting out of Yan Liqiang's hands like locusts. In less than ten seconds, dozens of zombies who wanted to rush over all fell down. When the carriages and horses rushed over, everyone only saw the heads of the bodies on the side of the official road being blown off by arrows. The corpses with their skulls blown off by arrows were scattered on the side of the road, and their brains were scattered everywhere.
Seeing Yan Liqiang leading the way so bravely, all the people in the team, even the guards in the palace, were greatly encouraged and felt that escaping from the capital would not be a difficult task...
Not long after leaving the Deer Garden, they heard noises of fighting and chopping outside. Concubine Rong was a little frightened while sitting in the car, and couldn't help asking, "What happened outside?"
"Don't worry, Madam. There were dozens of zombies on the road just now, but they have been killed by Master Yan..."
When the voice of the guard driving the car came, Concubine Rong breathed a sigh of relief in the car.
…
The team rushed out for less than two miles, and the official road ahead just passed through the middle of a village. From a distance, there were still lights flickering in the village. When they got closer, everyone in the team saw that in that village, on both sides of the official road, there were countless wandering people. At first glance, there were at least thousands of...
"All carriages and horses must not stop, speed up and charge forward..." Yan Liqiang's voice came, and then the horn python bow in Yan Liqiang's hand turned into a meteorite iron spear, and he rushed forward first, and when he rushed to the village head, the meteorite iron spear in Yan Liqiang's hand suddenly turned into a mad python poisonous dragon. Wherever Caiyun Zhuiyue passed, groups of walking corpses that rushed up, before they could get within three meters of Caiyun Zhuiyue, all their heads shattered and flew away. Yan Liqiang almost cleared a bloody path for the entire team by himself...
“Kill…” Liu Xitong and his companions followed Yan Liqiang closely, roaring angrily, and slashed their weapons at the heads of the zombies that were rushing up from both sides of the official road. Under the huge impact force of the rhino dragon horse, even those who were lucky enough to get close would be knocked away by the rhino dragon horse…
The entire team, like an iron chisel, directly punched through the village, leaving behind corpses and blood, and quickly rushed out of the village. There were still zombies chasing behind, but they could not catch up with the speed of the carriages and horses here...
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Just two hours after Yan Liqiang left the Deer Garden, the Ghost King stood in the Deer Garden with a grim face, looking at the empty Deer Garden and the zombies lying on the ground around him, his fists clenched so hard that they made a crackling sound.
The black shadow flashed, and several masters wearing Night Ghost Army masks appeared beside the Ghost King.
"Venerable, there is no one in the Deer Park anymore..."
"The stove in the kitchen in the distance is still warm. The people here should have left not long ago, probably after dinner..."
"That Yan Liqiang runs pretty fast!" The Ghost King spat out three words from his teeth, with ghost fire flashing in his eyes. "With so many people in the Deer Garden, he must have walked along the official road. I want to see how capable Yan Liqiang is. Chase him!"
(End of this chapter)