Just as King Fu Chu of Chu and the powerful nobles of Shouchun City rushed to the south gate of Shouchun City, the fastest road leading to the south gate of Shouchun City suddenly ignited a raging fire. The rolling black smoke made the women and servants panic for a moment, screaming and coughing filled everyone's ears.

"Ye Lin! Go and send someone to see what's going on? Several other city gates may fall at any time, and they can't delay it for a moment!!" King Fu Chu patted the wall of the carriage and shouted loudly at Ye Lin, the commander of the palace armored soldiers riding a yellow horse.[]

Ye Lin Yingnuo said, and took more than a dozen palace soldiers who blocked the road with horse whips and rode their horses to the place where the fire broke out. It didn't take long for Ye Lin to come back and report to King Fu Chu: "The road was blocked with many debris, but a big fire was still lit on both sides of the street. Now the fire is fierce. It is impossible to move so many debris away in such a large fire. If you want to put out the fire, you must go to the distance to draw well water and transport it here little by little. The time it takes only one or two hours.

According to my subordinates, I am afraid that this matter was done by someone deliberately. The purpose should be to block this passage within a certain period of time. Therefore, my subordinates suggest that the king should immediately send someone to drain the water from the nearby well and try to extinguish the fire in the shortest time. Then we will move away the debris blocked in the street and open the passage to the south gate again."

"You said that it will take one or two hours to reopen the passage! In that case, the Qin army will be by our side long ago when the fire is put out and opened the passage!! Turn around quickly and walk from another road. Even if this road is intentionally blocked by someone, there is no way to only one street leading to the South Gate, right? Can those people block one passage? Could it be that all the passages can be blocked?" King Fu Chu waved his hand and quickly rejected the decision to transport water and put out the fire.

Ye Lin opened his mouth to say something, but after King Fu Chu made a decision, he had already moved his body away from the window of the carriage. Looking at the hanging curtain, Ye Lin swallowed the words to his mouth back into his stomach.

The powerful nobles also sent people to check the situation ahead, and after getting the same answer, they all made a detour decision like King Fu Chu of Chu. As King Fu Chu of Chu said, no matter who set fire to block the fastest passage to the south gate. However, there are more than one or two roads to the south gate of Shouchun City. Can all passages be blocked if one is blocked?

But the idea was good, but the reality was cruel. King Fu Chu of Chu and the powerful nobles of Shouchun City searched several spacious passages again, and found that all passages that could pass through the carriage were blocked by people in the same way with debris and fire. The only passages that could pass were narrow alleys that could not pass through vehicles.

Ye Lin looked at the blue King of Chu Fu Chu on the car with some embarrassment. He had thought before that since those people could block one passage, they would probably block other passages with the same method. Instead of walking back and forth between several streets, it would be better to work together to open the fastest passage to the South Gate with this time.

"King, these streets must have been sealed by the Qin army who sneaked into the city a few days ago. Their purpose was not to the three city gates in the east and west, but to the king and those powerful nobles. However, after the searches a few days ago, the number of these Qin army must not be too large, so they thought of using fire to block some streets to delay our evacuation speed, and planned to wait until the Qin army outside the city attacked the city before cooperating with them to deal with us." Ye Lin first tentatively analyzed the current situation with King Fu Chu of Chu.

King Chu Fu Chu punched the carriage wall, feeling the pain from his hands and the anxiety in his heart, and let out anger: "Didn't those people say that the Qin army's fine works in the city have been surrounded and killed? Why are these Qin army's fine works now here?"

Ye Lin sighed lightly: "King, now is not a matter of pursuing these Qin soldiers' actions. The most important thing at the moment is how we should make a decision. The road is relatively close to the south gate, but there is a fire blocking the road and it must be put out bit by bit from the surrounding wells. The time it takes will definitely not be short.

The trail is far from the south gate, and the carriage cannot enter from those narrow intersections. If the king wants to walk from the trail, he must get off the carriage and walk in person. The most important thing is that although the trail seems to have not been blocked by fire, no one can be sure whether there will be a detailed Qin army in the process to assassinate the king."

Speaking of the word assassination, King Fu Chu of Chu trembled involuntarily and shouted: "Let the soldiers go to put out the fire! Let those people go to help together!"

Getting out of the car and walking is not a difficult task, and King Fu Chu of Chu is not a person who cannot bear any suffering. But Ye Lin is right. Since those Qin army's fine works can set fire to the streets, who can guarantee that when he walks on the path, will those elusive Qin army's fine works have already been ambushed by the side, just waiting for him to pass by and ambush himself in a hidden place? You must know that in those narrow paths, you can only accommodate three people together. If you really encounter assassination, you will almost die.

Ye Lin murmured in his heart, if he had started to take water to put out the fire before this, it might have been very effective. It was precisely because of the decision of King Fu Chu of Chu that they had wasted a lot of time on finding a way out. Although Ye Lin had some complaints, he only dared to mutter secretly in his heart, but he did not have the courage to say it in front of King Fu Chu of Chu.

Those who were also eager to escape from Shouchun City were all nobles. Seeing that King Fu Chu took the lead in sending people to get water to put out the fire, they also asked the slaves and guards around them to help. There were too many people and the power, and the fire was unexpectedly put out in less than an hour.

"Come on to move away those miscellaneous items quickly!" King Fu Chu of Chu could no longer wait in the carriage. The defenders who had just retreated from the west gate brought news of the fall of the city gate. Now it is extremely precious at every moment. Who knows whether the Qin soldiers will rush out from behind them in the next moment?

"King, the road has been cleared and it is already accessible." Ye Lin just participated in the firefighting operation, and his face was so terrible that it was so smoked.

But all this was not what King Fu Chu of Chu was concerned about. When he heard that the road was finally cleared, King Fu Chu of Chu quickly got back to the carriage and ordered to continue his journey. The powerful nobles naturally refused to fall behind, and whipped the horse and began to continue their escape journey.

On the next road, the "accident" that King Fu Chu of Chu was worried about did not appear, which made the big stone that had been hanging in his heart finally fall down. In fact, King Fu Chu of Chu did not know that after blocking all the streets that were enough to move into the carriage, Yu Qing took advantage of the panic in the city to sneak into the Chu Palace to find his granddaughter Yu Ji. Although the paths needed a little further away, there was no ambush at all.

Seeing that the southern gate of Shouchun had already come into view, King Fu Chu of Chu and the powerful nobles all smiled happily. As long as they could walk out of the southern gate, the Qin soldiers behind them would not do anything to them for at least a short time. After arriving in Huainan through the water, they could at least enjoy a "free life" with their status, status, and property.

"Stop! Stop!!" Ye Lin suddenly tightened the reins in his hand and stopped the war horse, shouting loudly to stop the team's advance.

King Fu Chu of Chu stretched out his head from the carriage, stared at Ye Lin with a very angry look, and shouted in a low voice: "What's wrong?"

Ye Lin pointed to the empty South Gate Tower in front of him and explained: "Don't the king think it's too quiet here? And there is no one in Zhao Pu's army that should have been stationed here."

Indeed, compared with the shouts of killing coming closer and closer behind, the Nanmen here seemed too quiet anyway.

"There is a waterway outside the South Gate, so it is naturally quiet without the Qin army siege. If you ask where Zhao Pu and the others went, I know that some people came to the South Gate several times and forced Zhao Pu's soldiers to be transferred. Didn't you just see hundreds of soldiers going from the South Gate to the North Gate? Maybe that's Zhao Pu's last sergeant." King Fu Chu said, looking at the powerful nobles who were also sitting in the carriage, there was a strange look in their eyes.

Ye Lin frowned. Although King Fu Chu could easily explain his guess, he still had a vague concern in his heart: "King, the South Gate is already close anyway. It would be better to let those powerful nobles walk in front and open the way for the King. If they pass the South Gate safely, it would not be too late for us to leave then."

"Well, since you have arrived here, let's wait a little longer." After all, King Fu Chu of Chu himself had some concerns about the Qin army who had sneaked into Shouchun City before. He was not sure that there was no problem with the seemingly peaceful southern city gate ahead, so at this time, King Fu Chu of Chu still agreed to Ye Lin's suggestion.

However, the powerful nobles did not know why the convoy of King Fu Chu of Chu suddenly stopped. The southern gate of Shouchun City was close at hand, and the shouts of Qin soldiers and Chu soldiers behind them were getting closer and closer to them. At this time, they naturally had to speed up their retreat, so how could they stop at the last moment?

But is the South City Gate really as calm as they saw? If you want to know what happens next, look at it without tears and tear.
Chapter completed!