"Your Highness, the situation outside is very disadvantageous to us. Please evacuate the posthouse as soon as possible. We are willing to risk our lives to help Your Highness break out of the encirclement!"
The deafening roar of Dugu Xin when he was heavily injured by Xuan Ye and the others clearly traveled to the room where Li Tai was staying in the central building of the posthouse. When the two Imperial Guards at the door heard the mournful, painful, and sorrowful roar, they couldn't help but change their expressions. A trace of anxiety and unease flashed across their faces, but after a moment of hesitation, they resolutely turned around and pushed open the door, solemnly cupping their fists in greeting to Li Tai.
After realizing that something had happened to Dugu Xin, the first reaction of these two Imperial Guards was to rush out to rescue Dugu Xin. However, they couldn't help but recall what Dugu Xin had said before he left: "Wang Tong, Guo Jian, the two of you stay here and protect His Highness … If the situation is bad, immediately evacuate with His Highness! Remember, even if you lose your lives, you must ensure His Highness's safety! "
Military orders must be obeyed!
A soldier's duty was to obey orders. Whether it was in ancient times or modern times, it was always so!
Guo Jian and Wang Tong both understood that the reason Dugu Xin had risked his life to fight the assassins outside was to ensure Li Tai's safety. If they went to rescue Dugu Xin now, not only would they fail to save Dugu Xin, they would also fail to live up to Dugu Xin's loyalty!
Therefore, after a brief moment of hesitation and struggle, the two of them finally chose to carry out their orders and protect Li Tai as he safely evacuated from the posthouse!
Before Dugu Xin had left, he had said that if the situation was bad, they were to immediately evacuate with Li Tai. Dugu Xin's painful and mournful roar meant that the situation was not good. It was very likely that the other party had already heavily injured Dugu Xin!
If Dugu Xin, the top fighter of the Imperial Guard, was heavily injured, then it was only a matter of time before the rest of the Imperial Guard were defeated!
"The situation is not good?"
Inside the room, Li Tai abruptly stood up when he heard this. He looked at Guo Jian and Wang Tong and asked with a frown, "That loud roar just now, was it General Dugu …?"
A trace of pain flashed across Guo Jian and Wang Tong's faces. Soon after, Guo Jian cupped his fists and replied, "… It's … it's the General's. There must be a peerless expert among them. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been able to injure the General. Therefore, Your Highness, please follow us and retreat immediately!"
"What ~?"
Li Tai was both shocked and furious when he received confirmation from the two of them. After pondering for a moment, he suddenly thought of something and shook his head. "No! I can't retreat like this! "
After saying that, Li Tai looked at Iron Egg beside him and said, "Iron Egg, don't we still have communication fireworks? Quick! Quickly take the communication fireworks to the roof and light them up. General Fei Ying and the others will definitely come to the post house's rescue when they see it! "
The teachers and students of Yanhuang College came to Taiyuan mainly to build a telegraph relay station. During the process, the teachers and students of the college couldn't stay together forever. After all, if they wanted to build a telegraph relay station as soon as possible, they had to work together!
In order to prevent accidents from happening during the mission, Dugu Xin had given all the teachers and students of the college a communication fireworks before entering the city. This was to be used to call for help in an emergency!
The reason why Li Tai didn't think of using the communication fireworks immediately was that tonight's attack was too sudden! Not only did he not think of it immediately, but Iron Egg and Dugu Xin also didn't think of it.
"Your Highness, your body is priceless. How can you put yourself in danger? Moreover, the General risked his life to fight the assassins despite his injuries in order to protect your safety. If you don't retreat, won't you be letting down the General's loyalty? "
Wang Tong's eyes were red as he cupped his fists to Li Tai and spoke in a rough voice.
Iron Egg couldn't help but advise, "Qingque, Brother Wang is right. We won't be of much help if we stay here. Why don't we retreat first and then go to the Provincial Governor's Mansion to get reinforcements? Otherwise, won't we be wasting General Dugu's efforts?"
Li Tai shook his head resolutely. "No! I can't just watch General Dugu and these Imperial Army soldiers throw their lives away without doing anything! Moreover, there are still some teachers and students of our college staying in the post house. How can this Prince abandon his teachers and classmates and flee alone? "
Li Tai used to be very afraid of death, but after staying in the college for more than a year, the word 'righteousness' had appeared in his mind!
Leaving aside the fact that Dugu Xin had dutifully protected them all this time, a month ago, when the Tujue State Preceptor Wu Jie had snuck into the college to steal the secret files, if not for Dugu Xin's timely arrival with his troops, Wu Jie would have very likely massacred the college. If that had happened, the casualties that night would have been even greater! And the losses would have been even greater!
Based on this point alone, the college owed Dugu Xin a great favor! Not to mention, Dugu Xin himself had a very close personal relationship with Li Zexuan, the Yamachō of Yanhuang College!
Therefore, although Dugu Xin was only a subject of the House of Li, Li Tai couldn't bear to see him die like this!
Iron Egg heard this and couldn't help but fall silent. In fact, how could he bear to see Dugu Xin and the rest of the Imperial Army soldiers die? But in the current situation, they had to make a choice!
No matter what, Li Tai couldn't have anything happen to him in Taiyuan City. Otherwise, more people would die because of him!
Thinking of this, Iron Egg steeled his heart and quietly took a step back. Then, he prepared to chop Li Tai's back with his hand!
…
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
