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Chapter 823 The Bewildered Fang Ruhai

If it was just a circle, it would be quite easy for Li Kaigu's plan to be exposed.

What confused Fang Ruhai the most was actually Li Kaigu's going around in circles.

It was already about 10 to 20 miles away from Changting County. When it turned to another road, it ran towards Changting County again.

This is also the reason why the soldiers from the various camps of Zuo Yingyang Guard were unable to catch up in the end.

It's like a round trip run. Running ten meters back and forth is not difficult, but running ten miles back and forth is difficult.

As you are running, suddenly the order comes, asking you to return the same way you came.

After returning halfway, you suddenly receive another order to turn around and continue running along the original route.

Not to mention a living person, even a mule would be exhausted.

Finally, Li Kaigu led more than a thousand cavalrymen to the west gate and pretended to have arrived in Silla County. This was the final blow.

Fang Ruhai must have regarded him as a lost lamb at this moment, and did not even think carefully about where he hid the soldiers of the Left and Right Yuqian Guards.

Perhaps, Fang Ruhai's idea was very simple. He must have left his subordinates in Fuzhou, and he came here to find trouble with Fang Ruhai.

And on their way to the ambush site, there will definitely be countless obstacles.

These obstacles must have been made up of soldiers who were exhausted by them. The purpose was to drag them to death on the road and make it difficult for them to return to Fuzhou.

Thinking of this, Li Kaigu felt even happier.

"They've set up an ambush ahead, so we can just pretend we were blocked by an ambush, unable to go east, and had to flee southeast."

"I think Fang Ruhai will be delighted to think that we have been cornered, and he won't realize that our army has already set an ambush for him in the southeast!"

"He might have thought that our ambush was on the way here, hahahahahahahahahahahaha!"

Li Kaigu was so happy that he flew up.

It is very exciting to think that a veteran who has been famous for more than ten years is being fooled by this rising star.

What made him even more excited was yet to come.

He led more than a thousand cavalrymen and rushed to the north gate. On the way, he met several waves of Zuo Yingyang Guard soldiers who were looking for him. Fortunately, their number was not large, and he defeated them all without any danger.

Looking at the guard on the north gate tower, Li Kaigu stretched his aching arms and headed towards the tower to do one last thing to confuse Fang Ruhai.

"Listen up, commander on the tower!"

"I, Li Kaigu, have arrived at your east gate. Why don't you all surrender to me quickly? Otherwise, when my heavenly army arrives, I will surely turn all of you scum into ashes!"

The commander guarding the city wall was just a lieutenant among lieutenants, and he couldn't even command a battalion of soldiers, so he became the commander of the city wall.

Seeing that Li Kaigu was going too far, the defending general was furious.

"You thief!"

"Could it be that he is blind?"

"This is not the East Gate you mentioned, this is the North Gate!"

Li Kaigu pretended not to know anything. He looked around again and again, and finally shouted in surprise:

"How could this be? We've been on the run and haven't even been able to resist the East Gate. This is simply horrifying!"

"Brothers, follow me to the east gate!"

Fang Ruhai, who finally caught up with him, once again watched Li Kaigu's horse's butt disappear from his sight.

However, this time he was even less worried.

He smiled at the people next to him and said:

"How can such an incompetent person be the commander of an army?"

"The Emperor of the Great Zhou is truly becoming increasingly old and foolish!"

"No wonder there are rumors from Luoyang that our emperor should learn from Emperor Taizong. Haha, he can use such incompetent people. He is even worse than Emperor Taizong."

Everyone burst into laughter.

Among them, many are old people who lived through the era of Emperor Taizong. When Emperor Taizong was not foolish and incompetent, he was still a wise ruler.

As for the current emperor of the Great Zhou, forget it.

He wanted to emulate Emperor Taizong in forcing the crown prince to rebel, and then put the blame on the crown prince, but he ended up doing a complete mess. In the end, the crown prince made some outrageous remarks, and finally committed suicide under the red steps, nailing the emperor to the pillar of shame in history.

When people in the future mention the first female emperor in history, they will only say that she was indeed the first female emperor and that she had some achievements during her reign.

At this time, someone will ask, why did the emperor who expanded the territory to the Western Regions, annexed the Khitans, and accepted the Turkic prince, grand marshal, and generals only have some minor achievements?

Of course, she was the one who massacred the Li family, forced the prince to death, and was suspected of poisoning Li Dan's entire family and Li Xian's entire residence.

"Let's go, let's chase!"

Fang Ruhai was not valued before and had many complaints against the emperor. He still has many complaints now.

As long as the news was unfavorable to Wu Zetian, even if it was false, Fang Ruhai would spread it around as if it were true.

On the other side, Li Kaigu finally arrived at the east gate. Looking at the city gate he had visited once during the day, he raised his head and took a careful look. Finally, he led everyone to stand outside the range of bows and arrows.

"Soldiers up there, listen to me!"

"I am Li Kaigu, the General of the Right Jade Guard, serving in the presence of the Emperor of the Great Zhou and the King of Qin!"

"You have three breaths to open the city gates and surrender. Otherwise, I will lead my army to break down the gates and kill you all!"

The city gate guard had been humiliated once during the day. If Fang Ruhai had not stopped him, he would have gone down and fought with Li Kaigu on the spot.

Now seeing Li Kaigu being so presumptuous, he was unwilling to indulge him, so he immediately ordered the city gate to be opened. The soldiers all shouted "Kill, kill, kill" and rushed towards Li Kaigu.

"These cunning fellows are actually waiting for this general here!"

"Brothers, the wind is blowing!"

Li Kaigu fled all the way to Fuzhou in the east, without any concern about whether there were ambushes ahead.

In just half an hour, Fang Ruhai, who had been following Li Kaigu, received more than a dozen reports from messengers.

According to these messengers, Li Kaigu went eastwards and although he was blocked countless times, he never stopped, as if he was very afraid of something happening.

In this regard, Fang Ruhai said:

"What are you afraid of?"

"That's too simple. Of course, he's afraid that General Ben will catch up with him and chop him to pieces with a single blow."

"If I'm not mistaken, Li Kaigu probably placed the left and right Yuqian guards on his escape route, hoping that I would chase him and ambush him."

"Unfortunately, I blocked his way back east. He couldn't run back at all, so he had to force his way back."

The more Fang Ruhai felt that he understood Li Kaigu's thoughts, the more he looked down on Li Kaigu.

Such a person can also be the commander of an army. The emperor is really old and foolish and deserves to die.

At this time, a messenger came riding over.

"Reporting to the General, Li Kaigu led over a thousand cavalrymen and was surrounded and intercepted dozens of times. It was difficult for him to return east, so he had no choice but to flee southeast!"