The young knife hand withdrew the knife, Chen Zhitai let out a long breath, raised his sleeve to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, and was about to get up, when the knife hand said coldly: "Who told you to get up?" ”

"We're friends, big brother, you're ......!" Chen Zhitai squeezed out a smile, and before he finished speaking, the young man had already said: "Whether you are a friend or not depends on whether you are sincere or not, it is too early to call a friend a friend." ”

Chen Zhitai immediately said: "Honesty and integrity, that is sincerity, it can no longer be sincere." ”

The young man looked over to the convoy, where the battle was over.

Chen Zhitai's group was a rabble, a few people were killed, and when they saw this group of swordsmen, dragons and tigers were fiercer than the other, they naturally lost their fighting spirit, dropped the weapons in their hands, and obediently knelt on the ground to beg for surrender, and a few of the more daring ones wanted to escape, but they were caught up in an instant.

Except for a few people who were killed, all the robbers, including Chen Zhitai, were arrested, and none of them were missed.

"Brother Wang, it's still your quick hand." A person strode over and said with a smile: "Look, this guy should be their leader, you caught him, and I will give you a credit first." ”

The young man was naturally Qin Xiao, and said to the man who came over: "Eldest son, this guy is quite knowledgeable about current affairs. ”

The eldest prince Yuwen Chengchao held a knife in his hand, stepped forward, looked at Chen Zhitai, the third master who was kneeling on the ground, and asked, "You took them to rob the grain?" ”

Chen Zhitai hurriedly said: "No, no, I'..... I'm not the leader, I'm ..... We don't have a leader, we have to discuss everything. "I thought that if I admitted that I was the leader, I wondered if I would be cut off in the head.

When officers and men crack down on bandits, they usually treat ordinary minions leniently, but the bandit leaders will inevitably punish them severely.

"It wasn't the leader." Yuwen Chengchao said disappointedly: "Since this is the case, it shouldn't be useless, Brother Wang, it's cut with a knife." ”

Qin Xiao agreed, the knife in his hand was raised, and Chen Zhitai immediately changed his words: "I confess, I confess, I am their third master, my name is Chen Zhitai, very famous, in ..... It's a very important person in the mountains, and if you catch me, you're really the right person, I know a lot, and I know exactly what you want to know. ”

"Oh?" Yuwen Chengchao glanced at Chen Zhitai a few times, his face was still cold.

"The eldest son, he claims to be the third master, I don't think so." Qin Xiao immediately said: "He may be afraid of death, so he assumes his identity." ”

"Absolutely not." Chen Zhitai was categorical, turned around and pointed to the group of arrested minions and said, "You two can go and ask them, they can testify for me." What's more, Chen is a well-known manly man, and he will never impostor him because he is greedy for life and afraid of death, you have wronged me. ”

Yuwen Chengchao sneered: "Okay, let me ask you, where did you come from?" Who are your bosses? ”

Chen Zhitai hesitated for a moment before saying, "Two, let's ..... Can we negotiate a condition? ”

Qin Xiao waved his sword: "You still have to negotiate conditions with us now?" ”

"Don't dare, don't dare." Chen Zhitai said with a bitter face: "I..... I just wanted to ask you for one thing. If I could confess honestly, you ..... Can you spare us? We didn't kill innocents indiscriminately, and even if we robbed, we didn't hurt people's lives, let alone ..... What's more, we haven't grabbed it a few times either. ”

"Whether you want to spare you or not depends on your attitude and whether your subordinates are worthy of cooperation." Yuwen Chengchao said: "Answer my question first." ”

Chen Zhitai said: "Our big boss is Ding Zixiu, and he is called a while on the road."

Wind, that's a loud character.....!" Suddenly realizing that he didn't seem to be saying this, he immediately said: "But in my eyes, he is nothing." In fact..... In fact, when I went up the mountain, I was also forced by him, and I used to be a good person who was innocent. ”

"Where is he now?" Of course, the eldest prince doesn't care if he's a good person or not.

"Jigong Gorge." Chen Zhitai did not hesitate, and said very simply: "He hid in Jigong Gorge, saying that the terrain of Jigong Gorge is dangerous, even if it is surrounded and suppressed by officers and soldiers, he is not afraid." ”

Yuwen Chengchao still asked coldly: "Since you are the third master, of course you know how many people there are on the mountain." ”

Chen Zhitai nodded and said: "I know, I know, there are more than 200 brothers in the entire Jigong Gorge, some of them are his old departments, but most of them have been recruited by him in the past two years. Squeezed out a smile and said: "Two, can you let me get up and speak, I have some small problems in my legs, and my muscles and bones are not good when I have kneeling for too long, and I ask you to understand." ”

Yuwen Chengchao and Qin Xiao glanced at each other, and hummed lightly, Chen Zhitai was amnesty, he gave his hand again and again, stood up, and then patted his chest and said: "I, Chen Zhitai, are righteous, you are righteous, I am even more righteous, I want to know what you ask, just say what I know." Are you going to catch Ding Zixiu? The Jigong Gorge mountain is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is not easy to attack it. ”

"Chen is in charge, do you have a grudge against Ding Zixiu?" Qin Xiao couldn't help but ask.

Chen Zhitai immediately said: "What are these words? I married Jin Lan with him, although I am not a brother, but I am better than ...... flesh and blood! Instantly thinking of the officers and soldiers in front of him, he thought to himself why he always made the mistake of having a mouth faster than his brain, and changed his words: "It's a bit contradictory to him." ”

"Of course Master Chen is also very familiar with the terrain on the mountain?" Yuwen Chengchao asked.

Chen Zhitai nodded: "The big boss has built a lot of fortifications on the mountain, just to prevent the officers and soldiers from entering the mountain one day, I have been in charge of supervising the work for more than a year, and I know the terrain on the mountain well, even if I close my eyes, the map on the mountain can be drawn." ”

"Good." Yuwen Chengchao finally showed a smile: "You help us draw a picture and do one thing, we can not only let you go, but also give you a lot of rewards, so that you can enjoy the wealth in the second half of your life, what do you think?" ”

Chen Zhitai blinked his eyes and asked, "What picture?" What to do? ”

"You yourself said that you can draw a map of Jigong Gorge with your eyes closed." Yuwen Chengchao put the knife into the sheath and said, "Then I bother you to help us draw the map." If you want to do something, draw the map first. ”

Chen Zhitai was surprised: "You really want to go to Jigong Gorge? He glanced over there, shook his head and said: "I can't help it, you don't have enough manpower, more than 20 people, it is impossible to beat down, and running over is a meat bun and beating a dog, and there is no return." ”

"You won't have to worry about this." Yuwen Chengchao looked up at the sky, the sky and the earth had completely darkened, and then looked at the convoy, he could only see the figure, and said solemnly: "The unitary hour is about to pass, I can only give you an hour at most, and draw the terrain and paths of the mountains before and after Jigong Gorge, especially the first checkpoints and sentry posts on the mountain, one by one." Let's talk about the ugly things ahead, if you make the wrong one, you really can't save your head. ”

Cold sweat broke out on Chen Zhitai's forehead, and he said with a bitter face: "You have to draw the map in an hour?" This..... Isn't that too hasty? Why don't you give me one night, let me think about it and draw it well, and ..... it before dawn tomorrow! ”

"No way!" Yuwen Chengchao didn't wait for Chen Zhitai to finish speaking, and said in a cold tone: "One hour is limited, not more than a moment." "Silence

"Follow me!" ”

Chen Zhitai was helpless, Qin Xiao escorted him behind, and followed Yuwen Chengchao to the side of the convoy.

The minions have already squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands, the swordsmen are guarding one by one, and the people who were frightened by Chen Zhitai and fled in all directions have all returned at this time, Yuwen Cheng said to one person: "Fat fish, Dapeng, you two take people to lean the car to the south, we are on the official road, maybe there will be other convoys coming over later, and it will not be good to be seen." He also instructed: "Zhao Yi, you take six or three people and the brothers who are transporting grain, escort these bandits back to the city overnight, and hand them over directly to the Metropolitan Protectorate for disposal." ”

Several people agreed, although Zhao Yi felt that it was not a good thing to escort the prisoners back to the city, but the eldest prince had orders, and he would never dare to disobey.

"Take off all your garments." The fat fish pointed to the minions squatting on the ground and said, "Whoever is the last to take off will be hacked to death with a knife." ”

As soon as he said this, the minions reacted quickly, divided five by two, and stripped off their clothes until only a pair of shorts remained.

Everyone is in a hurry, and it's really hard to determine who will be the last to finish it.

Dapeng asked people to take the rope prepared on the car, tied the hands of the bandits behind their backs, and threw the bodies of the slashed minions directly into the car, and the black cloth was also re-covered.

Among these cars, there are also a few cars that are really loaded with grain, Yuwen Chengchao asked Zhao Yi to take people to drive a dozen taels of grain carts, escorting the minions back to the city together, leaving less than twenty taels of grain carts, under the leadership of Fat Fish and Dapeng, quickly pulled away from the official road, directly behind the hillside where Chen Zhitai had previously ambushed, so that even if someone passed by on the official road, it was impossible to find the situation behind the hillside.

Yuwen Chengchao asked people to take the prepared pen and ink again, and threw it on a wooden board, Chen Zhitai was helpless, so he could only rack his brains to draw the map of Jigong Gorge.

Chen Zhitai was only worried that when the time came, he couldn't complete the task, the head on his neck really couldn't be saved, and the whole person was completely immersed in the painting, and after drawing the processed terrain, Yuwen Chengchao took a closer look, and the dark whistle, the camp, and the main road and trail were all drawn, which was Ding Zixiu's residence, which was also focused on depiction, which can be said to be dedicated.

"Master Chen, your painting skills are really good." Qin Xiao looked at the map on the side and said with a smile: "Actually, you shouldn't be a bandit, you should be a painter, with your talent, maybe you can become a generation of painting masters." ”

Chen Zhitai was a little proud, and said: "Don't dare to be, in fact, what I am best at is killing pigs, I used to be a butcher." ”

"You can see it." Qin Xiao nodded and said, "By the way, you have to pick up those two axes, they are your logo, and they can't be lost." ”

"There's nothing wrong with the map, right?" Yuwen Chengchao took a closer look and asked, "If there is something wrong, you can't keep your head." ”

Chen Zhitai hurriedly said: "No, there will never be any mistakes, I guarantee with my personality." ”

When he said this, Yuwen Chengchao and Qin Xiao were a little worried, after all, the personality of the Chen family was really worthless.

Suddenly, the fat fish said, "Someone is coming." ”

Qin Xiao immediately followed the direction of the fat fish's gaze, only to see that not far away, a dense shadow was coming this way, although it was dark between heaven and earth, Qin Xiao had a good eyesight, and he could clearly see that it was a group of cavalry, not to mention hundreds of horses.

It's just that the cavalry is like a tide, but there is no heavy sound of horses' hooves.