Fan Ju and Ziyi stood up at the same time: "Let him come in." ”

The woodcutter came in, and when he saw Fan Ju, he hurriedly knelt down: "Kowtow to the adults......"

Fan Ju asked urgently: "Have you seen the person we want to arrest?" ”

The woodcutter said: "Exactly, last night the villain's house came to the official, to catch a person, said the physiognomy, this morning, the villain went out of the city to chop wood, ten miles south of the city, saw a group of people, the leader is very similar to what you want to catch." ”

Fan Ju said: "What does that person look like? ”

The woodcutter briefly said that it was the appearance of Bai Qi. Fan Ju was overjoyed: "Do they have horses to ride?" The woodcutter shook his head: "No, it's just walking." ”

Fan Ju hurriedly ordered Ziyi: "Take the men and horses out of the city, let this woodcutter go with him, and be sure not to let him escape again." ”

Ziyi led the order, brought fifty Qin soldiers, all on horseback, let the woodcutter lead the way, went out of the south gate, and chased down.

The horse team galloped past in front of the old store of the Wu family on the street, Wu Xinlan saw it clearly, and hurriedly came to the backyard to see Bai Qi, Bai Qi heard that Ziyi had gone out of the city to chase after him, and nodded secretly: "Let's go out of the city." ”

The outside has already been prepared, it is actually a small sedan chair, and after a while, the sedan chair came out of the old guests of the Wu family and came to the west of the city. Wu Xinlan rode a horse and followed the edge of the sedan chair, and when she arrived at the city gate, the Qin army guarding the gate stopped her and asked, "Who is it?" What do you do when you go out of town? ”

Wu Xinlan said: "My aunt, go to the Ziguang Temple outside the city to offer incense." ”

That Qin Jun said: "We want to check!" Wu Xinlan lifted the curtain with one hand: "Look......" A few Qin soldiers looked inside, and sure enough, they saw a fat woman sitting in the sedan chair, with eyebrows on her face, and the powder was almost a finger thick, and because of her obesity, the sedan chair was almost full.

As soon as she saw someone looking at her, the woman half-covered her face with a fan, and made a shy look, several Qin soldiers almost vomited, and quickly withdrew their gaze and waved their hands: "Let's go, let's go......"

The sedan chair trembled out of the city, and came to a forest outside the Ziguang Temple, and the woman came down from the sedan chair, took off her outer clothes, and stuffed them with clothes, so she looked fat.

The woman took the water bag from the palanquin man, washed off the makeup on her face, and revealed her true face, which was naturally white.

This trick is indeed a clever plan to divert the tiger from the mountain and strike the west from the east to the west.

Wu Xinlan handed the reins of the horse to Bai Qi, wrapped up the clothes, put them on the horse's back, and asked, "Where does the general want to go?" Bai Qi said indifferently: "I'll go to find the lost Qin army, if the heavens take care of me, it's best to find the king." At that time, I still have to kill back to Huayin. Wu Xinlan nodded: "It seems that there is only one way to go." However, now that the army is in chaos, the general has to be more careful. ”

Bai Fei got on the horse, and then Wu Xinlan arched his hand: "The girl's life-saving grace, Bai Qi is toothless and unforgettable, and she will repay ...... later."

Wu Xinlan smiled: "Don't thank me, if you want to thank me, thank Mr. Zhang Yi." ”

Speaking of this, she couldn't help but smile stiffly: "I hope he's still alive." Bai Qi said: "I think, Mr. will definitely be with the king, as long as you find the king, you will definitely be able to find Mr. and say goodbye!" ”

He raised a whip in his hand, and the horse neighed, and the arrow was shot away.

Wu Xinlan saw that Bai Qi had walked away, so he ordered a few palanquin drivers to return to the city from the north gate.

Besides, Ziyi led the men and horses, chased out of the south of the city, the woodcutter and a Qin soldier rode a horse, the woodcutter sat behind, tightly hugged the waist of the Qin soldier, and was still scared and screamed, it seemed that he could not ride a horse.

The group chased more than ten miles to a hillside, and the woodcutter pointed to the slope: "General, I saw those people on the slope." Ziyi listened, and rushed uphill with the people and horses, and looked down, there was a dense wild forest under the slope, with huge trees and dense vines, if someone got into it, it was really difficult to find.

Ziyi looked at the woodcutter beside him: "Did you see them go into the forest?" ”

The woodcutter nodded: "They're in the woods, I'll take you there......"

After saying that, he patted the horse's buttocks, and the horse rushed straight downhill, Ziyi was slightly stunned, secretly thinking that this person couldn't ride a horse, how could he dare to beat the horse and gallop, just thinking about it, the Qin soldier sitting in front of the woodcutter suddenly screamed, and fell off the horse with a bang.

Look at the man again, laugh loudly, and ride his horse into the woods.

Judging by his appearance, he is still proficient in riding.

Ziyi shouted: "It's not good, I'm fooled...... Pursue! ”

As he spoke, he took the lead and pursued the woodcutter, and the army followed him, and saw the woodcutter come to the edge of the forest, jump off his horse, and go straight into the wood, and then disappeared without a trace.

Ziyi looked at this forest, the radius was several miles, and the horses couldn't get in, so it was very difficult to search, so he had to grit his teeth and stomp his feet: "Bai Qi used to transfer the tiger away from the mountain, he was in the city at all, and he should return to the ......city quickly."

The group of people and horses flew like flies, and ran back to Huayin City. Ordered Simen to strictly investigate all people, and then Ziyi came to Fan Ju and told him about the matter, Fan Ju's face changed miserably: "It seems that he must have taken advantage of your exit from the city to make up and escape from Huayin. ”

Ziyi knew that his affairs were too bad, so he had to make a round for himself: "If Bai Qi escapes, the consequences may not be out of control, you must know that if he escapes, the crime can be confirmed." All his life, he has been saddled with the infamy of a traitor, and if he is caught again in the future, no one will excuse him. Moreover, Shaanxi is full of thieves, maybe he will not go far before he is killed. ”

Fan Ju sighed: "I can only look forward to it like this......"

At this time, a scout came to report that there was no movement of the Ming army within a hundred miles around, and after many inquiries, Hong Chengchou was still in Xi'an, there was no big move, and it didn't look like he was going to attack at all.

Fan Ju and Ziyi glanced at each other, and while breathing a sigh of relief, they also understood that this was a trick from Bai Qi in order to distract themselves.

In the end, Fan Ju had to give an order to step up the construction of the city wall, build weapons, gather grass and stockpile grain, and prepare for the Ming army. At the same time, military horses were sent to attack the surrounding counties in all directions to expand their strength.

Fan Ju knows very well that the current emptiness in Shaanxi is a good time to develop his strength, and once he misses it, his dream of becoming the king is really just a dream.

Not to mention the Qin army, let's talk about Li Yan and his party, after they passed the Tong Pass, they entered Henan the next day. There is no peasant army harassment here, and it is relatively stable.

Li Yan and the others did not stop day and night, and hurried to Luoyang. On this day, I was about to walk to Michi, and suddenly I saw a lot of people coming from the road, most of these people were pulling children, some were pushing carts, and there were daily necessities on the carts, which looked very embarrassed.

Xiaoqing stepped forward to ask, only to know that these people fled from Jiyuan, because there were thieves who came to Henan and had already occupied several county seats, and at this time they had captured Jiyuan County. And the Ming army, which followed from Shanxi, was fighting to the death with the peasant army in Jiyuan.

When Li Yan heard this, he was shocked, thinking to himself why did these peasant armies suddenly come to Henan? Could it be that he was chased here by the official army?

He guessed right, these more than 100,000 peasant troops were chased by Cao Wenzhao.

Since Cao Wenzhao led the Guanning Iron Cavalry into Shanxi to pursue and suppress the peasant army, he won every battle, killing the peasant army in fear, as long as he saw the banner of Cao, all of them collapsed. In a battle, the leader of the peasant army, Zijin Liang Wang, was seriously injured for his own use, and finally died in Jiyuan, Zijin Liang died, the peasant army was even more unable to form a joint force, it turned out that when Zijin Liang was alive, he commanded the battalions, known as the thirty-six battalions, and each battalion listened to his orders, at this time he died, the battalions in the thirty-six battalions, the dragons were leaderless, and they collided in all directions, Cao Wenzhao took advantage of this opportunity to break through and eliminate many battalions of the peasant army.

The leaders saw that Shanxi could not stay for a long time, and they did not dare to return to Shaanxi, nor did they dare to go to Zhili, so they had to turn around and go south and enter Henan.

All this is the same as Li Yan guessed.

It's just that Cao Wenzhao is too powerful, so this day came a little early.

Li Yan realized that it would not be long before Henan would become a place of war, and the peasant army would attack and loot everywhere on this Central Plains, and with the increase of the peasant army, the focus of the court's suppression would also move to Henan. As for Shaanxi, it is still relatively empty in recent times.

Therefore, he had to regain control of the Qin army before the peasant army returned to Shaanxi. And the best way is to pull up a team as soon as possible, return to Shaanxi, explain things clearly in front of the Qin army, and expose Bai Qi's conspiracy.

At that time, even if Bai Qi denies it and does not admit it, he has soldiers in hand, and he is not afraid of being eaten by him.

Therefore, the most important thing at the moment is to recruit your own soldiers.

For the first time, Li Yan felt that in troubled times, strength is everything. If you want to find your foothold in the troubled times, you can only become strong.

He glanced up at the overcast sky, and in the distance came a dull sound of thunder, which echoed through the clouds and made the people who heard it worry that they would not know when the hail would fall on their heads.

Let all this come more violently, let the heavens use thunder, rain, wind, and fire to thoroughly wash the long-polluted earth, Li Yan firmly believes that only in this way can we return a blue sky and white sun to the world.

End of Volume I