Bai felt bad when he stood up, and it was not easy to steal a man out of the city, so he immediately sent his cavalry, a team of twenty men, divided into five teams, to search for them along every road. [No pop-ups. 】

After a short time, four of the teams returned, reporting that they had not seen anything. But the party did not see all the way to the north of the city.

After a while, one of the people sent to the north of the city came back and reported to Bai Qi: "General, the villains went out of the north of the city and came to a mountain temple, and found a lot of horseshoe prints, and it seems that the red girls also stayed there, but they have disappeared, according to the investigation, they went north." ”

When Bai stood up, he ordered to transfer 200 cavalry, led by him personally, out of the north gate to pursue, and at the same time ordered martial law in the city, and notified the other two counties of Lei Sheng Wang Leopard to guard the city and strictly prevent the official army from sneaking attack.

It's not a boast, Bai Qi has a keen sense like a cheetah on the battlefield, and he can even sense from the wind blowing whether someone is approaching. Li Yan's disappearance is by no means a trivial matter, and it can cause a series of serious consequences.

Therefore, he must chase Li Yan back. Bai Qi faintly felt that Li Yan had been fooled.

Bai Qi rushed out of the north gate with two hundred elite horsemen, fully armed, and galloping.

Yizhimei was completely dizzy by Li Yan.

Since listening to Li Yan's words and embarking on a fork in the road, every order Li Yan gave made her puzzled. In the end, she simply didn't ask, you can run wherever you like, anyway, the official army catches up, I can run away, you can't run away.

Yizhimei was completely angry, because in her opinion, Li Yan had some orders, and he was simply looking for death.

For example, when there was a fork in the road, Li Yan ordered to go to the left, and after walking for a while, he asked her to mark the road and point out the direction in which she was going, so that the pursuers behind could see it.

Isn't this looking for death?

Other times, they simply worshipped around a radius of more than a dozen roads, and went around in a big circle. If we follow this method, it will only be a matter of time before the officers and soldiers catch up.

But strange things always happen, until now, it is almost dark, and I have not seen a single officer or soldier catch up, let alone see people, and I have not even heard the sound of horses' hooves.

Yizhimei gradually began to admire this young man.

At this time, it was already dark, Li Yan looked into the distance, there was a forest there, and Li Yan ordered the carriage to be driven in.

When the carriage entered the forest, Yizhimei unloaded the horse, tied it to a tree, let the horse gnaw some grass, and took out the dry food and water and fed it to Li Yan.

The two were huddled in a carriage, very close to each other, Li Yan ate a few bites, and suddenly smelled a burst of fragrance, which came from a plum.

When a person is injured, the senses are particularly sensitive.

Li Yan's face flushed, a little embarrassed, coughed dryly, and said softly: "Miss Mei, we are lonely men and widows, it's not good to be in one place, you help me up, I'll go outside." ”

Yizhimei snorted: "You are so seriously injured, how can I let you be outside." Don't worry, you are a righteous gentleman, and there are beauties like flowers and jade around you, and sooner or later you will become your daughter-in-law. I'm not going to make her jealous. ”

Li Yan's face turned even redder: "She...... The girl laughed, the red girl is my savior, I don't have that kind of thought......"

Yizhimei snorted: "If you really don't have this idea, you will lose someone, you know?" That red girl has a hundred hearts for you. ”

Li Yan almost sat up, but as soon as his body moved, there was a sharp pain immediately, he gritted his teeth and didn't moan, and said: "The red girl is a good girl who is ice clear and jade, don't think about it." ”

Yizhimei said angrily: "Yes, people are good girls who are Bingqing and Yujie, and only I am a shameless bad woman, right?" ”

Li Yan said: "It's possible to be a bad woman, but it's not right to be shameless." But the girl is filial to her father, and I'm afraid she is not a bad woman. ”

Yizhimei glanced at him, sat up, moved away from Li Yan, sat at the door of the carriage, looked at the starry sky in the sky, and said nothing.

Li Yan knew that she was thinking about something, so she didn't bother. There was a moment of silence in the woods.

Yizhimei suddenly said: "Do you think I rescued you just because of my father?" Li Yan was stunned for a moment and said, "Isn't it?" Yizhimei said: "Not all. ”

Li Yan said: "What else have you experienced? ”

Yizhimei said slowly: "A lot, my father and I depend on each other, walking the rivers and lakes, often living without a fixed place and wandering around. Therefore, I have lived in many village and town stores. I have seen with my own eyes what the officers and soldiers do when they pass through these villages. ”

Li Yan said: "You saw it with your own eyes? Did the officers and soldiers also capture you? ”

Yizhimei shook her head: "They can't catch us." Because my father and daughter have been thieves for many years, they are very vigilant in their sleep, and they get up immediately at the slightest movement. Therefore, when the officers and soldiers broke into the village, my father and I were already hiding. On several occasions, I have seen terrible things. ”

Li Yan said: "What's the matter?" ”

Yizhimei closed her eyes, as if she still had lingering palpitations: "Those officials and soldiers drove people out of their homes, circled them together, surrounded them on all sides, and the people were defenseless, like a flock of sheep falling into the mouth of a tiger. Someone dares to say a word, and immediately cut off the head. When the officers and soldiers had finished venting, they did not give up, they shaved the women's hair, cut off the ears with ear holes, and then cut off all of them, and went forward to receive merit as the heads of thieves. The men were not spared, the old were beheaded, the old were tied to trees and burned to death, the children were thrown around on the tips of their guns, many of the children were only a few years old or a few months old, they wept, but they died after a few tears. A village, it doesn't take one night to become a **, and there is no living person...... After the officers and soldiers left, packs of wild wolves and wild dogs rushed over to gnaw on the corpses. I always wonder, isn't the official army the army of the Ming Dynasty? Shouldn't they protect the people? Why is this happening? ”

Listening to Yizhimei's crying voice, Li Yan was also angry in his heart, he understood that the discipline of the official army and the army had been abolished for a long time, and there were many reasons, one of the more important ones was that the court had no money to pay salaries. If the army wants to have a reward, it has to have merit, and it has to kill the thief, but the thief runs fast, and the officers and soldiers always can't fight, so they kill the good and take the risk, and then loot the villages and towns, and they can also grab money and food. The officers will not let go of such a good thing that kills two birds with one stone. Only in this way can they get their men to obey their orders.

In a word, the army has no wealth, the soldiers do not come, the army has no reward, and the soldiers do not go.

The more famous one in the official army is Zuo Liangyu, whose military discipline is extremely bad, as well as He Renlong, Zuo Guangxian and others, who are also often burned and killed. And in order to let them die, it is not easy to talk about them, so they can only turn a blind eye.

The regular army of a dynasty has become like this, and it is strange that this court will not die.

Li Yan said: "Because of this, you hate the official army ......" Yizhimei said: "It's even more because they arrested my father." Li Yan said: "Your father is also a plum, how did he fall into the hands of the official army?" ”

Yizhimei said: "My father was very angry when he saw their behavior. So he took advantage of one night to steal the money they had robbed, but he didn't expect that the officer was very powerful, and he set up a lot of secret posts around the barracks. My father and I didn't know anything about the army, so we only bypassed the sentry but ran into the sentry, and my father was caught by them in order to protect me from the army. Later, I learned that the leader of this army was Shi Kefa. ”

Li Yan was stunned: "Shi Kefa's people, military discipline shouldn't be bad?" ”

Yizhimei nodded: "Because his men and horses are next to Zuo Liangyu's people, we can't tell the difference." But fortunately, it fell into the hands of Shi Kefa, otherwise my father would have died. ”

Li Yan said: "What happened later? ”

Yizhimei said: "My father was brought to Shi Kefa, and he admitted that he was Yizhimei and came to steal. Shi Kefa didn't kill my father, he just asked him who had fled. My father doesn't say. Shi Kefa used a trick, pretending to behead my father, and released the news that he was going to behead a small work. When I heard about it, I was so anxious that I went to save him, but that night, I was surrounded by Shi Kefa. ”

Li Yan said: "I guess he must be waiting for you to come and arrest your father in the place where he is being held." ”

Yizhimei nodded: "Shi Kefa didn't attack me, but praised me as a filial son." So he gave me a condition, as long as I could lure you out alone and let them catch you, and let my father go. ”

Li Yan said: "So that's the case, but why did your father die in prison again?" ”

Yizhimei said: "My father has a trick, he can break the shackles, open the prison door, one night he took advantage of the jailer to sleep, ran out, but was bumped into by the officers and soldiers, according to Shi Kefa, the officers and soldiers thought that it was a fine work to escape, shot him a few arrows, and the result ......was like this."

Speaking of this, Yizhimei cried softly.

Li Yan sighed: "If he doesn't escape, you will definitely be able to save him." ”

Yizhimei cried and said: "Now I have no relatives, I am the only one left, alone in this world, I ...... I don't want to live anymore......"

Li Yan smiled: "I'm the same, I have no relatives, I was put in prison, I was ensnared at this time, my shoulders were chained, and I may be crippled in the future, you say, which of the two of us is the one who doesn't want to live?" ”

When Yizhimei heard this, she stopped crying: "It seems that you are much worse than me." ”

Li Yan said: "Yes, but I'm like this, I don't plan to die, what else can't you think of." Listen to me, let's get rid of the official army first and return to Meixian, and then you can go to the official army for revenge. That's what should be done. ”

Yizhimei said: "You're right. Even if I want to die, I have to avenge my father. ”

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