The forest is dark and the grass is frightened, and the general draws the bow at night. -------Tang Dynasty. Lu Lun "Stopper"

Last time, I talked about General Xing Daorong, who led the escort team to search and arrest at night, and jumped the chickens and dogs tossed by the headquarters of the Xiaoxiang Gang, but the gang leader Yang Huai had already escaped from Quanling County by boat. The boat swayed leisurely, all the way north along the Xiangshui, passed by the cave ferry, quietly docked, waiting for Ma Yuanyi and the saint Zhang Ning. Yang Huai was in a high position in the Xiaoxiang Gang, and this time he only took two of his subordinates to escape, and he didn't have a good impression of the Yellow Turban Army, but Xiangshui Freight passed through many territories controlled by the Yellow Turbans and needed to borrow from the Yellow Turban Army, so this time it was used by Zhang Ning to deal with Chen Long. Yang Huai is also covered in in yellow clothes, and the crime of colluding with the Yellow Turban Army cannot be washed away.

In the dark night, there was no one around the ferry, and occasionally two dog barks sounded in the distance, Yang Huai and the others were a little impatient, took out the short knife he carried, and played on the shore of the ferry. I saw a short knife Huo Huo, the cold light was shining, and he really had a good martial arts. A set of sword techniques has not yet been exhausted, there is a faint sound of cheers next to him, Yang Huai stood still, and saw two figures, one tall and one short, revealing their figures from the sparse forest on the shore, and couldn't help but shout in a low voice: "The person who came is the saint and the captain of the horse?" Please also come aboard. ”

The people who came were Zhang Ning and Ma Yuanyi, who had escaped from Lingling City, and they quietly left the city at the north gate guarded by Liu Min, and waited for Yang Huai here for a long time. Zhang Ning had a cautious personality, and he was willing to show up only when he saw that Yang Huai only brought two boatmen. Zhang Ning's clear voice sounded slowly: "You are the Yang Gang Leader, you have admired the name for a long time." I am Zhang Ning. ”

Yang Huai saw that the black shadow was tall and exquisite, and hurriedly bowed down and was rude: "Yang Huai visited the Holy Maiden, Li Le was captured by mistake today, and I also neglected to overlook, and I ask the Holy Maiden to forgive me." After saying that, he led the two of them onto the boat. The lights in the cabin were bright, Yang Huai raised his eyes to peek at the saintess, and under the heavy veil, it was really stunning. Zhang Ning felt Yang Huai's gaze, was slightly annoyed, picked a clean place to sit down, and ordered Ma Yuanyi to drive the boat. Yang Huaizao ordered his subordinates to start the boat in a low voice, and the hull shook slightly, and it had already set sail.

Zhang Ning casually asked Yang Huai some topics about the troop deployment in Lingling City, and Yang Huai had a pair of thief eyes and only patrolled the chest of the saint. Zhang Ning saw that Yang Huai was bold, his heart was angry, and it was not easy to attack, so he motioned to Yang Huai to take a rest, Yang Huai came out, and Ma Yuanyi followed out to guard the cabin door. Yang Huai went outside the cabin, only to see that in the dark night, there were many mountain shadows on both sides of the strait, and there was only the sound of apes and tigers roaring.

In the city, Xing Daorong collected his troops and returned to the team, threw a few small fish and shrimp he caught into the county government prison, and went directly to Liu Du's mansion to resume his life. Liu Du hadn't rested today, he was sitting comfortably on the rocking chair in the study, a maid was beating her legs, and she was chatting with a young scribe standing next to him without saying a word. Hearing that Xing Daorong was back, he called the study to resume his life.

Xing Daorong hurriedly walked to the study, first bowed to Liu Du and was rude, and then politely bowed his hand to the young scribe, and said, "It turns out that Mr. Zichu is here, and he has always been fine." The young scribe returned the salute with a calm smile, which was very famous and gentlemanly.

This personable young bachelor, wearing a square scarf, with delicate facial features, upright eyes, and extraordinary bearing, is the famous Confucian Liu Ba Liu Zichu. Liu Ba's father Liu Xiang was once the Taishou of Jiangxia, and the official worshiped General Dangkou, and Liu Biao, the pastor of Jingzhou, asked Liu Ba to go out of Jingzhou many times, but Liu Ba should not settle, and the name of Qinggao has spread so far. Liu Du and Liu Ba are of the same clan, and often invite Liu Ba to the mansion as a guest, humbly ask for some principles of governing the country, and show the name of love and talent to the outside world, which is to kill two birds with one stone. Today, I happened to meet Xing Daorong, who came to the house to restore his life.

Liu Ba had no friendship with Xing Daorong, and he didn't disdain to be with martial artists, and when he saw that Liu Du and Xing Daorong had something to discuss, he bowed and prepared to leave. Liu Du waved his hand to stop him and said to Liu Ba: "Zichu is his own person, but Xing Jiangjun is okay." Liu Ba had no choice but to decide.

Xing Daorong arched his hand and said: "My lord, since the beginning of the case of Liu Xian's collusion with the Yellow Turban, I have successively smashed the Anling Inn and the headquarters of the Xiaoxiang Gang, the contact points of the Yellow Turban, and arrested a number of fine works, all of which are now detained in the county government prison. It's just that the yellow scarf Chen Long and Xiaoxiang gang leader Yang Huai didn't know how to predict the news in advance, so they all hid their whereabouts and fled. Now, I have issued a document for sea fishing, and as long as these two men are still in the city, they will be captured alive tomorrow. ”

Liu Du snorted dissatisfiedly, he had already heard of his subordinates' separate affairs, falling apart, and forming gangs, but there was no good way to do it, so he had to let him go, as long as he didn't subvert his own regime, it was not a bad thing for his subordinates to fight each other. asked casually: "These two people escaped, have you ever found out who revealed the news?" ”

Xing Daorong thought that the opportunity to detain the basin had come, and said quietly: "This hasn't been found out yet, but before my garrison intervened, Huang Gai had already led people to arrest Li Le, the owner of the Anling Inn, and destroyed the Anling Inn, which caused a lot of trouble. As for that Chen Long。。。。。。 Xing Daorong deliberately paused and looked at Liu Du.

Liu Du said impatiently: "If you have something to say, say it." Xing Daorong hurriedly bowed his head and said: "The action to arrest Chen Long was made by you who asked your son Liu Xian to take people to Huanggai's mansion to arrest him, as for why he was not caught, his subordinates really don't know." I only heard that Chen Long fled in a hurry, and he didn't even have time to bring his family with him, and he is still in Huanggai's mansion. ”

When Liu Du heard the name of his son Liu Xian, he hesitated slightly, and muttered, "Why is this Huang Gai again?" Suddenly turned his head to look at Liu Ba and said with a smile: "Zichu, I know that you are talented, tell me, what should you do next?" ”

Liu Ba originally thought that there was nothing wrong with him, Xing Daorong's words went in and out of his left ear and out of his right ear, and he was outside the spirit object, when he was suddenly asked by Liu Du, and he was a little confused for a while. At this time, it was not appropriate not to say anything, so he followed Xing Daorong's meaning and said: "Since the family members of the Yellow Turban are still in the city, why not mention it for interrogation?" Since Huang Gai is very related to this matter, he should also be called together and ask for clarification. ”

If Long Chen was by Liu Ba's side, he would definitely have to slap Liu Ba a few big mouths. It seems that the harmless talent of humans and animals is so vicious, Liu Du woke up and said to Xing Daorong: "Zichu's words are very reasonable. Xing Jiangjun, you work hard again, bring the family members of the yellow scarf and Huang Gai to be taken into custody and guarded, and the trial will be held tomorrow. When Xing Daorong heard this, he secretly smacked his tongue at Liu Ba's viciousness, thinking that it would be better for these erudite and talented talents to provoke less in the future.

The words are divided into two ends, and then Chen Long and Liu Yong all the way, taking advantage of the night, quickly whipped their horses, walked around the city, and went straight to the ambush location proposed by Chen Long in the map of the secret room, Niu Anling by the Xiangshui River. It turned out that Chen Long expected that Xing Daorong would secretly inform his iron buddy and white gloves Yang Huai to escape, and the headquarters of the Xiaoxiang Gang was near Xiangshui, and the most convenient way was to go north through Xiangshui and go directly to Sun Xia's garrison somewhere by Xiangshui. And the mysterious woman in the Anling Inn is also very likely to catch this temporary passenger boat halfway. As long as he and Liu Yong can successfully ambush this passenger ship, they will definitely be able to make some gains and capture Yang Huai and even the yellow turban girl. With these ironclad evidence, with the help of Gongzi Liu Xian, he will definitely be able to eliminate the Xing Daorong group in one fell swoop, and after the internal purge, he will fight a bloody battle with the siege troops of the Yellow Turban. Without internal response, presumably the siege troops of the Yellow Turbans are just some tofu dregs.

The night fog hit, the war horses neighed gently, and the wind of the spring night was slightly cool. Tonight the moonlight was hazy, and there were not a few stars in sight, and the night stretched out, revealing an infinite deep blue, all the way into the distance. The surrounding area is full of silent and gloomy woods, the trails beside the mountains, leaving thick shadows, only the sound of wind and insects, it is really a murderous night with a dark moon and high wind. Liu Yong is very familiar with the situation in this mountain field, obviously has made a lot of hard work, galloping rapidly for more than an hour, Liu Yong led the cavalry, holding a torch into a forest on the side of the road, to the end, only to hear the sound of the river flowing, suddenly a dark and heavy river appeared in front of him.

Chen Long extinguished the torches, chose a dense forest close to the river bank according to the terrain, and set up an ambush formation. As indicated on the map, the river narrowed here, and the ships passing through here were all within the range of bows and arrows, which was the reason why Chen Long chose this place for ambush.

The Xiangshui rushed, meandered, flowed under the feet, occasionally swelled in waves, and instantly fell silent. Finally, a light like a bean faintly appeared on the river surface, slowly becoming larger, it was a small passenger ship, and the cabin was lit up. Chen Long let out a low cry and prepared, and the archers scattered on the bank of the Baizhang River recognized the arrows one after another, and opened their bows like a full moon. Chen Long waited for the boat to reach the middle of the ambush circle, shook the fire, clicked on the rocket in his hand, and shot an arrow, hitting the reed cover on the cabin, and the fire instantly burst into flames. The rockets in the hands of the soldiers around him lit up one after another, and for a while, the rockets greeted the ship like locusts, sneering like a fire dragon spitting fire, which was spectacular.

Chen Long shouted loudly: "Yang Huai Yang gang leader, the matter of your collusion with the Yellow Turban has been exposed!" I have been waiting here for a long time on the orders of Liu Taishou! Come out and surrender quickly, or you will be turned to powder! The fire on the boat became bigger and bigger, and the people on the boat put out the fire, and were shot down by Liu Yong with an arrow, and Yang Huai burst out of the cabin, and his hair was scorched, and he raised his hands and said loudly: "Don't let go of the arrow, I am willing to surrender!" ”

Chen Long asked him to bring the boat to the shore, and the boat slowly wanted to come over, but suddenly there was a plop behind the boat, Chen Longxin screamed badly, Yang Huai thought that the water was good, and he wanted to escape from the water. Chen Long is a master swimmer in later generations, he took off his armor and jumped into the water to swim over, so Yang Huai had never seen what freestyle was, he was caught up by Chen Long in minutes, wet and carried ashore and threw it, Liu Yong called his subordinates to tie up.

Chen Long asked Liu Yong's men to extinguish the fire, and when he saw that there were only two men on the boat, he thought that the yellow turban girl did not take the boat, so he asked everyone to separate the horses and tie Yang Huai and his men to the horses. Unwillingly, he went into the burned and tattered cabin to take a closer look. There was a smell of smoke and fire in the cabin, Long Chen waved his hand to drive away the smell of burning, and suddenly a faint fragrance of women wafted into his nostrils, Chen Long was stunned, and reached out to take out the sweat towel seized in the inn from his arms, which was the strange and familiar body fragrance.