When Quan Song and Ma Zhong led the remnants of the army to flee to Mengyin, they found that Mengyin had long been occupied by the Qin army.

Within one day, the three cities of Mengyin, Philadelphia and Juxian all fell, and Tian Tai and Tian Qi, who were still in Langya City, were greatly flustered after receiving the news, and had a deeper understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Qin army.

After capturing the three cities, Zhang Han decided to take Langya City directly and capture Tian Qi.

Zhang Han said: "Langya City has 30,000 rebels, but the combat power of the rebels is already very clear to everyone, they are all rabble, and they are not enough to be our enemy, so I am ready to attack Langya City directly, what do the generals think?" ”

General Qin also felt that the rebels' combat effectiveness was indeed not to be feared, and they responded one after another.

Li Qing felt a trace of uneasiness, stood up and stopped: "General, slow down, I feel that we should gather the soldiers of the nearby counties first, and then besiege Langya City together." ”

When Zhang Han heard this, he smiled and said: "General Li, with only 30,000 rebels, why should you give the credit to those county soldiers?" ”

Li Qing shook his head and said, "General, if you think about it carefully, as far as the rebels we encountered, they might defeat General Yan Ying?" General Yan Ying also led 5,000 elites, but he was defeated, so we must not be careless. ”

Li Qing's words calmed down Zhang Han, Yan Ying, although not as good as Meng Tian and Wang Ben, but he is not an incompetent person, he has also made a lot of military achievements in the battle to pacify the Six Kingdoms, Yan Ying can become Li Si's son-in-law, relying on his heroic performance in the attack on Yan State, but he was actually defeated in the hands of a group of rabble with low combat power, which is indeed not normal.

Zhang Han listened to Li Qing's suggestion and no longer ventured, but stationed the soldiers and horses in Ju County and Philadelphia respectively, Zhang Han led 3,000 soldiers and horses to Philadelphia, and Li Qing led the rest of the soldiers and horses to settle in Philadelphia, and the two sides were horns for each other, and then Zhang Han sent people to recruit the county soldiers of Donghai County and Jibei County, and asked them to go to Ju County to assemble.

Philadelphia, just a small city, originally belonged to Xue County, and was later divided into Langya County, Li Qing was ordered to put the soldiers and horses in Philadelphia behind, seeing that the city wall of Philadelphia was only two meters high, and there was only one city gate, he felt that although such a city was also called a city, in fact, the defensive role may not be as good as a camp.

After Li Qing arrived in Philadelphia, he arranged the defense, and was about to live in the county office, but he accidentally found a familiar pattern in a corner of the city.

"The sun god bird."

Li Qing looked at the pattern on the wall, and muttered in his mouth, I don't know what to use on the wall, there is a sun god bird depicted, this familiar pattern is exactly the same as the sun god bird that Li Qing saw in Tanggu.

Li Qing suddenly thought of Qing, since he came back from Bashu, Li Qing has never seen Qing again, including the clansmen of the seven silkworm clans who returned to Xianyang with Qing, all seem to have disappeared, but now, after Li Qing saw this pattern, a strange thought suddenly surged in his heart.

Li Qing took out the ancient jade that Qing handed him from his arms, feeling the faint coolness on the ancient jade, Li Qing's thoughts regained calm.

"Brother, what's wrong?"

Huang Meng saw Li Qing staring at the wall in a daze, so he couldn't help but step forward and asked curiously.

Li Qing pointed to the sun god bird pattern on the wall and asked, "Big brother, do you know what this means?" ”

Huang Meng looked at the sun god bird pattern on the wall, touched his beard and said, "I haven't seen it, it may be the code of a certain sect." ”

"Sectarian codes?"

Li Qing looked at Huang Meng suspiciously, sect, strictly speaking, Li Qing also belongs to the sect, he is a disciple of the elder Zhu Ying of the medical family, and he belongs to the medical family, but Li Qing has never seen other medical disciples.

Huang Meng nodded and said: "All the sons and hundreds of schools have their own contact marks, as far as I know, Taoism is Yin and Yang fish, Confucianism is a brush, Legalism is a rule, and Bingjia is a tiger talisman, but this strange bird is the first time I have seen it." ”

Li Qing always felt that this sun god bird should be related to the silkworm cong clan, so he asked, "Big brother, do you know what this pattern means?" ”

Huang Meng smiled: "This is a pattern of asking for help, that is to say, there is a person here who needs the help of his own people, so he left a pattern of the sect, and if there are people from his same sect passing by here, they will go to help him." ”

Li Qingqi said: "Then if his enemies also see this pattern, wouldn't it be even more dangerous?" ”

Huang Meng nodded and said, "There is indeed such a possibility, so under normal circumstances, no sect disciple would depict the pattern in such an obvious place, it is really strange." ”

Li Qing decided to take a look at who the person who carved the pattern of the sun god bird was, and Huang Meng was also a little curious, so the two of them and the ten soldiers of the Meng family army followed the direction pointed by the sun god bird and came to a dilapidated hut.

Meng Hu waved his hand, and a soldier of the Meng family army stepped forward and knocked on the door, knocked a few times, but no one responded.

Li Qing frowned, motioned to push the door open, and the soldiers of the Mengjia Army gave the order and slammed it hard, and the door opened.

Li Qing and the others glanced at each other and walked towards the house, Huang Meng put his hand on the sword, this strange bird didn't know what sect it belonged to, Huang Meng felt that it was better to be careful.

After entering the room, everyone did not find anyone, only in a corner, Meng Qu found an ancient painting.

Meng Qu opened the ancient painting and said curiously: "This painting is so strange. ”

When Li Qing heard this, he subconsciously looked at Meng Qu's hand, and at this look, Li Qing was stunned.

"This ......"

The painting depicts a human being wearing a strange mask, the mask, the front of the face is convex, and the mouth is pulled out of a strange arc, this shape Li Qing is very familiar with, in his previous life, Li Qing had seen this kind of mask.

"Bang Dang"

Just when Li Qing was stunned when he looked at the ancient painting, he suddenly heard a "clang", Huang Meng and Meng Hu were the first to react, and the two of them chased towards the place where the sound came from.

Li Qing asked Meng Qu to put away the painting, and then led everyone to chase after Huang Meng and the others, and when Li Qing arrived, he saw Huang Meng and Meng Hu both standing next to a dry well, and the two looked at the wellhead and said nothing.

Li Qing stepped forward and looked towards the well, the bottom of the well was dark, and he couldn't see the bottom, Li Qing asked, "Big brother, what's going on?" ”

Huang Meng pointed to the mouth of the well and said: "When we heard the sound and rushed over, we happened to see a person jumping down, but the bottom of this well was too deep, and we were afraid of being plotted, so we didn't dare to follow." ”

Li Qing touched his chin, thought for a while, then took out the fire fold, lit a handful of dead grass and threw it at the bottom of the well.

The firelight illuminated the bottom of the well, but no figure was found.