As Zhang Sheng, the senior doctor of Yan State, said, in order to calm people's hearts and make a forced landing in Pengcheng, the capital of Western Chu State, Xiang Kang did issue an edict, announcing that all the civil and military generals of the Western Chu Army would be forgiven.

As Han Xin expected, Xiang Kang and Han Ting have never forgotten his existence, even if he is basically useless, Xiang Kang has no intention of using him for the time being, and he does not want to make the rest of the Western Chu army panic in order to kill him, after his whereabouts were discovered, Xiang Kang still greeted the local government of Huaiyin, and asked the Huaiyin place to keep an eye on Han Xin, explaining that if he found any abnormal movement in Han Xin, he must take it immediately.

The place in Huaiyin also secretly stared at Han Xin, and coincidentally, it was no one else who carried out this order, it was the little person in Huaiyin who once appreciated Han Xin and left a mark in the history books - the Nanchang Pavilion Chief whose wife refused to prepare meals for Han Xin.

It's hard to say it's hard to keep an eye on a person, it's easy to say it's easy to say, this Nanchang Pavilion Chief feels very easy, because Han Xin is not only a well-known figure in Huaiyin, but also very tall, very easy to identify, plus after Han Xin returned to Huaiyin, he lived directly back to his dilapidated old house without any disguise, and it was very easy to spy secretly, so the Nanchang Pavilion Chief just greeted Han Xin's neighbors, and asked his subordinates to pay attention to Han Xin's daily behavior from time to time, even if the task was basically completed, And nothing went wrong.

But on the first day of November of this year, the Nanchang Pavilion Chief found that he was very wrong, this morning he had just finished eating the simple breakfast cooked by the yellow-faced woman, and a pavilion pawn rushed to him quickly, shouting loudly: "Big brother, something happened, someone came to report just now, saying that Han Xin's crotch child is missing, I don't know where I went!" ”

"The crotch child is missing?" The chief of the Nanchang Pavilion was stunned at first, and then hurriedly asked, "Who came to report?" When did it disappear? ”

"It's the captain of the crotch child!" The pavilion guard hurriedly replied: "It was said that before dark yesterday, I saw him fishing from the river and came home, but this morning I didn't see him go out, nor did I see him make a fire at home, so I went to his house and knocked on the door to see the situation, and then I found that he was gone!" ”

"Piff! This crotch kid wants to kill his father! ”

After roaring angrily, the chief of the Nanchang Pavilion, who was seriously derelict in his duties, did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly led several pavilion chiefs to the scene to check the situation, but after careful investigation at the scene, the chief of the Nanchang Pavilion, who has rich experience in anti-theft, could only confirm that Han Xin should have disappeared in the middle of the night yesterday, and there was no clue when he went there, and the chief of the Nanchang Pavilion was also sweating profusely, as if he had heard the sound of the door of Huaiyin Prison closing.

Fortunately, there is no endless road, in Han Xin's dilapidated old house carefully searched, a pavilion pawn suddenly found a letter written on white silk in Han Xin's bedclothes, Nanchang Pavilion Chief hurriedly snatched the letter to look at the contents, and was extremely shocked to find that this letter turned out to be a solicitation letter written by Wu Rui, the king of Hengshan, to Han Xin, and invited Han Xin to serve him in Hengshan Country in a very sincere tone, and promised to give Han Xin a heavy treatment.

In addition to being shocked, the Nanchang Pavilion Chief also quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly sent people to the south to hunt down Han Xin, while personally taking this letter to Huaiyin Guan Temple to ask for guilt, Huaiyin County Ling Wenbao also did not dare to slack off, while scolding the unlucky Nanchang Pavilion Chief for a bloody head, while dispatching a large number of manpower to the south to hunt down Han Xin, and also clearly explained that no matter whether it is a big road or a small road, someone must be sent to chase it, and Han Xin must not be allowed to escape from Huaiyin County.

In addition, the Huaiyin County Decree was of course reluctant to write down the matter in writing, and together with the letter written by Wu Rui to Han Xin, he sent someone to Pengcheng by fast horse to report this important situation to the Chu Xiang, who was currently in charge of the military and political affairs of Chu.

It is still no coincidence that there is no book, and the Chu Xiang who is now presiding over the military and political affairs of Chu for Xiang Kang's son is none other than the first boss Han Xin met when he went to join the army with an old sword, the original head of the Shiling Pavilion in Xiaxiang County - Feng Zhong.

As for why Feng Zhong appeared in the position of Chu Xiang, the reason is also very simple, Chu has a vast territory, a large population, huge war potential, and there are many generals and soldiers of the Western Chu Army who were forced to disarm and return to the field, and there are many hidden dangers, such a complex and important place, Xiang Kang of course has to send his most trusted people to guard it.

More than two days later, Huaiyin's urgent report was sent to Feng Zhong, and when he learned that Han Xin had fled, Feng Zhong, who had many grievances with Han Xin, was of course both pity and anger, and his mood was extremely complicated, but even if he was merciful, Feng Zhong certainly did not dare to slack off on such an important matter, and immediately shouted: "Immediately give Huaiyin County a reply to the order, telling him to arrest Han Xin back to the prime minister, otherwise, the national law will be unforgivable!" ”

The officials above the hall agreed, and immediately put pen to paper to draft an order for Feng Zhong, and Sun Gong, an important minister of Chu State on the other side, reminded: "Xiangguo, this matter is still related to Wu Rui, the king of Hengshan, we had better report this situation to the imperial court immediately and ask His Majesty the Emperor to deal with it personally." ”

Feng Zhong nodded, and asked someone to write for himself and report this matter to Xiang Kang, but when the officials in the hall hurriedly wrote the chapter, Feng Zhong was moved in his heart, and hurriedly picked up the solicitation letter written by Wu Rui to Han Xin and read it carefully, and after a while, Feng Zhong suddenly blurted out again: "No, this thing is not right." ”

"Xiangguo, what's wrong?" Zhou Zeng's deputy Sun Gong, who was originally in the lower minister, asked hurriedly.

"This letter is not right." Feng Zhong frowned and said: "I know Han Xin's puppet too well, he is a person who does things well, after receiving this letter, with his temper, it should be destroyed immediately after reading it, why did he leave this letter and let us know where he went?" ”

"Maybe he forgot about it?" Sun Gong proposed this possibility.

"He will never forget." Feng Zhong shook his head decisively and said: "This puppet pays more attention to details than anyone else, especially all kinds of subtle clues, and will never make such a big mistake." Also, the person from Huaiyin made it very clear that this letter was found in Han Xin's house, and if he wanted to destroy this letter, he only needed to throw the letter into the fire, and he also had time to do so, and it was impossible to forget to destroy this letter! ”

"Xiangguo didn't want to say that this letter was deliberately left by Han Xin's puppet?" Sun Gong understood what Feng Zhong meant, and said: "The purpose is to attack the east and the west, and lure us to chase only to the south, to the road leading to Hengshan Kingdom, and he takes the opportunity to escape from other directions?" ”

"Nine out of nine." Feng Zhong replied very confidently: "This has always been his forte. ”

"In Xiangguo's opinion, where is this puppet most likely to flee?" Sun Gong asked again hurriedly.

"It is impossible in the west and southwest, since this puppet deliberately made us think that he went to Hengshan Country, he would definitely not go to Hengshan Country." Feng Zhong, who had crawled out of the sea of blood from the corpse mountain countless times, had indeed grown a lot, and immediately said: "It's impossible to go to the east, the east is the sea, it's useless for him to go." The Northwest is also impossible, and the Northwest is our territory. Most likely, it should be Minyue Wu in the southeast, as well as Yan Di and Xiongnu in the north, and it is most likely to flee north. ”

"Yandi and the Huns?" Sun Gong was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked: "Xiangguo suspects, Han Xin's puppet may go to the Xiongnu?" ”

Feng Zhong nodded slowly and said: "He is too unwilling to be subordinate, when he was under my account in the past, I treated him closer than my own brother, but because I couldn't give him anything in the position of military power, he said that he would leave my side and climb another high branch." Later, I recommended him to the previous king of Western Chu, because the king of Western Chu did not reuse him, and he went to vote for Liu Ji, who was willing to reuse him. A restless man like him, since he fled quietly, must have gone to find other high branches to climb, and there were no such high branches in the south, so I suspected that he was most likely going north. ”

"Then let's not waste time." Sun Gong hurriedly said: "Hurry up and send people to order the northern counties of Huaiyin, and tell them to tightly block the big and small roads, and don't let this puppet really escape to the Xiongnu territory." ”

Feng Zhong didn't agree immediately, and after thinking about it for a while, Feng Zhong also said: "Sun Fake Xiang, you have been serving as a county guard in Donghai County for a long time, you should know very well that the situation in Donghai is vast and sparsely populated, and there are many small roads, if every road is strictly guarded, not only will it take time and energy, but our manpower will also be difficult to control, if you want to catch Han Xin Pifu by blocking every road, it must be very difficult, and if there is a slight mistake, it is possible to let him escape." ”

"What then?" Sun Gong hurriedly asked again.

Feng Zhong continued to calculate, and after a long time, he ordered: "Give orders to the five places of Tan County, Qu County, Fuyang, Zou County and Lu County, and tell them to immediately strengthen the interrogation of passers-by after receiving the order, no matter what their origin or identity, as long as it is a man who is more than eight feet tall (ancient ruler, about 1.79 meters), all of them will be detained on the spot and interrogated closely, but if any abnormalities are found, they will be immediately escorted to Pengcheng to be personally screened by the prime minister." ”

"As for the rest of the world." Feng Zhong added: "Don't pay attention to it, and don't draw a picture to put a reward on the list, so that Han Xinpifu thinks that we have fallen for him, and only pay attention to the south of Huaiyin." ”

"Xiangguo wants to be loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and only rush to intercept people on the road?" Sun Gong immediately understood what Feng Zhong meant.

Feng Zhong nodded and said, "No matter how disguised he is, even if he tries to disfigure his voice and change his voice, he will definitely not be able to change his height, as long as we use this to set up an ambush in the traffic, we will definitely have hope to hold him." ”

After that, Feng Zhong, who had grown a lot, hurriedly added: "Also, remember to explain in the paperwork, ask the messenger pavilion chief in these places to keep an eye on the gallop road for the prime minister, don't take it lightly because the people on the gallop road are too conspicuous, Han Xin Pifu is the best at surprise, we must prevent him from deliberately walking the gallop road to confuse the place." ”

The document issued in the name of Chu Xiang was quickly issued, passed through Chidao, and it only took a little more than a day to send it to Tancheng, the county of the East China Sea, and then it was also a coincidence, in the evening of the same day, a tall man with leprosy on his face came to the guest house in the southern suburbs of Tancheng to stay, because he held the official quotation of Yan Guo in his hand, and the laws were relaxed after the war, this tall man lived in the guest house very smoothly and rested for a night in the southern suburbs of Tancheng.

In the early morning of the next day, the tall man said goodbye to the owner of the guest house and continued to return to Yandi north, and walked on the Chidao Road like other pedestrians, and when he passed by the pavilion, the tall man also deliberately stopped, watching the various government notices posted outside the pavilion door, and when he saw that there was no abnormality, the tall man's face full of leprosy still smiled slightly, and said: "Sure enough, there is no notice that I am wanted." ”

Joy and sorrow, when the tall man was secretly proud, a man in simple leather armor suddenly rushed out of the pavilion, and shouted at the pavilion guards guarding the pavilion: "I just received the order from above, from now on, all the eight-foot-tall men passing by here, all of them will be taken down by Nai Weng on the spot and carefully interrogated, if there is anything suspicious if the question is not clear, all of them will be arrested by Nai Weng and asked him to eat in prison!" ”

"No!"

A few pavilion guards outside the pavilion sang loudly, and the tall man's face changed, and he hurriedly walked forward, who would have thought that the man in simple leather armor had noticed him, and first said strangely, why is there one here? Then he hurriedly shouted at the tall man: "Stop! Where did it come from? Where to go? Take out the citation? ”

The tall man subconsciously paused slightly, then closed his eyes and sighed, after opening his eyes, the tall man did not hesitate, and immediately ran wildly, and the pavilion guards behind saw that something was wrong, and they all got up and chased, shouting while chasing, "Stop!" Hold it! Stand for Naion! ”

Fortunately, Han Xin was already tall and big, and he had exercised a good physical fitness in many years of military life, and he ran wildly, and finally got rid of those who pursued the pavilion on foot, and the pavilion chief who first found Han Xin before, riding the only horse in the pavilion, successfully caught up with Han Xin, but he stabbed Han Xin from behind Tong Ge was caught by Han Xin, and during the competition, the pavilion chief with mediocre martial arts was also dragged off the horse by Han Xin, and his horse was also snatched away by Han Xin, and he rode on the horse and fled to the direction of Qu County in the east.

Although he failed to take down Han Xin, who had changed his appearance by special means, it was enough, and it was found that Han Xin's pavilion reported the news to Tan County, and the Han army of Tan County immediately sent a team of cavalry to chase after him, and at the same time contacted Qu County as quickly as possible, so that Qu County could help to block the front and chase after him, and after receiving Feng Zhong's order, Qi County had already made certain preparations, confirming that the suspect was very likely to escape to Qu County, and the defenders of Qi County did not dare to slack off, in addition to strictly guarding the big and small roads, He immediately sent people to contact the Ganyu defenders of Qi in the north, so that they could also help intercept and arrest them, so the only choice left for Han Xin was to turn around and go south, or turn north into the Yimeng Mountains halfway.

Out of the instinct of survival, Han Xin finally subconsciously chose to go north into the Yimeng Mountains, and then after escaping into the deep mountains and old forests to settle down for a while, Han Xin made up his mind to analyze why he was discovered, but the result was just a little calculation, Han Xin slapped his forehead with regret, and said helplessly: "How did I forget that puppet?" That puppet has been with me for so many years, can you still not know my temper and character? I can fool others, how can I fool him? If others don't know my height characteristics, how else can he not know? ”

After repenting, he looked up at the Yimeng Mountains where the branches and leaves had withered, Han Xin couldn't help but smile bitterly on his face, and said to himself: "Okay, let's not talk about whether I can escape, even if I can escape, when I arrive in Yan Kingdom, the most suitable winter for Zang Di to raise troops will definitely have passed." ”

Han Xin may not be able to reach Yandi in his life, because after his situation was reported to his old boss Feng Zhong, Feng Zhong didn't even blink an eyelid, and immediately ordered: "Go to Wen and contact Qi Xiang Zhu Jishi, and ask him to fortify Qi Di tightly, but anyone who is more than eight feet tall and has leprosy on his face will be taken down and interrogated!" I didn't believe it, the leprosy on his face with lacquer could grow again in two or three months. ”

"Xiangguo, how do you know that the leprosy on Han Xin's puppet face was painted with raw lacquer?" One of the scribes present asked curiously.

"It was the puppet who told me that he died." Feng Zhong said with a smirk smirk: "When he was my personal soldier, he once told me the story of Yu Rang, a famous assassin of the Jin Kingdom, saying that Yu Rang used raw lacquer to smear leprosy on his body in order to assassinate a man named Zhao or something, and swallowed red-hot charcoal to change his voice. That's why I heard that he now has leprosy on his face, and I knew it was painted with raw lacquer! ”