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Autumn goes to winter, and the wind is cold.

In the heavy snow fluttering in the sky, two fast horses galloped from the southeast Wuguan Road.

On a horse in front, a handsome and dashing man in black, wearing a hat and carrying a sword, a handcuff straddled his waist, and a short black beard on his chin, was Yu Wuya, who had been gone for months.

On horseback in the back, a woman wearing a long blue skirt was also wearing a hat, a scarf, and a veil.

The two of them crossed the Weihe Bridge in the wind and snow, entered the city from the east gate and went straight to the Qinghe Hou Mansion.

"Bang Dang~"

The closed door to the study was pushed open.

The fire in the study is burning, the room is warm like spring, Chen Xu is sitting in front of the desk writing and drawing, the desk is full of all kinds of papers full of strange formulas and symbols, Shui Qingrou is sitting next to him is also helping to sort out and copy these messy manuscript papers.

Hearing the sound, the two turned around and saw Yu Wuya and Xia Zijin rushing in wrapped in a cloud of cold air, and the two took off their hats and cloaks and stomped their feet while rubbing their hands.

"Senior brother, sister Zijin!" The water stood up softly and in surprise.

"Brother Yu, why did you come back when it's so cold?" Chen Xu also put down the pencil and stood up in surprise.

"It's too cold, warm up with a fire first, junior sister hurry up and help get some food, starve to death!" Yu Wuya threw the hat and cloak on the chair and sat down by the fire, Xia Zijin turned around and closed the door and sat down as well, Shui gently poured hot tea for the two, and went out to ask the maid to bring some snacks.

After Yu Wuya drank the hot tea in a few sips, he wiped his mouth and picked up a piece of moon cake, turned it over and over and looked at it a few times, stuffed it into his mouth and took a bite, and couldn't help but shout with a shake of his face: "Engong made delicious food while we were away!" ”

"This is called moon cakes, or made during the Mid-Autumn Festival, specially reserved for you and Miss Xia, eat them first!" Chen Xu dragged the chair to the stove and sat down.

"Well, it's very sweet, it's very delicious, Zijin should hurry up and eat a few!" Yu Wuya nodded as he ate.

After two months of cakes and another cup of hot tea, Yu Wuya felt a lot warmer all over his body, rubbed his cheeks and said, "Engong, we have already inquired about Ji Bu's whereabouts!" ”

"Really, where?" Chen Xu's face was overjoyed and he hurriedly asked.

"It's in the Funiu Mountains near Xixian!"

"That's good, I originally wanted to take Xi'er back to Nanyang to visit relatives, but I was afraid that Ji Bu would secretly do something, so I was a little uneasy, and I didn't set off, now that I already know his whereabouts, this time I must capture and kill him to prevent future troubles!" Chen Xu stood up.

"I'm afraid it's not easy, since the last reward, maybe Ji Bu has been hiding in Funiu Mountain after hearing the wind, and now there is a shortage of food and clothing in the Layue Mountain in the cold winter, a month ago we met a few merchants in Xinzheng, and overheard them talking about a caravan in Wuguan Road was robbed by mountain bandits, killed some servants and lost a few cars of goods, so we inquired about the specific situation and went to the vicinity of Xixian County to inquire again, sure enough, there is indeed a thing, and more than one caravan was robbed, Since the beginning of winter, there have been several cases of caravans being robbed, and the police officers of Xi County have also investigated and pursued them, but they have returned several times in vain, and I heard that some manpower has been lost......"

Yu Wuya quickly and simply told the story of the investigation, then stood up and took down a glass wine jar soaked in tiger whips on the bookcase, opened it and filled half a glass and sat down again, drinking wine while continuing to eat moon cakes.

Xia Zijin stared at the wine jar and licked his mouth, Shui stood up softly, poured half a cup of amber wolfberries from another wine jar, handed it to Xia Zijin and said, "Sister, you can drink some wolfberry wine to warm up!" ”

"It's snowing in the cold winter right now, and it's hard to capture Ji Bu even if he knows that he is hiding in the mountains......" Xia Zijin took a big sip of wine, and instantly a flush rose on his snow-white cheeks, and the mark that looked like a tattoo was even more red.

"The situation in the Funiu Mountains is complicated, and now it is snowing heavily, it is indeed a little difficult to hunt him down, but it is not easy to find out his whereabouts, and we must find a way to find and kill him, otherwise after the beginning of spring, the counties and counties will be relaxed, and they will easily escape!" Chen Xu pinched his chin and pondered for a while before saying.

"That's true, this is also the reason why we are in a hurry to come back and inform Engong, they have been hiding in the mountains for more than a year, there will inevitably be clues, but it is too difficult to find easy to capture, the best way is to mobilize an army to search, and then cooperate with the musket god thunder, so that the possibility of success is relatively large!" Yu Wuya nodded.

"You and Miss Xia have been tired for a few months, let's rest in the mansion for a few days for the time being, it will definitely be difficult to mobilize an army, I will go to the palace first to see if I can use some forbidden troops to cooperate!"

Chen Xu put on a hat and cloak and went out, beckoned the guards and servants to prepare the carriage and horses, and went straight to the palace.

Half an hour later, Chen Xu returned home, and Yu Wuya and Xia Zijin had already moved to the restaurant and were eating hot pot.

"Engong come quickly, the food in the house is delicious!" Yu Wuya greeted drunkenly.

Chen Xu couldn't cry and laughed, so he had to eat and drink with him, and at the same time told the emperor that he promised to mobilize five hundred forbidden troops to cooperate with the extermination of Ji Bu, Yu Wuya put his mind at ease, and after drinking a few drinks with Chen Xu, he was completely drunk, and was helped by the maid to go to the room to rest, Xia Zijin was also drunk in a daze, and was stuffed into a quilt to sleep.

"Husband, this matter is more dangerous, just let me go with my senior brother, and I will definitely bring Ji Bu's head back to pay tribute to Miss Chuyue!" Shui said softly worriedly.

"It's okay, with the cooperation of the forbidden army, as well as dozens of muskets and Taiyi Divine Thunder, Ji Bu is difficult to fly this time, I must see him killed with my own eyes!" Chen Xu shook his head.

Treating Ji Bu, Chen Xu can be said to hate it to the core, the ambush at Hangu Pass not only killed Jiang Chuyue, but also killed more than 20 people in the mansion, although the culprit behind the scenes is Xiang's, but without the cooperation of Ji Bu and Ji Xin, the two outlaws, this incident will never happen, so Chen Xu must personally kill Ji Bu, in order to show the world his attitude towards the enemy.

Because everyone in the world knows that it was the Ji brothers who ambushed and killed the Marquis of Qinghe, but they didn't know that it was the Xiang family who was making trouble behind their backs.

And since the bounty was offered in the newspaper, there have been news of Ji Bu in some places one after another, Yu Wuya and Xia Zijin went out to investigate according to these clues, but they didn't gain anything, and after a few months of civil uproar, those bounty hunters seemed to have slowly lost interest, and then the news became less and less, and then Ji Bu completely disappeared, Chen Xu guessed that Ji Bu should still have eyeliner in Xianyang, and could give him a message.

And for example, today's cold and freezing snow blocked the road, Ji Bu was short of clothes and food, and finally couldn't stand it, and he must take this opportunity to completely kill it to prevent future troubles.

Two days later, under the escort of the 500 guards and forbidden troops, Chen Xu took 30 musketeers and sent them to Xixian County with sufficient ammunition and hundreds of grenades.

The leader of the forbidden army was Bai Zhen, the deputy commander of the guard, and after Zhou Bo got the news, he personally asked the emperor for his order and set off with twenty thousand cow guards.

The heavy snow has stopped for a few days, but the snow on the ground is more than a foot deep, the mountains and fields are frozen and white, and there are almost no cars and pedestrians on the busy Oriental Road on weekdays, and it is extremely deserted.

Chen Xu, Shui Qingrou, Yu Wuya and Xia Zijin all set off with swords and handcuffs to follow the forbidden army, hunting with banners, hundreds of horses and the heavily armed forbidden army looked neat and strict, stepping on the snow all the way, crossing the Weihe Bridge to the south, crossing the Chang'an Palace, crossing the Bahe Bridge, and then turning to the southeast across Lantian County, and going straight to Xixian County along the Wuguan Road.

Xixian County, called Xixia County in later generations, is more than 200 miles away from Wuguan, and the road is narrow and tortuous, all of which are between the mountains and mountains.

Although Wuguan Road is the most important road from Xianyang to Chudi, and it has long been fully repaired, but because of the impact of flash floods and landslides, Wuguan Road is difficult to pass in many places, and with the repair of the cement Oriental Road, there are many fewer caravans on Wuguan Road in the past two years, and a large number of caravans and even official documents from the imperial court are all detours to take Luoyang Shangfang Road, and would rather detour hundreds of miles than take Wuguan Road, so Wuguan Road is much more deserted than before, and the military role of Wuguan Road is also constantly reduced and weakened after the unification of the country. There are not many caravans and pedestrians on this road.

What's more, now in the cold winter, the mountains are covered by heavy snow, and the roads are even more muddy and difficult to walk, as long as there are not towns, sometimes there is not a passerby on the road for more than ten miles.

And it was this situation that made Ji Bu hide in Wuguan Road, which is not far from Xianyang, and no one found out for more than a year.

But this time, Chen Xu decided that no matter which mountain Ji Bu was hiding in, he would find him and cut off this trouble.

After experiencing the attack on Hangu Pass, Chen Xu suddenly became very careful, not afraid of thieves stealing, afraid of thieves, in the face of Ji Bu, a desperate and popular ranger, he could not let him go free, he must be completely crushed to death with the power of thunder.

From Xianyang to Xixian County, although it is only more than 600 miles, it took seven or eight days, the army passed everywhere, and the officials and people in the counties and towns along the way had already prepared grain and grass and things to stay in the cold.

And I heard that the Marquis of Qinghe personally led the forbidden army to strangle the bandit Shou Jibu, and there were countless hunters and knights who were familiar with bow horses along the way and volunteered to join in, and when they arrived in Xi County, the number of bandits had exceeded 800 people.

When the county commander and the county lieutenant heard that the Marquis of Qinghe had arrived, they led the officials and police officers out of the city for ten miles to greet them, and after setting up the barracks, they reported in detail some of the movements of this group of bandits hidden in the Funiu Mountain.

Since the autumn to the beginning of winter, this group of bandits has attacked five caravans successively, and many civilians on the road have also been robbed and killed, but no one knows that these bandits are the bandit leader Ji Bu, otherwise Xianyang would have been notified to send a forbidden army to encircle and suppress it.

After a day of repairs in the county, early the next morning, Chen Xu ordered Bai Zhen to go into the mountains under the leadership of the local police captain and Orion mountain people to find Ji Bu's whereabouts.

However, due to the vastness of Funiu Mountain, the steep mountains and ravines, and the depth of the snow in the mountains is several feet thick, the search process lasted for five days, searching the area within a radius of hundreds of miles in the county, and finally found the approximate location where Ji Bu might be hiding under the guidance of some mountain people and woodcutters in the mountains.

After finding out the general area where Ji Bu was hiding, and after two days of planning and arrangement, hundreds of bandit armies followed several different routes over the mountains and mountains and finally came to a steep and deep canyon.

"Master Hou, according to the instructions of the hunters in the mountains, before the first heavy snowfall, they went into the mountains to hunt wild deer, and met a group of people at the mouth of this canyon who were hunting a tiger, those people had a Guanzhong accent, and several hunters did not dare to stay and left in a hurry, if it is good, Ji Bu and others must be hiding near this canyon." Bai Zhen, who was covered in armor, pointed to the depths of the canyon with his waist knife.

"Engong, this canyon is deep and steep, which is not conducive to the passage and attack of the army, I suggest that someone should go in and investigate first, so as not to startle the snake and let these bandits find out and escape over the mountain!" After observing the surrounding terrain, Yu Wuya said.

"Master Hou, the terrain in this mountain is complicated, so you can let the local hunters and mountain people cooperate, and after finding out the situation inside, we will arrange a surprise attack by a large army!" The county lieutenant also reminded.

"Master Hou, Bo is willing to go in and investigate!" Zhou Bo stood up and asked for his life.

"It's okay, be careful after entering, if you encounter bandits, don't fight hard to avoid fearless casualties!" Chen Xu nodded and admonished.

"Hou Ye, don't worry!" After Zhou Bo clenched his fists, he took twenty Qianniuwei and more than a dozen Orion mountain people, and quickly slowly touched it along the valley covered with dead branches, thorns, and several feet of snow.

Half an hour passed, and the snow and mist rolled in the cold wind, and the surroundings began to darken.

"Why hasn't it been out for so long!" The accompanying county magistrates and others became anxious.

"It doesn't matter, it's difficult to walk in this snow-covered mountain, and there is no trace of anyone walking in this valley, these bandits must be hiding in a cave or shelter from the wind and won't come out, wait for another two quarters, if there is still no news, arrange someone to go in and investigate!" Chen Xu waved his hand.

In this kind of cold season, since Ji Bu is hiding in this deep mountain and old forest dozens of miles away from Xi County, he would definitely not expect that a large army would suddenly come, which is actually a good opportunity for Chen Xu.

On weekdays, these mountain bandits would not be so quiet, but would go out to the mountains to investigate the situation in the outside world.

After waiting for a while, I saw a figure swaying in the canyon, and soon saw a few Qianniuwei and mountain people come out, and also captured two men with ragged clothes and unkempt hair.

"Master Hou, there is a gourd valley three miles away from the valley, and I met these two sneaky men in a shack at the mouth of the valley, and I caught them!" A thousand cow guards handed over their hands to report.

"Where is Jibu hiding?" Chen Xu walked up to a man and asked.

"You...... You are the Marquis of Qinghe? One of the men, who was a little older but only in his twenties, looked at Chen Xu in horror and the hundreds of forbidden soldiers around him who were neatly covered in armor and replied in a trembling manner.

"Yes, it is Chen Xu, the Marquis of Qinghe, you waited for the ambush of Ben Hou in Hangu Pass, and hid like a lonely ghost in this mountain for more than a year, do you think that Ben Hou can't find you, quickly explain where Ji Bu is hiding, Ben Hou can also spare your two lives, otherwise you will be in a different place immediately!" Chen Xu nodded with a cold face.

"Master Hou spares my life, we will only participate in the plan to ambush you if we are bewitched by the Ji brothers, but I am too timid to do ......"

"Fart!" Bai Zhen kicked the two bandits who were lying on the snow and kowtowed like garlic to the ground, choked and pulled out a sharp Xueliang steel knife and rested it on the neck of one of the men, and said viciously: "Qinghe Hou still dares to lie and shirk in front of him, tell me quickly, where is Ji Bu hiding, is he in the valley?" ”

"We ...... We said that Hou Ye should be really spared...... Spare our lives? A man's teeth rattled.

"Poof~" Bai Zhen's steel knife was drawn, and a stream of blood splashed out from the neck of the man who spoke like a fountain, spraying the man next to him all over his face, and the snow was instantly dyed red.

"Poof~" The man clutched his neck and fell, and soon the blood and snow mixed into a ball of plasma and began to coagulate.

"Attack Qinghe Hou, so dare to bargain!" Bai Zhen was like a killing god, and after killing one, the steel knife rested on the neck of another man who was no more than eighteen or nineteen years old.

Chen Xu's cheek twitched a few times, this Bai Zhen looks mature and stable on weekdays, but he has the same virtue as his grandfather, and there is no psychological burden at all when he kills people, and even Chen Xu can't stop it if he kills.

"Spare your life...... the young man lay on the ground covered in blood and did not dare to move, his face was distorted to the extreme, "Ji Bu is indeed in the valley, and there are more than a hundred people following, all of them are famous knights in Guanzhong, and now they are all hiding in a cave in the valley, but there are roads and paths leading to other places in the valley, and once you enter the canyon, you will inevitably be discovered by Ji Bu, and there are sentry ...... inside"

After Bai Zhen killed one, the remaining bandits had completely collapsed, and they didn't dare to hide it any longer, and explained the situation inside clearly like pouring beans from a bamboo tube.

"Master Hou, if this is really the case in the valley, it seems that we have to try to block another path, otherwise once we attack it, Ji Bu will definitely flee, this ice and snow is reckless mountain, it will not be easy to catch up!" Bai Zhen arched his hand and said.

"Do you know where the trail in the valley leads?" Chen Xu asked.

"I know......," said the young bandit, kowtowing, "There is another valley to the west of this valley, and the trail leads there, but the terrain is steep and rugged......

"You are guarding the mouth of the valley, when will the people inside contact each other?"

"Back to Master Hou, someone will come out to inquire every hour!"

"Engong, it seems that Ji Bu is not a reckless man, he has arranged so cautiously and carefully, now the hour is coming, if you notice that these two guys are not there, you will definitely be alert and flee in advance, I think it is better to kill it quickly!" Yu Wuya pulled out his handcuffs and said as he installed the ammunition.

"It's not easy to attack, once Ji Bu escapes, I'm afraid it will take a lot more twists and turns!" Chen Xu pinched his chin and shook his head, and after thinking for a while, he said to Bai Zhen, "Commander Bai arranged for someone to take this person into the valley and return to the shack, if there are bandits in it who come out to inquire and ask, they will lie and deceive them, Brother Yu led some hunters and forbidden troops who are familiar with the situation in the mountains to go around to the valley on the side to ambush, once Ji Bu and other bandits escape, you must intercept and kill them, and the rest of the bandits will not care, but Ji Bu must die, the weather is changing now, maybe it will snow again soon, after you arrive, you will put a shot, and we will start attacking when we hear the sound!" ”

"Okay~" Yu Wuya nodded and left quickly with a few hunters in the mountains and the Liangtun forbidden army, and Bai Zhen also arranged for someone to take the young bandits back to the canyon again.

The sound of wolf howling in the surrounding mountains was howling in the cold wind, and the snow was constantly crushing and falling branches in the vast mountains, and the crackling sound sounded very clear in the valley.

The snow mist rolled in the fierce cold wind, blowing on the face and hands like ice blades.

Time passed minute by minute, and half an hour later, the forbidden army in the valley returned and reported that they had deceived the bandits inside, and Chen Xu breathed a sigh of relief.

"Let's go!"

As soon as Xu waved his hand, the forbidden army that had already prepared the bow and crossbow and the nearly three hundred Orion knights who came to assist, as well as the police officers and lieutenants of Xixian County, all drew their bows, arrows, knives and guns and lined up in the valley, Chen Xu and the others fell last, with a group of guards and young men who had already loaded ammunition and carried muskets and quickly disappeared at the mouth of the valley, leaving only a corpse and coagulated blood all over the ground.

The situation in the valley is really the same as that of the young bandits, and after Chen Xu entered the mountain, it took nearly half an hour to step on the thigh-deep snow before he came to an extremely narrow place, on both sides are steep cliffs dozens of zhang high, as if a knife splits an axe, a valley mouth that only allows two or three people to walk in parallel, there is a concave rock wall outside the valley mouth, a dilapidated shack built of wood and branches and thatch is under the rock wall, Zhou Bo and the mountain people who came in advance are hiding in the thorns and firewood not far from the shack.

Chen Xu walked into the shack, there was still a fire in it, there was some thatch on the ground, there was no bedding, a few gnawed beast bones were thrown on the ground indiscriminately, there were no clay pots and clay pots for cooking on weekdays, and there was a foul smell, which was completely the most primitive state of savages.

The young bandit trembled and knelt on the ground, and Zhou Bo stood behind him with a long sword in his hand.

"Yes, you didn't find yourself dead, and after killing Ji Bu, Ben Hou spared your life!" Chen Xu only went in to take a look, then covered his nose and retreated.

Soon, nearly half an hour had passed, and it was almost time for the bandits in the valley to come out to inquire, but they had not yet heard the signal from Yu Wuya.

"Master Hou, the mountain road is rugged and snowy, I'm afraid Brother Yu hasn't arrived at the valley on the side yet, if the bandits come out to investigate this time, we'd better capture and kill them, and we can delay for a while!" Bai Zhen whispered.

"Okay, that's it!" Chen Xu nodded, but the messy footprints on the ground made him frown, and after thinking for a while, let people dig up the snow and bury a few forbidden soldiers near the shack for ambush, Bai Zhen and Zhou Bo still had a few forbidden soldiers hiding in the shack, and the rest of the people temporarily withdrew for dozens of zhang to find a place to hide temporarily.

After almost a moment, I heard the sound of a voice coming from the valley, and soon saw two men in tattered clothes, disheveled, and unshaven beards walking out with swords, and the creaking sound sounded unusually clear under the trampling of snow two or three feet deep.

"Wait!"

Just as the two of them were walking out of the valley and almost reaching the shack, one of them suddenly stopped his companion, and his eyes fell on the messy snow that had been trampled on near the shack.

"It's not good, get back!" One of the men's faces changed greatly, and when the two of them turned around, several forbidden soldiers buried in the snow suddenly rose up, and at the same time listened to the sound of several crossbow machines, seven or eight crossbow arrows shot at the two of them through the rolling snow mist, and the two bandits only had time to let out a short scream before they fell, and the blood gushed out of their mouths and noses without any sound.

Almost at the same time, several shouts were heard from inside the valley, apparently alarmed by the screams of the two bandits.

"Kill it!" Chen Xu knew that things might not be able to be delayed, so he roared and pulled out his handcuffs, Bai Zhen and Zhou Bo rushed out of the shack, and with a swing of the steel knife and long sword, they rushed towards the valley, and the forbidden army and the police captain Orion who were hiding near the mouth of the valley followed the shouts and rushed in.

"Boom~~" A sound came from far away, although the sound was not loud, but it still sounded very clear.

At this time, Chen Xu was relieved in his heart, knowing that Yu Wuya had reached the ambush position, so he no longer hesitated, and under the protection of a group of guards and teenagers, he also rushed into the valley.

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