Before leaving, Chen Jisheng lit the vacant grain boat, and in an instant, the flames rose into the sky, and the smoke went straight to the sky. Although this could destroy the corpse, when he looked at the fire and black smoke that rushed into the sky, he had a bad premonition.

Although the Longmen River is some distance away from Hancheng, such firelight and black smoke will undoubtedly make people suspicious, and once the officers and soldiers of Hancheng find out, they will definitely send people to check.

At that time, once the matter of looting grain is revealed, it will certainly be chased and intercepted by officers and soldiers.

Chen Jisheng regretted it, he should have sunk the boat in the river just now. Unexpectedly, in order to save trouble, he accidentally turned it self-defeating, and exposed himself and others robbing grain in advance.

"Damn it!" Chen Jisheng rode his horse to catch up with the army of grain transporters, and regretted that his intestines were blue.

Back in the army, even if Chen Jisheng urged the army to speed up, now he must race against time and take one more step.

In the Hancheng Governor's Palace, a messenger came on a rampage and went straight to the Governor Yanghe's study.

"Report ......."

The messenger rushed all the way into the study, and when he saw the first Yang He, he immediately knelt on one leg and said: "Governor Qiqi, the river in the direction of Longmen Hukou found the sky-high fire and black smoke, I am afraid that there was an accident on the imperial grain ship." ”

Yang He was discussing military affairs with Hong Chengchou at the moment, and suddenly received this report, and immediately became shocked: "What? Make it clear! ”

The messenger did not dare to slack off, and immediately told Yang He that he knew about the report he had received from the grain transport army. It turned out that when the grain army arrived at Longmen Hukou, they had already sent people to report safety.

It's just that as soon as this letter was delivered to Hancheng, some officers and soldiers defending the city saw the sky-high fire and black smoke at the mouth of the Longmen pot.

Knowing the whole story, Yan He didn't dare to slack off, and immediately sent more than a dozen horsemen to find out, and the messenger was ordered to retreat.

"Cheng Chou, do you think there is really something wrong with the grain ship?"

Yang He still refused to believe that it was the grain ship that had an accident, and in the past two years in Hancheng, every time the grain was transported from the waterway, there had never been any mistakes.

Hong Chengchou frowned, and suddenly a bad premonition appeared in his heart. There is no absolute thing in the world, and if you often walk by the river, how can you not get your shoes wet.

Shaking his head, Hong Chengchou said uncertainly: "Governor, it's hard to say about this matter, let's wait for the situation to be clarified, and we will make a definition." ”

Hong Chengchou said it vaguely, but Yanghe still heard the worry from it. In fact, Yang He himself had a bad premonition in his heart, but the grain and grass transported this time was to support the rations of the whole army in the second half of the year.

If there is really an accident with the grain and grass transported, the army will have no food to continue, and a mutiny will inevitably occur. If the rogue takes advantage of the opportunity to attack, it will inevitably cause irreparable losses.

Maybe his future will be ruined, and it is not impossible for Hancheng and even the whole of Shaanxi to fall into the hands of thieves in the future.

It is related to his future and net worth, so he can't help but be nervous.

Hong Chengchou naturally felt the seriousness of the situation, if there was really an accident with the grain and grass, he himself would inevitably be implicated.

The two waited in the study for a long time, and finally waited for the bad news, the grain and grass were looted, the officers and soldiers who escorted the grain and grass did not survive, and all eight grain ships were burned.

The only survivors were the dozens of slender men, all tied up in the woods by the ancient road.

But when I asked them who robbed the grain and grass, I didn't know anything! For this reason, the officers and soldiers who went to inquire had more than a dozen heads cut off, but in the end they still found nothing.

"Bastard!"

Yang He suddenly became angry, picked up the pen on the desk casually, and smashed it directly on the heads of the officers and soldiers who reported the news.

"Smack!"

The granite carved brush wash weighs five pounds and is extremely hard.

Yang He smashed it angrily, the pen wash was directly broken into several pieces, and the head of the officer and soldier who reported the news was splashed with blood, and he rolled his eyes and died with a muffled snort.

Yang He didn't look at the dead officers and soldiers, threw away the pen washing fragments in his hand, and shouted angrily: "Hong Chengchou! ”

"The subordinates are here!"

"Gather a large army at once, send cavalry to chase the trail of the grain raiders, and in any case must recover the grain and grass for this governor."

"Yes!"

Hong Chengchou's heart trembled slightly, Yang He at this moment was like a poisonous snake that was provoked, catching and biting whom. He did not dare to slack off at all, and immediately retreated and gathered the cavalry to look for the traces of the grain raiders.

After Susu, the gate of Hancheng was opened, and four thousand cavalry, under the leadership of Hong Chengchou, rushed to the mouth of the Longmen Hukou.

Not long after, Yang He personally led an army of 10,000 people, and then also went out of the city to Longmen.

This time and again, the time has come to the evening. In other words, at this moment, a day has passed since Chen Jisheng robbed the grain.

Chen Jisheng felt that the situation was not good after burning the ship, and in order to reduce the risk of being besieged, he split the last grain army into two.

One team, led by Liu Chengzuo, left from the other direction with most of the grain and grass. Chen Jisheng deliberately left traces along the road with a small amount of grain and grass, hoping to lure away the officers and soldiers of Hancheng and buy time for other brothers who were transporting grain.

In one day, Chen Jisheng had already left the confines of Hancheng, and he had agreed with everyone that the meeting place was the outskirts of Tongguan.

But for the sake of insurance, Chen Jisheng directly changed his route and moved forward from the direction of Luoyang. If he was not chased and killed by the officers and soldiers of Hancheng, he would make a detour back to join the others.

At this time, it was getting late, but Chen Jisheng didn't dare to be careless, and still ordered everyone to continue to hurry with torches. The soldiers complained about this, after all, they were in a hurry, and now everyone was weak and tired, and their stomachs were already growling.

Chen Jisheng read the dissatisfaction in everyone's hearts, but he was helpless. In fact, he didn't want everyone to stop and rest, but time was pressing, and he couldn't help himself.

"Everyone, listen up, although we are safe for the time being, there is no guarantee that there will be no pursuers behind. For the sake of food and grass or everyone's lives, in short, if we can stay away from Hancheng for a long time, we will have more safety. ”

Along the way, Chen Jisheng's voice was almost hoarse, but he always insisted, and the officers and men of the Dongjiang Army also hurried with their heads under his encouragement.

Everyone knows that at this moment in the presence of enemy forces, danger is everywhere. So after the initial complaints, the sound gradually faded away, and everyone just buried their heads in the road.

For the sake of safety, Chen Jisheng didn't dare to let everyone take the big road at all, but took the remote mountain road or suburbs. Two or three times when they passed by the village, they did not dare to enter, but directly bypassed far away.

Ahead was a wooded road, and the trail was rugged and pitch black, so you could barely see your fingers. The speed of the march dropped again and again, and when they finally reached the depths of the woodland, they could no longer walk, and they sat down on the ground one by one and refused to stand up again.