Li Zhang was very naughty when he was a child, and once played a game of filling rat holes with his friends, which was actually to pour a lot of water into the mouse hole, and finally forced the rats to escape from the holes, and then was stoned to death by a group of children.

Now Li Zhang also uses the same trick to deal with ghost beggars, but ghost beggars are much smarter than mice, except for a few desperate people who rush to the ground to fight, most of the remaining ghost beggars all flee to more secret pits, because according to their previous experience, the people on the ground are definitely not as familiar with the underground passages as they are, so as long as they find a pit that no one knows about and hide, no one can do anything about them.

However, the ghost beggars made a miscalculation, because the route map of the underground passage had already been issued to the officials in charge of the pit, such as Lu Wu, almost everyone had one, and they each had several routes they were responsible for, so there were only two choices for these ghost beggars, either they risked escaping to the ground and fighting to the death, or they were forced to the predetermined position little by little according to Cheng Lin's plan.

As time went by, there were fewer and fewer ghost beggars who dared to venture to the ground, and Li Zhang did not wait at the gate of Xingguo Temple, but rode to the right side of the west side of the imperial city, which is located in the middle of the Jinshui River and the Bianhe River into the entrance of Beijing, and is also the highest area in the capital, and in the middle of the right box, there is a huge pothole, which is also one of the former settlements of ghost beggars.

This pit was also provided by the wild dog, and according to him, he had lived there before, and it was even likely that he was born there, but the wild dog was too young when he left, and he had no impression of it, and when he explored it before, he also found that there were many ghost beggars living in it, and it was also tightly organized, so he did not dare to enter it.

According to the original plan, all the people sent by Cheng Lin will eventually force the ghost beggars from other places to retreat into this huge pit, and Li Zhang, after estimating the time, also came to the top of this tunnel, only to see that compared to other places, there are heavy troops arranged here, and all the sewers are guarded by archers.

Li Zhang walked along the various sewers, and asked the guards to do so, but after being told that there were no ghost beggars escaping from it, he was also a little anxious at the moment, it is said that the ghost beggars in this pit should have known about the government's purges on them, and no one escaped at this time, which is really a bit abnormal.

When he came to the place of the incident, he found that there were a large number of ghost beggars pouring out, and they were immediately shot by the guards, but these ghost beggars seemed to be dying, and climbed up against the corpses of their companions to block the rain of arrows, one by one like evil ghosts in hell.

However, no matter how desperate these ghost beggars were, they could not escape the fate of being shot through by bows and arrows, even if a few of them escaped to the ground, and finally they were hacked to death by other soldiers, who were all given death orders and never left a living mouth for the ghost beggars.

Just after the last ghost beggar was shot to death, the soldiers also stepped forward to clean up the corpse, and by the way, they mended the corpse, so as not to let someone pretend to be dead, Li Zhang saw that there was nothing wrong here, and was about to leave, but suddenly heard another sound from the sewer, which made him and those soldiers stunned, and then these soldiers couldn't care about the fatigue, opened their bows and arrows again, and aimed the tip of the arrow at the sewer.

"Brother above, don't let go of the arrows, we are from the Imperial City Division!" But at this moment, a voice suddenly came from the ground, but the soldiers above still didn't dare to relax when they heard this, but shouted to them to come up with someone, after all, the ghost beggars are too cunning, and no one is sure if the people below are fake?

After a while, there was an official wearing an official uniform below, but his official uniform was sludge and blood, and he couldn't even see his original appearance clearly, and then a team of soldiers came up, also very embarrassed, but the morale was very high.

After verifying his identity, Li Zhang also came up at this time, he also felt that this official was a little familiar, he seemed to have seen it before when he was in Kaifeng Mansion, so at this time he also stepped forward and saluted: "Li Zhang, the commander of the lower cavalry, I don't know what to call Brother Tai?" ”

This official also knew Li Zhang, after all, there were not many people who could greet Yin Chenglin in person, so he also returned the salute very politely at this time: "Zheng Jun, the secretary of the Imperial City, has seen Li Duwei!" ”

The Imperial City Division is a very special institution, to some extent it is a bit similar to the firearms superintendent, because although it is a military institution, it is not subject to the jurisdiction of the Sanya, but directly under the jurisdiction of the emperor, of course, the Imperial City Division is more powerful than the firearms superintendent, because the Imperial City Division is the spy agency of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Imperial City Division does not have a general leader, but there are seven officials who are involved in the official affairs of the Imperial City Division, which is also to disperse power and prevent the following people from deceiving the emperor.

"It turned out to be Zheng Zhisi, I don't know what the situation is below, why did these ghost beggars all run out as if they didn't want to die?" Li Zhang also asked very curiously at this time, although the whole plan seemed to be going well, he didn't go down in person after all, so he didn't know the real situation below.

"Li Duwei didn't know, this group of ghost beggars was we rushed from other places, originally they kept fleeing forward, we chased desperately, but when we walked here, they all ran up, at first I also felt strange, just now I went to the front to investigate only to find that the passage in front was blocked by people with stones, and I couldn't pass at all."

Zheng Jun wiped his face with the rain in the air at this time, which revealed his true face, looking at him, he was only about thirty years old at most, and he could serve as the secretary of the Imperial City Division at a young age, and his future prospects were unlimited.

"Blocked?" Li Zhang was also stunned when he heard this, when the wild dog came to investigate some time ago, this place should still be open, otherwise he would definitely indicate it, but now it is blocked, could it be that the ghost beggar in this pit found out that the government cleared it, and sealed the passage for his own safety?

The more Li Zhang thought about it, the more he felt that this was very likely, and at this time, there were people from the government from other directions, Li Zhang also hurriedly looked at the map, and then came to the location of the pit where Lu Wu and they might be, but what he didn't expect was that after waiting for a while, he still didn't see anyone coming out from below.