Soon after Mao Wenlong and the others left, Hong Chengchou, who had been following, arrived, and when he saw the traces everywhere and the Dongjiang army that was missing, he tightened his eyebrows and fell into deep thought.

Hong Chengchou stopped in front of the most obvious trace at this moment, and he already remembered that he had been played around by Chen Jisheng with five hundred people before.

Obviously, this time he also thought that the other party was repeating his old tricks, and once again set up a suspicious array to try to get rid of himself!

"Do you want to divide your forces to track down?" Hong Chengchou thought hard for a long time but couldn't make up his mind.

Originally, his subordinates were not opponents of others, and if they divided their troops to chase them, they would definitely have no return. But if he didn't divide the troops, he couldn't be sure of which direction the Dongjiang Army would leave?

After some careful consideration, Hong Chengchou still made a decision. Ordered a dozen cavalry to follow this obvious trace, and told them not to get too close to the Dongjiang army, and to notify him immediately if they found their main force.

More than a dozen cavalrymen were ordered to chase after them, and Hong Chengchou sent more than 2,000 people to track them down from those scattered traces. And he and the rest of the people simply stood in place, waiting for news from the people who had gone to track him.

Hong Chengchou is indeed old and spicy, he did not choose a direction to pursue the whole army as Chen Jisheng imagined, but sent people to investigate, and after understanding the details of the enemy, he made a decision.

This is also due to the fact that he changed his strategy from the beginning. He no longer expects to kill all the Dongjiang troops with the only 5,000 people in his hands, but only needs to find out their true origins.

In this way, he doesn't need to worry about the combat strength of the soldiers, just don't lose people!

After a whole day of pursuit, Hong Chengchou and the others were also exhausted, and he didn't ask his subordinates too harshly, except for the vigilant personnel, they all rested with each other.

And Mao Wenlong, who was still absconding, kept hurrying all night, and it was not until it was completely dawn that they entered the territory of Henan Mansion.

After a short break, Mao Wenlong, Chen Jisheng and others continued on the road. But for the sake of safety, they didn't dare to go straight to Ye County, but took a detour and went straight to Kaifeng.

Mao Wenlong's careful move brought him good luck, and the officers and soldiers who had been tracking their tracks finally lost their traces after they turned around.

After the officers and soldiers continued to walk for a few miles, they immediately returned to inform Hong Chengchou after making sure that they had been disgraced.

A full day passed for them back and forth, Hong Chengchou was still waiting in place, and he had received several reports from his subordinates one after another, all of whom had been lost or had not found anything.

Until the obvious traces of this group of traces reached the territory of Henan Province, they returned without any discovery. After them, Hong Chengchou never saw the remaining nearly 1,000 subordinates return.

Patiently waited for another afternoon, Hong Chengchou still didn't wait for any of his subordinates, and Hong Chengchou panicked. Immediately, people were able to identify the direction in which the subordinates who did not come back were going, and then the soldiers chased them down in three ways.

For the sake of safety, Hong Chengchou also sent people to Tongguan City, which is not far away, to inform Yanghe and ask for a large army to come to support him.

More than 1,000 subordinates did not return, and Hong Chengchou thought that they might have encountered the main force of the grain thieves. Hong Chengchou didn't dare to be careless, but after chasing him out of the Tongguan realm, he quickly discovered that something was wrong.

At this time, Hong Chengchou and the others were staying at the edge of a small forest, less than three meters in front of the official road, dozens of corpses could be seen lying in the middle of the road.

Most of the corpses were dressed as homeless people, and a dozen or so of them were naked, without even a fig leaf on them.

Hong Chengchou sent a few of his subordinates to check, and finally learned that the dozen or so dead bodies without clothes were actually his subordinates who had been sent to find the grain robbers.

Looking at the messy battlefield in front of them, it was clear that there must have been a scuffle here not long ago, and it was clear that the outnumbered rogues had won in the end, killing all the officers and soldiers, and taking everything available to them.

Blood flowed everywhere at the scene, but there was no remnant of any weapon, which is a typical rogue style. Hong Chengchou was all too familiar with this, and it was not surprising that he had stumbled upon a rogue in this wilderness.

instructed his subordinates to pack up the dozen or so corpses that had died, and Hong Chengchou continued to chase after him with more than 3,000 officers and soldiers.

But he had just walked less than two miles, and he encountered the same situation before, and this time, it was obvious that only about 30 people had died. Hong Chengchou's subordinates are also about a dozen people, and the same clothes and everything have been stripped away.

Hong Chengchou tightened his eyebrows, and a hint of foreboding appeared in his heart, as if this pursuit was not done by the same group of people as those grain thieves.

But judging from the scene, it seems that these rogues all knew that there would be officers and soldiers passing by, and they waited in ambush here early in the morning.

In short, there was a strange feeling in this matter, and after some hesitation, Hong Chengchou still ordered to continue to move forward. In any case, he has to figure out all the problems he is facing now, otherwise he will not be able to explain to Yanghe when he goes back.

Hong Chengchou no longer hesitated, and simply sent spies to open the way in front, and then the army accelerated and advanced.

Along the way, Hong Chengchou once again encountered many previous situations, and more than 200 officers and soldiers had died at the hands of the rogues in a few times.

And the casualties of the Liukou were less than the previous one every time, until Hong Chengchou came to the realm of Luoyang, and a scene appeared in front of him that shocked and angered him.

More than two hundred sleek corpses lay in pools of blood, and in front of them was a wilderness, with no villages around or nearby.

After some investigation, more than a dozen spies came back to tell Hong Chengchou, saying that the dead bodies were all accomplices, all officers and soldiers who came out of Hancheng together.

But this time, there was not a single corpse of the rogue, and the method of committing the crime was the same as the previous times, the battlefield was a mess, but there was nothing to use, including weapons and clothing.

At this time, Hong Chengchou was already sure that all of these killed subordinates were targeted by the rogue. But recently, Han Cheng has just subdued Wang Zuohang, the largest rogue force in Shaanxi.

Since then, it has been quiet for a while, and there is no longer a large-scale rogue. But along the way, it is obvious that his subordinates are being targeted by a large group of rogues.

And what makes Hong Chengchou feel most strange is why his subordinates seem to be lured all the way into some designed trap to slaughter?

Hong Chengchou racked his brains and couldn't figure out the key, so he didn't dare to chase after him at all, but ordered the whole army to be stationed and wait for the arrival of Yanghe.