It didn't take long for the patrol cavalry to arrive, and Liu Tang had a hundred cavalry patrolling outside the city, and Liu Tang immediately brought thirty cavalry into the city after receiving the notice. Yuncheng is a small city, the streets are not spacious, and the cavalry does not play much role in the city. Liu Tang saw Shi Xiu and asked, "What's the situation, what are the casualties of the soldiers?" ”

Shi Xiu said: "This is a bandit from Qingfeng Mountain, eighteen came, except for the leader of the bandits, the other seventeen people have been wiped out, six soldiers were injured, all of them were skin injuries, the problem is not big, just one person died, several were injured, and the county order was appeasing the people." ”

Liu Tang said: "It's actually a thief from Qingfeng Mountain, and he definitely wants to take revenge." It's a big deal, so let's hurry up and inform Chao Tuanlian. ”

"Okay, it's just that this bandit leader has run away, and I hope that Brother Liu Tang will be arrested with me." Shi Xiu said.

"Where the duty lies, let's catch it together."

Liu Tang and Shi Xiu merged together, and the scale of more than 80 people, plus the officials led by Shi Wenbin, began to arrest the bandit Wang Ying who slipped through the city. The people also spontaneously mobilized to help search, and they searched for more than an hour in the corners, under the grass, and under the bridge.

At this time, Chao Gai and Gongsun Sheng arrived, accompanied by a hundred elite soldiers and two hundred infantry led by Chao Ran and Chao Zhang.

Shi Xiu saw Chao Gai coming, made a detailed report on the situation, and finally said to Shi Xiu: "Shi Xiu didn't think about it, I never thought that the bandits would be so fierce, and they would cut people when they saw them, disturbing the people, causing the people to die and be injured, all of which are my responsibility." ”

Chao Gai hurriedly picked up Shi Xiu and said, "Eighteen bandits have already caught seventeen people, which is already very good." Where in the world are people who are sometimes thoughtful. On-the-spot command is all about improvisation, and there's nothing wrong with your decision to arrest immediately, so you don't have to worry about it. ”

"Thank you brother for your leniency." Shi Xiu said.

Gongsun Sheng next to him said: "Now the formation is so big, the thieves must be frightened and hidden, although Yuncheng is small, but it is not easy to dig out a person, and now the soldiers are retreated, and only fifty people are left in the city to patrol, but to strengthen patrols outside the city, and at the same time, notices are posted at various traffic crossings, and Wang Ying is arrested." ”

Chao Gai nodded and said: "What I said is very true, it is really overkill for three or four hundred people to arrest one Wang Ying." The Shi Xiu brothers fought a battle just now, and their subordinates were also injured, so the soldiers went back to the camp to rest, and Shi Xiu left a dozen or so shrewd soldiers to change into civilian clothes and search around. ”

"Yes." Shi Xiu took the order.

"Chao Ran, you lead fifty people to patrol the city, remember to send someone to report outside the city once you find it, and Chao Zhang will take people to wait outside the city." Chao Gai arranged.

"Yes." Chao Ran said.

The brigade retreated, and even the officials led by Shi Wenbin also retreated. The dead people were paid for by the regimental training. The righteous and courageous people who were injured were all treated free of charge.

Shi Xiu changed his clothes, disguised himself a little, and became a woodcutter who sold firewood, carrying two loads of firewood along the street, and really met someone who bought firewood, Shi Xiu said that he had sold it and was sending it to others. The other soldiers also changed their costumes, some disguised as hawkers, others as scholars.

Looking for Wang Ying, Shi Xiu still has some eyebrows. That is to start from the place where Wang Ying disappeared. This alley is a small alley in the south of Yuncheng City, there are more than a dozen households living in the alley, and the only large courtyard is a two-entry courtyard.

Shi Xiu pretended to be very tired and sat at the door of a house to rest. The people in the courtyard found that someone was sitting at the door, took a big wooden stick and came out, it turned out to be a man in his fifties. The wind and frost of the years have made the hair gray. This person was relieved to see that it was a firewood seller, but after a closer look, he recognized it as Shi Xiu.

Shi Xiu said: "Don't make a sound." ”

"Uncle, do you want firewood at home?" Shi Xiu raised his voice and said.

"Oh, come in and talk." It's humane.

When he entered the courtyard, the uncle said, "You are the officer and soldier who caught the bandits in the morning, but you are amazing." ”

Shi Xiu said: "Ran away with a bandit leader, this person is too fierce, everyone can't sleep peacefully if they don't catch him." ”

"That's the truth, I know you're here to visit, just ask if you have anything." Uncle said.

Shi Xiu said: "Wang Ying disappeared in the dead end in front, who lives next to it?" ”

"The owner of the house had already moved to the countryside because he owed money for gambling a few years ago. And the courtyard was gone, and all the heads were thundered. ”

"Oh, this gambling owes money, why did the yard belong to Lei Heng?" Shi Xiu asked puzzled.

"Why is it not that I am an old man knowing, although this courtyard is Lei Heng, but Lei Heng has a home in the city, and he rarely comes here, and then let Tang Niuer live. Tang Niu'er was closed down for stealing dogs, and was beaten on the board, but now he has nothing to do, and he still starts selling along the street. Uncle said.

"Thank you, I'm out." Shi Xiu came out of this uncle's house, and he couldn't figure it out, Wang Ying was called a bantam tiger, and he wouldn't be able to fly if he was killed. That must have entered the courtyard where Tang Niu'er lived. This courtyard has been carefully searched, and there are more than a dozen people who set up stalls in it. Most of them come from the countryside to the city to earn a living.

Now that there is no new evidence, it is categorically impossible to go in and search again, Shi Xiu sent people to secretly resist the vicinity of this alley, and deliberately pretended to repair the roof, repairing the roof of a courtyard next to it, and observed it for more than half an hour, and did not see any difference in Tang Niu'er's yard. One evening, the big guys came back one after another, talking about today's daytime, and slowly forgetting about it.

The remnants of Qingfeng Mountain are so many, and they are in distant Qingzhou, so they are not a threat to Yuncheng, and Chao Gai has no time to care about these things. On the seventh day of the first lunar month, the weather is clear and the sun is shining. The docks were busy. Eight Asuka merchant ships, each with thirty sailors, carried two hundred immigrants. There were 1,600 people in total, because they had to sail for half a month, and there were a lot of grain, vegetables and other supplies on board. The merchant ships were managed by Hu Cheng, and the sailors sent by Liu Liang assisted, mainly to learn from experience.

The escort team included Chao Gai, Gongsun Sheng, Jiao Ting, Lu Fang, Xiao Rang and Chao Gai's fifty personal soldiers. The navy was led by Ruan Xiaoer and Chao Xiong, with seven centipede ships and one flying eagle warship.

The mighty fleet traveled south along the canal and rushed to New Jeju. This way all the way to the mouth of the Huai River is very smooth, the water bandits and thieves do not dare to fight the idea of such a large fleet, the official will not be nosy except for charging for money, who will ask for other things if there is money.