The movement of the Ming army is not shown for the time being, and in the hot spring town, Tu Lik hid in one of the best buildings in the town, and his face was extremely gloomy while drinking while looking at the subordinate soldiers standing in a row in front of him.

"Haven't you found Liu Xi yet?"

Pulling Rick poured a bowl of wine into his stomach and looked at the group of people in front of him viciously.

"Nope! It was as if the man had suddenly disappeared, and we had gone through the whole town, and we hadn't missed all the basements, but we hadn't found out where he was hiding, my lord, had the cunning Han man fled? Otherwise we wouldn't have been able to find ......."

"It's impossible to !!"

Rick yelled, then smashed the bowl to the ground.

"He brought this king here, and all the entrances and exits here are guarded by us, and he can't leave without my permission! He definitely can't go! Such a big living person! Why did it just disappear out of thin air? Could he still be able to spell?! I don't believe it! Unbelief! ”

Rick stood up, and with a single effort, he overturned the table in front of him.

It was Liu Xi who ran all the way south with him, Liu Xi ran all the way south with him, running while looting, saying that he could definitely avoid the pursuit of the Han army, although he was chased and defeated by the Han army twice in a row, but the core main force still ran out with Pullik.

The people who stayed behind the palace and sent him to death were not the core and main force of Pullik, these more than 10,000 people were the real core of Pullik, with the most gold, silver, jewelry and looted property, they were his absolute henchmen, so Pullik didn't worry about what Liu Xi would do to him, if he dared to act rashly, he would kill him directly.

Liu Xi likes to take detours, roundabouts, just don't go straight, saying that walking straight is easy for the Han army to pursue all the way, if you go bent but can avoid their pursuit, this statement is not wrong, for several days everyone did not see the trace of the Han army, so they stopped in the hot spring town.

Hundreds of families here were cleaned up, those who should be killed were killed, and those who should be played were killed, so they rested here for a night, but the next morning, when they were about to leave, they found that all the roads that could leave the hot spring town had been blocked by the Ming army.

The Ming army actually caught up at night, and surrounded the men and horses of the entire hot spring town with more troops than them, surrounded but not attacked, and set up a defensive line.

Just one night! Just one night! Caught up? Apparently they haven't been seen for days! How could it be possible to catch up in one night?

What's even more terrifying is that Liu Xi is gone, and Liu Xi, who had analyzed the current situation and the road after the previous night, disappeared early in the morning, and the soldiers guarding him said that he fell asleep after entering the house, and never came out again, only to find that the house was empty and the person was missing the next morning.

Pulling Rick was furious at that time, turned the whole house upside down and found no clues, and then interrogated, only to find out that the seven or eight soldiers guarding Liu Xi had all fallen asleep at night, because of the previous drinking.

It is very likely that Liu Xi escaped in this way.

Pullik didn't believe it, in his mind, Liu Xi was a traitor who betrayed the Han people and had no way out, the Han people could not continue to accept him, he had to die, if he didn't follow him back to the grassland, he had to die, since he knew such an ending, why did Liu Xi leave him?

He couldn't figure it out, so he felt that Liu Xi was still in the hot spring town, and while sending people to attack the Ming army's defense line to try to break through, he was also looking for Liu Xi everywhere, basically demolishing the houses in the entire town, and looking for it carefully.

But for two whole days, he was stunned that he didn't find any trace of Liu Xi, but his army died hundreds of people because of the breakout, and they never broke out, and now their morale is declining and people are panicking.

What's more, the rations are not enough, they have always fed the war with war, in order to free up more space to bring gold, silver and jewelry, they did not pay attention to bringing food, and they ate wherever they fought, and now the rations are only one day left, if they can't break out again, they can only kill horses to maintain their lives.

But war horses are the lifeblood of the grassland people, without war horses, how can they still play sports warfare with the Ming army? And now the weather is very cold, there is no grass on the ground, the forage of the horses is very limited, and now it is basically going to be consumed, and some people have begun to grab food from the horses, and if this continues, the horses will starve to death.

In this way, Liu Xi still couldn't be found, and he had always trusted Liu Xi as a think tank, and he used brutal actions to cover up his inner uneasiness and panic, killed seven or eight cronies who did bad things in a row, and personally led people to kill them once.

As a result, except that his mount was killed by the Ming army's gun, and he himself fell to the ground and was almost captured alive by the Ming army, there was no other result.

The weather was still so cold, and there were only two meals left for the rations, so he had no choice but to issue a collection order, gather all the rations together, and use his prestige to deter everyone, and limit the rations, barely enough for one meal.

But this meal will last until tonight, and if you can't break out today, tomorrow you will have to decide whether to kill the horse or not to satisfy your hunger.

At this time, there was a strong smell of meat outside the hot spring town, and someone came to report that it was the Ming army who cut off the meat of the war horses they had killed these days, some were barbecuing, some were cooking broth, and they were feasting, but the bad thing was that the wind was blowing in the town now, and the smell of meat was wafting all over the town after a while.

The soldiers of the northern captives, who had not eaten enough for a few days, were rumbling in their stomachs seduced by this aroma, a little rice grain was not enough to fill their stomachs, but it was already a very important ration for them, and they didn't know how much ration they still had, anyway, they handed over all the rations.

At the moment, except for the horses around them, they can't find anything to eat, but horses are their second life, and the steppe people will never kill horses and eat horses unless they have to.

Smelling the smell of meat, Pullik suddenly became furious, destroyed the only good room left, and then drew his sword and mounted his horse to lead people to fight to the death, when suddenly a sentry came to report the military situation.

The Ming army has increased its troops!

The Ming troops on all three routes had increased their troops, two or three times more than before, and the roads were blocked tightly, and now unless they could fly, they had to engage these Ming troops in short combat.