The person who came to report was the team leader. According to Chen Quan's duty table, he should be on duty at this time.

To say that this Lin Chao is also a careful person. During his duty, he not only inspected the camp, but also walked into a tent from time to time, took the roster of the whole army, checked whether the people in the tent were there, nodded people's heads one by one, and checked the empty shops. It doesn't matter if you don't check, this check will find out the problem.

Li Yanzhao got up and dressed, and then draped neatly. Hung the ring head knife and bow and arrow on his belt, and then went out of the tent with Lin Chao, and he listened carefully to Lin Chao's statement of the process of discovering the few people in the tent. After thinking for a moment, he asked, "What time is this?" ”

"It's about ugly." Lin Chao replied.

"Do you know who is missing? Is it a pawn? Li Yanzhao asked.

"It's indeed my horsemen, but who is missing, but my subordinates don't know. After the subordinates found that there were few people, they inspected the camp and even went to a few latrines in the camp, but no one was found. Then he came and reported to the chief of the hundred. He has not yet woken up the man in the account. ”

"Let's go, go over and have a look." Li Yanzhao made a decision immediately and ordered Lin Chao to lead the way.

Lin Chao led Li Yanzhao for a while, and then flashed into a tent next to him. Li Yanzhao also followed in, and then Lin Chao shook the fire fold in his hand, lit a torch, and he carefully held it half-up, taking a clear picture of the situation in the tent. Li Yanzhao looked at it, and saw a cloth blanket crumpled on the bunk, and the person was nowhere to be found.

Seeing this, Li Yanzhao was surprised in his heart, and shouted in the tent again and again: "Get up, get up!" People are gone, but you don't know yet? ”

The people in the tent who were still sleeping soundly were woken up by Li Yanzhao's shouts. Some people sat up one by one, and a few people were still lying on the bunk in a daze, still humming and chirping.

Seeing this, Lin Chao was slightly angry, and stepped forward in a few steps to raise his foot and kicked at a person on the pavement: "Damn, you are still sleeping, you are still sleeping when something happens?" ”

The man was kicked by Lin Chao and reflexively bounced up half of his body, but then saw Lin Chao's slightly angry face holding the torch. There was also a man standing beside him. Looking at it, it was the new head of the hundred, who couldn't help but be shocked, and hurriedly sat up, and hurriedly went down to the bunk without taking care of wearing clothes. But I also saw the conspicuous empty shop in the row of bunks side by side.

"Get up, there are fewer people! You all sleep better than pigs! The man shouted at the crowd. Then he hurriedly clenched his fists and knocked on the ground: "The villain is the chief of Team Chen's subordinates, Ren Chi." The subordinates were negligent and did not find that someone in the tent had fled, which was the fault of the villain, and the chief of 100 people was punished. ”

Hearing that he had drunk the order, everyone in the tent got up and dressed. Although Li Yanzhao was displeased, he still helped Ren Shi Chang up and said, "Ren Shi Chang doesn't have to blame himself, just wait until the matter is clear." ”

As he spoke, everyone in the tent was already dressed, stood in a row beside the shop, looked around in a panic, and then lowered their heads, not daring to look at the leader of the Lin team and Li Bairen who were holding torches in the tent.

"Chief Ren, you get up first and see, but who is missing from the tent?" Li Yanzhao forcibly suppressed the inexplicable fear and anger in his heart, and said to Ren Chi warmly.

Ren Shichang looked back at each other according to his words, and while chanting the words for a long time, he then turned back to Li Yanzhao and said, "I am a hundred people, but Dou Tong is not here." ”

"When the time comes, Dou Tong can be there?" Li Yanzhao asked again.

"After the o'clock, when the hypnotic drum was beaten, he had just entered the tent and lay down." Ren Shichang replied.

When Li Yanzhao heard this, he asked Lin Chao beside him: "Who are the people who are on duty at the camp gate tonight?" All shouted. Lin Chao heard the words and took the order away.

After about a stick of incense, Lin Chao entered the account again, but there were four people behind him. They are all sleepy-eyed. And they fought in a row opposite each other in the tent. Li Yanzhao looked at the four of them and said slowly: "When you were waiting for the sentry tonight, did any of the soldiers in the camp go out of the camp gate?" ”

The camp guard changed every hour. These four people are the two sentinels of the time and the son. Two people per whistle. I heard that Li Yanzhao asked each other, but they all replied that no soldiers had ever left the camp.

Li Yanzhao thought that if Dou Tong left the camp, it would be better to take these two posts. So he was almost certain that if Dou Tong left the camp from the gate, it would be within the time of these two outposts. And think about it, if he climbs over the wall, the four corners of the camp will inevitably have an unobstructed view. The sergeant on duty above the watchtower is a sergeant of the Shooting Battalion. When you see someone climbing over the wall, you will inevitably warn them. Therefore, Li Yanzhao believes that the possibility of Dou Tong leaving the camp by climbing over the wall is very small.

The four of them replied that there were no soldiers out of the camp, and Li Yanzhao frowned, angry. He then copied a ladle of water in the tent, and when he came out of the tent, he scooped out a scoop of water from the water tank next to him, and then lifted the curtain of the tent, strode to the four people, and poured a ladle of water on the top of the four people's heads.

Cool water is poured over the head. The four of them were all full of spirits, and one of the soldiers was caught off guard and was poured cold water into the collar. The cold water instantly flowed all over his body, and he couldn't help but jump a few times to stabilize his body, but the soaked clothes and the autumn chill still made him shiver.

After Li Yanzhao finished pouring the scoop of water, he casually threw the scoop to the side. looked at the four of them and said lightly: "Have you thought about it?" Pour a scoop of cold water over you and sober you up. ”

The four of them wrapped their arms around their bodies, cowering, but still shaking their heads. They all claimed that no one had entered or left the camp.

"Have you thought about it?" Li Yanzhao's voice couldn't help but gradually become cold: "I'll send the Lin team to lead the cavalry out with the cavalry later, and go to find Dou Tong." If you still want to cover up, you will be guilty of the same crime as Dou Tong. After saying that, he looked at the four people, and the four of them didn't dare to meet Li Yanzhao's fierce gaze, and lowered their heads one after another.

"It's not too late to explain. At this time, I will only pursue you and others for the crime of coercion. At most, it's just a board. If Dou Tong is captured, he will confess which of your outposts was released, and which of your outposts will be on duty, and he will be guilty of the same crime! If he is the head of the people, so will you. Maybe you will think that Dou Tong is a righteous person, and he will not confess to you, right? However, I think it wouldn't be difficult for me to find out what he did after he left the camp. If you find out what he is doing, you will find out what hour he went, and will the sentry at the sentry where you let him go can still hold it? ”

Li Yanzhao carefully observed the four people in front of him. I saw that they were still shaking, shaking. I don't know if I was cold by pouring a scoop of water, or I was frightened by his words.

"Still not recruited?" Li Yanzhao's words were already full of anger: "Good, good, good." If the outpost lets people out, they are going to notify their families to collect the corpses. After speaking, he summoned the Lin team on the side, but he no longer looked at the people in the tent, and turned around and wanted to leave the tent.

As soon as Li Yanzhao stepped out of the tent with one foot, he heard a pop behind him. Turning his head to look, one of the four night sentries had already knelt on the ground, kowtowed to the tent curtain again and again, and said with a cry: "A hundred people spare their lives, and the villain has been recruited, recruited." ”

The other of the four sentinels who was on his knees and prostrated without saying a word.

Li Yanzhao saw that the two of them knelt down in the tent, probably because of the cold, and they still shrank to themselves. Unable to bear it, he instructed several sentries to go back to the tent to change their clothes, and then the two who knelt down came to his tent for questioning.

The sentries left as they were told, and after a short time, the two people who had summoned their clothes arrived outside Li Yanzhao's tent, but Li Yanzhao and Lin Team led the two to wait outside the tent.

The two of them came nervously, and before Li Yanzhao could say anything, one of them already lowered his head and muttered, "Dou Tong him...... His mother was seriously ill, and after he returned from the rebellion, he didn't know until he came home on vacation. In the past half a month, he has been uncertain, raising money everywhere, wanting to treat his mother. However, none of us and other rough men in the army have much money. He has never been able to raise the full amount of money for the consultation. Unexpectedly, it is expected that hundreds of people will be rewarded with long hair today. Dou Tong got his share, and then asked around the robes to borrow some. Then he found the two of us, and said that tonight when the two of us were on duty at the camp gate, he was anxious to go back to the county town to treat his mother's illness, so he begged me to let him out of the camp when he was on duty. How can we bear to see death without help? And they answered him. When it was time for us to be on duty, he came to the gate of the camp, and we let him go. ”

Hearing what the sentry recounted, Li Yanzhao bowed slightly, and then said, "Okay, I know." You two go back. ”

The sentry knelt down and kowtowed: "The villain begged a hundred people to let Dou Tong die, and he was also eager to save his mother." Ask for the grace of a hundred people. ”

Li Yanzhao smiled: "Okay, I have my own measure, you two should go back quickly." ”

looked at the backs of the two of them turning back to the account. Li Yanzhao turned his head to Team Lin beside him and said, "I'm afraid that when this Dou Tong comes back, there will be a sentry on duty to answer him." ”

Team Lin nodded, but then thought of something, and asked, "Why are the hundred people so sure that Dou Tong will return?" ”

"If it is really as the sentry said, this Dou Tong sneaked out, it is nothing more than to save his mother's heart and seek medical treatment for his mother. Since it was a sneak run, it was mostly an urgent matter, and he had to go, but he was afraid that others would know. In this way, he will inevitably have to return before dawn. I'm afraid that the sentry of that sentry, he has also arranged. If you don't believe it, Lin will wait and see. Taking a step back, even if he really becomes a deserter and doesn't come back, I'll just send someone to find him. ”

Lin Chao smiled faintly when he heard this: "The magic plan of the hundred-man leader, I have already understood it before." Today, my subordinates will accompany a hundred people here. ”

Li Yanzhao laughed, and quietly chatted with the two of them led by Team Lin beside him outside the tent. There was such a big incident, and the two of them must have no sleep.

At the beginning of the day, a glimmer of morning light just appeared on the horizon. A figure approached quietly at the camp gate, and quietly talked to the camp guard at the camp gate. Then the sentry opened the door of the camp through a small crack, and the figure slipped through the crack and went straight to the tent in which he was living in the camp.

Unexpectedly, he had just walked more than ten feet away, but he saw two people suddenly turn out of the corner of the tent next to him, looking at him with a smile, one of them smiled and said, "What? Lin team rate, what Li expected was really good, right? ”

The other person also smiled and said: "The temple is really full of 100 people, and Lin is convinced." ”

Dou Tong, who had not returned from the camp all night, looked at the two of them and couldn't help but be frightened. It turned out that those two people were actually Li Bairen, and Lin Team Leader!