Chapter 322: Two Ways
The news is that Diao Chan took Ayuna out of the house, saying that he wanted to go back to Wang Yun's mansion to live for a few days, but Dong Min accidentally met Wang Yun, and when he talked about it, Wang Yun said that Diao Chan never returned to his mansion.
Dong Min immediately felt that something was wrong, and while sending someone back to the house to check whether Diao Chan was in the mansion, he also sent someone to search Wang Yun's mansion, and at the same time sent someone to ask the four guards in the past few days, whether anyone had let Diao Chan's carriage and horse leave.
Wang Yun didn't mind that Dong Min sent someone to search his mansion, and vaguely felt that Diao Chan's disappearance was a conspiracy, after all, he was scheming, and immediately turned his attention to Cao Ju's body.
In order to show that Diao Chan's disappearance had nothing to do with him, Wang Yun immediately told Dong Min about his suspicions, and the latter was also surprised, because of Bai Bojun, he hadn't paid attention to the movements of the Horse Mansion for a long time.
Immediately, Dong Min personally led the guards to the Horse Mansion and asked people to knock on the door. However, there was no response from inside, and no one came to open the door.
Dong Min was furious, and immediately sent someone to bang on the door, and it took a quarter of an hour to knock open the heavy gate of the Horse Mansion and rush in.
However, the Pony Mansion was already empty, and there was not a single figure to be seen, and the dozens of people in the Pony Mansion seemed to have evaporated out of thin air, and all the clothes were gone.
The bad news didn't stop there, and soon a soldier came to report that the Tian family was also gone, as well as the Huangfu Songmanmen, as well as the family members of Cao Julu's subordinate Wenwu, all disappeared.
The worst news is not these, the Empress Dowager He and the abolished emperor Liu Bian are also gone, and at the same time, there is also the heirloom jade seal, all of which is a well-planned conspiracy.
After hearing this bad news one by one, Dong Min's face turned pale, and he shouted angrily after a while: "Search, there must be a secret passage to the outside of the city in Cao Ju's mansion, we must find the secret passage, send a large army to chase after it, no matter what, we can't let the abolished emperor and Cao Ju leave Luoyang." ”
What is a secret passage, of course, it is a secret passage, how can it be so easy to find, especially Cao Ju carefully planned this escape plan, the entrance of the secret passage is naturally extremely secret.
Five hundred people tossed around in the Pony's Mansion for a whole day, until it was dark, and they could not find the entrance to the secret passage.
At the same time, the three groups of Xiliang cavalry sent out by Dong Min also came back separately to resume their lives, saying that they chased hundreds of miles in the east, south and north directions, but they did not see the shadow of Cao Ju and others.
Then there is only to the west, but there are 200,000 Baibo troops in the west, Dong Min did not send people to chase west, and he also believes that Cao Ju escaped from Luoyang and will not go west, because the base camp of the Cao family is in Qiaocheng, and the west of Luoyang is Yongliang, which is where Dong Zhuo made his fortune.
Dong Zhuo was also shocked when he got the news, Cao Ju fled, he was not afraid at all, but the abolished emperor followed, and the Empress Dowager He, as well as the jade seal of the country, naturally Cao Ju's heart is known to everyone.
However, the confrontation between the Tiger Prison Pass, Yuan Shao did not attack the city, nor did he withdraw his troops, so Dong Zhuo did not dare to leave easily, so he asked Li Ru to rush back to Luoyang in the starry night, and no matter what, he would find the abolished emperor Liu Bian and snatch back the jade seal of the country.
When Li Ru returned to Luoyang, an even worse news happened, that is, the news of Cao Ju's departure actually spread, and it was soon known by the people of the entire Luoyang City.
After these people got the news, they first went to the Mansion of the Horse Mansion and the Tianfu Mansion, and Cao Ju went to the Mansion of Wenwu to see the situation, and sure enough, they were all guarded by the Xiliang Army and did not let anyone in.
Then, these people went to Fangze Pavilion again, and the news they got was that Lai Ying'er and Feng Sanniang didn't know when they left, and Fangze Pavilion had been sold by Feng Sanniang.
These circumstances undoubtedly indicate that the news is true.
Cao Ju's prestige among the people of Luoyang is very high, and his existence is almost the protector of the people in Luoyang and the surrounding areas, but now this protector has disappeared silently, which means that when they are bullied by the Xiliang army in the future, no one will be able to stand up for them.
People are panicking, at this time to use these four words to describe the situation in Luoyang, it is not an exaggeration at all, outside the city is the 200,000 Baibo army, has not yet evacuated, Cao Ju in the city has disappeared, and the protective umbrella of the common people does not exist.
When Li Ru came back, it was useless, all he could do was to do more than Dong Min, that is, to send people around the camp of the Baibo Army and go west to investigate the traces of Cao Ju and his party.
Of the twenty scouts in the first batch, none of them came back, and I don't know if they were killed by the Bai Bo army or by Cao Ju's men and horses, Li Ru couldn't be sure.
In the second group, Li Ru sent 200 scouts, this time he was ruthless, as long as these 200 people could come back, he could determine whether Cao Ju had fled to the west.
This time, the scouts lived up to Li Ru's expectations, and finally there were two reports, saying that they had found Cao Ju's chariot and horses and headed west, but they had more than 1,000 cavalry and were all killed.
Cao Ju really went west, Li Ru squinted his eyes, and thought to himself, the cunning Cao Ju, cut off Yongliang, occupy Hangu and Tongguan, even if it is his father-in-law's army moving west, he can't help him, once he has been running for a long time, Cao Ju will inevitably become a climate.
Bai Bo Army, Li Ru immediately figured it out, Bai Bo Jun came so strangely, it must have been bribed by Cao Ju, if he wanted to pursue Cao Ju, he must first let Bai Bo Army withdraw his troops.
And there are two ways for the White Polish Army to withdraw its troops, the first is to defeat them, Li Ru is confident that he can do it, but it is not a matter of one or two days, and the second is to learn from Cao Ju and bribe him with heavy money, this method will work quickly.
After some thought, Li Ru decided to adopt the second method, so he sent Li Su to the Baibo army with a lot of money and asked to see the commander of the Baibo army.
Li Su, the last time he lobbied Lu Bu with the Red Rabbit Horse, not only did he not succeed, but also lost the Red Rabbit Horse, if it wasn't for Li Ru's intercession, he would have been killed by Dong Zhuo a long time ago, so since then, Li Su has obeyed Li Ru's words, and he is more attentive to Li Ru than to Dong Zhuo.
The leader of the Bai Bo Army is named Guo Tai, a fierce general, who used to be loyal to Zhang Jiao, and the reason why he listened to Cao Ju's words this time and led the army to block the road to the west of Luoyang was not actually Cao Ju's heavy bribe.
Bribing Bai Bojun with a lot of money was a ploy of Xi Zhong, but Cao Ju's method was better, and he prepared in advance, imitating Zhang Ning's handwriting, writing a letter to Guo Tai, and engraved Zhang Jiao's code that only Thirty-six Fang Qu Shuai knew.
Hearing the news of Li Su's coming, Mrs. Guo couldn't help laughing and said: "The eldest lady is really clever, this time we are waiting to send troops, and it is really not without benefits." ”