These Chu State sergeants happened to be people who knew some inside information, and they pointed to a carriage in front of them and said, "General Qu Xin has been replaced, arrested, and tied to that carriage." ”

When Li Qi and Ma Hui heard this, they felt that the Chu army camp had undergone a change of appearance, and they couldn't be stunned, and hurriedly went to chase after the carriage where Qu Xin was. When they arrived nearby, they followed the troops and kept an eye on the situation near the carriage, and found that there were four sergeants on the four corners of the carriage, with swords at their waists, guarding the situation around the carriage as they walked.

Li Qi and Ma Hui decided to rescue Qu Xin, but when they looked at the four sturdy men in charge of guarding, they felt that they were other people's opponents, and they were immediately deflated.

Li Qi's brain turned and he thought about it. He took out a token of the Chinese army from his bosom and said to Ma Hui: "You see, I still have the token of the Chinese army here, which was originally used for the convenience of transmitting information and entering and exiting the forbidden land of the Chinese army, and now we can use it to deceive those who take care of the carriage." ”

Li Qi then asked Ma Hui to lean over his ears and whispered to him about his plans, Ma Hui heard it, felt that his idea was good, nodded his head, and laughed happily.

The two of them followed the carriage escorting Qu Xin not far away, and found that they were almost at a fork in the road, and Li Qi hurriedly walked a few steps. He bravely stretched out his arms, held the token of the Chinese army high in his right hand, and shouted: "The commander of the Chinese army will have an order, stop the carriage immediately." ”

The four guards immediately stepped forward, glaring, and someone asked Li Qi: "Who are you and why did you stop the carriage?" ”

Li Qi raised his head and said confidently: "I am the messenger of the Chinese army, and I am ordered by the master to escort the prisoners to the Chinese army for questioning. ”

A tall guard stepped forward to look at Li Qi a few times, and then carefully looked at the token in his hand, and for a moment he couldn't decide whether to let him take the prisoners in the carriage. At this time, Ma Hui also ran over from the side, and he said to Li Qi with a roar: "The Lord will let you escort the prisoner over, why are you so slow, there is no movement yet." ”

Li Qi replied, "I'm not negotiating with the guards!" What are you anxious about? ”

Ma Hui said angrily: "I'm anxious for you, and the Lord will let me urge you to bring people over quickly." ”

Li Qi and Ma Hui sang and harmonized, and it really looked like that, and the four guards couldn't help but believe them, so they let the two of them deal with the "prisoner" Qu Xin. Both Li Qi and Ma Hui got into the carriage that escorted Qu Xin, and then let the coachman who was driving the carriage get out of the carriage, and the two of them took the reins and whip of the horse, and then urged the carriage forward.

They had not long walked along the mountain road until they reached the fork in the road, and Li Qi pulled the reins of his left hand, changed the direction of the horse's advance to the left fork, and then gave the horse another whip, and the horse received a whip, and the four hooves rose up, pulling the carriage forward quickly.

The four guards thought that Li Qi and Ma Hui would escort Qu Xin to the main general, and they were letting their guard down, glad they were relieved from the tense task. Suddenly, one of them saw the carriage change direction and ran along the fork in the road, and he hurried to tell the other companions, and the guards screamed almost at the same time.

They hurried to catch up, but when they reached the fork in the road, they found that the carriage was long gone. In desperation, the four had to give up the chase and hurriedly went to Chen Zhi to report the situation.

When Chen Zhi learned that Qu Xin had been taken away by two young people with unknown surnames, he was so angry that he scolded the guards. Chen Zhi's scolding alarmed Jing Chi, who was in the Chinese army at this time, and he hurriedly poked his head out of the carriage and asked Chen Zhi what was going on. When Jing Chi learned the news of Qu Xin's disappearance, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Jingchi had no grievances with Qu Xin's father, and he had always been a well water that did not interfere with river water, but now he went to Mianchi, not only replaced Qu Xin, but also escorted him, and felt very uncomfortable. In fact, he also had the heart to say a few good words for Qu Xin after returning to China, but now that Qu Xin was taken away by someone with a false order, Jing Chi felt a little relieved, so he persuaded Chen Zhi and said: "Forget it, after Qu Xin escapes, it will be difficult to return to Chu State, so let him go." ”

Chen Zhi himself was helpless, thinking: "I can't order the army to stop advancing and go after Qu Xin." He decided to leave it at that, and let it pass.

Li Qi and Ma Hui drove the carriage for more than ten miles, they kept looking behind them, and did not find anyone chasing them, and only then stopped the carriage in a clearing. Li Qi lifted the curtain of the carriage and saw Qu Xin who was tightly tied to a corner of the carriage, and a ball of cloth was stuffed in his mouth.

At this time, Li Qi realized that there had been no movement in the carriage, and it was the first time they had done such an exciting thing, so they were very nervous, and they didn't even bother to see if Qu Xin was in the carriage. Li Qi thought of his own negligence, and couldn't help but laugh at his carelessness in his heart.

He took the cloth from Qu Xin's mouth, and Qu Xin immediately opened his mouth and asked, "Where are we?" ”

Li Qi looked at Ma Hui behind him and asked him, "Ma Hui, do you know where we are?" Ma Hui also shook his head, indicating that he didn't know.

Qu Xin's expression was very anxious, and he said to Li Qi: "Quickly untie the rope for me, I want to go out and have a look." But the ropes that bound Qu Xin were quite strong, and they were all deeply strained into the muscles on Qu Xin's arms, and it took a lot of effort for Li Qi and Ma Hui to loosen Qu Xin's ties.

Ignoring the numbness, soreness, and pain, Qu Xin jumped out of the carriage, and when he looked around, he saw that they were in a valley, a place he had never been to before.

Qu Xin called Li Qi and Ma Hui to his side again, and asked them about the situation, and he realized that the Chu army had gone all the way south, farther and farther away from the Mianchi front. Qu Xin thought: "It seems that I was betrayed by Chen Zhen." But how could this Chen Zhi have such the audacity to take the authority of the main general and lead the Chu army to return south? ”

Qu Xin thought again: "Even if Chen Zhi can take advantage of his absence, the dove occupies the magpie's nest and attacks the big tent of the Chinese army. However, with so many generals in the Chu army, how could they obey Qu Xin's orders for no reason and voluntarily follow him to retreat? ”

Qu Xin thought of this, and had already guessed that the state of Chu probably sent people to the front line of Michi to announce the edict of a temporary change of commander, and the generals in the army were just carrying out the new instructions of the imperial court.

At this time, Qu Xin thought of Su Qin, the commander of the Hezhong Army, and did not know the changes of the Chu army, the Chu army retreated south, leaving a big gap.

Qu Xin was anxious to rush to the headquarters of the Hezong army as soon as possible and report to Su Qin about the changes in the Chu army, but they turned around again, not knowing where to go. Qu Xin, Li Qi and the others did not dare to turn back, so they had no choice but to walk forward along the road in the valley, looking for passers-by as they went, hoping to ask him how to get to Michi.

Later, after walking for about ten miles, Liqi found a shepherd grazing goats in the middle of the hill beside the road. Li Qi then got out of the car and hurried to the shepherd to ask for directions

After that, the three men followed the path pointed out by the shepherd and turned out of the mountain. By the time they arrived at the headquarters of the Combined Column, it was already close to noon.

Qu Xin drove all the way to the tent of the Chinese army where Su Qin was located at the fastest speed, and when he arrived there, Su Qin was studying a map of the city defense of Michichi in the tent, and he planned to break through the city in one fell swoop and annihilate the Qin army in Michi.

Suddenly, he saw Qu Xin stumbling in, his hair scattered, covered in dust, embarrassed, and he couldn't help but be surprised. He hurriedly asked Qu Xin, "General Qu, what's going on?" ”

Qu Xin ran out of breath, he calmed down, and said to Su Qin: "The big thing is not good, the Chu army mutinied, Chen Zhi grabbed the position of the main general, and led the Chu army to leave the camp and withdraw to the Chu State. ”

Su Qin let out an "ahhhhhh ”

Qu Xin then briefly reported to Su Qin that he was framed and arrested on the way back to the camp, and the scene he saw later. Su Qin immediately said strangely: "How can this Chen Zhi have such a great appeal, someone must have made trouble from it, and he dared to act like this because he got the secret order of the King of Chu." ”

General Su Qin immediately ordered the guards of the Chinese army and found all the heralds in the tent of the Chinese army. Su Qin urgently ordered them to seize all the time and convey new orders to the people of the Hezhong Army around Mianchi, so that they could put aside all the work in their hands and gather as quickly as possible to rush to the western suburbs of Mianchi City.

After issuing the order, Su Qin himself took five or six hundred soldiers of the Chinese army and went straight to the western suburbs of Michi City. When he got there, he first went to the Chu army camp to take a look, and found that the camp had already been empty.

Su Qin did not stop, and immediately entered the city of Mianchi through the west gate of Mianchi. At this time, the gates were closed, but they were unguarded. With a slight push, Su Qin's sergeant opened the city gate.

It was this Michi City Gate, they had worked hard and tried their best before, and even sacrificed the lives of so many soldiers, but they were not able to break through. Today, it was opened so easily, and everyone felt that there must be something strange in it.

Sure enough, when Su Qin led his generals into the city, he found that there was no trace of the Qin army in the city. During the occupation of the city by the Qin army, many of the people in the city fled a lot, and now there are not many people left, and most of them are closed. The whole city was in dead silence at this time.