Li Ru's face immediately darkened when he heard this report, and the worst result really happened.

This should actually be something that can be expected, but to be honest, Li Ru has been doing it so far, except for knowing that the person who came to pick up Cai Yong from Luoyang City was sent by Lu Bu, the others are ignorant, the so-called knowing oneself and knowing the other can survive a hundred battles, and knowing oneself does not know the other, many times it is like a blind man touching an elephant, he can touch the head and not see the tail, so Li Ru naturally does not know what kind of person the other party is, so he cannot make a comprehensive deployment in a targeted manner; Another reason is naturally because of the rush of time, even with Li Ru's brain, it is not easy to think of so many things at once, and it is normal to have some negligence occasionally, and being able to think of key points in time at critical moments has proved Li Ru's awesomeness.

However, now Li Ru doesn't need to prove his strength at all, he just wants to find out the enemy's traces, so that he can carry out his next plan.

Then it quickly occurred to him that the misfortune of Seon was not a good thing, and that the misfortune might be a blessing, and that this matter might not be all bad, but should be viewed from two aspects.

On the one hand, not only did he lose mounts and soldiers on his side - of course, for Li Ru, such a loss was almost negligible, although for him even if he was an ordinary soldier but because he was once a veteran of Xiliang who belonged to his father-in-law, it also had an unusual significance, and it was best to have no less, but this was obviously unrealistic, so whether he wanted to or not, he could only accept it in the end, and at the same time, at this moment they were still in danger of being secretly ambushed at any time, Even the high morale that had been aroused before had slowly worn out in the march ahead. Now, when you know again that the enemy is not in front, but lurking behind and around, it is already good that you don't become panicked at the first time.

This was an oversight on the part of Li Ru, who only cared about knowing the situation at the time, but did not consider what impact this would have on the morale of the army.

Of course, there is no point in pursuing these now, but fortunately, on the other hand, although the other party has obtained a means of transportation this time, but after having a war horse and more than one, they can originally appear more flexible, but now it may not be, although the number of people is still so small, riding a horse can also save their energy consumption to the greatest extent. Especially to avoid Cai Yong from continuing to drag everyone back. After all, it is still easy for Cai Yong to ride a horse, and he doesn't need to worry about danger, but in this way, in the current environment, the movement of the other party will naturally become more difficult, and in this way, people will ride on horses. If people and horses are added, the goal will also become invisibly bigger. Although the neighborhood is well connected, it is actually a little bit of a place to go around. If they're still nearby, then it's certainly going to be a good advantage for their own side of the search.

And after sending Hua Xiong out, he avoided that the other party would take the opportunity to sneak around and go around to the front. Li Ru has no other worries in his heart, so he can have enough time and patience to spend time with the other party here, regardless of whether the other party is here or not at the moment.

If you are here, it is naturally the best, Li Ruke still wants to catch it alive, and ask about the news about Lu Bu from the other party's mouth, after all, according to the news from Yuan Tan over there, Lu Bu should be able to rush to Luoyang not long later than them; In addition, if necessary, Cai Yong, the old man, will be captured alive, and maybe he can also become a hostage when dealing with Lu Bu later.

After thinking about it, in fact, now Li Ru also wants to race against time, and time does not allow him to delay too much here, so he quickly made a decision, he is ready to divide the team into two parts again, most of the people are of course concentrated in place, anyway, except for the main road they are walking now, most of the streets in this step are narrow, there are too many people, not only is it difficult to pass, it is not easy to give full play to their numerical advantages, but it will also become a constraint, so he only sent the remaining small number of people to carry out this work.

And these people also had hundreds, but they continued to divide them into several squads, each pair of about ten or twenty people, and then ordered them to go in different directions to start a carpet search, and agreed that each of them would return to the same place immediately after a certain period of time, regardless of whether they had completed the search task or not, and then see if there were any changes in personnel; This is naturally because Li Ru is worried that the other party will attack these subordinates if he is lurking in the dark, and of course, he can also use guò to test whether the other party is around and where he is around.

This is undoubtedly a stupid method, it seems that they take the initiative to attack, but in fact, the initiative is still in the hands of the other party, and they are equivalent to falling into passivity, if there is a choice, Li Ru of course hopes that he can not do this, but for now, the enemy is in the dark, and the leader of the other party seems to be a person who is not so easy to deal with, so this is also the best choice for him at the moment, although he is a little helpless.

Of course, it would be best if they could directly find the enemy's traces, and Li Ru also instructed them that once they encountered this situation, they must leave some people behind to temporarily drag the other party first, and at the same time quickly send someone back to report back.

Although the previous encounter at that fork in the road made Li Ru convinced that the opponent's team was full of men with outstanding personal strength, after all, the previous situation was still a bit special, and most of the reason was that the opponent's leader made a decisive decision and acted decisively, and the result of doing it again might be completely different.

The number of opponents is not much anyway, and the lanes inside are very narrow, although the number of people sent is also small, it is difficult to defeat the other party or even confront the other party, but it should not be a problem to just drag it out, as long as the large number of people on his side immediately surround it from all sides, then the other party will not be able to escape even if he has wings.

After everyone was sent out, Li Ru was also in the same place, under the guard of the soldiers, patiently waiting for them to report the news, since what should have been done, he can only wait and see what happens, and at the same time, it also makes his soldiers more vigilant, and it is not necessary for the other party to jump over the wall in a hurry.

In fact, just as he expected, at this time, Lu Bu and the others did lurk and hide in the nearby shadows. Of course, along with them were the horses that had just been plundered by them, as well as the corpses of the enemy soldiers who had been killed and stolen by hiding beside them in case they were accidentally discovered.

In fact, Lu Bu just planned to loot those war horses and leave immediately, and he didn't think about continuing to entangle here, after all, the longer he stayed here, the greater the possibility of being discovered, and the more unfavorable it would be to his side, and even if the sneak attack was successful, at most some of the enemy's ordinary soldiers would be killed, which would have no impact on the overall situation at all, but would be in danger of dragging himself into the quagmire, of course Lu Bu would not do that kind of thankless stupid thing.

But what he didn't expect was this. The other party had already discovered the anomaly so quickly. You must know that what you are doing is careful enough, after making the previous decision to ambush and grab the mount, Lu Bu and the others immediately lurked, ready to find the right time to make a move immediately.

But in the original place, until Li Ru's whole army was almost gone. In the end, they couldn't find a suitable opportunity to start. After all, when it first started. It may be the aftermath of Lu Bu's power at the previous intersection, and it is also a habitual reaction of people, and the officers and men of the whole army can still maintain the most basic vigilance. Everyone will also try to keep up with the team, and at that time, Lu Bu simply did not give the order to do it, and resolutely did not do things that were not sure and were easy to expose themselves.

However, with the passage of time, and it seems that there is no hope of successfully catching up with the enemy in front, most of the people in front of them have the distinction of Li Ru and Hua Xiong, but the small number of people who fall behind will inevitably start to desert, and then there will naturally be a phenomenon of falling behind, the key is that there are still a few scattered, with their brains naturally it is difficult to think that the enemy who was chased by them and ran in front of them did not know when they ran behind them.

In fact, if it was usual, it would be nothing, but this time when he met Lu Bu, he had enough patience and decisive judgment, and he saw that there was no good opportunity before, so he simply hung not far behind this army, observing and waiting for the best opportunity, and seeing such a good opportunity, of course, he would not be misplaced, and immediately ordered that all these fish that slipped through the net be targeted, and they were quickly solved, and those war horses that became ownerless naturally belonged to them.

Lu Bu was confident that when he was doing this, it would be absolutely impossible for anyone to find out, and at that time, during the march, the other party might not have time to take care of the behind, and then when he was doing the finishing work, Lu Bu also did it very cleanly, and if there was no accident, maybe even if he waited until the other party's whole army was concentrated, it was very difficult to know for a while whether there were fewer people.

But regardless of whether Lu Bu can think clearly and figure it out, the reality is that the other party did find out, first asked the whole army to stop, and then when he sent people to the rear to investigate, he found that there were actually some people and horses missing-because it was a purposeful inquiry, so he could get the answer quickly, and at this time, the whole army was divided into two teams, the front continued to pursue, and the back stayed to search nearby, that is, at this time, all sides were also including those soldiers who were walking in the direction of their secret lurking, At this time, if someone still thinks that they have not been discovered, then Lu Bu must say to them, "Come here, I promise not to hack you to death" (so it was killed with Fang Tian's halberd fork).

Like Li Ru's side, he didn't know much about the main general of the other party's army, but it could be seen from this time that the other party was a vigilant and careful person, and at the same time the battlefield strategy was also good, so he was correspondingly more vigilant than at the beginning, and if he wanted to withdraw at this time, there should be no problem, but in this way, he would not be discovered by the other party, so he would expose himself in advance.

After all, he also found out from the secret that the other party had sent several passers-by out, and it seemed that although he might have noticed them lurking around, it was obvious that he had not yet determined the specific location of their lurking, so he sent these people out to search all over the surrounding area, and at the same time, it might also be a test of them.

Of course, it is not excluded that the other party has determined the direction and is just in the suspicious array, but there are not many signs of leakage here, and it can be said that it can be inferred that it is found nearby, but it is difficult to hide somewhere, but Lu Bu is not full of confidence, and in the current situation, of course, it is best to be cautious, so he ordered the people around him to protect Cai Yong, and the group also leaned on the side wall of the house and hid under the cover of a row of dense trees.

Except for Cai Yong, the group is all tall men, so it is naturally extremely uncomfortable to do this, but including Lu Bu, they are all people with extraordinary endurance, and they can completely consume it with the other party.

However, although there are many lanes in Buguangli, in general, the place is still not big, and among the few people sent by the other party, it is natural that the direction in which Lu Bu and them are hiding is also included, and it seems that if they continue to look for it, they will still be found in a short time.

Lu Bu knew that he still had to take the initiative at this time...... (To be continued......)