On the street, the people in the carriage, unprepared, saw that they had fallen into an ambush, and jumped out of the carriage one after another, and fled in all directions, some with swords on their bodies, taking advantage of the night to resist, and some only cared about running forward, shouting, shouting, scolding, and becoming a mess. Shi Suo couldn't help shaking his head on the room, and said with some regret: "These people's methods are wrong, seeing that the ambush has been laid out, they should find out the enemy's leaks and attack a point, so that they can have the hope of rushing out. ”

"As soon as they saw the officers and soldiers, they were already confused, where could they take care of these." The little clever spirit looked at the fierce battle, and couldn't help but open his mouth wide, "Obediently, Lu Daya's troops are really a lot." It's broken, it's broken, those few, all of them have been caught. ”

On the street, the officers and soldiers who were in ambush took advantage of the time and place, coupled with the large number of people, they soon gained the upper hand, and the battle turned into a pursuit, and the soldiers who came from all directions blocked all the intersections, and about 20 people who jumped from the carriage, some ran a few steps and were caught, and some desperately escaped one or two streets, but were blocked in front and intercepted, and finally caught. A few of them raised their swords to resist, supported for a while, and wounded several besieging officers and soldiers, but they could not escape from the layers of encirclement, and were finally captured.

Inside the inn, several guests fled into the house, and the pursuers outside swarmed in, and several soldiers with guns shouted: "Come out, don't come out and shoot, all of them will be killed." ”

The man held a torch on his head and shouted into the house, "I'm going to set fire to it, and I'm going to burn it all inside." ”

Duan Laosan walked out of the tent, shook his hand and said to Bangzitou: "Don't, sir, don't set fire, our inn is not illegal, don't burn the house." ”

However, no one paid attention to Duan Laosan, a soldier raised his gun and fired a "horn" shot into the house, only to hear a "sparse noise" in the house, and I don't know what was broken, mixed with a burst of screams, and then, the house shouted: "Don't shoot, we surrender." With the shouting, several people came out of the house, huddled together in fear, rushed up, raised his leg and kicked, "Your grandmother's, toast and don't eat and drink, tie me up." ”

A man who looked like an officer crossed his waist and scolded and said: "It's all unknown goods, search me again to see if there are any leaks." ”

Duan Laosan hurriedly walked over, "Sir, just these few guests are new." If you want to search, of course you can, but don't smash our stuff. ”

"Less nonsense, you lead the way."

Duan Laosan took Bangzi and others and a few soldiers, searched all the rooms, and the other tenants were bombarded, Jiang Yuniang, A Ning, Dafeng and others were all in the store as "tenants" at this time, and the soldiers did not find trouble with others, under the leadership of Duan Laosan and Li Mei, they checked the guest book, looked at the horse shed kitchen and other rooms, and did not find the accomplices of those guests.

Outside, all the men who had just come out of the carriage had been arrested, and the soldiers, under the command of the officers, tied them all up, tied them together, and strung them away in a long line.

By the time Hu Xuan and Hou Xiaoshan arrived at the big car shop, the battle had already ended, in addition to a messy footprint, there were also a few lost shoes thrown at the door of the store, and a few tenants, frightened, in the courtyard in twos and threes, Duan Laosan said to everyone: "Don't be afraid, the government must be catching the party, it's okay now." Holding a lantern in his hand, he and his men drove two wagons abandoned outside the store into the stables in the backyard, and were busy cleaning the courtyard and comforting the guests.

Jiang Yuniang and others all entered the tent, Li Mei lit the candle, the tent was not big, and it was crowded with people, Hu Xuan asked: "Who took you away?" ”

A-Ning recounted the battle that had just taken place, "I can see clearly through the window, those guests are definitely not ordinary travelers, they originally wanted to rush out with knives at the beginning, and cut down two soldiers, ordinary people, where dare to confront the officers and soldiers?" Could it be a revolutionary party from afar? ”

"Oops," said Hu, "if it's really a revolutionary party, then we can't leave it alone." When it gets dawn, I'll go to the Lu Mansion to find out. ”

"That's what I called you over," Jiang Yuniang said: "Tonight's arrest, the government dispatched one or two hundred people, first reconnoiter the ambush, and then suddenly attack, obviously very well prepared, by no means an occasional ward round or robbery, those captured guests, may be revolutionaries, or other bandits, we must find out as soon as possible." ”

Duan Laosan walked into the house with a horse lantern and said: "I saw that when the officers and soldiers were checking the rooms of those guests, they took away their baggage, and there was a map among them, which seemed to draw the terrain of Hunan and Hubei. ”

Xiao Li Mei slapped her face, "Yes, those soldiers, when they saw this picture, if they got a treasure, there were still people shouting 'Mantou Mountain, Mantou Mountain', I don't know what this Mantou Mountain is." ”

"Mantou Mountain?" Jiang Yuniang asked Hou Xiaoshan suspiciously, "Have you heard of this name?" ”

"No," Hou Xiaoshan's head shook like a rattle, "I grew up in this neighborhood since I was a child, and I have never heard of any Mantou Mountain, there is no mountain, and there is no place." ”

3

Hu Xuan came to the Lu Mansion and found Hua to join the army. He quietly stuffed a turquoise jade fan pendant to Hua Shenjun, "This is a new collection, an old product from the Han Dynasty, you can keep it." ”

Hua Senjun grinned his big mouth fork on his cheeks, his beard was tied up, he happily held the fan pendant in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully, and pretended to be an expert and said: "Good goods, good goods, my brother is a friend enough, this can't be worn by Liu Bang, right?" ”

"Chief Hua, I have a situation that I will report to you quietly." There was a hint of mystery on Hu Xuan's face.

"Really?" Hua Senjun introduced him into a side room, and Hu Xuan leaned his head over and said: "Yesterday afternoon, I found a few suspicious people who entered the city, they were carrying knives and sticks. They are thieves and live in a big car shop. ”

"Haha," Hua Senjun shook his head proudly, "Brother, your intelligence, it's quite accurate, but it's too late." ”

"Really? Why? ”

"These guys were caught by us last night." Hua Senjun showed a satisfied and conceited smile on his face, "You haven't seen it carefully enough, there are twenty-six of them, and they entered the store in two batches, and the intelligence officers we sent outside have been staring at them for a long time, as soon as they entered the city last night, they came to catch turtles in an urn, haha, none of them ran away, right now, they are in the police station with a whip dipped in cold water, interrogating." (To be continued.) )