Liu Fa looked at the county guard mansion for a while, this place where he had stayed for a while, his eyes couldn't help but give birth to some disgust and complexity, and after speaking, he strode out again, and it was time to enter Pingnan.

Luo Xingtian said it is easy, but it is not so simple to do, Pingnan City is a county town, not only has a large area, but also has many people in the city, with a population of 200,000 or 300,000, such a large place, so many people, Mu En deliberately avoided it, and it was too difficult to find out the whereabouts of the old thief.

In order to intensify the search and arrest, Liu Fa also ordered a notice to be posted, one is to appease the people in the city, and the other is to mention Mu En, and promised in the announcement that no matter who it is, as long as it reports Mu En's deeds, he will be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold and added to the ranks.

The Southern Prison Army only ransacked the county capital, but did not harass the people in the city, and did not dare to harass them, and in this regard, Liu Fa and the generals of the various armies were unambiguous.

Because the South Prison did not disturb the people, when the battlefield was almost cleaned, the streets of Pingnan City could gradually see the figures of the people, although the South Prison did not impose martial law on the streets, but the Pingnan City was still strictly blocked, only allowed to enter, not to leave.

After the people saw the notice posted in the South Prison, people's nervousness eased a little, and at the same time, they were all curious about where Mu En was hiding.

At this time, the fire in the county capital had already started, and the fire set by the South Prison burned the county capital and the corpses inside, and the fire was not extinguished until nightfall. Fortunately, the county capital is located in the middle of the county town, and there are no other buildings around, otherwise it would have been affected.

That night, the search of the Southern Prison Army continued, and the night ban on Pingnan City was made, and in addition, the Southern Prison Army also arrested all the officials in the county town, detained them together, interrogated them one by one, and forced them to question the whereabouts of Mu En and the others.

The officials in Pingnan didn't know where Mu En was hiding, and no matter how harshly the Southern Prison Army tortured them, they couldn't answer.

Until the early morning of the next day, the Southern Prison Army had almost searched Pingnan City from beginning to end, but they found nothing and did not find Mu En's whereabouts at all. When the news came back to Liu Fa, the latter was furious and ordered Luo Xingtian and Qing Yunfei to continue to check with all their might, and if there was no result between nightfall, he and the two would not have to come back.

Luo Xingtian and Qing Yunfei grinned secretly, on the battlefield, no matter what kind of difficulties and dangers they encountered, they could find a way to overcome them, but for this kind of needle-in-a-haystack search, the two of them really didn't feel low in their hearts. Luo Xingtian did not blindly order the comprehensive search to continue, but let the officers and men of the whole army rest temporarily, and he himself found Han Ju and asked for his opinion.

In terms of the ability to track down and spy on this aspect, Han Ju is much more clever than him, and Luo Xingtian also knows this very well. After listening to Luo Xingtian's intentions, Han Ju frowned, although Liu Fa did not order him to find Mu En, but Han Ju still decided to help Luo Xingtian and them, and investigated Mu En's whereabouts, but the result was the same as Luo Xingtian and Qing Yunfei, and no clues were found.

He said faintly: "There are as many as 50,000 or 60,000 residents in Pingnan City, with a population of hundreds of thousands, so many residences, there are not sure how many secret passages and secret rooms can be hidden, besides, most of the soldiers of our army have not seen Mu En himself, if he changes into the clothes of the people, he may not be able to recognize it even if he stands in front of him, so let the soldiers below go to search, the effect is very small." ”

"yes!" After listening to Han Ju's analysis, Luo Xingtian secretly took a breath, and he asked, "That'...... You say, "What do you think?" ”

Han Ju thought for a moment, and then said: "Pingnan City must be under full martial law, whether it is dark or daytime, the residents of the city are not allowed to go out, and then, divide the area in the city into several pieces, and General Luo will personally lead the troops to go door to door to find, and after checking one piece, block one piece to ensure that Mu En is outside the scope of the inspection, so that Mu En can be dug out after all." ”

Luo Xingtian nodded while listening, pondered for a moment, and said with a wry smile: "Although your idea is good, it is also quite time-consuming, but the general ordered me to search for Mu En before nightfall......"

Han Ju sighed and said helplessly: "As far as the current situation is concerned, that is simply impossible. In my opinion, Mu En either disguised himself as a common man, or hid in an extremely hidden place, and it would take a lot of effort to find him, let alone one night, even three days, and I don't know! ”

He is very pessimistic, after all, this is in Pingnan, it is Mu En's territory, and the familiarity is naturally much higher than himself, so it is really a draining thing to follow Mu En to play hide and seek.

But he had to do this, he followed Liu Fa for a long time, naturally he knew Liu Fa very well, he knew what Liu Fa was worried about, if he couldn't find Mu En, let Mu En lie dormant here, it was really an extremely terrible thing, he went north every day, Mu En was like a nail in his heart, he couldn't say that he would make any mess in Pingnan, because the prestige of the Mu family here was incomparable.

"Hmm!"

Luo Xingtian responded, pondered for a while, he bowed to Qingyunfei and thanked him, didn't delay any longer, and turned to leave.

Don't be too cold, he found Qing Yunfei again and told Qing Yunfei about Qing Yunfei's method. Qing Yunfei smiled when he heard this, and praised it repeatedly: "This is a good idea!" ”

Luo Xingtian smiled bitterly and said, "It's good, but the search time will also be very long, and it will inevitably miss the deadline given by the general." ”

Qing Yunfei smiled and said: This is easy! We can first divide the whole city into several pieces according to the method of cold lifting, and then send a few teams of people to investigate. ”

"No!" Luo Xingtian shook his head again and again, and said: "Most of the soldiers of our army have never seen Mu En, what if he changes his clothes and pretends to be a citizen?" Hehe! ”

Hearing Luo Xingtian say this, Qing Yunfei also began to ponder, and only after a while did he say: "It is true that few of General Luo's subordinates have seen Mu En, but none of my subordinates have seen him, even myself, nor have I seen him himself!" ”

"Alas!"

Luo Xingtian smiled bitterly and shook his head, just sighed, and then didn't say much, at this moment, Qing Yunfei slapped his head twice in a row, laughed, and then looked at Luo Xingtian, and said happily: "Haha, there is a way to find the two of the Ye family!" ”

Hearing Qing Yunfei's words, Luo Xingtian was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, how could he forget this, Ye Wei and the two of them are the same as Mu En, they are all the four surnames in the southwest, and the Ye family also has a lot of dark lines in Pingnan, and those people will definitely know Mu En, because they have to deal with the Mu family, they are naturally very familiar with Mu En, even if he turns into ashes, they can recognize him!

He looked up and smiled, and said, "Good! It's up to you! ”

At this time, Qing Yunfei waved his hand, asked people to take the map of Pingnan, took out a pen, and sketched on it while discussing with Luo Xingtian, dividing Pingnan City into twelve pieces with several main roads as the boundary, and he and Luo Xingtian each checked six pieces.

In addition, the two of them found Ye Zhi again, and Ye Zhi also readily agreed, nodded, and sent a large number of people to help the two of them, so that they could assist the Southern Prison Army in the search.

The number of barbarian troops under Qing Yunfei is not very large, and they are brave in battle, so the casualties have always been very large, Luo Xingtian divided the Southern Prison Army with 20,000 and lent it to Qing Yunfei to make up for the lack of manpower in the barbarian army.

After they all discussed, the two of them each sent their subordinates to the city to inform the people of Pingnan that the Southern Prison Army had begun to completely seal the city, no matter who it was, it was strictly forbidden to go out, and those who violated the order would be killed.

Under the orders of the two of them, hundreds of soldiers from the Southern Prison rode into the city on fast horses, shuttling back and forth on the main and secondary roads, shouting loudly and shouting the order to close the city to the people in the city.

At this moment, the sky is already bright, in the shouting of the South Prison sergeants, it is not long, the streets and alleys in the city can no longer see the figure of the people, whether it is the main road, the secondary road, or the alleys, all are empty, there are no traces, only occasionally you can see a group of South Prison sergeants hurriedly walking by.

Luo Xingtian and Qing Yunfei personally dispatched and led all the Southern Prison Army and the Barbarian Army to search hard all morning, but there was still no gain.

In the afternoon, Liu Fa couldn't sit still in the camp, entered the city to find Luo Xingtian, and searched for Mu En with him. Liu Fa's arrival did not bring good luck to Luo Xingtian, and when it was almost evening, Mu En's whereabouts were still not found.

At this time, Luo Xingtian took out the map and looked at it carefully, the discussion between him and Qing Yunfei was to act separately, and he felt that he could almost search the entire Pingnan City in a day, but in fact, he knew that it was far from being that simple, and the time of the day was almost over, and he had not even finished checking a piece of the area.

The sky is getting darker and darker, and the soldiers of the Southern Prison Army have lit torches one after another, and searched until night, Mu En did not find it, but the soldiers below were a little unbearable, they had not closed their eyes for two days and one night, and they were running around in battles, and they had not even eaten a good bite of food, and they were already tired at this time, and they all looked listless, as if they could fall asleep while standing.

Now Liu Fa can finally understand the difficulties encountered by Luo Xingtian and Qing Yunfei, not that they are not dedicated or incompetent, but it is really too difficult to find a few people in the whole city.

He turned his head to look at Luo Xingtian, who was also full of tiredness, if he listened carefully, Luo Xingtian's stomach was still drumming from time to time. Liu Fa asked casually, "General Luo, have you eaten lunch?" ”

Luo Xingtian was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly replied: "Back to the general, not yet, the brothers have been hungry for a day." ”

"Yes!" Liu Fa nodded, walked out of the alley, stood on the main road and looked around, the street was empty, he looked at the sky again, and then beckoned to Luo Xingtian behind him, and said: "It's just right, I haven't eaten either, take the generals, let's go eat something together, and also, suspend the search, let the soldiers rest first!" ”

"Yes, General!" After hearing this, Luo Xingtian breathed a sigh of change, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to be stationed in place to rest, and in addition, he told his subordinates to return to the camp immediately, and organize people to send all the meals prepared in the camp to the city, so that the soldiers could fill their stomachs. No matter how arduous the task is, it is important to eat well first, otherwise the soldiers will not have the strength to work.

Just when Liu Fa was vigorously tracking down Mu En's whereabouts, at this moment in Yangfu, there were already a large number of people and horses going straight to Pingnan, and similarly, in the West Sea, there were also a large number of people and horses who killed here, the location of the West Sea was remote and had always been coveted by the barbarians, but after the Mu family rebelled, he directly helped Dali take down the West Sea, which also became a major reason for Liu Fa's resentment, and Ye Yi, who heard the news, also smiled bitterly, although he no longer thought about how to restore the past glory of the Ye family, But he still wanted to return to his native place and live there for the rest of his life.

And where is Mu En at this time, just as Liu Fa guessed, he has been in Pingnan City, the pain of losing his wife and children did not make him slump, he even spread the news out of Pingnan and passed it to his eldest son, he was also waiting, he was waiting for an opportunity, waiting for a chance to kill with one blow, he knew that now Mu Qingchen had led people and horses to kill Pingnan, what he wanted to do was to lie dormant here, add blockage to Liu Fan, and at the critical moment, stab him in the back.

The Mu family is in the southwest, especially in Pingnan, the power does not need to be mentioned, and the Mu family is not like the Cao family in the past, the common people are fishy, except for the second son of the Mu family, Mu Qingfeng, who is arrogant and domineering on weekdays, and the reputation of the other children of the Mu family in Pingnan is also quite good, which is also the reason why Liu Fa has been unable to find Mu En for two days.

"It's really not a way to go on like this, not to mention that it will arouse the dissatisfaction of the people, if it takes a while, Mu Qingchen will kill Dali's people and horses, I can't say that Pingnan will follow the old road of the past!"

Luo Xingtian wiped his sweat on the side, a bitter smile appeared on his face, he hadn't closed his eyes for two or three days, these days he first attacked Pingnan, and then looked for Mu En, he was really a little overwhelmed.

Although it was late autumn, Liu Fa also broke out in a cold sweat, he glanced at Luo Xingtian on the side, and then threw him a steamed bun, and then did not say anything, he understood what Luo Xingtian meant.

No one knows better than Luo Xingtian about the loss of Chenguan that year, during the war, the people in the city created chaos, and as a result, Chenguan became a concentration camp for barbarians almost overnight.

If he kills Mu Qingchen's army every day, Luo Xingtian doesn't dare to guarantee that he can defend this Pingnan, and the same is true for Liu Fan, after all, for Pingnan, Mu Qingchen naturally knows better than himself, and he leads the troops to break it with force, but it is difficult to guarantee that Mu Qingchen will play with him just head-on, if Mu En is allowed to create chaos in private, maybe this Pingnan will fall into the hands of the Mu family again.

"If you have any way, you might as well just say it!"

After a while, Liu Fa finished eating a steamed bun, then he spoke, looking at Luo Xingtian, his face showed a faint displeasure, he couldn't catch Mu En, he was really more annoyed than anyone else, when the city was broken, the Southern Prison Army under his command only cared about killing people and forgot about Mu En, and as a result, such a thing happened, which really gave him a headache.

"Ahem, General......"

Luo Xingtian was really embarrassed, he hadn't thought of any good way until now, he just had a headache and said his opinion.

"Alright, alright......"

Seeing that Luo Xingtian couldn't say anything, Liu Fa waved his hand, and didn't embarrass Luo Xingtian, but he began to ponder again. Relatively speaking, Mu Qingchen is much more difficult to deal with than Mu En, if Mu Qingchen's army kills Pingnan Mansion, he will have to guard against it.

Seeing that the day was about to end, Liu Fa still didn't think of any good way, his heart was even more annoyed, looking at the soldiers on the side were a little tired, and even many of them had begun to take a nap, he finally waved his hand and said to Luo Xingtian: "That's it, General Luo, go back and let the soldiers rest, recuperate, and wait for his day, if Mu Qingchen really kills Pingnan, I am not afraid, if someone really dares to rebel, I don't mind, slaughter the people of this city." ”

Hearing Liu Fa's bland words, Luo Xingtian couldn't help but raise his head, glanced at Liu Fa, but saw a face full of murderous intent, his heart sank, hugged his fists, didn't say anything, just retreated, and could hear that Liu Fa was not joking......

"General, there's a letter from Chenguan!"

The night was deep, Liu Fa sat in the tent, couldn't sleep for a long time, suddenly heard the sound outside, couldn't help frowning, he looked at the kneeling Han Ju, his heart was a little bored, just said lightly to put it down, and then waved his hand to let Han Ju out.

He has changed a lot, unconsciously, Liu Fa seems to be no longer the same Liu Fa as before, when Qin Wen died in front of him that day, Liu Fa's heart was really shocked, he really didn't understand, he didn't understand what Qin Wen was for, in order to let himself master the Southern Prison, he did not hesitate to take the lives of hundreds of people, and even, it was their family.

Liu Fa couldn't imagine how Qin Tianzhao's childhood was spent, but he knew very well that Qin Tianzhao was destined to die for himself from the beginning, because this was the agreement between them back then, and Xuanyuan Wu was even more willing to dress up for half his life for his plan, not showing his true face, which was really unacceptable to him.

Qin Tianzhao was crazy, he didn't know what to do, and Liu Fa didn't pursue it or look for it, but he had to take over such a stall from Qin Wen's hands, and he exchanged the lives of countless people for peace.

"Originally, all of this shouldn't have been like this!"

Liu Fa rubbed his head, and finally didn't think about it, but chose to open the so-called family letter, and now the only thing that can make him feel at ease is his son.

"Huh!"

After watching it for a long time, Liu Fa's face also had a little more warmth, the feeling of being a father was really good, at this moment, he suddenly had a kind of pride and ambition in his heart, whether it was for Qin Wen or for his son, he wanted to come out of the world.

At the very least, he also wants to let the southwest and the south prison be his son's backyard, for which he is willing to give up some joy and kill the world.