Chapter 50: Longmen Town
Longmen Town is located in the capital has been about 20 miles away from the south, along the Yishui south, in the night Yuanqing with the Chen brothers all the way galloping, the night wind whistling in the ears, they run more than ten miles, through a forest in front of the gradual slowing down of the horse.
"Why are you slowing down?" Orb asked loudly.
She is a guide, she studied art in Longmen, and she is very familiar with the road.
In the dark, Chen Zhu asked worriedly: "Yuan Jin, are you sure that the prince also sent someone?" ”
"This is what the old prince told me, he may have other ways secretly, but since he said so, he should be sure, have you thought of anything?" Wu Jin asked Chen Zhu.
Chen Zhu pondered and said: "If the prince can find out that people are hiding in Longmen Town, then with the strength of Uncle Shen, he should find out, don't you say?" ”
Wu Jin nodded, "You're right, in fact, our strength is the weakest, I suspect that we are already behind, they have already rushed ahead of us." ”
"So what do we do?" Chen Hu and Chen Biao's brothers surrounded them together, even the treasure beads, and her face was full of worry.
Wu Jin quickly sorted out his thoughts and said to the three people: "We analyze it this way, there are three situations, either we are the first, or we are the middle, or we are lagging behind, the first situation does not need to be considered, we consider the second situation and the third situation, if that is the case, we still have two percent hope, that is, the pro-soldier himself realizes the danger, he will escape, we can be the last to come first, intercept him." ”
"Wu Jin, do you have any plans?" Chen Zhu asked again.
Wu Jin nodded, "Before I set off, I carefully studied the map of Longmen Town, and I have a little spectrum in my heart, let's go and see it first, and if we are really late, we will consider countermeasures." ”
"Look!"
Chen Hu suddenly pointed behind him, and everyone looked back, only to see a team of knights rushing towards this side, and the four of them hurriedly flashed into the woods, and in a moment they saw a team of black-clothed knights composed of more than a dozen people rushing towards them at a gallop, and instantly rushed in front of them.
"It's the Prince's man!" Wu Jin saw the celestial star in it.
The Chen brothers looked at him together, and Wu Jin pondered for a moment and said: "Now it seems that Uncle Shen's people are likely to go first, but it won't be long, we are likely to be in the second possibility, located in the middle, we will go to Longmen Town first, and then make plans." ”
Baozhu suddenly turned his horse's head, "I know a shortcut, you come with me!" ”
She ran towards a small road to the west, and Wu Jin and the Chen brothers followed her, speeding up and galloping away.
........ There are about 200 households in Longmen Town, scattered on a long street about three miles long, in the middle, there is a small house, the owner of the house is surnamed Zhao, is a pair of two old mouths, has two sons, the younger son is in the army, and the eldest son is doing business in the Xijing area, and there is also a grandson, but the grandson is studying in the capital, and the eldest daughter-in-law also lives in the capital.
There are only two old people living in the whole two-acre house, usually living in a simple place, and rarely see a figure, but during this time, the number of times the two old people go out seems to have increased, and the number of rice and noodles purchased has also increased greatly, and the surrounding neighbors are full of curiosity, and some people deduce that their family must be inhabited.
At night, Wan Lai was silent, most of the people in Longmen Town had fallen asleep, and the whole town was pitch black, at this time, more than a dozen black shadows had quickly surrounded the house of the old Zhao couple.
In the dark, he could vaguely see Bao Hongwu's excited face, he received a message from Wuwei County today, that the soldier surnamed Jia had an aunt and uncle living in Longmen Town.
The information is very accurate, and the soldiers are hiding in this mansion.
The black clothes are all on the wall, they have a total of nineteen people, since the Yanshi County incident, the embroidered guards have begun to strictly limit the number of people out of Beijing, more than twenty people, must be approved by the general, Bao Hongwu can only bring nineteen henchmen elite to Longmen Town.
Nineteen people against one person, if there is no accident, this person should be able to be captured alive, Bao Hongwu gave an order, "Arrest people, and kill the rest of the personalities!" ”
Ten of the nineteen black shadows quickly jumped into the house, and the other nine intercepted them on the periphery, the black shadows rushed into the inner room from all sides, only two screams were heard, and they immediately calmed down, but the fire suddenly rose in the side room, and the window paper quickly burned, and the ten black shadows rushed into the side room from three directions, but there was nothing in the room, and a black shadow appeared on the roof of the main house where they had just killed, and jumped down from behind.
There were supposed to be two embroidered guards guarding this side, but the fire in the side room drew them in, and a loophole appeared, and the shadow seized the loophole and ran wildly towards the backyard.
When the embroidered guard found out that he had been deceived, he was immediately shocked and angry, and ten people followed behind and chased after him, this black shadow seemed to be prepared, there were five or six rooms in the backyard, and the doors and windows of all the rooms were open, and he instantly got into a firewood room close to the courtyard wall on the far edge like a mouse.
By the time the embroidered guards chased him to the backyard, the man had disappeared.
Bao Hongwu was in a hurry, seeing that the meat in his mouth was about to run away, he was so anxious that he shouted, "Search for me!" ”
Ten embroidered guards rode separately to search every room in the backyard, at this time, the fire in the middle courtyard burned more and more, the fire took advantage of the wind, the raging fire rose to the sky, the surrounding neighbors rushed to put out the fire, and the entire Longmen Town was alarmed.
But the nineteen men in black still did not find the pro-soldier, all the rooms were searched, and no one was found, and the two embroidered guards on the periphery did not see anyone coming out of the wall.
Bao Hongwu gritted his teeth with hatred, "Bastard! Will he disappear like a fart? Search for me again! ”
At this time, the nineteen embroidered guards were all engaged in the search, and suddenly someone in the firewood room shouted: "I found it! ”
Everyone poured into the firewood room together, only to see that behind a pile of grass, they found a black hole, about two feet wide, buried by firewood and grass.
This soldier was very cunning, he had prepared a rope in advance to tie up a large pile of firewood and grass, and when he got into the hole, he pulled the rope, and the high pile of grass collapsed, just enough to cover the hole, so that the embroidery guard did not find the hole after several searches.
The embroidered guard picked up the firewood and grass, and everyone turned into the hole, this tunnel was about fifty steps long, and when the first embroidered guard came out of the tunnel, he was stunned, and there was a forest in front of him.
It turned out that the tunnel led to a forest to the west of the town, and two hundred steps ahead was Yishui.
"General, where to chase?"
Bao Hongwu came out, and everyone asked him together, Bao Hongwu was like thunder, damn it, he really ran away from the meat in his mouth, but now is not the time for him to be angry, they still have a chance.
Bao Hongwu looked at the situation around him, and he immediately ordered, "Go to Yishui!" He will definitely run from the water. ”
The two were left to lead the horses, and the rest galloped in the direction of Yishui.
The general direction of Bao Hongwu's pursuit is not wrong, Yishui is the best direction to escape, water is always the best place to escape, Yishui is a few miles down Longmen Mountain and Xiangshan, where the Longmen Grottoes are located, as long as he escapes into Longmen Mountain or Xiangshan, the pursuers will no longer be able to catch him.
At the same moment when the house burst into flames, Wu Jin led the Chen brothers to Longmen Town, and the fire in the town made their hearts cold.
They were still a step late, and it was obvious that Uncle Shen Guo had taken the lead.
"Being the first doesn't necessarily mean getting started."
Wu Jin said to the Chen brothers: "Since the fire is soaring, it means that they are not going well, no matter what, we have to make one last effort, let's go to the river!" ”
Wu Jin has carefully studied the map of this area, taking the water route is the best way for the other party to escape, although the other party may also escape by land, but for them, they can only choose the most likely way to intercept.
The jewel next to him hurriedly said: "I know there is a boat in a place, you come with me!" ”
She studied art in Longmen Mountain and knew the situation in this area well.
The crowd followed her and galloped along the river.
........ The captured soldier was named Jia Zhi, one of Zhang Chongjun's ten personal guards, who was bribed by Shen Guo's uncle for 10,000 taels of silver and betrayed Zhang Chongjun.
He and another soldier took half a tiger talisman into Beijing, and the two sides agreed to meet in Ciyun Temple after entering Beijing, but Jia Zhi and other companions did not come, so he knew that something was wrong and immediately fled the capital, but he was not willing to let 10,000 taels of silver be in the soup, so he hid in his aunt's house in Longmen Town to observe the news of the capital.
Unexpectedly, the 10,000 taels of silver did not wait in the end, but waited for Uncle Shen Guo's murder.
It's just that he didn't expect that he had only been hiding in his aunt's house in Longmen Town for three days, and he was found by the other party, and the tunnel was an escape road dug by his aunt's house, which had existed for several years, but it saved his life at the most critical moment.
Jia Zhi was very cunning, and escaped from his aunt's house by using the strategy of diverting the tiger from the mountain, and ran in the direction of Yishui in a hurry, he knew very well in his heart that the other party was riding a horse, and he couldn't run away from the horse leg when he escaped by land, and only by taking the water route could he have a glimmer of life.
Yihe has a very small wharf in Longmen Town, and the day before yesterday he went to inspect the wharf, and there were several small boats on the wharf.
Jia Zhi ran all the way to the dock, and in the deep night, he faintly saw a small boat, and he was overjoyed, and rushed to the boat, only to see two young boatmen on the boat, who were preparing to sail.
"Boatman, wait a minute!"
Jia Zhi ran to the front of the boat and pleaded, "Please take me for a ride." ”
The two boatmen glanced at each other, revealing a hint of imperceptible ecstasy, and one of them, a tall boatman as thin as a bamboo pole, said: "We are going to Longmen, if we stop by the way, it will not hurt to take you for a ride." ”
The boatman said a very lame Luoyang accent, Jia Zhi was panicked, he didn't notice the other party's accent problem, he looked back to the town, in the darkness he faintly saw more than a dozen black shadows rushing towards this side, he was in a hurry, and without waiting for the other party to agree, he jumped on the boat, and urged in panic, "Hurry up and start the boat!" Fast! ”
The two boatmen propped up the penny together, and the boat slowly sailed away from the dock and headed for the middle of the water.
"Come back! The boatman is back. ”
Bao Hongwu led his men to chase him to the dock, and seeing that the ship had sailed out of more than 20 zhang, he was in a hurry and shouted desperately: "Give you five hundred taels of silver, come back quickly!" ”
Inside the boat, Jia Zhi also said urgently: "Boatman, I will also give you five hundred taels of silver, don't go back, go quickly!" ”
The two boatmen smiled slightly, did not speak, and sailed the boat away from the dock, Bao Hongwu was so angry that he stomped his feet and cursed, and at this moment, a group of cavalry galloped from a distance.
(To be continued)