"Chase!" Zhao Jun shouted, and immediately led people to chase Liu Ji behind.

It's just that because the people who came were riding fast horses, Zhao Jun and the others were quickly thrown off, and when they chased to the city gate, the city gate was actually wide open, and Liu Ji and his group had already run away.

"Send an order to all the officials to go out of the city to search, and report as soon as they find traces." Zhao Jun roared with a pale face, didn't he order to block the city gate before?

Li You and the people of Hei Bingtai were already red-eyed, and they were caught off guard just now and suffered some small losses, so now they have returned to the county government to get horses, and then chased them out of the city.

Guan Ying, Bo Lang and Tang Li didn't go, they were left behind by Zhao Jun.

"Come with me to the city." Zhao Jun instructed the three of them, and then walked into the city.

The city gate is a more commonly used design of defending the city in the Warring States Period, that is, two sections of not long walls are built on both sides of the city gate, and a wide high platform is built at the front end of the wall, and some even have corner towers, which are convenient to form a three-sided pinching posture together with the city tower on the city gate, and strengthen the protection of the city gate.

A small county like Pei County originally wouldn't have more cities, but after the First Emperor unified the world, Pei County became more important as the middle point of communication between Qi and Chu, so Ren Huan built a new city in the first two years.

Walking into the city, Zhao Jun saw that more than a dozen crossbow guards above were all dead, and the tongue was obviously poisoned to death, and finally Zhao Jun walked to the city gate tower, and sure enough, more than a hundred soldiers on the city gate tower also died in the same way.

Tang Li picked up an urn of leftover food next to him, and then used his long sword to pick up some and put them in the water jar next to him, and the 'snort' food made a screeching sound in the water, only to see that the water in the clay pot quickly changed color.

"The food is poisonous, and it's highly poisonous, and they should have been dead for an hour, you see, the food and the hot water are cold." Tang Li pointed to the utensils in the gatehouse and analyzed them one by one.

Guan Ying was a little strange and said: "This meal is the responsibility of its own people in the county government, who will quietly poison it inside, and the soldiers on duty at the city gate should be checked once every half an hour, why no one reported it in advance." ”

After listening to the analysis of the two, Zhao Jun's face became even more gloomy, this matter must be inseparable from the county order, because if the people below find that these people are dead, they will definitely not have the courage to conceal it, usually the military affairs in the county government are in charge of the county government captain, and now that Ren Huan is not there, it is the county order agent, so the only possibility is that the county order has suppressed this matter.

Thinking of this, Zhao Jun immediately said: "Let's go, you go back to the county government with me to arrest people." ”

When the three of Bolang heard this, they followed closely behind Zhao Jun, and soon returned to the county office, and those officials in the county government saw that Zhao Jun dared to stop them.

It's just that I ran into a white shadow on the road again.

"White Shadow, how are things going?" Zhao Jun was not surprised to see the white shadow appear.

Bai Ying took out a package from his back, as if it was quite heavy, and he spoke: "Du Wei, it's all in it, including the evidence of Liu Ji's robbery, and there are a lot of money in this county order, at least more than a thousand gold, plus the letters exchanged with Jing Ju and others, which is enough to sentence them to death." ”

"Okay." Zhao Jun's eyes were cold, and then he spoke: "Go, you also go with me to arrest the county order." ”

Soon, the four of them broke into the prefectural order's room, and the prefectural commander and his precious son were there.

The father and son of the county commander were shocked when they saw Zhao Jun leading people in, but then the county commander Xu Fu put on a smile and complimented: "Lord Duwei, I don't know what is the important thing to come here late at night, did Miss Lu rescue it?" ”

Zhao Jun sneered and did not answer, but turned back to Bo Lang and said, "Bo Lang, take down their father and son for me." ”

"Yes, master." Bo Lang turned his head and gave the two of them a fierce look.

When Xu Fu saw that Zhao Jun was going to take someone directly, he immediately exclaimed: "What do you want to do, Captain, I am a dignified county commander, why are you arresting me?" ”

Xu Fu's son Xu Gongzi also looked panicked, and then shouted screaming: "Zhao Jun, if you dare to arrest my father, you will be convicted."

Before he finished speaking, he was grabbed by Bo Lang with one hand, and then fell to the ground hard, including the county order, and finally before they could get up, Bo Lang directly trampled their father and son under their feet one by one.

Zhao Jun said coldly: "Xu Fu, do you dare to say that those dead soldiers on the city gate have nothing to do with you?" ”

"What can I do, I did find out that they were dead, but I wanted to wait until dawn to ask Du Wei to verify who was the murderer, so I didn't move them for fear of destroying the evidence, Lord Du Wei, you have wronged me." The county order pretended to be wronged.

Hearing this, Guan Ying said angrily: "You dog county commander still doesn't admit it, since you know that the guards at the city gate have been poisoned, but why don't you send another person to guard the city gate, so that we let Liu Ji go?" Hmph, I think you're with Liu Ji. ”

"I wanted to send someone, but I haven't had time to arrange it yet, no, you just happened to come, by the way, you said to let Liu Ji go? What crime did Liu Ji commit? The county order refused to admit it, pretending to be confused with a look of ignorance.

Zhao Jun sneered: "You can not admit it, but this matter is your responsibility, wait for me to torture you to extract a confession, see if you open your mouth." ”

Hearing the torture to extract confessions, the faces of the Xu family's father and son changed again, and finally Xu Fu changed his face, and shouted a little fiercely: "Zhao Jun, even if I violate the Qin law, you can't review it, let me go quickly, otherwise when the county order comes out, I will definitely sue you for beating the officials without permission." ”

Xu Gongzi screamed loudly: "Zhao Jun, let me go quickly, otherwise when Lord Zhao Gao protects my father, he will definitely kill you." ”

Zhao Jun's expression moved when he heard this, and then he smiled and said, "Hehe, it's really him." ”

In fact, he had already guessed that the county order had no reason, and he didn't have the courage to go against him for Liu Ji, but he didn't know why Zhao Gao helped Liu Ji.

At this time, Xu Xianling couldn't help glaring at his son twice, this fool had fallen for the trick, but he turned to Zhao Jun and threatened: "Since you know that it is Zhao Fuling, you don't want to let me go quickly, even if you arrest me, Zhao Fuling will also protect me out, Zhao Jun, you had better get acquainted." ”

"It seems that Zhao Gao promised you a lot of benefits, but I have to tell you in advance that if it falls into my hands, it won't give you a chance to turn over." Zhao Jun smiled disdainfully, and finally said lightly to Bo Lang: "Twist the necks of the two of them off for me." ”

As soon as he heard Zhao Jun's words, Xu Gongzi was so frightened that he fainted directly, he didn't expect Zhao Jun to be so cruel.

Xu Fu's face also turned pale, and he opened his mouth and shouted loudly: "Zhao Jun, why did you kill me, aren't you afraid of the laws of the imperial court?" ”

The white shadow next to him slapped the package and said coldly: "If the Xu Mansion dares to connect with the local tyrants to loot the people's property, and collude with the remnants of Qi Chu in the swamp, Lord Du Wei should have the right to die on the spot!" ”

Subsequently, the white shadow lit up, and the contents of the package were all evidence that Xu Fu, Liu Ji and others had collaborated to loot people's wealth in the swamp.

Seeing this, Xu Fu shouted in horror: "Then I am just looting, and what kind of collusion is counted, you will let me go." ”

Bai Ying smiled, but smiled a little coldly and said, "The lieutenant said that you are you, understand?" ”

Tang Li shook his head and said: "The place you looted is a swamp, and so are those remnants of Qi Chu, based on this alone and adding these evidences, you can't escape the involvement, all these years you have been acting as a prestige and oppression of the people in Pei County, not to mention forcibly grabbing and killing women who are not from the Shaoliang family, today you deserve to die." ”

After listening to Tang Li and Bai Ying, the county commander's inner defense line collapsed instantly, and his face turned completely green, and finally cried loudly and begged: "It's all me who was blinded by lard, begging Zhao Duwei to let me go, it's all Zhao Gao who threatened me and asked me to help him let Liu Ji go."

Don't worry, I will definitely help you pursue Liu Ji, even if you bring down Zhao Gao, I have his evidence in my hands, as long as you let me live"

Zhao Jun ignored him, and walked out of the county order room with Tang Li and a few people, chasing Liu Ji He had already sent someone to do it, it was the same with or without a county order, as for the evidence of overthrowing Zhao Gao, it was even more impossible, how could he be qualified to grasp the evidence of Zhao Gao's crime with a small county order, even if there was, it would be found out by Bai Ying.

"Ah" There were two screams in the house, blood splashed everywhere, and finally Bo Lang walked out with the heads of the county commander father and son.

After dawn, Li You and the others came back with tiredness and blood stains all over their bodies.

"Du Wei, we are not doing well, we have not been able to catch up with Liu Ji, please punish Du Wei."

Li You and Gongzi Gao said with shame, they had already caught up, but the strength of those black-clothed masked people was not weak, and there were more than 300 people outside the city, almost twice as many as them, although they killed more than 200 people with dozens of casualties after fierce battles, but in the end they still let Liu Ji flee into the mountains, and he didn't know where to go.

"It's not your fault, get up." Zhao Jun said lightly, the sky is dark, and the enemy in the dark is prepared, Li You and Gongzi Gao Neng are already good if they have this result.

"Captain Xie." Li You and Gongzi Gao Qi said together.

Zhao Jun said again: "But you must pay attention to Liu Ji's news at any time, and report immediately if there is any movement." ”

"Yes." The two nodded, and the white shadow next to them also nodded in agreement.

In the end, Zhao Jun said to Tang Li: "Ah Li, you immediately write a county order and a summary of the collusion with Yu Xin, and attach those evidences, I will send someone to Xianyang, and about Liu Ji, write that he is robbing the people's property, resisting the arrest and fleeing of the Captain of Bendu, and ask the court to order all counties to be wanted." ”

"Okay." Tang Li nodded and went to do it, at this time, Zhao Jun asked Guan Ying and Bai Ying to go to the county order's house, and actually copied out more than 2,000 gold of family wealth.

Frightened, the necessary gold to report the evidence to the court was deducted, and the other thousand gold was divided with several people, including those subordinates, who also had their own share, and they were all happy for a while.

Some people like and some people are sad, in an unnamed deep mountain dozens of miles away in Pei County, Liu Ji, Zhou Bo, Fan Hao and Ren Ao sat in the woods with decadent faces, and Liu Ji's eyes were even more confused and even sad.

Lu Xuan, Xiao He, Xiahou Ying, and Cao Shen were killed by Zhao Jun one after another, how could he not be heartbroken.

Similarly, the arrogant Ren Ao, the brave and careful Fan Xu, and the kind-hearted and calm Zhou Bo are also full of sadness and anger, as well as confusion about the future.

For a while, the four of them sat in embarrassment and were speechless, only the birds and insects in the mountain screamed happily, as if mocking them.

Suddenly, Liu Ji stood up with an angry face, and finally pulled out his sword and pointed at the sky and shouted: "I, Liu Ji, swear here, that I will kill Zhao Jun in this life to avenge my brothers, otherwise I will be called Liu Ji dead without a complete corpse!" ”

"Click" seemed to be witnessing his oath from heaven, and the originally clear sky was suddenly covered with dark clouds, lightning and thunder.

At this time, Ren Ao and the three of them glanced at each other, then stood up and shouted loudly: "Swear to follow the eldest brother to the death, and never give up if you don't kill Zhao Jun!" ”

In the end, all four of them stretched out a hand and clasped it tightly together, as if to strengthen their faith.

After a while, Fan Xu first asked, "Big brother, what should we do now?" "No matter how ambitious they are in the future, the first thing to make sure is that they can live now and don't starve.

Liu Ji closed his eyes contemplatively, and said after a while: "Listen to that person, do what they want, let them provide money, we will train soldiers and horses in the deep mountains, I think this Qin Dynasty will not last long, and we will take advantage of the situation at that time." ”

"But, big brother, he's going to send someone, what if we are controlled in the future? I think they're using us. Ren Ao said.

"So what do you do now?" Liu Ji asked rhetorically, and finally said: "It's man-made, he wants to use us, we can also use him, and then it may not be who uses whom."

Ao Zi, you and Zhou Bo brought back the gold we had saved before, as well as our families, and then stayed in this deep mountain, now there are many bandits on the run, you have to find a way to accumulate strength, I will say to that person that you are parting ways with me, Fan Xu, you and I listen to that person, and rely on their financial resources to train people. ”

"Yes, big brother." All three nodded, and that was all there was to it now.

(To be continued)