They continued to ride their horses straight forward, trying to kill all the way out, there were dozens of soldiers in the outpost, and the small commander in it was somewhat capable, and he took more than 20 rounds of two enemies, and finally lost the enemy, was stabbed and fell off his horse, and his life and death on the ground were uncertain.

However, this just bought time for Zhang Yuan and his team, as soon as the small commander fell, Zhang Yuan arrived with his men and horses, and surrounded the two of them.

Zhang Yuan rode into the circle, grabbed his gun, and asked: "Who are you, why do you want to explore our military camp, and why don't you quickly dismount and surrender." ”

The two glanced at each other, but they didn't say anything, raised their knives and rushed towards Zhang Yuan again. In the face of their combined attack, Zhang Yuan did not have the slightest fear, he had passed through the army many times, although these two people had some ability, but he still did not pay attention to it. ”

"I don't want to hurt your mounts, they're two rare good horses." Zhang Yuan said secretly in his heart, and at the same time, he stepped forward and took the upper body of the two of them with the head of the gun. The first person, seeing Zhang Yuan's sharp shot, did not dare to greet him, bent down to dodge, and at the same time ran to Zhang Yuan's back, and immediately turned the horse's head and faced Zhang Yuan.

At this moment, Zhang Yuan was caught in the middle, and his soldiers couldn't help but be a little cautious when they saw it, but they couldn't intervene, it was best not to cause chaos for Zhang Yuan at this time. Zhang Yuan was sandwiched between the two, and naturally he didn't have the slightest fear.

The two saw Zhang Yuan in the middle of them, made a color to each other, and slashed at Zhang Yuan at the same time, Zhang Yuan just withdrew the gun, but he didn't expect their horse speed to be too fast, and he had rushed to the front at this moment, and what surprised him even more was that the two of them cooperated tacitly, one person in front took Zhang Yuan's head, and one person in the back bent down to cut Zhang Yuan's horse leg.

Zhang Yuan held a gun in one hand and pulled the reins in the other, and the horse understood, and kicked on the man's horse head with a kick on his hind legs. The horse was in pain, neighed, and jumped directly into the air, knocking the man on his back to the ground. At this moment, Zhang Yuan dodged the knife cut by the man in front of him, and then kicked his legs, directly volleyed into the air, flew into the air with a high-altitude leap, flew to the back of the enemy's horse in front of him, and at the same time slapped out with a palm, slapping the man off the horse.

The man was still struggling, but before he could get up, he was captured by Zhang Yuan's men and horses, and his companions were naturally controlled by Zhang Yuan's team long ago. The two struggled, glaring angrily, but their mouths were silent.

"Who the hell are you? Why infiltrate our camp? Zhang Yuan asked loudly.

But the two of them just turned their heads and looked around, without the slightest intention of answering Zhang Yuan. Even though Zhang Yuan threatened repeatedly, they didn't say a word, but straightened their backs and looked at Zhang Yuan fiercely. Faced with this, Zhang Yuan smiled coldly and said, "I'll find a way to let you say it." ”

So he ordered the soldiers to search their bodies, and the two struggled hard, but to no avail, on their underwear, the soldiers searched for a number of drawings and presented them to Zhang Yuan. When Zhang Yuan saw it, he was suddenly shocked into a cold sweat, and sighed in his heart that he was lucky to catch these two people, otherwise it would be really a bad thing.

Among the drawings of the several chapters searched, several are maps of the entire Oyster Bay, and there are also maps of the distribution of counties and counties in the entire Youzhou. This is nothing, it is not difficult to get these maps, but what shocked Zhang Yuan was that the drawings they brought actually marked in detail Zuzhao's newly built military distribution map, important economic areas, Ma'anshan mining area, and so on. Even the grain and grass storage points, garrison posts, ordnance storage points, etc., in their military districts are marked in detail, and some of the secret paths marked on them are not even known to Zhang Yuan.

Zhang Yuan knew that the situation was serious, and immediately took them back to the barracks, but after several interrogations, he still couldn't ask anything from them, he thought that Zu Zhao had gone to Luoyang and had not come back, so he thought of Feng Luoxue, hoping that she would come up with an idea, but he didn't expect that Zu Zhao actually came back, which made him very surprised and surprised.

"Won't they say anything?" Zu Zhao asked.

"General, I've already interrogated them, but they just keep silent, there's really no way, you look at them, they must be from the northern barbarians, it's better to kill them." Zhang Yuan said.

Zu Zhao shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter if you kill or not, what I want to know is who gave them these maps marked with secret paths." Few of these trail armies knew that they could not have drawn it themselves. ”

Zhang Yuan said: "I also think it's strange, some of these paths, some of which I don't even know, how did they get this map." ”

"So I'm curious to know who gave them these maps. Wen Yuan, don't underestimate these paths, some of them are not small roads, they can be passed by large troops, but there are one or two places in the middle that are extremely thrilling, so no one walks, and they are not marked on the general map. ”

Zu Zhao had actually been on guard against these paths for a long time. He will never forget the story of Deng Ai's digging of the road. At that time, Shu thought that there was a natural danger, and there was no defense on that side, who knew that Deng Ai's army fell from the sky, and Shu, which had no army, had no power to resist, even the descendants of Zhuge were also powerless and died in the field.

Now his military camp is surrounded by these paths, this place is his military reserve depot, absolutely no accident, otherwise he led the army to fight the enemy, but his base camp was occupied, this is called the gain outweighs the loss, lose the fundamental, in the future can not move at all, he does not move while others are progressing, this is a kind of backwardness, backwardness is doomed to be beaten, doomed to failure.

"You mean, we have moles within us?" Feng Luoxue asked faintly.

"There must be something wrong with us insiders. Now there are major forces in Youzhou, and they are eyeing each other, and I am developing independently, so I will definitely be watched by them. Maybe it wasn't the northern barbarians who came in to inquire about the information, but a few people from the big forces in Youzhou. Zu Zhao said.

Hearing his words, the two people kneeling on the ground couldn't help but look up at Zu Zhao, and when they saw Zu Zhao looking at them, the two immediately lowered their heads. Zu Zhao naturally saw their subtle movements, and Feng Luoxue did not miss their strange performance, and secretly guessed in his heart that maybe it was really as Zu Zhao said, what really wanted to obtain information here was actually a certain force in Youzhou.

Now people of insight have analyzed the overall situation of the world, the decline of the Han Dynasty is an indisputable fact, although the world is still surnamed Liu, but it is no longer under the control of the Liu family at all, the princes have long had different intentions, and actively developed their own power by taking advantage of the Yellow Turban chaos, trying to fight for the world one day.

As several major forces in Youzhou, if they want to plot the world, they must first pacify Youzhou, so friction began to occur between them, which is nothing to suspense. However, who sent these two people, and who were the traitors in the army?

"Take them down and take them into custody, and I'll try them myself another day." Zu Zhao said loudly.

Several soldiers rushed in and immediately escorted them down. But the two men did not speak or shout, and let the soldiers take them away. The people present were all talking, and they didn't know how Zu Zhao was going to deal with this matter, so naturally there were many people who made suggestions, some said that they would be cut off directly, and some said that they would be tortured to extract confessions, and there were all kinds of suggestions.

But Zu Zhao didn't say anything, didn't deny or agree, just looked at everyone's expressions, and finally asked the generals to retreat, leaving only Feng Luoxue and Zhang Yuan by his side. The generals snorted and retreated.

After those people left, Zhang Yuan asked, "General, do you have any plans?" ”

"What do you think?" Zu Zhao asked rhetorically. Zhang Yuan is the person he has high hopes for, and he hopes that Zhang Yuan can learn to think independently, so that he can truly take charge of himself in the future.

Zhang Yuan looked at Zu Zhao in a daze, then at Feng Luoxue, smiled, thought for a while, and said: "I think it's still torture to extract confessions, and in the end, if they don't say anything about it, then they will be beheaded, and they can't be allowed to leak everything here." ”

Zu Zhao didn't nod or shake his head, just glanced at Zhang Yuan, then turned his head to look at Feng Luoxue and asked, "What do you think?" ”

Feng Luoxue hesitated for a moment, and said quietly: "If they don't want to die, death is the only choice in the end, but this can't actually solve the problem, kill the two of them, and more people will lurk in, and the biggest problem now is to find out who is lurking within us." ”

Zu Zhao finally nodded and said to Zhang Yuan: "Wenyuan, this is the essence of the problem, you must learn to think from this aspect when you look at the problem in the future." I have high hopes for you, you will definitely be able to take charge of yourself in the future, and you will be a general, but during this period, you will inevitably have to hone it, and it is easy to get a general, do you understand. ”

When Zhang Yuan heard this, he was very grateful, bowed down and hugged his fists and said: "Thanks to the general, Wen Yuan will definitely live up to the general's trust." He looked at Feng Luoxue with some embarrassment, and when he saw her smiling, he couldn't help but smile, but he immediately changed to seriousness, for fear that Zu Zhao would find out that he was smiling at Feng Luoxue.

For Zhang Yuan's small actions, Zu Zhao was naturally aware of it, but he didn't care, thanks to his trust in Feng Luoxue and his trust in Zhang Yuan, now they are all doing things for themselves, some eye contact is necessary, you can't let your subordinates look at each other coldly, then it will be a bad thing. Guan Yu was too strong, so no one sent troops to him when he was trapped in Maicheng, who made him so indifferent to people.

"Wen Yuan, what do you think we can do next to find out the inner ghost?" Zu Zhao asked.

Zhang Yuan thought for a while, and said apologetically: "General, my subordinates are incompetent, and I really can't think of any good way other than to torture those two guys." ”

"There's nothing incompetent, it's not incompetent, I can't think of anything that doesn't matter." Zu Zhao glanced up at Zhang Yuan, and then asked Feng Luoxue: "What do you think, is there any way to do it?" ”

Feng Luoxue also lowered her head and thought for a while, sighed lightly, and said, "Why don't we take the initiative to send someone to pretend to be a traitor to contact them, so that we may be able to get out of their words." ”

"Yes, yes, that's a great plan." Zhang Yuan also hurriedly expressed his opinion.

Zu Zhao nodded slightly, and said: "This is indeed a good way, but now we just guess from the expressions of those two people and the map that we have a spy inside, but now we don't know what kind of role that spy is, whether he is the general who leads the army or a nobody, whether he is in our place now, do you know that we have caught such a person, if you rush to test it, I am afraid that it will be a grass spirit." ”

Zhang Yuan and Feng Luoxue both nodded in agreement, if they did not do it well, it would be self-defeating, and maybe they would be beaten upside down. But what to do, they don't have any good ideas. The three of them looked at those drawings and thought about the problem carefully, Zhang Yuan racked his brains even more, Zu Zhao had high hopes for him, he really hoped to show it, and after thinking about it, he really found something.

"General, please see, the drawing on this map is not very standard, that is to say, these paths are not on the original map, but were depicted later. Look, General, there are still traces of alteration on it. At this point, he pointed to a small curve on the map.

"Go on." Zu Zhao saw him stop and motioned for him to continue.

Zhang Yuan got the order and immediately said: "There are few people in our army who have these military maps, except for you, the general, as well as me and Zhang Pre, I use my head to guarantee that I am not an internal ghost, and Zhang Pre must not be." ”

Zu Zhao said: "If you are all internal ghosts, then damn me." It means that I treat you uselessly, so you will want to take refuge in others. You go on to say. ”

Zhang Yuan smiled and said, "General Xie trusts." Now there are only a few of us who have the drawings, but when the route was drawn, it was a local person who led the way, and there were a lot of people who went with us at that time, but there were only three or four people who could touch the drawings, so I think we can secretly investigate from these people. ”

Zu Zhao nodded and praised: "What you said makes sense. Do you know how many people had access to maps at that time? ”

Zhang Yuan didn't say that he could know the name of every soldier for his subordinates, but he knew a lot about the small commanders who could speak, and he quickly listed those people. Zu Zhao and Feng Luoxue looked at the names of those people, they also knew that those people had been with him since Zu Zhao called for resistance to the Yellow Turban Army, how could he be sentenced at this time?

But the world is impermanent, people's hearts are unpredictable, and they are not sure that these people will not be sentenced to themselves, which Zu Zhao believes even more, Yuan Shao's defeat at Cao Cao is not because his first strategist took refuge in Cao Cao. Of course, this is the history of Zu Zhao who has not yet appeared, and now that Zu Zhao has come in, he is not very sure how the situation will develop in the future, but what he does not interfere with will definitely run according to the original track, which he can conclude.

It's just that the battle of Guandu, the battle that changed the pattern, I am afraid that I will definitely participate, otherwise I will be defeated, and I don't have my own points in such a big battle, so how can I say that I am here to change the pattern of the situation.

After analyzing and analyzing, they felt that anyone was possible, and they felt that no one was possible, these people were loyal to Zu Zhao, how could they betray him.

"Maybe they didn't want to betray me, they were coerced by others." Zu Zhao said suddenly.

"How can you see it?" asked Feng Luoxue.

"You see, among these five people, three of them are from the same county as me, and Li Hong is single, and I still entrust him with important responsibilities, and he has no reason to betray him. The rest of Zhang Gong is from Liaodong County, and his family has been in Liaodong County, and Gongsun Du is in the same place. And I have always had conflicts with Gongsun Du of Liaodong County, I wonder if someone threatened him with his family, let him let him in, and let him reveal the layout here? Zu Zhao said.

Hearing what Zu Zhao said, Zhang Yuan immediately slapped his thigh, sighed, and said, "Yes, why didn't I think of it." He was in charge of patrolling the other day. Then it must be him. ”

Zu Zhao stopped: "It's just speculation now, don't be reckless." If things turn out as we suspected, then we are not in a hurry to condemn him, but to save his family. Zhang Yuan, you immediately go to Liaodong County to find out the information of the Zhang Gong family there, and then immediately fly the pigeon and report it to me. ”

"Shall you go now?" Zhang Yuan asked,

"Leave now, non-stop. We can't let the news of the arrest of people reach Liaodong County first. Zu Zhao said.

"Command!" Zhang Yuan said and bowed out.

After Zhang Yuan went out, Zu Zhao said to Feng Luoxue: "You have to contribute to the next thing." ”

"What do you want me to do?" Feng Luoxue asked softly.

"Send someone to monitor the five of them, but don't let them notice, if any of them dare to secretly send someone out or fly pigeons to pass the book, you will intercept them quietly." Zu Zhao said.

"It's not that hard. But before Zhang Yuan sent back the news, did we just wait? Feng Luoxue asked.

The corners of Zu Zhao's mouth twitched, revealing a smug smile, and said, "Of course not." Naturally, we are the first to strike, and we can't always be led by the nose. ”

"What do you mean?"

"You pick people you have to trust and send them to prison, two of them pretend to be criminals, keep them close to them, watch their movements, and the others mingle with the jailers. If the inner ghost learns that those two people have been caught, in order to protect himself, he will definitely rescue them or assassinate him, and none of these things can happen. Zu Zhao said.

"Okay, I'll arrange it right away." Feng Luoxue said.

Zu Zhao nodded and said, "Without further ado, you go and arrange it, I'll take care of some things and go to you at night." ”

"What are you looking for me to do?" Feng Luoxue turned around and asked.

Zu Zhao smiled, looked at her in a daze, and said, "What do you say?" "I deliberately said the words very loudly.

Feng Luoxue pursed her lips and smiled, scolded for being improper, and pressed her sword out.