The Xiazhou Branch of the Intelligence Station of the Dingyan Army Intelligence Station of the Ministry of Intelligence (the Xiazhou Branch of the "Dark Feather" Dingyan Army) urgently implemented the plan of "both worlds", and took Chen Baoqiang, Qiu Mingbo, and Song Yun and other relevant personnel out of Tongwancheng and retreated to Lingzhou. Although sixteen hours is not a short time in terms of numbers, if we take into account the need for secrecy and the objective conditions of not being able to leave the city after dark, such a speed is actually quite fast.

Just when the Xiazhou Branch of the Ministry of Intelligence ("Dark Feather" Xiazhou Branch) was fully implementing the "Perfect for Both Worlds" operation, Li Tuiguan, who was the chief officer of the Dingyan Army's criminal prison, was still in Dijinze, a hundred miles away, accompanied the deputy envoy of Jiedu to investigate the secret base that had become ruins and had been surveyed countless times before, and had no idea about a series of secret operations in Tongwan City, until Chen Baoqiang, Qiu Mingbo, Song Yun and others had left Tongwan City under the escort of agents from the Ministry of Intelligence and marched in the direction of Lingzhou for nearly five hours. He returned to his office exhausted.

Before Li Tuiguan had just entered the government office, and before he could sit down in a chair in his office, a government official hurried to him and reported to him that someone had come to report the explosion of Dijinze the afternoon before, and asked him whether to immediately interrogate the witnesses who had been accused. Li Tuiguan, who had no idea about this matter, couldn't help but be stunned, and hurriedly asked the official who came to report the incident for details. As a result, when asked, Li Tuiguan couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised. Happily, someone took the initiative to report the Dijinze explosion case that he had been investigating for more than a month, but had not found any clues. What is surprising is that he didn't know anything about such a serious matter, not only did no one go to Di Jinze to send a letter to him, but also the person who came to report to him was not Song Sijiao, who was responsible for handling the official affairs of the ya, but an ordinary official. Therefore, in addition to the surprises, Li Tuiguan also had an ominous premonition in his heart.

As a result, Li Tuiguan didn't care about investigating why no one went to Di Jinze to send him a letter, and he didn't have time to analyze why such a heavy clue was a government official who came to report to him, instead of Song Sijiao, who was in charge of the official affairs in the office, and hurriedly asked the official officer to take him to the prison office where the informant was staying, hoping to gain something.

However, to Li Tuiguan's surprise, there was no one in the prison office, but the two officials in charge of guarding the door insisted that they had been on duty here since last night, and that there was no slackness and that it was impossible for someone to take advantage of the loopholes. Seeing that the words of the two officials were conclusive, and did not seem to be deceiving, Li Tuiguan suddenly felt that there must be something strange about this matter, and hurriedly sent people to the homes of Song Yun and the two officials who were said to have sent him letters to find these three people for questioning, and at the same time took people to re-enter the prison office and check carefully.

The prison office is so large in total, and including Li Tuiguan, everyone present is an expert in the prison and case investigation, so there is not much time, and everyone found He Dangchu's body in the bookcase in the inner room of the office.

Although He Dangchu is just a housekeeper, Qiu Mingbo is an important official who is valued by Li Yiyin, the envoy of the festival, and has frequent contacts with other officials of the Dingyan Army, and these officials and even subordinates have had contact with this Qiu Mansion housekeeper, including this Li Tuiguan. Therefore, as soon as he looked at his face, he recognized the corpse in front of him as He Dangchu He in the mansion of Qiu Mingbo, the deputy envoy of iron smelting. At this time, the men who went to look for Song Yun and the two officials had also returned, bringing the news that the homes of the three people were empty, and the whereabouts of the three families were unknown.

The whereabouts of the informant was killed, Song Sijiao, who was in charge of interrogating the informant, and the two officials who were responsible for delivering letters to him, were all unknown, and then in connection with the fact that He Dangchu had told the guards the door the day before that he had come to accuse his master of being implicated in the Dijinze explosion, if Li Tuiguan could no longer have imagined that Qiu Mingbo, the deputy envoy of iron smelting, was the mastermind of the Jinze explosion in Dijinze, and Song Yun and the two officials either got Qiu Mingbo's benefits to cover it up, or they themselves were Qiu Mingbo's accomplices, killing people and killing people in order to prevent the crime from leaking. Thinking of this, Li Tuiguan couldn't help but feel secretly annoyed, annoyed why the deputy envoy of Jiedu didn't go to Dijinze to survey early and late to Jinze to investigate, but he chose to go there in these two days. If he had to accompany the deputy envoy of Jiedu to Dijinze, it would not give Song Yun and the two officials a chance to kill people.

However, chagrin is chagrin, but Li Tuiguan knows very well that now is not the time to take regret medicine. Since Song Yun can kill people for Qiu Mingbo, I am afraid that he will also try his best to tell the latter about the incident of Steward He's accusation, so that the latter can be prepared, or destroy the evidence, or think of a denial of the rhetoric, so as to deal with the Jiedu Mansion's investigation of him. Now, if Qiu Mingbo is to be convicted, he can only hope that the pro-army in the Jiedu Mansion who are responsible for monitoring and controlling the Qiu Mansion can fulfill their duties and prevent Song Yun and the two officials from having the opportunity to enter the Qiu Mansion and leak secrets.

Without further ado, Li Tuiguan ordered his servants to go to Qiu Mingbo's mansion immediately, get in touch with the pro-Yanai troops guarding there, and make sure that no one could enter or leave Qiu's mansion. At the same time, he hurried to the Jiedu Mansion and reported this important news to Li Yiyin, the envoy of Jiedu--As one of the most important officials of the Dingyan Army, whether it was to arrest Qiu Mingbo or ask him to come to the official office to assist in the investigation, Li Yiyin could make a decision.

If it is said that the news that the secret base of Dijinze was destroyed in an explosion more than a month ago made Li Yiyin angry, then at this moment, Li Tuiguan sued him that the mastermind and culprit of the explosion in Dijinze was Qiu Mingbo, who was very important and appreciated, made Li Yiyin furious and puzzled at the same time. Because he really couldn't understand why Qiu Mingbo, who had always been deferential to himself, loyal to the Dingyan Army, and conscientious in the work of the deputy envoy of iron smelting, would make such a move, and would destroy the capital of his life and the foundation of glory and wealth with his own hands, and let the high-ranking officials not enjoy it, and he had to take risks to do a stupid thing that would only have all kinds of disadvantages and no benefits for him.

However, anger is anger, incomprehension is incomprehensible, and Li Yiyin was not carried away by this. After a moment of venting, he regained his senses, and sent his own nephew Li Guangyan, the defense envoy of Yinzhou who had been summoned by him to assist in solving the case because of the Dijinze bombing, to immediately go to Qiu Mingbo's mansion and arrest the ungrateful guy to see him; On the one hand, he ordered to issue a sea fishing document to the four prefectures of Xia, Yin, You, and Sui, arresting Song Yun and the two officials and their families who were likely to abscond.

As a result, the sea fishing document was written here, handed over to the messengers and sent to the states of the Dingyan Army, and Li Guangyan led the Yanai pro-army to return empty-handed. He not only pounced on Qiu Mingbo's mansion, but also brought another bad news to Li Yiyin - Qiu Mingbo's good brother Chen Baoqiang's family also disappeared last night.

This time, Li Yiyin was really a little angry. Moreover, what made him angry was not only that people like Qiu Mingbo and Chen Baoqiang, who he valued and appreciated, betrayed him, but also that the other party was able to disappear without a trace from the mansion under the heavy guard of heavy soldiers and with many Jiedu Mansion agents installed in the mansion, while the pro-army and secret agents sent by him were unaware. Especially when the pro-army and secret agents in the country were loyal to their duties and did not dare to slack off, it made him even more surprised and panicked in addition to anger. Because, no matter how Qiu Mingbo, Chen Baoqiang and others absconded from under the noses of the pro-army in Yanai and many secret agents of Jiedu Mansion in the prefecture, it shows that the other party had already planned and operated for a long time, and had made full preparations and made careful and prudent arrangements long before the explosion of Dijinze. The other party has such a scheming, and he has such a strong and unknown strength in Wancheng, the Dingyan Military Command that he thinks is well managed, how can he not make Li Yiyin's heart tremble.

In addition to being frightened, Li Yiyin was even more eager to know the relationship between Qiu Mingbo and Chen Baoqiang and the Dijinze bombing, and how their two families escaped from the heavy surveillance and confinement. So, he personally led a thousand pro-army troops, accompanied by Li Guangyan, to search the mansions of Qiu Mingbo and Chen Baoqiang, hoping to solve his mystery.

Although the secret passage in the mansion of Qiu and Chen was built very secretly, it was still found under the careful search of thousands of people who were eager to dig three feet into the ground. With the exposure of the secret passage of Qiufu, the secret passage of Chenfu and the secret passage in the "Yijin" silk village connected to it have been discovered one by one. Although the "Yijin" Silk Village was also empty, through the interrogation and interrogation of the surrounding neighbors, the party members still found that more than a dozen horse-drawn carriages had set off from the Silk Village in the early morning of the same day, joined a large local caravan, and went in the direction of the north of the city. With this clue, the party members got the news from the defenders of Tongwancheng that the caravan had left the city from the north gate and traveled north along the official road to Khitan trade.

can be privately taught and received by Qiu Mingbo and Chen Baoqiang under his nose, can dig out a number of secret passages without anyone knowing, and the caravan where Qiu Mingbo and others are hiding is going to the Khitan in the north to trade, these clues are gathered together, which makes Li Yiyin's eyes suddenly brighten, and he thinks that he has found the reason why Qiu and Chen are willing to give up their current glory and wealth and take great risks to do such an earth-shattering case - the reason why these two guys are ungrateful should be lured by the Khitans, For a higher official position and a more generous remuneration, just as he abandoned the Jingzhao Li family and joined the Dingyan Army, he abandoned the Dingyan Army to vote for the Liao State, which gave him more benefits.

After all, although the location of the secret base of Dijinze is secret, and there are troops around it to monitor and protect, it is only thirty or forty miles away from the border between the Dingyan Army and the Khitan, and the surrounding area is either the Gobi Desert or the grassland, and the terrain is relatively flat, even if you can't get too close, you can see that there is a huge camp there in the distance. Not to mention the fact that during the firearms test, the deafening sound could be heard far away in the empty Gobi steppe. Such a scene and sound may not be seen or heard by the Great Zhou court, which is thousands of miles away and does not care very much about the Dingyan army, but the Khitans who are close at hand may have paid attention to and explored it a long time ago. As soon as they discovered the secret in Dijinze, these guys who had been repeatedly defeated in the face of Beiping firearms, and were extremely badly defeated, in order to save face, regain the land, and in order to gain something in the battle with the former Beiping Army and the current Great Zhou Forbidden Army, they would naturally go to fight the Dijinze or want to make up their minds about difficult weapons. In this way, it is only natural that he spent a lot of effort and a lot of money to set up eyeliner in the Dingyan Army, in Xiazhou, to rebel against officials, and to lure Qiu Mingbo and Chen Baoqiang, two guys who are oblivious to their interests and righteousness, for their own use -- as for the reasons for Qiu Mingbo's creation of the Dijinze explosion, in Li Yiyin's view, there are only two kinds of reasons: on the one hand, he is to show his loyalty to the Khitans and surrender his name, and on the other hand, he is also afraid that the Dingyan Army will find trouble with the Khitans after learning the truth, and he destroys the "Thunderbolt Army" that poses the greatest threat to the Khitans before defecting and the secret camp of Jijinze, which can make firearms.

However, people are not as good as heaven, Qiu Mingbo wanted to blow up the secret camp of Dijinze as a greeting gift to join the Khitans, but he didn't expect that after his housekeeper He Dangchu inadvertently discovered the big secret of his master's family, he also turned his back on him because he couldn't resist the huge interests, and did the same ugly thing of betraying the lord for glory. It's just that He Dangchu's luck is not good, and he finally made up his mind to tell the truth, but he didn't die and ran into the tip of the knife of Song Yun and Song Si Prison, who had a friendship with Qiu Mingbo and was likely to have been bought by the Khitans. Not only did he fail to get the 1,000-yuan bounty, but he lost his life because of this incident.

As soon as he thought of this, Li Yiyin, who was originally angry, calmed down a lot, although he still hated Qiu Mingbo for ruining himself and the Dingyan Army for several years for his own selfish interests, but he was obviously not qualified to condemn Qiu, Chen and the Khitans who had also used high-ranking officials to lure Qiu and Chen to betray the Jingzhao Li family.

However, "figure it out", but it is obviously impossible for Li Yiyin to suffer a dumb loss, and just watch Qiu Mingbo, Chen Baoqiang and their families flee from the Dingyan Army and go to the Khitan to enjoy the glory and wealth. Not to mention that this is inconsistent with his consistent character and style, and it can't get by just in terms of face.

Therefore, although it was getting late at this time, the caravan where Qiu Mingbo, Chen Baoqiang, and even Song Yun and others were likely hiding in it had already gone north to Khitan for nearly a day. However, considering that the caravan had a limited speed of travel and had to rest at night, it was impossible to go too far, so after Li Yiyin judged the possible direction of Qiu Mingbo and Chen Baoqiang's absconding, he ordered Li Guangyan to lead 500 pro-troops out of the north gate of Wancheng and chased them all the way along the official road.