Five hundred against two thousand, including nearly 500 cavalry of the "Flying Dragon Army" armed with firearms, no matter what aspect it is, Li Guangyan is only abused. What's more, since he led the army to cross the border of Youzhou and Yanzhou, he Li Guangyan has already been accused of crossing the border without permission, conspiring against him, and deserving of death according to the law, and Yang Ye definitely has a good reason to kill him. Therefore, in the face of the Zhou army that was violently killing him, Li Guangyan had no other choice but to abandon his weapon and dismount, hoping that the other party could leave a way for himself and his subordinates to survive in the face of the Dingyan army.

As an important minister and Yang Xin's sworn brother who was specially arranged by the imperial court to go to Lingzhou to monitor the Dingyan army, Yang Ye also understood that the imperial court did not want to completely tear up the face with the Dingyan army now, and also needed to temporarily stabilize these party members, so as to focus on pacifying the Southern Han in the south and the Khitan people in the north. Therefore, Yang Ye's initial order to his subordinates was to release those who abandoned their weapons and kill those who resisted. But when he saw Chen Baoqiang, Han Shun and others, and learned that the party members were ruthless in the pursuit process, and more than 30 guards had died in order to stop the party chasing soldiers, he changed his mind and decided to detain Li Guangyan and his subordinates, and at the same time report truthfully to Kaifeng, and wait for the court to reply before dealing with it.

Yang Ye knew very well that the guards who escorted Chen and Qiu were all capable spies from the "Dark Feather" Dingyan Army Branch Hall and the Xiazhou Branch, and many of them were born in the "Dark Feather Business Training Class" and even passed on their own disciples. If he just let go of those party chasers, he would only be afraid that he would be complained about when he saw Liang Ziyue and Zheng Zhiwei and Zheng Brother Zheng in the future - don't look at Liang Ziyue and Zheng Zhiwei, the two brothers are extremely strict with these personal or re-transmission disciples, but anyone who is greedy for life and death, greedy for pleasure, will be kicked out of the "dark feather" by them and even cut off their heads. From his sworn brother Yang Xin, he also learned that Liang and Zheng are both people with a strong heart to protect calves, and they will also take revenge on those enemies who hurt their subordinates, and they will never be soft. If these party members just chased and intercepted them, stopped and captured the Chen and Qiu families and the guards, and even punched and kicked them, Liang and Zheng would only admit that their skills were inferior to others, and they would never hold grudges against the party members. But now that the party members are relying on the strength of the crowd, they have killed more than 30 "dark feather" capable agents who are responsible for escorting the Chen and Qiu families, and they are also under the hands of Yanzhou outside the Dingyan Army, so how can Liang and Zheng let them go.

Therefore, after he rushed to the place where Chen Baoqiang and others were surrounded, without waiting for Li Guangyan to come forward to explain, he waved his hand and ordered Zhou Jun to tie up all the party members present with ropes and escort them back to Lingzhou, and then dispose of them when the imperial court's decree arrived.

Hearing this, Li Guangyan couldn't help but regret it. Knowing this, he might as well use Chen Baoqiang's family and those guards as hostages to fight to the death with Zhou Jun just now. Even if they can't retreat with their whole body, at least a few men and horses will break out and report to the Jiedu envoy, so that he can prepare in advance for possible retaliatory actions by the imperial court. Now that all of his people have been captured, even if the festival enables the adults to guess that something must have happened and take some emergency measures to deal with the imperial court, even if the festival enables the adults to guess that something must have happened and take some emergency measures to deal with the court, it is far better to make a decision after learning the details from the mouths of the people concerned. It's just that there is no regret medicine to take in this world, and at this time, he has been tied by the other party's rope, and he has no ability to resist, so he has to take one step at a time, and resign himself to fate.

Seeing that nearly 500 party chasers were tied up like zongzi one by one, Chen Baoqiang, Qiu Mingbo and their families were safe and sound, and there were no irrelevant people around to see this scene, except for the 30 or so guards who unfortunately died, the "best of both worlds" operation to take Chen and Qiu out of the Dingyan Army this time was quite complete, Yang Ye couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and immediately ordered a deputy general to lead 500 soldiers to escort Chen Baoqiang, Qiu Mingbo's two families and the surviving guards to Kaifeng, And he himself took the remaining soldiers and horses to escort the nearly 500 party captives back to Lingzhou, waiting for the imperial court's decree.

On the 26th day of August of the lunar calendar of the fifth year of Jianlong, Chen Baoqiang, Qiu Mingbo and his party arrived in Kaifeng along the way.

Maybe it's because the brothers are scattered all over the place and it's difficult to concentrate, maybe it's because the brothers who are now in Kaifeng are in important positions, and it's difficult to find time because of their busy official duties, or maybe it's because of Qiu Mingbo's self-assertion and unauthorized actions this time, which destroyed the previous arrangement of the crossing team in the Dingyan Army, and thus took the lives of dozens of capable agents of the Intelligence Department, in short, no matter what the reason, when Chen Baoqiang, Qiu Mingbo and their families arrived in Kaifeng this time, not only did they not have the welcome ceremony of the brothers of the crossing team gathered in one place, In addition to their former brother Xin Feiyu, only Liang Ziyue, the head of the Internal Affairs Department of the Ministry of Intelligence, and Hong Yan, who came to greet Zhao Zilu and Wang Han on behalf of the female traversers, did not even appear to meet the Chen and Qiu families at the gate of the "Qingyuan" city. Moreover, Liang Ziyue came mainly to greet those agents of the Intelligence Department who were born and died in order to implement the "best of both worlds" plan, and after only a few words of greeting Chen and Qiu at the city gate, he took the surviving nearly 20 detectives to his office in the "Qingyuan" city under the pretext of handling relevant official business. In this regard, although Xin Feiyu felt embarrassed, he had nothing to say, after all, the loss of dozens of capable agents like this time had never happened in the history of "Dark Feather".

The indifference of the brothers of the crossing team to the Chen and Qiu families was not only expressed at the welcoming ceremony, but also expressed Xiàn in the follow-up arrangements for Chen and Qiu, especially Qiu Mingbo after his arrival in Kaifeng. Relatively speaking, the reward for Chen Baoqiang is still a person's best ability, and the crossing team not only named him a general doctor under the fourth grade in the name of the imperial court, and will be the actual and loose official of the young eunuch, but also appointed him as the deputy director of the Materials Department of the Science and Technology Department of the crossing team to assist Yu Wende's work. The arrangement of Qiu Mingbo is more like a consolation prize, and the crossing team only named him a doctor from the fourth rank in the name of the imperial court, and neither arranged a substantive position for him in the imperial court, nor arranged any work for him within the crossing team. As for Zhao Zilu and Wang Han, because they both have underage children to take care of, and the crossing team has no actual work suitable for the two of them to arrange in Kaifeng, so there is no other sealing except for giving the two of them the corresponding fateful status according to the imperial court system.

For such an arrangement, Chen Baoqiang naturally accepted it gladly, and although Qiu Mingbo was unwilling, he also understood that after he made this series of things, his perception in the hearts of the brothers in the crossing team must be very poor, and being able to have such a result now can be regarded as the result of everyone giving Xin Feiyu face. Therefore, after receiving the canonized decree, he neither refused to accept the decree, nor did he go to Xin Feiyu or Wang Kunjun and others to theorize, but calmly accepted the result, and secretly vowed in his heart that he must use an opportunity to show his ability and rely on his own efforts to achieve his ideals and aspirations.