Chapter 120: Pursuit
In the territory of Bingzhou, Huang Zhong, Chen Gong and Zhuge Jue personally went to the junction line between Yong'an, Puzi and Bingzhou early in the morning, and on the junction line, they saw corpses all over the ground, some of those corpses were wearing official clothes, and some were wearing ordinary people's clothes, but at this moment they all fell in a pool of blood, and even many of them were in different places, and it looked like a bloody battle before death. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"This, this is not ......"
Zhuge Jue, who had never seen such a bloody scene, pointed to the corpses on the ground, his face full of horror.
"This is the team sent by the lord to purchase iron and steel in the state half a month ago."
While speaking, Chen Gong walked to the side of a dead corpse, and gently closed his eyes for him, compared with Zhuge Jue, Chen Gong, who had participated in the Yong'an bandit suppression before, was much calmer.
Looking at the corpses on the ground, Huang Zhong frowned, and his face was full of grief and indignation, because the soldiers who were guarding were all drawn from his barracks, and they were all soldiers brought out by him, and the leaders were all brought out by him from Nanyang, and now they died so inexplicably.
"Xu Jian," shouted, Huang Zhong turned his head to look at Xu Dutong, who was in charge of the investigation, and asked in a slightly trembling tone: "Also... Are there any alive? ”
When he spoke, Huang Zhong hoped from the bottom of his heart that someone would survive, even if only one survived, but the final result was to crush all the little luck he had in his heart.
Hurriedly trotting to Huang Zhong's side, Xu Jian arched his hand and replied in a sad voice: "Report to the general, my subordinates have checked, five hundred brothers and thirty coachmen in charge of escorting the car... In addition, there are about 400 corpses of thieves on the ground, judging from the traces left on the battlefield, the thieves have been ambushed a long time ago, first the cavalry launched a surprise attack from the rear, and then the archers on both sides came out, our brothers, all died in battle. ”
Xu Jian was also an old man who followed Huang Zhong, and through the few traces left on the battlefield, he actually deduced the enemy's approximate fighting style, and those soldiers were worthy of being trained by Huang Zhong himself, even if they were attacked by surprise, they still left more than 400 thieves.
After listening to Xu Jian's report, Huang Zhong, who was already trembling with anger, took two deep breaths, tried to restrain his emotions, turned his head and said to Xu Jian: "Tell me to go down, so that I can collect the remains of my brothers, and at the same time send someone to chase me down the rut, and I must find those hateful thieves." ”
"No!"
After hugging Huang Zhong's fist, Xu Jianjian turned around and arranged for people to track down the thief's whereabouts as Huang Zhong said.
"Newspaper~"
Not long after Huang Zhong's military order was issued, a government official from Yong'an suddenly flew to report: "Lord Qiyu County, Tugang Village was suddenly attacked by bandits last night, and there were more than 500 people in the village, and none of them survived. ”
"What?!"
After listening to the report of the officials, Chen Gong, who had always been calm, was shocked and even his voice changed, no wonder Chen Gong was so surprised, within one day, two major cases were issued in a row, and one of them actually happened directly in Yong'an, adding up to nearly 1,000 casualties, he now doesn't know how to explain to Zhang Yi and the people of Yong'an.
When Chen Gong panicked, Zhuge Qi calmed down, frowned and thought about it, Zhuge Qi asked Chen Gong, how far Tugang Village is from here, and after hearing Chen Gong say the number less than twenty miles, Zhuge Jue immediately had a rough judgment of the situation in his heart.
"I speculate that these two cases should be committed by the same group of robbers," Zhuge Jue, who calmed down, immediately exerted his far superior intelligence, and said his analysis while thinking: "According to Xu Dutong's analysis of the battlefield just now, I judge that the thieves think that the soldiers are escorting valuable things, and they have already received a tip, knowing that the team is bound to take this road, so they ambushed here early, and after attacking and killing the team, they found that all they intercepted was iron and point steel. This made the thieves who suffered heavy losses very angry, so there was a tragedy in Tugang Village. ”
Zhuge Jue deserves to be called a wise man who was called a famous Confucian by later generations, and only based on Xu Dutong's analysis of the battlefield, he came to roughly the same result as the facts, and his intelligence is indeed far from being comparable to others.
After listening to Zhuge Jue's analysis, Chen Gong nodded, and at the same time, he quickly recalled in his mind the approximate information of the bandits and bandits in Bingzhou that his subordinates had reported, and finally deduced that it was the thieves from Jilong Mountain.
As soon as he heard Chen Gong's words, Huang Zhong couldn't stay any longer, and immediately called Xu Dutong and asked him to take someone with him, but Zhuge Jue stopped him and said that he had to report to Zhang Yi first and wait for Zhang Yi to reply to the news and take action, but Chen Gong supported Huang Zhong's move, because he deduced that at this time, the thieves escorted the looted property, and they would not be able to go far, at this moment Huang Zhong took two hundred light horsemen to chase, and nine times out of ten they could catch up, and the total number of thieves in Jilong Mountain was only more than a thousand, if some of them stayed in the cottage, the total number would not exceed 1,000 at this time, Just after a bloody battle and 400 people, it can be said that the sharp spirit is lost, with Huang Zhong's bravery, even if he can't be completely annihilated, he will definitely be able to kill the thieves and flee in defeat, at least he can take back the point of steel and iron first.
There were only three people present, two of whom were in favor of chasing, and even if Zhuge Jue was opposed, it was useless, so he had to let Huang Zhong lead people to chase him.
As soon as Huang Zhong left, Zhuge Jue confessed to Chen Gong and asked him to stay to collect the remains of the soldiers, and he immediately rushed back, and sent Zhang Yi a simple silk letter with the carrier pigeon that Zhang Yi asked him to bring to Puzi, which gave Zhang Yi a brief briefing on the situation.
When Zhuge released the carrier pigeon, Huang Zhong, who was hundreds of miles away, chased for a full hour, and finally saw the traces of the gang of thieves, and at this time, the two leaders of the gang of thieves were angry that they had worked hard for a long time but did not get any benefits.
The thief's second thief, Tugou, complained to his boss depressedly: "Big brother, what is the third child's intelligence this time, doesn't it mean that all the escorts are gold and silver?" Why are they all iron lumps? We have lost hundreds of brothers in vain! ”
"Damn, you ask me, who do I ask?" After glancing at the earth dog, Qian Qian, the boss of Jilong Mountain, said angrily: "After tossing for a long time, what I got was a pile of scrap iron, damn, go back, I have to ask Bai Laosan how to find out the news!" He'd never made a mistake like this before! ”
Just when the earth dog and Qian Chong were complaining, Huang Zhong had already approached them quietly with two hundred light horses, and the butcher's knife of death had already reached their necks, and they didn't know it. (To be continued.) )