Chapter Forty-Six: The Ploy Succeeded
This story is pure fiction
The four of them cleared the air, walked for most of the night and a day, and arrived outside the south gate of Anwu County at about one o'clock.
"We should go to the west gate and burn it, and when the fire starts, we will run west for a while, and then go southeast to Chencang." You Tian said to everyone.
"Okay, then let's go to the West Gate now." Qiao'er knew Youtian's plan, so she asked everyone to go to the west gate.
Qiao'er took everyone around to the West City Gate, and found a good place to hide with Jingkong and Su Xilong.
"You two are waiting for us here, and we'll set a fire." Qiao'er said to Jingkong and Su Xilong. Qiao'er twisted two cans of oil and walked towards the city gate with Youtian.
When approaching the city wall, Qiao'er and Youtian quickly hid under the city wall, and Qiao'er responded to Qiao'er under the city wall, Qiao'er flew up to the city wall, and carefully came to the west city gate near the city wall. Qiao'er saw that the fire of the city gate tower had started, and then quickly jumped off the city wall, and after meeting with Youtian, he went to the clear sky and them.
"Let's go, hurry west." After Qiao'er and Youtian arrived, they said to Jingkong and Su Xilong.
The four of them ran all the way west. After running for about an hour, You Tian said to everyone: "We will rush to Chencang from the small road, and when it is about dawn the day after tomorrow, we will be able to enter Chencang City." ”
Then, Youtian took everyone to Chencang on a super small road.
It is said that the envoy in Yongxian County was worried that a few of their demons could not catch it, and they heard someone report that the north gate and the west gate tower of Yongxian County were on fire.
The envoy and the county commander came to the north city gate together, took a look, the north city gate was only burned on the city wall, and then went to the west city gate, and saw that the west city gate tower was burned, and stamped his feet there angrily. Hurriedly arranged for someone to take his token to Xianyang to transfer people.
The envoy said to the prefectural decree that from tomorrow onwards all gates shall be closed, and no one shall be allowed to go out or enter, and all places in the city shall be strictly inspected. No one will be spared, all the people registered in the county town will be gathered in the county office, and those who come to Yongxian County to do business must show documentary proof, and suspicious persons will be arrested first.
The prefectural commander received instructions from the envoy and immediately ordered his officials to do it.
The next day, the envoy and the county commander took the officers and soldiers and officials to search the whole city, and many people were arrested, but there were no people they wanted to arrest. The envoy was even more convinced that Qiao'er was a group of demons, and then sent someone to report to Zhao Wangyu Wenzhao, saying that there was a group of demons in Yongxian County who were making trouble. The people in the city and the people from other towns who were not suspected of being all gathered at the gate of the county government, and they could only be released when the demons were caught. When the common people saw so many officers and soldiers and officials, they could only dare to be angry and not express their feelings.
At the same time, the envoy sent four city gates to guard it to prevent the demons from continuing to make trouble, and there must be officers and soldiers on the city wall to patrol constantly, and such things must not be allowed to happen again.
After dealing with these things, it was already dusk, and the envoy and the county commander returned to the county office to rest, and the county government was also guarded by officers and soldiers on the third floor and the outer three floors. A small number of officers and soldiers were used, and all the officials were stationed outside the county government to support the common people.
After a night, seeing that the city was quiet and there were no more accidents, the envoy felt that this group of demons had been caught, either among the suspects who were arrested again, or among the people in the city. The envoy asked the county order to go through everyone today, and he must catch those demons. It's almost winter, and it's cold at night in the north. The people were frozen outside all night, and they were already complaining, and even those officials were frozen all night, and they were angry in their hearts.
At the beginning of the continuous screening, there were few people, and I heard a quick report from Malai, saying that the city tower in Anwu County had been burned, and the envoy couldn't sit still, and it seemed that these demons had escaped.
The man who happened to be sent to transfer troops also returned, bringing with him 3,000 elite soldiers. The envoy left the original 500 elite soldiers to the Yongxian county order, and then rushed to Anwu County with the 3,000 elite soldiers who had just arrived. The county order of Yongxian County was instructed to let the people go home, and the suspect was still locked in the county jail first, and if nothing happened in two days, let the five hundred elite soldiers go to Anwu County to join him.
The prefectural magistrate kept nodding his head and saying yes. The prefectural magistrate has also had a big head these days. I haven't slept well for several nights, and this class is terrible. The county commander thought to himself that if he was caught, he would have to peel off their skins, smoke their strength, and vent the hatred in his heart.
The envoy and his people rushed to Anwu County for seven or eight hours non-stop, and saw the city tower that had been burned down two nights ago, and asked Anwu County to order the city to be closed and all the people in the city to be checked.
However, the prefectural commander told the envoy that the officers and soldiers of the castle tower had seen that four men had finished setting the fire and had run westward.
The envoy knew in his heart at this time, it must be that this group of demons was going to Pingliang to make trouble, and the officer who was killed by Qiao'er told him that they came and went to Pingliang, and then left five hundred elite soldiers in Anwu County to protect the safety of Anwu County. told the Anwu County Commander that after the 500 elite soldiers from Yongxian County came, they replaced the 500 elite soldiers who stayed in Anwu and rushed to Pingliang to join him.
The envoy and the officers and soldiers with him repaired in Anwu County for about two hours, did not let them bring more baggage, and in order to get to Pingliang faster, they brought a day's rations, water, and weapons.
After arranging the relevant matters of Anwu County, the envoy rushed to Pingliang with the remaining 2,500 elite soldiers, hoping to catch these demons in Pingliang. The idea of the envoy is good, but the envoy doesn't even know what this group of demons looks like, and the only officer who has seen them is also dead. I can only catch people by intuition when it's cool.
The envoy is still smart, and the envoy also knows that he can't arrest people directly like this, this is his own negligence, so he quickly arranged for someone to go to Wugong County quickly, and took Xiao Er, who had seen such a demon in the inn, this is the only person who has seen them. Bring the shopkeeper over, as long as you can catch someone, you can identify it.
An officer and two officers and soldiers rode fast horses to Wugong County, and the envoy led the mighty team to Pingliang. The envoy is bound to catch this group of demons this time, and if he doesn't catch them, he won't give up.
It's just that what the envoy doesn't know is that when they arrive at Pingliang City, they will empty their group of demons, and I'm afraid they will arrive at Chencang where they are going early.
And the calculation of the heavens is right, let the envoy go to Pingliang to make trouble, they can stay in Chencang comfortably for two or three days, even if the envoy knows that they are in Chencang, when they arrive at Chencang, I am afraid they have already left Chencang