Chapter 152: See you at the old place
Ye Qinglin took Qin Shuyu and his team to quickly go down the tunnel, entered the big cave underground, called Director Shen and a group of craftsmen to lead the way, and ran forward from the tunnel exit of the big cave.
In the past, this was the only entrance and exit of the big cave, and it was not until the manor was built that another entrance was opened in Ye Qinglin's building in the backyard.
This exit road is very wide, which can accommodate two carriages walking side by side, and now they are just running in the tunnel on foot, and the torches on both sides of the tunnel are lit all year round for people coming in and out, and it is actually effortless to walk, but Ye Qinglin has to hurry up and rush to Wei Mingde.
Myeonghyun was the imperial capital that he returned to by this road at that time.
Mo ran for about half an hour, only to see the sun, they came out of a messy house, this place is a house on the border of Dongping country, built against the mountain wall, Ye Qinglin and others came out of the hole in the mountain wall, the yard is very large, there are bottles and jars everywhere, here is an earthen kiln, firing pottery, to cover the hole of the mountain wall, no one will know the place of the kiln, there is such a big tunnel directly to the Nanping country Liangchuankou underground.
Let the craftsmen who burned the kiln outside quickly prepare their horses, Ye Qinglin led the men and horses to rush out of a valley, hidden, and waited for Wei Mingde there.
The underground cave at the mouth of the two rivers is basically straight out of Dongping Kingdom, and Wei Mingde needs to go over the mountains and turn the mountain road out, out of the Chengguan of the Nanping Kingdom of Liangchuankou, there is only one road to Dongping Kingdom, and Wei Mingde can only take this road to escape.
The people and horses are all hidden, and Qin Shuyu's leader is above the mountain road, as long as Wei Mingde passes by, he can see it clearly.
However, after a cup of tea, he heard the sound of running horses' hooves at the other end, Qin Shuyu asked people to light the lead of the bamboo tube in his hand, and as soon as he saw the people and horses turn around, he threw them over, and exploded again and again, and the screams and collisions were endless.
Ye Qinglin saw that the explosion was almost done, got on his horse and rushed out of the mountain road, and killed Wei Mingde's soldiers and horses, the men and horses in front of him were killed a lot, lying on the mountain road, Ye Qinglin stepped over the obstacles on the ground, and sure enough, he saw that Wei Mingde had already turned around and ran back.
chased all the way, and soon ran back to the city pass of Liangchuankou, for some reason, Wei Mingde and his remaining horses actually stopped, Ye Qinglin raised his eyes and saw that Du Jian was standing on top of the city pass, and the entire city pass was under Du Jian's hands, holding a bamboo tube in his hand, just waiting for Wei Mingde to approach, he lit it and threw it down.
The two sides are actually about the same, but Wei Mingde was outflanked, it is said that Ye Qinglin's side must be weak, because Wei Mingde was afraid of the sharp weapon in Ye Qinglin's hand, he didn't dare to rush out, and a bunch of people and horses were moving around.
"Brothers, my son knows that you are loyal to the court and obey Wei Mingde's orders, and now the emperor has issued an order for Wei Mingde to withdraw from the army, and Wei Mingde is disrespectful to resist the order, do you also want to rebel together?" Ye Qinglin shouted at the crowd.
I didn't want to kill more innocents, and I turned a blind eye to the deserters before, but these officers and soldiers attacked Lingxiu Villa and followed Wei Mingde to resist desperately, if he couldn't persuade him to surrender, he could only order Du Jian to throw a few more bamboo tubes, otherwise, these people in Wei Mingde's hands were on par with his people, and after a fight, he killed one thousand enemies and lost eight hundred, he also felt a pain in his flesh, if he could make those officers and soldiers surrender, and then there was only one Wei Mingde, he would be captured alive.
"Don't listen to his nonsense, it's not the eunuch in the palace who delivers the decree, and you can't count it with the holy decree in his hand!" Wei Mingde shouted.
Originally, the officers and soldiers listened to Ye Qinglin's words, and after looking at each other, they loosened up, and when they were shouted by Wei Mingde, they immediately became vigilant again.
"The holy purpose is this, this son can throw it over for you to understand, dare to ask General Wei, you transferred troops to Liangchuankou, do you have the emperor's holy decree? If not, it is to disobey the emperor's order and send troops privately, then your subordinates will be implicated by you! Ye Qinglin threw the false holy decree over as he spoke.
Wei Mingde was speechless, he didn't have a holy decree, and he couldn't find the words to refute it at this moment.
The subordinates just obeyed the order, and the generals pointed to fight wherever they wanted, who could know that their General Wei had no holy decree at all to resist the emperor's order to transfer them?
Some officers and soldiers suspiciously ran close to pick it up, they had not directly touched the holy decree, and they seemed to think it looked like it, so they shouted: "Sure enough, it is the emperor's holy decree, Wei Mingde is disrespectful to the decree, he is rebelling, brothers, he is going to kill us by raiding our family and exterminating the clan!" ”
The reason why the remaining nearly 1,000 people still followed Wei Mingde and did not run away was because they were afraid that their relatives at home would be implicated, and now that they knew Wei Mingde's resistance, they immediately threw down their weapons and ran to a place a little farther away from Wei Mingde to kneel down and surrender, they were afraid that Wei Mingde would be angry and pull out a knife to kill them.
Ye Qinglin saw that those officers and soldiers had dispersed and surrendered, and hurriedly drove his horse to Wei Mingde, this person must be captured alive, so that he can be brought back to the imperial capital to save Minghyun and save Prince Rong's mansion.
Wei Mingde saw that the situation was not good, and stabbed his horse and galloped wildly, and Du Jian's men and horses at the pass did not expect the officers and soldiers to surrender so easily, and before they had time to react, they were rushed into the pass by Wei Mingde, rushed onto Kawaguchi Avenue, and soon disappeared.
"Du Jian, chase him quickly and capture him alive!" Ye Qinglin chased after him and shouted Du Jian in front.
Ye Qinglin only took Qin Shuyu and a few people to chase Wei Mingde, leaving those people to collect their weapons and look at the officers and soldiers who surrendered, so as not to rise up and resist again.
Ye Qinglin ran wildly on the mountain road, he couldn't even see Du Jian's figure in front of him, it was estimated that he chased it far away, so he could only chase all the way along the mountain road, and ran for more than an hour, there was a fork in the road in front, Ye Qinglin frowned, this Wei Mingde didn't know which way to escape, Du Jian didn't know if he was chasing right, if Wei Mingde escaped into the mountains, it would be difficult to catch.
Thinking of the deep mountains, Ye Qinglin knew that the deep mountains were difficult to catch, and Wei Mingde must also know that the deep mountains were easy to hide, and there were two roads on the fork in the road in front of him, one leading to Chuankou County and the other leading to Qingshui Pavilion, Ye Qinglin chased his horse in the direction of Qingshui Pavilion.
Soon arrived at Qingshui Creek, the village that crossed the bridge is Qingshui Pavilion, he has been to this village, the road conditions are not unfamiliar, walk faster, enter the village and ask the villagers if there are people and horses running from here, the villagers nodded and hurriedly said Not long ago, there was a front and a back two people rode up the mountain, and then pointed to the hillside behind the village that was burned by fire, and after a year just grew some bushes.
Ye Qinglin quickly went up the mountain, he walked up, because he knew that it was very difficult to ride the horse up the light mountain, but it would slow down, sure enough, on the top of the hillside behind the village, he saw two horses being thrown on the side of the road, and then looked at the deep mountain and dense forest in the distance, the corners of Ye Qinglin's mouth hooked a trace of arc, he was not in a hurry.
Wei Mingde must have entered the dense forest, he couldn't run away, that place, Ye Qinglin had a thorough touch when he came to suppress the bandits, and he was also conspired against, Du Jian and Qin Shuyu were taken into the pit by Tianyue, and his team was also knocked off the cliff, there, in addition to the lost forest, only the cliff was the way out, what else did he need to worry about!
Ye Qinglin entered the dense forest unhurriedly, the forest was very large, let Qin Shuyu and a few people under his command go around to take a look, and come back here and wait without finding it.
Qin Shuyu went to the side, didn't hear any movement, came back and reported to Ye Qinglin, Ye Qinglin nodded, walked towards the road led by Ah Jia before, walked to the depths of the dense forest, and came to the big pit that Du Jian fell into before, this is not far from the cliff, but a hundred steps away, there is still no sound after listening to the surroundings, so he had to pass through the maze and walk to the edge of the cliff.
Ye Qinglin looked at the waterhole below the cliff and frowned, could it be that he fell down and drowned?
In this way, wouldn't it be in vain, the dead Wei Mingde was useless.
What about Du Jian?
Qin Shuyu shouted to the bottom of the cliff: "Du Jian? ”
There was no response, Qin Shuyu shouted several times, but he didn't hear Du Jian's voice.
"Let's go, go to Xiyan Pavilion!" Ye Qing frowned and said.
Ye Qinglin speculated that Wei Mingde must have fallen off the cliff, and then Du Jian jumped off the cliff by himself, and then dragged Wei Mingde from the hole at the bottom of the pool to the back of the mountain, so that he naturally couldn't hear the shouting here, and if they were still alive, they must have walked out of the stone cave behind the mountain and went down the mountain to Xiyan Pavilion.
See you in the old place!
When Ye Qinglin took a detour to Xiyan Pavilion, he guessed correctly, Du Jian was sitting in the courtyard of the main house in Xiyan Pavilion panting, and on the side was Wei Mingde, who was tied up sturdily.
Ye Qinglin breathed a sigh of relief, as long as this guy was still alive, he didn't stop resting, and said to Qin Shuyu: "Go back to Liangchuankou, dismantle all the officers and soldiers who surrendered in the name of Prince Rong's Mansion in accordance with the emperor's holy decree, form a new army, and then bring them to gather outside the Chuankou Post Station to stand by, and Lingxiu Villa only needs a team of men and horses to guard it." ”
Wei Mingde has caught it, the two rivers really don't need too many people to guard, if anyone dares to attack, there are hundreds of craftsmen below, all of them come out to throw firecrackers.
"Yes!" Qin Shuyu hurriedly replied.
"Also, bring dozens of craftsmen and Tielei over, remember not to bring bamboo tubes, and be careful when transporting Tielei." Ye Qinglin said again.
Iron thunder is an improved firearm of the bamboo tube, Ye Qinglin is not too assured of the safety of the bamboo tube, the bamboo tube is easy to crack when it encounters high temperatures, which will cause self-explosion, and later came up with the idea of casting a round jar with molten iron to fill it, Ye Qinglin called it Tie Lei, because the cost was too high, it was not easy to use before.
"Yes!" Qin Shuyu received the order and immediately stabbed the horse and returned to the mouth of the two rivers.
"Du Jian, take him and go to Kawaguchi Station!" Ye Qinglin got on the horse and walked ahead.
Du Jian immediately threw the tied Wei Mingde on the horse, and the stabbing horse quickly followed Ye Qinglin.
After entering the city, Du Jian opened his voice and shouted: "The anti-thief Wei Mingde, who is disrespectful and disrespectful, and violates the emperor's order, has been taken down by the grass people and sent back to the imperial capital to be handed over to the emperor for conviction!" ”
The people came around one after another to point their fingers, this time I knew, those officers and soldiers who robbed the grain were all made by Wei Mingde, the anti-thief Wei Mingde, and someone threw cabbage at Wei Mingde, and Du Jian also hung a head full of vegetable leaves.
The official of the Kawaguchi County Government heard Du Jian's loud shout all the way, and quickly went to report to the county order, and when the new county magistrate heard it, he was immediately frightened and unstable, and hurriedly wrote a letter, asking people to send it to the imperial capital to Prince Ping Wei Qian, the content was: General Mingde is in the hands of Minghyun's people!