Chapter Seventy-Two: The Fog Siege Tens of Thousands of Pounds
If someone asks, what is the most important thing for the Beigong family at the moment?
Then the answer is only two words: "Find someone (dragon)"
The second son, Beigong Mu, led 20,000 gale riders to search for a pair of young men and women who were traveling in the same boat with the third prince but disappeared in an accident near the Ning Yuchuan River;
The patriarch's younger brother, Beigong Yixiang, led a group of warriors with excellent water properties to look for the traces of the ancestor dragon Baichen in the dark river in the cave of Wenxu Mountain;
And Beigong Yixiang's second son, Beigong Zhao, led 40,000 gale riders, aimlessly looking for Shi Zhiyi, who had broken through the siege the night before, in the vast wilderness three hundred miles away from Feng'an City.
The net he had laid was torn into a broken sack full of tears in just two quarters of an hour, and Beigong Zhao, who was originally full of confidence, was like being poured a basin of ice water on his head, and he was instantly stunned.
was able to plan a thorough and feasible plan in just two days after he started his own operation, and then unknowingly mobilized so many men and horses on the territory of the Beigong family, and was able to find out the terrain of three hundred miles around Feng'an City, and find out the most suitable place to hide, in Beigong Zhao's impression, it seems that only the royal Yu family can do this.
The fall of the Great Qin Dynasty was due to the fact that the Zhan family, the imperial family of the Great Qin Dynasty, was carried away by the great achievements of exterminating the Demon Clan six hundred years ago, so much so that they wanted to eliminate all the eight great families in order to achieve the true unification of the country. Then, the Zhan family did not have any advantage in strength, and attacked the eight great families at the same time only on the righteousness of the dynasty, which caused public anger, and finally the Yu family took the opportunity to replace it, seized the heirloom seal that symbolized the orthodoxy of the human royal family, and established the Great Jin Dynasty.
At the beginning of the founding of the country, the Great Jin Dynasty wooed the other seven families in various ways and promised to give away many interests, so as to gain the support of the other seven families and sit firmly on the throne of the royal family. However, people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants, and when the Yu family sat on the emperor's throne for hundreds of years, the partners who fought together against the former imperial Zhan family gradually became a thorn in the side of their own powerful interests.
As the co-lord of the human race, there are only four states in the land of Kyushu in the world, and the other five states and the largest island overseas, Wulai Island, are only nominally vassals, and this situation naturally cannot satisfy the emperors of the Yu family.
Therefore, the Yu family gradually strengthened its surveillance and control over the other seven great families, trying to grasp more power, which was already a well-known secret to everyone in the court of the Great Jin Dynasty.
Fortunately, the Yu family is not as stupid as the Zhan family was at the beginning, and they did not have any radical actions before they had an absolute advantage in strength, and the other seven families are also full of contradictions, and no one wants to have any more conflicts with the giant of the royal Yu family, which maintains the current stable situation of the Great Jin Dynasty.
Therefore, it is not a secret that the existence of the Flying Fish Guard, who is in charge of detection and intelligence of the royal family, in the territory of the major families, but the families generally turn a blind eye and don't want to make too much trouble.
But how did the royal family know that the real target of their pursuit was not the thief Shi Zhiqing, but Shi Zhiyi, the young city lord of Yunqi City?
Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if Feiyuwei knew that the target of his pursuit was Shi Zhiyi, what reason did they have to pay such a big price to help Shi Zhiyi? If the Beigong family and the Shi family had a grudge because of this, as a royal family, they should be more happy to see this situation, and they should sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.
In addition, if the royal family knew that Shi Zhiyi was in Feng'an instead of Ning Yuchuan, then why did the third prince Yu Zhongqian still stay in Ning Yuchuan every morning and return late to find someone? Is it just for acting?
But if all this is not the work of the royal Yu family, then the only one who has this motive is the Shi family who is far away in the Jade Belt Mountains.
But how did the Shi family get the news that Shi Zhiyi was in Feng'an?
How could they have so many men lurking around Feng'an City? In just two days, they had mobilized sixty or seventy men and hundreds of horses, how could the Shi family have this kind of energy in the Yongzhou realm?
Yongzhou and Yunqi City are thousands of miles apart, there has never been any conflict between the two sides, and there is no reason for the Shi family to maintain such a large spy team in Feng'an City, let alone the unpredictable prophet who sent many people and horses to wait here - even Beigong Zhao himself did not expect that Shi Zhiyi would appear in the cave of Wenxu Mountain, and then he would be hunted down and killed by himself.
Beigong Zhao thought about it, his brain was about to crack, but he still didn't figure out who rescued Shi Zhiyi from his encirclement, and why the other party did it.
And where will Shi Zhiyi, who escaped from the encirclement, go? If the aimless search of Gale Rider can find him right now, even Beigong Zhao himself doesn't believe it.
The head of the family gave himself seven days, and four days have passed, if he can't catch Shi Zhiyi, it is a small matter to change his name, and the plan of the Beigong family to assassinate the three princes and manipulate the royal family is exposed, which is a big disaster for the Beigong family.
Just when Beigong Zhao was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, suddenly the guards came to report, and Meng Yinchu, the commander of the Fourth Legion of the Gale Cavalry, asked to see him.
"What's the matter?" Beigong Zhao forcibly suppressed the anxiety and impatience in his heart, and asked the middle-aged man in front of him who was dressed in armor and had a majestic body.
"Earlier today, the squad we sent out to capture the boy captured a deserter near Juyuan City. ”
"Deserter?" Beigong Zhao wondered.
Desertion was a common thing during the war between the human and demon clans, at that time, the human race was insufficient, and the conscription system was adopted, but any man who met a certain cultivation could be conscripted into the army, but when they faced the powerful demon army, they may just be cannon fodder to die, so desertion happened from time to time.
But after the disappearance of the demons, there is no threat of large-scale war, the royal family and the major families have changed the conscription system to the conscription system, compared to the farming of watching the sky or the hardships and risks of business, being a soldier is actually a relatively safe, drought and flood income and quite lucrative occupation.
Even the most ordinary light infantryman, with a salary of enough to support an ordinary family of five, needs to go through at least two screenings to become a sergeant, so desertion can be said to be very rare.
"Yes, after torture, this deserter said that they fled because they offended a prince of the Beigong family more than a hundred miles south of Juyuan City, and they were afraid of retribution. ”
"The son of the Beigong family?" Beigong Zhao's mind quickly turned, thinking about his other brothers and cousins, and now it seems that no one should appear in the position south of Juyuan City.
"Yes, he said that the prince he had seen, holding the Beigong family's Ning Yu Order in his hand, was about sixteen or seventeen years old, with a fair and delicate face, and was with a woman of a similar age, and with just one punch, he killed one of their companions. The subordinates suspect that the person he said is very likely to be the target we are pursuing, but how can this person have my Beigong family's Ning Yu Order in his hands? The subordinates were puzzled and came here to ask for instructions. ”
"At the age of sixteen or seventeen, fair-skinned and delicate, holding the Condensing Rain Order in his hand, this person must be that Shi Zhiyi!
As for the rain condensation order, it was naturally given to him by himself - Beigong Zhao finally cheered up from the shadow of being escaped by Shi Zhiyi, regained his usual shrewdness and ability, and thought about how to deploy troops in his heart, this time he must cut off Shi Zhiyi's head with his own hands, and Xue himself was deceived by him!