Chapter 372 (Xie Boy Abin 666, Baitou Mountain Shenren, Xiaobai Xiaotian, Leisure Ronin Brothers' monthly passes, Xie Leisure Ronin brothers' rewards.) Speaking of which, the subscription to this book has not been able to go up, and the editor has already talked to me, so if the brother who is able and thinks that this book is still eye-catching, help me subscribe to the subscription, otherwise it will be a little embarrassing. Kneel and thank! ）

The Tanma sent to Xin'an County to deliver the letter arrived in the early morning of the next day, Song Nan, who was dancing with a sword in the courtyard in a cotton silk thin coat, heard the news and hurriedly met the guest, took the letter handed by the Tanma, and only read a few lines, Song Nan slapped the case and scolded angrily.

"Damn, the dog thief valley used a lot of harm to others and himself, and now the matter is so big that the thieves have escaped."

Hearing the news, the people who rushed to ask what happened, Song Nan handed the letter to everyone to read, and at the same time ordered in a stack: "All the cavalry immediately set up an army to prepare to go north, and the Jinyi Guard of Baoding Mansion except for the cavalry left to follow me to the north, the rest of the men and horses returned to Baoding Mansion to do our own business." ”

Zheng Da asked, "Xin'an is gone?" ”

Hou Dabiao handed the letter to Wang Yong and scolded: "Defend the ball, the thieves have been let go." ”

After reading the letter, everyone scolded endlessly, since the thieves did not go south, they must have taken advantage of the gap of the Bauhinia Guard to rescue Baoding Mansion and went the opposite way and went northwest.

"Sure enough, he was very cunning, and he actually slipped under his nose." Wan Zhi sighed.

Song Nantie said with a blue face: "It's not that the thieves are cunning, it's Gu Da who deserves to die with this guy, you go to the army quickly and set off in an hour; I'm going to write a report to the court about this matter, I had no reason to play it before, but now that the thieves have slipped away, I want to see how Gu Dayong prevaricates. ”

Everyone agreed, each hurriedly to prepare, Song Nan rushed back to the back hall, spread the paper to Gu Dayong for some reason according to the army for more than ten days, so that the thief soldiers transferred the tiger away from the mountain to escape from the encirclement, he will lead 1,300 Jinyi guard cavalry to follow the pursuit, and ask the emperor to order the Shanxi capital division to mobilize troops and horses to prepare for interception.

After the fold was written, there was already a fast horse waiting in the courtyard, Song Nan handed the fold to him, told him a few words to hurry up to Beijing, turned around, and ordered two guards to put on the horse for him.

Song Nan walked out of the house and came to the courtyard neatly, and saw Liu Yuerong standing under the porch with shackles in her hands, and when she saw Song Nan, Liu Yuerong shouted, "My lord." ”

Song Nan waved his hand and said: "Miss Liu, your brother is very cunning, he plays the officers and soldiers around, I am going to pursue him now, as for you, I will send someone to escort you to the capital." ”

Liu Yuerong lowered her head and said in a low voice: "The slave family understands that the slave family wants to help the adults very much, but now it seems that they can't help." ”

Song Nan sneered, "What can you do me for?" Liu Qi committed another heinous crime in Ansu County, coerced 2,000 young men into the gang, and the city was scorched, and I wanted to cut off his head with my own hands. ”

Liu Yuerong's face turned pale and said: "The slave family is ashamed of what he did for his brother, the slave family originally wanted to see him and persuade him to surrender, not to harm the people; Lord Song, take me there, maybe the slave family can really move my brother to turn back. ”

Song Nan sneered: "I'm not at the point of using a woman as a hostage. ”

Liu Yuerong said: "No, Lord Song, the two brothers of the slave family love the slave family very much, especially the seventh brother, who listens to the slave family the most, and the slave family wants to persuade him face to face." ”

Song Nan said: "Since I love you so much, why didn't I take you with me?" ”

Liu Yuerong bowed her head and said: "The slave family hides and doesn't want to go with them, if the slave family can see the seventh brother, they will definitely be able to move him." He will certainly listen to me, and he will not fight between the two armies, and the people who will be held in them will die. ”

Song Nan's heart moved, and he thought for a while: "Do you really think so?" ”

Liu Yuerong looked up at Song Nan and said: "The slave family knows that the adults are suspicious of me, but this is the slave family's heart, I saw my brother's atrocities along the way, and I am also deeply ashamed; If I can save something, I am afraid that I can only persuade with the love of brothers and sisters, and if I succeed, I will avoid the death and injury of the people, and if I fail, the slave family will have no regrets, and I will not be shameless to see my parents when I die. ”

Song Nan stared at Liu Yuerong's eyes for a long time, Liu Yuerong's eyes were clear and looked at Song Nan without flinching, Song Nan said, "Can you ride a horse?" ”

Liu Yuerong said: "I can ride." ”

Song Nan stepped out, and without looking back, he ordered: "Prepare a horse for her and set off immediately." ”

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Tan Zhang led 700 cavalry to follow the traces of the thieves to break through the siege and quickly pursued, and the dead corpses could be seen everywhere along the way, and the thieves were wantonly slaughtering the old and weak people who were coerced by the thieves, in order to speed up.

After a day and a night, they joined up with the 800 cavalry sent by Gu Dayong to pursue, and after the two teams of cavalry pursued frantically for several hours, they arrived at the Yishui South Ferry, and the 1,500 cavalry who were sleepy and tired had to stop the pursuit.

There are two ferries on the Yishui River, one is in Heyang Town in the east, and the other is the Jackdaw Ferry in front of it, and after crossing the Jackdaw Ferry, it is less than thirty miles to the north, and it is Yizhou City. However, the Jackdaws of Guandu normally had twenty or thirty ferries on standby, but now the ferry port is empty, and the premises and facilities of the ferry are also burned.

Tan Zhang and Mao Shanwei commanded Liao Ping to order people to search for seven or eight miles along the upstream and downstream, a single-plank bridge eight or nine miles upstream has been demolished, and dozens of corpses of boatmen were found in the reeds on the opposite bank downstream.

An ominous premonition rose in the hearts of the two of them, the thieves had crossed Yishui, so it would be troublesome to defend the empty Yizhou, and the northwest of Yizhou was to defend the equally empty Bauhinia Pass, and further north of the Bauhinia Pass was the mountains separated from Ulzhou. These two places are the garrisons of the guards, and if they are captured, it will be equivalent to the end of the hometown; This is secondary, and what is even more terrifying is that there are a large number of weapons and armor in the armories of Yizhou and Bauhinia Pass, as well as a lot of firearms.

The two were anxious, but helpless, it was getting late, so they had to camp on the south bank to rest, in the middle of the night, the north shore was in flames, although the distance was too far to hear and see what was happening, but on the side of the dark mountains, the firelight reflected half of the sky, but it was the direction of Yizhou, the two of them were cold, knowing that Yizhou was no longer safe.

The two grizzled and dirty faces didn't sleep all night, standing on the shore and looking at the north shore, the two rough-lined military attaches couldn't help but shed tears, crying like children; When it was dawn, the two men woke up the weary soldiers and ordered them to swim across the river.

Although the sky was clear for many days in September, the water level of Yishui, which originates in the Taihang Mountains, remained high due to the melting snow on the summit. Tan Zhang ordered a small group of cavalry to go into the water and try to swim across the river, but before they reached the middle, more than a dozen cavalrymen rushed downstream with men and horses, and they could not cross at all.

The two looked up to the sky and sighed, hesitating, the smoke and dust were billowing in the rear, and a large group of cavalry rushed in, and it was Song Nan who commanded the Jinyi Guard; Song Nan led the cavalry for two days, and finally joined Tan Zhang and Liao Ping, who were pursuing in front, and the two guard commanders hurriedly caught up, although they did not belong to the same yamen, but Song Nan's level was obviously higher than both of them.

Song Nan ignored Tan Zhang and Liao Ping at all, rode his horse to the ferry to take a look at the situation, and asked in a cold voice: "The ferry boat was all destroyed by thieves?" ”

"Yes, Lord Song, a single-plank bridge ten miles upstream has also been demolished."

Song Nan's eyes wandered on the surface of the river for a while, then turned his head and ordered: "All go down to the river and cut off all the reeds in the river." ”

The brocade-clothed guards didn't ask why, they acted immediately, and Tan Zhang asked, "My lord, is this?" ”

Song Nan shouted: "Why don't you order your subordinates to help work?" What do you do with your hands crossed? ”

Liao Ping said: "What do you do when you cut reeds? ”

Song Nan reprimanded: "The two of you are still in the mood to ask questions here, and I am ashamed of you." With that, he dismounted, pulled up his trousers, picked up the embroidered spring knife, went down to the riverbank, and began to wipe and cut the reed pole more than one person high.

The two of them were ashamed, they couldn't have a seizure, they naturally knew why Song Nan scolded them, in fact, they were also very aggrieved, Gu Da was strictly ordered not to attack, and the two of them were helpless, the thieves broke out and made it out of control, and they were also very helpless.

Hou Dabiao carried a large bundle of reeds ashore and threw them on the ground, looked at the two who were standing and sneered: "The two adults are really a picture of adults, my family commander has made the adults do it himself, and the two of them are still here as spectators." ”

The two came to their senses and quickly ordered their cavalry to go down to the river to cut the reeds, and more than 2,000 people worked together, and in a short time, all the tall reeds along the coast were cut down and piled up like a hill.

Song Nan took matters into his own hands, bunching bundles of reeds into thick reed bundles that stretched all the way, and everyone started together, and several thick reed ropes twenty zhang long were bundled after an hour.

Song Nan said to Li Daniu: "Da Niu, the Huhe River in Ulzhou has been stirred up by you, and it will be up to you this time." ”

Li Daniu had already stripped naked, patted his chest and said, "Look." ”

Song Nan selected more than 20 soldiers with good water quality in the team and followed Li Daniu into the water, Li Daniu tied a rope around his waist and swam to the opposite shore, and one end of the rope was held in the hands of a soldier on horseback on the shore.

The water flow was too rapid, and the huge momentum rushed Li Daniu and others downstream, and more than 20 people went down diagonally along the water potential, rushing straight to three or four miles downstream, and then they went ashore one by one; The soldiers on the south bank rode their horses and ran for three or four miles, so as to ensure that the rope was always in their hands.

More than 20 people went ashore one after another, one by one exhausted, two almost drowned, vomited a full dozen mouthfuls of water, then hurried to the river bank on the other side of the ferry to rush back, the rope on this side of the rope tied to the thick reed bundle, the soldiers picked up together and sent one into the water, Li Da Niu on the opposite bank with 20 soldiers desperately pulled the rope, with great effort, the thick reed bundle finally fixed at both ends and floated steadily on the water.

In this way, at noon, six thick bundles of reeds lay side by side on the river, and the people stepped on them steadily, except for a little shaking, so that the horses could cross the river with peace of mind.

Tan Zhang and Liao Ping were impressed in their hearts, and the two of them had also had the idea of building a bridge, but they felt that it must take a long time, and there were no materials, so they were afraid that it would take a few days to complete, so they hesitated. This Song commander did it without saying a word, and it was done in half a day; Not to mention that its methods are ingenious, even this courage is beyond the reach of the two of them, and the hearts of the two of them have a sense of awe for Song Nan for the first time.