Chapter 268: Changes in the Storm (Part 2)

"asshole!"

Yang Guozhong punched the table hard, "How come you didn't catch him!"

General Longwu Ma Xiujun and General Jinwu Guard Deng Wei both lowered their heads in shame, "Shangshu Yang, we have tried our best. We are indeed one step late. He has already escaped."

"Escape! But I was surrounded by spies of spies around his mansion. How could he escape?"

Yang Guozhong was so angry that he slapped the table with a 'bang!' bang!'. This Xing Jian was the key to his entire plan. How could such a seamless plan have any mistakes?

"Where is the secret agent? Call them all for me. Did these people grow up eating shit?"

Yang Guozhong was almost losing his mind. From the time they captured Ren Haichuan to sending troops to capture Xing Jian, there was less than half an hour apart, how could Xing Jian escape?

"Shu Shu calmed down. There was a secret passage in Xing's mansion, which was directed to a hundred steps away. The spies didn't know, so he could escape. It was not the spies who were blamed for him."

"Who was going to deliver the letter? Did the sender also sneak in?"

As soon as Yang Guozhong finished speaking, he suddenly remembered something and stared hard outside the lobby. After a while, he punched the table again and said, "Cui Guangyuan, you bastard, how dare you betray me!"

He just remembered that Cui Guangyuan once told him that Xing Jun was kind to him, so why did he react now?

"Shangshu Yang, what should we do now?" asked General Longwu Ma Xiujun.

"What else can I do? Search the whole city. If it really doesn't work, I will offer a reward of 10,000 yuan. No matter what, I have to find this person!"

As soon as Yang Guozhong finished speaking, a voice came from outside, "Shangshu Yang, there is no need to search the whole city, nor do I have to offer a reward. I know where he is."

Linghu Fei walked in from outside, Ma Xiujun and Deng Wei bowed to salute each other, Linghu Fei gave them a bow and smiled and said, "I have also taken care of this accident today, so I know where Xing Jun is?"

Yang Guozhong was overjoyed and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Sir, please tell me, where is this thief hiding?"

Linghu Fei nodded and said, "At that time, I knew that if Xing Jian escaped, he would definitely escape to Wang Yan's mansion to seek shelter. So I arranged two spies next to Wang Yan's mansion. As expected, Xing Jian fled to Wang Yan's mansion. Unfortunately, I had fewer arrangements, otherwise I could intercept people on the spot."

"Then let's go to Wang Yan's mansion to ask for people now!" Yang Guozhong said excitedly.

"No! He has been sent out of the city. One person comes back to report and the other person goes to follow him. But if I guess correctly, it should be sent to the manor outside Wang Yan City. What Yang Shangshu has to do is to leave the city overnight tonight, and he must catch him before Wang Gong can react."

At this moment, the sound of drums closing the city gate came from outside. Yang Guozhong immediately made a decision and said to General Deng Wei, the Jinwu Guard, "General Deng, your Jinwu Guard is not restricted by the city gate. You can lead 500 cavalry out of the city. No matter what, you must capture Xing Jian for me."

"Subsidiary obeys the order!"

Deng Wei bowed and walked out with great strides. After a moment, the five hundred Jinwu Guard cavalry rushed towards Mingde Gate like lightning, as if a strong wind was blowing across the street.

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Wang Yan’s manor is located in the northwest of Chang'an City. It is a large manor covering an area of ​​nearly 5,000 acres. There are more than 200 tenant farmers. Next to the manor is a small river and a lush forest not far away. This area is full of irrigation and fertile land. It has always been a high-yield land. In addition to Wang Yan’s manor, there are two large manors of Chen Xilie and Yang Shenjin nearby. The self-cultivated farmers here have almost disappeared. All farmers are working as tenant farmers for the powerful people in Chang'an. Women go to the city to find work and earn some money to subsidize their family income.

Wang Wein's manor has no walls and the vast fields are unobstructed. There is a three-story house near the woods. Behind it are several large granaries, but there is a circle of walls here, which surrounds the house and granaries in the middle.

Lights flashed faintly in the house. Xing Qian stood in front of the window on the third floor, silently looking at the dark night outside. He was about forty years old this year and was very tall and strong. He was born in poverty and his parents died early. He wandered on the streets of Chang'an since he was a child. At the age of thirteen, he went to a martial arts school as an apprentice and learned a whole body of martial arts. With this martial arts, he gradually made a fortune in his family and also made a reputation as a powerful and chivalrous man in Chang'an.

Tomorrow is his forty-year-old birthday. When he is middle-aged, he wanted to win the spirit of being competitive and enjoy his life. Unexpectedly, a sudden disaster made it difficult for him to return home. With so many soldiers coming to arrest him, he also vaguely guessed that the matter might have something to do with the Wang family. Otherwise, would he be a small person, as for mobilizing so many troops?

Xing Jian was in a very heavy mood. He was considering his place to go. He could not go back to Chang'an. It would be better to go to Xianyang tomorrow. There was a cabinet where he had two thousand guan of money in his cabinet. He could take it out and join his uncle in Longyou first. When the limelight passed, he would take out his wife and children out. He made up his mind and left as soon as the sky was dawn.

Suddenly, fierce barking of dogs came from afar, and countless dogs barked wildly in the darkness. He suddenly became alert. If there were no large groups of people coming, it would be impossible for so many dogs to bark together. He rushed to the window and looked into the darkness. His eyes were very strong, and he saw a long black shadow moving rapidly on the official road two miles away, and light reflected faintly on the shadow.

"armor!"

Xing Qian suddenly realized that only the armor would reflect in the darkness. This was the army who came to catch him. He broke into the window almost without thinking, jumped from the third floor to the yard, rolled on the ground, swung the dagger in his boots, cut off the reins of the horse tied to the wooden stake, he turned over the horse and stabbed it in the horse's buttocks. The horse was in pain, jumped out of the gate, and ran wildly into the field.

The five hundred Jinwu Guard cavalry who came to capture him were less than a mile away from his hiding place under the guidance of a spy. General Deng Wei suddenly saw a man rushing out of the yard on horseback. He immediately realized that this must be the escaped man. He immediately waved his knife and shouted: "Catch this person and give him a thousand guan of money!"

The cavalry of the Jinwu Guard immediately rushed towards Xing Jian. Hundreds of cavalry and a fugitive ran wildly in the fields where the seedlings were being nurtured, shouting and shouting throughout the night sky. Xing Jian saw that there was a large forest in front of him. He turned his horse's head and rushed into the woods, like a madman, rushed into the woods. Five hundred Jinwu Guards immediately surrounded him in three directions.

When Xing Jian rushed out of the woods, he realized that he had made a big mistake. The speed in the woods decreased, and the cavalry that was chasing him was approaching, getting closer and closer to him, less than sixty steps. A small river ahead suddenly crossed, blocking his way.

At this moment, General Deng Wei opened his bow and shot him, and shot him with an arrow. The sound of the bowstring sounded, and the arrow hit Xing Jian's back. He rushed into the river with his men and horses.

"Catch him! Catch the living!" Deng Wei shouted sternly, constantly pulling the reins and looking around in the river. Where is the person?

"General, there!"

A soldier suddenly saw the target. Xing Jian had climbed to the other side, covered the long arrow on his right shoulder with one hand, and stumbled toward the shore. There was a faint light in the distance, and I don’t know where it was.

"asshole!"

Deng Wei cursed: "Look for the bridge and cross the river!"

The cavalry divided into two teams and searched for bridges everywhere. They quickly found the bridge two miles away. The horse's hooves hit the ground, rushing across the bridge like a muffled thunder, and a gust of wind was rushing across the bridge.

Xing Jian on the other side was gone. They chased along the water stains and soon arrived at a light. Deng Wei's heart suddenly hangs. He then realized that there was actually a military camp. Before they could get closer, an arrow shot at them on the sentry tower, and the sentry shouted: "Stop!"

"Where is the army in the military camp?" Deng Wei asked in a low voice.

His subordinates shook their heads and didn't know. At this time, a local soldier said, "This place turned out to be the military camp of the cavalry. After the military camp was corrupt, the soldiers fled all, and the military camp was abandoned. How could it be suddenly stationed? It's so strange."

"General Liu Lang, go and ask about the situation!"

An officer turned over and dismounted, walked up and shouted loudly, "We are the Jinwu Guards, chasing a court to be criminalized. What army are you from?"

The soldiers on the mail tower said coldly after a while: "We are the Anxi Army, there are no fugitives here. Our general is in the military camp. Those who know the knowledge should leave quickly. Don't annoy our general."

"Anxi Army!" Deng Wei was stunned.

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In the military camp, Xing Yan knelt on the ground half naked with his upper body. A military doctor was carefully quitting the arrow on his left shoulder with a sharp knife. In front of him, Li Qing'an was half lying on a comfortable Grand Master chair, looking at the man in front of him with a cold look.

Xing Qi's face was pale, his teeth were chewing, and the severe pain caused the sweat on his forehead to drip, but he didn't say a word. Li Qing'an couldn't help but nod. This man was a tough guy. Xing Qi suddenly let out a muffled groan, and the arrow was cut out from the bone. The military doctor immediately applied medicine to him to stop the bleeding and bandaged it with a cloth strip.

"alright!"

The military doctor cut off the cloth strip, stood up and smiled, "The arrow is not poisonous, it only hurts a little bone, and it will be intact for one month."

Xing Yan took a deep breath and kowtowed to Li Qing'an, "The villain thanks the general for saving his life. We should remember the heart and repay him."

Li Qingan waved his hand gently and said, "So what happened just now, how can you escape after Cui Guangyuan sent you a letter?"

"yes!"

Xing Qian held back the pain on his shoulders and continued: "Originally, the villain wanted to escape with his wife and children, but it was too late. The brigade of officers and soldiers surrounded my mansion, so I had to escape from the tunnel. It took me ten years to dig this tunnel, which was about a hundred steps long, and was spared when it was in urgent need. I didn't expect it to be used today."

"Then what?"

"Then the villain fled to the mansion of Wang Gong's brother Wang Yan, in order to seek shelter, and he immediately sent me to the manor outside the city. Unexpectedly, he was followed. The officers and soldiers continued to pursue him just now. The villain escaped desperately, but fortunately he was rescued by the general."

At this time, a report came from outside the tent, "General, there are people from the Jinwu Guard outside the camp, and they ask for fugitives."

"Tell them that there are no fugitives!"

"We said that they don't believe it, we must hand it over."

"Hmph! How dare you bully me Anxi Army?"

Li Qingan said coldly: "Don't talk to them, transfer three hundred crossbowmen to array, kill within fifty steps!"

"yes!"

When the soldier left, Li Qingan smiled faintly and asked Xing Jian again: "What did he say when you escape to Wang Hui's mansion?"

"Dr. Wang said that Yang Guozhong wanted to get rid of his elder brother, borrowed the assassination case of King Di to make a fuss, and blamed me, and finally brought up the Wang brothers. Yang Guozhong was fierce and vicious, so powerful!" Xing Jun said gritting his teeth.

Li Qingan shook his head gently and said with a smile: "This is not Yang Guozhong's greatness. He can't think of such a method. This is the idea of ​​his military advisor Linghu Fei. It must be his arrangement, including pursuing you relentlessly. Moreover, they not only have to deal with Wang Gong, but their ultimate goal is to eradicate Li Linfu."

"Li Xiangguo!" Xing Yan was stunned. He, a small person, caused such a big storm.

Li Qing'an stood up and walked a few steps behind his back. This matter seemed to have nothing to do with him, Li Qing'an, but it was not, it had a lot to do with him. Wang Gong was the heir of Li Linfu. If Wang Gong was eliminated, it would be equivalent to getting rid of Li Linfu. At that time, Yang Guozhong was the dominant party and he could deal with him calmly, but if he had an internal support in the court, he could restrain Yang Guozhong. Li Linfu had already declined. It can be seen that Li Longji was not at ease with Yang Guozhong alone to control the regime, so he had to support Wang Gong to fight him. This was Li Longji's imperial skills, and it was also his opportunity for him to Li Qing'an. If he formed an alliance with Wang Gong, he could completely fight against Yang Guozhong, An Lushan and others.

Thinking of this, Li Qingan couldn't help but glance at Xing Han again. He had always had a good relationship with Wang Gong, and now he had this person again. This person was a bridge between him and Wang Gong.
To be continued...