Li Xia leaned in the trees beside the road, staring at the west side of the road.
After a long time, the sound of horse hooves sounded.
Two knights came galloping over, they were messenger soldiers of the Zhang family.
Li Xia suddenly pulled the rope in his hand.
"咴lvlv!"
The knights who were still galloping fell to the side of the road, and one of them tried to get up. Li Xia had already strode forward and raised the crossbow in his hand.
"puff!"
The crossbow arrow directly killed one person.
Li Xia acted calmly, picked up the single sword on the ground, and put it on the neck of another soldier who had just gotten up.
"You...you are Li Xia?"
Li Xia asked: "Is there anyone else behind?"
The messenger didn't answer.
With a "pop" sound, Li Xia pierced his thigh with a knife, kicked him over, and raised the knife again.
"explain."
"Uh... no... no... I'm just afraid that you'll kill me if I'm alone... Now we're both delivering the letter together..."
"Where's the letter?"
"Oral message."
Li Xia asked: "Who did you pass it to? What did you say?"
"Tell Shen Kai, tell Li Xia...that you have escaped from the siege, and ask him to pay attention...that's it."
Li Xia asked: "Where do you think I am hiding?"
"The area to the west of Yizhou is more than a hundred miles away...but this is not our sphere of influence. We cannot surround it with troops, so we have to set up blockades along the way."
"Do you know where my companions are?"
"All I know is that I ran to the east, and Shen Kai is still chasing... uh..."
Li Xia wiped it with a knife, picked up the crossbow and loaded it, rummaged for money and useful objects, pulled the horse, and headed east...
The atmosphere in the Zaoyuan lobby was already a bit dull.
"Sister, you're right. You can't hit a flying mosquito with a sword... There are countless people killed on the battlefield, but you personally brought a large army to surround a fool, and you let him play like this."
Zhang Rou sighed with emotion and said: "I shouldn't stay on the East and West Road in Shandong for too long. I will return to Bozhou tomorrow. You continue to hunt Li Xia. Remember, kill him and don't let the eldest sister know."
Zhang Yanxiong said: "Yes, as a commander..."
Halfway through his words, his voice gradually dropped, and he really was not qualified to say anything more on this matter.
Jingjie said: "Uncle, don't worry, I think Li Xia is not difficult to catch."
"Yeah?"
"Sneaking into enemy territory, there are only a few ways to escape. Li Xia has already used them all, and there will be no new tricks. He is just pretending to be our soldier, and he will be found sooner or later."
Zhang Yanxiong said: "I'm afraid he has fled far away."
"No." Jingjie pointed on the map and said: "Li Xia killed two more messengers at the foot of Gu Mountain. This is the news that he interrogated his accomplices. After that, he will definitely go east to find them."
Zhang Yanxiong asked: "Will he go?"
"General Zhang thinks why Li Xia went to Weishan alone, even risking being surrounded?" Jingjie said: "He did it to attract the pursuers and help his accomplices get out of trouble."
Zhang Yanxiong said: "But this is not enough to conclude that he will take risks to find his accomplices."
"No, he will go."
"How to assert?"
"Intelligence." Jingjie said: "It is unlikely that Li Xia threw away the information that he got with great difficulty. It is possible that they copied a copy."
"They only stayed in Kaifeng City for four or five days, and then they were on the road for more than ten days. How could they transcribe it?"
"No matter how it was copied, there is always a way." Jingjie said: "The other six people must have a piece of information in their hands. As long as they are caught, we can try to lure Li Xia out."
Zhang Rou finally nodded and asked, "What about the six people?"
"The clues have been found and Shen Kai is investigating."
Zhang Judao: "Mingyi, you go and do it."
"yes."
"As soon as possible, we have been restrained by Li Xia for so long, time is running out."
"yes……"
Jingjie thought for a while and suddenly said: "By the way, uncle. Li Xia may... sneak back and steal that information again."
Zhang Yanxiong was stunned when he heard this and said: "Sneak back to get it again? Is he so bold?"
"He has." Jingjie said with emotion: "The courage and intelligence of this person are rare in my life. Just imagine, he abandoned his baggage and used this to get out of trouble. Who could have guessed that he would sneak back again, again and again? If Li Xia could If he does it, I will really fall in love with him."
Zhang Rou narrowed her eyes. At this moment, even he felt a sense of appreciation...
It was night, Zhang Rou looked at the pile of books placed beside the couch and was silent for a long time.
Because of what he saw in the past two days, he had a vague feeling that Li Xia deliberately left this information behind.
"Will you come?" He murmured before falling asleep.
Sleep until midnight.
Zhang Rou suddenly woke up.
"Li Xia! Where to go?!"
"Alang, what's wrong?" Several guards rushed into the house.
Zhang Rou looked around, shook her head, and laughed at herself.
"I'm actually worried about that kid, right?"
Jingjie stayed up all night, only to see Zhang Rou leaving with information the next day.
"Did I guess wrong? Li Xia doesn't use such unexpected tactics?"
"Huh?" Zhang Yanxiong said: "I just said, how could he dare to sneak back? You don't need to pay too much attention to Mingyi, don't suffer from illness like Wulang."
"Li Xia is too capable of escaping. Let's catch his accomplices first..."
Sixty miles northeast of Weishan Lake, there is a food mountain. Legend has it that in the early Eastern Han Dynasty, local residents used to eat pots of pulp here to welcome Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, hence the name.
Many place names in this area are related to Liu Xiu, such as Hujun Mountain, Guangwu Spring, etc.
At night, a carriage ran into the woods.
"It's too much for the horses!"
"Hush!"
"Let's rest in the forest first, don't tire the horse to death..."
Soon, shouts came from far outside the woods.
Liu Jinsuo held a long gun and looked out from the tree crown. He saw rows of soldiers holding torches surrounding the woods, but they were not in a hurry to search the woods at night.
He turned around and walked into the grass and said to Han Chengxu: "Mr. Han, what should I do? Just make up your mind."
Han Chengxu twisted his beard and thought.
It's not that he didn't have any other options, it was just to have people drive away in a carriage to distract the pursuers.
But he didn't know how to speak about this.
That is to say, Li Xia respected him very much recently and always called him "Old Han", so Liu Jinsuo stopped calling him "Old Bookworm". But he, a survivor of the Jin Kingdom who fell in the Song Dynasty, could he let Lin Zi go or let Liu Jinsuo sacrifice his life? Protect yourself?
As for the identity of the Gao brothers and sisters, it is even more impossible.
Fortunately, the granddaughter memorized the information, and I think they will take her back.
Thinking like this, Han Chengxu was already planning to give it a try with his old bones.
"The horses cannot pull six people, and if we wait until dawn to search the forest, it will be even more difficult for us to escape. If we want to leave, we should leave tonight. I will lead..."
"I'll divert the pursuers away, and you can take advantage of the chaos to escape."
Suddenly a crisp voice sounded.
Han Chengxu turned around and saw Gao Mingyue speaking.
However, Gao Mingyue still covered her face, with a cold expression, and said again: "Mr. Han, you are not good at riding a horse and driving. If you can't steer away, I will go."
"Hey, you little lady, why haven't you changed into your Taoist uniform? Didn't you see that we all changed into ordinary people's clothes? You go over there to change in the bushes, no one is watching you..."
"Shut up." Lin Zi said, "I'll distract the pursuers, and you go."
Gao Mingyue said: "You take my second brother with you. I can't move him, so it's not appropriate to go together. I'm good at riding, so I can distract the pursuers."
"There's no reason for a young lady like you to go."
"listen to me."
Gao Mingyue usually doesn't talk much, but coming from a princely family, when he really makes up his mind, he is quite powerful.
She glanced at everyone and said: "Listen, don't go up the food mountain. If you are surrounded, you won't be able to escape. Go to the village. Li Xia said that he would throw away the information. The Zhang family could not guess that Qiaoer had already given the information away."
Memorize it, and people with books will be searched at the checkpoints along the way. As long as you escape the pursuers, don't panic when passing the checkpoints, and you can pass calmly."
She said and asked them to move Gao Changshou out of the carriage.
"My second brother is injured, so you can dress him up as a leper and promise me to take him out. And Qiao'er, when you get back, follow your brother Li's instructions..."
Han Qiaoer was already crying.
"Sister Gao..."
"Okay, let's break out before they surround us."
Gao Mingyue took Gao Changshou's marble knife and hung it on her waist, got on the horse pulling the carriage, whipped her whip, and drove the carriage to the north.
At this time, the pursuers were chasing from the west and were about to disperse from the north and south to surround the woods.
Seeing the carriage rushing out and heading straight to Hujun Mountain in the north, the pursuers quickly caught up.