Starting from the night of February 16th, everything near Sipinggang started to move as if by chance.
Fan Zhong and others had previously mentioned that the pursuit of Fang Baihua and others would take two or three days to produce a result. But in fact, these two or three days meant that Fang Baihua and others did nothing.
Under such circumstances, being cornered by the pursuer completely eliminates the expectation of making room for movement. But obviously, as long as there is some brains, no one will wait until the end of the road is really in front of them before resisting.
As time goes by, whether it is Tie Tianying, Zong Feixiao, Sikong Nan, or Lin Erchan, on the one hand they are doing their best to search for the whereabouts of Fang Baihua and others, on the other hand they are also using increasing vigilance
Heart, waiting for the other party's final effort.
And that night, Deng Yuanjue, An Xifu and others led dozens of remaining soldiers to suddenly turn southwest, which became the trigger for everything.
In the few days after the incident broke out, the appearance of Deng Yuanjue and An Xifu was actually the force that attracted the most attention from all parties. They appeared for two days, but before they could fully grasp the situation, they started to set fire everywhere and save the people.
Many of the bandits who escaped later made a move to head north. This was actually a clear conspiracy that could not be ignored.
In this incident, the real protagonist seems to be Fang Baihua and his group who want to rescue Fang Qifu. But in fact, what matters to this group of people is only the face of the capital, Tie Tianying, and Zong Feixiao.
The road to promotion and the complete destruction of the Yongle Dynasty are symbolic. Relatively speaking, the account books carried by An Xifu are greatly related to the future benefits of several families behind the incident. As long as any family can obtain the account books, they will first
You can ensure that you will not be stabbed in the back. As for stabbing others with a knife to gain benefits, that will be decided later by your mood.
Whether it is Tie Tianying, Zong Feixiao, or Sikong Nan, they all seem to have their own affiliations, but in fact they all have more or less backgrounds from some big families. An Xifu is planning to go north at this time.
That already showed a desperate attitude, but he had little life to worry about. If he handed over the accounts before his death - he didn't even have to think about who to hand them over to - there would be a big mess in the end.
Even when the clamor becomes louder, the account books may not be true. Families that consciously fall into it will start friction on their own. This little friction may be related to the loss of tens of millions of taels of silver, or hundreds of dollars.
Thousands of lives.
Because they understand this. This time, the spokespersons of various forces have taken an attitude of not caring about them. Tie Tianying, Zong Feixiao, Fan Zhong and others have all put their main force on the roundup party.
As for Baihua's matter - they are doing it anyway, and the accounts must be rumors anyway, so don't bother with them - in fact, this evening, after the news that Deng Yuanjue and others suddenly turned south was noticed, the situation near Sipinggang was completely changed.
It exploded.
The sudden movement of Deng Yuanjue and others towards the southwest should have been made in the morning. In the afternoon, a group of detectives on routine investigation met them, and the location of the conflict had moved a few times to the southwest.
Ten miles. After this contact, with the contact point as the center, the radius of almost two hundred miles nearby suddenly started to move due to the speed of the spread of the news.
The ultimate goal of Deng Yuanjue and others is indeed not to go north! All their previous actions were to attract the pursuers to move north, but the actual goal was to join Fang Baihua and break out of the Dabie Mountains!
In an instant, whether they were officers, soldiers, policemen or scattered green forest people in nearby counties, the remaining Manichaeans led by Sikong Nan seemed to have received unified orders and swarmed out as night fell.
Deng Yuanjue and An Xifu, who were trying to intercept the southward movement, began to swarm in all directions leading to the Dabie Mountains.
Fang Baihua and others' first contact with the pursuers was not long after nightfall. At that time, theoretically speaking, the news that Deng Yuanjue and others were pursuing from the southwest had not yet reached here. There were only two or three people left to move.
Within days, both parties chose this time point with a tacit understanding and began to make a desperate move.
The wind roared from the mountains, and the camp in Sipinggang was brightly lit with fire. Pairs of police officers and sergeants responsible for conveying information were coming in and out quickly. Tie Tianying, who was sitting here, brought events that had happened in various places not long ago——
In response to the different actions of the two sides, the Ministry of Punishment made various plans from the beginning.
Nowadays, most of the police officers placed outside are in teams of more than ten or twenty people, and their leaders are often experienced police officers from various regions. As long as they receive the news, most of them can respond independently. When the first news comes
When we arrived at Sipinggang, in the half of the nearby area that we could not see, various states and counties had actually begun to move. And new orders were issued from Sipinggang, accelerating the changes and operations of the entire layout.
Tie Tianying, who had already calculated all this in his mind many times, was very familiar with dealing with it.
"...Sent people to notify the people in the north. Except for Chen Zhiqing and Yu Ya, everyone else began to pursue southward in an orderly manner. Notify the Wenshui County magistrate to cooperate and cut off Deng Yuanjue's retreat. They can give up their intention to go north...
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"Report, traces of a group of green forest people have been found in the Jingshan area. Among them are Yan Wu from southern Jiangxi, Jiangyuan from Hedong, and Li Longxiang, the wanted thief from Shangfeng..."
"Don't worry about them for the time being. Send an order to Ye Feng to go south and strictly check the people passing by the bridge pavilion to prevent Fang Baihua and others from fishing in troubled waters. I also strictly order Ye Feng, if you encounter bandits, don't be reluctant to fight, just bite hard and fight all the way.
Just persuade me to surrender..."
"Report, at two o'clock in the morning, a bloody battle broke out between Fengtianchuan and Fang Baihua and others in the Xiaolou Bay area of Wenshui. After killing three bandits on the spot, the other party fled eastward."
"They want to make trouble all night... Youshi..." Tie Tianying looked at the map, "Instruct Lin Donglou and Zeng Xi to the two teams behind them. The place they guard is very important. If they encounter Fang Baihua and others,
People, you might as well give it a fight. You need to pay attention. If Fang Baihua and others retreat, they are not allowed to pursue them. They must defend where they are to avoid falling into the trap of diverting the tiger away from the mountain..."
"The great thief Monk Tunyun was discovered in Chuanshan..."
"Lin Zongwu and others are currently chasing south along the Wenshui River..."
After collecting and summarizing information from groups of people, Tie Tianying had already expected most of the things. This included groups of green forest masters who suddenly appeared - in fact, as early as two days ago, Yu
These people in the town once held a "Heroes Conference" - some of them gathered because of the rewards. Because the reward set by the court for Fang Baihua and others was really not low; some came because they wanted to become famous; some came because they wanted to follow Fang Baihua.
, Deng Yuanjue and others had enmity in the past, but now they come here to beat up the drowned dog.
Naturally, there are also people secretly sent by certain big families from the south, south, north, and north. They are mixed in, but the main purpose is to kill Fang Baihua and others, and then wait for an opportunity to inquire about the whereabouts of the account books.
The entire situation now is like a chess game. Although different news is still coming together, the overall situation is almost finalized. There is basically no news that can surprise him. Even though Tian Li came to report to the secret agent not long ago
Si Cheng Zhouhai was actually a top-notch expert - that only showed that the Secret Investigation Department attached great importance to this matter. But more than twenty people could not have much influence on this situation.
It really seems that in this chess game, what determines the overall trend is probably the power of the three parties - the Punishment Department represented by myself, the remnants of the Manichaean sect represented by Sikong Nan, and Fang Baihua and Deng Yuanjue who fled all the way. Although the rest
The total number of people can be regarded as the fourth party's power. But after all, it is too fragmented to be twisted into a rope.
With this understanding, while promoting the situation in an orderly manner, he was also constantly reflecting on the possibilities that he had not calculated. Before the matter was settled, there was always the possibility that Fang Baihua and others could escape into the mountains or even the entire
It is also his habit to keep a slight uneasiness in his heart about the possibility of the market flipping.
People around were coming in and out. When a new piece of news came, new cognition was incorporated into the calculation and deduction system, and then simple orders were issued. It was already dark at this time, and inside the wooden shed
Many of his subordinates came in. When he issued an order asking the nearby county magistrate to summon villagers to guard the area, another piece of information was sent in.
"Report the news from the capital."
"...The people who have been summoned must stay until tomorrow. I will disband after I say it is OK. Remember not to summon villagers casually. Everyone must be known by someone. Every place must be led by the local security chief to avoid being bandits.
Sneak in..." There were many people who came to report at this time, but the news in the capital made Tie Tianying pay more attention to it. He just took the thing and looked at it, and then he let go of his vigilance, "Yu San, what do you have?
Let’s talk about it quickly.”
This thing that was quickly sent from the capital was the information of Prime Minister Cheng Zhouhai. But in this situation, even if the identity of the other party's master was confirmed, there was not much need. He opened it and listened.
He was listening to the reports from his subordinates around him. He was still summarizing the information in his mind, and his eyes suddenly shrank.
"I don't know martial arts..." He whispered this in his mouth, and then returned to the beginning, "This year... I am thirty-two years old..."
He waved his hand in the air, interrupting his subordinate's words, his eyes flickered a few times, and then he frowned and handed this thing to the attendant next to him: "Copy a copy and send it to Chief Zong and Chief Fan respectively.
They should pay more attention. Also, where did those people from the Secret Investigation Department go before?"
"After catching the two bandits of Ba Dao, they also went to the southwest..."
"Want to share the credit or do something else..." Tie Tianying muttered to himself and banged his fist on the table.
"...Inner Demon!"
According to the information, Cheng Zhouhai was in his thirties, but the scholar who had been coming here for the past two days was only in his early twenties. Considering the opponent's skills, he immediately thought of the Green Forest person in charge of the Secret Investigation Department.
On the body.
It has to be said that no matter how much contempt he had when talking about the other party before, suddenly realizing that this madman who personally ruined tens of thousands of people in Liangshan might appear here, and even concealed his original identity for a few days, his heart still suddenly surged.
There was a shadow.
What does he want to do...
But no matter what, the Secret Investigation Department was under the control of the imperial court. Even if he appeared here, after all, he came too late and there were not enough manpower, so he would not have much impact on the overall situation.
Time was precious. After thinking about it for a moment, he immediately put aside his thoughts and focused his attention on mobilizing his troops again.
No matter what, the overall situation is uncertain, and there will always be a slight worry in my heart...
And not long after, this worry turned into reality. The first factor that he had never really calculated appeared around him...
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Through the woods, Chen Fan approached the camp at Sipinggang.
The light in the camp shone far away, and the small woods here still looked dark. Located near the camp, there were actually hidden sentries arranged by Tie Tianying in the woods. But for Chen Fan, all this would not be a big deal.
Even though he was walking casually, his figure was always hidden in the shadows. No one could detect his silent passing through the forest and under the trees.
Until...a cold front suddenly struck!
In the darkness, there seemed to be wind passing through the forest, causing the leaves to move. Chen Fan punched, and the other party received a silent palm. It was mysterious and soft. After the fists and palms met, the other party retreated silently.
He swung his sword. Chen Fan moved back silently.
The moonlight shone in the forest, no one could be seen, only the wind moved the shadows, and both sides were silent. After a while, Chen Fan in the shadow of the trees tilted his head slightly.
"Wang Shangshu..."
A slight voice came out from his lips, and next to the bushes on the opposite side was Wang Yin, who seemed to be integrated with the surrounding environment. But he stood there with a powerful aura that only a warrior of Chen Fan's level could.
feel.
Then, under the moonlight, Wang Yin slightly raised his sword, pointed at the camp on the hillside not far away, and looked towards Chen Fan with calm eyes...
That night, the Sipinggang camp encountered its first truly unpredictable surprise.
After Xu Shi, a small group of people headed by Chen Fan once again entered the camp. At this time, Tie Tianying, who was stationed in the camp, still maintained a high degree of vigilance, but an internal strife that had not been considered before broke out in the camp, killing everyone.
No one is caught off guard.
Since Manichaeism was introduced to China, it gradually expanded. Later, it was transferred from Sikong Nan to Fang La and was carefully managed for many years. After Fang La's uprising, more than two million people died one after another due to this incident.
.Of course some of this is a later story. But the real roots of Manichaeism are so deep that it is difficult for ordinary people to estimate.
After Fang La's death, Fang Qifu and Fang Baihua were probably the most involved. At first, Tie Tianying also considered the problem of internal instability. However, after several battles, such worries did not become reality.
Until this night, there were three secretly lurking and rebellious chiefs. As they took action, some of the prisoners who had been captured were freed by deliberate calculations or unintentional actions.
Tie Tianying's original arrangement was effective. The captives were discovered shortly after they were released from their bonds. Then, the situation in the camp finally turned into a big fight. Chen Fan killed several people in a row, and finally rescued the seven Buddhas below and led the
More than 20 people fled the camp, and more than 40 people were killed in the battle. This incident also meant that the last bargaining chip that the Manichaeans could use was taken away.
After Chen Fan fled with Fang Qifu on his back, Tie Tianying also led his team to the southwest, pursuing him all the way.
At this time, with Siping Gang as the center and extending along the southwest to the Dabie Mountains, the whole night was already boiling. People were running and chasing each other all the way, people from the green forest were crossing the hills and mountains, the imperial guards, and the soldiers were burning torches to kill themselves one by one.
There were scattered chases in the villages. Occasionally, there would be small-scale fights. In some villages, dogs were suddenly heard barking, and then everything became quiet. It was usually the green forest people passing by who killed the warning dogs.
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Chen Fan carried Fang Qifu on his back and ran among the rugged mountains, with more than 20 people behind him trying their best to follow.
After being captured, Fang Qifu was seriously injured. Later, he was imprisoned in a prison car and had a pipa bone pierced. Even though he used to have great cultivation, he was now a disabled person. Only his left hand could move slightly.
The road among the rugged mountains was extremely uneven, but with Chen Fan's martial arts, he was able to run like the wind without moving his upper body, without feeling much bumps. Because of this, no more blood flowed from the seriously injured Fang Qifu.
There was too much blood. But even though he was rescued, he was not too happy. Chen Fan originally thought that his master was too seriously injured and needed to rest, but after adjusting his breath slightly, the first thing Fang Qifu asked in a low voice was the process of rescuing people.
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Chen Fan ran and told Wang Yin what happened after he met Wang Yin.
"...Wang Shangshu said, after I rescue you, go to the southwest as soon as possible. There are mostly crowded places around here, and escaping into the mountains is the only chance. I heard that the princess and Master Deng, An Xifu and the others are at this time
We have already moved there, this night is the only chance, but it’s a pity..."
Wang Yin disappeared after rescuing people, probably because he was used as a bait to lure away Tie Tianying's pursuers. When he said this, his mood was slightly depressed. After a while, he said again: "Master, the opponent's camp
Zhongyuan originally had an internal response, so why didn’t you use it before? Could it be that... you are still calculating more things?"
There are still Manichaean forces in the opponent's camp, which is the strangest thing to Chen Fan. If he had known about it before, he would not have to follow them all the way aimlessly and be wiped out in one fell swoop. And if there really was such a thing
Arrangement, he wondered why the master didn't explain it clearly to Fang Baihua. However, after a moment, he felt Fang Qifu shake his head slightly behind his back.
"I... don't know."
Chen Fan's heart sank. After a while, he heard Fang Qifo sigh: "In the future, you have to worry about Wang Yin."
Chen Fan is also a smart man. After a moment, he thought of the worst possibility contained in this...
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Running madly and fighting all the way, after midnight, several groups of people who were fleeing met in the woods not far from the mountain. It was also because there was too much movement at night. After fighting all the way, most people in the world with a keen sense of smell were able to grasp it.
When the whole situation changed and the gathering was finally completed, there were only more than seventy people left.
At this time, a group of masters belonging to Sikong Nan were coming from the side, and the agents from the Criminal Department were also gathering to outflank them, getting closer and closer. There were also some unknown masters appearing in the nearby mountains and forests. Fang Baihua and Deng Yuanjue were all the way here.
Disabled, even though Fang Qifu's rescue inspired people's hearts for a while, it actually turned into poison that can lead to death. After a little excitement, what was left for them was almost a dead end.
If these people were dispersed one by one in the middle, maybe some people still have some hope of survival. Only the gathering at this time makes the whole situation become a situation where either all of them die, or only a few people can escape. And because Fang Qi
With the appearance of Buddha, his serious injuries and cohesion have become a burden.
On the other hand, after learning the news of Fang Qifu's escape, the members of the Punishment Department led by Zong Feixiao, Fan Zhong, Tie Tianying and others bit them almost like crazy, turning into even more ferocious evil spirits.
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"Hahahaha, Xiaoqi, I haven't seen you for a few days. How are you? I heard that you were rescued. I'm really happy and congratulated. Hahahaha... Why don't you come out and see me before you leave?"
Everyone was running away from the forest. When they heard the woman's laughter that echoed through the forest, a figure suddenly walked through from the west side of the forest. It was Sikong Nan who had been following him all the way. At this time, he used Qinggong at an astonishing speed. The two parties
Baihua's masters tried to block it, but suddenly, it turned into a torrential rain of blood...
PS: This is the last chapter of June... Well, you won’t really believe me when I say this...