Li Ye led Zhang Ping and a dozen warriors on horseback to the northeast. When they arrived in Fuping County, it was already dark. Zhang Ping sent one of his men to inquire about the houses on the roadside.
After a while, the subordinate came back and clasped his fists and said: "General Li, Three Trees Manor is the farm we suspected just now. It used to be called Black Deer Manor and was renamed Tiande Manor last year."
Li Ye immediately turned the horse's head and shouted: "Let's go!"
Everyone turned their horses and followed Li Ye to the south. They had just passed by a manor and saw three thick trees in the manor from a distance. They were at least hundreds of years old, but the sign on the manor said Tiande Manor. They
unconfirmed.
Not long after, they returned to the manor with three big trees. It was about thirty miles away from Fuping County. However, the manor was not beside the official road, but three miles away from the official road. The three big trees grew tall and tall, on the official road.
Can be seen at a glance.
At this time, it was already the first watch. Li Ye saw that the manor had a very high wall. He did not climb in immediately. Instead, he found a farmhouse on the other side of the manor and asked the farmer about the situation inside the manor.
"There have always been hundreds of villagers in the manor. Nothing happened before, but in recent days, the security has suddenly been tightened. I heard from the steward that there are many hidden sentries inside, telling us not to run around. If we run around, we will be shot by crossbows.
So we can only walk along the road and don’t dare to walk randomly.”
"Why is the alert suddenly heightened?"
The farmer shook his head, "I don't know, the manager didn't tell me."
Li Ye asked some more about the specific situation in the manor before coming out of the farmer's house.
He immediately said to Zhang Ping: "If there are many people, you will be discovered by secret sentries. You lead your men to guard the outside, especially on the official road. I will sneak in."
"Old Li, can you do it alone?" Zhang Ping asked worriedly.
Li Ye grinned and said: "I once killed three hundred elite soldiers by myself. A hundred villagers are nothing. I was afraid of alerting the enemy and letting him run away."
"Okay, let's keep an eye on the perimeter, so be careful."
Li Ye handed the horse to Zhang Ping. He climbed up the wall with his sword and halberd, and climbed into the manor easily.
Zhang Ping immediately arranged for his men to monitor three peripheral nodes.
Li Ye hid in the dark and observed, but the other party was not professional. He quickly discovered five hidden sentries, including two hidden sentries hidden in three big trees.
Li Ye was not in a hurry to take action. He changed positions three times in a row and continued to observe. As a result, he found three more secret sentries. It was basically confirmed that there were eight secret sentries in total, and a group of about 30 patrolling villagers.
But these are only hidden sentries and patrol posts on the periphery. If you are close to those groups of buildings, there must be hidden sentries over there.
With such tight defense, Li Ye was basically certain that Wu Ying was hiding in the manor.
After understanding the manor's secret sentry deployment, Li Ye decided to sneak in from the south. He only needed to kill one secret sentry and pass along a ravine.
Li Ye took off his bow and arrow, drew out a wolf tooth arrow, drew the bow like a full moon, and aimed it at the head of a secret sentry eighty steps away.
But at this moment, a rapid alarm bell suddenly sounded from the direction of the east gate, 'Dang! Dang! Dang!'
Li Ye was stunned for a moment, and slowly retracted his fully-drawn bow. He looked in the direction of the gate in surprise. What was going on? Could it be that Zhang Ping and his men were discovered?
"Oops!"
Li Ye suddenly cursed secretly and ran towards several groups of buildings. He no longer cared about being discovered by the whistle.
'Dang! Dang! Dang!'
Two secret sentries discovered him and sounded the alarm.
In fact, there is no difference between the sound of one alarm bell and the sound of two alarm bells. In the silent night, the sound of alarm bells is particularly harsh.
Wu Ying was indeed hiding in the manor. He was doing fitness exercises with two prostitutes from the county when he suddenly heard the rapid alarm bell.
He was so frightened that he kicked the two women off the bed one by one, put on his clothes in a panic, picked up the emergency package and sword, entered a secret passage, and ran towards the back mountain.
The emergency package contained dozens of taels of broken silver and a fake copper fish charm. Of course Wu Ying knew that many people wanted to kill him, but his eyes were blinded by his hatred, and he wanted to kill Li Ye's family.
Perhaps because of Suzaku, Wu Ying hated Li Ye from the bottom of his heart, and this time Li Ye caught the female assassin, which directly led to the death of the Wu family, the death of his father and brother, and the ruin of his future. He did not hate An Lushan, nor did he hate An Lushan.
He didn't hate Yang Guozhong, but focused all his hatred on Li Ye. All of this was caused by Li Ye.
This manor was passed down by Wu Ying's grandfather. Wu Ying spent his time here from the age of five to eight. He was very familiar with this place. The secret passage leads directly to the back mountain. There are many caves in the back mountain. He knows every cave.
Know it like the back of your hand.
The secret passage is actually a passage between walls. There are tall walls on both sides, leaving only a gap as wide as one person. In addition, there is an eaves cover at the top of the wall. From the outside, it is impossible to tell that this is a passage between walls.
At this time, the piercing alarm bell woke Wu Ying from his hatred. He suddenly realized that so many people wanted to kill him, and I am afraid that saving his life at this moment is much more important than revenge.
Wu Ying ran more than a hundred steps in one breath, opened a small door, and rushed directly into the dense forest.
Li Ye ran into the secret room and met two prostitutes who had fled in a panic. Li Ye grabbed one of the prostitutes and asked, "Where did Wu Ying escape?"
The prostitute said in horror: "There is a small door behind the bed, and he got in through the small door."
Li Ye let go of the prostitute and rushed into the secret room. Sure enough, he saw a small door behind the bed. He kicked the door open and rushed in with a knife and halberd in hand.
There is a secret passage inside. The door about twenty steps ahead is open, and bright light shines into the house, making the secret passage less dark.
Li Ye searched intently in the secret passage and found nothing unusual. He rushed out directly. After rushing out of the secret passage, there was a narrow walled passage outside, which was more than a hundred steps. Li Ye secretly screamed that something was wrong. This passage was not good.
The wall path actually leads directly to the back mountain.
He chased him out in one breath. He had already left the manor, and in front of him was a large lush forest that stretched all the way to the top of the mountain.
Li Ye's face turned livid, and he slashed hard at a small tree with his sword. 'Crack!' The small tree was split into two pieces.
When Li Ye returned to the manor, he saw that several groups of buildings were on fire, and a large group of warriors had rushed up the back mountain from another door to search.
At this time, Zhang Ping came over and sighed: "They are the warriors of the Qingshan Tower of the Yang family. The leading warrior is named Yang Jian. They rushed into the manor without knowing the depth and were discovered by the secret sentry on the big tree. I negotiated with them, but they were very
Arrogant, and clamoring to kill us all together."
"I know this Yang Jian. I have killed many of his men. Does he know that I am here?"
"I told him, and then he ordered a fire, and led his men to chase the people in the back mountain. There are still a few over there!"
Zhang Ping pointed to the north and saw two warriors not far away looking over. Li Ye snorted, "Catch them!"
Zhang Ping's men rushed away, and in a moment they caught the two warriors and took them over.
When the two warriors heard about Li Ye's murder in Huining County, they were so frightened that they fell to their knees and begged for mercy.
"We are sent by Yang Xiangguo to kill this Wu Ying. We are afraid that he will retaliate against the Yang family. We have no other intentions. Please forgive us, general!"
Li Ye said coldly: "I won't kill you, but I want to know where you got the news, and you actually knew that Wu Ying was hiding here!"
"Reporting back to the general, Wu Ying has a sister who lives in Changmingfang, Chang'an County. We went to her last night and pressed for information."
"Are we going too?"
Zhang Ping asked in surprise: "When did you go? Is the gate closed?"
"When we went there, the gate of the farm had just been closed, so we climbed over the wall using a ladder and entered the farm."
Zhang Ping whispered to Li Ye: "They will go a little later than us."
Li Ye nodded, "I could have caught Wu Ying today, but your recklessness caused Wu Ying to run away. Tell Yang Jian and let him report honestly, otherwise I will tell Yang Xiangguo the truth and let him run away."