Gao Pragmatic is not the only one who laments that his life is miserable. More than 3,000 officers and soldiers in Liuzhou also feel that their life is miserable. They are stationed in Liuzhou smoothly, just waiting for the master to finish counting the heads of those who quelled the Bazhai Rebellion last time.
It would be easy for people like me to get some rewards for their military exploits. Unexpectedly, after the military exploits were counted and reported, Master Yintai himself actually went missing!
This has stirred up a hornet's nest. Originally, Mr. Futai was seriously ill, and the army was far away in Guangdong. The whole of Guangxi now believed that Mr. Tai was a capable leader, but he actually disappeared!
The two masters, the deputy envoy and the general of the branch guard, were so frightened that they couldn't even care about Liuzhou's city defense. Only more than a thousand people were left in the city, and the rest were looking to the southwest of Liuzhou to search for people.
I heard that when the two masters gave orders to their generals, they were really stern. They shouted at the table: "If you can't find a stand, I will chop off your heads before your heads fall to the ground!"
The soldiers of the Liuzhou Guards and the squad troops who were garrisoning Liuzhou naturally didn't know how tough this "backstage" of Gao Yintai was. Anyway, to them, Mr. Yintai himself was a very big figure. I heard that he had not been seen for thousands of years.
The six champions of the poem, the real star of literary music, came to earth. Such a big man disappeared in Liuzhou City. It is no wonder that the superiors are in a hurry. His conductor was lucky and went to Nanjing for treatment a long time ago, leaving his fellow conductor Li Weicong to suffer here.
By the end of the night, I was almost out of shape, with several blisters on my lips.
It’s not easy to be a high official!
However, these soldiers did not have much time to complain about the sufferings of the men above them. They themselves were also miserable. They were fully armed from afternoon to night, and were still being pushed forward at night. They said that the wolf soldiers ran very fast and could not catch up without marching all night.
Go to someone else's house.
But damn, I can’t catch up even if I march at night! When the wolf soldiers get into the mountains, it’s like a fish in water, but when we enter the mountains, it’s like we’re clueless!
Besides, who the hell can fight with wolf soldiers in the mountains? It’s really boring!
Therefore, the soldiers of the Liuzhou Guard and the garrison squads were procrastinating as much as possible. No one wanted to run into the wolf soldiers in the mountains, and they might not be sure who would kill whom!
The only ones who were not afraid of death were probably the servants brought by Mr. Yintai from Yanjing. They may not have known how powerful the wolf soldiers were in the mountains, so they rushed into the mountains without hesitation.
The guardsmen thought to themselves: These people are either newborn calves who are not afraid of tigers and have no idea how powerful the wolf soldiers are in the mountains, or they just have no choice. After all, they are servants. If the head of the family stays here, they will go back one by one.
After coming to Beijing, why should I still be beaten to death by the order of Mr. Gao? Sometimes servants are not counted as "people", but as property! When the masters of powerful families were so angry, they ordered the servants to be beaten to death, which is just like
I smashed my own vase and no one cared about it!
Gao pragmatism just lamented the misery of his life, but at this moment Gao Zhang didn't even have time to sigh.
Yesterday, because of the chaos that broke out in the Bazhai Yao people's city, Liuzhou City was in chaos. The panicked people blocked many places in the city. People were everywhere rushing to go home. Gao Zhang arranged with him
The several guards were all squeezed out and lost contact with Gao Pragmatic.
Fortunately, the master was smart and sent Cao Ke out to deliver the message. Only then did Gao Zhang know that the master had left the city with Master Cen and headed south.
Without saying a word, Gao Zhang ordered his men and horses to pursue him all the way south, while Cao Ke went to inform the deputy garrison officer Jiang Xin and others.
It was really an easy chase. The wolf soldiers had good physical strength, and the Gao family's servants were not bad either. It was not until the wolf soldiers entered the mountain that they gradually got rid of the Gao family's servants. However, the Gao family's servants knew that they had no other way to go, so they fought hard
He had to catch up without sleeping, so he finally caught up with the wolf soldiers shortly after they set up camp to eat and sleep.
The wolf soldiers were very alert and quickly withdrew when they saw the pursuers catching up. However, Gao Zhang found some clues by the pool - it was a pile of clothes that Gao Pragmatic wore yesterday.
Clothes were piled beside the pool, but no one was found.
Gao Zhang was very worried at first, fearing that his master would jump into the water and drown. But after he calmed down a little, he felt that it was not the case - if he jumped into the water, whether he was jumping into the water to escape or something else, he would not have time to strip himself naked first.
We went down again, so there was only one possibility. The old man was originally going into the water for a swim, but he happened to come here by himself. He either didn’t have time to get ashore, or he didn’t have time to get dressed, so he was taken away by the chieftain.
After Gao Zhang carefully inspected the footprints near the clothes, he came to his own conclusion: the master did not come ashore, at least not from nearby.
The master is still in the water!
This judgment actually made him break out in a cold sweat, because the master knew all of them. Since he knew they were his own servants, why didn't the master go ashore?
Gao Zhang hurriedly summoned his subordinates, asked who knew how to swim, and hurriedly followed him to search. It turned out that there were only twelve people who knew how to swim, all of whom had been trained by Qi Shaobao's Ye Bushou.
The number of people was not large, but it was enough. Including himself, a total of thirteen servants of the Gao family went into the water to look for someone.
Although no one found it in the end, they found the whirlpool under the water.
This conclusion once again shocked everyone. Although they had gone through Ye Fushou training, none of them could be considered "proficient in water properties". Going into the whirlpool to find someone would be suicide no matter how you looked at it.
Gao Zhang felt that he had been given the gift of Gao Pingshi's knowledge and was entrusted with important tasks. Now that there was such a big trap, he couldn't escape the blame, so he didn't care about the water's nature and planned to go into the water himself, but was stopped by his subordinates.
——Rather than risking death, it is better for everyone to spread out and search. After all, since there is an underwater whirlpool, there is probably an underground river. Since there is an underground river, there must be an exit. It just takes more time.
The water in the underground river is also living water. If I have good luck and good luck, even if I rush into the cave, I can survive for at least a few days with water to drink, and everyone will still have time.
Gao Zhang thought about it and felt that it made sense. After all, he was the leader of this group of people. If he died here, who would lead this group of people?
So he immediately deployed his men and began to search for them.
This search took a long time. It was only in the afternoon of the second day that we found the entrance to an underground river cave twenty miles away, and found signs that someone had been there.
Gao Zhang carefully searched and distinguished, and finally the hard work paid off and he found the footprints of two people. One of the shoe prints was smaller and the mark was shallower. He judged that it was either a young man's shoe print or a woman's shoe print.
The other footprint is larger - this one is not a shoe print, but a "foot" print. The traces of the toes are clearly visible, and the mark of this footprint on the ground is relatively deep. It is basically certain that it is a tall man, most likely.
It's my master.
Although he was wondering how his master and a woman could appear in this inaccessible place, the fact was before his eyes. Gao Zhang didn't think much about it. He could only order his subordinates to gather immediately and follow this clue. In any case,
