After Jie Xingzhou lost hundreds of people in the forest, his face became ugly.

If he said that he had acted on orders before, and there were not many elements to avenge Min Hongyi, then now he really wanted to pull out and kill those cunning guys one by one!

I dare to fool him, I am so tired of living!

Later, he increased his vigilance and transferred soldiers who were proficient in Qimen Dunjia from the city.

The Bagua Formation in the forest was broken, and the army finally passed through this steep land and arrived at the entrance of the village.

A stream connects the canyon and the village, and the wooden bridge above has been cut off.

However, the river surface is not very wide, so it is no problem to re-log the woodworking bridge.

"I'll bother Elder Lu." Xie Xingzhou said.

"Hmph!" Elder Lu rode on the horse, turned his head lightly, and made a gesture to the two disciples behind him.

The two disciples understood and drew out the sword from their waists, cut off the two big trees with a speed of thunder, and split them with one sword.

Xie Xingzhou's deputy general called a few capable soldiers, tied the wood with ropes, embedded the arc-shaped parts into the dug mud pit, and fixed the sides with long spears to prevent the wooden bridge from overturning.

This operation took only two quarters of an hour, which was very fast.

The Jin army's war horses refused to cross such an unreliable "dangerous bridge" and were not able to cross directly like the Black Wind King. Jie Xingzhou and his group had to turn over and get off the horse and walk across the bridge.

A deputy general flattered: "I heard that the Black Wind Cavalry in Yan State is very powerful. When we defeat them, the young one will go and capture the Black Wind King and give it to General Jie."

Xie Xingzhou did not respond, but was actually a little moved.

The Black Wind Cavalry is the most powerful cavalry in the six countries. In addition to the excellent combat skills of the cavalry, if you choose one, especially every Black Wind King, you can be called the God of War among the horses.

When he was young, he had the opportunity to witness Xuanyuan Li's Black Wind King once. He was so scared that he couldn't sleep for three days. He still felt the palpitations when he recalled.

Of course, he could not be scared by a horse again, but if he could conquer such a war god horse, it would not be considered as a humiliating his reputation as a powerful general in recent years.

...I don't know if the lord is interested in the Black Wind King. If he has it, he will basically have no share of himself.

In just one moment, Jie Xingzhou had already planned the destination of the Black Wind King in his mind.

The Jin army entered the village.

The deputy general sighed: "This village is not small, and it is possible to live in hundreds of people." He directed his men, "You guys search from house to house!"

"yes!"

The soldiers took the order and divided into two teams, one team searching for the villagers' residences and the other team searching for the ghost soldiers' camps.

The result was disappointing. They didn't even see a few wild boars that they couldn't take away.

"Escape?" Jie Xingzhou frowned, called two spies who stayed behind last night and asked, "Have you discovered anything last night?"

Spy Jia reported: "If you say the general, we have been lying at the entrance of Guishan last night, and we are sure that no one has come out of Guishan."

Xie Xingzhou casually entered a stove room and reached into the stove and felt it.

It's cool.

He ordered, "Check other stoves."

"yes!"

The soldiers checked one by one and found that none of the stove had temperature. In today's weather, if the fire rose too much in the morning, then the stove would have residual heat.

Suddenly, another soldier walked over quickly, clasped his fists and said, "General! A discovery was made on the hill to the east!"

Jie Xingzhou took his subordinates to the location mentioned by the deputy general.

Surrounded by green mountains, the lake is endless, and Guishan is surrounded by water on three sides, with only one entrance and exit, which is the hill to the south.

At this time, on the shore of the hill to the east, everyone found a large number of footprints and traces of ship docking, and even some scattered items, such as shoes, purses, etc.

In addition, a small boat was parked on the shore. The bottom of the boat was leaking, and it opened from a new cut in the broken wooden board, which was newly left.

Combined with the fact that there was no evidence of fire in the morning of the stove, everyone couldn't help but think of the scene of villagers escaping overnight. It was dark and there was no way to see the road. Things all over the floor fell and accidentally broke the boat.

Everything is reasonable, and there is no second explanation.

If Min Hongyi was here and designated to lead the army to take a detour to the other side of the lake to catch people, Jie Xingzhou's mind was not that simple.

"Zhong Cheng." He called his deputy general, "Where is the other side of the lake?"

"I haven't been to the youngest ones." Zhong Cheng said. He was a fine work planted by the State of Jin in Pucheng. He was extremely familiar with the terrain of Pucheng, except for the ghost mountain that is like a forbidden place.

Jie Xingzhou said: "Cultivate the boat and send two people who know the water nature to row over and look for it."

"yes!"

The decision about Jie Xingzhou was actually predicted by Shangguan Qing, and Shangguan Qing was not worried.

Because there is only a small broken boat here, at most two to three people can sit, and the lake is very large, and there are green mountains on both sides of the shore when walking forward.

And there is a very steep waterfall at the end of the green mountains, and most people who have never been there will not be able to come back.

Of course, Zhijie Xingzhou's brain will not only make one-hand plans.

As expected, Jie Xingzhou immediately instructed the remaining few deputy generals: "You should search nearby, search every hill, pay attention to the hidden caves, entrances, etc., and don't let go of any clues."

Everyone took the order and scattered.

Gu Jiao was sitting at the entrance of the cave. She knew that the Jin army had entered the mountain and heard the movement of Shangguan Qing leading the villagers to evacuate. At this moment, the Jin army was searching for it, and she didn't know if she would find clues.

Two Jin soldiers opened the bushes outside the crack. From the outside, they could not get into the crack. They poked their swords in and walked away in disappointment.

The Jin army came one after another, but failed to find the cave behind the crack.

There are trees and grass outside the cave, and food and water inside the cave, so I don’t worry about being hungry.

Gu Jiao glanced at Xuanyuan Qi, who was still in a state of meditation beside her, and continued to meditate and protect him.

...

The search of the Jin army continued until the evening. They almost searched the entire ghost mountain, but still found nothing.

In the big cave where the stream is gurgling, three hundred ghost soldiers are stationed by the stream, and behind them are more than five hundred villagers from the villages.

Several ghost soldiers who returned from major passages reported to Shangguan Qing about the situation on the ground.

"It seems they stopped searching."

"But Jie Xingzhou did not immediately order the withdrawal of troops. He seemed to be waiting for the Jin army who was searching for the lake to come back."

"These two Jin troops were mostly killed, and he couldn't wait."

Shangguan Qing nodded after hearing this: "If you can't wait, he only has two guesses. One is that they had an accident, and the other is that they were killed by us. Jie Xingzhou might guess the latter. There are no other ships here. He wants to move them in the city. In addition, the searches on the lake and the coast can delay for several days."

After he said that, he turned his mind and looked at the nervous and nervous villagers sitting on the ground, saying, "Don't be afraid, we are very safe now. If they can't search, they will naturally believe that we have successfully transferred."

"Then...what then?" asked a villager.

"The imperial army will come by then!"

The one who spoke was Tang Yueshan.

He walked forward and said to the villagers who were full of desire, "Today, the imperial army is attacking the Liang army. After the battle, he will come to Pucheng to deal with the Jin army!"

The villager excitedly said, "So... we will all be saved?"

Tang Yueshan said: "Of course! At most, the imperial army will arrive in five days!"

Attack the Liang army, capture the Nangong family, and take back the new city. Five days are enough at Lao Xiao's speed.

Lao Xiao’s daughter-in-law is still here. If she doesn’t know how to do it in five days, Lao Xiao will definitely guess that he and the girl are in trouble and will accelerate their offensive against Pucheng.

"How do you know?" asked another villager.

"I..." Tang Yueshan opened his mouth, thinking about how to explain his identity.

Shangguan Qing put his hands behind him and spoke calmly: "He is the Grand Marshal Tang sent by the court."

Everyone here is a native of the border and does not know much about the high-ranking officials of the court. But when they heard that it was the Grand Marshal, everyone instantly believed in his words and rekindled hope.

Everyone looked at each other and laughed, each holding their hearts back to their stomachs.

Tang Yueshan whispered: "Isn't it a bit like you lie like this..."

Shangguan Qing raised his eyebrows and said, "I didn't say which country's marshal or which court it is."

Tang Yueshan: “…”

He wanted to say something else, but suddenly he noticed the movement on his head, and he quickly made a gesture of silence.

The villagers cooperated very well, and even Xiaoying, who was over one year old, covered her mouth with her little hands at the gesture of her brother.

Xiaoying is good, Xiaoying doesn't speak.

The cave became silent in an instant.

"Okay, camp here tonight!"

They heard the voice of the Jin army.

Pucheng had a developed border trade. Before the war broke out, there were many shops opened by merchants from Jin State in the city. The people here basically had a little bit of Jin State dialect and Yan State dialect.

The Jin army actually set up camp on them, which was really a coincidence.
To be continued...