Zhang Chenghu continued, "If they pass through this town one by one, no one will notice them, right? ”

Hearing Zhang Chenghu's words, Li Zhutou nodded, "You're right, there will always be people on horseback in this town, and they pass through one by one, and no one will really pay attention." ”

Listening to the conversation between the two, Lu Dashi glanced at both sides of the town's passage, and after a moment, shook his head.

"I don't think it's possible, they only walked half an hour earlier than us, if they need one, one person to pass through this town, then how long do they interval, if the interval is short, it will be more noticeable, after all, in a fixed time, there will be a person riding by, if one person or two people are okay to say, but if 10 horses pass one by one, it will definitely attract their attention more."

When Zhang Chenghu heard this, he frowned, and asked tentatively, "Lu Zhutou, if they are separated by a little longer, it should be no problem, right?" ”

This time, without waiting for Lu Dashi to answer, Li Zhutou preemptively said, "No, if they are really separated for too long, maybe they will be chased by us, wouldn't it be even worse?" ”

After hearing Li Zhutou's words, Lu Dashi nodded, "That's the same, Li Zhutou, you're right." ”

Speaking of this, Lu Dashi's tone paused before continuing, "I think that since they are running away, they will definitely not do such a time-wasting thing. ”

After hearing Lu Dashi's words, Zhang Chenghu said with a wry smile, "Doesn't that mean that those gangsters have never been to this town?" ”

Lu Dashi nodded, "Go this way from the official road, next to the official road, I remember that there seem to be 4 small roads leading to other places." ”

Speaking of this, Lu Dashi turned his head to look at Li Zhutou and asked slowly, "Li Zhutou, you are from Nanjun, do you know where the four trails lead?" ”

Hearing this, Li Zhutou shook his head with a wry smile, "If it's in Nanjun City, I'm still clear, but when I get out of the city, it's hard to say." ”

When Zhang Chenghu heard this, he immediately turned his head and shouted to a soldier next to him, "Li Qiang, you go and ask, where are the four trails we pass by on the road?" ”

When Li Qiang heard this, he hurriedly responded, looked at it 4 times, and immediately shouted and walked towards a pedestrian on the side of the road.

After instructing Li Qiang, Zhang Chenghu asked, "Lu Zhutou, since they didn't come to this town, let's take people back immediately, right?" ”

Lu Dashi nodded, "When we find out where the four trails lead, let's go back and have a look immediately." ”

After a while, Li Qiang walked back quickly.

"My lord, my subordinates have asked clearly, there are two passages on the left, one is the road leading to Zhang Village, and the other is relatively long, which can lead to the official road of the north city gate.

There are two passages on the left, one leads to Lijiazhuang, and the other leads to the south gate. ”

After hearing Li Qiang's words, Li Zhutou nodded and turned his head to look at Lu Dashi, "Lu Zhutou, where the 4 passages lead, we already know, where should we chase from there?" ”

Hearing Li Zhutou's question, Lu Dashi did not answer immediately, thinking in his heart where Li Wenchang would run.

This town has been asked in detail, and Li Wenchang did not pass through them, unless they gave up their horses and walked through the town on foot, so that they would not be noticed by the people in the town.

But even if they passed through the town, they had no horses and could not escape.

Even if they prepared their horses in advance at the other end of the town, it would not work, because they gave up their horses at this end of the town, it was not one horse, two horses, but a whole 10 horses with complete horse equipment, Lu Dashi and they would definitely see it when they passed by.

Lu Dashi and they came from here, and they haven't seen a horse, which shows that Li Wenchang and they didn't abandon the horse!

That was the only possibility left, running from one of those 4 paths.

But among these four paths, which one is the path that Li Wenchang and they chose?

On the left, one leads to Zhangcun and the other leads to the North City Gate?

On the right, one leads to Lijiazhuang and the other leads to the South City Gate?

What kind of choice will Wenchang Li make?

Or rather, why did Li Wenchang make this choice?

This is not a tour of the mountains and rivers, this is an escape for his life, and after Li Wenchang makes a choice, he will definitely have a purpose.

So what is his purpose?

Zhangcun on the left, but Lijiazhuang on the right, could it be that one of these two places is the place where Li Wenchang and them are lurking?

Zhang Chenghu and Li Zhutou saw Lu Dashi frowning and thinking there, and they didn't dare to disturb him, so they all came to the side and gathered their soldiers.

Lu Dashi was silent for a long time, and suddenly turned around and walked towards a stall selling vegetables on the side of the road.

"Uncle, I don't know if you know the 4 paths on the other side of this road?"

The old man selling vegetables called him Lu Dashi over, stood up hurriedly, and said cautiously, "I know, someone has already inquired about me just now." ”

Lu Dashi nodded, "Uncle, these four passages, two passages lead to the North City Gate and the South City Gate respectively, can these two passages still meet at the East City Gate?" ”

The old man nodded, "That's right, the main destination of these two passages is Passage Shallow Bay Town. ”

Hearing Qianwan Town's words, Lu Dashi's brows couldn't help frowning, and he asked tentatively, "Uncle, that town is called Qianwan Town, is there a river there?" ”

"Of course!"

The old man nodded, "The place 40 miles away from Nanjun Town is the Huaishui River, and the reason why Qianwan Town is called Qianwan Town is because there is a bay that leads to Huaishuihe, so it is called Qianwan Town." ”

After hearing the old man's answer, Lu Dashi's brows furrowed even tighter, "Uncle, is there a dock in Qianwan Town?" ”

The old man nodded, "Qianwan Town is the wharf, and the freight transported by water in Nanjun Town is basically transported in Qiantan Bay. ”

Speaking of this, the old man's tone paused, and then he continued, "The two small roads on this road actually go around Nanjun City and finally lead to Qianwan Town. ”

"Thank you, uncle!"

Lu Dashi nodded, threw a few copper coins to the old man selling vegetables, and then turned around and returned to Zhang Chenghu and Li Zhutou's side, and said in a deep voice.

"Let's gather our men and rush to Shoal."

After hearing Lu Dashi's words, Li Zhutou was taken aback, "Lu Zhutou, are you saying that when they left the city from here, they didn't want to return to the territory of the Shenwei Army, but wanted to go to Qianwan Town?" ”

Lu Dashi nodded, "They didn't pass through this town, and it is impossible to go to the rest of the place, except for this possibility, I really can't think of any other possibility." ”

Hearing Lu Dashi's words, Zhang Chenghu immediately turned around and shouted at the soldiers who had already gathered, "So someone listened to the order and immediately dared to go to Qianwan Town." ”

After finishing speaking, Zhang Chenghu immediately jumped on horseback, arched his hand to Lu Dashi and Li Zhutou, "One step ahead of the next...... ”

After speaking, he led his soldiers to beat their horses all the way and ran towards the road from which they came.

Seeing this, Li Zhutou immediately jumped on horseback and said loudly to Lu Dashi, "Lu Zhutou, let's go, maybe you can catch up with them?" ”

Lu Dashi nodded, jumped on horseback, and ran towards Qianwan Town with everyone.

The two small roads next to the official road are indeed the same as Lu Dashi guessed, which is the outer ring road of Nanjun Town.

When everyone came to the side of this path, seeing that Zhang Chenghu had already led people to run along the path to the south, Li Zhutou immediately shouted and wanted to catch up, but was stopped by Lu Dashi.

"Li Zhutou, since these two roads can lead to Qianwan Town, Captain Zhang and they have already gone to the south, let's go to the north and see if we can find anything?"

Hearing this, Li Zhutou nodded, and immediately led people towards the path to the north.

Although this road is small, it is only a little smaller than the official road, and the road is also very flat, along the way, everyone saw several horse teams, walking along the path, Lu Dashi guessed that it should be a horse team transporting goods, rushing to Qianwan Town.

The crowd rode all the way and ran for more than an hour before they arrived at the official road leading to the north gate of Nanjun City.

On the opposite side of the official road, there is indeed a small road that extends forward.

Everyone rested for a while, and then continued to run forward.

Along the way, Lu Dashi also asked a few horse teams, asking if he had seen more than a dozen people passing by on horseback, but no one saw them.

Lu Dashi wondered in his heart, could it be that Li Wenchang and they were walking from the other side?

The crowd rode in a hurry, and ran out for about an hour, and then arrived at the official road in front of the east gate.

When I arrived at the official road at the East City Gate, there were obviously more pedestrians and carriages on the road.

Pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages are not only coming from the southern county town, but also from the opposite side.

Everyone went up the official road, Li Zhutou pointed to the distance of the official road, and said to Lu Dashi, "Lu Zhutou, here I know that as long as we keep walking along this road, about 40 miles, we will reach Qianwan Town." ”

Speaking of this, Li Zhutou's tone paused, but then, he didn't wait for Lu Dashi to answer his words, so he continued to speak on his own.

"Lu Zhutou, let's hurry up, don't let them run away in a boat."

Hearing this, Lu Dashi nodded, "Okay, then we'll rush to Qianwan Town as soon as possible." ”

……

The town of Shallow Bay.

A few boats were parked in the river, and the snow on the wharf had long been swept into the river by the workers, and the flat ground was busy, full of noisy human voices, people coming and going, some moving goods, some carrying luggage, and some ...... with children.

Although there was chaos on the dock, it was much quieter when it came to the side of the boat.

Both the loading and the people on the ship became orderly and consciously lined up in a long line and walked along the long gangplank to the ship.

When Lu Dashiren arrived at the dock, he began to look around.

Lu Dashi carefully looked at the people on the dock, but shook his head in disappointment.

In the crowd on the dock, there was no trace of Li Wenchang.

Li Zhutou kept looking at Lu Dashi, and when he saw him shaking his head, he couldn't help but ask, "Lu Zhutou, isn't there them?" ”

Lu Dashi nodded silently.

Hearing this, Li Zhutou frowned, and shouted loudly to the catcher behind him, "Everyone listen to the order, immediately go to the front to inform, let all the ships not go offshore first, and then let them leave after we have searched." ”

"Yes!"

Hearing Li Zhutou's order, everyone hurriedly responded and ran towards the boat parked on the shore.

After the catchers ran over, there was a rush of chaos around the ship, and it didn't take long for it to calm down.

Seeing this, Li Zhutou turned his head to look at Lu Dashi, "Lu Zhutou, you know those gangsters, why don't we go and search?" ”

When Lu Dashi heard this, he shook his head with a wry smile, "Li Zhutou, you go, I'll wait for you here!" ”

After hearing Lu Dashi's words, Li Zhutou noticed that Lu Dashi's face was a little pale, and he asked in surprise, "Lu Zhutou, are you sick?" ”

Lu Dashi smiled bitterly and shook his head, "I don't like water, I'm dizzy, go ahead!" ”

Belch!

Hearing Lu Dashi's answer, Li Zhutou was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at the water in the bay, and asked suspiciously, "Lu Zhutou, what is there to be afraid of, we don't go into the water?" ”

Lu Dashi shook his head again, "Li Zhutou, you go over, you don't have to wait for me." ”

As the two of them were talking, they heard the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and hurriedly turned their heads to look.

"Captain Zhang, they're here!"

Lu Dashi nodded, looked at the few boats in the river that were controlled from a distance, and turned his head to say.

"Li Zhutou, wait a minute, you send someone to inquire and see if there are any boats that have sailed away within this hour."

Speaking of this, Lu Dashi's tone paused, and then he continued, "If a ship leaves and asks them for a list of passengers, I can check it carefully." ”

While the two were talking, Zhang Chenghu had already led people to a short distance from the two of them and restrained the war horse.

Zhang Chenghu jumped off the horse, walked quickly to the two of them, and said with a laugh, "I didn't expect you to run so fast that you arrived earlier than me." ”

When Li Zhutou heard this, he asked with a smile, "Captain Zhang, you left earlier than us, you should have arrived earlier than us, right?" ”

Zhang Chenghu waved his hand, "There are few people on the north city gate, and there are many people on the south city gate, and along the way, the horses can't run fast, so it's delayed." ”

Li Zhutou stretched out his hand and pointed to a few boats by the river, and said with a smile, "Captain Zhang, there are a total of 4 boats, your people are responsible for the two boats on the left, and my people are responsible for the two boats on the right, what do you think?" ”

"Haha, no problem, as long as those gangsters are on the boat, I will definitely find them out."