Wang Zamao, who was put on a stand by Yuan Sanzhong, was full of hatred in his heart at this time, regardless of the slippery feet and carrying a torch to rush through the mountains and forests, even if he fell, he got up without saying a word and continued to rush, and everyone around him knew that he was angry and didn't dare to provoke him.

Shima Mountain is a long and narrow hill about ten miles long from north to south, east and west wide but three or four miles, Yuan Sanzhong originally hid the one on the post is not far from the southernmost point, at this time Wang Zamao and his party have run down the hillside, as long as they pass through the valley below and walk a few miles to reach the foot of the six peaks, this road is not only bumpy and difficult to walk and the trees are very lush, plus it is easy to get lost in the middle of the night!

Even if there were mountain people leading the way, they couldn't figure out the direction for a long time, but Wang Zamao was even more anxious and scolded those mountain people for being useless, so frightened that they didn't dare to say anything.

"That Yunguang Temple is at the foot of Liufeng Mountain, if Bai Wang goes to plunder, he must not let go of the fire, let's see the fire gone" Someone thought he was smart and wanted to go up the tree to check but was kicked over by Wang Zamao: "Are you as stupid as Bai Wang as you, for fear that others will not find you and light a fire!" ”

Some people really climbed the tree and looked around, but apart from the sound of wind and rain, it was a dark night, and there was no fire at all...... Oh, there is a faint fire in a certain direction, and the range is extremely wide, it can't be the direction of the temple, there is no doubt that Xu Hongji and the others are located.

"Where is the fire?" At this time, Wang Tizhong hurriedly walked over, wiped the rain on his face, and looked up and asked the people on the tree.

Where, the person on the tree pointed in a direction, Wang Tizhong smiled, and patted Wang Zamao on the shoulder: "You still have to learn a little" said and beckoned everyone to follow him.

Wang Zamao patted his head, fuck, why did he forget that the people behind him can actually be reversed, and then caught up with Wang Tizhong: "If Bai Wang enters the mountain, will we still chase it?" ”

"Do you want to be knighted?" The king didn't turn his head back, Wang Zamao gritted his teeth and stomped his feet: "Damn, if you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get the tiger, Lao Tzu will consume it with him, and this great wealth may be smashed on the old man's head."

"It's good to have this thought" Wang Tizhong heeled: "For now, the two of us will take the lead, and the rest will depend on the destiny of heaven!" As they were talking, there was a commotion in front of them, and the two frowned, and then saw their subordinates hurrying over with more than ten people: "General, Bai Wang's people."

As soon as the more than ten people saw Wang Tizhong, they knelt down: "The general and we have come to vote for you, and I will follow you to beg for food in the future" Wang Tizhong took a step forward and grabbed one person: "With Bai Wang, it is still Yuan Sanzhong's."

The man hurriedly said: "General, I am with Bai Wang, and some of the brothers behind are with Yuan Sanzhong...... Wang Tizhong raised his eyebrows: "How many people have you run out in total?" ”

"There are more than 100 of them" The man swallowed: "The brothers know that the general is chasing after tens of thousands of people, and they don't want to go into the mountains with Bai Wang to be a savage, so they secretly ran away a lot when he plundered the monk's temple, and I don't know how many ran in total, but we have more than 100 brothers in this group......"

Wang Tizhong and Wang Zamao glanced at each other, and a rare smile appeared on their faces, Wang Zamao took a step forward and asked, "Do you know where Bai Wang fled to at this time, how many people and how much food do he have under him?" ”

"At sunset, Bai Wang planned to ambush you, and then I heard that the army was chasing and let Yuan Sanzhong drag you behind, as soon as it was dark, he took it to rob the Yunguang Temple, and then we took the opportunity to escape and he also entered the Liufeng Mountain, as for hiding there at this time, we really don't know, half an hour ago, Wang Tizhong took people through the Yunguang Temple and also entered the mountain...... "A dozen deserters said what they knew: "Bai Wang now has about seven or eight hundred people under his hands, and the food is enough to eat for three or five days......"

"How big is this six-peaked mountain, and are there any people in it?" Wang Tizhong asked these deserters again, but he shook his head and didn't know, and asked the few mountain people who led the way, and said that the farthest had only been to Yunguang Temple to incense, but had never entered the mountain.

Wang Tizhong's eyes narrowed: "Can the monks in the temple be killed?" ”

"Kill is kill, but I don't know if you have killed them all" The deserter hurriedly said, Wang Tizhong pondered for a while, and then said to these deserters: "Do you do meritorious work?" ”

"General, although you commanded, we have said that we will eat with you in the future" The deserters patted their chests and shouted, and Wang Tizhong smiled: "You go to the mountains to chase him, if you can catch up with Bai Wang and kill him, Lao Tzu will reward you with a thousand taels of silver, and give you a title official, if you can't succeed, you will spread the news in his army, as long as you come and surrender, you will be rewarded, kill Bai Wang and reward him with a thousand taels of silver!" As he spoke, he took out a few taels of silver from his arms and glanced at Wang Zamao next to him, Wang Zamao was stunned, and then quickly took out some silver and handed it to Wang Tizhong.

Wang Tizhong stuffed the silver into the hands of one person: "Do you want to do this work?" ”

The deserter was a little embarrassed: "General, our brothers will naturally do this meritorious thing, but let's not talk about Shang Baiwang who can't chase him, that is, how to win his trust when we catch up, we have been on the run for more than an hour."

"This is not difficult, you just say that you got lost in the mountains, even if Bai Wang suspects it, there is no evidence, not to mention that he is the time to employ people at this time, and you don't have to rush to do it first, slowly look at the opportunity and then start, to put it bluntly, this is a job of luck, do it or not!"

Done! More than a dozen people looked at each other a few times and nodded, they are all smart people, if they say not to do it at this time, they are afraid that Wang Tizhong will chop them immediately, although it is risky to go back, it may not be a dead end, a big deal is to follow Bai Wang, besides, maybe you can really find a chance to kill Bai Wang and earn this great achievement, otherwise you can go into the mountain and say that you haven't caught up.

However, Wang Tizhong did not fully pin his hopes on these deserters, but just left a spare hand, which also made Wang Zamao gain his knowledge, use his brain to do things, and leave a backup hand for the back road.

Seeing that it was raining late at night and his subordinates were exhausted, but there was nowhere to rest in this barren mountain range, he ordered to continue to advance and go to the monk temple at the foot of Liufeng Mountain to rest again, and the soldiers had to grit their teeth and persevere.

After drilling for several miles in the rain, I finally saw the road, a rugged mountain road that was not as wide as a zhang, and the mountain people who led the road said that it led to the Yunguang Temple of Liufeng Mountain.

Along the mountain road, everyone soon found that Yunguang Temple was still a small temple, but at this time, it was ...... Hey, there was a faint fire inside, Wang Tizhong didn't care about letting his subordinates go to explore himself and rushed in, as soon as he entered the mountain gate, he saw that there was a mess everywhere, and there was a faint cry, so he shouted: "But the monk in the temple?" The crying ceased, and the fire was extinguished.

Wang Tizhong smiled: "Monk, don't be afraid, we are officers and soldiers who go into the mountains to chase and suppress bandits, and we are not interested in robbing and killing monks, just temporarily borrow a treasure to rest and ask a few words by the way, if the monk does not come out, we will go in by ourselves."

After a while, the fire in the temple was lit up again, and four or five gray-faced monks walked over with the firelight, trembling: "You are really officers and soldiers, ........." Suddenly seeing that these people outside the temple gate were dressed like thieves, they suddenly looked frightened, and their legs began to weaken.

"If it weren't for the officers and soldiers, would they be so polite with you" Wang Tizhong walked in and looked around, and when he saw the corpses of monks all over the ground, he couldn't help frowning, damn Bai Wang has become hysterical now, you rob the monk's temple, why do you kill so many monks, but of course he also knows that Bai Wang is just killing people.

Several surviving monks saw that although these people were no different from thieves, but they did not do the things of thieves, they breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, and hurriedly welcomed Wang Ti Zhongren into the main hall of the temple and took clean clothes for him to change into, and then they talked endlessly about Bai Wang's evil deeds, and after entering the temple, they plundered the temple of grain, incense, and fire money, and killed people at will.

Wang Tizhong does not care about these things, so that his subordinates enter the temple to take shelter from the rain and rest, this Yunguang Temple is the main hall of the three large courtyards plus the side hall and other buildings are a lot, although it can not accommodate more than 1,000 people, but the corner of the eaves of the corridor to avoid the wind and rain is better than nothing.

It didn't take long for the entire temple to be overcrowded, whether it was the main hall, the Buddhist hall, or the monk's house, and even the firewood kitchen was crowded with soldiers who sheltered from the wind and rain.

The food in the temple has been plundered by the thieves, but there is a lot of firewood, the king body will let his subordinates make a fire to warm and boil water to keep out the cold, he and Wang Zamao are in the hall to interrogate the few surviving monks, learned that the six peaks behind the mountain, the mountain is high and there is no road to pass, the monks have gone deep into it to collect medicine, and there is no village in the mountain, at least within a radius of ten miles.

Hearing this, Wang Tizhong and Wang Zamao secretly rejoiced in their hearts, if there were no villagers to plunder Bai Wang, he would only rely on that grain to support for three or five days at most, and when he ran out of ammunition and food, it would be the time when the people's hearts were betrayed, even if he did not surrender and his troops collapsed.

Hearing that the officers and soldiers were going into the mountains to chase the thieves, although the monks felt that revenge was possible, they also advised the king to wait until dawn before entering the mountain, because on a rainy night, he could not see the high forest of Wuzhi Mountain, there was no road, and he could lose his way at any time, and the thieves did not light a fire when they fled, and they did not know which direction they were going.

Wang Tizhong fell into deep thought, standing at the door of the main hall and looking at the north vaguely saw a faint fire flickering in the distance, knowing that Xu Hongji and others were there, but the distance was at least a dozen miles away, this was only a straight line distance, in fact, it was twenty or thirty miles away in the mountains, they walked too slowly, and it was estimated that they could reach Yunguang Temple at dawn at this speed.

"Let's go, let's have a tight time" Wang Zamao exhaled a long breath behind Wang Tizhong: "Go together or divide into two ways?" ”

Wang Tizhong turned his head and looked at the simple map of the surrounding area drawn by a few monks on the ground of the main hall just now, after Yunguang Temple is Liufeng Mountain, so the name is as if there are six mountains, the mountains are high and the forests are dense, easy to hide, and easy to defend and difficult to attack, but there are no villages in the deep mountains, Baiwang is not enough grain and grass, there are thousands of mouths around him, and he will last for four or five days at most, so he will not enter the mountain.

But from Yunguang Temple to the west of more than ten miles of mountains, there is a big canyon, there is a river in the canyon, Baiyang River!

That's right, it is the Baiyang River, which flows through the west of Chizhou City to join the Qiupu River and then flows north into the river.

Will Bai Wang run west into the canyon and unexpectedly counterattack Chizhou City along the Baiyang River?

The possibility was almost remote, as he had almost no strength to fight again.

But his canyon extends in all directions, and he may cross the river to the west and detour in the mountains to other places to get out of the mountain, for example, a few more mountains is the Qiupu River, and the Qiupu River can reach the Wutou Lake where Chang Yu is at this time, and even go around to the opposite bank of Anqing.

Moreover, there are villages on the other side of the Baiyang River valley, which can be plundered to supplement grain and grass......

But Bai Wang is like a lost dog at this time, in a hurry, will he choose to go into the mountains to avoid the limelight first, or in the long run, run west from the canyon into the mountains, while scurrying and plundering, while looking for opportunities to go out of the mountains from other places?

The king is uncertain, if thousands of people flee during the day, there will be traces left, but at this time, it is dark and rainy in the middle of the night, and it is impossible to determine its whereabouts.

Thinking about it for a while, he hesitated, and Wang Zamao was anxious: "I'll go south into the mountain, how about you chase west?" ”

Wang Tizhong was about to speak, suddenly heard the noise outside, it turned out that there were people under Bai Wang's deserters to surrender, these people took advantage of the darkness of the night to quietly escape from the team and hide in the mountains and forests did not dare to move, until they saw that there was a fire in Yunguang Temple, knowing that it must be the officers and soldiers coming, so they hurriedly came to surrender, and saw that it was still the original old acquaintance, and the heart was also happy.

"When Bai Wang left, he caught a few monks to lead the way, and ran west without entering the mountain!" The deserters definitely and definitely sold Bai Wang, but Wang Tizhong and Wang Zamao didn't believe it all, who knows if Bai Wang deliberately sent it to confuse them!

Therefore, the two men decided to divide their troops into two routes, the small group into the mountain, and the large group to the west, if there was no trace of the enemy on the mountain at dawn, they would descend from the western slope to the canyon to meet.

After some agreement, Wang Tizhong and Wang Zamao led their troops to leave Yunguang Temple, and the soldiers continued to search and arrest in the rain and blackmail.