They received an emergency in the camp and were frightened half to death, Gao Hong and Du Jie did not have time to wait for the soldiers and horses to be assembled, and took a hundred cavalry and more than a hundred people to ride on the spare military horses on the road first, and the foot soldiers without horses were led by Liang Feng to follow behind, and the recruits and others who could not help much were taken by Liu Hong to wait for news in the river.

Soon everyone arrived, and there were soldiers in hand to let Liu Qi completely put his mind at ease, and he chose a particularly open river nearby to set up camp, and Liang Feng and Gao Hong, two experts, arranged the defense and then came to Liu Qi's tent to ask for details.

"Where did the rats come from, acting so shamelessly! Zi Yuan rest assured, there is no way to travel far in the dense forest at night, and tomorrow I will catch all these thieves to give Zi Yuan a breath! ”

The scouts went out to look into the enemy's ambush, and sure enough, the bend was covered with thistles, tripwires, and some shallow pits, and a shallow ditch filled with oil, and nine corpses were found in the dense forest, as well as a few rudimentary spears scattered around, and a fishing net.

It is not difficult to see that the other party is prepared, especially the iron thistle terrestris is the most hated by the cavalry, there is no horseshoe in the Han Dynasty, once the unprotected horse's hooves step on this thing, they will be crippled, and the person who falls off the horse will have to lose half his life, Gao Hong couldn't help but be furious when he heard it.

"Tell the scouts not to go deep into the dense forest, find out the direction of the enemy's escape and come back quickly."

Liu Qi also said with palpitations: "Fortunately, there is a flying knife to warn, otherwise even if you can break through, you will definitely lose a lot, Brother Zhenxiang, you should speed up the preparations with military dogs!" ”

"Yes, yes, I'll arrange it down, and ask about strange people who are good at taming beasts along the way, and I'll personally come to invite them as soon as there is news." Gao Hong got up and walked outside the tent, leaned over to touch the sweet flying knife that was sleeping before leaving the tent, Liu Qi chatted casually when he was leaving, and he was just joking, I didn't expect this little thing to play such a big role!

Liang Feng looked a little restrained in front of Liu Qi, he felt that this unknown enemy might be bandits from the nearby Xiaoju Mountains and Forests, there was no need to be so persistent in chasing and killing to the end, after all, there was no loss, leaving Jingzhou and going to Yuzhang County as soon as possible was the most important thing, and it really shouldn't be extraneous.

I wanted to open my mouth to persuade Liu Qi to say a few words, but seeing Gao Hong's indignant appearance, Liang Feng swallowed his words back, Gao Hong was just a small military Sima under his own hands, how could he speak in front of him, but now the situation is different, Gao Hong and Liu Qi have a lot of friendship, and their status is also rising, Liang Feng can only completely forget the past and start from scratch, since Gao Hong has already expressed his position, Liang Feng is naturally inconvenient to contradict again.

In fact, Liu Qi didn't see Zhang Jiao with his own eyes, but he firmly believed in his feelings, even if this feeling was wrong, he had to give it a try, Dunjia Tianshu was the most critical part of his homecoming, even if there was only one ten-thousandth hope, he had to do his best to fight for it!

The reason is that he can't tell anyone, but fortunately Liu Hong didn't follow, otherwise he would have to bother to explain, Liu Qi felt that the big secret hidden in his heart was too heavy, and he was already overwhelmed.

Heaven forbid, let me go home as soon as possible!

Liu Qi lay on the haystack covered with bear skin and prayed silently, praying that his feelings were not wrong, that he could catch Zhang Jiao smoothly tomorrow, and that he could see his relatives again......

It's a pity that the heavens didn't seem to hear Liu Qi's prayers, or they didn't want to end the test on him at all, Liu Qi almost succeeded, but there was often a difference between success and failure.

In the early morning of the next day, when the sky was just able to see, Liu Qi commanded his subordinates to start acting, they entered the dense forest and followed the traces left by Zhang Jiao, and found that Zhang Jiao slipped away from the camp they set up last night, it seems that Zhang Jiao and Liu Qi had the same purpose, but the camp defense line was tight and there was no chance to take advantage of it, so they had to give up.

It was obviously difficult to attack a fast-moving cavalry unit during the day, and Liu Qi immediately ordered the whole army to advance quickly, and he led all the cavalry along the trail to chase forward first.

Liu Qi's first wish came true, he set a trap yesterday and was indeed chased by him today, Zhang Jiao, who planned to leave calmly by boat from the waterway, almost heard the sound of water, but the deafening sound of horses' hooves came from behind.

Yesterday's great opportunity was bad on a dog, Zhang Jiao learned a lesson and knew to keep enough distance as much as possible so that he slipped away from Liu Qi's camp last night, but Zhang Jiao still underestimated the role of the dog, with the flying knife, Liu Qi could quickly follow up without stopping, and the slow speed of travel in the complex terrain in the dark night can be imagined, although it was nearly three hours ahead of Liu Qi, Zhang Jiao was still caught up by Liu Qi effortlessly.

Without any prelude, Liu Qi's iron cavalry torrent pounced on the panicked enemy without the slightest pause, and only two rounds of arrow rain shot Zhang Jiao's elite who thought he had the strength to fight, and Zhang Jiao looked at the direction of the big river a few miles away with a blue face, and the boats that had been waiting by the river for a long time seemed to be able to see it, but now they had to re-burrow into the cold and difficult mountain forest.

"Daoist ......"

The Great Virtuous Teacher is Zhang Jiao's nickname in front of outsiders, Zhang Jiao is known as the Taoist Master in Taiping Dao, and the subordinates around him opened their mouths to persuade Zhang Jiao to go up the mountain to avoid Liu Qi's cavalry, but when they saw Zhang Jiao's gloomy and terrible gaze, they couldn't help but tremble and didn't dare to say it again.

Through the withered branches, Zhang Jiao stared at the majestic Liu Qi, with mixed feelings of hatred and joy in his heart, happy that he did not choose the wrong person, this son is really not a mortal, not only quickly adapted to the era of thousands of years, but also lived a good life, but now he forced himself to flee in embarrassment.

What I hate is that the old stubborn master Yu Ji refuses to help him create an earth-shattering career, joke! How can a man's husband have this amazing ability, and it is better to do it vigorously than to live a hundred years old.

Cure the sick and save people, can this world still save it?

Zhang Jiao hated Yu Ji for being stubborn, not only did he not understand himself, but he obstructed him, and took away Liu Qi, who had only been able to find out after countless efforts......

It was all meant to be your own!

There was a heavy footstep sound in the distance, it was Liu Qi's rear team of foot soldiers who came, and if he didn't leave, he would be surrounded, Zhang Jiao was extremely angry and slammed a palm to a big tree beside him, and the big tree that the two hugged made a clear breaking sound, and the bark splashed and the dead branches fell in all directions.

"Let's go!"

This palm stabilized the surrounding subordinates slightly, Zhang Jiao sighed, glanced deeply at Liu Qi, who was surrounded in the center in the distance, and turned around and walked towards the depths of the mountains and forests with great reluctance.

In the next two days, in addition to waiting for the results of the search mountain, Liu Qi was full of regret, if he waited patiently for a quarter of an hour, Zhang Jiao would rush to the river, and then launch a surprise attack Zhang Jiao would have no way to go to the sky and no way to enter the ground, blaming himself for being too anxious and only thinking about intercepting Zhang Jiao, and even forgetting the most basic combat principles under impulse.

Liu Qi regretted it and couldn't get it back, in the face of the mountains, he was too small, and after a whole day, except for more than 30 lone shrimp soldiers and crab generals, Zhang Jiao, the big fish, was still nowhere to be found, and Liu Hong sent back the news that Liu Biao and Huang Zu's messenger arrived in Wu County, and it seemed that he successfully accepted the olive branch sent by Liu Qi for Liu Zhang.

Finally, there was good news, which made Liu Qi, who was extremely disappointed, finally able to recover some of his spirits and ordered the futile search to end.

When he was about to leave the tent, Gao Hong asked casually: "Ziyuan, what about those thieves who have been caught?" Do you want to send someone back to Yizhou? ”

"Uh, this ......"

This stumped Liu Qi, although those captives were all strong and strong, but who knew which one was a diehard, so Liu Qi never dared to take them in and bury hidden dangers for himself, and it was a bit redundant to escort them back to Yizhou, even if he did that, would Liu Zhang really believe that he was dedicated to the public and traveled thousands of miles to hunt down the rebels?

Cai Yangqi said: "Pull it to the river to solve it on the spot, why bother?" ”

Staring at the thieves who were tied up by the five flowers but still struggling and scolding, Liu Qi couldn't help but feel embarrassed, leaving these diehards to send people to guard day and night in addition to wasting food, that would be asking for trouble.

Is it according to what Cai Yang said......

No, no, no!

As if the organ had been touched, as soon as this thought flashed, a strong reaction occurred somewhere in Liu Qi's heart.

But even if someone contributes to escort them back to Yizhou, won't they die as a result? It is absolutely impossible to let them go, and it is better to let them go around harming innocent people than to cut them down.

After thinking about it, he was still hesitant, seeing that his subordinates had already prepared and were just waiting to be pulled, but he wanted to waste time for such a trivial matter, Liu Qihao was not in a hurry.

Hey, forget it, leave them to do hard labor and forgive their sins!

Liu Qi said to himself: "Giving you dozens of days is always enough to be sober and sober, if you still don't know the current affairs and have bad intentions, don't blame me for being ruthless!" ”

"Take them with you, it's useful to keep them!"

Cai Yang only waited for Liu Qi's order to go up and cut people, who knew that Liu Qi finally came to such a hand, what is the use of keeping these scourges? Although he didn't understand Liu Qi's intentions, since the boss ordered Cai Yang to only carry out faithfully, he immediately ordered his subordinates to come forward and arrest people.

Suddenly, a familiar face hiding behind people was revealed in the chaos, and Liu Qi, who was about to leave, stopped immediately after seeing it inadvertently.

"Stop!"

With a startled sound, Liu Qi jumped over with a knife and kicked away a few thieves one after another.

A thief who was trembling with his hands over his face was revealed, and two guards stepped forward and twisted their arms to grab their hair and pull it back, revealing the thief's face in front of everyone.

"Ahh

"What kind of person is this! ……”

"Is this still human! ……”

Except for the thief's accomplice and Liu Qi, everyone was taken aback and talked about it.

The thief's nose was severely distorted and ulcerated, and his upper lip was also open to reveal a hollow mouth, which had to scare a few people to death if he went out in the middle of the night.

This person is the person Liu Qi inadvertently bumped into in Meicheng on the way back to Quren from Linjiang, the last time he met this person, he was attacked by the Yellow Turban thieves in Langxi Village a few days after he last encountered, this time he almost crashed into Zhang Jiao's trap This person reappeared, and it is not difficult to understand the connection.