Chapter 36 Tracking
Li Lingfeng and Situ Liang took some of their scouts to guard outside Feng Tiancheng's cottage for a whole day, but they didn't even see a single figure, but they didn't dare to make a fire or move on a large scale, for fear that they would disturb the gang of bandits in Feng Tiancheng's village.
And God seemed to be working against them, and the next morning, snowflakes began to fall in the hazy sky, and the temperature suddenly became lower, which froze Situ Liang and Li Lingfeng so much that they had no temper, but Li Lingfeng firmly believed that this incident was done by Feng Tiancheng's subordinates, and resolutely refused to give up the monitoring of Feng Tiancheng's village, so Situ Liang and others had to follow Li Lingfeng to continue to monitor Feng Tiancheng's movements in the forest.
As the snow gets heavier and heavier, although such a heavy snow indicates that next year's summer grain may have a good harvest, at least it will not be as dry as the previous two years, but for Li Lingfeng and his party, this heavy snow is not a good time, as the snow gets heavier and heavier, Li Lingfeng's thoughts can't help but waver.
He began to suspect that these attacks on the villagers this time might not have been done by Feng Tiancheng's people, from the beginning he was misled by his own ideas, and he may have misunderstood Feng Tiancheng's gang of bandits, and the other is that even if Feng Tiancheng's people did this, then it was snowing so heavily in the sky, Feng Tiancheng's subordinates were likely to shrink in the cottage to avoid the cold, and they would not come out to do things again, and there was no need for them to wait like this.
So after Li Lingfeng and Situ Liang discussed it, they decided to give up here for the time being, lest they fail to catch Feng Tiancheng sending people to cause trouble, and their own gang would freeze to death in this ice and snow first.
So the group simply packed up their things, and then went out of the forest to other places to continue to visit the news, but just as they were leaving, a scout who was monitoring Feng Tiancheng's stockade at the edge of the forest suddenly ran into the forest and said to Li Lingfeng and Situ Liang in a low voice: "Qiqi two team generals, Feng Bai's face of the village has moved, there are one hundred and ten people out of the village, I don't know where to go!" ”
After hearing this, Li Lingfeng and Situ Liang glanced at each other, and they both saw a hint of surprise in each other's eyes, so the two of them didn't say a word, and immediately rushed to the edge of the forest and looked outside.
Zhao Xueyao proudly took the hundred and tenth subordinates, braved the snow and walked out of the cottage, although the weather was freezing to death at this time, but these people were all with a beaming look, this time Feng Tiancheng arranged the work for them is really cool, there is not only silver to take, but also reward money into the bag, and women to play, although there are snowflakes floating in the sky, but it can't stop their enthusiasm for 'work'.
And this snow is an excellent cover in their eyes, after they did a few votes a few days ago, they were still a little worried that they would be caught by the Xingtian army, but now looking at this ghost weather, it is wind and snow, in response to Liu Zongyuan's poem, thousands of mountains and birds fly away, and thousands of people disappear! It's everyone looking for a place to hide from the cat winter, who will come out to find trouble with them!
So in Zhao Xueyao's opinion, going out at this time is the safest time, and after they finish their work, it is not easy to be followed, and the heavy snow will soon cover their tracks, if they don't go out at this time, when will they go out?
So he immediately ordered his subordinates and told Feng Tiancheng, Feng Tiancheng also felt that it was really good to go out at this time, so he ordered them out of the stockade.
This time their target is no longer just one village, Zhao Xueyao plans to divide his subordinates into three groups, and start at the same time, come down overnight, hurry up, and it is not impossible to ransack six villages.
And they are all locals, they are very familiar with the local situation, on the boundary of this Yangcheng territory, they want to come and go, and it is estimated that they will come back tomorrow, and they can get a lot of money and food, and then capture a few beautiful women.
These times, they took one or twenty young women captive, Feng Tiancheng took two of the most beautiful girls, and the rest were rewarded to them.
But they didn't expect that in the mountains and forests outside their cottage, there were more than a dozen pairs of eyes, staring at them.
Seeing this group of people swaggering out of Feng Tiancheng's stockade and walking towards the west, Li Lingfeng and Situ Liang glanced at each other and nodded.
"The brothers have cheered up Lao Tzu, and business has come to the door! Follow them with me and see what these guys want to do on such a snowy day! I guess it's these bastards who can't get the shit pot on our heads! ”
Li Lingfeng and Situ Liang returned to the forest, gathered their subordinates together, and said to them, the group couldn't hide the excitement in their eyes, nodded vigorously one by one, and immediately went deeper into the forest to take out their mounts, dusted off the snow on the felt on the mounts, led the horses one after another, made a detour out of the forest, avoided the sight of the sentry post in Feng Tiancheng's village, passed through a blind spot where they observed, circled, and followed behind the group of people in front of them.
The group of people in front seemed to be sure that no one would find their traces at this time, and they laughed unscrupulously with each other, while Li Lingfeng and the others could only stay far behind them in order to prevent the people in front of them from discovering that they were following, and they had to find something to hide their figures from time to time.
And their horses were also chewed at this time, and the bells under their necks had already been taken off, so that they couldn't make a sound, just staring at the group of people in front of them from a distance, but they couldn't hear what they were talking about, in short, these bastards were very excited now, and they didn't feel hard at all marching in the snow, which made Li Lingfeng and the others depressed after them, and they all scolded in their hearts.
In this way, they have been walking for nearly half a day, seeing that the sky has already darkened, Li Lingfeng and they have been hanging far behind this group of people, and this place has crossed the Lotus Mountain, approached Shanghe Village, and basically approached the Moze River, which is already the village on the edge of the area that the Xingtian Army can control for the time being.
And Li Lingfeng didn't expect that these people would actually brave the snow to drive such a long way to this place, and then turn their heads to look at the people and horses on their side, everyone was almost turned into snowmen, and even a layer of snow fell on the back of the horses, which just provided them with good cover, as long as they didn't move, looking at them from a distance, they would only think that they were a pile of stones!
"Team Lee! Look, this group of people has divided into three groups here, and they have dispersed in three directions! What shall we do? A scout who was walking in front of him to open the way suddenly stopped, squatted on the ground and looked at the footprints on the road, and said to Li Lingfeng, who was following up.
Li Lingfeng squatted down and took a look, if this was the case, the group in front of him was at this intersection, divided into three roads, and went in three directions, which couldn't help but make him a little nervous, "Could it be that they have been discovered by this group of people?" ’
But after observing the footprints on the snow, he dispelled this doubt, after the group broke up, it was obvious that they were going in the direction of the three villages, each group of people was about thirty people, and these more than thirty people were no longer for these small villages in the local area, and the people in the village could no longer deal with them, obviously, these people did not find that they were following behind, but acted separately here, it seemed that they wanted to deal with three villages at the same time.
After Li Lingfeng arrived here with the army, he inquired about Feng Tiancheng's style of acting, although this guy is also a bandit, but his style of acting is different from Zhao Datong and Xiao Butcher, he adheres to the principle that rabbits do not eat the grass next to the nest, and rarely causes trouble in the local area, only takes people out often to run errands, robs money and ties meat tickets back, and the locals do not hate him, and it is precisely for this reason that Feng Tiancheng is not well-known in the local area, and several times the government cracks down on bandits, but he has not found his head.
And looking at the situation of these people today, it is obviously different from Feng Tiancheng's usual style of acting, so Li Lingfeng is even more certain that these people are the guys who detain basins for their Xingtianjun.
"Brother Situ, why don't we also divide into three roads, you and I and Liu Xiaoyi each take one road, and follow them to see what they are going to do?" Li Lingfeng squatted down and discussed with Situ Liang.
Situ Liang frowned, thought for a while, shook his head, and said, "I don't think it's easy to divide troops now!" There are only a dozen of us, and after we separate, even if we find out that they are harming these villages, I am afraid that there is no way to deal with them, so we can only send someone back to report the news, and when the general learns the news and leads his troops to rush over, the cucumber vegetables are cold! So I pondered, now I will send someone to report the news, I am afraid it will be too late to invite the general over!
If you want me to see, this is a good opportunity for us, let's not divide the troops, gather together, and keep up with the people all the way, if they are really the bastards who deduct the basin for us, then we don't have to be polite, let's do it tonight, touch them one by one, kill them, and save them from running away! I don't know what Brother Li thinks? ”
After Li Lingfeng heard this, he thought about it for a while and felt reasonable, but for the sake of safety, he still ordered Liu Xiaoyi, one of the chief of the scouts, to immediately return to Lianhua Mountain to report the news, and bring people over to block several intersections in this area.
The scouts of the Xingtian Army are different from ordinary soldiers, because they have to act alone many times, so they pay more attention to personal martial arts, so the selected scouts, after repeated screening and elimination of this year, are all quite good people, and if they are prepared to fight unprepared, more than a dozen people to deal with more than 30 bandits should be a matter of hand-to-hand, so the other party's division of troops has created an opportunity for them to start.
After making a plan, Liu Xiaoyi was ordered, immediately turned over and got on the horse, and immediately ran towards the direction of Lotus Mountain by the light of the snow.
The rest of the people checked the equipment, continued to lead the horse, chose a path, and chased after a group of Feng Tiancheng's men.