After crying for a while, Li Zicheng suddenly put down his hand, his eyes were full of murderous energy. He slammed his fists on the table in front of him, shaking the cups on the table and jumping up together, Li Zicheng's face was full of murder, and he said coldly: "Brother Chen is dead, is it useless for Lao Tzu to cry here?" Avenging him is the right thing to do, now let's solve Cao Wenzhao first, and then go hunt down and kill those Ming troops! ”

He said with a hideous face: "Lao Tzu swears here, even if he kills to the ends of the earth, he will cut off their heads and avenge my brother Chen!" ”

Liu Fangliang's eyes flashed with joy, and he said in a deep voice: "The general is wise." ”

To a certain extent, Liu Fangliang is not bad, Dong Ce has indeed led his subordinates to flee far away, and is not close to the county seat of Zhenning County. They had even moved away from Lushui and returned to the vicinity of the Jiulong River.

It's just that Dong Ce did not leave the county border of Zhenning County, let alone Qingyang Mansion, he led his subordinates to travel upstream along the river in the south of Jiulong River. The Jiulong River runs in a northeast and southwest direction, and Dong Ce and the others walked about thirty miles to the northeast before stopping. Here, it is already close to the birthplace of Jiulong River, the mountains are high and dense, and the people are rarely populated, and even the people can't see a few, and of course the outposts of the intruding army can't be put here. Hidden here, it's not easy to find.

Presumably Li Zicheng didn't expect that these officers and soldiers did not evacuate far away as he thought, but lurked around them, like a poisonous snake entrenched, and immediately sent a fatal blow after finding an opportunity.

In a hidden valley, Dong Ce set up camp.

Then, except for a few people who were left to guard the camp, everyone else was let out by Dong Ce. There were as many as two hundred and forty men who were released, and they were divided into seventy or eighty small groups in groups of three, and they went south from the camp to the south. Although the number of these more than 200 people is not much, the shop is very large, and a considerable area can be explored. The task given to them by Dong Ce was to explore the situation from Jiulongchuan to the surrounding area of Hutou Town.

The reason why they were divided into such a team was also to enhance their concealment, so as not to be discovered by the intruding army and arouse Li Zicheng's vigilance. If that's the case, then it's not going to be easy.

To tell the truth, Dong Ce knows his strength very well, and his only chance is to take advantage of Li Zicheng's defenselessness to highlight the surprise soldiers, so as to change the situation of the battle. If Li Zicheng is on guard against himself, he will not need to use more troops, as long as he keeps seven or eight hundred people and blocks his own direction, then he will be at a loss and have nothing to do.

So secrecy is key.

Two days later, in the evening, the camp in the dense forest was bathed in the evening sun, and it seemed very quiet. In the camp, Dong Ce was sitting outside his tent basking in the sun, frowning in contemplation. He thought as he drew something on the ground in front of him with the branch in his hand. Whenever someone passed by, he tiptoed to try to lighten his movements, for fear of disturbing him. After all these times of getting along, they all know a little bit about Dong Ce, and know that he doesn't like to be disturbed when he is thinking, and now it is obvious that he is thinking about something very important.

At this moment, suddenly there was a sound of horses' hooves outside the camp, and then three knights rode into the camp. This camp was originally set up in the dense forest, very secret, and there were no roads around it, but these days people have been back and forth, and they have already made a path in the dense forest.

Hearing the extremely rapid sound of horses' hooves, Dong Ce seemed to sense something, Huo Ran stood up and looked at the comer.

Although Dong Ce sent out most of his subordinates and put them far away, he had to come back every night, but when they came back, it was basically night, and it was still relatively rare to come back so early.

Something must have been discovered!

The three cavalrymen stepped forward, and one of them clasped his fists and saluted, "My subordinates have seen my lord." ”

Dong Ce took a look, but saw that the person in front of him was still an acquaintance, and he had known each other before.

It turned out to be Dong Zhongyong.

Dong Ce was very impressed by Dong Zhongyong, because Dong Zhongyong went to Yanghe City to find a girl after taking the first salary, but he caused a storm and was ordered to be imprisoned by Nayanghe County, and finally fished him out by himself.

"What did you find?"

Dong Ce stared at Dong Zhongyong and asked in a deep voice.

Dong Zhongyong's expression was a little excited, he took a deep breath, calmed down a bit, and said: "My lord, the three subordinates obeyed your orders, and they have already passed more than 20 miles to the south of Hutou Town. Then I found the traces of our Ming army. ”

Dong Ce's heart jumped suddenly, and he said, "Be careful!" ”

Dong Zhongyong said: "Twenty miles south of Hutou Town, we found an army of about 1,000 people, and they looked very embarrassed, losing their armor and untidy troops, and they looked like they had fled all the way. The three subordinates took advantage of the chaos and had the courage to catch a thief, and from his mouth they tortured, it turned out that there was a Ming army chasing behind them, and the commander of the Ming army was the famous Lord Cao Wenzhao. The elite under the command of Lord Cao Wenzhao bit them the day before yesterday, and they were in hot pursuit, and they had been chasing for more than a hundred miles in a row, and they were about to catch up, and they were fleeing for their lives in a hurry at this time. ”

After Dong Ce heard this, a voice shouted in his heart: "That's right! That's right! That's it, the decisive battle is just around the corner! ”

Cao Wenzhao is about to enter the town and is about to be introduced into the town.

It is estimated that Cao Wenzhao doesn't know what's going on now, and he may be triumphant about to catch up with and annihilate this invading army, but after Dong Ce got a lot of information, he roughly understood the plan of the invading army. There is no doubt that the cavalry of more than 1,000 people is the bait, a bait that is extremely sweet to Cao Wenzhao. And he chased this bait, and he would soon be introduced into the ambush circle, if there was no Dong Ce, I was afraid that Cao Wenzhao's death would not be far away.

Dong Ce hurriedly asked, "Did that person say anything else?" ”

Dong Zhongyong shook his head and said: "I didn't say anything more, and my subordinates and others saw that they couldn't ask anything from him, so they killed him and buried him alive." ”

Dong Ce nodded: "You did a good job." ”

Although it is a bit risky to capture them alone and torture them, they may be discovered, but as long as they deal with the whole thing, they should not suspect anything. It's just that I lost someone, and I can't think that I died on the way to escape, this kind of thing is also common.

It was also expected by Dong Ce that the army didn't know more, after all, the upper echelons of the army would not tell these low-level pawns what decisions they made. So in the eyes of this pawn, they were embarrassed to be chased by Cao Wenzhao, and he naturally didn't know more.