There are only four ancient roads connecting Hanzhong Guanzhong across the Qinling Mountains, but it does not mean that there are only four roads to go in this majestic mountain, between the lofty mountains and mountains of the Qinling Mountains, there are countless branch roads, these paths are more difficult and rugged than the four ancient roads and difficult to pass, and these paths themselves are naturally formed by the mountains and valleys, and at the end, or communicate with the four ancient roads, or become a desperate road.

The Wei State spy disguised as a woodcutter did not choose the road, climbed the cliff five or six zhang high in a hurry, and fled along the steep mountain road towards the depths of the mountain.

It turns out that Zhang Le has a chance of winning, the right side of the Dujiaping checkpoint is a cliff, the left is a river valley, there is only a pass that only allows a carriage to pass, the checkpoint is a village, there are dozens of heavily armed soldiers guarded, and there are more wooden fences to block the horses, Zhang Le is leading people to block the way back.

After Zhang Le saw through the true face of the spy, he thought that he could catch the turtle in the urn and catch it with his hands, but he never expected that this Wei spy was so vigorous that it only took a few breaths to climb the cliff five or six zhang high with his bare hands.

"Damn!" Zhang Le was unprepared for a while, and actually let the Wei spy escape, he couldn't help but curse secretly, and immediately led someone to chase after him.

Facing a cliff five or six zhang high and almost vertical, Zhang Le thought that he had no means of rock climbing, but this was definitely not difficult for these officers of the Lieutenant's Mansion, they were hunting for murderers and thieves, what kind of environment had not been seen, this small cliff was really nothing.

One of the officers pulled out his claws, threw them high, and hooked them firmly onto a large tree on the edge of the cliff. With a rope as an aid, it was no longer difficult to climb the cliff five or six feet high, and immediately a swift officer grabbed the rope and climbed the cliff.

Zhang Le also went up the cliff, but there was no trace of the Wei spy.

"Captain Zhang, what should I do?" One of his officers asked anxiously, trying to find someone in the vast mountains was almost like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Zhang Le bent down unhurriedly, carefully examining the traces left in the trail.

He has been serving as Lieutenant Zuofu in the Lieutenant's Mansion for several years, Zhang Le can also be regarded as a master of arresting and investigating cases, if there are many people coming and going in the Chencang Ancient Road, it is indeed not easy to find out the traces of a person's passage, but on this cliff barren mountains and mountains, it is inaccessible, even if there are some traces, they are also left by wild beasts, and the footprints of people are not the same as the footprints of wild beasts.

Sure enough, Zhang Le quickly found a clear footprint in a bush of weeds.

"Chase in that direction!" Zhang Le resolutely pointed in the direction of the depths of the mountain, and dozens of officers from the Lieutenant's Mansion pounced on him like wolves.

This mountain road is more precipitous than the ancient road of Chencang, in the strict sense, this is not a road at all, thorns are all over the field, bumpy and difficult, on the thorns, there is obviously a trace of broken cloth, which is obviously left by the Wei State spy.

Zhang Le grinned, it seemed that he really recognized the right direction.

"Speed up, and before it gets dark, make sure to catch up with that spy!" Zhang Le gave the order.

However, they soon ran into a problem, and the further they went, the more steep the road became, and there were many forks in the road. Zhang Le was worried, and divided several groups of people to go to several different forks in the road to explore the road.

"Captain Zhang, I found a few rags here!" The missionaries who explored the path returned to report.

Zhang Le's spirit was shocked, and he was about to track in that direction, when the errand who was exploring the road on the other road also came back to report: "Qi Qi Zhang Duwei, a few drops of blood were found on that road. ”

While Zhang Le was still hesitating, another messenger came over and said, "Captain Zhang, a few clear footprints have been found on the road over there, which are exactly the same as the footprints found before. ”

Damn, this spy is really cunning!

Zhang Le couldn't help but curse, but he was really worried, there were traces left by spies on these three roads, which were obviously deliberately left, the purpose was to confuse the public and lead them astray, if the soldiers were divided into three ways, it was obvious that there was a shortage of manpower, and it would be dark soon, whether there were Wei spies in front of them, whether there was an ambush, Zhang Le had no bottom in his heart.

However, he has already chased here, and if he gives up easily, this is definitely not Zhang Le's style.

Just when Zhang Le was in a dilemma, Liu Yin also led people to catch up.

"How? Did you catch it? Liu Yin asked as soon as he caught up with him.

Zhang Le said helplessly: "This guy is very cunning, knowing that walking in this barren mountain and wilderness, it is impossible to avoid leaving traces no matter what, but simply leaves obvious traces on every fork in the road, so that we have no way to track it." ”

There are still three holes in the cunning rabbit, not to mention the Wei State spy who is more cunning than the cunning rabbit, which is not surprising to Liu Yin.

"Big brother, what should we do, do we have to divide our troops to chase after us?" Zhang Leji had nothing to say, so he could only ask Liu Yin.

Liu Yin looked at the red sun and said: "Dividing the troops is the next policy, the Wei spies arranged it like this, it is an attempt to let us divide the troops, how can we be tricked?" The enemy is dark and I am clear, it will be late, and I don't know if there is an ambush in front of the Wei spies, so I blindly chase after it, only afraid of the plan. ”

Zhang Le glared and said, "Then we will watch the Wei State spies flee under our noses?" When I was at the checkpoint, I slashed down with a knife, cut off the spy flat burden, and in the middle of the flat burden, a roll of cloth fell out, I really suspect that the cloth painted on the cloth is the Hanzhong defense map, if he is allowed to escape, then we will not waste all our efforts? ”

Liu Yin's eyes lit up and said, "Are you sure that scroll of cloth is related to the Hanzhong defense map?" ”

Zhang Le muttered and said: "I haven't seen anything written on the silk with my own eyes, but the spy hid the cloth in the hollow flat shoulder, which must be an extremely important document. At that time, it was also half a step slower on my feet, and the cloth was picked up by the spies first, otherwise it would ......"

Liu Yin nodded thoughtfully, what Zhang Le said was very reasonable, that scroll of cloth was likely to be the Hanzhong defense map, and the Wei spies spared no effort to smuggle it out.

But this spy is too cunning, and it is not easy to catch him.

"Lord Youcheng, there is someone on the mountain in front of you." There was a messenger with sharp eyes, and he saw someone on the top of the mountain from a distance, and immediately reported to Liu Yinyu.