Chapter 302： capture

Qi Haoran chopped Feng Yu, and went straight to Jiangyou with 20 people, while sending a letter asking General Lu Can to send another 2,000 people to the town.

Although it has been rumored that they will not kill those people, and they have been brainwashed from their thoughts, but some people can't help but want to escape. Therefore, Qi Haoran made some preparations for this.

Mu Shi had already led people to surround Jiangyou and surrounded Jiang Zhong in the county seat.

And the rebels who wanted to come back were held back by the garrison of Tongchuan Prefecture.

Jiang Zhong in the county seat looked sullenly at the troops that had been besieging the city outside, and said, "We can't wait any longer, we will break through tonight, or even if they don't attack the city, we will be surrounded to death."

At this time, Qi Haoran, who had just arrived at the camp, also said: "We will start tonight. You have surrounded him for three days. You have reached his limit. You can't make him jump over the wall, or the people in the city will not be able to keep it."

Although Jiang Zhong has always acted as a polite corporal and treated the people very well, but when he was forced into a desperate situation, he might really be able to threaten Qi Haoran with the people.

Qi Haoran was sure that he would not compromise, but it would be better if there were fewer deaths.

"When do you start?"

"Watch when they break out, let them out and ambush on the road."

"But Jiangyou has a total of four city gates, and we only have 2,000 troops and horses. If we disperse, we may not be able to stop people."

Qi Haoran looked at the map and pondered: "The mountains and forests are dense in the east, but the road is blocked. There is only one main road for him to escape in the south. The most important thing is that not far to the south is Zitong, which is still under the control of the imperial court. I just escaped from here, so I won't provoke Zitong."

"In the west, you can connect to Xingyuan House in the north, Xiamao County in the south, and Li County in the west. There are even dense jungles there, and it is convenient for Tibetans. With Jiang Zhong's traditional fighting methods, he will definitely bring most of them with him. Exiting from the West City Gate, the rest of the group broke through the North City Gate, attracting our attention. So I take a thousand people to the West City Gate, you bring eight hundred people to stay at the North City Gate, and the other two hundred people spread out. Come and go to the South City Gate and the East City Gate, let them create the illusion that there are many people, and only besiege without attacking."

"Little General, is it too little for you to bring a thousand people?"

"There is no intention to calculate, not to mention, Jiang Zhong's soldiers are also temporary, but they have not been trained." Such people are generally cannon fodder on the battlefield. If any one can go to the battlefield, they will not bother recruiting troops. trained.

"Little general, it's better not to underestimate the enemy." Mu Shi felt that Qi Haoran was a little overbearing. After all, the opponent's people had fought several battles and had seen blood.

Qi Haoran nodded, "Don't worry, I know what you know." Although he is proud, he is not arrogant, and naturally knows that when fighting a war, he must be bold and cautious.

Jiang Zhong took someone to open it and guard it at the West City Gate, and when he heard the screams of killing from the North City Gate, he knew that the people he had arranged had rushed out to fight against the army of the imperial court.

He ordered people to open the West City Gate. The officers and soldiers stationed outside obviously did not expect someone to rush out at this time, so he was stunned for a while, and Jiang Zhong shouted, "Rush out!"

The rebels rushed towards the officers and soldiers. The soldiers obviously did not pay attention to the West City Gate. They only sent one or two hundred people to guard the West City Gate. When those people saw their aggressive approach, they gave a symbolic resistance and fled in all directions. Open, the anti-army people did not chase, and ran directly with Jiang Zhong.

Jiang Zhong ran out of Sanli with his people, and then gradually felt that something was wrong. The West City Gate is the second most important place after the North City Gate. How could they rush out so easily?

"Stop." Jiang Zhong waved his hand to stop the team, looked at both sides of the road in surprise, suddenly felt that the road was unusually quiet, his face changed suddenly, and shouted: "Back! Go back!"

But it was already eaten. Arrows were shot from the forest on both sides, and boulders even rolled down from the mountain on the left. When Jiang Zhong retreated, he found that the officers and soldiers who had escaped before were surrounded again, and the number was not the previous one or two hundred. Look at Come on, he fell into the trap of others early in the morning.

Jiang Zhong could only draw his sword and shouted: "Brothers, we fought with them!"

But he didn't dare to fight to the end with the army of the imperial court, so when it was almost dawn, he saw that there were only three or four hundred remnants left on his side, but he couldn't break through the defense line and had to put down his sword and surrender.

Qi Haoran escorted the people down, and then started to clean up the battlefield and count casualties. When everything was settled, a letter came from Mu Shi, and dozens of people escaped, but most of them were caught.

Qi Haoran nodded and escorted the person back to Tongchuan Mansion. He directly threw the person to General Lu Cang for processing.

Unlike Feng Yu, a scum like Feng Yu, Qi Haoran can directly cut him down without making a report to the court, but an anti-military leader like Jiang Zhong has to be escorted into Beijing, and the emperor will rule.

Qi Haoran took out the map and asked, "The 40,000 people are still missing?"

"Yes," Lu Can frowned, "It's like a ghost, there is no news at all, not forty or fifty people, but forty thousand people, how is it possible that there is no trace?"

Qi Haoran frowned, "Is there any fortification nearby that can hide so many people? For example, the den of the bandit who was wiped out on the mountain."

General Lu felt that Qi Haoran was thinking too much, "The imperial court will suppress the bandits, and they will destroy the bandits' den when they finally leave, otherwise, wouldn't it be convenient for the latecomers?"

Qi Haoran scratched his head, "There are 40,000 of them, old and young. It is impossible for them to stay in the wild. There must be a place to stay. This place is so big that it is impossible to find it. Go and ask the prefect of Tongchuan."

"I asked, but he didn't know when he asked," General Lu Shen was also a little angry, "If it wasn't for the black gauze hat on his head, I would have suspected that he was hiding people."

After all, how could there be no trace of 40,000 people? I didn't care about it before because General Lu thought they were careless and didn't investigate carefully, but damn, he sent the most powerful scouts, and still no trace was found.

Qi Haoran narrowed his eyes and asked, "Where did they first appear?"

General Lu gave Qi Haoran a strange look, shouldn't he ask for the last time?

But he still pointed to a point on the map and said, "Here, Zhaohua."

Qi Haoran instructed: "You send someone to bring back all the prisoners in the town, and I'll take someone to inquire."

When Qi Haoran finally reappeared, he was wearing a suit that was exchanged for 2 taels of silver and a beggar in the city, Fei Bai could only smear his face dirty and follow him, "Master, we really don't have one. Bring it?" Fei Bai admonished Qi Haoran and looked around anxiously.

Qi Haoran said lightly, "Aren't you human?"