Chapter 503： separate

It was the token of the army of the Xixia Kingdom. Feibai found it in the hands of a villager when he was carrying people around the body. At that time, the token was severely grabbed. He took a lot of effort to take it out and secretly handed it over To Qi Haoran.

Feibai didn't understand, why he told everyone that this was done by Xixia soldiers, but he didn't take this thing out, but let everyone spend time looking for the traces and evidence left by the murderer.

Qi Haoran lowered his eyes and said, "They need time, and so do I."

Qi Haoran didn't explain much, just turned back to the house, wrote a secret letter to Fei Bai, and said, "You and the scout go to the nearest county town to inquire about news, and take the opportunity to pass this letter out."

Feibai didn't ask more, put the secret letter away, turned around and stepped back.

The imperial court has now fought against the rebels, and there are winners and losers. Generally speaking, the city recovered by the imperial court is more than lost, so it is barely a victory. Hearing the news brought back by the scouts, all the soldiers were shocked and looked towards Qi Haoran.

Qi Haoran lowered his eyes and said, "When the other two teams come back, we will continue to find the army of the imperial court."

Vice Admiral Zhong was stunned, "Aren't we going to find the murderer?"

"Look, but I want to be more sure," Qi Haoran said: "If we can get in touch with the imperial army, then we will have no worries."

"This is the critical time to suppress the bandits. Will the marshal leading the troops listen to our one-sided words?"

"So we have to collect evidence and report it to the court. We are not competing with them for military exploits. In the face of the enemy, we should unite and inquire about the nearest imperial army camp to us." Qi Haoran instructed Vice-General Zhong.

Lieutenant General Zhong shrugged and ordered to go down. They had planned to go to Tongren, where they would rest and listen to the imperial court's orders, but now they urgently needed to connect with the army, so naturally they could no longer go to Tongren. It will take two and a half days.

Deputy General Zhong was about to instruct people to prepare food for the journey, and the two reconnaissance teams sent out came back, one team looked okay, and replied, "General, except for bandits harassment on our road, everything is normal, it's just bandits, Local people can also testify that they are all locals.”

The other team's face was pale, "General, we searched carefully along the way, and found that many mountain passes were trampled on a large scale. We asked the nearby villagers and townspeople, and found that some villagers and townspeople disappeared for no reason during this period of time. No people or bodies have been found yet, but because bandits are rampant now, the yamen is not very concerned about this."

"But we checked privately, and those people appeared in similar locations at about the same time. We followed those locations and found hidden tracks. We roughly estimated that the other party had about 2,000 people. Where they left, we found several buried corpses. Strangely, the wounds of the corpses and the fatal wounds of the villagers seemed to be caused by the same weapon, but the knife technique was completely different. The other party seemed to be covering up something. ."

"Does this need to be said? Of course, it is to cover up your identity, General, there are more than enough people to kill those alone, so there is still time to change the swordsmanship, but when we got to the village, it was obviously a sudden incident, and the other party temporarily decided to slaughter the village. , so it was too late to cover up, but out of instinct to kill with the swordsmanship that he is best at."

"General, order, these Xixia people broke into our Dazhou, I don't know how many tragedies will happen, they are more beasts than bandits."

Qi Haoran frowned and asked, "You said you estimated that there are about 2,000 people? But we only found traces of about 500 people near the village. Where did the other 1,500 people go?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was silent, Qi Haoran turned around a few times, and said, "We can't let things go. After two and a half days, we will lose a lot of traces if we find a large army and send someone out to investigate. Finding 2,000 people in Zhou is as hard as the sky."

"What did the general mean?"

"Divided into four teams, one team continues to go back to find the imperial army, and the other three teams find a way to find the Xixia soldiers and leave traces along the way," Qi Haoran said: "Try not to conflict with them or be discovered by them, our main task is Find and monitor them."

"Then who will lead the team back to find the imperial army?" Lieutenant General Zhong is most concerned about this.

Qi Haoran grinned and said, "Let the battalion general of the first battalion lead the troops back. You bring a team of troops to check the first team. I will lead the first team, and the third and fifth battalion generals will lead the first team."

Deputy General Zhong opened his mouth and wanted to say that he would lead the team back, but when he met Qi Haoran's eyes, he didn't say it. He didn't believe Qi Haoran, and Qi Haoran also didn't believe him. The best way was to let him Someone else went back.

In the evening, Qi Haoran gathered Deputy General Zhong and the five battalion generals together, and said, "Now we each have the other's handle in our hands, so if we lose everything, we should think more carefully when doing things, so as not to make concessions. The thing that I regret comes, I will put the words here first, everyone can fight whatever they want, but at this time the country is in trouble, if you let me know who framed my colleagues at this time and became the helper of the barbarians , Qi someone will fulfill him, let him be a hero to Xixia or Jin Guo."

Qi Haoran looked at them with sharp eyes, and everyone bowed their heads slightly. This threat was too serious, no one dared to ignore it, because Qi Haoran was their superior, and they had a handle on them. .

At that time, not only them, but even their family members will have to die. At this time, not only the general Ying Qian who took him back to the mission, but also Deputy General Zhong did not dare to bother about this matter, and spent a few months with them. It can also be seen that Qi Haoran's temper is a little stubborn, and it is useless to stop him if he is sure.

They don't have the guts to gamble with the lives of the whole family.

Qi Haoran took out the food in this village and divided it into four parts, three large and one small, and gave the smallest part to the general manager of the first battalion, saying: "You are going back, this is enough, the rest is still Leave it to the other brothers."

"It's up to the general to make the decision." One battalion and one thousand generals have no opinion at all. After all, his task is the easiest and the safest.

Qi Haoran divided the three grains with satisfaction, and circled the scope of everyone to investigate, "No matter what method you use to find the Xixia soldiers, you only need to remember three points. First, you are not allowed to endanger the people. Second, you must not betray the country, and third, you must not ignore the lives of comrades-in-arms!"

"Yes." Everyone got up and obeyed the order.

Qi Haoran was personally responsible for the massacre of the Xixia soldiers in the village, while the other two teams returned to the place where there were 2,000 traces of people before, and they always searched from there.

Qi Haoran waited for everyone to leave, then turned around and said to the second battalion general who followed him: "Let everyone take off their military uniforms and put on the clothes of the common people. Let's go to Huaiyuan County."