Qi Haoran beheaded Feng Yu, and went straight to Jiangyou with 20 people, and at the same time sent a letter to General Lu to send another 2,000 people to the town.

Although it has been leaked that those people will not be killed, and they have been brainwashed mentally, some people can't help but want to escape if they don't keep them together. As long as one of these things escapes, it can't be stopped later. Therefore, Qi Haoran still made some preparations for this.

Mu Shi has already led people to surround Jiangyou and Jiang Zhong in the county.

The rebels who wanted to come back were held back by the garrison of Tongchuan Mansion.

Jiang Zhong in the county looked sullenly at the army that had been surrounding the city without moving, and said, "We can't wait any longer, we will break through tonight, otherwise even if they don't attack the city, we will be surrounded to death."

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

Although Jiang Zhong has always been courteous and kind to the common people, but when he is cornered, he may be able to threaten Qi Haoran with the common people.

Qi Haoran was sure that he would not compromise, but it would be better if fewer people died.

"When will you do it?"

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

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

Qi Haoran looked at the map and muttered: "There are high mountains and dense forests in the east, but the road is impassable, and there is only one main road for him to escape to 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 go to Xingyuan Mansion in the north, go down to Mao County in the south, and go to Li County in the west. There are even dense jungles there, so it is convenient for Tibetans. With Jiang Zhong's traditional fighting methods, he will definitely bring most of the people with him. Go out from the west city gate, and the rest of the people will break out from the north city gate to attract our attention. So I will take 1,000 people to the west city gate, and you will take 800 people to stay at the north city gate, and the other 200 people will disperse Come and go to the south gate and the east gate, let them create the illusion of crowds, and only surround but not attack."

"Little general, isn't it too little for you to bring only a thousand people?"

"If you do mental calculations but don't care, what's more, Jiang Zhong's soldiers are also improvised, but they have not been trained." Such people are usually cannon fodder on the battlefield. If anyone can go to the battlefield, they will not bother to recruit soldiers. trained.

"Little General, it's better not to underestimate the enemy." Mu Shi felt that Qi Haoran was a bit exaggerated, after all, the opponent had fought several battles and had seen blood.

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

Jiang Zhong led people to open and guard the west gate, and when he heard the shouts of killing from the north gate, he knew that the people he arranged had rushed out to fight the imperial army.

He ordered people to open the west city gate. The officers and soldiers stationed outside obviously didn't expect someone to rush out at this time, so they were stunned for a moment, and Jiang Zhong shouted, "Rush out!"

The rebel army rushed towards the officers and soldiers. The army obviously didn't pay attention to the west gate, and only sent one or two hundred people to guard the west gate. When those people saw their menacing approach, they just resisted symbolically and fled in all directions. The rebels didn't chase after him, but followed Jiang Zhong directly.

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

"Stop." Jiang Zhong waved his hand to restrain 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! Back up!"

But he had already eaten. Arrows rained from the forest on both sides, and huge rocks even rolled down from the mountain on the left. When Jiang Zhong retreated, he found that the officers and soldiers who had fled before had surrounded him again, and the number was not one or two hundred as before. Come on, he fell into someone's trap early in the morning.

Jiang Zhong could only draw out his sword and shouted, "Brothers, we will fight them!"

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

Qi Haoran escorted the people down, and then began to lead people to clean the battlefield and count the casualties. When everything was done, Mu Shi also sent a letter. Dozens of people escaped, but most of them were caught.

Qi Haoran nodded, escorted him back to Tongchuan Mansion, and he directly threw him to General Lu to deal with.

Unlike Feng Yu, Qi Haoran can kill a scum like Feng Yu directly and refuse to report to the court, but an anti-army leader like Jiang Zhong has to be escorted to Beijing, and the emperor decides.

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

"Yes," Lu Shen frowned, "It's like seeing a ghost. There's no news about anyone, and it's not forty or fifty people. This is forty thousand people. How could there be no trace?"

Qi Haoran frowned, "Is there any fortification nearby that can hide so many people? For example, the lair of the exterminated bandits on the mountain."

General Lu felt that Qi Haoran was thinking too much, "When the imperial court suppressed the bandits, they would destroy the bandit dens when they finally left. Otherwise, wouldn't it be convenient for those who came after?"

Qi Haoran scratched his head, "Among the 40,000 of them, there are old and young. It is impossible for them to stay outside. There must be a place to stay. This place is so big, it is impossible to find it. Ask the prefect of Tongchuan."

"I've asked, but he didn't know anything about it." General Lu Shen was also a little annoyed, "If it wasn't for the black gauze hat on his head, I would suspect that he hid him."

After all, how could 40,000 people leave no trace? I didn't care about it before, because General Lu thought they were careless and didn't investigate carefully, but hell, he sent the most powerful scouts, but still didn't find any traces.

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 ordered: "You send someone to bring back all the captives in the small town, and I will take someone to inquire about it."

When Qi Haoran reappeared for the last time, he was wearing a suit that was exchanged for two taels of silver and a beggar in the city, so Fei Bai could only smudge his face and follow him, "Master, we really don't have a single person. Belt?" Fei Bai advised Qi Haoran, looking around anxiously.

Qi Haoran said indifferently: "Aren't you human?"

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