Yang Baihu glanced at him and thought this old man was a bit interesting. Although he is short, his speech is neither humble nor arrogant. He is neither flattering nor flattering like ordinary people who see a shorter official, nor is he as ignorant as bandits and thieves.
He couldn't help feeling a bit fond of him, he laughed and stopped putting on airs, leaned forward a little, and whispered:
"Chen Yuanhai is dead, and his body has been found on his boat. Chen Tong is said to have been seriously injured and unconscious, and was carried away on the boat by several of his subordinates.
But I estimate that the water blockade is very tight and it will be extremely difficult for them to escape, so they should be hiding nearby. "
"Oh?" Bai Pu frowned: "This is a serious problem that must be eliminated! Do you know that half of the Chen family's sins stem from this son?"
"Of course I know this. I have just ordered a blockade and sent word to the surrounding villages. All the militiamen have been dispatched. I have been rewarded with fifty taels of silver!" Yang Baihu said with a fierce expression:
"If this great scourge is not eliminated, not only the surroundings of Junshan Lake, but the whole of Pengze will not be able to live in peace. We must find it no matter what!"
"But...why did you conclude that the thief must have gone ashore instead of escaping down the river?" Bai Pu was puzzled.
"Haha, I'm going to show the old housekeeper something." Yang Dayi took out the telescope from his bag.
"Clairvoyance? Sir, you actually have such a thing?"
"Hey, the old butler is so knowledgeable that he actually recognizes this thing?" Yang Dayi was surprised, and he became even more interested in this butler.
"To be honest, my fleet, catapults and lookout posts are hidden on the shore. If you see someone coming down from a distance who is not one of your own, send a signal immediately and the fleet will stop them and not let them pass.
Since there is no abnormality below, it means that the ship has not been crossed yet. Hey, even if he slips by under my nose, don't be afraid, I still have a fleet of boats at Shenbu, and the security guard can't get out even if he has a piece of sail! "
Bai Pu's forehead was sweating, and he cupped his hands and said, "Fortunately, the master was rescued by your Excellency, otherwise we would all have been fed to the fishes and turtles. I thank you on behalf of Jinxi Lake and Qingyuan Temple, there are seven families in total!"
"Hey, don't thank me." Yang Dayi waved his hand: "This was all planned by Li Sanlang and the staff, I was just executing it. If you are serious, you can find an opportunity to repay Li Sanlang's favor in the future."
Next, Yang Dayi told Bai Pu that there were thousands of militiamen on the north bank searching for and suppressing the remnants of the enemy, and there were more than 600 people on the south bank. He suggested that Bai Yan and others could concentrate on searching the area west of Chigang and the area west of Houhu on the opposite bank.
"There must be some who have slipped through the net and are lucky. The people, weapons, and property you find are all yours to dispose of. I only want Chen Tong's head!" he said.
Bai Pu took the order and left. Next, soldiers and civilians from all over the place searched for it for three days, encouraged by the reward.
The Jinxi Lake tribe members who first came ashore didn't quite understand why each of them was asked to tie a green cloth strip on their left arm, but then they gradually turned around.
If everyone had some understanding in their hearts, they didn't say anything about it. When they encountered the village warriors and militiamen who were also tied with cloth strips, they nodded and passed by, and no one dared to say anything.
But after three days, hundreds of shrimp soldiers and crab generals were caught, and Chen Tong was not even seen. Bai Yan was anxious and sent Bai Pu to see Yang Dayi again. When he learned that they had not caught him, he became a little anxious.
"No, no, it's been three days and there's still no trace. He probably escaped!" He stamped his feet and sighed.
"Hey, could this kid know how to escape? Why is there no trace of him?" Daoist Master Wei was also puzzled.
"Lian Zhou Datou's body has been fished out. If Chen Tong is dead, it is impossible to find him. Besides, didn't some people say that he was not dead but was rescued by a few soldiers?"
"Dear uncles and uncles, my nephew has a few thoughts."
Song Xiaoqiao's voice attracted the three adults, and they looked over and said, "My dear nephew, please tell me something."
"I have two ideas. One is that we should quickly dedicate some of our manpower to go back to report to each village. If possible, we should gather a force to wipe out Hutou Village (Zhou Datou's) and completely eliminate this scourge!
As for Chen Tong, since he is seriously injured, he should not be able to walk far. My nephew just thought about it. We are searching for him according to the ordinary people's idea of escape, but if he is injured and cannot walk, these places we are searching now are no good! "
The three people were stunned for a moment and looked at each other.
Look, Bai Yan said: "It's true that the waves behind us push the waves ahead. We three old people are so confused that we never thought of this!"
"If he is really injured and unable to move, he should be still near the battlefield! It's possible in the area from Nanhu, the back of Changling, in front of the end of the lake to Yanbudu!"
Ren Er had been running around a lot in the past few days to catch Chen Tong, and he knew almost everything about this area, so he immediately named these places.
Bai Pu came to see Yang DaYi for the third time. After explaining his purpose, Yang Baihu noticed a place name. "Along the port crossing, along the port crossing...?"
He turned around and walked to the map to look at it for a while, beckoned Bai Pu over, pointed and said, "I see, this crossing along the port is very suspicious!"
Bai Pu was shocked when he first saw this picture. At first glance, it was all black lines, but if you look closely, you can see that there are mountains, water, villages and roads, all marked in great detail. He swallowed and asked, "Why are you so interested in this place alone?"
"Look, the place where Chen Yuanhai was captured by boat is here. If it is true that Chen Tong was rescued by the soldiers, then if he disembarked from the other side, there would be a rural road not far away going south to Yanbu Crossing .
Thinking from ordinary people's thinking, if you want to check the suspect's escape, he must be near the battlefield and his most likely escape direction-to intercept and search to the west. The south is really unexpected!
And this place is behind Chigang, so it’s just dark under the light! If this kid escapes upstream from Yanbudu into the Xinjiang waterway, it will be difficult to catch him! "
"Oh, what can we do? Sir, three days have passed. Could he have escaped?" Bai Pu was also a little anxious. If Chen Tong escaped, what kind of cruelty would Jinxi Lake face in the future? He can think of all the revenge he can think of.
"I will immediately arrange a train and boat to cross the port," Yang Dayi thought for a moment and asked, "Will you help me?"
"How can we help you, sir? Please just ask!"
"I will dispatch the inspection division and the militia to search Zhongxuan and Xiaxun in Changling, and dispatch a battalion to search along the rural road from Nanhu to Yanbudu. Please send troops to search along the south side of Chigang, and then to Yanbu Crossing and rendezvous. Can you win?"
"Okay, let's do it!" They agreed to split up immediately. Yang Yi, who had returned to Shangxuan to rest, received the order and immediately took action to search both sides of the rural road.
Yang Dayi also ordered Qiantou of the Xiangyong Team to lead two hundred people to search around Luoshiling and Huwei.
Bai Yan was more anxious than anyone else. After a hurried discussion with all the heads, he transferred the search personnel back to the north bank, and then sent 700 people in the direction of Yanbudu!
In the afternoon, when everyone was exhausted, suddenly a Qingyi messenger came down from Chigang and found Bai Yan. He reported that the regiment had caught a personal guard of Chen Tong. The guy confessed that the last time he saw Chen Tong was in Shiniuzhai. .
"Then he must have run to the port!" Bai Yan jumped up and ordered someone to tell Ren Erbu, who was at the front, to run to the port quickly.
"Even if we dig three feet into the ground, we still have to find that guy!" Ren Er yelled, standing next to the galloping queue.
But to their disappointment, they searched almost every house along the port and never found Chen Tong.
The people who came one after another searched again and found nothing. Ren Er became a little anxious and swore that when they found Chen Tong's head, they would use a saw to cut off Chen Tong's head.
Yang Yi thought calmly for a while. He looked in the direction of the dock. Two cars and boats had already arrived here.
And according to what they learned from the folks around the dock, in recent days due to the war, Zhou Qin's naval fleet was seen passing by in a mighty manner, so the people were so frightened that no one sailed out in a boat.
Moreover, in order to prevent their own losses, the nearby boat owners either hid their boats or fled to the other side.
"Since there is no boat and no one has ever sailed out, that person should not have been able to leave!" After Yang Yi finished speaking, he turned around and cupped his fists and handed over his hands to Bai Yan and others:
"If Chen Tong really escaped here, he should be hiding nearby. Yang suggested that we split up and search the north and south along the coast. If we still can't find him... then stop searching now."
"Huh? What do you mean?" Several heads of households were surprised.
"In this third search, we need to use our momentum to
If we want to make it bigger, let’s talk about whether we can find people to do it. Yang Yi smiled and came up with an idea: "If you can't find it, retreat, leave an eyeliner, and then when it gets dark, we can sneak back."
"Oh, Yang Yingzheng means to scare the snake first and then catch the turtle in the jar? High!" Several of the Lake Bandit leaders laughed and gave a thumbs up to the young regiment training camp.
"who?"
"It's me, the young master." The reed shook a few times, and the sweaty face of the guard appeared in front of Chen Tong.
He breathed a sigh of relief and asked reproachfully: "It's just a fetch of water. Why did you come back?"
"There are a lot of people coming to the ferry, Young Master... I think they are looking for you."
"Of course they are looking for me. How should they explain to the county magistrate that such an important person escaped?" Chen Tong laughed, and his face immediately twisted in pain.
He gritted his teeth and endured it, then breathed heavily and turned pale. The little girl sitting next to him was so frightened that she hurriedly ducked back.
"What are you hiding from? Why don't you quickly get a wet cloth and wipe it with the young master!" the guard shouted in a low voice.
The girl trembled all over, kowtowed, took off the blue cloth wrapped around her head, turned around and soaked in the water behind, and came back to wipe the sweat from Chen Tong's forehead.
"Don't be afraid," Chen Tong grinned: "When I get better, I will take you two sisters to Shinao Village, and your father won't have to go out to work. At that time, the three of us will sleep together every day without being separated, okay?" ” He said and wanted to laugh, but gritted his teeth and endured the pain.
"Hey, Young Master, you are like this, so don't make fun of her!" The guard looked at the trembling little girl and felt pity for her, and sighed and said, "If we can't find the boat, we still can't get out. The regiment training is here The ferryman took a gong and beat it, saying..."
"say what?"
"The boss is dead. If anyone catches you and sacrifices it, I will reward you with fifty taels of silver." The guard glanced at him and said, "Oh, those gangsters were very happy to hear that. They are rummaging through boxes and cabinets in the village."
"Hey, is this useful? I'm not hiding in a cage!" Chen Tong said, twisting his body and waving to the girl: "Come here, help me up, let me rest my head on your lap and talk to him say."
"Go, come over, I'll help you." The guard also came over and helped Chen Tong up with her, asked him to put his head in place, then fed him some water and said:
"Young master, we have to take a small road and get back to the village as soon as possible. Although you have been treated with wound medicine, it can only last for a while. We need to find a doctor as soon as possible."
"It's okay, I feel much better after two days of sleep!" Chen Tong sighed: "Who would have thought that a person like my father would be stoned to death! I will definitely avenge this!"
The guard's eyes flickered after hearing his words.
"Well, what, are you hiding something from me?" Chen Tong looked at him suspiciously.
"No. It's just that... I just saw a few people standing together with the leader of the group, talking and laughing. From a distance, it looked like... like..."
"Who does it look like?"
"Like the leaders of Jinxi Lake."
Chen Tong didn't say anything for a while, and then he hit the ground with his fist again and again. His hand was soon pricked by a reed pole on the ground and bled.
"Young Master, don't do this, you don't have much blood in your body, you can't waste it anymore!" The guard pulled him hard and said, "It's all my fault, I shouldn't have told you this."
"These traitors, traitors!" Chen Tong cursed bitterly: "When I go back, I swear that I will slaughter all those villages. No one will be left alive, absolutely!" His eyes made the guards shudder.
The sky gradually darkened, the reeds rustled, and the little girl's sister walked in. "I'll take my sister's place and go back to have dinner." She said with a trembling voice.
The woman was full of fear, but she had to come home in exchange for her younger sister. They took turns being hostages because someone else had to stay at home to take care of her mother, who had an eye problem.
The little girl turned back three times and disappeared into the reeds. Her sister handed the pancakes she had brought to her bodyguard, then sat down and hugged her knees, almost curling up into a ball.
Last night, Chen Tong's hands touched her body dishonestly, keeping her awake for half the night. She didn't know what would happen tonight.
Fortunately, she suddenly heard Chen Tong ask: "If there is no boat, is there a way to leave?"
"Yes, I can build a bamboo raft. Although I can't build a big one, it's enough for two people!" the guard replied.
"Okay, let's build a bamboo raft."
"Is the young master okay?"
"It's okay, as long as I have a woman by my side, I'll be fine!" Chen Tong giggled twice and then said:
"After you finish eating, go ahead and set up the bamboo raft and come back to pick me up. The group of people were not found during the day, but I guess they haven't gone far and they should be waiting for us with a net around.
They should leave quickly before they are too familiar with this area tonight. Tomorrow will be difficult! "
"What should she do?" the guard asked.
Obviously he was referring to this sister. The girl's heart skipped a beat when she heard Chen Tong sneer and say:
"Of course the reason for leaving one behind is to prevent the news from leaking. We are about to leave, do we still need her to follow us? Let her take us to the shore, and then let her go home on her own."
