Gao Pragmatic is not the only one who laments that his life is miserable. More than 3,000 officers and soldiers in Liuzhou also feel that their life is miserable. They are stationed in Liuzhou smoothly, just waiting for the master to finish counting the results of the last battle to put down the Bazhai Rebellion and report their military exploits. , people like myself can get some rewards. Unexpectedly, the military merits were counted and reported, but the master of the station actually disappeared.
This has stirred up a hornet's nest. Originally, Mr. Futai was seriously ill, and the army was far away in Guangdong. The whole of Guangxi now believed that Mr. Tai was a capable commander, but he actually disappeared.
The two masters, the deputy envoy and the general of the branch guard, were so frightened that they couldn't even care about Liuzhou's city defense. Only more than a thousand people were left in the city, and the rest were looking to the southwest of Liuzhou to search for people.
I heard that when the two masters gave orders to their generals, they were really fierce. They slapped the table and roared, "If you can't find the altar, I will chop off your heads before your heads fall to the ground."
The soldiers of the Liuzhou Guards and the squad troops who were garrisoning Liuzhou naturally didn't know how tough this "backstage" of Gao Yintai was. Anyway, to them, Mr. Yintai himself was a very big figure. I heard that he was a rare person who had never met him in a thousand years. The sixth number one scholar, the real Wenqu star descended to earth. Such a big shot disappeared in Liuzhou City. It is no wonder that the superiors were in a hurry. His conductor was lucky and went to Nanjing for treatment long ago, leaving fellow conductor Li Weicong to suffer here. By the end of the night, I was almost out of shape, with several blisters on my lips.
It’s not easy to be a high-ranking official.
However, these soldiers did not have much time to complain about the sufferings of the men above them. They themselves were also suffering. They were fully armed from the afternoon to the evening, and were urged to move forward at night. They said that the wolf soldiers ran very fast and could not catch up without marching all night. people.
But damn, I can't catch up even if I march at night! If the wolf soldiers got into the mountains, it would be like a fish in water. If we people entered the mountains, we would be clueless.
Besides, who the hell can fight with wolf soldiers in the mountains is really boring.
Therefore, the soldiers of the Liuzhou Guard and the garrison squads tried their best to procrastinate. No one wanted to encounter the wolf soldiers in the mountains. It would be uncertain who would kill whom.
The only ones who were not afraid of death were probably the servants brought by Mr. Yintai from Yanjing. They may not have known how powerful the wolf soldiers were in the mountains, so they rushed into the mountains without hesitation.
The guardsmen thought that these people were either newborn calves who were not afraid of tigers and had no idea how powerful the wolf soldiers were in the mountains, or they just had no choice. After all, they were servants. If the head of the family stayed here, they would go back to Yanjing one by one. Afterwards, the servants were ordered to be beaten to death by Mrs. Gao. Sometimes, servants were not considered "people". When the masters of wealthy and wealthy families were extremely angry, they ordered the servants to be beaten to death. It was just like killing their own servants. The vase was broken, no one cared about it
Gao Jingshi just sighed that his life was miserable, but at this moment Gao Zhang didn't even have time to sigh.
Yesterday, because of the chaos that broke out in the Bazhai Yao people's city, Liuzhou City was in chaos. The panicked people blocked many places in the city. People were everywhere rushing to go home. Gao Zhang arranged with him The few guards were all squeezed out and lost contact with Gao Pangshi.
Fortunately, the master was smart and sent Cao Ke out to deliver the message. Only then did Gao Zhang know that the master had followed Cen Qi Gongzi out of the city and headed south.
Without saying a word, Gao Zhang ordered his men and horses to pursue him all the way south, while Cao Ke went to inform Jiang Xin, the deputy envoy of the branch guard, and others.
It was really an easy chase. The wolf soldiers had good physical strength and the Gao family's servants were not bad either. It wasn't until the wolf soldiers entered the mountain that they gradually got rid of the Gao family's servants. However, the servants of the Gao family knew that they had no other way to go, and they had to catch up without sleeping, so they finally caught up with the wolf soldiers shortly after they set up camp to eat and sleep.
The wolf soldiers were very alert and quickly withdrew when they saw the pursuers catching up. However, Gao Zhang found some clues by the pool. It was a pile of clothes that Gao Pragmatic wore yesterday.
Clothes were piled beside the pool, but no one was found.
Gao Zhang was very worried at first, fearing that his master would jump into the water and drown. But after calming down a little, he felt that it was not like if he jumped into the water, whether it was to escape or something, the master would not have time to strip himself naked before going down, so there was only one possibility. The master originally went into the water to swim, and by chance Come here by yourself, the master will either have no time to get ashore, or he will be taken away by the chieftain before he can get dressed.
After Gao Zhang carefully inspected the footprints near the clothes, he came to his own conclusion that the master did not come ashore, at least not from nearby.
The master is still in the water
This judgment actually made him break out in a cold sweat, because the master knew all of them. Since he knew they were his own servants, why didn't the master go ashore?
Gao Zhang hurriedly summoned his subordinates and asked who knew how to swim. He quickly followed him to search. As a result, there were only twelve people who knew how to swim, all of whom had been trained by Qi Shaobao's Ye Fushou.
The number of people was not large, but it was enough. Including himself, a total of thirteen servants of the Gao family went into the water to look for someone.
Although no one was found in the end, the whirlpool under the water was discovered.
This conclusion once again shocked everyone. Although they had gone through Ye Fushou training, none of them could be considered "proficient in water properties". Going into the whirlpool to find someone would be suicide no matter how you looked at it.
Gao Zhang felt that he had been favored by Gao Pragmatic's knowledge and was entrusted with important tasks. Now that such a big trap had appeared, he could not escape the blame, so he did not care about the water's mediocre nature and planned to go into the water himself, but was stopped by his subordinates. Rather than risking death, it is better for everyone to spread out and search. After all, since there is an underwater whirlpool, there is probably an underground river. Since there is an underground river, there must be an exit. It just takes more time.
The water in the underground river is also living water. If the master is auspicious, even if he rushes into the cave, he will be able to survive for at least a few days with water to drink, and everyone will still have time.
Gao Zhang thought about it and felt that it made sense. After all, he was the leader of this group of people. If he died here, who would lead this group of people?
So he immediately deployed his men and began to spread out and search.
This search took a long time. It was only in the afternoon of the second day that we found the entrance to an underground river cave twenty miles away, and there were traces of people staying at the entrance of the cave.
Gao Zhang searched and distinguished carefully, and finally his efforts paid off and he found the footprints of two people. The shoe print of one of them was relatively shallow and he judged that it was either a young man's shoe print or a woman's shoe print.
The other larger footprint is not a shoe print, but a "foot" print. You can clearly see the marks of the toes, and the mark of this footprint on the ground is relatively deep. It is basically certain that it is a tall man, most likely his own. master.
Although he was wondering how his master and a woman could appear in this inaccessible place, the fact was before his eyes. Gao Zhang didn't think much about it. He could only order his subordinates to gather immediately and follow this clue. In any case, We must find the master
