Heaven and earth return to one

You Changhe and one of his soldiers entered the city before the city gate was closed the night before, and left the city after the gate was opened the next morning. They worked all night and didn't even have time to take a nap in the corner.

The two hurried to the campsite, and one of them filled a pot of water. Before they had time to rest, they rushed to report to Li Yunke again.

Li Yunke came back early and fell asleep without worrying about anything else. When You Changhe was begging to see him outside the tent, he was just woken up by the noise made by these two people.

After dressing and washing without haste, Li Yunke called the two of them in, and asked the first sentence: "What are you eating this morning?"

"..." You Changhe's words got stuck in his throat again, and he coughed twice before he said, "I'm getting ready, I'm too impatient to watch, please wait a little longer, my lord."

Li Yunke didn't seem to be fully awake yet. He dragged his voice and hummed. Halfway through the conversation, he seemed to remember the conversation last night. He paused and said, "Commander You entered the city last night? How is it?"

You Changhe opened his mouth, sighed annoyedly at first, and then said: "Last night, at the beginning of last night, I had really good luck with Brother Chen, and I happened to meet a suspicious person who was painting outside the window of an inn. After staying with that man, a tiger tattoo was found on his body. It turned out that it was a Qiujue man dressed as a Chengning man. When he was caught, he was drawing something. The general looked carefully, and it was also a tiger head. It should be theirs. A code for contact. We went into the inn and found armor and weapons, my lord, they are the people we are looking for!"

"Which inn?" Li Yunke asked, pretending not to know.

You Changhe said: "It's not an inn. Almost every inn in the city is occupied by Qiujue soldiers. They spread out in order to conceal people's eyes and ears. Fortunately, the mark was discovered by us, and the general and Brother Chen followed the mark and touched it all over." , I already know which room in which inn they are in."

Li Yunke showed a satisfied expression, smiled and said: "Where is the Qiujue captured?"

"Uh..." You Changhe was embarrassed.

The soldier who had been busy with him all night was standing behind him with his head bowed. Hearing Li Yunke's words, he glanced at the Commander, then at Prince Duan, but did not dare to speak.

Li Yunke pretended to be confused and said, "What's wrong?"

You Changhe stood stiffly for a moment, then suddenly knelt down on one knee, and said with shame on his face: "The last general is incompetent, let that cunning man escape, please forgive me."

The soldiers behind him knelt down too.

Li Yunke paced back and forth in the tent, and was silent for a long while before saying: "So someone has tracked down their matter and they know it? Can that person see that you are officers and soldiers?"

You Changhe hesitated and said, "This... even if he can't see it, he can probably guess it. I'm afraid he can't hide it."

"It's okay, it happened so suddenly, I can't blame you, get up." Li Yunke said, "Since we have been discovered, then we will act and arrest this group of people."

You Changhe stood up and said: "My lord, although there are not many of them, they are scattered all over the city. It will not be easy for us to catch them all in one go. I am afraid that some of them will slip through the net!"

"Then we have no choice but to ask the magistrate Wang to deploy manpower to help us. However, there are not many people who can be dispatched quickly by the government office. We can only fight for speed and start as soon as possible while they are still in the city." Li Yunke walked Outside the tent, he said, "You two have worked hard, so hurry up and rest for a while, I will go to see Mr. Wang, you wait for my news."

This time Li Yunke entered the city openly and went straight to the prefect's yamen.

Today Wang Shuangwu has a case to be tried, so he was promoted early in the morning, and I don't know how long it will be over.Li Yunke followed his servants into the backyard, pretending to be anxious and restrained deliberately, and said: "Go and ask your lord to come to see me, it's about Chengning's safety, don't neglect."

The servant hesitated for a moment, and did not follow his instructions, "My lord, my lord is..."

"My lord doesn't care what he's doing," Li Yunke's eyes sharpened, "If you miss a big deal and put Chengning in danger, can you afford it?"

The servant looked very clever, and at first he didn't seem to be so respectful and careful because of his status as Prince Li Yunke, but now he finally showed a little fear after being yelled at by him.He bowed and backed away a little, and said in a trembling voice: "My lord, I will invite my lord later."

Li Yunke remained silent until the servant disappeared, his expression still cold.

Not long after, Wang Shuangwu trotted over accompanied by the servant, and before he got close, he said: "I don't know that the prince is here, and I am far away to welcome you. Don't blame the prince. It is a prosperous age, and I don't know what the prince said will endanger me. What is Chengning's big deal?"

Seeing that he wanted to salute, Li Yunke waved his hand to avoid it, and said: "My lord, I won't talk about the polite words here, let's get straight to the point. A few days ago, there were soldiers entering the country, and the emperor asked me to take charge of this matter. My lord must be responsible for this matter." Have you heard? After tracing this today, my people have conclusive evidence that the group of Qiujue soldiers are in Luohuai City, but they are scattered badly. If we want to surround them all at once, I don’t have enough manpower.”

Speaking of this, Wang Shuangwu knew his intention of coming, rolled his eyes a few times, and then said with a little surprise: "This...is it true? But...My lord, it's not because the lower officials don't want to, but what you said I don't know the truth about the matter, and without the emperor's order, I wouldn't dare to..."

"Lord Wang!" Li Yunke stopped him, "When is this, are you still worrying about these trivial things? Last night Commander You clashed with their people. At this moment, the city gate is wide open. They may have already Someone has left the city, so it’s not too late, why don’t you act faster? If the emperor’s brother is to blame, this king will take it upon himself and will never implicate Mr. Wang, isn’t that okay?”

Wang Shuangwu avoided his gaze and didn't answer.

Li Yunke said sternly: "My lord, do you know how big a crime it is for the prefect to do nothing when the enemy soldiers invade?"

Wang Shuangwu's shoulders trembled, he raised his head and said, "My lord, the subordinate officials know about it, so I'll go and deploy people now."

"Very good." Li Yunke calmed down, and said, "Let your people go to the three gates in the south, east and west to stand by. My people are in charge of the north gate. Let's take the flag as an order and act together."

Coming out of the backyard of the magistrate's yamen, Li Yunke always felt that something was wrong with Wang Shuangwu.Kang Hui once said that there were Qiujue people haunting his mansion, and they might want to attack him. Li Yunke felt that he had to figure out what was going on in the middle.

So he was not in a hurry to leave the city, first he went to Qiao Shanshan's inn and found a brother of Youqi Eighteen Guards who came to meet him to watch Wang Shuangwu, and then he walked to the north gate alone, intending to join You Changhe and others , With the cooperation of Wang Shuangwu, he closed the net.

But when he arrived at the north gate, he saw the city guards driving away the people entering and leaving the city, which seemed to mean closing the city gate.

Why is this?

Li Yunke took a few steps, patted the man dressed as a general who was standing aside and directed the soldiers to close the gate, and said, "Why did you close the city gate at this time? What happened?"

The general gave him a sideways glance, waved his hands at him like chasing flies, and said in a bad tone: "Go, go, sir, am I busy? It's not something you should inquire about, where to cool off and where to rest .It is impossible to leave the city today, let’s talk about it another day.”

Li Yunke's eyebrows sank, and he slapped him unceremoniously. Before the man let out a hey and raised his whip in his hand and was about to whip it at him, he reached out and took out a golden token from his pocket. , pushed it in front of his eyes, and said: "You dog slave, when is it your turn to show off your power in front of this king?"

The token is very simple, with only one word "Duan" on it, which was bestowed by the first emperor himself, and it is the only one in the world.When this token was handed over to Li Yunke, it was known all over the world. The late emperor issued an edict saying "everywhere the token is like my presence." At that time, it caused quite a stir in Chengning.

After the death of the first emperor, the role of this token was not that great, but it was enough to prove the identity of Prince Duan.

The general stared at the token for a long time. It was not until Li Yunke took the token away that he realized that he had offended the big man. He knelt down and kowtowed: "The little one has eyes but doesn't know Mount Tai. Please forgive me, my lord!" Forgive me!"

Li Yunke said impatiently: "I asked why you closed the city gate, didn't you hear me?"

"I heard it, I heard it..." the general tremblingly said, "Yes... it was the news from the brothers at the South Gate that a group of soldiers and horses rushed out of the city just now. The weapons and armor should be Qiujue soldiers. They also I don't know why Qiujue Bing appeared in the city, worried about something serious, so he hastily sent a message to the brothers in the other sects, telling us to close the city gate quickly and wait for the order from above."

Li Yunke was startled, the Qiujue soldiers ran away?What's going on, the news leaked out?

But the big brother Lin that Qiao Shanshan was talking about was from Zhuangzi, not a Qiujue soldier at all, so the Qiujue people had no reason to know that their identities had been exposed, so why did they take the risk to escape from the city?

Apart from myself, my brothers in Zhuangzili, You Changhe and his subordinates who were still resting outside the North City Gate, the only one who knew about this matter was Wang Shuangwu who had just met me, but even if the news came from the manor Ya accidentally leaked it out, and there was not enough time for the group of Qiujue soldiers to take action so quickly.

After much deliberation, there is only one possibility - You Changhe and his soldiers still made a fuss last night, but they didn't notice it themselves.

Time was running out, Li Yunke ignored the general, and flew out of the city gate that was not closed tightly, leaving only a gap, and rushed towards the camp.

Breaking through the border is fine, after all, there are not many useful people in the western region, but you must not allow people to escape from under your nose, Li Yunke thought, absolutely not.