Of course, Chen Xuanfeng didn't know that he had already been sued - Mrs. He Wu who was rescued by him was kidnapped by Shen Bingtong again. After being dragged to the boat and ravaged, she became his person as Shen Bingtong said.

Shen Qingtong came to Shaoxing Prefecture by waterway. As soon as he entered the city, he saw Chen Mei and his wife leaving the city. He was frightened to death, but he came up with a plan to force Mrs. He Wu to go to the government office to beat drums and complain, in order to bite Chen Mei and his wife.

They dragged Chen Mei and Chen Mei to Shaoxing, making it impossible for them to go to Niujia Village to return the scriptures.

How could Magistrate Xin, who was just aware of everything, be deceived by such a clumsy frame-up trick? He exposed the villain's conspiracy on the spot. After interrogation, Mrs. He Wu confessed in full, and Xin Qiji immediately ordered the whole city to search for Shen Qingtong.

It is only said that Chen Xuanfeng and Mei Chao Fengxinma were walking side by side on the official road at the moment, chatting as they walked. What followed them was not the soldiers of the Ninth and Eleventh Capital dressed as common people, but a group of ragged and unkempt people.

beggar.

From the moment the couple took the lead out of the west gate of Shaoxing Prefecture, there were two or three beggars following them. After that, they walked all the way west. Instead of decreasing, the number of beggars behind them increased.

Chen Mei and the two noticed that the beggars who came after them all ran out from the villages on both sides of the official road and consciously gathered behind the couple. So after walking for more than thirty miles, the beggars behind them had turned into more than forty.

people.

Mei Chaofeng was very disgusted with these beggars. Although she knew that these beggars must be coming for her husband, because her husband killed the leader of the beggar gang, Peng, but she always followed suit if she had something to say and revenge.

what happened?

Mei Chaofeng was about to explode, but Chen Xuanfeng quickly stopped him, "The road is facing the sky, let's go to each side. If others go the other way, it won't hinder us. Besides, now that we are deputy commanders, even if we really want to go with this

If you help a beggar, it's our subordinates who come forward, so why bother to do it yourself? You'll lose your value if you don't!"

Mei Chaofeng felt that what her husband said made sense, so she gave up her thoughts of killing. However, she couldn't help but look back at her soldiers. She saw that her soldiers were behind the group of beggars, and the one closest to her husband and wife was half a mile away.

This is the marching method arranged by Chen Xuanfeng.

The greatest use of this method of marching is that it can effectively prevent danger in the rear.

Once an unknown person is watching and following from behind, or even moving forward beyond the marching team, no matter whether the person is male, female, old or young, Chen Xuanfeng will be alerted immediately.

He left a dozen men on war horses in the middle of the team, in front of Cheng Jiang, Qin Gang and Peng Lianhu. This was his intention.

Last night, Xin Qiji had greatly praised this arrangement and thought it could be included in the art of war as an example of scout warfare. Little did he know that the anti-tracking, anti-reconnaissance and other meticulous methods mentioned by Chen Xuanfeng were not intended to deal with spies at all, but to deal with spies.

In order to guard against Master Huang Yaoshi who was chasing after him.

Under Chen Xuanfeng's arrangement, nearly two hundred troops from the Ninth and Eleventh were on the official road to the south of the Yangtze River, as well as in the woods and fields on both sides of the official road, with a distance of twenty miles.

In other words, when Chen Mei left Shaoxing for twenty miles, Cheng Jiang, Qin Gang and Peng Lianhu had just left Shaoxing city.

A buffer zone of twenty miles is enough.

No matter how advanced the master's Qing Gong was, he would not be able to sprint all the way to the west of Shaoxing City at the speed of a horse from the moment he landed in Zhoushan. Even if his internal strength was long enough, he would not be able to run wildly in broad daylight. That would be too damaging to his image, wouldn't it?

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Although she obeyed her husband's words and suppressed the murderous intention in her heart, Mei Chaofeng was still very unhappy and complained in a low voice: "Originally, I wanted to take a nap on the back of this horse, but now it's better, I still have to watch out for these beggars.

"

Mei Chaofeng was sleepy. Chen Xuanfeng slept soundly last night, but she didn't close her eyes.

Chen Xuanfeng stretched out his arm and patted Mei Chaofeng's thigh: "If you're sleepy, just sleep. If the sky falls, I'll hold it up. It'll be okay!"

Mei Chaofeng only felt a warm current of happiness welling up in his heart, and his face turned red, feeling very shy. Just as he was about to speak, he heard the rapid hooves of a horse behind him. His face suddenly changed, and he looked back again, only to see a fast horse galloping from behind.

Come, the knight on horseback is a soldier from the Ninth Capital.

According to Chen Xuanfeng's arrangement, if there were war horses chasing after him, it meant that the soldiers had made a major discovery and came to report it.

However, Chen Xuanfeng did not look back, and still allowed the horse under his crotch to move forward unhurriedly. It was not until the horse behind him passed by him with a strong wind that he clamped his legs and rode after him.

This is also the pattern arranged by Chen Xuanfeng before - because the soldiers coming up from behind do not know what the situation is in front of them, they are not allowed to dismount immediately when they catch up to him and report the situation. Instead, they directly overtake him and let him decide whether to catch up and listen.

report.

As soon as Chen Xuanfeng galloped his horse to chase after him, the more than forty beggars behind him panicked, and no one knew who shouted: "He is going to run away! Don't let him run away!"

Then dozens of beggars ran wildly at the same time, surpassing Mei Chaofeng in an instant, and desperately chasing Chen Xuanfeng in front. However, how could two legs outrun four legs? Chen Xuanfeng was already far away.

Chen Xuanfeng naturally ignored the beggar behind him and caught up with the soldiers in front. When his horses were riding together, he looked around and saw that there was no one around. Then he slowed down and asked, "What's the matter?"

According to Chen Xuanfeng's previous request, the soldier tightened the reins when he heard the sound, slowed down the horse speed at the same time as Chen Xuanfeng, and then said: "Our secret sentry outside the west city gate discovered that Peng Dutou left the team and was with him in the woods outside the city.

Two suspicious people on horseback met, and I don't know what they said. One of the two people rode off to the path to the west."

After hearing this, Chen Xuanfeng breathed a sigh of relief at first, as long as the master didn't catch up with him.

But at the same time, he also frowned. What did Peng Lianhu do? Want to instigate the Beggar Gang to cause trouble for him? Hasn't he already done this? Why send another person again?

No! Since these two suspicious people on horseback are not members of the Flying Tiger Army, it means that Peng Lianhu has reserved party members outside the Flying Tiger Army. What does he want to do by retaining these people? Could it be that he really came to the Flying Tiger Army to work as an undercover agent?

After thinking for a while, Chen Xuanfeng said: "Go back and pass on my military order. Let Ren Meng chase down the path. Don't disturb the person when you catch him. See where the person went and who he was looking for, and then come back and report.

.In addition, you tell the brothers on the secret guard to keep an eye on the other suspicious person and not to be discovered."

Ren Meng was one of the cavalry scouts left behind by Chen Xuanfeng. Normally, scouts were scattered in front of the marching army, but Chen Xuanfeng did the opposite and left the scouts in the middle and behind the team, which can be regarded as the beginning of marching warfare.

the first of its kind.

After ordering the cavalry to follow the order, Chen Xuanfeng reined in the reins and turned around to wait for Mei Chaofeng to come up. He didn't see Mei Chaofeng, but saw a group of beggars running over who were out of breath. He couldn't help but want to laugh.

Do these guys have no brains? Can I leave my wife and run away?

But he would not say this out loud. He had already secretly observed that among the beggars, there were only four sacks at most, that is, the four-bag disciples. What was there to say to such a person? He was not of a high standard.

When the beggars saw that Chen Xuanfeng was standing still, they immediately became discouraged and stopped moving forward with their already sore legs. Some of them were so tired that they just lay down on the road, panting heavily.

gas.

Mei Chaofeng rode her horse slowly, stepping through the beggars on the ground, and came to Chen Xuanfeng. She didn't ask what happened just now. No matter what, she didn't want these beggars to hear about it.

Chen Xuanfeng rode forward again and said, "It's nothing, just hand me the reins and sleep for a while."

Mei Chaofeng could not open her eyes, so she obediently handed over the reins and fell asleep on the horse's back.

Chen Xuanfeng walked another distance. When the sun was almost overhead, three villages appeared from east to west on the right side of the official road. They must have been the Sanwei Village that Xin Qiji mentioned last night.

Sanwei Village is three nearly adjacent villages located in the westernmost part of Keqiao County.

Keqiao County is under the jurisdiction of Shaoxing Prefecture. Last night, Xin Qiji sent someone to notify the county magistrate, ordering him to prepare food and tea for 600 people in Sanwei Village to provide supplies. This is what the magistrate Xin can provide within the scope of his authority.

One of the few things that helped.

According to the plan, Chen Xuanfeng and his wife and the soldiers of the Ninth Capital will settle in the westernmost village, the middle village will be reserved for the Eleventh Capital, and the easternmost village will be reserved for Cheng Jiang, Qin Gang, Peng Lianhu and their subordinates.

When the war horses arrived at the east end of Sanwei Village, Chen Xuanfeng shot a hand-throwing arrow into the air as promised.

The hand-swinging arrow is a common hidden weapon, but Chen Xuanfeng's hand-slinging arrow is unique. It is equipped with a whistle, which will make a sharp and piercing whistle when it is fired.

Originally, this kind of whistle-flashing arrow was mostly used by green forest bandits. After Xin Zhifu took office, he wiped out all the bandits on the land in eastern Zhejiang and confiscated a large number of weapons. Among them was this kind of whistle-flipping arrow, which was begged by Chen Xuanfeng.

, used for medium-distance communication.

Chen Xuanfeng originally wanted to get some fireworks such as Sky Monkeys for communication at night, because he knew that the Seven Quanzhen Sons used such things to communicate with each other, so he was sure that they must have existed in this era.

Unexpectedly, Xin Qiji's Shaoxing Prefecture did not have it. Xin Qiji was well-informed and knew about this kind of thing. He wanted to buy it in the Song Dynasty. The famous one was the Huang family in Hankou Town. However, Hankou was too far away from Shaoxing and it was too late in time.

Both Chen Mei and Chen Mei are very strong in hidden weapon skills. Although they are far inferior to their master's magic power of snapping fingers, they are definitely top-notch in the martial arts world. When an arrow shoots into the sky, it makes a sharp "chichi" sound, which is equivalent to the issuance of a military order.

The soldiers behind heard it and passed it on one after another.

However, the beggars did not know the purpose of this hand-throwing arrow. They only thought that Chen Xuanfeng was summoning men and horses to come over and start a battle. As if facing a formidable enemy, they all looked frightened and raised their dog-beating sticks, forming a formation.

A circular array.

Chen Xuanfeng didn't even look at the beggar's formation. He expected that it wasn't the beggar gang's famous dog-fighting formation. He headed straight towards the westernmost village.

The arrow in his hand woke up Mei Chaofeng, who was taking a nap. He straightened up from his horse, looked at her husband and asked, "Is it time to eat?"

Chen Xuanfeng smiled and said: "Yes, you just happened to wake up, so let's eat something together and then go to sleep after eating."

The lunch prepared by the magistrate of Keqiao is very high-end. Although there is no four dishes and one soup, the bowl of stew contains fish, shrimp, meat and eggs, plus the steaming rice in the big wooden barrel, which is definitely nutritious.

Chen Xuanfeng ate a large bowl of stew and three bowls of rice, which were very delicious. By the way, he asked the clerk from Keqiao County who was serving the meal. He learned that fish and shrimps are all aquatic products of rivers. He only didn't know how many sheep were killed and how much was paid.

Chicken coop.

The clerk also said that the county government spent money to buy these meals from local people's homes, and the price was 20% higher than the market price. Under the rule of Magistrate Xin, people were not free to eat.

Chen Xuanfeng nodded secretly, Magistrate Xin was indeed a good official.

After the meal, the march continued. Chen Mei and the others thanked the county government officials and took the lead to leave Sanwei Village. At this time, there were more Beggar Clan disciples following behind them, about a hundred people in total.

After passing Sanwei Village, you enter Xiaoshan County. In this era, Xiaoshan, like Keqiao, was under the control of Shaoxing Prefecture. Although it was closer to Lin'an Prefecture, it was separated by the Qiantang River, so it was more convenient for Shaoxing Prefecture to manage it.

After all, there were no Qianjiang 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 bridges in Xiaoshan at this time.

But as soon as they entered Xiaoshan County, something happened in front of them. A large wave of Beggar Clan disciples, no less than three to four hundred people, lay across the official road, blocking the way of Chen Mei and Chen Mei. The Beggar Clan disciples behind also scattered, as if

It was to prevent Chen Xuanfeng from turning around and escaping.

The leading beggar looked about thirty years old, with unkempt hair and a straight face. His clothes were knotted and dirty. Without waiting for Chen Xuanfeng to ask, he spoke first: "Are you Chen Xuanfeng?"

However, Chen Xuanfeng neither answered nor dismounted, and rode his horse directly to the man's side before stopping. This frightened the beggars to raise their dog-beating sticks, and the head of the stick almost hit the horse's head.
Chapter completed!