Chapter three hundred and eighteen blocked
Li Zhang was very naughty when he was young. He once played the game of flooding rat holes with his friends. In fact, he used a lot of water to pour into the rat hole, and finally forced the rat to escape from the hole, and was then stoned to death by a group of children.
Now Li Zhang has the same move against ghost beggars, but ghost beggars are much smarter than mice. Except for a few desperate rushing to the ground to take a try, most of the remaining ghost beggars fled to more secret pits, because according to their past experience, the people on the ground are definitely not as familiar as underground passages, so as long as they find a pit that no one knows, no one can do anything about them.
However, the second ghost beggar made a mistake in the plan, because the road map of the underground passage has long been distributed to the officials responsible for the pits. For example, people like Lu Wu, almost everyone has one, and they each have several routes they are responsible for, so there are absolutely no omissions. Therefore, these ghost beggars have only two choices, either risking to escape to the ground and fighting to the death, or they are forced to the predetermined position as Cheng Lin planned.
As time goes by, fewer and fewer ghost beggars dare to take the risk of escaping to the ground. Li Zhang did not wait at the entrance of Xingguo Temple, but rode his horse to the right side of the west of the imperial city. This is located in the middle between the Jinshui River and the Bian River entering the Jingkou. It is also the highest area in the capital. In the middle of the right side, there is a huge pit, which is also one of the former settlements of the ghost beggars.
This pit was also provided by wild dogs, and according to him, he had lived there before, and was even probably born there. However, the wild dog was too young when he left and had no impression of it. When he was exploring before, he found that there were many ghost beggars living inside, and there was a strict organization, so he didn't dare to go in.
According to the original plan, all the troops sent by Cheng Lin would eventually force the ghost beggars from other places to retreat into this huge pit. After estimating the time, Li Zhang also came to the top of the pit. He saw that there were even heavy troops arranged here compared to other places, and all the drains were guarded by archers. As long as the ghost beggars dared to emerge, there would be a burst of arrows immediately, even the gods of Daluo could not escape.
Li Zhang walked along the various drains and asked the soldiers guarding him, but after being told that no ghost beggar escaped from it, he was also a little anxious. It was said that the ghost beggar in this pit should have known about the government's clearance of them. No one fled at this time, which seemed a bit abnormal.
Just when Li Zhang was worried, he suddenly heard a noise outside, which made him immediately ride a horse and run away. When he arrived at the scene, he found that a large number of ghost beggars were rushing out here, and they were shot and killed by the guards. However, these ghost beggars seemed to be desperate, blocking the rain of arrows with their companions' bodies, climbing upwards, like evil ghosts in hell.
However, no matter how desperate these ghost beggars are, they cannot escape the fate of being shot through by bows and arrows. Even if a few of them escaped to the ground by luck, they were eventually killed by other soldiers. These soldiers were ordered to die and would never leave any survivors to the ghost beggars.
Just after the last ghost beggar was shot to death, the soldiers also stepped forward to clean up the body and then added the corpse to the end, so as not to pretend to be dead. Li Zhang saw that there was nothing wrong here and was about to leave, but suddenly heard another sound from the drain, which made him and the soldiers stunned. Then, the soldiers did not care about their fatigue, and then they tapped the bow and arrow again, aiming the tip of the arrow at the drain.
"Brothers above, don't shoot arrows, we are from the Imperial City Department!" But at this moment, a voice suddenly came from the underground. However, the soldiers above still dared not relax when they heard this, but called on them to come up. After all, the ghost beggar was too cunning, and no one could be sure whether the person below was fake?
After a while, an official wearing an official uniform came up below, but his official uniform was mud and bloody, and he couldn't even see what he originally looked like. Then another team of soldiers came up, which was also very embarrassed, but his morale was very high.
After verifying his identity, Li Zhang also came up at this time. He also felt that the official looked familiar. He seemed to have seen him in Kaifeng Prefecture before, so he also stepped forward and bowed: "Li Zhang, the commander of the cavalry, don't know what to call him?"
This official also recognized Li Zhang. After all, there were not many people who could let the prefect Cheng Lin greet him in person, so he returned politely at this time: "I have met Li Duwei in the Xiahuangcheng Municipal Commander Zheng Jun!"
The Imperial City Department is a very special institution. To a certain extent, it is a bit similar to the Firearms Prison, because although it is a military institution, it is not under the jurisdiction of the Three Yas. Instead, it is directly under the jurisdiction of the Emperor. Of course, the Imperial City Department has much more power than the Firearms Prison, because the Imperial City Department is a spy agency of the Song Dynasty, and the Imperial City Department does not have a general leader, but has seven officials who are in charge of the Imperial City Department. This is also to disperse power and prevent the people below from deceiveing the emperor.
"It turned out to be Zheng Aisi. I don't know what's going on below, why all these ghost begs ran out like a desperate situation?" Li Zhang asked curiously at this time. Although the whole plan seemed to be going smoothly, he did not go down in person after all, so he didn't know the real situation below.
"We don't know that these ghost beggars were from other places. They had been running forward, but we chased them desperately. When we walked here, they all ran up. At first I was also surprised. I just went to the front and found that the passage in front was blocked with stones and could not get through at all."
Zheng Jun wiped his face with the rain in the air, and then he showed his true face. He looked at him at most about thirty years old. He could serve as the guard in the Imperial City Department at a young age, and his future prospects were limitless.
"Is it blocked?" Li Zhang was also stunned when he heard this. When the wild dog came to investigate some time ago, it should have been open here, otherwise he would have indicated it, but now it is blocked. Could it be that the ghost beggar in this pit closed the passage for his own safety after discovering that the government had cleared the government?
Chapter completed!