Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 528 Chapter 540: Tracking the Enemy
On the tower of Tonghua Gate, Di Renjie held onto the city wall and looked out of the city gate. Since a grand event was being held in Chang'an City, there were still people entering the city continuously. There are only 230 people, this is the data in Di Renjie's mind.

Di Renjie was born with extraordinary insight. Even if he just stood on the tower to observe, he would inadvertently remember the number of people entering the city. He was not standing here for fun. He carefully observed the expressions, clothes, and so on of every person who entered the city. Carried goods, vehicles, etc.

His eyes are like a scanner, any unreasonable existence will be seen through by him at a glance. From morning to now, he has caught three suspicious people. After catching these three people, Di Renjie sent someone to question on the spot. The three of them immediately confessed. It turned out that they were all habitual thieves, and they probably wanted to take advantage of the excitement to come to Chang'an to "work".

Although they were repeat offenders, they hadn't committed any crimes yet. Di Renjie could only order them to be expelled, and sent someone to notify other city gates to strictly prohibit these people from entering the city.

Just as Di Renjie was looking out of the city with eyes like torches, he suddenly saw four people pushing a cart out of the city against the current. At the moment, only these four people were going out of the city gate, which was very conspicuous.

Di Renjie stared at the four people for a while, then frowned slightly, then quickly went down the tower, and asked the guard in charge of the investigation: "The four people who went out just now, what did they have in their cars?"

A guard clasped his fists and replied, "My lord, they loaded some cotton cloth on the car. We have checked it carefully and there is no problem."

"Cotton cloth?" Di Renjie looked up at the scorching sun and asked again, "How many?"

"This..." the guard thought about it carefully, and replied, "Not many, about five horses."

"Five horses..." Di Renjie's thoughts turned quickly. Those four people had too many doubts. It's May and it's almost summer. What are these people doing with cotton cloth? It's impossible for them to go home and make clothes , if they are in the cloth business, it seems a bit ridiculous to send four people to transport five bolts of cotton cloth. Five bolts of cloth can be carried away by four people, so why use a car? , one of them looked back at the direction of the city gate with a very unnatural expression, which was the main reason why Di Renjie suspected these four people.

Di Renjie pondered for a moment, then asked the three Dali Temples beside him and said, "You three, come with me. I suspect that there is something wrong with the four people who left the city just now."

"Yes!" The three answered in unison.

Di Renjie rushed out of the city gate with these three people after saying that. After leaving the city, Di Renjie found that the four people had already traveled more than three miles. The speed was so fast, which was obviously abnormal. Di Renjie couldn't help speeding up his pace, leading Followed by three questions to catch up with them.

After traveling for three miles, the four people turned north along a fork in the road, which happened to be blocked by a poplar grove. When Di Renjie chased to the fork in the road, he found that there was still a figure on the fork in the road.

"These four people are by no means ordinary dogs and thieves!" Di Renjie immediately took out his token, handed it to a questioner, and said, "Zhou Da, take my token and go back quickly, and call [-] more brothers." Come here, remember, bring all your weapons and ride on horseback, I will leave marks along the way!"

"Yes!" The young questioner named Zhou Da took the token and hurried back.

"Look at the rut marks, they have entered the forest, let's go and see." Di Renjie said, and followed the rut marks into the Yang forest.

In the poplar forest in May, the branches and leaves are very dense, and the trees here are extremely dense. When you enter the forest, you can't see anything three feet away, and your sight is severely blocked.

Di Renjie led the two officers to search along the ruts, and finally found a trolley in front of him. He hurried over, the two officers guarded the surroundings, and Di Renjie was responsible for checking the trolley.

"The cotton cloth is here... this cart..." Di Renjie moved the cotton cloth, tore off the linen cloth that was under the cart, and then exclaimed, "There is a hidden compartment in this cart!"

As he spoke, he lifted off the wooden boards of the hidden compartment, revealing the hidden compartment under the car. The dark compartment was empty and contained nothing. Di Renjie checked it carefully again, and said with frowned eyebrows: "This is a palace car. It’s not a trivial matter that the palace’s cars appear here, and there are hidden compartments…” He said and began to check the surrounding terrain.

I saw some footprints around, and on the other side of the tree, there were many horseshoe prints, which were very messy.

Di Renjie immediately said: "Those four people must have stolen something from the palace, and even changed their horses here. This matter is no small matter. Zhou Tong, you keep this car to protect it. This is a very important evidence, Qin. Hai and I continue to chase!"

"Yes!" The two took orders in unison, Zhou Tong stayed behind, and Qin Hai and Di Renjie headed north.

The ground in the forest is soft, and there are clear horseshoe prints along the way, which are easy to identify, but after a few miles forward, when you come out of the poplar forest, the horseshoe prints are on the road, and it is a fork in the road. One of the two roads leads to the northwest direction , one leading to the northeast, there are so many footprints on the road, it is impossible to tell which horseshoe prints they are looking for.

Di Renjie squatted down and looked on the ground for a long time, pulled out his pocket knife, carved a mark on the ground, got up and ran towards the forked road on the right, followed closely by the Dali Temple official named Qin Hai, he was very curious , How did Di Renjie judge that the group of people went this way.

Di Renjie drove for seven or eight li all the way, and mountains began to appear in front of him, but before entering the mountain, there were two forks, one on the left and one on the right, bypassing the forest. Di Renjie knew that these two forks led to different mountains. Wrong, I am afraid I will lose my prey.

Di Renjie carefully searched for traces on the ground again. After searching for a while, he pointed to the fork on the right and said, "This way!"

After walking less than a mile, he saw horse manure on the road. Di Renjie quickly squatted down, took some horse manure with his hand, and put it in front of his nose to smell it. Qin Hai was stunned.

"This horse dung is very fresh and still warm. It must have just been left behind. We have chosen the right one." Di Renjie said excitedly. He wiped the horse dung from his fingers on the ground, got up and continued to chase.

Four or five miles forward, there was a large forest in front of him, and the road disappeared. Di Renjie rushed into the forest without hesitation, and soon found the horseshoe prints. Di Renjie was overjoyed and continued to chase.

Suddenly, Qin Hai let out a miserable cry from behind him. Di Renjie was startled, and hurriedly stopped and turned his head. He saw Qin Hai standing there motionless, stepping on the grass with his right foot, and could vaguely see a trap in the grass. Caught Qin Hai's right foot.

Di Renjie hurried over to help him break the trap, Qin Hai pulled his foot out, blood immediately stained his trouser legs and boots red, Di Renjie helped him take off his boots and rolled up his trouser legs, only to see four wounds on his ankles. The small blood hole was bleeding. He took out the golden sore medicine he carried with him, applied it to Qin Hai's wound, then tore off a piece of cloth from his own clothes, and quickly bandaged Qin Hai. At the same time, he said, "Wait here, Zhou Da will bring people over soon, I will continue to chase."

Qin Hai shook his head and said stubbornly: "No way! How can I let my lord take risks alone, I can still go!"

"You know that I am an adult, so you must obey my orders!" Di Renjie said with a straight face, "You wait here, don't act without permission!"

While speaking, he had already bandaged Qin Hai's wound, then put away the trap, got up and continued to chase the prey.

Going forward, the terrain gradually increased, apparently starting to go up the mountain. Not long after, the mountain became steeper and steeper. Di Renjie saw four horses tied to the tree. Obviously, the mountain was too steep to ride a horse. Then The four abandoned their horses and walked up the mountain.

Fortunately, there are very few pedestrians in the mountains, and the fallen leaves are very thick on the ground. If someone walks by, they will leave footprints in a short time. When we reached the mountainside, we also found a rugged mountain road.

Just as Di Renjie walked along the mountain road around the mountain, there was a cliff next to him. There was the sound of water flowing under the cliff. After walking a short distance, he vaguely heard someone talking in front of him. The two were walking towards this side along the mountain road, talking while walking.

"I didn't expect that the robbery of the princess would go so smoothly. Hey, are the Jinwu Guards and Habayashi Army in the palace all idiots?"

"Yes, if the guards in the palace are so bad, it would be better to go and kill Li Shimin directly, that would save trouble..."

With just these two sentences, Di Renjie felt the hairs all over his body stand on end. From the first sentence, it can be heard that this group of people seems to have robbed a princess. From the second sentence, it can be heard that this is A bunch of rebellious rebels!

Now that he had confirmed that the other party was a traitor, how could Di Renjie be polite? While the two were passing by, he suddenly jumped out from behind the huge boulder. With a wave of his sword, one head flew up, while the other was about to draw his sword to fight back. Opening his mouth to shout, Di Renjie had already stabbed him in the throat.

This sword technique is fast and smooth, and it was completed in almost a second. In the past, he would never have reached this level, but after seeing Ye Mengqiu's sword technique, he seemed to have an epiphany. After painstaking research, he finally greatly improved his martial arts.

After killing the two rebels with two swords, Di Renjie searched them, but found nothing of value except money bags and weapons. All the dead bodies and severed heads were thrown into the river below the cliff, and then the blood on the ground was covered with soil. After arranging everything, he carved a mark at the base of the boulder next to him, and continued to move forward.

After making several turns along the mountain road, I saw that the terrain ahead was flat, and a dilapidated mountain temple could be seen in the distance. Di Renjie approached the mountain temple cautiously, and finally came to the side of the mountain temple, and then walked with his back against the wall, and came to Behind the mountain temple, there happened to be a hole the size of a sea bowl on the back wall of the mountain temple. When Di Renjie came to the hole, he didn't dare to look inside in case he was discovered. He just listened carefully at the hole, only to hear that there seemed to be someone inside. pacing back and forth.

Di Renjie stood quietly outside the entrance of the cave, motionless, and even controlled his breathing very lightly. Although he was young, he was very experienced in dealing with such things. It is not yet known how skilled these rebels are, and the princess In their hands again, if he is not absolutely sure, he dare not act rashly, he is very patient.

After a long time, there were suddenly many footsteps approaching the mountain temple, and at the same time there was a shout: "Quick, it's in this temple."

Di Renjie was overjoyed when he heard the sound. He knew that reinforcements from Dali Temple had arrived.

(End of this chapter)