Practitioners can rely on their physical fitness to offset altitude sickness, but the number of practitioners is too small, which means that Ye Cheng has no ability to directly search Xifeng Mountain.
Before Xiao Tian left Beijing this time, he happened to learn the escape method from Yun Zhongzi to avoid Ye Cheng's divination method...
So... hiding here, Ye Cheng has nothing to do with them!
At this time, An Ning was reviewing military documents in the Wuwei County government office, and suddenly felt uneasy for no reason.
She stood up, looked at the starry sky, and murmured to herself, "Brother Ye Cheng should be back soon, right?"
At this moment, a practitioner rushed in in a panic, "Your Highness, something serious has happened!"
An Ning looked at the practitioner in confusion, "What's wrong?"
"Xiao Tian, Xiao Tian ran away!"
"What?" An Ning finally understood why she was uneasy just now!
"Zhou Shen and Lu Chen entered the cell under the guise of interrogation, tricked the guards into killing them, and rescued the traitor Xiao Tian. Many soldiers from the Demon Suppression Guards also secretly escaped and went to find Xiao Tian."
"How many people left?" An Ning felt like the world was spinning. This time, she made a big mistake!
But, no matter what, he had to try his best to save everything, so she asked this question.
"A total of more than 600 people have escaped, and all of them are still at large. We have already taken care of the other demon-suppressing guards."
Hearing this, An Ning reluctantly held on to the door frame, and then stabilized his body.
She thought of Ye Cheng's instructions before leaving, and her heart was suddenly filled with guilt. According to the situation reported by this practitioner, the whole matter can be said to be irreparable!
Maybe by this time, An Qing already knows about Jiangzhou, or is already deploying troops to attack Jiangzhou!
An Ning managed to calm down and said to the practitioner, "They escaped from the tunnel, right?"
"Exactly."
"Okay, you take the people with you right away. , chase along the tunnel, remember, after leaving the tunnel, follow the footprints and move quickly. "Yes!"
As soon as the order was given, Ye Cheng's groan appeared at the door.
An Ning knelt down in front of Ye Cheng with tears in her eyes, "Brother Ye Cheng, I'm sorry for you, Xiao Tian... escaped."
Ye Cheng quickly helped her up and comforted her softly, "It's not your fault, it's because I didn't arrange it well. Xiao Tian is old and cunning, and his elite are stationed here. How can we suppress it? "
An Ning explained what happened in detail, and Ye Cheng suddenly realized, "I knew...the two of them are Xiao Tian's loyal confidants. How could they surrender to us."
"It's just that in front of the whole army, I didn't want to chill everyone's hearts and scare others from coming to join us."
Ye Cheng thought for a moment and immediately gave the order, "Send the order to block all the passes going south. The pass guards must send additional practitioners to patrol the face day and night."
"No matter what, we must not let it go. Xiao Tian returned to Jiangzhou! "
"Yes!"
After issuing this order to check and fill in the gaps based on An Ning's order, Ye Cheng immediately began to use divination to guess Xiao Tian's location.
However... nothing can be calculated.
"Xiao Tian has learned the escape technique? This is going to be troublesome..."
"An Ning, we have to resolve the war in the north as soon as possible."
"Brother Ye Cheng, what to do, I listen to you."
"Come here, I will tell you slowly..."
At the same time, in Xifeng Mountain, inside a hidden cave.
Xiao Tian sighed and looked at Zhou Shen and Lu Chen.
"Two of you, tell me...what will happen if His Majesty learns that Ye Cheng has done such a thing?"
"Probably, he will be directly angry to death. The influence of Ye Cheng's rebellion against the Great Zhou Dynasty is too great."
Lu Chen also sighed. He said, "Speaking of which, I think it would be better for Ye Cheng to take over the throne than our Majesty."
"We are just ministers, we just have to fulfill our duties faithfully."
Xiao Tian’s words completely lost the firmness of the past.
A month later, An Ning was furious in the capital and the palace.
Because, she had not received a letter from Xiao Tian for half a month.
"Trash, a bunch of trash, I just want some news from the northern border, why haven't you gotten anything for me in half a month?"
"You are so incompetent, why not enter the Demon Locking Tower and recharge your blood and food!"
These words frightened all the guards to kneel on the ground, not daring to take a breath.
"Your Majesty, the four northern states are now at war with each other, and we really don't have the ability to go to the front line?"
"What about Xiao Tian? Why didn't you send a report back for so long?"
"Could it be that the Ministry of War neglected its duty and lost the letter?"
This is of course impossible, it's just what An Qing took for granted.
At this moment, a guard suddenly rushed to the palace and said slowly.
"Your Majesty, General Xiao is back!"
"What? Quick, invite him in!"
Half an hour later, An Qing saw a dejected Xiao Tian.
I saw Xiao Tian in ragged clothes, kneeling on the ground, "I am incompetent and lost the northern territory, please punish me."
"What? I have transferred so many practitioners to you, and you have lost all four states? Xiao Tian... I knew you were incompetent, but I didn't expect you to be so incompetent!"
"Your Majesty, the one who captured the northern border was not the demon army of Rongguo, but Yecheng."
An Qing looked at Xiao Tian doubtfully, "What? Yecheng?"
h"Exactly , Your Majesty, Ye Cheng is in Jiangzhou, not to suppress the rebellion at all. He has been running Jiangzhou and turned Jiangzhou into his headquarters of rebellion." His hands were put into exquisite bags specially made for imperial grains and distributed to the people of Jiangzhou. Thanks to this, the people of Jiangzhou now hate His Majesty deeply. "
"The rebellion in Chenzhou and Yangzhou was also his work. Chen Yun, the confidant I sent to Jiangzhou, has long been bribed by them and has been concealing it for them."
This was learned by Xiao Tian on his way back from the people near Jiangzhou.
"Ye Cheng sneaked into Liangzhou two months ago, and I don't know why he went to Liangzhou."
"But... one day, An Ning suddenly led hundreds of practitioners, holding evidence that I had sucked living people, to lure all the troops to surrender."
h "My demon-suppressing guard was not affected by it, but it was difficult to survive alone, and was bloody suppressed by Ye Cheng. It was under the protection of several loyal generals of the demon-suppressing guard that I fought my way out of the encirclement."
Hearing the news, the entire palace was in an uproar.
No one expected that An Ning and Ye Cheng would rebel.
On the other hand, An Qing, after being stunned for a moment, asked with a sneer, "Xiao Tian, what do you mean, Ye Cheng has decided to send a message to the four northern states?"