The secret passage of the Cao family is located in the library on the east side of the back house. Outside the wall is a forest that is one mile wide. Over this forest is Chongxinmen. Since this forest is also the land of the Cao family, it has not been developed and has always maintained its original appearance. It is a relatively rare forest in Lin'an City.

At this time, at least more than 6,000 soldiers were deployed in the woods. They surrounded half of Cao's mansion from the east and south, and another 9,000 soldiers were deployed in the north and west. In order to completely kill Li Yanqing, Zhao Ji spent a lot of money and deployed 15,000 troops around Cao's mansion.

The soldiers on the east and south are only a few dozen steps away from Cao's Mansion. They are hiding in the woods and are difficult to be discovered. The ambush on the north and west are hundreds of steps away. They are afraid that they will break through after being discovered by Li Yanqing.

The secret master of Cao's mansion came out of the secret passage about 250 steps. The exit was located in the center of the forest. It happened to be behind the ambush soldiers. Several Li Yanqing's personal soldiers crawled out from the tunnel and looked west for a moment. There was still a faint figure shaking in the west of the forest, which was the soldiers lying in the ambush in the woods.

Seeing that there was nothing unusual in the east, they waved. The soldiers in the tunnel came out one by one, lined up quickly, and ran towards Chongxin Gate on the east.

Chongxin Gate is not the main city gate, but a corner gate, which is only half the size of the main city gate, and there are not many soldiers deployed. It is about a hundred people during the day and halved to fifty at night. At this time, a large number of troops were in the city to control the streets and alleys of Lin'an City on the pretext of searching assassins, especially near the palace, which made the Chongxin Gate area, which had few residents, look very deserted, without even lights, and the city was pitch black.

Li Yanqing did not use force to capture the Chongxin Sect. He knew that before the court coup broke out, all the soldiers did not know that the sky was about to change, and his position in the army was still high.

He came to the personal soldiers and came to the city gate. The personal soldiers came forward and shouted. After a moment, a escort team on duty ran down, "I am not good at the commander-in-chief!"

"Whose subordinate are you?"

"Reporting to the governor, Bei Yi is the subordinate of commander Yang Qing."

This name is a bit familiar. Li Yanqing thought about it and suddenly remembered that Yang Qing seemed to be Pan Yue's general. Pan Yue has been transferred to Changzhou for military training, and his former subordinates have also been separated.

Li Yanqing's heart moved and asked again: "Who is Boss Yang Qing?"

"Reporting to the chief executive, General Yang's boss is General Miao Fu."

Li Yanqing pondered for a moment, took out a short sword, handed it to the team and said, "The short sword was handed over to General Yang, and he said it was me for him, and he quickly understood what it meant."

"I remember it!"

"Let's open the city! I'm leaving the city now."

The escort team did not dare to disobey Li Yanqing's orders, and immediately ordered the city to open. The city gate creaked and the suspension bridge slowly lowered. Li Yanqing quickly led his personal soldiers out of the city. Finally, the personal soldiers who left the city whispered to the escort team: "If you don't want to die, don't reveal that the escort will leave the city from here. If you say it, you will be dead."

After the personal soldiers finished speaking, they left him and left quickly, and soon disappeared into the darkness.

The team's face changed drastically. I don't know what happened. At this moment, a low bell suddenly came from the city, "Dong!Dong!Dong!Dong!'

The second update was coming, and the escort team urgently ordered his subordinates, "Close the city gate quickly!"

The city gate closed with a bang, and the suspension bridge was pulled up. Everything seemed to have nothing happened. The team was uneasy and hurried to find his boss Yang Qing.

When Li Yanqing heard the bell, he couldn't help but stop and looked back towards the palace. He couldn't help but sigh secretly. Zhao Gou was still a little too tender compared to his father Zhao Ji. Zhao Gou was not as good as this decisiveness alone. He was assassinated at noon, and Zhao Ji launched a coup at night, which was obviously ahead of schedule.

Now even Li Yanqing is hit. If the Cao family had not had a secret Taoist, he would have been in danger today.

He never expected that the old man had a heart attack when he was assassinated and died unfortunately. It would be a trap set by Zhao Ji, and he could not guard against it. This shows that Zhao Ji was so careful in his deployment and thoughtful, and he was not out of danger yet, let alone rescue Zhao Gou.

Li Yanqing sighed softly, now he can only look at God's will.

"Let's go!"

With the order, Li Yanqing took two hundred personal soldiers to leave the official road and ran north along the hilly road. They had no war horses and could only run on foot. As long as they ran for thirty miles, they would be basically safe after crossing Huantang River.

In Zhao Ji's layout, the first important thing is to kill Li Yanqing, after killing Li Yanqing, and then launching a palace coup, so that it is safe.

When the bell rang, Miao Fu immediately led a thousand soldiers to the front of the Cao Mansion. After all, the Cao family was the leader of a meritorious family. If Zhao Ji wanted to hold the throne firmly, he really did not dare to offend these forces. Even if he could not win over, he would at least keep them neutral.

Miao Fu decided to be courteous and then the army. If Li Yanqing resisted arrest, they would have to attack.

After a moment, Cao Yan walked out of the mansion. He looked at the dark soldiers in front of him and then at the dense army in the distance. He secretly glad that Li Yanqing had taken a step earlier, otherwise it would be really dangerous today.

He pretended to be stunned for a moment, "General Miao, what are you doing?"

Miao Fu raised a gold medal, "According to the emperor's order, he asked His Highness the King of Jin to enter the palace. The emperor had urgent military information to discuss with him."

Cao Yan shook his head, "His Highness King Jin has left, don't General Miao know?"

Miao Fu suddenly widened his eyes and asked anxiously: "When did he leave?" "About half an hour ago! It seemed that someone sent him a letter, and he said that there was something urgent to go first."

Miao Fu turned around and found the soldiers surveillance outside, and asked in a low voice: "Have Li Yanqing left?"

The soldier was so scared that he said tremblingly: "I was responsible for monitoring the main gate. I dared to guarantee it with my life. Li Yanqing must have not left, only two or three people in and out, but it was definitely not Li Yanqing."

Miao Fu captured the soldiers in charge of surveillance at the back door and the east door for interrogation. They all swore that they did not see Li Yanqing leaving.

Miao Fu was anxious. It seemed that he was going to tear his face apart. He walked up to him and said, "Shangshu Cao, I'm sorry, I don't want to make things difficult for the Cao family, but I must find Li Yanqing. It's of great importance. Please help us!"

Cao Yan looked at him for a while and coldly said, "You can come in and search the mansion. Except for the mourning hall, you can search anywhere!"

Miao Fu breathed a sigh of relief. As long as Cao Yan gave in, it would be easy to deal with, "then you will offend!"

He turned around and waved his hand, "Come in the mansion!"

The soldiers rushed to the Cao Mansion. Several Cao family members were about to have an attack, but Cao Yan waved his hand to stop them. Now he wanted to buy time for Li Yanqing. The longer the soldiers spent the better.

Cao Yan was not worried that the soldiers would discover the secret Tao. Unless they were interested in a book on the bookshelf, they would still find nothing after entering the library.

Miao Fu looked very nervous. Although the soldiers were still nervous about searching the mansion, he already felt something was wrong. If Li Yanqing was still in the mansion, Cao Yan would not let himself search the mansion like this, nor would he be so calm. Did Li Yanqing really run away?

Miao Fu's scalp felt numb. If Li Yanqing really escaped, the Supreme Emperor would definitely not be able to avoid him.

Although Miao Fu was very worried, the unfortunate result finally came. Soldiers kept reporting, and no trace of Li Yanqing and others was found. Miao Fu's heart became cold.

At this time, a deputy general came to Miao Fu and whispered to Miao Fu: "Brothers found two hundred war horses in the stable. It should be Li Yanqing and his mounts. Bei Zhi suspected that Li Yanqing would either hide in a secret passage underground or escape through the tunnel."

"Then have you found the tunnel entrance?"

“Not found yet.”

Miao Fu paced back and forth with his hands behind his back. Since the war horse was still there, it means that Li Yanqing only escaped after discovering that he was surrounded, and it would not take too long.

With Li Yanqing's strength, he could not have been hiding in Cao's Mansion. He must have escaped through a tunnel. Miao Fu was shocked and angry. He immediately ordered the three thousand troops to search the periphery, and continued to search the Cao's Mansion, and could not let go of every corner.

Miao Fu suddenly stared at the mourning hall. Is the authentic entrance in the mourning hall?

The more he thought about it, the more suspicious he rushed towards the mourning hall with two hundred soldiers. At this time, more than a hundred men and women of the Cao family gathered in the mourning hall, and more than a dozen Cao children stood in front of the mourning hall with weapons in their hands.

Seeing Miao Fu rushing towards him with great momentum, Cao Yan pulled out his sword and said coldly: "So, General Miao must alarm my father's soul?"

Miao Fu also drew his sword and said coldly: "I am executing military orders. Shangshu Cao should consider the lives of the entire Cao family first!"

At this time, the Cao family's children walked out of the mourning hall, all glaring at Miao Fu. Miao Fu gritted his teeth and said, "If I don't let me search for the mourning hall, don't blame me for being ruthless!"

Just then, a soldier ran over and whispered: "General, brothers have found the tunnel exit in the woods!"

"Have you ever searched in?"

"I went in and searched, and I went straight to the library in the back house of Cao's mansion!"

Miao Fu finally understood, he put away his sword and ordered: "Go to the library!"

He led hundreds of soldiers to the library, and Cao Yan breathed a little relieved. At this time, Cao Xuan walked forward with a worried look on his face and asked, "They have discovered the authenticity!"
Chapter completed!