Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

On the dark side of the road, the light of the lantern was dim. A man lying on the ground, with a cloth bag over his head, his legs twitching. Soon I heard the sound of the ax smashing the skull, and the black shadow of the ax was reflected on the ground, shaking constantly.

The people on the ground gradually fell silent without making a sound, the black figure put away the axe, panted and carried the still limp corpse onto the horse's back. After leading the horse back for a while, he left the main road and walked towards a dark forest.

When he entered the woods, he tied his horse to a tree trunk and opened some branches indiscriminately, only to see a deep hole inside. Then he picked up the corpse and threw it in, dug out a shovel from the soil and started shoveling the soil.

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In the inn on the east side of Taishi Mountain, people were fetching water to fight the fire. The disheveled tourists stood in the yard, their voices were noisy and panicked. Several big men stood at the gate with swords, bows and arrows in their hands, shouting: "No one is allowed to leave! Anyone who trespasses will be killed!"

In a room upstairs, Jingniang said quietly: "There is also the matter of the master blocking arrows for his subordinates. Why did you do that?" Guo Shao didn't seem to hear it.

Jing Niang whispered again: "If something happens to you today, what's the point of me being alive?"

She had already cleaned Guo Shao's wound to stop the bleeding, and looked around for gauze to bandage him, but couldn't find it, so she took a short knife and cut a piece of the robe, but immediately threw it away... Maybe it was too dirty and too thick. She suddenly blushed slightly, reached into the collar and pulled out a translucent light red thing with a strap on it, then passed through Guo Shao's armpit to cover the arrow wound under his collarbone.

At this time, Guo Shao came back to his senses, looked down and saw that he was actually wearing a tube top, "This..."

Jing Niang said softly: "It's a matter of urgency, don't take it too seriously."

Guo Shao ignored it, picked up a robe and covered his body, and said: "Send someone back, bring dozens of soldiers over, and completely control this inn! Lu Chengyong!"

"The humble job is here." A strong man walked to the door.

Guo Shaodao: "You go back and lead the soldiers... Get a pen and paper. I'll write a slip. I'll go to Zuo You first, and then I can call in the manpower. The soldiers on duty in the house don't move. Luo Mengzi stays and helps me."

When the pen and paper were brought up, he picked up the pen and wrote. At this time, Lu Chengyong asked: "Master, do you want to report to the official?"

Guo Shao often ordered this guy to do things, just because he couldn't even pronounce the names of some of the soldiers, and he was familiar with Lu Chengyong, and this guy was also conscientious every time he did errands, in fact, he was a relatively clever young man.

After hearing this, Guo Shao thought about it, and said, "Don't be in a hurry to report to the officials, we have to have a trial first, whoever does this is not as reliable as us. After dawn, I will send Luo Mengzi to bring the letter back, and report to the guard Ma Busi first."

After writing the letter, the order is proper. Guo Shao kept clearing his thoughts in his mind, and at this moment Luo Mengzi said: "That bastard Li Chongjin did it, right? Damn it! Brother, after you have said this, I, Lao Luo, will hack that guy to death!"

Guo Shao glanced at him, and scolded: "He hacked the general to death without asking indiscriminately, how can you run away? Tangbing Xishi is going to remarry. I really can't see my younger siblings sleeping with other men."

When Luo Mengzi heard this, his face was very embarrassed.

Guo Shao didn't pay attention to him anymore. At this time, it's useless to think too much. We must grasp the key points and separate the tightness. Living is the key! Guo Shaodao: "Caught two people? Go, go and have a look right away, don't let them die!"

As soon as they walked out of the room, they saw Bai Xiangu and Li Niangzi coming. Seeing Guo Shao, Mrs. Li said with a pale face: "General Guo, are you injured? I didn't know it would be like this... It's all my fault for letting you come, do you blame me?"

Guo Shao said kindly, "If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have come to Datong Temple, and you wouldn't have been frightened. There is no one to blame for this matter, so how could I blame you?"

After that, the two said together: "It's good that you are fine."

It was only after the words were finished that they realized that they were speaking in unison, as if they had agreed upon it, not even a single word was missing. Immediately looking at each other in dismay, Mrs. Li's cheeks flushed with blush.

Guo Shaodao: "I still have important matters. Madam Li stays with her family. After dawn tomorrow, I will send my soldiers to escort you home."

After saying that, he walked towards the stairs without looking back.

In a room inside the main gate, I saw two Chinese characters tied to a chair in streaks, with cloth balls stuck in their mouths. They looked at the newcomer with fear on their faces.

The guard next to him said: "One of them was shot in the thigh by an arrow, and we caught him. The other ran up the stairs from the east courtyard wall, rolled down and hurt his leg. When we chased after him, we caught him right in time. These thieves came prepared. There were several sets of stairs on the wall to climb the courtyard wall. There were horses outside. I heard the sound of hooves, but it seemed that there were only one or two horses. It was just too dark, and we didn't have enough manpower.

Guo Shao listened to the report from his own soldiers, walked behind the captives, grabbed their hands to examine their palms, and then fixed his eyes on one of the strong and strong men. Just as he was about to ask a question, the scene of biting his tongue and killing himself flashed in his mind, and he said: "Pinch your mouth and knock your teeth out."

After hearing this, the soldiers said, "I'll go find the hammer."

"Hmm..." The fellow stared in horror, and made a few indistinct voices. After a while, the iron hammer came in. Without saying a word, the big sergeant pinched the guy's mouth, pulled out the cloth ball, and said to the other sergeant: "Get off your mouth."

"Ah... ah" The screams were so horrible that the whole yard might have heard them.

Finally, the fellow turned his head away suddenly in pain, and immediately shouted indistinctly: "I recruit! I recruit anything! It's just for money..."

Guo Shao didn't expect it to be so easy, so he threateningly said: "If you tell half a lie, I will stick a bamboo stick into your ten fingers, and let you speak after inserting them one by one. You should cherish the opportunity to speak!"

The fellow nodded desperately, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

Guo Shao thought for a while and ordered: "Take the other person away and close the door. I'll ask them separately in a while, and if it's not right, I'll torture them together until you serve."

After the door was closed, Guo Shao asked directly: "Who ordered it?"

The fellow said: "Li Xiaer! My name is Li Mazi!" Guo Shao asked, "Who is Li Xiaer?"

Li Mazi said: "The man who runs a brothel on Osmanthus Street in the north of East City, Tokyo, also runs a gambling house. I have known him in the gambling shop for a few months, and he taught me to kill a man. After the job is done, he gave me both the brothel and the gambling shop. I have already taken his title deed."

Guo Shao said coldly: "A man who runs a kiln would take such a big risk to assassinate a general?"

Li Mazi said in surprise, "I really didn't know you were a general!"

Guo Shao said quickly: "You tell me everything Li Xiaer asked you to do in detail. Remember, if you say a wrong sentence, you will have to pay the price for the next chance to speak. If you want to deceive this general, you'd better deceive him! Say it right away, don't stop!"

Li Mazi cried and said with a mournful face: "The first thing I did was to take turns watching Li Xia'er in the inn in front of Li Chuyun's mansion. When I went, he had been watching there for a while, so I immediately took care of him. First, I found a maid hurriedly going out alone, and Li Xia'er followed, and I was the one who stared at the door.

It wasn't long before he came back. Two days later, there were people from Li's mansion riding out on horseback again. They were all servants, and Li Xia'er followed them again. I'm still following..."

He then told how to find people, how to prepare bows, gunpowder, manpower and other things. Then I went to this inn to check out the spots, open the room and set up posts and other things.

Hearing this, Guo Shao couldn't help but marvel in his heart, the mastermind behind the scenes actually used a person named Li Xia'er; Li Mazi who was caught was also found by Li Xia'er. Then relying on a group of refugees, they actually completed the entire process from stalking, setting up locations to assassinating. The careful planning and thoughtfulness of the conspiracy are not worth making a fuss about. The most difficult thing is that he has the guts to implement it in a short period of time.

There are several links in this plan that are prone to accidents, and finally there is a problem with the gunpowder link... If one link goes wrong, the whole thing will collapse; but the planning is still very careful, but it is relatively thin. It's hard to say how perfect it is, otherwise how could it fail in the assassination and be caught alive? But this courage can be described as crazy.

Guo Shao asked someone to bring in the crossbow used by the assassin, and after a careful look, Luo Mengzi said: "Our Zhou army doesn't use this kind of crossbow. By the way, the one used by the Southern Tang army when they attacked Huainan is very similar to this."

Li Mazi hurriedly said: "That's right, that's right, Li Xia'er said that his hometown is in Huainan."

Luo Mengzi cursed and said, "It's Li Chongjin! Who else is there besides him?"

Li Chongjin? Guo Shao's first intuition was that it wasn't him. Li Chongjin was at least one of the ten thousand people in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and he was also a relative of the great ancestor Guo Wei. He is closer than the current emperor and Taizu's blood relationship; a veteran of the battlefield. Li Chongjin was not a very nice person, but it was a bit inconceivable that he would use such simple and risky means to deal with political opponents.

Zhang Yongde and Li Chongjin also had a lot of grievances, Zhang Yongde said that he "has a different heart", this kind of slander is probably more serious than Guo Shao asking him to serve fried fish! But Zhang Yongde rode into Li Chongjin's barracks alone, and Li Chongjin didn't take the opportunity to do anything to him...Secondly, Guo Shao analyzed the fact that Li Mazi and the other two were stalking Li Chuyun's mansion...Will Li Chongjin take Li Chuyun seriously? Why send someone to watch Li Chuyun!

A person's name entered Guo Shao's mind very clearly: Zhao San!

Ten days ago, it should have been the time when Li Mazi and others were following Li Chuyun. Guo Shao met Zhao San and Zhao Pu from Li Chuyun's house on the road... Is this just a coincidence? There is also what Zhao San said: If you don't marry Mrs. Li in this life, it will be a regret in your life. He fell in love with Mrs. Li, so it was possible to send people to set up secret sentries around.

Guo Shao was speechless for a long time, with ups and downs in his heart.

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Tonight, I will start to rush to the monthly ticket list, aiming for the top three, give it a try. Two updates first, and one more later.

Now there is a discount for recharging, 100 yuan for 1000 yuan; there are additional amounts and monthly passes for rewards. Every 2 yuan of consumption can be drawn once. There are mobile phones and tablets. Good luck to everyone. (For details, please refer to the announcement on the home page and the reward column)

Hope it works! I asked a book friend to make a rough calculation, and I hope to be in the top three of the monthly tickets, whether it will be up to you or not.

Tonight is the most appropriate time to reward Xifengjin! No matter from the discounts and lucky draw surprises, or the important value of the rewarded monthly pass to Xifeng, it is the best time.

Focus on participation and do what you can. Every support can make me feel a mood. (Fire time: now to 12 o'clock tonight)