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When Zhou Bo's prisoner car appeared, there were many onlookers, but most of them were still a little unclear. However, the soldiers and officials who opened the way in front spared no effort to shout loudly at this time, explaining Zhou Bo's accusation of conspiring against the enemy to the onlookers.
As a result, the common people were quickly guided by public opinion, and they scolded Zhou Bo as a "dog thief", "suffered a thousand cuts", "should exterminate the nine clans" and so on. Because the common people originally had a great hatred for the Jin people and the Qi people, anyone who was a traitor or the like could immediately anger the people. Some ignorant little kids even picked up stones from the ground and threw them at the prisoner cart.
Zhou Bo could only secretly complain, did he really want to let Xu Xiangtian and Li Hui and these traitors succeed? Not only did he end up with no place to be buried, but even his reputation was completely damaged!
Just as the prisoner cart came out of the market and turned to the residential area, there were a lot fewer people here. The soldiers and officials guarding the prisoner's cart also breathed a sigh of relief, because when someone threw vegetables, stones, and other things in the market just now, it was inevitable that they would be injured by mistake. Now the road is much quieter, and the body and mind can relax.
But not long after the group advanced, a large number of figures suddenly appeared at the intersection of the streets in front of them, including ordinary people, hooligans, and even some beggars. When they saw the prisoner van and the escort procession, one of them immediately shouted: "Look, it's this traitor who collaborated with the enemy, this pickled death, we have no home, no wife and no parents, everyone kill this dog." ”
Suddenly, the group of people immediately ran over to this side, shouting "kill the traitor" as they ran.
When the soldiers around the prisoner car saw such a formation, they were immediately frightened. The general who led the team was Li Hui's confidant, and he thought about it secretly, feeling that if Zhou Bo was killed by the mob. That reputation will definitely stink, and even if someone is rehabilitated at that time, I am afraid that it will be powerless. Immediately, he told the soldiers to disperse and not to protect the prisoner cart. All you have to do is protect yourself and let the mob throw things at the cart.
When the crowd was still a few dozen meters away from the prisoner car, many people had already prepared stones, rotten fruits, and rotten eggs in their hands, and threw them according to the prisoner car. For a while, these sundries flew all over the sky, and the momentum was great. It's no less than a flurry of arrows.
When the guard general saw this scene, he immediately laughed proudly, this time Zhou Bo is not dead? He was thinking in his heart to bring back the news that Zhou Bo was killed by the mob, Li Xianggong must be rewarded.
However, the change happened at this moment, and the things thrown by the originally riotous crowd were all headed towards the prisoner car. But the result was very different, such as vegetable leaves and rotten eggs did fall on the prisoner cart, but the harder things such as stones and rotten fruits seemed to be aimed at the surrounding soldiers, and they all fell on the soldiers.
In the beginning. The soldiers just thought it was an accident, but when many soldiers were hit in the face and fell to the ground bleeding, someone immediately realized that something was wrong.
The escort general hurriedly ordered the soldiers to disperse the crowd.
The soldiers immediately swarmed up and collided with the mob. Although Li Hui put in a lot of effort to let Zhou Bo march this time, he sent 500 soldiers to take care of it, but these mobs didn't know how. More and more people came out of the alleys on both sides of the street, and at once there were three or five hundred people. These people are no longer throwing things, and they are rushing to the front. The entire escort team was scattered at once.
The officials and the people immediately fell into a conflict, and many soldiers were squeezed out of the streets by the people.
However, the officials and soldiers just wanted to disperse the mob, but they didn't dare to use knives to cut them down, and if they caused a lot of casualties outside the city, it would be counted, but inside the city was different. Once someone dies, it's hard to end.
The general of the guard, fearing that things would change, immediately shouted on his horse: "You Diao people, if you don't disperse, Lao Tzu will give the order to open the knife! Quick, get out of the way!" he shouted as he whipped the mob with his whip.
Some of the mob heard the shouts of the guards and immediately began to disperse. One person scattered, involving ten people scattered, and a quarter of an hour later, the originally bustling street was suddenly emptied. Except for the rotten fruits, rotten eggs, and vegetable leaves on the ground, and the wailing of the wounded soldiers, the whole street was restored to its original state.
At this time, the general of the guard realized that the situation was a little too strange, why did so many people suddenly pour out of the residential area? And now, in the blink of an eye, everyone has run clean again? He secretly screamed that it was not good, and quickly looked at the prisoner cart, but found that the prisoner cart was already full of vegetable leaves and eggshells, and the more than 20 soldiers who were originally guarding in front of the prisoner cart had all fallen to the ground at this moment, and there were blood stains on each side.
"Quick, quick, go and see, what's going on?" the young general panicked and hurriedly shouted.
Several soldiers immediately ran over, and they picked out the vegetable leaves and eggshells with their weapons, but they found that the prisoner cart was already empty! The other soldiers went to check on the soldiers and servants who had fallen around the prisoner cart, and their faces immediately changed greatly.
A soldier shouted: "My lord, my lord, it's not good, these more than 20 brothers have been stabbed to death?
As he spoke, several soldiers turned over several corpses that had fallen to the ground near the prisoner cart, only to see that these corpses had several knife wounds in the chest and abdomen, and some of the corpses were still connected several times. It was so chaotic just now, and the voices of people were boiling, even if these people were killed by the knife and screamed, they couldn't hear it at all!
The young general was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and he lost his voice and said, "What? What?
The soldiers also looked at a loss, stunned in place, and looked at the junior in a daze. Now that such a big thing has happened, and Zhou Bo is going to be robbed, I'm afraid that their own heads won't be saved!
The young general hesitated for a moment, then immediately came to his senses, and immediately shouted: "What the hell are you doing in a daze? Close the city pass! Go, go to Li Xuanfu's line to report the matter! Quick!"
He commanded as he thought about what to do. If it is returned to Lee Sang-gong like this, even if the capital crime can be avoided. There is no escaping the sin of life. Therefore, the whole thing must not be reported like this, and you must find some confessions in your favor before you can get out.
After some deliberation, he decided to make up a lie and fool the catastrophe for the time being. Immediately. He summoned all the brothers and explained to them that they must report to Li Xuanfu and the prime minister according to their confessions, otherwise everyone will be killed.
These soldiers naturally didn't want to die, and after listening to the words of the junior general, they nodded yes one after another, and all of them expressed their willingness to listen to the instructions and arrangements of the junior general-
Half an hour later, the news of Zhou Bo's abduction reached Li Huixingyuan.
Li Hui just heard that Zhou Bo in the prisoner car was scolded by the people when he was in the market, and he also threw a lot of things. was beaming in his heart, thinking that this time Zhou Bo was completely finished. But it didn't take long for him to say that Zhou Bo had been robbed, and at first he didn't believe it, so he sent people to ask him again and again, until the young general who escorted the prisoner car came to report that the news was confirmed.
He immediately flew into a rage, and yelled at the subordinates who came to deliver the news: "Go, call the captain of your escort to me, it's fine just now." Now they've been robbed! Who did it?"
The subordinate knew that Li Hui's next few questions were said because of the inertia of the relationship, and if he wanted to say who had robbed Zhou Bo, how could he know that he was a subordinate? Brought the young general of the escort team in.
After the young general saw Li Hui, "Puff" suddenly knelt on the ground, and cried out to the sky: "Lord Xianggong, Lord Xianggong, the death penalty of despicability, the death penalty of despicable duty." ”
Li Hui originally wanted to step forward and kick this young general a few times. only to find that the other party was covered in blood and had a deep knife wound on his shoulder, and immediately realized that something was wrong. He quickly asked, "What's going on?"
The young general cried and said: "My lord, the brothers originally escorted the prisoner car all the way safe, but when passing by the residential area, a large number of refugees suddenly appeared, and the little one realized that the situation was wrong, and just ordered to be on guard, but I didn't expect these refugees to throw stones at us by surprise, and the brothers were all knocked down a lot at once. ”
When Li Hui heard this, he immediately scolded: "You bunch of rice buckets, a few stones will beat you like this? I really want to cut off your pig's head right now." ”
The young general cried even more miserably and said, "My lord, it's not over yet." But there were too many men, and there were many stones, and they smashed the brothers to the dark. At this time, from the alleys on both sides of the road, a group of black-clothed swordsmen were immediately killed, and there were more than 100 people. The brothers were taken by surprise and were immediately killed. And the refugees who had thrown stones earlier also swarmed up and fought into the ranks with short knives. ”
When Li Hui heard this, his eyes widened, what kind of people are these? How could Zhou Bo have so many henchmen willing to save him? This is absolutely impossible!
The young general continued: "Although the lowly people were killed and retreated because of a suddenness. But the lowly office immediately came to his senses and organized the brothers to fight to the death. Knowing that these people were here to kidnap the prisoner Zhou Bo, he simply gave a death order, even if Zhou Bo was killed on the spot, he couldn't let Zhou Bo leave alive. ”
When Li Hui heard this, he immediately said, "You are doing this right! So is Zhou Bo dead?"
The young general immediately said with a straight face: "Back to the adult, the young general personally rushed forward and pierced Zhou Bo's abdomen with a sword, although the young general's shoulder was also cut by those traitors, but he must not live up to Li Xianggong's expectations." ”
He originally planned to say a lot of sycophants that he had prepared to sing praises of virtue, but Li Hui immediately interrupted him and asked emphatically again: "Is the person dead?"
The young general hurriedly said: "Well, this young general sees that Zhou Bo has been seriously injured, although there is still a breath left when the rebel robbed him, but it is expected that the sword will either be dead or disabled, and it will not be a minor injury." ”
Li Hui roared: "In other words, Zhou Bo is not dead now?"
The young general immediately kowtowed again and begged for mercy, and said: "Master Xiang, the incident happened suddenly, and the lowly has done his best. Whether Zhou Bo is dead or alive, he doesn't dare to pack a ticket, but it is expected that this guy is seriously injured, and the ** of ten will also die. Even if he doesn't die, he has already sent someone to follow the clues according to the bloodstains, and there will be results soon. ”
Li Hui still wanted to be angry, but seeing that this young general was also injured, and he also stabbed Zhou Mingyi with a sword, even if he had no merit, he also worked hard, if he was angry at this time, he was afraid that he would make these soldiers dissatisfied. He sighed and said, "That's it, I know you've done your best. ”
When the young general heard this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and it seemed that his excuse still worked.
Li Hui pondered for a moment and said again: "Now, immediately order the whole city, immediately give me a strict arrest of the fugitives, I want to see people in life, and I want to see corpses in death, regardless of the life and death of the henchmen." ”
The young general immediately replied, "Yes! Yes!" and hurriedly withdrew.
Li Hui felt uneasy, so he sent someone to inform Zhai Xuan and the Zhizhou Yamen, and asked Zhai Xuan and the Zhizhou Yamen to send troops and officials with him to arrest them, close all the gates of Ezhou City under martial law, search the city door to door, and post notices to reward Zhou Bo for arrest.
After Zhai Xuan learned the news, he was also surprised, and secretly scolded Li Hui, an old horseman, for not doing things well. However, he also knew that the matter was important, because Zhou Bo was clearly framed, and once this kind of person escaped, he would definitely cause endless harm. Immediately, he first sent people to mobilize his own army and horses stationed in the city, and immediately divided the city into defenses and martial law, and then sent his own judges to coordinate the task of the army's search with Li Hui.
While arranging these things, Zhai Xuan was also constantly thinking about a question, that is, who had kidnapped Zhou Bo? Could it be that Zhou Bo had formed some henchmen in the past, so the sworn friends helped Zhou Bo when he was in danger? However, of course, he will also consider another reason, that is, a few generals who can afford Zhou Bo, and one of them is naturally suspicious of Dong Hao.
Immediately, Zhai Xuan immediately sent someone to transfer Dong Hao into the city alone. Regardless of whether Dong Hao has helped Zhou Bo or not, control Dong Hao first, and when the matter is over, you will be able to know by yourself.
For a time, the entire Ezhou city jumped up.
An army was added to the gates, and the gates were closed, so that those who wanted to leave the city could not get out of the city, and those who wanted to enter the city could not enter. The people were also panicked because there were also a large number of soldiers in the streets. Soon, after the coordination was completed, several groups of people launched a search operation, they began to search the residences of those low-class people, and then slowly searched the compound of the high-ranking and wealthy families.
Of course, in the course of action, it is inevitable that there will be people who take the opportunity to blackmail, which will suddenly cause resentment among the people of the entire Ezhou.
At this time, Xu Xiangtian, who was at home, was also alarmed, he was still proudly waiting for the news of Zhou Bo's beheading, until a little girl came to report that Zhou Bo had run away and was now searching all over the city, so he was immediately shocked. He hurriedly walked out of the mansion, and then came directly to Zhai Xuan's side to inquire about the situation. (To be continued.) )