Fortunately, Zhang Xiaowu dodged in time, and the arrow hit his right arm muscle, but it was stuck in the arm armor. Zhang Xiaowu fell off his horse and immediately pulled out the arrow, and suddenly saw another arrow coming quickly, but saw Wang Yijin suddenly jump in front of him, and the arrow hit Wang Yijin in the chest with a pop. Wang Yijin fell to the ground with a scream, Zhang Xiaowu was full of liver and gall, gritted his teeth and shouted: "Take my knife!" He has always regarded Wang Yijin as his younger brother, but he never expected Wang Yijin to be assassinated in front of his eyes.

The soldiers raised their shields to protect Zhang Xiaowu and Wang Yijin, and the white eight-petal golden gourd hammer scattered from his cloak pointed at a nearby place and shouted: "On the small building, the assassin is on the small building, kill me and me." ”

"Catch it alive." Zhang Xiaowu covered his bleeding arm and ordered, he saw that Wang Yijin was hit by an arrow in the chest, and said sadly: "One catty, one catty, you open your eyes." Then Wang Yijin opened his eyes, gasped, and touched his chest and cried out in pain. Zhang Xiaowu was stunned for a moment and said, "You kid is not dead?" Wang Yijin took out a thick copy of the "Nine Classics" from his chest, and there was a crossbow arrow inserted in the "Nine Classics", and the arrows passed through a little bit, and Wang Yijin also left some blood on his chest.

The two looked at the "Nine Classics" with their mouths wide open, speechless for a long time, and then looked at each other and laughed. Even Zhang Xiaowu felt that his arm didn't hurt anymore, and said with relief: "No wonder the ancients said that reading is useful, there is a golden house in the book, Yan Ruyu, you look at you, just because you like to read and carry books with you, you are saved from death." ”

Wang Yijin also covered his chest and was afraid: "My lord, I bought this book yesterday, in order to avoid wrinkles before and after, I specially asked the craftsman to make a cover with two pages of hard cowhide, which cost me a tael of silver." ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "One or two pieces of silver buy a life, and you have made a lot of money in this business." ”

Bai Hao led a team of personal soldiers to kill the small building, but only saw a delicately made crossbow, and the figure of the assassin was gone. When Bai Hao came back, Zhang Xiaowu had already finished bandaging, and he moved his right arm, although it was still painful, it didn't have much effect.

Bai Hao lowered his head and said with shame: "If you don't protect the city lord, you should die." ”

Zhang Xiaowu comforted in turn: "It's okay, a little injury, some skin was broken, and no bones were hurt, did the assassin run away?" ”

"It's running." Bai Hao was so angry that his face was full of shame and annoyance, "We searched everything around, it was an abandoned house, the second floor was the boudoir of this young lady, and in the room except for this crossbow was a woman's things, the assassin should have been familiar with this place for a long time, and he fled immediately if the assassination failed." He glanced at his men, who immediately brought the crossbow up.

Looking at the crossbow, Zhang Xiaowu's brows suddenly wrinkled into a Sichuan character, this crossbow is a general military crossbow, to be precise, this is a hand crossbow, which can be operated with one hand, but what is amazing is that this hand crossbow has two bowstrings, which means that it can fire two arrows. The first arrow hit Zhang Xiaowu's arm, and the second shot hit Wang Yijin in the chest, and if Wang Yijin hadn't resisted, the crossbow arrow would have shot directly at his head.

The requirements for making a crossbow are very high, and no national army in the world is equipped with a crossbow, and the cost of making a crossbow is five times that of a hard bow, even the Shenghan Forbidden Army will not choose to spend money to make a crossbow. And the Holy Han Empire has two troops equipped with crossbows, one is the Royal Forest Army and the other is the Golden Guard.

The crossbow in Zhang Xiaowu's hand is a well-made mortise and tenon joint, and the military crossbow is often rough and large in order to pursue range and penetration, if it was a military crossbow that assassinated him today, I am afraid that he and Wang Yijin would have died here long ago. He took a closer look at the crossbow and found that there was a "Xiao" character on the handle of the crossbow, which Zhang Xiaowu guessed should be the name of the craftsman.

"Put it away and talk about it later." Zhang Xiaowu commanded, although the crossbow arrow injured Zhang Xiaowu's right arm, there was no poison on the arrow cluster, and it would be good to cultivate for a while.

The assassination of Zhang Xiaowu once again caused a stir in Mucheng, and Shen Lindong and Li Chuncheng insisted that the assassin of the city lord must be a dissident in the rout, and they were dissatisfied with the killing of more than thirty other dissidents a few days earlier. But Xiao Kai didn't think so, because this crossbow was expensive, how could the rout army carry such a valuable thing with him, he thought it was Inuyi.

Chen Guanxi suddenly said: "I have a lieutenant under me, named Li Yuan, who got a piece of information from the herdsmen when he was scouting Siye, which may be the reason for the assassination of the adult. Everyone hurriedly looked over, and Chen Guanxi said: "Li Yuan said that the Wuhuan general who was beheaded by the adult is the righteous son of the Wuhuan Khan, and after the death of that person, the Wuhuan people are willing to spend 10,000 taels of silver to buy the adult's head." ”

"Ten thousand taels!" Everyone was shocked, Zhang Xiaowu also took a breath and said, "My head is so valuable? Everyone laughed, and Zhang Xiaowu said again: "Let go of the wind, just say that I, Zhang Xiaowu, killed the Wuhuan Khan Yizi, I think my head can still rise in price, 10,000 taels, who do you look down on?" ”

Everyone was speechless, how could there be such a person who provoked Wu Huan, he was really a terrible ghost.

Zhang Xiaowu himself was not very worried about this injury, but Mang Chong cried like a tearful man, and cared about whether his arm had poisonous sores all day long. After Zhang Xiaowu emphasized that he should clean his wound with wine, Mang Chong cried again, cursing the assassin for not dying well, causing Zhang Xiaowu to laugh again and again, saying that you little girl is not kind anymore.

Mang Chong suddenly said: "They can hurt me, but they can't hurt you." ”

Li Chuncheng has been conscientious since he became the captain of the security battalion and is responsible for the order in Mucheng City, but he never expected that the assassination of the city lord would happen under his nose.

The assassin was challenging the famous killers of the past, and he was provoking the soldiers and civilians of the city.

Li Chuncheng led 500 soldiers from the security battalion to search the whole city all night, but the soldiers complained bitterly but did not dare not carry it out, and the people's homes were searched several times, but there were still no clues. Just when everyone was clueless, a temporary chief took the initiative to ask Ying, saying that a clue had been found in a local farmer's home.

Li Chuncheng recruited this person, and his name was Zhang Tongming, who was originally the captain of the bow formation of the Third Regiment. After the defeat of Yashan, Zhang Tongming and the other defeated soldiers fled all the way south, and were later rescued back into the city by the Mucheng scout cavalry. Zhang Tongming felt shameless and returned to his hometown to see his father, so he hid his identity, and later after all, an old soldier of the third regiment recognized him.

A few days ago, in order to control the whole army, Zhang Xiaowu allowed the officers above Du Zuo to leave Mucheng, and Zhang Tongming was among them. However, Zhang Tongming chose to stay after repeated consideration, and voluntarily demoted him to a long time. He felt that his career would end here after returning to his hometown after the defeat of the army, and that he might have a chance to stay in Mucheng.

It is said that opportunities are reserved for those who have a heart, and Zhang Tongming also seized this opportunity.

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