Xu Chong turned over and dismounted, and hurriedly walked to the headless corpse, where a young general was squatting in front of the corpse and carefully retrieval, and there were already a lot of small fragments next to it.

"Ruan Xiu, did you find anything?" Xu Chong was a little anxious.

Ruan Xiu took out a small jade seal from the arms of the dead body, just glanced at it, his face changed suddenly, Huo Di stood up, and handed the seal to Xu Chong: "General Xu, it seems, it seems to be a personal seal of respect!" ”

Xu Chong was shocked, snatched the seal, stamped it the back of his hand, looked at the four seal characters of the grass hall monk on it, and fell silent all of a sudden.

Thatched cottage layman, this is the number of Jingxiang, and it is only in the letters exchanged with some very close people that this small seal will be stamped, and very few people know. This seal is here, and the headless corpse in front of me is only afraid that it is undoubtedly respectful.

He took a deep breath and untied his cloak to cover the corpse.

"Look it up and see if there's anything you find?" He whispered.

A soldier approached with two crossbow arrows.

"This is the latest crossbow of the Tang people, could it be an assassin of the Tang people?" Xu Chong said in surprise.

Ruan Xiu shook his head and said, "General Xu, I'm afraid that this crossbow was shot by someone from Jingxiang's side." ”

"How so?"

"Respect where they came from. One bolt was nailed to a tree, the other flew to the front, and the Assassin came from the front on a warhorse. Ruan Xiu analyzed: "So it is only possible that the guards beside Jing Xiang sent out crossbow arrows, but they were flashed by the other party." ”

Xu Chong nodded: "It's very likely that this is the case, but where did this person who fired crossbow arrows go?" ”

Ruan Xiu shook his head, took a few steps forward, and said, "General Xu, the other party came on a war horse, and with a knife down, the carriage fell apart, and Jing Xiang fell to the ground, and that guard probably saw that the situation was not good, so he jumped out of the car and fled." Respect for a scholar, when you encounter such a situation, it is reasonable to be unlucky. ”

A fast horse came ahead, and the two looked up.

"General Xu, dozens of corpses were found in front." Immediately the knight bowed.

"It should be a respectful guard." Ruan Xiu said.

"Let's go, let's see!" Xu Chong turned over and got on his horse: "Leave a few people, so that you can collect the remains of the respectful minister." ”

The two of them hurried to the scene of Yori, but the scene was terrible, more than 20 corpses were lying on the road, and several soldiers were carefully examining them one by one.

"There's one still alive!" A soldier suddenly raised his head and shouted, Xu Chong and Ruan Xiu suddenly lifted their spirits, and hurriedly walked over, only glanced at the survivor with a bloodstained face, Xu Chong recognized the other party.

"Shi Hong, it's General Shi Hongshi!"

Ruan Xiu stretched out his hand and touched Shi Hong's neck, then leaned down to look at Shi Hong's wound, and said, "General Xu, I'm just afraid that I have to find a doctor immediately, General Shi's injury is too serious, and it is pure luck to be able not to die." ”

"You must save him, now that Jingxiang is dead, what happened to him must fall on him, I will take Jingxiang's body and General Shi back first, you have a good look, see who did it?" Xu Chong nodded.

"Who did it, I'm afraid I can guess one or two without checking!" Ruan Xiu smiled bitterly.

"It's one thing to guess, it's another thing to have clear evidence, you can't let me say in front of my father that I guessed, right?" Xu Chong glanced at the other party and said.

"Understood." Ruan Xiu nodded.

Xu Chong's temporary location was chosen in a small town more than ten miles away from the scene, and when Ruan Xiu arrived here, it was already dark.

"General Shi Hong, he ......"

Xu Chong had been waiting for Ruan Xiu's arrival, listened to the other party's questioning, and said, "There is a good doctor in the town, and his life is probably saved, but if he comes to his senses, I'm afraid it will take a few days." He was really fatal, that knife stabbed in, and it was dangerously grazed by the heart, and if it was crooked, he would die. ”

"Lucky in misfortune!" Ruan Xiu said with emotion, sometimes people are alive, and they really have to look at luck.

"What did you find?"

Ruan Xiu said: "After the killer killed people, they cleaned up the scene, Shi Hong and these guards are not weak in combat effectiveness, they were ambushed, and they were shot with crossbows first, but I am afraid that more than half of them will die." The rest were besieged to death, as can be seen from the wounds on their bodies. Those who hurt them were all standard weapons, and these killers came out of the army. ”

"It's conceivable." Xu Chong sneered and said, "Can you determine who it is?" ”

"Although the killers cleaned up the scene and took all their own people away, we still found this at the scene!" Ruan Xiu handed a waist card to Xu Chong. "It was found in a ditch on the side of the road, covered with weeds, and they probably didn't find it."

"City Patrol Division!" Xu Chong gritted his teeth and said, "What a bold man, he is so arrogant in my jurisdiction!" Is this the waist card? ”

"Of course not." Ruan Xiu said: "The geese have left a voice, and the people have left traces, no matter how much you cover it up, there will still be traces." I followed these traces all the way down and made some new discoveries. The five corpses were hastily buried, and we dug them up, all dressed in ordinary clothes on the outside, but on the inside they were the clothes of the City Patrol Division. Not far from where they buried the dead body, a war horse was found, which had been killed by a crossbow arrow, and the horse's butt was marked by the City Patrol Division. ”

"The evidence is conclusive." Xu Chong waved his fist: "Have you found the footsteps of these bastards?" ”

"Found it, they are now in Yushan County, and there are more than thirty people. The leader is Yang Honggui, the commander of the City Patrol Division. Ruan Xiu said.

Xu Chong turned around and walked out.

"Where is the general going?"

"Do you need to ask? To catch that bastard, of course. ”

"General Xu, Yang Honggui is the commander of the City Patrol Division, directly under the command of His Royal Highness, and the military general of Zheng Sanpin." Ruan Xiu reminded.

"Phew, don't say that he is just a military general of the third grade, that is, he is the first grade, and Lao Tzu will now tie him up and hand him over to his father for disposal." Xu Chong said angrily: "My father asked me to pick up the prime minister, but the person didn't pick up, only a headless corpse, how can you tell my father if you let me go back?" Moreover, Jing Xiang's head must be next to Yang Honggui, his father has been friends with Jing Xiang for half his life, how can he bear to see Jing Xiang's body incomplete after his death? Xu Chong said: "Order all the soldiers and horses, and follow me to Yushan." ”

Ruan Xiu thought about it, it is true, now Chang'an doesn't know what the situation is, but once the prime minister was assassinated on the side of the road like this, it is indeed unreasonable.

A group of hundreds of cavalry, lit torches, and marched towards Yushan County.

At this time, in an inn in Yushan County, Yang Honggui, the general of the City Patrol Division, was looking at a head in front of him in a daze.

The head has been processed, and although the concocted head is still a little hideous, it looks like it is the Prime Minister Jing Xiang of Liang that he wants to catch on this trip.

But God is pitiful, he really didn't think that what he saw would be a head.

Whether it's Zhu Youyu or Yang Honggui, they are just thinking about capturing Jing Xiang alive. He hadn't touched the side of Jing Xiang and his party, but Jing Xiang's head appeared in this inn for some reason.

A group of them chartered this inn, but not long ago, a soldier of the City Patrol Division found this leather bag in the backyard of the horse corridor, and the leather bag contained Jing Xiang's head.

Faintly, he felt that something was wrong.

"Did you find any traces?" Watching his men return to the hall one by one, Yang Honggui asked a little irritably.

"General, I didn't find anything, the shopkeeper in the inn, Xiao Er, the guy, and the miscellaneous people, we have all interrogated them carefully, and we have also used methods, but they don't know anything, and it doesn't look like they're lying." A lieutenant said uneasily. Jing Xiang's head on the table is facing him at the moment, he used to be the first assistant, but now there is only such a head left, no matter how you look at it, you feel panicked.

Yang Honggui felt that there was an invisible net that was unconsciously covering him.

"Pack your things, let's go!" Yang Honggui Huo Ran stood up.

"What about this head?"

After hesitating for a long time, Yang Honggui finally said: "Pack it and take it away." ”

The group quickly packed their bags and had just walked into the courtyard when the sound of horses' hooves rumbled outside.

Before they could react, the gate of the courtyard was smashed from the outside with a bang, and a tall horse broke in through the smoke and dust.

"General Xu!" Looking at the general on the tall horse, Yang Honggui exclaimed in surprise.

Xu Chong stared at Yang Honggui condescendingly, and sneered: "General Yang, don't come unharmed!" It is difficult to get a trip to my jurisdiction, so why do you come quietly and are ready to leave without saying a word? ”

Yang Honggui's face turned pale, and he knew very well in his heart that he had fallen into a well-arranged trap.

"Take it all for me." With a wave of Xu Chong's hand, hundreds of soldiers poured in and rushed towards the officers and soldiers of the City Patrol Division. The sound of choking was endless, and the officers and soldiers of the City Patrol Division drew their weapons one after another and gathered together.

"General Yang, do you want to do it?" Xu Chong looked at each other with a sneer.

Yang Honggui sighed, took off the saber at his waist, and threw it on the ground.

"All of them lay down their arms, they are all their own people, and there is no need to spoil the peace between the two sides."

Ruan Xiu snatched a leather bag from a city patrol officer on Yang Honggui's side, opened it and glanced at it, his face changed slightly, and he turned around and handed it to Xu Chong, Xu Chong saw Jing Xiang's head inside, and his face also changed greatly. suddenly raised the whip in his hand and whipped it fiercely towards Yang Honggui.

"Whoever is your own bastard, tie it up, tie it up." He roared loudly.