Chapter 3 Self-defeating
"This ...... What's going on? Looking at the horned bow and feather arrows with his own imprint, Wu Yuanming couldn't help but be dumbfounded. Wu Yuanming can be sure that this is definitely not done by his father's people, because before Wu Yuanming escaped from Beijing, he had already notified his retreat plan to Yunnan through his father Wu Sangui's underground network in Beijing, and Wu Sangui also agreed to Wu Yuanming's escape plan and the request to go down to Jiangnan to collect Luo, and secretly informed Wu Yuanming of the distribution of power in the Central Plains and Jiangnan of the Pingxi Palace, so Wu Yuanming knew very well that his family did not have special killers and intelligence organizations in Jinan, Shandong. It is even more impossible to kill people indiscriminately with weapons with the imprint of the Pingxi Royal Mansion and deliberately leave evidence!
"Got it! The enemy is trying to frame our Wu family! Provoke a greater conflict between our Wu family and heaven and earth! Thinking of this, Wu Yuanming suddenly understood the true intention of the killer, and hurriedly ordered the four Wu Sangui guards who came with him: "Quick, let's get out of here quickly." β
"Yes." The four guards agreed to leave when there was a noise outside the house, and many people shouted, "There are assassins!" Catch the Assassins! Many more shouted, "It's gone, put out the fire!" Wu Yuanming secretly complained bitterly, knowing that it must be the people of the Heaven and Earth Association who came to rescue Fang Dahong, who deliberately set fire to divert the attention of all the officials in Licheng County and take the opportunity to save people. However, what made Wu Yuanming even more angry was that before starting the operation, Wu Yuanming had ordered Wang Fen to withdraw all the guards in this area in the honor of Wang Shirong's special envoy, which means that as long as the people of the Heaven and Earth Society knew about this room, they could rush here immediately, and then there would not be even a single reinforcement.
"! It's like it's arranged in advance, it seems that our Wu family has provoked some vicious and shameless guys! Wu Yuanming scolded angrily and solemnly, turned over his hand and pulled out the flintlock musket from his waist, and pulled out the feather arrow with his own mark from Fang Dahong's throat, and shouted: "Take the horned bow and go quickly!" But before Wu Yuanming's words fell, a loud shout came from outside the house, "You can't go!" Almost at the same time as the sound sounded, more than a dozen black-clothed masked men with weapons rushed in and jumped in from outside the house and from the windows, surrounding Wu Yuanming and the four guards. When they saw Fang Dahong tragically die in the room, the black-clothed masked men shouted one after another, "Brother Fangββ! β
"Avenge Brother Fang! Kill the doglegs of this group of traitors! A man in black took the lead in pointing his weapon at Wu Yuanming and the other five people, and the other men in black were all open-eyed, all angrily outflanking Wu Yuanming. Wu Yuanming hurriedly explained: "Ladies and gentlemen of the Heaven and Earth Society, listen to my explanation, Fang Yingying was not killed by us, but was plotted by someone from the window with a bow and arrow. And we are not traitors, we are from Mu Wangfu, and we are here to save Fang Yingying, but as soon as we saved him, Fang Yingying was assassinated by the enemy. Saying that, Wu Yuanming subconsciously raised the feather arrow in his hand to prove it, and added: "Ladies and gentlemen, if we want to kill Fang heroes, we won't be stupid enough to use bows and arrows in the room, right?" β
Killing Fang Dahong in the room does not require a bow and arrow for long-range attacks, this reason is not difficult to understand, and there are many sober-minded people in the Heaven and Earth Society. So Wu Yuanming's words finally had some effect, and a leader-like person stopped the other black-clothed people and asked in a deep voice, "Are you from Mu Wangfu?" What's going on here? How did Big Brother Fang die? The man in black had an old voice, and he was obviously not young.
"In Xia Wu Yuanming, the Wu who painted the saint Wu Daozi, is a subordinate of the little grandfather of Mu Shenbao in Mu Wangfu." Wu Yuanming first described his fabricated identity and the reason for rescuing Fang Dahong, and then described in detail the rescue of Fang Dahong and the killing of Fang Dahong, and finally pointed to the bandaged wound on Fang Dahong's body and said: "Everyone, please see, if we want to kill Fang Hero, why do we have to apply medicine and bandage his wounds?" Isn't that redundant? β
The example given by Wu Yuanming is indeed reasonable, since there is no need to bandage the wounds of the killed person if he wants to kill someone, not to mention that the four guards brought by Wu Yuanming still have the remaining cloth belts and medicinal powder in their hands, so the demeanor of the group of black-clothed people immediately eased, and many of them lowered their weapons, but the black-clothed man led by him was very fine, and stared at the blood-stained feather arrow in Wu Yuanming's hand and asked: "In this case, why did Brother Wu take away the feather arrow that the murderer assassinated Brother Fang?" How can this be explained? β
"This ...... This....... Wu Yuanming was dumbfounded, he took away the feather arrow because he wanted the enemy's plot to provoke a greater conflict between Heaven and Earth and his own family to fail, but he didn't expect the people of Heaven and Earth Society to arrive at the scene so quickly, and his actions were very suspicious. The black-clothed man at the head saw that Wu Yuanming's expression was wrong and he was struggling, so he immediately asked, "Could it be that there is anything strange on that arrow?" Can the brother borrow the feather arrow to the younger brother to take a look? β
The man in black at the head said politely, but there was a secret signal in his hand, and the other men in black saw it, and then raised their knives and forced Wu Yuanming and the others, the four guards brought by Wu Yuanming did not dare to slack off, and they also raised their knives to be careful, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense again. And Wu Yuanming was so nervous that his palms were sweating, but he didn't have the courage to hand over the feather arrow to the man for inspection-now that he handed it in, he couldn't get rid of the suspicion. The man in black at the head was even more suspicious when he saw Wu Yuanming's expression like this, and his tone became much heavier, "Brother Tai, please borrow that feather arrow to take a look at the younger brother." β
"No way, Dad, I have to be sorry for you first." Wu Yuanming was helpless, and after praying in his heart, he turned the arrow upside down and handed it to the man in black, who took it and only glanced at it and exclaimed: "Pingxi Palace?!" It was Brother Fang who was killed by Wu Sangui's dog thief! The other black-clothed people were shocked when they heard this, and after they came up and saw the imprint of the Pingxi Palace, all the black-clothed people couldn't contain their anger and scolded, "Sure enough, it's Wu Sangui's dog thief!" "Sure enough, it's the hand of the big traitor Wu Sangui!" "Dog traitor Wu Sangui, I am inseparable from you!"
"Heroes of the Heaven and Earth Society, please don't fall for the tricks of the gangsters." Wu Yuanming explained stubbornly. The forces of the Heaven and Earth Society are all over the north and south of the river, and once Wu Sangui's family merges with the Heaven and Earth Society, the first unlucky ones are the Western Election Officials distributed in various provinces and places, although most of these officials are not very successful, but they can also provide Yunnan with intelligence and some of the support of scarce materials, plus uniting all anti-Qing forces is Wu Yuanming's program of action. So Wu Yuanming risked being suspicious and defended: "If this matter is the king of Pingxi...... Wu Sangui's dog thief's subordinates did it, then this is the territory of the Western Election Officer, they don't need to assassinate outside the room, they can kill in the room openly. Since the assassin acted secretly, and deliberately used the name of Wu Sangui's dog thief, it seems that he wants to cover it up, is the meaning of this worth playing? β
The son called his father a dog thief, and he didn't dare to say that there was no one to come, and there was no one before him. It's a pity that Wu Yuanming's words of defense did not play a role in clearing up suspicions, and attracted more suspicions, the leader of the man in black glanced at Wu Yuanming, and said in a deep voice: "Even if Brother Tai is reasonable, why did Brother Tai take away the murder weapon and hide it?" Isn't that even more trying to cover it up? What's more, Brother Tai used makeup to cover up his true appearance and refused to show his true face, what is this? β
"What a poisonous eye!" Wu Yuanming was secretly shocked in his heart, the makeup on his face was made by Yao Qisheng for him, the makeup was very exquisite, and the light in the room was dim, and the man in black could still see that he had makeup on his face, which really surprised Wu Yuanming. The other men in black shouted, "Yes, why did you take the murder weapon?" "Wash the makeup off your face and let's see who you really are!" There are also people who inadvertently hit Wu Yuanming's vital point, "Wu Sangui's surname is Wu, and you are also surnamed Wu, what is your relationship with him?" Rao is Wu Yuanming is also clever, but he was also asked at the moment, and he didn't know how to answer.
Seeing Wu Yuanming's embarrassed expression, the man in black at the head was even more suspicious, and forced him to step forward and asked, "Who is Brother Tai?" Since Brother Tai claims to be the hero of Mu Wangfu, can you take out the waist mark of Mu Wangfu? Wu Yuanming breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly untied the waist card from his waist and handed it over - when Mu Meng lived in Wu Yuanming's house, Yao Qisheng had seen Mu Meng's Mu Wangfu waist card, and before coming here, the forgery master Yao Qisheng had prepared an imitation waist card for Wu Yuanming and his party. But when Wu Yuanming's waist card was just handed over, the man in black just looked at it casually and roared angrily: "Fake! Who are you? β
"Wronged, is this and there fake?" Wu Yuanming was taken aback, and he didn't know where the waist card was fake. The man in black said angrily: "The pattern on your waist card represents the woman in King Mu's mansion, you are a man, how can you use a woman's waist card?" Wu Yuanming was completely dumbfounded now, and said that the waist card was even divided into men and women, and I was so happy now. But the man in black had already seen through Wu Yuanming's fake identity at this moment, threw down his waist card and raised his knife and roared: "Say! Are you Wu Sangui's lackeys? Did you kill Brother Fang? β
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"I'll answer for him!" Just as Wu Yuanming was speechless when he was asked, a crisp cry suddenly came from outside the room. Immediately afterwards, more than ten black-clothed people came in outside the room, two of them also carried Wang Fen, the seriously injured Licheng County Commander, led by a petite black-clothed man with a short knife in each hand - looking at the figure, it should be a woman, listening to the voice crisp and beautiful but with a hint of childishness, it is estimated that the age is not there.
"Uncle Cai, don't hesitate, kill them!" The black-clothed girl pointed at Wu Yuanming with a short knife and said, "Just now I led someone to arrest the dog official sent here by Wu Sangui, according to the dog officer's confession, this man is Wu Sangui's dog-headed military advisor Wang Shirong's envoy to contact the Western Election Official, and he pretended to be someone from Muwangfu to rescue Brother Fang, because he wanted to use Brother Fang to break into the interior of our Heaven and Earth Society and listen to the secrets of our Heaven and Earth Society!" That's why I cooperated with this dog officer to act and deceive Brother Fang! β
"Wang Fen, you soft bones!" Wu Yuanming angrily scolded Wang Fen in Licheng County, although at this moment, Wang Fen's face had been cut with a knife Seventeen or eight bloody wounds. The black-clothed man surnamed Cai over there didn't hesitate any longer, and roared angrily and slashed at Wu Yuanming's head, "Good dog thief!" Death! One of the guards beside Wu Yuanming hurriedly raised his knife and fought with him, while the other black-clothed people rushed up, slashing at Wu Yuanming and the others with swords and swords, and Wu Yuanming's other three guards stopped in front of Wu Yuanming regardless of their bodies, parryed and counterattacked, and soon fought with them. And Wu Yuanming retreated to the back with a musket in both hands and stood against the wall, trembling to guard against the man in black who came to murder his evil life.
Although the four Wu Sangui guards brought by Wu Yuanming have high martial arts, there is no need to doubt their loyalty, but the number is too small, and there are also many good players among the black-clothed people on the opposite side, only fighting for a while, the four guards quickly hung up their colors, and were killed and retreated, a man in black saw that they were dodging and moving, and rushed to Wu Yuanming with a knife to cut it, Wu Yuanming's soul was afraid and hurriedly pulled the board machine to him, only to hear a loud "boom", the man in black did not expect that Wu Yuanming's musket could be fired without ignition, and it was bombarded so that the back of his chest bloomed at the same time, fell on his back and died on the ground! But Wu Yuanming couldn't rejoice, and subconsciously touched the other musket hidden in his waist, but when he saw the stunned man in black in the room, Wu Yuanming's heart moved again, and he quickly withdrew his hand......
"Don't move!" Wu Yuanming held the flintlock musket that had been fired with both hands and aimed at the black-clothed people, and bluffed: "This musket in Lao Tzu's hand is a revolver just invented by Western France!" Six shots can be fired without ignition, and now there are five more bullets! There are also those five who want to die, report their names, and Lao Tzu will send him back to the West! β
In fact, although the flintlock musket in Wu Yuanming's hand can be fired without ignition, this primitive musket can only be fired once, and it must be recharged and lead pellets after firing once, so Wu Yuanming has the move to touch another musket. It was also because this kind of musket that was fired without ignition had shocked all the black-clothed people present - after all, no one would joke about their own lives casually, so Wu Yuanming's bluffing tactics were very successful, and none of the black-clothed people present dared to step forward, Wu Yuanming's four guards took the opportunity to jump out of the battle circle and retreat to Wu Yuanming's side to escort.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way!" Wu Yuanming cautiously walked to the door, while holding the musket and shaking around, afraid of the power of the musket, all those who were pointed at by the musket subconsciously dodged and retreated, allowing Wu Yuanming and the four guards to pass through the crowd and slowly approach the door. When passing by Wang Fen in Licheng County, Wang Fen raised a hand with difficulty and wanted to ask Wu Yuanming and others for help, but he was ashamed to open his mouth because he betrayed Wu Yuanming and others, but Wu Yuanming saw that he was still loyal to his father, and took the initiative to order: "Carry Wang Fen and let's go together." Hearing Wu Yuanming's words of repaying grievances with virtue, Wang Fen's tears immediately welled up in her eyes, and she wanted to thank her but couldn't cry. The other people of the Heaven and Earth Society secretly praised in their hearts, "This big traitor's lackey is quite righteous." β
Slowly withdrew from the room with his back to the back, outside was the back garden of the Licheng County Ya, the terrain was very open, Wu Yuanming glanced at the road, and the four guards retreated back to the back gate of the garden, and the black-clothed man in the room carried Fang Dahong's body and rushed out, followed by Wu Yuanming and others in pursuit, but they were afraid of Wu Yuanming's musket and did not dare to approach. The two hostile sides were in such a stalemate, one retreating and the other chasing, and in a short time retreated to the gate of the back garden.
"Open the door." Wu Yuanming stared at the pursuers and whispered to the guards behind him. There was a low voice of the guards in the back, and then the sound of opening the gate, but just when the gate was just opened, the two guards behind Wu Yuanming let out two screams, and at the same time there was a roar like a swarm of bees, although Wu Yuanming didn't know what was happening behind, he subconsciously rolled on the spot and rolled into the flowers beside the road. Almost at the same time, the two guards carrying Wang Fen and Wang Fen screamed one after another, Wu Yuanming looked back, only to see countless arrows shot in from outside the gate of the back garden, Wu Yuanming brought the four guards, two because they went to open the door and bore the brunt, and the other two were because they were carrying Wang Fen with inconvenience, and Wang Fen, who couldn't move, was already full of feather arrows and fell to the ground and died.
"Kill!" Without waiting for Wu Yuanming to see the other situation clearly, there was a sudden sound of killing outside the wall, and in an instant, the fire outside the wall was soaring, and I don't know how many torches were fluttering in the wind outside the wall. Immediately afterwards, a few more arrows were thrown in from outside the wall, and the people of the Heaven and Earth Association who were in the garden could not avoid it, and they were injured by arrows and even fell, but Wu Yuanming was close to the wall, and the position was in the dead end of the bow and arrow projectile, and a few arrows rained down and didn't hurt him a single hair-the sky has no eyes!
"Ambush! Get out the front door! The people of the Heaven and Earth Society clamored one after another, and rushed to flee to the front gate of the Yaqian in Licheng County. But they didn't escape a few steps, and in front of them there were murderous sounds and torches, and hundreds of Qing soldiers rushed out of the darkness, shouting the slogan of "arrest the thief" and outflanking the people of the Heaven and Earth Society. At the same time, a large number of Qing army green camps also rushed in outside the back door, and in the light of the fire, a thousand generals led by him rode on a horse and shouted: "Arrest heaven and earth will be a thief!" Kill! β
"Kill!" Hundreds of Qing soldiers shouted, holding swords and guns to charge in formation, although these Qing troops were low-skilled in martial arts but skillfully trained, the people of the same team covered each other in the group charge, the attackers only stabbed with guns, and the defenders only raised their swords to parry, and the power naturally increased greatly under the concerted efforts. Although the people of the Heaven and Earth Society can fight alone, they can fight alone, but collective fighting is their weakest point, and they were rushed back and forth by the Qing army's squads, and then they were cut and surrounded by each squad, and they were outnumbered and fell in an instant, and in a blink of an eye, several people were stabbed and cut down. And Wu Yuanming hid in the shadows, although he was unhindered for a while, he couldn't escape, so he could only quickly reload the musket charge, so as not to even have the strength to fight back when he was searched.
At this time, the old man surnamed Cai, who had begun to talk to Wu Yuanming a lot, shouted loudly: "Miss, where are you?" Where are you? Then the voice of the girl in black sounded in the scuffle, "Uncle Cai, I'm here!" Wu Yuanming looked fixedly, and saw that the girl in black was surrounded by seven or eight Qing soldiers and was already tired, and as soon as her voice was exposed, the morale of all Qing soldiers was immediately boosted, and they all shouted: "It's a woman!" It's a female thief! Capture her alive! The old man, surnamed Cai, struggled to clash with her, trying to take her to his side.
At this time, the Qing army led the team to laugh loudly, "This female anti-thief has a very good voice, her face must be good, get out of the way, I will personally arrest her!" In the midst of laughter, Mr. Qian bent his waist and was about to dismount sideways. But at this moment, a thunderous gunshot rang out, and Mr. Qian's body shook, turned over and fell off his horse......