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Liang Fuchen is already at the age of "knowing the destiny of heaven", and has been imprisoned in the cellar by the horse bandits for many days, and has been spending his days in worry and anxiety for some time recently.

However, when Liang Fuchen learned the news of the collective self-immolation of all the horse bandit leaders, he completely ignored his own physical condition and insisted on personally going to the self-immolation site of the horse bandit leaders to investigate.

For Liang Fuchen's decision, Xu Qingyan naturally stopped him in every possible way, thinking that Liang Fuchen's top priority should be to cultivate his body well, but Liang Fuchen still insisted on his own ideas, but he did not give his "life-saving benefactor" Xu Qingyan any face at all.

Liang Fuchen is an old assistant minister of the cabinet, and Xu Qingyan did not dare to forcibly stop him, so he had no choice but to follow Liang Fuchen with him.

The self-immolation site of the horse bandit leader is located in the center of the horse bandit stronghold, which was originally the main hall of the Taoist temple, and after the horse bandits occupied the Taoist temple, the main hall was changed to the "Juyi Hall" of the green forest heroes, which is the core of the horse bandit stronghold.

When Liang Fuchen and Xu Qingyan arrived at the "Juyi Hall", it had been burned to the ground, and it had just been extinguished by the officers and soldiers, who were cleaning up the scene, and the smell of scorched smoke was everywhere.

Because he still had to conceal the news that Liang Fuchen was kidnapped by horse bandits, Liang Fuchen behaved very low-key after arriving at the scene, but was supported to stand aside and quietly observe and listen, and the investigation and evidence collection were all handed over to Xu Qingyan and Zhang Daozhen.

Of course, Liang Fuchen did not trust Xu Qingyan, and Zhang Daozhen was mainly responsible for the verification.

At Zhang Daozhen's signal, Xu Qingyan waved his hand and beckoned a military attache of the border army.

This military attache of the border army was about forty years old, and he was a short, stout man with a simple appearance, and he was wearing the costume of a deputy thousand households.

After Zhang Daozhen carefully glanced at this deputy Qianhu, he saw that his appearance was honest and honest, and he didn't look like a slippery and treacherous person, so he didn't detour around the corner, and asked directly: "Let me ask you, are all the horse bandit leaders really burned to death?" Is there any room left? ”

The deputy Qianhu nodded again and again, then shook his head again, and said: "Back to this nobleman's words, this matter should not be false, after the brothers attacked the horse bandit stronghold, the horse bandits had no resistance and retreated, and this hall became the last place for this group of horse bandits, but we soon surrounded this place and couldn't penetrate it, and those bandit leaders were already winged and could not escape, but just as we were about to attack the main hall, a raging fire suddenly broke out in the main hall, and it spread to the entire hall in a moment, such a fierce fire, The bandit leaders in the main hall must have all been burned to death. ”

Zhang Daozhen asked: "Why are you sure that the cause of this fire was the self-immolation of the horse bandit leaders?" Instead of...... A means of exterminating evidence by some people? ”

Hearing Zhang Daozhen's questioning, this deputy Qianhu obviously couldn't pay attention to the deep meaning, and after being stunned for a moment, he said: "I'm afraid this noble man is joking, it's just a few insignificant little bandit leaders in the corner, and it's only been a little bit of a climate in the past two years, and I've never done anything big, and I've never heard of their background, where do you need to kill people and destroy evidence......"

However, before Deputy Qianhu finished speaking, Zhang Daozhen had already interrupted: "You just need to tell me, why do you think that this fire was set by the horse bandits themselves, can you see it with your own eyes?" ”

The deputy Qianhu helplessly explained: "I didn't see it with my own eyes, after the brothers surrounded the main hall, the doors and windows of this hall were closed, and they couldn't see the situation inside at all, but after the leaders of the horse bandits saw that they were surrounded, they obviously understood that they had already inserted their wings and could not escape, so they shouted loudly What would rather be broken than broken, and must not be a prisoner, otherwise they will involve relatives and so on, these are all things I heard with my own ears, and then there was a raging fire in this hall, what is this not self-immolation?" ”

A ray of essence flashed in Zhang Daozhen's eyes, and after glancing at Xu Qingyan who was standing next to him out of the corner of his eye, he sneered: "In other words, you didn't see the appearance of these horse bandit leaders from beginning to end, but only heard the voice?" Also, the fire in this hall was uncontrollable in a short period of time? Where is the ordinary fire so fast? ”

The deputy Qianhu was stunned again, obviously he hadn't thought about these situations, and after hearing Zhang Daozhen's statement, he felt that things seemed to be a little strange.

After perceiving the strangeness, Zhang Daozhen did not continue to entangle, but continued to ask: "I heard that in addition to the leaders of the horse bandits who died by self-immolation, the soldiers also captured some horse bandits alive, but these horse bandits are all new Shaanxi and Gansu refugees who have joined within half a month?" The old qualifications in the horse bandits have not been caught? ”

Deputy Qianhu nodded, also feeling a little strange, and speculated: "As far as I know, in recent times, the power of this group of horse bandits has expanded rapidly, maybe the old horse bandits have been promoted to become the leader, and now I am afraid that they all stayed in the main hall and died of self-immolation." ”

Hearing such speculation, Zhang Daozhen's sneer became more and more obvious, and he asked several questions in a row.

And just as the two were asking questions, they heard someone suddenly shouting: "All the bodies of the bandit leaders have been dug up!" ”

But it was the soldiers who finally cleaned up the hall after the fire, and dug up more than 20 corpses from the rubble, all of which were horse bandit leaders who had self-immolated and died.

After a fire, the corpses were all burned to the ground, each of them black and hideous, unrecognizable, and constantly emitting a pungent scorching smell.

Zhang Daozhen has a tough personality, and he has followed Liang Fuchen many times over the years to see the battlefield, and he is no stranger to charred corpses, so after he saw that the bodies of the bandit leaders were all dug up, he walked over quickly to investigate the situation, and he did not see any resistance and fear.

On the other side, Xu Qingyan originally planned to go together, but after taking two steps, his complexion suddenly changed slightly, but he smelled the smell of burnt corpses, and saw that all the corpses were hideous and terrifying from a distance, so he couldn't help but feel disgusted and afraid, and finally stopped and let Zhang Daozhen go to investigate alone.

Zhang Daozhen didn't notice Xu Qingyan's stoppage, but walked quickly to the charred corpse and squatted down to examine his body carefully.

However, due to the intensity of the fire, the bodies were all burned to mutilation, and it was difficult to determine the circumstances of their deaths, and it was difficult to find much useful information.

And just when Zhang Daozhen frowned and felt embarrassed, the border military attache also came to Zhang Daozhen's side, and also squatted down to carefully investigate the corpse, but after a while, he said: "It seems that it is right, these are indeed the corpses of the leader of this gang of horse bandits, and there will definitely be no fake." ”

Zhang Daozhen was slightly stunned, turned his head to look at the border military attaché, his tone was slightly stern, and asked, "Why do you dare to be so sure?" ”

This border military attache is an honest man, and his expression was a little flustered under Zhang Daozhen's sudden forced gaze, but he still replied: "The villain is the deputy Qianhu of An Bianwei, and An Bianwei is only more than two hundred miles away from this horse bandit stronghold, so this gang of horse bandits has already attracted the attention of the lowly position, if it weren't for the fact that this year's fire screening into the Kou has lasted too long, the lowly post would have led his brothers to come to suppress the bandits, and there is no need to delay it until now, so the lowly post also found out some information about this group of horse bandits in advance, After breaking through the stronghold of the horse bandits today, some horse bandits were also interrogated to collect evidence...... Nobleman, look at this corpse, although it has been burned beyond recognition, the black tiger tattoo can be faintly seen on the shoulder, this is obviously Wang Laohu, the big leader of this gang of horse bandits...... There is also this corpse, with six fingers on his left hand and one missing ear, which is obviously Huo Zhenshan, the second leader of the horse bandits......"

After hearing this Qianhu's explanation, Zhang Daozhen frowned and thought for a moment, and finally nodded noncommittally, but the suspicion in his eyes became more and more intense.

Next, Zhang Daozhen investigated the scene, asked for information, or personally interrogated several horse bandits who were captured alive, and he was extremely active.

After being busy for more than half an hour, Zhang Daozhen finally returned to Liang Fuchen's body again and reported the news to Liang Fuchen.

I saw Zhang Daozhen's expression solemn, and he said in a low voice: "Master Ge, there are too many strange things about this matter!" First of all, this fire is too fast, it must be that the hall has already prepared something to ignite the fire, the so-called horse bandit leaders died of self-immolation in fear of crime, it is just a scene, this fire is probably just to destroy the evidence! After the officers and men attacked the stronghold of the horse bandits, they never saw the real situation of these horse bandit leaders with their own eyes, and it was impossible to obtain evidence of what happened to these horse bandit leaders before they died...... According to the students, these bandit leaders may have been killed a long time ago!

Secondly, when we were chased and killed by this gang of horse bandits, this gang of horse bandits had at least more than 200 people, but now this gang of horse bandits is not only greatly reduced in scale, most of the horse bandits are also refugees who have recently joined the gang within half a month, and the horse bandits captured alive by the officers and soldiers are all from this background, these new horse bandits don't even know about the kidnapping of the elder of the pavilion, as for the old qualified horse bandits who participated in the kidnapping of the elder of the pavilion, there are only twenty or thirty people left, and all of them were burned to death......

In addition, after the students personally interrogated the newly recruited horse bandits who were captured alive, they found that they usually did not have much opportunity to contact these horse bandit leaders, and most of the horse bandit leaders usually hid in the Juyi Hall and stayed at home, which was too weird......

Hearing the various doubts listed by Zhang Daozhen, Liang Fuchen sneered: "Yes, the situation is too strange, nine times out of ten, this gang of horse bandits has been exterminated and stolen to change pillars...... After we were kidnapped by the horse bandits, we only saw the horse bandit who delivered the food from beginning to end, but the horse bandit who delivered the food was also killed by Xu Qingyan, and the leader of the horse bandit had never seen it once...... The old man even suspected that our front foot had just been kidnapped by horse bandits, and the back foot of this group of horse bandits had already been exterminated. ”

As he spoke, Liang Fuchen's eyes swept towards Xu Qingyan.

At this time, Xu Qingyan was talking to the deputy Qianhu not far away, but he seemed to know that Liang Fuchen and Zhang Daozhen had confidential matters to discuss, but he didn't come over.

Zhang Daozhen obviously had the same suspicions, and asked softly: "Elder Liang Ge, are you suspicious, the person behind this gang of horse bandits is Zhao Junchen?" And the person responsible for imprisoning and guarding us during this time is this Xu Qingyan, all of this is a play directed and acted by them? ”

Liang Fuchen said slowly with a gloomy expression: "I don't dare to be completely sure, but it is very likely, and Zhao Junchen's suspicion is indeed the highest...... Looking at the current situation, during the period when the old man was imprisoned, it was Zhao Junchen who benefited the most, and in the current Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, only Zhao Junchen had the ability to have the means to do such a thing! ”

Zhang Daozhen's eyes flickered slightly, and he asked, "The student also thinks the same way, but we don't have any evidence at the moment, what do you think you should do next?" ”

Liang Fuchen's expression was cold, and he was about to say something, but suddenly saw a border soldier stumbling over, the expression of the border soldier was full of ecstasy, he ran to Xu Qingyan and the deputy Qianhu After running to the side, he shouted loudly: "Master Xu, Zhen deputy Qianhu, there is a great victory ahead!" Great success! I just received the news that Lord Qin Cha Zhao led the border armies from all walks of life to meet the 100,000 Mongolian coalition troops, passing through Zhenningwei, Xiaochuanhe, and Weishui in three battles and three victories! Now more than 100,000 Mongol coalition troops have been annihilated, and all the Mongol Tatars have either been killed or captured, which is really a great victory unseen in a century! Such good news has now spread all over Shaanxi and Gansu, and all the officials and people are rejoicing, gongs and drums! After the Lord Qianhu received the good news, he immediately sent a villain here to inform the two! ”

With the loud shout of this person, the soldiers of the nearby border army cheered loudly, and the sound of "long live" was endless.

However, after hearing such good news, Liang Fuchen and Zhang Daozhen changed their faces, and their expressions were complicated.

Liang Fuchen and Zhang Daozhen, as people who serve the public and protect the country, received such a good news, which is naturally a great joy for the public, but they are now suspecting that Zhao Junchen is the mastermind behind the kidnapping and imprisoning them.

"Zhao Junchen really has such a ability...... They completely annihilated 100,000 Mongol coalition troops...... With such a record, even the old man didn't dare to imagine that Zhao Junchen had actually achieved ......"

Between muttering to himself, Liang Fuchen's eyes were full of incredulity, and there was a faint hint of admiration.

At the same time, Liang Fuchen's suspicion of Zhao Junchen became more and more intense!

If Zhao Junchen had the confidence that he could reap such military exploits, then he would have the reason and motivation to bribe the horse bandits and imprison Liang Fuchen! If Liang Fuchen is allowed to successfully arrive at Huamachi Camp to replace Zhao Junchen, Zhao Junchen will have no chance to accomplish this big thing!

The great victories unseen in a century, the dazzling court rewards, the fame of the First World War that reversed the reputation, and the fame recorded in the annals of history...... Such a rich reward is enough for Zhao Junchen to take the risk of imprisoning Liang Fuchen!

Thinking of this, Liang Fuchen didn't dare to stay here anymore and delay the opportunity.

No one knew what Zhao Junchen was going to do next, and Liang Fuchen felt that he had to rush to Huamachi Camp as soon as possible.

However, this time the matter of being kidnapped and imprisoned by horse bandits naturally can't be just forgotten, and it must continue to be investigated! ”

So, Liang Fuchen immediately said: "Prepare the carriage and horses, the old man is going to Huamachi Camp!" …… Zhang Daozhen, you stay here to continue to investigate the truth, Li Hong, you also stay to assist you, I will leave Feng Gang, Xiang Zhen and their guards to help you, you must find the truth and find evidence as soon as possible! ”

Li Hongnai is the second only to Zhang Daozhen's staff and think tank under Liang Fuchen, and Feng Gang and Xiang Zhen are the leaders of Liang Fuchen's guards, both of whom are confidants.

Liang Fuchen left all these people to investigate the truth, which shows that Liang Fuchen attaches great importance to this matter!

Zhang Daozhen also knew that Liang Fuchen had to rush to Huamachi Camp as soon as possible to control the situation, and hurriedly replied: "The student obeys the order, and he will never dare to live up to the trust of the elder!" However, you must also pay attention to your body! ”

Liang Fuchen nodded, then turned his head and summoned Xu Qingyan and told him to prepare the carriage and horses and rush to the Huamachi camp as soon as possible.

On the other side, after hearing Liang Fuchen's decision, a trace of pride flashed in the depths of Xu Qingyan's eyes!

In fact, a large part of the flaws that Liang Fuchen and Zhang Daozhen noticed were deliberately shown to them by Zhao Junchen and Xu Qingyan!

All politicians are loyal audiences for conspiracy theories, and Liang Fuchen is also inevitably vulgar.

Therefore, Zhao Junchen knew very well in his heart that as the biggest beneficiary of Liang Fuchen's imprisonment, even if he did not leave any flaws, he would inevitably be suspected after Liang Fuchen got out of trouble, which was inevitable.

As a result, Zhao Junchen simply took the initiative to expose some flaws, which not only increased Liang Fuchen's suspicions, but also gave him the illusion that "as long as you investigate carefully, you can find the truth".

In this way, Liang Fuchen will focus on this horse bandit stronghold to investigate the truth, instead of going to Huamachi Camp to target Zhao Junchen everywhere! Before the truth is investigated, Liang Fuchen's personality may be temporarily false with Zhao Junchen, which allows Zhao Junchen to have a buffer time.

At present, on the three sides of Shaanxi and Gansu, Liang Fuchen's influence has been gradually pulled out by Zhao Junchen, and most of Liang Fuchen's cronies who stayed in Shaanxi and Gansu have been purged or bought by Zhao Junchen, Liang Fuchen's reputation has been greatly damaged because of the kidnapping, and he has met Zhao Junchen who is in full swing.

Even if Liang Fuchen arrived at the Huamachi camp as soon as possible, it was difficult to compete with Zhao Junchen due to the lack of manpower.

In addition, in the future, taking advantage of Liang Fuchen's suspicions, Zhao Junchen also has another layout.

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And just when Liang Fuchen decided to rush to Huamachi Camp as soon as possible, Zhao Junchen's good news also spread all over Shaanxi and Gansu, and also spread to the capital of Zhili!

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