The 9th (5th) day of the first lunar month
Shen Shi moment, Shendu, Datongfang.
The people selected by Hu Xiaowei are all excellent sergeants in each army, well-trained on weekdays, and can do the order to prohibit the orders of the superior commanders, since the order was initiated, in less than an hour, seventy soldiers have crossed the divine capital Luoyang, all arrived at Datongfang.
The name of Datongfang takes the meaning of Confucius Tianxia Datong, and people from various countries in the Western Regions have lived for a long time in order to achieve the purpose of "Datong". In recent years, with the increase in the number of Khitans, the fang has gradually become a gathering place for the Khitan people, and most of the nomads believe in shamanism, so the status of the shamanic high priest in the fang is becoming more and more respected, and there is a trend of exceeding the positive trend in the fang.
When Li Sanlang and his entourage arrived, Datongfang had been sealed, the streets had been banned, and everyone was forbidden to enter and exit. The two people standing in front of the gate of the fang are the high priest of the Datong Fang Li and the shaman shrine. Li Zheng had heard of Li Sanlang's name, and when he saw Li Sanlang, he hurriedly bowed his hand and said: "The street has been blocked according to Li Sicheng's request, and all the residents have returned to the house. ”
Li Sanlang also gave a salute and said: "There is labor! ”
The high priest didn't know Li Sanlang, on the contrary, his territory was so written by the Yulin Army, he felt deeply embarrassed, and he was angry, seeing that Li Sanlang was a young man again, so he shouted loudly: "You abuse your power like this, disturb my sect Qingning, I must go to the Holy Lord to denounce you!" ”
Li Sanlang glanced at the high priest, his eyes showed a fierce light, and he said sharply: "Today, we are all acting according to orders, and now we are suspected of harboring criminals in Datong Fang, once I find out, I will definitely ask you together!" Harboring a felon, you should know what the culpability is! ”
Hearing Li Sanlang say this, the high priest's tone suddenly softened, and he said carefully: "How can there be repeat offenders in my Datongfang, these are our devout shamanic believers. ”
"Is there any, you'll know when you check it later!" Li Sanlang went on to say that the high priest did not dare to answer again.
Li Sanlang took out a list from his arms, handed it to Li Zheng, and said, "Do you know the people on the list?" ”
Li Zheng hurriedly took the list, looked at them one by one, and then nervously replied: "Recognize... I know, these are the merchants who have just arrived in the past two days, and I remember the name. ”
"Where are they?" Chen Xuanli asked first, his tone was full of majesty, and no one could not afford not to answer.
Li Zheng's voice trembled a little, he knew in his heart that if these people were really serious offenders, he would not be able to escape the involvement, at least it was a crime of negligence, and the best thing now was to help them catch the prisoners as soon as possible, so as not to set himself on fire, so he replied: "In... In the backyard of the shamanic shrine, because of the Shangyuan period, there were really not enough guest rooms, so they could only be temporarily placed here. ”
Li Sanlang turned his eyes and glared at the high priest angrily, and shouted: "I also said that it has nothing to do with you, so I don't want to lead the way quickly!" ”
The high priest was already frightened at this time, whether he knew about it or not, but as long as the murderer was found, he would definitely not be able to escape the involvement, but he still wanted to make a last stand, so he said: "If you can't find it, what should I do?" ”
Li Sanlang is the kind of person who has a very clear purpose in doing things, and he doesn't do much to show his tongue, and when he heard the high priest say this, he just sneered and smiled, and said softly: "If you can't find it, it can only mean that you are lucky and I am unlucky." After speaking, he compared his hands and let Li Zheng lead the way, Li Zheng did not dare to slack off at all, and quickly turned around to lead the way, and the tiger roaring guard behind also followed, but lowered the sound of the march, just like before the beast hunted, quietly, slowly approaching the prey.
After passing through two streets, you will arrive at the Shamanic Temple, which is actually an independent courtyard separated from the shrine by one street. Li Sanlang asked Li Zheng: "What is the layout of this courtyard?" Is there a backdoor? How many people are inside? ”
Li Zheng glanced at the high priest beside him, the high priest didn't dare to say anything at this time, he stood quietly on the side, Li Zheng said: "There is only one gate in this courtyard, there is a two-story hut in it, the area is not large, and there are some sundries piled up on weekdays. ”
Li Sanlang sneered and said, "Li Zheng will also arrange, this extra thirty people will live together, no more, no less?" ”
When Li Zheng heard it, he knew that Li Sanlang had something to say, so he quickly knelt on the ground, crying, and said: "It's the villain's fault, the villain is greedy for money, a few days ago, a person visited me, gave me a sum of silver taels, and asked me to arrange his thirty brothers to live, and they must live together, at first I was also puzzled, but he tripled the money, and the villain was fascinated by money for a while, so it was arranged!" The other villains really don't know! ”
"Good! It turned out that you arranged it! Hearing this, the high priest on the side suddenly squatted down, and grabbed Li Zheng angrily, this time there was finally an opportunity to get rid of his suspicion, and he couldn't miss it.
Li Sanlang pulled away the high priest and continued to ask Li Zheng: "Who is the person looking for you?" What does it look like? ”
Li Zheng was about to speak, and suddenly he was hit by an arrow in the back, and the arrow cluster came out from the back through the chest, and there was black blood on the arrow cluster, and the arrow cluster was highly poisonous, and Li Zheng fell to the ground in response to the sound and was killed on the spot. In the face of the sudden change, Chen Xuanli blocked in front of Li Sanlang with an arrow step, and shouted loudly: "Surround the courtyard and protect the son!" ”
"Huh" was another arrow, the arrow passed by Chen Xuanli's side, and shot directly at the center of the high priest's eyebrows, and the high priest fell in response without even shouting. Chen Xuanli hurriedly lowered Li Sanlang's body, and he also lowered his body to block the front, looking around to see where the two arrows were shot from, but after a general search, he didn't find it, so he asked in a low voice: "Childe is okay, I see that the thief is in the courtyard, why don't you break the door directly." ”
Li Sanlang nodded, and Chen Xuanli called loudly: "Tiger Roaring Army, listen to the order!" Broke! Attack! ”
At the sound of an order, seventy tiger roaring guards broke through the door and swarmed into the courtyard. Sure enough, as expected, more than 30 Khitan people in the courtyard were holding swords and wearing armor, waiting in formation, only to see the leading Khitan people shouting a few words in Khitan language: "Tengger!" Tengri! Thirty Khitan warriors began to attack the Tiger Roaring Guard like crazy.
Seeing this outside the hospital, Li Sanlang hurriedly said to Chen Xuanli: "Be sure to leave a living mouth!" ”
"Whoa!" Chen Xuanli signaled Chen Wuji on the side to take care of Li Sanlang, and he also rushed into the courtyard and fought with the Khitans. This battle can be described as thrilling, the Khitan people seem to be crazy, the sound of killing is shocking, bent on death, of course, the carefully selected Tiger Roaring Guard is also full of combat effectiveness, and the Khitan people fight for their lives. The Yulin army on the periphery surrounded the courtyard to prevent any Khitans from escaping.
After a while, the sound in the courtyard gradually became quieter, and after a while, I saw Chen Xuanli tied up a Khitan man with a lot of flowers, and dragged a Khitan person out, the Khitan man was stabbed several times, and his whole body was bleeding nonstop, but the knife edge did not hurt the vital point, and he should not be able to breathe for a while.
Chen Xuanli knelt on one foot and said: "Yu Sicheng, the thirty Khitan thieves in the courtyard, except for this person, have all been killed, and Hu Xiaowei has killed three people and injured twenty-one people. ”
Li Sanlang's face was grim, and he said to the tied Khitans: "Say it quickly! Who are you? What does God do? ”
The Khitans suddenly burst out laughing and shouted: "Tengger! Tengri! Then he jumped up, as if he was going to attack Li Sanlang, Chen Xuanli hurriedly prepared to step forward to protect, but the Khitan suddenly fell backwards, the black blood in his mouth flowed, Chen Wuji hurriedly knelt down to inspect, after a while, Chen Wuji shook his head, turned to Li Sanlang and said: "It is highly poisonous, the Khitan dead soldiers generally hide highly poisonous in their mouths, once they are captured, they immediately bite and commit suicide." ”
Li Sanlang also sighed when he heard this, this Khitan killer was found, but what are they going to do? There is no clue as to who instructed him.
Chen Xuanli asked: "Si Cheng, do we report the progress of this case now?" ”
"Wait! Did you see any looted goods in the hospital? Chen Wuji asked suddenly.
Chen Xuanli shook his head and replied, "I haven't seen it." ”
"Let me ask you again, during your fight, the Khitans used bows and arrows."
Chen Xuanli still shook his head and replied, "I didn't use it, I just used a knife." ”
"Let me ask you one last time, if you were to lead thirty Tiger Roaring Guards to attack a caravan of more than twenty people, would you be able to kill everyone with one sword, and retreat calmly without being discovered?"
Chen Xuanli thought about it, shook his head, and replied, "It's difficult!" ”
After asking the above three questions, Chen Wuji had the answer in his heart, turned to Li Sanlang and said, "Si Cheng Daren, this matter is wrong!" ”
"Mistaken? Where to start? Li Sanlang didn't think much about it for a while, and then asked.
Chen Wuji continued: "If they were the culprits who attacked the caravan, and they had only been in the process of distributing them for half a day, it would be impossible for them to sell the goods so quickly, but there were no goods in the house, which was one of them; If the goods have already been sold, they can leave, how can they gather here and wait for death, this is the second thing; The deaths of Li Zheng and the high priest just now were caused by bows and arrows, but they did not have bows and arrows as weapons, which means that there were other people who killed the two of them, which is the third; In the end, Tiger Xiaowei fought with the Khitans, and the Tiger Xiaowei suffered a small loss, so they could completely annihilate the Khitans, but even General Chen Xuanli led the Tiger Xiaowei to do something that was difficult to do, how could this group of Khitans easily do it. Therefore, I think that the culprit is someone else, not the Khitans. ”
Chen Wuji finished his inference in one breath, Li Sanlang was silent, after Chen Wuji said this, he also understood that this matter was indeed not as simple as it was in front of him, but at this time, it was not only the case that had to be weighed, but also how to restore his life in the palace! Li Sanlang couldn't make up his mind for a while, and after a long time, he finally spoke: "Clean up the scene and move the Khitan corpses back to Long'an Division for future investigation; treating the wounded of the Tiger Roaring Guard; Continue to blockade Datongfang, check the person who shot the arrow just now, and report to Long Ansi if there is a letter. ”
"Whoa!" Everyone shouts in unison!
Li Sanlang and his entourage returned to Long'an Division, and on the way Li Sanlang has been thinking about this matter, it seems that this matter is really not so simple, and it may contain a bigger conspiracy!