In the Jiangling Governor's Mansion in the West City of Jiangling, Yu Wenming, the commander of the Anzhou Army, gave orders to put the rebellious henchmen who had been arrested into prison one by one, and they had to choose a good day to be put on the execution ground and beheaded to show the public, but the mastermind behind the scenes, Honglu Temple, Qing Liuzhuang, was gone, and his family also left Jiangling yesterday afternoon and disappeared.

The mutiny occurred last night and was then suppressed, and it took only one morning for the Anzhou army to follow the confessions of the captives to catch the relevant personnel in an urn, and the defenders who tried to open the south gate of Gangneung that night to land the enemy troops by the river did not escape.

It was still thanks to Yu Wenwen's command that Shi Wansui, the master of the horse army, led the cavalry to patrol to the south of the city, and happened to bump into more than 1,000 foot soldiers sent by the Xinzhou Governor of Zhou Guo, at that time they were close to the city gate, if they entered the city like this, then the Anzhou army would have to fight a bloody battle and lose many lives.

After Shi Wansui broke the enemy, he left more than 200 horsemen to guard in the southern suburbs of the city, and the south gate guard who communicated with the enemy army hid in his home when he saw that he was defeated and could not escape.

When the soldiers broke into the door the next morning, they saw that the first evil had died, and they did not embarrass his family, but only took the body away.

After dealing with the counterinsurgency matter, Yu Wenming retreated and returned to the Houya study, and Yu Wenwen had been waiting for a long time.

"Long live your horse army master Shi is really amazing, and he deserves to be a general." Yu Wenming sighed with some regret, like this, a general who has rich experience in leading troops and is quite capable of fighting is a leader who wants to lead troops.

"This is also an accident, he was almost killed by an arrow on the battlefield of Lianghekou that day." Yu Wenwen is not so brain-dead as to say those polite words of 'don't let him go to you', this is a rare treasure that he picked up, not a big road goods passerby.

"Look at you like that! I don't think I'm still shy and can't do anything with you! Yu Wenming scolded with a smile. The kid from the Xu family also performed well. Xu Yuanjun can be relieved. ”

Xu Shao is the son of Xu Faguang, the assassin of Yuezhou. As the logistics director of Yuwenwen's new army, he has entered the city several times to handle the transfer of grain and grass since the siege of Jiangling was lifted, and Yu Wenming, as the commander of the whole army, has also seen the other party several times when the official office reviewed and signed, and he had a good impression.

While speaking, Yu Wenming took his younger brother out of the gate and came to a nearby official office, Yu Wenwen followed his brother Yu Wenming to walk in the corridor and chatted while walking, and the topic at this time was the 'high-tech equipment' he made.

"Last night, my brother was attacked several times, and your rainstorm pear blossom needles and cloud-piercing arrows broke a few one after another." Yu Wenming said helplessly, "Fortunately, they are the last ones to take effect, or if you don't do it, you will kill the assassin." ”

Yu Wenwen just smiled bitterly, he ordered the 'compressed air technology tree' to get out of the rainstorm pear flower needle, the power is okay, but the reliability is really not good, there is no rubber, and the eucommia gum has not been good, so the air tightness is poor, resulting in a high failure rate. The quality of the cloud-piercing arrow is unstable, and the normal play is a fireworks that rush to the sky, and if it is not played normally, it will become a burning rod.

"These tricks are unreliable, Erlang should not indulge in them again so as not to make mistakes." Yu Wenming remembered the thrilling scene last night, and his heart palpitated.

"My brother didn't say that when he smashed the walls with a trebuchet." Yuwen Wen complained sharply.

"Uh, exception, exception."

While speaking, the two brothers came to a room, the soldiers guarding the door saluted, pushed the door open, and they came to the house, Yu Wenwen looked up, only to see more than ten corpses neatly placed on the ground in the house, all covered with white cloths.

"Brother just talked about assassins, could it be that this is the body of an assassin?"

Yu Wenming nodded and said yes, these assassins should be good hands hired by Xiao Yan, the king of Anping, to eliminate enemies and other targets for his employer, and he asked people to search for the origin of the assassins, but several of them were a little special.

Yu Wenming came to the side of a corpse, bent down and raised his right hand: "Look at this person's forearm." Yuwen Wen looked at it and saw that there was a tattoo of a strange bird on the man's forearm, and the strange bird spread out its wings and claws like an eagle predatoring. It's just that the bird's head is a little weird, unlike the birds seen in ordinary tattoos.

"This person intercepted and killed us outside the Bamboo Forest Hall, and was intimidated by the 'frightened cicada', covered his ears with his hands, and was then killed." Yu Wenming's face darkened after speaking. His henchman servant, Ah Liu, was later killed by the Assassins in order to protect himself.

"Your 'startling cicada' is very useful, not as erratic as the pear blossom needle in the rainstorm." He collected his mood and continued, "You come and see this person again. ”

Yu Wenming walked to the other corpse and raised his right hand, the forearm was also pierced with a strange bird predation pattern, he explained that this was the head of the five assassins who attacked him outside the palace, Yu Wenwen thought for a moment and asked, "Could it be that this is the little leader of the assassins?" ”

"What else does Jiro see?"

Hearing his brother say this, Yu Wenwen thought about it again, and then he realized that something was wrong: this tattoo is not tattooed according to personal preference, but as a unified logo to show a certain identity, so the question is, what does this assassin do with this kind of tattoo?

Assassins are also killers, who lurk in the shadows on weekdays and wait for an opportunity to plot against the target, in order to defend against the assassin, there are naturally many means and body search is the most common, so if the assassin has a unified tattoo and is tattooed on the forearm, which is very easy to expose, it is looking for death.

For this Assassin organization, as long as people find out this characteristic, then the corresponding measure is to check the arm of each suspicious character, if the other party is stabbed in the chest, back, it is fine, after all, the inspection should not be stabbed on the forearm, as long as a sleeve robe can be verified, then it is inconvenient to fish in troubled waters.

Don't say that sneaking into a certain compound is to enter the city, I am afraid that it will be found out at the city gate, is it arrogant enough to use light skills to fly over the city wall or float on the water?

"Didn't they make a living as this assassin in the first place?" Yu Wenwen expressed his opinion, and only this kind of speculation can preliminarily explain why the other party is like this.

"Exactly, they weren't assassins in the first place."

If it is not an assassin, then it is the private soldier of the dignitary or the powerful family, then the tattoo is to indicate the identity, so there is no need to worry about others checking, maybe the old master or family is declining or even gone for some reason, so these eagle dogs can only find another livelihood, and those who are lucky to find a new master, sometimes those who are unlucky will pick up the side door.

Not only the private soldiers, even the official army, but also for various reasons, the grass for the sake of the so-called, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to draft, after the fall of the Qi State, those guerrillas scattered to be thieves is also normal, most of the officials and soldiers with horses in the north go to be horse bandits, and the Jianghuai area is either based on the mountains as kings or water thieves.

Yu Wenwen remembered that the husband of the shopkeeper Liu in the house was born ****** horse bandits, and he also fell into the grass when he heard his own statement, so he thought that these assassins would enter the industry halfway.

"Brother recognizes this tattoo." Yu Wenming began to unleash the mystery, and when Yu Wenwen heard this, he asked if he had ever been attacked by this group of assassins.

"That was four years ago," Yu Wenming fell into a memory, and then recounted the past.

Four years ago, Yu Wenyong, the son of the Great Zhou Dynasty, drove his own expedition against the Qi State, and Yu Wenming, as a disciple of the clan, served as a guard to accompany him, and the Zhou army finally defeated the Great Zhou Army after a bloody battle to unify the north.

Yuwen Yong drove to Yecheng, the capital of the Qi State, to pacify the civil and military officials, and during his stay in Yecheng, Yuwen Yong was attacked by the Assassins, but the opponent could not get close to the imperial car, and was repelled by the heavily defended forbidden army.

Yu Wenming witnessed the whole process at the scene without danger, and what he remembered most was the strange bird tattoo on the forearm when he collected the assassin's body.

"Could it be that the assassin at that time also had this tattoo on his arm?" Yu Wenwen heard what his brother said, the connection between the past and the present.

"Yes, they were assassins at the time, but they weren't Assassins."

"Could it be the remnants of the Qi Kingdom?" Yu Wenwen can understand that after the war of annihilation, there will always be people who hate the victorious country for various reasons, they may be the remnants of the army who want to avenge their comrades, superiors, and family members, or the private soldiers under the command of a dead dignitary and dignitary want to 'die for the confidant'.

"They're Gao's eagle dogs."

Hearing this, Yuwen Wen suddenly realized, the Gao family is the clan of the Qi State, and the country is destroyed, and it is reasonable for these loyal eagle dogs to trap the beast and attack Zhou Tianzi Yuwen Yong, seeing that there is no hope of recovering the country, it is reasonable to become an assassin.

He suddenly remembered that when he entered the city last night, Wang Yue, who he arranged to live near the city gate, reported that there was a man with a northland accent on a certain street corner, and a thought popped up in Yuwen Wen's heart: Could it be that the other party assassinated Yuwen Erlang and also planned to assassinate me, Yuwen Erlang?

The country of Qi is gone, looking for food everywhere, and it is not far away to go thousands of miles to the land of Jingchu in the south to get work, it is really hard

However, Yu Wenwen was still a little puzzled, since the other party was so 'professional', why didn't he wait for the opportunity to assassinate his two brothers a few days ago, the two brothers combined, and felt that the employer was afraid that he wanted to kill two birds with one stone tonight, if the assassination was successful a few days ago, the Anzhou army would not be in chaos, so Emperor Liang was still in the hands of the Anzhou army.

"There is no official name for this group of people, but when my brother was in Yecheng, I heard Qi people mention such a name." After Yu Wenming finished speaking, he thought about it and added: "I remember that it is called 'Ye Xiao'." ”

"Night stalkers?" Yu Wenwen is very familiar with this name, and the night owl is a kind of owl, so it's no wonder that the bird's appearance is a little strange.

"It's Ye from Yecheng." Yu Wenming added, he knew that his younger brother would definitely be wrong.

Yecheng is the capital of Qi State, the owl is not filial piety, and the bird is also said to eat the mother, with Yecheng as the nest, the owl who does not recognize the six relatives is naturally the minions of the royal family, as long as the emperor says to kill whoever he wants, then kill whoever he wants, even if it is his parents.

This title is really majestic and domineering, but there is no similar record in the historical materials, that is, "the skin does not exist, the hair will be attached", the two countries rely on the bloody battle of the army, this kind of professional small group can not be of great use, and the Qi country will disappear in the long river of history without them.

Daming's Dongchang and Jinyiwei are so famous, but after the country changes color, it will dissipate with the wind, not to mention this Ye Xiao.

"Why is my brother sad for this assassin who collects money and dispels disasters, I don't know how many of the people who do this business are outlaws, so be careful in the future."

Yu Wenming heard his younger brother say this, so he asked, "Does Erlang know Liu Taozhi?" (To be continued.) )