The mounted guards approached the three fleeing assassins. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info, however, the three Assassins faltered on their horses. After another hundred meters, one of the Assassins was already spitting blood from his mouth and tumbling off his horse.

The other two Assassins also lost control of their horses and were easily pursued by the Guards. When the cavalry caught up with the two assassins, they found that their eyes had rolled and they had been poisoned. Before the guards could question the two assassins, they had already fallen from their horses.

The Guards cavalry reluctantly brought back three horses and three corpses.

"Grandpa Guo, the three stabbing agents committed suicide by poison! What a ferocious assassination! ”

Li Zhi looked at the corpses of the three assassins and was silent. Judging from the corpses, the three assassins were dressed in coarse cloth and short brown, with nets on their heads, dressed as the lowest common people, and it was impossible to tell where they were. The horses ridden by the three are also ordinary horse breeds, nothing special.

The only thing that caught Li Zhi's attention was the arquebus used by the three Assassins.

The arquebus was very long, with a barrel six or seven feet long. The whole gun was quite heavy, weighing seven or eight pounds. The head and track of the arquebus are attached to the handle, and a small steel plate more than an inch long is placed close to the starting point.

Li Zhi looked at it for a long time, but he didn't see what kind of gun this arquebus was.

Gao Ligong stood up and looked at it, and arched his hand and said, "Grandpa Guo, this is undoubtedly Lu Mi Gong of Jingying!" ”

Hearing Gao Ligong's words, everyone was shocked. It turned out that the assassins used the Lumi gun of the Beijing camp, and the Lu Mi gun was made by Zhao Shizhen in the 26th year of Wanli to ask the envoy of the Lumi State Duo Sima about the structure and production method of the Lumi musket, and it was made after improvement, with a range of 150 meters, no wonder Li Zhi could be assassinated on a hundred steps.

Ordinary arquebuses can only shoot 100 meters, so Li Zhi's guards generally only focus on the safety of the nearest 100 meters. A hundred meters away, he just sent people to patrol roughly, but he didn't expect that this assassin who used the Lu Mi gun would take advantage of the loophole.

However, when they saw this Lu Mi Gong, everyone was a little shocked.

This Lu Mi gun has always only been equipped with the Beijing camp, how did this assassin of Li Zhi get this kind of gun? At the very least, this suggests that the Assassins were at the behest of a powerful organization. Not only was this organization able to coerce the assassins into committing suicide immediately after they failed, but they were also able to obtain such sophisticated firearms, which I don't think ordinary small landlords could do.

Zheng Kaicheng looked at the assassin's corpse angrily and said, "Grandpa Guo, this time we must find out the mastermind behind the scenes." Otherwise, if the Lord fails to assassinate people once, there will inevitably be a second and a third time. We can't prevent it, and the slightest negligence will lead to a big mistake. ”

Zhong Feng's face suddenly changed color, and he said loudly: "Grandpa Guo, you have made too much credit over the years. This Lu Mi Gong is only available in Jingying, isn't it..."

Zhong Feng said that Li Zhigong was the master, and Zhu Youzhen, the son of heaven, wanted to kill Li Zhi.

Zhong Feng didn't continue halfway through his words, but it still caused Zheng Kaicheng's anger.

"Zhong Feng! You are so ignorant of the place and talking nonsense, believe it or not, I shot you! ”

Li Laosi's face also sank, and he scolded: "Zhong Feng, don't talk nonsense!" ”

Zhong Feng closed his mouth stupidly and stopped talking.

Gao Ligong thought for a while, shook his head and said, "Impossible." Now that the thieves are flourishing day by day, maybe where the grandfather of the country will be recruited to level the thieves, it is the time to employ people! No way! ”

Gao Ligong arched his hand and said: "Owner, now this Lu Mi Gong is the only clue. We can only ask the Son of Heaven to find out who organized this assassination from whether there is a leak of Lu Mi Gong in the Beijing camp! ”

Li Laosi thought about it, shook his head and said, "With the appearance of Jinyiwei and Dongchang now, I'm afraid I can't find out the clue." ”

The commander of the personal guard company rode back on horseback at this time, and said to Li Zhi on the horse: "Grandpa Guo, we have asked about the people around, this area is sparsely populated, and no one saw when these three people followed." ”

Everyone looked at each other for a while, and they all felt that things were tricky.

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In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youzhen looked at Li Zhi's recital, frowning and silent.

An assassin assassinated Li Zhi in Shandong, which was a big deal. Now Li Zhi can be regarded as the mainstay of the Ming Dynasty, if Li Zhi is killed, Zhu Youzhen will really panic. Although the Jiannu in the north has been hit hard, the vitality is still there. Li Zicheng of the Central Plains has been honest for a year or two, and took advantage of this year's famine to make trouble again, and Daming can be said to be still in flames.

Only when Li Zhi is in Tianjin, Zhu Youzhen has a feeling that he has a chance to win.

Although Li Zhi put forward non-conditions every time he responded to the requisition, he still obeyed the imperial court requisition anyway. If Li Zhi dies and the Tiger Master collapses, this chaos will really make Zhu Youzhen unable to sleep.

Wang Chengen secretly looked at Li Zhi's recital from behind Zhu Youjian and asked, "Emperor, this Li Zhi said that the assassin used the Lu Mi gun from the Beijing camp, which is really strange." ”

Zhu Youzhen groaned and said: "This is the only clue, now I can only let Jinyiwei check to see if there are any Lu Mi Gong who have been exiled to Shandong over the years." If you follow the vine, you might be able to find out where the assassin came from. ”

When Wang Chengen heard this, he didn't squeak.

Zhu Youzhen looked back at Wang Chengen and asked, "How?" ”

Wang Chengen bowed and said: "Emperor, now the Beijing camp is equipped with more than 50,000 Lu Mi guns, which involves soldiers and horses and generals from various battalions, and thousands of craftsmen and craftsmen. With the current level of Jinyiwei, it is absolutely impossible to find out when the three Lu Mi guns flowed out. ”

Wang Chengen glanced at Li Zhi's recital again and said, "Li Zhi said that if the Son of Heaven agrees, he can send people from his shogunate into the capital camp to investigate. His people are quite elite, and after a month's investigation, he will definitely be able to find out! ”

Zhu Youzhen stroked his beard and said: "It's not proper! ”

"Jingying is my personal soldier, and he only obeys my orders, how can he let Li Zhi's secret guards censor it. Could it be that my military attache should be interrogated by Li Zhi's secret guards to explain the details of the Beijing camp one by one? Not to mention that Li Zhi understood the affairs of Jingying, even the embarrassment of being interrogated by Li Zhi's secret guards would make the soldiers in Jingying confused. ”

"It's about royal decency, and it can't be done anyway."

Wang Chengen blinked, bowed down and said, "Emperor Shengming!" It's just that this Lu Mi gun is a special firearm for the Beijing camp, and it will inevitably give people a handle. If you can't give an explanation to the Duke of Jinguo, I'm afraid that the Guild of Jinguo will be afraid of the Holy One after a long time..."

Zhu Youzhen heard Wang Chengen's words, and his face sank. If he can't find out, will Li Zhi suspect that he wants to kill him after a long time?

After thinking about it, he said: "Jinyiwei is useless, let Wang Dehua send the eunuch of the East Factory to investigate!" Use all the manpower to investigate, check him for a month, and we must find out how many Lu Mi guns have leaked out over the years, and where they have leaked. Give an explanation to the Duke of Jinguo. ”