After dawn again in Chang'an City, the scene of the incident was surrounded by the patrol team that rushed over.

And as Zhao Ziri, the captain of the city patrol in the middle of it, he couldn't hide his sorrow and crying, and he only felt that it was the unfavorable passage of the year. This kind of big thing doesn't come sooner or later, but just a few days after he spent a lot of money to dredge Shangguan and was promoted to this oily and watery district that can be managed in Dongshi, such a vicious incident happened.

Almost everyone who has personally inspected the scene of the first incident in the alley will inevitably vomit when they look back, or simply hide their faces and flee with a drastic change in their faces; Then find a thug to be at home or simply refuse to come over.

Although many of them are good and bad, they are also veterans of the rebels who were killed in the sea of corpses and blood; But it's one thing to be killed by a sword, a gun, and an arrow, and it's another thing to get a whole person, and it's another thing to be struck by limbs and fragments on the walls, on the ground, and under the eaves.

What's even more annoying is that he still continues to stay here while blowing the wind, and then receives waves of all kinds of people who come to inquire and explore, most of whom are higher in status and rank than her. The elders in the political hall alone had already come over to ask him about everything back and forth four times.

Not to mention the general commander of these patrol officials, generals, captains and captains of the patrol city, the great Qi "Zhijinwu", Jingzhao Shaoyin and the patrol ambassador of the gates, Meng Kai; Afterwards, I was afraid that I would make a big move and interrogate and interrogate well.

Although he thinks that he has nothing to do with this matter, it is inevitable that there will be some other shady and selfish deeds that are not visible, and they will be involved in the pond fish, which is a little bad. It took him a lot of effort to get this position and jurisdiction.

And Meng Kai, who was kept in his heart by his back and forth, also looked at many subordinates with heavy eyebrows, and reported the situation collected in the city near the scene. As one of the important ministers of the Great Qi court, Liu Tang, the transfer envoy of the Guannei capital, was actually injured by an arrow on the way home from a private banquet.

This kind of vicious incident of assassinating the high-ranking of the rebel army on the street broke out frequently when he first entered Chang'an. However, because he had received prior warning, he made arrangements and countermeasures, and quickly dispatched people to quickly cut through the chaos to control the situation, and investigated and dealt with a large number of scoundrels who were in the middle of the matter.

In addition, according to the confiscated household registers, a system of mutual insurance and joint sitting between households in the city square was stipulated, and rewards were offered for exposing suspicious persons as heavy rewards. Therefore, before the situation expanded out of control and spread to more people, a number of outlaws and outlaws who concealed their identities were corrected, and a large number of suspects were disposed of;

Not only did it greatly deter the people and people who were still watching inside and outside the capital, but also successfully implicated dozens of diehards of the old dynasty who had grievances against the rebels and secretly slandered, attacked and rebelled, or the former officials and wealthy merchants. Because of this, he also got the happy Yellow King, and further praise and trust.

However, compared to this case, there was no danger and even the face of the attacker was revealed; To make matters worse, the ensuing mass attack on Gao Yu, the farewell Taiping Army, was carried out outside the south of Dongshi. Who doesn't know that now the Great Qi Imperial Court and all the people under its command are in full swing with the amount of mutual exchange in the south.

Therefore, Meng Kai deeply suspected that some of the anticlimactic assassinations of Liu Tang were just to cover people's eyes and ears, to mobilize and attract the nearby patrol team that was enforcing the curfew, and to facilitate the real attack on the Taiping army's marching officers.

The arrows found at the two sites have been confirmed, and they are the standard arrows in the Beijing arsenal after entering the city, that is, the armor-piercing arrows with stainless steel cone-tips. It's just that before entering the city, Zheng Jin, the prime minister of the old dynasty, once opened the arsenal and distributed weapons to the so-called recruits, so he resisted the rebels and caused trouble, so it didn't represent anything.

However, before that, there were still people with warrants from the Privy Council, who wanted to take the corpses at the scene for future investigation before the City Patrol Division and Jingzhao Mansion, but they had to give up because the scene was too fragmented. However, when I asked the Privy Council Attendant afterwards, I received a reply that there was absolutely no such thing.

This also gave him an extra look, and immediately sent several servants he had specially recruited to act in it; It's time for the results to come to fruition. Then, he waited until the afternoon, when more bits and pieces of news and traces converged, and new discoveries were made.

However, it was preliminarily confirmed that the corpses scattered on the street were basically the righteous soldiers specially sent to guard Gao Yu, the marching officer; The survivors who escaped and were found reaffirmed this conclusion, but their descriptions of the attack were equally confused and confusing.

The settlement is that there are no witnesses in the nearby neighborhood, but rumors such as "the Great Qi soldiers have been punished by heaven" and "meteors falling from the sky at night" have been prevalent for a while. And he needs to send people to warn and calm down one by one, as for the person Gao Yu at the time of the incident, he simply disappeared as if the world had evaporated.

Then he sent a servant to clean up the almost indistinguishable wreckage and severed limbs in the alley, but he made a different discovery; On a broken arm that fell into the mud of the ditch, he found the exclusive tattoo of Boye Town, which was suspected to have surrendered to Daqi against the water.

This makes things even more confusing. As far as he knew, the soldiers of Boye Town, Purun Town, Chongxin City, Dingping Town, Guihua City, and other former Shence towns that had surrendered to Daqi were all organized into the command of the rebel armies of various ministries and served as the forerunner and guide of various fronts.

Among them, the rebel army in the direction of Fangzhou on the northern line was the most subordinate; This also includes the surrender of troops in the town of Boye. Could it be that he suddenly thought of a name and possibility, but the other party had just returned from the frontier privately, not only made a big fuss about the transfer department, but also violently beat the judge in charge of the allocation of military funds, and was ordered to think about it behind closed doors in Chang'an.

Thinking of this, Meng Kai couldn't help but press his forehead hard, and made his swollen mind a little clearer; Since he sat in this position, he felt that the new establishment and spirit consumed were more than ten times that of the past, but he was becoming more and more constrained.

However, after thinking about it again and again for a while, after all, his position as an old brother of the righteous army prevailed, and he decided to hand over this faintly involved matter to Huang Wangsheng for a while. He shouted to the outside world: "Come on, prepare the carriage and horses, and follow me into the palace to face the saint." ”

Then he called a senior guard who had been with him for many years, and instructed the other party to take a good look at Zhang Guiba, who secretly stayed by his side on behalf of the Taiping Army, so as to avoid more extraneous complications and accidents.

It's just that when Meng Kai was about to go out, he saw a military official in a green robe and a hat leading him in, and said to him respectfully:

"Zhijin Wu Gui'an, Shizhong (Zhao Zhang) ordered me to come to inquire about the situation, and asked, can you let those brothers who died first go to the ground for peace."

"There is still a lot to be found out about this matter, but people can go into the ground first."

Meng Kai, who was full of thoughts, immediately nodded and said.

The next day, when the sky was early and dawning, a group of carts loaded with the corpses of Gai Ma also walked out of the Jingguang Gate in the southwest corner of Chang'an and came to the low post on the edge of the Yong'an Canal; Immediately, the sackcloth covers on several cars were lifted one after another, and the corpses sat up; And in the city, Gao Yuran, the young marching officer, was also in the period.

"Gao Jinlu, I can only send it here, and there are my own boats on the waterside to let it go down, so I hope I can do it myself."

The Tsing Yi official in charge of the escort spoke.

"The great grace is not grateful, the help of the servant will be rewarded in the future,"

has been transformed into a homeless person-like Gao Yu, and it is also a righteous way.

In fact, after he was attacked and fled that night, he did not dare to return to the hotel to leave, but according to the planned contingency measures, he ran all the way to a nearby secret stronghold.

Then he changed his outfit and dressed up, and went straight to the mansion of Zhao Zhang, who had the best relationship with Taiping, and then got in touch in the name of the deceased's dedication, so as to get this opportunity to get out of Chang'an City.

- I'm the dividing line -

In the land of Xichuan in the south of Jiannan, in front of the swarming Qiang soldiers, the Xishan Villa, which is still intact outside Chengdu, has become a Shura field full of corpses.

Although under the leadership of General Zuo Jinwu, who is good at using soldiers, and Liu Jurong, the envoy of the gates in front of the palace, the remnants of the guards and civil war guards who have not yet been dispatched have repeatedly defeated and repelled these Qiang soldiers who crawled up on their backs like ants, so that their corpses were covered with bluestone pans and dead grass and trees.

However, at the foot of the mountain in the distance, the Xichuan Ya soldiers and the Chengdu generals, who were in charge of supervising the formation, were as immovable as a dike, not only blocking the way out up and down, but also blocking the Qiang soldiers who had been defeated again and again, and coercing and luring them to regather the crowd to attack them.

As a result, the garden, which had been poorly prepared, soon became exhausted and had to lift rockeries, pull out trees, and remove house edges and tiles as a means of throwing against the enemy.

Then they soon fell into the predicament of being cut off from food, and could only repel the invading soldiers, scoop up the mountain stream that rushed through the garden, and pull out the coupling roots in the pond, so as to rub the mud quickly and quench their thirst and satisfy hunger.

In the mountains and forests behind Xiyuan, a Zhanzi has been scattered aside, and the wrestler who is responsible for lifting it is killed by a crude bamboo spear through the chest and abdomen. And the figures of several fur-hatted beasts were surrounding.

Fortunately, at this time, a small group of sergeants in charge of exploring the road in the back mountain finally turned back, and slashed and killed these several vicious Qiang soldiers.

"Under the gods, the army will be Song Wentong, please don't be alarmed. But there is still a breath left for us, and the thieves of that generation don't want to break the ban on driving. ”

The leading general, covered in blood, bowed his head.

"It's just the road to the top of the back mountain, and it's not safe anymore."

Then he picked up Tang Xizong, who was at a loss and couldn't walk anymore, and retreated to the palace of Xiyuan again.

And Chen Jingxuan, who commanded the sweeping array and attack at the foot of the mountain, looked at the Xiyuan that was gradually on fire and shrouded in black smoke, and he also resigned himself to his fate and recovered a little normal; And to the general Li Shunzhi:

"It's still your thoughtfulness, and in time to order the warriors who are good at climbing to the back mountain, otherwise it will be too late."

"It's on fire."

At this time, Chen Jingxun, the assassin of Langzhou, suddenly stammered a little.

"I know there's a fire, and there's no way around it. If not... ”

Chen Jingxuan reprimanded with some impatience.

"Daying, it's the western suburbs where the camp is on fire!!"

Chen Jingxun shouted angrily.