The sound of the cannon stopped for the time being, and before and after the entire bamboo basket wall, the defenders of the Eastern Capital fought with everyone in the backyard of Luliu and the peace, and the sharp teeth of the boring rake were staggered together in pieces, and many defenders with firearms climbed the four sides of the walls, high-rise buildings and the gates of the Eastern Capital, and kept pointing in the backyard where the wolf ran and piggy, "Hugh let go of a thief!" ”

The women and children who stayed in the backyard were the worst, they were constantly hit by rockets and shells and fell to the ground as they ran, and the surviving ones touched their wounds and crawled everywhere, wailing and moaning, and bleeding all over the ground.

In the dense smoke and fog of the cannonballs, there were still dozens of soldiers of the Pinglu Army, under the leadership of Mencha, who drilled through the cracks and escaped from the walls of the Changxia Gate, but they were scattered so that they could not form a formation, and everyone only knew that they were running to the Foguang Temple on the side of Zhongyue.

At the Xingjiao Workshop, the flames spread everywhere, and the houses in the backyard of the Pinglu Army were all surrounded by fireworks, and the two Di Shi who climbed over the courtyard wall and surrendered to Duya were panicked and gave Duya a false confession in order to survive:

"Zi Jiazhen, Menchasu colluded with the thieves, and their eyes and ears were all over the eastern capital, Yique, Luhun and other counties, and they assassinated Zhao Zhonglang last night, and then they wanted to seize the palace city, the gate pass and the public palace in the eastern capital to welcome the Caizhou soldiers."

"Yique Lu Hun, who colluded with these two thieves?" Duya asked.

"The monks of Foguang Temple in Songshan are quiet, and the mountain sheds in the two counties are colluding."

"No wonder after leaving the Changxia Gate, he threw himself to the southeast." Then Duya ordered the defenders, "Follow me out of the city again, attack Foguang Temple, and capture the demon monk Yuanjing and the head of the mountain shed!" ”

In the afternoon, on all the mountain roads in Zhongyue, there are defenders dressed in black robes or armor, in groups of three or five, armed with weapons, to the Foguang Temple to round up, along the road in the bushes, in the long grass, and behind the stream rocks, there are constantly lonely, injured Pinglu military soldiers were caught out, tied with ropes, and escorted to the eastern capital.

In the Foguang Temple, Yuanjing, who drank last night, and many mountain sheds, are still unknown - first the door is covered with blood, with more than a dozen remnants, rushed to the mountain gate, shouting that there is a big change in the east, and we and the festival commander were framed by traitors, and now Du Ya is sending troops to pursue Yunyun behind.

When the shanks heard that one of them had assassinated the court's Zhongshu squire on the street, they were all so frightened that they wanted to flee.

"Did you escape? For today, I had to go out with the old monk and the general and go deep into the mountains. Yuan Jing's eyes were blazing, and his beard was about to stand up.

"We didn't kill Zhao Zhonglang, why do we have to wait for you to be martyred?" At this time, many of the mountain sheds who came to the party thought that this incident was completely done by the Pinglu army in the backyard and had nothing to do with them.

As a result, before the Eastern Capital defenders arrived, the courtyard and floor of Foguang Temple, the mountain shed and the Pinglu army soldiers fought each other, and in the melee Mencha was hit by an arrow in the ribs, collapsed in the corner of the bell tower, unable to stand up, dozens of mountain sheds shouted around, and the arrows rained down, and actually shot the Mencha and the Di Shi coefficient around him!

Yuan Jing took out a pure copper Zen staff, danced like a whirlwind, knocked down countless arrows, and then jumped on the earth platform, beating several mountain sheds one after another, and finally was thrown by the mountain shed rope overturned, everyone rushed up, tied it tightly, and prepared to send it out of the mountain gate.

At this time, the defenders entered, and before the mountain shed in front of them shouted "not guilty", they did not ask about the innocence, and slashed with knives, half of the unlucky mountain sheds were killed, and the other half were also tied up, and the cry shook the sky.

Then the defenders were in the backyard of Foguang Temple, and when they saw charcoal, cooked meat, wine bags, and scattered gold and silver, they escorted everyone down the mountain and sent them to the public office of Henan Mansion in Xuanzhifang, the eastern capital, for interrogation and pushing.

That night, in the prison of the public office, Du Ya, as Henan Yin, was ruthless, saying that he must give me a result of the trial the next day, so the officials and jailers all tried their best to torture them, whether it was the mountain shed in the two counties or the mansion in the backyard, they were beaten to the point that their souls were scattered, and in the end they couldn't bear it, and begged for mercy again and again.

Only Na Yuanjing, who was hung up and beaten violently, was beaten so that his mouth and nose were bleeding, but he was still unyielding, and he opened his mouth and scolded endlessly.

The jailer pointed to the gold and silver obtained from Foguang Temple and asked Yuan Jing: Who gave this gold and silver, and to whom?

"The old monk has been in the green forest for thirty years, and all this gold and silver was robbed by bandits." Yuan Jing laughed.

"Why do you want to gather in the mountain hut to drink?"

"They are all children of mountains and rivers, and the old monk is ready to recruit and strengthen the defense for Du Dayin, in case the east is captured by Cai Kou in Huaixi." There are words for the round static vibration.

"Why did the people left in the backyard of the Pinglu Army flee to you?"

"The old monk only ate meat and drank in the mountain temple last night, how do you know about the Eastern Capital?" Yuan Jing flatly denied it.

Then the jailers took out the firearm that shot Zhao Jing and asked Yuan Jing, who only scolded but did not answer.

However, personal indomitability will not help.

Under the confessions of others, true or false, Duya has been able to sketch out the full state of affairs:

Ziqing Pinglu Junjie envoy Li Shigu purchased a lot of fields in Yique and Luhun counties, and on weekdays was operated by Zi Jiazhen and Mencha in the backyard, and the yamen in the eastern capital had no right to intervene;

And this Yuanjing monk is not a good man and a woman, nor is he a green forest bandit, his predecessor was a general under Shi Siming, and later served Ziqing, Li Na and Li Shigu successively gave him thousands of dollars and set up Foguang Temple in Zhongyue Songshan, which is actually the eyes and ears of the Pinglu Army in the Eastern Capital;

Zi Jiazhen, Mencha and Yuanjing, always use money, wine and food, and make arrangements to win over the mountain sheds in several counties and conspire with secret plots.

After Zhao Jing of Zhongshu waited for Zhao Jing to town the eastern capital, Li Shigu was afraid that after the conquest of Huaixi, the next court would deal with him Ziqing, so he ordered Zijiazhen and Mencha to kill Zhao Jing, and asked the monk Yuanjing to gather the mountain sheds in Yique and Luhun counties to prepare to attack Duya's barracks.

So where did the shanty where Zhao Jing was assassinated come from?

This is not difficult for Du Ya to deduce, this group of mountain sheds lurked in the Shendu Garden, and then passed through the Yang Palace, and hid in Zhengpingfang at night, which is the only way for Zhao Jing to see things, and kill the killer.

As for why the Assassins did not set out directly from the backyard to the east, Doya had a reasonable explanation:

When I was Yin in Henan, I had long felt that Pinglu was sneaky in the backyard, so I monitored it day and night, and Zi Jiazhen and Mencha had no choice but to order the assassins to come from the west.

However, this operation is separated from the east and west, and Du Ya doesn't want to investigate how to carry out the docking, anyway, the testimony is there, and it is good to leave it to the court to decide.

Du Ya loaded Yuan Jing and the others into the threshold car and hurriedly sent them to Chang'an City to break off the relationship between the emperor and Zai.

Ten days later, in the Yanying Hall of Daming Palace, the emperor was furious and almost didn't knock down a corner of the bookcase:

"Han Jin Gong was assassinated in Tianjie in Chang'an City, and now Zhao Jing is assassinated in Tianjie in the Eastern Capital City, do you say that after this, will you dare to sit in the imperial court, and whether the ministers will dare to go to the court?"

However, at this time, there were only two prime ministers in the palace, Du Huangshang and Lu Zhen.

Jia Tan resigned from the Shangshu servant due to the death of his mother before, and returned to the house to guard his personal taboo.

"Your Majesty, this matter must be severely punished." Du Huangshang and Lu Zhen replied in unison.