When the west gate of Cangcheng was opened, everyone only saw: Ou Luyang and Xia Junmao rode horses with serious faces and entered first; Behind him was the Fourth Wing of the Cold Sword Guard, and several people surrounded a horse in the middle, and the horse carried a white cloth bag on its back, which seemed to contain a person; Walking at the end was Xuan Shaoning, who was escorted by the five flowers. This scene made everyone the second monk confused for a while, but Huo Qing, who was also onlookers, saw everything in his eyes and hurriedly ran away.

"Huo Qing, why are you in such a hurry?" Ling Feiyan walked out of the camp tent and bumped into Huo Qing, who was sweating profusely.

"Something's wrong, I see...... I saw Shaoning being tied up and escorted to the General's Mansion! Huo Qing was reluctant to even take a breath, for fear of delaying the time to save people.

"Huh? How so? Ling Feiyan was shocked by this sudden news, "What will Shaoning do?" ”

Hearing his daughter's voice, Ling Tieying also came out, and when he heard that Xuan Shaoning had an accident, there was no confusion between the two of them, and he calmly ordered: "Don't worry, Huo Qing, you go to the Rusty Guard immediately and tell Zhengyuan about it, and Scarlet Yan and I will go to the General's Mansion immediately." The general has always been fair and will not let Shaoning be wronged, besides, there is still Mr. Mo here, don't worry! ”

"Okay, I'll go!" Huo Qing hurriedly ran in the direction of the Rusty Guard, while Ling Tieying's father and daughter also quickly rushed towards the General's Mansion.

As soon as Ou Luyang and his entourage arrived at the gate of the General's Mansion, King Yu and Mo Chengfeng, who had received the news in advance, were already waiting.

"The last general will see the general!" Ou Lu Yang dismounts and salutes.

"No need to salute, make things clear!" King Yu's face was pale.

"Yes, General. His subordinates went out of the city to investigate yesterday's bloody incident, and found the bodies of the brothers on the grassland by the Night Dragon Water, but could not find the heads, so the general ordered everyone to disperse to look for clues. Song Wuchang and his subordinate Xuan Shaoning went to Liubo Mountain, and the news of Song Wuchang's attack came out before it was heard. When Xuan Shaoning carried Song Wuchang down the mountain, Song Wuchang was already seriously injured and was unable to tell the truth about the incident, and at that time, Xuan Shaoning actually ran into the mountain again without authorization when the situation of the enemy and friend was unknown, and his appearance was suspicious, so the last general temporarily took him into custody. ”

What Ou Luyang said was indeed true, but the real situation was not entirely so, Xuan Shaoning felt that he had to explain, "General! Song Wu Chang and I found a suspicious figure and went to pursue, at that time I was in front and Wu Chang was behind, and then I only felt that Wu Chang pushed me in the back, and then Wu Chang was hit by an arrow....... And I came back to the scene again to retrieve the arrow! ”

Xuan Shaoning still wanted to explain but met Xia Junmao's gaze, which was calm and fleeting, but the meaning Xuan Shaoning still understood - don't rush to defend for the time being.

"The last general has carefully observed the surroundings of the place where the incident occurred, Xuan Shaoning himself once suggested that according to the pattern of the shoe prints, it is his own people or the Xiliang Army, there are only his own people's shoe prints on the snow where the incident occurred, and there is no clue of the Xiliang Army at all!" Ou Luyang said this, and glanced at the Jin Jiawei behind him who took the lead in arresting Xuan Shaoning, and that person understood that as the only witness to those suspicious footprints, his words were very important.

"Returning to the general, the commander, and the subordinates were ordered to arrest the suspects, and footprints were indeed found in the place where Song Wuchang was attacked, but ....... Those footprints were disorganized, and the last general only glanced at them, and it was difficult to make a conclusion. ”

Ou Luyang raised his eyebrows, his expression unchanged.

"Let me see" Mo Chengfeng immediately stepped forward, and several people worked together to lift down and lift the cloth bag containing Song Mi's body, at this time Song Mi's whole body was already cold, his limbs were stiff, his face was pale, and there was only one wound left on his chest, the wound was irregularly shaped, and the blood at the wound had coagulated into purple-black. Mo Chengfeng didn't let others interfere, spread a white mat on the ground, and placed Song Mi's body on it; Then he dragged out a military tent that had been prepared and built it on top of the corpse, surrounding it on three sides, leaving only a hole for himself to enter and exit.

Mo Chengfeng tried his best to fold the stiff corpse back and forth, but after a while, Song Mi's corpse finally recovered a certain degree of activity; Later, he untied the armor and clothes of the corpse, carefully examined the whole body back and forth, and found that there was only a wound on the chest, which hurt the heart and veins, and penetrated out. Seeing this, Mo Chengfeng's hands trembled slightly, and his brows twisted into Sichuan characters.

After a stick of incense, Mo Chengfeng withdrew from the temporary military tent.

"Found what?" King Yu asked anxiously when he saw Mo Chengfeng coming out.

"Song Wuchang was killed by a sharp weapon through ......his chest, and his injuries were too serious" Mo Chengfeng said his autopsy analysis, paused, looked at the group of people around him, and continued: "The murderer should use a murder weapon such as arrows, but it is not an ordinary feather arrow, the person who uses the arrow is very strong and extremely accurate, and the arrow cluster passes through the chest, and Qi Qi cuts off the heart veins. ”

"General, this is the murder weapon!" Ou Luyang presented the dark green arrow brought back by Xuan Shaoning at the right time.

King Yu took the arrow and looked at it carefully: the arrow was more than two feet long, the whole body of the arrow seemed to be forged from pure copper, the tail was split into three small wings of about two inches, the arrow cluster was only the thickness of a grain of rice and split into six edges, and the whole arrow exuded a faint green color in the sun, which was quite permeable.

King Yu stroked the body of the arrow back and forth, but after a while, his eyes widened, and he looked at Mo Chengfeng, and the other party said: "According to the analysis of the channel formed by the wound, the arrow is shot from the front chest and out of the back. ”

"That means the murderer won't be Xuan Shaoning!" Xia Junmao immediately said: "At that time, Xuan Shaoning ran ahead of Song Wuchang, and he didn't have a chance to shoot arrows from behind at all, even if Xuan Shaoning wanted to cover up, how could Song Wuchang be defenseless?" ”

"It's not about who's in front and who's behind. Even ordinary people pay attention to an angle and distance in archery, if you want to shoot an arrow through the opponent's chest, then you must keep a certain distance and face the other party, this point, Commander Ou can agree? Xia Junmao asked rhetorically.

Although Ou Luyang wanted to refute but really couldn't find a reason, this was indeed the case, so he could only nod.

"Okay, since the above two points are true, then assuming that Xuan Shaoning is the murderer, then he first has to keep a certain distance from Song Wuchang, and now Song Wuchang has been killed, and Xuan Shaoning is the biggest suspect, so who was closest to them at that time?" Xia Junmao patrolled among the crowd of the Fourth Brigade.

Xing Gang immediately jumped out, "It's me!" After hearing the movement, I was the first to rush to the captain! ”

"You? I'm afraid your leg strength is far worse than Song Wuchang, right? Ou Luyang objected.

"Commander Ou is underestimating us when he says this!" Meng Kebao was the first to stand up and object, "Xing Gang is the best among us, don't talk big, even if you look at the whole army, you can surpass him by two hands." ”

"I have learned Xinggang's pursuit skills." Xia Junmao clearly expressed his position.

Ou Luyang glanced at King Yu's expression, and then stopped talking.

"So, Xing Gang, can you see the distance between the two of them?" Mo Chengfeng continued to ask.

Xing Gang thought for a while, "Although there were trees blocking it at that time, I could really see it, and Shaoning was also an arm's length away from Wu Chang. ”

"With only an arm's length away, even bending a bow is difficult...... Cao Tie muttered.

"Yes, the distance of an arm is far from enough to bend the bow, not to mention an arrow piercing the body, even ordinary archery skills are difficult to perform. Moreover, the wound on Song Wuchang's back was even more serious, and the laceration was also thread-shaped, which showed that the arrow was shot from behind and through his chest. With these two points, Xuan Shaoning's suspicion has been completely ruled out. Mo Chengfeng once again defended Xuan Shaoning in more detail.

"The facts are already clear, let Xuan Shaoning loosen the ties first!" King Yu ordered without hesitation.

Ou Luyang saw that King Yu had already closed the coffin, and Xuan Shaoning had also recovered his free body, and immediately pleaded guilty: "My subordinates are guilty!" Fang Cai was in a hurry and failed to distinguish right from wrong in time, and misunderstood his own brother, but fortunately, with Master Mo's reasoning and the general's discernment, his subordinates did not make mistakes again and again! ”

Xuan Shaoning moved his upper body, which was already sore and numb, and watched Ou Luyang's performance, and a wave of nausea welled up in his heart.

Sure enough, King Yu helped Ou Luyang, who was kneeling, and comforted: "Commander Ou is serious, the incident happened suddenly, and what the commander did was to respond to the situation, and the facts are now clear, how to blame!" ”

"Thank you, General!" Ou Luyang immediately turned to Xuan Shaoning and bowed, "I hope that Brother Shaoning will not be surprised!" ”

This! Xuan Shaoning was stunned by this sudden change, he really couldn't imagine that this person's face would turn so quickly!

"The commander is a model for us to introspect and bear the guilt of self-examination!" Xia Junmao squeezed his eyes at Xuan Shaoning.

"Oh...... The commander is serious, it is the last general who violates discipline first, how dare he ask the commander to ask for guilt! Xuan Shaoning also bowed and returned the salute, and when his face was facing the ground, he scolded himself fiercely, these strains are not learned by the academy!

At this moment, Huo Qing and Shi Gong Zhengyuan also arrived, and stood in the crowd at the same time as Ling Tieying's father and daughter. Seeing that Xuan Shaoning was loosened, although several people didn't figure out how things took a turn, they saw that he was fine, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Now that the facts have been clarified, the misunderstanding has been resolved, and Song Mi must be buried properly. As for the murderer...... I swear to you that I will catch it! King Yu said sharply to all the soldiers and civilians present.

I thought that this was the end of the matter, but I didn't expect Lei Peng to suddenly come out of the crowd, kneel in front of King Yu with a bang, and didn't say anything, and the rest of the fourth army knelt down in unison.

"What are you doing here?" Ou Luyang scolded.

"General, we are from a humble background, and we can't say any solemn oaths, but our relationship with the captain was bought with blood on the battlefield, he is not only our commander but also our brother, and we are sadder than anyone else for the death of the commander! We are grateful to the general and Master Mo for returning Shaoning's innocence, we admire his mind and courage, we must avenge the revenge of Song Wuchang, and we are missing a leader in the fourth army in front of us, so I implore the general to agree to let Xuan Shaoning be our new captain! After Lei Peng finished speaking, the eight men kowtowed in unison.

"It's really getting more and more presumptuous, even if you get rid of Xuan Shaoning's suspicion, it's your turn to decide when the appointment of the chief of the Wu will be!" If it weren't for the presence of King Yu, Ou Luyang really wanted to pull these people out for military justice.

At this moment, everyone looked at King Yu, and only King Yu could make the final decision.

Seeing this scene, all the onlookers were surprised and inexplicable, Huo Qing even grabbed Shi Gong Zhengyuan's hand tightly, and his eyes didn't dare to blink, for fear of missing any scene.

"Commander Fang Cai Ou also said that Xuan Shaoning found the difference in shoe prints, which shows that he is meticulous, since he joined my Xuanjia Army for more than half a year, looking at his words and deeds, I also think that he is a plastic talent, this time we lost Song Wuchang, and in the end it was Xuan Shaoning who accompanied Song Wuchang, maybe it was destined in the dark. The danger that Song Mi experienced with you, he sacrificed to protect you, this burden is handed over to you, I think Song Mi must also agree with the spirit of the sky! ”

For Lei Peng's sudden petition, Xuan Shaoning was unexpected, in his opinion, he was lucky enough to have just cleared the suspicion, where would he dare to hope for the position of Wu Chang? In such a situation, it is simply too much to propose, why not discuss it with yourself in advance! What Xuan Shaoning didn't expect was that King Yu's words seemed to agree with Lei Peng's request!

"Okay, the new commander of the Fourth Martial Army of the Cold Sword Guard has already been selected, Xuan Shaoning, listen to the order!"

If there were eggs on the scene, Xuan Shaoning would definitely be able to stuff the eggs into his mouth, his eyes widened, and he opened his mouth to the maximum limit. It's not going to be a dream, is it? The process of this short half day is like falling from the flat ground to hell and being thrown into the clouds, which can no longer be described as a dream.

Facing the appointment of King Yu, Xuan Shaoning was stunned in place, his brain was blank, he didn't know how to speak, he only felt that the blood in his whole body cooled down and then warmed up again, and then encountered ice again, feeling that he had lost most of it.

"Shaoning, still can't be ordered?" Xia Junmao urged.

"The last general....... Be! ”

"General Ben promoted you to the rank of commander of the Fourth Army!"

"Yes....... Be! ”

When Xuan Shao Ning Muran knelt down and took over the appointment, everyone in the Fourth Rank finally breathed a sigh of relief. And Ling Scarlet Yan's tense faces were finally liberated, and after relaxing their expressions, they could smile.

Ou Luyang never expected the ending to be like this, seeing that the matter was a foregone conclusion, he had to immediately say: "Congratulations to Chief Xuanwu!" Under your leadership, the fourth Wu will definitely be able to find out the real culprit as soon as possible, seek justice for Song Wuchang, and avenge him! ”

Sorrow and joy are intertwined, and that complicated and inexplicable feeling has not yet been able to subside, but in the face of Ou Luyang, Xuan Shaoning still regained some sanity, "What Commander Ou said is that we must avenge Song Wuchang's revenge, and the most important thing in front of us is to bury Song Wuchang." ”

"Captain Song and those eight brothers are all good men of my Xuanjia Army, they are loyal to the country, and they are buried according to the etiquette of the Xuanjia Army!" King Yu thus made the final conclusion on this matter.