The sound of the two crossbow arrows, coupled with the chaotic sound of horses' hooves, immediately disturbed Ma Chao's hearing.

Originally, if someone sneaked attacked, Ma Chao felt that he could catch the attacking crossbow arrow out of thin air, but his hearing was disturbed, so he could only wave the big gun, and when he heard the sound of 'duh', the crossbow arrow was knocked aside and disappeared.

However, there is also good news that another crossbow arrow was issued by Yang Xiu. He saw that Ma Chao's expression was wrong, and when he saw the Hun fleeing, he immediately took a decisive arrow and shot it on the thigh of the Hun impartially. The man snorted, and then fell to the ground.

After all this was done, the cavalry also rushed to Ma Chao's eyes. Looking at the general at the head, Ma Chao looked happy, avoided the cumbersome task of proving his identity, and directly commanded: "Wen Chang, quickly surround the drunken Oriental wine shop, dig three feet into the ground, and dig out the people inside for me!" ”

Wei Yan saw that Ma Chao was ambushed, and his purple begonia-colored square face turned black directly, and he didn't say anything at the moment, he made a gesture and beat him repeatedly, and then he stepped on the horse to open the main gate of the drunken Oriental wine shop. It seems that if you don't dismantle the drunken Dongfang, I'm afraid you won't let the wine shop leave much behind.

And Ma Chao walked towards the place where the Hun had fallen to the ground with a gloomy face, he was sure that he had definitely seen this Hun. It's just that he can't recall the specific scene he has seen. However, at this time, another sudden change occurred, and the man saw that he was about to be captured, and immediately yelled. Pull out the bolt from his thigh and stab it in front of him!

At that time, there was no one around him who could stop him, and Ma Chao could only watch this person commit suicide. Especially after seeing that this person's face had been ruined by himself, Ma Chao's face was even more gloomy as water.

When he was young, Wei Yan came out and replied with a look of shame and shame: "Lord, the thief has calmly fled. The last general found a secret passage in the back kitchen and sent someone to chase after him, but ......."

Ma Chao also knew that in this situation, it was impossible to catch up with the assassin when he didn't know where the secret passage led. Moreover, everything seems to be very strange today, and he needs to calm down first: "Send troops to look around, it is impossible for those Huns to quietly remove the shadows around me." ”

After a while, Ma Jiajun had already brought the corpses of fifteen shadows, Ma Chao and Wei Yan stepped forward to take a look, only to see that each shadow was killed by someone with one move, the technique was clean and neat, and the fatal wound was not a scimitar blade at all. Ma Chao frowned slightly, and after slowly rubbing his temples, he had a vague guess about the whole incident.

Obviously, this assassination was not specifically aimed at himself. Even the real Assassins suddenly discovered their identities. The real assassin hidden in the drunken east, after assassinating the shadow who secretly protected Ma Chao, has already set up a special assassination activity. But after seeing Yang Xiu release the Ming Di arrow, he already felt that the matter could not be violated, so he let these seven Xiongnu cannon fodder who had some connection with them go as scapegoats.

Of course, there is a great possibility that those assassins knew that with Ma Chao's martial arts, it was impossible for them to die in this ill-prepared assassination, so they temporarily changed their strategy and took advantage of the chaos to escape. However, one thing is certain, that is, the leader of this group of assassinations either has a deep hatred for Ma Chao, or they are very eager for Ma Chao's head - from the killing intent revealed after the high window just now, Ma Chao felt that that person had both. Moreover, his mind is also very careful and calm, and his martial arts are definitely above the second-rate masters.

Such a person still has an inexplicable connection with the Huns....... Ma Chao shook his head slightly, he has no such person in his impression.

"Go back to the county yazheng hall and discuss the business of my coming here first." Ma Chao ordered gloomily, and before destroying the horse, he seemed to think of something again, and whispered to Wei Yan: "Look around and pick up the crossbow arrow that shot me just now." I had a hunch that that bolt could tell me a lot of facts. ”

"No." Wei Yan didn't have much courage to speak, and he had written to ask for war before, thinking that it was a bit overkill for Ma Chao to trap a general like him in a county in Hedong. But when Ma Chaoweifu came in person, he was assassinated, which was really dereliction of duty.

Before entering the county office, the third or fourth secretary had already stepped forward to salute Wei Yan. Something so big happened, although Ma Chao proposed not to make a noise, Wei Yan had already ordered an early curfew on the way back, and asked Ma to return to the county government to inform these scribes to thoroughly investigate the drunken Oriental liquor shop.

Those officials didn't know Ma Chao, but only reported to Wei Yan: "General, the lowly official has already checked the handbook of the Qi people, and this drunken Oriental liquor shop was opened here before our Ma family captured Hedong. The registered name of the shopkeeper is Li Wei, and he has always been a businessman in the local area......."

The Ma family, which has successfully risen by relying on espionage, naturally has a unique set of methods in dealing with the other party's spies. Ma Chao adopted the Western Han Dynasty's method of compiling households and Qi Min, and applied it to the Ma family after improving it. This strict household registration control system requires both civilian and military households to register with the local county government and review them frequently. This made it extremely difficult for other princes to plant new spies, because a stranger who was not registered in the local household register would soon be discovered, so as to prevent the espionage activities of foreign forces as much as possible.

However, hearing that the shopkeeper of this drunken Oriental liquor store has opened here for business very early, it can only prove two problems: one is that this shopkeeper has been lurking in Hedong County for a long time; Another possibility is that the leader of the group of assassins who infiltrated from outside had a lot of energy, and after entering Hedong, he not only quickly hid his identity, but also quickly bought off the shopkeeper of Drunken Dongfang.

At present, the first possibility is relatively large. But no matter which possibility it is, Ma Chao feels that there is a bigger conspiracy against the Ma family hidden behind this.

As soon as these were sorted out, a Ma Jiajun had already stepped forward with an object and handed it to Wei Yan. After Wei Yan handed it over to Ma Chao with a solemn face, he really saw the expected reaction. Ma Chao carefully rubbed the crossbow arrow, and said firmly: "Sure enough, it is this kind of crossbow arrow." ”

The crossbow arrow was similar to the crossbow arrow of Ma Jiayuanrong's crossbow, and the triangular arrow was black and bright, obviously quenched with poison. What's even more interesting is that its arrow is one foot five inches long.......

When Li Chi was ambushed in Hedong County, he was wiped out by this one-foot-five-inch crossbow arrow. And now, when the Yuan clan is destroyed, this kind of crossbow arrow appears in Hedong County again, and the mystery cloud is getting thicker and thicker. Moreover, this time it was somehow related to the Huns, which made all the events confusing.

"Han Hao was rescued by a mysterious person and never showed up?" Ma Chao put away the crossbow arrow carefully, and in the dark he felt that this crossbow arrow would be useful in the future. He didn't know when it would be, but it was a very strong feeling.

"After Yuan Shao's defeat, it seems that he has surrendered to Cao Cao." Yang Xiu opened his mouth, he knew why Ma Chao suddenly asked about Han Hao. Because in the entire Jizhou battlefield, except for Han Hao, who used this kind of crossbow arrow for Hedong Taipunctuality, there was no news of this kind of crossbow arrow.

"After defeat?" Ma Chao had to make a bold assumption, he found that once everything involved Cao Cao, there would be another person's shadow, which gave him a headache: "When?" ”

"At the time of the Battle of Guandu."

"Before the Guandu War, or after the War?" Ma Chao further asked, at this time, no details will be ignored: "This is very important, it is related to the purpose of my coming to Hedong, and it may even be related to the entire Jizhou battlefield." ”

"Investigate immediately." Seeing the importance of the incident, Yang Xiu responded cautiously.

And Ma Chao had to put aside this thoughtless matter for the time being, turned his head and asked Wei Yan: "Hedong Wei's family, how is it handled?" "Mu ^ remnant ^ text ^ study (), if you think it's good, press ctrl+D to collect this book!

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