When the blood-stained knight was helped into the village, Li Xiao saw that the old Qin, the commander of the Zhichong Commander, suddenly changed color. The old lieutenant, who seemed to be dying, suddenly burst out with astonishing speed, and rushed in front of the knight in a few steps.

He grabbed the wounded soldier by his hand.

"Lvshuai Zhao, what's wrong?"

"Captain, his subordinates should die, he was ordered by the commander to stay in the military palace, but he was stolen by thieves and failed to defend the military palace, and he was ashamed of the captain." As he spoke, the man's tears rained down.

"What thieves? What's going on? ”

The injured Zhao Lvshuai said three words and two words, and simply said the matter. It turned out that after Captain Qin came to the aid of Li Zhuang with 300 soldiers, there were only about a dozen people left in the military palace to stay behind. No one expected that someone would be so rampant as to raid the military government of the Tang Dynasty.

"Who is it?"

"It's the town soldiers of Lantian Pass, and the leader is Zhao Zhiman, the town general of Lantian Pass." Zhao Lvshuai hated to say a name, but everyone present was amazed.

"Is that him? No way, could you be mistaken? ”

"Even if he is burned to ashes, I will not forget his appearance, that man led more than a thousand men and horses to raid us, they did not hide their identities at all, they carried the banner of Lantian Pass, fully armed, horses and pawns. The raid came, and he killed people when he saw them, without mercy, and his subordinates desperately escaped to report to the captain. ”

Many people were stunned by this news, Zhao Zhiman, how could it be.

Li Xiao was not very familiar with this Lantian Guanzhen, and asked Li Yuanfang next to him, "Is Zhao Zhiman famous?" ”

Li Yuanfang nodded, and Wang Fangyi next to him said, "I'm very familiar with Zhao Zhiman, but I don't believe that he would dare to do such a thing." ”

Zhao Zhiman is a friend of Wang Fangyi, and he is also a very famous person, and he is also a very famous fierce general.

"Zhao Zhiman is a person, he is good at riding and shooting, fighting tigers, chasing horses, and the benevolent corporal, and the Jingshi is admired by both nobles and thieves." Li Yuanfang briefly introduced this fierce man.

This sentence is short, but it can reveal a lot.

What does that mean?

That is to say, this Zhao Zhiman's writing is very good, at least at the level of a calligrapher. And this person can ride and shoot well, and he has strong riding and shooting skills. And he has great strength, he can kill a tiger, he can run fast, and he can run past a galloping horse.

Such a guy is extremely kind and caring to his subordinates, and his reputation in Beijing is still very good, from the peddler pawn to the officials and nobles, everyone dislikes him.

To put it bluntly, this Zhao Zhiman is simply a national idol.

But for such a person, Li Xiao doesn't seem to have any impression. At least, the history books he read before didn't seem to remember this person, and he was not as famous as Qin Qiong and Wei Chi Gong.

Liu Jun came over at this time and said to Li Xiao, "Zhao Zhiman, this person, very good." You also know that now there are people in Beijing who call me and Boxian the four sons of Chang'an, in fact, this fourth son of Chang'an basically changes people once every ten years. Before us, the four sons of Chang'an actually had other people, and the four sons of the last session had Zhao Zhiman. ”

The four sons of Chang'an in the last session were Changsun Chong, Wang Fangyi, Zhao Zhiman, and Cheng Wuting.

These four people are not simple, not only from good backgrounds, such as Changsun Chong, who is the son of Changsun Wuji, Wang Fangyi is the queen's brother, Cheng Wuting is the son of Cheng Mingzhen, the general of the DPRK, and this Zhao Zhiman is not simple, his uncle is Changsun Quan, and Changsun Quan is the brother of Changsun Wuji. Zhao Zhiman's uncle is Han Ming, and Han Ying is also the prime minister of the dynasty.

The Zhao family itself is also a wealthy military aristocratic family in Guanlong, and the Zhao family is a general. Zhao Zhiman received an aristocratic elite education when he was a child, both civil and military, and also served as a thousand cows, but although he was older, he was released early, and he fought several big battles with the army and made a lot of contributions. Therefore, he is now a four-rank military general guarding Lantian Pass.

Can kill a tiger, can run faster than a horse, such a person is still good at calligraphy, especially the burly and handsome, and has a good background, good personality and temper, no wonder he can become an idol in Chang'an, everyone loves it.

There are talented people in the country, and the fourth son of the new generation Cheng Boxian is also outstanding, Cheng Boxian and Xue Chuyu are even known as the Yulin Army, but compared with Wang Fangyi and Zhao Zhiman, they are much more tender.

How did such a Chang'an idol become a thief?

Li Xiao was puzzled.

Wang Fangyi didn't believe that his brother had become a thief.

Lanxi Zhechong Mansion is only twenty miles away from here, in the southwest direction. Lantian Pass is still twenty miles southwest of Lanxi Zhichong Mansion, forty miles away.

The soldiers of Zhichong Mansion and Lantian Pass are quite familiar with each other, and there is no reason to admit mistakes.

But why?

There's no reason for that.

"There must be some misunderstanding in this, how can Brother Zhao be that kind of person?" Wang Fangyi and Zhao Zhiman have the best relationship, both of them love calligraphy, and they are both good at riding and shooting, and they have also served in the Praetorian Guard, which can be said to be often in and out together, even to the point that they often sleep on the same couch.

"You can't be wrong, I saw Zhao Zhiman with my own eyes, and the arrow on my body was shot by Zhao Zhiman's dog thief."

"If that arrow had been shot by Brother Zhao, you would have died a long time ago." Wang Fangyi said.

"Yes, if it hadn't been for a brother who blocked an arrow for me at that time, I would have died. Zhao Dog Thief's archery skills are amazing, and after piercing my brother, he still stuck a hole in my back. Zhao Lushuai said angrily, staring at Wang Fangyi like a breath of fire in his eyes.

Wang Fangyi was speechless all of a sudden, and shot two people with one arrow, which was indeed in line with Zhao Zhiman's archery technique.

"But why did he do that?"

"I vaguely heard Zhao Gou shouting in the military mansion, saying that we Zhichong Mansion Qin Duwei led his troops to Lanxi Lizhuang to grab corn seeds, and the conspiracy was wrong, he was ordered by the prime minister of the political hall to come to suppress the rebellion, and also said that the political hall ordered that there is no forgiveness for killing!"

Decree of the Government Hall.

Li Xiao was thoughtful.

Qin Duwei's face was already swollen with anger, "This is a thief shouting to catch a thief, I see that the group of thieves who came to Weizhuang before is him Zhao Zhiman." ”

There was silence in the hall for a moment.

Some people thought of something, but they didn't say it, and some people didn't think of it yet, but they were also thinking deeply.

Li Xiao asked Zhao Zhiman's appearance, which was not the same as the person who claimed to be Yu Chengji before, but the strange thing was that both of them claimed to have received orders from the Political Affairs Hall.

In silence, Tamase came over.

"I think it's very obvious, before Saburo said that the previous group of thieves claimed to be ordered by the political affairs hall, and now this group of thieves claims to be under the orders of the political affairs hall, it is obvious that these two people are from the government affairs hall."

"Impossible, how could the prime ministers of the government hall give such an order?" Wang Fangyi shook his head, he didn't believe in such facts.

Monk Sekong, that is, Li Ke said lightly, "At the meeting of the political hall, it is definitely impossible for the prime ministers to make such an order, but it does not guarantee that no one will give an order in the name of the political hall. As soon as these words came out, it was a certain prime minister who directly criticized the political affairs hall.