Chapter 45: Return to the palace and return to life
"You two go to find Lord Ji and come over, you wait with me to go up to the city wall to have a look!"
Fu Wang He Xian and Fu Xiao Wang Ye He Wei, if they want to take advantage of last night's chaos to escape from the capital, then he must let the guards on this section of the city wall turn a blind eye to them;
Otherwise, many people would have to come out of the secret passages with a large amount of gold and silver, and the movement of crossing the moat, and it would be a hell of a matter if the defenders of the city did not notice it.
And if his estimation is not wrong, when the assassins made a move last night, King Fu must have taken the opportunity to escape from the capital with his people.
Now five or six hours have passed, and by his means, there will be no one outside the city to answer, and at the speed of an ordinary carriage, I am afraid that at least two or three hundred miles away;
Even if the cavalry is immediately sent to chase after it, without specific clues, it will be a needle in a haystack.
With a sigh in his heart, Liu Huayun had no choice but to wave his hand and command.
For today's plan, the only way to find out the inner ghost in the Imperial Forest Army is to find out first, and then return to the palace with Ji Xiaolan after Ji Xiaolan comes, so that Emperor He Yu can issue a holy decree and go in to arrest He Xian and others.
Regarding the establishment of the army in Dafeng Beijing, Liu Huayun once heard Yang Wenfeng say;
As far as he knew, whether it was the guards guarding the palace or the garrison soldiers of the cities, except for the Yang family army and the Shenji battalion, they all belonged to the category of the Imperial Forest Army and were under the unified dispatch of the soldiers and horses of the Nine Cities.
With these hundreds of thousands of personal guards and 200,000 Yang family troops scattered all over the country, several generations of emperors in Dafeng can sit back and relax so easily.
"Who are you, sir?"
Less than a few hundred meters from the house is a staircase leading to the city walls;
Seeing Liu Huayun and Liu Ruoping arriving with the Ouchi guards and hundreds of royal forest troops with bright armor, the soldiers defending the city not only did not dare to stop them, but the little leader Liang Yu greeted them with a smile on his face.
"I am the ....... appointed by the Holy Lord to investigate the assassination of the Imperial Palace, you can call me Lord Liu, as for the name? Don't mention it, let me ask, but you were on an errand last night? ”
Dafeng's city guards, when there is no war, a team of 100 people can be responsible for the distance between the left and right of Lixu, that is to say, everyone needs to patrol back and forth between several battlements;
The middle-aged man in his thirties in front of him was in charge of this section of the city wall after He Xian purchased the house, so Liu Huayun waved his hand to him and asked with a solemn face.
"Back to Lord Liu, it's not a villain, it's Lou Zizhang and his soldiers, and I and my brothers came here this morning......
When Liang Yu heard that it was such a major event as the emperor's assassination, how dare he slack off, and hurriedly replied with fear.
"What about Lou Zizhang and others? Where is it now? ”
The arrangement of the city defense shift and the registration of its own special person, as long as you check it in the camp, you will know that Liang Yu in front of him should not be lying, Liu Huayun nodded, and then asked.
"It should be given to the camp in Xicheng, Lord Liu, do you want me to take you there personally?"
"There's no need to be so troublesome, Brother Sun, Brother Lu, you take a team of people and immediately go to the camp in Xicheng to arrest Lou Zizhang, Sister Ping, let's go over there and have a look......"
If you want to arrest a small hundred households, how can you use Liu Huayun to do it himself, so hard to mobilize the people;
Besides, he still had to go to that section of the city wall to take a look, and after giving an order to the two inner guards around him, he took Liu Ruoping and walked forward.
"Lord Liu, you are wise, then Lou Zizhang must have a problem......"
After Lu Xun and others led a team of men and horses to leave quickly, Liang Yu of the Hundred Households of the Imperial Forest Army did not dare to slack off, and followed closely beside Liu Huayun, not a few sycophants.
"Your name is Liang Yu, right, this section of the city wall is guarded by you and Lou Zizhang in shifts?"
After a while, stopping at the top of the city wall where the tunnel was dug in front of him, Liu Huayun glanced at the inside and outside of the city wall at his feet, and asked the middle-aged man behind him with a light smile.
Standing here, you can clearly observe the house dozens of meters away, and the blessed king He Xian dug a secret passage out of the city under the noses of more than 100 soldiers;
It is understandable that there is a hole in the grass outside the city that has not been discovered, but there is so much dirt poured back and forth in the houses that he does not believe the soldiers on the city wall, and he does not notice it.
"Back to my lord, in the past few months, it is indeed the villain and Lou Zizhang who are in charge of this place, but when the villain is on duty, he has not found anything abnormal......"
On an errand in the Imperial Forest Army, he was really not a stupid person, Liang Yu saw Liu Huayun looking at the house not far away, and immediately hurriedly explained with sweat in his palms.
"Hmph~~~, no abnormalities were found, how did those gangsters dig tunnels out of the city, and they didn't recruit them from the truth!"
"Lord Liu, wronged, we really thought that the mansion was building a house on a large scale, and we didn't think of this at all, and we ask for forgiveness......
"That's it, you wait and be careful, don't be careless....."
In fact, Liu Huayun also knew He Xian's methods, he must have ordered people to dig during the day, and only transferred the soil to the wing room at night when his confidant Lou Zizhang was on duty;
Seeing that Liang Yu's eyes were clear when he spoke, he had already ruled out his suspicion, and waved his hand with a faint smile.
"Yes, what you have taught me is that the villain must remember!"
Just when Liang Yu stepped aside, wiping the cold sweat on his forehead, he was terrified;
"Ruoping, Brother Ji is here, let's go down to the city," Seeing Liu Huayun coming quickly with a small sedan chair in the distance, he beckoned Liu Ruoping to walk down the city wall together.
"Brother Liu, that old thief really came out of the city from here, hey, forget it, we can't catch up with him anyway, let's go back and recover our lives!"
A moment later, next to a firewood and grass-covered exit outside the city wall, Ji Xiaolan spread his hands and spoke
Previously, he was at the city gate, ordering people to inquire about suspicious people out of the city, and when he heard that Liu Huayun had found a clue, he rushed here non-stop;
After meeting with them, in order to confirm the conjecture in their hearts, the group came to the outside of the city again.
As the saying goes, it's easy to get things done, and everyone soon found this hidden exit not far from the moat.
Looking at the messy footprints here, Ji Xiaolan could be sure that many people must have left here last night, and it was noon, and he was hungry and sleepy, and he had no intention of pursuing it any further.
Liu Huayun and Liu Ruoping were also a little unbearable, so they would not object to his proposal, and ordered a few internal guards to take people to seize the remaining property of the Fu Wang family;
The three of them first found a wine shop, ate something casually, and then returned directly to the palace.
"Liu Aiqing, Ji Aiqing, you have done a good job, go home and rest for the time being, and then investigate this matter tomorrow......"
After tossing for most of the day, when Liu Huayun and the others walked into the imperial study with a sleepy face, it was almost time for Shen;
Because the evidence of the dragon robe was very powerful, He Yu, who was in a much better mood after making Ge Hongqin, Zheng Xin and other ministers in the court, waved his hand and commanded after listening to their report.
Although He Xian, He Wei's father and son and others escaped, there was no way to do it;
After all, Liu Huayun is not an immortal, and he can't be a prophet, he can go to Zhenhou Hall to rescue him at all costs last night, and He Yu has already looked at him differently in his heart.
Furthermore, riding a fast horse along the road to search for the whereabouts of King Fu, there are their own Imperial Forest Army and Ouchi guards to do it, no matter how bad it is, there is no need to continue to work and the two who are already physically and mentally exhausted.
"Old man, don't worry, I will interrogate those two Dongying people early tomorrow morning, and I will definitely find a way to eradicate all the remnants of the Black Demon Alliance......"
The matter is not over here, among the murderers who assassinated last night, there are still two Dongying killers who have been captured alive;
Liu Huayun knew the intention of the old man in front of him to let them continue to investigate, and he also wanted to completely find out the Black Evil Alliance to ensure the safety of his relatives and industry, so he said so.