With a "whoosh", a sharp arrow hit the neck of an antelope, and the antelope scurried for a few seconds before falling to the ground and convulsing to death.

"Shot!" The servants cheered, and a teenage servant happily rode over and lifted the hunted antelope. The difficulty of shooting is much more difficult than shooting people, the sensitivity of wild animals to danger is far from being comparable to humans who have lost their wildness, the shouting and killing sound from all directions on the battlefield will interfere with a person's audition judgment, and the probability of being shot by arrows is very high, so the difficulty requirements for archers are reduced a lot, although Zhao Ziliang is almost a hundred shots and a hundred steps on the battlefield, but in this wild hunting is definitely not every arrow can be hit, especially the antelope, a wild animal with high vigilance and strong sensitivity, It's not easy to shoot it, just now Zhao Ziliang shot twice in a row before he hit, and the hit rate was only half.

Zhao Ziliang watched the servants cheering and carrying the antelope to fight the horse, at this time a shadow flashed in the bushes on the left, Zhao Ziliang was vigilant, his right hand instantly reached into the quiver and pulled out a sharp arrow on the bowstring and aimed at the bushes on the left, and was preparing the room to shoot at the target, but at this moment he saw the figure and face of the person clearly, and slowly put down the bow and arrow, it turned out that the person was Xuan Wu who was sent out by him a few days ago.

Xuan Wu walked over with a bow and arrows on his back and arched his hand: "General! ”

Zhao Ziliang said indifferently: "Since you appear here, it means that your task has been completed?" ”

Xuan Wu arched his hand and said: "The task is completed, an arrow hits the throat, and he is dead!" ”

"Did anyone see your face?"

Xuan Wu shook his head: "No, his subordinates are sure that there was no one else around him at that time, and it wasn't until he died that a few soldiers rode over."

"Okay, you're back in the team!"

"No!"

The reason why he wants to do this, Zhao Ziliang has no other way, with his current strength is not enough to resist the Taiyuan Wang family, the power of the Wang family in the court is not trivial, if he moves Wang Shengdao on the surface, even if he finds out all kinds of evidence of Wang Shengdao, this person is dismissed and investigated openly, or even kills this person, with the energy of the Wang family in the court to move him, I am afraid that even the emperor Li Longji will not be able to withstand the huge pressure from the Manchu Dynasty, this is the terrible thing about the great family. Moreover, Emperor Li Longji is now old, his ears have become softer, and his hearing and hearing are under the influence of Li Linfu, Gao Lishi and others, and he has lost his judgment. As everyone knows, even Wang Zhongsi and Huangfu Weiming, who have always been extremely trusted by the emperor, were later instigated by traitors in front of the emperor, and were imprisoned, and they did not die well in the end!

Zhao Ziliang thinks that he is not afraid of death, but he doesn't want to be framed and framed by traitors, and he is framed to death on trumped-up charges! Yes, trumped-up charges, hehe, it's sad to think about it!

Zhao Ziliang is not afraid of not fighting with others, the struggle is not brute, the struggle between the enemy and us is also to pay attention to strategy, blindly brute force can only be a bloody encounter, he let Xuan Wu secretly kill Wang Shengdao is a strategy of Zhao Ziliang to the Shuozhou military and political officialdom, because only in this way can he appoint a new county soldier lieutenant to control the Shuozhou county soldiers, and use the county soldiers he appointed to exchange blood and reorganize the county soldiers, so that the Wang family can not find a reason and excuse to deal with him, even if in the end the Taiyuan Wang family learned that it was his hands and feet, As long as they can't catch the evidence, they will be helpless! It is easy for these families to deal with a big official, or even an official of the fourth or third grade, but it is not easy to deal with a world-famous general in the border of the clan in politics, after all, he holds the military and political power of the two armies in three states, and several border army envoys have a relationship with him, not to mention that in this period, the emperor is extremely fond of the border generals, especially the generals like Zhao Ziliang, and the general charges can't move him at all. But once you do it, you will be completely sure that Zhao Ziliang will die!

Just as he was about to continue hunting, he heard the sound of hurried horses' hooves not far away, Zhao Ziliang raised his hand to signal the crowd to stop, only to see three fast horses galloping over, and quickly stopped in front of everyone, and the first soldier bowed to Zhao Ziliang and saluted with his fists: "General, my general was plotted by someone just now for hunting!" ”

"What?" Zhao Ziliang's face changed dramatically, and he immediately asked, "Where was he plotted?" ”

"In the woods three miles to the west!"

"Lead the way!" Zhao Ziliang said that he immediately turned around and galloped forward, and the three people who reported the news immediately hit their horses to catch up, and the other servants rode their horses to follow closely behind, including Xuan Wu, who had just shot Wang Shengdao.

After riding for a short time, they came to the edge of a forest, the snow had just melted, and some, insects, birds and beasts came out to feed, when Zhao Ziliang and others galloped and scared away the nearby insects and birds.

After entering the woods, under the guidance of the three people who reported the news, Zhao Ziliang and the others finally saw some county soldiers guarding in the woods, and the captains of the three battalions accompanying them were also here.

"Get out of the way, General Zhao is here!" One of the armor soldiers who led the way shouted a few times, and the nearby county soldiers and cavalry all made way for Zhao Ziliang and the others to ride in.

The three lieutenants and the county soldiers and knights saluted Zhao Ziliang one after another: "See the general!" ”

After dismounting, Zhao Ziliang walked quickly to Wang Shengdao's corpse and squatted down to check it, Wang Shengdao died so much that he couldn't die anymore, and the blood flowed out of the arrow shaft of the neck mountain and stained the snow on the ground red.

Zhao Ziliang said while inspecting: "What a powerful arrow!" How long has this been happening? Who was with General Wang at that time? ”

The captain of the first battalion reported: "It has been almost two quarters of an hour, and General Wang was chasing a deer, you see, this is it, he rode his horse so fast that the soldiers were thrown far by him, until when he saw him again, he had already fallen from the arrow, but he should have shot an arrow before the arrow, and shot the deer to death, but someone was nearby to plot against him!" ”

"So there were no witnesses who saw the killer?" Zhao Ziliang got up and asked.

The captain of the first battalion shook his head dejectedly and said, "No! No one knows what an assassin is like! ”

Zhao Ziliang suddenly turned around and said angrily: "It's all a bunch of rice buckets and waste, it's been so long since things happened, why are you sending someone to report to the general now?" Two quarters of an hour was enough for an assassin to run for dozens of miles! ”

"I'm ・・・・・・ I'm incompetent!" Several lieutenants and cavalrymen also knew that they had missed the best opportunity to catch the assassins and made a big mistake, so they were all dismounted and kneeling on the ground in fright.

Zhao Ziliang took a few breaths, and immediately shouted: "Immediately pass on the order of the general, and send an urgent order of 600 li to all the checkpoints, post stations, and checkpoints in the whole state, block the exit intersections in the whole state, and strictly check all the people leaving the country, but all those who carry bows and arrows will be arrested first; Order all battalions of the county soldiers to stay at the garrison and stand by, and do not act rashly without an order, otherwise all military law will be conducted"!

A county soldier was assassinated by an assassin, this kind of thing is equivalent to a thing that pierces the sky in the whole Shuozhou, Zhao Ziliang also had to "thunder and rage" to make a big move, and make a posture of not catching the assassin and not giving up, only in this way is it in line with common sense, otherwise if he is indifferent, others should suspect him, and make such a gesture, but also to maintain his own authority, to maintain the authority of the rulers of the officials, to show everyone that assassinating the court officials is tantamount to being an enemy of the court, It will inevitably be hit by Datang's violent law enforcement machine.

"No!" The captains of the three battalions immediately agreed, and immediately sent someone to give orders.

"Send someone to protect the scene, then who, you send someone to the state government to find Taishou Cui Jinrong, report the matter here to him, and tell him to bring the arrest to investigate the assassination of General Wang!"

"Yes, General!"

Zhao Ziliang and the others waited here for more than half an hour, and Cui Jinrong brought the officials and catchers in the state government to dare to come over.

"Xiaguan and others will meet the general," Cui Jinrong and the others jumped off their horses and saluted Zhao Ziliang and said loudly.

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand: "Don't be polite, get up!" Cui Taishou, you must have already known the matter, a dignified general of the county soldiers was assassinated in broad daylight, the assassin is too rampant, too little to put the general and the entire Shuozhou military and political officials in the eyes, this case must be investigated to the end no matter what, until the murderer is caught, the general has ordered the blockade of all the checkpoints, post stations and sentry posts out of Shuozhou, hoping to block the assassin in Shuozhou before he escapes from Shuozhou, the matter of investigating the case is the matter of your state capital, General Ben has other official business to do, I'll leave this matter to you, and before it gets dark, General Ben will listen to your case analysis report at his residence! ”

"Yes, the lower official will definitely go to the general's residence before dark to report the results of the case analysis!"

Zhao Ziliang said that he would leave, but as soon as he was about to get on the horse, Cui Jinrong caught up and said in a low voice: "General, the subordinate has something to report, please take a step to speak!" ”

Zhao Ziliang thought about it, nodded and agreed: "Okay!" ”

The two came to the side, and Cui Jinrong said in a low voice: "General, before Xia Guan and the others came, they heard from their subordinates that a group of more than 1,000 soldiers and horses came ten miles north of the city, elite and strong, Xia Guan and others were scared half to death, and thought that an enemy army had killed them, and then sent someone to investigate to find out that it was the fourth battalion of the Datong Army stationed under the Great Wall, does the general know about this?" ”

Zhao Ziliang looked at Cui Jinrong and said in his heart that he couldn't imagine that this guy's intelligence ability was so strong, and he found out that the fourth battalion of the Datong Army had arrived in Shuozhou so quickly, he nodded and said: "Of course I know, they were transferred by order of General Ben, so let's call several other major officials over, and General Ben will tell you about this matter!" ”

Cui Jinrong breathed a sigh of relief and promised: "No! (To be continued.) )