Tongshan is not far from Zhaojia Village, and the group walked fast, and when they arrived on the mountain road, the time was not yet noon. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Call a few people, seal the road up the mountain, and no one is allowed to come in."

Zhao Shijun instructed his subordinates to block the road in Tongshan and not let the news leak out for the time being.

Tongshan is sparsely populated here, coupled with the recent banditry trouble, there are fewer people who usually dare to approach this area, the Zhao family belongs to a tyrant here, and now the mountain is closed, I believe no one will say anything.

"The eldest master, the second master, just ahead!"

The subordinate led the important people of the family all the way to the mountain road full of corpses.

From afar, after seeing those corpses, Zhao Shiheng felt like he was going to vomit.

Zhao Shijun has been an official outside for many years, and he has been running around a lot on the rivers and lakes, and his ability to resist blows is still a little stronger, he threw off the support of his subordinates, and hurriedly ran to the mountain alone, and then, lowered his body and began to check the wound.

"My son!"

Zhao Shiheng sat on the mountain road with tears in his eyes, grabbed Zhao Yuan's body on the ground, and cried hoarsely. The Zhao family next to him was crying and howling, and the mountain road was suddenly covered by the sound of grief.

Zhao Shijun didn't cry, he turned over one corpse after another, carefully examined the wounds on multiple corpses, in order to determine how these people died, and wanted to find some clues from the scene.

Unfortunately, there were no traces of fighting at the scene, and there were no blades left.

These more than 60 people seemed to have been wiped out in an instant, and they didn't even have a chance to react.

How so?

There were no signs of a fight at all, and there were no wounds on the bodies.

No, the wound is not without it!

Zhao Shijun patted his head, came to his eldest brother's side, turned over the corpse of his nephew Zhao Yuan, and stared at a round blood hole on his forehead in a daze.

"This ......" Zhao Shijun put his sleeve on the bullet hole in the corpse's head, and then wiped it twice vigorously to wipe off the blood clot that had coagulated in the periphery, and there was a bottomless wound on the brain.

"Second uncle, you are well-informed, do you know what kind of injury this is?" Zhao Heng's eyes were red, and he asked Zhao Shijun while crying.

"This is a lead bullet hole, Yuan'er was killed by a fire gun!"

"What?" Zhao Heng looked disbelieving.

"There will be no mistake, there will be no weapon in the world that can create such a wound except for the firecracker!" He turned over the body of a bandit next to him, pointed at Zhao Heng and said, "Look for yourself." ”

Zhao Heng also played with guns, and threatened Liu Yuanshan with a gun before, so after hearing Zhao Shijun say this, and thinking about the shape and power of those lead bullets, he already believed ninety percent.

"Don't cry!"

Zhao Shijun stood up to preside over the overall situation, and said loudly to the crying subordinates and family members: "The eldest prince has been sleeping outside all night, and he is tired, you few!" He pointed to the nearest people: "Let's take the eldest prince back to the house first!" ”

When a person dies, he can't always be left in the mountains. Besides, it's not a matter to always put the corpses of bandits together, if it spreads, I think the Zhao family is a bandit.

The subordinates carried over a soft bed that had been prepared a long time ago, carefully put Zhao Yuan's body on the soft bed, and then gently carried it away.

"For the rest, find me something, look for it on the ground!" Zhao Shijun gathered the people, described the appearance of marbles to them a little, and asked them to look for them on the ground.

After a while, someone found the steel ball left behind by Liu Yuanshan from the nearby grass and sent it to Zhao Shijun.

Zhao Shijun rubbed the bullet, squinted slightly, and said to Zhao Heng: "I expected it to be good, this group of people is using firearms." ”

"Who could that be?" Zhao Heng suddenly asked whimsically, "It won't be Liu Yuanshan and them who are here to take revenge, right?" ”

"Impossible!"

Zhao Shijun waved his hand and said: "Killing more than sixty people in an instant, without giving the opponent any time to react, even if it is an ambush, it is not easy to do." ”

"Look at the terrain here, it's not suitable for ambushes!"

The ambush in Zhao Shijun's mouth is naturally the kind of short-distance ambush, and the ambush in Liu Yuanshan's eyes is naturally not the same thing.

"Second uncle, what do you mean?" Zhao Heng still didn't understand too much.

"Many!" Zhao Shijun took a deep breath, and felt a little cold in his heart: "There are many people!" He looked at Zhao Heng again and asked a question: "The two firecrackers I showed you, if you want to hit the enemy accurately, how far will you go?" ”

"No more than thirty steps!" Zhao Heng replied.

"That's it!" Zhao Shijun waved his hand and pointed to the sparse grass around him: "Such a short distance, but Sun Dabeard and they didn't make any resistance, which is completely unreasonable." Unless it is, there are a lot of people on the other side, and there are also a lot of firearms, which is more than we imagined. ”

Yesterday, from morning to night, the people of the Liu family were almost working in Balding Mountain, busy carrying osmanthus soap, so it was impossible for the Liu family to gather so many people to ambush.

Besides, even if the Liu family had the ability to ambush three or five hundred people in one go, they would not have weapons.

This is also the reason why Zhao Shijun ruled out Liu Yuanshan's suspicion for the first time.

"Then, could it be a county ......?"

Zhao Shijun waved his hand again and interrupted Zhao Heng's words: "It's even more impossible, not to mention the ability of those officials in the county, as far as the friendship between Lord Huang and me is concerned, if you want to suppress bandits, there is no reason to hide it from me." ”

"That's the one in the guard?" Zhao Heng guessed again.

In Fang County, the largest number of troops is naturally located in a guard post not far from the west of Fang County, but the guard post is too far from here, according to the urine of the local army of the Ming Dynasty, if they don't provoke them, they will not go out and fight hard.

"Judging from this marble, it is not owned by the guard!" Zhao Shijun squinted his eyes and stared at the steel ball carefully, the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became.

"Second uncle, who did this, it can't be God's doing, right?" Zhao Heng asked.

Zhao Shijun shook his head and denied it again: "I can't see through it either, but according to my guess, there is no such big family nearby, and no one in the entire Fang County has the ability to eliminate Sun Dabeard so neatly and neatly." ”

"This is not so much a battle as a conspiracy, Zhao Yuan is just a meeting and a substitute for the dead!"

"What do you mean by that?" Zhao Shiheng, who was full of old tears, suddenly stood up from the ground, looked at the second brother weakly, and asked painfully.

"I suspect it's a conspiracy!" Zhao Shijun pointed to one of the corpses: "The most reasonable explanation is that the bearded man and the others drank wine, and they were drugged in the wine, and when they came here, they didn't listen to the call, so they gave other people a chance to take advantage of it, and then used a fire gun to kill them one by one!" (To be continued.) )