Shocked by the news, the whole country of the Macedher Khanate was shaken, and the Great Khan of the Maceded Khan, Bihili, vowed to find out the culprits and take revenge, regardless of the state groups or individuals involved. And the largest media in the Mache Khanate, the "Nation", also said: "This despicable act is the most direct expression of the declaration of war by the Mache Khanate!" ”

At the same time, the 2nd Army of the Three Rivers suffered the most stubborn resistance since the beginning of the war outside the city of Garcy, the capital of the Kingdom of Naples. The two sides fought more than ten battles on the city wall in one day, and both sides suffered heavy losses. Due to the timely adjustment of the deployment, the kingdom of Naples gave up the defense of its northern region, and concentrated all the troops of the whole country in the capital city of Garcy for defensive operations, and the city of Garci was the most well-defended city in the entire Union of Romania, so even under the strong attack of several times its own attacking army, the Napletian army still ensured that the city of Garci was not lost.

The envoy of the Macedonian Khan, who arrived in time, also vowed that the Macedonian Khanate and the Nanyang Alliance would never sit idly by, so that the Napolis, who had suffered heavy losses, summoned enough courage and mobilized all the young men in the city of Jiaxi to join the battle to defend the capital.

On February 5, after two days and nights of rapid marching, 10,000 horses and horses of the vanguard of the Nanyang Alliance finally rushed to the city of Jiaxi at the most critical moment, and the 2nd Army of Sanjiang, which was heavily damaged, saw that it had lost the most favorable opportunity to capture Jiaxi City, and began to retreat northward, and the almost exhausted Napoli army was not able to fight back at all, but only cooperated with the reinforcements of the Nanyang Alliance to strengthen the defense of Jiaxi City.

On February 8, the Second Army of Sanjiang retreated to Reya, an important town in the northern part of the Naples Kingdom, and began to build a fortress in front of Rea, and the steady stream of people from Sanjiang County also confirmed that the Lin family did intend to occupy the northern part of the Naples Kingdom for themselves.

The assassination of Qin Duan caused an uproar in the imperial capital, and the people from the internal affairs department and the Jiumen Admiral's Mansion did not want to expand the matter, but in view of the fact that both sides learned the inside story. And they were worried that the other party would report the matter to their side without telling them, so the principals of both sides coincidentally chose to report the decision of their superiors immediately.

His Majesty the Emperor, who received the news, was furious, and not only severely reprimanded the Minister of the Interior, Gao Panlong, who rarely spoke up to blame, but also ordered the two Vice Ministers of the Interior, Tujing and He Jingzhi, to immediately launch an investigation and make sure that the murderer was arrested and brought to justice. The major media in the imperial capital also commented one after another, criticizing the intelligence of the internal affairs department for being lagging behind and responding sluggishly and incompetently. Considerable pressure on the interior department. As for how many people secretly lamented that the assassination was not complete, no one can know.

However, the pursuit of the murderer did not affect the conduct of the martial arts test, and dozens of games every day attracted the favor of many people in the rivers and lakes and the people of the imperial capital.

Qin Dui's injuries are not strict, but he is just a little weak, it is estimated that it will be good to rest for a few days, under the care of Wei Li and Charlotte, Qin Dui has a feeling of beauty surrounded by beauty, but his weak body makes him unable to have any thoughts.

After listening to Song Tianxiong's report, Qin Duan agreed to strengthen the security of his own internal guards. He did not agree to ask people from the Jianghu sects such as the Daxiangguo Temple and the Liuhemen and Snow Mountain Sects to strengthen the protection.

Fortunately, the Nine Gates Admiral's Mansion has strengthened the protection of Qin Du's mansion, and the Imperial Capital Jiumen Governor's Mansion has also specially dispatched some of the manpower of the special task force to monitor the surroundings of Qin Dui's residence day and night to prevent similar situations from happening in Qin Dui's mansion again.

And the emperor also sent an imperial doctor to diagnose Qin Dui, and all the ministers of the imperial court also came to visit Qin Dui, who was in the stage of bed recuperation, so that Qin Dui was overwhelmed.

During the few days that Qin Du was resting in bed, the investigation work of the internal affairs department also made some progress, and according to the information provided by someone now, two of the four assassins who appeared at that time performed martial arts as "stepping on the clouds". The martial arts of the other assassin who caused damage to Qin Duan was the "Shadowless Divine Fist", and the "Cloud Step" was originally the mastery of the Hongze faction, a famous water school in the Jiangnan region. It was originally a body method that evolved from water kung fu, but it was lost after the death of the previous generation of leaders decades ago, and the Hongze faction has long been reduced to a third-rate faction, and no one participated in this martial arts test.

The "Shadowless Divine Fist" is the stunt of the Tianshan faction, a major martial arts sect in the northwest region, but the male disciples who can do this kung fu and can reach the point of hitting Qin Dusk have never heard of it, and both factions have denied any involvement in this incident. It is also a big headache for the interior department.

However, during the subsequent investigation, the personnel of the internal affairs department clashed with unknown people in an inn in the western district, and the other party also performed the same trick as the assassination of Qin Dui, and the unknown personnel escaped again, but a large number of objects found in their rooms showed that they were from the northwest or the western regions. The Interior Department deduced that the Assassins were hostile elements in the Northwest or Western Regions.

After learning of this situation, Qin Duan did not say much except to urge the internal affairs department to step up the pursuit of the assassins. The martial arts test also continued, and more than 4,000 contestants were screened out under the test of the basic ability of the first level of the censors invited by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the remaining contestants were divided into multiple groups for a brutal elimination round.

However, there are also some problems in the martial arts test, because some of the winners of this competition will directly enter the Imperial Yulin Army to become officers, so it has also aroused the interest of some noble children who did not attach great importance to it in the past, and they have invested in the Central Plains Hall, and the Central Plains Hall has also used all aspects of strength for this competition, especially the use of the favorable conditions to organize and operate the competition process has also spent a lot of thought, so that there are many strange phenomena in the knockout round.

Many strong players met two to three rounds in advance and could not enter the finals at all, while many players of average strength from the Central Plains Guild Hall were able to enter the final competition.

This caused the dissatisfaction of many participating sects, but because the Central Plains Guild Hall was the organizer, it used the power in its hands to make reasonable arrangements, although it was suspected of favoritism, but it did not violate the rules of the competition, and the natural privileges of the nobles under the imperial law also made the various sects complain, but they had to swallow this grievance. However, this made many of the great sects only gain a very small harvest from their hard preparations, and many disciples who had originally hoped for them fell into disgrace.

The news of Qin Du's assassination soon spread back to the northwest through the guò media, and the people of the entire northwest county were boiling, and the vague investigation report of the imperial internal affairs department also ignited the anger of the people in the northwest. (To be continued......)