Pang Rou listened to Ma Chao's words, felt Ma Chao's anger, and couldn't help but feel quite ashamed of the mildness of his reaction, and he also understood that if this matter could not be resolved today, Ma Chao's anger would be even stronger.

Before he left the mansion, a series of orders from him had been issued urgently, and it was early in the afternoon, and the heavy snow had finally stopped, but it was only a few hours before it got dark, and once it was night, the difficulty of the city's search would increase sharply, and it was very likely that all efforts would be lost.

In a short time, the whole city was completely boiling, and the soldiers and horses stationed in the city were exhausted, first controlling the main roads, and then starting from the west of the city, going from house to house, inch by inch.

This jiashi is no different from digging three feet into the ground.

When it was about to dark, Jia Xu received a report that the assassin of last night had been besieged in the east of the city, and Ma Chao asked him to go over to identify these people and whether they were wrong.

Just saying that, both sides know that this is just Ma Chao's posture, and they want to give Lu Bu behind Jia Xu an explanation, and in addition, it is also Ma Chao who declares his determination to the outside world.

In last night's assassination, there were only five assassins at the beginning, but after being spotted by Dian Wei first, he left three corpses behind and returned in vain; The subsequent assassination was the siege of the open fire, and in the melee, the guards led by Dian Wei suffered more than 20 casualties, which can also be said to be quite heavy, but compared with the corpses of the enemy soldiers who were cleaned up at that time, it was much slighter.

With the experience of the previous car, Dian Wei still did not dare to be careless, and left the divine doctor Hua Tuo in the Ma Mansion, and he personally led the guards to escort Jia Xu to Dongcheng.

The mansion where everyone lived was not far from where the assassins lived, and when they arrived at the place, Jia Xu couldn't help but nod secretly, these assassins really knew how to pick a place, and they would hide in their lair. Settled in the East City Market.

It's just that this time, even if they pick a place again, under Ma Chao's anger and under the search of soldiers and horses all over the city, they will still inevitably expose their whereabouts and be besieged by the Ma family's army.

"Sir is here!"

As soon as the group came to Ma Chao's side, Ma Chao nodded to Jia Xu on the horse's back.

Jia Xu arched his hand and replied: "The young general is really extraordinary, as soon as he makes a move, he will go straight to the place where the assassin is lurking!" ”

Ma Chao shook his head and said, "What assassins, these are the subordinates of the old fox of Jincheng Han Sui." Hum! They have been lurking in Ji County for a long time, and Han Sui is really far-sighted! ”

This is not entirely sarcasm, at least Jia Xu can hear that Ma Chao really thinks so when he says this.

Jia Xu thinks so, too. The group of men and horses that Han Sui laid down in Ji County were certainly not sent recently. Maybe it was after the relationship between Han Sui and Ma Teng broke down. The arrangement may have been made long before the relationship between the two broke down.

"But before this group of people rushed to kill, there were indeed five assassins."

Ma Chao looked at Jia Xu and nodded, "Well, that's indeed an assassin." Presumably it was also done by this group of people, and as for the purpose, of course, it was used as bait. ”

Of course, Jia Xu has long guessed this possibility. Otherwise, the later batch of people and horses would not have been able to handle the timing so accurately.

Immediately, Ma Chao's chin was raised, and he ordered: "Begin!" ”

Immediately, several strong men lined up in a row and shouted to the inside: "Xiliang Ma Chao is here, quickly open the door and surrender, but you can leave a whole corpse, otherwise, the corpse will be broken into ten thousand pieces!" ”

If this is the third case, the house that can be besieged is pitch black, and there is no movement at all.

Ma Chao's eyes were cold, he sneered silently, and ordered directly: "Kill!" ”

At the same time, dozens of short ladders were erected on the wall, and more than 100 soldiers climbed the ladders, and then jumped directly from the high wall, and the soldiers who poured in from the gate entered the house.

Jia Xu was beside Ma Chao, and behind him was the guard Dian Wei with a double halberd on his back, and he saw countless lights pouring into the pitch-black mansion, dispelling the darkness inside, but after a while, seeing that the soldiers had attacked and didn't hear the sound of fighting, he couldn't help frowning slightly.

"Major General, this person has been lurking in Ji County for so long under the order of Han Sui, it is difficult to guarantee that there are no other preparations, and they must be prevented from digging a secret passage and jumping out of the encirclement of the army!"

Thinking of this possibility, Jia Xu couldn't help it anymore and reminded Ma Chaodao.

Ma Chao also noticed that something was wrong at this time, so he just groaned, and then ordered loudly: "The elite cavalry is a team of 100 people, scattered everywhere to inspect, and if an abnormality is found, the arrow will be sounded immediately to warn!" ”

As soon as the words fell, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly became loud, and more than a thousand elite horsemen were divided into more than a dozen teams, holding torches high, along the streets and alleys, with the mansion here as the center, and dispersed outward.

Sure enough, not long after, someone rushed out to report: "Report, there is no one inside......"

Ma Chao had already been mentally prepared, and shouted: "Carefully search the secret passage, kill!" ”

The soldiers and horses of Jincheng who were besieged here suddenly disappeared at this time, of course, there was another secret passage leading to other places, but now that the city is full of Ma family troops, it is impossible for these people to escape anywhere, and the underground secret passage will definitely not dig too far, it must be somewhere nearby.

You only need to find the entrance to the secret passage, and then follow the secret passage to chase and kill, and you can find these people.

As time passed, the entire small house was brightly lit, and hundreds of soldiers searched inside inch by inch, not letting go of anything suspicious. 、

Suddenly, a burst of cheers came, and Ma Chao was overjoyed, knowing that the entrance to the secret passage must have been found.

Sure enough, the entrance to the secret passage was found, but not long after, another depressing news came, this secret passage led to a house hundreds of paces away, which was also empty.

Ma Chao's face was extremely ugly, and the situation in front of him made his face a little unbearable.

Jia Xu looked at his face, smiled, and said to Ma Chao: "Jincheng Han Sui, if he is really cunning as a fox, even his subordinates are so well versed in cunning, young general, why don't you send someone to search carefully at the entrance of the secret passage, maybe the secret passage that has been discovered is just a disguise, a cover to cover up the real secret passage." ”

Ma Chao turned his head and glanced at Jia Xu, thinking that it seemed unlikely, but because of Jia Xu's identity and face, he couldn't refuse in person, so he immediately ordered his subordinates to strengthen the search according to what Jia Xu said.

But in his heart. Or do you think that the house hundreds of steps away, close to the gate of the East City, should have a new secret passage leading to a farther place, perhaps, has already led to the outside of the city?

As soon as he thought of this, Ma Chao's face couldn't help but change, if this secret passage really led to the outside of the city, wouldn't it mean that this group of people had sneaked out of the city. Escaped?

In an instant, Ma Chao almost blurted out, and ordered the elite cavalry to divide into several teams and go out of the city to search. But he still held his breath and was ready to wait for the search results to come out.

Waiting time. It's always a little impatient, although Ma Chao is still sitting on the horse. But the war horse took small steps. Shaking his head and tail, and snorting incessantly, it was the performance of the war horse that felt Ma Chao's impatience.

After searching for half an hour, a burst of cheers sounded again, and Ma Chaoda frowned, because of the place where the cheers came from. It turned out to be the place where the secret passage was discovered.

In this way, is it right for Jia Xu? The secret passage that I just discovered is just a cover for the real secret passage?

"Report! At the entrance to the passage, discover another passage. Someone has been sent in to check it out! ”

Ma Chao couldn't help but turn his head to look at Jia Xu, and the admiration in his heart was beyond words.

This time, the secret passage really did not fail, and it is not clear where the soldiers who entered the search to start a fierce battle with the enemy army in the secret passage.

In the fierce battle in the secret passage, Ma Jiajun had the upper hand, a shield soldier opened the way, and the strong crossbowmen followed, encountered the enemy, strong crossbow and fired crossbow arrows, and then lay on the ground, let the colleagues behind him step forward, and then fire crossbow arrows.

And so on until the enemy soldier on the opposite side is killed, or unable to resist retreating.

When the end of the secret passage was discovered, the elite horsemen who had been waiting for a long time immediately gathered in the past and besieged the place, and when Ma Chao accompanied Jia Xu to the door, the soldiers and horses of Jincheng who were hiding inside were sadly desided.

This time, Ma Chao didn't talk nonsense anymore and directly ordered the attack, but in a quarter of an hour, dozens of people inside, that is, dead and captured, none of them were spared.

Seeing that the leading knight of last night was twisted out, Dian Wei couldn't help but smile and shouted: "You escaped with your life last night, see where you can escape tonight!" ”

The leading horseman was escorted to Ma Chaoma, glared at Dian Wei viciously, and was kicked by two soldiers in both knees, and fell to his knees with a thud.

"Yang Qiu!" Ma Chao sneered, "I thought it was you, it turned out to be you, I thought you had died under my gun!" ”

"Phew!"

Yang Qiu struggled to stand up, but he was pressed by two big-shouldered and round-waisted personal soldiers, and no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't stand up.

Ma Chao hahadaxiao on horseback, said hello repeatedly, and then raised his eyebrows, and said coldly: "Since you escaped by luck, you don't live incognito for the rest of your life, but you want to make waves again." Hmph, killing you didn't stain my silver spear, come on, cut them all! ”

There were more than 20 people captured, all of whom were detained behind Yang Qiu, and Ma Chao gave an order, and the sound of the promise in unison was like a muffled thunder, mixed with the sound of crying and howling.

Ma Chao was unmoved, his eyes were cold; Dian Wei stared at Yang Qiu with interest, as if he was happy to see him beheaded; Even Jia Xu didn't have any intolerable intentions, this group of people, if it wasn't for Dian Wei and the guards last night, if they were attacked by Yang Qiu and these people, he and the divine doctor Hua Tuo would have been in a different place long ago.

Just as the lord Lu Bu said, to be merciful to the enemy is to be the greatest unkindness to oneself, and even more so to one's own people.

The screams, the howls, came to an abrupt end, and in their place there was a hissing sound, not the sound of the wind blowing, but the sound of blood splattering from the neck.

Under the light of the torches, more than 20 bright red blood-colored fountains, accompanied by hissing sounds, constitute a bloody picture.

"Come on, send the heads of all the assassins to Chang'an, and show them to the general of the chariot and cavalry!"

Ma Chao's voice was cold, and he didn't move at all to kill Yang Qiu and the others.

Jia Xu haha smiled, and arched his hand to Ma Chao and said: "The lord of Xu has thanked the young general for his great gift!" The lord has a word, and he must bring it to the major general! (To be continued......)