On the night of January 7, 673 in the continental calendar, a large number of pirates infiltrated Wushan City and bloodied the Shangguan family, which had been heirloom for a hundred years. Fifty-three were killed, twenty-one were injured, and half of the Shangguan family's house was burned. All the jewelry, jade and gold bills that were easy to carry were taken away.

The bold thieves even unexpectedly raided the soldiers defending the city. Kill and injure more than a dozen people, seize the door and flee!

Hearing the news, the city defense battalion brigade and the 2nd Brigade of the Dengzhou Garrison Division, which was stationed in the closure of Wushan Prefecture, immediately began to hunt down the murderous pirates. However, these pirates were quite familiar with the terrain near Osan and responded in advance, and soon disappeared without a trace.

The news spread like an explosion, and the entire Songjiang County caused an uproar!

Needless to say, the second mansion of Wushan Closed City, which is close to Ninghai County, was in danger for a while. Even in the city that had always been considered safe, such a big crime could occur, and the rich and landlords of the two provinces simply did not know which could be safer. Further west, Dengzhou Chishang and Yuyang were inevitably affected by this major case that had not been seen in several years. Can the pirates attack Osan and not know if they will go further west and do something to them?

Along with the panic and uneasiness comes a surging pressure of public opinion and even accusations.

"The Dengzhou government must do everything possible to arrest the Haikou in order to pay tribute to the fifty-three unjust souls of the Shangguan family!"

"The Osan government and soldiers have neglected their duties, so that they let the pirates infiltrate, please ask the governor to strictly investigate and hold accountable to prevent such tragedies from happening again!"

"I had never seen anything like this happen during the reign of Governor Wei Chi before. The new governor was born in a group of rebels, and he had only been recruiting for a long time before he caused such a big disaster. ”

"A good government yamen, if you have to change it into a government, the army has also changed. Okay, what's wrong, right? ”

The remarks of the gentry and common people in various places, even directly in the book, were transmitted to the Dengzhou side, which caused heavy pressure on the Dengzhou government. Among them, there are many local forces that are dissatisfied with Chen Wu and Songjiang Army, and they take advantage of this bloody case to wantonly attack and slander the new government, guide public opinion, and even gloat. And the impact of this incident, as the surviving head of the Shangguan family rushed to Dengzhou overnight in filial piety clothes, kowtowed and handed over the blood letter and the letter of the people of the Wushan business community, demanding that the culprit be punished to comfort his family in the spirit of heaven, reached its peak.

The Songjiang army could not arrest the real culprit for a day, and the head of the Shangguan family refused to leave for a day outside the governor's mansion.

For a time, the matter of the Wushan Bloody Case spread throughout Songjiang and even the entire southeast of the empire. The Songjiang government, which had only just been established, withstood a tremendous test.

If it is not handled well, it is entirely possible to shake the prestige of Chen Wu and the foundation of the rule of the Songjiang army.

However, behind the expectations of countless people, many people who have malicious intentions towards the Songjiang Army are waiting to see the joke.

Is the Haikou in Ninghai County so easy to catch?

These pirates from the Eastern Ocean are not only cunning and frequently change their hiding places, but also have help in the local area, and they are quite well-informed. Once it succeeds, it will immediately retreat to Ninghai County and even the Eastern Ocean. After hiding for a period of time, it will be a comeback.

Before the news reached Dengzhou, the bold pirates had already escaped from Songjiang.

Scratch? Where to catch?

On the side of Ninghai County, there are hundreds of large and small Haikou, and they are still changing frequently. The newly formed group of pirates may be swallowed up or renamed every few months, and even the pirates themselves may not be able to distinguish between them. Many people even suspect that the Songjiang Army can't even find out the true origin of that gang of pirates!

But is that really the case?

On the day of the Osan Massacre, the shocked Osan government had already urgently sent people to investigate, and immediately sent people to send the information to Dengzhou overnight. By the afternoon of the next day, the Governor's Palace had already received the news first.

After committing a major case of 53 dead and 21 wounded, he attacked and killed the officers and soldiers out of the city overnight......

This kind of case that was enough to sensational the world, Chen Wu immediately knew its horror and its impact on the Songjiang Army. Gu couldn't be surprised that he had crossed the changes to the future, so he summoned Gan Xing on the spot and sent a large number of personnel from the Military Intelligence Department to Wushan. By the time the news spread in Dengzhou and the gentry and nobles jointly signed a letter, the personnel of the Military Intelligence Department had already arrived at Shangguan's house, which had been burned to the ground, and began an urgent investigation.

In the newly established police station in Osan, a group of original arresters and servants were recruited. As required, they have inspected the body, preserved the scene, and visited two wealthy families in the vicinity.

With their preliminary work, the military intelligence department took over the scene after arriving, and while continuing to investigate, the first-hand news was urgently transmitted back to Dengzhou. On the one hand, it is to respond to the local people with these messages and appease people's hearts; On the other hand, Chen Wu may be able to play a role in this matter.

To be able to commit such a big crime, the scale of that gang of pirates is not small, most of them are some famous gangs in the game, and he may have heard of it before he crossed over.

It has to be said that because of the great attention of the Governor's Palace, coupled with the surging pressure, the preliminary progress of the investigation was very fast.

The approximate time when the pirates settled in the city and infiltrated the city has been discovered. As for the more than a dozen companions who died during this period, the features and faces that can indicate their identities are also scratched, and there is no useful value. Continuing to stretch outward, the whereabouts of these pirates outside the city were also clarified, but there were no clues after that.

It was as if they had suddenly disappeared from the world.

The investigation has reached this point and has reached an embarrassing bottleneck. On the one hand, there is the continuous fermentation of public opinion and the turmoil of the lockdown of Osan City; On the other side, the police station in Osan and the military intelligence department in Ganxing are struggling to know where to start.

After a short stalemate, Chai Yi finally took the lead in finding a breakthrough point.

This person was originally a subordinate of Yuan Xingwei, the director of the Department of the Interior, when he was in Taiping County, and he helped Yuan Xingwei do a lot of things on weekdays, which can be regarded as a hidden force of his, and even the former proprietor Qian Boming did not know. But after joining the Taiping Army, Yuan Xingwei, who was reused, was very optimistic about Chen Wu, and in order to avoid taboos from the master, he let Chai Yi and others break away from his subordinates and joined the Taiping Army.

Perhaps the previous style of acting and the rules of the Taiping Army were different from the rules of the Taiping Army, and in the earliest period, the appearance of Chai Yi and others was more ordinary. If the mission goal is clear, it can be completed well, but more can not be expected. In the past few months, he has probably gradually opened up, and he has become more identified with the Songjiang Army, and Chai Yi's appearance has become much better.

He asks a crucial question: how did the pirates bring their weapons into the city!

If it's a small group of three or five pirates, you can still hide a few weapons secretly. But with a scale of nearly 100 people, it is difficult to bring it into the city. The soldiers guarding the gate also said that they had not found anything suspicious in the past few days. The most likely truth is that the pirates have a corresponding force in the city, and they have received help from the underground forces of Osan City.

This speculation is reasonable, not to mention somewhat certain, but at least it gives the current impasse a direction to investigate.

Ganxing's military intelligence department immediately began to investigate down this line.

The impact of the bloody case in Shangguan Mansion is too great. Ganxing's investigation basically received the full support of the local nobles. A large number of people scattered, and soon found a clue of great value among the six or seven suspicious targets: the station of Chongwumen had been visited by outsiders before the crime.

This is a local gang in Wushan, which uses the teaching of martial arts to attract a group of people on weekdays, and what they do is actually robbing homes and houses to collect protection money, and occasionally selling smuggled salt. Because they are more secretive, they still have a little bit of proportion, and there is another head catcher as a backer in the original Wushan official mansion, so they have been safe and sound for more than ten years.

But this time, they're on the big side.

The military intelligence office in Ganxing directly dispatched the garrison, and two heavily armed brigades of 100 people surrounded the Chongwumen. Seeing the swords shining with cold light, these villains of Chongwumen, who boasted that they had seen blood and didn't take the government seriously, were immediately frightened, and they didn't even dare to resist, so they were all thrown into prison. Subsequently, interrogators recruited by MIA began to torture them.

Chongzaburo, the master of Chongwu Sect, seems to have a lot of backbone on weekdays, and he insists that he doesn't know, but after only a quarter of an hour of punishment, he has to spit out obediently.

He is also wronged!

If he had known that the gang of pirates of the Sea Dragon Regiment had dared to commit such a shocking crime, he would not have dared to sell so many weapons if he was killed. The third child of the Sea Dragon Regiment couldn't stand the high price, and lied that he only grabbed money and didn't mess around, so Chong Saburo, who was consumed by profit, was fascinated and agreed to the deal.

"Sea Dragon Regiment!"

After finding out the true identities of the Haikou from Chongzaburo, Gan Xing breathed a sigh of relief. While ordering someone to suppress Chongzaburo again, he sent someone to transmit the information back to Dengzhou again without stopping.

However, despite the breakthrough in the case, the shape is still grim.

In other words, the hope of solving the case is even slimmer!

From the big case in Osan to Dengzhou, and then to Ganxing, they rushed to Osan to start the investigation, and it took three days to come and go. and then learned the true identity of Haikou from Chongzaburo, and it took nearly two days. Just knowing the name of the Sea Dragon Regiment, it has been used for five whole days. During this time, the people of the Sea Dragon Regiment were afraid that they would have fled back to their lair long ago.

No matter how small Ninghai County is, it is the size of half of Songjiang. If you consider the islands in the open sea, God knows where the sea dragon group is hiding!

I'm afraid this case is going to end here.

It was not only the Military Intelligence Service in charge of the investigation that made such a judgment, but even the people who assisted in the investigation at the Osan Police Station were very pessimistic about it. Next, Songjiang Jun either randomly found a few death row prisoners as scapegoats and fooled the matter; Either it is to give a sum of relief money, appease the head of the Shangguan family, and find a way to suppress this matter.

What no one expected was that the urgent order sent back from Dengzhou was completely different from what the Military Intelligence Department thought! >