The well-trained British soldiers guarding the consulate rushed out of the house at the sound of gunfire, most of them without even clothes. The second floor was inhabited by big people, and if an accident happened, these soldiers could not escape responsibility, and they rushed to the second floor with guns like crazy.

Huo Quai, who was in the stairwell, was stunned when they heard the gunshots, and before they could react, many British soldiers had already gathered downstairs. Huo Qubing immediately ordered his subordinates to enter the room on the second floor, preparing to catch the big man in the consulate first, and then use the hostages to deal with the British soldiers.

The six people were all covered in black scarves, and even if they held the British consul hostage, as long as they could escape, they would not be exposed. Huo Quai's abacus played very well, and when he entered a room, he was completely shocked to see the foreigner killed in bed. The foreigner in this room had his neck cut by a dagger, and there was still a bullet hole in his forehead, and he was too dead to die.

Huo Quzhi felt that he was very unlucky, and he was about to enter the consulate to look for experimental data, but he met an assassin who came to assassinate the consul. If you say assassination, assassination, can't you solve the problem with a knife? Before leaving, he fired a shot and led out the soldiers on the first floor, weren't they the six people who came up after the pit?

Huo Quzhi was depressed for a moment before the horse walked out of the corridor, where his men were confronting the British soldiers against the obstacles. Huo Quzhi ordered the four of them to stay in the hallway, and he and another player entered the room to take the sheets and tie them into a rope and fall down.

The second floor was four meters high from the ground, and Chen Hao and Lin Hei'er, who had practiced light skills, didn't dare to jump directly, and Huo Qu'er didn't dare to do it. He's in his right mind now, and his four players are fine even if they're exposed, but he and his right-hand man Hua Wujian must leave. He took up a position in Jingbei, and Hua Wujian was in charge of Hankou, and if he was wanted by the imperial court, it would have a big impact on his layout in the game.

The staircase is very narrow, and the four players after Huo Quai's order is broken are all elites, and there is no problem to temporarily resist the British soldiers with the advantage of terrain. After holding on for three minutes, there were only two of the four players left, and they were relieved to hear that there was no sound in the room, as long as Huo Boss and Hua Boss escaped, it didn't matter if they hung up.

In the game, the corpse will not be refreshed after death for a while, so even if it dies, its identity will be exposed, and the broken player does not need a legal identity, they are not afraid of this. Huo Quzhi and Hua Wujian are not afraid of dying and hanging on the first level, but they can't hang in the consulate, otherwise the official status of the two will be finished.

Three British soldiers died during the shootout, and after eliminating four players, they entered the first room and were surprised to find the interpreter dead in his bed. Two masked men were asleep on the floor in front of the bed, and the British soldiers grabbed them like wolves, and they were finally able to give an account of the two live mouths.

Huo Qubing and Hua Wujian couldn't escape, Lin Hei'er had put smoke in every room earlier, and the smoke dissipated a lot after a long time. It's nothing to enter the house in a short period of time, Huo Quzhi was a little dizzy when he came out of the house before, he didn't care, when he entered the house again and was about to escape, he and Hua Wuqian took the sheets together and delayed for a minute, so he was stunned by the smoke.

Huo Qubing and Hua Wuqian were tragically caught alive, and the British soldiers tied up the two and stuffed rags in their mouths. Now the two of them can't do it even if they want to commit suicide, and after sobering up, the two look at each other, and they have become the sinners who assassinated the British consul, and they are caught and useless no matter how they tell each other.

That night, a British lieutenant interrogated the two, and Huo Quzhi insisted that he was tracking down several murderous bandits, and the bandits rushed into the room, and Huo Quzhi and the others chased them in because they didn't know that it was the consulate. According to him, the murderer is someone else, for this point the British lieutenant does not accept it at all, the translator and other eight staff members were killed, he can not escape responsibility, catching two murderers can make the credit for the crime, even if Huo Qubing and Hua Wuqian are not murderers, he will find a way to turn them into murderers, not to mention that the explanations of the two are full of errors and omissions.

The British lieutenant pointed out the flaws of Huo Qubing and the two on the spot, first of all, Huo Qubing used a Mauser pistol, and the bullet on the translator's body happened to be a Mauser pistol bullet; Secondly, after the gunshots rang out, the British lieutenant thought that his subordinates reacted quickly and rushed to the second floor as soon as possible, and it was impossible for the murderer to escape in time if someone else had done so.

Huo Quzhi pointed out that the murderer may have jumped from the window to escape, and the British lieutenant sneered: "If there is no rope, how can the murderer go down from the second floor to the backyard?" We didn't see the rope at the scene, but you two murderers tried to escape by using a rope connected by a sheet, but luckily we arrived in time to stop it. Well, whether you plead guilty or not, this application for guilt must be signed, and don't ask for hardship.

A total of thirteen foreigners were killed in this incident, along with five soldiers in charge of the guard, in addition to eight consular staff, including interpreters. Fortunately, Murphy, the British consul in Hankow, attended the banquet and did not return, and escaped by luck, and the less important staff died.

The killing of thirteen foreigners, all British consulate staff and soldiers, was undoubtedly a major diplomatic incident. When the British consul Murphy returned, he was furious and immediately went to Wuchang to ask Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, and asked Zhang Zhidong to give an explanation. Zhang Zhidong first tried his best to appease the British consul, and then sent a telegram to the Empress Dowager Cixi asking for instructions on what to do.

The Empress Dowager Cixi was really frightened by the foreigners, and after returning to Kyoto, she had a request for the foreigners, and ordered all localities to hurry up the encirclement and suppression of the Boxer Rebellion. As long as the remnants of the Boxer Rebellion were killed, they were all killed, and all officials who were ineffective in suppressing bandits were dismissed, which shows how much Cixi was afraid of foreigners.

After receiving the telegram from Zhang Zhidong, Cixi was so shocked that she dropped the telegram to the ground, and after she called back to scold Zhang Zhidong, she asked Zhang Zhidong to do his best to meet the requirements of the British. After receiving the call, Zhang Zhidong was more cautious, and he asked the British consul with a smile how to solve the problem, and the British consul put forward several suggestions for dealing with it.

The first is to severely punish the murderer, because the murderer of the consulate personnel is a stranger, and the stranger will not really die, so after killing the stranger, he will be wanted by the whole country; The second is the indemnity, the thirteen people killed in the British Consulate are calculated according to 100,000 taels of silver each, and the total indemnity is 1,300,000 taels of silver; The third was to increase the area leased by the British in Hankow, and from then on the Chinese were not allowed to enter the concession.

After Zhang Zhidong asked Cixi, he fully agreed to the conditions of the British, and the indemnity was added to the Gengzi indemnity to be repaid together; The area of the concession was doubled, and the Chinese entered the consulate and the British patrol had the right to execute; The murderer of the assassination of the consulate staff was relieved of all duties and sentenced to beheading, and after the beheading, the imperial court issued a wanted warrant for the two strangers to be wanted nationwide.

A diplomatic turmoil was suppressed, and the most unfortunate thing was Huo Qubing and Hua Wuji, Huo Qubing lost his position as assistant from the sixth grade in Jingbei Province, and Hua Wujian lost the position of Zhengqipin in Hankou. From then on, both were wanted criminals by the imperial court, and they had to change their faith to join the revolutionary party, because they would be hunted down wherever they appeared.

The smooth development of Huo Quzhi's base in Jingbei largely depends on his good relationship with Zhang Zhidong. Such a big thing happened this time, no matter how much Zhang Zhidong admired him, it was over. It doesn't matter if he himself is sentenced to beheading, but the base is established in his name, and Zhang Zhidong can tolerate it without his shelter?

After the British achieved their goal, they also gave the Qing Dynasty some face, and the murderer was handed over to the Qing government for disposal, and Huo Quzhi and Hua Wuqian were sent to Wuchang Prison. The two are now less strictly guarded, and they can commit suicide at any time, but suicide cannot prevent them from being wanted by the imperial court, and their identities as murderers have been confirmed.

In the prison, Huo Qubing and Hua Wuqian learned about the situation they were facing, and Hua Wuqian broke the silence and said: "Boss, it was too coincidental that we were unlucky this time, at first I thought it was a task process, after all, the task related to the smokeless gunpowder formula will not be simple." Now that we are both locked up and about to be executed, and after the execution, we will be wanted by the whole country, which has nothing to do with the mission. ”

Huo Quzhi said coldly: "This is the punishment for the failure of the mission, as long as you get the test data at the consulate and hand it over to Xu Jianyin, this mission can be completed." However, the consulate is heavily guarded, the task is difficult, and the consequences of failure are also very serious. We made someone else's scapegoat this time, and I think that now that the test data has been handed over to Xu Jianyin, we have no chance to complete the task and are unlucky. ”

Hua Wuqian said with a shocked face: "Boss, do you mean that there are other people who do the same task as us, and he took away the experimental data, but we became his scapegoats?" ”

Huo Quzhi nodded and said: "I shouldn't pay attention to any demeanor, I should directly order to kill Cheng Zihao first to prevent future troubles, and it was Cheng Zihao who killed people without accident and took away the experimental data." A few days ago, he pretended to visit Xu Jianyin to paralyze me, but secretly arranged for someone to find out the news, snatched the experimental data, and shot us to deliberately expose us as substitute ghosts. ”

Hua Wufeng said puzzledly: "That Cheng Zihao is so powerful? Even if he snatched the experimental data, now that the matter at the consulate is so big, he goes to hand over the data to Xu Jianyin, Xu Jianyin must suspect that this matter has something to do with him. We were imprisoned by him, but he snatched the experimental data and took a big advantage, Xu Jianyin is afraid that he will also have an opinion about him! ”

Huo Quzhi sneered: "People have already thought of a way out, and it is no surprise that he will come to contact me soon to discuss how to deal with the aftermath." ”

Hua Wujian was dumbfounded and said, "Impossible! How can there be such a shameless person, he hurt us and came to discuss the aftermath with us, boss, why would you cooperate with him? ”

(To be continued)