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Wind capital, Shangjing. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The news of Shangguan Xiu's return to Beijing had already spread in Shangjing, and before he entered the city, a large number of people stopped and watched on the official road.

However, to the disappointment of the people of Shangjing, Shangguan Xiu did not ride a horse, but sat in a carriage, and could not see his people at all.

It's not that Shangguan Xiu is ashamed to see people, but after Nie Zhenguang Fang and others have repeatedly insisted that he must ride in the carriage. Along the way, the assassins' assassinations of Shangguan Xiu can be described as one after another, and there are no more than ten cases, on average, basically once every two days.

Some assassins are Fengren, some assassins are Ningnan people who have infiltrated the Wind Country, some people assassinate Shangguan Xiu in order to get a heavy reward from the eldest grandson Huaide, and some people assassinate Shangguan Xiu, just to take revenge, and there are too many people who have a blood feud with Shangguan Xiu.

In other towns, Nie Zhenguang Fang and the others would not be so nervous about the protection of Shangguan Xiu, but in Shangjing, they did not dare to be the slightest sloppy.

With a population of more than one million and an even larger floating population, who can guarantee that there will be no Assassins mixed in here, and in the presence of so many people, the Assassins are too difficult to guard against, and they don't have so much energy to do everything.

There were several carriages escorted by the gendarmerie and cavalry battalions, and outsiders did not know which carriage Shangguanxiu was sitting in. But even in such close protection, accidents happen. Bai Plating means that Brother Hey's eyes are close to the heart of the mouth chapter

The team of the Zhenjun army was led by cavalry, in the middle was a gendarmerie standing in a neat position, and behind was a cavalry formation, and several carriages were mixed into the ranks.

The carriage that Shangguan Xiu was riding in was the third in the carriage procession. To the left and right of the carriage, a large number of gendarmes were guarded, separating the crowd from the roadside.

The procession marched to Qinglong Street, where the number of people was larger, which can be described as a sea of people. Seeing the arrival of the Zhenjun army from a distance, the people who were watching immediately became agitated, and people involuntarily crowded forward, and they didn't know who shouted: "Shangguan Xiu!

Boom –

The shouts made the whole street feel like they had blown up the pot, cheers and applause rang out together, and many people raised the flower baskets they had prepared in advance and scattered the petals in them.

For a while, the whole street, flower petals flew all over the sky, like a rain of flowers in the sky, and the soldiers of the Zhenjun Army walked in the rain of flowers, one by one, they were also unconsciously smiling, and their waists were straight.

It can be said that along the way, the people of Shangjing who welcomed Shangguanxiu and Zhenjun Army the most warmly were the people of Shangjing. Greeting returning soldiers with flower petals is the highest way for the people of the Wind Country to express their respect, and it is usually only when the emperor travels to enjoy this treatment.

Now the people of the capital are welcoming their return with petals in the sky, and the soldiers feel that it is worth it to experience this war of life and death, and their hard work, blood and sweat on the battlefield.

In the country of wind, the people who are most accepting of the Zhenjun army, except for Zhenjun, are Shangjing. The suppression of the rebellion of the Zhenjun army in Shangjing, the slaughter of millions of rebels, was heinous in the eyes of the people of other counties, but for the people of Shangjing, the Zhenjun army was their savior.

This time, the Zhenjun army went out for the country and went to Ningnan, with brilliant achievements, playing the majesty of the country of wind, and being a great hero of the country of wind. The people of Shangjing welcomed the Zhenjun Army from the bottom of their hearts.

When Shangguan Xiu's carriage reached the middle of Qinglong Street, not far away, there was a sudden loud boom.

The people of the Windy Country couldn't react to this loud noise for a while, but the soldiers of the cavalry battalion and the gendarmerie immediately judged that it was the sound of artillery.

In the capital city, the feet of the Son of Heaven can hear the sound of shelling, which is incredible.

Before people could react to what was going on, dozens of mysterious people dressed in different costumes suddenly stood on the roofs of the houses on both sides of the street, and all of them were holding firearms in their hands.

With the sound of the explosion of the firecrackers, dozens of firecrackers fired together, and the projectiles fired out had the same target, which was the third carriage in which Shangguan Xiu was riding.

The projectile hit the wall of the carriage, crackling, sawdust flying, and in an instant, the carriage was beaten into a sieve.

And that's not all. As soon as the gunfire fell, an iron ball that fell from the sky and smoked green smoke smashed accurately on the carriage's carport, and with a muffled bang, the roof of the carriage was smashed out of a big hole, and the iron ball fell into the carriage, less than five seconds apart, a loud bang was heard, and the carriage exploded from the inside out.

The body of the carriage was blown apart, the two horses pulling the carriage were blown to pieces on the spot, and the gendarmes protecting both sides of the carriage were not spared, some of them were blown to pieces on the spot, and some were pushed out by the air waves that erupted.

The shouts and shouts of the soldiers of the Zhenjun army, the screams and cries of the people, were all in one. Walking in front, Nie Zhen, who was riding a tall horse, his eyes were red, and he shouted hoarsely: "Arrest the assassins!"

He turned his horse's head and ran back to the middle of the team, and then looked at the carriage that Shangguan Xiu was riding, he didn't know where it was blown up, there was a big pit more than one meter long on the ground, and the ground around him was full of broken corpses and bloodstains, where could Shangguan Xiu's figure be found?

"Ah Xiu, Ah Xiu—" Nie Zhen turned over his horse and shouted at his neck like crazy. At this time, on the roofs on both sides of the street, there was already a lot of fighting, and the Shadow Banner personnel took the lead in drifting in shadows, flashing to the roof, and fighting with the assassins, and then a large number of gendarmes surrounded the houses on both sides of the street, and when they saw the escaped assassins, they immediately fired a salvo with guns.

The cavalry battalion galloped through the streets, blocking the streets and trapping the entire street.

Just when Nie Zhen thought that Shangguan Xiu had been blown up to the point of no bones and his voice was about to burst, the curtain of the first carriage was raised, Shangguan Xiu leaned out of the car, looked at Nie Zhen, and said loudly: "Ah Zhen, don't shout, I'm here." ”

Hearing Shangguan Xiu's summoning, Nie Zhen was startled, and when he looked back, the person who spoke was not Shangguan Xiu or who? He was surprised and delighted, regardless of the arrow step forward, first looked at him carefully, and saw that he was safe and sound, he first breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked curiously: "Ah Xiu, ...... you How did you end up in this carriage?"

Without waiting for Shangguan Xiu to reply, a small head poked out of the car, Qingyan's little head. She blushed and stammered, "Yes...... I asked Ah Xiu to sit with me!"

Shangguan Xiu looked at Qingyan and rubbed her little head dotingly, feeling that Qingyan was really her own little lucky star.

This time he was able to escape, and it can only be said that his luck was too good. Originally, he was indeed sitting in the third carriage, but before entering the city, Qingyan asked people to find him and let him accompany her in the same car.

The people who went out of the city to greet them can be described as a sea of people, and there will definitely be more people in the city to greet them, Qingyan was a little scared when she sat in the car, so she found Shangguanxiu to accompany her.

It was precisely Qingyan's invitation that allowed Shangguan Xiu to survive, if he was really sitting in the third carriage, it was really unknown whether he could avoid the attack of the firecracker.

No matter how advanced his cultivation was, in the absence of spirit armor to protect his body, he was just an ordinary person, once he was hit by the projectile fired by the fire gun, it would be equally fatal, not to mention that there was such a violent explosion afterwards.

When Nie Zhen heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Shangguan Xiu urgently: "Ah Xiu, you hurry back to the house, I'll leave it here." ”

Shangguan Xiu is not afraid of assassins, but he is a little relieved that he is not Qingyan.

He pondered for a moment, nodded, and said, "Ah Zhen, be sure to find the cannon you shot just now." "How powerful the artillery is, he couldn't be clearer, what the cannon shoots out is an iron ball, at best it can smash a hole in the ground, but this time the artillery used by the assassins, the iron ball shot can still explode, and the power is amazing, unseen, unheard of, there is no such artillery in the Zhenjun army, and there is no such artillery in the Ningnan army, so the source of this artillery is too mysterious, and it also makes Shangguan Xiu very curious.

Nie Zhen nodded, and Zhengse said, "Ah Xiu, don't worry, this matter is left to me." ”

Shangguan Xiu and Qingyan rode in the same car, escorted by a large number of military police cavalry and officers and soldiers of the Lieutenant's Mansion who rushed to hear the news, and returned to the Zhenguo Mansion.

This assassination incident caused a storm in Shangjing, and the people were panicked.

In broad daylight, in the capital of the Windy Country, or under the escort of so many soldiers, how rampant has the assassin dared to openly assassinate the dignified duke?

After Tang Ling learned about this, he was furious and ordered the Duwei Mansion and the Lieutenant's Mansion to strictly investigate the assassins, and not to miss a single assassin remnant.

The Lieutenant's Mansion headed by Hua Ning and the Duwei Mansion headed by You Ling immediately blocked all the gates out of the city, and the entire inner city of Shangjing was not allowed to enter or exit, and a large number of officers and soldiers took Qinglong Street as the center to conduct door-to-door investigations in the surrounding areas and arrest the assassins.

At this time, many assassins had been captured by the Shadow Banner personnel, and many assassins were shot dead by the gendarmerie, and even the artillery that attacked the carriage had been searched by Nie Zhen with the cavalry battalion, but after the people of the Duwei Mansion arrived, they took away the bodies of the captured assassins and the assassins who were killed, along with the captured artillery, and Nie Zhen.

Regardless of whether the people on the side of the Zhenjun Army obey or not, the Duwei Mansion has such a right.

In the evening of the same day, Shangguan Xiu went to the Duwei Mansion. Of course, it is not the first time he has come to Duwei Mansion, and he is also very familiar with the institution of Duwei Mansion, it can be said that Shangguan Xiu's career in Shangjing originated from Duwei Mansion, and his first identity to serve the imperial court was a secret agent of Duwei Mansion.

Duwei Mansion is still the same Duwei Mansion, the address has not changed, and every grass and tree in it has not changed, but none of the people Shangguan Xiu is familiar with can be found.

Once a son of heaven and a courtier, not to mention such a sensitive institution as the Duwei Mansion, after Tang Ling ascended the throne, the people in the Duwei Mansion were basically replaced.

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