Chapter 239: Cutting the Snake
It was Lao Liang who was wearing a green robe and running again.
A horizontal knife was held in front of him, and he suddenly turned around and used all his strength to slash with great force, even if he broke Li San'er's arm.
But this ambush was still not smoother than he expected, Li San'er was too vigilant, otherwise he might have succeeded in the long and narrow alley.
Lao Liang broke a few hands, there was anger in his heart, his face sank like water, and immediately after a knife, he stabbed again, vowing to kill Li San'er on the spot.
Ever since he bumped into Guo Ashun's extermination by the Yiluo River, he realized that the water in Yanshi County was very deep. Unlike in Chang'an, where officials have scruples, in Yanshi County, those people say they can kill people with their hands.
Therefore, Lao Liang simply hid in the shadows to protect Xue Bai, so that he could notice that the assassin who only cared about blinding Jiang Hai and approached Xue Bai was a scout, and he was very handy in doing this.
He showed up when he first arrived in Yanshi County, and he didn't show up for a long time, which might have made people suspicious. It's a pity that no one noticed him as an inconspicuous nameless, and people's eyes were looking up.
"Protect me!
Li San'er broke his arm and bled nonstop. Unable to resist under the severe pain, he had to shout, turn around and run.
As a result, he has been stabbed in the back again.
Lao Liang swung three knives with all his strength, but failed to kill Li San'er, and he was not in a hurry, so he turned around to help Xue Xian.
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The two worked together to kill those Cao Gang men, and then stepped on the blood trail to chase Li San'er.
Turning back to the corridor, Jiang Hai was fighting with several people in front, and those Cao Gang gangs saw Qu Shuai fleeing with a broken arm, and immediately lost their proportions, and one person was chopped to death by Jiang Hai, and the other two rushed towards Li San'er, and three people turned around and fled.
Jiang Hai also suffered some injuries, so he didn't care about jumping up and slashed the two people in a row.
Seeing that they were ferocious and abnormal, Li San'er covered his broken arm and ran to the path next to him, hoping to get Gao Chong to send someone to rescue him.
He ran as fast as he could, and by familiarizing himself with the terrain, he ran to the back yard.
The dark house seems to have only one entrance and exit, but in fact there is a tunnel leading directly to the outside of the alley wall. Only a very few people know about this matter, Guo Yuanliang, Xu Shande, and Gao Chong......
Along the way, from time to time, his subordinates rushed to the rescue, but they were previously sent by him to outflank Xue Bai, and at this time they panicked, and they were not the opponents of those two military men and Xue Xian.
Turning through a door, a figure wearing a cyan official robe suddenly appeared in front of him.
"You!
Li San'er was shocked, and when he looked at it, he saw that it was Xue Bai waiting there in person.
He was still a little strange, when Xue Bai was changed into a stand-in, and at this time he realized that the man had already put on his clothes and hid in the dark house waiting for him to take the bait.
"Boom.
Li San'er simply threw the knife in his hand to the ground.
He had a broken left hand, and his right hand was disabled, and he was afraid that he would not be able to get out by force alone.
Thinking about it, since Xue Bai dared to stand there, he must be on guard, and there were still people in the dark next to him to protect him.
"It's useless for the county lieutenant to kill me."
"Really?
"Although I am the commander of the Cao Gang, in fact, the matter of the Cao Gang is ...... It's all Gao County in charge...... I'm dead, change to a Qu Shuai, he can deal with you just as well. ”
"So what do you say?" Xue Bai asked, "Can you help me?" ”
"Yes, just outside the alley, there are dozens of my people...."
Xue Bai diverted the topic and asked, "What are the goods you smuggled?"
"The iron and stone of Yuncheng, the coins minted by Guo's furniture, and the silk of Jiangnan...... Everything is smuggled, the county lieutenant has account books, he should know.
"Gao Chong is so bold, is there someone behind it?"
Li San'er was bleeding and getting weaker, and responded: "It's the one I told the county lieutenant...... Someone who looks a lot like you.
"Noble?
"Yes.
"Actually, this shelf is noble, and Gao Chong is just a janitor?
"You can say it like that......" Li San'er couldn't continue to answer in pain, and said, "I can help the county lieutenant...... Can the county lieutenant save me first?
"How can you help me?"
"As long as I live, I can also call on some of the Cao Gang." Li San'er said, glancing at Xue Bai thinking.
He no longer hesitated, and pounced on Xue Bai.
Only then did Xue Bai take precautions, at this time he had already abandoned the knife, and relaxed Xue Bai's vigilance with his words of surrender, but it was a better time.
He also had a dagger stuck in his waist, which was used to kill Guo Ashun, and it could be used to hold Xue Bai hostage at this time, so that those soldiers could throw their weapons into the trap.....
"Poof."
Li San'er, who pounced on the ground, hit a single knife straight away.
He lowered his head and looked, it turned out that Xue Bai had already taken precautions.
"It's useless to kill you, but you have to kill you, or you'll kill me, won't you?"
Xue Bai said this, turned the knife in his hand, and twisted Li San'er's henchmen.
He was waiting here, he still had a lot to ask, and there were many places where he could use Li San'er.
It's a pity that the person is dying and struggling, it is too dangerous, so he simply killed him.
Li San'er raised his right hand, which was missing his index finger, and wanted to stab Xue Bai, but he had lost his strength.
Avenge me...
"Gao Langjun...... will kill you.........
Xue Bai raised his foot and kicked, and the corpse fell to the ground with a dull sound.
In fact, he felt that when Li San'er first entered the courtyard, the words he shouted loudly were correct, he was a county lieutenant dealing with a thief, and he couldn't arrest him at the first order, and it was not glorious to use this kind of ambush method.
But in this situation in Yanshi County, no matter how glorious or even perfect the means, who can be invited to call the shots? Use the royal law to sanction the other party? In the end, it wasn't the other party who slashed at it.
It's better to slash through with a knife first.
Among the serpents of the earth, cut one first.
"Brother, Li San'er's subordinates have been killed." Xue Xian ran over and said, "Lao Liang and Jiang Hai are blocking at the entrance of the alley, let Brother find a way to go first." ”
"No need to go, hang Li San'er's head and the lantern will illuminate it." Xue Bai wiped the blood splashed on his face and said, "Let these people know that there is still a royal law in Yanshi County." ”
Li Twelve Niang ran through the darkness, and gradually heard a shout of killing in front of her.
She slowed down and walked in that direction, recognizing it as the dark house where she was being held.
"Qu Shuai and Xue Bai are inside, kill them."
"Don't let him go........
In the noise, a loud roar suddenly sounded, shouting: "Besiege the imperial court officials, can you wait for a rebellion?!"
After that, a lantern was erected and illuminated the head of the person next to him, and the crowd was in an uproar, some shouted to kill to avenge Qu Shuai, and others rushed to report to the county.
Li Twelve Niang was hidden in the dark and heard that Xue Bai was trapped in it and was surrounded, and she had the heart to save him.
But even with her swordsmanship, it would be absolutely impossible to enter that heavily surrounded courtyard.
She had to hide in the streets for the time being, observing the situation.
A lot of things happened in the entire Yanshi County tonight, but at this time of night, it was only more than half an hour later, and Gao Chong was still outside the post house, personally staring at the matter of catching the demon thief.
He knew that these manpower was Xue Bai's biggest support, and if he took them, Xue Bai would just be a piece of fish and meat for him to slaughter in this county town.
"County Cheng, the county order let you pass, and I have important things to discuss with you immediately."
This is the third time that Lu Linghao has sent someone to invite.
Gao Chong said impatiently: "I know what he wants to say, there is no need to say it, I have my own opinions." ”
"After all, it's a county order, do you want to give him a little face?"
"I've already given him face, otherwise he wouldn't be responsible at all?"
Gao Chong raised his eyes and saw that the workers had completed the siege of the attic of the post house, and were preparing to light a fire and set smoke to death those who resisted.
"County Cheng!
Suddenly, with an exclamation, Gao Chong turned his head and glared at the gaffe henchman, and said, "What's the alarm." ”
"Back in the county, Li San'er was killed by Xue Bai, and his head was hung in the dark house.
"What?
Gao Chong was a little surprised, but he immediately calmed down, summoned his newly recruited team leader Meng Wu, and instructed him to take someone to surround the dark house first.
"All do what I say."
After that, Gao Chong thought about it, and actually returned to the county office to see Lu Linghao.
The few henchmen left behind were all confused and muttered one after another.
"The county has never been going to see the county order before, why did he go to see him at this time?"
"Don't forget that the county order is the lord of a county, and the soldiers and city guards are still in the hands of the county order.
"Could it be that Qu Shuai's death, can there be variables?
"Get rid of these demon thieves immediately, what variables can there be, the county has always acted steadily."
Lu Linghao did not stay in the Linglang any longer tonight, but has been waiting for news in the middle hall.
As soon as Gao Chong came, his face sank, he looked very unhappy, and he didn't greet him, so he scolded directly: "I told you to stop, why didn't you do it?"
"It seems that the Ming Mansion has not yet understood, Xue Bai is a poisonous snake, if he doesn't kill him today, let him be greedy for the Guo family, and tomorrow he will be able to swallow you and me. If you have a reason and a certainty to die, how can you give up? ”
"I've said it all, give Guo Wanjin an explanation, and everything will be fine! Don't forget, Xue Bai is the righteous brother of the concubine, you have many reasons, kill him tonight, and sooner or later he will kill you. ”
Gao Chongyan was slightly sneering when he heard this, sneering at Lu Linghao's short-sightedness, and responded: "I have my own opinions, and his charges are conclusive."
"Then I'll tell you one more thing." Lu Linghao said, "He has found your incriminating evidence in Wang Yi's hand and sent it out of Yanshi." If you release your suspicions with Xue Baibing, he will send back your incriminating evidence; If he had an accident, the incriminating evidence would...
Who can it be delivered to? Gao Chong asked rhetorically, "Am I afraid?"
"Are you afraid or not, the county has to remind you, don't delay a big event because of a momentary anger."
Lu Linghao sighed and said: "At that time, I objected to killing Wang Yanxian, you see, killing a sick person, and a tenfold difficult one, the situation is even worse."
Gao Chong didn't want to listen to his ramblings, and wanted to leave with a sneer, but he came over at this time to stabilize Lu Linghao, so it was not good to turn around and leave directly.
"I promise not to implicate the Ming Mansion no matter what, please don't have to be a lobbyist for Xue Bai anymore, okay?"
Lu Linghao stroked his beard and said, "Your subordinate is dead?"
"So what?
"In this way, can you really take Xue Bai before dawn? If you can't, let you make up a thousand sins, and you won't be able to end it.
"Don't worry, one more hour will be enough at most." Gao Chong said: "As long as the Ming Mansion doesn't interfere." ”
Lu Linghao was tied to him on a rope, and seeing that he was so stubborn, he nodded.
Gao Chong got the promise and put his mind at ease.
Although Li San'er's death is very surprising, as long as Lu Linghao is stabilized, no one in the entire Yanshi County has the strength to compete with him.
This whole night, Xue Bai killed Guo Wanjin and Li San'er again, all in the corners and corners with businessmen and recklessly, but he didn't know that he could change this kind of chess piece at any time.
Seeing Gao Chong leaving, Guo Jian couldn't help coughing a few times, although his official position was humble, he actually took care of the interests of the high-ranking families of Yanshi.
"Ming Mansion, Guo Wanjin's family property is not in Yanshi."
"I know." Lu Linghao stroked his beard and said, "Luoyang is ordered by Zhou County to raid the house, and we can't benefit from it." ”
"But what about Chang'an? Most of Guo Wanjin's family property is in Chang'an. ”
Lu Linghao thought about it, thinking that if he didn't cooperate with Xue Bai, in the end, he would definitely be the right minister who presided over the raid, and he would give him a little credit, but there would be no big profit.
But he also knew in his heart that what Gao Chong said made sense, Xue Bai was too aggressive, and Gao Chong was going to get rid of him soon, so he couldn't make it fall short at this time.
"Be content, we must not learn to be noble and greedy......
The next moment, Zhao Liu sneakily came over and glanced at the middle hall.
"What?" Lu Linghao was displeased, and asked with a cold face.
Although Zhao Liu was just a miscellaneous gatehouse, he was actually an old man from the county office, and he peeked around to make sure that Gao Chong was gone, so he said: "County Zun, someone asked to see him."
"Who?
He claimed to be Du, fifth in line, and had important things to present.......
Dark House.
Xue Bai ignored the Cao Gang who wanted to attack them.
Lao Liang and Jiang Hai led people to guard the narrow alley, and it would take time for those rabble to attack in.
Xue Bai took advantage of this opportunity to take down Xu Ba, who fled here.
Xu Ba was just a husband, and he was ordered by Gao Chong to take those traffickers to Wang Yanxian's mansion.
Xue Bai speculated that he got this errand because he had been there.
"Did you kill Wang Yanxian with Li San'er?"
"Yes.
"How did you kill it?
Qu Shuai strangled him to death with his own hands......
Xue Bai stared at Xu Ba's eyes, suddenly changed the topic, and asked, "Gao Shang wants to rebel, does Lu Linghao know about this?"
Xu Ba was shocked and at a loss.
"Sure enough, you're also a thief.
"The county lieutenant spares his life! The villain is willing to say what he knows.....
In terms of interrogators, Xue Bai is still good at it, and he knows that his guess is correct.
He pushed back, knowing that An Lushan was going to rebel, and Gao Shang was now An Lushan's henchman, Li San'er admired Gao Shang so much, he might be an insider, so he made a tentative speech.
But this information doesn't seem to be of much use, and it is not enough to rely on speculation to hope that he will sue the upper echelons, Wang Yanxian intends to take this road, and now he is dead.
Xue Bai also didn't want to follow in his footsteps, so he had to resort to such a last resort tonight.
Now that he has killed Guo Wanjin, Lu Linghao has been shaken; kill Li San'er again to weaken Gao Chong's strength; Then the next thing to do is to continue to divide and co-opt.
Split a very strong hostile force, win it in half, strike in half, and it will not be so powerful.
It is a way to let Du Wulang scare Lu Linghao, but if the chips are not enough, he has to use the seemingly useless news he got at this time.
Xue Bai also knew that the so-called super-rich and Qu Shuai that he had eliminated at the moment were just two chess pieces that the other party could change at any time.
Fortunately, the night is still long, and there is still time to deal with Gao Chong........