Seeing that the sky was shining outside the window, Gong Yan, who had been sleepless all night, had just gotten up and heard a very unfortunate news - last night, two brothers of the Huizhou branch of the Loyal and Righteous League were killed while arresting the hermits, and the wounds left on their bodies turned out to be parting arrows. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Huizhou is in the north of Quanzhou, and the place where the murder just happened is only a few dozen miles away from Quanzhou City, and it is near the official road leading to Jingyang.

At this time, Gong Yan had somewhat guessed Ling Qiyu's intentions - he was going to create a series of bloody cases on the way north.

In this way, Gong Yan had a convenient excuse to go all the way north to investigate, and at the same time escort Qiongniang and them to their destination - Xiangzhou. When they arrived in Xiangzhou, these hermits would be able to turn westward, and Ling Qiyu would continue to go north, directing all the attention of the Loyal Alliance to him, so as to ensure that Qiongniang and them could cross the border smoothly.

Thinking about Ling Qiyu's intentions, Gong Yan also relieved his heart, knowing that he should not encounter any obstacles on his way north. So, after leaving Quanzhou City, they continued to set off for Huizhou in the north.

However, the people of the Loyal Alliance are not fools who let others lead them by the nose. After several bloody cases in succession, they had deduced the whereabouts of the parting arrow, and all the state rudders on the way north were all ready to be destroyed, vowing to completely destroy this mad killer!

Sure enough, the hard work paid off, and in the Xuanzhou territory, the people of the Loyal and Righteous League set a trap and finally intercepted the parting arrow. Moreover, with the help of the officers and soldiers transferred from the Xuanzhou capital city, they trapped the killer on a barren mountain.

Hundreds of archers and pikemen, led by a deputy governor, surrounded the barren mountains.

More than a dozen fires had been lit in front of the battle, illuminating the nearby night sky as bright as day.

The soldiers who were waiting for the battle wound their bows and arrows one by one, and the tips of the spears in their hands shone in the firelight, as if they were murderous.

Dozens of members of the Loyal Alliance also stood solemnly with their swords in their hands, waiting for Soushan's order.

With a cruel smile on his face full of meat, Bai Jinshan, the helmsman of Xuanzhou of the Loyal and Righteous League, raised his arms and led his men to start marching towards the barren mountains.

The Loyal Alliance, who were well-trained and kept a proper distance from each other, quietly pushed forward step by step, the bleak moonlight illuminating the dark mountain path in front of them, and at the same time reflecting the strange look on their faces that was a mixture of cruel excitement and fear.

This barren ridge is not too big, the radius is only a dozen miles, the trees on the ridge are not luxuriant, and there are not many steep slopes and cliffs, dozens of people search like a net, but it does not take much time. What's more, waiting until the light of day is even more unfavorable for hiding.

Therefore, Bai Jinshan will never rush forward, but let his subordinates carefully search every inch of land under their feet, and will not give the parting arrow a chance to escape from the gap in the search net.

I was about to find the top of the mountain, but a dense forest appeared in front of me.

Bai Jinshan raised his hand to signal everyone to stop, and then he carefully observed the small forest, but because the light was too dim, he couldn't see the situation inside.

He hesitated, wondering if he should let his men light the torches. But after thinking about it again, the parting arrow had always been a missile, and the night was dark, and he couldn't see the target clearly, so he didn't dare to shoot easily. If the torch is lit at this time, wouldn't it be just the right opportunity for him to recognize his goal? And the first target of his attack will definitely be himself, the one who takes the lead!

"Send a few brothers to touch it in, search it first, and the rest of the people will surround the forest, and stop him when they see the shadow of the killer!"

Bai Jinshan whispered a few words to a deputy helmsman beside him, and the deputy helmsman immediately passed on his words.

Soon, the six unlucky ghosts who had been selected trembled and entered the forest. However, after more than two quarters of an hour, the six people walked out unscathed, and they all shook their heads to indicate that they had not found anything abnormal.

Bai Jinshan waved his hand and let everyone pass through the forest.

Who knew that just as they were about to walk out of this dense forest, Bai Jinshan suddenly noticed a black shadow on the ground not far ahead!

He slowed down and quietly approached the dark shadow, the long sword in his hand in a position ready to strike.

However, until his people had touched the shadow in front of it, they still did not find any sign of its activity. Out of caution, he stabbed the shadow with the sword in his hand.

There was a muffled sound of "plop", and the tip of the sword immediately felt like entering the flesh, but the black shadow remained motionless.

Bai Jinshan finally put away his long sword, stepped forward and turned the black shadow a little, and by the dim moonlight, he finally saw the face of the dead man - one of his subordinates!

After a moment of astonishment, his first instinct was to immediately jump up and scold: "This thief is cheating! He didn't use the parting arrow at all! He-he fled disguised as one of ours!"

Hearing him shout, his subordinates immediately panicked.

Because everyone was too nervous, and the six people who came out of the forest were all colorless and trembling, no one thought to take a closer look at their faces. Now they have blended in with the crowd and scattered everywhere, and where are they going to find out the pretending man for a while!

At this moment, the arrow roar that Bai Jinshan had been thinking about but was terrified to the extreme finally sounded, but it was not in this forest, but at the bottom of the mountain!

When Bai Jinshan led people to the bottom of the mountain, he saw the hundreds of stunned officers and soldiers, and the deputy capital prisoner lying in a pool of blood, but the shadow of the parting arrow was not seen at all.

The whole round-up has been a complete failure!

However, what comforted Bai Jinshan's heart a little was that there was one thing that could barely make him confess to the chief helm of the Loyal and Righteous Alliance-that parting arrow himself was injured!

According to the officers and soldiers who participated in the round-up, when the enemy first appeared, the deputy governor who died in the line of duty gave the order to release the arrows. Seeing that the killer was shot with at least two arrows, he didn't expect that he was still fighting a trapped beast, and after being wounded, he shot the deputy capital eunuch with a parting arrow, and then escaped from a group of frightened officers and soldiers.

However, not many people were willing to believe the claim that the parting arrow had been wounded, especially not at all by the people at the helm of the Loyal Alliance. The reason is simple: they believe that the officers and soldiers who participated in the siege and eventually let the parting arrow go are lying and only trying to shirk their responsibilities.

The officers and soldiers claimed that the killer had been seriously wounded by two arrows. But when asked, how heavy was his wounds, no one could tell. When asked, where exactly did the two arrows go?

As we all know, Dayu's Xiang army has always had little training and almost no combat power. On weekdays, let them kill some ordinary people who could not bear the oppression of the government and rose up to resist, but they were handy one by one. But once they are sent to suppress bandits, they will be beaten to the ground, and in the end, they will still kill some civilians and pretend to be bandits to receive rewards. Therefore, the words that come out of the mouths of these people are too unbelievable.

Moreover, the final facts further proved that it was completely correct not to believe the stories made up by those officers and soldiers.

Only two days have passed since the Xuanzhou round-up operation, and there are traces of parting arrows in Xiangzhou north of Xuanzhou, and this time, Wan Feiqing, the helmsman of Xiangzhou of the Loyal and Righteous League, was killed by an arrow through his throat.

In this way, the lie about the parting arrow being seriously injured is self-defeating.

The serious consequence of this incident was that Bai Jinshan, the helmsman of Xuanzhou, was severely punished by the Loyalty League for failing to command the round-up operation and using false news to perfunctory responsibility.

He was directly escorted back to the helm for trial by the people sent by Wan Hengjiang, the law enforcement officer of the torture hall, and finally locked up in the dungeon of the torture hall for a long time before he was released again, and the position of the helmsman was naturally lost.

But even so, Bai Jinshan still felt extremely happy afterwards, and even couldn't believe that he could save his life. Because he knew very well that Wan Feiqing, the helmsman of Xiangzhou who was later killed by the parting arrow, was the sister of Wan Hengjiang, the law enforcement officer of the Criminal Hall!

Xiangzhou is less than a hundred miles away from Jingyang, the capital of the Dayu Emperor, that is to say, the parting arrow is getting closer and closer to the rudder of the Zhongyi League.

Zuo Yusong, the deputy leader in charge of the affairs of the alliance, issued an order to terminate the interception and killing of the parting arrows along the way and let him enter Beijing. The Loyal Alliance will lay a net outside Jingyang City and fight to the death against this ruthless killer!

At the same time, Gong Yan also received an order from Zuo Yusong, ordering him to stop the pursuit of the parting arrow and return to the general helm on the same day.

On the night he received this instruction, Gong Yan couldn't sleep for a long time.

Thinking that in order to allow Qiongniang's mother and son and Qin Yiren to reach Xiangzhou safely, Ling Qiyu actually opened a bloody road from south to north with his own strength. This determination and courage is truly amazing and terrifying!

And what made Gong Yan even more uneasy was why did the master have to see this Ling Qiyu?

According to Master's consistent style of acting, he will never show mercy to these hermits who have long become Da Rong's confidants. But why did he make an exception to this Ling Qi Yusheng?

Behind all this, there seems to be an unknown secret, and this secret, for some reason, makes Gong Yan faintly feel some kind of crisis......