After checking for a while, Zhou Zhutou stepped forward and reported: "My lord, there are forty-six corpses at the scene, belonging to two caravans. Eighteen of them were hired by the caravan as guards. These businessmen all have road guides issued by the county, and their identities have been confirmed. ”

Xu Minghua waved his hand, pinched his nose, and said, "Pick up the important ones!"

"Yes!" Zhou Zhutou said busily, "The caravan's wealth and horses have been robbed, and there is not a single living mouth left, it is indeed the handiwork of a gust of wind!"

Chen Ao listened to his report quietly. Who knew that Zhou Zhutou said this, and there was no follow-up. Chen Ao couldn't help but be stunned, thinking, is this the so-called picking up important words?

Sure enough, Xu Minghua nodded and said, "Well, it seems that our judgment is correct!

Chen Ao saw that Feng Hu and the others were still checking the corpses, so he didn't rush to give an order, but asked rhetorically: "What did Xu Xiancheng do when he encountered this kind of case?"

Xu Minghua said: "Ah, in the past, when I encountered a gust of wind, I usually sent a sea fishing document and posted a wanted notice everywhere. ”

"That's it?" asked Chen Ao.

"yes!"

Chen Ao sighed and thought to himself, this Hulu County Ya is too inactive, and he wants to catch the horse bandit just by posting a notice?

At this time, Feng Hu stepped forward and clasped his fists at Chen Ao and said, "My lord, I have finished the inspection." ”

Chen Ao frowned, ignored Xu Minghua and Zhou Zhutou, and walked straight to the pile of corpses. He was originally a quasi-forensic doctor, although he hadn't done his old job for a long time, but he hadn't forgotten the knowledge he had learned for many years. As he walked, he listened to Feng Hu's report.

Feng Hu said: "Of these forty-six people, except for the seven or eight guards who led the way, they were killed by random arrows, and the rest died of knife wounds. However, the composition of the group of people who killed people is complicated, there are not only martial arts masters, but also some people who can only make superficial moves!"

Chen Ao turned around and said "Huh". Xu Minghua and Zhou Zhutou, who were following behind, couldn't help but be surprised, and secretly thought, this can be seen? Isn't this a joke?

Feng Hu said: "My lord, you see, these people dressed in guard service only have a wound on their neck, and the wound is clean and neat, obviously they were killed by a knife. Looking at the other businessmen, almost all of the wounds on their bodies were as many as seven or eight knives, and most of them were scattered and unruly. These are obviously not the actions of martial arts masters. You see this man lying on the wooden box, and there are several cuts in the wooden box. In the face of a businessman who doesn't know martial arts, he can actually cut crookedly when he uses a knife, and this person's martial arts are even worse. Therefore, I conclude that this group must be the best martial arts to deal with the guards, while the rest kill the merchants and steal the goods!"

Chen Ao nodded, and with Feng Hu's explanation, he was also looking at the corpse at random. After Feng Hu finished speaking, he said: "And the blades of these people are not uniform, some are thick-backed and wide-mouthed knives, and some are similar to the kind of scimitars used by the Khitans. When the guards were finally hacked to death, the knives used were much more sophisticated. Well...... The wound was only four or five centimeters long, but five or six centimeters deep, and it cut the throat directly. The only one that can inflict this kind of wound is a scimitar. But this kind of scimitar is not like the kind of scimitar used by the Khitans......"

He muttered to himself as he paced to wonder what kind of blade it was. Scimitars were not popular in the Central Plains, and most of the warriors used Tang knives handed down from the Tang Dynasty. This knife is also the prototype of the later Japanese sword, which is relatively straight and has a small arc. Such a knife slashed at the neck, causing such a deep wound at the same time, the wound length was so short. Therefore, it can be concluded that these people with strong martial arts are foreigners, either Khitans or Qiang people in Western Xia.

Chen Ao was not familiar with the blades of these nomads, and could only guess based on a little impression. And Xu Minghua and Zhou Zhutou, who followed him step by step, were already secretly frightened. They really didn't expect that their county lord was not a nerd, and his vision was even more poisonous than theirs. The two of them were convinced, so they naturally didn't dare to say anything more.

At this time, Qin Lang came over with a few arrow clusters in his hand, and said, "Look, my lord!"

Chen Ao looked at his hand and frowned. Qin Lang said: "These arrows are also very different. There are not only self-made bamboo arrows, but also standard iron arrows used by the Great Song Dynasty officials, as well as a few arrows hunted by the nomads of the Khitan and Western Xia. I've never seen these weird ones......

Feng Hu took it and looked at it, and was also very interested in those obviously different arrows. These arrows are not as good as those of the Great Song Dynasty official army. But there are two red feathers stuck in the tail of the arrow, which is very eye-catching.

Chen Ao turned around and asked Xu Minghua, "Do you know the origin of this kind of arrow?"

Xu Minghua looked at it, pondered for a while, and said, "These arrows look a bit like the arrows in Persia and the Karakhanate region. I have seen such bows and arrows carried among the guards of the Persian caravans. ”

Chen Ao snorted lightly and said, "I didn't expect this gang of horse bandits to really come from all over the world!"

After he finished speaking, he turned around and asked Zhao Ling, "Ling'er, what do you think?"

Zhao Ling thought for a moment and said, "These people pulled the loaded carriage away. If you find a rut mark, you might be able to catch up. But if these people are vigilant, they are afraid that they have already erased the traces. Besides, we don't have enough manpower, so it's useless to catch up. It seems that this group of people is really difficult to deal with......"

Chen Ao nodded, and couldn't think of any good way for a while. He turned back to Xu Xiancheng and said, "Ask someone to pull these corpses back." After handing it over to the chamber of commerce for inspection and filling out the autopsy form, the people of the chamber of commerce will be notified to claim the body and put it in the ground as soon as possible. ”

He was no longer as insistent on keeping the body as he had been at the beginning, so that he could find more evidence even if more evidence was found. First, there were relatively few autopsies in this era, and not much useful evidence could be found from the corpses. Second, people in this era attach great importance to entering the soil for peace, and they should also follow the customs. Third, there is nothing to investigate in this case, and the murderer is obviously a horse bandit. Now the question is just how to catch this gang.

Xu Minghua agreed, and ordered the catchers to carry the body onto the donkey cart that had been prepared. There were more than 40 people, and there were seven or eight carts. Looking at the corpses stacked together, Chen Ao couldn't help but sigh.

He stood aside, sighed with emotion, suddenly felt strange, and said casually: "On such a cold day, these people are wearing such thin clothes?"

It turned out that the clothes on the corpses, although they were outer clothes, were only thin cloth shirts. And Chen Ao and these people have already put on their jackets. Xu Minghua stood aside and said with a smile: "My lord said that he was joking, on such a cold day, they were going to travel a long way, how could they wear such a little? Their leather jackets must have been snatched away by that gang of horse bandits!"

Chen Ao also felt that he had asked a stupid question, and said with a smile: "Yes, this gang of horse bandits is really poor and crazy!"