Boom——,Boom——,Boom——

Accompanied by three low muffled thunders, three dazzling lightning bolts raised three faint puffs of dust and smoke on the flat field, causing the horses in the front row of a galloping cavalry to fall down one after another as if they had hit the stumbling ropes. The knights on the horses also fell.

Then it rolled down.

Some of them were even ejected when their horses rolled over and fell several feet away.

Many people were writhing in pain on the ground and letting out heart-rending screams.

Falling off a galloping horse is no joke. It can range from broken bones to death.

It can be said that people are jumping on their backs.

"Mr. Cui, are you okay?"

After the horse in the front row fell down, the riders in the back row reined in the horse one after another. One of the officials in green jumped off the horse and ran to a horse that had fallen down.

He stood in front of a man in red clothes thirty years away and helped him up.

"It's so bad." The man in Zhu Yi seemed to have been hit hard. He stood up with difficulty with the help of the Yamen servants, limped a few steps forward, and said with heavy breaths.

Fortunately, no one was injured or injured, but most of them were thrown around and looked very embarrassed.

"Dogs and rats!" Another man in Zhuyi who came from behind looked angrily at the three people who were more than 60 meters in front of him and helped his accomplices to continue running forward. Then he turned around and fiercely attacked the man who came from behind.

, the knights who were reining in their horses and spinning in circles shouted: "Keep chasing me!"

"There is no need to chase them. Let's just shoot them to death with a crossbow." Another man in red clothes said.

Zhang Nu is an archery device used by infantry in the Tang Dynasty. It has a slightly longer range. This cavalry may not be a regular Tang Dynasty soldier, so it does not carry the horned crossbow used by the cavalry.

"Slow down!" The man in Zhu Yi, who was called "Mr. Cui" by the yamen officials, was thrown into a state of disarray. He looked at the place not far away with lingering fear at the three people who continued to run forward while supporting their injured accomplice.

He stopped the man in Zhu Yi who was about to lead the team to continue the chase and said, "Don't chase anymore, let alone shoot with a crossbow."

"Why?" The young man in red clothes asked puzzledly: "They can no longer use their hot wheels to fly forward."

"Didn't you see that they didn't shine their magic light directly on us?" Cui Gong shook his head: "They deliberately avoided harming us."

"That's right." The young man in Zhu Yi suddenly realized: "The square flashing magic box in their hands is really powerful. If it were pointed at us, we would definitely die."

"Then are you still chasing them?" Cui Gong asked.

"I don't dare anymore."

This cavalry team chasing the three "snitches" in front was a pursuit team composed of cavalry sent by Jiangnan Road of the Tang Dynasty and Wucheng County government officials.

The clothes worn by this cavalry team are of different colors, indicating that they were recruited from local roads and counties rather than regular soldiers from the Tang Dynasty. Regular soldiers from the Tang Dynasty wore armor instead of official uniforms when they went to war.

The officials in this cavalry team are dressed in various official colors, just to show their rank and identity, so as to reach a tacit understanding with each other. This plays a role of congeniality without words for the people who work together in various departments.

But everyone can perform their duties and get things done much more smoothly. In the Tang Dynasty, official uniforms were colorful, with the purpose of maintaining a strict hierarchy, clear distinction between high and low, and making it easier to adapt.

The cavalry seemed to be led by the Cui Gong who had been helped up by the government servants just now. However, Cui Gong was wearing a vermilion official uniform, indicating that his official position was at least fifth grade. He was neither the county magistrate of the small county town of Wucheng nor the inspector of Jiangnan Road.

The envoy was a court official who came from Luoyang, the sacred capital of the Tang Dynasty, to investigate and deal with the key culprits in the Jiangnan Dao "debasement of gods and rebellion". He had a distinguished status and was the confidant of Di Renjie, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. His name was Cui Jianfeng.

Cui Jianfeng, nicknamed Ying Fei Jiutian, was a fourth-rank official in the Tang Dynasty. His ancestral home was Huainan. He was born in the third year of Yifeng, Emperor Gaozong, and grew up in Yangzhou. He was thirty-one years old.

Cui Jianfeng came to Wucheng from Luoyang, the capital of China, mainly because during the anniversary of the reign of Emperor Wu of the Tang Dynasty, a murder case occurred in Wucheng, a small county in Jiangnan Road, which led to a story that was regarded by the Tang Dynasty as a god and was demoted to earth. After that, he colluded with officials and businessmen to rebel.

The mysterious case.

After learning about the incident, Detective Di Renjie of the Tang Dynasty sent his detective master Cui Jianfeng to Wucheng County, Jiangnan Province, where the incident occurred, to investigate the case.

After Cui Jianfeng arrived in Wucheng, through investigation, he quickly found out the cause of this so-called "rebellion case of robbing people after the gods were demoted to earth", which was caused by an extremely ordinary rape and murder case.

"I have explained to you a long time ago, but you didn't listen." Cui Jianfeng glared at the Zhu Yiren who just suggested using a crossbow to shoot the three fugitive criminals in front of him and said, "You shouldn't have killed that flying man just now.

He was shot with a broken crossbow."

"But what can we do?" The man in red clothes spread his hands helplessly and said: "Their hot wheels fly so fast that we can't catch up with our horses. We don't need to use the crossbow. Are we just playing hide and seek with them?"

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This man in Zhu Yi was also the detective sent by Di Renjie to assist Cui Gong in solving the case. His name was Chen Yuntian, nicknamed Hong Tianlei, a fourth-rank official in the Tang Dynasty, and his ancestral home was Guan Nei. He was born in the second year of Longshuo, Emperor Gaozong, and grew up in Yanzhou. He was twenty-nine years old.

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"But have you thought about the consequences of shooting their people with a crossbow?" Cui Jianfeng became angry: "You almost let us all die here."

"This is also a hopeless solution." Another young man in Zhu Yi said with a wry smile: "Besides using a crossbow to shoot, what else can we do? They use hot fire wheels to fly up to the sky for a while.

Jumping on the ground to make us angry."

"I warned you a long time ago not to mess with them, but what happened? You just didn't listen. Do you understand now?" Cui Jianfeng glared at the young man in Zhu Yi angrily and yelled.

"I know, these people are really untouchable, and I almost lost my life." The young man in red clothes muttered.

The young man in Zhu Yi is named Zhu Guangcai, nicknamed the Death-rushing Ghost. This man is also sent by Di Renjie to assist in the investigation. He is an official of the fifth rank and his ancestral home is Gyeonggi. He was born in the first year of Emperor Qianfeng's reign and grew up in Tongzhou. He was twenty-five years old.

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The cavalry led by the three men were not regular soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. They were only temporary recruits from Jiangnan Province and government servants and villagers sent by the Wucheng County government. The military service system adopted by the Tang Dynasty was a recruitment system, which stipulated that all strong men of appropriate age should prepare their own swords and mounts.

, bring your own weapons and horses to join the battle when necessary.

This cavalry team has been following the three "demoted gods" who were called by the locals to descend to the earth for many days in this plain area. In fact, even Cui Gong didn't know where they came from. It was because Wucheng at that time

It was only after a murder case occurred in the county that the whereabouts of these people were exposed.

Cui Jianfeng originally wanted to find out the ins and outs of the case first, and then formulate a disposal plan. Unexpectedly, the magistrate of Wucheng County finally lost patience when he saw that the case was dragging on for a long time, so he reported the case to Jiangnan Road. As a result, Jiangnan Road was investigated.

Sima Cong paid attention to it and sent someone to intervene, which made Cui Jianfeng unable to act according to his original plan. Although he was very annoyed about this, he was also helpless.

You must understand that local institutions in the Tang Dynasty implemented three-level management: Tao, state, and county. The strange thing is that the level of Tao is a bit nondescript. Logically speaking, Tao is equivalent to today's provincial departments, but it is not an administrative agency, but a prosecutorial department

.In other words, this kind of "province" is in name only and only plays the role of prosecutorial supervision. Its chief officer is also served by a third-rank official appointed by the court called an inspector who often visits various states and counties.

To put it this way, according to today's people's formulation, it is equivalent to saying that Cui Jianfeng, who was sent from the court to investigate the case of treason and rebellion, turned out to be a traitor who was reported by the local county magistrate and suspected of collaborating with bandits.

What could Cui Jianfeng do about this? After discovering the information about the three snitches, he initially neither notified Cui Jianfeng or the others in time nor waited for Cui Jianfeng, who happened to be shopping at the time, to come back. Chen Yuntian and Zhu Guangcai also waited for him.

He was unable to make it and had to leave a note at the inn explaining the situation and then hurriedly followed the county government horse team to chase down the "debasement".

If Cui Jianfeng hadn't discovered the note left by Chen Yuntian and others after returning from shopping and immediately caught up with him, stopping these people's reckless behavior in time and provoking the snitch to go on a killing spree, the consequences would have been disastrous.
Chapter completed!