Someone took away more than a dozen high-ranking officials from the imperial prison, and they met Liu Tong's soldiers and horses not far away. Hong Qianhu, who was reading at Ling O'clock, sneered, pointed at them and said: "Fortunately, I met my colleagues, and I never went to the imperial court."
Damn you! Where did these rebellious officials and traitors come from!"
The handsome young general smiled: "Who are the rebellious officials and traitors?"
Hong Qianhu was a little embarrassed and shouted: "No matter who you are, anyway..." Before he could finish his words, he only heard the whistle sound, and a cold arrow flew from nowhere. He was caught off guard and drove in with a "swish".
His arm. Hong Qianhu yelled, "What kind of hero can you be if you hurt someone with a hidden arrow?"
The general smiled even more like Yama: "Not only the hidden arrows, but also the arrows of our swords, guns, and arrows are all coated with strange poison 'gutter oil'. They are all poisonous arrows. Did Hong Qianhu notice that the wound was burning and hurt more than ordinary wounds?"
Hong Qianhu said "Ouch", covered his arms and turned pale. He staggered on his horse and couldn't sit still. He gritted his teeth and said: "Despicable villain, pay with your life!"
Before he finished speaking, the general added: "I just heard that washing with extremely clean water from the ancient well within three quarters of an hour can cure this poison."
Hong Qianhu asked him to tell Huli Mengden, but he didn't know whether to believe it or not. He was stunned for a moment.
The group of people on the opposite side had no time to wait for him. The leading general blew a whistle, and arrows were fired! Immediately, more than a dozen people were hit by arrows and fell from their horses. The general shouted "Kill!" The people clapped their horses and rushed over, waving their swords and guns.
Zhan. The guards who followed him to the prison sneaked aside and watched, neither of them helping.
There were about 300 soldiers who kidnapped the officials, and they were beaten extremely badly. The formation looked like a "human" formation, but in fact it was headed by the general who was highly skilled in martial arts, with a group of soldiers on the left and right, each group of three.
One of the two knives on the left and right struck with three blades, hitting one person on Liu Jun's side, tearing Liu Jun apart like an arrow. The cavalry with all your lords in front of the horse was protected by two groups of horses.
Just at this moment, another group of men and horses ran over and blew three whistles from a distance, one long and two short. The general was swinging his sword to fight with the leader of another Liu Army patrol, and he never stopped, speaking.
He responded with a long whistle. The cavalryman who was leading Lin Hai suddenly waved his hand and knocked Lin Hai unconscious. Your Excellencies have long believed that the soldiers who brought them out of prison are the emperor's magic soldiers, so they went to watch the war. No one
Pay attention. The general shouted: "The support troops are here! The poison on their knives. The name of the medicine is 'Sanlu'. When it sees blood, it seals the throat -" Liu Jun was in an uproar, and the morale of the army was in chaos.
Another Liu Jun leader shouted: "He is talking nonsense! Don't believe it!"
The general laughed and said, "Ask Hong Qianhu, I'm talking nonsense!" Liu Jun's heart suddenly rang out. The general laughed loudly and easily chopped down several opponents while leading his men.
Fight a bloody path and join forces with the people in front.
The leader on the opposite side said solemnly: "You go first!" The major general nodded and rode away with more than a dozen officials. The supporting troops rushed over to block Liu Jun's path, and the two sides fought together.
Not long after the fight, Hong Qianhu, who was watching the battle due to injury, knew that he could not win. Although his family was also an old soldier, his opponent's martial arts were not weak; he was used to one-on-one, and the opponent had obviously been practicing three-on-one for many years; his family was ordinary
As the soldiers walked back and forth, they could see that the opponent's armor and weapons were much stronger, so he shouted: "Go and rescue the soldiers!" Little did he know that these words made his own soldiers think that the defeat was certain, and the battle strength they had just gathered suddenly collapsed.
The leader who responded took the opportunity to chop down the other leader of the Liu army and shouted: "All the leaders are defeated, and the one who surrenders will not be killed!" The Liu army immediately collapsed.
The leader killed for a while, then blew a roundabout whistle; his men immediately stopped, withdrew their horses, and ran away, as neatly as one man. Before Liu Jun could understand, his opponent had already run away, leaving nothing but smoke.
Hong Qianhu looked at the back dumbfounded. After being stunned for a long time, he sighed: "Good soldiers!" Then he shouted, "Hurry up! Move the rescue soldiers!" Then everyone shouted, "There is an enemy attack-" Several people went to
They went everywhere to ask for reinforcements, and the rest chased after them.
Hong Qianhu wanted to chase him, but his colleagues on the side stopped him and forced him to smash open a nearby medical clinic to check for poisonous arrows.
Although the doctor was dragged off the kang, he didn't dare to complain when he saw that they were military lords. He hurriedly pulled out the arrowhead for him. Just as he was about to apply medicine, his brother said urgently: "This arrowhead is poisonous! We must use the medicine from the ancient well."
Rinse with water!”
The doctor looked at the arrow and examined the wound carefully, and said, "It's not poisonous, just sprinkled with some chili pepper noodles."
Several people were speechless. Hong Qianhu couldn't help laughing: "How cunning!" Taking advantage of the doctor applying medicine on him, he picked up the arrow with his other arm and looked at it carefully. He was shocked, "An arrow from the Royal Forest Army!"
Everyone immediately looked at each other. Hong Qianhu stood up and said, "I'm going to see the general!"
Several brothers held him down and said, "It's important that you finish applying the medicine first!" They urged the doctor to hurry up.
The doctor hurriedly bandaged his arm, and several people kicked in the door, got on their horses, and galloped away to Liu Tong's residence.
Hong Qianhu woke up Liu Tong from his dream, and apologized for falling for someone's trick to lure the tiger away from the mountain, and showed him the arrow. Liu Tong was shocked, raised his leg and kicked him, and kicked Hong Qianhu out. Thinking
After thinking for a while, he rushed out and asked him: "How many people are there?"
Hong Qianhu lay on the ground and said: "The group of three hundred people in the front, and the number of rescuers in the back are at most two hundred."
Liu Tong immediately summoned his troops. Because the pursuers didn't know where they had gone at this moment, he had to ask from the other side of the imperial prison. When the jailer said that the other party had come out with the "imperial edict", he was shocked! He hurriedly went first
After chasing them for a while along the way they escaped, some soldiers under Hong Qianhu came over and said that the group of people had broken into a temple in the south of the city and were now guarding it. They didn't dare to attack because they didn't have many people, so they came back first to report the news.
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Liu Tong sneered: "The city gates are closed on all sides, so they can hardly fly!" Then he ordered the man to lead the way, lit up more than 3,000 people, lit torches and chased after them.
When they arrived at the gate of the temple, a soldier who knew about it reported to Liu Tong: "This is a nun's nunnery called Zhenwu nunnery." The door of the nunnery was closed tightly, and there was no sound inside.
Strong soldiers stepped forward and kicked the door, but after several kicks it could not be kicked. Because the wall of the nunnery was low, Liu Tong ordered "climb over the wall!" Several soldiers immediately climbed over the wall and entered, shouting from inside: "There is no one!"
There is a Bodhisattva blocking the entrance of the nunnery."
Liu Tong was shocked and shouted loudly: "Move the Bodhisattva!"
Those few people moved the Bodhisattva aside and opened the door of the nunnery. The soldiers hugged Liu Tong and went in. They saw that it was quiet inside, with no sound of people, and it was completely dark without any lights. Everyone walked in with torches and walked through the nunnery.
After passing the Main Hall and coming out, I immediately noticed a bright light in a side hall in front of me, so I hurried over.
When he arrived at the door, he immediately heard faint voices inside. He shined a torch again and saw a large iron lock lying across the door! Liu Tong pulled out the sword from his waist and waved it, and the iron lock fell down. He kicked the door open again.
There were two candles lit inside, a burner of incense on the incense table, and a group of ladies sitting cross-legged on the ground, densely packed. The leading lady was banging wooden fish in front of the Buddha and chanting sutras. Liu Tong stepped in deliberately, but
I found that it was too full of people and I couldn't get out. It was obvious that this side hall was not the place where nuns usually gathered in this nunnery.
The leading old lady put down the wooden fish and stood up, recited the word "Buddha", turned around and looked up at Liu Tong, was startled, then clasped her hands together and said, "I dare to ask this general why he broke into my Buddhist pure land."
Liu Tong pointed his knife at her and asked, "Where are the traitors hiding in your nunnery?"
The old lady clasped her hands together and recited the Buddha's name again: "The poor nun has been driven away and locked in this hall by a group of soldiers for nearly half an hour."
Liu Tong hurriedly asked her what she had been through.
The old lady then ordered the nuns to stand up and went to the door to tell Liu Tong.
It turned out that a man had just led a group of soldiers to break into Zhenwu Nunnery, and drove the ladies out of the nunnery one by one, or locked them into a room in groups of three, five, or seven or eight. After listening to the noise and shouting outside for a long time, they took out the nunnery again.
They were driven out of each house with swords and guns and locked up in the Medicine Master Buddha's side hall. The ladies only heard the sound of locks being locked outside, and they didn't know what they were going to do. The old ladies led them to meditate and chant sutras in this hall, waiting for the Medicine Master.
Buddha protects.
Liu Tong hurriedly ordered his men to search the nunnery, but there was no one anywhere. After another half day of searching, they finally found horse hoof prints and horse dung in the back mountain. However, there were horse hoof prints coming and going. He followed the horse hoof prints in a circle and found that they were there.
The horse's hooves circled a mountain road in the back mountain! The back mountain was said to be the back mountain, but it was just a small mound with no place to hide people. Five hundred riders had no idea where they were going! Liu Tong was shocked and ordered his generals to
The nun took it and questioned him carefully.
The interrogation continued until dawn, and all the ladies were interrogated individually. They all said the same thing, so it was obvious that they were not lies. However, according to what they said, it was the same three soldiers who drove the ladies to the side hall. Only
A girl who was boiling water in the kitchen said that those people came to her to get a pot of water and a dozen bowls. She saw with her own eyes a leader-looking man in his twenties, with handsome eyebrows, took something out of his arms.
A large bag of medicinal powder came and was sprinkled into the bowls one by one. The soldiers nearby also carried kettles to wash down the boiling water, stirred it up with their chopsticks, and brought out bowls after bowls. Immediately, Liu Tong's men were
The dozens of bowls were found in a side hall and were taken away. Then a qualified doctor was found to examine the bowls carefully. The doctor concluded that the bowls had contained extremely powerful poison.
The poison should never be used to charm their own people. Ninety percent of it was used to charm the dozen or so ministers in the court. Liu Tong felt very confused for a moment and couldn't figure out what those imperial guards were doing.
Then he went back to investigate the matter in detail. The arrows left by the prison robbers last night were collected near the Zhao Prison and presented to the people from the Qing Li Department of Yu Heng of the Ministry of Works. They all said that they were definitely used by the imperial guards. The jailer of the Zhao Prison
He insisted that the scroll was covered with a jade seal. Liu Tong's staff came up with an idea. He took out a piece of Jinshang's handwriting from the palace and mixed it with several other people's signatures for the jailer to identify. The jailer took a look.
After half a day, he pointed to the saint's handwriting and said: "The handwriting on the imperial edict seems to be similar to this one." Liu Tong's face became more and more sinking.
Hong Qianhu swore again and again that the token that led him out of the imperial edict was exactly the same as the real one! Even the patina on his headband was the same. Liu Tong took the real token to look at him carefully, and he said: "My subordinates only
After looking at it for a while, they are very similar." He also pointed to the two shallow fine lines, "Here and here are also a little shallower." Liu Tong ordered people to go to the market to find a few fake antiques and asked them, and they all said,
It is not difficult to imitate the token, but if there are even superficial details, the person doing it must be very familiar with it, and it is impossible to just take a few casual glances. Liu Tong immediately suspected that there was a spy around him, but it was difficult to find out for a while.
It is clear that the new emperor will ascend the throne tomorrow.
He ordered a few of his confidants to carefully check the people around him and a few of his generals, and drove out all the sisters-in-law of Zhenwuan. They searched the nunnery and the back mountain again and again, and the group of people seemed to fly away with wings.
When Jia Cong heard that more than a dozen adults had been kidnapped from the imperial prison, and found out that his two gentlemen were among them, he immediately rushed to Prince Xian's Mansion. When he saw Situ Pan, he grabbed him and asked in a low voice, regardless of etiquette, "Yes?"
You?!"
Situ Pan frowned and said, "Isn't it you?"
Jia Cong said: "How can I have that ability! Is it you? Is it you?!"
Situ Pan shook his head: "It's not me. I heard that the soldiers and horses who robbed people behaved in a confusing manner, and they dared to copy the imperial decree. I thought it was you."
Jia Cong stamped his feet: "What's wrong with me! It's really not you? What about my husband? Where is my husband?"
Situ Pan said: "I really don't know."
Jia Cong grabbed his collar tightly: "How could you not know? Who else in the capital can rob someone from the imperial edict except you! You are the saint's biological brother! You must have a blank imperial edict in your hand!"
Situ Pan said: "This makes no sense! Where did the blank imperial edict come from!"
Jia Cong said: "It's all in the drama reviews! The emperor would leave blank imperial edicts for the most important people in case of emergencies. These stories cannot be groundless. They must be true things in the world. Don't try to trick me.
It must be you who did it! Just tell me that my husband is safe." Then she pulled his sleeve and acted coquettishly, "Brother Xian Wang~~ tell me~~ I still want to deal with Mrs. Su!"
Situ Pan smiled bitterly and said: "I really don't know. Don't panic. Since they robbed Ruhai and left, they will be useful. It's better than being in prison."
Jia Cong stamped his feet and said: "Where can it be better than the imperial prison? In the imperial prison, at least I know where the person is. I can't guarantee that I can try to please that general to rescue him in the future. Now I don't know who took him away. I don't even want to take him.
He doesn't know what he is going to do! Not knowing is the scariest thing!" Nai asked in a low voice, "If it weren't for you, would you have any clues?"
Situ Pan said: "No. Even Liu Tong didn't find any clues. I only heard that it was a horse's hoof print that wandered around the mountain behind a nunnery and then disappeared. The nunnery was not far from the big house in the south of Shegong City.
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Jia Cong immediately said: "Could it be Zhen Wu'an?"
Situ Pan nodded: "Exactly."
Jia Cong said: "I saw their old lady when I was a child, but I can't remember what she looked like now. How come the horse hoof prints disappeared? Did they disappear out of thin air?"
Situ Pan said: "I circled around the small mound in the back mountain, and there were hoof prints going up and down the mountain."
Jia Cong thought for a while: "That means they are not on the mountain anymore? Then why do they go up the mountain? To get something?"
Situ Pan suddenly realized: "That's right! Since we turned around in a circle, we must not be on the mountain."
"Then where did they go?"
Situ Pan said: "How do I know? Let others inquire."
Jia Cong stamped his feet and shouted: "Go, go, go!"
Situ Pan asked him again why he returned to the capital, but Jia Cong only said that he came to see Heizi. Situ Pan tried to trick him for a long time and found no flaws, so he sent him away. Jia Cong repeatedly urged him to get the letter to Rong as soon as possible.
In the government, Situ Pan only responded with his words.
Jia Cong walked to the door and suddenly ran back with an "Oh!" and said: "Since the imperial edict is not yours, it naturally belongs to the saint! Has the saint returned to Beijing?"
Situ Pan was startled and said: "If there were really saints with soldiers and horses, Ruhai would be more and more unobstructed."
Jia Cong glanced at him: "Hey, you really don't know?"
Situ Pan smiled bitterly and shook his head.
Jia Cong left with a face full of disappointment, and Situ Pan stared at where he was going for a long time without moving.
In the evening, news came from outside that General Liu Tong ordered the enthronement ceremony to be postponed for seven days. He went door to door in the capital to search for traitors. He especially searched the houses of Youma. But not only did he not find out the person who attacked the imperial prison at night
The five hundred cavalry could not find the men and horses of Li Guopei before, but they disturbed the backyard and attracted complaints from the princes and dignitaries.
On the other side, when a group of court officials who were kidnapped from the imperial prison woke up, they found themselves lying in a mess in a courtyard. They pushed and pushed them to get up, patted their prison uniforms, and felt hungry again.
I was thirsty again, so I held hands and greeted Huizi, and then looked around the courtyard. I saw that it was exquisite and meticulous, with painted pillars and carved beams. There was a plaque hanging at the door of the main hall with the four words "阘跷清峰" written on it. There was also a couplet, written
It is: "When chanted into cardamom, it is especially beautiful, and when you sleep enough, the tea is fragrant in your dreams."
Lin Hai couldn't help but praise: "This couplet has an elegant meaning."