The mounted guards gradually approached the three fleeing assassins. However, the three assassins staggered on their horses. After running another hundred meters, one assassin was already vomiting blood and rolled off his horse.
The other two assassins also lost control of their horses and were easily chased by the bodyguard cavalry. When the cavalry caught up with the two assassins, they found that their eyes had turned white and they were deeply poisoned. The bodyguards had not asked this question yet.
Two assassins, two of them had fallen off their horses.
The Guards Cavalry reluctantly brought back three horses and three corpses.
"My lord, three assassins committed suicide by taking poison! What a brutal assassination!"
Li Zhi looked at the corpses of the three assassins and was silent. Judging from the corpses, the three assassins were wearing short brown cloth and net scarves on their heads. They looked like the lowest class of people. It was impossible to tell where they were from.
.The horses the three of them rode were also ordinary horses, nothing special.
The only thing that caught Li Zhi's attention was the matchlock guns used by the three assassins.
The matchlock gun is very long, with a barrel of six or seven feet long. The whole gun is quite heavy, weighing seven or eight kilograms. The leading head and rails of the matchlock gun are both mounted on the handle of the gun, and are close to it.
A small steel piece with a length of more than one inch is placed at the engine.
Li Zhi looked at it for a long time, but he didn't see what kind of matchlock gun it was.
Gao Ligong stood up, took a look, raised his hands and said, "My lord, this is undoubtedly the Lumi gun from the Beijing camp!"
Everyone was shocked when they heard Gao Ligong's words. It turned out that the assassin used the Lumi gun from the Beijing camp. The Lumi gun was invented by Zhao Shizhen in the 26th year of Wanli.
The production method has been improved, and the range is a full 150 meters. No wonder it can assassinate Li Zhi at a hundred steps.
Ordinary matchlock guns can only hit one hundred meters, so Li Zhi's personal guards usually only focus on the safety of the nearby one hundred meters. They just send people to patrol a hundred meters away, but unexpectedly they let this one be used.
Rumi Gun's assassins took advantage of the loophole.
However, everyone was a little frightened when they saw this Lumi gun.
This Rumi gun was only equipped with the Beijing camp. How did the person who assassinated Li Zhi obtain this kind of gun? This Lumi gun at least shows that these assassins are taking orders from a very powerful organization. This organization can not only coerce the assassins
He committed suicide immediately after failure and was able to obtain such sophisticated firearms, which is probably not something that ordinary small landowners can do.
Zheng Kaicheng looked at the assassin's body angrily and said: "My lord, we must find out the mastermind behind the scenes this time. Otherwise, if the mastermind fails to assassinate him once, there will inevitably be a second and third time. We cannot guard against it."
, if you are slightly negligent, it will lead to a big mistake."
Zhong Feng's face suddenly changed color and he said loudly: "My lord, you have made great contributions over the years. This Rumi gun is only available in the Jingying camp, could it be that"
What Zhong Feng said was that Li Zhi was so powerful that the emperor Zhu Youjian wanted to kill Li Zhi.
Zhong Feng stopped talking halfway through, but it still aroused Zheng Kaicheng's anger.
"Zhong Feng! You talk nonsense without caring about the situation. Believe it or not, I will shoot you!"
Li Laosi's face also darkened and he cursed: "Zhong Feng, don't talk nonsense!"
Zhong Feng closed his mouth angrily and stopped talking.
Gao Ligong thought for a while, shook his head and said: "Impossible. Now that thieves are becoming more and more popular, maybe the Duke of the country will be recruited to suppress the thieves. This is the time to employ people! Impossible!"
Gao Ligong raised his hand and said: "My boss, now this Rumi gun is the only clue. We can only ask the emperor to start from the Beijing camp to find out whether there is a leak of Rumi gun in the capital camp, and find out who organized this incident." Assassinated!"
Li Laosi thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "With the way Jin Yiwei and Dongchang are doing now, I'm afraid they won't be able to find out the clues."
At this time, the company commander of the personal guard ran back on horseback. He raised his hands and said to Li Zhi on the horse: "Master Guo, we have asked the people around you. This area is sparsely populated. No one saw when these three people followed. .”
Everyone looked at each other for a while, feeling that the matter was difficult.
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In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youjian looked at Li Zhi's memorial and frowned.
An assassin assassinated Li Zhi in Shandong, which was a big deal. Now Li Zhi can be regarded as the mainstay of the Ming Dynasty. If Li Zhi was killed, Zhu Youjian would really panic. Although Jiannu in the north was severely damaged, his vitality is still there. In the Central Plains, Li Zicheng had been honest for one or two years. Taking advantage of this year's famine, the war broke out again. It can be said that the Ming Dynasty was still at war.
Only with Li Zhi in Tianjin did Zhu Youjian feel like he had a chance to win.
Although Li Zhi put forward unreasonable conditions every time he responded to the call, he still obeyed the call anyway. If Li Zhi died and Huben Division collapsed, this mess would really make Zhu Youjian unable to sleep.
Wang Chengen secretly looked at Li Zhi's memorial from behind Zhu Youjian and asked: "Your Majesty, this Li Zhi said that the assassin used the Lumi gun from the Beijing camp. This is really strange."
Zhu Youjian pondered and said: "This is the only clue. Now we can only let the Jin Yiwei investigate to see if any Rumi guns have strayed to Shandong in recent years. If we follow the clues, we might be able to find out the origin of the assassin."
When Wang Chengen heard this, he didn't say a word.
Zhu Youjian looked back at Wang Chengen and asked, "How?"
Wang Chengen bowed and said: "Your Majesty, now the capital camp is equipped with more than 50,000 Rumi guns, which involves soldiers, horses and generals of each battalion, thousands of gunsmiths, and thousands of things. With the current level of Jinyiwei , it is absolutely impossible to find out when the three Rumi guns were leaked."
Wang Chengen took another look at Li Zhi's memorial and said: "Li Zhi said that if the emperor agrees, he can send personnel from his shogunate into the Beijing camp to investigate. His troops are quite elite, and they will be able to find out after a few months of investigation. Finally come!"
"The Beijing camp is my personal soldier and only obeys my orders. How can I let Li Zhi's secret guards come to examine it? Do I want my military attache to tell the details of the Beijing camp clearly one by one under the interrogation of Li Zhi's secret guards? ?Not to mention allowing Li Zhi to find out what happened in the Beijing camp, even the embarrassment of being interrogated by Li Zhi's secret guard will make the soldiers in the Beijing camp confused."
"This involves royal dignity and cannot be done under any circumstances."
Wang Chengen blinked his eyes, bowed and said: "Your Majesty, Shengming! It's just that this Rumi gun is a firearm exclusively used by the Beijing camp, so it will inevitably give people a reason. If we can't give an explanation to the Lord of Jin, I'm afraid that the Lord of Jin will turn against His Majesty after a long time. Give birth to fear"
When Zhu Youjian heard Wang Chengen's words, his face sank. If he couldn't be found out, would Li Zhi suspect that he wanted to kill him over time?
After thinking for a while, he said: "The Jinyi Guards are not in use, let Wang Dehua send the eunuchs from Dongchang to investigate! Use all the manpower to investigate, and investigate him for a month. We must find out how many guns have been leaked out of Lumi over the years. Where did it leak? Give Duke Jin an explanation."
