Miss He looked at Liu Xiu's shoulder and whispered: "You...you are injured!"
Liu Xiu didn't even look at the wound on his shoulder. He stared at the pretty girl in front of him and asked, "Aren't you afraid of me?"
Miss He said: "You are not a bad person."
Liu Xiu almost couldn't hold back her laughter. She deliberately looked gloomy and asked, "How do you know I'm not a bad person?"
"You helped me get out of the siege just now in the garden of the Li Mansion. And... and I heard that the people who were assassinated were County Magistrate Li and County Lieutenant Jia!"
At this point, Miss He looked at Liu Xiu cautiously and said in a low voice: "I know that neither County Magistrate Li nor County Captain Jia is a good person."
Liu Xiu looked at Miss He. After a moment, he waved his arm, retracted his sword, and said: "After passing the street in front, when you see a deserted alley, put me down."
He did not say this to Miss He, but to the middle-aged driver who was driving the carriage.
"But your injury..."
"I will handle it myself." At present, Xiangcheng is still in the hands of the county soldiers. At this time, whoever sticks to him will be in trouble. Liu Xiu and Miss He are strangers, but he doesn't want to implicate her.
"I...I can help you bandage the wound." Miss He said anxiously. At the same time, she stretched out her hand to check the injury on Liu Xiu's shoulder.
Liu Xiu grabbed her wrist and said in a deep voice: "I told you, I will handle it myself."
Although the driver did not sit in the carriage, he could clearly hear the conversation between Liu Xiu and Miss He.
Obviously, the man who suddenly jumped onto the carriage was the assassin who assassinated Li Wen and Jia Xuan. It is impossible to hide from such a person. It is better for the lady to bandage the wounds of the assassins. This needs to be known, and the whole
Every family will suffer.
The middle-aged coachman was just a servant. He did not dare and could not reprimand his young lady. He could only make the carriage run as fast as possible so that he could find a place where no one was around and quickly send this 'plague' away.
Miss He subconsciously rubbed her wrist that was so painful from being buckled by Liu Xiu. Her eyes were red and wet, and she asked, "Do you also look down on me for coming from a wealthy family?"
Where are these things? Liu Xiu rubbed his forehead. At this moment, the driver's trembling voice came from outside the carriage: "This... this gentleman, there is no one in this alley!"
Liu Xiu raised the curtain of the carriage with his shuriken and looked outside. Sure enough, the carriage stopped at the entrance of an empty alley. Without another word, he bent down and jumped out of the carriage. He said thank you and turned around.
Just leave.
Miss He poked her head out of the carriage and asked, "Can I know your name?"
"The one who killed Li Wen is Liu Xiu!" Liu Xiu said this without looking back and ran towards the depths of the alley.
Liu Xiu? Liu Xiu of the Han Army in Nanyang? Miss He was stunned for a moment before she realized what she was doing. Unfortunately, she tried to confirm with Liu Xiu, but she could no longer see him.
In the alley, Liu Xiu jumped into the yard of a house, stole a robe that was lying in the yard, put it on, then left the alley, checked the direction, and hurried to Wang Xing's home.
He didn't dare to go through the front door, so he entered Wang Xing's mansion through the back door.
The person who opened the door for him was none other than Wang Ba. Liu Xiu looked up and his heart suddenly relaxed. Not only Long Yuan, Long Zhun, Long Bu, Xu Ying, Xu Fei, and Xu Ting were all there.
, even Wang Xing ran back at some point.
"Lord, are you okay?" Seeing that it was Liu Xiu who had returned, everyone gathered around and came forward. Liu Xiu looked around at everyone. Except that there was no blood on Wang Xing, Long Yuan and others were all stained with blood, and their clothes were stained with blood.
There are many large and small openings.
"I'm fine! How did you come back?" Liu Xiu asked.
Long Yuan said: "I will wait for a bloody path among the county soldiers and rush out!"
Wang Xing said: "I ran back during the chaos!"
Liu Xiu nodded, frowned and said: "The county soldiers should come to the door soon. If we can't hide here, we have to move quickly!"
Wang Xing said seriously: "General Liu, everyone, please come with me!" Wang Xing led Liu Xiu and his party to the back garden, and stopped in front of a rockery in the back garden.
There is a very narrow cave inside the rockery, which can only accommodate one person walking together. Moreover, the cave is open. Standing on this side of the rockery, you can see through the cave and see the other side of the rockery.
After everyone looked at it, they secretly murmured in their hearts, could the secret room of the Wang family's mansion be this small cave? Can it hide people?
Wang Xing and Wang Ba walked into the cave and removed the stones on the ground one by one. It was only then that Liu Xiu and others discovered that there was a movable stone slab hidden on the ground of the cave.
Wang Ba opened the stone slab and saw that it was dark underneath. He took out the fire certificate, handed it to Liu Xiu, and said, "My lord, this secret room is very hidden. It is safe to hide in it!"
Liu Xiu took the fire certificate and jumped in without saying a word.
The secret room was about two meters deep, and the space inside was not small. Wang Ba, Long Yuan and others followed closely behind and jumped in one after another.
Wang Xing did not enter the secret room immediately, but first found all the family members in the house and took them into the secret room together.
In the end, only one trusted servant was left to close the stone slabs on the secret room and put the stones back into their original positions.
If you don't know the inside story, no matter who you show it, this is just an ordinary rockery used to decorate the garden. You would never expect that there is a secret room hidden under the rockery.
Liu Xiu overestimated the ability of the county soldiers, and it was not until night that the county soldiers found Wang Xing's mansion.
When Wang Xing took Liu Xiu and others to the Li Mansion, they were all domestic slaves and no one paid any attention to them. They assassinated Li Wen and Jia Xuan by surprise, and the county soldiers searched all over the city, but no one caught them.
Think of it with Wang Xing.
It wasn't until a servant of the Li Mansion said that the assassin seemed to be a slave brought by Wang Xing that the county soldiers came to the door.
As a result, when they arrived at the Wang family's mansion, there were only a few domestic servants left in the palace. As for Wang Xing and his family members, they had all disappeared.
The county soldiers asked the domestic servants where Wang Xing and others had gone. These servants also looked at a loss and could not tell the whereabouts of Wang Xing and others.
After a lot of questioning, they couldn't find out the reason. Finally, the county soldiers arrested all the servants in the Wang family's residence and took them back to the county government.
However, before the county soldiers could torture the servants of the Wang family to extract confessions, the next day at dawn, Jia Fu, Ma Wu, Yao Qi and others led 3,000 Han troops and arrived outside Xiangcheng.
Xiangcheng County soldiers have a large number of troops, more than 2,000 people. However, the county magistrate Li Wen and the county lieutenant Jia Xuan have both been assassinated. They are leaderless, morale is low, and the army is disorganized. When they see the menacing Han army outside the city, they are still
With so many cavalry, people had no intention of fighting, and the county soldiers defending the city fled into the city in droves.
Jia Fu, Ma Wu, Yao Qi, Feng Yi and others used the cavalry as infantry, set up ladders, and launched a fierce attack on Xiangcheng.
The few Xiangcheng defenders who stayed at the top of the city barely put up any decent resistance and were defeated by the attacking Han army.
When the Han army entered the city, they opened the city gate immediately, and the cavalry from outside rushed in and rushed into the city.
As the cavalry entered the city, the county soldiers were no longer able to resist. Except for a small number of county soldiers who escaped, the remaining county soldiers all surrendered to the Han army.
The Battle of Xiangcheng started quickly and ended even faster. Adding together the time before and after, it didn’t even take an hour.
It was not until the Han army successfully captured Xiangcheng that the servant who had been hiding for a long time returned to the Wang family's mansion, opened the door of the secret room, and pulled Liu Xiu and others out of the secret room.
In the secret room, Liu Xiu, Long Yuan and others had bandaged their wounds.
Their injuries were not serious, most of them were skin injuries, and only Liu Xiu's injury was a penetrating injury. However, his physique was different from ordinary people, and he recovered from his injuries much faster than others.
After Liu Xiu, Jia Fu, Ma Wu and others gathered together, the first thing they did was to seize the two Li mansions.
The first Li Mansion was the residence of Li Wen, and the second Li Mansion was the residence of Li Hun. Li Hun, who was hiding in his home, was finally captured and was soon questioned and executed in public by the Han army, who asked him to accompany his father.
Li Wen went to keep company.
Speaking of which, Li Wen and Jia Xuan have been operating in Xiangcheng for so many years, so they naturally have many comrades. The Xiangcheng nobles are more or less related to Li Wen and Jia Xuan.
If we really want to strictly investigate the accomplices of the two of them, it is estimated that none of the Xiangcheng nobles will be able to escape, and they will all be implicated.
However, Liu Xiu did not dare to do this, and could not do this. Investigating all the Xiangcheng nobles would be tantamount to offending the entire Yingchuan noble class. Without the support of the noble class, how could the Han army gain a foothold in Yingchuan?
Liu Xiu himself may not like the gentry class, but he is not a stubborn person who does not know how to adapt. He knows very well how much support the gentry class can bring to his side.
For example, tracking down his comrades, implicating a lot of people, and then dealing with them all, Liu Xiu cannot do this kind of thing. He has never been a cruel and easy-to-kill person. His political philosophy has always been towards softness.
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After all, Liu Xiu was a student of Taipei University. No matter how well he studied or what his academic qualifications were, his knowledge and accomplishments were far beyond those of Liu Xuan, Wang Kuang, and Chen Mu.
After the Han army captured Xiangcheng, the nobles from Xiangcheng came to the county government office immediately to pay homage to Liu Xiu. Although Liu Xiu was injured, he still received the nobles who came.
There were not many nobles who came to see Liu Xiu, but they were all very important, and they were all highly respected representatives of the Xiangcheng nobles.
The main purpose of their coming here this time was to test Liu Xiu's tone and see what Liu Xiu's attitude towards them was.
Seeing that Liu Xiu treated people like them with courtesy, and even personally greeted them out of the county government, the representatives of the noble clans all secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and the atmosphere at the scene became much more relaxed.
An elderly man said: "General Liu, Li Wen, and Jia Xuan bullied men and women in Xiangcheng and committed all kinds of evil. They have already caused complaints. This time the Han army killed these two thieves for our sake."
The people in the city are so angry, so happy! If General Liu needs it, just ask him, and as long as it is within our capabilities, we will definitely help him!"
"Yes, General Liu, if the Han army needs anything, just ask me to wait!"
"Speaking of which, Xiu really has something to ask for help." Liu Xiu said cheerfully: "Our army is advancing into Yingchuan, and there is a lot of food and grass shortage. If you gentlemen can donate some food, our soldiers will be very grateful!"
The Xiangyang County government did not have much grain, and there was not much money saved in the county treasury. On the contrary, the Han army seized huge amounts of money from Li's and Jia's houses, but not much grain.
Three thousand soldiers need to eat and drink every day. Money and food alone are not enough. The most difficult problem Liu Xiu faces at present is to solve the problem of food and grass supply for the entire army.