novelraw Chapter 179
Chapter 179
Someone took away more than a dozen high officials from the Imperial Prison, and they met Liu Tong's soldiers and horses face to face within a short distance.That Hong Qianhu sneered, pointed at them and said: "Fortunately, I met my comrades, and I was never fooled by you! Where did the rebellious officials and thieves come from!"
The handsome young general smiled: "Who is the traitor?"
Hong Qianhu was a little embarrassed, and shouted: "No matter who you are, anyway..." Before he finished speaking, he heard the sound of a whistle, and a cold arrow flew from nowhere. his arm.Hong Qianhu yelled, "What kind of hero is stabbing someone in the back!"
The general laughed like hell: "Not only the back arrows, but our knives, guns and arrows are all coated with the strange poison 'gutter oil', and they are all poisonous arrows. Has Hong Qianhu ever noticed that the wound is burning hot and hurts more than ordinary wounds?"
Hong Qianhu let out an "Aiya", covered his arms, his face turned pale, he staggered on his horse and couldn't sit still, he gritted his teeth and said, "You despicable villain, pay with your life!"
Before the words finished, the general said again: "I just heard that the water from the ancient well, which is very clean within three quarters of an hour, can cure the poison."
Hong Qianhu asked him to say so much, he didn't know whether to believe it or not, so he was momentarily stunned.
The group on the opposite side had no time to wait for him.The leading general blew a whistle and fired arrows!Immediately, more than a dozen people were hit by arrows and fell off their horses.The general yelled "Kill!" Everyone applauded and rushed over, brandishing their swords and guns to fight.The guards who followed him from the Imperial Prison sneaked aside and watched, neither helping each other.
The soldiers and horses who robbed the officials were about [-] people, and they fought extremely recklessly.The seemingly "human" formation was actually led by the general with high martial arts skills. There were two groups of soldiers on the left and right, and each group consisted of three people. Tear Liu Jun apart like an arrow.The cavalry with your lords in front of the horse was protected by two groups of people and horses.
Just at this time, another group of people ran over and blew three whistles from a distance, one long and two short.The general was swinging his knife to fight with the leader of another patrolling soldier of the Liu army, his hands never stopped, and he responded with a long whistle.The cavalry leading Lin Hai suddenly waved his hand and knocked Lin Hai unconscious. Your lords have long believed that the soldiers who brought them out of prison are the soldiers of the Son of Heaven, so they went off to watch and fight, and no one paid attention.The general shouted: "The support team has arrived! The poison on their swords. The name of the medicine is 'Sanlu'. Seeing the blood seals the throat—" Liu Jun was in an uproar, and his morale was in turmoil.
The other 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 thumped in unison.The general laughed loudly, while easily beheading a few opponents, he led his men to kill a bloody path to join forces with the people in front.
The leader on the opposite side said in a deep voice: "You go first!" The major general nodded, and led a dozen officials to pat his horses away.
Not long after the fight, Hong Qianhu, who was watching the battle due to injury, knew that he could not win.Although these of my family are old soldiers, the opponent's martial arts are not weak; my family is used to one-on-one, and the opponent obviously trains three-on-one all year round; my family is ordinary soldiers, and the opponent's armor and weapons are much stronger.Nai yelled: "Go and rescue the soldiers!" Little did he know that this sentence made his own soldiers think that the defeat was over, and the sliver of combat power they had just gathered suddenly collapsed.
The responding leader took the opportunity to cut down the other Liu Jun leader, and shouted: "You and other leaders are all defeated, and those who surrender will not be killed!" Liu Jun immediately collapsed like a mountain.
The leader killed for a while, and then blew a whistle with a twist; his subordinates stopped immediately, pulled back their horses and left, as if they were one person.Before Liu Jun understood, the opponent had already run away with nothing but smoke and dust left.
Hong Qianhu was dumbfounded watching from behind, and after a long while he sighed: "Good soldier!" Then he shouted, "Hurry up! Bring 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 also wanted to chase after him, so he was stopped by his comrades, forcing him to break open a nearby medical clinic to examine the poisoned arrows.
Even though the doctor was dragged off the kang, seeing that they were military masters, he didn't dare to complain, so he hurriedly pulled out the arrow for him.Just as he was about to apply the medicine, his brother said anxiously, "This arrowhead is poisonous! It must be washed with water from the ancient well!"
The doctor looked at the arrowhead and inspected the wound carefully, and said, "It's not poisonous, just sprinkle some chili flour."
Several people were dumbfounded.Hong Qianhu couldn't help laughing loudly: "How cunning!" Taking advantage of the opportunity of the doctor applying the medicine for him, he picked up the arrow with the other arm and looked at it carefully, and was shocked, "Arrows from the Imperial Forest Army!" Several people immediately looked at each other in dismay.Hong Qianhu stood up, "I'm going to see the general!"
Several brothers held him down: "It's important that the adults finish the medicine first!" They urged the doctor to hurry up.
The doctor hurriedly wrapped his arms, and several people kicked out the door, mounted their horses and galloped towards Liu Tong's residence.
Hong Qianhu awakened Liu Tong from his dream, and pleaded guilty to the man's plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain, and showed him the arrow again.Surprised, Liu Tong raised his leg and gave him a kick, kicking Hong Qianhu out of the door.After thinking about it, he rushed out and asked him, "How many people?"
Hong Qianhu lay on the ground and said, "Three hundred people came from the front, and at most [-] came to rescue from the back."
Liu Tong immediately summoned his troops.Because the chasing soldiers didn't know where they went, they had to ask from the prison first.When the jailer said that the other party had brought out the "imperial decree", he was shocked!After chasing them along the way they escaped for a while, Hong Qianhu's soldiers ran over and said that the group of people had broken into a temple in the south of the city and were guarding it now; Report back.
Liu Tong sneered, "The city gates on all sides are closed, it's hard for them to fly!" He ordered the man to lead the way, and more than 3000 people chased after them with torches.
When he arrived at the gate of the temple, a soldier who knew it reported to Liu Tong, "This is a nunnery called Zhenwu nunnery." The nunnery door was closed tightly, and there was no sound from inside.
A strong soldier stepped forward and kicked the door, but couldn't do it after several kicks.Because the wall of the nunnery was low, Liu Tong ordered, "Cross the wall!" Several soldiers climbed over the wall and entered inside, shouting, "No one! There is a Bodhisattva blocking the entrance of the nunnery."
Surprised, Liu Tong ordered loudly, "Move the Bodhisattva!"
Those few people moved the Bodhisattva aside and opened the door of the nunnery, and the soldiers embraced Liu Tong to enter.I saw that it was very quiet inside, and there was no sound of people; it was also dark and there were no lights and candles.Everyone walked in with torches, and came out through the Daxiong Palace. They suddenly noticed a light in a side hall in front of them, and rushed over quickly.
When we got to the door, we heard faint voices inside.Take another torch to shine, and there is a big iron lock across the door!Liu Tong pulled out the sword from his waist and waved it, and the iron lock fell down.Another kick opened the door.
I saw two candles burning inside, a burner of incense on the incense table, and a group of aunts sitting cross-legged on the ground, densely packed.The old sister-in-law who is the leader is knocking on the wooden fish in front of the Buddha and chanting scriptures.Liu Tong intended to step in, but found that the inside was too full of people and he couldn't get his feet in.It is obvious that this side hall is not the place where nuns usually gather in this nunnery.
The leading old lady put down the wooden fish and stood up, said a word of Buddha, turned around and raised her head to look at Liu Tong, she was startled, and said together: "Dare to ask this general, why did you break into my Buddhist pure land."
Liu Tong pointed at her with a knife and asked, "Where are the rebels hidden in your nunnery?"
The old aunt put her palms together again and recited a Buddha: "The poor nun has been locked up in this hall by a group of soldiers for nearly half an hour."
Liu Tong hurriedly asked her where she had passed.
The old aunt ordered all the nuns to stand up, and went to the door to tell Liu Tong about it.
It turned out that a man led a group of soldiers into the Zhenwu Nunnery just now, and drove all the aunts out of the nunnery one by one, or locked three or five or seven or eight into a room.After listening to the noise outside for a long time, Nai drove them out of the houses with knives and guns and concentrated them in the side hall of Medicine Buddha.The aunts only heard a lock outside, and they didn't know what they were going to do.The old aunt led them to meditate and chant scriptures in this hall, waiting for the protection of Medicine Buddha.
Liu Tong hurriedly ordered his men to search the nunnery, but there was no one there; after searching for a long time, they finally found horseshoe marks and horse dung in the back mountain.It's just that there are horseshoe marks coming and going, and I followed the horseshoe marks for a circle, and found that the horseshoe had circled a mountain road in the back mountain!The back mountain is said to be the back mountain, but it is just a small mound, and there is no place for Tibetans.Five hundred riders don't know where to go!Liu Tong was shocked and ordered all the nuns to be taken down for questioning.
They questioned until dawn, and interrogated all the aunts individually, and they all said the same thing, so it was not a lie.But according to what they said, it was the same three soldiers who drove the aunts to the side hall.Only an aunt who boiled water in the kitchen said that those people came to her to fetch a pot of water and a dozen bowls. She saw a handsome man in his 20s who looked like a leader took out a pot of water from his arms. A large package of medicine powder came and sprinkled in the bowl one by one.Another soldier next to him carried a kettle and flushed down the boiling water, stirred it up with their chopsticks, and brought out bowls of water.Liu Tong's men immediately found the dozen or so bowls in a side hall and ordered them to take them all away.Afterwards, a well-trained doctor was found to examine the bowl carefully, and the doctor asserted that the bowl once contained a very powerful drug.
The drug of fascination can never be used to fascinate their own people, [-]% of it is used to fascinate the dozen or so court ministers.Liu Tong felt extremely confused for a moment, and couldn't figure out what those imperial guards were going to do.
But I went back and looked into the matter carefully.The arrows left by the jailbreakers collected near the edict prison last night were identified by the people from the Yuheng Qingli Department of the Ministry of Industry, and they all said that they were indeed used by the Imperial Forest Army.The jailer in the Imperial Prison firmly insisted that the lapel of the roll was covered with a jade seal.Liu Tong's aides came up with an idea with him, he took out a copy of this handwriting from the palace, and mixed it with several other people's lottery for the jailer to distinguish.The jailer looked at it for a long time, pointed to the saint's handwriting and said, "The handwriting on the imperial decree seems to be similar to this one." Liu Tong's face sank even more.
Hong Qianhu swore again and again that the token that sent him to leave the imperial prison was exactly the same as the real one!Even the patina of the headband is the same.Liu Tong took the authentic token to have a closer look with him, and he said, "I just looked at it for a while, and it's very similar." He pointed to the two fine lines that have faded, "Here and here are also a bit shallower. "Liu Tong ordered people to go to the market to find a few fake antiques to ask. They all said that it is not difficult to imitate the token, but if there are even shallow parts, the person who made it must be very familiar with it. Random glances are not enough.Liu Tong suddenly suspected that there was a spy beside him, but it was difficult to find out for a while, the new emperor will ascend the throne tomorrow.
He then ordered a few confidants to search the people around him carefully, and some of his subordinate generals drove out all the aunts of Zhenwu Nunnery and searched the nunnery and the back mountain again and again. The group of people seemed to fly away with wings.
Jia Cong heard that more than a dozen adults had been robbed from the edict prison, and he also found out that there were two of his gentlemen inside, so he immediately rode his horse and rushed to the palace of Xian Wang.When he saw Situ Pan, he grabbed him regardless of etiquette and asked in a low voice, "Is that 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 that robbed people acted in a mess that made people confused, and dared to counterfeit the imperial decree, so I thought it was you."
Jia Cong stomped his feet: "What a mess I am! It's really not you? What about my husband? Where is my husband?"
Situ Pan said: "But I really don't know."
Jia Cong held onto his lapel tightly: "Why don't you know? Who else in the capital can rob people from the imperial prison except you! You are the saint's younger brother! You must have a blank imperial edict in your hand!"
Situ Pan said: "How unreasonable! Where did the blank edict come from!"
Jia Cong said: "There are all kinds of opera commentaries! The emperor will leave blank imperial edicts around the most important people for emergencies. These stories can never be groundless. There must be real things in the world. Don't fool me. You must have done it! Just tell me that my husband is safe." Then he pulled his sleeve and acted like a baby, "Brother Xianwang~~tell me~~I still ask to deal with Mrs. Su!"
Situ Pan smiled bitterly and said: "I really don't know. Don't panic, since they have robbed Ruhai and waited to go, they must be useful. It's better than being in prison."
Jia Cong stomped his feet and said: "Where is it better than the Imperial Prison! Anyway, I know where the man is in the Imperial Prison. I can't guarantee that I can try to please some general to save him in the future. Now I don't know who let him go. He doesn’t know what he’s going to do! It’s the scariest thing to not know!” Nai asked again in a low voice, “If it wasn’t for you, would there be any clues?”
Situ Pan said: "No. Even Liu Tong didn't find any clues. I only heard that the horseshoe prints disappeared after wandering around the mountain behind a nunnery. The nunnery is not far from the big house in the south of Shegong City. .”
Jia Cong immediately said: "Could it be Zhenwu'an?"
Situ Pan nodded: "Exactly."
Jia Cong said: "I saw their old sister-in-law when I was young, but I can't remember what she looked like now. How could the horseshoe marks disappear? Did they disappear out of thin air?"
Situ Pan said: "Turning around the small mound at the back of the mountain, there are footprints of hooves going up and down the mountain."
Jia Cong thought for a while: "That means they are not on the mountain anymore? Then why did they go up the mountain? To get something?"
Situ Pan came to his senses: "That's right! Since I've turned around, I'm sure I'm not on the mountain."
"Then where did they go?"
Situ Pan said: "How do I know? This makes people ask."
Jia Cong stomped his feet and shouted, "Go, go!"
Situ Pan asked him why he returned to the capital, and Jia Cong only said that he came to see Heizi.Situ Pan baited him for a long time and sent him away without finding any loopholes.Jia Cong repeatedly urged that the letter be delivered to Rongguo Mansion as soon as possible, but Situ Pan only responded in vain.
When Jia Cong walked to the door, he suddenly ran back with an "Ah!" and said, "Since the edict is not yours, it must belong to the saint! The saint has returned to Beijing?"
Situ Pan was stunned, and said, "If it's really a saint's soldiers and horses, Ruhai will be more and more unhindered."
Jia Cong glanced at him: "Hey, you really don't know?"
Situ Pan smiled wryly and shook his head.
Jia Cong left disappointed, and Situ Pan stared at his whereabouts for a long time without moving.
In the evening, a letter came from outside that General Liu Tong ordered the enthronement ceremony to be postponed for seven days, and the capital searched for traitors from house to house.In particular, I checked carefully the houses with horses.It's just that not only did they not find out the five hundred cavalrymen who attacked the imperial prison at night, nor did they find out the men and horses of Li Guopei before, but it was because they disturbed the backyard and caused complaints from all the princes and dignitaries.
On the other side, when a group of court officials robbed from the imperial prison woke up, they found themselves lying in a mess in a yard, so they pushed and scrambled to get up, patted the prison uniforms on their bodies, and felt hungry again. Thirsty again.Nai greeted Huizi with his hand, and then looked around the yard.Seeing its exquisite and meticulous, painted pillars and carved beams, there is a plaque hanging at the entrance of the main hall, with the words "Heng Zhi Qing Fen" written on it.There is another couplet, which reads: "The cardamom is especially beautiful when you sing it, and the dream is also fragrant when you sleep enough."
Lin Hai couldn't help but praised: "This couplet has an elegant meaning."