Chapter 372: Clues are like snowballs
That night, General Cheng arrived, and Li Zhongxuan said: "Keep an eye on it lately, he is going to fight against me now." ”
"The last general knows!" General Cheng nodded.
But that night, the people sent out by General Cheng were assassinated, and even none of them came back, General Cheng claimed to be the first warrior of the dynasty, and the so-called strong generals had no weak soldiers, and the people he arranged to go down were all civil and military, but the whole army was wiped out.
The good thing is that these dozen or so people did not reveal their identities, Gao Dechang had already found out that this group of people was investigating themselves, and last night was a bloody night, and in order to deal with this group of people, he was also greatly injured.
On this day, Sister Hong followed Gao Dechang, and Gao Dechang's carriage entered a house in the east of the city, and after a long time, she didn't come out.
Qiao An and Sister Hong entered the house, but the old fox was nowhere to be seen, and the two heard a girl crying in the house, and when they opened the door, they saw that the girl was tied to a Taishi chair, and the top of the girl's head was still covered with sackcloth.
Sister Hong couldn't see the girl suffering, so she approached the girl without thinking about it, and after taking off the sackcloth on the top of the girl's head, Sister Hong and Qiao An took a closer look and realized that the girl was not Gao Yupan.
"Oops! Fooled. Qiao An motioned for Sister Hong to leave here quickly after saving people, but at the same time, both of them smelled the strong smell of gunpowder.
"Joan! Get down! At the critical juncture, Sister Hong rushed out of the inner room, and her body protected Qiao An like a hill, and then, the earth-shattering explosion resounded throughout the sky, and half the people on the street heard it.
It turned out that not only was the girl strapped with explosives, but even the surrounding area of the courtyard was buried with gunpowder in advance, and the gunpowder exploded with amazing power, and everyone dodged left and right, if it wasn't for Qiao An's luck, she would have been buried in the fire today.
Qiao An escaped death, but she took pity on Sister Hong, who was seriously injured in the back in order to save Qiao An.
But after this incident, Gao Dechang found that the person who really tracked him down was not the dragon forbidden lieutenant of the imperial court.
Waiting for Li Zhongxuan's Long Forbidden Lieutenant to rush over, seeing that Sister Hong was dying, the Red Ladies sent Sister Hong to the medical officer for treatment, Sister Hong escaped death, but after waking up, she still chattered, asking Qiao An long and short questions.
They damaged the main force, and they didn't dare to act rashly for the time being, after this incident, Qiao An was more cautious, this old fox was not ordinary smart.
Qiao An told Li Zhongxuan about this, and Li Zhongxuan was also cautious.
Gao Dechang has been closed recently, but most of the officials of the imperial court have begun to draw close to him, and on Gao Dechang's sixtieth birthday, the crowd is endless.
Everyone sent congratulatory gifts, and even Li Zhongxuan was not exempt from vulgarity. As for this banquet, because of the arrival of General Cheng, there was a miasma, General Cheng was born poor, and he hated these bureaucrats who were powerful and blessed the most.
Seeing that someone sent him so many congratulatory gifts, General Cheng was naturally angry and angry, and from this day on, the relationship between General Cheng and Gao Dechang was extremely tense.
But this time the banquet gradually revealed some secrets, and the people in the rivers and lakes who gave gifts at the banquet abounded, and after the night was quiet, General Cheng selectively followed a group of people.
This time, lest there be a mistake, he acted alone.
After a few Jianghu people came out of the Xiangfu, they beat their horses to the west of the city, and then entered an alley, General Cheng followed them for a long time, and found that this group of people had entered a house.
The house was heavily guarded, and it seemed to be a hidden military stronghold, so he remembered the exact location and left.
After three or five days, there were gradually more small merchants and vendors outside this alley, some selling melons and some selling tea, all of whom were from the imperial court.
After knowing these secrets, even Li Zhongxuan and Qiao An played some inconspicuous roles, and Li Zhongxuan lowered the brim of his hat and observed the mansion.
This small courtyard is very lively all day long, with people coming and going, and the river is endless.
The people in the small courtyard bought melons and asked General Cheng and Li Zhongxuan to bring them in, and the two sent a cart of melons in, peeked in, and found that there were many people standing guard in this courtyard.
The two of them withdrew, and the crowd remained silent.
When night fell, a few gamblers returned, they drank a cup of Bazhen tea, fainted one after another, and when they opened their eyes again, they had arrived at a hut.
A few people in the hut were staring at them fiercely.
"Uncle spare your life!" These people woke up and were busy kowtowing to Li Zhongxuan and the others.
"Only by telling the truth can you have a chance to live!" Li Zhongxuan threw a look at General Cheng, and without saying a word, General Cheng killed one of them with his hands, and blood splattered on the spot.
The rest of the people were terrified when they saw this.
I'd rather tell the truth.
A quarter of an hour later, General Cheng's tiger and leopard battalion moved and surrounded the house, and everyone climbed over the wall with flying tiger claws and entered the atrium, and the fight was extremely fierce, but the war was soon over.
The tiger and leopard battalion had the upper hand, and the soldiers in the watchtower suffered heavy casualties, and they did not expect that there were as many as 200 people hiding dragons and crouching tigers in this small courtyard.
"Your Majesty, help! Help me! In the main hall, someone held a dagger and sent Gao Yupan out, Gao Yupan's tears rippled and his cloak was scattered.
"Your Majesty, help! The emperor helps! Li Zhongxuan and the others did not dare to act rashly, and everyone looked at Gao Yupan, who was in pain.
"Help, help!" Gao Yupan screamed.
"Put down your weapons, or I will kill this noble concubine, and you will lose more than you gain." The man's dagger was close to Gao Yupan's throat, and it didn't look like he was performing.
"Help, help!" Gao Yupan was still wailing loudly at first, but at this moment, his voice had gradually weakened, as if a mosquito was humming.
"Get out of the way!" The gangsters screamed.
But the crowd did not move.
"Get out of the way!" Li Zhongxuan threw away the long knife in his hand and motioned for everyone to get out of the way and let the man leave.
"Your Majesty!" General Cheng shook his head slightly at Li Zhongxuan, they have been investigating for the past few days, and found that Gao Dechang was not as upright as he seemed on the surface, and found that there was a chance that Gao Dechang made this matter.
Now is their best chance to destroy this organization, and the hostages were killed in the process of rescue, which is also a helpless thing, General Cheng naturally wants to push the boat down the river.
But Li Zhongxuan had his own concerns, he was sure that the people in this watchtower were only a part of the total number of people in this organization, and once Gao Yupan died, Xiangye's side would definitely not give up.
"Get out of the way!" Li Zhongxuan ordered again.
Although General Cheng didn't realize what Li Zhongxuan meant, he still got out of the way, and the man coerced Gao Yupan to leave.
"Emperor, Emperor, help!" Gao Yupan was out of breath.
Everyone watched as the villain took Gao Yupan Feiguan and left, and waited for the two of them to go out for a long time before General Cheng let his people chase him out.
Just when everyone was at a loss, Sister Hong appeared, Sister Hong arrived in a car, lifted the curtain, and threw a dead person on the ground, and everyone saw that the person was the guard who had just coerced Gao Yupan to leave.
The man's throat was pierced by an iron thistle.
In the carriage, Gao Yupan rolled out in despair, and crawled close to Li Zhongxuan.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty! Fast! Act quickly, the concubines have been imprisoned by them in the past few days, and the concubines have learned a lot of secrets from their conversations. ”
That Gao Yupan said a lot of rudders of the watchtower in one breath, and Li Zhongxuan dispatched troops.
Seeing that General Cheng had gone, Li Zhongxuan approached Sister Hong, "Thank you." ”
"Thank me?" Sister Hong sneered, she glanced at her displeasure, and looked at the delicate Gao Yupan, who was holding Li Zhongxuan, like a drowning man who had grasped a life-saving straw, with a poignant and exaggerated expression.
"If it weren't for Qiao An's already done a good job of border defense, where could our red lady be unpredictable? Besides, I didn't shoot this thistle, it was also Qiao An's handiwork," Sister Hong squatted next to the corpse and pulled the thistle out of the corpse's throat.
"If you really want to thank her, say it to your face, let's go." Sister Hong screamed, and all the red ladies collected their troops and left.
"Your Majesty, return to the Emperor." It seemed that she was afraid that Li Zhongxuan would go to Qiao An, and muttered desolately.
"It's okay, it's okay." Li Zhongxuan patted Gao Yupan on the shoulder.
The "torture" in the past few days made Gao Yupan look miserable, and she soon fainted.
The night was bright, Li Zhongxuan hugged Gao Yupan and put it in the carriage, and in the second half of the night, Gao Dechang entered the palace, and the father and daughter cried bitterly when they saw each other.
In the second half of the night, General Cheng happily entered the palace and successfully surrounded and suppressed the stragglers in the watchtower, and Li Zhongxuan rewarded the three armies and let them go back to rest.
It was also the second half of the night, and the ministers arrived in Zhongjing one after another.
Gao Dechang knelt in front of Li Zhongxuan, "Your Majesty, you rewarded General Cheng but ignored Concubine Gao, if it wasn't for the noble concubine Niangniang who told General Cheng about the den of the watchtower, how could General Cheng be able to break them one by one?" ”
The implication is that although the matter was successful, if there was no clue from the witty Gao Yupan, the matter might not have had such a result.
Li Zhongxuan knew Gao Dechang's wolf ambitions, so he could only nod his head and ask the Ministry of Rites to prepare gold, silver, jewelry and other rewards for Gao Dechang and Gao Yupan.
"This is abandoning the pawn to protect the car," Afterwards, General Cheng frowned and analyzed, "Your Majesty, things are not as simple as they seem on the surface, you still need to be careful." ”
"I know." This time the sniper killing, the security team also suffered heavy casualties, and Li Zhongxuan asked General Cheng to continue the regimental training in case of emergency.
After the early dynasty, Li Zhongxuan looked for the girl in the crane tower, those red ladies were haunted, and they were no longer where they stayed yesterday, and the second brother handed Li Zhongxuan a letter, "This is what Miss Shen gave you before leaving, she described your appearance, and said that you should not look for her." ”
"Is she still in the city?"
"This," the man frowned, "the villain doesn't know about the guest, but I'm afraid that everything he wants to say is in this letter." Li Zhongxuan took the letter with him.
It's just a few words, "Ann, don't read it." And: There is no trivial matter in the affairs of the court, and the king should be a good man. ”
Li Zhongxuan, who read this official article, was on fire.
Took away the letter, just returned to the Qiankun Palace, a large group of civil ministers and military generals knelt outside the Qiankun Palace, Li Zhongxuan was about to go back, and he felt that the atmosphere was wrong just after he walked to the Qinzheng Palace.
Steep footsteps sounded from the side, and Li Zhongxuan hurriedly threw Qiao An's letter on his sleeve, and when he turned his head, he turned out to be a general.
"Don't go back, don't go back, leave this matter to the last general."
It turned out that a group of civil ministers and military generals all came to ask for a reward for Gao Yupan, and although everyone knew that Li Zhongxuan was not in the Qiankun Palace, they still knelt outside, and each of them couldn't afford to kneel.
Li Zhongxuan was most afraid that others would grind him, and in the afternoon, he still arrived in the Qiankun Palace, and as soon as he entered, a few people who were not afraid of death came in.
"Your Majesty, the noble concubine is so sacrificing her life for righteousness, and she only heard such a clue in the thief's nest, you can't just reward some gold, silver and jewelry."
"Oh?" Li Zhongxuan chuckled, he couldn't see his inner emotions at all, and he didn't even look at his eyes, "What do you mean by this?" ”
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