This is Zuo Huaide's only chance, your hotel has two defenses inside and outside, built like an iron bucket, Zuo Huaide's subordinates have no chance, they can only start on the road, and Zuo Huaide found that every morning outside the wall of Anrenfang there will be a small market for temporary grocery shopping, there are more people, Zuo Huaide put the assassination site here. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The crossbow used by the twenty assassins was a large yellow crossbow, which was large and extremely lethal, and could penetrate the shield at a distance of two hundred paces, not to mention the wooden carriage wall, twenty crossbow arrows with severe poison were fired into the carriage, and if one arrow wounded the Sui envoy, the messenger would surely die, although the archers could not aim at the people in the carriage, but the possibility of surviving this arrow array was extremely small.

But the assassin shot actually twenty-one arrows, and an arrow specifically to shoot horses, the war horse was hit by an arrow, neighed, fell to the ground on the spot and died, the sudden change made everyone present stunned, when the war horse fell to the ground, there was a sudden chaos around, the cavalry has launched, to a dozen archers pounced, the big yellow crossbow needs two people to cooperate with the winding, so it can only be used once in the assassination, the assassin dropped the crossbow and fled, the cavalry instantly surrounded several of them, slashed four people to death, captured one of them alive.

Zuo Huaide, who was hiding from a distance to watch the battle, felt that something was wrong, it stands to reason that the Sui cavalry should urgently rescue the master, but the Sui cavalry didn't care about the carriage at all, and only grabbed people fiercely, could it be that the carriage was ........

At this moment, hundreds of Tang soldiers who were patrolling nearby rushed over, and soon blocked all the surrounding streets, Zuo Huaide wanted to look further, but some Tang soldiers had already found him and shouted at him, helplessly, Zuo Huaide had to jump off the high wall and hide in Anrenfang.

The news of the assassination of the Sui envoy quickly spread to the imperial city, everyone was stunned, this is an extremely serious event, it will not trigger a war between the Sui and Tang dynasties, Li Yuan immediately issued an order, all the city gates were closed, and at the same time, Li Jiancheng led 3,000 soldiers to the assassination site.

The carriage was still overturned to the ground, and the horse pulling the cart had died, Li Jiancheng urgently asked the Tang army general who came first: "How are the people?" ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, both carriages are empty, and the messenger seems to have received information in advance and did not take the carriage."

Li Jiancheng suddenly breathed a long sigh of relief, first of all, it was okay for people to be fine, he walked quickly to the overturned carriage, the door had been opened, but the inside was not cleaned up, the soldiers did not destroy the scene, only to see that one side of the car wall was nailed with crossbow arrows, each crossbow arrow glowed with a blue poisonous luster.

Li Jiancheng's face turned pale, Wen Yanbo reminded himself that something had really happened, he turned around and ordered his subordinates: "Go and inform General Xue and tell him that the net can be closed!" ”

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A quarter of an hour later, 3,000 Tang soldiers in fine armor rushed into the West City and slaughtered the silk line under the leadership of the general Xue Wanche.

In Zuo's Silk Village, Zuo Huaide, who had just rushed back, was burning all kinds of documents in the room, and the guys were digging pits in the backyard, trying to bury all the weapons they had hidden, they didn't know that they had been exposed, but they knew that the Tang Army was about to start a large-scale search of the city, and all the contraband must be destroyed.

At this moment, a guy rushed in and shouted: "Oh no, the store is surrounded by the Tang army!" ”

Everyone was stunned and stunned, just listening to 'Boom! With a loud bang, the gate was slammed open, and countless Tang soldiers came in, and the guys were so frightened that they drew their swords, and then countless Tang soldiers suddenly appeared around the wall, and hundreds of bows and crossbows were aimed at the guys in the courtyard, "No one is allowed to move, all kneel!" ”

The guys looked at each other, not knowing what to do, at this time, Zuo Huaide was escorted in by the soldiers from the outside, he wanted to escape through the window in the room, but he was caught by the Tang army in ambush, and the guys knew that the general trend was gone, and they threw down their weapons and knelt down.

At this time, the general Xue Wanche walked in quickly, pressed Xueliang's combat knife on Zuo Huaide's neck, and asked coldly, "Where is the assassin?" ”

He saw that although these guys seemed to be a bit of martial arts, they were far from being assassins, and the assassins must be someone else.

Xue Wanche's murderous aura and oppression made Zuo Huaide unable to bear it in the end, his face turned pale, and he lowered his head and said, "Next door to the east is also the shop we rented!" ”

Xue Wanche waved his hand, "Go to the east next door!" ”

The Tang soldiers rushed to the next door again, and in a moment there was the sound of swords and guns and screams, with the sound of a bow and crossbow, the next door in the fierce battle suddenly quieted down, and then the last scream came, there was no sound next door, Zuo Huaide hung his head weakly, he knew that more than a dozen warriors who had just escaped had all been killed by the Tang army.

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Although the nature of the assassination on the streets of Chang'an was very serious, fortunately it did not cause irreparable consequences, everyone in the mission was safe and sound, and the Tang side immediately showed an efficient style of handling the crisis, and only an hour later, the Tang army killed all the assassins, and terminated Wang Shichong's intelligence station in Chang'an, and promptly reported the capture of the assassins to the Northern Sui mission in detail.

However, the assassination case did not end there, and the chief envoy Pei Ju reported to the King of Qi and Ziwei Pavilion in a timely manner, and without further instructions from Zhongdu, the Sui side temporarily suspended the negotiations, on the one hand, it was necessary to urge the Tang side to make an effective explanation, and on the other hand, the Sui side took advantage of this matter to exert pressure on the Tang side to make concessions at the negotiating table.

The door of the imperial study of the Wude Hall was closed, and all the eunuchs on duty were driven out, under the stern gaze of Cheng Zhongliang, the head of the inner palace, neither the guards nor the eunuchs dared to speak, and a large group of people stood under the corridor and waited patiently, in fact, everyone knew in their hearts that the saint in the imperial study was angry with His Royal Highness the Prince.

In the imperial study, Li Yuan was very annoyed, it was the first time in many years that he pointed at his eldest son and scolded him like this.

"Raising a dog knows how to take care of the home, what else can you do, such a simple thing has been smashed by you, what's the use of you!"

Li Yuan's face was flushed with anger, and he yelled with his neck straight, Li Jiancheng lowered his head deeply, and stood by the wall and didn't dare to say a word.

What made Li Yuan furious was because he had just learned that Wen Yanbo had given the address of Wang Shichong's intelligence point to his eldest son, and warned him that the other party was going to assassinate, but his eldest son did not take this matter to heart, which led to today's assassination.

If Li Jiancheng had taken this intelligence point that night, then they would not have been as passive as they were today, and the other party actually assassinated an empty carriage, which shows that Wen Yanbo already knew in advance that the other party was going to assassinate today, but did not notify the Tang army, when the assassination occurred, the Northern Sui mission took the initiative, and now the whole Chang'an is discussing this matter, how can it not make Li Yuan mad with anger.

"What are we going to do now, now? You do stupid things, you go and wipe your ass! Li Yuan pointed at his son's nose and roared like thunder.

Li Jiancheng was very sad in his heart, this matter was indeed his negligence for a while, he wanted to catch the evidence before he did it, but he didn't expect that a thought would make them fall into extreme passivity, Pei Ju pinched the assassination case, asked them to give an explanation, forced them to make concessions in negotiations, and made Li Jiancheng suffer.

Li Yuan scolded for a long time, and finally got a little tired, after venting his anger, he also knew that scolding could not solve the problem, he saw that his eldest son's eyes were red, so he sat back in his seat angrily, and said for a while: "I won't scold you, you can say it!" How can this matter be resolved? ”

Li Jiancheng hurriedly wiped away his tears and said in a low voice: "Father, the matter has come to this point, I can only give an explanation to the other party first, and behead all the captured people to show the public." ”

"I'm afraid that's not what they want!" Li Yuan said coldly.

"What does Father mean—"

Li Yuan snorted, "Since the criminal was caught in the West City, then the Household Department and the Taifu Temple in charge of the two cities have the responsibility of not investigating, and the Household Department Chen Junbin and the Taifu Temple Qing Liu Yuan will be dismissed and investigated, and the West City will be closed for rectification for a month, and I will write a letter to Zhang Xuan to apologize, and at the same time put the prisoner in a prison car and escorted him to Zhongdu, which is a complete explanation." ”

After a pause, Li Yuan said again: "In addition, you have to go to the door on my behalf to apologize, do you understand what I mean?"

"Father is asking his sons to test again?"

Li Yuan nodded, "After the assassination incident, it will have an impact on both sides, see what new requirements they want to make, if the conditions are not too harsh, then you can accept it." (To be continued.) )