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Chapter 1028 Those who kill and rob money are most likely those Liao border troops (second update)
Chapter 1037

"About 200 people, and all of them are wearing iron armor. Apart from that, is there anything strange? Think about it..." Tang Xuncheng stroked his long beard with a gloomy face, and exchanged eyes with Xu Zhao , and then directed towards the injured Wan Zishou who still looked like he was dying although he had been treated again.

"What they said, yes, what they said, I listened to it for a long time, but I didn't understand it. It was neither the words of the party, nor the words of our Song Dynasty. The villain can swear to the sky..."

Xu Zhao and Tang Xuncheng sighed at the same time, and after asking a few more words, Tang Xuncheng comforted the tripper to recover from his injuries, and after he was sick in the room, he gave strict instructions to the head of the Yongsheng Escort, as well as the Zhao family Temporary head of the firm.

Tell them to keep their mouths shut, and don't spread the news that dozens of people died in Zhao's firm and Yongsheng Escort. Half an hour later, Xu Zhao personally commanded a thousand soldiers and rushed out of the west gate of Youzhou to where the incident happened. Place.

When he saw the mess of the abandoned watchtower and the corpses and limbs everywhere, Xu Zhao's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot, but he couldn't find any useful clues.

"Look for me, don't let go of any clues. I really don't believe it. So many people died, and the other party didn't leave any clues."

After searching and searching, they only found a few old leather robes, and there was no blood on the obviously cut knife edge of the leather robes. It must be protected by iron armor, so after the leather robe was chopped to pieces, there was no blood.

What's important is that many of the dead were clearly killed by arrow attacks, but no arrow residue was found on any of the corpses.

What does this mean? It means that the other party was worried that Yu Jian would reveal his identity, so he pulled out all of them and took them away from the scene.

After repeated searches by the soldiers, finally, on the outer wall of the sentry tower, a feathered arrow was stuck on a wooden post more than two people tall. Because the arrow feathers were black, if the sky was not right now, if you don’t look carefully I really can't see it.

After a nimble soldier pulled out the feathered arrow and threw it down, Xu Zhao looked at the feathered arrow carefully, and finally saw a line of tiny words on the shaft that were quite different from Chinese characters.

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After Xu Zhao rushed back to Youzhou, the feathered arrow was placed on Tang Xuncheng's desk. Tang Xuncheng had no idea. In the end, it was Tang Xuncheng who was smart enough to trace the words like a cat and a tiger, and took them for questioning. Those foreign merchants who come and go.

"The Khitan script of the Liao Kingdom..." Xu Zhao and Tang Xuncheng both gasped when they heard the news that the guards rushed back with a note to report.

Tang Xuncheng caressed and pondered for a long time, and finally discussed with Xu Zhao. "This matter is not something you and I can decide. I think it's better to ask your lord to make a decision as soon as possible. I don't know what General Xu thinks?"

"Yes, it is indeed very important. It would be fine if the arrows were picked up by those thieves and thugs, but judging from the findings at the scene, it is likely that it has something to do with the Liao army in Xiazhou. Now, we Shaanxi North Road has just recuperated for more than a year..." Xu Zhao smacked his mouth and stood up.

"Then please Mr. Tang stay in Youzhou to host, and Xu will go to Hongzhou today."

"Otherwise, if the traveler is not in danger of his life, you'd better take him along with you. Only with witnesses and physical evidence can you be more convincing."

Xu Zhao thought for a while and nodded in agreement, but just as he was about to step over the threshold to leave, he suddenly stopped in his tracks.

"Before then, the relevant people, etc., don't let them have contact with outsiders, and wait for Master Wang to make a decision."

"General Xu, don't worry, I will definitely not let the attack on Zhao's firm spread in Yuzhou, but I hope you, General Xu, will be as soon as possible."

Xu Zhao walked away quickly without looking back. Half an hour later, regardless of the complaints of the doctor in the hospital, the seriously injured trooper and the experienced doctor got into the carriage together.

Five hundred Yuanyou knights left Youzhou together with Xu Zhao, and galloped towards Hongzhou...

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Wang Yang didn't expect that he took his mother-in-law and children out for a spring outing, but he didn't have a good rest. Before noon the next day, someone came to report again, saying that Xu Zhao, the defense envoy of Youzhou, wanted to see him.

Wang Yang could only say hello to his wife and children apologetically, and when he came to the front hall, he saw a man wearing Yuanyou armor. The heroic Xu Zhao was standing in the front hall at this moment, and on the ground in front of him, There was a door panel with an injured person lying on it, and an old man sitting next to it, as if he wanted to pay attention to the injured person's condition at any time.

Wang Yang couldn't help being taken aback, his eyes fell on Xu Zhao who was in iron armor. "Xu Zhao, this is..."

"I have met my lord at the end, this person is a traveler of Yuzhou Yongsheng Escort Bureau, who escorted a batch of silk from Zhao's business the day before yesterday, and camped at an abandoned watchtower not more than a hundred miles away from the city.

As a result, they were strangled by more than a hundred unidentified armored knights. Of the 24 escort personnel, only one of them survived. Seven horsemen, twelve guards, and Shopkeeper Liu of Zhao's Trading Company all died tragically on the spot..."

Hearing the news, Wang Yang couldn't help but gasped, his face darkened, he walked up to the injured person, looked at the wounded person, and asked indifferently. "what else?"

Xu Zhao also came over, pointing to the wounded who was sleeping at the moment. "He escaped by chance and was rescued back to Yuzhou by a carriage. Only after he told him himself that he and Tang Zhizhou knew about it."

"This is a feathered arrow that the general personally rushed to the abandoned watchtower and found. The handwriting on it has been checked and confirmed to be Khitan characters. In addition, when he was still awake, he told the general what the other party said , neither our Song Dynasty dialect, nor the party language..."

"In addition, the last general followed the hoof prints. First, he walked towards Youzhou for nearly ten miles, then turned to the north, and then entered the Gobi area. There is no way to continue tracking..."

"Then what is your judgment, General Xu?" Wang Yang played with the feathered arrow, trying not to be dazzled by anger.

"This is the only feathered arrow found at the scene of the murder. Thinking about it, the other party must be afraid of revealing his identity, so he wrapped the iron armor outside the leather robe to hide it from others.

And after killing the person, all the arrows were pulled out, only this one was hanging on the wooden beam in mid-air, the location was very hidden, presumably it was because it was dark, the other party couldn't find it, otherwise, maybe Not even this feathered arrow will be left..."

"So, the general thought that those who killed people and robbed people of wealth were probably Liao's border troops."

Wang Yang squatted down, looked at the tattered leather robes, narrowed his eyes, and said slowly after a long time.

"Liao people... more than a hundred armored cavalry were able to appear near Youzhou, and they were neither discovered by the guards around Baichi City nor detected by the troops stationed at Wanjingkou in the north and Sanchakou in the east."

"The other party must be very familiar with our army's layout, and also tidied up the finishing touches so cleanly. If you think about it, it's a guilty conscience..."

(End of this chapter)