After being robbed by the prince of the enemy country

In the early hours of the night, there was a commotion outside the tower.

"Someone attacked the city!!"

The guards who had been prepared for a long time rang the big bell on the city of Suizhou.

The sound of the bell pierced the ears like thunder, waking up the sleeping people, and the crying of children tore through the night sky. Suizhou was destined to have no peace tonight.

Si Yun rushed into the small courtyard from the gate of the palace and was about to report when Chu Shao, who hadn't slept all night, had already rushed to the door ahead of him.

The flames on the city tower were soaring into the sky, even in the royal mansion in the hinterland of the city, one could see it clearly and even smell the kerosene.

"Shaoer!!"

Chu Shao heard a call, turned around and saw that it was his father Chu Hong.

Chu Hong only put on a coat, and rushed towards Chu Shao before he put on his shoes.

"Father?"

Chu Hong pushed Chu Shao into the door: "There is banditry outside the city, you hide in the palace and don't come out!"

Chu Shao turned to him and told him: "You don't have to worry about me, you go back to the Chu Mansion now, close the gate tightly, arrange all the skilled servants in the mansion to guard the entrance of the inner house, and never let the mother and elder sister go out. I don't know what's going on on the tower ,I gonna go see!"

"What are you looking at!!!" Chu Hong jumped anxiously, "You are weak and weak, won't you die if you go up the tower? Father won't let you go!"

"I..." Before Chu Shao said anything, Tu Wei rushed out of the night and clasped his fists at Chu Shao: "My lord is really good at predicting things, they really did sneak attack tonight, if you didn't let me wait in advance, I'm afraid the brothers on the tower will not be able to see the sun of tomorrow!"

"How is the situation now?"

"According to the young master's dispatch, we used fire oil and bows and arrows to fortify. The bandits have already been driven back, and the corpses are piled up at the gate of the tower!"

"Okay." Chu Shao breathed a sigh of relief, and asked again, "Have you heard back from the person sent to the capital to deliver the letter to His Highness?"

This evening Chu Shao saw that something was wrong in the mountains, so he immediately sent someone to ride a fast horse to Beijing to report.

It takes four hours to go back and forth from Suizhou to Kyoto. If everything goes well, Huai Zhen, who is now in Kyoto, should already know what happened in Suizhou tonight.

"There is no response yet." Tu Wei said, "Perhaps the prince has already sent troops on the way!"

"Yes, it takes time to travel." Chu Shao felt a little uneasy in his heart, but he didn't dare to lose his footing. "Is there any corpse of the bandit?"

Tu Wei: "There are five or six bandits on the city tower who climbed up on the ladder and were shot to death by arrows."

"I gonna go see."

After Chu Shao finished speaking, he was about to follow Tu Wei to the tower.

Chu Hong saw that the generals around King Yu were dispatched by Chu Shao, and there was admiration in their eyes, so he couldn't see through it for a while.

He only knew that Chu Shao was the son of a declining family in Qizhou, and seeing his slender figure and frequent minor illnesses, he thought he was a beautiful jade who couldn't stand the wind and rain and had to be taken care of indoors. In other words, today's disaster of banditry can be successfully blocked, it is actually the work of Chu Shao's dispatch?

Chu Shao thought of the old father behind him, turned back, grabbed Chu Hong's hand, and said earnestly: "Father, go back quickly, you must do as I say, close the doors and windows, and don't go out without authorization!"

Chu Hong nodded in a daze. He inexplicably believed that with Chu Qingxu around, the flames of war would only burn up to the city tower, and the people in the city would not be affected.

After Chu Hong left, Chu Shao followed Tu Wei to the city tower, and many awakened people had already opened their doors and windows to watch the situation on the street.

There were six corpses lying horizontally on the tower, two of them were burnt beyond recognition and had no value in Chu Shao's eyes, and the other four were killed by several arrows.

Chu Shao squatted down and was about to untie the tops of the four corpses with his bare hands. Si Yun sensed his intention and did it for Chu Shao first, so as not to dirty Chu Shao's hands.

After the clothes were opened, two of the four corpses had wolf patterns on their bodies, and Tu Wei recognized them at a glance: "This is the bandit gang in Langshan! How could it be!? They have obviously been recruited by the court!"

Chu Shao asked: "Did everyone in the bandit nest in Langshan have such patterns on their bodies?"

After thinking about it, Tu Wei replied: "I just saw it on Hu Hun's body. Only the little boss of Langshan is qualified to paint this kind of decoration. It seems to be a symbol of status, and ordinary little ones don't have it."

Chu Shao: "Are the officers and soldiers who went to Langshan Village to investigate the disappearance of the girl from the Yang family half a month ago?"

Tu Wei immediately signaled a guard beside him to go to the government office to call someone.

"Young master thinks?"

"I suspect that this group of people is not the surrendered bandits in the cottage."

Chu Shao went to look at the two corpses without tattoos again, and saw the obvious difference in the skin color of their chests and arms, and opened their palms and finger pulps for a closer look.

"Tu Wei, stretch out your hand."

Tu Wei stretched out his hand and spread his five fingers.

"Soldiers in the army have calluses on their hands worn out by weapons." Chu Shao looked at Tu Wei's hands and deduced, "The weapons in Qin's barracks are all of the same standard, and the way ordinary people hold weapons is also poor. Inseparable, so the calluses on their hands are almost in the same position."

After looking through it carefully, Si Yun found that it was indeed the case.

The calluses on the hands of the two corpses without tattoos are completely different from those of the two corpses with tattoos, but the calluses on the hands of General Tu are almost in the same position as those of the two corpses without tattoos, because they are both Qin soldiers. Born in the military camp, he has held the same weapon for several years, so Cocoon is also in the same position.

Si Yun thought of the old calluses on Chu Shao's hands that were worn out by spears. After the bone-piercing nails, he was never able to lift any heavy weapons, and the calluses also faded away automatically in the past three years. Traces of the battlefield.

Chu Shao already knew it in his mind, so he just explained it to everyone: "The skin color of their chest and arms is obviously different. The soldiers in the army are required to wear armor to protect their chest and abdomen no matter in spring or summer. Under the scorching sun, the armor adds an extra A chest and abdomen covered with layers will be whiter than arms covered with only cloth."

Tu Wei said in shock: "Young Master, you mean, these two are from the army... the regular army is attacking the city tonight?!"

Chu Shao corrected: "To be precise, it should be that the army and bandits colluded to plot Suizhou while Huaizhen was returning to Beijing."

"How is this possible? Who in the court is so courageous that he dares to send troops to attack the prince's fief, and Suizhou is adjacent to the capital. This is a mutiny at the feet of the emperor?!"

Chu Shao said: "They are all dressed as bandits, and they don't have any identity evidence that can prove that they are soldiers in the army. The emperor will only think that the bandits from Langshan have made a comeback."

"General Tu, I brought those two officers and soldiers!"

The guards came with two officers and soldiers from the government office, and Tu Wei asked them to identify the bodies of the two bandits, who were indeed not from the cottage.

Tu Wei was furious: "How many soldiers died four years ago to suppress the bandits? Four years later, this group of people actually forgot their blood feud with their colleagues and colluded with the bandits?! It's like slapping my Zhongqin soldiers in the face! They What exactly are they planning? If they were after the prince, they could have sneaked in halfway, but now the prince has arrived in Beijing safely."

Chu Shao stood up, looked at the Wolf Mountain hidden in the night, and the blood-stained corpses under the city tower, with cruelty flashing in his eyes: "They are plotting for King Yu, but they are not trying to kill him, but Want to cut Jiu Gu's reputation and military power. Don't forget, Jiu Gu took down Nanqi and made great military achievements. Will there be fewer people who are jealous of him? The emperor is seriously ill, and these people occupy the court and the opposition. I can't wait to kill King Yu."

"When the prince was not in Suizhou, everything was peaceful in Suizhou. When the prince came back, bandits rushed to attack the city. If the people of Suizhou were really massacred by bandits, let alone human lives, what would the emperor think?"

"He will think that King Yu can only fight and not defend the city. As an emperor, defending the city is far more important than attacking the city. If the emperor believes that Huaizhen is just a reckless man who can fight, and he can't even protect the people of a city, the emperor How could it be possible to hand over the entire Zhongqin people to him?"

Chu Shao said in a deep voice: "The person behind the scenes wants to use a knife to kill people, and use the lives of thousands of people to block Huaizhen's way to become the heir. I will never let him succeed."

There was a sudden sound of arrows piercing the wind.

"!!!"

Si Yun rushed forward and pressed down on Chu Shao with lightning speed, and the sharp arrow shot across Chu Shao's cheek, and hit the wooden pillar on the city tower. die.

The guards on the tower were on alert immediately, and Tu Wei rushed forward to help Chu Shao: "Young Master Chu, are you not hurt?"

"Nothing." Chu Shao hurriedly went to see Si Yun, and Si Yun shook his head, indicating that he was fine.

Under the escort of Tu Wei and Si Yun, Chu Shao temporarily left the tower, and the sound of marching was heard outside the tower again.

"It seems that they also want to fight quickly, and they are going to attack the second wave." Chu Shao frowned, "If the opponent is a regular army, the defense line of the tower will be broken sooner or later. The prince has not replied yet, I am afraid that the person who sent the letter There has already been an accident after leaving Suizhou."

He turned his head to look at Si Yun, and knew that he was a master of lightness kung fu, and he could arrive in Kyoto within two hours to deliver a letter without relying on a horse.

Having been a master and servant for many years, Si Yun can understand without Chu Shao talking too much, just with a look.

Tu Wei is a veteran of King Yu's side, and he has the effect of calming people's hearts in the army. At this moment, he can't leave Chu Shao, so he took off the token on his body and handed it to Si Yun: "There is a prince in the gate guard of the capital city. If you show this token, he can take you to meet the prince directly!"

Si Yun took it solemnly, and the sound of fighting outside the city resumed.

Chu Shao held Si Yun's wrist, and said in a deep voice: "No matter who you meet on the road, as long as the person is not the confidant of King Yu, who dares to prevent you from entering the capital, don't show mercy, just strangle him on the spot!"