Chapter 52 Thorn reappears

Zhao Kuangyin had no choice but to lead people out of Baguan Station in time when he encountered such a desperado.The mountain road here is short of water, and the fire can no longer be controlled after it ignites. We can only watch Baguan Station and the murderers who tried to assassinate him burn to the ground. So far, by linking and analyzing the situation before and after, it can be basically inferred that this is a double stab with the truth.The person who set up the bureau initially blocked the way with a fake postman, begged to see Zhao Kuangyin, and told the gangsters to occupy Baguan Posthouse that they wanted to set up a post to assassinate him, so as to win trust or cause doubts and conduct detailed investigations, in short, they must do everything possible It may be close to Zhao Kuangyin's chance to find a sudden killer.And once the impersonation of Yi Cheng fails and the identity of the assassin is exposed, then his statement that Ba Guan Yi was occupied and set up a bureau to assassinate Zhao Kuangyin will be considered as nonsense and fiction.Because no assassin will take the initiative to inform the assassin of his companion's next step when he is assassinating, then his approach will make people like Zhao Kuangyin lose their vigilance against Baguan Station, and then step into the second stage of assassination unprepared. in the bureau.

But what they met today was Zhao Kuangyin, who had gone through the dangerous arena and honed himself in the officialdom even more dangerous than the arena. Good habit of stepping carefully.Therefore, Zhao Kuangyin's double stabbing situation was not too unexpected for Zhao Kuangyin, and it was easily dismantled and resolved. In addition, when the fake Yi Cheng who was assassinated in the first round tried to get closer to Zhao Kuangyin by telling the truth, he not only said that the Baguan Post was occupied and set up an assassination plot, but also said that there were no less than a dozen assassination plots set up along the way from here to the capital. , Kill pocket.Now the theory of Baguan Station is true, and the theory of more than a dozen assassinations and killing pockets along the way is also entirely possible to be true.The accuracy of this information was quickly confirmed.Although the few assassins who pretended to be post officials captured in the Baguan post were strong, but under the intimidation of the imperial army of the Great Zhou Dynasty, some of them could not resist, and all the incidents of someone paying a large sum of money in the assassination to take Zhao Kuangyin's life recruited out.

Zhao Kuangyin was not surprised that such a thing happened. He had a similar situation when he was in the arena, and it is even more unsurprising now that he is in the officialdom.For example, the son-in-law Zhang Yongde who was appointed to check important posts by himself, Han Tong, the deputy commander of the guards who has been eyeing his position, and Xue Kang, the commander of the special guard Zheng, they all have the possibility of attacking him .But the problem is that the current situation is not suitable for him. Chai Shizong urgently called him back to the capital when something important happened, and he had no time to deal with these plotting methods.Maybe the person behind the scenes seized this opportunity, and even if he couldn't assassinate him, he couldn't return to Beijing in time.If Sejong's military and state affairs were missed, and someone fanned the flames and slandered him, Sejong would definitely blame himself, and others would have a chance to climb up.

Thinking of this, Zhao Kuangyin felt very regretful, and secretly blamed himself for being too careless.I was wholeheartedly for Da Zhou, but never considered that someone would take the opportunity to plot against him behind the scenes. Before Zhao Kuangyin sent his younger brother Zhao Kuangyi to track down Xue Kang and snatch the treasure secret; he sent Zhao Pu to Xishu; and his brothers Gao Huaide, Zhang Linduo and others who formed an association were temporarily assigned to guard and recover the city after Chai Shizong went north. Shi Shouxin was transferred to defend the outer city although he was in Tokyo; Wang Shenqi was sent to Yizipo by himself to put pressure on Qingyunzhai in Shu Kingdom.Now even he himself is far away from Tokyo, if someone does something in front of Sejong at this time, he is really hard to guard against.

The more Zhao Kuangyin thought about it, the more he felt that he should hurry back to Tokyo City.Even if it wasn't because of Sejong's call, even for the stability of his official position and status, he should rush back in time. Knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, walking towards the tiger mountain is the way of the brave, but it is definitely not the way of the wise.So many people, including Zhang Jindai, dissuaded Zhao Kuangyin and asked him to take a detour and return to the capital by an unexpected path. Zhao Kuangyin thought about it carefully, and besides the official road in front of him, there are two more official roads to choose from.One is to go west along the Huai River, pass through Nanyang Mansion, turn around at Funiu Mountain, and then take Dengfeng to return to the capital from Zhengzhou Mansion.Another way is to go north first, pass Yanzhou Mansion to Jinan Mansion, and then go up the Yellow River and circle back to the capital.These two roads not only require thousands of miles to travel, but also have continuous mountains and rivers, making the road difficult.Even if there is no accident, I am afraid it will take another 20 days to get there.If you don't follow the official path and choose a wild path, it will be more dangerous and unexpected.Once you take the wrong path, it may take longer to repeat it than the detour from the two official roads.And in case of getting lost, the time needed is even more unknown.

"No, it will take too long to take other paths. The emperor has something important to ask me to go back to discuss, so we must not delay too long on this road." After weighing, Zhao Kuangyin still wanted to take the risk. "My lord, it's too dangerous to go on this road. Others are waiting for you. If something goes wrong, we won't be able to explain it to the emperor when we go back." Zhang Jindai insisted on dissuading him. "It doesn't matter if I make a mistake. If there is a mistake in the emperor's affairs, it will endanger Qianqiu's foundation, so I must rush back from this shortest road as fast as possible. In addition, you really don't have to worry about it." In the assassination, although many people want to earn the dark gold to assassinate me, but from the double assassination we encountered just now, we can see that these people's assassination skills are not high, and the layout is not rigorous. People with this ability Assassins rank at most third and fourth ranks in assassination. The real masters in assassination are good at weighing and knowing the importance. They will definitely be concerned about my identity and strength, and will not rush to earn this money. On the contrary, some Little disciples who don't know the heights of the sky and the earth will be greedy for this cup of thick soup, but what can they do to me with their meager skills?"

After Zhao Kuangyin said this, he raised his head slightly, stood proudly, and looked at the black mountain shadow in the distance with his shining eyes: "You have all seen that although we encountered two dangers on the road today, it is only a delay to solve them all. It's only an hour. This kind of killing will not hinder our itinerary, on the contrary, it can add some interest to this boring all the way. If it is normal, without the order of my lord, I will make up my mind to take these ten Completely break through several stabbings one by one, and give me the reputation of the Great Zhou Imperial Army on the rivers and lakes!"

All the guards looked at Zhao Kuangyin. After hearing these words, their breaths became thicker, and blood surged on their faces. "But now we have to rush back to Tokyo as soon as possible. We just need to get through those dangers. Back then, I walked thousands of miles to send Jingniang back to her hometown. There were many dangers along the way. I protected a weak woman to break through by myself." Come here. Today, you are surrounded by you who are as strong as tigers and wolves, as strong as iron and steel, are you afraid instead?" The guards' blood pulsed suddenly, their arrogance rushed to the top, and fearlessness flowed in their eyes.

"Soldiers, today I call you brothers! Do you dare to go with me, Mr. Zhao, to those caves and play with those monsters and goblins?" The provocative words were to arouse the pride and courage of the guards. "I would like to go through fire and water with Master Zhao, and I will ensure that Master Zhao is safe and sound." The guards clasped their fists together and shouted loudly. The corners of Zhao Kuangyin's mouth raised slightly, what he wanted was this result, especially the last sentence.Dueling with killers and assassins, rushing from the killing field and assassination are just appearances, but the real purpose is to let Zhao Kuangyin return to Tokyo safely and in time, otherwise everything is meaningless.

As expected, Zhao Kuangyin was shrewd and wise. His deduction was correct. He encountered three assassinations in the next two days, all of which were inferior means of assassination.They had seen the clues of these three places before stepping on their pockets, so although they seemed dangerous, they were all easily solved, with only a few damages. The first of the three stabbing bureaus was in Damadian outside Dongcheng, Heyun County.The assassin used the most indiscriminate Mongolian perspiration medicine, without any specificity, and poured it all into the water tank and wine jar in the store.But Zhao Kuangyin and the others never drank alcohol from outsiders after they went on the road, they only drank the water they brought from the flowing rivers and mountain streams and boiled themselves, so the sweat medicine just fascinated other customers in the store.And this was the only assassination in which the assassin didn't show up, and Zhao Kuangyin didn't find out who administered the sweat medicine, so he left in a hurry.

The second stabbing station was in Chengzi Lake Bay, Hongtai County. Zhao Kuangyin and the others were going to pass from Chengyan Dam here to Pokejian.The killing pocket here is extremely simple, just a small boat.There is a person at the bow and stern of the boat: a fisherwoman who is pole-pulling, and an old fisherman who is paddling. Zhao Kuangyin saw at a glance that the fishing girl was wearing soft-soled fast boots, which were not shoes that should be worn on a very smooth ship deck.While the fisherman was paddling, his oars touched the mud at the bottom of the water several times, but he still moved the boat closer to the shore.Zhao Kuangyin deduced that the two were fake fishermen and did not know the water situation here.They are trying to get closer to the side so forcefully. Sure enough, the woman had supernatural powers, and the pole she was holding turned out to be a "blade penny". When the front part of the pole was lifted out of the water, six sharp blades flashed. The "clamped penny" swept across Zhao Kuangyin with the force of the wind, but fortunately Zhao Kuangyin had been prepared for it, and hit the "clamped penny" five times with the coiling dragon stick, and finally broke the penny with the dragon's head.Zhao Kuangyin also dodged the two flying spears that followed the woman, and only stabbed a personal guard beside her to death. The old fisherman was going to hit Zhao Kuangyin with his iron oar, but before he could make a move, he was pinned down by Zhang Jindai's locust stone.Although an iron oar knocked countless locust rocks away, it had no chance to attack Zhao Kuangyin together.In the end, the old fisherman quickly rowed the boat away and fled into the depths of the lake when he was hit by two migratory locust rocks on his calf and knee.This time the assassination was the strongest Zhao Kuangyin and the others had encountered so far, and the people around them suffered losses. The third stabbing station is at Fenghuang Mountain outside Xuzhou Mansion. There are three layers of killing pockets: one layer is a tripping horse rope and a ground crossbow; Jiao Feiyu". With superhuman eyesight, Zhang Jindai could directly see the steel string cables on the road, and then judged from the regularly spaced raised mounds on the side of the road that there was a ground crossbow hidden here. Lost the first pocket. The foot-locking pit on the second floor and the stepping bars of the Flying Stone Formation were set too sloppily. We just pulled some nearby weeds to cover them up. The messy grass surface can easily make people feel abnormal.So Zhao Kuangyin sent people to find seven or eight sheep from a village not far away and drive them into the pocket, triggering the pit and flying stones, and cracked the pocket without harming a single rider. There are two conditions for the third bag of shower head poisonous oil: one must be located at a high place, and the other must be hot oil that is burning now.This time it was Zhang Jindai who discovered it. He saw a very faint smoke wafting from behind the folded slope at a high place.The two teams of guards made a detour and went uphill, and with continuous crossbow shooting, they wiped out all the paws of the people on the third pocket.If there is no claw pocket, the pocket will naturally be broken. The Fenghuang Mountain area should be the most exquisitely arranged plot they have encountered so far, but they solved all the tricks without losing a single person. After successfully passing through these stabbing situations, Zhao Kuangyin's confidence was even stronger.Although the strength and layout of the Shadou he encountered was much superior to the two killings at the Baguan Post, but this was all within his expectations, and he had received the information before that there would be no less than ten assassinations against him along the way. Now counting, five places have been cracked, almost half of them. Next, we only need to be more careful, and we will definitely be able to pass through smoothly and rush back to the capital in time.