Chapter 19 Chapter Seven: The Enemy Behind the Scenes

When the tip of the arrow touched my chest, I heard a crisp impact, and then I fell to the ground with my eyes staring at the pain. It was Mr. Cao's Sikong seal that saved my life. This bronze talisman successfully blocked the thrust of the arrow. I dare not take any action in the dark, the unknown killer must be lurking nearby, observing the situation here.If I get up hastily, I'm afraid I will incur more cold arrows. "Is it an accident?" I quickly denied that in this kind of dark night without candles, the killer could accurately shoot into my chest, and he must have deliberately observed my whereabouts before he did it.

"It seems that my investigation has alarmed some people. If you think about it the other way around, it should be close to the truth." I lay on the ground, thinking depressed and relieved.It's fine if the killer just stops and walks away, but if he wants to touch the body and examine it, then I really don't know what to do.My fighting level is not high, and I will probably be killed "again" by the killer. At this time, there was a faint light flashing in the distance, and it was the night watchman walking over with a lantern, and I secretly breathed a sigh of relief.When the soldiers approached, I raised my head from the ground to identify myself, ordered them to move the light source farther away, and then surrounded me with four people.In this way, the killer who was peeping in the dark had nothing to do with me.

I went back to the tent like this, only to find that Xu Chu was waiting for me.When he saw that I was injured, he was taken aback and hurriedly tore off my clothes to check.Fortunately, Sikong Yin lost most of his strength, and there was no other damage to his chest except for bruises.Xu Chu asked the guards to fetch blood rat oil commonly used in the army, and rubbed it for me for a while, and I felt a little better. "This is the arrow that was used to shoot me." I handed him one of the arrows.After the arrow was blocked by me just now, it fell to my feet and I picked it up secretly.

Xu Chu picked it up and inspected it, showed me the shaft of the arrow, and said seriously, "This arrow belongs to Yuan Shaojun." "How do you know?" I was curious, these things all looked the same in the eyes of a layman like me. "You know, the arc of the bow and the length of the arrow must match, otherwise the accuracy will become poor. In order to prevent the arrows shot from being used by the enemy, our army's arrows are all two feet three inches long, and the bows we use are also similar. The ones used by Yuan Shaojun are two feet five inches long."

"I was shot right in the chest in the dark..." I pondered, "That means, either that person is the reincarnation of Yang Youji, or he has a bow used by Yuan Jun." "Maybe it's both." Xu Chu sighed, "Can't we check this aspect?" "It's easier said than done. I know how many Yuan Shao's supplies and weapons we captured. It's impossible to find out who took extra clusters of arrows and a bow." "I'll go and tell Duke Cao right away to seal off the camp and check tent by tent. If you don't believe me, you won't be able to catch them."

"Mr. Cao means to conduct an investigation in a low-key manner. If you do this, it is tantamount to bringing up the entire Chinese army camp." "Then you were shot in vain?" "It's not exactly..." I wanted to straighten up, stretch my chest muscles violently, and grin my teeth in pain, "By the way, you came to find me so late, did you find something new?" Xu Chu scratched his head: "I asked the people of Tiger Guard, Xu has behaved very normally recently, except for the other two killers, he rarely had contact with others, and almost never left the camp."

"Almost never left? Does that mean you have left?" "Uh... because Zhang Yun once lobbied Yuan Shao to attack our army's rear, the battalion was very tense at that time. Every time the grain transport team approached, the Tiger Guard would leave the camp thirty miles south to meet the grain transport team. Xu he went out once , about an hour before and after." "When was that?" "Late August." I closed my eyes and thought about it for a while, and firmly spit out a date: "August 25th." All the transportation plans of Cao Jun's grain and fodder are in my mind. The only time for a major replenishment operation was September 5th.If necessary, I can even tell the number of grain carts, livestock and peasants at that time.

"But what does this mean? Xu he met Yuan Shao's spies who took a detour on the South Road?" I shook my head slightly, this is not the right date.In fact, according to Zhang Yun, Yuan Shaojun received the letter from the mysterious man on September 10th, and then sent the messenger back in the early morning of September 11th, and the assassination took place on the 14th. "Do you know what this sequence means?" I patted my thigh rhythmically. Judging from Xu You's testimony, Yuan Shao didn't respond until he received a letter from the mysterious person on the tenth day.Before this, Yuan Jun knew nothing about it.

"This shows that Yuan Shao is not the mastermind of the assassination, he is just a cooperator, just a pawn in the plan." I sighed, "Big hand, really big hand. Yuan Benchu ​​has hundreds of thousands of troops, but it is just a pawn." It's just a pawn." Xu Chu couldn't keep up with my train of thought, so I slowed down my speech: "Since Yuan Shao is only cooperating, it means that someone else planned the assassination plan. Thinking about it carefully, anyone who desperately hopes that something will happen to Duke Cao and disrupt the situation in the Central Plains, except Yuan Shao, what kind of power will there be?"

"That's a lot, Sun Ce, Liu Biao, Ma Teng..." Xu Chu counted ten to five. "Those are all external enemies. And this enemy is obviously from the inside." I categorically denied, "Mr. Yuan, the fourth generation and third lord in the family, has always been overly concerned. He dismissed so many collaborating documents sent by Cao Ying , and the secret letter sent by the mysterious person, he actually specially appointed General Zhang Xi to personally escort it back to Cao Ying—how many people can Yuan Benchu ​​attach so much importance to?" I can't speak more clearly.Xu Chu's pupils shrank suddenly, because he roughly guessed what I meant.

Our eyes turned to the south at the same time, there is a big city called Xudu, there is a small city in the big city of Xudu, and a thin young man lives in the small city. "Your Majesty..." Xu Chu's voice was almost inaudible.