Tang Dynasty: Nine-year-old County Grandpa

After Cheng Chumo led the army to guard the fire all night, the sky finally brightened.

The child's body couldn't stand staying up late, and Chu Jie was so sleepy at this time that tears came out.

But his eyes were still very sharp.

At this time, he took Zhan Zhao and Cheng Chumo to walk next to the corpses of the Xuanjia Army cavalry who rushed up and were killed last night.

More than thirty corpses, all of them were attacked in the head, and the head bloomed.

The state of death is the same as the guards of the Jingwang Mansion and the Taiji Hall who died before.

"Damn, how the hell did this happen?"

"Call those surviving soldiers!" Chu

Jie muttered to himself, and then gritted his teeth and ordered.

"Obey

!" "Hey, you wait here, Lord Chu wants to ask!" Cheng

Chumo replied and ordered to those soldiers.

Not long after, more than twenty cavalrymen of the Xuanjia Army who survived the charge last night walked over.

When they saw the corpses on the ground, their faces were also complicated.

Many people still look a little pale.

Obviously, even men who have been born and died on the battlefield have little resistance to these strange things.

"What did you see when they were killed last night?

"In detail, so many brothers, are still waiting for your eyesight to be cleared.

Chu Jie asked in a deep voice.

"My lord, I didn't see anything, they all fell to the ground for no apparent reason.

"yes, I didn't see it either, and I heard the whistling of those things. "

Me too, and when there was a whistling sound, they were knocked to the ground. "

Those Xuanjia cavalry are talking about the strange things that happened last night.

"So many people, they didn't see anything clearly?"

Chu Jie was a little disappointed.

"Shadow, my lord, I saw a faint shadow, but I couldn't see it very clearly.

A resolute-looking cavalryman said with some uncertainty.

"Black Shadow, dressed in black?" Chu

Jie asked in a condensed voice.

"No, it's just a dark shadow, you can see them moving, but you can't see anything.

"I only occasionally saw one or two dark shadows moving, but I couldn't see it from another angle, and then I saw it again from certain angles. "

Humble ...... It's indescribable......"

The soldier's face was full of confusion.

Obviously, this man, who doesn't read and doesn't have much expressive skills, has done his best.

"Bastard!"

"I can't see anything clearly?, are your eyeballs for dogs?" Cheng

Chumo next to him roared angrily.

"General, I just can't see it clearly, otherwise we would have fought back a long time ago, how could we be beaten like this......"

The cavalryman looked aggrieved.

Cheng Chumo was silent for a moment.

"Don't blame him, the other party is indeed a little weird. "

Where were you when the horse team collided last night?" Chu

Jie suddenly comforted, and then asked.

"This ...... Here ......"

The cavalryman quickly found the position where he had seen the shadow from the panicked horseshoe prints on the ground.

Where the line is biased to the right.

"Who was holding the torch last night?" Chu

Jie asked again.

"Me

!" "And me!" "I'm holding it too

!" "And the dead Ma San, who is also holding a torch!"

The soldiers with torches stood up one after another.

There was also a corpse on the ground, holding a extinguished torch.

"Find out where you stand!" Chu

Jie gave another order in a deep voice that they couldn't understand.

"Yes, my lord!" the

soldiers quickly figured out where they were at the time of the attack.

The soldier who saw the shadow also pointed out the approximate location of the shadow he saw.

Sure enough, there were footprints on the ground.

It was the footprints of a flat, an ordinary handmade shoe without stripes, and the clue was almost useless.

"It's kind of interesting...... Chu

Jie found that the soldier who could see the black shadow could see those things almost from a 65-degree vision on his left, and he couldn't see it beyond this line.

Obviously, it was the soldier with the torch in his hand, and the light he created caused something to be flawed in the opponent.

Chu Jie quickly found a rope and a stick.

And then on the stick last night this soldier rode at the height of the horse, tied the rope and stuck the stick in the ground.

Zhan Zhao also quickly came to his senses at this time, pulled up the rope, aimed at the position of sixty-five degrees on the left, and aimed at the place where those black shadows appeared.

Soon, the end of the rope was aimed at an abrupt poplar tree more than two hundred meters away.

"Let's go!"

Chu Jie directly asked Zhanzhao to pick him up on the horse, and then the two rode to the front of the poplar tree.

Cheng Chumo hurriedly followed with the soldiers.

The poplar tree had a thick horizontal fork, and on top of the horizontal fork, there was actually a layer of traces of being wound by ropes six or seven times.

"This ...... It's exactly the same as what you see in King Jing's Mansion!"

Zhan Zhao also recognized this trace.

"My lord, the arrow that hit the herald must have come from here.

Cheng Chumo shouted again.

"Hehe, if it's really a ghost, why shoot another arrow in one move?"

"It seems that we had a lot of people last night, and the murderer was a little scrambling.

Chu Jie smiled coldly.

"Uh...... My lord, do you mean that it wasn't a ghost that caused trouble last night, it was a living person?"

Cheng Chumo said with a relieved look.

"Huh......"

The surviving soldiers also exhaled at the same time.

A relaxed face.

"Whether there are ghosts or gods, the official can't guarantee anything, but what is more terrifying than ghosts and gods is always the human heart.

"The approximate means of the murderer are already known to the officer.

"His strange pretense can only be shown by the night.

"And, as soon as there's a light source, something is exposed.

"So they would rather let the Emperor go and stop doing it after the fire, but evacuate.

"In the darkness of the night, they have a means to keep people from seeing them, so they can come and go freely in the palace.

Chu Jie said in a condensed voice.

"My lord, don't they need to use thunderlight? Every time they do it, it's a thunderstorm night, and it doesn't rain tonight, but it almost makes them take advantage of the loophole.

Zhan Zhao said with some annoyance.

"There is no need for thunderlight, the problem is not here.

"During a thunderstorm, the dark posts guarding the eaves will be recalled, and that's what they use. "

There's such a rule, right?" Chu

Jie said, looking at Cheng Chumo.

"Well, my lord is clever, when there is thunder, the eaves cannot stand on people, even if there are assassins, there is a high probability that they will be struck by lightning, after all, there are often thunderbolts in the palace. "

That's why we have this rule, but it's a confidential ......,"

Cheng said silently,

scratching his head.

"Let's go, if you can run, the monk can't run the temple.

"If you go to Taiyuan, you can find clues.

Chu Jie gave an order, and the convoy quickly set off again.