Chapter 73
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At dawn, before the opening drum of Penglai City sounded, a group of panicked people appeared outside the Dongmen Wucheng. The leader of the leader Du of Beiguan Village was on the southeast of the city. Their village was in the southeast of the city. Two young men got up early in the morning to go to the port wharf to carry their lives, but halfway down, they found a tragic scene. On the toad slope, there were black bloodstains everywhere. On the side of the road, dozens of people were built into Jingguan. On the other side, they could see dozens of headless corpses that were originally piled up, but were dragged and chewed by wild beasts and scattered everywhere. When they discovered that more than a dozen wild dogs were having a feast for eating corpses. When they saw them, they just looked up and looked them up and continued. They found that the local dogs were even red in their eyes.
The two young men had numb scalp and almost fainted. They stumbled back to the village and called the old village chief and other strong men in the village. After calling this tragic scene, everyone couldn't help vomiting. In the end, everyone did not dare to delay and rushed to Penglai City to report. When the soldiers guarding the gate heard the victim's appearance, more than 20 people, two carriages and other information, they quickly remembered the uncle and nephew Feng Changshi who left the city after the city gate was closed last night. When they thought that the Changshi might have been lying outside the city last night, the man's face turned pale, and he hurriedly led several villagers to report to Han Zhong, the old prison envoy of the Zhizhou soldiers in the city.
Han Zhong was a commander of a thousand soldiers stationed in Penglai City, Dengzhou, and also served as the prison envoy of the defense of Penglai City. When he heard about such a big thing, he did not dare to make decisions alone. He quickly sent his personal soldiers to report to the governor Cui, the Du Yuhou of Song, and others.
Upon hearing this news, every official in Penglai City who received the news did not dare to be careless and quickly gathered in the governor's mansion. Soon Han Zhong transferred 300 people to escort Cui Yunqing, Li Fan, Song Wen and other officials to the Toad Slope. Looking at the Jingguan with heads built up with human heads and those headless corpses torn by wild beasts and even lost shapes, more than half of the people vomited on the spot, including Cui Yunqing and other officials.
Among the people, only Song Wen and Han Zhong were all generals who had been on the battlefield. At this time, they looked frosty, but they were still like officers. Song Wen even stepped forward in person and commanded more than a dozen soldiers to move the crowd of heads down one by one to identify them one by one.
After seeing seven or eight heads, Song Wen finally saw a familiar face, Feng Yanqing's face was dying with his eyes closed.
"Cui Jun, Li Bie Jia, you all come over to identify it and see if this is Feng Changshi." Song Wen asked Cui and Li with Feng Yanqing's head in his hand. They only took a look and both of them immediately recognized the head. Although it was a little scary after a night, it was indeed Feng Yanqing's right. "It's him." Song Wen asked again: "Can you confirm?" "It's true that this is Feng Changshi." Song Wen said: "It's good if you can confirm it. Come on, find Feng Changshi's body immediately and bury it. In addition, the heads of the other people were also confirmed immediately, and then they found their bodies to be buried."
Soon Feng Liang's head was also recognized, and the rest was basically confirmed to be the two coachmen who left the city with Feng Yanqing last night and twenty Goguryeo warriors.
After the identity of the corpse was confirmed, the expressions on everyone's face became heavier. Feng Yanqing was the chief minister of Dengzhou. As an assistant official above the state, a robe official from the fifth rank, was killed outside Dengzhou and threw himself away from the wilderness. His head was cut off. Not only that, all the valuable things on those corpses that were gnawed by wolves and wild dogs were stripped away, and all the money, weapons, and even clothes were stripped away, leaving only a pair of shorts.
"Can you know who did it?" Cui Yunqing asked with a frosty face. When he heard that Feng Yanqing's uncle and nephew died, his first reaction was to be happy, and then he kept guessing who killed him. On the way he came, he had two thoughts in his mind. In theory, the one who was most inconsistent with Feng Yanqing was before, and Li Yan, Yu Quan and others. But he knew that although they were not inconsistent with Feng, he would never use assassination methods. Apart from themselves, there were only two people who could think of killing Feng Yanqing. The first was Song Wen and the second was Li Jing.
As the confidant of the Jieshou, Song Wen came to Dengzhou and could never be satisfied with the position of Yuhou, a small unity. If it is sealed, it is definitely a good thing for Song. What's more, as a general who returned from the border, Song is indeed capable and suspicious. However, when Li Jing is suspected, he feels that Li Jing and the Feng family have clashed several times, especially when Feng Yanqing was in the restaurant yesterday. Although the possibility of Li Jing taking action is very small, Li Jing has 100 troops, and this possibility cannot be completely ruled out.
However, when Cui Yunqing actually arrived at the scene and saw the tragic scene, he immediately denied his previous thoughts. All twenty-four people were killed, and even the heads were cut off from the city of Jingguan, and his body was clean. All these actions were very similar to the techniques of a bandit he had heard of.
Cui Yunqing and Li Feng looked at each other and saw some doubts from each other's eyes. Although on the surface, all the techniques were very similar to the big pirate Zhendonghai near Dengzhou. But the more this happened, the more they were confused. Although the group of Zhendonghai was quite powerful, they were pirates and rarely went ashore. Not to mention running to Penglai to ambush high-ranking officials like the governor of Dengzhou.
Because of this, although both of them thought of Zhendonghai, none of them spoke.
Han Zhong, the prison envoy, said on the side: "Looking at the way Feng Changshi was killed and other people, the technique was very similar to the style of the pirates in Zhendonghai who were on the sea thief Zhendonghai. It is said that Zhendonghai sometimes cut off their heads and built Jingguan in order to retaliate! "
"Town the East China Sea?" Although Song Wen has been new to Dengzhou, he has heard about this famous pirate gang.
"Look around carefully and see if there is a black post left. If the legend is true, then as long as Feng Changshi is really done by Zhen Donghai, he will definitely leave a post the size of a palm on the scene." Han Zhong explained.
Hundreds of soldiers began to search around, and after a moment, someone shouted: "Finished!"
Everyone ran over, but asked a state soldier to find a tile-sized piece of wood at the previous head Jingguan. No one knew that there was this thing just now, so although it was placed there, it was stepped on the ground by the soldiers who moved the heads. Han Zhong took the wooden sign, wiped it carefully, and finally showed his true appearance. In the middle of the wooden sign, there was indeed a blood-red word "Zhen".
Many people have already started to shout: "It's really Zhendonghai's Zhenzi, Zhendonghai did this." Han Zhong looked at the red Zhenzi on it and frowned slightly. He quietly looked at Cui Yunqing and Li Xian with his eyes, and then turned his head to look at Song Wen. Finally, he said nothing.
Soon everyone had unanimously determined that Feng Changshi was indeed killed by the pirates of Zhendonghai. In particular, Feng Changshi and others were stripped naked, and there were also stickers on the scene, as well as the head of the people in Jingguan, which made everyone firmly believe that this was done by Zhendonghai. Some people said that the second in charge of Zhendonghai was captured by the Chishan Zhenjun and later kidnapped by the pirates of Zhendonghai. Some people even mentioned that the bandits killed by Li Jing, the disciple of the governor Cui, came to Dengzhou before, were invited by Zhendonghai to rescue Huang Huzi. Later, Li Jing also met the pirates of Zhendonghai such as Hong Huzi. This shows that Zhendonghai has been operating near Dengzhou for a while. I don’t know if these people were purely encountering or were originally rushing to Feng Changshi. In short, this was right.
After transporting the bodies of Feng Yanqing and others back to the city, Cui Yunqing and others immediately reported the matter to the Qingzhou Jieshi Mansion and Chang'an.
On the other hand, Song Wen started to be busy with the funeral of Feng Yanqing and others. Not only did he personally prepare for Feng Yanqing's funeral, but he also took great care of the Feng family's family. Not only did he give a large sum of money to the Feng family, he also promised in public that he would destroy the Feng family and avenge Feng Yanqing. The moved women of the Feng family were very excited and saluted repeatedly. Even the other members of the Feng family who rushed over were convinced by Song Wen's loyalty and thanked him one after another.
On the surface, Feng Yanqing was originally the third official in Dengzhou, and was only after the governor and the other party. According to the rules, Cui Yunqing originally planned to be responsible for the funeral of Feng, but the Feng family was not very grateful. Although Feng Yanqing died at the hands of the bandits, Feng Cui was not in harmony with the past. In this way, Cui Yunqing was too lazy to be too lazy to face but put his butt on his cold side. Song Wen was willing to take on the matter, so he simply handed it all over to Song Wen for treatment and ignored it.
Cui Yunqing was actually clear about Song Wen's intention of working hard. He did this just to show kindness in front of Feng Yanqing's men and wanted to take the opportunity to take over the forces under Feng Yanqing's name. Although Cui Yunqing knew it in his heart, he was a little confused about Feng Yanqing's death, and he was also a little vigilant and careful now. Secondly, Song Wen was originally a confidant of the Jiedushi. In the past, he and Feng wanted to fight, so Song watched. Now that Feng was dead, Song naturally came up. Third, Song showed kindness to Feng's original forces. Even if those people could not win over, they would not reconcile with him. He might as well just sit down and watch the changes.
Chapter completed!