When I came to the north gate of the Taishou Mansion, a team of guards had already gathered here.

In a corridor to the left of the courtyard, there is also a temporary treatment point, where several medical workers from the Taishou Mansion are bandaging some of the injured.

Zu Zhao went to the corridor first, asked the medical worker to help him dig out the two arrows on his left arm, put on a gold sore medicine, and bandaged it firmly with a white cloth. Subsequently, he met Li Xin, Tian Kai and others.

Shicai's self-proclaimed "Wen Chou" armor was forming a team, Zu Zhao inquired with Li Xin, and it turned out that the other party was the same as Zhou Zhi as the lieutenant of Beiping County, Zhou Zhi was the lieutenant of the north, and Wen Chou was the lieutenant of the south. Originally, both of them were outside the county soldiers, but it was because the New Year was approaching that they rushed back to the county government to report on their work.

Just when Zu Zhao was treating his wounds, Wen Chou had already sent someone to transfer the horses in the Taishou Mansion to the north gate.

After Wen Chou organized the team, he then divided a few horses to Li Xin, Tian Kai and others. He said: "The county government is not short of horses, but in a hurry to chase the thief, this can only be done first." You and other righteous people, Shicai has tried his best in the court of the North Court, and there are not enough horses, so he simply stays in the mansion to deal with the aftermath. When it comes to chasing thieves, we can wait. With

that, he bowed his hand to the crowd, and then did not pay any more attention, turned around and got on the horse, and ran away with his own people.

The rest of the people, because there were not enough horses, could not all go with them.

However, no one has come forward to organize, but you look at me, I look at you.

Only Tian Kai did not hesitate, he first pulled the reins of a horse, jumped on the horse, and followed Wen Chou and other palace guards together. When the others saw it, they followed suit, and the brave warriors scrambled to be the first, even if they knew that they were inferior, they did not retreat, after all, the results of this year's inspection have not yet been announced, and such a big accident in the Taishou Mansion is a good opportunity to perform, anyway, the thieves are weak, and they will go with them to make up the number of people, and they can be counted as a merit afterwards.

Zu Zhao was a little late, and when he arrived at the gate, the horses already had their own owners.

Li Xin turned around and persuaded him: "Brother Zu, to deal with the thief, I will wait enough, since you are injured, you simply stay in the house to recuperate."

Zu Zhao was helpless, so he could only sigh and say, "Okay, Brother Xianyan take care."

Not long after Li Xin and the others left, there was a sudden noise outside the north gate.

Zu Zhao looked out of the door, only to see that it was the Taishou Mansion guards guarding the north gate arguing with a few people with swords. If you look closely, those people with swords are none other than Zu Ji, Zu Ling and others who accompanied him to the county government to participate in the inspection, they all looked grim and fully armed, and there were a few tall horses parked not far away.

He hurried to the door and explained it to the guards, and then asked Zu Ji, "Why are you here?" "

Although there is such a big movement in the Taishou Mansion, but Zu Ji and Zu Ling will not come so quickly, and the Taishou Mansion covers a very wide area, and there are gates and courtyards in the southeast, south, and northwest, how can they find the north gate so coincidentally?

Zu Ji hurriedly said: "Earlier, we heard that there was an accident in the Taishou Mansion, and we were thinking about coming over to investigate. As soon as I got out of the gate of the official post, I met a strange man, who said that the black arrow thief broke into the Taishou Mansion at night, so let's hurry up and help. So we brought our swords, blades, and horses. On the way to Taishou Mansion, I heard a few passers-by say that they saw a figure climbing over the wall from the north of Taishou Mansion, so we rushed north. Hearing

Zu Zhao, Zu Zhao's face sank, and he asked again: "Strange man?" What man? In this dark night, how can you casually meet idle people? Not to mention how he knew about the Black Arrow Thief.

Zu Ji shook his head and sighed: "The man left after speaking, and we didn't have to worry about it."

On the side, Zu Ling added: "I can vaguely see the appearance of that person, it seems that when we entered the city, we met the man who stole food outside the city, and you also relieved him of the siege." Hearing

this, Zu Zhao was stunned: it turned out to be Yan Mang!

The first thing he thought about now was not why Yan Mang went to the official post to report the news, but whether Yan Mang and the gang of people who assassinated the Taishou Mansion were in the same group, otherwise why did things happen so coincidentally? In other words, since Lingzhi County, Yan Mang is still with that gang of thieves, and it is also possible that Yan Mang has been in contact with that gang of thieves in the recent past. Only in this way will the other party know that there was an accident in the Taishou Mansion.

Nodding slowly, he didn't hesitate any longer, and said, "I know, let's not talk about this yet." The men of the Taishou Mansion are chasing the fleeing Assassins, so let's help. With

that, he took the sword from Zu Ji's hand and turned to lead his mount.

Zu Ling saw that Zu Zhao still had a bandaged wound on his left shoulder, and the white cloth was even oozing blood. He hurriedly said: "The eldest prince, since there are already people from the Taishou Mansion chasing the thief, why do we need to do anything more." The eldest prince is injured now, so he must be cautious.

Zu Zhao's face did not change, and he said resolutely: "I have my own plans, if you don't want to go with you, then stay." He jumped on his horse, flicked the reins, and rode his horse in the direction led by Wen Chou.

Zu Ling was helpless, so naturally he couldn't let Zu Zhao go alone, so he quickly got on his horse and chased after him.

Zu Ji and the others were not a problem, they each got on their horses and chased after them together.

At this time, it was late at night, and most of the county seat in Pinggang County was dark and silent. The fire and accident in Taishoufu attracted the attention of many people in the vicinity, and they woke up from their sleep, but they knew that it was not a good thing to have an accident at night, so not too many people dared to light the lights, and the streets and alleys blended into the night, only some good people poked their brains in the corners of the walls and behind the windows and doors to see what was going on outside.

Wen Chou led the guards of the Taishou Mansion and Li Xin, Tian Kai and others, holding a small number of torches, and ran all the way to the northwest along the Chengzhong Avenue. After chasing for a short time, he saw another small group of horseback riders running in the direction of due north, obviously extremely suspicious. Wen Chou, who was leading in front, shouted: "The thieves are in the north, follow me!" So

, the brigade immediately turned north at the next intersection. In the distance ahead of them, a few horses could be seen running in the darkness, and sure enough, it was a small group of assassins fleeing. Obviously, in this assassination operation, the assassins still made extremely careful premeditated arrangements, either preparing the horses to escape, or figuring out the location of the stables of the Taishou Mansion and directly robbing the horses of the Taishou Mansion.

Because Zu Zhao met Zu Ji, Zu Ling and others outside the north gate, he was a little slower, and he was still far behind at this time. They can only rely on the fire light of the dark Chinese ugly and others to discern the direction and follow these fires. Several people chased them to a fork in the avenue, and another group of officers and soldiers appeared on the road to the west, and they happened to meet Zu Zhao and the others. Among the officers and soldiers in this team, there were several officials of the Taishou Mansion, and there was an accident in the North Courtyard, and there were inevitably people in the Taishou Mansion who hurried to the city to transfer other troops.

After meeting with this group of officers and soldiers, I heard from them that several groups of thieves had escaped from Taishoufu, and they fled in groups of threes and twos, or alone. Captain Wen Chou led the team to pursue the north, and others led the team to the south and east. Anyway, at this moment, all the major gates of the county are closed, and the thieves are like turtles in an urn, gradually searching and hunting, and sooner or later these people will be arrested. Even if a few people hide and escape, in the future, the major city gates will be wanted, and they will be strictly investigated, and it will inevitably be difficult to fly.

After continuing to chase north, the road gradually narrowed, and the houses on both sides became denser and denser.

Although Pinggang County is the county capital, it is more prosperous than other counties, but after all, it is a border county, and no matter how prosperous it is, it is not as prosperous as those big cities and counties in the Central Plains. The streets were very limited, and the horses galloped, and within a quarter of an hour the outline of the castle could be seen.

Zu Zhao shouted to the people on the left and right: "The front will soon reach the city, and the thieves will inevitably turn around." We divided our troops into two routes, one left and one right, and made a detour to outflank them. The

leader of the officers and soldiers who accompanied him thought deeply and immediately agreed.

The crowd quickly divided into two teams, and the leader of the officers and soldiers specially arranged for three or five subordinates to follow Zu Zhao's side to respond, and everyone divided the way to outflank them from two different directions.

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