And what about Di Ying?
While talking to the guards and "escorting" Gu Lifang back, he suddenly discovered that there were some marks on the rocks next to the official road that didn't seem right.
It's winter, the sky is overcast, and snowflakes are dancing slowly and sporadically, falling on the ground. Gradually, a thin layer of snow piled up on the ground.
The official road has been trampled into slush. On both sides of the official road, because no one disturbed it, clean snowflakes piled up there.
Gently covering fallen leaves, dead grass, and stubborn rocks.
Henan Road is half mountainous and half flat. The mountainous areas are one after another, and the flat areas are so flat that you can't even see the edge.
The location where Di Ying and the others are now is in a mountainous area.
The view is not wide enough, but the snow scenery is also particularly beautiful.
Di Ying was chatting with the guards when he saw some messy muddy marks on the white snow beside the road.
It was as if two cows had rolled on it and collided with each other.
Di Ying dismounted and walked over.
The dark clouds also chirped twice and followed him.
Seeing this, all the guards stopped their horses.
Jump off the horse, loosen the reins, and let the horses follow the dark clouds.
Gu Lifang did not come down, so Tang Shiyi led her horse and followed the dark clouds.
This is quite fun.
The dark clouds are always following the adults, and those horses, including Tang Shiyi, are always following the dark clouds. The rest of the guards could only stand on either side obediently, with no role for them in the middle.
Nie Bo touched the back of his head, grinning stupidly and said: "This is really a man inferior to a horse."
Indeed not as good as that.
As soon as he finished speaking, his feet followed the direction of the adult and turned around the hillside.
Then what you can see is a relatively large slope.
There were more than a dozen corpses strewn across the sunken ground.
Around the corpse, there were more than a dozen horses, leisurely digging through the dry turf and gnawing at the grass roots under the snow.
The dozen or so people had obviously been killed not long ago, and they were all killed with sharp blades. There had been obvious fights here, and blood was spattered everywhere.
Nie Bo couldn't laugh anymore.
He scratched his scalp and said, "Brothers, here comes the work. First, search the corpses, then spread a large tarpaulin and place them one by one."
The brothers responded to the call.
Now that it was time to get down to business, everyone stopped joking and got busy in an orderly manner according to the routine they were used to.
Di Ying quickly performed a preliminary inspection on each corpse.
These people were dressed like hunters, but the undergarments they wore were of higher quality, and they also had calluses on their buttocks and the inner thighs.
These are clearly the traces left by people who have lived on horseback all year round.
This is the mountainous area of Henan Province... there is no war.
Then, these people should be postmen from horse and carriage companies, or messengers from inns, county offices, or government offices.
But neither the postman nor the courier would use so many people at once.
And were all killed?
Especially the messenger.
They are not ordinary people. Anyone who dares to act rashly is a serious crime comparable to treason and will cause the destruction of all nine clans.
A dozen people were killed at once?
Even the postmen from the carriage house... there is no reason to gather in one place at the same time.
Di Ying finished the initial inspection of their bodies one by one, and then stood aside and watched the guards pile up the belongings they found from those people.
Then check the surrounding traces of fighting left behind.
It is not difficult to tell from the messy traces: when these dozen people passed by on horseback, they were attracted to the hillside by something.
Without even getting off the horse, he turned right in.
Why?
Di Ying asked Peng Liang: "If I asked you to take people and rush to deliver a message for 600 miles to a certain place, what kind of situation would you encounter when passing by here, so that you would not send scouts or explore the environment? , lead the team on horseback straight to the hillside, and then turn to a place like this?"
The traces between the hillside and the official road should have been left by the deceased after riding horses and climbing directly up the slope.
Peng Liang heard the question and replied without thinking: "My lord, you stood on the hillside and shouted. Apart from this possibility, I can't think of any other possibility that would allow me to do that directly when leading the team.
Even if you want to dismount and rest, if you want to avoid pedestrians, you will lead the horse up the hill and go around it instead of forcing the horse to climb directly.
The slope is still a bit high and steep.
Of course, if we hear you in distress behind the slope, we will also ride up the slope directly. Others... are impossible.
Even if His Majesty greets you on the slope, we have to dismount and salute first. "
"There is another possibility."
Fang Bin added: "If you are an adult and your family members shout 'help' on the hillside, we will rush to you too."
"Won't."
Nie Bo replied: "Unless the adults are standing there safely and calling us, if someone calls for help on the slope, whether it is the adults or their family members, our first reaction should be to rush forward directly.
Pengtouer will be the fastest. After all, in an emergency, none of us would wait for the horse to climb that slope, as that would delay things. What's more, there is still snow and it's slippery. What if the horse slips? "
Fang Bin nodded. He admitted that Nie Bo was right this time.
Di Ying glanced at Fang Bin, then looked away, and asked everyone again: "Then let's assume that the person standing on the slope at that time, calling the group of people to climb up, was their master or something.
Then they drove their horses up the slope, entered the depression, and dismounted.
He must have been attacked after dismounting, because the horse was not injured.
After they dismounted, they drove the horses away to graze, while the people gathered in front of their masters or those who could command them, talking or resting, or listening to orders.
It should be rest.
One side here was pressed into a lump, a lump, like a grass circle mark where the buttocks were sitting out.
Based on these impressions, it is speculated that they must have been sitting here for less than half an hour before they were attacked and killed.
Their resistance was not violent.
There are traces of a fight here, but not a violent one. The people who attacked and killed them came from the hillsides on both sides.
high speed. It was so fast that they couldn't react in time. They only had time to draw their swords to parry, and they were killed in a hurry. That is, Zhongfu.
Look at this dead man. This man must be very good at martial arts. The tip of his spear was stained with blood. It should have hit the enemy and injured him.
Why do you say it's just hurt? Because judging from the amount of blood left on the tip of the spear, firstly, it was not deep enough, and secondly, it probably just pierced the enemy's arm or something like that.
The degree of blood splashing on the tip of the gun is therefore thinner and lighter. "
