Seeing this situation, Wang Mo hurriedly stopped him: "Don't be impulsive, City Lord. There is a layer of curtains between us, so no one can see clearly what's going on inside. We'd better be careful!"
This sudden arrow was so hasty that no one could react.
When Guo Tianxiang roared and Wang Mo dissuaded him, Guo Tianxiang's guards rushed over from a distance and launched a layer of defense.
One of the men wearing armor said tremblingly: "Lord City Lord, we didn't notice enough, please atone for your sins!"
As he spoke, he shouted to the others: "What are you doing here? Shake me! Shake me!"
"Arrest the whole city!"
Then he also held a long sword and said in a deep voice: "Sir, don't go in this carriage yet, let me go and investigate the situation!"
As he said that, he raised the curtain with his long sword, only to see that the carriage was empty except for a hole in the wooden board behind the carriage!
Obviously, the murderer passed through the carriage directly through the arrow hole, and Guo Tianxiang, who had relaxed his vigilance when getting on the carriage, was hit.
Although this is not very harmful, it is extremely insulting!
What a shame and humiliation it was to be assassinated in one's own heavily guarded city!
Guo Tianxiang's face was extremely gloomy: "There is no need to search, the assassin must have left!"
He looked at Wang Mo and said in a deep voice: "Brother Wang Mo, if you leave now, you will probably be in danger. It's better to work with me and let me protect you. You stay in the city lord's mansion for one night first. Tomorrow It’s not too late to leave!”
Guo Tianxiang was very insistent, which made Wang Mo sigh inwardly. After agreeing, he and Guo Tianxiang got into the car and left here.
The only difference from before was that there was an army escorting the carriage at this moment.
The man wearing armor just now, named Zhou He, is a general under Guo Tianxiang, who is highly skilled in martial arts. When he was in Qingyun Tower, Guo Tianxiang mentioned that he followed Guo Tianxiang many times to participate in life and death battles. It can be said that he has survived a hundred battles. experience.
In the carriage, Guo Tianxiang took off his mink robe, but the armor he was wearing still had a broken arrow stuck in it.
Puff.
Guo Tianxiang pulled out the broken arrow. The arrow was stained with blood.
"The wound is not too deep. In other words, the thief came with an arrow from a hundred steps away!"
Guo Tianxiang could judge the distance of the person who fired the arrow just by relying on this broken arrow.
But his expression became increasingly gloomy.
And Wang Mo also knew why he was like this.
An arrow fired from a hundred steps away could hit Guo Tianxiang so accurately, and even more so in this dark night, separated by a carriage...
The combination of all this information is terrifying.
One conclusion Wang Mo came to is...
The person who assassinated Guo Tianxiang must be a powerful force, and the person who took the action was definitely a master among masters. This not only required sufficient strength and extremely high accuracy, but also required good enough equipment, such as an extremely sophisticated crossbow... …
"It seems that this assassination came from... the inside!"
Wang Mo pondered in his heart.
Through the various clues he compiled, the scope can be narrowed down a lot.
At the same time, he was secretly frightened. If this enemy came to deal with him, wouldn't he definitely die?
Even Guo Tianxiang, who was wearing armor, was shot, but from such a long distance...
And if it were him, Wang Mo, without any protection on his body, he would definitely be hit by one arrow, and he would hate the northwest...
Wang Mo looked at Guo Tianxiang's face at this moment, and he knew in his heart that the other party had guessed which force the person who assassinated him came from!
After all, Guo Tianxiang has been a general for twenty or thirty years and has experienced hundreds of battles, large and small, and he still has a high degree of acumen in this aspect.
"City Lord Guo, are you okay?"
Wang Mo asked with concern.
But Guo Tianxiang didn't even frown and said calmly: "It's nothing, just treat it like a mosquito bite!"
Wang Mo immediately praised: "It is indeed the strongest defense of our Tianqing City, and it is also the patron saint of Tianqing City. Facing such an assassination, he can be so calm and calm. If it were anyone else, he would probably send troops to search for the assassin!" "
Guo Tianxiang smiled faintly, seeming to be a little disdainful, and said scornfully: "What is this? I have seen no matter how horrific the assassination is. Haha, I think the person behind this is not coming to assassinate me, but a blatant warning!"
Wang Mo was suspicious: "Warning?"
Guo Tianxiang sneered: "Sending such a master must not be an ordinary person in the Daxing Dynasty, so this person's identity is easy to check, and the force this person belongs to also has a deep feud with me, mainly because I've touched their interests, so this is a warning to stop me from doing something!"
Hearing this, Wang Mo was shocked. What Guo Tianxiang meant was that if the other party wanted to kill him, it would be easy. This time it was a warning, not murderous intention?
This is even more terrifying!
So Wang Mo couldn't help but ask: "City Lord Guo, what is this force you are talking about?"
He paused and explained: "Speaking of which, I am a bit afraid of death, let alone walking with City Lord Guo. If I are targeted by them, I should be well prepared. I don't want to be in the dark. He was assassinated and died without realizing it!”
Guo Tianxiang was not dissatisfied with this, but instead showed a smile: "Brother Wang is very honest, and what he said is also very true. According to the temperament of those people, they will indeed be able to do this kind of thing of eradicating the weeds, so you still It’s really quite dangerous!”
Wang Mo: "..."
At this time, Guo Tianxiang sighed and said: "In the Daxing Dynasty, there are many factions, which are very complicated. Some people are very conservative, and some people think that our behavior is too radical. In the long run, it will not be good for the Daxing Dynasty." Okay, haha, they are always so high-sounding and hypocritical, but there is still some truth in them!"
"But what is more true is that these people have discovered a large number of gold mines in the barbarian lands outside the border. If I continue to send troops to conquer, it will make it impossible for them to capture people from the barbarians to mine, which will greatly affect their interests, and even They are worried that we will rob their gold mines, and in the face of absolute interests, they will do such a thing!"
Hearing this, Wang Mo took a breath.
A large amount of gold mines have been discovered and are being mined. What Guo Tianxiang's underlying meaning is is that the royal family of the Daxing Dynasty does not know about this batch of gold, and is it being mined privately by some forces? After all, it did not belong to the Daxing Dynasty, but a barbarian land outside the border...
Guo Tianxiang also discovered these gold mines, and coupled with his radical play style, so essentially, the two forces are competing for the gold mines?
Is that why this assassination happened?
Thinking of this, Wang Mo felt a little numb.
So he couldn't help but asked: "So City Lord Guo, who is the person behind it?"
Guo Tianxiang chuckled and said calmly: "Queen Guo's younger brother, the current Yunzhou Jiedushi of the Daxing Dynasty, Guo Preface!"
Wang Mo took a breath, this was equivalent to the most powerful man in a certain region of the Daxing Dynasty!
