While the capital was still immersed in the silence of the curfew, the manpower arranged by Ling Yi had already begun to operate quietly.
The first group to start the fire was the team that set fire. They were divided into three groups. One group went to Buguangli and Yonganli, where dignitaries gathered, and lit the first fire. The second group went to Deguangli and Jinggli, where poor people gathered. Liangli was set on fire; the last route was to the area around Tingwei Mansion.
The main focus is fairness and justice, which not only mobilizes the defenders in the city, but can also be used to confuse the line of sight, confuse the situation, and create opportunities for the assassins who attack.
In fact, just as Ling Yi expected, as these three places caught fire, the entire capital was alarmed.
Naturally, this also included Tingwei Mansion. When the fire started nearby, the people from Tingwei Mansion planned to go out to put out the fire.
After all, although the fire has not burned in yet, it is not far away after all. If it is not put out as soon as possible, it will always be more dangerous.
But after Ling Buyi came out, he immediately stopped them with words and ordered: "Everyone should perform their duties and are not allowed to go out. There will naturally be people to deal with the matters outside, so you don't need to worry about it."
Hearing Ling Buyi's scolding, the initially panicked people in Tingwei's Mansion gradually calmed down. Then Ling Buyi called Yuan Shen and asked him to take charge of the affairs in Tingwei's Mansion.
And he took people directly to where Peng Kun was. After all, the fire today was so strange that Ling Buyi felt that it was most likely targeting Peng Kun.
When you don't know how much the other party knows, going over and staring at him in person is a helpless move.
As for the fire outside, Ling Buyu just asked Liang Qiuqi to notify the imperial guards in the city and ask them to come and put out the fire.
When Ling Buyi arrived, Peng Kun's place was still quiet. At this point, Ling Buyi finally felt a lot more relieved, but he wanted to make sure nothing went wrong.
So Ling Buyi called for the experts arranged by Li Hao. After those people came in, except for some of them to protect Yuan Shen, the rest were placed by Ling Buyi at Peng Kun's place.
Ling Bu doubted: "During the time when the fire broke out outside, was there anything unusual here?"
The visitor replied: "There was nothing unusual just now. It's just that General Ling's arrival will probably cause trouble in the future. In fact, General Ling shouldn't have come."
Ling Buyi can naturally understand this, but now that things have reached a critical moment, Ling Buyi will really not feel at ease if he doesn't come.
There is no point in talking more now, so Ling Buyi did not explain, but just replied: "Then get ready and meet the assassin who may come."
Just when Ling Buyi was perfecting the layout here, the assassins sent by Ling Yi had already started taking action, because they had already monitored Ling Buyi's movements from a high place outside the house.
Originally, the assassins hoped to use the fire to mobilize some of the black-armored guards guarding the outside of Tingwei's mansion, making it easier for them to sneak in.
Unexpectedly, Ling Buyi's senses were extremely sharp and he did not mobilize the black-armored guards to put out the fire. Therefore, he could only let a small number of people deliberately expose their flaws and attract the siege of the nearby black-armored guards.
This artificially created some loopholes, allowing others to sneak in smoothly and sneak all the way to the courtyard where Peng Kun was.
As a result, they happened to meet Yuan Shen who was coming in this direction just halfway. The assassins hid in the dark, hoping to let Yuan Shen and others pass first.
But when Yuan Shen approached, one person suddenly jumped out from the group of assassins, and struck Yuan Shen with a dart.
This moment completely confused both sides. Fortunately, the people sent by Li Hao were alert. When this person came out, they realized something was wrong and directly pulled Yuan Shen away and shouted to warn others. .
Therefore, the dart was shot in the air, without causing any harm to Yuan Shen. Instead, it completely exposed the assassins.
At that moment, the members of the Yuan family and the officers of the Tingwei Mansion behind Yuan Shen all drew out their swords and charged directly towards the assassin.
As for Yuan Shen himself, he also drew his sword and faced him with Yuan Wo's support.
It can be said that Yuan Shen's martial arts is actually quite good. Although it is relatively inferior to Li Hao, he is not an ordinary person.
Most people can get close.
After all, it took a lot of effort for him to develop his martial arts skills in order to avoid being severely beaten by Li Hao on the pretext of sparring.
The assassin will naturally not sit still and wait to be killed. Once he is exposed, he will draw his weapon and kill him.
However, their ultimate target was Peng Kun, so they did not have too much entanglement with Yuan Shen and the others. After a fight, they chopped down several Tingwei Mansion servants, opened the passage, and killed them directly.
Only the person who jumped out at the beginning still insisted on attacking Yuan Shen. However, this person was extremely skilled in martial arts. He could break knives, break swords, and break stone monuments with one hand, so he stopped him abruptly.
Of course, the main reason for this was because the Yuan family recognized who this person was, so they did not kill him directly.
As for the servants of Tingwei's Mansion, their own strength was not very good, so there was nothing they could do against this man.
At this time, Yuan Wo had already walked up to Yuan Shen and said, "What should we do now? The master will not let us attack Fifty percent. When the second young master was stabbed and seriously injured, we wanted to cause trouble for him, but the master stopped us at that time.
But in this situation, if he is not taken down earlier, I am afraid that it will be difficult to explain to General Ling. "
Yuan Shen also knew the rights and wrongs of Wu Cheng and his own family. Although it was true that his grandfather harmed his sister, he also paid for it with his own life.
After that, Fifty percent attacked his family several times, and even hurt Li Hao twice, almost losing his life. Yuan Shen had long lost his patience with him.
Especially in the current situation, if he is not killed directly, based on his understanding of Yuan Pei, he is afraid that Yuan Pei will continue to clean up his mess in the future, and the entire Yuan family will be dragged down by it.
So he ordered: "Kill, he didn't reveal his identity today anyway, it's better for you and me not to know who he is in advance.
As for if my father blames me in the future, I will naturally bear the responsibility and will not implicate you. "
Yuan Wo had murderous intentions for the fifth capital. After all, he had been following Li Hao and regarded him as Li Hao's benefactor. He had personally experienced the danger in Hanzhong and knew how dangerous Li Hao was at that time.
But in front of Yuan Shen, there were some things that he couldn't decide on his own. Now that he had Yuan Shen's acquiescence, he immediately ordered: "Open the passage as soon as possible, no matter life or death."
After hearing this, those Yuan family members who were still struggling with Fifty percent immediately became more aggressive in their offensive.
Caught off guard, Fifty percent immediately suffered a lot of wounds, and it became increasingly difficult to resist.
Seeing this situation, Fifty percent also wanted to retreat. After all, there was nothing he could do. He still wanted to save his life and continue to kill the Yuan family.
It's just that Yuan Shen would not let go of this scourge easily, so he immediately stepped up the offensive to prevent the fifth percentile from escaping.
Just when it seemed that Wu Cheng would be beheaded soon, a group of people suddenly rushed out and disrupted the Yuan family's formation, allowing Wu Cheng to save his life.
Seeing this situation, Yuan Shen frowned, wondering why this group of people had already rushed over just now, and why they retreated so quickly.
Just when Yuan Shen was wondering about this, Ling Buyi had already led people to pursue him from behind. When he saw this equipment, Yuan Shen understood.
Not to mention the heavily armed armor, just the dozens of bows and arrows in their hands are not something that ordinary people can carry.
Originally, if this group of assassins could approach secretly, when it came time to fight at close quarters, their martial arts would be effective.
But who let their traces be exposed before, and then they were stared at by dozens of bows and arrows as soon as they showed up. In this case, the assassins without armor could not even get close, and were directly driven away by several rounds of bows and arrows. After all, They are just assassins, not dead soldiers who have been raised.
Now that the archers have arrived, Yuan Shen lets his troops retreat to give the archers a space to perform.
But the assassins were not stupid either, and naturally they would not let them just quit, so they started fighting.
But it was obvious that Ling Buyi had no intention of relying solely on archers. When it came to close combat, he was confident that he would not be inferior to others.
Immediately let the archers
After holding down the formation, he and his men pounced forward, intending to work together to annihilate this gang of assassins.
With the combined efforts of both parties, the assassins immediately began to suffer casualties, but because the cooperation between the two parties was not so tacit after all, several loopholes were created.
Several assassins with high martial arts skills seized the opportunity and took the opportunity to escape. Among them was the 50% that Yuan Shen had been thinking about.
At that moment, Yuan Shen wanted to send people to pursue him along the road, but was stopped by Ling Buyi, who said: "Peng Kun is the most important now. These people are just minions. Even if they escape, they can't escape." What storm is coming.
We will let the Imperial Army pursue them later, but we should continue to guard the safety of Tingwei Mansion. Anyway, when Peng Kun reveals the behind-the-scenes instructions, we will be able to catch them all. "
When Yuan Shen heard this, he couldn't say anything else. After all, he couldn't tell Ling Buyi about his family's grudges.
However, in order to prevent accidents, Yuan Shen asked Yuan Wo to pass the 50% matter back to the Yuan Mansion while inspecting the safety of Tingwei Mansion, and asked Li Haolai to find a way to deal with the 50% matter.
When Li Hao learned the news, it was already early the next morning. He was really speechless. He really didn't expect that Fucheng would also be implicated in this matter.
But accidents are accidents. Regarding the issue of how to deal with the 50th percentile, Li Hao had the same opinion as Yuan Shan, that is, get rid of this guy as soon as possible.
At that moment, Li Hao summoned people who were watching the Chengyang Marquis Mansion and asked Ling Yiming whether there was any movement of people in various houses, both privately and secretly.
The answer they received disappointed Li Hao, because according to their observations, there was no movement of people last night.
It proves that Ling Yi is really well hidden, and he still has a house that Li Hao hasn't discovered that can be used as their home base.
However, Li Hao was not discouraged. After all, there was such a big movement last night, and there would definitely be many people watching the situation outside.
Under such circumstances, Li Hao did not believe that they could hide their traces so secretly, especially under Li Hao's open and large-scale investigation.
After leaving the house, Li Hao rushed to the East Palace immediately, intending to take over the task of finding these fish that slipped through the net. Anyway, he was one of the interrogators of this case.
Since Ling Buyi had no time to investigate, it was only natural for him to take over the task.
When Li Hao arrived, the prince was also busy dealing with official duties. After all, the three fires yesterday, Bu Guangli, Yonganli and Tingwei Mansion were not so bad. There were people living there as soon as the fire broke out. The servants of the wealthy family came forward to control the situation, and with the help of the imperial troops who arrived, they were quickly extinguished.
The only places where poor people live are Deguangli and Jingliangli. They are places with messy houses and complex crowds. In addition, the imperial army is not very concerned about them, so they arrive at the scene at the latest.
And during this process, many people with ulterior motives took advantage of the chaos to do evil, which further contributed to the chaos there.
By the time the fire there was finally extinguished, the sky had turned white. That is to say, it had been burning all night, and almost all the houses there were burned.
Luoyang Ling was unable to make the final decision on subsequent peace matters, so he reported it to the prince and asked him to take charge of the matter.
The prince is kind-hearted, so he naturally feels bad when he sees so many people suffering from the disaster. Moreover, when it comes to disaster relief, a lot of money and food will be spent.
Although the imperial court has not encountered any major disasters in recent years, the treasury is actually not that wealthy.
After all, the Battle of Pingshu and the Battle of Longxi happened two or three years ago, and then two more battles were fought in Fengyi County and Shouchun in the past two years. Tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses were sent out at every turn, and all the money and food were spent. Not a small amount.
Therefore, the prince was also worried about where the money and food would come from. He happened to see Li Hao arriving, so he asked Li Hao to help give him an idea.
Li Hao did not refuse and replied directly: "Although the money and food consumed for disaster relief are a lot, there are also more wealthy people in the capital. Why don't you think of a way to make these people vomit out, so that you can cope with it?" Already."
After hearing this, the prince said: "Disaster relief is the duty of the court. How can we make them willingly take out money and food to make up for it?"
Loopholes in the court.
You can't let me sell my official position and get a title, or I will be scolded to death by my father, and my father will not agree to it. "
Li Hao explained: "Selling an official position and getting a title is naturally not allowed, but it is always right to use inducements. Your Highness may wish to change his mind.
Fame and wealth are inseparable from each other. Your Highness cannot give others titles, but isn't it easy to help them become famous?
Your Highness thinks about it, why this country gentry always likes to donate money and food to build bridges and pave roads. One of the important reasons is to make him famous.
So since they need it, don't the Gonggun princes and aristocratic families in the capital also need it? "
After hearing this, the prince clapped his hands and said inferences: "Yes, this is a good idea, but this matter cannot be said by an orphan, otherwise it will become a business."
After saying that, he looked at Li Hao, obviously directly targeting Li Hao.
Li Hao had no intention of refusing at first, so he immediately said: "Your Highness, don't worry, ministers who have done good deeds like this will naturally be the first to do so. Then I will ask Your Highness to give me a plaque of good deeds. When the time comes, I will ask General Chariot and Cavalry to go through the process. If you want to come to other homes, Naturally, I understand the meaning and will follow suit for the sake of my own reputation.
These people know how to make trade-offs so that the donated money and food will not break their bones. "
The two sides reached a consensus on this, and then Li Hao proposed the matter of arresting the assassins.
