Ming Dynasty: Summoning game players at the beginning

Chapter 156 Although he was tortured, he also lost his life
The Fourth Scourge had taken its revenge before the next day, and new problems arose.

Such a large-scale assassination news will soon spread throughout the city, and thousands of soldiers will rush over to surround and kill the assassin.

Players can avoid patrolling soldiers when they come out, but they will face a large number of "friendly forces" when they go back.

Instead of going through the trouble of killing non-mission targets, or even killing one of our own people in the "Tongxin Society", it is better to end your life and do other things.

Now that the game time has entered night and reality has entered daytime, most players should return to normal life.

"Brothers, today's castration was a pleasure. If time wasn't pressing, we would have tortured him for 49 days!"

"Now that the castrated dog is dead, his mission is accomplished. Let us meet again in Valhalla!"

"Goodbye in the Hall of Valor!"

The surviving players raised their swords and longswords and put them on their necks. Those who only had maces and hammers had to pick up the Jinyiwei's goose-feather knives.

"goodbye!"

Then, about a hundred people pulled horizontally with great skill, and one of them even used too much force and almost cut his own neck.

The sharp blade shattered the neck, blood splattered, and dozens of players fell one by one. In the end, only one person was left standing, turning on the "filming function" to record the "tragic" scene.

In the martial arts background of the late Ming Dynasty, Gao Qiquan, a eunuch official, was corrupt and perverted the law, killing loyal officials, causing public outrage and everyone wanted him to be killed.

But Gao Qiquan was surrounded by many masters, and he himself was also a martial arts master, so ordinary knights could not get close to him at all.

At this time, the martial arts hero Li Ping'an called on all the heroes to gather in Jinan to kill the eunuch together.

Although everyone knew that this assassination attempt would result in death, they resolutely embarked on the road to death.

They fought all the way until the last moment. Countless heroes died in the battle, and in the end only Li Pingan was left.

Li Ping'an was grateful to all the heroes who had paved the bloody road to this place with their lives, so he used all his true energy to burn the castrated dog to death at the cost of his life, thus eliminating the great harm for the people of the world.

Hero Li himself also exhausted his energy and died of exhaustion.

Sad, lamentable, and admirable! What a heroic martial arts drama!

However, the guy taking the photo still felt that something was missing.

Suddenly, an idea struck him, and he pointed upward with his right index finger.

He dragged the most handsome corpse of his brother and placed it next to the castrated dog, posing as if he had fought a hundred rounds. Then he dipped his brother's finger in blood and wrote a few big words on the floor.

The Taishan hero eliminates evil for the people
"It's absolutely perfect!" The guy taking the photo gave himself a thumbs up, closed his eyes in ecstasy and felt the artistic conception here, as if he had put himself into the role of the hero Li Ping'an.

Then he raised his sword and slashed his own throat.

The young man closed his eyes and opened them again, and woke up again. The brothers who had just committed suicide were all jumping around him, and they all had faces that were completely different from the previous assassination.

The newly resurrected people only had the clothes given by the system. They hurriedly put on the weapons and equipment they had taken off, pretending that they had always been in the barracks and had never left.

The young man looked at his ID name and felt that it was not quite right.

So he opened the system mall, gritted his teeth and bought a name-changing card, changing his name to "Li Ping'an".

Well, that's just right. It has the temperament of a hero who has been roaming the world for decades.

Suddenly, a burst of hurried footsteps was heard outside the Black Flag Camp. Hundreds of soldiers braved the heavy rain to seal off the front and rear bases of the Black Flag Camp, announcing that martial law had begun in the entire city, and all soldiers were not allowed to step out of the camp.

"What happened? Why is there such a big fuss?" Li Ping'an pretended to be calm and approached the gate of the barracks.

The soldiers under martial law clearly had considerable respect for the Black Flag Battalion, muttering amiably, "I heard that Supervisor Gao Qiquan was assassinated, and hundreds of people died in the inn."

"Oh, where did this assassin come from? How dare he be so bold as to assassinate the most beloved person around the emperor!"

"The commander is sending people to track them down. We should have some clues before daybreak. Those assassins will not be able to escape from the county."

……

The news of the murder of Gao Qiquan and his entourage and guards quickly spread throughout the county.

Lu Xiangsheng immediately treated it as a formidable enemy and dispatched soldiers from the Standard Battalion and the Brave Guard Battalion to seal off all military camps, strictly prohibiting entry and exit.

He quickly led hundreds of cavalrymen to the crime scene, and sent people to call the county's express team and coroner to collect clues.

The inn owner and waiters were detained and questioned separately.

They claimed that they were living in a small house in the backyard when the incident happened, and they did hear the sounds of fierce fighting, and several masked men broke in with knives.

The masked man just glanced around and found no target to assassinate, so he tied them up, stuffed their mouths with smelly socks, and told them not to make any sound, otherwise their lives would be in danger.

This testimony shows that the criminals were not thieves who robbed the inn, but an assassination team targeting Gao Qiquan himself.

No, this cannot be called an assassination, it is simply an unscrupulous killing!

The bodies of Jinyiwei and bandits stretched from the entrance to the hall, then to the second-floor corridor and guest rooms. The ground was covered with traces of fierce fighting, strange hollow spots, and the bodies of dozens of people killed by unknown hidden weapons, as if some poisonous insect had eaten away the flesh and bones of their arms and legs.

Gao Qiquan himself was burned to charcoal black, and even his mother could not recognize him.

But what puzzled Lu Xiangsheng was why such a terrifying fire only burned Gao Qiquan to death, but did not affect the bed, gauze curtains, or even the entire inn?

You have to know that once many fires start indoors, they cannot be stopped at all.

How did the bandits break through the patrolling soldiers' vigilance, surround and kill all the Jinyiwei without alerting the enemy, and escape without leaving a trace?

All these questions lingered in the commander's mind, and the only useful clue was a message saying "The hero of Mount Tai eliminated harm for the people."

But this is useless. What kind of hero in this world can kill the military supervisor under the eyes of tens of thousands of people and disappear quietly in the rainy night?
Even if a hero can climb walls and fly over rooftops, he will still leave behind the sound of stepping on tiles, right?

Either the people who assassinated Gao Qiquan were a group of geniuses with extraordinary skills, or there was a traitor among the Jinyiwei who killed each other.

The last possibility is that it was done by the government troops who hated Gao Qiqian.

Everyone knows about the scene where Gao Qiquan clashed with a group of government troops and formed a feud with them. Everyone knows that the government troops have a grudge against Gao Qiquan.

Lu Xiangsheng speculated that it was the government troops who did this, and was also shocked that these soldiers were so bold that they even dared to kill officials in the court.

The person killed was Gao Qiquan, one of the "eunuchs in charge of troops" whom His Majesty valued the most.

If this idea is correct, the barracks of the mastermind behind the scenes must be short of about 200 soldiers - this number cannot be made up by simply grabbing 200 strong men.

The first group that Lu Xiangsheng investigated was the Black Flag Camp. On that day, the Black Flag Camp was the first to contradict Gao Qiquan and had a strong motive to commit the crime.

However, the news reported by the trusted lieutenant general refuted this suspicion.

Every soldier in the Black Flag Battalion was included, not even one of them violated the rules and left the camp to "drink, gamble, and have sex."

However, people were missing from other camps one after another. Some soldiers stayed overnight in brothels, some secretly drank in restaurants to celebrate their victory and got drunk, and some were gambling in the depths of the barracks and had not fallen asleep yet.

Lu Xiangsheng was so angry that he slammed the table. The Tartars had just been repelled, and the government troops were already relaxing and enjoying themselves!
The main force of the Tartars has not yet withdrawn from the border areas, and the battle to defend the king is far from over. How can we relax and become decadent?

Lu Xiangsheng thought again of his suspicion of the Black Flag Battalion, the only "self-disciplined" one, and couldn't help but curse himself for being stupid.

The social atmosphere these days is corrupt, with bad people being favored and good people being treated unfairly. How could I make the same mistake of favoring one over the other?

"Catch all the soldiers who violated the rules and left the camp!" The commander gave the order, and the standard-bearers quickly dispersed to arrest the guilty soldiers.

"The murder of the supervisor is a serious matter. Your Majesty has severely punished us. If the commander-in-chief cannot find the mastermind behind the murder, I'm afraid..." A staff member was worried.

"Why not kill these disobedient soldiers and say they were drunk and had a fight with Eunuch Gao? That way, the commander-in-chief can clear himself..."

"Don't kill them indiscriminately! They violated the rules and left the camp, and they will be dealt with according to military law. There is no solid evidence at the moment. If I use their heads to atone for my serious crime of negligence in care, it would be putting the cart before the horse. I can't and won't do such a shameless act." The commander-in-chief refused decisively and firmly.

He is such a typical old scholar who is so upright that he is a bit pedantic.

It was precisely this straightforward character that displeased Zhu Youjian, who preferred ministers who could flatter, speak well, and brag...

"But the victory letter has already been sent on its way. It's too late to retrieve it now."

If the bad news could be placed before the good news, and Zhu Youjian was shown the bad news first and then the good news, it would be possible to buffer the pain brought by the bad news and even amplify the pleasure of the good news through the contrast between the two.

Perhaps Zhu Youjian, out of his joy, would let the eunuch off the charge of murder lightly and only demote the commander-in-chief.

It’s a pity that the document reporting the victory was written too early, and the sudden change cannot be concealed.

"Report the truth and await His Majesty's judgment."

After a thorough investigation all night without any results, the commander-in-chief led his troops north the next day to follow the main force of the Tartars, hoping to kill the enemy and serve his king and country again before His Majesty blamed him.

Some of the elite troops of the Black Flag Battalion who volunteered to go north to pursue the Tartars were also taken away, while the injured Lieutenant General Li led the remaining thousands of "auxiliary troops" to stay in Jinan to recuperate.

……

The urgent report of victory was quickly delivered to the emperor over hundreds of miles.

Wang Chengen opened the document and read out loud and clear every word in front of the emperor and his ministers.

When he heard how many levels of beheadings were to be made, Zhu Youjian could hardly suppress the surprise and excitement on his face. When he heard that General Li Mu once again demonstrated the power of the "God of War", he could not control himself and slammed the imperial desk and stood up.

"Good! Good! Good! You are indeed the one I chose. You really make me proud!"

Zhu Youjian put his sleeves behind his back and glanced at the important officials on his left and right with a smug smile as if he had won a bet.

"If I had not listened to your advice and had promoted Lieutenant General Li without delay, he would have led more troops and left me with even more Tartar heads! So, what else do you have to say? Are you still going to accuse Lieutenant General Li of being young and rising to a high position, which is useless to the country? Do you want me to suppress a loyal, brave, and patriotic general? Speak!"

"I believe that although Lieutenant Commander Li is young, he is calm and composed in battle, loyal and brave, and deserves further rewards..."

(End of this chapter)