The Great Bandit in Kangxi Year

Chapter 256 Serial Assassination
Three days later, Jiang Tao wanted to go to the folks to check. He was really worried about some things that he hadn't seen with his own eyes.

Hearing that the emperor wanted to pay a private visit in disguise, all the guards were shocked. Jiang Heng returned to the inner court at this time. Several bandits armed with the Tiger Fighting Organization, but the leader of the thief still has no clue. According to the results of the interrogation, these survivors have never seen the face of the leader of the thief. They only know that he is an old man with a cold voice. The location of the main altar."

Jiang Tao frowned. To be honest, there are many people who are unhappy with the empire. Those big landlords who were deprived of their land, Shanxi merchants, and Huizhou merchants were suppressed to a certain extent. How can they not hold grudges?
But the involvement is too wide, and there is no way to investigate, so we can't wrong good people.

Thinking of this, Jiang Tao laughed and said, "It's okay, with five hundred inner guards and five hundred black tiger guards, what if there are tens of thousands of bandits?"

Jiang Tao did not exaggerate. Now the emperor directly governs only the Royal Military Region of the Capital, the Special Warfare Division, [-] inner guards and [-] Black Tiger Guards. However, the Military Region of the Capital has [-] sharpshooters and [-] sharpshooter. Went out to fight.

Moreover, most of the training of the recruits is completed in the Royal Military Region of the capital. The Ouchi guards and the Black Tiger Guards are not only carefully selected, each of them has extraordinary individual combat power, but also possesses the most advanced weapons in the empire, excellent war horses, and wheel riders. Guns and revolver rifles are given priority to equip these Royal Guards.

"Your Majesty, do you want to inform the cabinet ministers?" Jiang Heng suggested with some concern. In fact, he wanted the cabinet ministers to persuade the emperor. After all, this time he was going to the countryside, and the danger was far greater than in the city.

"Well, it's good to talk about it. There should be no problem in choosing elite soldiers and strong generals." Jiang Tao nodded. Now that he is the emperor of the empire, he has to shoulder huge responsibilities.

After explaining for a while, the number of guards around Jiang Tao has increased to three thousand, one thousand inner guards and two thousand black tiger guards. After all, it is the cabinet's kindness, and Jiang Tao is not easy to refuse.

It was supposed to be a private visit, but now it has turned into a dignified tour. The outside world only knows that this tour is a cabinet minister, but those who are interested can see the difference.

The killer of the Luo family even used binoculars to recognize Jiang Tao who was wearing an ordinary official uniform. He was overjoyed and rushed to report to Luo Xiaotian.

When Luo Xiaotian knew about this, the emperor had already left the city, and was heading towards the market town, he said with ecstasy in his heart: "It's really God helping me."

"Immediately go down and get ready. Make sure to kill this owl." Luo Xiaotian said excitedly with trembling voices. Anyway, the family has already been sent away, so he has nothing to worry about. If he kills the emperor of the Dahua Empire, what if he will be stigmatized forever?
A tall and thin man with crossed scars on his face asked calmly, "Are we all dispatched?"

"Hmph, if you don't kill Heihu, you don't have to come back." Luo Xiaotian shouted coldly, but he was worried that they would not succeed, so he said, "Leave the Tiger Guards behind."

"Yes." The tall and thin man sighed secretly in his heart. He used to be a member of the Tiger Killing Guards. The Tiger Killing Guards are the most elite killers in the Tiger Killing Organization. Now there are only ten people, both male and female, and they are all young. .

In fact, they are all orphans and children of the Luo family adopted by the Luo family. The black tiger came into their sight a few years ago. The tall and thin man was very unwilling, but a little helpless. His hands were covered with blood, and there was still a way to turn back. ?

This time, maybe all these hundreds of killers will die without a place to bury him, and he will not be spared either.

……

A quarter of an hour later, Jiang Tao's frame drove to the market trade town. The spacious concrete road was lined with brick buildings and crowded with people. This is one of the wholesale centers of the empire.

Although the empire has built dozens of large cement factories, the supply is still in short supply. In addition to meeting military needs, most of the cement is used to build roads or become building materials. However, there are also cement roads built around some cities, and other places. Mostly flat gravel roads.

Da da da……

When the pedestrians on both sides saw such a huge imperial army, and it was obviously not an ordinary army, they immediately became silent, and looked at the purple carriage protected by the horse guards with envy or awe. The imperial envoy with so many people must be the cabinet Minister!

Jiang Tao was dozing off when he suddenly heard Jiang Heng's voice: "Guard, escort, fire and thunder, bastard, whoever dares to go to the front will be killed without mercy."

Boom boom boom...

Immediately after, Jiang Tao heard five or six explosions. The huge impact directly overturned the all-steel carriage, and Jiang Tao felt a fire thunder exploded at the bottom of the carriage.

When Jiang Tao got up from the carriage, his eyes were already burning with anger. It is unbearable that someone near the capital dared to assassinate the emperor.

bang bang bang...

At this time, continuous gunshots rang out, and there were screams suddenly.

Jiang Heng pulled out the shrapnel from his arm and guarded outside the carriage. There were only about [-] people left on the roof and around them. Why can they shoot continuously, and most of their brothers lie down almost in one encounter.

Jiang Tao didn't move. It's safer to stay in the carriage at this time. After all, the other party can even get military firearms. Wouldn't other guns be easier, after all, he doesn't want to be shot by lead bullets.

In fact, the empire's gun control is very strict. Every soldier's gun has a number. If the gun is lost, without sufficient reasons and evidence, it may not be as simple as expulsion from the military.

It took a while before he calmed down. Jiang Heng was injured and reported in horror: "Is the emperor okay? Just now someone threw seven fire and thunder explosions from the roof, and a big inner guard pressed a fire The thunderbolt was sacrificed, the key is that the opponent calculated the time, and it exploded almost as soon as it landed. Our imperial guards suffered more than [-] casualties, most of them were minor injuries. The opponent died more than a hundred people, including four musketeers. He used a Miru gun and was shot dead when he tried to shoot on the roof.”

"Humph, go back to the palace and burial the fallen soldiers, you must understand." Jiang Tao came out to look around, then sighed and said: "Don't hurt innocent people, how is your injury?"

"Your Majesty, it's just some minor injuries. Please return to the palace as soon as possible."

"Handle with care, don't be careless." Jiang Tao nodded, changed to a carriage and went back to the palace, but he really didn't expect these bandits to be so rampant, and they looked like the righteous sons of the Black Tiger Village.

bang bang bang...

Five miles away from the capital, there was another burst of gunshots, and the carriage stopped again. The commander of the Black Tiger Guards came over and reported: "Your Majesty, just now ten killers chased and killed an old man who was dying, and they saw the bodyguard It hasn’t stopped, but they have been shot dead, but the old man said he has something to see.”

"Oh." Jiang Tao only felt that something was wrong today, but he was a little curious that there were so many killers around the capital, so he said impatiently: "Xuan."

After a while, the leader of the Black Tiger Guard brought an old man. He was dressed gorgeously, but at this moment, he was bloody, but he had a hunchback, which looked very strange.

"Master Imperial Envoy decides for the villain. Those killers just now belonged to the Tiger Fighting Organization. Unfortunately, the old man found out that they were almost wiped out. It turned out that they lived in the market town, but rented the house of the villain. It is really miserable. , the whole family is dead!" I saw the old man crying in a panic.

Just as he was about to kneel on the ground, a crossbow arrow suddenly shot from his back. The pure iron arrow shone with blue light and shadow, obviously poisonous. Jiang Tao immediately understood that this old man was the killer of the Tiger Fighting Organization, and he knew a lot.

But he didn't move, because he couldn't dodge it, and he believed in the defensive power of the special body armor on his body, and he was wearing gold silk armor.

The surrounding guards were all shocked. When he was about to shoot and kill the old man, Jiang Tao had already been hit by the arrow. He felt a huge force hitting his chest. He still calmly shouted: "Catch him alive."

When the surrounding guards held down the old man, the old man sneered and said, "Hey, boy Heihu, the old man is waiting for you under the Nine Springs."

Immediately afterwards, the old man's face turned iron blue, and his pupils became dilated. After spitting out a mouthful of black blood, he kicked his legs and died.

Jiang Tao sighed and ordered someone to pull out the poisonous arrows. Of course he was fine. He was wearing a special body armor that could block even the bullets from the firearms, let alone crossbow arrows.

This time he was really angry. He didn't expect that so many people wanted to kill him, and the guards around him knelt down in fright.

Jiang Tao knew that they were too careless this time, but he didn't blame them. After all, they were only good at martial arts and marksmanship, and they knew too little about investigation and other aspects.

Three days later, after inspection, the old man was actually Luo Xiaotian.

After another half a month of thorough investigation, some clues were indeed found out. Someone in the army actually sold Mielu guns and Huo Lei Bang, and he was the commander of the local defense.

More than a dozen officers with titles were involved, and several of them were former soldiers of the Black Tiger Army. They sold about hundreds of guns, each of which cost more than [-] silver dollars.

So soon someone started corrupting.

Jiang Tao became vigilant. In recent years, his control over the army has been relaxed a lot, especially the local garrison. On the one hand, he ordered the empire to take back the guns and ammunition sold, and on the other hand, he punished the officers who violated the law according to law. swap.

And strengthen the training of military officers, political commissars and military judges, especially the supervision department.

Just as the empire was undergoing major reforms, the Western powers stopped fighting.

Prior to this, the United Kingdom, France, Portugal, Sweden, Norway and other countries formed a joint fleet to defeat the Dutch fleet several times, and finally blocked the Dutch fleet in the port, and each suffered heavy losses.

But when the battle in Southeast Asia was reported back to Europe, all countries were shocked. The Great China Empire must have gone crazy, and even targeted and angered all European powers such as the Netherlands, Britain and France.

Especially the Netherlands, the highest ruling initiative of the Netherlands, Britain, France and other countries readily agreed. After all, this time they have a common enemy. Too close, has the advantage of terrain.

After more than a month of negotiations, the six countries formed a huge United Nations fleet, launching a total of 10 battleships, [-] cruisers, and [-] armies from various countries. Finally, Spain also followed, mainly because Spain’s wealth was lost to the east. Quite a lot.

However, Spain only provided ten battleships this time, but it added [-] troops to the United Nations fleet.

This time they not only want to regain control of Southeast Asia, but also want to turn the entire Eastern Empire into the colonies of various countries.

Porcelain, tea, silk, spices are all they need.

According to the agreement, all the interests in this will be divided into ten shares. The Netherlands, Britain, and France will each take 15 percent, and other countries will take [-] percent. Thinking of colonizing the huge Dahua Empire, the leaders of all countries are lost. Five hundred ships With a capital ship and an army of [-], there is no reason why they can't defeat the Dahua Empire.

(End of this chapter)