The sound of cannons has stopped for the time being. In front and behind the entire bamboo basket wall, the Dongdu defense soldiers fought with the people in Pingluliu's backyard. The sharp teeth of the boring rakes interlaced together in pieces. Many defense soldiers with muskets climbed up the walls on all sides, and the high-rise buildings and the city gate of the Dongdu, and kept lit up the backyard of Liu, which was running out of wolf and pig, "Don't let a thief go!"

The women and children who stayed in the backyard were the worst. While running, they were constantly hit by rockets and guns and threw themselves to the ground. The undead touched the wounds, crawled everywhere, moaned, and blood flowed all over the ground.

In the thick smoke and fog of the cannon guns, there were still dozens of Pinglu military servants. Under the leadership of Menzha, they drilled into gaps and escaped from the city wall of Changxiamen, but they were so scattered that they could not form formations. Everyone only knew that they would run into the Foguang Temple on Zhongyue.

At Xingjiaofang, fires spread everywhere, and the house in Pinglu Junliu's backyard was surrounded by fireworks. Two deeds who climbed over the wall to surrender Du Ya, panicked in order to survive, gave Du Ya a fake confession:

"Ze Jiazhen, Menchasu colluded with the thieves and his ears and ears were spread all over the Dongdu, Yique, Luhun and other counties. He assassinated Zhao Zhonglang last night, and then he wanted to seize the Dongdu Palace City, Menpass and Gongmen to welcome the Caizhou soldiers."

"Yique Luhun, who is colluding with these two thieves?" Du Ya asked.

"The monk Yuanjing, a monk from Foguang Temple in Songshan, has colluded with the mountain sheds of the two counties."

"No wonder I'm leaving behind Changxia Gate and heading southeast." Then Du Ya ordered the defensive soldiers, "Follow me to go out of the city again, attack Foguang Temple, and capture the demon monk Yuanjing and the top of the mountain shed!"

In the afternoon, there were defensive soldiers wearing black robes or armor on all the mountain roads in Zhongyue, holding weapons, and surrounded the Foguang Temple. In the bushes along the road, there were grass and streams behind the river rocks, the injured Pinglu military servants were caught out, tied with ropes, and escorted to the eastern capital.

In Foguang Temple, Yuanjing and many mountain sheds were drunk last night, and they were still not clear about it. First, the gate was covered in blood and rushed to the mountain gate with more than a dozen remaining soldiers, shouting that there were major changes in the east. We and the general Jie were framed by traitors, and now Du Ya was sending troops to pursue them.

The mountain sheds heard that some of them had assassinated the imperial ministers in the street, and they were all so scared that they wanted to escape.

"Can you escape? Now I can only fight out with the old monk and the goalkeeper and walk into the deep mountains." Yuanjing tiger's eyes were bright and its beard was about to stand up.

"We didn't kill Zhao Zhonglang, why should we wait for you to be buried with you?" At this time, many mountain sheds who came to the party believed that this matter was completely done by Ping Lu Jun in the backyard and had nothing to do with them.

As a result, before the Dongdu defense soldiers arrived, the courtyard and the lords of Foguang Temple, the mountain shed and the military deputies of Pinglu, fought with each other. In the melee, Mencha was caught in an arrow in the ribs and collapsed in the corner of the bell tower. He couldn't stand up. Dozens of mountain sheds shouted and surrounded him, and shot the coefficient of the deputies around him like rain.

Yuanjing took out a pure copper Zen stick, danced like a whirlwind, knocked down countless arrows, then jumped onto the earth platform, and beat several mountain sheds to death one after another. Finally, the rope was thrown by the mountain sheds. Everyone rushed up and tied them tightly, and prepared to send them out of the mountain gate.

At this time, the defensive soldiers had just entered. Before the mountain shed was shouting "innocence", they did not ask for anything, and slashed hard. Half of the unlucky mountain sheds were killed, and the other half were tied up, and the crying sounded loudly.

Then the defensive soldiers saw charcoal fire, cooked meat, wine bags, and scattered gold and silver in the backyard of Foguang Temple, and then took everyone down the mountain and sent it to the Henan Prefecture Government in Xuanxianfang, Dongdu for interrogation and promotion.

That night, Du Ya, as the Henan Yin, was cruel and said that he would have to find a result for me the next day. So the officials and jailers all tried their best to torture them. Whether it was the mountain sheds in the two counties or the deans left in the backyard, they were beaten to death and could not bear it in the end and begged for mercy.

Only the Yuanjing was hung up and beaten hard, and was beaten to death with blood from his mouth and nose, but he still refused to surrender and cursed endlessly.

The jailer pointed to the gold and silver obtained from Foguang Temple and asked Yuanjing: Who gave this gold and silver and who did you give it to?

"The old monk has been in the Green Forest for thirty years, and all the gold and silver were robbed by bandits." Yuan Jing laughed.

"Why should I invite Jushantang to drink?"

"They are all children of Shanhe. The old monk is preparing to recruit Du Dayin to strengthen the defensive troops in order to prevent the Dongdu from being captured by Cai Kou of Huaixi." Yuan Jingzhen made a statement.

"Why would the people who stayed in the backyard of Pinglu Jun run to you?"

"The old monk only ate meat and drank wine in the mountain temple last night. How could he know about Dongdu?" Yuan Jing denied.

Then the jailers took out the musket that shot Zhao Jing and asked Yuanjing, but Yuanjing just shouted and scolded, but did not answer.

However, personal indomitableness is useless.

With the confession of other people, whether true or false, Duya can outline the complete situation:

Li Shigu, the governor of the Lu Army in Pinglu of Ziqing, purchased a lot of land in Yique and Luhun counties. On weekdays, Liu's backyard led by Zi Jiazhen and Mencha, and the yamen in the east capital had no right to interfere;

This monk Yuanjing was not a good man or a trustworthy woman, nor was he a green forest bandit. He was a general under Shi Siming and later served in Ziqing. Li Na and Li Shigu successively gave him tens of thousands of yuan of money and set up Foguang Temple in Songshan, Zhongyue. In fact, it was the eyes and ears of Pinglu Army stationed in the Eastern Capital;

Zi Jiazhen, Mencha and Yuanjing always used money, wine and food to win over the mountain sheds in several counties, and jointly planned secret plans.

After Zhao Jing, the Minister of the Secretariat, was afraid that after the expedition to Huaixi, the court would deal with him Ziqing next, so he ordered Zijiazhen to arrest Zhao Jing, and asked Monk Yuanjing to gather in the mountain sheds of Yique and Luhun counties to prepare to attack Du Ya's barracks, join forces inside and outside to capture Dongdu and cut off the transportation of the canal.

So where did the mountain shed where Zhao Jing was assassinated come from?

This is not difficult for Du Ya to infer. These mountain sheds lurk in Shendu Garden, then pass by Shangyang Palace, and hide in Zhengpingfang at night. This is the only way for Zhao Jing to see things, and he kills him.

As for why the assassin did not start directly from the backyard on the east side, Duya also had a reasonable explanation for this:

When I was the Yin of Henan, I had long felt that Pinglu stayed in the backyard and was sneaky, so I monitored day and night. Zi Jiazhen and the Menzhai had no choice but to instruct the assassin to come from the west.

However, Du Ya didn't want to investigate how to connect this action. Anyway, all the testimony is there, so it's better to leave it to the court to make a decision.

Du Ya loaded Yuanjing and others into the sill car again and quickly sent it to Chang'an City to get along with the emperor and the prime minister.

Ten days later, in the Yanying Hall of the Daming Palace, the emperor was furious and almost knocked down a corner of the book case:

"Han Jingong was assassinated in Tianjie, Chang'an City, and now Zhao Jing was assassinated in Tianjie, Dongdu City, and you think that after this, will you dare to sit in the main yamen and the imperial court? Do you dare to submit a memorial?"

However, at this time, there were only two prime ministers, Du Huangshang and Lu Zhi, in the hall.

Jia Dan had resigned from the Shangshu Pushe Pingzhang because of his mother's death, and went back to the house to guard his private affairs.
Chapter completed!