Brocade legend

Chapter 78 Assassination
Zhang Mo sat cross-legged on the grass, Li Lisan and Liu Biao also sat down.

The rest of the dozen or so Dongchang killers sneaked into the surrounding night on their own, not only as a warning, but also because of Dongchang's rules, the leader's deliberations are not allowed within a radius of five feet unless required.

Zhang Mo asked, "Has the evidence in the horse market been cleared?"

Li Lisan and Liu Biao looked at each other, because Zhang Mo had said beforehand that Li Biao was responsible for the screening, and Li Lisan was responsible for the implementation. Therefore, Li Lisan replied, "Basically everything has been cleaned up."

"Basically?" Zhang Mo frowned and said, "Is that something that slipped through the net?"

Liu Biao nodded, and said, "Indeed, there are still Master Fang who have not had time to get rid of them."

"Master Fang? Fang Xianfu?" Zhang Mo rubbed his chin and frowned.

"Representatives of other adults have been removed and their corpses destroyed." Liu Biao continued: "Actually, I know that the governor took the lead in doing the horse market. Only those adults in the court, as long as Lu Bing can't catch those adults Those adults will not attack the governor, or add insult to injury. The rest of the consortium chamber of commerce, or those horse bandits and rebels, etc., only know that people from our East Factory participated, and have no contact with the governor. in any circumstances."

Li Lisan also nodded in agreement and said: "At the beginning, I revealed that we were from the East Factory, to frighten them and win their trust. Now, they don't dare to reveal half a word easily. Even if Lu Bing catches them, they will at best It can only be said that people from the East Factory participated, and we can cover it up by throwing out a few scapegoats."

Zhang Mo nodded and said, "I know this too. I'm not too worried about those little people. What I'm worried about is Fang Xianfu."

Li Lisan explained: "When we were going to kill Fang Xianfu's steward, Lu Bing's troops had already begun to surround Mashi. We were worried that Lu Bing would catch us, so we withdrew first. After all, we often show up around the governor. If we find out We are in the horse market, and it will be even more difficult for the governor to separate the relationship."

"Why don't you leave a few dead men to do it?" Zhang Mo asked.

"I stayed, but I don't know if it's successful at this time." Liu Biao said: "But the villain noticed that those masters of Jinyiwei who were close to Lu Bing did not appear this time."

Hearing this, Zhang Mo was overjoyed and secretly made up his mind.

Zhang Mo stood up and said: "This is an opportunity. Now that Lu Bing's army has entered the city, Fang Xianfu's stewards must be alert. It is difficult for a dead man to assassinate him, and it is even more difficult to destroy the corpse. In this case, we might as well not Do it endlessly."

When Li Lisan heard it, he immediately understood what Zhang Mo meant, and he was overjoyed, and said, "My lord means..."

"Assassinate Lu Bing!" Zhang Mo sneered, "As long as Lu Bing is killed, we will have a chance to come back!"

Liu Biao thought for a while, recalled Lu Bing's strength displayed at the gate of the city, and thought of Zhang Mo's skill, nodded and said: "The three of us, plus a dozen killers, have the possibility of success. "

"In this case, there is no need to delay, let's set off immediately!" Zhang Mo looked at the sky and said: "We arrived at the horse market before dawn. At that time, Lu Bing and the others had been busy all night. When it's darkest, just strike!"

Li Lisan jumped up and whistled, within a few breaths, more than a dozen killers had already come running from all directions, and Liu Biao just got up from the ground at this time.

Lu Bing was standing with Li Jin in the open space in the middle of the Mashi camp. In front of them, there were hundreds of people standing, squatting, or sitting, talking, crying, and shouting.

At this time, a few Jin Yiwei who were checking the supplies trotted over, their faces beaming with joy.

"My lord!" the leader, a general flag, clasped his hands and said, "We probably checked, and the value of the property in this camp is probably no less than 200 million taels!
When Lu Bing heard this, he was secretly shocked. In this small camp, the property stored in one day was worth more than the imperial court's annual income!

In fact, Lu Bing misunderstood a little. Most of the transactions in the horse market were barter, or the Mongolians paid gold, silver and jewelry to buy various daily necessities of the Ming Dynasty, and they were all large transactions.In addition, generally speaking, those who exist in the camps are exchanged by the Ming people from the Mongols, and the supplies needed by the Mongols will be transported away in time every day, and all the goods that the Ming people exchanged from the Mongols will be in the territory of Daming For things that are more than ten times, or even dozens of times, those Jinyiwei are valued according to the prices in Daming, which is naturally very high.

Moreover, there is something special about today, that is, the Mongolian side is in charge of transporting supplies, it is Baturu's army, but they suffered too many casualties during the day, so the supplies of the day were not shipped out in time, and the little prince sent a bag Jinong came to meet him, in fact, he hoped that today's supplies could be shipped back in time. Of course, it would be even better if he could take the sheep with him.It's just that neither the little prince nor Zhang Mo expected that Lu Bing would come so quickly.

In addition, during this period of time there have been rumors that the market will be withdrawn, so those merchants are hurrying to make money and increase their goods, and as long as the Mongolians need it, they will not refuse to settle the bill on the spot, so today the camp will With so many belongings stored, Lu Bing picked up a big bargain.

"Keep the gold and silver separately from the goods, seal them up, and keep them under strict supervision." Lu Bing ordered: "Tell the soldiers that these are their military pay and food, and let them watch carefully!"

Li Jin hurriedly gave orders, and then heard cheers from the soldiers one after another.

Just when the soldiers were cheering because of the military pay and relaxed their vigilance a little, suddenly there was a scream from the crowd in the open space!
Lu Bing looked over and saw a middle-aged man in Tsing Yi clutching his waist, screaming, and staggering backwards, with blood flowing from his fingers and dripping onto the ground.Two servant-like men on the left and right supported him, protected him, and retreated.

There were five people dressed as guards, and two men with expressionless faces. They fought together in front of them, and the people around them backed away in alarm, and quickly vacated an open space.

"Huh?" Lu Bing suddenly noticed that just as everyone retreated, there was an ordinary-looking man moving behind the injured man in Tsing Yi intentionally or unintentionally.

It seemed that the man was also retreating, but in fact, he was constantly closing the distance between him and the injured man in Tsing Yi, and his steps were light, seemingly slow, but actually fast.

He quickly appeared behind the man in Tsing Yi, seemingly inadvertently blocking the man's retreat.He yelled at the people behind him in fear, as if blaming them for blocking the retreat, but his right hand was wrapped in his sleeve.

The servant on the right of the man in Tsing Yi cursed angrily, turned around, and pushed him hard.

He smiled apologetically, his face full of innocence, and he opened his mouth as if to say something soft and apologetic, but when the words came to his lips, he didn't come out, instead a sneer flowed from the corner of his mouth.

(End of this chapter)