Chapter 1100 Drunken Oriental Restaurant

The sound of two crossbows, coupled with the chaotic sound of horses' hoofs, immediately disturbed Ma Chao's hearing.

Originally, if someone attacked, Ma Chao felt that he could catch the attacking crossbow out of thin air, but his hearing was disturbed, so he could only wave a big gun and hear a 'attack' sound, and the crossbow arrow was hit aside and disappeared.

However, the good news is that another crossbow was issued by Yang Xiu. He saw that Ma Chao looked wrong and the Huns running away. He immediately shot an arrow impartially on the Huns' thigh. The man snorted and then fell to the ground.

After all this, the cavalry also rushed to Ma Chao. Looking at the leading general, Ma Chao looked happy and avoided the tediousness of proving his identity. He directly commanded, "Wen Chang, quickly surround the drunken Oriental winery, and dig three feet of the ground to dig out the people inside!"

Wei Yan saw that Ma Chao was ambushed, and a purple-colored square face turned black directly. At present, he didn't say anything, made a series of gestures, and then stepped on the main door of the drunken Oriental Restaurant. It seems that if you don't dismantle the drunken East, I'm afraid you won't let the restaurant leave much behind.

And Ma Chao walked towards the place of the fallen Huns with a dark face. He was sure that he had definitely seen the Huns. However, he couldn't recall the specific scene he had seen. However, at this time, there was another sudden change. When the man saw that he was about to be captured, he immediately shouted. He pulled out the crossbow from his thigh and stabbed it in front of his face!

At that time, no one around him could stop him, and Ma Chao could only watch the man commit suicide. Especially after seeing that the man's face had been destroyed by himself, Ma Chao's face was even more gloomy.

When he was young, Wei Yan came out and replied with a ashamed face, "Lord, the thief has escaped calmly. The last general found a secret road in the kitchen and sent someone to catch up, but..."

Ma Chao also knew that in this situation, it was impossible to catch up with the assassin when he didn't know where the secret road led. Moreover, everything seems strange today. He needs to calm down first: "Send troops to look around. It is impossible for those Huns to quietly remove the shadows around me."

In a short time, Ma Jiajun had brought 15 shadow corpses. Ma Chao and Wei Yan came forward and saw that each shadow was killed by one move. The technique was clean and neat, and the fatal injury was not a sharp blade at all. After Ma Chao slightly wrinkled his forehead and slowly rubbed his temples, he had a vague speculation about the whole event.

Obviously, this assassination is not specifically aimed at itself. Even those real assassins suddenly found their identity. The real assassin hidden in the drunken East has set up a special assassination campaign after assassinating the shadow that secretly protects Ma Chao. But after seeing Yang Xiu release the arrow, he felt that it was incongible, so he let the seven Xiongnu cannon fodder who had some connection with them to be scapegoats.

Of course, it is also very likely that those assassins knew that it was impossible to die in this unprepared assassination with Ma Chao's martial arts skills, so they temporarily changed their strategy and took advantage of the chaos to escape. However, it is certain that this group of leaders of assassination either have a deep hatred for Ma Chao, or they are very eager for Ma Chao's head - from the murderous intention revealed after the high window just now, Ma Chao feels that that person has both. Moreover, his mind is still meticulous and calm, and his martial arts are definitely above second-rate masters.

Such a person still has an inexplicable connection with the Huns... Ma Chao shook his head slightly, and there was no such person in his impression.

"Let's go back to the county government office and discuss my business here first." Ma Chao gave a gloomy order. Before destroying the horse, he seemed to think of something else and whispered to Wei Yan, "Look around and pick up the crossbow that just shot me. I have a hunch that the crossbow can tell me a lot of facts.

"No." Wei Yan didn't have much courage to speak. Previously, he also wrote a petition for war, thinking that it was useless for Ma Chao to circle a general like him in Hedong County. But when Ma Chaowei came in person, he was assassinated, which was really extremely dereliction of duty.

Before entering the county government, three or four minor officials have come forward to salute Wei Yan. After such a big incident, although Ma Chao proposed not to say anything, Wei Yan had ordered an early curfew on the way back, and made Ma quickly go back to the county government office to inform these book assistants to thoroughly investigate the drunken oriental wine shop.

Those officials did not know Ma Chao, but just reported to Wei Yan: "General, the humble position has checked the editor's manual of Qimin, and this drunken oriental restaurant opened here before our Ma family captured Hedong. The shopkeeper's registered name is Li Wei, and he has always been a local businessman..."

The Ma family, which successfully rose by spying, naturally has a unique set of methods to deal with other spies. Ma Chao adopted the method of compiling households and Qimin in the Western Han Dynasty, which was improved and applied to the rule of the Ma family. This strict household registration control system requires both private and military households to be registered in the local county government and reviewed frequently. This makes it extremely difficult for other princes to install new spies, because a stranger who is not registered on the local household registration will soon be discovered, which can maximize the espionage of foreign forces.

However, when I heard that the drunken oriental liquor store shopkeeper opened its business here very early, it could only prove two problems: one is that the shopkeeper had been lurking in Hedong County a long time ago; the other is that the group of assassin leaders who sneaked in from outside had a lot of energy. After entering Hedong, he not only quickly hid his identity. He also quickly bought the shopkeeper of Zui Dongfang.

At present, the first one is more likely. But no matter which possibility, Ma Chao felt that there was a bigger conspiracy against the Ma family behind it.

As soon as these were sorted out, a Ma Jiajun had taken a thing and handed it over to Wei Yan. After Wei Yan handed it over to Ma Chao with a solemn face, he saw the expected reaction. Ma Chao carefully rubbed the crossbow and said firmly, "It's really this kind of crossbow."

The crossbow is similar to the crossbow of Ma Jiayuanrong's crossbow. The three-edagonal arrow is dark and bright, which is obviously highly poisonous. What's more fascinating is that its arrow is five inches long...

When Li Chi was ambushed in Hedong County, he was defeated by this one-foot-five-inch crossbow arrow. Now that the Yuan family is destroyed, this kind of crossbow has appeared in Hedong County again, and the mystery cloud has become thicker and thicker. Moreover, this time, I don't know why I got involved with the Huns, which made all the events complicated and confusing.

"Han Hao was rescued by a mysterious man and has never appeared?" Ma Chao carefully put away the crossbow, and he felt that this crossbow would be useful in the future. Although he doesn't know when it will be, the feeling is very strong.

"After Yuan Shao's defeat, he seems to have surrendered to Cao Cao." Yang Xiu opened his mouth, and he knew why Ma Chao suddenly asked Han Hao. Because in the whole battlefield of Jizhou, except for Han Hao, who used this kind of crossbow for Hedong Taisman, there was no news of this kind of crossbow.

"After the defeat?" Ma Chao had to boldly imagine that once everything was involved with Cao Cao, there would be another person, which gave him a headache: "When is it?"

"Dear the Battle of Guandu."

"Before or after the war?" Ma Chao further asked, and at this time, no details will be ignored: "This is very important. It is related to the purpose of my coming to Hedong, and may even be related to the whole Jizhou battlefield."

"Immediate investigation." Seeing the importance of the incident, Yang Xiu responded cautiously.

Ma Chao had to put aside this brainless thing for the time being, turned his head and asked Wei Yan, "How's it going with Hedong Wei's house?"