In the middle of the night, at three quarters of the Yin hour.

The soldiers on guard were carefully guarding the camp where Su Yuanjing and others were camping.

Suddenly, a row of torches appeared in front of them. Judging from the number of torches, there were at least a thousand people.

"Someone is coming. Let us know immediately," one of the sentinels said.

The other people on guard immediately shouted, and those who were sleeping quickly got up and picked up their weapons, getting ready for battle.

Sun An looked at the people coming this way and said to Luan Tingyu: "Tingyu, watch Qi Dongyue and the others, don't let them run away."

"yes."

"Qinghe, go and protect Captain Su." Sun An then said.

"Yes." Meng Qinghe responded and left.

About two minutes later, the group of people came to them, and through the firelight they saw clearly that they were the Imperial Guards.

"Are you the subordinates of Captain Su?" a young chamberlain asked on horseback.

Sun An responded: "We are the subordinates of Taiwei Su."

The chamberlain asked again: "Where is Taiwei Su?"

"Who are you?" Sun An asked.

The chamberlain said: "We are here according to His Majesty's order. Let's go quickly and ask Taiwei Su to come and receive the order."

Sun An immediately called a soldier to inform Su Yuanjing. After receiving the news, Su Yuanjing immediately brought someone over. When he saw the servant on the horse, he cupped his hands and said, "Eunuch Zhu."

It turned out that the chamberlain on the horse was Zhu He, the young chamberlain who had disappeared from Huizong's side.

Zhu He did not get off his horse. He took out a volume of imperial edict and said to Su Yuanjing: "Su Yuanjing takes the edict."

"Your Majesty Su Yuanjing accepts the order."

Su Yuanjing knelt down with Sun An and others. Zhu He unfolded the imperial edict and read: "Now the commander of the escort army, Hua Ju, has returned to Beijing to report everything that happened during the trip to Caizhou. I am very touched.

Angry, I specially sent the Royal Forest Army to bring back all the witnesses so that I can severely punish the treacherous ministers and traitors. I have seen the imperial decree and can hand over the witnesses to them to take back. I appreciate this."

"Your Majesty Su Yuanjing accepts the order."

Zhu He asked a royal guard to hand the imperial edict to Su Yuanjing. Su Shuang took the imperial edict and held it in his hands and stood up.

"Su Taiwei, Your Majesty is still waiting for us to return to deliver the order. Please bring those witnesses." Zhu He said.

Su Yuanjing said to Sun An: "Go and bring those witnesses."

Sun An immediately sent someone to bring over all the witnesses of Qi Dongyue, Huang Huaishan, Wei Mao, Diao Cuo, Xing Wei, Tian Delao, Fan Tianlai, etc.

Zhu He checked the names one by one, then looked at Wei Mao, Tian Delao, Fan Tianlai and others and asked: "Why are they so sleepy?"

Su Yuanjing said: "It's like this. In order to prevent them from being dishonest on the way, we gave them some sleeping pills."

"I see."

Zhu He nodded slightly, raised his hands to Taiwei Su and said, "Liu Taiwei, I have to go back and reply to His Majesty later, so I won't stay any longer. I'll take my leave."

"Eunuch, go slowly." Su Yuanjing returned the courtesy.

Zhu He looked at Shi Jiang, who came with him and was now wearing the uniform of a general of the Imperial Forest Army. Shi Jiang waved to his men. The soldiers went over and escorted Qi Dongyue, Huang Huaishan and other people who could walk on their own to the imperial forest team.

Wei Mao, Diao Liao and the other few who were asleep were all put on the carriage, and Shi Jiang's men drove the carriage away.

Su Yuanjing stood there and watched Zhu He and others go away, and then said to Sun An with a relaxed look: "Okay, now that the witness has been taken away by the Imperial Guards, we can finally get on our way easily."

Sun An said: "Yes, this road is really difficult and dangerous, especially at the temple. If Mr. Hua hadn't stayed calm in the face of danger, strategized and used clever tricks, we would have been wiped out long ago."

Su Yuanjing also felt the same and said with emotion: "Yes, if it were not for Mr. Hua during this trip to Caizhou, it would be impossible to achieve such a big harvest. If we can successfully bring down those traitors this time, Mr. Hua should remember

First achievement."

Sun An said to Su Yuanjing: "Lieutenant, the night breeze is cold. Your body has not fully recovered yet. Go back to the car and rest."

Su Yuan nodded, and then habitually unfolded the imperial edict in his hand to take a look. Unexpectedly, he discovered a problem at this glance, and then shouted: "Bring the torch quickly."

Someone next to him handed over three torches. Su Yuan Jingzai looked at the imperial edict carefully, his face changed drastically, and he said, "No, this edict is fake."

"What, the imperial edict is false." Sun An and others were all shocked.

Su Yuanjing said with trembling hands: "This imperial edict is true, and the jade seal is also true, but the words on it were forged by someone and were not written by His Majesty or the person who drafted the edict."

There were two types of imperial edicts issued by Huizong, one was written by himself, and the other was written by officials who were responsible for drafting the edicts, and then Huizong personally stamped the imperial edicts.

Su Yuanjing, as the Imperial Lieutenant, was not only very familiar with Huizong's fonts, but also with the fonts of the three edict-preparing officials. Just now he saw that the fonts on the imperial edict were not from the hands of the three edict-preparing officials.

"Quick, quick, General Sun leads people to chase him. We must get the witness back." Su Yuanjing said in panic.

"Tingyu, protect Taiwei Su."

Sun An made an announcement and left five hundred soldiers to protect Su Yuanjing. Then he and Meng Qinghe led the rest of the soldiers and chased in the direction where Zhu He and others left.

Zhu He, Shi Jiang and others were leading people forward when they suddenly heard shouts from behind. Shi Jiang looked back and saw someone chasing after them holding a torch.

"Stop, stop..."

Shi Jiang's expression changed and he said to Zhu He: "Oh no, they must have discovered that the imperial edict was fake and came after them.

Zhu He had been living in the palace and had never experienced these things before. He was so frightened that he said, "Then, then, what should we do?"

After all, Shi Jiang had served in the army for many years and experienced a lot. He made a decisive decision and said to the soldiers around him: "Kill those witnesses immediately."

"yes."

The soldiers around him responded, and one of them ran to the soldiers escorting Qi Dongyue and others and said: "The general has an order to execute these people on the spot."

When Huang Huaishan, Qi Dongyue and others heard this, they immediately shouted: "Master Hua promised us that he would protect us from death, but you can't kill us.

"kill!"

The soldiers didn't listen to them at all. Dozens of them rushed over. Those with knives slashed with knives and those with guns stabbed them. Huang Huaishan and others were killed before they had time to resist.

On the other side, two soldiers jumped on the carriage and went towards Wei Mao with their swords drawn. Diao Ciao, Fan Tianlai, Tian Delao, Xing Wei and others were slashed and stabbed indiscriminately.

"Stop, leave the person behind!"

The shouts from behind were getting closer and closer, and they were less than 200 meters away.

"withdraw."

Shi Jiang waved his hand, slapped the horse's butt with the weapon pole in his hand, and left at the lead.

Zhu He quickly followed him on horseback, and the other soldiers also ran away quickly.

Sun An and Meng Qinghe led people to chase after them. When they saw all the witnesses lying on the ground covered in blood, they hurried forward to check, and found that no one was alive and they were all dead.

"Sir, there is still one person alive in the carriage." A soldier checking the carriage said.

Sun An hurried over and found that Diao Liao, Fan Tianlai, Tian Delao, and Xing Wei were dead. Only Wei Mao was lucky to survive although he was cut and stabbed in many places.

"Hurry and take him back for Dr. Kou to treat." Sun An shouted.

The soldiers took Wei Mao out of the car and hurriedly carried him back to Kou Xianqiong for treatment.

"Brothers, chase after me."

Sun An's eyes were red. Before leaving, Hua Ju gave many instructions, asking him to protect these witnesses. Unexpectedly, something went wrong in the end. At this moment, his heart felt like it was lit by gasoline, and he was filled with rage.

However, due to the delay just now, they could no longer catch up with Shi Jiang. Zhu He and others chased for five or six miles without even seeing anyone, so they had to give up and go back.

"Doctor Kou, Doctor Kou, come and save people."

The soldiers carrying Wei Mao began to shout even when they were far away from the camp. When the soldiers in the camp heard the shouts, they immediately went to tell Kou Xianqiong, and Kou Xianqiong hurried over to greet him.

"Doctor Kou, hurry up and save people."

As soon as Kou Xianqiong came over, the soldiers had already carried Wei Mao into the camp. Kou Xianqiong hurried over to check on Wei Mao and found that his injury was quite serious. If he was not treated in time, he would only last another half hour at most.

"Carry him to the fire, and I'll get my medical bag." Kou Xianqiong said, and then hurried back to the carriage to get his medical bag.

Several soldiers carried Wei Mao to the fire. Kou Xianqiong came over with a medical bag, took out a silver needle and pricked Wei Mao in several important points, and then took out gold wound medicine to stop bleeding and sprinkled it on his wounds.

superior.

While being treated, Su Yuanjing came over with the help of two followers. When he saw that Wei Mao had been slashed all over his body, his heart suddenly twisted into a ball. Then he asked the soldiers who sent Wei Mao back: "

What happened to the other witnesses?"

The soldier said: "Report to Lieutenant, all other witnesses have been killed."

When Su Yuanjing heard this, a surge of heat rose up in his chest, he opened his mouth, spurted out a stream of blood, closed his eyes and fell backwards.

"Taiwei, Taiwei..."

People around him hurried over to help him sit down slowly. Kou Xianqiong didn't care about treating Wei Mao anymore. He hurriedly went over to take Su Yuanjing's pulse and found that he was so angry that he quickly gave him a needle.

Then I heard Su Yuanjing let out a long breath, slowly opened his eyes, and Kou Xianqiong said: "Lieutenant, your body has just recovered, it is not appropriate to get angry."

Su Yuanjing burst into tears and shook his head, crying: "Master Hua worked hard to catch these witnesses, but I let his hard work go to waste. I have failed Mr. Hua and the court."

, I have failed the emperor, and I have failed the people of the world!"

Kou Xianqiong saw that he was getting excited again and quickly stroked his chest while advising: "You didn't want this to happen. It's all because those people are too treacherous. Even if Mr. Hua knew about it, he wouldn't do it."

It’s your fault. Besides, there’s still one person alive now. Don’t be too sad, adults. It’s better to take care of yourself.”

When he heard that there was still a survivor, Su Yuanjing immediately looked at Wei Mao and said to Kou Xianqiong: "Doctor Kou, hurry up and save him. You must save his life no matter what. As long as he can be saved, there will be peace."

to those traitors."

"Don't worry, Lieutenant. Your humble position will definitely save his life."

"I'll leave everything to Doctor Kou."
Chapter completed!