Yuan Shao watched the assassination scene with great interest. It was a pity that the assassination failed. He felt that if the assassin was more powerful and if the assassin's knife was poisoned, Liu Bei would be dead.

Yuan Shao was lost in thought when he was suddenly pulled hard by Cao Cao.

"Let's go quickly, we shouldn't stay here for a long time!" Cao Cao looked extremely serious.

Yuan Shao was in a daze and was forcefully dragged away from the scene by Cao Cao.

Halfway through, Cao Cao hurriedly dismissed the arresters and ordered them to go back. Then, turning to a deserted place, Cao Cao pulled out his sword with a loud sound. The muscles on Cao Cao's face were a little stiff. He asked Yuan Shao with a smile, smiling a little.

Ferociously, "Benchu, have you ever killed anyone?"

"Kill...kill who?" Yuan Shao was puzzled.

"Kill the one who must be killed!"

——

Cao Cao and Yuan Shao hurried to the gambling house in Shuishui Lane. Before taking action, Cao Cao took a sword and cut a piece of cloth from the hem of his clothes. He tied the cloth strip to his face to cover his face, "I'll go in and kill people, and you guard the door!"

After giving an explanation to Yuan Shao, without waiting for Yuan Shao to agree or not, Cao Cao rushed to the gambling house with his sword in a murderous manner.

The wooden door of the casino was ajar, and it was extremely noisy inside.

With a bang, Cao Cao kicked the door open. The lame old man who was watching at the door turned his head in surprise when he heard the loud noise. The shocked expression was still on his face. Cao Cao was slashing at the lame old man with his sword. Cao Cao's sword was sharp.

There was a pop, with a slight sound of bones breaking, hot blood spurted from the headless corpse, and a white-haired skull rolled on the ground.

"The imperial court has an order! Kill the scoundrels who gamble excessively! If you don't restrain yourself, we will capture you!" Cao Cao killed one person, blood dripped from the sword in his hand, and his whole body was filled with murderous intent and overwhelming momentum.

The gambling crowd in the gambling den was frightened by Cao Cao's stomach and overwhelming aura, and they were shocked for a moment.

With a plop, someone was so frightened that he knelt down on the spot, "What an injustice! We only gambled a small amount of money, but we never gambled excessively. What an injustice!"

"Spare your life! Xiaomin will never gamble again, never gamble again!"

…

The gamblers just thought that the imperial court was about to execute one of their own, and for a moment, they knelt down and begged for mercy.

Cao Cao snorted coldly, "How can I tolerate the imperial decree? I can't spare you!"

After saying this, Cao Cao's eyes turned cold, and he stepped forward with his sword and struck out at the gambler who was kneeling in front of him begging for mercy.

"ah!"

"Spare my life!"

"Spare my life! I don't dare to gamble anymore! Ah!"

…

Cao Cao rushed into the crowd and mercilessly slashed left and right at the kneeling crowd. The gamblers who were slashed were bloody and screamed. In an instant, Cao Cao had killed several people in a row.

Finally, the fear reached its extreme, and the gamblers began to resist. When one gambler saw Cao Cao coming to slash with his sword, he roared in his throat and rushed towards Cao Cao.

Cao Cao was hit in the waist and staggered back half a step.

Cao Cao was furious, and the sharp sword in his hand changed from crackling to stabbing, and he stabbed downwards fiercely.

"ah!"

When the sword was struck, the gambler who resisted was pierced from the back to the chest by the sword, and fell to the ground seriously injured on the spot.

Cao Cao's strategy of using court decrees to intimidate gamblers was extremely effective. Under the majesty of the court, even if the gamblers were forced into a desperate situation, even if they were chased and hacked by Cao Cao, most of them just wanted to escape.

Dare to take the initiative to attack Cao Cao.

The gamblers had no desire to fight, only the desire to escape, so Cao Cao killed smoothly. Cao Cao was like a tiger, chasing and killing the gamblers in a small space like a flock of sheep, and chopped down the gamblers until they were like rats running away with their heads covered.

.

A gambler was slashed on the back, chest and arms. The man struggled to survive and staggered to the door. Suddenly, his eyes lit up and a sharp blade was pressed in front of him.

Yuan Shao, who was blocking the door, glanced at the gambler with a complicated expression, felt cruel in his heart, and stabbed him with his sword.

The gambler screamed, grabbed Yuan Shao's sword and fell to the ground.

He pulled out the sword forcefully, and before he could breathe a sigh of relief, another person came out. Yuan Shao didn't have time to think, he raised the sword and chopped the person down to the ground...

The fierce fighting ended after a moment. Cao Cao chopped down all the gamblers in the gambling house. Worried, he stabbed each gambler in the heart. After handling his hands and feet, Cao Cao walked out covered in blood.

Gambling House, "Let's go!"

Cao Cao said in a deep voice to Yuan Shao, who was guarding the gate.

As soon as the two of them stepped out of the gambling house, Cao Cao suddenly saw a few idlers outside who seemed to have heard the noise and ran over to watch. Cao Cao's expression turned cold, and he raised his sword and was about to kill them alive.

As soon as Cao Cao moved, the few idlers saw that Cao Cao was covered in blood and looked fierce, so they turned around and ran away.

The man ran to both sides, and he couldn't catch up anyway. Cao Cao's expression changed slightly, and he was thinking of countermeasures.

"The imperial court orders that rogue gamblers and rogues be hunted and killed today. Anyone who dares to idle around, gamble, and cause trouble will be killed!"

"The imperial court orders that rogue gamblers and rogues be hunted and killed today. Anyone who dares to idle around, gamble, and cause trouble will be killed!"

"The imperial court orders that rogue gamblers and rogues be hunted and killed today. Anyone who dares to idle around, gamble, and cause trouble will be killed!"

Cao Cao shouted several times to the onlookers who were running away. He turned to look at Yuan Shao and said, "Hurry up!" Cao Cao whispered.

——

The people watching nearby did not dare to come forward, and Cao Cao and Yuan Shao left with their eyes covered in blood.

After waiting for the people to go away, after a long time, some brave people boldly entered the gambling house. The blood flowing in the gambling house was so tragic that the corpses were lying everywhere, which frightened the people who entered and screamed.

"Hurry! Hurry, officer!"

When such a big thing happens, the first reaction of the people is to report it to the officials.

It was useless to report to the official. Before Cao Cao left, he deliberately said loudly and loudly several times, deliberately saying that it was an order from the imperial court and that the imperial court wanted to kill idle gamblers.

Cao Cao was cunning and cautious, and he knew people's hearts well. Cao Cao used the name of the imperial court to tell the people that it was a gambling house ordered by the imperial court to be slaughtered. This was done so that once the people were questioned by the government, the people would be afraid of getting into trouble.

I don't know how to shirk it.

If you don't do this, then many people will bump into you nearby. If you want to kill everyone alive, you won't be able to catch up. But if you just leave, the people will think that there is revenge or murder, and they will report it to the official later.

After reporting to the official, you will report truthfully to the official.

The subtlety is that the common people are not afraid of being witnesses to ordinary murders, but they are extremely afraid of being implicated by the government.

Cao Cao cleverly used the power of the imperial court to frighten the people. When the people were questioned by the officials, they would most likely not dare to testify. Who knows if he happened to be walking by and saw the murderer when the incident happened?

I wonder if I will be caught as a fish that slipped through the gambling den.

Cao Cao was well aware of the judicial environment of the Han Dynasty, and the people were also well aware of it. In this way, a tacit understanding naturally occurred.

Knowing full well that getting involved with the government would bring no good results, the people would rather pretend not to see it than tell the truth stupidly.

——

Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, who were covered in blood, walked around in a big circle. When they reappeared on the street, they had no armor and stomach, and no outer clothes. They only had inner clothes. In their hands, they were carrying

Inside the wrapped coat was the blood-stained armor stomach.

Cao Cao was cautious for fear of leaving any clues, so he did not easily take off the blood-stained armor and stomach and hide it in the middle of the journey. Instead, he took it off and carried it with him carefully.

Cao Cao and Yuan Shao hurried to the side courtyard of Yuan Shao's house, closed the door, entered the house, closed the small door, and locked the door bolt. Cao Cao, whose heart was beating non-stop, finally felt relieved.

Take a breath.

The tension suddenly loosened. Cao Cao's body went limp and he almost lost strength. Cao Cao raised his legs as if they were filled with lead. He swayed to the side of the short table and threw his sword randomly on the short table. Cao Cao

He was breathing heavily, his eyes were a little dazed, and his eyes were a little straight.

Snapped!

The other sword was also thrown onto the low table.

Yuan Shao sat down opposite Cao Cao. He stared at Cao Cao and couldn't help but ask, "Why kill?"

Cao Cao came back to his senses and looked at Yuan Shao, "Oh, I have to kill him." Cao Cao sighed.

Afterwards, Cao Cao explained to his friends why he had to kill people.

One word - deal with the head and tail ears.

It would be fine if the assassin killed Liu Bei outside the city, but it would be a big problem if he killed Liu Bei inside the city.

What's even more terrible is that the assassin not only carried out the attack in the city, but also carried out the assassination in full public view under the escort of Yulin cavalry.

The Yulin Cavalry is extraordinary. The Yulin Cavalry is the emperor's guard of honor and represents the emperor's majesty.

The Yulin cavalrymen were charged with swords in the streets of Luoyang City. This was a humiliation that the Han Dynasty had not experienced for decades or even hundreds of years.

It is expected that the emperor will be furious because of this incident.

I originally hired an assassin to kill Liu Bei, but accidentally set him on fire.

When recruiting assassins in the gambling house, although there was a lot of noise at the time, no one should have noticed, but after all, the things were done in a hurry without any cover-up, for fear that someone might see it.

If so, if the court lieutenant follows the assassin's body and traces the clues to the gambling house, then to the witnesses, and then to the person who was the messenger, when the emperor's thunderous wrath descends, the whole body and family of the messenger will be wiped out.

"Ah?!" Yuan Shao's eyes widened in shock. Then, Yuan Shao took a deep breath of cold air and said with a thankful face, "Fortunately! We have cleaned up the beginning and the end, and Wei Ting can't find out."
To be continued...