Guo Jia returned to Luoyang overnight. When he arrived at Cao's mansion, it was already midnight.

Cao Ang is still awake. He is also waiting for news from Guo Jia and the reveal of his enemy's identity.

Guo Jia lived up to Cao Ang's expectations. He did not return alone, but also brought five assassins with him. This was far beyond Cao Ang's expectations.

In Cao Ang's opinion, it was considered lucky to have one or two survivors.

Guo Jia led his people to search for Cao Ang in the Beiman Mountains, and the assassins did the same. However, the assassins were few in number, and they spread out in groups across the vast mountains, but they could not find Cao Ang.

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But most of these people met the Zhongdu officials led by Xu Huang.

These officials and disciples may not be very good at fighting, but they are best at catching criminals. So the two sides fought many fierce battles in the mountains, and most of the assassins they encountered could not escape.

Although these assassins were all dead warriors, and many of them were invincible and died one after another, there were still five who were captured by Zhongdu officials.

Suicide is not that easy either.

Guo Jia had the five assassins taken back to Sili Xiaowei's Mansion for strict interrogation.

Given the severity of the torture in Sili Xiaowei's Mansion, he never thought about the situation where these people would not speak.

Moreover, Guo Jia himself also conducted a preliminary inspection of the assassin's body and obtained a lot of information.

"Judging from the equipment, activities, and fighting methods of these people, they should be private soldiers raised by some wealthy family. And they can hold so many sharp crossbows, and their possible range is even smaller."

Cao Ang has also thought about this issue in the past two days, who would use assassination to deal with him.

Assassination is actually a taboo in officialdom, and political struggles must abide by the rules. Otherwise, if you assassinate someone and I assassinate someone, the court will be in chaos.

Therefore, assassins break the rules of the game and often become everyone's common enemy.

The other party was able to risk the world's disapproval to assassinate him, which was far beyond what an ordinary enemy could do.

The first thing Cao Ang suspected was the remnants of Cao Poshi's previous incident. After all, there were too many people offended at that time, and these eunuchs' children were often narrow-minded and cruel, and could commit assassinations.

Guo Jia doesn’t think so!

"Ming Gong, think it's not these people. All the furniture has been destroyed before. Even if there are some fish that slip through the net, so many people will not be gathered. The most important thing is that ordinary people are not capable of monitoring Ming Gong."

Cao Ang nodded. No one knew where he was going except Zhao Mang. The reason why the other party carried out a precise assassination against him must have been following him from the beginning.

"Who does Fengxiao suspect?"

"Ming Gong has repeatedly had bad relations with the Hongnong Yang family, and the Hongnong Yang family has this strength; last time Ming Gong scolded the Runan Xu family, and Xu Xiang had reason to retaliate; Zhang Rang is the most narrow-minded, and he is in the Ming Dynasty

It is also possible that Duke Ming suffered repeated losses in front of him; Duke Ming went to Xingyang and offended He Miao, it is possible that He Miao; and finally there is the general He Jin, it is also possible that he was worried that Duke Ming would threaten his status in the future, so he killed Duke Ming."

After hearing this, Cao Ang couldn't help laughing and said: "After Jing Fengxiao said this, I realized that I have so many enemies in the court!"

"Don't Fengxiao suspect that it is a Kansai force?"

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Guo Jia shook his head and said: "They don't have that strength!"

Under the multiple sieges by Emperor Ling and the Kanto forces, the Kansai forces really couldn't carry out such a clean and sharp assassination.

When Guo Jia said this, he explained in detail: "The opponent's assassins were divided into three waves. In the first wave, three people directly assassinated Ming Gong, and several people were on guard outside. After the first assassination failed, the opponent again

They responded quickly and sent at least ten people to chase and kill them. The people who could respond so quickly and mobilize their manpower must be people at the outing party. The other party disguised the dead soldiers as servants around them and sent them secretly, which was also inconspicuous.

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Upon hearing Guo Jia's analysis, Cao Ang was moved in his heart.

"The purpose of Fengxiao is to check the followers of the people attending the party. If there are suddenly many people missing from the party, it is likely to be related to them."

Guo Jia nodded.

"In the entire assassination, there were more than 20 people who died before and after the opponent in Beiman Mountain. With so many people, it was actually very conspicuous. And even though he was a dead soldier, since he was a servant, someone must have noticed."

Cao Ang was shocked.

"What Fengxiao said is true. With so many people, there must be someone who has seen these dead men. Put together the set of oral confessions, witnesses, and physical evidence, and the story will be broken."

"Ming Gong regards him as a bastard?"

"certainly!"

Cao Ang said with a very indifferent expression: "I was appointed to go to the northwest a few days ago, and I was assassinated just a few days ago. Someone must have had an affair with the Qiang and Hu rebels and didn't want me to go to the northwest to quell the rebellion. That's why I was assassinated."

This conspiracy.

Fengxiao thought that I was a criminal who assassinated me. No, I was a traitor who was collaborating with bandits in the imperial court. This kind of worm in the country must be found out."

When Guo Jia heard this, he was shocked at first, and then he couldn't help but admire Cao Ang's genius.

The assassination of Cao Ang is a private matter and a personal grudge. If it can be linked to collaborating with the enemy and treason, Cao Ang can mobilize the state machinery openly, and even the emperor must pay attention to it. As for those who are found out, the consequences needless to say.

As for others, they can't even question it.

For Cao Ang, he not only wanted to retaliate in kind, he also wanted to completely destroy the opponent, otherwise he would not be worthy of being the Sili Colonel.

"Ming Gong, if it's someone else, we can handle it ourselves, but if the masterminds behind the scenes are He Jin and Zhang Rang, there will be some trouble!"

Cao Ang smiled and said: "Even if it is really He Jin or Zhang Rang, I won't be afraid. My injury cannot be in vain."

Cao Ang had long suspected Zhang Rang, He Jin, and even the Ling Emperor, so he had made full psychological preparations, even if both sides suffered losses.

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This night was very long for everyone.

Regardless of whether they have anything to do with this matter or not, they are all waiting for the outcome of this matter, and many people even stay up all night.

And Cao Ang slept peacefully in the middle of the night, because the opponent had no chance to take action again.

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Early the next morning, Guo Jia and Xu Huang came to see Cao Ang.

Xu Huang interrogated the five assassins all night, and finally fulfilled his mission and obtained the results he wanted. These dead soldiers were indeed hard-core, and Xu Huang used almost all his strength to pry open the five assassins.

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After the interrogation, none of these five people looked human.

After Xu Huang got the confession, he first went to find Guo Jia. Guo Jia just took a look at the confession, but his heart trembled and his hands trembled a little.

This result is so unexpected.

When they arrived at Cao Ang's place, the two of them came in. Guo Jia didn't say anything, his eyes were a little shaky, but Cao Ang, who was leaning on the couch, didn't notice it. Instead, he asked: "What's the result of Feng Xiao's investigation?"

Guo Jia still didn't answer.

Cao Ang was slightly stunned and asked Guo Jia again.

Guo Jia then said: "It's the Yuan family!"

Cao Ang was stunned for a moment when he heard this.
Chapter completed!