Emperor Zhengde

Chapter 74: The silencing failed!
It was winter now and the Guanzhong Plain was covered with snow, so Wang Shu's team heading to Beijing was particularly conspicuous on the march.

More than a thousand garrison officers and soldiers lazily held spears and escorted Wang Shu's carriage in the soft and slippery snow, their steps as slow as a row of penguins marching in Antarctica.

Wang Shu's carriage was also moving slowly, and sometimes he had to stop because the snow was too deep and wait for the officers and soldiers to clear the snow before he could continue moving forward.

Because the weather was very cold, no one wanted to talk much and the whole team seemed particularly quiet, with only the howling north wind blowing.

Fu Di, the captain who escorted Wang Shu to the capital, did not think that he would encounter any bandits or robbers worthy of vigilance in the interior. He was only thinking about how to take this opportunity to leave a good impression in front of the Minister of Personnel Wang Shu so that he could get a promotion in the future.

But what Qianhu Fu Di would never have expected was that behind and in front of him there were two cavalry units galloping towards them in the heavy snow.

Looking down from the air, one could see two Tatar cavalry units, like two sharp arrows, shuttling back and forth in the snowy field, with the splashing snow forming a cloud of white dust.

One of them was naturally the real Tatar cavalry.

The other group was a group of fierce cavalrymen disguised as Tatars.

but no matter.

This time, Captain Fu and Wang Shu and his escort were doomed to fail.

The rapid sound of horse hooves trampled the white and smooth snow field into countless pieces of mud. Each of them showed their sharp teeth and howled like a jackal. The blades in their hands were cold and had a fishy smell, and the sneer from their mouths was like a creepy ghost, which made people feel scared.

Captain Fu and his officers and soldiers heard the sound of hurried horse hooves and could even see with their own eyes countless Tatars rushing towards them.

These officers and soldiers instinctively clenched their spears, but before they could come to their senses, sharp arrows whizzed towards them, and dozens of officers and soldiers were shot to the ground. The gushing blood immediately dyed the white snow red.

Captain Fu was very surprised. He had never thought that he would encounter such a large group of Tartars in the interior. However, he still instinctively played the role of an officer, drew his sword and shouted, "It's the Tartars, protect the Grand Chancellor!"

However, Captain Fu's shout was useless. Not to mention that infantry had an inherent disadvantage against cavalry, even his poorly trained garrison soldiers were no match for these Tartars and bandit cavalry.

About a thousand people immediately scattered like birds and beasts.

Hundreds of officers and soldiers who remained in place and followed the command of Captain Fu were killed by sharp arrows or injured by the approaching Tatar cavalry.

As a result, Captain Fu himself was hit by several arrows and died.

Following Li Dongyang's orders, Knight Shao will not let anyone go, including Zhang Yu and other murderers who killed Emperor Hongzhi, and Wang Shu who is about to become the Minister of Personnel of the Ming Dynasty!
Therefore, Knight Shao rode over first and brought a group of cavalrymen to kill all the injured officers and soldiers as well as people in the palace. Even those who ran a hundred steps away were caught up and hacked to death on the ground!
Not long after, except for the carriage that Wang Shu was riding in, which was still parked in the middle of the team, all the government troops and servants in the palace were killed!

Shao Daxia also took off his mask and walked towards the carriage, and ordered: "Look for the person they want according to the portrait! Especially Zhang Yu and Liu Wentai! At least one of them must be a eunuch!"

As Shao Da Xia said this, he walked to the front of the carriage and lifted the curtain.

At this moment, he was quite excited, because the person he was about to kill was one of the top ten big men in the entire Ming Dynasty, the dignified Minister of Personnel of the Empire!

Although he had killed countless people, he was still excited to be able to kill such a high-ranking official.

But what Mr. Shao didn't expect was that the moment he opened the curtain of the carriage, he saw only a coffin and a servant squatting beside the coffin and crying!
"Where's Wang Shu?"

As Shao Daxia was speaking in amazement, his subordinates came over and said, "Boss, there is no one here that the higher-ups want. There is not a single eunuch here. They are all men with balls and penises!"

Shao was even more shocked, and hurriedly grabbed his subordinate and brought him in front of him: "What did you say!" The subordinate also replied tremblingly: "I dare not lie, there is indeed no one the superiors want!"

"be cheated?"

Hero Shao couldn't help but ask himself this question, but at this moment he heard the crying of the servant in the carriage, and he couldn't help but grab the servant in front of him.

The servant kowtowed and said, "Don't kill me, don't kill me!"

The hero Shao pointed his knife at the servant of the Wang family and asked, "Where is Wang Shu?"

The servant still just begged for mercy.

"Where is Wang Shu? Answer me! Otherwise I will kill you!" the hero Shao roared.

The servant quickly regained some of his senses and replied, "My master rode a donkey to Beijing a few days ago! He said he wanted to investigate the local administration."

"What's with the coffin?"

This hero Shao asked.

"I dare not hide it from you, my master said that he might die in office when he goes to Beijing this time. Coffins are expensive in Beijing, so I prepared one first!"

As soon as the servant finished speaking, the hero Shao angrily chopped off his head.

Knight Shao was indeed very angry. He did not expect that his plan would fail this time. Not only did he fail to complete the task of silencing the witness, he even failed to kill Wang Shu.

"Boss, why don't we chase them now? I think we may still be in time," his subordinate suggested.

"We'll be in time! In this vast snowy plain, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack to find Wang Shu alone. What we're doing now will sooner or later alert the government. Once the government notices, you and I, with hundreds of cavalry chasing around and robbing the staff of the Minister of Personnel, will only be surrounded by a large army! The problem is, we still don't know where Zhang Yu and the others are now!"

This hero Shao said very depressedly.

"So what should we do now?" his subordinates couldn't help but ask.

Under such cold climate conditions, military operations are extremely difficult in themselves. Failure means all previous efforts will be wasted. It will be even more difficult to organize another attack, and there is also the saying that the effort will be exhausted before it is too late.

Besides, this hero Shao was not one of the people like Li Dongyang who participated in the regicide. He just did things for others and got paid to avoid disasters. He did not have much sense of crisis. Now that he saw that he had not completed the task, he did not want to continue chasing him.

Of course, Ma Yongcheng, Wang Yangming and others have made sufficient preparations and are not afraid of the coming of Master Shao.

The knight Shao only said: "Send someone to tell Li Gefu that the silencing failed! The rest of you, follow me to make a fortune. We can't work for these officials in vain in this cold weather. Massacre the whole village before the government finds us, and kill everyone you catch!"

After Master Shao said this, all his men became excited. They mounted their horses and rushed towards the village not far away. The quiet Guanzhong Plain was once again filled with the sound of hurried horse hooves.

In the 18th year of the Hongzhi reign, the Ming people in Guanzhong did not know that they were about to face a tragedy of massacre, and they were still peacefully preparing for their New Year.

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