The case of Sun Quan's murder of course initially led to the fear and doubts of Zhu Zhi and Lu Fan, but under the comfort of the court, he did not make irrational actions.

Zhou Yu's reaction was even more intense than Zhu Zhi and Lu Fan, but he was persuaded in time and continued to go to Beijing as planned, although he was still sad.

However, Zhou Yu had even experienced Sun Ce's death. Now Sun Quan's affairs are easier to accept than Sun Ce's time.

The leader moved his mouth and ran away from his legs. After Li Su ordered, the investigators took more than 20 days to lay out, investigate and set up an ambush. Finally, in the middle of the first lunar month, around the Shangyuan Festival, Xu Chu, who wanted to show up to rescue Cao Pi, Cao Zhang and others, was intercepted in a section of the official road in another county in Chenliu County.

It is not accurate to say that it is rescue, because Xu Chu knew that his attempt was actually unsuccessful, so he would definitely not be able to save him. Even if he was rescued, Cao Ang would become a scapegoat and die.

Xu Chu just felt that doing things alone would not implicate Cao Cao's sons, so he took the initiative to come out to accept the challenge.

Even if a brave man like Xu Chu wants to die, of course he doesn't want to die too cowardly and surrender.

At the same time, the assassination was charged with him, so he was not easy to commit suicide, otherwise there would be no evidence of death and Cao Pi and the others would be dead.

So the best choice is to attack the escort team and fight with the people who ambush and trap him.

Xu Chu has a low IQ, and it took him a lot of geniuses to figure out this truth, so he came late to seek a quick battle.

Dian Wei, with hundreds of guards, among which there were elites from the camp, surrounded Xu Chu who was robbing prisoners on a forest road outside Chenliu County.

Everything was designed by the trapping party.

As mentioned earlier, Xu Chu is no longer in his prime at that time. After all, he has suffered a lot of Chen injuries, including many scars left by top generals such as Lu Bu and Huang Zhong.

If we come from a gamified perspective, the peak Xu Chu has a martial power value of 96, then when Cao Cao died, Xu Chu would be at most 90.

Moreover, more than half a month ago, he assassinated Sun Quan and fought with Sun Quan's guards, killing Zhou Shan and injuring Ding Feng, and was also killed by Ding Feng's counterattack, leaving him with some minor injuries.

With Ding Feng's martial arts, the slight skin and flesh injury that was cut with the ring-headed knife was slightly damaged. Xu Chu was so rough and thick, and it would definitely not affect his condition after raising him for a few months.

But the problem is that he hasn't had time to raise his body yet, and it has only been so time that it has more or less impact. So Xu Chu's current state is only 88 martial arts value at most.

Dian Wei not only has higher martial arts skills, but also has many people. Xu Chu knew that today was the last battle. But this adversity aroused his blood and fierceness.

Before he started, he just yelled loudly, saying that he was the mastermind and no one instructed him:

"Dian Wei, listen! I don't like Sun Quan's scum, so I killed him when I get the chance! You are so shameless! If Li Su still expects the world to believe in his false benevolence and righteousness, he will let the Cao family go! You will fight me!"

Dian Wei is not stupid either. The key is that Li Su had told him to say something before he received the order, and he sneered and asked back: "You have the intention to kill Sun Quan? What kind of grudges do you have with you? Isn't it because he killed Cao Zhu!"

Xu Chu was also very blessed, and at this time he actually figured out the excuse: "That was because before Cao Gong died, he sighed and said that he was defeated by Liu Bei and his fighting spirit was not as good as Li Su, and he was convinced. He only hated his beloved daughter who died innocently at the hands of a sinister villain. I was indignant when I heard this!

Dian Wei, you are also a man of great power. Tell me, when you encounter a despicable villain who pretends to be a father and goes back on his word, will everyone be punished? So what if I am a chivalrous person! I am willing!"

Xu Chu's words sounded like he saw unfairness and everyone stepped on him, and he volunteered to be a hero.

After hearing this, Dian Wei felt that it made some sense, but since there was a prisoner on the other side, there was no need to talk nonsense. He took it down first and then went back to question it slowly.

The two immediately fought together, with swords and halberds flying, gold and iron clashing, and their moves were all powerful and had no fancy style.

Although Xu Chu's martial arts were affected by his old injuries, he was now on the verge of fighting for his life. Dian Wei did not take any risk and was beaten evenly by Xu Chu.

However, anyone with a discerning eye can see that there is still a gap in strength. Xu Chu's courage will not last long. He seems to be evenly matched within thirty moves, and he will show fatigue in the future.

The Han army guards holding spears next to them also went up to force them to move. This was to arrest the important criminals, and there was no problem of group fights, just go side by side.

Moreover, in order to catch the living mouth, they tried to slap them wildly with the spear instead of stabbing them directly. This was fair. After Xu Chu took more than a dozen moves, he found that the opponent did not want to stab him to death, but he actually became more and more arrogant.

He was beaten up by the spear, and did not defend the attack of the spear at all. Instead, he took advantage of the momentum to open a few spears and swung his sword to kill several spear guards. He was just bruised and slightly injured by the spear stick. Who made him thick-skinned and well-dressed rhinoceros leather armor?

"You retreat a little! Look at me!" Dian Wei was also a person who cherished his soldiers. Seeing Xu Chu so rogue, he didn't want the soldiers to die in vain.

"It's better to lead the army than to stab this thief to death!" The guards next to him were also filled with righteous indignation.

(Note: Dian Wei's official position is the leader)

Unfortunately, the opinions blindly put forward by those below who do not know the Prime Minister's deployment will definitely not be adopted.

Only Dian Wei knew in his heart that Li Su must capture him alive this time. That way, he could take it back for a secret interrogation - it doesn't matter whether something really was found. The key is to let people all over the world know that Xu Chu was under trial.

In this way, the final decision can convince the people of the world, and they will not feel that the court is suspected of "taking the opportunity to find an excuse to purge the princes". Moreover, even if it is done with the situation, it is legitimate.

Fortunately, Dian Wei was prepared, so he had to take out some of the killer moves he didn't want to use at the beginning.

The Han army guards lined up in a looser circle and stopped attacking Xu Chu, but only wanted to surround him by gun formation, forcing him to move forward and not let him break through.

Several guys with strange armor and weapons, led by a grey-haired barbarian over 50 years old, surrounded him with a reverse blade like a long-handled sickle and a hook-like weapon that he had never seen before, and surrounded him to assist Dian Wei.

When Xu Chu saw these people, he was slightly alert:

The biggest feature of those guys' armor is that it is actually asymmetric. Zhongyuan has never seen such armor. There are tight shoulder guards with iron armor on one side of the shoulder, but the other shoulder is completely unprotected. The same situation also occurs in many key defense areas.

That feels like this kind of person never has to go to the battlefield or deal with enemy attacks from all directions, but just focus on defending against the front.

There is no doubt that these guys were actually trained by the Roman gladiator Martinos who was conquered by Li Su a few years ago, and the gray-haired fifty-year-old man was Martinos himself.

Dian Wei didn't want to use them at first, nor did he want to rely on barbarians. But after the past few years of competition, he had to admit that those guys were captured alive and were particularly good at beating people without action, and then died slowly with ornamentality.

After all, the gladiator's career is not to directly kill life and death, but to play well, and to give the audience a chance to choose, and whether to forgive the life of the loser in the end. A good gladiator must be a good measure, not only to give the enemy the chance to fight back with low blood, but also to control the rhythm of the game.

Xu Chu could instinctively felt the danger and tried to break through the siege. He took the opportunity to kill several gun formation soldiers, leaving more wounds on his body. Dian Wei continued to force him up and slashed and smashed him wildly, attracting most of Xu Chu's pressure.

Then the guys holding the reverse blade sickle began to patrol and attack, and Xu Chu quickly left two long but shallow cuts on his body.

Just when he felt that this was the case, Martinos also took action. He saw the flaw and rushed up, headed straight for the three routes, and quickly and accurately took the Thrace sickle and cut off Xu Chu's hamstring and Achilles tendon on one leg.

Xu Chu screamed in pain. Although he was not seriously injured, he lost his ability to move and could only support himself with one leg and turn around and barely support him.

After being attacked by Dian Wei for seven or eight moves, Martinos quietly greeted a gesture behind his back. Dian Wei seemed to know the secret code in advance, and immediately locked Dian Wei's weapons with two iron halberds and jumped backwards.

Like a magic trick, Martinos took out a gladiator fishing net from behind, which was wrapped in metal wire and many small barbs. He skillfully covered Xu Chu from behind, which was much more accurate than the old fishermen, and then he immediately pulled the rope tightly.

After the sect was revealed, Xu Chu was naturally completely controlled.

This move was also trained by Martinos in the Colosseum of Rome, and it is very useful to control enemies who have lost their combat effectiveness.

Xu Chu screamed, and with his muscles and feet cut off, he could only fall to the ground with powerlessness and roaring unwillingly: "Despicable! Dian Wei, you actually need help from others!"

Dian Wei snorted coldly: "If you just want to kill you, I'm enough! You have to rely on us to kill us, so how can I let my robes die?"

In this way, seven or eight soldiers died in the entire process of killing Xu Chu, and the war was over. Isn’t it unfair to deal with a person who refused to arrest him?

So there is nothing to talk about the morality of the world. The most important thing is to fight quickly and capture the thief.

Within a few days, Xu Chu was escorted to Luoyang and then handed over to the Ministry of Justice for interrogation.

Fa Zheng was also very powerful and used the severe torture and forced confessions when he tried Sima Yi last year, and beat Xu Chu to death.

However, Xu Chu's bones are much harder than Sima Yi. Of course, he can't do anything to bite the old master's family. But Fa Zheng doesn't care. He knows what the Prime Minister wants to ask and how to establish credit to the people of the world.

Finally, he knocked Xu Chu unconscious and directly took his fingers to cover up the case.

...

"What? Cao Pi actually wanted to use his brother's friendship to imitate the story of Kong Rong's family taking in Zhang Jian, and instigate Xu Chu to work hard for their family to assassinate Sun Quan?"

When the case file was sent to Liu Bei, he was shocked when he read it.

But Fazheng's explanation quickly made the emperor completely believe: "Your Majesty, this is not surprising. After interrogating, I found that Cao Pi was indeed sinister and vicious, no less than Sun Quan.

It is true that he took the opportunity to avenge his sister. When he instructed Xu Chu, he used Cao Cao's name to move him with emotion. He also knew that even if Xu Chu was arrested, he would not reveal the betrayal of the Cao family who was still alive.

At the same time, Cao Pi also knew that His Majesty was summoning Sun Quan and Cao Ang to participate in the pilgrimage on the New Year. Even if the assassination of Xu Chu was exposed, His Majesty would not suspect him and would only punish his brother. At that time, he might be able to inherit the title of Linzi Hou."

Finally, Fa Zheng also explained a case of Kong Rong's family more than 30 years ago: it was the second party-black disaster. The old thief Zhang Jian was afraid of death and hid everywhere, which caused many people to take him in.

Kong Rong's family also took in Zhang Jian. After being asked by the county magistrate, Kong Rong's brother said that he was the head of the family and should be responsible for the behavior of his family. He took Kong Rong's guilt of taking in Zhang Jian, and in the end Kong Rong's brother was convicted and killed.

Today, Cao Pi's trip can be judged to be even more vicious than Kong Rong back then. He deliberately used his brother's friendship to blame his family.

Fortunately, Fa Zheng was very careful and caught this guy out.

"Hmph, this kind of person is pretending to avenge his sister? He has to bear the price of revenge, but he has to bear it. It's a ruthless thing! You'll deal with it according to law."

Liu Bei was furious and said he wanted to capture a typical example.

Fa Zheng reminded: "Your Majesty, he can do such a thief who is disobedient to human ethics and filial piety and brotherhood. The court is embarrassed to let people all over the world see such evil examples, which is not conducive to educating people. It is better to hide the hidden truths."

Liu Bei thought about it for a while and felt it was indeed embarrassing.

So Fa Zheng finally dealt with the case as Cao Pi instructed Xu Chu to assassinate Sun Quan, and used Cao Pi and Xu Chu as the main culprits and the other as the actual culprits, and all of them were cut off to Sun Quan for life. Other hidden situations were not reported, so as to save face for Cao Pi after his death.

Of course, Xu Chu and Cao Pi had their tongues cut before they were taken to the execution ground, so they could not complain throughout the whole process, and they left the market after the execution.

The results of the processing were also revealed in the world at the first time, mainly to Qingzhou and Huainan. Of course, there were also people in the local area who did not believe it, but no one dared to jump out.

Because Cao Ang is still alive, and Cao Ang even apologized to Liu Bei, saying that he was not strict in discipline.

If there are old subordinates of the Cao family in the local area who dare to jump, it will actually harm Cao Ang.

Zhu Zhi, Lu Fan and Zhou Yu were completely convinced when they heard that Cao Pi, the mastermind, had been arrested and beheaded and questioned together.

After all, Cao Pi and Xu Chu were enough to pay Sun Quan’s life. There were major culprits and some were committed.

If Cao Ang really died, people would suspect that the court had purged and surrendered to the princes. Now, it looks like "seeking truth from facts".

Zhou Yu's progress in reporting on his work and acceptance of demotion in Beijing was not affected, and he was still implemented as planned.

After being hit like this, Cao Ang was also disheartened and had to submit a petition to the court to punish him for not taking care of his brother's fault.

Liu Bei also followed the flow and cut off Cao Ang's ten thousand households, Linzi Hou, and then divided some of the households to Cao Zhi, admonishing them to be good at being a good person in the future, with their kindness and respect. As for Cao Zhang, he was not assigned, because this person is brave and fierce, and is not suitable for being a mascot.

After hearing that the gentry in the world had stopped, they felt that the court was polite and fair in their work and did not take the opportunity to implicate them. The lenient treatment of surrender promoted by His Majesty and Prime Minister Li, the policy of trust and righteousness and prosperity was not changed.

In the first month of the seventh year of Zhangwu, although there were some twists and turns in the middle, it ended in a harmonious atmosphere.

And those forces that were unfavorable to the stability of the Han Dynasty were consumed after this wave of internal friction.
Chapter completed!