With Zeng Guoquan's order, the three guards who had poured the wine rushed from behind, each stretched out a hand, and grabbed Mai Ke directly.

But the three of them are fast, and some are faster than them!

From the other two tables of banquet, three people jumped out respectively, with lightning speed, the last to come first, came to Mai Ke's side, and three people swooped their fists, and hit the hands of the three guards to Mai Ke back!

The other three people set up Mai Ke and left!

At this time, Li Hongzhang stood up and smashed a wine glass with a "snap"!

From the back of the hall and from the left and right compartments, a large crowd of black-clothed men poured out, all with large swords and spears in their hands, and some with flint muskets!

Although he is now supported by three people, Mai Ke can actually act on his own, but in order to confuse the enemy, he still has people to support him.

At this time, he glanced at the people around him cursoly, there were at least five or six hundred people!

Looking at the people at the other two tables, they were basically mid-level officers, and they had already caught the two border guard officers who entertained them in their hands.

It is clear that these two people can be used as hostages, and those who are surrounded can be thrown into the trap.

The actions of those officers and soldiers clearly proved that this method did not work!

Those people didn't even think about the comfort of these two people, and without even a pause, they continued to shrink their encirclement.

At this time, Mai Ke had already left the dining table and moved closer to the other two tables.

Suddenly, there were about a dozen people, the same as the guards who had poured the wine. Agile, he rushed out from the back of the hall and besieged the six people around Mai Ke together.

After slapping these people, a person who was still holding Mai Ke said to Mai Ke: "These people have very high martial arts, and they actually don't fall behind me, they should be masters of the Great Interior." ”

The voice is like the captain of Mai Ke's guard.

Sending his own guards to pretend to be middle-level officers to the banquet was a backhand prepared by Mai Ke, and now it is really used.

The enemy's offensive was even more fierce, and seeing that the other three people were about to be defeated, the three people who were holding Mai Ke also rushed out. That's what I withdrew.

The other two tables of people. Only three of them were actually mid-level officers of the expeditionary force, including Ma Lanshi and two other regimental commanders.

After the two escorts were caught, they were handed over to the care of the two regiment commanders, and Ma Lanshi himself. Now I have to take care of myself. Sweating on the head. His face was pale, and his body trembled from time to time, looking at the way he gritted his teeth. I know that Lu Dao is enduring great pain.

As soon as everyone saw his appearance, compared with the situation of Mai Ke on the main table, they knew that Lu Dao had been poisoned by the imperial court!

The remaining twenty people are all members of Mai Ke's guards, and there is absolutely no problem with one as a hundred.

Now except for six people who have gone to rescue Mai Ke, the remaining fourteen people, twelve of them have fought with the enemy, each three people are responsible for one direction, and the remaining two, one person as a maneuver, will support wherever there is danger.

The other person is taking care of Ma Chaoshi.

Ma Chaoshi's situation is getting worse and worse! If it weren't for the fact that he had taken two Ten Thousand Soul Pills just now, the poisoning damage on him had been reduced, otherwise it would have been even worse.

The people on Mai Ke's side are highly capable, and the officers and soldiers are numerous, the front ones were defeated, and the back ones were replaced, still tightly surrounding these more than 20 people.

In addition to a large number of ordinary officers and soldiers, there are also masters of Ouchi!

The martial arts of the masters of Ouchi, many people are comparable to Mai Ke's guards!

Although they couldn't break through the defense of Mai Ke's side, they also successfully blocked their breakthrough, so that Da Niu and others tried to break through several times, but they were all in vain.

Mai Ke and the others were in trouble, and Li Hongzhang and the other four sat back at the main table.

Seeing that the official army completely had the upper hand, Li Hongzhang not only bowed his head, Lao Chongguang smiled, Xiang Rong had a gloomy face, and Zeng Guoquan's eyebrows danced.

Zeng Guoquan was the happiest at the current state, because all the schemes were formulated by him, and if he succeeded, he would also have the greatest credit! He even felt that the seemingly unattainable crown of the king with a different surname was beckoning to him not far ahead.

Although when he gave Mai Ke the title of King of Zhennan just now, he knew that this was just the emperor's bait, but it still deeply stimulated him! Mai Ke can be crowned king, but what can't I do with Zeng Guoquan? His one can't be real, can't mine be genuine?

Although according to his nature, even if there is no such temptation of reward, he will do it correctly, but with such benefits, of course he will work harder, and he will rack his brains.

He called his serial scheme the Hongmen Banquet, because the Hongmen Banquet was only one part of it, and in this whole set of schemes, there were not only his great goals and unscrupulous methods, but also the cunning tricks of Li Hongzhang and others.

Now that the first stage of this whole set of schemes has been nearly completed, Mai Ke has been successfully trapped according to the expected results of the scheme, and a large number of elite officers and soldiers and Ouchi masters have formed an encirclement, and all the people who have come to the banquet here cannot escape!

Not to mention Mai Ke himself, he has already been poisoned by a poison that has no antidote at all, even if he escapes from here, he will inevitably die, so the most important task of nailing the leader of the enemy is definitely complete!

As for the others, it's just the icing on the cake, and of course the more the merrier, even if there is nothing at all, it doesn't matter.

Therefore, what he is thinking about now is how to break the deadlock and solve the problem of Mai Ke and his accomplices as soon as possible, and at the same time, he is also concerned about how the side of the Hongmen Banquet is progressing.

At this moment, a deafening shout of killing was heard, and the source of the sound was the location of the large camp to the east.

Zeng Guoquan breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that although it was a side event, the Hongmen Banquet, which was a hundred times larger, had also been staged.

He knew that as long as this shout started, it would be the end of the Hongmen feast.

Dealing with the 5,000 officers and soldiers, although Xiang Rong always wanted to take them for his own use, Zeng Guoquan still carried out his proposition to the end - kill them all!

He did this because he thought that these people were all die-hard supporters of Mai Ke, and eradicating Mai Ke and leaving his hardcore supporters would become an endless aftermath of the Qing Dynasty!

Moreover, the culprits of Mai Ke's murder will also be endlessly hunted down and revenge by these people, so that they will not be able to eat and sleep in the future.

The three decision-makers who knew the Chinese tradition of "a gentleman's revenge will not be completed for ten years" and "the father and the son will repay the debt" immediately supported him, and even Xiang Rong, who originally had a good impression of Mai Ke and others, did not dare to take this risk.

Therefore, Zeng Guoquan's proposition smoothly became part of the plan.

There are two links to deal with the 5,000 triumphant expeditionary force, one is to use poison in the same way, but it is not so high-level, and there are only two elements mixed, one is put in wine and the other is mixed in rice, as long as you drink wine and eat, you will inevitably attack.

The toxicity is not so great, and the main effect is to cause the user to fall into a coma.

And this coma combined with the next step is a fatal effect!

The second link is to prepare 20,000 officers and soldiers for these 5,000 men, and once they enter that particular camp, surround them, and once they have drunk and eaten, they rush out of the city and go to be strangled!

What Zeng Guoquan heard just now was the sound of the strangulation, so he was sure that the victory was in his hands!.

(To be continued......)