Chapter 268: Providence
Providence is unpredictable, but Yao Huiqing's strategy has worked.
The generals of the Praetorian Guard were killed a lot in the Shengjing Palace, and the leader of the troops into the secret passage was He Tao, the general of the Zuolong Wuwei, the secret passage was long and cramped, and the three thousand Praetorian guards were in pairs, and the sound of the iron armor was extraordinarily loud and cold.
By the time the dart master was killed in the secret passage, the Praetorian Guards had already reached the back stage. The secret passage is deep, the army is long, He Tao led the troops in front, only heard the sound of killing, it was difficult to see the enemy's situation, and he ordered to urge the report, and at this time the rear had become a battlefield.
When the dart masters walked the rivers and lakes without wearing robes and armor, when they touched the secret passage from the fork, everyone tied cloth covers on the soles of their feet, and walked like the wind, the sound was low and inaudible, and they followed the sound of the armor and unconsciously touched the back of the Praetorian Guard.
The guard who walked at the end was patted on the shoulder, he subconsciously turned around, a thick hand covered his mouth and nose, but he still smelled blood, the warm blood splashed the oil lamp on the wall, the guard in front of him was shocked, the moment he turned around, he saw his comrade falling, and a rough man grinned at him.
The rough man's face was foaming with blood, and his grin was like a ghost in the dark secret passage, which made the guard scream in a hurry. But as soon as he opened his mouth, a dark dart shot at him, and his throat was sealed in an instant! The Praetorian Guard fell down with a muffled voice, and the iron armor smashed on the dark and damp ground, muffled like rolling thunder, and finally startled the Praetorian Guard.
The guards at the rear of the army turned back one after another, and collided head-on with a flurry of darts, the flames flickered, and a group of figures fell on the wall, adding a bright red.
The Praetorian Guards were suddenly attacked by a surprise attack, but the secret road was cramped, and many people were restrained, so they had to retreat while fighting and deliver the military report loudly.
"The assassins are a group of reckless men, with twists and turns in the secret passages, and they don't know their identities and numbers, but they only know that they are strong in martial arts! Many of us are too restrained to use in this secret passage, but those assassins bite so hard that they have killed many of us! "It was an hour later when the young general knelt in front of He Tao to report the military situation.
The adjutant general asked, "General, what should I do?" ”
After He Tao heard this, Tie Qing said with a blushing face: "No fight!" With the military order in place, how can it be delayed? ”
"Assassin ......"
"The assassin is obviously a saint, and the arrangement of the Hou Ye may have been known, I don't know what the situation is outside, so go out quickly!" He Tao looked up at the top of the secret passage and ordered, "Pass on the general's order, ignore the assassins, and get out of the secret passage quickly!" ”
"The last general commands!" The adjutant general hurriedly gave the order, and the Praetorian Guards stopped fighting and began to march rapidly.
The dart master chased closely, the sound of fighting was intermittent, and the figures swept over the wall, like a marquee.
There were dead and wounded all the way behind the Praetorian Guards, but it could not affect the front, and when he saw the exit of the secret passage, the sound of fighting in the rear was a little smaller, He Tao breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at the top of the secret passage along the stone steps.
"That's the Guanyin Temple up there?" The adjutant general looked at each other and asked, "Does the general know where the organ is?" ”
He Tao smiled when he heard this, his face was slightly proud, his eyes swept away, and he saw that there was really a copper lamp hanging on the wall three steps away from the stone steps, and after blowing it out, he pressed it on the wick, only to hear a click, and then heard the sound of the heavy stone moving away from his head, and the night wind poured into the secret passage, with a stream of elegant incense, which was the smell of incense in the temple.
The deputy general was amazed at the subtlety of the organ, and his eyes lit up after smelling the smell of incense, knowing that there were chasing soldiers behind him, and the country was in chaos, but he still did not forget to greet him, "The general has won the trust of the Hou Ye, and it is gratifying." ”
He Tao smiled with his hands, showing his smugness, but before the tail of his flying eyes fell, he felt that his eyes were flickering, and fatigue was coming, and his strength was like a tide, which was difficult to resist.
Not good!
The warning words choked in his throat, and before he could say it, He Tao fell, and the stone steps were in front of him, but they were as long as a ladder, and the end was as black as the mouth of a giant beast, and there were a few wisps of incense like smoke and dust, elegant as Buddha incense, but containing poison.
The lieutenant fell with him, and the Praetorian guards saw that they were about to retreat, but they didn't know that the incense had already dispersed with the wind. After three turns, a lieutenant had just turned the corner, and when he saw the situation ahead, he hurriedly retreated, shouting: "Poison! Hurry back! ”
It is easy to march, it is difficult to retreat, there is poison in the front, and the back is chased and killed, the three thousand army will be in chaos in an instant, the guards in the rear are busy fighting, the front is in a hurry to retreat, and under the squeeze of the front and back, the army will soon be difficult to move.
At this moment, there was a strange wind at the bend, and the oil lamp suddenly went out.
One of the guards threw his head back in shock, his neck up, but his head flew backwards! Blood splashed the face of the guard behind him, and the man raised his hand and pointed at the head tremblingly, and was instantly trampled down by the startled army.
"Retreat! Hurry back! There are assassins! I don't know who shouted, and the army pushed forward like crazy, and the guards behind the general's army pushed the tip of the dart division......
Everything was as expected.
At this time, in the middle of the secret passage, Yao Huiqing and his party stopped, and the blood shadow kicked aside the corpses of the guards who died from the dark darts all over the ground, and the green pothos looked into the distance and said, "It seems that it is going well." ”
Yao Huiqing breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Listening to this killing sound, it seems to be in the distance." ”
Bloody Shadow said, "They should be near the exit, it doesn't hurt if we get any closer." ”
The road ahead is full of corpses, dark darts are thick, the blood shadow cleans up the place where he is left while walking, Yao Huiqing's master and servant and Yang's mother and daughter follow behind, the green pothos pushes Xiao Fang to break off, the group does not walk fast, and the more they go to the back of the secret passage, the more corpses on the ground, Xiao Fang is in a wheelchair, it is difficult to walk sideways, and it takes a lot of time for the blood shadow to clean the road.
The sound of fighting became more and more deafening, and the death of the Praetorian Guards became more and more tragic, Yang was calmer, Yao Huiqing's master and servant and Cui Ling Cui Xiu all looked down at the corner of their skirts, not daring to look at this bloody scene, Xiang'er's legs and feet were weak, trembling terribly, and the sound of killing was still indicating that the war was not over, she looked at the front of her worriedly, and just wanted to ask if she would stop first, etc., when she suddenly heard a female voice from behind.
"Wait!"
The voice was sudden, cold as frost, vaguely the sound of pothos, but it was so startled that Xiang'er's scalp was numb, and she fell to the ground with a pop.
Just as the pothos spoke, the blood shadow also seemed to be aware of it, and suddenly turned around and stared at the back of the secret passage.
"What?" Yao Huiqing asked.
"There's someone in the back!" The sound of the blood shadow sank into people's hearts like a heavy stone, making it difficult for people to breathe. His tone was very certain, murderous, "The footsteps are very light, but the sound is a little muffled when they land, it doesn't look like light work, it is more like they deliberately touched it lightly, and there are a lot of people, I'm afraid it's friend or foe!" ”
Yao Huiqing's heart suddenly lifted, and Yang pricked up his ears and listened carefully for a while, but he could only hear the sound of fighting.
But the blood shadow knew that he had heard it right, except for a few dark stakes that had not yet been exposed, most of the people in the Piercing Moon Gate had withdrawn from the inner city with the Imperial Forest Army, and there were not so many people who stayed in the city to deliver the news, and the martial arts were much higher!
"If it is a holy person, he must pass on the news in advance, and if he acts in a sneaky manner, he will definitely come unkindly! Listening to the footsteps, it doesn't look like a master, and there are many people, I'm afraid it's either the Praetorian Guard or the Dragon Guard! Green pothos subconsciously clenched the armrest of the wheelchair, her eyes full of worry.
Yao Huiqing closed her eyes, providence ......
She thought that she had done everything wrong, but she only counted the soldiers and horses who entered the secret passage first, and she didn't know if that person would send someone again. In this situation, there are Praetorian Guards in front and pursuers in the back, and they can't advance or retreat, but I'm afraid that they won't be able to leave......
"Go to the front! Fast! The bloody shadow swept away, and the corpses on the ground rolled aside, and the bloody wind swung in the narrow passage, disgusting.
Xiang'er stood up against the crack in the wall, Yao Huiqing helped her, Yang protected her daughter in front of her, and rushed forward with the blood shadow. Everyone knows that the battle ahead has not stopped, but there is no other way, and it is better to meet the dart master if you go forward than Blood Shadow and Green Pothos to fight the pursuers alone.
But meeting with the dart master is only a little better than waiting for death in the same place, Yang and Yao Huiqing and the others never thought that the scene they saw when they met the dart master would be like purgatory. It was a bend in the area, in a bend lot, an oil lamp on the wall was cut off by a knife, and the broken part was like a sharp arrow, piercing the neck of a dart master, the dart master hung his head back on the wall, blood gushing from his throat, and there was still a light of survival in his staring eyes, and he saw that the eyebrows were vaguely a teenager.
The black smoke was mixed with kerosene and blood, choking people's throats, and the smell was disgusting. The remnants of oil were poured on the ground and ignited by sparks, and the fire sealed the bend, separating the dart master from the Praetorian Guard. The dart master was already red-eyed, and the Praetorian Guard was slaughtered after the bend, and the screams were incessant, and the sound was like a dream, and through the firelight, it was like seeing purgatory.
Xiang'er turned around and spit it out, Cui Ling and Cui Xiu were still young, and they couldn't make a sound all the way, and they hugged Yang and cried when they saw this scene. The cry attracted the attention of the dart master, Wan Dart turned around and saw that the blood shadow was holding the waist card of the Governor's Mansion in his hand, and the rest were all women and children, and one of them was in a wheelchair, so he knew that the two ladies in the Governor's Mansion were among them, but before he could say hello, Wan Dart Head was shocked to see the long knife of Sen Ran coming out behind the Blood Shadow and his party.
"Damn! Pursuers! When the head of the dart was warned, the pothos had already turned around, and there was an extra lancet in his hand, and the knife wind killed several people in an instant, forcing the pursuers to take a few steps back, and the corpse that fell to the ground was wearing the military robe of the Praetorian Guard, but it was not wearing armor and wearing cloth boots.
After discovering that there was no one in the mansion, the general received a secret order from Yuan Xiu, ordering the Praetorian Guards to unload their armor and change their boots, and enter the secret passage lightly, with a total of thousands of people!
Shengyuan Dart Bureau is the first dart master in Jiangbei, although there are many people, but scattered in various places, Shengjing City is the Imperial City of the Son of Heaven, the government has almost strict control over the number and identity of people in the rivers and lakes, there are only about 300 people in the dart bureau, 100 people are outside the Guanyin Temple, and in addition to the dead and wounded in the secret passage, there are less than 200 people. Even though the martial arts of the dart master are stronger than the Praetorian Guards, and the terrain is unfavorable to the Praetorian Guards, the so-called two fists are difficult to defeat the four hands, and the dart master will protect the ladies in the governor's mansion in the middle, killing the enemy on both sides, and the number of guards is too many, and the strength will be exhausted before they are killed.
In order to avoid the pursuit of the martial arts soldiers, the remnants of the guards stepped on the mountain of severed limbs and retreated madly to the bend, and several guards crashed out regardless of the fire, and the residual oil stained the corners of their clothes, and suddenly turned into a burning man and rushed into the dart master.
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