Chapter 536: Assassination
At night, the snow is a little lighter, but the wind is colder, the torches are struggling to maintain in the biting cold wind, it seems that they may be blown out at any time, and the snow accumulated during the day has not yet frozen hard at this time, which also makes the war horse a little difficult, and the progress of the whole team is not too fast, fortunately, Baiyang Village is only fifty miles away from Jishi City, hold on, that is, a matter of two hours, and strive to return to the city before midnight. This article was written by......
The people who were in a hurry were quiet, Helanxiong was thinking about Wu Xinlian, Yan Shenghao was thinking about how to implement Gao Yuan's policy of governance when he went back, but Gao Yuan was thinking about the next battle with the Donghu people, Thorpe was not an easy person to deal with, and he needed to be careful about it. The accompanying soldiers were doing their best to keep their torches from being blown out by the wind and snow.
In an instant, except for the faint sound of snow seeds falling on the cloak, and the crackling of burning torches, even the sound of horses' hooves was dissipated by the fluffy snow.
But in the midst of this silence, Gao Yuan's hair suddenly stood on end, and a great sense of crisis rose sharply from his heart, a situation he had never encountered, and at this moment, his whole body was almost stiff.
He stopped abruptly, Yan Shenghao, who was half a body behind him, didn't pay attention for a while, almost collided with him, quickly deflected the reins of the horse, and walked side by side with Gao Yuan, "What's the matter, Du Du?" ”
He saw that Gao Yuan's face was quite bad.
"Be careful!" At this moment, Gao Yuan suddenly shouted, his body was sideways, and he fell from the horse to the side like a stone, and at the same time he fell, he stretched out a hand and grabbed Yan Shenghao, who was caught off guard, and Yan Shenghao fell down the horse with Gao Yuan.
Almost at the same moment, between the quiet world and the earth, the sound of crossbow arrows was fired. Covering up the sound of snow seeds, Gao Yuan fell to the ground, Yan Shenghao was a little late, and immediately received a crossbow arrow on his right shoulder, and immediately screamed, fortunately Gao Yuan pulled him, otherwise this time, he was afraid that he would be killed on the spot.
He Lanxiong was extremely alert, and as soon as the word Gao Yuan was careful, he was already a sideways rollover. The whole person hid on the side of the horse's belly, and the crossbow arrows rang out, and he clearly heard the dull sound of the crossbow arrows penetrating the belly of the war horse he was riding, as well as Yan Shenghao's long scream.
He immediately jumped off his horse, fell to the ground, and the horse was wounded, neighed, and rushed out to the side.
"There are assassins!" Helan Xiong choked and pulled out the scimitar at his waist. The hand pressed on the ground, like a poisonous snake, slid forward on the ground, from the angle of the arrow of the war horse. He had already judged the direction in which the bolts were coming from.
This round of crossbow arrows was shot from under the snow not far away, and in the first round, several guards dismounted upside down, and the horses neighed and galloped. Gao Yuan jumped off the horse, half-squatting on the ground, holding Yan Shenghao with one hand. glanced at Yan Shenghao's injury, and the heart of the mention fell, fortunately, it was not critical.
After a short period of panic, these accompanying guards immediately showed extraordinary reflexes, and more than a dozen war horses behind them stepped forward, one by one, surrounding Yan Shenghao and Gao Yuan in the middle, everyone dismounted, and formed a circle inside, so that the two did not even have a gap, and no matter how much crossbow arrows were fired, they could not be shot in front of the two, and the remaining guards shouted loudly and ran in the direction where the crossbow arrows came from.
The originally smooth snow suddenly burst open, and more than a dozen figures jumped out from under the snow, dressed in white robes, and even their heads and faces were wrapped in white masked cloths.
The crossbow machine in their hands was being raised, and just after the first round of shooting, they rewound the crossbow arrows in a very fast degree, and with this degree alone, these people were extremely elite assault teams.
But they are facing an elite who is more responsive than they are.
When the crossbow machine was just raised, He Lanxiong had already arrived in front of them, one hand on the ground, the scimitar in his hand slashed, blood burst out, the wrists of the first two were immediately cut off, and in the loud howl, He Lanxiong had already rushed into their ranks, and the dozen or so guards who rushed up were only one line slower than them.
Gao Yuan's face was as cold as ice, he handed Yan Shenghao to an accompanying guard, slowly stood up on the ground, stretched out his hand to probe around his waist, and the three-edged military thorn that had not been used for a long time appeared in his hand again.
He walked out, and the guards around him dodged a gap, and the two guards walked out with him, and the positions of the two were amazing, their broad bodies each blocking a third of their bodies, so that even if there was a sudden attack, they could use their bodies to block the attack.
"Catch it alive!" Gao Yuan was furious, if it wasn't for his innate vigilance that he noticed the abnormality at this time, just the first round of attacks, he was afraid that he and Yan Shenghao would have to be ambushed on the spot, he had too many enemies, who wanted his life, he had to figure out.
At the same time that Gao Yuan said these words, He Lanxiong had already killed several people, obviously for such a sudden attack, He Lanxiong was extremely angry, and the knife was fatal, and he didn't spare his hand. At this time, his thick arm was strangling the neck of another killer, and the scimitar in his hand was about to be plunged upside down into the man's chest and abdomen, when he heard Gao Yuan's words, his wrist turned, and the handle of the knife hit the man's head hard, and the man snorted and fell limply.
At this time, what Gao Yuan didn't know was that dozens of steps away from the assassination site, there was another person lying on the snow, the crossbow in his hand was lifted, and the blue arrow moved with Gao Yuan's footsteps, and after a while, he finally let go, because the two guards around Gao Yuan were in excellent positions, no matter what angle he was aiming at, and when he heard the whistle of the crossbow arrow, the other party had time to block Gao Yuan with his body, and if he missed a hit, he couldn't go.
Looking not far away, more than a dozen assassins had been taken down one after another, the man sighed silently, although he was still lying on the ground, his body kept retreating on the ground, leaving a winding mark on the ground, and in an instant, he had withdrawn dozens of steps away, and the whole person had disappeared in the darkness.
Compared with the murderous aura exposed when more than a dozen people wanted to do it before, the one on the other side seemed to be much more powerful, from beginning to end, Gao Yuan was not aware that there was also a fierce beast watching on one side, if it weren't for the well-trained guards around him, this arrow, I was afraid that Gao Yuan would not be able to dodge.
The battle started very suddenly, and ended quickly, fifteen assassins, ten were killed on the spot, five were captured alive, among the five living people, only two were intact, and the other three, although the guards kept their hands, they could not be retracted as freely as Helan Xiong, and the three living people were dying at this time.
"Du Du, it's Yan Lingwei's people!" One of the guards retrieved an iron tablet from the Assassin and presented it to Takato with both hands.
Gao Yuan snorted and raised his chin, "Search them all." ”
A moment later, fifteen iron plaques were placed on the snow in front of Gao Yuan.
"Yan Lingwei, Tan Feng!" Gao Yuan was furious. "Go and interrogate the two guys, and try them separately, if you have a lie, you will cut them off piece by piece."
The two assassins who had been taken down by Helan Xiong were immediately dragged to the sides by the guards, dozens of meters apart, and it was impossible to hear the sound of each other's words.
"Governor, come over quickly, the arrows are poisonous." The guards who took care of Yan Shenghao suddenly screamed.
Gao Yuan was startled, and quickly turned around, the guard had just torn the clothes on Yan Shenghao's arm and was about to bandage him, but he saw that the place where he was hit by the arrow was already black.
"How far is it from Rock City?"
"Dudu, we have just walked halfway there, and we are still more than twenty miles away from Jishi City." A guard said.
Gao Yuan looked at Yan Shenghao's injuries with a calm face, and in the time of these few words, the black color had already expanded in a circle, and it seemed that he was afraid that if he couldn't catch up with Jishi City, Yan Shenghao would be poisonous.
"This poison is so powerful, general, what should I do?"
Gao Yuan gritted his teeth, shook his wrist, and the thin blade that rarely showed people appeared between his fingers, "Discuss politics strictly, bear with it." He said loudly, and with a bang, the knife landed on the blackened muscles, sliding along the place where the black qi spread, and a large chunk of black muscles was suddenly ripped out by him and thrown away.
"Rope!" Takato stretched out his hand.
A guard handed over a cloth belt, which was tightly strangled above Yan Shenghao's wound, although the place where the arrow was hit was picked out by him, the poison was not cleared, and as time passed, it would still slowly invade Yan Shenghao's heart.
"Someone is coming, immediately go back to Jishi City to report the news, and let Doctor Qiu prepare for treatment quickly."
The two guards turned over and whipped the horse violently, and at this time, they could not care about the horses.
"Helan, you are good at equestrianism, bring Yan Yizheng. Let's go, back to Stone City. ”
The group mounted their horses and hurried in the direction of Jishi City, and a moment later, the guards who had remained behind to interrogate the captives also caught up. "General, they are all Yan Lingwei's people, and they sneaked to Jishi City on this trip to assassinate Yan Yizheng." One of the guards rushed to Gao Yuan's side and said loudly. "The leader is Li Yuncong."
"Li Yuncong?" Gao Yuan was taken aback for a moment, he heard this person, "Did Li Yuncong just die?" ”
"No, the man said that Li Yuncong did not show up from beginning to end." The guard replied.
Gao Yuan took a long breath, a little scared in his heart, it seemed that Li Yuncong must have been watching on the side just now, but he didn't find a fatal opportunity. Their target is Yan Shenghao, it seems that Yan Lingwei originally wanted to kill Yan Shenghao and cause chaos in Jishi City, causing suspicion between Hejian County and Jishi City, but he didn't expect that he and Yan Shenghao would be together. Also accompanied by He Lanxiong.
"What about the captives?"
"Kill them all!" Guardway.
Gao Yuan nodded, understanding what was going on, it didn't matter whether these captives were alive or not. (To be continued......)
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