Chapter 218: The Khitan Dead
Brother Yelu Hugh thought he was doing an extremely secret thing, why was he discovered by Da Zhou Jinyiwei not long after it started?
The reason is very simple, because among the dead soldiers recruited by Yelu Huge, there is a Great Zhou Jinyi Guard, called Hu Yantong.
It is said that even if Jeruxiu trained the dead in secret, he himself would not show his face, and he must have left it to his own henchmen.
Moreover, Yelu Hugo will not tell these dead soldiers about the assassination of the Great Zhou Emperor Guo Zongxun, and will only let his henchmen train them secretly.
Hu Yantong, once a battle-hardened Great Zhou soldier, has repeatedly made military exploits on the battlefield, from a border guard to the head of the palace division, and then was selected into the guard division because of his accumulated military exploits, and retired from the guard division into the Dongchang Jinyi guard.
Just say, how rich Huyantong's combat experience is.
After Hu Yantong joined Jinyiwei, he was ordered to participate in many secret operations.
These include the action of secretly escorting Qin Li, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, as well as the action of secretly arresting Shi Shouxin, and so on.
Later, Hu Yantong was ordered to pretend to be a Khitan to infiltrate Liaoyang, and when Cao Bin's soldiers besieged Liaoyang Mansion, Hu Yantong was urgently conscripted into the army and became a Khitan soldier.
As a veteran of a hundred battles, Hu Yantong was very valued by the Khitan commander in the barracks, and even wanted to promote him to a partial general at one point.
However, one night, Hu Yantong, who was sleeping, was suddenly woken up.
"Silence, follow me."
The person who woke Hu Yantong up was his top boss, seeing that Hu Yantong was becoming more and more valued by the coach, he was jealous in his heart, so he took the opportunity of someone holding a secret order to secretly select people, so he recommended Hu Yantong.
Hu Yantong was taken to an extremely hidden valley along with hundreds of Khitan warriors and began a very cruel life-and-death elimination training.
In the valley, Huyantong and a group of Khitan warriors were locked in an iron cage in pairs, and only by killing their opponents could they get out alive.
As early as when Jinyiwei was in time, Hu Yantong participated in very rigorous training.
Wei Zhongxian, the prince of Dongchang Factory, also wanted to use this method of horn death to select Jinyiwei, but was vetoed by the little emperor Guo Zongxun.
"My Great Zhou's soldiers are all through the battlefield of the sword mountain and the sea of fire, and they are all rolled out of the pile of dead people, there is no need to engage in this kind of selection method that seems to be necessary but is actually unwarranted internal friction, Wei Companion will accompany you to remember to me, the lives of every Great Zhou people are priceless, and the soldiers of the Great Zhou, even if they want to die, they must die fighting against the enemy on the battlefield."
Although Da Zhou canceled the system of horn death when selecting Jinyiwei and Wu Spy, the actual training intensity was many times stronger than the previous training in the army, Hu Yantong and most of his comrades-in-arms survived the training and became an official member of Jinyi Wei and Wu Spy.
This time to participate in the so-called corner death selection in the Khitan, there is basically no great difficulty for Hu Yantong, and killing the Khitan people will not have the slightest psychological burden for Hu Yantong.
After a rigorous selection process, Hu Yantong was selected as an official dead soldier and began to undergo secret training.
It was Hu Yantong who saw some clues from the training when he participated in the training of dead soldiers.
In the usual training of assassination subjects, the instructors in charge of training will have some strict requirements, which is understandable, it is necessary to train harshly to forge a real dead soldier.
For example, the subject of the training of the dead soldiers is street assassination, and the assassin is sitting in a carriage, which has a very special shape.
Hu Yantong was a team leader of the 100-person team in the Great Zhou Guard Division, and he also participated in the mission of guarding the emperor.
What did the emperor ride on his cruise?
On solemn occasions, it is like going to Mount Tai to seal the Zen, and the emperor is riding on a dragon chariot, which looks like a small house, but it is on wheels.
If you want to assassinate the emperor on this occasion, it is simply impossible, because there will be nearly 10,000 guards of the emperor alone, and the structure of the dragon chariot is very strong, even the giant crossbow defending the city may not be able to penetrate.
But the emperor's trip is not so grand every time, and when he travels, the emperor usually takes a chariot.
This kind of chariot is regarded as the highest standard sedan chair, which is carried by people, and is divided into 32 people, 16 and 8 carries.
The assassination training in which Hu Yantong participated was to attack Bu Zhen on the street.
For Huyantong, who has seen a lot of the world, isn't this a high-end sedan chair that the emperor is qualified to ride?
Could it be that the people who summoned us to train wanted to assassinate the Emperor?
So, which emperor are they trying to assassinate?
If it was to assassinate the Khitan lord Yelu Wansi, in Hu Yantong's opinion, it was unlikely.
The current Khitan lord is the most cowardly in the history of the Khitans, and whoever is idle and has nothing to do to grab this position is not shameful enough.
Then, most likely, it is the emperor who wants to assassinate the Great Zhou.
Only by assassinating Guo Zongxun, the emperor of the Great Zhou, can he cause civil strife in the Great Zhou, and it is possible for the Khitan State to get rid of the situation of being oppressed by the Great Zhou.
So, the question arises again, who wants to assassinate the Great Zhou Emperor?
Huyantong thought about it, only the Khitan lord Yelu Husi and the Khitan prince Yelu Huge were the most suspicious.
Because the places where the dead lived were very hidden, and it was strictly forbidden to go out and contact with outsiders, Huyantong never had the opportunity to pass on the news.
Finally, one day, someone came and took them to the streets of Liaoyang City, and their mission this time was to assassinate a high-ranking Khitan official.
What Hu Yantong didn't know was that this was a real assassination, not a drill.
The Khitan high-ranking officials rode in a carriage, and all the killers who participated in the main attack on the carriage received a special order, and there was a child in the carriage, so they must be killed together.
Hu Yantong is even more sure that the ultimate task of these dead soldiers must be to assassinate Guo Zongxun, the emperor of the Great Zhou.
Taking advantage of this opportunity to come out once, Hu Yantong sent the news and his own judgment, and after the leader of the Jinyi Guard stationed in Luoyang City got the news, he immediately told Zhu Jinliang, the royal merchant envoy of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
"Brother Zhu, this is the news conveyed by the Huyantong brothers risking their lives, because the stakes are very high, therefore, we did not use flying pigeons to pass on the book."
The approach of the leader of Jinyiwei is undoubtedly very correct, first of all, the news transmitted by Hu Yantong is only his personal judgment, and there is no conclusive evidence.
Secondly, carrier pigeons are easy to lose on the way, and for the transmission of important military information, at least three carrier pigeons will generally be sent each time to ensure the success rate of message transmission.
"Brother Li did the right thing, since Zhu came to Liaoyang Mansion, according to His Majesty's will, Zhu was appointed as the supervisor of Liaoyang Station in Dongchang, and there is also a warrant from Gonggong Wei here, and all the Jinyi Wei brothers stationed in Khitan will be under the unified command of Zhu."
"Subordinates, see Supervisor."
"Brothers, you don't have to be polite, now, Zhu will issue the first supervision order to completely block the news transmitted by the Huyantong brothers, and ensure the safety of the Huyantong brothers in the ranks of the dead......"