Chapter 368: Protect King Mu
Xiao Ding defeated Song Yinpan's troops outside Tingzhou Pass, almost annihilating Song Yinpan's army of nearly 30,000. Only a few wounded soldiers, swept away by the river, went down the river, and did not know where to go.
Just after Xiao Ding entered Tingzhou Pass, when he was recuperating, a messenger sent by Gao Hongxiu of Shao County hurriedly came to deliver a letter, claiming that King Mu had been stabbed by an assassin.
Xiao Ding was shocked, and said in his heart, King Mu must not have anything happen, at the beginning of the Jinluan Palace, Emperor Song Yuanting told himself in every way that he must protect Song Yinzi's safety. If King Mu really had an accident, he couldn't bear the responsibility.
He took the letter from the messenger from the guard, opened it, and realized what had happened.
It turned out that just last night, Song Yinzi returned to his residence after dinner and was about to rest, when suddenly two assassins came out of the window, they pushed open the window and jumped into the house, raising their knives at Song Yinzi and stabbing him.
Song Yinzi also learned some three-legged cat martial arts, although the martial arts are not very good, but he also knows how to dodge. At the same time, he shouted "Arrest the Assassins!" ”
At the same time, Song Yinzi also grabbed the beaded crossbow placed next to the bed.
The two assassins missed a blow, and when they heard Song Yinzi shouting, they were also a little flustered, and hurriedly swung their knives and slashed at Song Yinzi again.
Song Yinzi couldn't dodge, and was slashed in the chest by the scimitar in the assassin's hand, along with his clothes, he was cut a few feet long by the scimitar, and was almost disemboweled.
At the same time that the assassin's scimitar slashed Song Yinzi, he also hooked the trigger of the crossbow in his hand, and with a whoosh, several crossbow arrows shot at the assassin, so close that the assassin had no time to dodge.
Several crossbow arrows in a row all hit him between the chest and abdomen, some of them even so deep that they did not have the tail (mò) of the arrow. The Assassin vomited blood and fell to the ground.
At this time, there were already guards outside who heard Song Yinzi's shout and broke into the house. Another assassin hurriedly jumped out of the window and fled.
When Gao Hongxiu learned the news and arrived, the guards were helping Song Yinzi with gold sore medicine and bandaging his wounds.
Gao Hongxiu hurriedly sent someone to invite Lang Zhong. Then commanded the soldiers and helped Song Yinzi to lie down on the bed.
The Assassin who fell to the ground was already out of breath. Gao Hongxiu hurriedly asked people to search his body to see if he could find useful information. As a result, nothing was found.
Gao Hongxiu then ordered the soldiers to drag the assassin's body out to find a place to bury it.
These two assassins were actually sent by the head of the Shangguan sect of Tianluomen to assassinate Xiao Ding, but after they arrived in Shaoxian City, they inquired and learned that Xiao Ding had already led his troops to Tingzhou Pass.
They thought that they couldn't go back empty-handed this time, so they inquired into Song Yinzi's residence and came to assassinate Song Yinzi at night.
Unexpectedly, Song Yinzi actually had a hidden weapon like a beaded crossbow in his hand to defend himself. They failed to assassinate one of them, but lost the life of one of them.
Another assassin knew that the whole city would soon be blocked in Shaoxian County and come to arrest him, so he escaped from Shaoxian County overnight and rushed to Jiaozhou while the city was still not sealed.
After Gao Hongxiu learned the news, although he immediately ordered the city to be sealed off and the entire city was arrested for the assassins, nothing was found.
After all, the assassins are all light skills that fly off the walls, and it is indeed difficult for ordinary army soldiers to capture the Jianghu people.
After reading Gao Hongxiu's letter, Xiao Ding saw that Song Yinzi's injury was not serious, so he was also relieved. Tell the messenger to go down and rest. Then, he gathered all the generals and prepared to return to Shaoxian on the same day.
After converging the soldiers and horses in Tingzhou Pass, Xiao Ding's previous 10,000 forbidden troops, 10,000 Xiang troops, plus the 10,000 Xiang troops led by the Yue brothers in Tingzhou Pass, and the original defenders were nearly 8,000 people, and now his troops can reach more than 30,000 people.
Now that Song Yinzi's troops have been completely wiped out. There is no need to leave too many defenders here at Tingzhou Pass.
As a result, Xiao Ding left a former commander in the pass to lead 2,000 defenders to guard the pass, and the remaining generals and troops were all taken to Shaoxian. This includes Di Wanjun, the original guard of Tingzhou Pass. As soon as Xiao Ding thought of his name, he felt auspicious, Di Wanjun, but the enemy of ten thousand troops, no wonder he used the 20,000 troops before the Guannai to resist Song Yinpan's original 70,000 army, and he struggled to support until the Yue brothers came to support.
In Xiao Ding's opinion, this Di Wanjun must also be a very talented general, so it is better to take it with him for his own use.
led more than 30,000 troops, mighty, left Tingzhou Pass, and marched all the way to Shaoxian.
After two days of marching, the army returned to Shaoxian.
After Xiao Ding entered the city, the first thing he went to was to visit Song Yinzi.
After walking into Song Yinzi's room, he realized that Song Yinzi's situation was not as good as he imagined.
At this time, there was Lang Zhong in the house checking his pulse.
Song Yinzi was in a high fever at this time and was unconscious.
Xiao Ding knew that this was caused by inflammation of the wound, and in this era without antibiotics, wound inflammation would also be very fatal. Because, with ordinary Chinese medicine, there are no too effective drugs that can be quickly sterilized.
Xiao Ding retired from Langzhong, and sat on the edge of Song Yinzi's bed. He lifted the clothes on Song Yinzi's chest and saw the wound covered with gauze inside.
He took out the dagger, cut the gauze, and opened it to take a look, only to see that Song Yinzi had a bloody wound more than a foot long on his chest, from his left shoulder to his right ribs, with the skin and flesh turned out, and it was covered with gold sore medicine, and it was no longer bleeding at this time.
A traumatic injury like this, even in later generations, requires a stitch to close the wound before it can be recovered. It's a pity that Lang Zhong in this era has not yet mastered this technique of suturing external injuries.
Song Yinzi, who was in a coma, may have hurt his wound when Xiao Ding was pulling the gauze at this time, his body trembled, frowned, and moaned in a low voice, but he still fell asleep.
Xiao Ding gently scraped open some of the medicinal powder on the wound, and saw that the tender flesh inside was indeed a little red, and some places had suppurated, which was an obvious sign of inflammation.
Xiao Ding immediately ordered someone to bring a basin of water, and ordered someone to gently wash all the medicinal powder on Song Yinzi's wound. Then wipe the wound with a towel, and then take out the best knife medicine that Yue Yurou gave him from the jade pendant space, and help apply it to Song Yinzi's wound.
Then he drove all the people in the house out, sat on the bed, pulled Song Yinzi to sit up, and used the spiritual power in his body to help him repair his wounds.
Now, Xiao Ding has reached the third level of Qi training, and his body is full of spiritual power, and he is no longer the junior rookie who helped Tang Yunzhi treat her legs and repeatedly exercise to restore her spiritual power in order to maintain healing.
An hour later, Xiao Ding helped Song Yinzi repair the blocked meridians in his body and the inflammation at the wound. At this time, the wound on Song Yinzi's chest was rapidly scabbing and healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Xiao Ding stopped his exercises, checked Song Yinzi's injuries again, and saw that there was no major problem, so he continued to lay him flat on the bed.
At this time, Song Yinzi's high fever had also subsided. The reason why people get a high fever when they are sick is because there are inflamed places in the body, and the white blood cells in the human body are fighting against viruses and bacteria. Once the inflammation in the body is eliminated, the fever will naturally not continue.
Xiao Ding saw that Song Yinzi had improved a little, so he called the person who had just been kicked out of the house again. ordered the guards to take good care of Song Yinzi, and instructed the guards that if they had a fever again, they could use a towel soaked in cold water to physically cool Song Yinzi's body surface.
These people who just entered the house, including the Lang Zhong who had taken Song Yinzi's pulse before, saw Song Yinzi at this time, the high fever was not as serious as before, and the wound seemed to have begun to scab, they were all very curious, they didn't know what kind of magic power this deputy marshal used to heal King Mu's injury.
Among these people, only Yue Yurou knew Xiao Ding's methods. Moreover, she has now also practiced Xiao Ding's "Melting Heart Technique", so she naturally knows the magic of this exercise.
Now that King Mu is out of danger, Xiao Ding left Song Yinzi's room, he returned to his residence, but he was thinking in his mind that the person who could come to assassinate King Mu must be inseparable from King Jiaozhou, of course, it is also possible that other princes in the court were sent to assassinate Song Yinzi, which is not impossible.
However, in any case, it is also necessary to try to ensure the safety of King Mu. In this way, since the people of the rivers and lakes are involved, it is definitely not possible to protect Song Yinzi by himself, he will always lead his troops out to fight, once he is not taken care of properly, King Mu has an accident, then the emperor Lao'er will definitely take his own life.
However, against those Jianghu people, these generals under their own command may not be useful, after all, fighting on the battlefield is their strength, and as personal bodyguards, they are still slightly weaker.
How can this be done? Xiao Ding frowned and thought.