In the early hours of midnight on the second Tuesday of December, a waning moon hung over Thorne.

There has been no rain or snow for the last few days, and the roads in the city are still dry, so there is only a slight sound of broken footsteps on the road with cotton boots.

On the street leading north of the city to the North Water Gate Free Market, about 20 people in black divided into two teams, clinging to the eaves of the houses and shops on both sides, quietly touched towards a mansion in the free market in the north of the city. The twenty or so people were silent, silent except for the rustle of rapid movement.

The closer he got to the mansion, the lighter and slower the steps of the man in black became, until they were all crouching and lurking about three hundred steps closer to the mansion, waiting quietly.

Three hundred paces away, in the room on the second floor of a tavern next to the mansion, a few knocks on the door and the table were interrupted by a crisp sound of a sharp blade piercing the throat before it could spread, and after a moment of silence, there were three moments of faint candle light flashing in the guest room, and the candle flame was not dazzling, so it was difficult to attract attention.

But its role had been played - the man in black more than three hundred paces away had begun to move again.

More than a hundred steps before arriving at the mansion, the man in black stopped again, and the four men in black left the team under the leadership of a scarface leader and groped towards the back wall of the mansion.

After the five black shadows disappeared, the group of black-clothed men continued to move forward and touched the root of the front wall of the mansion.

"Meat!" The leader of the men in black whispered to his subordinates.

The black-clothed subordinate took out two large pieces of mutton from his bosom that had been soaked in a poisonous potion for two days and then boiled in spices, glanced at the location of the wall, and threw it in.

After a while, there was a slight noise from the inside of the wall, followed by the sound of two vicious dogs fighting and tearing at the mutton, and after a while, several vicious dog wails were heard one after another.

"Action!" The black-clothed leader gave an order, and two black-clothed men walked out, one half-crouched in the corner, and the other took a few steps back and rushed forward, stepping on the shoulders of his companions in the corner and jumping onto the wall.

The man in black who climbed the wall did not rush to jump off the wall, but lowered his head to look for something at the root of the inner wall of the wall.

Sure enough, the man in black riding on the wall found a few bell-like things at the root of the inner wall, and the man in black found the open space next to the bell, jumped down lightly, and the boots wrapped in cotton cloth did not make much noise.

The man in black who entered the interior cautiously walked along the gate of the mansion at the base of the wall, and along the way he nimbly avoided several places where bells were hidden, and bypassed two vicious dogs that fell to the ground and spat at the mouth of blood.

When he arrived at the gate, the man in black put the short knife in his mouth, and gently groped for the door bar, and after a while, he found a thin rope tied to the door bar, and the end of this rope was the first wooden house of Assasin in the mansion, where lived three Assasin killers, this rope was connected to a high hanging clay pot in the wooden house, once the string was torn off, the clay pot would fall and break, and the killer in charge of the first line of defense in the house would wake up immediately.

The man in black slowly tied the string to the doorpost next to him, and then slowly lifted the doorbar and put it aside, and the door of the mansion was gently opened......

Until this time, the surroundings were still silent and cold.

Seventeen or eighteen black-clothed men who were waiting outside immediately raised their wound hand crossbows, gōng nǔ, and poured into the mansion mansion through the gap in the gate, and then the mansion door was closed again.

The men in black who infiltrated immediately divided into three parts, two groups of people in black approached the wooden houses on both sides of the courtyard, and the remaining dozen or so people went straight to the main house.

Boom! Boom! Bang!

A man in black with a quarrying hammer smashed the door of the main house open in three strokes, and the man in black with Zhang Xian gōng nǔ behind him rushed into the main house with an arrow, and in a moment there was the sound of crossbow arrows entering the flesh and weapons colliding......

............

In the wooden house on the left side of the main house, a young man in black pressed a man in a linen robe with his whole body, the young man in black held a short-handled single knife with both hands, the tip of the single knife was getting closer and closer to the eyes of the person under him, and the man under him stared at the wrist of the young man in black with both hands, desperately trying to make the tip of the knife farther away from him, but the young man in black gritted his teeth and spewed saliva to press down the single knife little by little by his weight, and the eyes of the person on the ground were getting wider and wider, and the fear was getting deeper and deeper.

Suddenly, the man on the ground slammed his knee into the back of the young man in black, the young man in black lost his balance because of his unstable center of gravity, and his hand was loosened and the single knife was also opened by the man on the ground, and the man on the ground also twisted, and the young man in black was thrown to the ground sideways.

The man who was originally pressed to the ground and was almost stabbed to death with a single knife seized the opportunity to get up and pressed the young man in black to the ground with his backhand, and knocked off the single knife in the young man's hand, and pinched the young man in black by the neck with both hands.

The young man in black was suddenly at a disadvantage and lost his weapon, he couldn't push away the hands that were choking his neck at all, his hands could only tear at the person who was choking his neck, and his whole face was full of bloodshot and bloody tendons.

At this moment, a short sword pierced straight into the man's vest socket from behind, and the hand holding the young man in black suddenly loosened.

The young man in black quickly got up, breathing heavily, and looked in horror at the man on the ground who was pierced through his heart and hissed and hissed and struggled to twitch......

"Matthew! Also tm what to see! If you don't die, get me a weapon and continue to fight! Soft eggs! The man in black, who had just pierced the short sword into the enemy's heart, yelled at the young man in black on the ground, and then raised his hand and nailed a sword into the man's eye socket, and he was so angry that he was stunned.

This young man in black officially became an apprentice officer of the Welsh Legion, as the son of a bandit, Matthew finally became a legionnaire after going through the parish school and the military academy, but because he and the apprentices transferred to the parish school had not experienced the battle formation, so after the training of the officer academy, he was put into the Welsh Legion to start as an ordinary soldier, if they can pass the assessment after half a year, they can successfully become officers, and serve as "unranked officers" such as squad leaders, A squad leader who performs well in one year can become a squadron leader and above as an officer in the true sense of the word.

Due to Matthew's courage and cleverness in the task force, Ron was selected to participate in the operation, and he was also the youngest member of the task force.

In the operation just now, Matthew and two other task force soldiers rushed into this room where four enemies lived, and the other two quickly ended the lives of the three enemies with gōng nǔ and short swords, but Matthew rushed into the door and panicked, the crossbow arrow failed to hit the target, and in a hurry, there was no time to wind the arrow again, Matthew had to throw down the crossbow and draw a single knife to fight the enemy hand-to-hand, and there was the scene just now......

The battle in the hut on the left ended without incident, but on the right there was a fierce fight and three sharp whistles, and it was clear that the attack and defense were in a fight to the death.

At this time, the main house had also started, but Matthew's group did not care about the main house, but rushed directly into the wooden house on the right.

In the wooden house on the right, the battle has reached a stalemate.

Rewind time for a moment.

Due to the proximity to the gate of the mansion, the sound outside just now woke up the killer in the house, and before the man in black entered the house, one of the killers had already opened his eyes and felt for the short axe leaning beside him, and shook the other two companions in his sleep.

As soon as the man in black rushed into the house, the killer threw the short axe in his hand towards the door, and the short axe hit the chest of the person in front of him, and the force was so great that it directly broke the sternum of the man in black.

Fortunately, the other black-clothed men who rushed into the house did not give the killer in the house a second chance, and in a moment's breath, three crossbow arrows flew towards the position of the bed in the house, "poof" into the flesh and hit one person.

The killer who had just thrown the hatchet had already rushed out of bed, pulled out a short sword from the weapon rack at the head of the bed, and pounced on the man in black who rushed through the door.

The man in black casually pushed the empty crossbow to his back and hung it, and then took off the single-blade short sword in his mouth, and fought with the killer who collided with him, and the two men in black faced the two killers, and the room soon intersected with blades and scrambled.

The man in black who entered the cabin was only a veteran of the Wells Legion, including the one who was wounded and fell to the ground, and the other two were selected recruits, who, though physically strong and well trained, were still a little overwhelmed by such a sudden close-quarters fight.

The veteran stabbed a sword into the inner thigh of the killer in front of him, and when he was about to wipe his throat with a sword, he heard the voice of the recruit in black next to him crying for help in the dark, the killer had already choked his throat, and the short knife stabbed towards his chest, he opened his eyes and pinched the blade, but the blade sank into his chest inch by inch.

The veteran wanted to come to his aid, but the opponent who had injured his thigh in front of him had already pounced on him, and he had to concentrate on the crisis in front of him.

The recruit next to him was stabbed in the heart by a sharp blade, struggled and roared a few times before collapsing, and the killer pulled out the short knife and spurted out a stream of blood.

Seeing that only one man in black was left to fight, the situation in the house was about to be reversed, and it was the man in black on the ground who had broken his ribs to endure the severe pain, and finally he touched the hand crossbow that had fallen to the side, raised his right hand, which was trembling from the severe pain, and aimed at the killer who was stabbing a person and was about to support his companions.

Boom!

The hand holding the crossbow shook violently, and the bolt went out of the arrow groove and nailed into the wooden wall behind the killer.

His companions were killed and wounded, and the man in black, who was fighting the killer, was besieged and struggled, and he shouted at the wounded on the ground: "Whistle! Whistle!!! ”

The man in black, who fell to the ground and was seriously injured, quickly threw away his crossbow, touched the wooden whistle on his chest, and blew three times in a hurry......

Compared to the battle of the wooden house on the right, the battle process of the main mansion is much smoother.

After smashing the gate of the main house with a heavy hammer, more than a dozen people rushed in. If the few Assasin killers who lived in the wooden house were a little vigilant because they were the first line of defense in the mansion, the Assasin members who lived in the main mansion were much more careless.

It is not difficult to understand that the city of Thorne is safe, this is the foundation of the Count of Bernard, it is the territory under his direct jurisdiction, there is no danger in the city, and the city defenders do play a leading role. Moreover, Assasin also arranged a secret whistle in the mansion lair wài wéi.

At first, they were a little worried, so several of Assasin's black-hearted leaders would conduct random inspections of the defenses in the middle of the night every day, and the defenses here were once unrevealed.

After a few months, their vigilance has decreased somewhat, but the internal and external secret whistles, the special alarm devices at the base of the wall, and the fine lines of the gate will be arranged and managed every day, and this kind of defense is indeed tight.

However, the leaders of Assasin apparently did not expect that someone would catch the killer members and ask for details, and spent seven or eight days in advance observing the sentinels, so most of the Assasin members did not wake up until they were stabbed.

Although there were a few resistances in the middle, most of the veterans of the Welsh Legion who attacked the main house were gōng nǔ arrows and short swords and short swords, and quickly killed or stunned the ordinary killers of Assasin in the main house.

In the corridor on the second floor of the mansion, two of the three core personnel of Assasin were controlled by the man in black who rushed up, and the remaining one jumped out of the window and fled.

The three of them immediately reacted to the alarm when they heard the sound of the door breaking downstairs, so they lifted the scimitar in their arms and opened the door to resist.

Angus, who took four elite veterans upstairs, did not give the three of them a chance to go downstairs to organize a rebellion at all, and the five crossbows were fired at the three people in a volley, and the two were hit by arrows on the spot, and they fell down after struggling for a while, but the lethality of the crossbow was not great, and the two were just put down by the poison on the crossbow arrows.

The remaining one escaped by luck because the two men in front of him had blocked the flying arrows, and when he saw that the situation was wrong, he immediately turned and retreated into the room, closed the door, picked up a pile of clothes with a scimitar, and jumped out of the window......

Rise in the Middle Ages