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Wei Chi Jingde paused for a moment, and then continued: "According to my guess, the direction of their attack should come from above our heads, after all, our protection on both sides of the carriage is very tight, and it is difficult for them to break through. ”

Song Jingang looked at the top of his head, looked at the faint clouds and mist in the sky, and said with a slight chill in his heart: "What General Wei Chi said also makes sense. Ahead we had to pass through a birch forest, and although we had already placed people in the forest, there was a shortage of manpower, and it was impossible to have men stationed on every tree. In some areas where there are no scouts to guard us, it is possible for the enemy to attack. ”

Wei Chi Jingde also nodded solemnly, and then called a soldier and asked him to inform Cheng Yanjin, Qin Qiong and the others in front of him to slow down and be careful.

It didn't take long for the front of the convoy to drive into the dense birch forest.

Because it had only rained lightly in the past two days, there was still a thick fog in the forest, and the vision was a little blurred more than ten feet away.

Amid the sound of birds, the convoy slowly drove into the woods.

And the Yulin guards who were guarding both sides of the carriage were even more energetic and prepared to deal with a possible attack after being notified by Wei Chi Jingde.

Although none of the generals had any abnormalities in the forest, they also knew that if the people sent by Pei Renji couldn't even disguise themselves and let them find out, it would be really useless and would waste King Zhou's hard work.

The Pei family was also very famous in the Sui Dynasty, otherwise, the Guanlongmen valve, who had a huge strength in the Sui army back then, would not be afraid of it, and only dared to deal with it by officialdom.

The long forest road here is so long in the eyes of everyone, I can't wait to walk it early.

To the surprise of the generals, they passed by several unguarded trees without encountering any attack. This made them all a little puzzled, secretly wondering if Pei Renji's ambush location was not in this birch forest?

At this time, the trees in front of me had thinned out, and it seemed that they were about to leave the forest.

Cheng Yanjin and Qin Qiong looked at the two big trees in front of them, but their hearts were wide, on the tops of these two trees, they had already deployed manpower. Judging by the gestures made to them by the two soldiers in the trees, there should be no Assassins ahead.

The fog had cleared, and the sun was beginning to shine through the gaps in the branches and leaves at the top of the trees. The front suddenly opened up, and the soldiers at the front could already see the official road outside the forest.

Wei Chi Jingde and Song Jingang also breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that their judgment was wrong, and the enemy saw that their side was well guarded, so they gave up ambushing here.

However, just when they were a little relaxed, it was a sudden change.

I saw two soldiers of the Zhou army on the top of the big tree in front of them, after letting go of the troops who were biting Jin and Qin Qiong and other detectives, when the five luxury carriages passed, their bodies suddenly fell violently, and they pounced on the roof of the fourth carriage, and then picked up a big black iron ball in their hands and slammed it to the roof of the car!

I only heard a loud "boom". A large hole was immediately smashed open in the roof of the carriage.

"Ahh

The people in the carriage suddenly screamed.

At this moment, only a sharp whistle was heard, and the two assassins disguised as Zhou soldiers suddenly jumped away from the roof of the car.

"Pong! Disheveled! Disheveled! ”

Immediately, a burst of fluffy blue steel needles shot from the top of the tree, all hitting the inside of the car, and the people in the car immediately screamed, as if they were hit by the steel needles.

This lightning-flint change stunned all the surrounding Zhou army soldiers.

"Quickly protect King Zhou and the princesses!"

Yu Chi Jingde and Song Jingang shouted. Then they drew their weapons and stood guard around the carriage.

Guo Yi and Lin Mo also immediately rushed out of their surnames to pursue the two assassins disguised as soldiers of the Zhou army.

They were also very surprised in their hearts, the soldiers who were waiting at the commanding heights along the way were all carefully selected, most of them were soldiers from Liaodong and Guanlong, and it was impossible for the younger brothers of the Shandong clan to be mixed in. How did you become an assassin?

"Husband! Brother! From the other four luxury carriages, several female screams were heard at once.

Immediately, several women who looked like fairies got out of the carriage at a fast speed, and then rushed towards the fourth carriage. They are suddenly Yu Yuqing, Li Xiuning, the eldest grandson Wujian and the four daughters of Red Sleeves.

"The princess and the county lord can't! Get back in the car! Now it's dangerous here! ”

Wei Chi Jingde and Song Jingang were startled and hurriedly stopped them.

The surrounding surnames were even more frightened by the assassins, screaming and running around, and the forest was suddenly in chaos.

At this moment, something even more terrifying happened, and I saw a boulder the size of a millstone, whistling from the forest on the left side of the convoy, impartial, and smashed into the carriage of the fourth carriage.

With a "boom", the carriage was suddenly shattered, and a man in brocade clothes in the car suddenly fell from the car, his face was covered with blood, and the white brocade clothes he was wearing had been dyed red, and judging from the blood flowing from the wound, he had obviously been poisoned for a long time. The boulder only shattered all the ribs in his chest. And this brocade-clothed man is suddenly Yuming.

The four horses pulling the cart had already fallen to the ground and died when the blue steel needles struck.

The surnames on both sides of the road were even more chaotic, scattering and fleeing, and the cry shook the sky for a while, and it was difficult to distinguish between friend and foe.

Wei Chi Jingde and Song Jingang shouted, raised their spears, and galloped towards the left side of the convoy, where the boulder was shot.

At this time, without the obstruction of Wei Chi Jingde and Song Jingang, the ordinary soldiers were the opponents of the women such as Red Sleeves and Yu Yuqing, and they couldn't stop these princesses at all, and soon they rushed to Yu Ming's corpse, hugged him and cried bitterly.

At the same time, several masked men crawled out of a large hidden pit not far away and sped towards the smashed carriage.

"Bang!" With a bang, one of the stout enemies, against the shield, struggled to break away the guard on the left side, and rushed to the dead Yuming's side.

Seeing the assassin's approach, Uwa immediately pulled out her scimitar and stabbed at the assassin.

The assassin had already seen Yu Ming's appearance clearly at this time, and his face suddenly showed a look of surprise, and he laughed and said, "Sure enough, it's Yu Ming!" This time we finally succeeded! ”

As for the knife that Yu Yuqing slashed, he didn't care about blocking it with his shield.

Although he knew that Yu Yuqing's martial arts were high, he expected that the strength of the woman would not be greater than him, and with this steel shield, he could block this knife.

"Poof!"

Yu Yuqing slashed down, but the steel shield was cut into two pieces like tofu.

The assassin hiding behind him, a line of blood appeared from his forehead to his chin, and then he screamed and slowly fell.

"Wang Lao Wu is also stupid! Even Yu Ming's personal guards used the Damascus black steel knife, and the knife used by Yu Yuqing must be a treasure knife, although his shield was also made of fine steel, how could he resist it? The head of the Assassin in the back saw this and couldn't help but sigh.

Then he shouted, "You've got it!" Let's get out! ”

However, before he could utter this shout, he heard an "ah", and another Assassin was killed with an arrow in the left eye, which fell to the ground on his back.

At this moment, the guards of the Zhou army had already fired a volley of crossbow arrows. Several of the Assassins were killed, but the masked Assassin was the most prolific, drawing his sword and knocking all the arrows away, before a harrier rolled over, sank backwards into the woods, and vanished.

At this time, the Zhou army had already dispersed the pursuit and caught it in the forest.

Cheng Yanjin, Qin Qiong and others, who were at the forefront, also immediately led the army back, and asked eagerly, "How is King Zhou?" ”

Red Sleeves wiped the tears on his face, and said with red eyes: "My husband has been assassinated, and it has been ......"

When she was about to say "it has passed away", Hu Sizheng, who had just "snorted, snorted" and ran over, said: "Now we can't announce the news that King Zhou has been assassinated, otherwise there will be chaos in the city!" We can only say that King Zhou was assassinated and injured! ”

After saying that, he immediately said to the soldiers around him: "Everyone, listen: you can't tell anyone what you just saw, you know?" ”

The soldiers and officers who witnessed all this were stunned for a moment, and then they all nodded again and again when they thought of how terrible the consequences of King Zhou's assassination were.

Song Jingang said with a sad face: "Our people are okay to say, but there are still many surnames who have seen it, what should we do?" ”

"Catch them all first! Catch as much as you can! The news of King Zhou's assassination must not be spread! Hu Sizheng said sharply.

At this moment, several officials had already walked over, looking at the broken carriage and the more than a dozen guards lying in a pool of blood next to the car, they couldn't help but be startled.

The convoy has come to a complete stop. The frightened surname was also driven aside by the soldiers, away from the scene. Wei Chi Jingde was in charge of checking to see if there were any assassins mixed in.

At this time, after the discussion of several princesses and ministers, it was decided that the eldest grandson of the princess would preside over the memorial instead. Otherwise, the cancellation of the memorial ceremony will cause an uproar.

At this time, Guo Yi and Lin Mo, who had led their troops to pursue the assassin, also rushed over to report that the assassin had escaped and was missing. The rest of the Assassins had been killed, and their bodies had been carried back.

Qin Qiong jumped off his horse and examined the assassin's corpse, but was disappointed that he didn't find any threads.

But come to think of it, these assassins are all dead soldiers, how can they leave a line for Zhou Jun to track down.

And Cheng Yanjin quickly sent someone to remove the body and clean the scene, leaving no traces.

Those surnames who were at the scene were also arrested by Wei Chi Jingde and Song Jingang, and taken to the city prison under the pretext of checking whether there were any assassins among them.

Although they nominally said that they wanted to check the assassins, anyone with a little brains could see that Wei Chi Jingde and Song Jingang wanted to block the news and not let these surnames spread the news of Yu Ming's assassination. so as not to cause turmoil in Beiping and even the entire Great Zhou.

It's just that so many people have witnessed such a big event, but where can it be blocked?

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