Section 208 Night Attack
That night, when the king of Anqing was worried and didn't really care too much about the Shenjian crossbow incident, he was still able to sleep nobly and leisurely with his beautiful concubine in his arms, and a violent and sudden cry of "catch the assassin" woke him up from a good dream. At this time, the bodyguard guard who was in charge of patrolling the night in his house today had actually been raided and killed by the infiltrators.
At this time, the other thugs in the palace had all been alarmed, and King Anqing secretly subdued the green forest heroes, the heroes of the rivers and lakes, and the disciples of the martial arts sect...... and the royal palace's own guards, numbering no less than three or four hundred, were exerting their abilities, and in astonishment, confusion, or panic, they were fighting fiercely with a large number of masked and brazen raiders, and the melee was inextricably separated from each other.
The king of Anqing has long had different ambitions and ambitions, and there are many so-called folk heroes and martial arts scum masters who have been adopted in the palace for many years, not only to take care of the family, but also to control the army when they are ready to seize power.
These people are highly armed and strong, and they are also accustomed to relying on the power of the Anqing Palace, and they are extremely arrogant, arrogant, fierce and brave.
They were suddenly awakened in a good dream that they were sleeping in the middle of the night after they were full of wine and meat, and hurriedly got up, dressed and rushed out of the house to join the battle, and in the blink of an eye they fell into a dangerous fight, and they didn't know what was going on, and they didn't know the details of the sneak attackers, and they only habitually thought that it was the palace that had killed some big enemy and gathered people to take revenge, although they were surprised by the number of raiders, the extraordinary force and the courage to attack such a heavy place as Zong Zhengqing's palace on a large scale in the heavily guarded capital was simply not afraid of death, but it was not too serious.
This is a time to show loyalty and ability to the king of Anqing, to make meritorious contributions and to win favor, and to seek wealth and wealth in the future.
They more or less know that the master of King Anqing is secretly and gradually plotting to seize the throne, and according to the current situation, the current emperor is incompetent and unpopular, the throne is shaken, and the king of Anqing, who has the heart and ability, is very likely to really succeed in seizing power and ascending to the throne. If this performance is good, it will be said that he will be a rich and noble general in the future......
With this in mind, all the heroes were ambitious, full of heroic passion, and their spirits were unprecedentedly excited.
In the eyes of the raiders, this situation is premeditated, vicious and evil, stubborn, and stubborn in the trapped beasts, so they attack more ruthlessly, but although they are well-trained and their force is not ordinary, but on the whole, not only are there few people, but the force is not comparable to the opponent, especially the several masters of the palace, the assassins are killed at the beginning.
Seeing that the raiders had changed rapidly from a swift and ruthless offensive to a rapid change from heavy casualties to defeat and retreat, Zhu Hao, the famous Golden Dao Sect master in Henan who had served the palace for many years, became more and more arrogant, laughing and shouting: "Where did you come from, I don't know how a dead thief dares to come to the mansion of the noble Zongzheng prince to commit murder?" If you dare to come, don't go. Suffer death. ”
With a bloody heavy thick-backed machete, he chopped off the head of an assassin, kicked and flew that head and smashed over another assassin, he laughed and took his two sons Zhu Yong, Zhu Xiong and several master disciples to drink vigorously, all with a body of blood, brandished the big knife together, and marched together in a gang, opening and closing all the way, and launching a counter-onslaught and chase with more wildness and fierceness and confidence.
Zhu Hao was born unusually tall and majestic, his face was also broad and rough, the lion nose was ringed with eyes, his face was like a steel needle-like beard, and when he roared with anger, his eyes protruded as if he could burst out and eat people, as terrible as the Yaksha of life, and the big knife was unstoppable.
His two sons were also born tall and majestic, strong in strength, and there was no lack of agility, martial arts to the essence of the door, and combat effectiveness was also excellent, which is indeed rare. The father and son took the lead in the counter-charge, killing the assassins one after another, and the defeat and retreat were even more embarrassing.
The other palace thugs heard Zhu Hao's arrogant shouting like thunder, and when they saw the Golden Daomen faction killing the assassins and retreating in defeat, they couldn't help but double their courage, and they all left behind their emotions of surprise and fear, and under the powerful rush of other masters' arrogant laughter and ruthless killing, they all shouted arrogantly and fought more fiercely, and the battle situation quickly advanced from passive resistance to active counteroffensive.
The Assassins were outnumbered by the thugs of the Royal Palace, when a shrill whistle sounded.
Immediately after a few shrill whistles of varying lengths, the Assassins, who were struggling to support the hard battle, immediately withdrew and fled into the nearby darkness.
Zhu Hao and other masters were on the rise, how could they let it go, they all laughed wildly and shouted to take the lead in chasing and killing, but suddenly a swishing sound sounded densely from the darkness, "There are crossbow arrows?" Zhu Hao and the other masters were taken aback, the hideous smile on their faces froze, they reacted quickly, and quickly retreated to avoid the sword defense.
They have great ability, and they can still narrowly escape in the sudden rain of arrows, but the other ordinary thugs of the palace who followed up did not have that ability and luck, and shot to the ground in the blink of an eye in a dense pop of arrows into the flesh, and the rampant shouting turned into countless screams and howls in the blink of an eye, tearing through the night sky, and it was particularly infiltrating in the dark night.
Zhu Hao hid his figure, staring vigilantly at the dark rockery and other dark places, and wondered in his heart: "How can there be so many archers and assassins?" This is the ...... of the capital."
Zhao Zhengren, the head of the Iron Fist Sect who was friendly with him on the side, glared and whispered, "Something is wrong." This is not an enemy seeking revenge. How do I feel like a military tactic. ”
Zhu Hao was shocked when he heard this,
Looking back and thinking about it, although the assassins they fought were mostly Jianghu methods, but these assassins had internal armor and were proficient in the army's battle formation, and it was the armor and effective cooperation that prevented them from dying more and losing faster and more miserably without force, which is not something that can be done by folk heroes, and the severity of these assassins is not simple......
What the hell is going on?
What happened to the palace?
In the midst of doubt, groups of dark shadows suddenly appeared in the darkness everywhere, and the truth finally appeared under the reflection of more and more torches lit up in the courtyard.
A team of black shadows are all wearing armor, and all of them are iron, the front row is full of spears and halberds in their hands, the dense silver blades are flashing in the flickering firelight, and the blood-red red tassels on the halberds are still so delicate in the dark night, and behind them are the archers who are still shooting at the targets that have not fallen as the spearmen advance and the sword and shield bearers who guard the archers, and there are even more officers who hold swords, iron guns and other sharp weapons with staring eyes and shouting to lead the command team step by step, not fast but stable and neat to force the thugs to the palace.
Standard weapons, standard equipment, officers......
This, this is the army, no, this is the palace guards. No, this must be an army like the elite of the Ouchi Imperial Forest Army......
Zhu Hao, Zhao Zhengren and the others couldn't help but gasp, and they couldn't help but feel numb in shock, and their hearts sank vigorously.
What the hell is going on?
How did the army of the palace come to the Zongzheng Palace, or did it raid in the dark?
Did someone conspire to rebel and bewitch the forbidden army to exterminate the royal family? Or did the emperor turn his face and want to get rid of King Anqing? What did King Anqing do to provoke such a murderous ......
At this juncture, where to clarify the doubts. King Anqing didn't know where he was, and he didn't show up since he started the change, and he disappeared. Nothing is known.
But with a sharp but soft voice, he shouted: "The bold thief dares to break into the capital and attack the palace, come, kill the assassin with me, kill him, and correct the law on the spot." Zhu Hao and the others took a look and saw that the person who gave the order was about forty years old, but his face was white and beardless, and the few people next to him did not grow beards. Their hearts instantly chilled to the bottom.
O eunuch!
There is no doubt that the designated person who came to attack the palace was the person from the palace, not a team disguised by others.
It's just that why did the eunuch who brought the assassin shout that he was actually killing the assassin?
Hey, I don't have time to think about the weirdness at this critical juncture.
The forbidden army participating in the war responded to the eunuch's order, and shouted in unison: "Kill." ”
Swords and guns are like forests, like walls, ruthlessly besieging up, and there are bows and crossbows that shoot more ruthlessly.
The surviving thugs of the palace who were surrounded everywhere still had the arrogance and arrogance and self-confidence before, all of them showed a look of horror and incomprehension, some turned around and fled in a hurry, some wanted to run into the nearby room to avoid the bow and crossbow and the siege to find another way to escape, and some saw that there was no escape, there was no way to escape, and there was no way to avoid it, thinking that it was a death anyway, then simply resist to the end and kill enough, not retreat but advance, and screamed in despair and waved weapons to rush up bravely, trying to escape from the palace in one breath with their strong skills......
Zhu Hao, Zhao Zhengren and other two groups of masters gathered together and hid in the dark, watching their counterparts who rushed up fiercely fall under the random arrows, and stabbed into leaky blood bags with random guns, even if there are masters who can break through the gun array and kill into the queue, they will be surrounded by sword and shield hands in a blink of an eye, and they will be hacked to death with random knives, their faces have changed greatly, and they all show fear.
Especially when I saw a familiar friend, a brother with excellent light skills, a confident swallow, easily swept past the rain of guns and arrows in front of him, and rushed to the back of the queue, dancing swords like electricity, and wanted to kill the back, a few officers and soldiers could escape from the encirclement and over the wall, but they were suddenly attacked by the pikemen hidden behind the queue, and several spears stabbed up indiscriminately, directly stabbing the light brothers to death in mid-air, and together they picked up the corpses in a loud shout, and the team continued to move forward steadily ruthlessly, Zhu Hao, Zhao Zhengren and others were all so shocked that their faces twitched and their eyes jumped.
A good man is hard to defeat with four hands.
Evil tigers are also afraid of wolves.
Today I have seen the horror of the army.
In the battle formation of well-trained officers and soldiers whose personal force is nothing, heroes and heroes have to retreat, and if they don't retreat, they have to lie down.
Walk.
Taking advantage of the fact that the forbidden army was not surrounding him, he quickly found a way to escape.
As for King Anqing, who has the time to care if he lives or dies at this time.
What is grateful to the Lord for the grace of knowing the Lord, and what is loyal to the Lord and brave at the cost of death, there is no need to pretend at this time.
They quietly turned in, and with their rich experience in the rivers and lakes, they carefully argued and quickly fled into the darkness where there was no fighting ambush.
The palace is very large, there are many pavilions and rockery attics, the terrain is complex like a labyrinth, and there are not enough officers and soldiers, more than a dozen people rely on the palace for a long time to be familiar with the terrain, and there is a cover of darkness, and soon successfully escaped to a wall where there are no officers and soldiers and no assassins.
Climb over the wall to get out of the palace, and under the joy of the heart, they show their skills and kick the wall to climb the tall courtyard wall.
Zhu Hao's eldest son, Zhu Yong, is the most agile, the first to go to the wall, and the first to jump down in a hurry. But in the darkness, there was a terrible and painful sound.
The people who climbed the wall behind them were startled to hear someone shouting about the Assassins.
Suddenly, countless torches lit up outside the high wall, revealing the dense forbidden army and the erected guns on the periphery of the Bulie Blockade Palace.
There was no one within a dozen meters of the wall, but in the darkness there were some wooden rafts with inverted blades. This is a sharp weapon to defend the city and block the siege enemy, but it was used by the officers and soldiers here, in the darkness I don't know its existence, it will come down from the wall and it will be hit, even if you know, or take precautions, no matter how high your martial arts are, no matter how good your light skills are, it is difficult to jump over such a wide blockade and fall to safety in the black light and blind fire.
Zhu Yong, who jumped down first, was wearing one of the blade rows, his legs and feet were bloody, and after he fell, he inserted several places into his body, the blade penetrated his chest, and he died in a few blinks of an eye.
The people on the wall were frightened and didn't have time to think about it, and a dense rain of arrows had already been fired.
These fierce and cunning heroes and masters all became hedgehogs with several arrows in their bodies, and carried down the wall like dumplings, and only saw the above scene clearly before they died.
The leader who was responsible for presiding over the siege outside tonight was none other than Gao Yu, the third lieutenant who had just recovered a little in his body.
Gao Yu is Zhao Ji's confidant and favorite minister, but he doesn't know what happened tonight, but he naturally went out in person to actively and seriously carry out the task that the emperor explained in private.
The other murderous gangsters in the palace who were lucky enough to escape the siege in the palace were also unable to escape death, and all died at the hands of thousands of officers and soldiers who were ambushed outside the palace.
The massacre in the palace was quickly over, aided by the bows and crossbows of the many Imperial Forbidden Army.
In the palace, the so-called main force of the assassins who was responsible for the encirclement and suppression mission was actually the emperor's domestic slave, the people of the secret spy department.
The eunuch who led the team to kill the assassin and several eunuch assassins who participated in the battle were the top secret confidants of Emperor Zhao Ji in the palace, and they were all masters of secret skills. Most of the other masters like Zhu Hao raised by the palace died at the hands of these eunuch masters.
On this night, all the members of the noble Anqing Palace, from the male and female masters to the most humble servants, regardless of men, women and children, were all killed by the members of the secret spy department and the eunuchs who participated in the war, and hundreds of thugs of the palace who were not dead also died. Dozens of sons of King Anqing, even the infant ones in the palace were all finished, and the capable sons who were in charge of public or secret affairs in other manors outside the palace were also killed in the army assault and the hidden military forces, and this vein was completely dead.
King Anqing, who thought he knew Zhao Ji too well, never dreamed that Zhao Ji would be so vicious, decisive and swift, and slaughter him in an unimaginable form of assassins.
When he woke up and learned about the assassination, he didn't care about it at first, and was confident that he would be fine, but when he realized that something was wrong, he wanted to escape or hide, but it was too late. Several eunuch masters had already sneaked into the bedroom of the inner house..... Caught him. There is a secret passage in his house. It's a pity that he has been the prince for too long, and he is too accustomed to the loose way of doing things of the royal family to prevent the record, I don't know, the superstitious Zhao Ji regards him as a mortal enemy of the royal internal demon worship and evil obstacles who harm his own cultivation of immortals and enjoy the supreme wealth, how can he be tolerant, vowing to cut the grass and eradicate the root forever, and the will to kill him is more firm than killing Zhao Gonglian, so he shows the terrifying decisiveness and brutality to act by extraordinary means.
When King Anqing knew that it was the emperor's intention to destroy the door, and knew that the incident of the divine arm crossbow was exposed, in the face of several eunuchs who interrogated him, he still wanted to play the identity of the prince, but the eunuch casually smashed a toe without hesitation.......