After dinner, dispose of some trivial matters at hand, Bailiyan went to bed early, Chunrou and Chunfang slept in Xiao'er's bedroom next door, and faintly could hear the laughter of the two of them when they spoke, as if they had found Jinshan, sometimes sighing and sighing, sometimes moaning, and it was late at night when they closed their eyes in a daze.

Bailiyan (Wei Xian) was half-asleep, and faintly heard the "sound of the wind" in his ears, the sound of the wind was extremely short, more like the sound of canvas windward wax, Bailiyan subconsciously reached out and touched the horizontal knife on his side, quietly turned off the bed, stood up barefoot, and listened carefully to the abnormal movement.

Suddenly, there was a slight creaking sound from the deadbolt, and Bai Liyan could almost conclude that someone had inserted a dagger into the crack of the door, and was removing the deadbolt to enter the house.

He resolutely lifted the futon and stuffed it into the pillow, pretending to be someone on the bed, and retreated into the dark alone, hiding behind the bookshelf.

When he was young, the door bolt fell, and the door of the house was gently pushed open from the outside, and Bai Liyan felt that this person was quite abnormal at this time. If you come to assassinate him, don't you inquire about yourself? He is a military general and has killed countless people, how can he be assassinated by such a trick.

Everyone has a sixth sense, and a soldier who fights horses all year round, even if he dies in his sleep, can use his weapon with his eyes closed, where can he be easily attacked in his sleep.

However, it is not easy to say, if the assassin had come over last night, Baili Yanba would have died in the gentle country. Thinking of this, Bai Liyan estimated that there was something wrong with this assassin.

First of all, the assassin must have stepped on the spot in advance to secretly observe the sentry, and then find the right time to assassinate. In this way, whether he has sex today, it is said that the assassin should know that the best time to do it is the night after he should be loved by men and women.

But this person didn't seem to find out that Bailiyan was sleeping alone tonight, so he went directly to the door to assassinate, isn't it stupid.

While thinking about it, in the darkness, I saw two figures touching the front of the couch one after the other, and it could be seen in their hands that two long strip-shaped utensils had been raised, which were obviously two bronze swords, and the purpose was to assassinate the bedding with pillows stuffed on the bed.

I saw two black shadows tiptoeing left and right, raising the sharp blade in their hands and stabbing a sword to the couch, the blade pierced into the moment, the two were surprised, and found that it was an empty couch, and one of the men was suddenly shocked:

"It's not good, I'm in the middle of the trick, let's go!"

Without waiting for the words to fall, Baili Yan jumped up from the sheath of the horizontal knife, and said:

"The thief repairs away!"

The Assassins were taken aback, and one of them said:

"You're Wei Xian!"

Bai Liyan replied vigilantly:

"Who are you, and who are Pyre, and who are waiting to assassinate me!"

"Hmph, collecting money from people to eliminate disasters for others is the one who wants your life, kill!"

The man gave an order, and the two of them killed together, Baili Yan slashed out, and under the staggering of gold and iron, the man's bronze sword was immediately cut in half, and he almost stumbled to the ground:

"What a fast sword!" The man's heart was cold, and his heart was suddenly frightened.

Another masked man continued to kill, and was also cut off by Baili Yan with half of his sword blade under one blow, even so, the two of them held broken swords, and pounced on Bai Li Yan one after the other, and the swordsmanship was not under him.

After several battles, the bronze swords of the two were already uneven, and large beads of sweat appeared on their foreheads, and they were blocked in the house by Baili Yan, unable to advance or retreat.

"Say, who ordered you two to come and assassinate me, say it, and I will spare you from death!"

"Humph! It's just that the two of me are not as good as people, and if I die, I don't have to be afraid of death, I don't need you to pity me! ”

As the words fell, the man pulled out his dagger, and the other man's face was like ashes, and he also took out the dagger. Baili Yan hung down with a horizontal knife, knowing that the two of them could not escape because they had to cut themselves and keep secrets, and couldn't help but sigh:

"Ben Jiang has never done anything that hurts heaven and reason, and the two of you can't be assassinated when you are ordered, and you will inevitably die by self-judgment."

Before he finished speaking, a strong wind whistled, and Bai Liyan shouted badly:

"It's not good, there's a strong crossbow!"

As he spoke, several crossbow arrows broke through the window, and the yin wind swept the snort of Baili Yan and swished into the ground.

He subconsciously crouched down and rolled on his side to avoid the wooden wall, and two more arrows shot above his head, one of which pierced deep into the wooden wall, revealing half of the arrow and stopping less than half a foot above his head.

Nowadays, most of the buildings are wooden or earthen wall structures, there are almost no brick and concrete structures, the west of the city is a poor dwelling, the house structure is mostly grass huts and mud walls, the wooden panel structure of the houses is not hard at all, the strong crossbow arrows are shot in a burst, the windows, the wooden walls shoot through more than a dozen holes, the moonlight shines into the hollow and reflects on the ground, and I see that the two people have been hit by arrows and fallen to the ground dying at this moment.

Bai Li Yan didn't understand until this time why these two people chose to do it at this time, it was obvious that they were just cannon fodder, intended to expose Bai Li Yan to the fire range of the strong crossbow.

If Baili Yan embraces two women, even if the two of them sneak into the room, but the sword is not as good as a person, there is still a risk of being killed by Bai Li Yan, the safest situation is that there is no shelter around the best, even if there are two women lying around, there is still the possibility of being used as a shield.

Only Baili Yan completely lost her cover, and she was certain to die under the dense crossbow fire, because she couldn't wear an iron cloth shirt when she slept.

The strong bow and crossbow shot twenty or thirty arrows into the study one after another, and the two daughters of Chunrou and Chunfang, who heard the movement, opened the door in horror.

"Go back, get out of bed! Go back! ”

Bailiyan shouted loudly, and Chunrou quickly closed the door with her eyes, dragging Chunfang to hide in the house.

The rapid shooting lasted for three formations, firing no less than sixty arrows, Bai Liyan put down the table and barely resisted the attack, and the study was already in a mess at the moment.

After three bursts of arrows, the air suddenly fell silent, neither the sound of Zhang Xian could be heard, nor the sound of speaking, Bai Liyan hid behind the table with a knife, trying to peek out through the wooden window, it was pitch black outside, and the starry moonlight did not help to see what was going on.

Clenching the horizontal knife, Bai Liyan put his left hand against the wooden seat, and quickly stepped forward to check on the two assassins.

One was hit three times in the chest, and the other was shot through the temple directly by a crossbow arrow, and both were dead. The most dense with arrows at the scene was the bed where Bai Liyan was resting, and before the assassin entered the room, he retreated to the back of the bookshelf, otherwise he would not have escaped death.

Obviously, this group of crossbowmen had surveyed the terrain of Yicaotang in advance, and they were extremely familiar with the layout of the study, otherwise they would not have directly pointed at the bed through the window for a while.

The air was silent for a long time, and Bai Liyan didn't dare to act rashly, until a team of 100 county soldiers rushed to outside Yicao Hall, shouted to catch the assassin and kicked open the gate and rushed into the courtyard, Bai Liyan's hanging heart was half relieved.

King Xian planted a secret agent nearby, and found that the anomaly must have been to bring in rescue soldiers, thinking that the assassin knew, calculated the time, and withdrew from Yicaotang in advance before the county soldiers arrived.

"General Wei, General Wei!"

Someone from outside shouted, Bailiyan was afraid of fraud, so he didn't dare to show up easily, and shouted through the wooden wall:

"Where are you?"

"The soldiers of Sima Mansion under the city government received a report that the general had encountered an assassin and came to arrest the assassin."

Hearing this, Bai Liyan was still not at ease, her chest blocked the collapse, she kicked open the wooden window with one hand, and looked out vigilantly.

I saw dozens of people raising fire to make a mess inside and outside, led by a centurion, and there was a man in cloth beside him, thinking that he was one of the secret agents sent by King Xian.

"I'm Wei Xian, did the assassin catch it!"

The man in cloth stepped forward and saluted and said:

"Let them slip away, the general is not injured!"

"No, there are still two bodies in my room, let people carry them to the floor of the front hall first, and wait for me to come and perform an autopsy."

After that, Bai Liyan took a torch and went straight to the boudoir of Chunrou and Chunfang.

"Chunrou, Chunrou, the assassin has left, open the door quickly."

After a while, there was some movement in the house, and Chunrou cautiously opened a crack in the door to confirm that it was Baili Yan before daring to open the door.

"The general is alright." Chunrou's face was pale and frightened.

"Where's Chunfang?"

Bailiyan raised the fire and glanced inward, and found that there were also four or five arrows stuck in the ground, Chunfang overturned the bed and table, and was curled up in the corner, unable to get up.

"Chunfang, it's okay."

"Woo ......"

Without saying a word, Chunfang howled and cried, trembling and falling into Baili Yan's bad, and he didn't let go. Chunrou took a breath and collapsed on the ground, her face slightly recovering a little blood.

"It's really scary."

"It's okay, it's okay."

Taking Chunrou into her arms and comforting her for a while, Bailiyan turned over the bed with her hand, settled the second daughter, and then closed the door and came to the front hall.

The two corpses were lying on the ground, bleeding all over the ground, and the man in cloth searched the corpses up and down, stunned and found nothing.

"General Wei, these two people should be people from the rivers and lakes, not like people in the army."

"Well, the previous battle has already seen the clues, and the swordsmanship of the two of them is not inferior to the general, if it is not that the sword is not as good as the person, it is not known whether it is life or death."

Bai Liyan felt that his spearmanship was a decisive one, and his swordsmanship was also above that of ordinary people, and when he encountered these two swordsmanship assassins, he was almost planted in their hands.

Moreover, it was the praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches behind, and after they did it for a while, the assassins who were ambushed on the outer wall released arrows again, obviously deliberately killing people and killing people.

The soldiers quickly cleared the study, and found a total of fifty-seven arrows, five of which were on the deceased's body, six of the houses of Chunrou and Chunfang, and the assassin fired a total of sixty-eight arrows, including sixteen crossbow arrows, eleven strong crossbow arrows, and the rest were arrows shot by strong bows.

According to this calculation, there were at least sixteen or seventeen archers, and all the arrows were clusters of arrows from the Xian army, and this group of assassins was likely to come from the county soldiers or the Jin army.

"General Wei, report this matter to the king immediately, and tomorrow we will send additional people to guard the general's mansion."

"Your Excellency Lao has bothered, and Wei is grateful."

"The general's words are serious, the hour is not early, and I will leave here."

The man in cloth ordered the county soldiers to get a flatbed cart and threw the two corpses on it, leaving fifty people to continue to guard around Yicaotang.

Being disturbed by the assassin like this, Bailiyan didn't feel sleepy at all, and came to Chunrou and Chunfang's bedroom, where the two of them shrank on the couch and wrapped in the futon, their eyes were red and swollen.

"It's okay, the assassins have left two corpses and retreated."

"Does the general know who did it?" Chunrou asked.

"I can't tell for a while, let's wait for tomorrow......"

It is difficult to say who sent the assassins, but Bai Liyan felt that the two who rushed into the study were not the same group as the crossbowmen crouching on the outer wall, or that they were employed by the same person but on different missions.

The fact that the crossbowmen probably knew that they were going to shoot all three people in the room to death, and that the Assassin who smeared the study did not know that they were just victims, is a good indication that the mastermind behind this is no ordinary person.

Looking at the city of Chenling, Xihuan who wants his own life is one, and the Black Turban Army spy is also counted as all the way, who else can there be?

"It's him!"