In Xifu, a carriage was parked steadily outside the main entrance, and more than 20 servants stood in two rows of human walls, blocking the passage between the carriage and the main entrance, and dozens of people led the horses and lined up along the side of the street. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At the intersection at both ends of the road in front of the door, there were several people waiting with long wooden sticks, they were the guards of the Xi Mansion, preventing someone from riding a horse to storm the carriage, because it would not be long before the Erlang Jun of their Mansion would go out.

On both sides of the main gate of Xifu, there were several people holding bows in one hand and arrows in the other, looking around vigilantly, beware of the sudden appearance of assassins on the opposite wall.

The residents of this neighborhood are either rich or noble, and the Xi family has a big background, but others are not ordinary people, and they will not honestly follow their requests and 'cooperate' with the security work of the Xi Mansion.

"Keep your eyes open, Erlangjun is ready to go out!" The leader of the guards whispered, and the guards trembled at the words, and became more and more vigilant around them.

Today Erlangjun is going to the embassy to visit Gongyu Wenwen of Xiyang County, the two of them had a conflict outside Yangzhou Shouchun City a few months ago, and today Erlangjun is going to come to apologize.

That conflict, now many guards outside the gate have experienced it, and they saw their own Langjun and the same young Xiyang County Duke shouting and scolding, and then watched the other party slap their own Langjun but could not do anything.

He knows his own family affairs, and with Erlang Jun's temper, unless Lord Lang escorts him to the door, he will never be quiet when he goes to visit Yuwenwen alone, and the result of the meeting between the two sides is about not speculating for more than half a sentence.

As long as it looks like it, Erlangjun is to let outsiders know that he has taken the initiative to apologize, and the other purpose is to make the other party can't help but make a move, and arrange for someone to assassinate him halfway through his trip.

Therefore, when you travel for a while, from leaving the mansion to the embassy, and from the embassy to the mansion, guarding against assassins on the way back and forth becomes the most important thing.

Will there be assassins along the way? Maybe there is, maybe not at all, if the Xiyang County Duke is sensible, then he shouldn't send any assassins, because the Xi Mansion has already arranged people along the road, just waiting for the assassins to throw themselves into the net.

There are many streets to walk from the Xifu to the embassy, and if you want to set up an ambush in the middle of the road, unless there is information from the inside, it is a job that depends entirely on luck.

Can the other side send so many assassins? That's impossible.

Gongyu Wenwen of Xiyang County has no relatives and no reason in Yecheng, and there is no one who can help, although there are many guards on his trip, but there are a few of them who can be selected to be assassins.

To assassinate Xi Sheng sitting in a sturdy carriage in a team of dozens of guards, this kind of work is not easy, unless it is suppressed by numbers, but this is impossible in Yecheng, so if the other party wants to succeed in assassination, he must gather all his good hands and attack halfway in the same place.

I don't know the specific route of travel, and the lack of numbers makes it impossible for Yuwen Wen to set up an ambush on the main road, so the guards of the Xi Mansion don't think that the other party has any chance of winning, and the probability of an ambush halfway is very small, so they can only make a fuss at both ends of the road.

If someone were to assassinate him, the place of the assassination would be either near the Xifu or near the embassy.

According to the report of the guards who went forward to explore the way, there were soldiers from the Qiu Guan's Mansion near the palace to maintain order, and the envoy was surrounded by a circle, and it seemed that if there were really assassins, they might not dare to do anything there, so the vigilance around the Xifu was the top priority.

There are guards at the intersection with long sticks to guard, and the prevention is that when the convoy is moving forward after Xi Sheng gets into the car, someone suddenly rushes to the horse, but even if the carriage rushes forward, the guard stabs the horse's leg with a long stick, and all horses have to be finished.

And as long as Xi Sheng gets on the car, he is not afraid of knives, guns and arrows, the carriage is specially made, and he is not afraid of knives and arrows, after all, it is in Yecheng, there is no need to worry about being besieged by many people, even if the assassin is lucky enough to get close to the carriage, he will never be able to open the car door.

Thinking of this, the guards all secretly breathed a sigh of relief, wondering where a few assassins would be able to do anything unless Yuwen Wen lost his mind and gathered dozens of people to intercept and kill him on the street.

Not to mention hiring outlaws such as heroes as helpers, the city fox society rats in Yecheng are clever, bullying the powerless people don't have to say, they dare to get involved in the struggle between the powerful, no fool dares to take the job.

Not only that, if Yuwen Wen really dares to hire people, then the relevant news will spread to the ears of the government in a different way, and then there will be no need for the Xi Mansion to take action, and the high-ranking prime minister will definitely arrest people to teach a lesson.

So it's impossible to stab or something!

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A horse-drawn carriage drove slowly down the street and was stopped at the intersection at the west end of Xifu, and the Xifu guards said that "this road is not passable" ahead, and the driver who was driving the car shouted when he heard this: "I take this road every day, why don't I let it go now!" ”

"Why do you walk this road every day, why haven't I seen you, what are you doing!" One of the guards shouted loudly, and the rest of the men stood by with wooden sticks in their hands, beware of the driver forcing their way through the interception.

"My surname is Li, and I pull swill!" The coachman looked like a reckless man, "I have been here every day, what do you mean that you haven't seen me, don't let me pass, you will lose money if you make a mistake!" ”

"Swill? I remember that the surname of La Swill is Jia, I have never heard of the surname Li, and I have never seen you! ”

"What are you yelling about! I've been pulling swill here for two years, what are you yelling about! The coachman was furious when he heard this, "Let the old Zhang in the back kitchen of the Zhang Mansion come out!" He testified to me! ”

"Okay, okay, you're a swill." Another guard said, he looked at the smelly wooden barrel on the carriage, pinched his nose and waved his hand: "Don't be noisy, there are nobles traveling in front, you take a detour, such a stinky past, I just itchy to let you go, do you dare to go?" ”

"I'm a swill! A detour is a detour!" The coachman muttered, and the young man sitting next to him jumped out of the carriage, leading the horse to help the carriage turn around, and the guards watched the carriage turn coldly, and their vigilant expressions relaxed slightly.

"Look at that virtue! Pulling swill is still so majestic, do you think it's gold! The guard who was the first to attack scolded in a low voice, and the person next to him asked him if he knew the swill, and he scolded: "Who knows the swill, I am like this, and it turns out that this guy is really a swill." ”

The guards stopped the carriage that was trying to approach the mansion, and the carriage turned around and left in the opposite direction, and after walking more than ten paces, the young man got into the carriage again, and the coachman asked in a low voice, "See clearly?" ”

"I can see clearly, the carriage is on the east side, and the convoy will definitely be heading towards the east end of the road in a while."

"Very well, I'll slow down, you keep an eye on the carriage." Zhang Dingfa commanded, and now he has dressed up in disguise and become unrecognizable.

"Don't worry, I'll look at it in the mirror, as long as I don't look back, those people won't be suspicious."

"Grasp the distance for a while, move more secretly, and have Xifu's eyeliner in front of you." Zhang Dingfa advised.

"Yes."

Just before the time of the two incense sticks, Zhang Dingfa was still talking to Di Ling in the embassy, in order to let the other party 'witness' that he was in the embassy, and then got Yu Wenwen's order to sneak out of the embassy through the tunnel and drill out of a private house on the north side of it.

After staying at the embassy at the end of May, they secretly rented a mansion across the street to the north, and then began to dig tunnels for Yuwenwen to escape in an emergency.

This tunnel has come in handy now, Yu Wenwen's guards are all Nanyin, the only exception is Zhang Dingfa, only he can easily blend in the crowd on the streets of Yecheng, and he is not afraid of the accent to attract the attention of others.

Therefore, he was responsible for assassinating Xi Sheng, and another clever guard approached Xi Mansion as a deputy, accompanied by a swill coachman.

It is precisely because of this that after being stopped by the Xi Mansion guards, Zhang Dingfa, who had a northern accent, was able to talk to the other party freely, without attracting the attention of the other party, and the disguise changed his appearance and characteristics, so he was not afraid that the other party would recognize his identity.

"Thirty more steps, Chief, and that's about the same distance." The young man sitting next to him whispered.

"Can't stop, those people must be staring, if it's far away, then far away, you pay attention, if it's too far away, I'll make a sound, you immediately jump into the carriage and shoot things out."

The young man answered, and by the help of a small mirror in his hand, he looked at the movement in the direction of the gate of the Xifu Mansion behind him, and in the open carriage of the carriage lay several buckets of swill, among which were hidden a pair of well-wound crossbows, which could shoot four loaded oil catapults at the same time a distance of one hundred and fifty paces.

Their mission was to attack Xi Sheng's convoy here, and the oil bombs were equipped with traps that could ignite immediately after they were fired, but they were not accurate enough to hit Xi Sheng's carriage.

The young man is a good hand at operating the big crossbow, he can visually estimate the distance and quickly adjust the elevation angle of the big crossbow, he has good eyesight, and he shoots a carriage of about 150 paces, and the hit rate is the highest among him.

In this operation, as soon as Xi Sheng gets on the car, it will be launched immediately, and if God bless the carriage that shoots Xi Sheng, even if it can't be burned to death, it can be tossed and jumped.

If the shot is wrong or the distance is wrong, it doesn't matter, the burning fireball can turn Xi Sheng into a frightened bird, at least it will be a while before he dares to go out.

It's not that I don't want to be killed with one blow, it's just that the difficulty is too high, Yuwenwen has no foundation in Yecheng, and his subordinates are all southerners except for Zhang Dingfa, and they will show their stuff as soon as they speak, and there is no way to lurk in the houses near Xifu without a trace, and they can only approach by mobile means.

"Chief, the escort cavalry is getting on the horse, it must be that Xi Sheng is coming out!"

"Steady, the dark whistle of Xi Mansion in front is watching this side, Xi Sheng will wait for me to give the order after getting in the car before doing it!!"

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In the Xi Mansion, Xi Sheng walked through the courtyard surrounded by guards and walked towards the gate, the butler looked left and right at the carriage, and nodded to him when he saw that there was no abnormality, and Xi Sheng also nodded when he saw this.

Walking through the gate to the carriage, he was about to explain something to the butler, when suddenly the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and one of the cavalrymen behind the carriage suddenly rushed out, smashed through the human wall and attacked Xi Sheng.

In the flash of light, the cavalryman drew his knife and cut off Xi Sheng's head, and the butler quickly pushed Xi Sheng away, but was slashed in the back of the head by the long knife, and blood splashed.

"There are assassins!!"

A terrible shout sounded, the guards of the Xi Mansion drew their sabers and rushed up, the cavalry saw that the blow missed, Xi Sheng rolled to the side, and the guards fought hard to surround him, and he whistled in his mouth and clamped the horse's belly with his legs.

The crotch mount immediately turned around, aimed the horse at Xi Sheng, and then shook off his hind legs, only to hear Peng's sound, Xi Sheng was kicked squarely, screamed and flew backwards, swept over the heads of the rushing guards, and fell to the ground like a kite with a broken string.

The bowstring sounded, and a quick archer fired arrows at the Assassin, who snorted and fell on his horse, some of the guards shouted to save Xi Sheng, while others surrounded the Assassin to tear him down and capture him alive.

The assassin's mount hissed from his crotch, spread his hooves and slammed into the crowd and rushed eastward, ignoring the interception of the Xi Mansion guards who surrounded him, and struggled to break out of the encirclement, fleeing with his master covered in blood.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded, and it was like raindrops, and the cavalry of Xifu's guards chased after them, and a shout pierced the sky above Yecheng.

"Assassin, catch the assassin!" (To be continued.) )