Chapter 249: Shocking Assassin, Adventurous Cao Cao
Darkness descended into view, and blood-glittered, dragon-robed corpses fell.
"Ahhhhh
Ren Hongchang put his hand into the bun, stared at the moment when he screamed, in the darkness that fell, the figure holding the dagger pushed away the thin girl next to him, and rushed towards the collapsed woman, a dim glimmer of light, the figure ran in confusion, shouting, someone staggered with the assassin, went to hug the emperor on the ground, and someone pulled out a knife and pounced.
Woohoo Woo ...... The dagger resisted the blade that had been slashed three times in a row, and the figure of the quick sprint staggered with a female guard, the sword fell from the opponent's hand, with a crisp clanging sound, the palm holding the dagger brushed over the white neck, Han Long crossed over with an expressionless face, pulled out his backhand, poof, a stream of blood gushed out along the wound, the maid covered the bleeding neck, stumbled backwards, her eyes began to tilt, and the figure of the assassin was reflected in her eyes towards the imperial chief.
"Captain! Be carefulβ" She let out one last sound.
Ren Hongchang was awakened by the sound, the sound of horses' hooves outside the palace gate, the light of the torch was coming here, the dim light reflected the rushing assassin across her eyes, and instantly closed, her pupils suddenly contracted, and she pulled out the long sword at her waist, "Ah-" yelled, holding the hilt of the sword with both hands, the sword slashed across the trajectory, and slashed with all his strength and pressed down on the opponent's dagger, the amazing face twisted out hideous, the sword blade pressed the dagger, squeaked and pulled out a long spark, flickering to reflect the face of the opposite assassin.
It was the face of a man smaller than her.
"Why-what--line-stab-stab-majesty!" Ren Hongchang stared at the other party with wet red eyes, gritted his teeth, and said word by word.
Outside, the sound of horses' hooves and footsteps was sudden, and the armor and weapons made a slight trembling sound in the running, Han Long was still expressionless, just tilted his head slightly, and heard the movement of the army outside getting closer and closer, and in the next second, he raised his foot and lifted the palace robe, and kicked it directly on Ren Hongchang's lower abdomen, his delicate body staggered back a few steps, and when his vision shook, Han Long stepped closer, and the dagger stabbed out violently.
There was the sound of footsteps, and he slammed into the stone steps.
The burly figure rushed into the palace gate, a heavy black spear pierced the air, roaring, Han Long stopped the castrated dagger, turned sideways with all his strength, and the metal got along, and with a loud bang, the dagger was pressed back, and the whole person flew out sideways like a cannonball and smashed into the pile, knocked down several people and rolled to the ground, half a breath, and quickly got up, climbed over the stone fence and ran towards the palace.
"Chase! He has a broken arm and can't run far," the general beckoned, and dozens of armor soldiers who came with him squeezed through the crowd and rushed out in pursuit.
Ren Hongchang clutched his stomach and looked at the general who saved him, and before he could say thanks, outside the palace gate on the right, a series of footsteps sounded, and a figure in armor led dozens of people to stride in, and his voice was strong and powerful: "Yuan Rang, where is Your Majesty?!" β
"Your Majesty is over there....." The general with the big gun was Xiahoudun, he turned his head to look at the corpse over there, surrounded by the crying and shouting of a group of palace attendants, and lowered his voice: "Big brother, there is an assassin assassin, I'm a step late...... Just one step! β
The guards who came to separate the palace attendants, Cao Cao stood in front of the corpse in a pool of blood, and a guard probed his nose and lowered his voice: "My lord, Your Majesty is dead." β
Cao Cao clenched his fists, pursed his lips and stared at the corpse in silence.
Next to him, a young scribe frowned, and pulled over the tall, wide, fat guard: "Zhongkang! β
"Guo sacrificial wine, what's the matter?" Xu Zhu didn't have any feeling about whether the emperor was dead or not, he bowed his hand in a normal tone, then bowed his upper body, and whispered a few words in Guo Jia's ear on the other side, he nodded, and walked outside the palace gate with a tiger head knife and walked to the outside of the palace gate to wave to the soldiers entering the city, and the voice was like a bronze bell: "You come with me!" He blocked the palace gate, held the hilt of the knife, leaned on the ground, raised his head and said loudly to the ministers who came on foot: "My lord has an order, Your Majesty is tired from a long journey to Luoyang, so don't come to disturb you, find a place to rest, and come back tomorrow."
At the same time, in the palace gate, after Guo Jia sent out Xu Zhu, he walked quickly to the silent figure, "My lord, now I don't think about who did it, we should immediately block the news, and we can't let the people of the world know that Your Majesty is dead, otherwise there will be no more strategies to coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes." β
"What does Bonghyo think he should do?"
Cao Cao looked at Liu Xie's corpse for a moment, closed his eyes and took a deep breath, his voice was a little bitter and choked.
There was a crackling sound on the torch, and a spark jumped out, reflecting Guo Jia's gaze and swept the palace attendants of more than 300 people around, and raised his palm to make a cutting motion, "...... Whoever knows is killed. β
Turning his back, Cao Cao looked at him gloomily and narrowed his eyes.
......
Stampede Stamped Stomp β
Between the broken palace, the footsteps are running, because of the severe pain in the arm, the steps can't run fast after all, the sound of breaking through the air behind him, nailed to a pillar under the eaves, the dozens of Qingzhou soldiers who pursued followed closely, and some people released arrows to force the other party's route, and soon after, a collapsed pillar and some masonry blocked the way of the assassin.
It's a dead end.
Han Long took the dagger in his mouth, squeezed it in Shang Neng's other hand, and roared and threw himself at the dozens of soldiers.......
.......
"If you think of it, do it!" Cao Cao whispered, picked up Liu Xie's body from the ground and handed it to a guard, "Peel off the dragon gun, find a well, and throw it in." β
Next to him, the queen rushed over, grabbed the guard, and cried: "What are you going to do in Cao Yanzhou...... Where are you going to take Your Majesty, Your Majesty is still alive..... You save him..... Please..... Give your majesty back to me! β
Cao Cao pursed his lips, forcefully tore away the hand that grabbed the guard, waved his hand, the guard held the corpse and nodded to the deep palace, Fu Shou knelt on the ground, tears fell and fell, and there was no crying sound in his slightly open lips. Cao Cao squatted down, took a silk handkerchief and threw it into the girl's hand, and then slowly got up.
"Don't cry, the queen can't live without her husband...... The Han Dynasty can't do without the emperor, the minister Cao Cao, to find you a new ...... That's it. β
He looked at Xiahoudun, who understood, and brought hundreds of soldiers in, ready to bring more than 300 male and female palace attendants gathered in the palace gate into the palace, a figure suddenly came over, knelt down in front of Cao Cao, "The concubine is the palace chief, and she is willing to serve the new 'Your Majesty' and the queen." β
"The Imperial Governor of the Palace..... You are familiar with the affairs of the palace, so ..... Then you and your people stay. Cao Cao patted his thin shoulder, walked over half a step and stopped, only the voice that the other party could hear said: "Take good care of the palace, don't kill me because of your beauty." β
Ren Hongchang bit his lip, glanced at the girl in front of him, and lowered his head: "Yes!" β
Cao Cao nodded with satisfaction, and just then did he open the palace gate, and after a while, a soldier came from the palace: "My lord, the assassin has been caught." β
"Take it down, I'll interrogate it myself."
The pace stopped, then turned, followed the soldier past, passing by the palace that had been brought into the palace of the palace maids and eunuchs before, the miserable cry of mercy and death sounded under the eaves, Xiahoudun wiped his bloody hands, came out of the collapsed palace door with his gun, and followed Cao Cao to the room where the assassin was being held.
The light of torches dappled on the ground outside the battered window, torture was being carried out inside, there was the sound of whips whipping flesh, pushing open the door, an assassin who had been stripped of his robe was tied to the pillar of the temple, several soldiers asked loudly, while whipping each other, on the strong body, a bloody scar was extracted, and some flesh and blood were gone.
The Assassin with his hair in a disheveled bun just hung his head, gritted his teeth and snorted, without even uttering a cry for mercy.
"It's a man, it's a pity......" Cao Cao, who dragged his cloak in, also sighed when he saw his appearance, pulled out his sword and probed the other party's chin, provoking a lowered face, "You are an assassin, you are acted by others, as long as you say who is behind the back who wants to assassinate Your Majesty, I will spare you from death." β
Han Long looked at the other party with his eyes half-drawn, a smile curled up at the corner of his mouth, revealing bloody teeth: "Why are you so stupid, knowing that I am an assassin, you should know that you have never thought of leaving alive when you came to assassinate the emperor." β
"But..... Your Majesty is not dead! Cao Cao opened his mouth expressionlessly, and Xiahou Xuan, who was behind him, pouted.
"Hugh wants to bluff me..... Han Long laughed hoarsely with blood dripping from his mouth: "I have always been the key to attack...... Even if you don't die now, you'll bleed to death later, and it's really stupid to say you're stupid...... Hahaha......"
"You thief begging for deathβ"
"Brother, don't!"
In the rear, Xiahoudun suddenly shouted angrily, he was reckless, but he had always respected his eldest brother the most, and when he blocked it, he raised his big gun and was about to poke it, at this time, someone came in outside the house and shouted suddenly. Cao Cao heard who the voice was, and when he turned around, he saw Cao Chun striding in, he looked at the bound assassin, and the other party also turned his gaze and smiled: "It turned out to be ..... Brother Cao. β
"Zihe, when did you know this death-begging assassin?" Xiahoudun put down his gun and looked back and forth between the two, a little confused.
Seeing Cao Cao's gaze also looking over, Cao Chun arched his hand, hesitated for a moment, and finally spoke: "At first, I didn't know, I was in the back to supervise the army, and after seeing Guo Xijiu and Li Dian and Le Jin hurriedly leading the troops out of the city, I only knew that His Majesty was killed, and when I came here, I heard your conversation, and when I arrived at the door, I saw that this assassin was actually an old man......" The words paused, he looked at Han Long, "This person is the person of the leader of Gongsun, and we are familiar with it in Jizhou Montenegro." β
Cao Chun's voice echoed in the room, Cao Cao closed his eyes and listened for a while, his brows soothed and furrowed, the fire in the room flickered, he suddenly raised his sword, and slashed at the bound assassin with a sword-
Burst!
The rope broke and fell to the ground, and with a thud, the sword was sheathed.
"Drugged him, pressed down and watched! Let Gongsun Zhi personally come to ask for someone-" After saying this, he picked up the Yitian Sword and turned to leave.
Shortly after the night, the hundred officials were trembling and dying in the dilapidated houses to survive the early morning, the cavalry outside Luoyang in the distant mountains and fields scattered in all directions, in the deep dark night, the surroundings seemed quiet, the running torches occasionally found remote homes in a few miles, or dozens of miles, a few knights knocked on the door, and a white-haired old woman slowly came out.
"Do you have any children?" A voice asked.
The old woman shook her head, her cloudy eyes were afraid, and then the whole person shrank back and wanted to close the door, but she was pushed away by the other party, and the figure that came in brutally squeezed her in, and after holding the torch and seeing that there was really no one in the small room, she retreated, and the old woman cried in fear: "My son.... At the time of the Luoyang fire..... was killed by the Xiliang Army..... Take me, the old immortal, with you....."
However, the group ignored her, got on their horses and left.
On the other side, there are also people searching all over the mountains, and finally found a family on a hillside in the north of dozens of miles away from Luoyang, knocked on the door, the family is a husband and wife, and a son, eleven or twelve years old, the man looked at the soldier's dress, and hurriedly pulled his wife and children back, his eyes were vigilant: "What do you want..... There is something to see at home, even if you take it....."
The approaching knight pointed to the child in his arms and beckoned, and several other horsemen went straight to snatch the crying child away, and the woman cried and rushed to her son, and one of them turned and drew his sword and slashed at the woman's head, and blood splattered her husband's face. The sword-wielding knight pointed at the man, shook his head, and then left with his companions crying loudly.
Only the man was left holding his wife's corpse and crying, and it spread far and wide in this night, not only in this place, but also in many places, where murder and child snatching kept happening.
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The sky was bright.
Dong Cheng, who was asleep, was roughly dragged up from the corner of the house, and before he could come back to his senses, he was led by a wolf-like soldier to approach the palace and take him to a side hall that was still intact.
Soon, outside the door, Cao Cao's figure led a group of armor soldiers with weapons in a long row, stepping on the neat sound of this side, and beside him there was a boy in plain clothes, who looked a little similar to His Majesty today.
It was selected from the many children.
After entering the house, he spoke directly: "Ladies and gentlemen, Your Majesty was murdered last night, if the news spreads, the world will be in real chaos-"