After listening to the analysis of the strategist Tang Yan, Zhang Mingqi, the governor of the southeast, pondered for a moment and said: "It seems that the governor of this capital must discuss with the imperial court to let the Broken Army postpone the matter of going south, and it is best that the Lu army can withdraw before the Broken Army goes south!" ”

Tang Yan nodded and said: "Lord, according to the current situation, even if the Broken Army does not go south, just relying on the strength of our Southeast Wing Army itself, it is enough to block the millions of elite troops of the Lu State in the territory of Zhejiang and Fuzhou, so the Lord can assure the imperial court that our Southeast Wing Army will definitely be able to block the invading army of the Lu State, of course, don't talk about the matter to death, we also need to rely on the deterrent power of the Broken Capture Army to let the Lu Army take the initiative to retreat." ”

At this time, Zhao Lianjin, a confidant under Zhang Mingqi, said: "Although the Lu army is forced to retreat at any time due to the deterrence of the captive army, we have to be careful that the Lu people go off the rails. ”

Strategist Tang Yan said approvingly: "What General Zhao said makes sense, we must beware of the Lu people sending people to assassinate the lord again." ”

The corners of Zhang Mingqi's mouth twitched slightly, "The methods of the Lu people who can't be put on the table are not easy to deal with the Governor of the Metropolis, with the three thousand escorts around the Governor of the Metropolis, how many assassins the people of the Lu people send are just to be sent to death." ”

Late at night after Zhang Mingqi finished speaking, hundreds of assassins sent by Black Butterfly of the Lu State infiltrated the governor's mansion in Ningbo City and assassinated Zhang Mingqi.

Thanks to the desperate resistance of the guards around Zhang Mingqi, and Zhang Mingqi's cousin Liu Fengbao, a fierce general, who also lived in the state pastor mansion tonight, Zhang Mingqi escaped, but Zhang Mingqi was also cut off his right arm in the assassin's crazy attack.

On the morning of October 21, in a study in the Chengzhou Pastoral Mansion in Ningbo, Zhang Mingqi, whose right arm was wrapped in a white cloth, gritted his teeth and asked Liu Fengbao: "Did the assassin last night slip through the net?" ”

Liu Fengbao said in a deep voice: "My lord, we have found a total of ninety-six assassin corpses in and near the State Pastoral Mansion, and at least seven or eight assassins have escaped. ”

Zhang Mingqi turned his head and shouted angrily to his henchman Zhao Lianjin: "How did the eighth guard defend the city? He was able to let more than a hundred Lu assassins infiltrate Ningbo City, and finally let seven or eight Lu assassins escape under the nose of the Eighth Guard! ”

The eighth guard is the army under the command of Zhao Lianjin, the current city defense of Ningbo City, temporarily in charge of the eighth guard, last night the eighth guard received an assassin infiltrated the state residence to assassinate Zhang Mingqi, and immediately mobilized a large number of troops to support the state minister's mansion.

However, the few Lu State assassins who escaped, each of them had very powerful martial arts, and they were surrounded by many soldiers of the Eighth Guard, and they fought their way out of the bloody path and disappeared into the night.

Zhao Lianjin coughed embarrassedly and said: "The lord forgives the sin, his subordinates must let the Eighth Guard conduct a thorough investigation to see if there are any soldiers who defend the city who neglected their duties and put the more than 100 Lu State assassins into the city, but the seven or eight Lu State assassins who escaped last night are all strong in martial arts, only outside the State Pastoral Mansion, the Eighth Guard has suffered more than 500 casualties, but only the bodies of seven assassins have been left, and the assassins who can escape, several of them may have the strength of peerless fierce generals, which makes the Eighth Guard soldiers who rushed to outside the State Pastoral Mansion after hearing the news, It's really powerless. ”

Zhang Mingqi snorted coldly and said: "Order the Eighth Guard, even if you dig three feet into the ground, you must find out the seven or eight Lu State assassins who escaped to the Governor of the Great Metropolis!" What about the strength of a peerless general? If you dare to assassinate the Governor of Benda, don't even think about leaving Ningbo City alive! ”

Zhao Lianjin hesitated for a moment and then nodded and said, "Don't worry, my subordinates will definitely not let those Lu State assassins who escaped leave Ningbo City alive!" ”

At this time, the strategist Tang Yan said to Zhang Mingqi: "Lord, it seems that the people of the Lu State are really poor in donkey skills, otherwise they would not have sent so many masters to assassinate the Lord in a desperate gamble, and it should be fast for the Lu army to take the initiative to retreat!" ”

Strategist Tang Yan's words made Zhang Mingqi's face a little better, and then Zhang Mingqi asked Liu Fengbao: "How much did the guards around the Governor lose last night?" ”

Liu Fengbao immediately said: "Lord Qiqi, in the battle last night, the losses of the guards in the Prefecture Pastoral Mansion were very large, and the number of casualties exceeded 700, and even General Yang was killed. ”

The General Yang mentioned by Liu Fengbao is Yang Yu, who commands 3,000 escorts around Zhang Mingqi, and he can be regarded as a fierce general.

Zhang Mingqi sighed and said: "Let Yang Yu be buried thickly, and another 3,000 people will be transferred from the first guard and the second guard to supplement the escort team, as for the commander of the escort team, Feng Bao will concurrently serve for the time being, and the governor of this country is worried that the people of Lu will not die, and he will send someone to assassinate the governor of this majority!" ”

After a pause, Zhang Mingqi said again: "But as Mr. Tang said, the people of Lu should be poor in donkey skills, and order the generals on the front line to strengthen their vigilance in the near future, and there must be no mistakes at this critical moment, as long as our southeast wing army survives this period of time, and when the Lu army takes the initiative to retreat, the governor of this capital will not be stingy with the soldiers!" ”

On the night of October 21, in the basement of a private house in Ningbo City, a total of seven Black Butterfly masters gathered here, and the leader of them sighed and said: "I didn't expect that our Black Butterfly dispatched hundreds of masters, but still did not succeed in killing Zhang Mingqi, and only seven of us successfully escaped, which makes the town envoy explain to the commander!" ”

The other person immediately said: "My lord, it's no wonder you, after all, Zhang Mingqi is the commander of the tens of millions of Jin Kingdom's southeast wing army, and there are many guards around him, we were able to stab Zhang Mingqi last night, it is not easy, but unfortunately if it wasn't for a fierce general to stop us, our assassination operation last night would have been successful!" ”

The leader shook his head and said: "No matter what, we have also failed, or this Zhenfu envoy is too anxious, we should make the assassination plan more thorough, I only hope that Xu Zhenfu can succeed all the way, otherwise it will not be easy for even the commander to explain to Your Majesty!" ”

"My lord, what do we do next? The city gate of Ningbo City has been refused, and the Southeast Xiang Army is still searching from house to house. ”

"The news of the failure to assassinate Zhang Mingqi, since it has been spread, we don't need to worry, first take refuge in this secret room for a while, and then it's not too late to get out of the city after the rumors have passed, and the envoy of this town still wants to see if there is a chance to assassinate Zhang Mingqi again."

Just three days after the assassins sent by Black Butterfly failed to assassinate Zhang Mingqi again, another group of Black Butterfly assassins finally arrived in Qudeng City.

In an ordinary house in Qudeng City, a woman wearing a veil asked a middle-aged man in a cloth robe, "Qian Baihu, can you be sure that Liu Ji lives in the mansion in the west of the city?" ”

As the only intelligence agency in Lu State, Black Butterfly has a top-to-bottom establishment, which is the commander, the suppression envoy, the thousand households, the hundred households, the general flag, the small flag and the ordinary spies, this establishment is very similar to the Heishui Station, except that the Black Butterfly is one more level under the command than the Black Water Station.

The middle-aged man in cloth immediately nodded and said: "Zhenfu reassures your lordship, according to our investigation, Liu Ji has placed the beauties from various nomads in the grassland in the mansion in the west of the city, as long as Liu Ji is in Qudeng City, he will definitely be in the mansion in the west of the city." ”

Black Butterfly currently has a total of five major pacification envoys, this veiled woman is one of them, and she is the only woman among the five major pacification envoys, and she is also the mistress of Zhang Xiang, the commander of Black Butterfly, whose name is Xu Jie, nicknamed Black Spider.

Black Spider Xu Jie then said: "Qian Baihu, this time the town envoy has brought a total of nearly two hundred of our black butterfly elites, including even eighteen new butterflies carefully cultivated by the town envoy, but I don't know if there is a chance to let the new butterflies under the command of the town envoy enter the mansion where Liu Ji lives?" These eighteen new butterflies have just come out of the apprenticeship, and they are still untrained girls, if there is a channel to dedicate a few of them to Liu Ji, then we will be able to easily complete the task this time! ”

The butterflies in the Black Butterfly Organization are all women with stunning appearances, but they are all terrifying female killers, beauty is the most important killer feature of these butterflies, and the black spider Xu Jie was originally a butterfly.

Qian Baihu nodded and said: "Liu Ji is lustful, if he can really send a few butterflies to Liu Ji's side, then Liu Ji will definitely die!" Lord Pacification, this matter needs some time for his subordinates, but I don't know if it will be in time? ”

Black Spider Xu Jie frowned and thought for a moment and said: "Give you three days, try to send a few new butterflies to Liu Ji's side, if necessary, eighteen new butterflies can be given to Liu Ji, if it is not done after three days, then the envoy of this town can only personally take people to the mansion in the west of the city to assassinate Liu Ji." ”

Qian Baihu hesitated for a moment and said: "Lord Pacification, the three days are a little tight, and the subordinates can only give it a try." ”

Black Spider Xu Jie said in a deep voice: "Liu Ji is in Qudeng City, we have a chance to do it, once Liu Ji leads the army back to Qianzhou in the Jin Kingdom, we want to assassinate Liu Ji who is under the protection of the army, the degree of difficulty will surge tenfold and more, if Liu Ji returns to the heavily guarded Chengyin City to capture the General's Mansion, then it is almost impossible for us to assassinate him again, we must do it before Liu Ji leads the army to set off, so this town envoy can only give you three days." ”

After Qian Baihu left, Black Spider Xu Jie summoned four subordinates to the room where she was, one of the women was one of the eighteen new butterflies, and the other three were all deputy envoys of Black Butterfly, but only one deputy envoy was the deputy of Black Spider Xu Jie, and the other two deputy envoys were not directly under the command of Black Spider Xu Jie.

"Ziyi, the envoy of this town has instructed Qian Baihu to try to find an opportunity to send you and other butterflies to Liu Ji's side, with your beauty, presumably as long as you get close to Liu Ji, there will be a chance to take his life!" Black spider Xu Jie said in a deep voice to the butterfly named Zhou Ziyi, Zhou Ziyi is also the most outstanding in appearance and martial arts among the eighteen new butterflies.

Zhou Ziyi, who was also wearing a veil, said in a very calm tone: "The calming reassurs the adults, as long as Ziyi and the other sisters have the opportunity to get close to Liu Ji, they will definitely get rid of Liu Ji for our Great Lu Country." ”

Black Spider Xu Jie nodded and said: "This town envoy is the most at ease with Ziyi, now it depends on whether that Qian Baihu can find a chance." ”

At this time, a deputy envoy frowned and said to the black spider Xu Jie: "Lord Xu, is it too late to give the butterflies to Liu Ji now?" After all, now that the Broken Army has defeated the coalition army composed of more than 100 nomads in the grassland, Liu Ji may lead the army to leave Qudeng City at any time, once Liu Ji leaves Qudeng City, we will lose the best chance to assassinate Liu Ji! ”

The name of the deputy pacification envoy who spoke was Wang Du, not the deputy of the black spider Xu Jie, but the deputy of another pacification envoy, this time Wang Du was ordered to take more than 40 masters under his command, obey the orders of the black spider Xu Jie, and come to Qudeng City to assassinate Liu Ji.

Black Spider Xu Jie smiled and said: "Lord Wang doesn't need to be anxious, the envoy of this town gave Qian Baihu three days, if the three days are over, Qian Baihu still can't send the butterflies to Liu Ji's side, then it's too late for us to take assassination actions." ”

The Black Spider Xu Jie is the commander of Zhang Xiang's mistress, and almost everyone in the Black Butterfly knows about it, so although Wang Du thinks that the arrangement of the Black Spider Xu Jie is equivalent to wasting three precious days, he did not refute the Black Spider Xu Jie, "Then give that Qian Baihu three days, anyway, it seems that the main force of the Broken Army will not leave Qudeng City within a few days." ”

Another deputy envoy said with a smile: "It's still Lord Xu's thoughtfulness, if we can rely on the butterflies to take Liu Ji's life, our Black Butterfly can also lose some less manpower, this time we came to Qudeng City, but they are all the elite of our Black Butterfly." ”

This deputy envoy named Zhao Chi did not belong to the deputy of the black spider Xu Jie, and he also brought nearly fifty masters under his command this time.

Lan Sheng, who was the deputy of the black spider Xu Jie, also said: "The pacification envoy is wise, Liu Ji is definitely a womanizer, as long as the butterflies can get close to Liu Ji, then Liu Ji will definitely die!" ”

Black Spider Xu Jie then suddenly said in a solemn tone: "Liu Ji's Broken Army has defeated even the tens of millions of cavalry of all tribes in the grassland this time, once the Broken Army is allowed to go south, then it will be even more impossible for our Lu State to annex the southeastern states of the Jin State, so we will get rid of Liu Ji at all costs this time, once we can't send the butterflies to Liu Ji's side, then we can only sneak into Liu Ji's mansion at night and assassinate him." ”

After leaving the house where the black spider Xu Jie and others were, the Qian Baihu of Black Butterfly walked around the streets of Qudeng City a few times, and finally entered a grain store on the street, and came to a room in the backyard of the grain store, "Lord Jia, the villain just came over there." ”