After the decree was read, the banquet became a little different, and all the officials in the seat exchanged their heads with the people around them, and there was a lot of discussion, and the hall was filled with a buzz, and even the sound of drums was suppressed.

Wang Yingxiong and Wang Huan thanked him and returned to his seat, and then stopped talking, Wang Huan concentrated on eating, except for occasionally glancing at the graceful and charming dancing girls in the field, he stared at the dishes in front of him attentively, chewing slowly, and ignoring all the officials in the audience.

And Wang Yingxiong has many friends in the court, has a wide range of friends, and there is an endless stream of people who come forward to congratulate him, Wang Yingxiong's city is deep, even if his heart is full of sorrow, he will never be exposed to his face, with a smile, and the person who comes does not refuse, and everyone will drink and talk happily, nonsense, and make a lot of noise, and after a while, his face will be red, and his drunken state will be revealed.

Emperor Yongli on the high platform, his face was gloomy, and after a few perfunctory drinks with a few close ministers, he stayed for a while to watch the song and dance, and then left the scene hastily under the pretext that he was unwell.

As soon as the emperor left, the banquet could not be opened, everyone dispersed in a hurry, drove the sedan chair away, Wang Yingxiong and Wang Huan joined Li Dingguo and others, and went to the palace gate, intending to leave the Shuiyue Palace with their horses.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked to the front of the royal road, before he went out of the door, a little eunuch dressed in palace clothes stopped Wang Yingxiong respectfully, and whispered a few words in his ear, Wang Yingxiong's face immediately changed greatly, and he hurriedly motioned to Wang Huan and others to wait, he followed the little eunuch, and hurriedly moved to the shadow of the tree in the distance, where there was no light, and the black DD couldn't see things clearly, Wang Huan and others stood in place, and tried to look at it suspiciously, and could only barely see a few black shadows standing in the shadow of the tree, but they couldn't tell who it was.

Wang Yingxiong went over, blended into the darkness, talked a few words with the shadow who had been waiting there for a long time, and hurried back, without delay, he pulled his legs and left, urging Wang Huan and the others to follow quickly.

Wang Huan and the others felt even more strange in their hearts, and while walking, they couldn't help but look back, only to see those shadows, standing under the tree without moving, and when they went out and got on the horse, they saw that those people still hadn't left, as if they were like a few stones and kept their posture of watching.

After running out for a distance, there was no one around, so Wang Yingxiong slowed down the horse, approached Wang Huan, and whispered to Wang Huan a little nervously: "Chief soldier Wang, oh no, Lord Wang, do you know who kept the old man just now?" ”

Wang Huan didn't squint, and replied indifferently: "I don't know, please teach Lord Wang." ”

Wang Yingxiong looked left and right, and then lowered his voice and stretched his neck: "It's the eunuch Wang Kun who is the master of ceremonies!" The emperor's first cronie, he told the old man......"

"Stay!" Wang Huan shouted in a low voice, solemn as water: "This is not the place to speak, go back to the barracks first!" ”

"Back to the barracks?" Wang Yingxiong was stunned and said: "The imperial court has prepared a post house for us, it is comfortable and luxurious, there is no need to go back to the barracks, right?" ”

Wang Huan looked at him with a smile, shook his head and said, "The post house is comfortable, but if you get up tomorrow morning, you and I are afraid that we will be dead in it." ”

Wang Yingxiong's face changed again, he was as pale as paper with fright, and said in a trembling voice: "It's not like this, right?" Anyway, this is the foot of the Son of Heaven, the forbidden land in the capital, they don't dare to mess around! ”

Wang Huan put away his ridiculous smile, looked at Wang Yingxiong seriously, and said solemnly: "Governor Wang, when have you ever seen that the cabinet leader dares to openly confront the emperor?" The Son of Heaven uses people personally, and uses brocade guards instead of palace guards? Hundreds of officials gathered tonight, but Li Yuanyin, the commander of the forbidden army, was missing, where was he? You and I are promoted, the cabinet does not know, and the emperor issued a decree to announce that this matter has been in the past dynasties, when has there been? All these anomalies add up, with the shrewdness of the governor of the king, can't you still see it? ”

Yixi's words were extremely serious, with an undoubted certainty, and Wang Yingxiong's face turned a little paler when he heard it, and he hesitated: "Could it be that Li Yuanyin wants to kill us in this Zhaoqing City?" But where did we hinder his Li family again? Why bother to make enemies, although my Wang is a civil minister, he is also a military commander, so the Li family is not afraid of our retaliation? What's more, I gave him a lot of silver to the Li family, and Li Chengdong opened his eyes when he saw the money, so he couldn't see it on the face of the money. ”

Wang Huan sneered, and said: "Compared with money, of course rights are more important, Governor Wang should understand that Shizhu Silver Mine, but its reputation, if you occupy your position, and then remove you and me, of course the silver mine will change hands, and the little silver you send is more important than the silver mine, you can know it when you think about it." ”

He glanced at Wang Yingxiong, and said: "Also, Governor Wang's secret music, he thinks that he doesn't know the ghosts, only the emperor knows, but he doesn't know that in this Zhaoqing City, it has already been like a sieve, laying countless ears and eyes of the Li family, even I know it, don't the Li family's father and son still know?" ”

This last sentence shocked Wang Yingxiong's face from white to blue, from fear to fear, his face was colorless, and he almost fell off the horse, but fortunately Liu Yun followed beside him, stretched out his hand and pulled it, stabilized him, and did not forget to joke in his mouth: "Sit tight, Governor Wang!" ”

Wang Yingxiong had no time to take care of it, and muttered to Wang Hua to eat: "This, this, sir, the old man has no other meaning, this and this ......"

Wang Huan waved his hand and said coldly: "Governor Wang doesn't have to mind, if I were in your position, I would do the same, but Wang was clumsy, I didn't expect Lord Wang to be a loyal person, it's rare." ”

Wang Yingxiong suddenly didn't know how to answer, and wanted to straighten up his back and be impassioned, but he remembered that he had received so much gold and silver from Wang Huan, how could he be tough? Only the branches are scattered, and I can't figure out a word for a long time.

Wang Huan sneered and said: "In the brocade guards of the imperial court, there are also my people, Governor Wang will make a small report in the future, and please inform Wang, so that there is a response, what does Governor Wang think?" ”

Wang Yingxiong Nuonuo said yes, and bent his waist into a shrimp on the horse.

A group of people talked in a low voice, while driving horses forward, from the Water Moon Palace to the Kuizhou military camp, along the Zhaoqing city wall around an official road can be passed, at this moment it is late at night, the moon is like snow, the stars are brilliant, the official road is as bright as day, even if the ancients are blind at night, they can also take advantage of the night to hurry.

Just when Wang Yingxiong was embarrassed, a Kuizhou soldier who was running in front of him to open the way suddenly reined in his horse, drew his knife out of his sheath, pointed obliquely ahead with a snowy long knife, and shouted in his mouth: "Who is ahead?" Dare to block the way of the officers and soldiers! ”

This shout is a warning, to give time for Wang Huan and others who are following behind a stone's throw away, this time to the banquet, Wang Huan is with his own 100-person guard, Ma Wannian stayed in the camp, only Li Dingguo and Liu Yuner will be with him.

Hearing this shout, the well-trained guards immediately reacted, more than 100 horsemen rushed out of the front 30 horses, the horizontal team blocked the front, the rear team also 30 horsemen to protect the back, the remaining 40 horsemen left and right 20 each, Wang Huan and Wang Yingxiong in the middle.

Li Dingguo shouted to Liu Yun: "You stay with the adults!" He drew his knife and rushed forward, and with the thirty horsemen of the horizontal team, he didn't run out more than ten steps, and he heard a crackling bird in front of him, followed by a scream, and the Kuizhou soldiers who warned him had been killed by S.

Is there a bird system?

A thought flashed in Li Dingguo's mind, and he immediately shouted: "The assassin has a bird system!" According to the shield rush forward! Kill them before they reload! ”

The Kuizhou soldiers leaned down with one hand, took off the round shield hanging there from the saddle, raised the knife with the shield in their left hand and raised their knives in their right hand, shrunk their whole bodies into a ball and hid behind the horse's neck, slammed their legs into the horse's belly, and the four hooves of the healthy horse under the crotch flew over, flying towards dozens of black shadows that rushed out of the grass on the roadside more than 20 steps in front of them, and lined up on the official road.

The black shadow was very good, seeing that the other party was not scattered by the birds, he immediately dispersed, and at the same time, someone shook his hand, and several tripping ropes were tensed violently, like poisonous snakes spitting letters, and they came towards the Kuizhou cavalry with their fangs.

"Ah~~!" "Puff puff!"

The screams and the sound of falling to the ground were repeated, and the galloping cavalry could not see the tripping ropes in the night, and they were tripped and fell to the ground one after another, and in the mourning of the horses, the cavalrymen were thrown to the ground and fell to pieces.

Li Dingguo reacted quickly, seeing that the cavalry in front of him suddenly fell to the ground, he knew that it was not good, but it was impossible to rein in the horse and turn back, the front and rear were charging cavalry, and stopping would only make the entire cavalry array chaotic, so he had to grit his teeth and rush forward, abandon the shield and throw the knife, and press his hands on the horse's neck, and wait until the moment when the mount was tripped by the tripping horse rope, he exerted his force violently, and the whole body took off by inertia, like a body C saddle horse athlete in the air with a beautiful roll, and landed steadily in front of him nearly ten steps away.

As soon as his feet stuck to the ground, Li Dingguo took advantage of the situation to roll, and before he could see the situation in front of him, lying on the ground was a circle of sweeping legs, and the iron legs came, accompanied by the sound of "rubbing" fractures, and two screams sounded.

This circle of sweeping legs happened to kick the calves of two enemies, kicking the two to the ground, Li Dingguo turned over and stood up, grabbed the long knife in the hand of one of them, and slashed with one hand, accurately leaving two bloody cuts between the necks of the two people.

These people were all dressed in black, obviously they didn't expect that there was such a strong person as Li Dingguo, who could take advantage of the situation to fight back even when the horse was tripped up, and injured the two of them in a panic, and the long knife flew like snowflakes, greeting Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo was trapped in dozens of people's packages, and he was not afraid, he danced with the knife in his hand and couldn't splash it, rushing wherever there were many people, so that these black-clothed people didn't even give them a chance to hit with Bird.

At the same time, Wang Huan was behind, and when he heard the sound of the birds, he knew that something was wrong, and immediately turned over and dismounted, so as to avoid becoming a live target immediately because of Gao Ju; While shouting an order: "Dismount and disperse!" The assassins have a bird system, scatter to defend against the enemy! ”

The Kuizhou soldiers immediately obeyed the order, dismounted and hid behind the horse, sure enough, as soon as they hid, a burst of smoke rose between the grass on both sides of the road, and the lead hit the horse with the sound of gunfire, and for a time the blood and water rushed and the horse neighed.

Taking advantage of the end of a round of bird fighting, Liu Yun shouted, turned over and jumped out, dancing with a long knife and rushing straight to the grass, the guards who were guarding Wang Huan left a few people to protect Wang Huan, and the rest of the people roared and followed Liu Yun, the sword light and sword shadow flashed in the moonlight.

Shouting and killing, there were swords and screams of people in front of and behind him, standing in a small circle composed of several horses, Wang Yingxiong was so frightened that his soul was not possessed, he trembled, grabbed Wang Huan beside him tightly, and shouted silently: "Who! Who is so bold? The Son of Heaven dares to assassinate the court officials at his feet, is there still a royal law? ”

Wang Huan stood by his sword, calmly watching the battle situation with a pair of eyes, and issued orders from time to time, ordering the guards to attack in a certain direction, and ordered the thirty guards behind to send twenty to support Li Dingguo in front.

Nearly a year of campaigns, has cultivated his unhurried, calm to deal with the temperament, at this moment, he has seen that the assassins are only about 100 people, using the army's standard firearms and weapons, it is very likely that it is the local soldiers of Zhaoqing, to deal with these people, Kuizhou soldiers have not been afraid, although the incident happened suddenly, there are some losses, but with the quality of the individual soldiers, they will definitely be able to turn the tables.

Wang Huan has a little regret, because he can't carry a mountain-destroying crossbow and a captive killing bomb to the banquet tonight, otherwise, where can he use the blood of the soldiers to fight these black-clothed assassins.

But just a quarter of an hour later, the man in black was a little unbearable, the people on both sides were the first to collapse, after being killed most of them, the rest of the people shouted, turned around and ran, and the man in black who was entangled with Li Dingguo and others in front saw that the general trend had gone, Li Dingguo was extremely violent, and he was still killing all sides in blood, cowardly, and he also fought and retreated, and then ran away, leaving a corpse empty.

In order to prevent accidents, the Kuizhou soldiers did not dare to chase, and after collecting manpower, Li Dingguo and Liu Yun reported to Wang Huan that in this attack, the guards killed a total of 26 people and injured 40 people, and the casualty rate accounted for most of them, while the black-clothed assassins left 56 corpses.

Wang Huan's eyelids jumped a few times, the number of twenty-six people killed in battle made his heart tingle, these are all officer seedlings he cultivated with his heart, he did not die on the battlefield of fighting with the Tartars, but died in this place of the heart of the Ming Dynasty, how can it not be a pity, how not to regret it?

"Collect the corpses of the guards, wrap the wounded briefly, and go back to deal with them, and as for the corpses of the assassins on the ground, carry them away with ten corpses as evidence." Wang Huan decisively ordered: "Let's go!" It can't be delayed, otherwise it's hard to say what moths are left. ”

Li Dingguo was wearing chain mail worn inside, although his whole body was covered with blood, but it was the blood of the enemy, he only suffered some skin injuries, which was not serious, he almost single-handedly attacked dozens of people, bought time for Wang Huan, and was still as ordinary at the moment, he and Liu Yun agreed and acted according to orders.

Because most of the mounts were killed by S, the remaining few horses Wang Huan sent a few people to ride back to report the news, and the group hurried slowly, all the way on foot and on foot, fortunately there were no accidents along the way, and the army of thousands led by Ma Wannian who came out of the barracks on the way was completely relieved.

After entering the barracks, Li Dingguo and others went to heal their wounds, and Ma Wannian was also busy dealing with the corpses of soldiers who died in battle. Wang Huan absentmindedly arched his hand to Wang Yingxiong, and wanted to send him to rest, and he wanted to rush to the gathering to discuss, but was pulled by Wang Yingxiong.

The old man approached Wang Huan and whispered, "Sir, the old man hasn't told you what Wang Kun said." ”

Wang Huan frowned and asked as he walked towards his tent, "What can happen?" The Son of Heaven, the chief of internal affairs, he doesn't even know what happened tonight, what's the use? ”

Wang Yingxiong followed him step by step, and said with a bitter face: "This can't be blamed on him, the old man only found out tonight that now the court is so corrupt, even I dare to move, but I can imagine that the emperor is in danger." ”

Wang Huan smiled indifferently and said sarcastically: "This is mostly due to your secret letter, what is the picture of winning over other towns?" Isn't it necessary to focus on internal troubles, and who are internal troubles? Can the Li family's father and son spare you and me? ”

He shook his head and said, "If I were to do tonight's thing, most of your life would be explained here." ”

Wang Huan didn't want to say more, his feet sped up, and he arrived at the door of the tent in a few steps, and was about to open the tent curtain, and the guards guarding the door opened their mouths to say something, but they were blocked by Wang Yingxiong, who was chasing after him.

Wang Yingxiong hurriedly said: "Lord, lord, this matter is my abruptness, but the emperor originally had this intention, my secret performance, but to add fuel to the fire, if the lord does not believe it, the prince said, tonight Princess Changping will personally go to the camp to meet with the lord, and the lord can ask her for verification." ”

Wang Huan lifted the curtain door with his hand, just lifted the curtain door, and couldn't help but be stunned when he heard the sound, his ears listened to Wang Yingxiong's words, and his eyes looked fixedly at the candlelight in the tent.

But under the lights, a girl in a red dress and a white skirt with a graceful figure was facing away from Wang Huan, looking at a mountain-destroying crossbow hanging on the wall with relish.

The girl has a slender figure, long hair like a waterfall, tall and pretty, narrow shoulders and a thin waist, just looking at the back, you can imagine that she must be a beautiful woman, but the fly in the ointment is that her left sleeve is empty, and she is a one-armed person.