Chapter 50: Night Attack
Wu Yuanqing's sudden ferocity of his attack stunned them, although they were also chilled by the crimes committed by Zhang Tang, but the ruthlessness and cruelty of Wu Yuanqing's anger was still beyond their expectations. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"Wu Yuanqing, are you okay?" asked Li Chengqian nervously.
The others also watched with apprehension.
Wu Yuanqing waved his hand, "It's okay, you don't have to worry, lock up this beast and take care of it, don't let him escape."
After Zhang Tang was dragged away, Li Chengqian opened his mouth and asked: "What should we do next, do we directly send Zhang Tang's confession to my father?"
"No" Wu Yuanqing shook his head and thought for a moment: "It takes too much time to send it to your father and emperor to deal with the back and forth, and the more time you delay, the easier it is to make mistakes." β
"Then why don't we reveal our identities and take down Zhang Thorn Shi directly"
"Well, let's do it like this, but it's not that we go to the Assassin's Mansion, but let Zhang Tingshi come to the post station to see you"
"Why do you want him to come to see me, wouldn't it be better to go directly to the Assassin's Mansion to take him" Li Chengqian was puzzled.
Wu Yuanqing explained: "If we go directly to see the Assassin History, we must show our identity, otherwise we will not be able to enter the Assassin Mansion, even if we hijack Zhang Tang and go in, it will inevitably let Zhang Assassin get the news in advance, and he will have enough time to find a way to prepare."
"Prepare? Could it be that he still dares to be unfavorable to me?" Li Chengqian scoffed at this.
Wu Yuanqing looked at Li Chengqian's stinky fart and smiled, "Little brat, people are sinister, you don't understand." Not to mention that the dog is in a hurry, the jumping rabbit is in a hurry, and the rabbit is in a hurry. How can you guarantee that the Thorn will not take the plunge and destroy us all when he goes into the road. β
"Then let him come to see us, wouldn't it leave him time to prepare" Li Chengqian was puzzled.
"yes. What you said is very right, but there is no way to do it, we will knock on the door, in case he takes a dangerous step, I am afraid it will be very difficult for us to escape in the city" Wu Yuanqing said.
Li Chengqian looked at Wu Yuanqing in confusion: "We can't run away in the city, we can run away here."
"Of course, I'm very familiar with this place, I've dreamed of it in my dreams, if I really have something to run up the mountain, he won't be able to catch us" Wu Yuanqing was full of confidence.
Li Chengqian looked at Wu Yuanqing blankly, looking like what you said was so reasonable, I was speechless.
The reason why Wu Yuanqing chose this place as a post station instead of waiting for Zhang Thorn Shi elsewhere. That's because the location of this inn happens to be the village where he grew up in his previous life. He is so familiar with this place, he has been running up and down the mountains since he was a child. At this time, of course, unlike later generations, except for the grass is a bare hillside, and now the mountains are lush and full of dense forests. Between the two mountains was a valley and a river valley, and there was a small stream, and the water was much larger and wider than in later generations.
The post station is located in the location of the village in front of their village, that is, the mouth of the valley, and his home is in the location of the back village a few hundred meters away. It is backed by the west hill and faces the east slope.
Even in later generations, the village where he lived was not very big, and there were only five or six hundred people in the whole village.
It is only the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, and the population of the whole country is not much, so there is no village here, except for this post station, which is a lonely family on the western slope.
Only in this familiar place did Wu Yuanqing have enough confidence to face Zhang Tingshi, the governor of the Snake Prefecture.
In case a stabbing Shi took a risk, he could also take Li Chengqian and them into the mountains and forests, and run away with his familiarity with the terrain.
Li Chengqian naturally didn't know this, but out of trust in Wu Yuanqing, he still arranged it according to what Wu Yuanqing said.
In the blink of an eye, it was already night.
"Big brother, it's time to eat" Erya pushed the door in, and said to Wu Yuanqing in a milky voice.
"Oh, Erya, is it time to eat, it's already so late" Wu Yuanqing, who was in deep thought, came back to his senses and asked with a smile.
"Well, everyone is waiting for you, brother" Erya nodded her little head.
Wu Yuanqing got up and took Erya's little hand, "Okay, let's go to dinner."
"Brother Yuanqing, you are here, everyone is going to starve to death" Princess Changle grinned and covered her stomach and complained.
"Changle, you can't talk to Brother Yuanqing like this" Princess Xiangcheng patted her sister's little head.
Wu Yuanqing smiled and didn't speak, his eyes looked at Li Chengqian, Li Chengqian shook his head at him, and Wu Yuanqing's heart was even more worried.
Wu Yuanqing and Li Chengqian were pretending to be troublesome in their hearts, and they were silent during the meal, and the second girl, the eldest girl, and Changle were still young and did not understand the danger of what happened today.
The rest of Wang Lun, Wang Ziyu's brothers and sisters, as well as Wu Yuanshuang, and Princess Xiangcheng all felt more or less, knowing that the time had dragged on until now, and the history of the assassination had not yet arrived, and things were afraid that there would be twists and turns.
Wang Ziyu looked at Wu Yuanqing with concern, but opened his mouth but didn't know what to say.
Wu Yuanqing saw that she wanted to say something, and smiled and gave her a look that she didn't have to worry about.
After dinner, let the others go back to rest, and Wu Yuanqing and Li Chengqian got together again.
"Haven't we reciprocated the people we sent?"
"No, I asked a guard to escort the letter from Guo Lin, who we caught. As a result, the two of them have gone until now, and there is no news, "Li Chengqian's face sank like water."
"What did Bao Lin say," Wu Yuanqing asked.
Li Chengqian shook his head: "Baolin has nothing to do, but he said that he has arranged manpower to strengthen the guard of the post station, and there are secret sentries arranged on the way to and from here, and we can get the news as soon as there is a disturbance."
"Well, Pauling is very cautious indeed. Oh yes, Dynasty Mahan is also quite good at kung fu, let them follow to protect you, so I can rest assured. Wu Yuanqing nodded, very satisfied with Yu Chi Baolin's ability to do things.
"Then what are you going to do," Li Chengqian hurriedly asked.
"Mountain people have their own tricks"
"Wonderful fart, isn't it just a bomb, you don't know about it" Li Chengqian pouted.
"I know you still ask, if you're full, you can hold it up" Wu Yuanqing was annoyed and ashamed.
"Don't talk nonsense, you let Wang Dynasty Mahan follow me, what about Xiangcheng and Changle, what about your younger brothers and sisters, what about Wang Ziyu and Wang Lun" What should Li Chengqian do The three of them asked Wu Yuanqing.
"That's right, I've patronized you kid, I forgot that there are so many people to protect, forget it, Wang Dynasty Mahan still protects them, you shouldn't be in danger if you have Baolin protection."
"Despise you" Li Chengqian stretched out his right hand and raised his middle finger.
"Cut, naΓ―ve" Wu Yuanqing disdained.
At seven or eight o'clock in the evening, there was still no news coming back, but the sky was raining.
Wu Yuanqing, who was walking around the room alone, was in a gloomy mood like the weather, and he knew that something was really going to happen tonight.
It is impossible for the assassin to go out of the city and not come back at night, but it is too unreasonable to have not come to see the prince until now.
You must know that when Li Chengqian sent someone to deliver the letter, he wrote a letter stamped with the prince's seal, and it is impossible for Zhang Tingshi not to recognize the prince's seal, let alone take it as a joke.
The only possibility was that he was afraid to come to see the prince, and he knew that the prince must have arrested his son for a reason, and it must be a heinous crime.
But not to mention that the only son is important, even if he runs, where can he run, the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister, he will not understand.
So how can we solve the current crisis?
Kill the prince and erase all the people who know about it, so that even if the emperor blames him at that time, he can also excuse himself on the grounds that the prince did not arrive in Liaozhou, anyway, there is no proof of destroying the corpse and dying, even if the thunder is angry, it is nothing more than cutting officials for the people, and after being an official for so many years, there are a lot of loots, and there is no official position but to save his life, and he can be a rich man in peace.
Yes, definitely. Wu Yuanqing figured out the key to it.
"Report, Lord Wei Chi, there are many people who are coming to the post house in a surrounding manner." The hurried sound of a report shattered the silence of the station.
"Do you see how many people there are?" asked Li Chengqian as he opened the door and walked out quickly.
"It's too dark, and it's raining, so I can't see clearly, but it's conservatively estimated that there should be two or three hundred people."
"Hiss" several people gasped at the same time. There are only 10,000 people in this Liaozhou City, half of the women, half of the old people and children, and only a few thousand young people come to one-tenth of them at once, and it is really a posture to extinguish the mouth.
You can't win.
Wu Yuanqing quickly judged the current situation, and the conclusion was cruel, but this is the truth.
On other people's territory, the time and place are favorable, and they don't occupy their side at all.
If it weren't for this rain, Wu Yuanqing might have been able to defeat these people with a backpack of bombs.
But now that the rain is getting heavier and heavier, and when I get out of the room and see the water, these bombs are useless.
Wu Yuanqing immediately decided: "Baolin, take the dynasty Mahan and a dozen guards to retreat up the mountain first, and I and the rest of the guards will block them and buy you time to escape."
Yu Chi Baolin was silent.
"No, Wu Yuanqing, you can't stay" Li Chengqian was anxious when he heard that Wu Yuanqing was going to stay, and grabbed Wu Yuanqing's arm.
"Hurry up and let go, Lao Tzu doesn't have time for your little kid ink" Wu Yuanqing pulled Li Chengqian's little hand away and said to Yu Chi Baolin: "Prince, the princess and my sister, I will leave all their safety to you, don't let me down." β
"Yes, rest assured, I will protect their safety to the death," Yu Chi Baolin solemnly assured.
Wu Yuanqing's tense face softened a lot.
When Yu Chi Baolin, Wang Dynasty Mahan and others protected people from the back door of the post station and ran towards the dense forest on the hillside, Wu Yuanqing also walked to the hall.
The invading enemy had approached less than a hundred meters from the inn.
Ping-pong, the sound of clanging weapons handing over came, and from time to time you can see the sparks from the collision of weapons. and the snort of someone being tricked.
"Old Pifu Zhang is not here, come out and reply" Wu Yuanqing leaned against the door frame and shouted loudly.
The shouts were heard really far in the night sky.
Two hundred steps away, there were several people standing in the middle of the road, one of them was an old man in his fifties, who was the Hu steward who had dissuaded Zhang Tang, and he was treated respectfully, needless to say, it was naturally Zhang Cheng.
Zhang Cheng is in his forties, chubby, and in the words often said by the elderly, his appearance is kind eyebrows and kind eyes. But Zhang Cheng's current appearance can't be kind at all, and his face is hideous, like a beast to choose people to eat.
"Someone shouted, can you guess who it is, could it be the prince" Zhang Cheng asked Steward Hu coldly.
"No, the prince is young, and the words he shouted can't reach so far. This voice sounds very familiar, as if it is the person who is scolding in front of the mansion today," Steward Hu listened attentively and said.
"Then he should be Wu Yuanqing," Zhang Cheng snorted.
"Yes, that's what the guard who delivered the letter said at the time, and Guo Lin also confirmed that it was Wu Yuanqing himself who was scolding today."