At the same time that the robbers were trading with Qian Wuliang, Liang Mo and others on the surface of the East China Sea, bandits also appeared on the river near Jiangling in the upper reaches of the river and in Jiankang City.

Duan Da was ordered by Yang Guang to lead a battalion of hussar battalion sergeants to set off from Jiankang on two "Yellow Dragon" warships, and seven days later, he finally caught up with the robbers' big boat loaded with a deposit of 100,000 yuan on the river near Jiangling.

However, when the two warships led by Duan Da were about to intercept the bandit ships, suddenly, more than a dozen fast boats rushed out of Tingzhou in the center of the river, stopped the two warships of the Sui army, and put the bandit ships in front of them to dock at a secluded dock outside Jiangling City.

The two warships led by Duan Da were both under the banner of the official army, and they were out-and-out Sui warships, but they were unexpectedly blocked by more than a dozen civilian boats that suddenly appeared, so they immediately ordered the sergeants to disperse the clippers who were blocking the way.

Who knows, these more than ten clippers not only did not give way, but instead divided into two ways and surrounded the two Sui warships.

"Shoot the arrows!" As soon as Duan Da realized that more than a dozen clippers were the ships of the robbers' accomplices, he decisively gave the order to attack.

After the more than ten clippers formed a formation to surround the two warships of the Sui army, the people on board abandoned the ships and jumped into the river, and then saw more than ten fast boats burning into a raging fire, completely blocking the two warships of the Sui army in the middle of the river, and they could not advance for a while.

When the two warships of the Sui army bypassed the burning channel and sailed to the dock where the bandit ship docked, Duan Da took the lead and boarded the bandit ship first, but saw that the bandit ship was empty, and the deposit of 100,000 yuan was gone.

At the same time that Duan Da led his army to be intercepted by bandit boats on the river outside Jiangling City, a third assassination incident occurred in Jiankang City.

Pei Yun was worried about Yang Guang's safety in Jiankang, and every morning and evening he had to personally lead a team of guards to inspect the Jiankang Governor's Office where Yang Guang was staying.

However, Pei Yun did not expect that in the third assassination case that occurred in Jiankang City, the target of the assassin's assassination was not Yang Guang, but himself.

That is, on the evening when Liang Mo and others traded with the robbers on the sea surface of the East China Sea, Pei Yun was sent by Yang Guang to the government office of the governor's office to discuss after receiving the note brought back by the "black general", how to coordinate the deployment of the clean-up of the robbers has been completed, and he is anxious to return to his own mansion to implement Yang Guang's order, and arrange for the government of Songjiang and other places close to the sea to send people to the sea to meet Liang Mo and his party, and ordered Pei Qiantong, who led a battalion of hussar battalion sergeants stationed in Dongjiao City, to cooperate with the local government to make a big noise and launch a search on Yandang Mountain. Cut off the robbers' retreat.

When he led twenty guards on horseback to return to his mansion in Jiankang City, suddenly, seven or eight black shadows burst out from the shadows on both sides of the street and alley, and rushed straight towards Pei Yun.

Pei Yunxiang was self-aware, knowing that once his identity was revealed, the spy of the Sui Dynasty lurking in the Nanchen Palace, he would definitely become the primary assassination target of the remnants of Nanchen, so he usually walked around, bringing at least a dozen elite guards with him, and even if he himself slept at night, he always had to wear a layer of soft armor to prevent the remnants of Nanchen from assassinating him at any time.

This time, it was the soft armor that he never left that saved his life.

Seven or eight assassins rushed out of the shadows on the side of the street unexpectedly, and they were divided into two strands, and without waiting for Pei Yun's guards to pull out their swords to block them, one of the two groups of assassins with a larger number of them had already swung their knives and cut down several guards, while the other group, although there were only two people, their movements were faster than the other, and in the blink of an eye, they had rushed to Pei Yun's horse, jumped up on the ground, and stabbed straight at the vital point of Pei Yun's chest.

Rao is Pei Yun also has some kung fu, hurriedly dodged on horseback, but he dodged a sword, but failed to dodge another sword, was stabbed by an assassin, only to feel a huge pain in his chest, turned over and fell off the horse.

Seeing Pei Yun turn over and fall off his horse, the two assassins rushed forward in unison, one swinging his sword to slash Pei Yun's neck, and the other stabbing him in the chest with a sword.

When his life was at stake, thanks to Pei Yun's escort captain, he struggled to force back the assassin who stopped him, and in a hurry, he used the saber in his hand as a hidden weapon and threw it at the assassin who swung the sword directly at Pei Yun's neck, forcing the assassin to return the sword to parry, giving Pei Yun a glimmer of life. Pei Yun rolled on the spot in pain, barely dodging a sword stabbed in the chest.

After the initial panic, Pei Yun's guards immediately launched a counterattack against the assassins under the leadership of the captain, and the assassins chose to assassinate near Pei Yun's mansion.

Seeing that the assassins could not succeed, they were surrounded by a large group of officers and soldiers, and none of them had the slightest hesitation or timidity, and they all committed suicide with their swords.

Pei Yun was helped up from the ground by the guards, touched the wound left by the soft armor worn by the assassin on his chest, and was shocked, but he still did not forget Yang Guang's safety at the moment, and urgently ordered the whole city to be under martial law, quickly find out the identity of the assassin, and arrest the assassin's accomplices, and he himself returned to the governor's office non-stop to ask if there were also assassins here.

Yang Guang was also taken aback when he learned that Pei Yun was assassinated by an assassin on the way back to his home, and was about to order someone to go to find out Pei Yun's life and death, but he saw Pei Yun running in in a hurry, and when he saw that he was safe and sound, he let out a long breath and shouted: "The prince is fine, fortunately!" ”

Yang Guang saw that Pei Yun was still worried about his safety when he was assassinated and his life was at stake, and he couldn't help but be greatly moved, so he ordered someone to bring Pei Yun a robe to change into, personally brought him a bowl of tea to suppress the shock, and asked with concern: "Chongzhi, in your opinion, could the group of assassins who assassinated you come to assassinate you to cooperate with the ongoing transaction in the East China Sea?" ”

Pei Yun was reminded by Yang Guang, Fang realized that the assassin assassinated him in order to divert attention and contain the government's support for the sea, so he immediately put down the tea bowl, got up and said to Yang Advertising: "If it weren't for the prince's reminder, I almost missed a major event, so I will arrange for people to go to Songjiang and Dongjiao City, and deploy to encircle and suppress the enemy." ”

"Chongzhi, before you came, I had already ordered Guo Yan to do these things. Your most important task now is to find out as soon as possible the origin and identity of the Assassins, as well as their possible accomplices hiding in Jiankang City, and confirm whether their purpose in the assassination is to cooperate with the deal that is being carried out in the East China Sea tonight. According to this inference, Duan Da's side will probably not be calm. This gang of robbers was able to mobilize people from three places to attack me at the same time, and the origin is obviously not small! Yang Guang said meaningfully.