Chapter 76: Assassination
After returning from Chaohu Lake, Yuan Wei would send a large number of meticulous works every day to closely monitor the movements in the direction of Chaohu Lake.
Yuan did this, firstly, to prevent trouble before it happens, to prevent Sun Ce from sending troops to retaliate, and secondly, to know the wind and grass in Chaohu Lake as soon as possible.
Yuan Wei looks forward to it every day, and there is a big mess in Chaohu.
However, to Yuan Wei's extreme disappointment, a few days later, there was no chaos on the Chaohu side.
The Jiangdong army stationed in Chaohu should practice and continue to practice every day, the displaced people should go out to work or continue to work every day, and the families and scholars of the four counties of Jiangdong are also constantly going back and forth between Shizhen and Niuzhu every day, transporting truckloads of grain and batches of agricultural tools to Chaohu Lake in a steady stream.
On the seventh day, the fine work sent by Yuan Wei finally brought back a piece of news that made him desperate.
Although Zhang Zhao is dead, Sun Ce has found Zhang Hong, whose ability is not under Zhang Zhao!
Yuan Wei then remembered that there were two Zhang in Jiangdong, in addition to Zhang Zhao, Sun Ce also had a Zhang Hong!
He Yuan thought that assassinating a Zhang Zhao would make Sun Ce's Tuntian fall short, but he was too naïve.
Moreover, this time, it is impossible for Yuan Que to repeat the old trick and assassinate Zhang Hong again, with Zhang Zhao's previous experience, Sun Ce will definitely send elite soldiers to protect Zhang Hong's safety.
If you assassinate again, you will really be trapped.
In addition, Sun Ce's revenge has not yet arrived, which makes Yuan Wei even more uneasy.
Yuan knew that Sun Ce would never give up, and he would definitely take retaliatory measures.
The only thing that can't be determined is when Sun Ce's revenge will come?
This is like the quiet moment before the storm, and the longer this quiet moment lasts, the more violent the storm will be!
In this regard, the only thing Yuan can do is to strengthen his precautions.
Yuan Wei had already increased the number of his guards from fifty to two hundred!
Moreover, these two hundred people are all elite soldiers selected from the Yulin Guard.
On the tenth day, Yuan Fu simply asked Ji Ling to stay in his line in the name of asking for martial arts at any time, which is actually equivalent to letting Ji Ling serve as his guard general, Ji Ling is the highest martial arts in the remnants of the Yuan family, if even Ji Ling can't stop the assassin sent by Sun Ce, he Yuan No will be killed, and there is nothing to complain about.
In addition to strengthening his own protection, Yuan Wei did not forget his subordinates.
Especially Yan Xiang, just yesterday, Yuan Wei added another twenty guards to Yan Xiang.
In addition, Yuan Wei also ordered Xu Sheng to strengthen the patrol of the official road leading to Chaohu Lake in Juchao, and the six cavalry teams patrolled continuously for twelve hours a day, far away from the passes and docks of the official road, and also sent sentry horses to ensure that any group of people with a size of more than 100 people entered the nest and would be discovered as soon as possible.
It's just that Yuan Wei is not a god after all, and he doesn't know at all that the assassins sent by Sun Ce have already disguised themselves as homeless people and infiltrated the construction site of water conservancy.
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Lu Meng bare his upper body, relying only on a shoulder pad on his shoulders, carrying a boulder weighing more than 100 catties, and he was moving step by step, walking towards the dam with great difficulty.
It has been six days since Lü Meng had been among the displaced people who were building water conservancy.
In the past six days, Lu Meng has followed this group of homeless people to change places several times, and has also met Yan Xiang a few times, but he has not found a chance to start, either they are too far apart, or Yan Xiang has not stayed for a long time, and he has not had time to make a move.
Fortunately, Yan Xiang did not have many entourages around him, only about twenty people, and sooner or later there would always be a chance.
Lu Meng was not in a hurry, after experiencing an ambush in the valley, his brother-in-law and the death of three hundred robes, especially after being ordered by Zhou Yu, Lu Meng seemed to have grown overnight.
Lu Meng was no longer as rough as before, and began to become calm and calm.
Lu Meng had just put down the stone when a light cough suddenly came from behind him, Ah Cheng was one of the two dead soldiers who volunteered to follow Lu Meng to assassinate him.
When Lu Meng looked back, his pupils suddenly contracted.
Yan Xiang! Yan Xiang has appeared again! He came again to inspect the project.
However, when Lu Meng's gaze swept behind Yan Xiang, his heart couldn't help but sink.
The guards around Yan Xiang have increased again, and now there are more than fifty people!
In the face of fifty guards, Lu Meng was no longer completely sure, but he knew that he couldn't wait any longer, if he didn't do it today, it was likely that he would not have a chance in the future.
Because, the longer it drags on, the greater the danger they will be exposed.
Taking the opportunity to rest, Lu Meng called Ah Cheng and another dead soldier who had mixed in with him, and gave such and such an order, the two dead soldiers nodded and turned around.
After the two dead soldiers left, Lu Meng slipped into the grove next to him under the pretext of relieving himself, and then quietly climbed to a small hill next to the construction site under the cover of the grove.
Lü Meng hid an iron-tired bow on the top of this small hill.
Lu Meng originally brought a ring-headed knife, but in line with the principle of the three holes of the cunning rabbit, he hid it in another place.
A moment later, the two Jiangdong dead soldiers who came with Lu Meng started to act, and Ah Cheng casually made an excuse to scuffle with the other dead soldier.
The two of them scuffled and kept yelling.
Seeing people fighting, the homeless people who were working nearby stopped working and flocked to see the excitement.
The soldiers who were in charge of maintaining order at the scene rushed over as soon as possible and tried to separate the two men who were fighting.
As a result, Ah Cheng was knocked to the ground, and another dead soldier snatched the soldier's ring head knife, and then stabbed him backhanded, cutting off the soldier's head.
Seeing that the two people who were fighting dared to kill even the officers and soldiers, the displaced people who ran over to see the excitement were immediately frightened and scattered, and the entire construction site immediately fell into a riot.
Yan Xiang saw that this group of homeless people might blow up the nest, so he quickly ordered the guards behind him to go and suppress it.
However, Yan Xiang still remembered Yuan Fu's advice, and left ten armor soldiers to protect himself inch by inch, Yan Xiang was actually careful enough.
Unfortunately, the assassin who came this time was Lu Meng.
Lu Meng took a deep breath, grabbed his bow and arrows, and rushed down from the small hill.
Still on the mountainside, Lu Meng fired six arrows in a row, knocking the two armored soldiers in front of Yan Xiang to the ground.
By the time Lu Meng rushed down the hill and then out of the grove, there were only four soldiers left beside Yan Xiang.
At this time, the gap between Lu Meng and Yan Xiang was less than fifty steps, but the more than forty armored soldiers who were sent by Yan Xiang to suppress the displaced people were already a hundred steps away!
Yan Xiang realized that he had fallen for the assassin's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, and he could no longer care about the riots of the homeless people, so he quickly ordered the more than 40 armor soldiers to rush back to respond.
In fact, without Yan Xiang's order, the more than forty armor soldiers were already rushing back after discovering that something was wrong.
However, it was very unfortunate that these more than forty armor soldiers were a hundred steps away from Yan Xiang at this time.
As a result, the forty or so soldiers could only watch as the assassin rushed down the hill, shooting the soldiers who were in front of Yan Xiang one by one.
In the end, only the last armor soldier was left in front of Yan Xiang.
This soldier reacted quickly, and his skills were also good, and he even blocked six arrows from the assassin in a row!
However, after the six arrows, the assassin had already rushed in front of Yan Xiang, and the two sides were less than ten steps apart.
Lu Meng grabbed the quiver behind him with his backhand, but he grabbed an empty one, and in this short charge, the entire pot of twenty arrows was all used up!
Lu Meng couldn't help but feel ashamed of his archery skills.
It seems that it is necessary to strengthen the training of archery after returning home.
However, now, it is better to solve the target person first, the Huainan Lord Bo Yanxiang, give a certain life!
"Die!" The last armor soldier in front of Yan Xiang shouted violently, and slashed at Lu Meng's neck with a knife in his hand.
Lu Meng raised his bow to frame, only to hear a poof, and the iron tire bow in Lu Meng's hand was cut in two by the armor soldiers.
However, the knife of the armor soldier also made Lu Meng's iron-tire bow slump to one side, and the sharp blade almost cut down against Lu Meng's left arm, taking advantage of this extremely short gap, Lu Meng used the strong inertia generated by the fast running, used his own body as a weapon, and slammed into the arms of the armor soldier.
There was only a click, and the entire breastplate of the armor was knocked inward.
Lu Meng's collision directly smashed the sternum of the soldier to pieces, and the soldier screamed miserably and fell to the ground.
After all, he is also flesh and blood, and such a violent impact will also hurt him, but because he uses his shoulder, while the other party hits his chest, it is a vital point, and because of the forging body, his physical strength is much stronger than that of the other party, so the damage is lighter.
But even so, Lu Meng was out of breath for a long time, and the whole person froze there and couldn't move.
When Lu Meng came to his senses, he found that Yan Xiang had already reached more than a dozen steps away, and the Yuan army armor soldiers who had come back from the front were only less than five steps away from Yan Xiang.
Yan Xiang saw that he was hiding in the middle of Yuan's armor soldiers.