Chapter 402: Ambush in the Woods
"You're a cavalryman, aren't you?" Zhao Ta twisted his face and asked Xiao Bing as he walked.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" The creep replied in a proper manner.
"There is no one else here, you can speak casually, don't be restrained!" Zhao Ta looked at the little soldier and said with a smile.
"Yes, Your Majesty, your subordinates are used to it!" The soldier replied with a serious face.
"Hehe, then it's up to you!" Zhao Ta smiled a little helplessly, the internal guard who followed him looked at the embarrassed emperor and couldn't help laughing, under the emperor's 'prestige', Wangfu waved his hand to let everyone disperse and no longer approach, leaving him to serve behind him.
"It's hard to be a cavalryman, isn't your ass grinded out!" Driving away the 'flies' who were following him, Zhao Ta asked Xiao Bing again with a pleasant face.
"It's okay, it's scabbed." The little soldier also replied with a slightly slower face.
"Well, you still have to take off two layers of skin, but it's good to wait for the calluses to grow, pay attention to change the dressing frequently, don't get infected!" Zhao Ta nodded and said two more words.
"Your Majesty Xie cares, I remember!" The soldier said.
"Don't you like to be in the army?" Zhao Ta asked with a light sigh.
"Defend your home and defend the country, and treat death as home!" The little soldier replied in a loud voice.
"Home, country, world!" Zhao Ta pursed his lips and smiled wryly when he heard this, stopped and looked at the red sunset and said thoughtfully.
"Your Majesty, are you alright?" Seeing the emperor staring at the sunset motionlessly, Xiao Bing asked softly with some concern.
"Oh, I'm fine!" Zhao Ta waved his hand, and the two of them continued to move forward one after the other, and they were talking without a match, and most of them were asking. The soldier was answering, but he was always absent-minded. I don't look very happy. As they spoke, they walked along the leaf-covered path into a wooded field, pulling out a long shadow of the setting sun. There is a poignant beauty revealed.
"Stop!" A gust of wind blew, and the dry branches made a strange roar, and Zhao Ta, who was walking in front, suddenly raised his hand to stop the little soldiers and Wangfu behind him, and his eyes scanned the surroundings vigilantly.
"Your Majesty, what's wrong?" Wangfu found that the emperor who had a leisurely face just now had a serious expression, and his body was tense like a leopard waiting for an opportunity to move, and he knew very well that the emperor was in danger, but the surrounding scene was unobstructed except for the trees and the fallen leaves on the ground. Not even a single rabbit.
"Retreat!" Zhao Ta suddenly shouted, stretched out his arms to protect the two of them and retreated, the two of them looked dazed, and they retreated, but they didn't know why the emperor was so nervous.
'Bang, bang, ......' A few piles of dead leaves in front of them suddenly exploded, and several masked men in brown cloaks jumped out of them, like a group of violent beasts.
"There are assassins!" Wangfu shouted a warning and summoned the nearby internal guards. He also understood why the Emperor was nervous, and it was clear that he had already discovered the hidden enemy first. But what Wangfu didn't understand was how could there be assassins in the well-fortified Eastern Capital Garden?
"Wangfu, take the words and retreat first!" Facing the five assassins who came up from all sides, Zhao Ta's mind turned sharply. Analyzing the current situation.
The assassins all had weapons in their hands, in addition to the daggers with strange styles, there were also scimitars and double-edged knives that were rare in the Central Plains. And Zhao Ta has lived in the deep palace for a long time, living under strict protection, and the pistols and daggers he used to wear with him have long been in the warehouse; As his attendant, Wangfu is strictly forbidden to carry weapons on weekdays. The creep had already returned his weapons at the change of guard, and they were all bare-handed, but he was the strongest in terms of combat effectiveness. Therefore, he asked Wangfu to take the soldiers first.
"Get out!" Zhao Ta threw off the big hat he was draping on, blocking the sight of the assassin in front of him. At the same time, it suddenly made a move to force it back, opening a gap.
"Father. You go first! The little soldier refused to leave, but instead claimed that his father had rushed to the front of Zhao Ta, clenching his fists to protect him.
It turned out that this little soldier was the eldest prince Zhao Yu who was sent to Luoyang Martial Arts by Zhao Tan, and his true identity was hidden in order to allow him to study and live like an ordinary person. Zhao Yu complained a lot about his father's arrangement, and he was at a rebellious age, so he was angry with Zhao Ta, and at this moment, he pretended not to know in front of the internal guards who knew their relationship. But at the moment of crisis, my father first protected himself regardless of the danger, and he immediately threw his resentment out of the sky and stepped forward.
"Your Majesty be careful, the knife is poisonous!" While speaking, an assassin immediately filled the gap opened by Zhao Tan, Wang Fu stepped forward to block, and was surrounded by two assassins in an instant, he suffered from the lack of weapons, and his arm was scratched by the other party in only two rounds, and in severe pain, he found that the blood turned black, obviously the blade was quenched with poison, and hurriedly reminded him.
Zhao Ta stretched out his hand and patted it on his waist, took off the jade belt tied around his waist and held it in his hand. The jade belt was made of white jade half an inch square and threaded with gold thread, worth tens of thousands of yuan, but it was used as a weapon by him at this time. He pulled his son behind him, shook the jade belt and swept it into the faces of the two assassins who rushed up, and while they were dodging, the jade belt was as soft as a snake and wrapped around the arm of one of the armed men, pulling it backwards, blocking the other assassin. And his left hand was clenched into a fist and smashed directly into the chest of the assassin who was being pulled over.
There was a dull crisp sound, and the blood gushed from the assassin's mouth, obviously his sternum was not only broken by Zhao Ta, but even his internal organs were injured. Under the blow, Zhao Ta severely injured the assassin, and the incomparably bright jade belt in his hand was torn to pieces. And Zhao Ta did not stop, snatched the double-edged knife in the hands of the seriously injured assassin and slashed at another assassin, the seemingly ordinary 'one knife and three styles' in his hands was exerted with special power, revealing its vicious, swift, and tricky characteristics.
The other Assassin lost the lead by dodging his companion, and the swift attack left him with no chance to raise his hand to shield himself with his scimitar, so he had to swim between the blades and dodge. But he was able to dodge the first day, but he didn't dodge the fifteenth, he dodged sideways and slashed at his neck, but before he could stand firm, the knife flashed and the double-edged knife slanted to his armpits, forcing him to lean back to dodge, but he didn't want to completely expose the lower half of his body, only felt that his crotch was cold, and the root of his thigh was deeply slashed by the blade, and blood spurted out instantly.
Zhao Ta severed the assassin's femoral artery, and the massive loss of blood in an instant would make him immediately lose the ability to resist, and it was estimated that he could also go to get work-related death insurance. In the blink of an eye, he killed the two enemies who posed the greatest threat to him, and he strafed the scene, and the wounded Wangfu was still struggling with the Assassins, his steps were messy and weak, and it was obvious that the poison had invaded his body, making his judgment diminish, but he was still fighting with the conviction in his heart.
The internal guards in the distance had already rushed over after hearing the warning sound, but they were blocked by more than a dozen masked men who suddenly appeared, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides, and the gunfire rang out one after another, and several assassins were killed, but the rest of the people still fought to the death, and it was difficult for the internal guards to rush to support for a while. Zhao Ta immediately understood that the assassins must have undergone rigorous training, and they were divided into several teams to cover, assault and block, and there must be assassins nearby, and the crisis was not resolved.
"Yu'er, take care of the wounded!" Zhao Yu was shocked by his father's flowing movements and the murderous aura emanating from his body, and he was also shocked by the splashing blood and the screams of the dying person, this bloody scene was the first time he had seen it in his life, and it came so suddenly and tragically, it made him stunned on the spot.
"Oh, Father!" Zhao Yu agreed in a panic, caught Wangfu, who was almost unconscious, recalled the first aid knowledge he had learned, and tore off a strip of cloth from his clothes to tie Wangfu's injured arm to stop blood loss, although all this had been practiced countless times under the supervision of the instructor, it became extremely difficult to do it at the moment because of nervousness, and the trembling hands could not complete the movements accurately anyway.
Because he had learned that the blade was poisonous, after finally stopping the bleeding, Zhao Yu continued to squeeze the wound according to the method of treating the bite of the poisonous insect, hoping to discharge the poisonous blood. He raised his eyes to look into the field, and at this moment he heard the sound of warnings and gunfire, and the guards and the guards who were on duty around him, as well as the internal guards who remained in the camp, rushed from all directions. One of the remaining three Assassins who attacked them had already fallen, apparently having just been killed by his father.
The two assassins turned a blind eye to the large group of soldiers that appeared around them, it can be seen that they had the purpose of completing the task even if they sacrificed themselves, and both of them moved very fast, so that Zhao Yu could not see the movements of the three of them clearly, only saw the ghostly light from the two daggers lingering and flashing around his father, and heard the sound of weapons colliding with each other, he looked nervously at the fight beside him, wanting to help but not knowing how to intervene.
"Die!" Zhao Yu suddenly heard a loud shout from his father, and the knife became even more aggressive, forcing the two assassins to retreat again and again under a fierce attack, and the cooperation between them also became messy, and they could only barely support themselves in order to protect themselves.
Zhao Yu looked at his father who was fighting to the death and couldn't believe what he saw today, in his memory, when he was a child, his father would always take a little time out of the day to play with himself, and he always looked harmless to people and animals, so that he thought that the deeds of his father who had led the army to charge and behead countless generals were just lies used to coax him, and he never believed that his amiable father had gone into battle to kill the enemy, even if he learned about the relevant battles that his father participated in in martial arts, he also thought that it was only because he was the emperor that it was written into the textbookin order to increase his prestige.
And today's only a moment of effort completely subverted Zhao Yu's perception of his father for more than ten years, his father's body exuded a sky-high evil aura, the knife in his hand was stained with the blood of the enemy, the corpse of the enemy was stepped on, and the roar in his mouth made the enemy frightened, this was simply the appearance of the god of war in their minds, and he was a little stunned...... (To be continued......)