Chapter 24: Prophecy
Late at night, Liu Bang chose a delicate concubine to sleep. Because he is over half a hundred years old, the late-night activities between Liu Bang and the concubine are limited to hugging and simple skin-to-skin kissing. After all, at Liu Bang's age, the waist is more of an ornament to support the upper body.
Although there is no need to play mosaic to describe the plot, it is also a good choice to have a warm quilt on such a long cold night.
The night always hides too many evils, not only the protective color of the keyboard warrior, but also the perfect cover for crime.
A thin figure covered in darkness came to Liu Bang's room, and this person slowly approached Liu Bang's bed without making a sound at all. Where this man passed, he left a long series of black footprints, not ordinary black, but the kind of black that is blacker than black, and even in the darkness, the existence of these footprints can be clearly seen.
After the black figure came to Liu Bang's bedside, he popped his head and leaned in front of Liu Bang's face, as if he was smelling the peerless food he had just made, "The emperor's aura is really strong, and it makes people want to stop." ”
The black figure's voice sounded harsh, and it was able to hit the soul directly, giving people a chilling feeling. But the strange thing is that Liu Bang and the concubine did not react at all, as if they had not heard a sound at all.
"If it weren't for the use of your keeping, I wouldn't mind sucking up your essence right now. After the black figure finished speaking, he stretched out his hand and gently rubbed Liu Bang's cheek, and then left the same way.
A row of black footprints appeared on the ground again, and after closing the door, the black figure swaggered up to a guard who was standing guard, but was already snoring against the stone pillar, and reached out his hand and patted the guard on the shoulder. The black figure leaned into the guard's ear and whispered:
"Wake up. ”
"Mom, I don't want to eat roasted yams anymore. The guard said as he wiped his lips.
When the guards fully opened their eyes and saw the black figure in front of them, most of their souls were frightened, and they screamed:
"There are assassins!"
There was a constant noise outside, and it soon became a mess, and Liu Bang naturally couldn't sleep peacefully, so he got up and went out to check. When the sleepy Liu Bang walked out of the room, he didn't notice the two rows of black footprints on the ground.
"What's going on?" Liu Bang asked the guard at the door.
"An Assassin has broken in, but has been cornered and has nowhere to run. The guard replied.
"Okay, I'd like to see which one of them is resting with a deadly noise. After Liu Bang tightened his clothes, he continued, "Take me over." ”
"Yes!"
The guard picked up the torch at the door of the room, lit the torch, and then led the way in front, while walking, he looked back at Liu Bang from time to time, for fear that Liu Bang did not keep up, or because he did not master the pace, the distance between Liu Bang and himself was too large.
"If you don't take action, you're all going to die! He's coming! None of us can escape!" More than a dozen guards approached the black figure with spears raised, and the black figure was cornered, but shouted loudly, as if chanting, more like mourning.
"You, and you, and the others, you're going to be a dead body in a hurry, you know?" the black figure continued.
All the guards showed extreme disdain, after all, the guards were numerous and at the same time, and at the same time they were crazy and talkative, so they naturally would not be taken seriously.
"It's really a madman who came out of nowhere, and he didn't even bring a weapon to assassinate him, and he really overestimated himself. The leader of the guards said disgustedly, "Arrest it." ”
The black figure did not resist at all, but continued to shout loudly, "Wake up, wake up, dig your grave and prepare to die!"
The two guards put anklets and bracelets on the black figure, and prepared to leave with the black figure. The guards appeared with Liu Bang, and everyone immediately saluted.
"Let's all be flat, no need to be polite. Liu Bang came to the black figure and looked at the thin "assassin" who exuded an ominous aura all over his body, "Do you know what the crime of invading the palace in the middle of the night is?"
"Liu Bang, you ......" The black figure called Liu Bang's name, and the leader of the guards immediately made a decision and kicked the black figure in the stomach, and the black figure fell to the ground instantly, but with a smile on his face.
"First there was a fire, then there was ice and snow, and all of us would die, including you, Liu Bang. The black figure giggled and continued to shout, "The palace can't protect anyone, and it can't protect anyone, everyone will die." Corpses are everywhere and frozen for thousands of miles. ”
Liu Bang felt very uncomfortable, a feeling of nausea but unable to vomit enveloped Liu Bang, if nothing else, it must be the reason for the black shadow in front of him. After getting accustomed to the opulent and luxurious life in the palace, such a sudden intrusion of black will naturally cause discomfort.
Seeing that it was a crazy assassin, Liu Bang naturally had no interest, "Put it in prison." ”
The guards guided Liu Bang to leave, and the leader of the guards ordered, "Take it down, and then cheer me up, and if something goes wrong again, I will ask you!"
When the black figure was captured, there was no resistance at all, and it seemed to have almost no weight, and the two guards easily picked up the black figure with one hand. As it passed by the leader of the guards, the black figure's face was almost distorted, grinning and showing its yellowed teeth, making people feel extremely uncomfortable.
After the guards threw the black figure into the prison, everything was calm.
If you had to "rate" the night, it would be the darkest night at four o'clock in the morning. One hundred carefully selected elite soldiers will be divided into twenty-five squads, each team of four people in a small boat, carrying hundreds of rockets, to Xiang Yu's previous map marked the "attack location".
On the other hand, Xiang Yu led a thousand of his men and ambushed around Liu Bang's camp, waiting for the opportunity to attack.
Because there was no means of communication, the two sides agreed to use rockets as signals when they separated, and as for the timing of archery, it was set after the two pillars of incense. Xiang Yu and a group of 100 other people timed together when they set off, and after one stick of incense was burned, another stick of incense was immediately lit to ensure the accuracy of the timing.
The Soldier of the Night Watch took advantage of the temperature of the campfire to make the vigil not so difficult. But by four o'clock in the morning, the guards on duty were already drowsy, and the soldiers on the night vigil would not be able to cheer up at all unless the sky fell or there was some other noticeable noise.
After the second pillar of incense burned out, the leader of the attack team took the lead in lighting the arrows, and the people on both sides lit the arrows in turn, like a beacon fire, and in less than a minute, everyone was ready.
The whole action was uniform, the bow was set, the arrows were loaded, and the arrows were pointed towards the sky, maintaining an angle of about forty degrees, and all the arrows were shot out almost at the same time.
Before the first arrows landed, everyone took up their bows and shot arrows again, without stopping, and batch after batch of arrows were only shot out after they were ignited.
From the perspective of Liu Bang's camp, it was like a rain of fire in the sky, and dense arrows only fell from the sky in the direction of the Wujiang River.
Because Liu Bang's camp was too dense, most of the arrows were shot at the tent, and only a few arrows fell on the open ground.
A soldier who was feasting in his dream was shot by a rocket, and woke up from his dream, like a dying man returning to the light, and sat up in his dying dream.
The soldier instantly turned into a burning man, screaming, and wanted to jump into the Wujiang River, but because he was covered in fire, he couldn't find his direction. In desperation, he could only roll on the ground, trying to extinguish the flames on his body, and after a few back and forth, the flames on his body were finally extinguished, but they had already been burned to the point that he was already inhuman.
The soldiers of the night watch saw a terrible scene through the last gap in their eyes: most of the tents were already burning, surrounded by a sea of fire, and everywhere there were soldiers on fire, screaming incessantly.
"Extinguish the fire!" Han Xin rushed out of the burning tent and shouted loudly at the crowd, but the scene was already in chaos.
A soldier on fire rushed towards Han Shin, shouting "Help me" incessantly, completely oblivious to what would happen if he ran into someone else.
When the red man came to Han Xin, Han Xin immediately made a decision, pained the killer, and stabbed the burning man in the chest with a sword. Perhaps, for the other party, ending their lives quickly is a relief compared to being repeatedly scorched by flames.
"It's over, it's all over. Looking at the scene of defeat without a fight, Han Xin knelt on his knees, his hands trembling constantly.
What made Han Xin even more desperate was that he could clearly smell the smell of barbecue, not anything else, it was the strange fragrance worn by the soldier he had just stabbed to death.
"Gross!" Even Han Xin, who had been fighting on the battlefield for many years, couldn't stand the impact, his stomach was turning upside down, and his head was blank.
After one person shot a hundred arrows, twenty-five small boats retreated at the same time, and without spending a single soldier, Han Xin's 100,000-strong army camp was set on fire.
Originally, it was convenient to find a hundred soldiers with good water characteristics to retreat when Han Xin's army counterattacked, but now it seems that this move is too redundant. Because, Han Xin's subordinates were all busy protecting themselves, and they had no time to take care of the attacking team, let alone counterattack.
As for Xiang Yu, who was guarding near the camp tent, he only needed to wait for everything to enter the field when the dust was about to fall, and after killing all the remaining remnants, this war could come to a complete end.
"Let's go! Let's enjoy the flames!" the black figure inside the cell laughed wildly, the shrill laughter echoing through the corridors of the prison.
"The prophecy has finally come true, and the world will eventually be ruined, and I ...... Hahahahaha".