Chapter 403: 'Fidayi'
With the arrival of the Guards Brigade, the tide of battle quickly reversed, to Zhao Yu's surprise, the first to arrive was the middle-aged couple who had been planting flowers and trees in the inner garden, they immediately joined the battle group to replace the emperor, the two cooperated very tacitly to advance and retreat, and they had the upper hand in a few rounds.
"Keep your mouth alive!" Seeing that the couple was about to kill them, Zhao Ta, who had withdrawn from the battle circle, shouted loudly, and he was surrounded by the guards who arrived.
"What are you yelling about, worry about you!" The middle-aged man replied unceremoniously, but the movement of his hand slowed down significantly, and the long knife was changed to a slash to cut the arm of one of the assassins holding the dagger, knocking down the dagger in his hand and bullying him up, and a series of dazzling movements subdued him, and the movements of his hands kept removing all the movable joints of the assassin's jaw, arms, and legs in a tooth-aching sound of bone misalignment, and it was impossible for the assassin to snort.
"I want to go, no way!" Seeing that their companion had been captured, the remaining Assassins suddenly attacked the woman who was fighting with him and forced her to take two steps back, trying to turn around and find a gap to escape, but the woman noticed that she was trying to catch up with her and immediately catch up with her, and took advantage of her panic to suddenly shoot a hidden arrow to bring it down, and remove all its joints like a man.
"I just thought that you are not old enough to run, why don't you hesitate to fight to the death with a body of ten thousand gold, it turns out that it is for your own cub!" Seeing that the battle was over, the middle-aged man put the knife into the sheath, paced over and pointed at Zhao Yu and smiled.
"Cut, if I hadn't wanted to stay alive, I would have put them down a long time ago, but your old arms and legs are still very fast. It's here in the blink of an eye! Zhao Ta rolled his eyes and said disdainfully.
"Hehe, I didn't expect you to have not touched a knife for so many years. can actually overturn a few of them, these people are not weak in hand. I just don't know what it is! The middle-aged man said with a smile, not impressed.
"They have poison on their knives, Wangfu has been hit, look at them and there is no antidote!" Zhao Ta stopped bickering, looked at Wangfu's face darkened, frowned and said.
"What is there to see about the dead, don't be afraid! You're Yu'er, I haven't grown so tall in a few years! Zhao Yu also wanted to follow to see it, but was stopped by the woman.
"Hmm. Are you ......" Looking at the woman's smile, Zhao Yu actually felt very kind, and turned around obediently and replied.
"Brother Yu'er, you should call her aunt, he is the righteous sister of your father, and he and her husband are responsible for the security of the inner palace!" Just when Zhao Yu was puzzled, he saw Concubine De Niangniang come over and say.
"The mother is here too!" Zhao Yu hurriedly saluted, and then turned around and gave Xiao Mei a big salute.
"You're not hurt, are you?" Zhao Xin carefully checked Zhao Yu's body up and down, and asked uneasily.
". I'm fine! Zhao Yu looked at Concubine De in military uniform, and actually felt a kind of awe, and replied in a low voice.
"Well, it's okay, don't walk around. Now there are soldiers nearby, be careful to accidentally injure you! Zhao Xin breathed a sigh of relief and said with concern, "Sister Xiao." I'll leave it to you to take care of. ”
"Don't worry, I'm here!" Xiao Mei pulled Zhao Yu over, patted his head, and said with a smile.
Now. All the assassins were killed, and Lei Zhenshan, the commander of the Guards, Wang Heng, the commander of the Leopard Army, and a group of officers all arrived. Seeing that the emperor had nothing to do, he breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly arranged several guards on the periphery to protect the emperor in the core.
"Erwa, the queen and all the ladies are in the camp, the internal guards rushed to rescue the emperor, you immediately send a battalion of troops to reinforce, don't lose!" Zhao Xin looked at Lei Zhenshan and asked.
"Yes, sis!" Erwa said.
"Wang Heng, you immediately mobilize the leopard generals to quickly surround the Eastern Capital Garden, and you must not let anyone out!" Zhao Xin ordered Wang Heng again.
"The last general ordered that after receiving the police, his subordinates have mobilized the first, second, and third brigades to block all the roads in and out, and ordered the dragoons to patrol back and forth outside and inside the garden, and arranged a reserve team to prepare to enter the garden to search." Wang Heng said.
"Well, that's good!" Zhao Xin nodded and said, "But it's getting late, these assassins are very vicious, we don't know the enemy's situation, it's not easy to enter the garden to search, you can order all departments to set up more guard points to surround it, and then act after dawn, remember that soldiers must be formed in groups, not alone!" ”
"Yes, subordinate order!" Wang Heng received the order and retreated to deploy his troops.
"Niangniang, are we going to escort His Majesty back to the palace?" Lei Zhenshan asked.
"The enemy situation is unknown, do not act rashly, maybe this way of assassins is trying to force us to return to Beijing, they have another arrangement on the road, now the situation is not as good as a quiet, the Guards arrange another guard outside the camp, the whole army does not unload the saddle, people do not take off the armor, be careful and vigilant, you personally lead the guards to escort Your Majesty back to the camp, and then transfer the 2nd and 3rd Guards Brigade to Luoyang to guard the imperial city!" Zhao Xin thought for a while and said.
"The last general obeys!" Lei Zhenshan responded and did not insist on his opinion.
"Wangfu is seriously injured, I regret that you are temporarily acting as the commander of the internal security brigade, responsible for the internal security of the camp, and no one is allowed to enter the camp without a will!" Zhao Xin looked at Wangfu, who didn't know life and death, and turned his face to say to Xifu who was following him.
"Yes, mother, my subordinates obey!" Xifu stepped forward to receive the order......
"Auntie, why do these guards and forbidden troops accept Niangniang's dispatch?" Zhao Yu looked at Zhao Xin's arrangement of troops, and all the generals obeyed her orders, and asked very curiously.
"Didn't you see that Niang Niang has a gold medal given by His Majesty? She is acting on behalf of His Majesty, do you think anyone can move the army at will! Xiao Mei pointed to the gold medal inserted in Zhao Xin's waist and said.
"I heard in the army that the king has repeatedly made military exploits, and he is the most unruly, but he is so subservient to his mother, it's really strange!" Zhao Yu still asked puzzled.
"You're too young to know what happened back then. Concubine De Niangniang was the first commander of the Guards, and later served as the deputy commander of the army, commanding the army on behalf of His Majesty. And Concubine De Niangniang is very good at using soldiers to assist His Majesty in the northwest, and she has a prestige in the army, if it weren't for her daughter, the privy envoy would not have been Zhao Ren and Zhao Yong, where would Wang Heng and Erwa dare to be presumptuous in front of Niangniang! Xiao Mei said with a smile.
"Oh, no wonder Niangniang dispatched troops so calmly and decisively, and there are rules, it turned out that she had also commanded a large army to fight on the battlefield, so my father and emperor really led the troops into battle!" Zhao Yu said with emotion.
"Stinky boy, if Wang Heng hears what you just said, he doesn't care if you are a prince or not, he has to beat you up first!" Xiao Mei knocked on Zhao Yu's helmet and said, "Your father, the emperor, at your age, has beaten the famous general Cha Ge in the northwest and fled, expanding the territory for the country for thousands of miles, but you still doubt whether he personally went into battle to fight?" It seems that Your Majesty is right to send you to the army to study, otherwise you don't know the difficulty of starting a business and the cruelty of the battlefield! ”
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Here, Zhao Xin arranged troops to round up the assassins, but Zhao Ta, who was tracking down the origin of the assassins, was confused. When he took off the assassin's face scarf, he found that these people were all foreigners with big noses and white skin, and he looked at Lu Xiaoyao, who was searching for the assassin, and couldn't help but wonder if it was because he had 'changed his career to become good', which caused the business of the Great Song Killer to be cut off and had to be brought in from a foreign country.
"Second master, the things on these people have been turned out, but I don't know which one is the antidote!" Lu Xiaoyao is quite professional, in order to prevent poisoning, he actually wears a pair of thin leather gloves on his hands, and he holds four or five small glass bottles and says.
"It's not simple, use the blade that stabbed Wangfu just now to find a living stab, if he is afraid of death, he will naturally tell you; If you are not afraid of death, feed the medicine one by one, and if you can't die, it's true! Zhao Ta pursed his lips and said, whether the famous killer gang leader back then had been transformed by himself, and he couldn't even think of such a simple way.
"Well, this solution is indeed immediate, but only people like you can think of it!" Lu Xiaoyao called an internal guard to ask him to do the same, and his mouth was bigger than Zhao Ta, and he said with a sneer.
"Okay, I won't quarrel with you today, let's find out the origin of these people first!" Zhao Ta waved his hand and said, although Lu Xiaoyao has always been dedicated to protecting himself, but since he ascended the throne, he has never called His Majesty, at most he is called 'Second Master', obviously he still regards himself as a Jianghu person, and refuses to be an 'Eagle Claw Sun' who submits to the imperial court.
"Hehe, who did you offend don't know? Ask me again! Lu Xiaoyao quipped as he weighed the dagger used by the assassin.
"I've offended a lot of people, and I've got more people who want to kill me, I know which one?" Zhao Ta glared at him and said.
"These assassins are not from the Central Plains in appearance, and the weapons they use are extremely rare, I have never heard of any sect in the Central Plains that has raised Yi people as assassins in my decades, it shouldn't be that you offended the people of the Western Regions!"
"Well, this is the most likely, this year's Western Expeditionary Army and the Expeditionary Force are both fighting in the west, it may be that Gao Zhong or Cheng Xishou don't know how to harm others, and as a result, the account will be credited to my head!" Zhao Ta nodded and said, he has been using troops against the West since last year, but this retribution will come quickly!
"If this is the case, I heard in my early years that there was a sect in the country of Murayi in the Western Regions that specialized in cultivating assassins, and they only asked for the end, unscrupulous means, abused daggers, and turned assassination into a kind of life. The Master has groomed some of the sect's elite into 'Fidai' as Assassins who carry out revenge, murder, intimidation, and blackmail, and these people may have come from there! Lu Xiaoyao thought for a while and said, but the corners of his mouth hesitated twice unconsciously, obviously he was also extremely jealous of these people.
"Fidai - Assassin!" Zhao Ta was also shocked when he heard this, as a special operations elite in his previous life, he knew that the English meaning of 'Fei Dayi' means 'assassin, assassin', this name comes from the name of the assassin in a famous sect in ancient times, could it be that he had an encounter with the 'old man in the mountain' in the legendary story...... (To be continued......)