—184 A.D.——

"Zhou Li" cloud: Xu, Shu also, Xuzhou, rustic soothing.

The land of Xuzhou is bordered by the Yellow Sea in the east, Mount Tai in the north, and the Huai River in the south, and has jurisdiction over Langxie, the East China Sea, the three counties of Linhuai, Chu, Surabaya, and Guangling.

The lords of the vassal states of Xuzhou are all weak and seek peace, so everything in the country is controlled by local wealthy families, such as the Chen family, the Zhao family and other families, and it is not uncommon for several ministers to have the same surname.

Half of Xuzhou's territory can not be controlled by the imperial court, originally the local governors should compromise with the local wealthy families, but because the famous scholar Xu Shao Xu Zi will be born in Langya, and create a "Langya list" famous in the world, its evaluation of Xuzhou "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", although not a character, but also make many people with lofty ideals in Xuzhou quite excited, would rather be awarded a petty official by the imperial court or simply do a ranger thing, rather than do those who are obviously not "tiger" and "dragon" family guests.

At this time, the name of Xuzhou Assassin was Zhu He, who was originally quite dissatisfied with the Xuzhou family, and at this time, he took advantage of the opportunity of the imperial court to order the suppression of Taiping Dao, and summoned the armed forces of various counties and counties in Xuzhou, called the arrest of Taiping Dao, which was actually to clean up the power of the local family to expand outward.

Since those families did not have the power to install officials or military equipment outside the Hou State, they could only watch Zhu He pull out the titles of those chess pieces one by one on the Taiping Dao remnant party - of course, only on the surface.

"Hahaha! If there is any means, just let them do it! Zhu He is nearly fifty years old, thin and thin, with sparse beard, unable to wear armor, only dressed as a scribe, but he likes to speak in a heroic manner: "The old man is worried that there is no chance to uproot them!" ”

At this time, the Xuzhou coalition army stayed in a Taiping Dao altar that had just been occupied on the bank of Surabaya, at least nominally, there was no Taiping Road left in Xuzhou, but he still refused to disband the coalition army, and sent scouts to investigate everywhere, the purpose was not known, and he did not care about the admonition of his generals during the discussion.

Sun Jian was only a county commander, although he had participated in quelling the Xiliang Rebellion, and he had a good rule and many leading troops, but with the presence of military captains from various counties and counties, there was still no room for him to participate in the deliberations.

"Lord Assassin Shi is too complacent," Sun Jian said to his generals in his military tent, "He seems to be prepared to bring those families to their knees by force, and the methods of dealing with the Taiping Dao are too simple and crude, and it is likely to make the other party take risks." ”

"But at this time, Lord Assassin Shi is raising troops in the name of the imperial court, if those families dare to make a move, it will be like a rebellion, maybe they will finally compromise?" Zu Mao Road.

"Hehe, could it be that they still dare to find an assassin to assassinate the assassin?" Huang Gai said casually.

"......" The crowd will look at him together.

"Do you really think so?" Huang Gai saw that everyone was serious, but he felt incredible: "Think about it, since ancient times, all the well-known assassins have been born as rangers, although not everyone will go down in history, but they will definitely not do things that will be remembered for thousands of years." ”

"But...... This is not the case for domesticated dead. Zu Mao said thoughtfully.

"Xuzhou is near the sea, there are many Japanese people and pirates, and these people will not care about the 'stench'." Cheng Pu added.

"However, even if we go to the Assassins to raise the Embankment Assassins, we will only be treated as unfounded." Sun Jian shook his head.

"So...... It can only be protected secretly. Han Dang said.

The "......" generals once again turned in unison.

"Needless to say, I know you're 'ignoring' me again." Han Dang said with an attitude that he had long been accustomed to.

"No, Yigong, we just found that you seem to be the best person to carry out this task." Sun Jian tried to say with sincerity.

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In the next few days, Zhu He continued to attack the marquis, and even began to extend the camp to that side, but the assassination that Sun Jian expected did not occur, and when he began to wonder if he was expecting a mistake, Han Dang quietly rushed back and threw the three men in black who were tied up sturdily, gagged, obscene, and short in size into the tent.

"From the outside, it can be determined that they are Japanese people, but their strength seems to be quite weak." Cheng Pu distinguished, and then said: "If it is handed over to the assassin like this, I am afraid that I will be ridiculed and said that it is a pirate caught from the sea." ”

"As for inquiring about intelligence...... Sun Jian looked at everyone present: "Who understands Japanese language?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, and then shook their heads, maybe the Shanyue barbarians in the south or the Xiongnu Xianbei in the northwest and other alien races that threaten the Han Dynasty will have special scholars or merchants to study the language, but Dongyi? Only they have the share of learning Chinese.

"My lord, you are so merciful," Huang Gai clenched his fists and approached: "If you know Chinese and are willing to explain, just ask, otherwise you will be killed and thrown into the river." ”

"The reason why the water of Xu Yang and Erzhou can't be drunk directly is because of such public actions." Zu Mao was dismantling the stage on the side.

"Woooooo The other two captives cowered only because of Huang Gai's size, and the last Japanese captive was visibly squeezing and whimpering at the threat.

"Look," Huang Gai spread his hands quite proudly, "Since there are people who are willing to speak, after asking, they will be sent to the assassin to deal with - at least, they can live for an extra day and a half." ”

Upon inquiry, it was learned that the assassin who carried out the assassination this time came from a school of Japanese people called "Yidaoliu", mainly commissioned by assassination, theft and infiltration, and dared to assassinate the assassin of a state, but it was really because the employer sprinkled too much money, but he was only a low-level assassin, and he didn't know who bought the murderer, the only thing that can be determined is that Zhu He has an employer's inside line around him, if this group of assassins never returns, or the eyeliner sends back the news that the assassin is unharmed, their leader will send stronger assassins endlessly, Until the leader himself intervened.

In this way, Sun Jian is not suitable to hand them over to startle the snakes, and must continue to squat until the leader personally intervenes to arrest them and ask the employer to prevent future troubles, as for what Huang Gai will do with these prisoners in the end, it is not worth caring about.

As a result, Sun Jian and others began to patrol around the camp, taking advantage of Han Dang's "being ignored" and Huang Gai's "being hurt by his own people will be stronger" to intercept those first-class assassins who came one after another.

The weapon used by these Japanese assassins was a strange single-edged arc narrow knife, which appeared to be an improvement from the straight-backed slashing sword, and if the opponent misestimated its trajectory and speed, it was indeed easy to be killed with one hit, which is probably the reason for its genre name "One Sword".

However, in front of Huang Gai, who could directly hold the blade with his muscles, Zu Mao, who was hidden in the bushes, and Han Dang and the others, who were completely unable to notice, it was already powerful to have a second round, and it could be said that they were completely restrained in the strongest aspect, which made it much less difficult for Sun Jian and the others to question those assassins who collapsed because of this.

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On the banks of the Surabaya River, far from the woods of the Xuzhou coalition camp.

"Saito, that's a strange name."

After capturing the last group of assassins here, Sun Jian and the others also asked the name of the leader of the "One Knife Stream", not because these assassins were willing to cooperate with the confession, but because they were very confident and shouted, "Saito Ichigan will kill you!" "This guy's muscles can't resist Master Saito's blade!" "The one who was wounded by the hidden arrow hiding in the bushes could not escape the eyes of the leader!"

After confirming that they would only say these few words repeatedly, Sun Jian re-gagged them, he was very sure that although he seemed to have overlooked something or someone, the leader had already lost.

"Regardless of his surname Qi or his surname Saito, as long as we catch him, our mission will be over," Huang Gai said with his arm raised: "We have been guarding against it in the field for the past few days, and the stabbing history surnamed Pig has started to hold banquets in the barracks, hum!" ”

"Probably he was also carrying out some kind of arrogant strategy, but he didn't expect that there were spies around him, if he let these methods and martial arts unguardable guys get close, his life will be difficult to protect." Zu Mao kicked out a few thick wooden stakes from the forest: "It seems that this is what they used to do 'stand-in technique'?" It simply couldn't be more obvious. ”

Rustle-rustle-whoa-

A cloud obscured the sky, and sparse raindrops began to fall, which soon turned into a drizzle, and the sound of water ticking through the forest in all directions.

"Uh, young master, do you want to retreat for the time being?" Huang Gai covered his head with his hands dissatisfied: "It's not good to be close to rivers and seashores. ”

"No," Sun Jian looked at the captured assassins, their eyes inexplicably shining with excitement, "It seems that our target has been found." ”

Choke!

A flash of sword light flashed, and the falling rain gathered towards it as if it was attracted, turning into a blade made of water and slashing towards Sun Jianfei—obviously, he had already judged who the leader was.

"Drink!" Huang Gai blocked directly in front of it, blocking the water blade with his arm, but, as the captives had said, Huang Gai, who could have blocked their attack unscathed, was cut open by the water blade in his arm.

Brush Brush –

The two water blades flew out again, heading straight for Zu Mao and Cheng Pu who were hiding in the forest.

"Hey!" "Humph!" Zu Mao and Cheng Pu each avoided the water blade, but at the same time, a figure dressed in a strange warrior suit appeared out of thin air from the rain, and the arc-shaped long knife in his hand slashed all the way through the rain on the trajectory and attacked Sun Jian.

"Choke!" Han Dang, who had been standing beside Sun Jian, stopped the long knife with his iron spear.

Sun Jian and the others had already been mentally prepared, and the leader of the assassins who had not noticed Han Dang at all was obviously shocked, and when he missed the knife, he wanted to draw his sword and retreat.

"Stop him!" Huang Gai, the only one who was really injured, shouted angrily, but all the generals present could not do it for various reasons.

【Bang——】

With a strange flash of red blade, the fleeing Assassin leader and the raindrops around him were all "frozen" in the air, and then, a gloomy man in thick and tight pitch-black armor stepped into the glade with a pitch-black arc knife that closely resembled the Assassin, knocked him unconscious with a knife in the leader's eyes, reached out and grabbed the collar, and then the "fixed" rain began to fall again.

The black-armored general turned to Sun Jian and said word by word in an unusually hoarse voice: "Zhou Tai, I've seen it, young master." ”