Chapter 9: Assassination
Ordinary people rushed to the stable in the backyard of the General's Mansion, and a hunchbacked veteran walked out of the house with hay.
Ordinary people bowed and clenched their fists: "Old man, I was ordered by General Xue to prepare a few horses to go out on business." ”
"Is there a warrant?"
Ordinary people took out the bamboo slips written by Xue Yi.
"Ahem, okay, a few horses over there have just been fed, take them away, Chang Da Hero."
"Oh! Do you know me? ”
"Hehe, who doesn't know the ordinary people of Yan who shot back tens of thousands of cavalry of the Huns with one arrow? Hehe, hehe. ”
The veteran let out a grim laugh and turned to walk back to the hut.
Ordinary people secretly thought: Although this old guy was flattering people just now, he was very uncomfortable listening to it, this old man was weird.
Looking at the back of the veteran gradually disappearing, ordinary people narrowed their eyes.
Ordinary people led the horse to the door of the General's Mansion, Xue Yi had already assembled, looking at the dozen or so soldiers in front of him, all of them had bright eyes, fine light and restrained, their hands were calloused, and they were carrying iron shields and bows and crossbows behind them.
Ordinary people nodded: they are all veterans of battle.
"Brother Chang is good" The soldiers clasped their fists and saluted, their eyes full of respect.
Xue Yi explained: "These are all those who stayed outside the city gate with the county lord that day."
Ordinary people understand that their original arrow also saved these young lives in front of them, "Hello brothers, there is no time, let's talk while walking."
Everyone turned over and rode in the direction of Daixian under the guidance of Xue Yi.
15 miles away from the northwest of Dai County, there is a mountain forest, the local people call the two boundary ditch, the so-called two mountains sandwich a ditch, the avenue from the West Gate to the Dai County passes through the ravine of the two boundary ditches, the east side of the road is the meandering and clear stream, the water source comes from the upper reaches of the West Gate Pass, and the west side is the dense mountain forest. The fish frolicked in the stream, and the birds in the forest sang and the flowers were fragrant.
Usually this is the best place for couples to have a tryst and tourists to travel, but today there is silence here, carefully observed, there seems to be a slight bulge in the middle of the road, several ropes are buried under the soil, and among the trees on the hillside, the tips of black arrows point to the bottom of the mountain, and a masked man in black asks in a low voice: "Is the news reliable?" ”
Another man in black who was also dressed replied: "Reliable, Li Mu must pass through here every month when he returns to Dai County, and he doesn't have many soldiers and horses with him." ”
"Well, that's good, this time you must hit with one hit, otherwise, even if you go back, Da Danyu will not spare me and wait."
"Bah~, bah~" There was a squeaky sound around him, looking at the subordinates around him from time to time scratching hard everywhere on his body, the assassin leader shook his head helplessly, and squatted here all night, beautifying all kinds of poisonous mosquitoes in the forest.
"Be quiet! If something is bad, no one wants to live. The surroundings suddenly became much quieter, "Smack! Everyone looked at the leader in surprise and slapped him, and the leader of the assassins looked at the mosquito in his palm and muttered in frustration, "Why haven't you come yet?" ”
Li Mu rode on a horse and talked to Li Jing as he walked, "Qin'er, I heard that the little man of Yan Kingdom called an ordinary person is very good at close quarters?" ”
"It's okay, I think he is just making good use of some ingenuity, sword kung fu is very watery, he shouldn't know swordsmanship."
"I see that this person is not a treacherous person, his archery skills are very good, his strength is infinite, and he is not a reckless person, he is a talent that can be created, you must observe him carefully, give him some opportunities appropriately, I Li Mujun must not bury talents."
Li Jing pouted, "Talent? This person is arrogant, disobedient, hooks up with his boss, doesn't know etiquette, and one day he will be transferred to feed the horses! Then he shook the reins of his horse and went ahead to lead the way.
Li Mu raised his eyebrows and looked at the little girl's temperament, and immediately laughed.
A few miles further, Li Mu rode his horse to the front, grabbed the reins, and Li Jing came to the right and asked, "Father, what's wrong with you?" ”
Li Mu has been on the battlefield for a long time and is extremely sensitive to the surrounding environment, staring at the mountains and forests in front of him at this time, stretching out his right arm high, more than 200 people holding the reins, neatly aligned, and the team suddenly quieted down.
"Qin'er, what did you hear?"
Li Jing got up slightly and listened attentively, "No, I didn't hear anything." ”
"Didn't hear anything? yes, it's so quiet. Li Mu paused and said, "Qin'er, how many years have we been walking this road?" ”
Li Jing pondered what his father meant, and suddenly came to his senses: "I can't hear the sound of birds!" Li Mu nodded.
Li Jing turned around and shouted loudly: "Order, be on guard!" You, you go to the front and have a look." The two soldiers who were pointed by Li Jing drew their swords and rode their horses to rush towards the Liangjie ditch in front.
Ordinary people and Xue Yi rushed forward with sixteen elite soldiers under his command, Xue Yi said: "The front is almost to Dai County, I hope we are too careful, it stands to reason that if the general is attacked, the sound of arrows should be heard at this time." ”
As soon as Xue Yi's words fell, there was a "whoosh~!" from the sky in front of him! The shrill voice, ordinary people laughed, "Is this what you are talking about?" ”
Xue Yi shook his head, "Good spirits, bad spirits, drive!" "Driving, driving......"
The people and horses can already be seen in the distance ahead, ordinary people, Xue Yi took a bow and drew a sword, and the formation of sixteen people in the rear spread out to both sides, everyone had already set up crossbow arrows, and ordinary people secretly said: These people are really well-trained.
At this time, Li Mu was surrounded by personal guards in the middle, the ground was full of shields and arrows, from far to near, horizontal and vertical eight have been lying down more than 100 people, most of them are their own soldiers, there are also a few people in black, I saw that the people in black have martial arts, the more they fight, the more brave they are, although the soldiers of the Qingqi Battalion are brave, but they are obviously at a disadvantage in this small-scale fight, only Li Jing and a few partial generals can deal with the enemy, and ordinary soldiers are often either killed or injured in one or two rounds.
Li Jing was also a little impatient at this time, watching his subordinates fight less and less, relying on the reinforcements of Dai County was a little far away and could not quench his thirst, and the form was very unfavorable.
The opponent's martial arts are strong, at this time Li Jing was besieged by the two, one was distracted, his right leg was slashed by the other party, I don't know if he was too nervous, and then his right leg was numb, and he gradually couldn't support it, the other party saw that Li Jing's movements were getting slower and slower, one was kicked away by Li Jing, and the other took advantage of Li Jing's flaws to swing a knife to cut Li Jing's waist, Li Jing sighed secretly: My life is resting!.
But I saw that the person who came suddenly pulled up on the spot and rushed straight towards him, Li Jing's legs were weak, and he fell to the ground, but the enemy flew over his head, lying on the ground and no longer getting up, and half of the feather arrow behind him was still shaking. Immediately afterwards, I heard the sound of "poof, poof" next to him, and the man in black fell to the ground with arrows one after another.
Ordinary people withdrew their arms, and Xue Yi praised: "Brother Chang is good at archery, and there are no arrows at such a distance!" ”
Ordinary people said modestly: "No way, if you don't make any efforts, I'm afraid that your little county lord will see Marx." ”
"Who was Marx?"
"Huh? Haha, haha, I'll go back and explain to you, brothers, rush! ”
Seeing the reinforcements coming, Li Mu took the opportunity to boost morale: "Soldiers! The reinforcements from Daixian County have arrived, and all the traitors will be taken down, and the rebels will be killed! ”
The soldiers saw the dust in the distance, the general said so, and suddenly their morale was greatly boosted, and the man in black didn't know why, and mistakenly thought that the other party was coming to reinforcements, so the birds and beasts scattered to retreat in embarrassment, Li Mu rode on the horse, and had already seen ordinary people, seeing that the enemy was retreating at this time, he drank the chasing soldiers, turned around and gestured to Xue Yi, Xue Yi led sixteen cavalry and did not slow down, originally took care of their own personnel did not dare to release arrows, at this time, seeing the distance between the enemy and me, the seventeen crossbow arrows suddenly opened their mouths, no matter how good the enemy's martial arts are, Under the intensive fire of the sprinting cavalry crossbow arrows, there were also heavy casualties, Li Mu led the remaining soldiers to find war horses to join the pursuit, and shouted to ordinary people before leaving: "Ordinary people stay, take care of Qin'er for me."
Ordinary people had just risen up, and when they heard Li Muyi, they noticed that Li Jing was lying on the ground, his lips were white, and he was in a state of malaise.
Ordinary people jumped off the horse, came to Li Jing's side and squatted down, only to see that the wound on Li Jing's thigh was not big, but the blood was not stopping, the blood was black and smelly, ordinary people glanced at the saber next to him, turned his head to look at Li Jing and said with a smile: "Congratulations, eldest lady, the knife is fed with poison, you are poisoned." ”
Saying that, ordinary people reached out and tore Li Jing's pants from the knife, Li Jing was half paralyzed, one hand was on the ground, and he shouted at ordinary people with half-squinted eyes: "Don't touch me!" ”
"Do you want to die? Wait until you have the energy to settle accounts with me! Saying that, ordinary people can't say anything, they lowered their heads and began to take drugs for Li Jing, ordinary people lowered their heads and took a sip, turned their heads and spit out. At this point, Li Jing could only be at the mercy of ordinary people, simply lying on the ground, looking up at the sky, a tear of grievance slowly flowed out of the corner of his eye, and secretly thought: The more he looks at him, the more he owes him favors.
After a while, ordinary people saw that the blood in the wound began to become bright red, knowing that the toxins in Li Jing's body had been almost cleared, they stood up and searched around, and actually found a few centipede grass, when they were under Temujin, ordinary people had rescued a medicine picker who was captured by the Mongols, and they had nothing to do, and learned a few skills to save themselves, so ordinary people put centipede grass in their mouths and chewed it, put Li Jing on the wound, tore off the corners of Li Jing's skirt and bandaged it simply, found a vacant space, pulled out the "Chang Dagger" and cut a small hole on his finger, Meditating cross-legged and began to exercise to remove the residual poison in the body, ordinary people don't want to save such a yellow-haired girl and put their lives into it.
The assassins were repulsed, and they ran in the direction of Daixian in a hurry, and happened to collide with the reinforcements coming from Daixian, and were wrapped in dumplings. On the way to Huangquan, he could only scold the undercover agent in the general's mansion.
The assassin would rather die than give in, and in the end he did not catch a single live mouth, judging by the weapons used and the tattoos on his body, he was indeed a Huns.