"Protect His Majesty the Emperor!" The military tribune was startled and angry, shouting as he hurried his horse toward Commodus.

He didn't expect that someone would be so bold as to make a move against His Majesty the Emperor less than ten miles away from the barracks.

However, fortunately, the number of Assassins disguised as Jews in this group was not large, less than twenty people, and the Praetorian Guards had an absolute advantage in numbers, but they were scattered and relatively scattered, and they were at a disadvantage locally, and this group of Assassins was also very good, and they fought together, and quickly solved the Praetorian Guard at the front of the line, approaching Commodus's carriage.

And the Praetorian Guards who came halfway were often killed by them before they could organize themselves properly.

Seeing this, a cold sweat broke out on his back, and he suddenly found that his horse seemed to be running a little too fast, although he, a military protector, also had some combat experience, but he was able to sit in this position mainly by the strength of the family, and as a general, he didn't need much personal bravery, and he now regretted that he didn't practice his sword well before.

But fortunately, the Praetorian Guard soldiers he brought this time were well-trained enough, and the two deputy centurions were also very powerful, especially the nearest Herto, who led his team to the top at the first time, although he couldn't completely block these assassins, but he also successfully slowed down the speed of those guys' march, so that the follow-up team got time to line up, but it was not the Praetorian Guards who really changed the trend of the whole battle.

Zhang Heng noticed the anomaly in the Jews before the military tribune, but he did nothing after that, and it was not until the group was about to rush in front of Commodus that Zhang Heng jumped off his horse and drew his two Persian swords.

One of the Assassins noticed the situation, but he didn't pay much attention to the guy who was obviously not dressed as a Praetorian Guard, and just waved the dagger in his hand casually, trying to get the guy in the way in front of him.

But he didn't expect that it was this simple action that killed him, Zhang Heng's body leaned back slightly to avoid the assassin's attack, and then took advantage of the moment when the other party waved his arm to open his chest, and quickly plunged the Persian short sword in his hand into the assassin's heart.

Kill with one hit!

The assassin who was killed had already been stabbed in half without even realizing that he had been hit by the sword, while Zhang Heng gently drew his Persian sword as the corpse fell backwards and walked towards the second assassin.

With the experience of his companions, the second assassin was obviously much more cautious, and he had already noticed that it was the gladiatorial champion of the Flavian Amphitheater in front of him, and he was thinking about where to attack, but he did not expect that Zhang had already taken the first step.

Zhang Heng slashed at the neck of the second assassin with a sword, but the latter's reaction was also very fast, and he immediately erected the short sword in his hand, accurately blocking Zhang Heng's sword, the assassin's heart was happy, and he felt that the gladiatorial champion was nothing more than that, but his joy only lasted less than half a second, and the next moment he saw a flash of cold light, Zhang Heng had already cut his throat with another sword.

In just a few breaths, Zhang Heng killed the two assassins who rushed to the front, with little effort, and when he stopped the third assassin, the two teams of Praetorian Guards behind him also completed the whole team and killed them.

At this point, Commodus's men had the upper hand, and the remaining Assassins were either entangled by Herto or rammed the two Praetorian Guards, who had already adjusted their formation, and were pierced into a sieve by spears stabbed from all directions.

Just when everyone thought that the overall situation had been decided, and the team of assassins who came out of nowhere were about to be all confessed here, no one expected that the owner of the donkey car, who had been holding his head and trembling on the side, suddenly took out a bow from the side of the overturned donkey cart.

Seeing this, the Praetorian Guards of course blocked Commodus with their bodies at the first time, but the arrow of the donkey owner was shot at the "Ortrus" on the other side.

The military tribune screamed that the Assassins disguised as Jews were just bait to attract their attention, and their real target was Otlus, who was following behind.

But by the time he realized it was too late, Orterus was shot squarely by the sudden cold arrow, and his body shook off his horse, and the donkey driver immediately put down his bow and arrow, and jumped into the river beside him.

"Get out of the way!" Commodus's angry voice rang out from the crowd.

Hearing this, the military tribune hurriedly persuaded, "Your Majesty, we don't know if there are any of them nearby, you should ......"

However, before he could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by the young emperor, "I need to know whether my best advisor is life or death." ”

“…… I'm sorry Your Majesty, but I'm afraid Advisor Otheros is hopeless. It was another centurion who spoke, he was by Oterus's side, and he also stepped forward to check on Oterus as soon as he was hit by the arrow, and confirmed that Oterus was shot in the chest by the arrow, although Oterus was wearing a helmet, but he didn't have any armor on his body, and he had no heartbeat before he fell from his horse.

And as soon as his words came out, they also caused an uproar.

Because this was so unexpected, this was supposed to be the day when Orterus went from darkness to the sun, and his appearance was enough to change the political power structure of the upper echelons of Rome, but no one expected that only half a day after his appearance, he would be assassinated.

This change was a bit too unexpected, and even Clinder, who had always wished that Otrus had hung up earlier, was stunned, a little unable to believe what he saw.

And when such a thing happened, Commodus naturally had no intention of inspecting any more military camps, and took the last two assassins he captured, and hurriedly repented of the Roman city, the young emperor swore to make the murderer behind the murder of Ottellus pay the price, in fact, after returning to the palace, he immediately ordered Clint and Zhang Heng to interrogate the captured assassins, and be sure to get the name of the main messenger from the mouth of the assassin.

After leaving the palace, Clint looked at the moon above him and took a deep breath, unable to hide the joy in his eyes any longer, and said, "Fate is such an interesting thing, isn't it?" ”

This is also the first time that Clinder took the initiative to talk to Zhang Heng today, but Zhang Heng did not answer after hearing it, but Clinder was unimpressed, and continued, "I underestimated you, you are more mature than I imagined, I must admit that your vision of standing in line is very good, and you chose the side that is almost impossible to lose, I almost lost, but the world is unpredictable, isn't it?" ”

After speaking, Clint patted Zhang Heng's shoulder again and laughed, "Let's go, we're busy tonight." ”