"Are the personnel in place?" A group of black-clothed men gathered in a small forest not far from the city, each with a sharp knife behind their backs, and two porcelain jars in their hands, from which the smell of fire oil emanated.

"Chief, all twenty people are in place!" One of the men in black looked around and counted the number of people and saw that there was no problem.

"Okay, brothers, cheer up, tonight is done and you will be rewarded when you go back! What kind of wine, how many women we want, the fourth group of people left to ensure our retreat route, so that no one would block the entrance to the cave and make us turtles in the urn! The leader who spoke was also masked, but he did not wear a turban, so that he could identify himself.

"Great! It's good to follow the leader, there is money to take and women to play, this is called life! Isn't that right, brothers! A man behind the black-clothed leader instantly slapped him with a sycophant.

"Be quiet—" Although this is a small forest outside the city, and the lights are blind all around, only they have a torch here to attract people's attention, and everyone is so babbling that they may leak their secrets.

"Master, it's not too early - why don't we go first, and the little one will lead the way for you!" There was also a person dressed as a domestic servant standing beside him, who was arranged by Zheng Qian, the head of the Zheng family, to lead the way for this group. In order to take down Zhou Yu without fail, the Zheng family spent a high price to hire a group of thieves to enter the original Taishou Mansion from the secret passage left outside Yangzhou City to set fire, and then take the opportunity to assassinate Zhou Yu. However, the price given by the Zheng family was not the same, they set fire to the Taishou Mansion for 5,000 taels of silver, and killed Zhou Yu and bid 10,000 taels of silver. Where have these bandits seen such money, and they immediately came to do things.

"Okay – lead the way! We followed—"

Before the black-clothed leader finished speaking, the servant of the Zheng family took the lead in opening the hidden hole with a torch and jumped down. In order to prevent someone from assassinating him in his office, Han Xuan, the original Taishou, built a secret passage from the mansion to the outside of Yangzhou City, and the exit was hidden in the small forest outside the city, leaving the exit behind a big tree, and the exit was covered with a lot of weeds and empty soil, and there was a bluestone slab underneath, and the hole was under the slate. There was an oil-stained torch on the wall of the cave ten paces away, and the servants of the Zheng family lit the torches passing by as they walked, and the secret passage was suddenly illuminated.

The black-clothed leader brought a total of twenty people, and they were divided into four groups of five people each. He left the fourth group to guard the entrance of the cave, and he took the other three groups to the Taishou Mansion to set fire. As soon as everyone jumped down from the entrance of the cave, they felt that their eyes lit up, and the torches in the cave were lit, and when Han Xuan was digging this secret passage, he also thought that if there was an emergency, he would suddenly hide in it, and it was estimated that he would suffocate if he couldn't walk a few steps, and there would be a small square air hole every other distance, so that the torches could be lit.

There are two places left in the exit Taishou Mansion, one is in the rockery in the Taishou Mansion, and the other is in the study used by Han Xuan. After about half an hour, the group came to a stop at the fork in the road.

"What's the way down?" The black-clothed leader suddenly asked.

"Master, the road to the left is in the rockery leading to the house, and there is a small forest outside as a cover. To the right is a road leading to the study of the Taishou Mansion, and the exit is behind the bookcase, which can be opened with a single rotation. What do you think should be done? The small ones can only bring you here, and the rest is up to you. The little one waits here—" The servant also felt that the rest of the fighting and killing was not something that one of his servants could do, and when he made it clear, the errand was completed.

"Well—how are the guards around the outside? Can you hear clearly—" The black-clad leader nodded.

"Master, there are no guards near the center of the mansion near the rockery, only patrolling guards occasionally pass by. In the study, according to this hour, Zhou Yu should still be in the study, everyone suddenly kills him, and they can retreat into the secret passage as soon as they kill Zhou Yu, and they can get rid of the pursuers by sealing the secret passage. These are all arranged for you by our family master, and fast horses have been prepared outside the grove! Master, you can act with confidence-" The servant said this, and began to curse in his heart, this group of bastards took the money and grinded endlessly, finish the work early and go home early, here with a waiting for someone to serve a pot, if it is not for the head of the family to have a reward, he is not willing to do this murder and arson.

"Okay - it's still the Zheng family master's thoughtfulness, the three groups of two people and this little brother stay here to guard this intersection, and when they hear us knocking on the bookcase, they can open the secret passage of the study to welcome us in. The rest of the brothers went out with me and went separately to set fires—and finally met at the entrance of the study! Remember, I will immediately seal the secret passage of this rockery after I go out, and we will only enter from the study, and do it-" The black-clothed leader suddenly had an idea with a roll of his eyes, he was also afraid of folding these brothers in this Taishou Mansion, presumably no one knew about the secret passage of this Taishou Mansion, in order not to arouse the vigilance of the guards in the mansion, he wanted to use this side of the rockery as a bait, and then escaped back from the study by surprise after finishing his work, they were all familiar with the housing layout in the Taishou Mansion, and basically they would not go wrong.

After listening to the arrangement of the black-clothed leader, everyone came out of the secret passage of the rockery, and only a few lanterns were hanging and swaying quietly outside.

"Brother Dian-the rat is in the cage, prepare to close the door! Remember to send a letter cannon to General Zhou Tai outside the city-" Guo Jia smiled and woke up Dian Wei, who was napping.

"Okay-Lao Guo, you should have said it earlier! I'm a little sleepy waiting, don't sleep yet! When I went out and cleaned up the rats outside, I came back to drink together. Having said that, my second brother didn't take me with him when he went to Changsha County to fight, so he had to let me catch mice here to play, it's really boring! As soon as Dian Wei heard that the rats were coming, he immediately came to the spirit, but he complained that Zhou Yu didn't take him when he left, but took Jiang Qin away - as long as Zhou Yu is in the place where there must be a fight, Dian Wei's favorite thing is to eat and drink enough to fight, he doesn't care about the few mice that come tonight, in his opinion, how capable can the person who steals chickens and dogs hide his head and tail.

"Split up!" The black-clothed leader and his group of thirteen people carried fire oil to the kitchen, living room, side hall and other places of the Taishou Mansion, while the black-clothed leader took three of his subordinates and went straight to Zhou Yu's study, and he saw that the light was still on in the study at the moment. What to do now is to take advantage of Zhou Yu's unpreparedness, quickly attack and kill Zhou Yu to occupy the secret passage, and prepare for the retreat.

How do you know that after the three of them pushed the door in, they found that there were two people sitting inside, one was a white-faced scholar and the other was a black-faced strong man, but it was a little strange that these two people were still talking and laughing when they saw them coming in, and they didn't see the surprise of the man in black at all. If it weren't for the fact that the lights in the house were bright and the eyes of the two of them were flickering, the black-clothed leader would have thought that the two people in front of him were blind!

"It's out of the water—"

"It's out of the water—"

One after another, shouts rang out, and the flames could be seen through the window, and the black-clothed leader was overjoyed when he heard the shouts outside, knowing that the white-faced scholar in front of him must be the so-called Taishou Zhou Yu, as long as he killed him, he could earn a large sum of silver taels.

"Zhou Yu, you and I will take your life! Brothers, come together—" The four men in black drew their blades and rushed over.