Florence is not Rome, the headquarters of the Holy See, nor is it San Gimignano, which is controlled by the Pache family.

It was impossible for Rodrigo to arrange a large number of guards in Florence to protect him, and this would only indicate his position to the local ruler.

Once he found a place where a large number of guards had gathered, Lorenzo would definitely arrange for countless soldiers to flood Rodrigo's hiding place as soon as possible.

Before the plan was launched, Lu Xiao and his fellow brothers of the Brotherhood had some discussion about it, and finally came to the conclusion that Rodrigo would most likely only take a small number of personal guards and hide in a secret location not far from the scene of the incident to secretly watch the situation.

Francesco, whose plan failed miserably, was now unable to think calmly, and it was very likely that he would subconsciously flee to Rodrigo's place and ask the Grand Master for instructions on his next move.

Lu Xiao did not rush to assassinate Francesco, but followed closely behind him from the roof.

At this time, Rodrigo was no longer at Uberto's house, and seeing the failure of the plan, he immediately moved to a hiding place.

Francesco stumbled all the way away from the unknown crowd at the scene of the accident and stumbled into a quiet two-story courtyard.

Lu Xiao, who was following closely, slowed down, and he had already seen the archers hidden behind bunkers on the roof of this courtyard building.

As the Brotherhood had guessed, the number of guards around the mansion where Rodrigo was hiding was drastically reduced in order to avoid arousing Lorenzo's suspicion of the overcrowding of troops.

There were only five archers on the roof, and the number of heavily armored guards guarding the courtyard was only a dozen or so, a far cry from the Spaniards in San Gimignano.

Only five archers were kept under surveillance on the rooftop, and the Templar archers were too timid to patrol the building in order to avoid the Florentine guards.

With the help of the cover where these archers were hiding, Lu Xiao first aimed at one of the archers hiding behind the chimney, and used the accurate point of long-range shooting to shoot him down, pulling out one of the corners of the all-round line of sight monitoring.

Now that there is a loophole in the monitoring perspective, it will be easy to do next, Lu Xiao used arrows and personal assassination to kill the archers on the roof one by one, completely eliminating the surveillance from the heights.

The two-story courtyard that Rodrigo chose was oddly constructed, with no windows around the mansion, only the main entrance of the courtyard.

'Pretty well prepared. ’

Lu Xiao hid behind the chimney and carefully observed the guards standing below.

The remaining eight elite Templars were all dressed in heavy full-body armor, and while their mobility was devastatingly affected by this, their defenses were also maximized.

The sharp Hidden Blade is not impossible to pierce through the whole body armor, but each time a heavily armored guard is killed, it will cause a lot of wear and tear on the thin Hidden Blade, and a frontal attack will be twice as effective.

After thinking for a while, Lu Xiao took out two bottles of translucent liquid from the small package around his waist.

Tear out two small strips of cloth from the hem of the undershirt under the stabbing service, and soak them into the open bottle respectively, Lu Xiao then used flint and steel to ignite the strip of cloth, and the two original incendiary bombs were made in this way.

The liquid contained in the vial is a more primitive kerosene.

As early as the 9th century, the use of kerosene lamps was recorded in Baghdad, but the more efficient modern kerosene did not become available until the 19th century.

"Boom!"

Lu Xiao waved his arm and threw two bottles of incendiary bombs into the courtyard one after another, and smashed them into two artificially planted green belts.

"Fire! Put out the fire! ”

"Enemy attack!"

Two fireballs raining down from the sky caused quite a commotion, and the elite heavily armored guards split into two groups, one team went to find water to extinguish the fire, and the rest of the people vigilantly hid behind the obstacles of the building and looked for traces of the attackers.

……

A few minutes earlier, Francesco de Pacci had rushed into the courtyard and, panting, under the guidance of the guards, had just moved Rodrigo Borgia.

"Idiot!"

As soon as they met, Rodrigo angrily pointed at Francesco and scolded: "The plan has failed, what are you doing here?" Completely forgot about the retreat plan prepared in advance? Do you want to lure the Assassin over and even serve me in the pot?! ”

Francesco, who had not yet caught his breath, paused for a moment to calm down from the danger, and only then did he realize that he had made a foolish judgment under the crisis.

"It should be fine, I don't feel like anyone is following me."

"Bang!"

Rodrigo kicked Francesco away with an angry kick: "If you stupid pig notice, can an assassin still be called an assassin!" ”

"Get out of here and get ready! We want to withdraw from Florence as soon as possible in the long run, you ......"

"Boom!"

Two explosions outside the house interrupted Rodrigo's order, and the Spaniard stepped back and alertly beckoned to the guards outside the door.

"What happened?"

"Cardinal, there is an enemy attack! Please stay in the room for the time being! ”

Rodrigo glared at Francesco angrily: "You're what you said you weren't followed?" ”

"The hiding place has been exposed, and the large forces of the Assassins and the Medici family will come at any time to launch an encirclement and suppression, we can't continue to stay here and prepare for a breakthrough!"

"How many enemies are there?"

The captain of the guard shook his head: "It's not clear for the time being, the enemy hasn't launched a second round of attacks yet. ”

Rodrigo lowered his head and thought about it for a moment: "Can't wait any longer, protect me, start evacuating now!" ”

"Yes!"

"You! Come here. ”

Rodrigo pulled Francesco, who was at a loss, to block him: "The Patch family is mainly responsible for this failure, if you can protect me from Florence smoothly, I will consider giving you a few kind words in front of the Pope." ”

Francesco wanted to scold his mother, but the Spaniard made it clear that he wanted him to be a bait and a shield for human flesh.

But now the situation is stronger than people, if the situation calms down without Rodrigo's help, the Pache family, who completely offended Medici, is destined to fall into decline and never be able to turn over.

"Leave it to me, Master, as long as I, Francesco, are still around, you will never be harmed!"

……

Lu Xiao, who was standing on the roof to observe the situation, did not rashly jump in and attack, in the face of a large number of heavily armored guards, it was difficult for him to kill them all.

The old fox kept Francesco in front of him, and he quickened his pace to evacuate from the courtyard under the protection of the heavily armored guards.

Lu Xiao had already drawn his bowstring and was ready, and shot the rocket in his hand the moment Rodrigo showed his head.

"Whoosh!"

"Ahhhh Save me, save me! ”

The arrows wrapped in white cloth were not very lethal, but Francesco, who was hit by the arrows, was ignited by the kerosene attached to the rocket, and ran in panic, disrupting the originally neat convoy.

In order to avoid being affected by the flames on Francesco's body, Rodrigo and his guards subconsciously stayed away from this source of fire.

Lu Xiao took this opportunity to jump from the roof, and when he was in the air, he popped out the Hidden Blade of his left and right hands at the same time, and when he landed, he first eliminated the two heavily armored guards who were distracted and dodged the fire.

A backhand slice into Rodrigo's neck temporarily interrupted the blood circulation to his head, and the obese Spaniard rolled his eyes and fell unconscious.

Under the sudden attack and Francesco's howling ghostly rush, the scene became a pot of porridge.

The guards who proposed to rescue Rodrigo first disagreed with the guards who advocated killing the enemy first, and for a moment they could not unify their thinking.

Lu Xiao took this opportunity to use the Hidden Blade and Boot Blade to kill the three again with a strange attack routine unimaginable to the Templars.

Lu Xiao's light and excellent grade boot blade was strengthened by sharpness, not sturdiness, and the boot blade was broken by heavy armor during hand-to-hand combat, and the Hidden Blade was also worn very badly, which greatly affected his combat effectiveness.

Lu Xiao's main purpose was not to rush into the crowd to open Wushuang, but to pass out Rodrigo on the ground.

Relying on a round of scramble to deter and force back the remaining enemies, Lu Xiao dragged Rodrigo on the ground and ran out.

Lu Xiao's action patterns before and after were too different, and when he had the advantage but suddenly retreated, he was so decisive that the enemy couldn't react.

The Templars, who were half a beat slower, shouted and followed closely behind Lu Xiao, "Chase!" Be sure to take back the Master! ”