There was silence outside the door, I quickly took the picture and paper into my arms, and hid my sword on the right side of the hatch, and before I could stand still, I saw a short arrow pierce through the wind and sweep into the pane, and landed accurately and fiercely on the table, and the king was still standing next to the table a second ago.

At this moment, my heart is becoming more and more calm, probably because I have been practicing martial arts since I was a child and fighting all year round, the more I encounter this situation, the more calm and calm I feel in my heart. Compared with the undercurrents surging above the court, intrigue and deceit, this king feels that this kind of face-to-face battle with a gun and a real sword is too simple and simple, so simple that it is nothing more than to fight the victory, and the simple purpose is to live and die.

It was dark and twilight.

There were strange noises outside the door and out of the window at the same time, and I concentrated on them, six of which were the sound of ropes wrapping around bones, and four of which were the sound of sharp blades cutting flesh - the ten guards standing outside my room were pinned down at the same moment.

The wooden door was opened a crack, and the panes creaked, and my eyes swept over, and I saw two sword tips slowly sticking in in the darkness, and there was a sound of wood breaking behind me, I quickly dodged, and rushed out of the cabin with my sword, and the next second, my ears exploded with a loud bang—

The room where he had just stayed was hooked and torn by iron claw ropes, broken into countless pieces of wood and scattered in all directions, and dozens of water ghosts rushed out of the sparkling water, all dressed in nocturnal costumes, strong and powerful, with different utensils in their hands, but all of them showed murderous aura!

I temporarily found a place to land at the stern of the ship, glanced at the ten official ships behind me, and the two thousand soldiers on them, and blew an urgent whistle.

The water ghosts surrounded the guys, and one by one they put on a deadly posture.

The master who taught me martial arts when I was a child once said: "When you meet an enemy, don't be the first to show your sword, because as long as you shoot, there will be flaws, and as long as the opponent catches the flaws, he will have a chance to kill you." In the same way, you have to wait for the opponent to strike first, and you must see at first glance where his flaws are and plan accurately in your heart, so as to kill with one move, leaving no room for respite. The move in your heart must always be faster than the move in your hand. ”

The trick in my heart must always be faster than the move in my hand, I have remembered this sentence for more than 20 years. In today's battle, I was not afraid of them, because when they came around, I saw their gestures with weapons, and I deduced in my mind the tricks they might use.

The water ghost on the opposite side held a flying claw in his hand and attacked first, and the target of this flying claw was not the king's sword. I rose to my feet to dodge the flying claws, and the man behind threw out the mandarin duck double knife and grazed my two hands; The four water ghosts on the left and right sides were all holding axes aimed at my two legs, and the four people in the oblique position were either soft whips or chains in their hands, and the next second they rushed to my neck and wrapped around my neck.

Thanks to my light skills, I dodged this first round of attacks with a soft and fluttering force. The flying claw did not give me a chance to breathe, swept over from two feet away, I fastened with a chain, and when the flying claw swept into the distance before it could be retracted, I used a sword move to rush into his heart, and then quickly withdrew and rotated half a step to protect the sword body in front of my chest, and the withdrawn flying claw made a crisp and deadly sound on the sword, and then slipped down, and at a glance, the blood splashed in the heart of the owner of the flying claw, and when the angry eyes were round, he fell to the ground violently, as if he did not expect that he would run to the Yellow Spring within two moves, and become a real ghost.

Time is just a blink of an eye, the mandarin duck double knife and axe rope rushed over, I can't touch a long sword, I can only move the virtual step, pull the sword flower sound to the east and the west layer by layer, attack its body and attack its weakness. Taking advantage of the soft whip entanglement, he suddenly got closer, the tip of the sword broke the tendons, and the next second he turned over, and the tip of the sword swept the eyes of the person with the mandarin duck double knife.

The cries of pain rose and stopped, these people were well-trained, they had long forgotten about life and death, and when they saw that they had no power to attack, they quickly bit their tongues and cut off the road behind them and the people behind them.

Another wave of water ghosts rushed out of the water, and a huge splash of water gradually came into my eyes, and the night wind gusted with the cold of metal weapons, and my body only dodged half a minute, and the dart broke through the water and sank into my left shoulder.

I calmed down and saw that the water ghosts surrounding me had more diverse weapons in their hands, and there were as many as twenty of them.

Can fight the number of people, how can they fight this king, the ten passenger ships behind have not moved, but after the whistle order sounded and the king made ten moves, the underwater at this moment should be all the soldiers of my southern country - in terms of water warfare, even if these water ghosts defeat us in weapons, they will definitely lose to us in terms of tricks and numbers.

Sure enough, before the king could use a new sword move, more than 100 elites had rushed out of the water, all with long knives in their hands, surrounding twenty water ghosts, and in the blink of an eye, the sound of the knife sinking into the flesh and blood came and went, and the water ghosts fell to the ground one after another, not forgetting to bite off the root of their tongues when they died.

I quickly pinched the jaw of a water ghost next to me to stop him from biting his tongue, and even though I had already guessed seven or eight points of the answer to that question, I still asked, "Who sent you?" ”

The water ghost smiled fiercely when he was dying, and provoked me in a hoarse voice: "Look, the boat behind." ”

I quickly turned around, only to see that in an instant, all ten official ships were on fire, and the firelight burned the hull of the ship with a rumbling sound, and the firelight woke up the night, illuminating the entire mausoleum as bright as day.

My heart suddenly tightened: my sentinel only let a hundred soldiers on the nearest official ship dive into the water to support quickly, if the soldiers behind follow my orders and wait in the boat to watch the changes and do not escape, then this fire will kill them.

Two thousand soldiers, except for a hundred who escaped, the rest were burned to ashes on the river. As soon as the scene passed through my head, something went out of control, I heard myself sneer, and then the palm of my hand pressed the water ghost's head with internal force, and the sound of the skull shattering came from the phalanges, and the long sword in my hand rose and landed neatly through his heart.

My eyes ached from the firelight, and I drew my sword and brushed his head like a mustard, leaving a sentence: "Go to the funeral." ”

……

The section of the Lingtai River, this is the first robbery. This king really didn't expect that the first robbery would be so ferocious, so ruthless that he arranged for the deadly water ghosts to sneak at the bottom of the river and wait for the opportunity, so ruthless that he directly ignored the other ships passing and fell on the river and set fire to the boats, and was so ruthless that he wanted to burn the 2,000 soldiers of the Nanguo Mansion to ashes directly here.

Who would have thought that a group of us who should have only died for the country on the battlefield, and why should we return the body of the horse leather, would end up in this step.

The desperation at that moment was the despair of the fire rushing to the sky and not stopping. I regret giving them the order to wait and see what happens in the ship, and if they die, I am the culprit in the letter.

The soldiers did not stop me, and I jumped into the river.

At that time, the king didn't have many ideas, he just wanted to get close to the official ship that was on fire to see if there were still people alive inside and if anyone could be rescued.

But when I sank to the bottom of the river and saw the dense crowd of people in the countless rising bubbles, and these dense people were all my people, and these people were like fish swimming in the water, the despair in my heart disappeared in an instant.

I was afraid that I laughed out loud, so that my breath was unsteady and short, and the river broke into my nose. I held back the tingling sensation in my lungs, swam up again, and coughed violently while picking at the planks of the boat, and laughed wildly - from the hell of the ghost mansion to the fairy realm of the gods, but this is the case today, and I am really fortunate to have three lives.

That night, the king stood on the shore with a hundred soldiers, and waited until ten in the morning, and finally saw Lingtai County Cheng coming in a sedan chair.

The county Cheng's surname is Sun, called Sun Zhiling, with a mustache, hanging eyes, yellowed teeth, and a big belly, which is a very typical harlequin appearance on the stage.

He probably recognized me from his attire, walked over with a smile, leaned over and said, "Your Highness is frightened." ”

The king squinted at him: "This king has ten ships, two thousand soldiers, and now there are only a few people left, this water ghost came out of your realm, and the fire was also ignited from this river, are you ready to fold it over with just a light sentence of 'Your Highness is frightened'?" ”

Sun Zhiling's eyes lit up, and he raised his hand to lead me aside: "Your Highness, can you go over there with the lower officials to talk?" ”

I nodded in agreement and went to a pavilion ten feet away.

Sun Zhiling instantly described, and said solemnly with me: "Your Highness, with all due respect, don't build this canal, you have lost 2,000 soldiers and it is a small amount, if you continue to move forward, your life and the lives of more than 100 soldiers around you will not be guaranteed." ”

I didn't tell him that the 2,000 soldiers would march from the bottom of the river at night, go ashore five miles ahead, sneak into a nearby mountain forest, and then change into civilian clothes and disperse, and take the overland route to Yuzhou City to join them.

Turning the wrench on his hand, he asked him with a distressed look: "Do you know that there are people in this river waiting to take our lives?" ”

Sun Zhiling's eyes sank, and he sighed: "Xia Guan knows." This water ghost is still selected from the Lingtai City, for forty years, the holy oracle in the palace has never come to such a small place as the Lingtai, but it arrived ten days ago, it was the edict sent by Prime Minister Gao, saying that His Royal Highness and the eunuch Lu Shu of the master of ceremonies and the eunuch Lu Shu deliberately rebelled, and let the lower officials set up an ambush in the Lingtai to take the life of the rebel. ”

"Why is it a word and not a decree?" I asked with a smile. Even though I already know that dictation is such a thing, without ink or stamping, it is extremely operable and changeable.

Wei Tian is smart and smart here, if this king goes back to question him alive, he can casually deny that he has never given such an edict, and then blame Gao Shu, and Gao Shu can also put the blame on the person who sent the oracle, and the only one who will be punished in the end is the scapegoat who sent the oracle.

Sun Zhiling obviously understood this truth, so his face was full of helplessness: "Although the villain is an official, he can distinguish right from wrong." His Royal Highness has made great achievements in the southern border, and he has made great contributions to my Jin country, which is reasonable and reasonable, and should not be treated like this. ”