Chapter 46: The Assassination
I should have slept faster after drinking, but Ying Sui couldn't fall asleep over and over, probably because he slept in the post house for the first time. She looked out the window and left so suddenly, and she didn't know if Helan Qin would be angry.
But she doesn't regret this decision, there are some sweet poisons, just dip it in, do you have to die of poison, she doesn't want to die yet, and she doesn't want him to die.
Hundreds of miles away, a team camped a hundred paces away from the avenue and spent the night. Dozens of tents were set up, iron kettles were set up on bonfires, and boiling water was stirred, and soon someone picked it up with a scabbard and slowly poured it into several large bowls on the ground. There is dry food in the bowl, and when the boiling water is hot, it is a good meal.
If you look from a high vantage point, you can see that the tents are not arranged randomly, but are almost evenly arranged around the middle one. A horse soldier carried a bowl of scalded porridge and a plate of roasted jerky into the tent in the middle.
"Patriarch, let's rest early after dinner, there are still five or six days to go." The rough and rough man said things that were very considerate.
Although it was only a temporary resting place, the tent was not set up in any hurry. The floor was covered with a woollen carpet, and the owner was lying on his side on a tiger skin cushion, with more than one flask on a small table in front of him.
Lying on it is naturally the patriarch of the horse clan Ma Gang, although he was born in the horse clan based on grazing, he is not keen on riding and shooting, most of his time is shrunk in the ancient city built by the Great Woyuan for hundreds of years, where he is good at intriguing with many tribal leaders, so he is more like a conspirator born in the wrong place.
So his father didn't like him, but he didn't care. He stubbornly believed that none of those people understood him, so he didn't have to accommodate anyone. His wife, his son, and many others around him did not understand him, and he was happy to be free and do only what he liked.
Except for the annual festival and autumn hunting, he hardly leaves his palace. Therefore, among the leaders, he was the only one with the paleest complexion. It is also due to the perennial delay in wine, in addition to paleness, there are also sagging eye bags and deep nasolabial folds.
This forced long journey was not a pleasant thing for him, so he was very serious all the way, which made the people around him feel uneasy.
"Put it down, get out."
"Yes." The soldier put down his things and took two steps back to go out.
Ma Gang's gloomy gaze glanced at the curtain he had lifted when he left, and through that gap he saw the dark sky, there was not a single star, was it raining somewhere.
He picked up the bowl and drank it in one gulp, the faint taste furrowing his brows. Indignantly spit out a few words: "Little bunny! ”
The soldiers on night duty were on horseback in groups of two, patrolling within a radius of one mile. After all, the mountains and forests are different from the grasslands, and the view is easily obstructed, and they have selected as many open areas as possible, and only a small area of woodland needs to be guarded.
The two soldiers looked at it carefully, nodded to each other, and signaled that they could rest assured. Then change direction and go to the next open view. After the two left. But in a few breaths, several dark shadows emerged like ghosts in the dark night. From the canopy, the grass peeks out and slowly approaches the camp.
The previous two have already gone far, and the next team has not yet come closer. The man in black who walked in the front raised his hand to signal, and more than a dozen people lined up in a line, and at the same time they were running wildly!
Such a big movement naturally attracted the attention of the patrol soldiers, who had just shouted loudly, and a dozen people here were running and shooting arrows with bows. The arrows shot at the center of the camp had not yet fallen when they suddenly spontaneously combusted, and soon after they fell, several tents were set on fire!
"Fragrant bamboo arrow!" Many people in the horse clan burst out with such a sentence, and after being shocked, they did not hesitate for a moment, and rushed towards the assassin who was approaching.
More than a dozen people were surrounded by dozens of people, the Ma family instantly had the advantage, and before they could take any of them, the rear exclamations rose again, and another batch of flaming arrows flew into the camp, and there was more than one team of enemies!
The horse soldiers here were worried that there would be an ambush, so they divided some of their men to defend. The camp suddenly became tense, and everyone picked up their weapons and stared at them, but they didn't know where the enemy was hiding! The outside of Ma Gang's tent was surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside, and he only heard that there was a mess outside, and he didn't even have the idea of coming out to take a look.
The sound of the "whirring" wind seemed to be a little strange, I don't know who looked up, and I was stunned to see that I don't know how many people flew from the sky. He opened his mouth wide in shock, and before he could speak, a little cold light appeared in front of him, which instantly pierced his eyes and mouth.
"Ah......h
"It's the Eagle Clan's broken feathers!"
"The fragrant bamboo arrow belongs to the Helan family!"
"What are they going to do!"
……
If there is only one side, the Horse Clan soldiers have the confidence to deal with it. But at this time, it is obvious that there are two people, and no family dares to challenge two families at the same time, and the horse clan is no exception!
As soon as this weapon that clearly revealed its identity appeared, the soldiers of the horse clan couldn't help but be in turmoil. I forgot to analyze the number of enemies and enemies, and blankly resisted the hidden weapons and arrows that flew in front of me.
Ma Gang heard the sound outside, and he was the only one who was the most quiet among everyone. He pulled the corners of his mouth and sneered, and said to himself: "It's the Helan family and the Eagle family again, maybe there will be the Wang family later, this assassin is stupid, and he is afraid that others won't know who he is?" ”
The shouts and screams outside did not last long, and the appearance of the "Eagle Clan" seemed to be just to cover up the retreat of the Helan family assassins, they scattered one hidden weapon after another, but none of them fell, and flew away directly on the "kite" in their hands, and taking advantage of the chaos they caused, the dozens of people who fired the arrows successfully escaped.
The enemy is gone, but the rest of the horse soldiers are confused.
What are they here for?
In their team, the most valuable Ma Gang's face was not revealed, his tent was still intact, and the assassin was gone?
Coming to play?
But after such a battle, more than 20 horses died and more were injured, because the broken feather needles scattered in the sky were thin and small, and it was even more difficult to guard against in the dark. The tent was also burned to nearly half, and I am afraid that half of the people will be open to sleep in the next few days.
"Patriarch," the captain of the guard confirmed that the crisis was over, and went in to report, "The assassin has escaped, and in order to prevent fraud, his subordinates ordered the soldiers not to pursue for the time being, and to make plans at dawn." ”
Ma Gang sneered: "These are all pawns, it's useless to kill them all!" ”
The captain of the guard bowed his head: "The arrows and hidden weapons used by the assassins seem to be from the Helan family and the Eagle family, patriarch, we ......" said as he presented the collected evidence to Ma Gang with both hands.