On their way to the wall, they found several of the guards lying underground, groaning in pain, presumably wounded by the Assassin who had fled in front of them.

Li Yong and the others chased them under the wall, and the air at this time emitted a strong smell of burning. Li Yong used a flashlight to shine on the wall, and found a charred corpse lying on the iron bar on the wall, and there was a faint smoke on his body, so he shouted at the headset to ask Wang Yan to turn off the power, and then asked Chen Tao to arrange for someone to move the corpse underground.

At this time, the sea also brought in two masked bodies from outside the city gate. According to the Navy, the two men were outside the southwestern part of the wall, where they resisted with bows and swords in order to prevent the palace guards from entering the Assassins' return site, and the sea had to shoot them dead.

Li Yong asked Zhang Tao to have the five bodies carried to a remote open space in the palace and placed them side by side, covered them with sheets, protected by special personnel, and ordered that no one should approach and uncover the masked scarves of the corpses.

Early the next morning, Cao Cao received the news that all the Assassins had been killed, and he immediately arranged for Cheng Yu to be notified to come to his mansion, and then the group hurried to the palace.

When they arrived at the palace, Li Yong and Zhang Tao led the King of Wei to the place where the corpses were placed, and Cao Cao asked Zhang Tao, "Does this assassin know anyone?" ”

"Back to the prime minister, last night it was dark that these five people came here to assassinate, two of them were killed by the future people when they were assassinating in the palace, and the other two were also killed by the future people when they were receiving them outside the palace, and one assassin fled to the wall and was burned to death by the future people with iron bars. These five corpses, we have not unveiled, let alone who they are, please be clear. ”

Hearing Zhang Tao say this, Cao Cao was relieved, so he said loudly to Li Yong: "Oops! Thou art extremely brave, and now that the Assassins have been wiped out, the Son of Heaven has no worries about his safety, but he is in great trouble in his heart, and I want to reward you and others! Then he said to his attendants, "Stand back, and see the face of the thief." So the others quickly stepped back and avoided it.

In fact, Cao Cao knew very well who did the assassination, and only the crown prince Cao Pi was the most likely, because he thought that the future people would come here to help the Son of Heaven might threaten his dream of becoming emperor in the future, so he sent the assassin to assassinate the Son of Heaven. Besides, who has such great skills, sent so many people with high martial arts skills to assassinate, and can also be familiar with the situation in the palace, so it must be the crown prince Cao Pi.

Cao Cao then pulled Cheng Yu to inspect the faces of the corpses, Cheng Yu used his long sword to pick open the face towels of each corpse, and Cao Cao carefully examined the faces of each corpse.

The three corpses in front of them, King Wei, they didn't know; The charred and shrunken corpse was so badly damaged that it was unrecognizable and unrecognizable.

Cao Cao came to the last corpse again, when Cheng Yu used his long sword to pick open his face towel, he was slightly startled, and found that this person was a little familiar, he thought for a while and suddenly remembered, this person's name is Wang Zhiyu, who used to be his personal guard, a native of Changshan (now Zhengding, Hebei). His martial arts are strong, chivalrous and courageous are very loyal, and later in order to ensure the safety of the prince Cao Pi, he transferred him to Cao Pi, and he didn't want to be the one who assassinated him today.

Seeing that his hands and feet were injured, and the annular wound on the left side of his neck was still bubbling with blood, Cao Cao knew very well that this was the wound left by himself with his left hand, and it seemed that he knew that he couldn't run away for fear of falling into the hands of the enemy, so he committed suicide. Thinking of this, he felt sad for a while, but he still said on the surface: "A bold thief, he dares to assassinate the Son of Heaven, heaven does not tolerate it, and the corpse should be broken into ten thousand pieces!" Come on, move the corpses of these assassins out of the palace quickly, don't frighten the Son of Heaven, and quickly find a place to bury them. ”

Zhang Tao's men hurriedly went to wrap the corpses in cloth and moved them out of the palace for disposal. Cao Cao asked Cheng Yu, "Do you know who sent the assassins?" What is its purpose? ”

Cheng Yu actually knew who did it, and he was also a little familiar with Wang Zhiyu, and he remembered that he had met Cao Pi's mansion, so the person who sent the assassin must have been Cao Pi. He also knew that Cao Cao wanted to test himself by saying this, but he couldn't poke open this layer of window paper, so he replied: "The assassins are all strangers, and the lower officials think that the assassins may not be here to assassinate the Son of Heaven, or they may have heard that the future people have magical things, and now they are in the palace, so they sneaked into the palace to assassinate future people or steal their things." ”

Cao Cao patted his thigh and said, "That's right!" He also believed that the Assassins might not have assassinated the Son of Heaven, but that they were actually here for the sake of future people. He turned his head and said loudly to the others around him: "If you pass on the true image, this person who infiltrated the palace did not assassinate the Son of Heaven, but actually coveted the things of the future people, and has now been eradicated and has no worries. After saying that, he raised his head and left the palace laughing.

Cao Pi didn't sleep that night, it turned out that he did the assassination of the Son of Heaven, so today he was worried all night for fear that the failure of the operation would lead to the revelation of his plan.

It turned out that when he knew that the future people would come to Xu Du to help the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty to unify the country, he was afraid that he would not be able to sit on the country in the future, so he was in a panic all day long, sighing all day long. His abnormal behavior was seen and remembered by his personal guard Wang Zhiyu.

This Wang Zhiyu was originally a general under Yuan Shao, and later served as Yuan Shao's personal bodyguard, after Yuan Shao was defeated by Cao Cao in the Battle of Guandu, this person was the same as Zhang He, loyal and brave to protect Yuan Shao, and later they were captured by the Wei army after they would rather die than surrender.

When Cao Cao heard about it, he cherished such a loyal man very much, and personally untied him and invited them to submit to him, and finally it was Cao Cao's Corporal Lixian's sincerity that touched them, and later he and Zhang He returned to Cao Cao together.

Later, Zhang He became Cao Cao's general, and Cao Cao let Wang Zhiyu he be in charge of his personal guard, because of his strong martial arts, cautious and loyal, so he won Cao Cao's trust, and later for the safety of the son Cao Pi, he was transferred to Cao Pi, who was inspected by Cao Pi for a period of time, and let him serve as his personal guard.

Seeing Cao Pi's sluggish appearance all day long, Wang Zhiyu quietly asked Cao Pi what he did? Cao Pi told him about the situation of the future people coming here to help the Han Emperor unify the country and what he was worried about.

After hearing this, Wang Zhiyu thought for a while and said: "Your Highness, don't worry, there is a countermeasure in the future, it is better to send an assassin to assassinate the Son of Heaven, without the Son of Heaven, won't His Highness be able to obtain the country in the future?" ”

In fact, Cao Pi has long had this idea, but he didn't dare to put it forward, since someone said it today, he pretended to be tentative and said: "This plan is impossible, my father is very strict in the palace, and now there are future people in this palace, all of them are extremely brave and have magical weapons, if you want to send someone to assassinate the risk, what if the action is revealed?" ”

"Your Highness doesn't have to worry, this matter is on the brother, Brother Rong will prepare for a few days to ensure the success of the operation." Wang Zhiyu patted his chest and said.

Cao Pi took Wang Zhiyu's hand and said: "Thank you brother for helping, this plan must be cautious, in case the action fails, it will affect the brother." Wang Zhiyu laughed and said: "Your Highness, although rest assured, none of the assassins are selected from His Highness's mansion, and my brother will go back to Changshan today to find Brother Zhang, the senior brother of the 'Changshan Six Raptors', and others to come here to help." ”

Hearing Wang Zhiyu mention the name of the six fierce dragons in Changshan, Cao Pi's eyes emitted a strange brilliance, he had also heard someone mention the names of these people, and I heard that these people were originally the same master as Zhao Zilong, and then Zilong followed Liu Bei, and several others followed Yuan Shao, but I didn't expect that Wang Zhiyu was also the same master as Zhao Yun.

So he said: "Changshan Six Raptors are brothers, and they also know that if they can ask them to come here to help, they will be successful." In this way, Cao Pi agreed to Wang Zhiyu's plan to invite the other four fierce dragons in Changshan to come here to assassinate the Son of Heaven.

It is said that Wang Zhiyu came to the house of his senior brother Zhang Qiang (this person is the senior brother, Zhao Yun is the second senior brother, he is the third, and there are three others, these six dragons are all strong in martial arts, and they are also good at hidden weapons such as bows and darts. In addition to Zhao Yun, these five raptors all followed Yuan Shao and were also reused by him. Later, Yuan Shao was defeated, Wang Zhiyu surrendered to Cao Cao, and the other four raptors were temporarily at home. said the intention this time, at first Zhang Qiang did not agree, but he couldn't withstand Wang Zhiyu's soft grinding and hard bubbles and promised a heavy reward, so he agreed to his request.

Then Zhang Qiang summoned the other three brothers to come over and tell them about the situation, and the brothers were very righteous and said: "The brothers are willing to go with the eldest brother and go to the soup and fight the fire again" (it was because of the righteousness that they all lost their lives in the end. So they came to the capital together, and thus embarked on the road of no return.

After the group came here, they did not live in Cao Pi's mansion but in the inn. In order to ensure the success of the plan, Cao Pi also used a eunuch placed in the palace to find out information (the distribution map of the palace, the emperor's dormitory, and the deployment of guards, etc.). After all the preparations were made, they began their first assassination operation, but when they were about to enter the palace where Emperor Xian lived that night, a eunuch happened to come out and bumped into them, so he shouted and led to the failure of the operation.

After the failure of the first operation, Cao Pi was very scared and wanted to retreat, but this Wang Zhiyu said: "The failure of this operation is bad luck, and the next time it will be successful." ”

Cao Pi knew that although the assassination was not successful this time, a few of them were able to retreat, which showed that several of them were very good at martial arts, so he said: "If this operation fails, my father will definitely pay attention to it and will send more people." I have also heard that my father has invited the future to help in the defense, and it must be more difficult for you to assassinate again, and if you want to act again, you must take all possible measures. Wang Zhiyu nodded and said, "Please rest assured, Your Highness, I will be more prepared this time, and the plan will be more thorough, so as to ensure success in one fell swoop." ”

In this way, they planned again, and asked the secret agent in the palace to report on the new situation of the palace every day. When they learned that two iron bars were arranged on the wall of the palace, and a few things that looked like round balls were erected, Wang Zhiyu and the others laughed and said: "This future is poor, and adding two iron bars on the wall is really to increase the height, which is to prevent someone from climbing, but it just happened to be used by me, isn't that grappling hook better to grasp!" (They don't even know it's a grid.) ）”

They waited in the inn for several more days, believing that the defense of the palace would be tired and slackened after the limelight had passed, so they moved again, not wanting to be wiped out at last.

When someone sent a letter early the next morning to say that the assassins who had gone to the palace to assassinate him the previous night had all been killed, Cao Pi was so frightened that he was at a loss for what to do, and just as he was frightened, the king of Wei sent someone to ask him to go to the palace of the king of Wei. With a worried heart, Cao Pi hurried to the Wei Palace, but fortunately, it was not far away, and soon came to his father's mansion.

Cao Cao was sitting on a chair in the study and was reading a book, and when he saw Cao Pi coming in, he didn't pay attention to him. Seeing his father treat him like this, Cao Pi became more and more nervous. After a while, Cao Cao asked without raising his head: "Do you know what you are called here?" Cao Pi hurriedly stepped forward and bent down and said, "Erchen doesn't know." ”

Cao Cao said angrily: "You are so bold! To do such a disobedient thing is not to be honest! Cao Pi was so frightened that he knelt down and kowtowed: "Father atones for his sins!" Son's son should be damned! It was Wang Zhiyu who came up with this idea, and Erchen didn't dare to make a mistake next time. ”

"Do you dare to have a next time? You almost broke something big! If one day the Son of Heaven is assassinated by you, and all the people of the world think that this king has done it, will they not fall into the land of disloyalty and injustice? What if the people of the world unite with the people of the future to fight against this king? Besides, if Liu Xie dies, your siblings will all become widows, have you ever thought about them? ”

Cao Pi didn't dare to argue, he just kept kowtowing and begging for mercy, and kept saying: "The son knows the mistake, and the son knows the mistake!" ”

Cao Cao continued: "My father knows that my son is worried about the future people who want to help the son unify the world today, Pi'er doesn't have to worry, this few people can't turn the sky, my father just wants to use it to attack Sun and Liu, and when the country has been timed, it will be easy to deal with these people." ”

After Cao Pi listened to Cao Cao's words, he immediately rejoiced: "It's still the father who is wise, and the son also thinks that even if the future person has great ability, he is not the opponent of the father, so the son is relieved." After saying that, he kowtowed to Cao Cao a few more times and left the Wei Palace.

This is exactly what it is: Zhiyu is greedy for merit and courageously, and even his brother lost his life

The matter was revealed, and Cao Cao secretly reprimanded the people behind the scenes