Chapter 345: Procrastination
Shang Mingjie took a Lu Shilang with him, but he couldn't run if he wanted to, so he could only help him stumble forward. β’ with β’ dream β’ small β’ .lΔ
But there was no way, he couldn't leave Lu Shilang, to a certain extent, the reason why the assassins were so determined to chase him was not only because of the prince's equipment on him, but also because Lu Shilang was by his side.
Not only did the assassins not recognize Shang Mingjie, but even the guards didn't notice that someone had been replaced.
So when he saw that only the "Four Princes" and Lu Shilang were left among the four people, he was immediately frightened, and desperately stopped the assassin from passing.
However, there were not many guards brought by the four princes, and everyone was injured at this time, and they were still getting closer and closer to the prince after fighting and retreating.
The guards were full of despair, and were thinking about whether to drag one of the assassins to their deaths so as to buy time for the four princes, when Shang Mingjie fell to the ground with a thud because the assassins leaped over, facing the guards.
The guards stared at him with wide eyes, and the chief guard was the first to react and yelled, "Your Highness! β
He then led his men backwards, avoiding the Assassins' attacks and continuing to stop the Assassins.
The guards also immediately came back to their senses, no longer thinking of such a stupid way to die together, but fought and retreated, and surrounded Lu Shilang and Shang Mingjie in the middle.
The chief of the guard gave everyone a look, now he is not in a hurry to die, and he has to delay a little more time to buy enough time for the four princes.
Shang Mingjie got up from the ground, and by the way, he also dragged Lu Shilang up, he quietly grabbed a sword on the ground, and stared at the assassins with the same vigilance.
There weren't a few assassins left, but they were still outnumbered and outnumbered by the guards.
Seeing them in a circle, the Assassins immediately dispersed and surrounded them.
Shang Mingjie wiped his face, his already dirty face became even dirtier, and he lowered his voice and asked the assassin, "Do you want to kill me, or do you want to capture me alive?" β
The assassins were stunned, can they still be captured alive?
The assassins made eye contact, and after a moment they became firm, staring at Shang Mingjie with murderous intensity.
Shang Mingjie smiled bitterly, it seemed that they had made up their minds to kill the four princes, the knife in his hand hung down, and he pushed Lu Shilang out with his left hand, and said coldly: "Go back and tell my father and let him avenge me!" β
Lu Shilang's eyes widened, "Your Highness? β
Shang Mingjie glared at him fiercely, quietly gave him a look, almost didn't smoke, stunned, what are you doing, can you live one by one.
The assassins glanced at Lu Shilang, the old and weak civil official, he didn't take it to heart, as long as the four princes and these guards were dead.
As soon as the leader gave the order, the assassins instantly killed inside, and the chief guard kicked Lu Shilang away, and surrounded Shang Mingjie tightly.
Shang Mingjie took the sword and aimed at the stab in the middle, although the assassin's movements were fast, he could always stab, although it was far away, it was not necessarily fatal, but it also caused a lot of trouble to the other party.
A guard fell, and Shang Mingjie stepped out of the circle to fill in.
The guards knew that now their task was to delay time, and the longer Shang Mingjie lived, the more time the four princes had, and the more hope they had for escape, so they did not break through, but focused on defense.
Shang Mingjie knows kung fu, he is smart, he was surrounded in a circle for a long time, and he touched the key to their Jiejun formation, and after filling it, there was the chief guard and the guards on the side to help, the assassins had no way to take them for a while, they could only rely on grinding, as long as one more person fell, this military formation would be broken.
The assassins wandered outside, attacking forward quickly and fiercely, the guards blocked in an orderly manner, and they could only find time to fight back once after being attacked five or six times, and there were more and more wounds on their bodies, that is, Shang Mingjie had several knife cuts on his body, and the blood had already flowed to the ground.
He is the main target,
Therefore, as long as the sword falls on his body, the force must be not small, so he obviously hurts the least, but the blood is the most.
The assassin vaguely felt that something was wrong, these people had no intention of breaking through at all, but what was the point of this?
The four princes who were surrounded here would definitely die, how could they not want to break through?
Even if you know that you will die if you break through, the meaning is different, there is always a glimmer of hope, isn't it?
The assassin squinted his eyes to see Shang Mingjie, who was embarrassed and bloody, and only after half a sound did he exclaim, "No, he is not Shi Si!" What about the big official just now? β
"There!" Someone brought Lu Shilang over, the guards hated iron and steel, and the chief guard kicked him out, just to let him run quickly, the assassins might not chase him, but he got up in a daze and was knocked unconscious by an assassin, even if he wanted to leave a live message, it shouldn't be let go now.
But they had been holding back the assassin for so long, and they had deliberately formed a military formation to move backwards, just to give him time to run, and to live one by one, but he didn't wake up for so long.
You know, they have moved more than 500 meters during this time, as long as he wakes up and crawls carefully, it's no problem.
The guards hated that iron could not become steel, but they had to change their strategy and immediately change the military formation, the other three guards raised their swords and killed them, and the chief guard pulled Shang Mingjie and ran, "Your Highness, go away!" β
The Assassins hesitated again, "Strike? β
Shang Mingjie almost vomited out a mouthful of old blood, this is obviously to confuse the enemy, he knows it to anyone who has not read a few military books!
The assassins turned around and went to chase after him, and they shook Lu Shilang twice, and found that he couldn't wake up, so they threw it away, and killed these people first.
In the mountains, there was another burst of chickens, flying dogs and jumping after me, the guards wanted to intercept it, and the matter of leading the way was handed over to Shang Mingjie, and the chief of the guard couldn't care so much, and shouted: "Your Highness, go back to the lawn, there is a Chu army on it!" β
Shang Mingjie answered, chose a direction and ran away, the guards followed with a fight, the assassins gave chase, and two quarters of an hour later, they met Lu Shilang who fell to the ground.
The guards were silent for a moment, silently continuing to hold their knives to fend off the assassins, Shang Mingjie's eyes widened, he looked left and right, covered the wound on his chest that was bleeding the most, and finally chose a direction to continue running......
When they saw the tree that had been cut down again, the guards were desperate in their hearts, they knew that if they ran further, they might still see Lu Shilang who was still unconscious, Shang Mingjie didn't notice this, he stumbled and ran forward, and when he saw the soldiers standing under the tree, his eyes burst into light, and shouted: "We ran out, help, help!" β
The guards were startled, turned their heads and looked back, and saw a group of soldiers dressed in the uniforms of the State of Chu, they were in high spirits and shouted: "Don't hurry up and protect our prince of Liang, our Liang and Chu are friendly countries." β
The Chu soldiers were sent to rescue by the prince of Chu, and when they heard the words, they drew their swords and rushed over, but the assassins did not expect to fall short, and they hated it in their hearts.
They thought this was a fake Four Princes a moment ago, and they were playing around in circles here, but they had already set up an ambush?
Regardless of the limits of his body, one of the assassins insisted on separating the sword of the chief guard, and his luck flew up, and Shang Mingjie, who was aiming with all his strength, threw it fiercely.
The chief guard felt that something was wrong when he was vigorously separated from him, so before the Assassin flew up, he yelled, "Get down! β
Shang Mingjie, who had slackened, raised his head when he heard the sound, his eyes shrank, and he didn't have time to react at all, but Lu Shilang, who had fallen at his feet, woke up at the moment when the guard roared, and subconsciously waved his hand, grabbed something and grabbed it fiercely.
Shang Mingjie stared at the flying sword, he couldn't react at all when he was pulled by his left leg, his body subconsciously fell to the left, and the long sword flew in, directly penetrating Shang Mingjie's right chest with a great momentum.
He fell on Lu Shilang, Lu Shilang said "ouch", almost fainted again, and when he saw the long sword inserted in his chest, he was really devastated, and exclaimed: "Your Highnessβ"
The Assassins were overjoyed to hear this, and turned around and fled.
The chief guard didn't care to chase after him, and ran up to see Shang Mingjie's situation, "There is too much bleeding, you have to stop the bleeding!" β
The chief of the guard picked up Shang Mingjie and ran out, and Wang Yan, who was forcing Prince Chu to enter the mountain with him, walked down a gentle slope and saw the chief of the guard hugging Shang Mingjie, and his eyes suddenly darkened, "Your Highness?" β
The chief guard didn't have time to explain, "Call the doctor, he's too badly injured and he's lost too much blood." β
Wang Yan didn't look at Shang Mingjie's face, and subconsciously felt that this was their fourth prince, and for a while, he turned around and grabbed the prince of Chu with a hideous face, "His Royal Highness the prince, save our fourth highness, if something happens to him in the country of Chu, ......"
Prince Chu's face was also pale, and he hurriedly ordered, "Quickly call the imperial physician, go back to get the medicine quickly, and make every effort to treat the four princes. β
The chief guard had already run to the front, and the imperial physician had been invited early in the morning, after all, there were assassins here, and the doctor was always available.
Wang Yan followed the chief of the guard closely, and as soon as he rushed into the camp tent, he began to help the imperial physician with treatment, he also knew some medical skills, and he didn't bring a doctor over, how could he dare to completely hand over the four princes to the imperial doctor of Chu?
So as soon as he took off his coat, he took the scissors and cut his clothes, without even having time to look at his face.
Seeing that he was proficient, Imperial Physician Wang quickly prepared hemostatic medicine, and when the plaster was hot, he just cut his clothes, Wang Yan and Imperial Physician Wang and several other assistant doctors cooperated, and the assistant doctor stuffed the cork into Shang Mingjie's mouth, nodded slightly to the two of them, and Imperial Physician Wang began to carefully draw his sword, as soon as the sword came out, it immediately stopped the bleeding, and at the same time stuffed ginseng into Shang Mingjie's mouth to replenish qi.
Wang Yan's eyes were red when he saw the blood coming out, and then he looked at the "Four Princes" with a painful heart, and then his eyes widened slightly.
He blinked, looked at Shang Mingjie's face, and then looked down at the clothes, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, silently holding down the ointment and not speaking.
The imperial physician was sweating profusely and took the medical assistants to stop the bleeding for him, and there were several wounds on the body of the "Four Princes", two of which were very deep, and they were still bleeding.
If this continues, even if those wounds do not hurt the internal organs, they will lose too much blood and die.