When he rushed out of the inner mansion compound, he was met by dozens of palace guards, and the leader shouted: "What's going on inside? What about the High Commanders? ”

Song Nan didn't answer, he shouted an order, and when he landed the fire, he knocked down all the twenty or thirty people who ran in front, and more than a dozen guards shouted and turned around and ran, Song Nan had no intention of wasting time chasing them, so he only took people straight to the mansion in front.

The appearance of the mansion is indeed very ordinary, like hundreds of ordinary mansions in the palace, I can't see anything special, but Song Nan believes in the words of the county lord of Ping'an, since Zhu Ningxiao lives in such a mansion, in addition to hiding people's eyes and ears to confuse others, the defense in this courtyard must also be extremely in place, but it is a pity that the county lord of Ping'an has never entered, and he can't describe the situation at all.

On the way to the mansion for a short time, several palace guards gathered to block the front, they were no longer confused by the clothing of Song Nan and others, and they started directly when they met, Song Nan had fire guns on his side, and there were fire guns and bows and arrows on the opposite side, after a random shooting and killing, the Jinyi guards defeated these seventy or eighty guards, forcing them to retreat into the gate of the house, but they also paid the price for the first time since entering the mansion; Five guards were killed by bows and arrows and firebolts on the opposite side, and eight others were wounded.

Fortunately, the injured guards were not too seriously injured, and they were still able to shoot with firearms, and the loss of five people had little impact on combat effectiveness, and they must not be delayed at this moment, seeing that the guards were forced to retreat into the house, Song Nan and Wang Yong also charged to the door with the Jinyi guards.

The courtyard door was closed, and there was a sharp sound of bamboo whistle from inside, and there was no sound in all directions in an instant, and the silence was a little terrible, all the voices and footsteps disappeared without a trace, and the sound of the sword exchange at the front door of the palace was clearly audible.

Everyone clinged to the walls on both sides of the courtyard gate, and Wang Yong said in surprise: "After these guys entered the door, there was no sound, are they pretending to be ghosts?" ”

Song Nan said in a low voice: "Everyone be careful, it must be the Longtan Tiger's Den inside, I am afraid that you can't enter the courtyard gate, so I ordered someone to go up to the wall to take a look." ”

Wang Yong nodded and ordered, a brocade guard threw a hook on the wall, slowly climbed up the wall, only half of his head was exposed, and then he heard a buzzing sound, the brocade guard screamed and fell down, everyone hurriedly checked, only to see a feather arrow nailed to his forehead and eyebrows, and he was killed with only one arrow.

"Damn, it's really hateful, it turns out that there are archers in ambush."

Song Nan stretched out his hand and slowly closed the guard's round eyes, stretched out his hand and pulled out the fire gun from his waist and handed it to the guard beside him, and thought for a while: "The angle of this arrow is shot diagonally from top to bottom, and it can be seen that there is a marksman ambushed high in the courtyard. ”

"But you can't see the arrow tower outside, and the houses in the courtyard are not tall, how can there be any higher than the wall?"

Song Nan was silent, slowly moved to the door, looked inward from the crack in the door for a long time, and retreated and said: "It's that the dozen or so big trees are strange, the trees are seven or eight feet high, and they should be built with an archery platform in the canopy; It's winter now, you can see some clues from the branches, if it's spring, summer and autumn, it must be hidden tightly, and it really has some thoughts, if someone intends to break in, I'm afraid I don't know how to die. ”

Wang Yong took a breath and said, "I see, these people must be cleared before they can enter, otherwise there will be huge casualties." ”

Song Nan nodded and said, "The range of the fire gun is not enough, and it is a little tricky. ”

Wang Yong said: "Look at me." ”

Song Nan hurriedly said: "Don't take risks, don't harm your life." ”

Wang Yong said: "No, my lord, look at it." ”

As he spoke, he instructed several guards to drag over the corpses of several guards who were lying on the road, ordered two guards to tie the corpses with ropes on their chests, took an iron-tired strong bow from the back of one of the guards, held it in his hand, and whispered: "Knock open the gate." ”

Song Nan suddenly understood when he saw this posture, and praised him: "Good idea, but I don't know how your archery skills are?" ”

Wang Yong said: "The humble position used to be the thirteenth Taibao of the Fusi of Beizhen, is it a waste of fame?" If Brother Wan Zhiwan is here, I may be slightly inferior, his archery skills are the most accurate among our thirteen Taibao, but I am not a vegetarian, as long as I see the position of their arrows, if the distance of these dozens of steps is missed, do I still have a face? ”

Song Nan smiled and said, "Wait and see." ”

The two guards moved to the courtyard gate with the corpse, raised their feet and kicked out at the same time, kicking the courtyard door of the false speech, and at the same time the two of them grabbed the back of the corpse and shrank behind the corpse, but they heard the sound of buzzing bowstrings endlessly, and the arrows on the more than a dozen big trees in the far courtyard were like meteors catching the moon with great precision, and the sound of puffing was endless, and in just an instant, more than a dozen arrows were nailed to the heads and faces of the two corpses; Not a single arrow missed.

Wang Yong shrank behind the corpse to see the truth, and after the arrow was shot, he took advantage of the spare time to get up suddenly, bent his bow and shot an arrow, and a terrible scream came from the darkness, and then the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground sounded, and the arrow followed the direction from which the arrow came, and it actually worked.

Song Nan praised repeatedly, Wang Yong's face remained unchanged, he calmly bent his bow and arrows, and shot another arrow at another tree, and another scream sounded, and the other archer also fell.

The sharpshooters on the rest of the trees immediately changed their colors and replaced them with arrows, and the rain of arrows came again, and seven or eight arrows were hit on the two corpses, but the positions of two more archers were seen through by Wang Yong, and after two arrows, the two archers fell down.

The archers on the trees obviously noticed the strangeness and stopped firing the arrows, Song Nan ordered several guards to drag seven or eight more corpses to be concocted in the same way, creating the illusion that a large number of people entered the courtyard, and the archers on the tree couldn't help but fire again, Wang Yong shot as fast as lightning, shooting down three archers in a row, and the archers on the remaining four big trees died down and never showed their heads again.

There are only a few marksmen left, the threat has been greatly reduced, and the situation is a little different from Song Nan's estimate, I thought that this place must be heavily guarded, but I didn't expect that except for the dozen or so guards who escaped in, it seems that there are not many people in this courtyard.

In fact, Song Nan didn't figure out the situation at all, there were hundreds of guards around Zhu Ningxiao on weekdays, but the gate of the palace was tight, and the guards from all over the palace were sent to reinforce, so there were only more than 100 guards left around him. Of course, it is impossible for these guards to all shrink into this mansion, more than 100 people are guarding the perimeter, and in addition to a dozen marksmen and more than 20 guards in the house, the rest are eight close master guards.

More than 100 guards outside were shot and killed dozens of people in the courtyard of the inner house, and dozens of people died in the fight between the two sides along the way, and the remaining dozen or so all escaped, in fact, there were only forty or fifty people in this courtyard in total, so it seemed that there were no people.

In fact, there is no need for Zhu Ningxiao to arrange many manpower in the residence, if someone wants to be unfavorable to him, he must first have the ability to enter the palace, the palace has three thousand guards patrolling day and night, many bold guys have just entered the palace and were arrested, almost no one can reach this mansion. It is said that if someone can enter this mansion, it must be a master among the masters, and it is useless to rely on a large number of people, relying on the unexpected sniping of the sharpshooters arranged in the mansion, and a few strong guards around him can deal with it.

Everyone poured into the courtyard, and the ground of the whole courtyard was made of flat bluestone, and there was a faint blue light shining in the dim faint light, and there was a small round door at that end, and there was a black hole in the round door, which must be leading to Zhu Ningxiao's residence; But the whole courtyard is flat except for a dozen large trees dozens of paces away, giving people an extremely strange feeling, maybe this is a countermeasure to prevent the enemy from sneaking in, in such a flat place without any shelter to sneak into the inner house, it is bound to have nothing to hide, and it will also be completely exposed to the sniping of the marksman in the canopy of the big tree.

Song Nan was thinking about this, the two guards had already gone down the steps inside the door, stepped on the bluestone ground, suddenly, the bodies of the two of them staggered, and suddenly fell to the side with a scream, the guards behind him hurriedly reached out to help them, the brocade guard on the left was lucky to be grabbed by the person behind him and dragged up, but the guard on the right was not so lucky, only to hear him scream and fall to the ground, suddenly silent.

Song Nan was shocked, and hurriedly ordered to withdraw from the courtyard, and put the guard's body under the wall, and his finger probed at the tip of his nose, but he had no breath at all, and he was already killed. This was not a small surprise, everyone was busy checking the wounds, only to see blood oozing from the soles of the guard's feet, and when he took off his boots, several scars on the soles of his feet penetrated the instep of his feet, and they were all pierced by sharp blades.

Under the cover of the two corpses, Song Nan flipped back to the bottom of the steps inside the door, and soon knew the clue, the bluestone ground under the steps was actually loose, and it was flipped when he stepped on it, and there was a deep pit below, which was full of sharp blades, and the guards stepped on the sharp blades, penetrated the boots and pierced the soles of the feet.

"My lord, the wound is highly poisonous, seeing the poison of the blood sealing the throat, this brother was killed immediately after piercing the soles of his feet, this poison is so domineering, the old thief is really vicious." Wang Yong said in a low voice.

Song Nan didn't understand until this time why there was something strange in this house, and Zhu Ningxiao kept the well-defended hall and wanted to live in this ordinary mansion, it turned out that all kinds of dark organs were set up in this courtyard, all of which were things that could kill people at the touch of a button.

The floor in the courtyard is made of bluestone slabs of the same size, and who knows which one is solid underneath and which one is a deadly poisonous blade? How to cross this short distance of fifty or sixty steps to Zhu Ningxiao's residence has really become a thorny problem.