Chapter 489: Assassination in the Woods
In this Jin-Chi War, Lin Haotian realized that there was a big mistake in his prior planning, he and his generals only formulated a rough attack plan, and many details that may arise in the war were not taken into account, but it was precisely these details that could change the pattern of the war, so he decided to set up the Military and Political Hall, and the court and the various legions screened out the best strategists. The staff makes a detailed plan for possible future wars, including how many corps need to be invested, the route of each corps, the direction of attack, logistics and supplies, and so on.
In fact, if the military and political hall is modern, it will be equivalent to the army staff headquarters, and Lin Haotian is also designed according to this concept. When the war begins, the commanders of each army can complete it step by step according to the specific plan, and as for the specific strategy and tactics of fighting against the enemy, it will depend on the individual abilities of the army commanders to play freely.
The Senzheng Hall can be regarded as the prototype of the Jin domestic cabinet system, and the Junzheng Hall has made a great leap forward in the military thinking of the Jin State, and correspondingly, the status of strategists and staff members in the army has also been greatly improved.
Since the establishment of the Political Participation Hall and the Military Political Hall, Lin Haotian has a lot less affairs at hand, and he himself is happy and relaxed, not considering whether doing so will reduce his right as a commander.
The General's Mansion became the office place where the ministers, generals, and strategists of the Jin State came in and out, and every time Guan He came, it became justifiable.
However, he neither went to the political hall nor the military and political hall, every time he came to eat and drink with the guards of the general's mansion, he could occasionally meet Liu Dong who came to the backyard to talk to Zhang Shun and Wu Tao.
He would never miss an opportunity like this, and for good reason. I want to know more about cavalry knowledge and tricks, and I can also use it on the battlefield to defeat the enemy in the future.
He was cheeky and forced to move forward, Zhang Shun and Wu Tao couldn't say anything, Liu Dong didn't care, but he liked Guan He.
The people of Yanguo have always admired the strong, and Guan He's force can be called invincible. It is normal for Liu Dong to have a good impression of him.
Due to the fact that he had more contact, Guan He and Liu Dong's guards were also very familiar with each other, which was crucial for him to grasp Liu Dong's itinerary.
On the other side, Zhang Hui was not idle, the reason why he said that there were chivalrous warriors and dead soldiers from the Red Kingdom lurking in Wancheng was not for nothing, but because these people had already looked for him before.
Everyone knows that Zhang Hui's character is not bad, and he dared to reprimand Lin Haotian in front of several people who were indiscriminately killed, and forced Lin Haotian to apologize. This matter has been widely spread in the Red Kingdom, and it is believed that Zhang Hui was persecuted by the Jin people even if he was an official in the Jin Kingdom.
Because of this, the dead soldiers of the Red Kingdom took the initiative to find Zhang Hui after they came to Wancheng, hoping to get his help and assist them in assassinating Lin Haotian.
At that time, Zhang Hui immediately refused, but felt that if Chi Guo could really become one with Jin Guo, there would be a commander like Lin Haotian. It is the blessing of the red people.
But refusal is refusal, and he did not go to denounce or arrest these dead soldiers of the Red Kingdom. After all, he is also a red person, and he still has compatriot feelings in his heart.
Now because of the cavalry corps commander, he can no longer take care of his compatriots, and can only use these warriors of the Red Country.
In Zhang Hui's opinion, there was no way for Guan He to show more loyalty when he rescued Liu Dong at the hands of the Red Kingdom Assassins.
The dead soldiers of the Red Kingdom are not familiar with the place in Wancheng, and it is undoubtedly a fantasy to want to assassinate Lin Haotian. Someone was in urgent need of assistance, so when Zhang Hui and Guan He found them, the two sides hit it off.
Zhang Hui and Guan He proposed that the target of the assassination was Liu Dong of the Yan Kingdom, which made the dead soldiers of the Red Kingdom a little disappointed. However, Zhang Hui had already thought of an excuse, Lin Haotian was the commander of the Jin Army. There are so many masters around him, and he himself is an extremely powerful martial artist, even with the help of Zhang Hui and Guan He, it is difficult to find an opportunity to assassinate Lin Haotian, and even have to wait for a year or several years.
Instead of sitting and waiting for an opportunity, it is better to look for secondary targets, and Liu Dong is the best candidate. He is not only the envoy of the Yan State this time, but also the general of the Yan State, once he is assassinated in the Jin State, it will directly damage the relationship between the Jin State and the Yan State, and severely weaken the strength of the Jin State in foreign aid.
Zhang Hui was reasonable, and the dead soldiers of the Red Kingdom also trusted him, so they finally decided to do what Zhang Hui wanted, and assassinated Liu Dong, the general of the Yan Kingdom, first.
Later, Guan He took advantage of his relationship with Liu Dong's guards and learned that Liu Dong would go out of the city to hunt in the middle of this month, which was a great opportunity to assassinate him.
Soon, the dead soldiers of the Red Kingdom made plans and preparations based on the information provided by Zhang Hui and Guan He, and assassinated Liu Dong while he was hunting.
There are twenty-one dead soldiers in the Red Kingdom who conspired with Zhang Hui and Guan He, all of them were knights from the Red Kingdom, all of them were underworld warriors, if Zhang Hui and Guan He, the two Wu officials of the Jin Kingdom, were sincerely cooperating, the assassination of Liu Dong might really be successful.
But the bad thing is that these two people are using hypocrisy, especially Guan He, who also personally participated in the planning of the assassination operation, and knows the actions of the dead soldiers of the Red Kingdom well, and even where the assassins are ambushed is personally selected by him.
The mastermind who planned the assassination was a traitor himself, and it would be strange if such an assassination operation could succeed.
According to the predetermined plan, a total of 12 dead soldiers from the Red Kingdom who participated in the assassination were ambushed in the place where Liu Dong was hunting.
Responsible for protecting Liu Dong were his personal guards, the guards of the General's Mansion and the people of the Duwei Battalion, who together numbered nearly five hundred, including many outstanding underworld warriors.
In addition, Guan He, Zhang Shun and Wu Tao also accompanied Liu Dong.
With so many people to protect them, the Assassins would not have found a chance to attack them without internal response.
After arriving at the hunting place, Liu Dongqi drove victoriously and shot a hare first.
Subsequently, Guan He, Zhang Shun, and Wu Tao also made their own gains.
While everyone was having fun, Guan He suddenly shouted, "There is a wild boar!" and as he spoke, he urged the horse to gallop forward.
It was not easy to encounter a wild boar, Liu Dong was in good spirits, and without thinking about it, he immediately followed.
Sure enough, there was a wild boar in the grass in front of him who was running like crazy, and Guan He was chasing and releasing arrows, I don't know if his riding and archery skills were too poor or deliberate, and he released three arrows in a row, but he didn't hit the target, but frightened the wild boar and ran faster.
Liu Dong, who followed closely, laughed, and said arrogantly while urging the war horse: "General Guan's horse archery skills still need to be practiced!" As he spoke, he twisted his bow and set up an arrow, looked at the prey, and raised his arm to be an arrow.
"Pounce!"
The arrow was unusually accurate, hitting the boar's hind buttocks, and the boar was in pain, screaming and running into the woods.
"Good archery!" Guan He sighed sincerely.
Liu Dong laughed, urged the horse to cross the Guan River, and chased the wild boar into the woods.
Seeing this, Zhang Shun, Wu Tao and many guards in the back were startled and hurriedly caught up.
The speed of the wild boar in the woods did not decrease, Liu Dong rode his horse and galloped, but he couldn't catch up, but at this moment, the whistle in the woods was loud, and Liu Dong didn't react to what was going on, and a big net fell down as a hood.
"Plop!"
As the huge net fell, the unprepared Liu Dong couldn't dodge, and was caught in the net, rolling to the ground with people and horses, almost at the same time, four underworld warriors in armor jumped down from the treetops, and four long swords stabbed at Liu Dong's body in unison.
At this time, Liu Dong was trapped in the net, unable to move, where was there room to dodge.
Seeing that four long swords were about to stab him, suddenly, four lightning flashed in the air, and four long arrows that pierced the sky seemed to have eyes, and they shot the chests of the four assassins with great precision.
The force of these four arrows was so great that not only broke the armor of the four people, but even the chest was pierced, and one of them was hit by the force and hit an old tree horizontally, and the body never fell again, and was nailed to it alive by the long arrow.
"Chirp-"
The whistle sounded again, and it sounded more and more rapidly. In the grass and behind the trees around Liu Dong, eight underworld warriors sprang out again, their goals were the same, and the weapons in their hands stabbed Liu Dong's vital points together. (To be continued......)