Chapter 8: The Assassination of Tong Guan

The young man sat up in shock, but saw that there was a fire outside the house, as if the roof opposite was on fire. And the roof where he lived heard the sound of hurried footsteps rubbing against the thatch, and a red knight fell from the roof with a bang. Fortunately, the roof is not high, and the cardinal is fine.

"What's going on?" The young man hurriedly asked the fallen cardinal.

"There were rockets everywhere, and when I was trying to stop them from falling to the roof, I stepped on them too hard and they fell."

The young man quickly got up and hid beside the red knight.

The three red-clothed knights in the room set up their formations, holding long swords and encircling the young master in the middle.

"Childe's roof is on fire, please evacuate quickly." A cardinal breaks in. The knight in the house sandwiched the young master in the middle and walked out of the house, only to see the sky rocket flying towards this small pass.

"Childe is good." Yunzhu shouted from afar and was concerned, and was dragged by Fangfang.

Tongguan was originally a small pass, with several thatched huts, and the sturdiest building was no more than a city gate piled up with a few stones, which was not as large as the courtyard of a rich man.

It's because it's too small, and the cardinals of nearly 100 people in the past few days have been stationed separately inside and outside the pass.

is also because of its simplicity, Weng Zhuyun Zhu has slept in the carriage for the past few days, and Fangfang has stayed outside the carriage. The house where the master lives is the bedroom of the guards and generals, even so, it is a thatched fan roof, thin rafters and short beams, how dare the two red knights on the roof stand on the roof, just sit on the load-bearing walls on both sides of the roof.

The roofs of Tongguan are all thatched, the late autumn is dry, once the fire, even if the water source is enough, it may not be able to save, and in addition to the water in the water tank, there is no water source, a small river flows from the front of the pass, but when it is autumn, the river is pitiful, seeing or getting bigger and bigger, the rocket does not stop flying.

A few of the sergeants who had been taken in the customs were shouting, waking up the other sergeants who were sleeping soundly, or taking them from wooden barrels or using a nearby water tank with a wooden basin, and threw them the roof.

There were only a dozen of these sergeants, no more than five or six of them were fighting the fire, and it seemed that the others were still in the house.

The roof caught fire for only a few seconds, and then the flames burst into the sky, and one roof could no longer hold up, and collapsed in an instant, causing a rolling heat wave and screams. Presumably a sergeant who failed to escape in time.

At this time, the owner and the master had arrived safely, and in the only open place in the pass, nearly a hundred red knights were close together, surrounding the master and the master in the middle.

The young master is nearly 1.9 meters tall, even if he lets go of the elite red knights, he rarely has such a height, although he is surrounded in the circle, if he stands on tiptoe, he can see things outside the circle clearly.

There was a ball of fire that burst out of a room screaming, and I don't know whether it was no longer able to run or how to roll to extinguish the fire on my body, and the fire rolled directly on the ground, and the screams became more and more terrifying.

Although the master is in a desperate situation, as a modern person, he can look at this misery and not save it, and he does not dare to get out of the circle.

"Go and save someone!" The young master shouted anxiously.

The cardinal was unresponsive. The master thought that the red knight only obeyed Yunzhu's orders, and then said to Yunzhu:

"Go and save someone, you can't watch that person burn alive!" Eagerness in the words.

"Childe, they are all inferior people, and if they die, they will die." Yunzhu understated.

Xiao Ye knew that some people's lives here were not worth a penny, but it really happened, and he still couldn't accept it in his heart.

A few more fireballs that screamed for the sky and grabbed the ground, and the ghost cried wolf-like howls escaped from the collapsed fire house, and the young master couldn't bear to look at it anymore, closed his eyes, and tried to calm his sudden heart.

Just when the young master closed his eyes and tried to ignore everything in front of him, there was an earth-shattering shout of killing from all directions. The black pressure is climbing over the already low city wall, running towards the master.

Closer and closer, faster and faster. It was only through the fire that I could see that it was a group of masked men in black.

The assassin was pressed black, the swords and guns were bright, how could the young master have seen such a formation, he only stared, his frightened face twitched, and the person could only be stunned in the middle of the red knight.

The red-clothed knights were worthy of being the Praetorian Guards of the Fang Kingdom, and they spread out one by one, freeing up the distance between each other, and the long swords were unsheathed, just waiting for the black-clothed man to kill them.

The distance was less than three meters, and in the forefront of the red knights, a leading soldier exposed the sky-high order: "Kill!" ”

More than two dozen red-clothed knights on the periphery rushed out, taking advantage of the momentum of running, or jumping into the air, or leaning over and sweeping, or stabbing with swords, and the black-clothed people fell to the ground one after another.

For a while, the red knights were one against ten, and the black knights who were killed could not advance, but the black men assassins were reinforced like ants and wasps, and the red knights at the forefront fell one after another. Seeing that the man in black broke through the battle of the red knights, another group of red knights rushed out again, and more than forty people rushed out at this time, not only holding the position but also expanding the front outward.

But this short-lived victory was gradually suppressed by waves of black-clad assassins who attacked like ants.

The red clothes, which were originally more red and bright under the fire, gradually disappeared into the black clothes, and the sound of fighting was much less.

The only remaining forty or so cardinal knights in the center were not allowed to run out in advance, and the position was held for a short time. At this time, there were only three left in the center: Xiao Ye, Yun Zhu and Fang Fang.

The remaining red-clothed knights are also difficult to change the impact of dozens of times the black-clothed assassins' wave after wave of crowd tactics.

The red color was gradually lost in the fighting array, and several black-clothed assassins broke through the defense line and were about to kill the master.

Fang Fang jumped up, and when the sword light rose, several assassins did not leave a shout, and fell in the sword light.

More and more assassins broke through the defense line, Fang Fang calmly responded, rushing left and right, the sword rose and fell to the enemy, and there was no trace of panic, although there were dozens of assassins, but no one could get close to Xiao Ye and Yunzhu.

The young master, who had already been stunned in place, saw that Fangfang was so powerful, and saw the hope of breaking through, his convulsive face eased a little.

While Fang Fang was in the midst of the Assassins' rampage, the Cardinal had been consumed by an unknown number of Assassins.

All the assassins rushed towards him, and the number of them was so large that the clearing was only black.

Even if Fang Fang can defeat one hundred, I am afraid that this formation will not have any chance of winning. She fought, looking through the firelight, knowing that she could not kill so many Assassins.

"Run, Lord Weng!" Fang Fang shouted to Yunzhu.

"Where to run, there are assassins all around." Yunzhu returned hoarsely.

The young master fell into despair again from Fang Cai's hope, what else is this running, don't resist, if you resist, you may die a miserable death. Xiao Ye thought desperately, and suddenly felt a hot liquid flowing down his lower body, reaching the surface of his feet.

Fang Fang finally couldn't resist it, and several assassins rushed towards Xiao Ye, seeing the big knife with a desperate light, slashing at Xiao Ye. A short sword pierced into several assassins in front of the young master like a skewer of meat.

"Run. I'm afraid I won't be able to consume it. Fang Fang shouted again.

But before the words fell, he heard the shouts of killing the heavens from the periphery, and the assassins on the outside were instantly drowned in the red of his eyes.

"The Cardinal." Yunzhu shouted to Fangfang.

"Fangfang hold on, hold on." Yunzhu shouted to Fangfang again.

At this time, Fang Fang also changed her strategy to cling to Yun Zhu and Xiao Ye, and no longer took the initiative to attack, Fang Fang's swordsmanship was outstanding, and with a slight swing, no one could get close to Yun Zhu and Xiao Ye.

The number of assassins is getting smaller and smaller, and the few black-clad assassins on the inside see that assassination is no longer possible, and they kill themselves with their swords.

Less leaning, the assassins fled, the dead died, and the living man in black was gone. Except for the sound of the fire burning, it was immediately much quieter.

The red-clothed knight led by him saw Lord Weng, knelt on the ground and saluted: "Chen Chong should be damned, he was one step too late to frighten Lord Weng." ”

"It should have been damned a long time ago, this is in the Fang country, so many assassins can come and go freely in our country, what about your claimed hands and eyes?" Yunzhu reprimanded.

"Back to Lord Weng, the little one is indeed derelict in his duties, and he didn't report it, but he saw the flames of Tongguan rushing to the sky, so he unloaded his baggage and rushed over." Chen Chong replied.

"Fortunately, my son and I have nothing to do. Otherwise, it would not be too much to hack you to death. Yunzhu scolded again.

At this time, the young master was already sitting on the ground. But his mind is still quite clear, he doesn't want people to see his incontinence, so he covers the dark clothes as much as possible, but fortunately, at night, the fire is gradually losing its majesty, and it is burning with residual breath, if it is not for the master to look at it, it is impossible to see it.

The young master was also listening to Yun Zhu's reprimand, thinking that this woman was too harsh, so Chen Chong gave them up, and without saying a word of gratitude, he actually scolded. The young master eased his nerves and stood up hard.

He saluted and thanked Chen Chong: "Thank you, General Chen Chong, for saving your life." ”

Chen Chong couldn't stand the son's salute, and then bowed to the ground, "Don't dare, don't dare." The small one is not a general. ”