Chapter Twenty-Five: Murder in the Courtyard Fighting fires in the city
This courtyard is located in Li Yu's house only two streets away, but it is backed by the back mountain, and it seems quiet. The rockery pavilion inside has a Jiangnan atmosphere, and I am afraid that the original owner of this annex has spent a lot of time.
There is an inn a hundred steps to the left outside the courtyard, and the name is here. There are three floors in the inn, and the rooms are divided into three grades: heaven, earth and people. It was late at night, and people were asleep at this time, but suddenly heard the sound of a slight door shaft turning. In the first room of the Son of Heaven, a figure flashed out, looked around vigilantly, walked to the next room and knocked on the door five times, three long and two short.
The next room also opened slightly, and the figure slipped in, and then calmed down again. The night was a little dull, and there was nothing near the courtyard except for the grinding of the patrol soldiers' armor.
"It's out of the water!" Suddenly a shout broke the silence here, and a government official hurriedly ran over, and the official in charge of guarding the periphery was the official of Dingzhou City, and the leader was called Kang Quan, who was the head catcher of Dingzhou City. Kang Quan grabbed the official and shouted, "Be quiet, you have alarmed the inside, Lord Thorn Shi will not let us go!" ”
The official hurriedly said, "Lord Thorn's house is on fire!" Kang Quan was shocked, "Really? The official nodded again and again, "Let's go and put out the fire, as soon as it gets up over there, the consequences will be unimaginable!" ”
Kang Quan hurriedly walked quickly to the courtyard with the servant. After layers of inspection, Kang Quan was put into the innermost layer, the layer handled by the Beiliang soldiers. The Beiliang soldiers did not allow Kang Quan and the official to enter the inner room, but a lieutenant went to report it.
Lou was chatting with Zhou Qi, while Li Yu was closing his eyes and resting. At this time, someone outside reported: "Commander, there is a servant named Kang Quan outside who said that the house of Master Li Yu of the Assassin Shi is on fire!" Li Yu, who had closed his eyes and recuperated, was startled, jumped up and looked at someone Lou, he knew that he was not here and someone Lou was not able to speak.
Someone Lou frowned when he heard this, and said, "Bring that person in." Kang Quan and the official came here under the leadership of the three Beiliang soldiers, and Li Yu greeted him and asked urgently, "Kang Quan, what you said is serious!?" Kang Quan hurriedly replied, "It's true!" ”
Li Yu turned his eyes to look at someone Lou, and Zhou Qi also said on the side, "Louzi, listen to you here." Although he was also worried about his sister and nephew, he calmed down. Lou nodded and said, "Master Li, you take sixty percent of the government servants and thirty percent of the city defense army, go and put out the fire!" With the approval of someone Lou, Li Yu turned around and left.
On an inn far away from the courtyard, Xiao Qingchen was lying on the roof talking with Liuyu Mowu. "Hey, there's a fire over there! Oh no, they did it! Flowing, Mo Wu turned his head to see the flames and crackles in the distance. Xiao Qingchen Huo Ran got up, "Let's go!" ”
When Li Yu turned around and left, a sudden change occurred. The official who stayed beside Kang's body and shrunk suddenly pulled out a dagger and stabbed it straight at someone in the building. "Phew!" Zhou Qi saw this scene and shouted, pulled out his saber and slashed at the officer. Seeing that the matter was revealed, the official slapped his palm on Zhou Qi's knife, and the knife broke off the fly, and Zhou Qi hit a big pillar, shaking off the dust on the roof.
Zhou Qi's shouting alarmed all the Beiliang soldiers, and bought time for someone in Lou, who shouted "Protect the marshal!" There are assassins! As he spoke, he drew his sword and slew at the officer. And Li Yu was also stunned by the scene just now, and was pulled aside by Kang Quan, and the two hid behind the big pillar.
The sound of knives and guns also sounded outside the door, and at this moment, the person who assassinated Xiao Luohe appeared again. More than a dozen of the most elite guards in the house heard the voices outside the house, and they were also holding knives and crossbows. Two of the more than ten guards here are commanders, and the rest are the most elite soldiers such as deputy commanders.
Someone Lou, a knife slashed, was blocked by the official with a dagger, followed by a sweeping leg, someone Lou jumped up, split Huashan, and cut it down. The official turned slightly, his right palm popped out, and a palm hit someone in the chest of the building, and someone in the building was hit by a big pillar. Lou someone was shocked, this person is a first-class master!
When the official saw someone in the building hit the pillar, he threw the dagger as a hidden weapon. "Bang" The dagger that was originally going straight to someone's throat was knocked crooked, and Zhou Qi stood up tremblingly, with blood in his mouth. The dagger had been crooked by him with his own scabbard.
The official was angry, rushed up, and kicked Zhou Qi in the chest, Zhou Qi was kicked away, fell on the wall, and couldn't stand up.
"Kiko!" Someone Lou shouted, gritted his teeth, and raised his knife to rush forward. This time, someone Lou was desperate, his face was flushed, and someone Lou was on the battlefield with the power of open and group fighting, and now he was fighting alone, and he seemed a little powerless. But someone Lou still entangled the official to the death, although he was constantly hit by the body, he was beaten and had no power to fight back.
"Grand Commander, do we want to go out, I'm afraid Commander Lou won't be able to support it!" A deputy commander standing in the inner room asked the one in the middle, and the mighty commander said, the commander shook his head and said, "Don't fall for someone else's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain!" As soon as the words fell, I heard a "bang", and someone broke through the roof and rushed down.
The more than ten elites also reacted extremely quickly, raised their crossbows and shot out. The figure monster screamed, slapped its palms on the crossbow arrows that were speeding towards him, and was forced to retreat. Only a large hole was left in the back. More than a dozen elites raised the spirit of twelve, ready for the enemy's second attack at any time.
Outside, the ground was strewn with blood. Lou someone leaned against a pillar, his right hand holding the knife was still trembling, and he was opposite the official who had been cut off in the arm by his own palm. Li Yu looked at and listened to the noise, his brain went blank, and he estimated that he was finished this time. But he didn't notice that Kang Quan behind him had long since disappeared!
On an attic in the courtyard, Xiao Qingchen watched the Beiliang soldiers who relied on the battle formation and the cooperation of the soldiers fought with this group of Jianghu killers, although the number of city defense troops was also quite large, but the lack of combat experience and the cooperation of the battle array could only be unilaterally slaughtered many times, but after paying a large price, they could always kill a man in black, and the officials also mustered up the courage to cooperate with the city defense army to besiege and kill the man in black. Xiao Qingchen was waiting, he knew that the group of killers would not only have these levels. Tonight, Dingzhou City is in chaos, the city is in a hurry to put out fires, and the other courtyards are in a hurry to kill people.
Inside the inner room, twelve elites were ready to defend at any time, when the door connecting the inner room to the outer room was suddenly opened. The elite raised their crossbows against each other, and a soap-robed servant Shi Shiran walked in, it was Kang Quan. "Be careful!" The Grand Commander let out a loud shout, and the moment Kang Quan entered, the man who had just broken through the roof fell from the top of his head again, like a bat.
But with the commander's reminder, the four elites still raised their crossbows and shot at the batman. But the bolts were not as dense as they were just now, and they were rushed down by the Batman. At this time, Kang Quan also moved, and his hands became claws and grabbed directly at the central commander.
The Grand Commander shouted, "Formation! The twelve Beiliang soldiers were instantly divided into two groups, five of them killed Kang Quan under the leadership of the Great Commander, and the remaining six people surrounded the bat man.
These twelve people were born in Beiliang, and it is not easy to enter the personal guard of Xiaoluo River as the commander. The Great Commander alone is also a first-class master, and the remaining eleven people are also second-rate masters at the least. And these twelve people have practiced the method of joint attack, and their power cannot be underestimated.
The Great Commander and the five-person sword are one, and the real air turns, and the knife slashes away. Kang Quan, he didn't dare to underestimate the technique of joint attack, his palms were put together, his true qi protected his body, and he met it with one palm. The swords and palms were connected, and the true qi was domineering, which directly shook the Nanmu table. The Grand Commander faced the enemy head-on, the remaining two surrounded Kang Quan, and the remaining three stood in the middle of every two soldiers in front. This is a six-fold array, which locks the enemy.
The batman side was also surrounded by this hexagram, and he couldn't get out for the time being. Although these twelve are not considered to be the powerhouses of the Four Great Mirrors, they are also first-class second-rate masters, and they can fight with the masters of the first realm with the momentum of the formation.
The fourteen people in the inner room are inseparable, originally the only one in this six-in-one formation is more than that, but the place in the inner room is small, not suitable for casting formations, the power is limited, and it is necessary to always protect Xiao Luohe and Qu Jing.
Liuyu Mo Wu stood outside the courtyard, she and Xiao Qingchen were ready to come to an urn to catch turtles, if Xiao Qingchen couldn't stop others, and her, she was the last line of defense.
There are murderous opportunities everywhere in the courtyard, and the three thousand Beiliang soldiers are not so easy to be defeated by the people scattered in the rivers and lakes. There are constantly Beiliang pawns falling, and there are also people in black falling, Xiao Qingchen will not take action easily, and if he can't bear it, he will make a big plan! When he was a child, his ears were calloused.
In the outhouse, someone Lou was covered in blood, and the official was not having a good time, and there were three knives on his body that were hit by someone Lou's knife-for-knife style, which made him extremely angry. Lou's stalking style of playing made the official very aggrieved, and at this moment he couldn't wait to dismantle someone Lou to get rid of his hatred! Lou's hand was already stiff and couldn't be opened, and the knife was held by him tightly, unless his hand was cut off, the Beiliang knife would not leave his side.
Seeing someone in Lou falling to the ground motionless, the official laughed cruelly, picked up a dagger and stabbed someone in Lou, and just took a step, he was vigorously knocked away. The official fell to the ground and saw a black-robed man, slashing at himself, the knife was a Beiliang knife, and he vaguely saw the lines of the blood wolf on the blade.
The official only picked up the dagger to block the black-robed man's knife, and as soon as they intersected, the official felt that his tiger's mouth was painful. But the servant held his hand on the ground, and his body turned sideways, but the black-robed man kicked the servant's chest, and the servant had not yet stood firmly, and he was kicked away, unable to breathe. The black-robed man attacked him, and before the official could react, he made up a knife, and before the official died, he heard a sentence, "I am Xiao Yi, the commander of the Northern Liang Blood Wolf Cavalry!" ”
Xiao Yi, as Xiao Qingchen's secret hand arranged in the courtyard, finally made a move at this moment, aiming to lure out the strongest person. Xiao Yi glanced at someone in the building, and then raised a knife to kill the inner room! Lou also glanced at Xiao Yi and grinned, full of blood!