Chapter 43: Assassination
Night falls.
The forest road was unspeakably quiet, except for the sound of horses' hooves.
The atmosphere became more and more weird, Dong Wen took the lead in pulling out the sword, and Jiang Ci and Su Yu also held the sword in their hands.
"Ah Ci, protect the six princes, don't take care of me."
"Are you kidding me?"
"Who was kidding you?" Su Yu struck Jiang Ci's stomach with his elbow back, "Even if my left arm is inconvenient, I can protect myself, can he?" What's more, the person who came is either to kill Ah Yue, or to kill the Six Princes, or to kill you, what does it have to do with me. ”
"Your eyes .."
Su Yu interrupted: "It's just fine." ”
"Really?"
"What are you lying about?"
Jiang Ci sighed, Su Yu's words were not unreasonable, if the witch beside Li Xu could poison her but not kill people directly, it means that Li Xu didn't want to take her life at all.
"Be careful in everything, if you can't parry, ride on the fortune and go first."
"Don't worry, I'm desperate for my life."
Click..
The sound of tree branches breaking is especially clear in the silence of the dense forest.
The horse's hooves slowly stopped.
The cold blade came out of the sheath, startling the forest birds to fly, dozens of footsteps moved in unison, and then followed by more than a dozen people.
"Lord Wang! Two groups of people! ”
As soon as the words fell, a black shadow rushed out and went straight to Xiao Mingyuan, and the blade of the knife flashed with cold light under the moonlight.
Xiao Mingyuan was stunned in fright, the bright knife in his pupils was getting closer and closer, and suddenly the long sword pierced through the chest of the man in black, and hot blood was sprinkled on his face.
The person in front of him fell to the ground with the knife, his expression stiffened and touched the blood on his face, which was hot and sticky.
The bloody breath penetrated into his nose with his breathing, and Xiao Mingyuan covered his stomach and coughed several times.
Jiang Ci swung his sword to block the oncoming sword, and accurately wiped the neck of the person who carried the knife.
"Stunned for what? Waiting to die? ”
After saying this, Xiao Mingyuan didn't move, but the horse under Xiao Mingyuan's crotch didn't want to wait for death, neighed, raised his front hooves to throw Xiao Mingyuan down, and walked away by himself.
Xiao Mingyuan fell to the ground, dizzy, crawled a few times but didn't get up, and was finally picked up by Jiang Ci.
"Where did you buy the horse, don't go next time."
Xiao Mingyuan nodded like garlic, grabbed Jiang Ci's sleeve, and watched the other party retreat from attack after attack.
A group of people rushed out of the dense forest, Dong Wen and Ah Yue's side was no better, they were forced off their horses, and they couldn't find the opportunity to escape, so they could only fight with real swords and guns.
This pair of fists is difficult to defeat with four hands, but fortunately, Ah Yue knows some kung fu, so that Dong Wen is not so cramped.
Su Yu sat on the horse, although she was in the crowd, she was completely outside the struggle, as she expected, this group of people had a firm goal, and no one came at her.
She put away her sword, picked up the bow and arrow hanging from the saddle, and listened carefully to the sounds around her, she was afraid that Jiang Ci would tell a lie because of her distraction.
But after seeing clearly, my hearing has improved a lot.
She pulled out her bow and frowned in the direction of Dong Min and Ah Yue, but at this level, she was already in unbearable pain.
The pinna of the ear moved slightly, and the sharp arrow went straight to the back of the neck of the person who sneaked up from behind Ah Yue, and Dong Wen looked over and grabbed Ah Yue's arm and swung the knife to slash through the other person's chest.
More than a hundred black-clothed people came around, the whole road was almost blocked, and not a single gap could be found, Xu Tiandong jumped off the horse, tiptoed to fish in troubled waters, and the red-eyed people were willing to let him escape, and several people noticed him, and they wanted to kill him.
"Help! Uncles, don't kill me, don't kill me! I don't know anything! I passed by! I don't know how to fight! I'm a dear mother!! ”
Three arrows flew in a hurry, striking the trio in the heart from behind.
The corpse knelt at his feet, and Xu Tiandong looked at Su Yu with wide eyes: "I'm a mother.."
It will take at least twelve hours to recover his eyesight after taking the antidote, and at that time he thought that the princess would wake up and he would be able to leave if he got the money, so he said that the time was less, so that the king of Jin could rest assured, who would have thought that he would be left behind.
At this moment, he looked at Su Yu's blind eyes and shot so accurately, and sincerely marveled that there was really no normal person in the Jin Palace.
"Ah Ci be careful!"
An arrow in the forest broke through the wind and rushed straight towards Xiao Mingyuan, and the speed was so fast that no one could see it clearly.
Jiang Ci's eyes were sharp, and he grabbed the arrow before the arrow touched Xiao Mingyuan and pushed the person away.
The body of the arrow was blocked, but it did not slow down, but brought Jiang Ci up.
"Uncle Huang!"
Su Yu's ears moved slightly, clenched the bow, aimed at the direction where the crossbow arrow was flying, and shot an arrow tentatively, but there was no response, and he didn't know whether he hit or not.
The speed of the crossbow arrow was too fast, and the arrow pierced into the trunk of the tree, so that Jiang Ci had a chance to let go, and his palm was already blood-red.
"Uncle Huang!"
Xiao Mingyuan chased after him, and when he saw the wounds and blood, his body couldn't help but tremble: "Uncle Huang, are you okay?" ”
"It doesn't matter." Jiang Ci clenched his fist and put that hand behind his back, "Qianjin crossbow, I thought that you would not fight or rob and no one would take you seriously, but I didn't expect that you would have become a thorn in the side of others." ”
Xiao Mingyuan lowered his eyes when he heard this, and he didn't have any taste in his heart.
Another arrow shot out of the dense forest.
Zheng!
The cold blades struck, and the crossbow bolts turned their heads and pierced into the ground.
Su Yu let go of the sharp arrows that had been waiting on the bow for a long time, and the two arrows flew into the middle of the dense forest to pull the crossbow arrows.
The horn sounded, and several people stopped the footsteps of the encirclement, turned their heads and ran towards Su Yu, Su Yu grabbed the bow, drew his sword and hung it at his side.
Ten steps, eight steps, five steps...
Without waiting for her to attack, Jiang Ci dragged Xiao Mingyuan and rushed over to kill all the people, and because of the battle of these people, there was just a gap in the surrounding crowd.
"Fortune!"
The silver-white Dawan horse, who was outside the war, rushed into the crowd and rushed to Jiang Ci's side.
"Get on the horse!"
Seeing that Xiao Mingyuan was stunned, Jiang Ci raised his leg and kicked him: "Get on the horse!" ”
Xiao Mingyuan hurriedly climbed onto the horse, and at the same time, Jiang Ci also turned over and wrapped his arms around Su Yu and grabbed the reins.
"Fortune, run!"
Dawan rode out of the dust and rushed out of the encirclement with Xiao Mingyuan.
"Winter! Don't be in love! Go your separate ways! ”
Seizing the vacancy, Dong Min and Ah Yue got on their horses together and ran out of the encirclement in the opposite direction.
Xu Tiandong hid behind a stout tree and didn't dare to show his head at all.
The men in black went in two directions, and in a blink of an eye, they disappeared, Xu Tiandong walked out, and his legs were so weak that he couldn't walk after two steps, but fortunately, his horse didn't run away.
Holding on to the reins and the saddle, he pedaled several times before he stepped onto the horse, hesitated on the spot, and finally decided to go to the agreed inn.
On the other side of the road, two horses galloped at a gallop.
"Ah Ci, something is wrong.."
Jiang Ci frowned: "Not many people chase us." ”
"What should I do?" Su Yu gritted her teeth and became anxious, "Sending so many people to kill Ah Yue shows that she must not die." ”
"Mingyuan! Duck back. ”
"What!"
Before Xiao Mingyuan could react, Jiang Ci had already picked up Su Yu and passed her to Xiao Mingyuan's horse.
Suddenly there was one more person in front of him, Xiao Mingyuan was really startled, Dawan Ma was not very load-bearing, carrying two people, and his speed dropped a little.
"Lend me a bow, see you at the inn! Be careful! Jiang Ci threw the sword to Su Yu, then turned his horse's head and rushed into the forest to bypass the pursuers and turn back.
"Ah Ci!"
In the dark night, no one was seen.
"Let go."
"Huh?" Xiao Mingyuan was stunned again.
Su Yu opened his hand and held the reins instead: "Zhaocai, it's all counting on you, run faster, and invite you to eat at the post house." ”
The white horse under the crotch has understood human nature, and he has tried to speed up some pace.
"Fortune?" Xiao Mingyuan's expression was strange, "Uncle Huang's mount... Called Fortune? The name..."
"What? I took it, isn't it good? ”
"Uhhh Good, good. ”
The stinging pain in his left arm had already made Su Yu sweat all over his head, and the hand holding the reins had begun to tremble.
"Sister!"
"What for! Stop talking so much nonsense! ”
"There's a pit up ahead!"
Su Yu gasped and clenched the reins: "Fortune!" Jump over! ”
Zhao Cai struck a sharp leap with all his strength, just enough to jump over the pit, and his hind hooves were less than an inch at the edge of the pit.
"Whew. Scared the hell out of me. ”
Su Yumei's heart skipped a beat: "You control the direction." ”
"Why did you leave it to me again?" Xiao Mingyuan was always in a state of confusion, and was instructed to hold the reins again.
"I can't see clearly."
Su Yu's voice was very small, but Xiao Mingyuan heard it in the end.
"What can't you see?"
Su Yu was speechless for a while, what else could she not see clearly?
"If you are poisoned, the antidote you take has an effect on your eyes, which is no different from a blind person."
Xiao Mingyuan was dumbfounded, and his mouth was wide open, so Su Yu had just killed the person who shot the crossbow arrow in a blind state??
"Sister, I really worship the right master."
"Shut up."
"Huh? I'm just sighing. ”
Su Yu gritted his teeth angrily: "Shut up, catch up." ”
Xiao Mingyuan was immediately silent.
Faster than she thought, and... It seems that there are a lot of people coming, Su Yu's eyebrows and eyes are full of anger, that pit is a man-made trap, and there are ambushes there.
After the plan, the two sides attacked separately.
"Do you know martial arts?"
"I... I have only learned the fur, and I have never fought in real combat. ”
Su Yu gritted her teeth, it didn't sound like she was lying, this was troublesome.
"Our direction is to the nearest road to the post house, after running for so long, there should only be two or three miles left, I will stay here, you go to the post house for help."
"It's absolutely not going to work!" Xiao Mingyuan refused without a trace of hesitation, "If you want to go together, you have to stay together, if I run away by myself, Uncle Huang will not kill me." ”
"If you don't leave, you're going to kill me!" Listening to the voice of the chasing soldier getting closer and closer, Su Yu was a little anxious, "Zhao Cai can't move two people, and if you run down, you will be caught up immediately, I have an injury on my left arm, and I can't see it clearly now, if I want to protect you again, wouldn't it be dead." ”
"Phew!"
Su Yu grabbed the reins, Zhaocai stopped, she threw her sword and jumped off the horse and said: "You will definitely lead away half of the pursuers, and I can cope with the rest. ”
"But..."
"What so much nonsense! If you let you go, you can go, don't drag me down. Su Yu's patience ran out and slapped the horse's butt hard.
Zhaocai raised his horse's hooves and continued to run forward.
"Sister!"