Chapter 8: The Assassins

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A middle-aged man with a black mole on his cheeks sits cross-legged on the ground, his sitting posture is completely different from the traditional kneeling sitting of the Central Plains people, although this sitting posture is unsightly, because the knees do not touch the ground, it is much more comfortable than kneeling.

On the 'legs' of the middle-aged man sitting cross-legged, there is a knife horizontally, which is a knife shaped like a crescent, and it is almost impossible to find a weapon of this shape among the Han people who are accustomed to using a straight sword, only the Huns in the northern steppes like to use such a scimitar.

"As you all know, this time the big boss didn't come." The middle-aged man first looked at the people sitting around the room, and saw that everyone's eyes were all focused on him, so he spoke: "A few days ago, a spy reported that Di Yu followed Xiang Ye to Jiuyuan. Da Dan Yu originally wanted to send troops to attack Jiuyuan City, but considering that if he rashly marched, it was likely that our Xiongnu warriors would be tired of running long distances. If we want to attack Jiuyuan City, our army needs to make some more preparations. ”

After saying the opening remarks, the middle-aged man immediately brought his words to the main topic, and said to everyone in the room: "Everyone knows that there are quite a few people among the kings of our Huns who are willing to be loyal to Di Yu, if she really does the Yan clan, it will be fine, but she just hates Da Shan Yu and does not want to marry the great Da Shan Yu." If she is allowed to stay in Jiuyuan Kingdom, it will be a disaster for the Great Huns in the future. This time, our mission is to sneak close to her, kill her, and at the same time report the news that the Jiuyuan Kingdom is hiding her to Da Shan Yu, so as to find a reason for the army to go south in the future! ”

When the middle-aged man spoke, everyone in the room looked at him without blinking, and after he finished speaking, a young man stood up and asked him: "Five masters, when we came, the big masters told us that Xiang Ye, the monarch of the Jiuyuan Kingdom, has superb swordsmanship, especially with his wife surnamed 'Meng', even the big masters can't help them, there are such people in the Jiuyuan Kingdom and there are many garrisons in the city, how can we complete the task with a few of us?" ”

After listening to the young swordsman's words, the fifth master turned his head sideways, squinted at the young man who was asking, and said with a little disdain in his tone: "Of course I know that Xiang Ye is amazing, and I also know that this Jiuyuan City is not as good as the many cities we have visited. If Xiang Ye didn't have the ability, he wouldn't have been able to eradicate Wu Yue's sword mound overnight. But you have to remember that we are not wastes like Wu Yue Sword Shrine, we are the warriors of the Great Huns, and we can't help us with one Xiang Ye! ”

"Could it be that the fifth master already has a strategy to adjust Xiang Ye?" As soon as the words of the fifth master fell, a middle-aged man sitting in the corner looked at him with straight eyes and said: "I want to remind the fifth master that Xiang Ye is not a stupid person, we want to transfer him away from Di Yan's side, he will probably not be fooled!" ”

"Huh!" The fifth master shook his head and smiled, and said to the middle-aged man: "I'm afraid you are frightened by Xiang Ye's name, and you can't see things thoroughly!" Originally, I thought it would not be easy to take a person's 'sex' life from Xiang Ye's face, but such a difficult person in our hearts did a stupid thing just now! This stupid thing is enough to discredit him, and it will put him in a completely passive situation in his dealings with the Great Huns in the future! ”

The words of the five masters obviously played a role in deterring the Hun warriors sitting in the room. Everyone in the room looked at him silently, as if the answer was written on his face.

Seeing that the room full of people were looking at him, the five masters did not sell their children, and said to them directly: "Just now I received a report from the brother who heard the news, Xiang Ye ordered his guards to escort five carriages to the military camp of the Jiuyuan Guoyulin Army in the west of the city. If my guess is correct, Di Yu should be in one of the cars. Xiang Ye wanted his guards and the soldiers of the Yulin Army to protect her and lead us to the palace to catch them all. His plan is good, but unfortunately you can be fooled! ”

"How do you know that there must be a seat in the carriage?" The young man who first questioned the task immediately stood up and objected: "How did the fifth master know that he must be in one of the cars? And how do you know that these carriages coming out of the palace are not boring? Xiang Ye can not only use the palace to attract our attention to the carriage, but also use the carriage to attract our attention to the palace, I think it is impossible for Juji to risk leaving the palace! ”

After listening to the young man's words, the fifth master snorted coldly and said to him, "If it were you, would you send your own guards out to protect a few irrelevant people?" If my guess is correct, there must be Di Yu in the carriages that came out today! ”

The young man still wanted to argue, but the fifth master no longer gave him a chance to turn his face to the others and said, "I believe that Xiang Ye has received news from us in the city and transferred Di Juji to the Yulin Army barracks. We don't have time to ambush on the road at the moment, so we can only take a risk and sneak into the military camp of the Yulin Army of the Nine Plains Country tonight and kill her! ”

Although the young man who questioned it still had doubts and 'confusion' in his heart, since the fifth master had already arranged the task, he could not continue to resist, so he had to respond with everyone.

When this group of Huns decided to sneak into the Yulin Army camp at night, Xiang Ye was lying on a low couch in the 'Meng' Su Palace.

In the past few years, the couch has been the most comfortable bedding he has ever slept in. Although the couch is smaller and much lower than the bed, it is much more comfortable to lie on than sleeping on the floor.

"I said, 'Meng' Su, I want to change all the bedding in the harem, and ask the carpenter to make all the couches higher, at least up to our knees!" Xiang Ye was lying on the couch, his hands pillowed behind his head, and his eyes looked at the roof without blinking and said to 'Meng' Su who was sitting on the side.

'Meng' Su and Di Ba sat cross-legged face to face, a sitting position that Di Ba had just taught her. Although she didn't think it was very elegant, it was indeed much more comfortable than kneeling. Anyway, now she is in her dormitory, no matter what posture she sits in, as long as Xiang Ye does not blame, no one can say anything about her, she is happy to be comfortable, and she will no longer be entangled in sitting in an elegant and unsightly posture.

After listening to Xiang Ye's words, she didn't answer, but continued to 'fiddle' with the stirrups with Di Ye bowing her head.

"I said 'Meng' Su, can you stop playing yet!" Xiang Ye waited for a long time and didn't hear 'Meng' Su speak, he sat up and said to her: "I said I was going to make the couch higher, why didn't you react?" ”

Seeing that Xiang Ye was in a hurry, 'Meng' Su raised his head and glanced at him, smiled slightly and said: "The entire Jiuyuan Kingdom is yours, you can change it as much as you want, as long as you don't abandon me and Xiang Qing, no matter what decision you make, we will support it!" ”

"Whew!" Xiang Ye exhaled and said, "The entire Nine Plains Country is indeed mine, but this harem is still in charge of yours." I've made a suggestion, so you should at least tell us how you feel, right? ”

"It's up to you to decide everything here." Meng Su continued to lower her head and 'fiddle' with the stirrups on the ground, she would whisper something to Di Yu from time to time, and even laughed when she was happy, but she ignored Xiang Ye cleanly.

Xiang Ye glared at 'Meng' Su very depressedly, then lay back on the couch and muttered quietly: "Let me be the master!" Okay, see if I don't let the carpenter make a king-size 'bed' and merge you and Xiang Qing's bedroom together, and then we will be sleeping together, and it will be comfortable! ”

Xiang Ye, who was bored, was lying on the couch, and a sense of fatigue gradually hit him, he slowly closed his eyes, and fell asleep in a daze.

I don't know how long later, a chaotic footsteps alarmed him, and he quickly sat up and looked in the direction of the big 'door' of the dormitory.

'Meng' Su, who was lying beside him, also 'rubbed' his eyes and sat up, squinted his sleepy eyes slightly, and asked him vigilantly: "King, what's wrong?" ”

"There's someone outside the 'door'!" Xiang Ye furrowed his brows and asked 'Meng' Su, "Have you arranged Di Yu well?" Where is she now? ”

"There!" 'Meng' Su pointed to a couch placed in the corner of the room sleepily and said, "I left her behind, she is better at ease here than when she returns to the dormitory." ”

When the two were talking, the footsteps outside the 'door' became louder and louder, and from time to time there were some 'female' shouts, Xiang Ye and 'Meng' Su vaguely heard those 'female' people shouting: "Don't let them run, hurry up and release the arrows!" ”

Xiang Ye gently patted Meng Su's shoulder and said to her, "You wait in the room, I'll go out and have a look." ”

Meng Su sat up, glanced at Di Yu who was lying on the other couch and said to Xiang Ye, "She should be fine here, I'll go out with you." ”

Xiang Ye shook his head and said to her: "Don't, it should be the women's army who is ambushing in the palace who is shouting outside, presumably Xiang Qingzheng is leading people to chase the assassins who sneaked in." You just have to take a good look at Di Ba, and don't worry about the rest. ”

Meng Su hesitated for a moment, a tangled look appeared on her face, but she finally nodded and agreed to Xiang Ye's suggestion.

Xiang Ye put on his clothes and got off the bed, and as soon as he opened the big 'door' of the 'Meng' Su Palace, he was startled by the scene in front of him.

A group of 'female' soldiers in armor stood in a neat line at the entrance of the 'gate' of the dormitory, and at their feet, five corpses of black-clothed men covered with arrows like dead porcupines were lined up and stacked flat on the ground.

"Caught?" Seeing the five corpses, Xiang Ye pursed the corners of his mouth and said, "You guys are really efficient!" ”

Xiang Qing had just caught the assassin and was being proud, when he heard Xiang Ye say this, he hurriedly greeted him and said, "These five people were discovered as soon as they sneaked into the harem. At first, I thought they had accomplices and didn't immediately organize an arrest, but then they found out that we were following us and wanted to escape, so I gave the order to 'shoot' them all. ”~