Chapter 17: The Stage and the Play

"Brethren, go around this bend and you will be able to rest. Everyone, keep persisting! ”

On the winding official road in the mountains, there was a shout.

When the soldiers heard his boss's words, he finally lifted his spirits a little, and his pace was a little faster.

In the middle of the convoy, Zhao Yu, who was riding on a horse, looked left and right at the dense mountains and forests, and suddenly turned his head and asked:

"Youwei, why is this mountain forest so quiet?"

Zhang Xiu didn't think about it at first, and replied to Zhao Yu's words: "Master Hou, in such a ghost weather, those birds are probably also wilted...... Wrong! ”

Speaking of this, there seemed to be a thunderbolt flashing in his mind, and his intuition as a military general made his face change instantly, and at the same time, his eyes swept over Wang Pu on the other side of Zhao Yu, but he found that the other party's face was full of solemnity, which confirmed his judgment.

"Master Hou be careful, there is an ambush here!"

Zhang Xiu yelled.

At the moment when he reminded him, he saw more than a dozen logs draw a perfect arc and swing out of the dense forest on both sides.

Dozens of government soldiers walking in front of the team were caught off guard and were hit by a log wrapped in huge kinetic energy.

With a scream, one after another figures were knocked into the air, and then fell hard.

In just an instant, nearly half of the nearly 100 government soldiers walking in front of the team had been killed or wounded, and the morale of the remaining ones had dropped greatly, and ten percent of their combat strength had gone to three or four percent.

"Kill!"

A series of black shadows with black scarves came out of the dense forest, killing the soldiers who were in chaos and retreating, but fortunately, the captains and their cronies held on to the death, which barely stabilized the situation.

"Phew, what are those scouts doing? Such a big trap was not found! ”

Seeing that the situation in front of him was becoming more and more unfavorable, Zhang Xiu spat on the ground with hatred, and then held a gun in his hand and hugged his fist at Zhao Yu.

"Master Hou, you sit here, and Weichen will go back when he goes!"

Seeing that as soon as Zhang Xiu pulled the reins, he was about to turn the horse's head and lead more than a dozen guards to rush over, Zhao Yu frowned and shouted:

"Youwei, stop for Benhou!"

"Master Hou?"

There was a hint of doubt in Zhang Xiu's voice.

Saving people is like fighting fire, it's time to save people, if you don't save it, then those government soldiers will all be trapped in it.

"The other party is coming for Benhou!"

Zhao Yu gritted his teeth and said hatefully, and there was a rare trace of hideousness and relaxation on his handsome face.

As for the fact that the Assassins would make a comeback, he and Wang Pu had already reached an agreement before they set off.

Although I have been prepared in my heart, as the saying goes, if you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves.

Along the way, he can be said to have been worried all the way.

Now that this group of thieves finally appeared, he was relieved in his heart.

"Youwei, you sit here and lead the guards! Yu Neng! ”

"Master Hou, the last general!"

Hearing Zhao Yu's call, among the palace guards, a burly man wearing iron armor replied loudly.

Yu Neng, before Zhang Xiu served Zhao Yu, was the head of the family generals in charge of training the guards in the Marquis of Anguo's Mansion.

After Zhang Xiu came to the Marquis of Anguo's mansion, Yu Neng lost to Zhang Xiu because his skills were inferior in the competition, so he willingly became the opponent's deputy.

"You lead fifty men to support, tell Wang Duwei to them, hold on for another quarter of an hour, and the general's reinforcements will be able to arrive here!"

"Whoa!"

Yu Neng hugged his fists and agreed.

"Lao Li, Xiao Di, take your men and go with Lao Tzu to kill the thief!"

In Yu Neng's shouting, two teams of fifty people from nearly a hundred palace guards followed him and ran towards the front of the convoy, leaving only one sentence for Zhang Xiu.

"General Zhang, if there is anything wrong with Master Hou, I can't spare you even if I turn into a ghost!"

"This guy ......"

Zhang Xiu didn't know whether he was angry or funny for a while.

"Youwei, send ten more people from the escort and go to the back of the convoy to protect your aunt."

Zhao Yu commanded.

"Master Hou, this ...... Then you're ......."

When Zhang Xiu heard this, her mouth opened and opened, and she didn't know what to say for a while.

"Ben Hou is not afraid of him coming, he is afraid that he will not come! Today, I want to see what these assassins are capable of taking Ben Hou's head! What's more, if it weren't for Youwei to protect him, why would Ben Hou be afraid? ”

Zhao Yu laughed.

On the other side, Wang Pu also nodded slightly to Zhang Xiu.

Zhang Xiu took a breath and said heavily: "Aunt Xiudai thanked Master Hou!" “

In a few breaths, the palace guards beside Zhao Yu had lost more than half, from nearly 100 people to more than 40 people.

Ben Hou has set up the stage for you, don't let down Ben Hou's good intentions!

Zhao Yu looked at the front with a calm face, and said secretly in his heart.

…………

Whoa!

Pulling the long sword in his hand from the chest of a government soldier, and erasing the blood from the sword on the corpse, the leader of the assassins surnamed Wu stood up and looked around the battlefield slowly.

I saw that the assassins under his command had already occupied an absolute advantage, nearly 100 government soldiers were killed and wounded, and the remaining dozen or so government soldiers formed a circle formation under the organization of those captains, barely defending themselves, but it was only a matter of time before they were all wiped out.

"Brothers, hold on!"

The long knife in Wang Duwei's hand flew up and down, knocking a black-clothed assassin to the ground and shouting loudly.

However, before he could regain his breath, another assassin rubbed himself and stabbed him in the throat with a long sword in his hand!

Wang Duwei, who was unable to regain momentum, watched this scene but couldn't do anything, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

My life is at rest! But I don't want to die here today!

Just as Captain Wang had almost given up, a throwing knife slammed into the assassin's heart with a terrible scream.

The assassin froze in place as if he had pressed the pause button, and then fell in front of Wang Duwei, followed by Yu Neng's heroic laughter.

"Brother Wang, how about Yu's knife?"

Wang Duwei, who almost walked on the ghost gate, glanced at the other party gratefully, and then nodded.

"Master Hou asked me to wait to come and help the brothers! The big guy insists on insisting, and the general's men and horses will arrive immediately, and when the time comes, let this group of rabbit cubs pay for their blood debts! ”

And the general reinforcements?

Fight!

Hearing Yu Neng's voice, a wave of heat suddenly gushed out of the chests of the remaining government soldiers, and they rose up and killed the other party by surprise.

As Yu Neng led fifty guards to join the battle group, the strength of the two sides tended to be balanced, and the battle once again fell into a stalemate.

"Then the old thief Huang also sent troops? We must fight quickly, otherwise as soon as reinforcements arrive, we will be defeated! ”

The leader of Wu, who was commanding in the distance, frowned, and turned his head to look at the sword master surnamed Shi who was standing with his sword in his hand.

"It seems that the little marquis can only ask Master Shi first, and leave it to me here."

"Shi someone is entrusted by others, and it is just a matter of loyalty. This general, let's go! ”

Master Shi, who was dressed as a government soldier, nodded indifferently, and looked at Captain Ji Shikang Ji on the side.

was looked at by the other party, Ji Shikang only felt as if he was naked and being targeted by a lone wolf, and couldn't help but shudder.

Seeing the impatience in the other party's eyes, Ji Shikang's heart sank, he nodded hurriedly, and led the other party towards Zhao Yu's position.