Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Captive
The first horse caught up with the trunk, and the knight swung his long knife at the boy on the roof.
Gu Shenwei didn't have time to think about why the attackers were so focused on killing him, his left hand was still tightly clasped on the side, and his whole body flew out sideways, spun around in the air for half a circle, and landed steadily back on the roof of the car.
The knight stretched out his right arm, kept the sword halfway up, and the horse continued to move, and then, first the long knife fell to the ground, and in a few steps, the man also fell, and his feet were still pinned in the horse's pedal, and he was dragged by the horse and ran some distance before stopping.
"Let's go together, don't be alone. The pursuers shouted, and four horses came after them.
Liuren Lane is the only straight street in Nancheng, not long, Gu Shen killed the first pursuer, Xu Yanwei had already ridden his horse to the head, turning into the maze of twists and turns.
The four horses could not be driven together, Gu Shenwei took advantage of a sharp turn to kill one of them, and the other two stood on the horse's back and jumped to the roof of the car, and the last man followed closely behind the car.
The knights were all ordinary swordsmen, fierce and ruthless but lacking skill, and when they reached the roof of the car, they had to stand up straight to attack, Gu Shenwei picked the edge strip with his left hand, bowed his body like a cat, and the first knife was swung, cutting off one person's ankle, and the second knife stabbed the other's thigh.
The two knights fell from the roof of the car screaming, and the fourth knight did not dare to chase anymore, slowed down, and joined his companions behind.
Gu Shenwei frustrated two groups of attackers in a row, but failed to capture a single person alive, and his training was all about how to kill people, not including how to capture the enemy alive when he was being chased and killed.
Another knight caught up, only one person, and in the blink of an eye, he reached the back of the car, and suddenly his figure burst into shape, jumped in the air, flew over Gu Shenwei's head, and landed on the other side of the roof of the car, close to the coachman's position.
The knight's face was resolute, he couldn't see the specific age, about thirty to fifty, his eyes were cold, and as soon as he fell, he grabbed the edge of the car like Gu Shenwei, and at the same time swung out the long knife.
This person is a master, Gu Shenwei thought in his heart, the knife in his hand has already preemptively slashed at the enemy's calf.
Fortunately, this person is not a master like the knight of the Stone Kingdom, and the long and narrow knives collide and are evenly matched.
Jinpeng knife method is suitable for sneak attack and assassination, the emphasis is on a move to work, face-to-face fighting is overstretched, the two fight on the bumpy roof of the car, most of the moves can not be used, just blindly seek speed and ruthlessness, pour between the dozens of knives, the sound is endless, no one has the upper hand.
Most of the pursuers arrived, and one of them fell down when he tried to climb onto the roof of the car, and the remaining five knights tried to be safe, following the side of the car, occasionally slashing at each other, which made Gu Shen scramble, and soon fell behind.
When the carriage turned into another alley, Gu Shenwei already had two more wounds on his legs, which were not fatal, but they restricted his movement even more.
The knight on the roof probably felt that the time had come, and shouted "Take your life", and the long knife slashed continuously, like a storm, Gu Shenwei could only parry, and he couldn't free up his hand to fight back.
One of the chasing knights suddenly accelerated and overtook the trunk, and he wanted to kill the coachman, but Gu Shenwei was far away and had no time to rescue.
Seeing that the general trend is coming, many accidents happen at the same time.
Xu Yan, who was driving, screamed slightly, but was not stabbed, and the knight who was driving with her was hit by an arrow in the head and fell to the ground like a sack.
Several people jumped down from the rooftops on both sides, and the four knights behind the car were all stabbed and fell off their horses.
Seeing that the situation was reversed, the knight on the roof of the car was a little in a hurry, and then screamed incessantly, and an arrow pierced through the inside of the car, piercing the knight's foot.
Gu Shen saw the right time, pounced on the fit, hugged the knight, and knocked the hilt several times, knocking the knight unconscious.
The carriage slowed down and stopped, and it turned out that Xu Yanwei had made a circle and returned to Liuren Alley, just in time to catch up with the apprentices who had returned from chasing the attackers.
Xu Xiaoyi in the trunk had already woken up, he observed for a long time, and finally found an opportunity to insert a sharp arrow into the knight's foot.
Gu Shenwei sat on the roof of the car, in a cold sweat, he thought that the assassins would only be one or two people, secretly attacked, but he didn't expect that it would be a large number of swordsmen, and the main target of the sniper was not the bait he set, but himself.
Some things still deviated, and Gu Shenwei couldn't figure it out.
The apprentices gathered together, some resisting a corpse, others holding a wounded captive, Shangguan Yushi's face was quite unkind.
The deceased was a slave, one of the killer apprentices, and was once a member of the Huan Nu and Henu assassination teams, and he was very smart, and his knife skills were not very good.
For Jinpeng Castle, the loss of members in the operation is not a small mistake, Shangguan Yushi, as the killer, must have a set of reasonable explanations after returning to the fort, so it is no wonder that she is in a bad mood and angry.
"Stupid, he shouldn't have been chosen in the first place. ”
He refers to Huan Nu, and the apprentices are silent, they are all survivors of the massacre in Dongbao, and they are two ways of life with the rain boy who lives in the inner house.
"It's better for them to say something, otherwise you're the one who came up with the action and didn't even consult me beforehand. Shangguan Yushi raised his head again and lost his temper at Huan Nu.
"I'm in charge. Gu Shenwei took out the rope and tied up the fainting knight, jumped out of the carriage, and stuffed the two captives into the carriage with the other apprentices.
As soon as the carriage stopped, the Xu siblings jumped to the ground, away from all the apprentices, although they were of the same age, these teenagers were completely different people in the eyes of the two, more terrifying than those rough and vicious swordsmen.
"What about them?" asked one of the apprentices.
Shangguan Yushi was just about to speak, but Gu Shenwei hurriedly said, "Both of them are doing things for Jinpeng Castle. ”
Shangguan Yushi was still hesitating, as the killer, she had every right to order the killing of these two baits, which was also more in line with the killer principle of Jinpeng Castle.
Gu Shen pushed the sister and brother and whispered, "Go to the south wall and find that lame Tie Hanfeng." ”
At this moment, Nancheng was in danger, and the siblings were extremely reluctant to walk alone, but they saw very clearly that it was more dangerous to stay in the middle of this group of killer apprentices, so they nodded, turned around and ran in a hurry, until they left Liuren Alley again, and then they relaxed a little.
The apprentices set off in formation with two corpses and two prisoners in their cars.
The attackers never showed up again, and the strength of the young apprentices seemed to intimidate the masterminds behind the scenes.
When crossing the bridge, the guards at the entrance of the northern city insisted on doing things according to the rules, not accommodating, checking everyone's waist cards, and not allowing them to bring two prisoners in.
The apprentices had just killed someone on the street, and it was difficult for them to accept the strict rules of the northern city for a while, as long as Shangguan Yushi gave an order, they would not hesitate to kill all the guards.
Shangguan Yushi did not give an order, she was very clear about the difference and boundary between the northern city and the southern city, these guards came from all sides of Biyu City, among them were people from Jinpeng Castle, and people with higher status than her could not afford to offend.
The North City is the only way to enter Jinpeng Castle, and there is no way around.
"Throw away the corpse, kill one captive, and leave one with the waist card of the slave. Shangguan Yushi ordered.
The two apprentices took action and threw the corpses into the streets of Nancheng, and the two captives were awake at this time, and the wounded captives were frightened and pleaded with tears, "Let me go, I don't know anything." ”
A sentence of "I don't know anything" sent him to the ghost gate, and an apprentice pulled out a knife and stabbed him to death, and the body was thrown on the side of Nancheng.
The guards of the northern city watched this scene, and they were used to seeing murder and bloodshed, and they couldn't help but be frightened, and immediately opened the door and let them go.
An ordinary assassination attempt by the young apprentices has turned into a sensation in Biyu Nancheng, and when they have a chance to enter Nancheng again, they will find that the "Young Killer" has become a big name known to women and children.
The captives were handed over to the Washshin Temple, and the rest of the day, everything went unexpectedly for the apprentices.
Although the assassination operation commanded by Shangguan Yushi was too large and imperfect, and then lost one of its members, it was not reprimanded, but was rewarded for her leadership skills in a crisis.
In a series of lists of invitations, there was no such thing as Huan Nu, he was hidden in the corner of the text, and within two days, even the apprentices who participated in the operation forgot that Huan Nu had saved all their lives, and only a few people such as the lotus girl understood the inside story and respected him more.
The captive spoke, and no one could keep his mouth shut when he entered the Washing Heart Courtyard, but the testimony of his confession had nothing to do with anyone in the castle, he was the leader of a group of wandering swordsmen, and he was hired by another unknown swordsman.
This concludes the investigation.
A few days later, rumors spread that the real hired person was Meng Mingshi, the fifth prince of the Meng Mansion in Beicheng.
It took Gu Shenwei a little time to figure out what kind of hatred this Fifth Prince Meng had with him.
The origin of the matter is the father of the Xu siblings, the big-bellied Buddha, who claimed to be "a person from Mengfu" before his death, which is true, he is Meng Mingshi's subordinate, and he is also the leader of the master's luxurious life, and his death is a huge loss for Meng Wugongzi, who has just tasted the delicious taste of Nancheng.
Meng Wugongzi was notoriously short-tempered, he got a lot of money from the Xu siblings, so he let the two go, and only resented the attacker, Jinpeng Fort punished Huan Nu in an understatement, which made him extremely dissatisfied, and even planned a series of conspiracies.
The Meng Mansion is the most important financier and ally of Jinpeng Castle, since it was the killer apprentice in the castle who caused the trouble first, Dubu Wang decided not to pursue it again, as for how the two sides successfully resolved this problem, it is not something that outsiders can understand.
Gu Shenwei once again learned the difference between "solving problems" and "pursuing the truth".
He didn't believe that Mr. Guo had nothing to do with this matter, the document that concealed the murderous intent was definitely not concocted by the fifth prince of Meng, and the intricacies of the internal contradictions of the Shangguan family also puzzled him.
He buried his suspicions deep in his heart, and only discussed them with the Dutch girl, who also believed that Meng Wugongzi was a tool of Mr. Guo, and the two secretly contacted individual apprentices and wanted to carry out a retaliatory action.
The operation was terminated before it could begin, and Tie Hanfeng discovered his apprentice's petty conspiracy, ordered him to stop immediately, and taught him an important lesson.
Gu Shenwei will remember this teaching of Master for the rest of his life, and he will strictly abide by this principle in every assassination and plot in the future.