Chapter 42: Thorn Khan (II)

After entering the forest, the crowd spread out into a loose fan, and the servants under the horses kept beating gongs and drums, alarming the wild beasts in the forest, and for a time countless foxes and wolves and cunning rabbits pounced out of the bushes, staining the woodland with blood under the flying arrows.

About a meal later, a tiger roar was heard from the northeast, and a group of Mongolian nobles were overjoyed and immediately chased after the tiger. It didn't take long to catch up on the mouth of a canyon, and a sharp-eyed archer had seen a huge tiger spinning around the spot in the middle of the canyon. The shooter was so excited that he didn't think much of the tiger's strange behavior, and with a whistle, a dozen hounds pounced on the tiger.

Not to be outdone, the rest of the riders ran into the canyon one after the other. The tiger heard the barking of the dog's hooves, seemed to have pulled back its front feet from somewhere, and then turned and ran. The hunters wanted to fight for the first place in the tiger hunt, and where could they let it run away, and they caught the horse's belly with their legs and chased it closely.

Meng Ke Khan saw that everyone was brave, and he was also happy in his heart, and the white jade horse under his crotch was strengthened a few times, and he had rushed to the middle of the team. He looked at the courtiers who were the best at riding and shooting in Pingsuri, and guessed which one would come out on top this time.

Less than two feet behind Mongo, the eyes of Ketu and Kebalu never left his back for a moment, no matter where they were, no matter how many people were around, as long as Montgo was present, there was no one else in their eyes, just because they were Möngke's most trusted personal guards.

However, in the next moment, Meng Ge's white jade horse had just run past the place where the tiger was spinning, and a hand suddenly stretched out from the ground, grabbed the tail of the white jade horse, and then, a black shadow rose from the ground, and before Ketu and Kebalu could react, it was already standing on the back of the white jade horse, covering Meng Ge's figure.

"Great Khan, beware!" shouted Ketu and Kebalu in unison. At the same time, the two of them had jumped up from their horses, and two sharp killing moves attacked the back of the man in black.

The man in black stood on the horse's back with one foot, raised his right foot and kicked him backwards twice, kicking Ketu and Kebalu to the ground almost in no particular order, and when they were still on their feet, they saw the man in black hold his hand on the top of Mönggo's head.

Until this time. Meng Ge was shocked to realize that there was one more person behind him. When he looked back, he saw that the person behind him was covered in black cloth, only a pair of eyes were exposed, and a right hand was firmly pressed on top of his head.

At this time, the surrounding subordinates and guards had already realized that something was wrong, and rode their horses to surround Meng Ge and the man, and they couldn't stop scolding:

"Bold!", "Thief dares!", "Don't let go of the Great Khan yet!" ......

As soon as Meng Ge raised his hand, the subordinates around him were immediately silent.

Meng Ge smiled calmly: "This warrior is extremely strong in both hands and hearts, and for decades, you are the only outsider who can get close to Ben Khan. He gave a thumbs up and said, "Great! Ben Khan was willing to be treated as the first chief of guard. ”

The man in black sneered, "Meng Ke Khan is really magnificent. But you're in my hands at the moment, and you still dare to recruit me, aren't you too confident?"

Meng Ke said: "Although Ben Khan doesn't know why you came, since you haven't done it yet, it means that you must ask for something." What a good man wants is nothing more than fame, fortune and power, Ben Khan was rich in the world when he was alive, as long as you are willing to join my command, fame, fortune and power are at your fingertips, if you take Ben Khan's life. The result is nothing more than a pile of waste meat. I'm afraid anyone will make such a choice!"

The man in black glared at Meng Ge for a long time. Suddenly, his hand was raised and he slapped on the top door of Meng Ge. The surrounding guards and subordinates were terrified, and shouted heartbreakingly: "Great Khan!"

Meng Ge was also shocked at first, but he found that the slap was completely powerless, but there was an extremely comfortable coolness that penetrated into his body from the top of his heart, which made people feel refreshed. It's as refreshing as taking a thousand-year-old ginseng. He looked at the man in black stunned, not understanding what this meant. But I heard the man laugh and said: "To tell you the truth, someone took a fancy to the white jade horse under your crotch, so they spent a lot of money to ask me to steal the horse." I wonder if the Great Khan will be able to cut his love?"

Meng Ke Khan also laughed and said, "What is my Tao, it turns out that it is just a horse." The so-called BMW presents heroes. This white jade dragon horse will be given to you! Or is it the same sentence, if you are willing to submit to the chief of the guard of Ben Khan, what will you get more than a dragon horse?"

The man shook his head and said, "I like to do things one yard at a time, and when I hand over this dragon horse, I will talk about other things." But then, ask the Great Khan to give me a ride. ”

Meng Ke Khan said angrily: "Okay! As long as Your Excellency is interested, there will always be a place for you under the command of Ben Khan." After saying this, he said to the subordinates around him: "Wait and disperse, let Ben Khan send this warrior off." ”

The surrounding subordinates reluctantly made way of a road, and when they left, Meng Ge glanced at Ketu and the others, and the two quietly dismounted, and when Meng Ge and the man in black were a little farther away, they immediately dispersed into the forest, and chased after them with light skills under the cover of the trees.

The white jade horse ran out of about a hundred zhang, and the man in black smiled and said: "The Great Khan's subordinates are loyal, and I don't want to let them go away, so let's say goodbye to the Great Khan." Saying that, he grabbed the back of Meng Ge's neck and threw it high in the back, Meng Ge was horrified in his heart, and fell from the back of the white jade dragon horse running at full speed, I am afraid that he will be seriously injured if he does not die, but when he fell, he only felt that his body was like a fallen leaf, and he didn't even feel the vibration of his feet on the ground. Looking at the man in black again, even the man and the horse have long disappeared.

At this time, Ketu and Kebawu arrived and saw that Meng Ge was fine, and both of them fell to their knees and kowtowed again and again. Meng Ge had a gloomy face, stepped forward and kicked him, the two did not dare to fight each other, and they were kicked on the spot.

Meng Ge snorted coldly: "Two useless wastes! If it weren't for the loyalty of the two of you for generations, you would have dragged them directly to feed the wolves! Get up, go back and find out to Ben Khan, that prince and close minister once coveted Ben Khan's BMW." Within three days, I'm going to see a detailed list!"

"Yes, Xie Da Khan's grace not to kill! His Majesty dares not to die!"

Ding Yu rode the white jade dragon horse and ran south for a hundred miles, until there was a lot of grass in the field of Feifei and no more people, and then he stopped. The white jade horse is worthy of being a thousand-mile dragon horse selected by the Mongols from dozens of countries, except for a slight sweat, there is no fatigue at all.

Ding Yu jumped off the horse, removed all the saddle sheaths, bridles, and reins on its body, stroked its undulating back, and said gently: "Good horse, I will carry you all the way, but I have nothing to thank you, so I have to return your freedom." This endless grassland. Surely enough is for you to gallop. ”

The white jade dragon horse seemed to understand his words, and let out a long hisser happily, and its two front legs kicked in the air, and when it landed, it jumped forward, and it had fallen a few feet away. It has some contradictions in its heart, on the one hand, it wants to run wild in the grassland. But he was reluctant to leave Ding Yu too far, just because Ding Yu exuded an aura that made him feel at ease. So every few steps it runs, it glances back, stops and stops several times, and finally its yearning for freedom prevails, and it runs to the end of the horizon like a gust of wind.

Ding Yu's heart was also very relaxed, but it was by no means because he released one of Meng Kehan's dragon horses.

He traveled seven or eight thousand miles from the Kunlun Mountains to the Mongolian capital, and lurked in Hala and Lin for more than half a year. Knowing that Möngke Khan was a hunter in the field, he would go to the royal hunting garden to hunt almost every three or five days. He secretly followed and observed, and finally figured out the general hunting habits. After calculating that it was a tiger hunt, he entered the Royal Hunting Garden the night early, and painstakingly captured the largest tiger alive and brought it to the canyon.

After that, he knocked the tiger out and buried himself in the earth. Hold the tiger's front paw with one more hand to prevent it from waking up and running away. Wait until the sound of Möngke Khan and the others hunting came. He woke up the tiger with all his might, and the tiger was in pain, and inevitably roared, and the roar led Meng Ge and the others into the canyon. At this time, he let go of the tiger and let it escape, and the hunters naturally chased after it.

Due to the narrow terrain of the canyon, every horse would run over Ding Yu or on the land not far from him. Under the influence of the aura, neither the horse nor the person on horseback could perceive his presence. And what he has to do is to sense the vitality of the horses, the most vigorous of them. It is Meng Ge's white jade dragon horse. Then he rose out of the earth, flew on his horse, and restrained Möngke.

Ding Yu spent so much effort, of course he didn't come to chat with Meng Ge, but there were too many masters among the hunters around him at that time, and if he killed Meng Ge directly, he might not be able to get out of the way. So he and Meng Ge talked nonsense about "being entrusted by someone to steal the Great Khan BMW", the purpose was just to disturb the public: Mongolians are good horses by nature, I am afraid that individuals will be envious, jealous and hateful when they see the white jade dragon horse, if Meng Ge really goes to this side, the nineteen nobles in the court and the central government will be suspicious.

While chatting, he injected a ball of aura into Meng Ge's body, and in the center of this spiritual aura, twelve violent fists were wrapped - this was another kind of aura he had figured out: Spiritual energy was the best tonic between heaven and earth, and after entering the body, it would be gradually absorbed by Meng Ge's body, so Meng Ge would feel energetic and refreshed. But when the outer layer of aura is absorbed and the violent fist inside is unrestrained, then ......

Two days later, in the morning, as soon as Möngke's maid stepped into his dormitory, she stepped on a slippery mass and almost fell, until she stood firm and saw the scene in the room, and could not help screaming hysterically - Möngke's chest and abdomen on the dragon's bed were open, and there were only a few broken ribs inside, and all the flesh and blood seemed to have been blown open by something, and the blood was all over the whole dormitory, and a piece of flesh and blood was being trampled on the soles of her feet!

The Great Khan was assassinated!

Even if the maid disappeared as soon as possible, even if the blood-stained room became as clean as new that day, even if everyone in the palace was given a gag order, the news still took wings and flew to all corners of Mongolia. Along with it, there is also a speculation about the murderer - the murderer is a man in black with extremely high martial arts, but the main one who made him was a Mongolian nobleman who once coveted the Great Khan's white jade dragon horse.

For a while, the situation inside and outside the palace changed suddenly, and several battlefields in full swing cooled down sharply, and all the vassal kings who had the strength to compete for the next Khan throne were secretly preserving their strength, calculating how sure they were that they would be able to take the crown of the Khan. Among them, the two strongest are Meng Ge's fourth brother Kublai Khan and seventh brother Ali Buge.

Although Kublai Khan had a heavy army, he appointed Han staff and advisers and advocated Han law, which was already disliked by many Mongolian ethnic groups, which was already a loss of peace; moreover, he was far away in the Central Plains, and he was one step later in getting the news, no more than Ali Buge, who was stationed in Hala and Lin, close to the water, and lost the geographical advantage and the time. No matter how you calculate it, it should be that Ali Buge has a greater advantage.

However, just when Ali Buge's call for succession to the throne reached its peak, one of his attendants suddenly said "by accident" after "drinking": "Ali Buge loves Möngke Khan's white jade dragon horse very much, and has repeatedly begged the Great Khan for ...... to no avail."

Overnight, many of the tribal leaders loyal to Möngke Khan defected to Kublai Khan, and the two sides returned to balance, and a fierce battle for the throne began. (To be continued.) )