Murong Qi, the young man who negotiated with Fan Yong, glanced up, and in the night, it could be vaguely seen that the bodies of the four sentries were already limp on the guardrail of the sentry tower, sleeping unknowingly.

The four of them had no worries, and walked through the courtyard with light skills to the door of the house in the middle.

Murong Longcheng stretched out his hand and knocked heavily on the door a few times, and a shrill voice came from inside: "Who is outside?"

Murong Longcheng said: "The official family has a will, and the Empress Dowager Xuanzhou and King Zheng will enter Kaifeng Mansion to meet from now on." ”

The man inside was obviously a little surprised, and his voice was a little higher: "How to travel in the middle of the night, why don't you set off early in the morning?"

Murong Longcheng said bluntly: "The will of the official family, who dares to disobey it!"

The man in the room hesitated for a moment and asked, "Is there an imperial decree?"

"The official family has an edict, there is no holy decree, only the palace guard token. ”

The so-called palace guards, that is, the commonly known imperial guards, the Song Dynasty was no better than the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty, if there was foreign affairs in the palace, it was usually handled by the palace guards rather than eunuchs, and only the palace guards who performed official duties would carry the token with them. Therefore, the palace guard token, outside the palace, represents the will of the official family.

The man in the middle was already half convinced by the moment, but he still opened a small fist-sized opening in the door and said, "Please show the token to the guard." ”

Murong Longcheng handed the card in, and the man took it and examined it carefully, and when he saw that it was not a fake, he no longer had any doubts. He returned the token and was just about to open the door, but at this time there was a muffled bang outside, and his heart tightened, and the hand that was about to raise the door latch was also retracted, and he asked, "What is the movement outside?"

It turned out that the sentry on a sentry tower, I don't know whether he was blown by the wind or turned over by himself, actually planted himself from the sentry tower, his head slammed on the stone slab, and blood suddenly gushed out like a spring.

Murong Longcheng wanted to cover up the past, but the person in the middle was a master eunuch beside King Zheng, with a profound cultivation and keen five senses, although he couldn't see the process of the sentry falling, he immediately smelled the smell of blood in the air. His face changed, and he shouted, "You're not ......"

As soon as Murong Longcheng's figure entered, his arm burst through the small opening on the door, and slapped the eunuch's chest.

The eunuch's martial arts were really good, as soon as this palm pressed on his chest, he had already raised his foot and kicked on the door, and the whole person flew out after falling, unloading most of Murong Longcheng's palm power. But when he landed, he still spewed out a stream of blood arrows, and his face decayed. He didn't care about the pain, and opened his mouth to shout: "Enemy attack!

Lao Gao, whose full name is Gao Long, like Huang Shaowen, who was previously injured by Murong Longcheng, was the secret guard eunuch arranged by Zhao Kuangyin to be around Empress Dowager Zhou and King Zheng, and they had a dual mission, the first was to protect and monitor Empress Dowager Zhou and King Zheng, and the second was to kill Empress Dowager Zhou and King Zheng when necessary, for example, when they were about to get out of control.

Gao Long heard Huang Shaowen's shout, did not hesitate, ran directly to the warehouse, took out the fireworks, found the nearest window, stretched out his hand and pulled it, but listened to a bang, the fireworks emitted a trace of black smoke and then there was no movement - it was damp!

He tried several in quick succession, but none of them could be lit, so annoyed that he threw the fireworks and ran back into the hall.

At this time, Huang Shaowen had already gathered with the Empress Dowager Zhou and King Zheng, and the other servants and maids in the house were guarding the hall, blocking the door with large pieces of furniture.

didn't hear the sound of fireworks rising into the air, and saw Gao Long returning empty-handed, Huang Shaowen was stunned and said, "What's the matter? Why don't you let go of the fireworks?"

Gao Long hated: "None of the six fireworks can be lit, and I don't know if it was damp or manipulated." Now that the enemy is just outside the door, the Baokang army has not moved, either the enemy has used means to hide the eyes and ears of the Baokang army, or the two have simply made a journey! For the sake of today's plan, the only way to do this is to bring King Zheng and the Queen Mother into the cellar, and with the solidity of the cellar and this house, they can hold out until dawn anyway. ”

If the Baokang army has not been rescued after dawn, it means that the Baokang army is in collusion with the comers, which means that no matter how strong King Zheng's mansion is, it will still be broken in the end, and they will no longer have a choice but to kill King Zheng and the Empress Dowager Zhou.

He didn't need to say the latter words, because Huang Shaowen knew as well as him, and maybe even the Empress Dowager Zhou and King Zheng knew it, but they didn't speak except for their pale faces.

Huang Shaowen thought about it and felt that there was no better way at the moment, so he and Gao Long went one after the other, and took the Empress Dowager Zhou and King Zheng to the innermost wing.

Huang Shaowen lifted the bed board, revealing a steel plate with an iron ring below, he pulled it hard, the heavy steel plate just rose a few inches, and suddenly there was a pain in the palm of his chest, and his breath suddenly leaked, and the stone door fell back to its original position with a bang, and he spit out a small mouthful of blood.

"Lao Huang, what's wrong with you?" Gao Long asked in surprise.

"I was just hit by a foreign enemy, that guy's martial arts are extremely high, I have removed most of the palm power, and I still suffered a lot of internal injuries. ”

Gao Long was shocked in his heart: Huang Shaowen's martial arts are similar to him, and he is already a leader in the secret guard, but he didn't expect to be injured like this by someone with a small half of his palm, I really don't know what kind of realm the martial arts of the person who came have become.

He hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Lao Huang, lock the door and let me open the cellar door." As he spoke, he grabbed the iron ring and lifted it up, and the steel plate of more than 200 catties was like nothing in his hand, and it was easily pulled apart.

Then Huang Shaowen went first, and after lighting the oil lamp in the cellar, King Zheng and Empress Dowager Zhou also followed, and Gao Long was the last.

When he came in, he put the steel plate on and closed the bracket again, and his heart that had been tense finally relaxed.

After the machine was closed, if the people outside wanted to enter, they could only break through the steel plate first, and the time to break through the steel plate was enough for him and Huang Shaowen to kill their respective "protected" targets more than ten times - to put it bluntly, this cellar was not a refuge, but the last line of defense to ensure that Empress Dowager Zhou and King Zheng would not fall into the hands of others.

Maybe he will die tonight, but at least he won't live up to the trust of the officials, and for him, that's enough. He turned around and glanced at it, under the dim oil lamp, the Empress Dowager Zhou and King Zheng were huddled in the corner, the young King Zheng seemed to be unable to stand the chill in the cellar, his body trembled a little, and the Empress Dowager Zhou, as he had done when he was a child, stretched out and grabbed his shoulders and half-hugged him in his arms.

Hey, where's Lao Huang?

As soon as doubts arose in Gao Long's heart, he heard two soft sounds, and the two strands of determination pierced through the wooden stairs under his feet and pierced the soles of his feet. He hurriedly raised his breath and jumped forward, but before the person could reach the ground, the muscles of his two calves had quickly stiffened -- this feeling was a zombie needle! This was the standard secret weapon of the secret guard! Then the person who attacked him could only ......

"Boom" "Poof"

A figure jumped up from the bottom of the stairs, smashed through several wooden steps, and caught up with Gao Long in mid-air, and at the same time, the essence light in his hand flashed, and a dagger had already sunk into Gao Long's back heart, penetrating the heart. (To be continued.) )