Chapter 536: Assassination

The snow became lighter at night, but the wind became colder. The torches struggled to maintain themselves in the biting cold wind, as if they might be blown out at any time. The snow accumulated during the day had not frozen hard yet. It also made the war horses a little difficult, and the whole team was not moving forward very fast. Fortunately, Baiyang Village was only fifty miles away from Jishi City. Just hold on, it would only take two hours, and try to get back to the city before midnight. This article is written by. .

The people on the road were quiet. He Lanxiong was thinking about Wu Xinlian. Yan Shenghao was thinking about how to implement Gao Yuan's political policy when he went back. However, Gao Yuan was thinking about the next war with the Donghu people. Thorpe was not an easy person to deal with. You need to pay close attention to yourself. The accompanying soldiers were doing their best to prevent the torches in their hands from being blown out by the wind and snow.

For a moment, in addition to the rustling of snow seeds on the cloak, the slight sound of falling on the ground, and the crackling of burning torches, even the sound of horse hooves was dissipated by the fluffy snow.

But in this silence, Gao Yuan's hair suddenly stood on end, and a great sense of crisis suddenly emerged from his heart. This was a situation he had never encountered before. At this moment, almost everything in his body Stiff.

He stopped suddenly. Yan Shenghao, who was half a body behind him, didn't pay attention for a moment and almost collided with him. He quickly turned his horse's rein and walked side by side with Gao Yuan, "What's the matter, Governor?"

He saw Gao Yuan's face looking quite bad.

"Be careful!" At this moment, Gao Yuan suddenly shouted, his body swayed, and he fell to one side from his horse like a stone. As he fell, he stretched out a hand and grabbed Yan Shenghao. Yan Shenghao, who was caught off guard, followed Gao Yuan and fell down the horse.

Almost at the same moment, in the quiet space between heaven and earth, there was the sound of chirping crossbows. Covering up the rustling sound of snow seeds, Gao Yuan fell to the ground. Yan Shenghao was a little late. He was hit by a crossbow arrow on his right shoulder and screamed immediately. Fortunately, Gao Yuan pulled him, otherwise, this time, He was afraid that he would be killed on the spot.

He Lanxiong was extremely alert. As soon as Gao Yuan said the word "be careful", he was already on his side. The whole person hid on the side of the horse's belly, and the crossbow arrows rang out. He clearly heard the dull sound of the crossbow arrows penetrating into the belly of the horse he was riding, and Yan Shenghao's long scream.

He immediately jumped off the horse and fell to the ground. The horse was injured, neighed in fright, and rushed to the side.

"There is an assassin!" He Lanxiong choked and drew out the scimitar from his waist. Pressing his hand on the ground, it slid forward on the ground like a poisonous snake, from the angle of the arrow from the war horse. He had already determined the direction from which the crossbow arrow was coming.

This round of crossbow arrows was shot from under the snow not far away.

In the first round, several guards fell down and dismounted, and their horses neighed and ran away. Gao Yuan jumped off his horse and squatted on the ground, holding Yan Shenghao in one hand. After glancing at Yan Shenghao's injuries, his heart dropped. Fortunately, it was not a serious injury.

After a brief panic, the accompanying guards immediately showed extraordinary reflexes. The dozens of war horses behind them rode forward, one by one, surrounding Yan Shenghao and Gao Yuan. Everyone dismounted. , formed a circle inside, so that there was no gap between the two of them. No matter how much crossbow arrows were fired, they could not reach the two of them. The remaining guards shouted loudly and ran towards the direction of the crossbow arrows. .

The originally flat snow suddenly exploded, and dozens of figures jumped out from under the snow. They were all dressed in white robes, and even their heads and faces were wrapped in white masks. If these people were lying in the snow, they would be in danger. It was completely motionless, and on such a night, it was impossible to detect it.

The crossbows in their hands were being raised. After firing the first round, they reloaded the crossbows very quickly. With this speed alone, these people were an extremely elite assault team.

But what they faced were elites who were more responsive than they were.

When the crossbow had just been raised, He Lanxiong was already in front of them. He put one hand on the ground and slashed the scimitar in his hand. Bloody light burst out. The wrists of the first two people were immediately cut off. Amidst the loud screams, He Lanxiong had already He rushed into their team, and the dozen or so guards who rushed after them were only a sliver slower than them.

Gao Yuan's face was as cold as ice. He handed Yan Shenghao to an accompanying guard, stood up slowly, stretched out his hand at his waist, and found that the triangular military thorn that had not been used for a long time appeared in his hand again.

He walked out, and the guards surrounding him opened a gap. The two guards walked out together with him. Their positions were very strange. Their broad bodies each blocked a third of Gao Yuan's body. Body, in this way, even if there is a sudden attack, no matter how desperate they are, they can use their bodies to block the attack.

"Catch them alive!" Gao Yuan was furious. If his innate vigilance hadn't noticed the abnormality at this time, he and Yan Shenghao would have been killed in the first round of attacks. He had too many enemies. In the end, He had to find out who wanted his life.

At the same time that Gao Yuan said these words, He Lanxiong had already killed several people. It was obvious that such a sudden attack made He Lanxiong extremely angry, and his sword was deadly and he did not spare any effort. At this time, his thick arms were strangling the neck of another killer, and the scimitar in his hand was about to be inserted into the man's chest and abdomen. When he heard Gao Yuan's words, he turned his wrist and hit the man's head hard with the handle of the knife. , the man groaned and fell down softly.

At this time, Gao Yuan didn't know that there was another person lying on the snow dozens of steps away from the assassination site, holding a crossbow in his hand. The dark blue arrowhead moved with Gao Yuan's footsteps. After a while, he finally put it down dejectedly, because the two guards around Gao Yuan were in a very good position. No matter which angle he aimed at, when he heard the whistling sound of the crossbow arrow, the other party had time to use his body to block Gao Yuan. If he missed the shot, he would not be able to leave.

Looking at the dozen assassins being taken down one after another not far away, the man sighed silently. Although he was still lying on the ground, his body kept retreating on the ground, leaving a winding mark on the ground. In an instant, he had retreated dozens of steps away and the whole person had disappeared into the darkness.

Compared with the murderous aura of the dozen people who wanted to take action before, the person on the other side seemed much more powerful. From beginning to end, Gao Yuan did not notice that there was a ferocious beast lurking on one side. If it were not for the well-trained guards around him, Gao Yuan would probably not be able to dodge this arrow.

The battle started suddenly and ended quickly. Ten of the fifteen assassins were killed on the spot, five were captured alive, and of the five survivors, only two were intact. Although the guards held back, they could not control the other three as freely as Helan Xiong. The three survivors were already dying.

"Commander-in-chief, it's the Yanling Guards!" A guard searched an iron plate from the assassin and presented it to Gao Yuan with both hands.

Gao Yuan snorted and raised his chin, "Search them all."

A moment later, the fifteen iron plates were placed on the snow in front of Gao Yuan.

"Yanling Guards, Tan Feng!" Gao Yuan was furious. "Go and interrogate the two guys, interrogate them separately, and if they tell a lie, cut them into pieces."

The two assassins captured by Helan Xiong were immediately dragged to the sides by the guards. They were dozens of meters apart, and it was impossible to hear each other talking.

"Commander, please come here quickly, the arrow is poisonous." The guard who was taking care of Yan Shenghao suddenly screamed.

Gao Yuan was startled and turned back quickly. The guard had just torn open the clothes on Yan Shenghao's arm to bandage him, but he saw that the place where the arrow hit was already black.

"How far is it from here to Jishi City?"

"Commander, we have just walked halfway. It is still more than 20 miles away from Jishi City." A guard said.

Gao Yuan looked at Yan Shenghao's injury with a gloomy face. In the time it took to say these few words, the black color had expanded a circle. It seems that Yan Shenghao will be poisoned before he can reach Jishi City.

"This poison is so strong, General, what should we do?"

Gao Yuan gritted his teeth and shook his wrist. The thin blade that was rarely shown to others appeared between his fingers. "Yan Yizheng, bear with it." He said loudly. With a swish, the knife fell on the blackened muscles and slid along the place where the black gas spread. A large mass of black muscles was immediately cut out and thrown away.

"Rope!" Gao Yuan stretched out his hand.

A guard handed over a cloth belt, and Gao Yuan tied it tightly above Yan Shenghao's wound. Although the place where the arrow was shot was picked out by him, the poison was not completely expelled. As time went by, it would still slowly invade Yan Shenghao's heart.

"Come here, ride a fast horse back to Jishi City to report the news immediately, and let Doctor Qiu prepare for treatment quickly."

The two guards jumped on the horse and whipped the horse's buttocks with a strong whip. At this time, they could not care about the horse.

"Helan, you are good at horse riding, take Yan Yi Zheng with you. Let's go back to Jishi City."

The group mounted their horses and hurried towards Jishi City. After a while, the guards who stayed behind to interrogate the prisoners also caught up. "General, they are all from Yanlingwei. They came to Jishi City to assassinate Yan Yi Zheng." A guard rushed to Gao Yuan's side and shouted. "The leader is Li Yuncong."

"Li Yuncong?" Gao Yuan was shocked. He heard about this person. "Did Li Yuncong die just now?"

"No, the man said that Li Yuncong never showed up from beginning to end." The guard replied.

Gao Yuan took a long breath and felt a little scared. It seemed that Li Yuncong must have been lurking on the side just now, but he didn't find a chance to kill him. Their target was Yan Shenghao. It seemed that Yanlingwei originally wanted to kill Yan Shenghao, causing chaos in Jishi City and causing suspicion between Hejian County and Jishi City. He didn't expect that he and Yan Shenghao were together. He Lanxiong was also traveling with them.

"Where are the captives?"

"Kill them all!" the guard said.

Gao Yuan nodded, and understood the whole story. It didn't matter whether these captives existed or not. (To be continued...)