It is said that Han Shizhong is a single person at this time.

Zhao Gonglian liked this brave and shrewd general, so he stayed by his side to train and arranged for Han Shizhong to live in the Hou Mansion.

Han Shizhong has been up and down in the Western Army for several years, and when he was at his most prosperous, he served as Bingyilang, Jiezhen and other military attachés from the eighth grade, and it was not easy to have this achievement in his early twenties, but in fact, he has never been an official in the real sense.

In the huge border army system, in the field army of the Western Army, not to mention the middle-level military attachés from the eighth rank to the seventh rank, they also grasp a large handful, and their power and status are far from being comparable with the key personnel of the same level in the inland state capital.

Han Shizhong always lived in a dirty barracks, ate rough food in the army, wore old military uniforms, and better was paid more, could have money to drink some good wine, had more junior brothers, and could lead people to fight on the battlefield, so as to exercise and exert some command skills.

Living in the Hou Mansion, Han Shizhong finally realized what it means to live a good life.

Warm and comfortable house, new and clean clothes...... I won't talk about that. Cangzhao is famous for its food and wine, and the thoughtful, meticulous and efficient service of the servants is the key point that satisfies Han Shizhong.

Hou Ye attaches great importance to health and health, pays great attention to diet, and does not pay attention to the strict hierarchical and inferior system of this era to his subordinates in daily life, and often gathers with guards, generals, and officials of the government to eat, drink, and compete in martial arts.

The eunuchs of the supervising army of the government, the deputy generals Gao Jiguang, Qi Shiye, Tongju, the generals Zhu Tong, Hao Siwen, Zhao Xin and other major civil and military officers like to dine with Hou Ye, often come to the door uninvited to eat and drink, exchange feelings, and listen to Hou Ye's high arguments by the way.

Summoning Xin's wife. The fierce female master Gao Liang is now actually the head of the Cheongju Military Medical Battalion. is still named as the chief of the female guard in the inner courtyard of the Hou Mansion, and Mrs. Hou travels daily. She is responsible for protecting the Hou Ye's relatives, and has been friends for several years, and the relationship with the three wives of the Hou Ye is not generally good, and she often invites the wives and children of the generals or officials of the mansion to come to the Hou Mansion in groups to fight the autumn breeze and enjoy the delicious food.

Who called Hou Ye so rich and generous.

Cangzhao is a merchant in the world, and he is the only official eunuch family among the officials of the Great Song Dynasty who does not hide the identity of the family businessman. The delicious food and rare fruits of Tiannan and Haibei are usually only enjoyed by the emperor's family, but they can also be eaten here by the Hou Ye.

In this way, who will eat if you don't eat Hou Ye?

Han Shizhong likes the living conditions here, and prefers the harmonious and lively living atmosphere.

Accompany the Hou Ye to come back from the patrol. He was also very tired, but he was not a guard, he didn't have to work the night shift, he was sleeping soundly tonight, he suddenly woke up from a sweet dream, heard a fierce fight outside, saw many houses in the yard burning, and the military habits and vigilance he had cultivated for many years immediately took effect, allowing him to get up quickly at the first time. didn't care about putting on a sweater and socks, wearing an autumn coat and wearing boots and armor, tidying up neatly and instinctively reaching for the gun, but instead letting go of the gun. He pulled out the waist knife, a short weapon that he was accustomed to putting on his pillow for self-defense.

The spear is more than two meters long, suitable for horse warfare. Foot fighting, or waist knife is the most convenient.

With such a sharp knife in hand. Why can't the enemy be killed?

Han Shizhong is full of confidence and spirit. Driving away the drowsiness, he opened the door and rushed out.

With him, the tiger, joining. The sword dances, the cold light is one, those who touch it die, and those who touch it die. Several of the most fierce and rampant assassins with the strongest martial arts were killed by Han Shizhong one after another. The few guards on duty in the front yard tonight who were in a hurry to respond to the battle quickly turned their predicament into a great reversal.

The other guards who were not in the squad were well-trained and experienced in combat, and they quickly equipped themselves to fight out of the house.

The crazy seventy or eighty assassins here soon lost their arrogance and were killed one by one.

Several veterans of the Hou Mansion guarding the gate calmly led the startled servants of the Hou Mansion to extinguish the fire with wet quilts. The troops patrolling the area around the Hou Mansion also quickly converged, and under the command of the officers, a group surrounded the Hou Mansion to prevent the Assassins from escaping or another Assassin from appearing to reinforce them. One entered the Hou Mansion to help extinguish the fire and kill the enemy.

Cui Biaomin and Cui Shi, the sons of the Cui family in Yandi, who quietly hid in a hidden place to monitor and command this assassination, never expected that the thirty or forty guards in the Houfu District could effectively block the sneak attack of nearly two hundred people in the Cui family's dead soldiers and dozens of **** experts in Liao and Song, seeing that the opportunity was not seized, the most favorable first time to set fire to the enemy in a large area was unsuccessful, and the main force to assassinate Zhao Gonglian had already failed first, knowing that this time he spent a huge price to prepare for several months, and the perfect assassination that was carefully arranged actually failed again.

They knew that they had failed this time, and they wanted to assassinate Zhao Gonglian in the future to avenge their hatred, relying on the power of the Cui family alone, they had almost no chance, so they were extremely unwilling, but they were helpless when they saw that they were trapped in a passive situation of being slaughtered on one side.

The two gritted their teeth, hesitating whether to retreat quickly to preserve their strength in order to gain momentum.

Suddenly, two masked men burst out of the darkness, dressed as people from their own side, but they actually picked up steel knives at them.

Cui Biaomin and Cui Shi are also young and have a good martial arts education, have martial arts, have good skills, are extraordinary, insidious and ruthless, and young and strong, otherwise they are not qualified to lead the team to complete this difficult and important family task.

Suddenly attacked, the two of them hurriedly gathered their minds and swung their swords to resist in horror.

Unexpectedly, the two masked people were much higher in martial arts than the two of them, and their strength was even stronger. Heavy steel knives are like electric splits. Cui Biaomin and Cui Shi's wrists shook violently, and the sword shook off almost at the same time. In an instant, the steel knife swung in, and Er Cui couldn't dodge, and was stopped and cut into two pieces.

He Yu and He Ban, the youngest of Tian Hu's nine sons, raided and killed Er Cui, quickly searched his body, and did not find anything of great value, so he snorted, quickly disappeared into the night, and fled to the bamboo forest.

The assassination operation launched by the Cui family, Tian Hu, the largest **** boss in the north, was well-informed, and when he learned the news, he immediately vigorously supported and responded, not only actively recruiting **** rangers to cooperate and help, but also sent trusted relatives and brothers He Yu and He Ban to lead the assassins he collected, and sneaked into the Qingzhou Chenghou Mansion to take revenge on Zhao Gonglian.

Zhao Yue wandered to Taiyue Mountain in the autumn and took away the bandits of Shanshiqi, which not only destroyed Tian Hu's subjugation plan, but also made Tian Hu lose a strong general with both civil and military skills, and also eradicated many powerful and powerful families in Shanxi who Tian Hu colluded with along the way.

Although Li Tianxi, Liu Kerang, Zheng Zhirui and other Tian Hu had long wanted to collect talents under the account, they were forced to give up waiting and watching at both ends of the head in order to seek greater interests by Zhao Yue's family, and they immediately took refuge in him Tian Hu, making up for the serious lack of civil officials under Tian Hu's pillars, and accelerating the regularization and growth of Tian Hu's political forces, which can be regarded as indirectly helping Tian Hu.

But Zhao Yue snatched half of Tian Hu's hand-picked half of the fine war horses, killed hundreds of elite cavalry that Tian Hu had trained with great difficulty, and even slapped Tian Hu, the leader of the northern green forest, in the face, Tian Hu's face and prestige were greatly damaged, how could Tian Hu, who was always strong and arrogant, swallow this breath?

Moreover, in Tian Hu's heart, the rich money of Shanxi's big families is the target of his clever robbery, including Li Tianxi and Zheng Zhirui, even if the huge family property cannot be swallowed all, at least he has to honor most of his Tian Hu, but it turned out to be all cheaper than Zhao Er.

Tian Hu couldn't swallow this mouthful of anger no matter what. He was determined to take revenge.

But the facts over the years have proved that those who went to Cangzhou Zhaozhuang to take revenge on the members of Cangzhao have never succeeded. Whether you are a peerless ranger thief master in the rivers and lakes, or an iron cavalry of the Liao army that makes the Song people fearful, there is no return. The members of Cangzhao are still living happily.

Zhao Gonglian put the official position of the most advantageous hometown and transferred to the strange and dangerous northernmost border Cheongju. This gave the Yandi Cui family, who had been eyeing each other, a chance. Tian Hu also set his goal here.

He Yu and He Ban turned against each other and killed Er Cui, but they didn't change their temperament and goal to help the Hou Mansion.

The two of them saw that things were not good, the assassination failed, Zhao Gonglian was still alive, most of the **** assassins he brought were killed in battle, and the remaining few assassins who had fled and did not retreat only Er Cui knew their true identities, in order to avoid Zhao Gonglian knowing that Tian Hu was involved in the murder and used the power of the court to retaliate, he immediately killed Er Cui.

Ercui was cunning, and after leading the team to infiltrate the Hou Mansion from the tunnel, he dispersed among the assassins with the convenience of the whole group of masked faces, but did not participate in the assassination fight, hid in the shadows to protect himself, and improvised to command the battle or escape quietly at the opportunity.

He Yu and He Banjiu were ****, but they were extremely experienced and mixed in with the assassins, but they were secretly staring at Er Cui's whereabouts and did not participate in the fight. As a result, at the last moment, I really used advance precautions to get rid of future troubles.

The two fled to the bamboo forest, taking advantage of the chaos to burrow into the ground and struggled to escape.

In the tunnel, the first few **** assassins who retreated from Zhao Gonglian's side. Jiao Ting led five guards to chase after him. Behind the six of them were a few outlaws collected by Tian Hu, plus the two brothers He Yu and He Ban. And then there is Han Shizhong.

Jiao Ting went down to the cave, down the steps, and went nearly two feet into the ground before stepping on the cave.

He gasped as he scanned the cavern under the light of his flashlight.

The tunnel was nothing like the crude, narrow, low, tunnels that the Assassins had hastily dug to infiltrate.

The cave is two meters high and nearly two meters wide, and there is no sense of crampedness at all when standing in it with a tall and majestic body.

And that's not all.

The cave wall in the cave is relatively smooth, the ground is more flat like a horizontal plane, the car is also smooth and unimpeded, the top of the cave is arched, strong and durable, every ten meters, there is a lamp or a torch place on the cave wall. Although the light of the fire was faint due to the poor air in the cave, the light continued to meander into the depths, and it was difficult to tell at a glance how deep the cave was and where it eventually led.

After Jiao Ting was shocked, he bravely went deep into the cave to chase and kill, chased for a long time, killed a few assassins who were not fast enough or tired of running, and stared at the remaining three or two to continue to go deeper, and was surprised to find that the cave had many low and narrow branches, and many large spaces such as storage rooms and residences, but these places were basically collapsed and blocked, and it was difficult to know where the branches led. (To be continued.) )