Chapter 1125: During the Emperor's Hunt "21/27"
ps: In the past two days, I have been with my parents in my hometown, and I have played cards with them every night. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ info It's not that I can't squeeze out the time to add more, but this plot is more difficult to write, and the author wants to write multiple lines to increase a bit of suspense, so, please don't rush to urge the update or destroy the progress, because some things do need to be explained.
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On the sixth day of the fifth month, the backyard of Wang's gambling house in Xiangyi County.
"Whew, Whew......"
Panting, the right commander of the Gong Wei Division made Tong Xin look at the corpses of thieves all over the ground with a shocked face, and his heart palpitated.
"Son of a bitch!"
He kicked at a corpse in front of him, which was the corpse of Wang Hu, the county lieutenant of Xiangyi County.
In fact, Tong Xin took into account that Wang Hu was most likely a member of the remnants of the Xiao family, but he never expected that Wang Hu would be so bold that after tricking them into the backyard of the gambling house, he immediately turned his face and tried to kill all 21 of them.
Fortunately, the guards of the Gong Guard Division are all superb in martial arts, and the armor and weapons on their bodies are also several grades better than these thieves, otherwise, if you don't make Tong Xin's group of people, it is really possible that they will be killed by this group of outlaws.
At this time, Tong Xin's clan brother Tong Hu came to the former, drooped his head and said, "Big brother, Li Zhao and Sun Yi...... Didn't make it through......"
Tong Xin glanced around with a calm face, and sure enough, he saw that among the corpses in the courtyard, there were two familiar royal guard brothers.
"Dog's mother!"
Angry in his heart, Tong Xin slashed the sharp war knife in his hand towards Wang Hu's corpse, chopping the corpse to the ground and blurring the flesh and blood.
chopped more than a dozen knives in a row, almost chopping Wang Hu's body into pieces, and the anger in Tong Xinxin was still not exhausted.
Until a guard stepped forward to stop and persuade: "Commander, just now we are waiting for the fight here, I believe that we must have alarmed the local county government, and we must not stay for a long time." β
Hearing this, Tong Xin immediately calmed down, after all, any county town has a certain amount of defense strength, just like Xiangyi City, there are three or four hundred county soldiers, if it is blocked by these county soldiers, with less than twenty imperial guards around him alone, he may not be able to escape smoothly.
You must know that in the arsenals of local counties, there are crossbow weapons that have been eliminated by the domestic army.
Although Tong Xin can show the tokens of the Praetorian Guard and the Guard, he can't trust the local prefectural order.
After all, among the thieves who ambushed them in the courtyard, some of them were wearing the trapping uniforms of the local government, and they were clearly the officials of the local county government.
"Take Li Zhao and Sun Yi and go!"
made a quick decision, and Tong Xin chose to evacuate.
Sure enough, the fight in Wang's gambling house had already spread to the streets, and Tong Xin and his party were covered in blood, so that on their way back to the inn, many people fled in panic.
Under the frightened gaze of the innkeeper, Tong Xin and his party took back their horses, and then rode to the nearest West City Gate.
And when they came to the West City Gate, reinforcements had already appeared there, about forty-five people.
At this time, Tong Xin didn't care about killing and injuring innocents, although he understood that most of those county soldiers were innocent, but at this point, he could only forcibly kill out of the city, because he didn't dare to guarantee whether the local county order was Wang Hu's comrade, or whether he would listen to his explanation.
Taking a step back, even if the local county magistrate listened to his explanation and proposed a safe way, that is, to confirm the identity of his Tongxin party to Daliang, and the time spent back and forth, I believe that the daylily is also cold.
Fortunately, the imperial guards all had war horses, and those county soldiers were mainly mixed food, and they were not as brave as the soldiers of the Wei army, which made Tong Xin and others rush out of the city gate without danger.
After escaping from Xiangyi County, Tong Xin and his party found a mountain forest outside the city to rest, rest is still secondary, and rationalizing thoughts is still Tong Xin's main purpose.
I have to say that looking at the two horses carrying the corpses of Li Zhao and Sun Yi's two companions, Tong Xin was very uncomfortable.
In the scuffle just now, in fact, he had a glimpse that Wang Hu's gang of thieves seemed to be wearing almost invulnerable armor under the cloth clothes on their group, and they greeted the faces of these imperial guards, and the imperial guards Li Zhao and Sun Yi were outnumbered, and they were accidentally cut in the face by the thieves, and after being stabbed a few times, they did not survive after all.
This made Tong Xin regret a lot, because the armor forged for them by the Internal Construction Bureau actually contained helmets, but Tong Xin didn't want to cause heated discussions among the local people in Xiangyi County, so that the remnants of the Xiao family would notice, so he only wanted to keep a low profile on this trip and take Wang Hu's uniform away when he showed up.
For this reason, he also deliberately disguised himself as a ranger from other places with the imperial guards, and deliberately quarreled after losing money in Wang Hu's gambling house, in order to lure out Wang Hu and let Wang Hu negotiate with them in a secluded environment, so that they could subdue Wang Hu.
At first, it was a victory, which not only led out Wang Hu, but also allowed Wang Hu to take them to a secluded backyard, but what he didn't expect was that Wang Hu had already ambushed people in the backyard and directly attacked them.
"The news leaked."
After thinking for a moment, Tong Xin said with a gloomy face.
His words made the nearby guards look at each other in disbelief.
You must know that these guards rushed to Xiangyi from Daliang and did not disclose it to anyone, let alone the Criminal Department, even the inner chamberlain, they didn't know what they were going to do when they left Daliang, and in this case, the commander Tong Xin actually said that the news leaked?
Does this not mean that there are moles among them?
Thinking of this, all the imperial guards glanced at each other a few times, and their faces were a little difficult to look at.
They are not afraid of external enemies, even if there are many enemies outside, they have considerable self-confidence, but if they have the remnants of the Xiao clan inside, then it will be a big problem.
As if noticing the actions of the guards, Tong Xin shook his head and said, "The problem is not with us. β
There is a basis for him to say this, after all, as far as Fang Cai's thrilling situation is concerned, if there are really one or two traitors among them, then the casualties are definitely not only Li Zhao and Sun Yi, the two imperial guards, and all of them will die here.
Of course, the main reason is that the selection of the imperial guards has been screened layer by layer, and only some children of the clan who have been loyal to Wei Tianzi for a long time are eligible to be selected into it.
For example, the Tong clan of the two nephews of the great eunuch Tong Xian and Tong Xin and Tong Hu, and for example, Li Zhao, the nephew of Li Cheng, the president of the Three Guards.
And since the problem is not among them, how did the news leak out?
Tong Xin thought with a gloomy face, he felt that Wang Hu's group seemed to know the identities of these guards, so that after arriving in the backyard of the gambling house, they killed them without saying a word.
You must know that he Tong Xin and the others deliberately came here this time pretending to be a ranger from other places, and it stands to reason that Wang Hu and the others should first mistake them for being rangers who came to make trouble on purpose.
Since the other party killed the killer without saying a word, it means that Wang Hu and the others had already known their exact identities, and they had ambushed the killer here early and waited for the rabbit.
This means that before he Tong Xin and the others arrived in Xiangyi, Wang Hu and the others had already learned that they would go to look for him.
β¦β¦ The problem lies in Dali Temple!
Tong Xin clenched his fists expressionlessly, and speculated a possibility: because he interrogated Xi Jiang and Xu Ji in Dali Temple, Xiao Shi Yu guessed that he would follow Xu Ji's line to find Wang Hu.
And this means that there are the remnants of the Xiao family in Dali Temple!
"Go back to Dali Temple!"
Tong Xin ordered with a gloomy face.
The imperial guards nodded, and without saying a word, they followed the commander Tong Xin, and within a day of their arrival in Xiangyi, they immediately hurried back to Daliang.
At the same time, in the Zhongyang Hunting Ground, King Zhao Hongrun and his younger brother Zhao Hongxuan were enjoying the fun of hunting.
Although the prey that appeared in front of them was only a small roe deer, the brothers Zhao Hongrun and Zhao Hongxuan both raised their crossbows.
"Xiao Xuan, take it easy, you are not familiar with this crossbow, or your brother and I will show you a hand."
"Brother, although you designed this thing, I don't necessarily mean that I will lose to you."
"Oh? What about the competition? β
"Compare and try."
The brothers looked at each other and raised their crossbows at the same time, aiming at the roe deer in the distance.
At that moment, a sharp arrow passed over the brothers' heads and hit the roe deer in the abdomen with unmistakable accuracy.
I saw that the roe deer snorted and fled with an arrow, but Mu Qing, the sect guard who had been prepared, rode a horse to catch up, and with a sword, the wounded roe deer fell.
Who?
Zhao Hongrun and Zhao Hongxuan came back to their senses in shock, and wondered in their hearts: Who else dared to rob their brothers of prey?
However, when they looked back, they saw Una holding a bow, looking at the two of them with some smugness.
On the side, Princess Yulong excitedly applauded Una.
Seeing this, Zhao Hongxuan instantly understood, pushed his brother with his elbow, and laughed in a low voice: "Sister-in-law is angry, brother, aren't you going to coax it?" β
Saying this, Zhao Hongxuan's eyes intentionally or unintentionally glanced at the carriage of Suwangfu, which was quite close to them, and in the carriage, Ying'er was looking at the fleeing roe deer in frustration, as if she regretted that Zhao Hongrun had not been able to grab the first prize.
Zhao Hongrun shrugged his shoulders helplessly, and then, he glanced back at Una, who happened to make eye contact with Una.
He knows the character of a grassland woman like Una very well, if he comes forward to coax him with low eyebrows at this moment, this is certainly a way, but it is not as good as him snatching the prey from under Una's hunting bow, and then giving this prey to this woman as a gift, and by the way, a few beautiful love words - for the grassland woman, it is the best way to impress the other party with her own strength.
"Look at your brother and I show off my skills."
Pulling up the sleeve of his right hand, Zhao Hongrun said confidently.
It just so happened that they didn't go far when they came across a wild boar.
Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun immediately loaded the crossbow arrow, and at this time, only to hear the howl of a wild boar, Una shot an arrow and hit the wild boar.
"Huh?" Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded, he really didn't know that Una's archery skills were so exquisite.
But think about it, Una is the daughter of the grassland, how can she not be good at arching horses?
"Brother, can you do it?" Zhao Hongxuan deliberately quipped.
"Less nonsense!" Zhao Hongrun scolded angrily: "The arrow on the crossbow is originally slower than the bow, what is there to say?" β
As he said this, he turned his head to look at Una, only to see that Una was looking at him with a hum.
Seeing this, Zhao Hongxuan teased on the side: "Brother, I advise you to apologize to Sister-in-law Una, otherwise, you will have no gain at the end of the day, how embarrassing?" β
"I don't believe it!" Zhao Hongrun obviously had no intention of listening to advice.
It's a pity that the subsequent prey was still hit by Una first.
"Is it more comparable? My man. β
At the instigation of Princess Yulong, Una Zema came to her man's side and said proudly.
"Than!" Zhao Hongrun gritted his teeth and said.
He didn't believe it, the war weapon carefully developed by the Smelting Bureau would still lose to a small hunting bow.
But then it turned out that in terms of hunting, the crossbow is indeed not as fast as the hunting bow, and the arm crossbow is still too heavy, and it can't be taut and tightened, so that the prey encountered later, Zhao Hongrun was slower than Una's shot all day long.
Even if there were a few times when Zhao Hongrun played a trick and did not hesitate to risk damaging the crossbow string and going off the fire, he kept the crossbow arrow in a state of winding for a long time, but because of the relationship between his mind being disturbed by Una, his accuracy was much worse.
was so angry that Zhao Hongrun couldn't wait to throw the arm crossbow in his hand to the ground, and scolded what are you doing with this thing!.
During this period, Zhao Hongxuan had already abandoned his brother very unrighteously, because he found that he followed his brother and became the target of Una's sister-in-law.
No, when he left his brother's side, there was an infinite amount of prey for him to use the power of his crossbow.
"What a baby."
After killing a wild boar with an arrow, Zhao Hongxuan fell in love with the arm crossbow that his brother Zhao Hongrun had given him, in stark contrast to his brother's attitude towards the arm crossbow.
"The husband is sluggish." Zong Wei Mu Qing rode a horse to Zhao Hongrun's side, and teased his Royal Highness in the laughter of the Zong Wei.
Zhao Hongrun licked his lips and said to Wei Jiao: "Wei Jiao, bring the sniper crossbow to this king!" β
Since you can't beat Una's small hunting bow in terms of rate of fire, you can beat it from distance!
So, after Zhao Hongrun shot an arrow to kill a bear deliberately attracted by the guards four hundred steps away, Una was obviously stunned.
And watching these people hunting happily, Ying'er leaned on the inner wall of the carriage and looked at Zhao Hongrun with a complicated expression, and then looked at Princess Yulong with a more complicated look.
I don't want her to see it with her own eyes...... Why is there such a big difference between the same righteous daughters? Stepfather......
Compared with Zhao Hongrun, Ying'er cares more about Zhao Yuanyan's doting on Princess Yulong.
"Sparrows." Ying'er looked at her sister Qi'er, who was kneeling in the carriage, and said softly: "It's too late for you to regret it now......"
Que'er glanced at her sister, and after shaking her head, she said expressionlessly, "It's the prince's order." β¦β¦ Moreover, Sister Ah alone may not be able to charm His Highness. β
"How dare you say it, little Nizi." Ying'er gritted her teeth, leaned forward, reached out and stroked her sister's face, and teased: "It won't be you tempted, right?" β
Que'er shook her head and said expressionlessly: "No, it's just that His Highness has no time to take care of it and affect the prince's plan." β
Looking at the bird's serious appearance, Ying'er suddenly felt bored for some reason, and said lightly: "I hope you don't regret it." β
That night, Zhao Hongrun and his entourage chose a place in the hunting ground that was not easy to be attacked by wild beasts, lit a bonfire, barbecued meat and ate wine.
After waiting for nightfall, Zhao Hongrun, his younger brother and the guards were half drunk and went to rest in the carriage.
In a daze, he vaguely felt two soft and hot bodies burrow into the futon, pressing close to him......