Erzhu Xianzhong was sitting in the big tent in the middle of the barracks, his hand pressed on the hilt of his sword, not moving, and the generals and colonels on the left and right sides stood upright, no one spoke, so quiet that he could hear the sound of breathing. ◢ with ◢ dream ◢ small ◢ .lā

The news of Zhao Ziliang's assassination has reached the escort army, and the death of the two princesses has made all the generals understand that this is a big deal, since the founding of the Western Qin Dynasty, there has never been such a serious assassination incident, and if it is not good, countless people will suffer from this matter, at least the accompanying generals of the escort army will not be able to escape the blame, and a crime of unfavorable protection is enough to make the head of a general with outstanding military achievements fall to the ground.

After being silent for a long time, Erzhu Xianzhong said in a deep voice: "The matter has come to this, it is useless to think about it more, our duty is to be responsible for the periphery completely, cheer me up, and there can be no more problems!" ”

All the generals promised in unison: "Yes!" ”

At this time, a dazzling light flashed outside the big tent, and then a loud fireworks explosion came from the nearby sky, and soon a small colonel ran into the big tent and hugged his fist to Erzhu Xianzhong and said: "General Qiyu, the secret post lurking on the top of the first peak has sent a signal that there is an enemy attack!" ”

Erzhu Xianzhong suddenly got up and said coldly: "Sure enough, as expected by the Holy King, we still have guests!" The generals listened to the order, each returned to his original position, each took his own responsibility, and did not attack without an order, and stood by the camp! ”

The generals clasped their fists together and agreed; "Obey!"

Even if the nomadic light cavalry is attacked at night, they do not dare to go out to meet the enemy casually when they are attacked at night, lest they fall into the trap set by the enemy, because the night is the best cover for the enemy in the dark, and they can make any deployment under the protection of the night without worrying about being discovered.

The ground began to shake, not only all the guards in the outer barracks felt it, but even Zhao Ziliang and the accompanying officials and generals in the post hall also felt it.

Zhao Ziliang's face was silent, and he couldn't see any expression, but the more this was the case, the more frightened the ministers and generals became.

"Li Zongwen, who do you say is the mastermind behind this?"

Zhao Ziliang's words made Li Zongwen's heart instantly rise to his throat, he couldn't help but be afraid, Du Zongwu was his younger brother, and his younger brother was directly responsible for the Saint King's personal security guards, but because of negligence, a large number of assassins hid under the nose of the Saint King to carry out assassinations, and also caused the death of two princesses and more than a dozen palace maids, this disaster can be said to have pierced the sky, he didn't know whether Zhao Ziliang's meaning was just an ordinary inquiry, or something else.

Du Zongwen immediately knelt on the ground, and said in fear: "Chen Wan is dead, there was no warning before this happened, and no useful clues have been found until now, the post guards of the post station are only afraid that all of them are fake, and the real post guards are likely to have all been killed, and it is possible that even the owner and the guys of the inn next door are all assassins pretending to be assassins." Listening to the sound of the ground shaking, Weichen guessed that there was a large number of cavalry attacking, after years of suppression and rectification of bandits on this road, there are no large-scale groups of horse bandits, to use so many cavalry, the mastermind behind the scenes must be not small, and it is by no means ordinary people can arrange this bureau! ”

"Not bad!" Li Muchen stood up and bowed to Zhao Ziliang and said, "Holy King, judging from the current situation, this is a well-arranged nirvana, the assassins are likely to come here a long time ago to kill Yi Cheng and all the post guards and the owner of the inn next door, and then Tao Dai Li Zhuang lurked down, what does this mean?" It shows that the mastermind behind the scenes has long known that the Holy King is coming here, and set this trap here to wait for us to come, they first lurked in the hidden basement of the post station, and escaped the inspection of the soldiers of the Dragon Guard, just now Wei Chen also went to see the secret door and basement of the utility room, the secret door is indeed extremely hidden, it is set up by the agency, if you don't specifically search for the trap of the agency, you really can't find it, and this can't completely blame the soldiers for not doing their best! ”

"The assassins tried to assassinate the Holy King, so they used a lot of smoke to fascinate the Dragon Guard soldiers guarding the guard, and then assassinated the Holy King, but they underestimated the loyalty and fierceness of the Dragon Guard soldiers, and also overestimated the role of the smoke, so that the assassination was a failure!"

"Failure? Do you think that the two princesses of Lone were killed in this incident, and their actions can be regarded as a failure? ”

Zhao Ziliang's voice made Li Muchen shudder, beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, and he hurriedly pleaded guilty: "Ten thousand deaths, ten thousand deaths!" ”

Zhao Ziliang stared at Li Muchen for a long time before he spoke: "You go on!" ”

"Yes, yes!" Li Muchen agreed, raised his hand to wipe a handful of sweat beads, and continued: "The inn next to it is next door, and it is not difficult for those fake post guards to know that the assassination failed, so they rushed to hijack all the business travelers who lived in the hotel when Du Zongwu was waiting for people to pass, and shot arrows outside as a signal, this signal must be to inform the soldiers and horses outside to do it, since the internal assassination failed, then they can only use the external soldiers and horses to attack, in the dark night, they are hidden in the shadows, and they have a great advantage!" Now that I am in the open and the enemy is in the dark, our army cannot attack at will, and even if it attacks, it may not be able to find the enemy. Therefore, Wei Chen suggested that for the time being, we should go all out to deal with the invading enemy, and wait until dawn, when the enemy army will not be able to hide, so that the soldiers of the escort army and the martial arts of General Erzhu do not have to worry, and then they can fight and leave! ”

Zhao Ziliang listened to Li Muchen's words and didn't say anything, and asked, "How is the situation at the inn?" Are the hostages still in their hands? ”

Gu Qianzhi stood up and arched his hand: "Yes, since the Holy King wants to keep his mouth alive, the soldiers have some rat traps!" ”

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while, and immediately said: "No matter how many there are, these people are basically dead soldiers, I'm afraid that most of the assassins don't know about the mastermind behind the scenes, and the others can live or die, just leave the leader and two or three other assassins, those assassins think that they can use the lives of a few business travelers to make a lonely mouse taboo, isn't it too naïve?" Gu Qianzhi sent someone to convey Lone's words to Du Zongwu! ”

"Yes!"

Zhao Ziliang looked at the several repeating crossbows placed on the table in front of him, and his face was gloomy and terrifying. This kind of mass killing weapon is only equipped by the army, and it is only equipped by a few special armies, because the relevant technology for manufacturing repeater crossbows has long been lost, and this thing was made by Zhao Ziliang specially instructed craftsmen, and it took a lot of time to develop.

Zhao Ziliang picked up a repeater and looked at it, looked up at the generals present, and his eyes fell on one person: "Liang Zhenwu, you are the deputy general of the Dragon Guard Army, with your military class, you should know a lot of secrets, you tell me, how many armies are equipped with this type of repeater crossbow in my Western Qin State, and which armies are they equipped in!" ”

Liang Zhenwu stood up and hugged his fists and said: "Your Majesty, as far as Wei Chen knows, this style of repeater is divided into two types, large and small, and the one in Your Majesty's hand is a large type. Small models are equipped with special operations squads in the army, because of its small size, but it also requires high lethality, easy to carry and disassemble, and at present there are only three armies equipped with small types of repeater crossbows. They are the Tiger Tooth Army's Roaring Team, the Wolf Tooth Army's Blood Moon Team, and the Dragon Tooth Army's Dragon Kiss Team! Large models of crossbows have a long range, great power, although the rate of fire is a little slow, but they are particularly suitable for large-scale blocking, at present, there are slightly more types of crossbows equipped with large models, the Dragon Guard, the Guards, the Guards and other legions are almost equipped, but the number is different, more is equipped with 500 bodies, less than 100 bodies, because the internal parts of the crossbow are particularly troublesome and expensive to manufacture, so it is impossible to equip a large area, a legion can be equipped with 500 bodies is already the top of the sky, Moreover, the equipment of any army with this kind of weapon is recorded in detail in the Military Aircraft Academy. Our Dragon Guard is equipped with two hundred, and one hundred of the five hundred people accompanying the escort this time, Wechen has already led someone to check it, one hundred is a lot, and the repeating crossbows used by the assassins are not in my Dragon Guard! ”

Zhao Ziliang snorted coldly: "I have this thing in my hand, but I was killed by this thing more than 30 people, you are really enough, the assassins use repeaters to block, don't you know how to use repeaters to counteract?" All of them are pig brains? ”

"Minister······ Convicted! Liang Zhenwu was scolded to death in shame, but he still said: "At that time, the situation was critical, and the ministers were worried about the safety of His Majesty and Niangniang, and the soldiers were also confused, and they forgot to use the repeater to counter the enemy for a while······ I wonder if Your Majesty can show the repeater to Weichen? ”

Zhao Ziliang handed the repeater to a eunuch next to him, the eunuch took it and immediately walked over and handed it to Liang Zhenwu, he took the repeater and then looked at it carefully in the bright light, and then said to Zhao Ziliang: "Your Majesty, Weichen wants to try the power of this repeater, please allow Your Majesty!" ”

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand at a eunuch: "Give him an arrow!" ”

A crossbow arrow pressed close to the arrow turn, Liang Zhenwu held the crossbow at a corridor pillar next to him and pressed down the machine width, "grab" sound, the crossbow arrow was nailed to the pillar, he walked over to take a look, and used a very fast technique to disassemble the repeater into a pile of parts, one by one to check up, and finally stood up and hugged Zhao Ziliang and said: "Your Majesty, this crossbow is not from my Xiqin!" Or it is not the production of my Xiqin weapons, it is imitated by someone privately, Your Majesty can see that the overall crossbow of the repeater does not have any signs on the crossbow, according to the laws of my Xiqin, when any craftsman completes a work, he must indicate who made it on the work, the year and month of manufacture, and these crossbows are not marked with a payment, and these parts are rough in workmanship, especially the internal related parts, which are completely unable to meet the requirements of the crossbow made by our Xiqin, so its range and power are at least half smaller! ”

Liang Zhenwu's words made Zhao Ziliang and the other ministers and generals understand that trying to find clues from the repeaters left by these assassins was in vain.