Chapter 945: A Strange Assassination
Zhao Jia didn't expect the Jurchens to be able to enter the city, so he was very anxious when he first woke up, but when he saw Hu Yanping sitting there very calmly, it seemed that he had already known that the Jurchens would kill into the city, which made Zhao Jia can't help but feel certain in his heart, and the panic just now slowly calmed down.
"The situation outside is almost under control, and the sons and daughters will go with General Ben to see how those Jurchens got in!" Seeing Zhao Jia and other guards pouring into his room, Hu Yanping smiled calmly at this time, then stood up and walked out, Zhao Jia and the others hurriedly surrounded Hu Yanping to prevent the enemy army of Jurchens in the city from hurting the main general.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhao Jia came to Hu Yanping's side again, although the guards around Hu Yanping didn't know Zhao Jia's identity, they also guessed some from Zhao Jia's treatment, and the people who could be guards were very strict, so they didn't dare to inquire about Zhao Jia's true identity, and they didn't even dare to mention Zhao Jia to the outside world, so as not to leak it out and cause serious consequences.
Before Zhao Jia could speak, Hu Yanping had already guessed what he was going to ask, and immediately smiled and said: "Jia'er, you have to remember that sometimes your enemy will be very cunning, and he will expose some obvious traps in front of you, so as to attract your attention and attention, and make you mistakenly think that the danger has been discovered by you, but in fact, next to this trap, there may be another more deadly trap." ”
Zhao Jia immediately understood when he heard Hu Yanping's words, and said with a sudden expression: "I see, Uncle Ping, you are saying that those arrangements that ignite the fire are actually fake, but the real killing move is at the end, such as the Jurchens who suddenly appeared tonight." ”
"Yes, those Jurchens did play a trick, but it was too obvious, as long as it was a careful general. I would definitely find out that the arrangement that caused the fire, so I concluded that it was just a bait thrown by the Jurchens, and the real killing move must be behind, so I had people make some arrangements before, and now it seems that it really worked. Hu Yanping spoke again at this time.
As they spoke, they had already arrived on the street of Liaoyang Mansion. I saw that the streets were full of Song troops, but they were busy but not chaotic, each army had its own generals under their command, and as Hu Yanping and them advanced, more protection teams gathered around, but Hu Yanping didn't like it very much, and let the others continue to go to the front to suppress the Jurchens, and the guards around him were enough to protect his safety.
As Hu Yanping advanced, people in front of him continued to come to report on the battle situation. At this time, Zhao Jia figured out that the Jurchens had dug a tunnel in the city in advance, but the exit was very hidden, and they didn't find it at all during the day, but at night, the Jurchens used this tunnel to kill into the city, fortunately, Hu Yanping had already prepared, and the Jurchens had just rushed out of the tunnel. It was already discovered by the Song army, and then all the armies arrived. surrounded the Jurchens near the entrance to the tunnel.
Hu Yanping came to the place where the Jurchens were besieged, looked at the surrounding terrain, and finally came to a higher place in the southeast corner, and looked at the situation there with the torches on the battlefield, only to see thousands of Jurchens trapped in place by the surrounding Song army, and the battlefield was full of dead corpses. And the Jurchens are also falling layer by layer under the blows of the Song army, and it seems that it will not be long before this sneak attack will end in the defeat of the Jurchens.
However, when Hu Yanping and the others were all focused on the battlefield not far away, no one noticed that it was not far from the high ground where they were standing. Several windows of a private house were slowly opened, and then a few cold and glittering arrows stretched out from the windows, and the target was Hu Yanping, who was surrounded by guards.
"Whoosh~" With the sound of several bowstrings that are not divided into front and back, several sharp arrows flew in front of Hu Yanping almost in the blink of an eye, and at this time, the guards around him also sensed the danger, and for a while, several figures flew out and blocked in front of Hu Yanping.
With a few screams, several guards finally blocked the sharp arrow, Zhao Jia, who was already standing next to Hu Yanping, also reacted quickly, and also flew to Hu Yanping's side, one of the sharp arrows grazed his arm, but he failed to block it, and the result was right in Hu Yanping's heart, and what was even more coincidental was that this arrow actually shot into the gap between Hu Yanping's armor, and shot into it several inches deep at once.
"Ahh Zhao Jia watched the arrow hit Hu Yanping, but he couldn't do anything, and when he fell to the ground, he screamed. And Hu Yanping, who was hit by the arrow, turned pale in an instant, shook his horse a few times and saw that he was about to fall off the horse, but in the end, he suddenly raised his anger and forced himself to sit on the horse without falling, because he was the main general in the city, and many soldiers around him could see him.
"Uncle Ping!" Zhao Jia jumped up immediately after falling to the ground, and stepped forward to support Hu Yanping's crumbling body, but at this time, he saw Hu Yanping with a pale face and whispered, "I can't die yet!" Order everyone to be silent, let's slowly retreat, and then ask the medical officer for treatment! ”
Zhao Jia knew that Hu Yanping's order was worried that he would shake the army's heart because of his injury, and he nodded yes with tears in his eyes, and then he temporarily took over Hu Yanping's command of the guards, and personally rode with Hu Yanping, helping him slowly evacuate the battlefield from behind.
As soon as he left the battlefield, Hu Yanping finally couldn't hold on anymore, his body was about to fall off the horse as soon as he was weak, fortunately Zhao Jia behind him, he picked Hu Yanping off the horse at the moment, and quickly carried him back to his residence, at this time the medical officer was also invited, and immediately started treatment for Hu Yanping, in addition, Zhao Jia also hurriedly invited several important generals in the army, after all, such a big thing, must let other generals know, and then come up with a countermeasure.
"What's the matter, how could the general get hurt?" A tall general was the first to arrive, and yelled at Zhao Jia's guards, his face was also full of angry expressions, they were trapped in the city enough to be in the nest, but now there is another attack on the main general, if Hu Yanping has three long and two short, I am afraid that all of them will die here.
"General Cui was angry, just now the general was observing the battle situation from a distance, but he didn't expect that there were enemy archers hidden in the houses around him, the general was hit by an arrow in the chest, and he could still speak at the beginning, but now he is not awake!" Zhao Jia took the initiative to step forward at this time, he couldn't understand why there were enemy archers hidden in the houses around them, could the Jurchens know in advance that they would be there to observe the situation on the battlefield?
"So what's going on with the general now, is there any danger to his life?" I saw this General Cui asked angrily again, no matter what the reason, Hu Yanping's injury was a dereliction of duty on the part of the guards around him, and he didn't know Zhao Jia, thinking that the other party was just an ordinary guard leader, so naturally he didn't have a good face.
"The medical officer just got in, and we don't know now!" Zhao Jia also said very sadly at this time, that arrow hit Hu Yanping's chest, I don't know if it hurt the heart, if it really hurts the heart, I'm afraid it will really be life-threatening.
Hearing Zhao Jia's answer, he failed to satisfy General Cui, and at that moment he pointed at Zhao Jia angrily and scolded: "Bastard! If the general has anything to do this time, you all have to do it by military law! ”
For General Cui's angry scolding, Zhao Jia did not fight back, but lowered his head and did not make a sound, in fact, he also blamed himself a little at this time, if he could block that arrow just now, maybe Uncle Ping would be fine, as long as Uncle Ping was there, their army of 50,000 would be fine, if Uncle Ping was in any danger, I am afraid that he would live in this kind of self-blame for the rest of his life.
When they learned that Hu Yanping was injured, they were all shocked and angry, and even a hot-tempered general wanted to whip Zhao Jia and these guards, but fortunately they were stopped. At the same time, the shouting and killing in the city slowly weakened, and it seemed that those Jurchens should also be eliminated.
"Report~" At this moment, I suddenly saw someone rushing over, carrying a few corpses behind him, Zhao Jia recognized that these people were the Song Jun who went to the house where he shot arrows to catch the assassin when Hu Yanping was attacked before, and saw the other party trotting to Zhao Jia and they said loudly, "Qi Qi several generals, the last general went to arrest the assassin, and found that there were a total of five Jurchen assassins in the house, after the other party resisted, he saw that he couldn't escape, all of them committed suicide, and the corpses had been brought by the general, and we thoroughly searched the house and found it, These Assassins have been lying in ambush there for a long time, and I guess they were already lurking there before we even entered the city! ”
"Dead?" When General Cui heard this, he immediately strode over to the corpses of the assassins, looked at them a few times, and suddenly roared, and drew his waist knife to chop the corpses of several assassins into pieces, in order to calm the anger in his heart.
Zhao Jia quietly watched General Cui chop up the corpse of the assassin, worried about Hu Yanping's situation, and a little puzzled, according to the general who caught the assassin, these assassins had long been ambushed in that house, but the location where he and Hu Yanping observed the battle was chosen randomly, let alone these assassins in advance, I am afraid that even Hu Yanping himself did not know that he would observe the situation on the battlefield there, but these assassins were hiding in the house not far from them in advance, Isn't this a little too weird, as if these Jurchens knew their actions in advance? (To be continued.) )