Chapter 22 Assassination
The breeze was blowing gently, and on the dark street, more than a dozen masked men in black, holding the cold long sword in their right hand, and were like ghosts, running towards the carriage ahead.
In front of the carriage, Lin Xiao, who was riding a horse, stretched out his right hand and the team stopped moving forward.
More than a dozen guards drew their swords and laid them out of their sheath, forming a row, and facing more than a dozen masked men in black.
The swords and swords ahead were light and sabers, and from time to time, they were accompanied by a wail.
Suddenly, dozens of black-clad masked archers emerged from the roofs on both sides of the street.
In just a blink of an eye, dozens of feather arrows shot at the carriage, making a burst of explosions.
More than a dozen guards on both sides of the carriage drew their swords and slashed the feather arrows. Soon, the two guards groaned and fell to the ground.
Dozens of masked men in black on the roof, with bows and arrows on their backs, pulled out the long sword from their waists, fell from the sky, and suddenly rushed towards the direction of the carriage.
A masked man in black cut off a guard's shoulder with a knife, jumped onto the carriage, pulled the curtain, and looked shocked.
He quickly turned around and shouted, "Retreat! We have fallen into the trap."
Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding!
A sound of armor rubbing sounded, and two hundred soldiers wearing military uniforms rushed over at both ends of the street.
The remaining dozen masked men in black were surrounded and made into a group, and Li Xiaoyao slowly rode a horse from behind.
"Tell me, who sent you here, the speaker will avoid death!"
Hearing Li Xiaoyao's words, more than a dozen masked men in black looked at each other, then raised their swords to commit suicide.
Lin Xiao rode a horse to Li Xiaoyao and said, "Prince!"
Li Xiaoyao nodded and said, "Who are they?"
"They are dead soldiers raised by the prince." A middle-aged man dressed in Taoist costume and rolling his eyes walked from the front to Li Xiaoyao's horse, knelt on one knee and said, "The Lord of the Shadow Hall, Wu Daozi, kowtow to the prince."
The secret guards are divided into: Shadow Hall, Shadow Hall, and Feng Hall.
The movie hall is mainly responsible for collecting intelligence. The movie hall members are mainly distributed in the palaces of some imperial officials.
Killing Hall is mainly responsible for assassination operations. Killing Hall members usually stay in the base for training. They will only be dispatched when they receive a task.
Fengtang is mainly responsible for collecting intelligence. Most of the members of Fengtang are women. They are scattered in inconspicuous places among the people. They may be prostitutes, or maids and concubines from a wealthy businessman’s family...
Li Xiaoyao glanced at Wu Daozi and complained: "It's this night, can you keep your eyes open? Are you not afraid of being beaten when you come out like this?"
"ah?"
Wu Daozi didn't dare to slack off, so he raised his hand to cover his eyes with his sleeve. After a while, his eyes became no different from ordinary people.
"Get up!" Li Xiaoyao waved his hand, looked at his dazzling Taoist robe, turned his head to Lin Xiao and said, "Get him changed his clothes so that people won't be recognized."
Lin Xiao nodded and dismounted, led Wu Daozi to the corner, and changed into a soldier's costume.
Afterwards, Wu Daozi followed the brigade and headed towards the Royal Villa.
Prince's Mansion.
A middle-aged man in his gorgeous clothes, in his early fifties, walked hurriedly through the ancient corridor.
This person's name is Qin Hanmin, the governor of the Jingcheng City Defense Camp, and the current clan leader of the Qin family in Jingcheng City.
"Hurry up!" Qin Hanmin urged anxiously, the little eunuch who led the way for him.
The little eunuch wiped the sweat from his forehead and began to trot forward, and the Qin and Hanmins also accelerated their pace.
Finally, the two stopped outside a rather magnificent hall, and the little eunuch said respectfully: "Director Qin, please wait for a moment outside the hall, and I will go in and report it to you."
Qin Hanmin nodded.
The little eunuch turned around and walked into the hall. Soon after, a group of beautifully dressed girls trotted out of the hall.
The little eunuch who followed respectfully welcomed the Qin and Han people into the hall.
On the way, Qin Hanmin looked at the girls running out of the hall, and a smile flashed across his face.
"I'm kowtowing to the Crown Prince." Qin Hanmin knelt on one knee in front of a young man with a medium-sized and short figure, and aged over 20.
"What's the matter?" the prince said with some dissatisfaction.
"Your Highness, the Death Soldier just failed."
As soon as Qin Hanmin finished speaking, the prince collapsed on the ground and said with a panic: "Didn't you say that you have made complete preparations? Didn't you say that you are sure to be foolproof this time?"
"Your Highness, the dead soldiers trained by Weichen can definitely be defeated by one. It's just that Li Xiaoyao is too cunning, and Weichen fell into the trap of the little thief." Qin Hanmin gritted his teeth and said indignantly.
"What should I do now?" the prince said in a panic: "The second brother has contacted Ye Hongyuan, and the support of Chu State is behind him. Now there is another Li Xiaoyao, and the Lu family who controls the imperial guards in the capital."
"Crown Prince, don't you still have our Qin family?"
Hearing Qin Hanmin’s words, the prince burst into laughter: “Qin family... Qin family? When Qin Chuan was not dead, you could still have a chance to compete with him. Now, just rely on the three thousand city defense camps in your hands?”
"Your Highness, as long as you marry my Wanshu today, I can persuade the Xia clan to help you ascend the throne."
"Xia?" The prince climbed up from the ground in a daze and said, "Isn't the Xia family a merchant family? What's the use of them?"
Qin Hanmin smiled and said, "Your Highness, Prince, don't underestimate these wealthy businessmen. The wealth in their hands is beyond your imagination."
"What I want now is a large army that can fight, not gold and silver..." The prince was stunned for a while, and his eyes became sharp: "What do you mean is to ask them to provide silver to this prince and then win over the generals of the army?"
"Your Highness the Crown Prince is wise." Qin Hanmin smiled deeply: "Ye Hongyuan's 200,000 army has not received military pay for half a year. I guess the second prince used silver to buy them."
"Old, second, second, there is a mother of a princess in Chu. She is really generous." The prince chuckled.
Qin Hanmin also smiled on his face: "This time, the King of Chu must have helped a lot behind the second prince, both paying for people and money, but he missed a little. Ye Hongyuan would never support a traitor."
"Okay!" said the prince with a majestic expression: "Governor Qin, you go back and prepare. The prince will send someone to welcome the bride tomorrow."
"No!" Qin Hanmin knelt on his knees and said, "Thank you, Your Highness, Prince."
"Go back and prepare!"
Qin Hanmin stood up, turned around and left, and his inner joy was fully displayed on his face.
Looking at Qin Hanmin's back, the prince's expression became ferocious.
The people of Qin and Han dynasties!
When this prince ascends the throne and has great power, I will let you taste the consequences of your courage to threaten this prince!
Xiaotong, wait for me, I will definitely make you ascend to the throne of the queen as you wish.
The grievances you suffered in the Qin family today will definitely be returned to you a hundred times and a thousand times in the future.
Chapter completed!