Li Ruijue's waist was cut in half, and pain spread throughout his body. Every hair on his body was like a red-hot steel needle, pricking his flesh.
But even so, he still gritted his teeth to prevent himself from crying out in pain.
"Li Rui... Yuan'er?"
"Servant...uh..."
He opened his mouth and spit out only one word, but a large mouthful of blood came out of his mouth, mixed with the fragments of internal organs.
When he noticed that there was no movement on his back, Li Rui, who was shaking wildly, was completely silent, as if he had fallen asleep. Li Chengzhi's mind went blank, as if he had lost the ability to think.
Li Yuan'er, dead?
Although they have been together for less than two years, they are not like brothers, but they are better than brothers. Lang Jun is Li Rui's heaven, and the whole meaning of his life is just for Li Chengzhi.
Scenes from the past came to mind, and Li Chengzhi's heart twitched, as if he was being cut with a knife.
Gao Yun immediately took his seat and took in a panoramic view of the scene. Seeing Li Chengzhi fall to the bottom and about to be drowned by the tide of assassins, he waved his hand gently.
It's almost there. If there is any further delay, Li Chengzhi may have an accident. Not only will it be self-defeating, but it may even turn into a grudge.
With the sound of a drum, hundreds of soldiers pressed forward with their spears like a wall toward the middle of the road. A dozen archers kneeling on the inner wall raised their crossbows.
There was just a "swish, swish" sound, and the crossbow arrows seemed to have eyes. They all shot at the assassins who rushed towards Li Chengzhi, but none of them hurt Li Chengzhi.
The raw and cooked Zhajia is not much stronger than the paper one before the four-stone crossbow. The crossbow arrow penetrates the armor leaf and pierces the body, and the blood is like falling flowers.
In just two rounds, Li Chengzhi wiped out everything within a foot. Assassins continued to attack, but there was a dangerous chasm in front of them that was insurmountable.
In just over ten breaths, in a small circle, the corpses seemed to have piled up into a hill. The blood formed into small streams, depicting bizarre patterns.
The leader looked up to the sky and sighed: Time is also fate!
People plan things, and God makes things happen. Compared with Gao Zhao, the Lord is still a step behind...
He had already made a death oath. No matter whether he succeeded or failed today, he would not be able to survive, so he did not hesitate.
Just as he was about to urge his horse to charge for the kill, the leader felt something was wrong.
If you don't die but are captured alive, you will have to be tortured. Wouldn't it be in vain?
That’s it!
The knife was thrust across the neck and pulled hard, almost cutting through half of the neck...
"Kneel down and don't kill, kneel down and don't kill!"
Gao's Buqu shouted coldly, but without any pause in his hand, he mechanically drew out his gun, put it back, stabbed it again, and put it away again. Regardless of whether he stabbed the enemy or not, the spearman just pressed forward according to the drum beat.
After the five rows of spearmen, the shield soldiers with their own finishing blows used hooks and sickles to hook the assassins who were lying on the ground into the formation, and then killed them with one blow.
The cooperation is close and seamless, and Huoran is the combined attack method of Li's Spear Formation.
The leader committed suicide out of fear of his crime, while the trapped beast continued to fight, and the rest of his minions were in disarray. So in a moment, the war came to an end.
Nearly 60% of the more than a hundred assassins were killed, and the rest were all kneeling on the ground, and the Gao family members were bundled into a ball.
Although he had expected it, Gao Yun breathed a sigh of relief when he dug through the mountain of corpses and lifted up Li Chengzhi, who was soaked in blood.
From the looks of things, Duke Li Guo was unscathed. But none of the ten servants of the Li family survived.
Looking at Li Chengzhi's empty eyes, it seemed that there was nothing more sad than death, and Gao Yun felt even more relaxed.
It seems the heat is just right...
Li Chengzhi's face was dull, and he mechanically turned his head, looking at the retainers mixed with the assassin's corpse, and then saw Li Rui's spear piercing his exposed lower back and then through his abdomen.
His face was covered in blood, and his expression was hard to tell. But his figure was as steady as a mountain, and his eyes were as calm as water.
Even the voice didn’t waver at all: “Who is it?”
Gao Yun intuitively felt that something was wrong with Li Chengzhi.
Shouldn't he be so furious that his eyes are about to burst?
He slightly nodded his head: "The leader, Kuxiu, was the camp commander of the new army. During the Northern Expedition, the family leader was the cavalry general of the Chinese army. The other assassins were all his confidants."
"Okay!"
Li Chengzhi responded in a deep voice and walked towards an empty horse. It was like it was fished out of a vat, dripping with blood, and several blood lines dripped on the ground along the armor.
Gao Yun's pupils shrank: Why didn't Li Chengzhi ask?
Is it possible to really think that these assassins were sent by the head of the family?
He didn't dare to stop him, so he had to follow Li Chengzhi quickly: "His father, the official of the Treasury, was originally the commander of the personal guard of the King of Zhongshan... In the 23rd year of Taihe (499, eleven years ago), the King of Zhongshan defeated Jingzhou, and the Treasury officer
The official cut off the queen and died fighting..."
"Okay!"
Li Chengzhi still cherishes his words and now he has climbed onto the war horse.
Gao Yun felt anxious and asked urgently: "Where does the Duke want to go?"
Li Chengzhi seemed to be smiling, grinning, revealing a mouth of blood-stained white teeth, which was particularly scary.
With his legs clamped together, the war horse stepped forward slowly, and Gao's tribe flew back, leaving a way.
After just a few breaths, the war horse galloped away like an arrow from the string.
While Gao Yun was looking up, a servant girl, nearly half a hundred years old, ran over and said, "Her Royal Highness the Princess ordered a slave to come and ask, why don't you invite Duke Li Guo into the house?"
Now Li Chengzhi is so angry that he wants to dig a hole in Tiandu. How can he have time to see the princess?
Gao Yun shook his head and said perfunctorily: "I don't know, but Mr. Li Guogong only said that he had something to do and he should have gone to the palace to see the Queen Mother and the princes!"
Entering the palace?
The servant looked at the direction Li Chengzhi left, and the war horse had become a shadow.
She turned around again and looked at Gao Yun with a hint of contempt: "The official affairs are also confused. If Li Guogong entered the palace, shouldn't he go north to close the gate? Why did the Duke go west as if he was leaving the city?
?"
Gao Yun's heart skipped a beat: Oh no!
In the face of such an unexpected event, which almost meant he had a near-death experience, what was Li Chengzhi doing out of the city instead of going to the official position to go to the Queen Mother and the ministers to file a complaint?
Return to your hometown to mobilize troops, or go to Yuanying to question?
It’s over, isn’t this a sheep entering a tiger’s mouth?
How can Yuan Ying bring him back alive if he doesn't stop doing it?
Gao Yun's expression changed in shock, and he was about to order Bu Qu to mount his horse and chase after him, but he suddenly felt something was wrong.
Li Chengzhi can certainly go to Yuanying to question him, but Gao cannot...
"Come, come to the palace quickly and inform the Queen Mother of the shocking events here..."
"Sir, this matter is under court discussion and all the doors are closed. How can I get in?"
"Idiot, you can't beat the drum?"
……
Zhongshan Palace!
Yuanying was lying on the kang, her eyes were sunken and there was no trace of brilliance.
Xu Jian put away the silver needle and wiped his hands with silk. The old servant carefully helped Yuanying up, and put two quilts behind his back, letting Yuanying lie down.
"How many more days are there!"
Yuanying took four short words twice before speaking. Every time he paused, his throat rolled back and forth, as if there was a piece of meat stuffed in it, and he couldn't breathe smoothly.
The words of doctors have always been to give seven points and leave three points. But this did not apply to Xu Jian. He said bluntly: "Any time!"
"That's okay!"
Yuanying actually laughed, "If I had known the outcome, why should I be worried about it? Build a building and send Xu Medical Order for me. Don't neglect it!"
Xu Jian bowed to Yuanying calmly, as if saying goodbye, and then left the dormitory accompanied by the old servant.
Yuanying stared blankly at the beams and murmured to himself: "The world is not yet settled and the country is not at peace. How can Feihu be unwilling to accept it, but what can Douzhi do?"
But before the sigh ended, there was a rush outside the room, and the old servant left and returned.
"What's the matter?"
The old servant gritted his teeth and stared at Yuanying, "Your Highness... the success fell short!"
Yuanying was so anxious that she held her breath in her chest, her face turning purple.
The old servant hurriedly rushed up to him and breathed a sigh of relief for him: "It should have been foolproof, but against all calculations, an unexpected incident occurred at Gao Zhao, and an ambush was prepared in the house early, resulting in all the previous efforts being wasted."
"Gao Zhao, how is this possible?"
Yuanying scratched her neck, and her eyes, which were originally empty and dull, were filled with bloodshot eyes.
This time, everything was kept secret. How did Gao Zhao know about it?
What exactly went wrong?
"Where's Kuxiu?"
"He committed suicide on the spot!"
There are only three people who know about this matter. Apart from the two people in this room, there is only one Kuxiu. Now that he has committed suicide, he died without any symptoms, so he should be relieved.
But Yuanying's eyes were like poisonous snakes, staring at the old servant coldly.
Since Ku Xiu defended his master with death, who else could he be?
The old servant bent his knees and knelt down, pointing to the sky and swearing: "Your Highness, if this is what I did, I will not have a good death in my ninth life!"
"Haha!"
Yuanying stared at the roof of the palace with leisurely eyes, "To build a building, what benefits did Gao Zhao promise you to make you ignore my fifty-year friendship?"
The old servant's hand shook slightly, and he hit the ground heavily: "Your Highness doesn't believe in me, so I can only make my will clear after death?"
What's the use?
Seeing the old servant resolutely lift the candlestick and stab it in the chest without even shaking his hand, Yuan Ying suddenly felt a glimmer of understanding in his heart.
It turns out that building a building has already given rise to the desire to die?
"Stop him!"
As soon as the word "stop" came out of his mouth, a ray of silver light struck the candlestick accurately and accurately, like a piece of steel. A shadow appeared like a ghost, holding a knife in his hand.
The black shadow put away his saber and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, the Gao family's arrangements are extremely thorough. Just when all the servants of the Li family were killed and injured, and Li Chengzhi's life was hanging by a thread, the Gao family's tribe was like falling from the sky.
He was rescued. It was as if Gao had planned everything from beginning to end..."
Yuanying gritted her teeth, clenched her fists tightly, and sat up, "If it wasn't you, who else could it be? Gailou, did you know that I wanted to bury you, so you repaid me with kindness?"
I don’t know whether it was the words that revealed his thoughts, or whether he was frightened that Yuanying could sit upright on his own, and his words were no longer choked like before. The old servant’s eyes were as wide as copper bells.
At just this moment, an urgent cry came from outside the door: "Your Highness, Li Chengzhi is here to kill?"
Yuan Ying was shocked and seemed to be in disbelief: "How many troops are you leading?"
"He's the only one!"
The black shadow's face was full of joy: "My lord, a God-given opportunity!"
Good opportunity?
Yuan Ying suddenly raised his head and said sternly: "Kill Gai Lou!"
The black shadow was startled, but after a breath, he suddenly pulled out the knife and stabbed the old servant in the chest.
Could it be that God wants to destroy our Yuan clan? Why do monsters and demons spring up like mushrooms after the rain after the death of the late emperor?
"Let him in, just say that Yuanying is here, and he will be the one to kill or behead him... Gu has already let Xu Jian use strong medicine, and he will not survive tonight.
I originally wanted to go to the palace to remonstrate and kill Gao Zhao. But I didn't want to miss a move... That's it, my dying body in exchange for Li Chengzhi's life is worth a thousand dollars..."
"That's the case. How can you allow His Highness's body of thousands of gold to be humiliated? Why not just kill him here?"
"Behead him here? Don't forget that Li Chengzhi has an iron bond to avoid death, so he can die anywhere, but he cannot die in my palace of the Prince of Zhongshan."
Yuan Ying gritted his teeth and smiled miserably, "The world is cold and people's hearts are indifferent. After I die, do you think Yuan Cheng and Yuan Jia will care about their old feelings and protect my Guangyang Palace from being implicated, so as to keep Yuan Xi and others safe for the rest of their lives?" p>
Since he cares about his descendants, why should the head of the family do everything right?
"I understand!"
The black shadow sighed, bowed his hands, and ran quickly to the front yard.
Li Chengzhi had already been soaked in blood, so as soon as he entered the Wangzifang street, his soldiers moved at the wind, as if they were facing a formidable enemy.
Li was trying to stop him, but he knocked him off his horse with a scabbard of his sword. Li was trying to stop him again, but he flew up with his two feet and kicked him several feet away.
Later, when Li Chengzhi drew out his knife, whoever stopped him would cut him.
Yuan Chen came to persuade him because he was brother-in-law with Li Chengzhi. But when he was still a few feet away, Li Chengzhi shot off the crown with an arrow.
So far, no one dares to come within ten feet of Li Chengzhi.
Yuan Chen hung tightly behind Li Chengzhi and shouted anxiously: "Who on earth caused you to be like this?"
Li Chengzhi turned a deaf ear, holding a bow in one hand and a knife in the other, and walked forward leisurely.
And in his mouth, he was biting the iron coupon given by Yuan Ke himself to avoid death.
It wasn't until a sharp knife came running and said that the Prince of Zhongshan was here to welcome Li Guogong, everyone knew that Li Chengzhi was here to find Yuanying.
The Prince of Zhongshan's Mansion had already prepared for such a large battle. When Li Chengzhi was still inside and outside, he opened the central gate.
There was a civil servant standing at the foot of the square, who should be the Sima of the palace. Seeing that his body was covered in blood, I was suddenly shocked.
But thinking about Yuan Ying's generous gift, he couldn't help but straighten his waist again and sternly scolded: "Li Guogong, you actually kill people in the street in broad daylight. What do you think of the king's law?"
Killing people in the street in broad daylight...Wang's law?
As if he had heard a big joke, Li Chengzhi grinned, revealing a mouth of bleeding white teeth.
Sima thought why these teeth were so terrifying, and suddenly a silver light flashed through.
He felt like he was flying...
The corpse in official uniform fell to the ground with a crash, and a line of blood gurgled down the mirror-like blade. After a few breaths, there was no trace left.
Really killed someone?
The people who were watching the excitement from a distance suddenly became uproar, and Yuan Chen was so frightened that his whole body trembled.
It’s over...
Today's Li Chengzhi will definitely kill everyone in the Zhongshan Prince's Mansion.
"Quickly, enter the palace and greet the princes and the Queen Mother..."
A group of Yuan family retainers were standing at the foot of the steps, but at this time they had dispersed. A military general drew his sword, pointed at Li Chengzhi and shouted: "Li Chengzhi, this is the palace of the Prince of Zhongshan, don't be so arrogant."
"Haha?"
Li Chengzhi laughed strangely, took out the iron coupon in his mouth, and threw it into the door, "Why should the king of the country bother to take Li's life? Now that Li has sent it to the door, just come and get it. In addition, I tell His Highness, Li
Not only did I come here to die, I also came to kill people..."
When the iron coupon fell to the ground, Li Chengzhi was like a leopard, rushing towards the general.