Chapter 537: Guarding the Emperor

Yan Xiuyun's team was marching on a narrow mountain path at this time. Although there were tens of thousands of people, their formation was stretched out and the front and rear were unable to return to support in time.

Dozens of masked men rushed out of the woods. Each of them was well-trained and had a clear goal. They headed straight for Yan Xiuyun's carriage.

At the same time, another rain of arrows came from the woods, and one of the arrows almost hit Yan Xiuyun's carriage!

Yan Xiuyun's expression changed slightly, but fortunately the guards around him were also elite soldiers picked from hundreds of thousands, and they quickly fought with the assassins.

Xiao Yuan said loudly to the others:

"Protect His Majesty. I'll go check out the front!"

After saying that, he rode his horse into the dense forest.

After entering the dense forest, Xiao Yuan slowed down, used the momentum on the horse's back to leap onto a tree branch.

After two screams, the two crossbowmen who were ambushing in the tree fell to the ground.

As soon as Xiao Yuan got back on his horse, he heard a voice that suppressed anger:

"Xiao, what do you mean?"

Xiao Yuan turned around and saw the man behind him with a black scarf covering his face, but he knew who it was.

Long Buqi pointed his knife at Xiao Yuan and asked:

"That day you deliberately let me go, and revealed to me the dog emperor's route back to Beijing, hinting that I should lead people to ambush here.

Since you helped me, why are you stopping me now! ? "

"I'm not helping you, but I won't let you hurt His Majesty," Xiao Yuan said.

Long Buqi looked back in the direction of Yan Xiuyun. More than half of his men had been killed or injured, and they were unable to hold on any longer.

He didn't want to listen to Xiao Yuan's nonsense anymore. He yelled, his eyes red, and turned around and rushed towards Yan Xiuyun's carriage.

After all, Long Bushi was once the general of Yunzhou, so it goes without saying that he was very brave. He hacked and killed his way along the way and soon approached the carriage.

The guards around Yan Xiuyun immediately formed a battle array to respond, but the mountain path was too narrow, and even the most sophisticated battle array was difficult to deploy, and for a moment it seemed a little cramped.

Arrows were still being shot out from the woods, and this time they were actually flaming, obviously coated with kerosene.

Two rockets hit Yan Xiuyun's carriage, and the outer wall of the carriage quickly caught fire.

"Protect the emperor!"

"Quick, protect His Majesty!!!"

Yan Xiuyun hurriedly left the carriage with the help of the guards. There were flames all around and there was nowhere to hide for a while.

In the chaos, Long Buqi was less than two meters away from Yan Xiuyun's carriage!

The two guards beside Yan Xiuyun were on full alert, staring closely at Long Buqi's every move.

Yan Xiuyun also looked at Long Buqi coldly, but Long Buqi's face was covered with a black cloth, so Yan Xiuyun did not recognize him for a moment.

At this time, the two assassins shouted:

"Brother, we are here to help you!"

After saying that, he pounced on the guards around Yan Xiuyun.

At the same time, Long Buqi shouted loudly and rushed towards Yan Xiuyun with his knife raised.

He acted as if he didn't care about his life, without any defense at all, he just wanted to take Yan Xiuyun's life with his own hands.

Yan Xiuyun was startled and retreated repeatedly, but was blocked by the flames on the ground.

At the critical moment, Xiao Yuan's figure suddenly flashed out from the side and stood in front of Yan Xiuyun, but was hit by a knife from Long Buqi in the back.

"Your Majesty, please leave!"

"Be careful!" Yan Xiuyun shouted to Xiao Yuan subconsciously.

Xiao Yuan turned around to fight Long Buqi, and both of them fought with their lives at risk.

However, Xiao Yuan was seriously injured and was about to lose the upper hand. He showed a flaw, and when Long Buqi was about to chop him with his sword, a short man actually hugged his waist!

Long Buqi couldn't break free, so Xiao Yuan immediately used all his strength and rushed to the edge of the mountain road with Long Buqi.

"Xiao Yuan!!!" Everything happened so fast that it was too late for Yan Xiuyun to call for someone to stop him.

He watched Xiao Yuan and Long Buqi fall from the cliff together, and disappeared in an instant.

Long Buqi fell into the valley, and more than half of the other assassins were killed or injured, with only one or two still lingering.

"Leave him alive!" Yan Xiuyun said.

The guard did not chop down with the knife in his hand, but the surviving assassins looked at each other, and soon they fell down with blood at the corners of their mouths.

"Your Majesty, they have poison in their mouths. They are all deadly warriors."

Yan Xiuyun frowned and nodded, asking if the identities of these assassins could be found out.

The guards checked the assassin's body and found nothing related to his identity.

Yan Xiuyun recalled the man who had just died with Xiao Yuan, and felt that he looked familiar, like Long Buqi.

The route for his return to Beijing was decided only the day before his departure. The fact that this group of assassins were able to wait by his side at the exact time to guard the weakest point clearly meant that someone had tipped him off.

He had ordered the execution of Long Buqi that day, but Long Buqi escaped, so he had the motive to plan this assassination.

Could it be that Xiao Yuan is colluding with Long Buqi?

This thought immediately came to Yan Xiuyun's mind, but he quickly shook his head and denied this guess.

Xiao Yuan was his personal bodyguard. If he wanted to assassinate him, he would have plenty of opportunities and there was no need to use Long Buqi.

Moreover, if the two of them were really in collusion, why would Xiao Yuan risk his life to protect himself and drag Long Buqi to die together with him?

Is it really just a coincidence?

Yan Xiuyun was full of doubts, but couldn't think of any result for a while.

It seems that I can only wait until I return to Beijing and then conduct a thorough investigation to see if there are any spies in the army.

Yan Xiuyun looked back at the bottomless valley again, a hint of sadness and guilt flashing in his eyes.

Xiao Yuan and I have known each other for many years, and he is a close confidant whom I brought from the Eastern Palace.

Although he had some suspicions about the rumors about him and the Queen, he had not yet found any actual evidence.

Now that Xiao Yuan died protecting his master, he felt really bad.

Yan Xiuyun called the guards and ordered them to take a team to the foot of the mountain to search for the bodies of Xiao Yuan and the assassin.

However, the guards said that there was a river at the foot of the mountain, and if one fell into the river, the body would most likely be washed away by the river.

Yan Xiuyun sighed and asked them to go look for it first.

If there is really no body left, then all we can do is build a cenotaph.