Chapter 99: Another assassination attempt
"Your Highness! Everything is ready. Shall we set off back to Chang'an?" Cheng Wuting asked.
"Don't worry. I have already sent someone to notify Di Renjie, Li Yifu and others. After they arrive, it won't be too late for us to return to Chang'an." Li Chengqian said.
"Yes!" Cheng Wuting replied.
"Your Highness! Di Renjie, the Junior Minister of the Dali Temple, Li Yifu, the Attendant of the Emperor, and others have arrived." As soon as Cheng Wuting finished speaking, the guards' report came.
Speak of the devil, and he will be here. They were just mentioned, and they arrived so soon.
"Let them in." Li Chengqian shouted outside.
"Yes!" The guards took the order and retreated. Immediately, footsteps were heard from outside, and then the door was opened.
Di Renjie, Li Yifu and others entered the room one after another, bowed to Li Chengqian and said, "
Your Highness!" "I am going back to Beijing! You are tired from the journey, do you need to rest here for a day before leaving?" Li Chengqian asked.
"Thank you for your concern, Your Highness! There is no need to rest, we can set off for Beijing right away!" Li Yifu said.
"Okay, what about you?" Li Chengqian asked the others.
Li Yifu's unwillingness to rest does not mean that others are not tired. As the crown prince, he cannot favor one over the other, and he needs to take care of others as well.
"We are not tired either, and there are still others who have not arrived. I think it would be a good idea to wait for them, and it will not be too late to set off again." Di Renjie said.
"Okay!" Li Chengqian nodded and agreed with Di Renjie.
Everyone waited in the inn for others to join them. Soon Xu Jingzong and others came one after another. After resting for a while, they set off back to Chang'an.
In a central county, in a teahouse, on the second floor near the window, four people wearing Dou-hats were sitting at a table.
The white gauze on the Dou-hats blocked their faces, and it was impossible to see their appearance. We only knew that there were three men and one woman.
These four people were the assassins sent by Wu Weiliang and others to assassinate Li Chengqian.
"Leader, the target has left the city!" A man walked up from downstairs, looked around the entire second floor, and after discovering the four of them, he came to them and reported.
"Which direction are they going!" asked the female leader.
"Chang'an!" said the man.
"Let's go, we'll kill them halfway." One of the male leaders said.
There were city guards in the city, and the people here were noisy, which was not conducive to their assassination. So they changed their original plan and killed Li Chengqian and others outside the city.
After these people followed Li Chengqian and others for a distance, they were far away from the central county city, and they began to attack Li Chengqian and others.
"Swoosh"
Suddenly, arrows shot from both sides of the road, and Cheng Wuting and others hurriedly waved their weapons to block.
"Not good! There are enemies attacking! Protect the carriage!" Cheng Wuting and others were shocked!
Hundreds of figures on both sides rushed towards them, and everyone hurriedly surrounded the carriage.
Wang Fangyi reached out and picked up the bow and arrow, drew the bow and arrow, and shot at the enemy who was coming to kill.
Wang Fangyi shot six arrows in an instant, and every arrow hit the attacking assassin. Even so, he could not stop the assassin's actions.
"Bocheng, Shenji, you two will lead a team to stay and defend, to protect the prince and the others, and I, Cheng Wuting, Xing Jian and others will kill the enemy." Wang Fangyi instantly assigned everyone's responsibilities.
"Okay!" Long Zhi, Cheng Wuting and others responded.
They immediately separated into a team and followed Wang Fangyi to kill the assassin who rushed over.
The two sides immediately engaged in combat. Wang Fangyi's side had the overall advantage in military strength, while the assassin had the advantage in numbers.
For a while, neither side could do anything to the other, and they maintained a balance. Over
time, one side will inevitably be at a disadvantage, and then the stronger side will be able to win an overwhelming victory.
Four assassin leaders stood side by side in the woods, watching their fight from the dark.
"Who are these people? They are quite powerful. If we didn't have the advantage in numbers, we wouldn't be able to take them down." said a leader on the left. "
I don't know. The master only asked us to assassinate the people in the carriage, and didn't tell us their identities, let alone that their guards were so skilled." His companion shook his head.
"I'm afraid even the master doesn't know who this person is! I heard that it was someone in the palace who asked the master to do this." said the companion on the right.
"Don't say these useless things. Let's not just stand here and watch. Let's get rid of them as soon as possible and report back to the master, so as to avoid more trouble at night." The female leader said, and then rushed out.
Although this place is far away from the central county, it is still in the territory of Fangzhou after all. If they are discovered, their assassination plan will fail.
How will they explain to their master when they go back? This time they came out, and their master has given them many instructions, and they must succeed!
The three followed closely and killed Pei Xingjian. They found that Pei Xingjian was the weakest among Wang Fangyi and Cheng Wuting.
You have to pick the softest persimmon to squeeze. In the eyes of the four of them, Pei Xingjian was undoubtedly the easiest soft persimmon to squeeze.
A cold light flashed, and the knife slashed across the throat of an assassin. The boiling blood gushed out from the wound, splashing Pei Xingjian's face with blood.
Looking at the four people who were rushing towards him, Pei Xingjian understood that the other party was treating him as a soft persimmon.
Pei Xingjian was not afraid! Instead, he was a little happy. He raised his knife and killed the four assassin leaders, slashing them several times in a row.
Pei Xingjian forced the assassin leaders to retreat. One of them almost died under Pei Xingjian's knife. Fortunately, his companion reacted in time and pulled him back. He would have become a corpse now.
The four were shocked! They thought to themselves: Why are the opponents so strong?
In fact, it’s not that Pei Xingjian is too strong, but that the four of them are too weak, so naturally they are not Pei Xingjian’s opponents.
If the four of them join forces and don’t care about their lives, they will fight to the death, and maybe they can kill Pei Xingjian.
At this time, the four of them had already retreated. Whether they could kill the person in front of them was no longer important. What mattered was that they were still alive.
The four of them stared at Pei Xingjian and slowly retreated. The assassins around them immediately rushed up and killed Pei Xingjian.
Pei Xingjian waved the Mo Dao in his hand, killing two assassins on the spot, and stepped back to avoid the knife from the right.
He chopped to the left with his backhand, chopping the knife of the assassin on the left.
A sharp arrow shot from behind Pei Xingjian, close to his ear, and shot into the hands of the four assassins, killing one of the assassin leaders.
In front of the carriage, Long Zhi held a bow in his hand, and the trembling bowstring proved that the arrow that just shot the assassin leader was shot by him.
"What should we do now?" Seeing her companions being shot, the female leader was a little scared!
"The three of us will retreat back to the forest first. We have brought a lot of people, and we can slowly wear them down." One of them said.
The female leader and another leader agreed to his proposal and hurriedly turned around to sneak into the forest.
Seeing this, Long Zhi immediately drew his bow and arrow again, shooting three arrows at the assassin leader. Because the distance was too far and they were well prepared.
The three arrows shot by Long Zhi failed to succeed.