Just last year on the New Year's Eve of Liang State's traditional festival, a large number of Shaye State's palace guards suddenly rushed into Liu Dongqi's mansion and killed anyone they saw.
In the end, all of Liu Dongqi's wives, concubines, and children were killed by the palace guards. Only the seriously injured and unconscious Liu Dongqi was taken away by a dozen personal soldiers.
Next, Liu Dongqi’s military power in Shaye Kingdom was also thoroughly purged.
However, soon, the new king of Shaye was beheaded by a group of assassins who broke into the palace.
It turned out that many years ago, in order to cultivate his confidants, Liu Dongqi secretly bought hundreds of orphan boys from the Liang clan from the territory of Liang State and the Western Regions, and made them receive the most rigorous training from an early age.
The best among them formed the Four Riders of Wind, Rain, Thunder and Lightning, and those who were not selected into the Four Riders also became Liu Dongqi's personal soldiers.
The assassins who rushed into the palace were the Four Riders of Wind, Rain, Thunder and Lightning secretly formed by Liu Dongqi, as well as a dozen personal soldiers who survived New Year's Eve.
After avenging his wife and children, the disheartened Liu Dongqi left Shaye Kingdom with his four riders and returned to Liang Kingdom.
The twenty cavalrymen wearing long azure cloaks that Sun Hao and his men encountered were not bandits from Wolf Head Mountain, but twenty Whirlwind Riders from the Wind Riders.
Originally, the four riders of Wind, Rain, Thunder and Lightning had a total of twenty-four people, but in the battle at the palace, each of them lost a lot of people, and more than a dozen of Liu Dongqi's personal soldiers were all killed in the battle.
In addition to the twenty whirlwind riders, there are still nineteen frost and rain riders left in the rain riders, seventeen thunder riders left in the thunder riders, and sixteen lightning riders left in the electric riders.
Liu Dongqi returned to Liang State this time just to hand over his years of hard work - the Four Riders of Wind, Rain, Thunder and Lightning - to his only remaining relative in this world, Sun Hao, the son of his deceased sister.
After Liu Dongqi became a general of Shaye Kingdom, he sent people back to Ganyang City, wanting to bring his sister and her family to Shaye Kingdom, but was rejected by his brother-in-law Sun Zhe.
Later, his sister Liu Dongshu fell ill and died. Liu Dongqi specially returned to Ganyang City to pay tribute to his sister at her grave.
However, Liu Dongqi cut off contact with her brother-in-law Sun Zhe afterwards. When she returned to Liang State this time, Liu Dongqi learned that after her sister Liu Dongshu passed away, Sun Zhe actually married into the Ganyang Cui family.
Dragging his seriously ill body, Liu Dongqi met with Sun Zhe.
After learning from Sun Zhe that Sun Hao lived in Heigou Town, Liu Dongqi immediately rushed there.
But when he arrived at Heigou Town, Liu Dongqi found that it had been burned into ruins, and the ruins were full of charred corpses.
Liu Dongqi thought that Sun Hao had also met with an accident, and he vomited blood several times, and his body was completely broken afterwards.
“Ahem—”
Liu Dongqi coughed a few times and continued to speak to Sun Hao in a weak voice: "I have already explained to the Four Riders that you will be their new master from now on.
Although the Four Riders and I are nominally master and servant, I have always treated them as my own children and nephews. I hope you will treat them well in the future."
In addition to the twenty whirlwind riders, Sun Hao had also seen all the other fifty-two people from the rain, thunder and lightning riders.
What shocked Sun Hao was that the combat power values of these fifty-two people were all above 80 points, and five of them had combat power values of 90 points or more.
Sun Hao nodded with red eyes, "Don't worry, uncle, I will treat them as my brothers in the future."
"I have some acquaintance with Wu Ke, the head of Wolf Head Mountain, but he cannot be trusted.
After I die, you should leave Wolf Head Mountain as soon as possible to avoid being plotted against by him.
Also, remember… remember, your father… has already… has married into the Cui family, and the Four Cavalrymen cannot… cannot be handed over to…"
As he was speaking, Liu Dongqi suddenly stopped talking and there was no more sound.
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