Da Wei Chun

Chapter 576 Assassination
They both had their own concerns, neither Li Chengzhi nor Cui Guang had any interest in having a banquet.The two drank several cups together, and they both felt overwhelmed, so they went to bed early.

Early the next morning, the door of Duanmen rang the clock at Chenshi.Li Chengzhi opened his eyes, and it was already bright outside the window.

He got up, put on his boots, and pushed open the wooden window.A gust of cold air hit his face, which made him shiver.

It was snowing first, and the sky was as blue as a mirror.The mist that was exhaled was like Bailian, and was blown back by the wind, forming a layer of fine frost beads on the eyebrows in an instant.

"Lang Jun, do you want to get up and go home?"

Li Rui stood under the window, calling softly.

"Where is Shang Shugong?"

"I've already gone to court, and I'll tell you before I leave, don't disturb you!"

Did you forget that today is the ninth day of the winter month?
"Go back!" Li Chengzhi confessed.

After washing up hastily and saying goodbye to Cui Xu, Cui Guang's second son, Li Chengzhi boarded the carriage.

Li Rui asked outside the car: "Your Majesty, do you pass through the city through the Guangping Imperial Road (from Guangmo Gate in the north to Pingchang Gate in the south), or go out of Qingyang Gate and return to the residence along the river in the outer city?"

Li Chengzhi was a little impatient: "Ask me about such small things?"

Li Rui was a little embarrassed: "I think that if you go to the inner city, you will have to go through Yannianli, so I asked this question."

Was it because he was afraid of meeting Gao Zhao?
"Today's ninth day, even Cui Shangshu is in court, let alone Gao Sikong? Just go!"

"promise!"

Li Rui hurriedly responded and ordered the coachman to whip and urge the horse.The two-horse carriage walked along the East-West Royal Road, heading towards Guangping Street in a leisurely manner.

Cui Guang's mansion is in Yishouli, and to the east is Yongheli.The famous minister of the Great Wei Dynasty, the right servant of Shangshu shot Guo Zuo, and the residence of the former right guard general Gongsun Zhi and other important officials who feigned death and defected.

And further to the west is Yannianli, where the Gaofu is located.

He came here in a hurry yesterday without any cover-up.If Gao Zhao had the heart, he should have known that he came to visit Cui Guang, so there was no need to hide.

If it is a guilty conscience, there is some suspicion that there is no silver 300 taels here.

Li Chengzhi leaned against the wall of the car in peace of mind, with messy thoughts spinning in his mind.

I don't know how Cui Guang will break up with Yuan Cheng, and will Yuan Cheng agree?
They are all people who are quickly cultivated to perfection, and they are best at listening to thunder in the silent place, and they can dig a huge hole with just a few gestures, not to mention the opportunity to come to their door?

So Li Chengzhi doubted whether Yuan Cheng would do the opposite, intending to take this opportunity to make a big splash, and then drive a wedge between him and Gao Zhao?
If so, wouldn't Gao Zhaogou be forced to jump over the wall?
Li Chengzhi couldn't help being a little annoyed, thinking that he really lost his head in a hurry, what he did in the past two days was completely out of standard, and he was in a hurry to give a set to the enemy?

He patted his forehead and sighed repeatedly.Hearing another "wow", the carriage stopped unexpectedly.When I heard it again, there was a lot of noise not far away, and there were many people surrounded by darkness.

Li Chengzhi asked suspiciously, "Why stop?"

"Lang Jun, the carriage that Zhijin Wu brought to Qingxue was startled. After hitting and injuring several officials in Luoyang County, the carriage overturned and blocked the road!"

so unfortunate?

With a slight thought, Li Chengzhi opened the curtain of the car.

Not far away, a nearly two-foot-high archway stands majestically, and the huge "Gao" character is so dazzling.

It's more than a coincidence, it must be a coincidence that they arrived home, the carriage stopped at the entrance of the alley in Yannianli, facing the gate of Gaofu.

It's just that Gao Zhao has already entered the palace to participate in the court, otherwise he only needs to send his servants out of the mansion to call him, how can he pass the door and not enter?
Even if the current situation is like fire and water, but when it comes to heaven, Li Chengzhi is still Gao Zhao's quasi-son-in-law.

Inadvertently, I saw faint figures shaking on the archway, as if they were stretching their necks to watch the excitement.Li Chengzhi couldn't help but have a weird thought in his heart: If Gao Zhao made up his mind to get rid of himself and then go fast, there would be no more suitable opportunity than now.

You only need to send troops to block the two ends of the imperial road, and then send dead soldiers to rush to kill them. No matter how brave and good at fighting, I and Li Rui and other servants will probably feel hatred for this.

He looked outside the car again: besides Li Rui and the coachman, there were eight other servants.But this is Li Chengzhi's limit.

It's not that he doesn't want to bring more, but that he has no official or job now, and only has a vacant title.If there are more than ten retinues, it is overrunning.

In the troubled times these days, I don't know how many pairs of eyes are staring at him, and Li Chengzhi doesn't want to make himself uncomfortable, so if he can avoid trouble, he will try his best not to cause trouble.

Fortunately, he is not usually afraid of death. These ten servants seem to be wearing leather robes, but in fact they are all wearing inner armor under the leather robes.Although they are not carrying bows, they all carry short crossbows, which are also hidden under the leather robes.

So it seems that one by one is bloated, like ten big bears.

Thinking about it, he laughed again.

No matter how crazy Gao Zhao was, it was impossible for him to do such a thing in front of his own house, or even if he was full of mouths, he would never be able to tell.

After waiting for a moment, Li Rui came to report that the carriage had moved away.Li Chengzhi waved his hand noncommittally.

But less than ten feet away, Li Chengzhi frowned fiercely.

Something seems wrong?
It was still noisy and scolding just now, why did the huge Royal Road become so quiet in the blink of an eye?

He lifted the curtains and stuck his head out the window.

The onlookers had dispersed and disappeared without a trace.A carriage was slumped on the side of the road, as if it had lost one wheel, like a cripple.

There was only one coachman, squatting on the side of the road with his arms folded, with a small fire in front of him, he should have stayed to watch the car.

In addition, there were more than a dozen armored soldiers and a few government officials not far away. They seemed to be arguing, but their voices were very low.

"Where are people?" Li Chengzhi stretched out his hand and pointed to the street.

"what?"

Li Rui was stunned for a moment, "This place has been cleaned up, Xuefu was taken to Tongtuo Street by the yamen. The wounded were sent to the hospital, and Zhi Jinwu and the yamen were still arguing on the side of the road. I don't know who the gentleman is referring to." ?”

"Just now, I saw a sea of ​​people, but in a blink of an eye, it was cleared away. Where did they go?"

It turns out that Mr. Lang was talking about those idlers?
Li Rui respectfully said: "It should be the servants of the princes' mansions, who were dismissed by the Jinwu team and returned to their respective mansions!"

It sounds reasonable, but for some reason, Li Chengzhi felt a little wary.

Who lives in these few miles is not an important minister of the country, but one of the three princes and nine ministers.And how could they be so careless, and run out of the mansion eagerly to watch when they saw something lively?
Furthermore, the seventh-rank officials in front of the prime minister's gate, if they are really servants in various mansions, how can a small team be broken up?

Suddenly, Li Chengzhi couldn't help twitching his nose, smelling a faint strange smell.

Others are not familiar with it, but how can he not smell what it is?
gasoline!

"I'll fuck your uncle..."

For a while, even Li Chengzhi couldn't tell whether he was scolding Gao Zhao or himself.

Why did Li Rui remind himself to go out of the city, but he insisted on passing by Gao Zhao's gate instead of agreeing?
Just now, he already thought that if Gao Zhao wanted to kill himself, there was no more suitable opportunity than this time, so why didn't he know how to be on guard?
"Hurry up, get off the horse...be under the horse..."

Li Chengzhi roared sharply, kicked his feet, and rushed out of the roof like a hawk.Then a tiger pounced and hid under the car.

Now that you can smell gasoline, it means you're very close.If the assassin is activated, it will arrive in no time.

I just don't know whether the assassin brought a rocket or a grenade made according to his fake secret recipe.

Li's servants all looked blank, but Li Chengzhi's instinct to obey orders was almost engraved in his bones because of Li Chengzhi's unremitting practice.

As soon as Li Chengzhi shouted in surprise, his brain was still thinking, and his body reacted first.The movements of the ten servants were surprisingly consistent: leaning down, kicking off, vaulting, and then rolling.

When they stopped rolling and fell on the ground, seven out of ten people had drawn out their short crossbows.

At this moment, a porcelain pot larger than a human head was thrown from the back of the car, and it hit the roof of the car impartially.

There was a "crash", and the porcelain pot was smashed to pieces, and a black-yellow liquid flowed down from the roof of the car, and the pungent smell was more than doubled.

I'm really afraid of something, the assassin is going to set fire?

If Li Chengzhi stayed in the carriage, he thought that he could be roasted into a roast pig with only one can of kerosene by relying on the carriage sandwiched with steel plates to resist the assassins.

Li Chengzhi was frightened for a while, and a thin layer of cold sweat broke out on his forehead: "Be careful, it's kerosene...it's hidden in that wrecked carriage..."

The royal road is extremely wide, twenty feet long, and the field of vision is extremely wide.And Li Chengzhi's carriage was basically driving in the road.Without equipment such as trebuchets, it would be impossible to throw the oil tank so far from the side of the road with such accuracy by manpower alone.

Furthermore, the oil tank was thrown away from the back of the car, so Li Chengzhi concluded that it was definitely the carriage.

Sure enough, Li Rui glanced back, and there was a man like an iron tower standing beside the car, shaking the rope in his hand with all his might.After swiping around three or four times, another oil tank flew straight towards the carriage.

On both sides of the fire, seven or eight archers appeared out of nowhere, drawing their bows.

On the bow suddenly there is a rocket that has been ignited.

"Kill!" Li Rui roared, bowed his back, and rushed towards the carriage like a spirit ape.

Before the sound of killing fell, there was another "boom", and the huge carriage burned into a fireball in the blink of an eye.

Still hiding a bird feather, waiting to be run over by a carriage that weighs a thousand catties?

Li Chengzhi was rolling like a lazy donkey, and just as he rolled out from the bottom of the cart, the two horses neighed in pain and rushed forward violently.

If he hadn't been so quick to see the opportunity, the wheel would have run over Li Chengzhi's body if he missed it by just a tiny bit...

These ten servants of Li's family practiced non-stop on weekdays, and even followed Li Chengzhi to conquer Guanzhong, so they were used to seeing big scenes.Therefore, even if you are attacked suddenly, you will be shocked but not chaotic.

Five of them followed Li Rui to the carriage, and the other four held a crossbow in their left hand and a knife in their right. They formed a tight circle and protected Li Chengzhi in the middle.

The distance between the two was only ten feet away, Li Rui rushed quickly, and when he was about ten steps away, he heard "ding ding" several times, none of the six arrows missed, and they all shot at the assassins beside the wrecked car .

But since he came prepared, he naturally did his homework.Just like Li Rui and others, these assassins seemed to be dressed in all kinds of clothes, but they all wore full armor under their robes.

Only one of the arrows bounced off the armor and hit an archer in the face.

Seeing Li's servants rushing towards him, those archers dropped their bows and drew their knives on the spot, brazenly facing them.

And that tower-like man still looks like no one, just swinging the oil tank.This one flew straight towards Li Chengzhi.

In history, Li Chengzhi has never been so angry as he is today.All because the weapons the enemy used against him were unearthed by him.

He gritted his teeth resentfully, and looked around like lightning.

The dozen or so Jin Wu and the government officials stopped fighting for copying, but stepped on the horses that appeared out of nowhere, holding sabers in their hands and staring at them.

What's more, those idlers who had watched the excitement before all got out of the back alley and stood on both sides of the royal road.Winding up strings, moving arrows moving arrows, gathering fires gathering fires, throwing oil cans throwing oil cans.

Looking at the other side, just like the gold guards and government officials, more than a dozen armored horses rode with horizontal swords, and they would slash and kill Li Chengzhi as soon as he dared to charge over.

Already surrounded by tin cans, it seems to be a dead end!

What a thief, you actually want to burn me to death in this imperial way.

Li Chengzhi just felt how absurd the scene before him was?
In broad daylight, the world is bright and bright, someone actually openly assassinated the Duke in the royal road of the capital?

Suspecting that Gao Zhao might not stop doing two things, Li Chengzhi even imagined that no matter how crazy Gao Zhao was, at most he would choose a dark and windy night in January to send dead men to attack Li's house at night, and finally set fire to it. , come to a dead end.

After all the calculations, I didn't expect Gao Zhao to start suddenly in front of his own house?
But even if you hate again, what's the use of it?
"Li Rui, don't get entangled, go east, and go back to Cui's mansion..."

Li Chengzhi stretched his hand under the collar and pulled it hard. With a "wow", the cotton robe was torn off, revealing a silver-white inner armor.Then he stepped on the ground and jumped on the ground.Like a vigorous leopard, it rolled quickly on the ground.

That is, the road has been cleaned, but it is all paved with loess, and it is impossible to leave no snow.Furthermore, it is early winter, and the temperature is not very low.After being covered by snow all night, the road surface has melted a lot, and it is covered with a layer of wet mud everywhere.

After this roll, Li Chengzhi was already like a clay figurine when he stood up again.I saw him holding a cotton robe in his hand, dancing like a windmill.

Most of the rockets shot by the archers were thrown away by him, but one or two were nailed into the robe, but because there was not much kerosene contaminated, they were extinguished when they fell.

And Li's blacksmith's armor forging technology is already proficient. This full armor weighs more than 30 catties.Not only is it light, but it also has plenty of molten steel.Not to mention a short bow of just a few strokes, even a strong crossbow of five or six stones can't hurt the slightest bit.

As for the oil tank, you don't have to worry about it.This thing is big and clumsy, and it only relies on manpower to launch it, so as long as it doesn't hit the armor, there is no need to worry.

These servants were all trained by Li Chengzhi, and there was no need for him to explain it. The four guards beside him followed suit. They all tore off their leather robes, waved them, and followed Li Chengzhi to the east.

There are also those who are brave enough to catch the thrown oil tank with their leather robes when they are in time, and throw it back with their backhands.

I don't know if it was luck, or if it was more accurate, the oil tank happened to hit an archer.The archer is wearing armor, holding a bow, and standing on the side of the fire.The oil tank shattered at the sound, and the archer was burned into a man of fire in just an instant.

How terribly howling, Pyro ran around like a headless chicken, and the assassins beside him were afraid to avoid it.In the blink of an eye, a gap was missed.

God can't stop me!

Surprised and delighted, Li Chengzhi waved his knife and pointed: "Follow me to kill..."

(End of this chapter)