Martial Arts World Assassin

Chapter 205: City Capture and Ambush

After Huang Sixi completed the "Double Dragons Fetching Water", he did not plan to stay on Guangmingding any longer.

He decided to bid farewell to Shi Xinrou and her brother and head to the battlefield in the Western Regions.

In fact, the martial arts he fancied had not yet reached perfection, but whether it was the practice of the "Nine Yang Magic Art" or the deduction of the seventh level of "The Great Shift of the Universe", they all required several years of study. Haste makes waste, so he couldn't be impatient.

He was concerned about the invasion of the Mongolian Tartars and planned to deal with this threat first, and then practice martial arts slowly.

This morning.

Huang Sixi packed his bags and left, and the Ming Cult members saw him off.

In the past six months, Huang Sixi has been living as a guest on Guangmingding. Although he helped the Ming Cult resolve the crisis of survival, he did not demand any reward. He always treated everyone in the Ming Cult with courtesy and never overstepped his authority to interfere in the affairs of the cult.

This made everyone in the Ming Cult respect Huang Sixi, and Shi Xinrou was even more affectionate towards him. She personally took care of his daily life and made thoughtful and considerate arrangements for him.

Shi Xinrou had been accustomed to spending every day with Huang Sixi, but when she suddenly learned that Huang Sixi was leaving, she seemed at a loss and worried, not knowing whether Huang Sixi would come back in the future after this separation.

Just as she was feeling worried and thinking about how to ask about Huang Sixi's whereabouts, she saw Huang Sixi patting the nine-tailed fox on his shoulder and asking her:

"The place I'm going to this time is a bit dangerous. It's not convenient to bring the little fox with me. I want to leave it with you temporarily. Is that okay?"

"As long as you trust me, I will take care of the little fox for as long as you want."

Shi Xinrou answered quickly, and her mood relaxed instantly.

She knew that the little fox was a spiritual creature and Huang Sixi would never abandon it. Since it was being fostered by her, Huang Sixi would definitely return to Guangmingding in the future to take the little fox away. Naturally, she didn't need to say anything more and inquire about Huang Sixi's itinerary.

She raised her hand and gently stroked the fur of the nine-tailed fox, smiling and saying, "After you leave, if the little fox misses you too much and goes down the mountain to look for you, how should I persuade it?"

"It's a foodie. As long as you cook delicious food for it every day, it won't think of anyone else and will stay by your side obediently."

Huang Sixi picked up the little fox and placed it in Shi Xinrou's arms: "Don't worry, take care of it. It won't run around!"

After saying this, he jumped up, jumped onto the back of the divine eagle, said goodbye, and went away.

As the Divine Eagle soared high into the sky, the Nine-tailed Fox looked at Huang Sixi's back and cried urgently, as if it was reluctant to part with him and was unwilling to be abandoned by Huang Sixi.

Seeing the nine-tailed fox crying more and more sadly, Shi Gu Po, who was standing nearby, warned Shi Xinrou, "This fox is very dependent on Mr. Huang. It may secretly go to look for Mr. Huang. You must keep an eye on it and don't lose it!"

"Ok!"

Shi Xinrou comforted the nine-tailed fox and said, "It must have been raised by the master since birth. It is inevitable that it will be dependent on you. I will pay attention to it!"

Her guess was wrong.

Huang Sixi would regularly circulate Rama Qi to the nine-tailed fox. The little fox was nourished by the Qi, and the benefits it gained were greater than all the delicacies in the world combined.

The little fox is reluctant to leave Huang Sixi, actually he is reluctant to leave his true qi.

Shi Xinrou saw the Divine Eagle flying farther and farther away, and soon disappeared into the horizon and could no longer be seen. She could not help but hang her head, feeling sad alone.

Seeing this, Aunt Shi sighed, "This Mr. Huang is a kindhearted gentleman. At first, I thought he would rely on his superior martial arts to force you to get married and take over our Mingjiao's foundation. It turned out that I was a villain and judged a gentleman. He sincerely teaches Jian'er. When he comes back after finishing his business, I will persuade him to stay in Guangmingding permanently..."

Shi Xinrou listened to these words, but she thought to herself, this time he is gone, I don't know when he will return, will he encounter any accidents? I hope he is safe!
At this time, Huang Sixi had already flown a hundred miles away on the Divine Eagle, and soon crossed the vast Kunlun Mountains and entered the Western Regions.

More than half a year ago, the Divine Condor carried Huang Rong to the Western Regions.

Huang Rong's purpose was to find Guo Jing, so she asked the Divine Condor to send her to the lower reaches of the Syr Darya River in the Western Regions.

The Syr Darya River is a strategic waterway in Khwarezm, with a large number of cities and supplies stored along its banks. Last year, Temujin assembled an army of nearly 200,000 from the grasslands and divided them into four routes to attack Khwarezm. Two of the armies were focused on the fight for the Syr Darya River.

When the Divine Condor sent Huang Rong to the downstream river bank, the Mongolian Tartars and the Khwarezmian army were fighting fiercely on the river bank. Huang Rong knew that Guo Jing must be staying in the Mongolian camp, so she bid farewell to the Divine Condor and sneaked into the Mongolian tent alone to look for him.

After more than half a year, there was still no news from Huang Rong. Did she find Guo Jing? Did the Mongolian Tartars conquer Khwarezm? Huang Sixi did not know yet.

But Huang Sixi knew in his heart that the end of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" was when Guo Jing and Huang Rong followed Temujin in the Western Expedition. After the Western Expedition to Khwarezm was over, Guo Jing and Huang Rong returned to the Central Plains to participate in the second Huashan Sword Meeting, and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" ended there.

Ever since Huang Sixi came to "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", he has hardly intervened in important events in the world, and naturally had no influence on Temujin's westward expedition.

Calculating the time, Temujin's western expedition to Khwarezm has taken more than a year, and the time has come for the two sides to determine the outcome.

After descending Kunlun Mountain and entering the Western Regions, Huang Sixi asked the Divine Condor to retrace the route it had taken to escort Huang Rong.

The next day, the Divine Eagle landed safely on the lower reaches of the Syr Darya River. There used to be a city nearby, and when Huang Rong came there, she could still see the prosperity of the city.

At this moment, the city has become a ruin. Thousands of houses have been burned down, and after months of wind and sand, it has completely become a ruin.

Huang Sixi and the Divine Eagle walked through the ruins, one in front and one behind, trying to find local traces so that they could inquire about the war between the Mongolian army and Khwarezm.

After walking like this for about an incense stick of time, the divine eagle suddenly cried out.

Huang Sixi looked sideways through the wind and sand and found a child from the Western Regions huddled in the crack of the collapsed wall, peeking at him nervously.

Huang Sixi asked the child questions using the Persian language he had learned from Shi Xinrou.

After hearing this, the child did not answer but disappeared into the crack, and no one knew where he went.

At first Huang Sixi thought that the child could not understand Persian. Although Persian was widely spoken in Khwarezm, most people communicated in Turkic.

Who would have thought that after a moment, there was a loud 'boom' and the wall where the child was hiding was suddenly pushed down, revealing the figures of hundreds of people from the Western Regions.

These people were old and young, male and female, all dressed in rags, as if they had not eaten for a long time, and all of them looked disheveled. But even if they had no strength left, they all showed 100% hatred, showing hostile eyes, and looked at Huang Sixi viciously. "Devil! There is a devil from the grassland here!"

Earlier, the child shouted to the crowd in Persian: "Thank God, the devil has lost his way. Let's go together and smash the devil to death!"

After the child shouted, hundreds of people present bent down, picked up stones from the ground, and threw them at Huang Sixi like crazy, cursing as they did so. Their words were so vicious that they wished they could eat Huang Sixi alive.

When the Divine Eagle saw the stones coming, it immediately flapped its wings to block Huang Sixi, then stretched out its claws and grabbed the crowd.

As a result, halfway through the journey, Huang Sixi shouted, "Forget it, Brother Diao, they recognized the wrong person, ignore them, let's go!"

This city must have been destroyed by the Mongolian Tartars. As the hundreds of survivors, one can imagine their hatred for the Mongolian Tartars. When they saw that Huang Sixi looked similar to the Mongolian Tartars, they wanted to take the opportunity to take revenge.

Huang Sixi no longer had any interest in asking for directions, so he jumped directly onto the eagle's back and flew high into the sky.

He flew aimlessly along the river for dozens of miles, and suddenly saw a group of round tents of the Mongolian army from a high vantage point. He knew that this must be a Mongolian camp, so he sneaked into the camp and captured prisoners for interrogation.

After asking this question, Huang Sixi learned that after a year of fighting, the four armies of the Mongol Tartars had swept across the territory of Khwarezm and successfully converged outside the capital Samarkand. Last night, good news came that Samarkand had been conquered.

In this western expedition, the Mongolian Tartars have won a great victory.

After Huang Sixi found out the direction of Samarkand city, he immediately ordered the Divine Eagle to fly there.

On the way, Huang Sixi took out a turban and wrapped it around his head, and then used yellow mud to change his appearance.

By the time the Divine Eagle arrived over the city of Samarkand, Huang Sixi had transformed into a middle-aged man from the Western Regions with a thick beard.

The reason why he pretended to be a person from the Western Regions to launch the operation was to prevent the consequences of assassination.

The cavalry under Temujin was the best in the world and it was possible that they could escape from Huang Sixi. In addition, Temujin's sons and generals were scattered all over the place. If Huang Sixi failed to assassinate all the leaders of the Mongolian army, they would definitely retaliate afterwards.

If Huang Sixi does not reveal his true face, the Mongolian Tartars will only vent their anger on the people of the Western Regions. The more troops they use in the Western Regions, the fewer troops they will use in the Central Plains. At that time, they can also divert their greedy eyes away from the Central Plains and let them go to the Western Regions to cause destruction.

At this time, the city of Samarkand had been captured for several days. The Mongolian Tartars had wiped out all the remaining enemies in the city and were about to launch their bloody massacre.

In the main hall of the Khwarezmian Palace, Temujin sat on the imperial throne, looking very high-spirited. In front of the hall knelt a bound general covered in blood.

This general did not have any characteristics of a person from the Western Regions. He was actually Wanyan Honglie, the King of Zhao of the Jin Dynasty. He had rushed to Samarkand a year ago to lobby Khwarezm to jointly fight against the Mongol Tartars.

It was Wanyan Honglie's visit to Khwarezm that led Guo Jing to join the Western Expedition. In the past, Guo Jing's father, Guo Xiaotian, died at the hands of Wanyan Honglie. In order to avenge his father, Guo Jing chased the murderer across thousands of miles. Finally, he captured Wanyan Honglie today and presented him to Temujin.

Temujin smiled and asked, "When you showed off your might in my tent, did you ever think this would happen?"

Wanyan Honglie snorted coldly: "Back then, our Jin Kingdom was very powerful, but I regret that I didn't destroy your small tribe in advance, which led to the trouble we have today!"

Seeing that he refused to give in, Temujin raised his arms high, and the warriors on his left and right immediately stepped forward and dragged Wanyan Honglie to the front of the palace gate.

Temujin's arm slammed down again, and Wanyan Honglie was beheaded on the spot.

After Wanyan Honglie died, Temujin turned his gaze back to Guo Jing and said, "I have said that whoever breaks into the city and captures Wanyan Honglie will be rewarded with all the women and silk in the city. You lead your troops to collect them!"

Because Wanyan Honglie shot and killed Temujin's grandson Motugen with his own hands during the siege a few days ago, Temujin temporarily issued a reward order in order to avenge his grandson.

Guo Jing had no interest in rewards. He had only one concern at the moment, which was to cancel his engagement with Hua Zheng. This required reporting this to Temujin and obtaining his approval.

He was about to reply when he suddenly heard crying and shouting outside the hall. There were thousands and thousands of voices that gathered together and shook the earth. It startled the Mongolian generals in the hall. They thought that there was some kind of civil uprising in Samarkand and prepared to go and suppress it.

But Temujin waved his hand towards the generals and said with a smile: "It's all right, it's all right! This damn city refuses to obey the majesty of heaven, causing me to lose many soldiers and generals, and also killing my beloved grandson. We must give it a great slaughter! Everyone go and have a look!"

After saying this, he led his generals out of the hall. He had ordered the Mongolian Tartars to drive all the hundreds of thousands of civilians in the city to the west of the city. His original intention was to slaughter them all and let the Mongolian Tartars take their place and occupy this land connecting the trade between China and the West for a long time.

He loved watching such bloody scenes, so he led a group of generals to watch. When he arrived at the scene, tens of thousands of civilians were already lying dead on the ground and blood was flowing like a river.

He laughed heartily, feeling extremely pleased: "Well done, well done! Kill them all, leaving no one alive! Let them know how powerful I am!"

Guo Jing, who was accompanying him, couldn't bear it and began to plead with him to pardon the people.

At this time, Huang Sixi was hovering in the sky on the Divine Condor, overlooking the Mongolian Tartars gathering in the west of the city. The defense of the royal palace in the city was extremely lax, so he signaled the Divine Condor to descend from the sky, and it landed silently on the roof of the palace hall without alarming any Mongolian Tartars.

Just because Temujin had to slaughter so many civilians and needed a large number of troops to maintain order, most of the more than 100,000 Mongolian Tatar troops under his command who were attacking Samarkand were transferred to the west of the city.

There were only a few hundred guards left in the palace, and they had to guard the various palace gates. They had no time to pay attention to the situation on the roof.

However, this palace was like a castle, more than twenty feet high. After the Divine Eagle landed on the roof of the palace, as long as no one climbed to the top to check, no matter where they stood in the city of Samarkand, they would never be able to find the Divine Eagle.

After observing the terrain, Huang Sixi used his gecko wall-climbing skills to climb along the wall to the palace hall and entered the hall through the wall window.

He saw that the windows on the walls were very large, with platforms built on the edges. The window paper was made of rough fuzzy glass, and there were curtains woven from precious fur. He only needed to hide in the window to effectively conceal his tracks.

He dodged and hid behind one of the curtains, waiting for Temujin to return.

Huang Sixi thought he would have to wait for a long time before Temujin would come back after having fun, but after only half an hour, he heard footsteps coming into the hall.

Temujin's angry voice rang out: "This kid is really outrageous. I was ready to reward him with all the treasures in the city, but he refused. Instead, he asked me to pardon those Westerners. Doesn't he know how many of our soldiers they have killed?"

When Huang Sixi heard this, he thought that the child he was talking about should be Guo Jing. Guo Jing must have felt compassion when he saw the Mongolian Tartars slaughtering the people, so he pleaded with Temujin for mercy, which angered Temujin.

The generals under Temujin were also very dissatisfied with Guo Jing. Every time they went on a campaign, they would plunder and kill for days to seize the city's wealth. Guo Jing's obstruction made their joy of conquering the city go to waste.

(End of this chapter)