Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 782 Sun Ce's Assassination
In midsummer, the land of Jiangdong is already full of lush grass and water.The land of Dantu is also adjacent to the Yangtze River, with luxuriant forests and lush water and grass. The beasts that survived the winter are all active. It is a good place for hunting.

A pure white horse leaped out of the grass, beating its four hooves on the cobbled river beach, making a rapid drumbeat like a battle drum.The little overlord of Jiangdong appeared in this land of forests and waters alone, with a bow and arrow on his back in high spirits.He has loved hunting all his life, and he prefers to hunt alone like this - not only to enjoy the interest of hunting, but also to feel the battle of wits and courage between hunters and prey in the hunting ground, so that he can stimulate his thinking about the general trend of the world.

These days, Sun Ce is extremely resentful.The reason is that Zhou Yu strongly opposed his idea of ​​leading troops north.

In Sun Ce's view, the hatred of killing his father is more important than anything else, so it is only natural to threaten the Han family and order them to hand over the old man Liu Biao.What's more, Sun Ce didn't intend to really turn against the Han Dynasty, but just hoped to kill his enemies.What's the problem even if the Han Dynasty is dissatisfied with this?The land of the east of the river is in danger of the Yangtze River, and the Han army is going south to conquer Shu at this time. Isn't this opportunity a good opportunity to avenge the father?
However, Zhou Yu only said two words: Cao Cao.

Thinking of this name, Sun Ce felt resentful.As if the mount under his crotch was not fast enough, he held the rein with one hand, and patted the horse's buttocks heavily with the other hand.The steed raised its head and neighed, speeding up a bit.In the river forest on the left side, several gray-white-winged birds fluttered, flapped their wings and circled several times, and flew towards the north.

After galloping like this, Sun Ce's mind gradually calmed down a bit: During this period of time, Cao Cao did make a lot of small moves towards Jiangdong. Judging from the desperate situation, it seems that the situation between myself and Cao Cao is indeed not optimistic.

With Cao Cao holding back, it is indeed not a good time for the Sun family to make enemies on both sides.In particular, these two opponents are not ordinary people.

"Uncle Cao Shi...you really don't have the staunch generosity and pride you had when you fought Dong Zhuo with all your strength." Sun Ce said to himself sarcastically, with a look of disdain on his face: "If you can't offend that huge monster in the Han Dynasty, then Do you want to extend your hand to my Jiangdong land?"

When he said this, he suddenly saw a deer shadow jumping in the forest in front of him.A smile flickered across Sun Ce's handsome face, and he couldn't help but tighten the reins immediately to slow down the speed of the mount.Then clamped the horse's belly tightly with both feet, took off the bow and arrow from the shoulder, and quickly put on a green bamboo arrow.

"Qin lost its deer, and the whole world pursues it..." At this moment, Sun Ce couldn't help but hear these words in his mind - he was very satisfied with his feeling as a hunter at the moment.

But before Sun Ce could pull the bowstring round, he stared fiercely, held the left arm of the bow and turned it lightly, and re-pointed the arrow at a small hill on the right.Three people appeared on the hillside. They came on foot, wearing shoulderless leather armor, holding a pair of wooden bows in their hands, and a ring knife pinned to their waists with a ring of mountain vines.

"Who's here?" Sun Ce shouted, maintaining a posture full of bows, with a look of vigilance on his face, and suddenly his belief in being a hunter was shaken: Could something happen today?

The three people also looked quite panicked, looked at each other, as if they didn't expect that they would meet this person here.In the end, a man with a slightly older grade took the courage to take a step forward, half knelt and clasped his fists and said, "My lord, we are the subordinates of Captain Han Dang Han, and we are here to hunt deer for military rations."

"Oh..." Sun Ce drew a long voice, slightly lowered the bow and arrow in his hand, and then asked again: "If you are hunting deer, why are you wearing armor?"

"This place is close to Sheyang, and Chen Deng's soldiers often come out to collect firewood, so Captain Han told us to wear armor when we go out, just in case of accidents."

Sun Ce was very satisfied with this answer, and there was nothing wrong with the words of these three people: These days, Chen Deng, who has joined Cao Cao, is really worrying. His subordinates often pretend to be woodcutters to secretly contact people in Jiangdong. The bandit remnant party attempted to overthrow the Sun family's rule here.Although Sun Ce didn't pay much attention to these things, he had heard about them from Zhou Yu.

As a result, Sun Ce nodded and said, "Han Dang has always been strict in running the army and meticulous in every detail. Seeing him now, it's really good—then what did you gain today?"

Hearing this question, the expressions of the three of them became a little more relaxed.The leader got up and scratched his head, and said shamelessly: "It's a pity that I was unlucky, and I haven't hunted anything big so far."

"You can't be impatient when hunting. If you move, the prey will also move. Who can strike first..." Before the word "person" could be said, the bamboo arrow in Sun Ce's hand suddenly shot out, piercing the forehead of the leading man in an instant, and the man stared at him. His eyes widened, and he fell to the ground immediately.

"I have never ordered soldiers to hunt deer, and Han Dang knows that I like to hunt alone. How could you let me be so easily deceived?!" The mistake pointed out, but his subordinates didn't stop at all. They took the arrow from the quiver, set the bow, and shot it all in one go.

Before the arrows of those two people were shot, one of them was firmly nailed to the forehead by a flying cluster.However, the sacrifice of the two companions finally bought enough time for the third person, and with a flick of the bowstring, the sharp arrow flew straight towards Sun Ce.Sun Ce didn't have time to dodge, so he swung the hard bow in front of his body and pushed the arrow away.

"Who the hell are you?" Sun Ce shouted on the horse. His expression was not so much anger as excitement. It was a kind of bloodthirsty excitement, like a tiger seeing a weak prey.

"Dog thief! Do you still remember Xu Gong who was hanged by you?" The third man yelled, while nodding the second arrow.The knight was a little surprised when he heard the name: "Are you his disciples?"

"That's right! Today I'm going to avenge my lord!" The man shot another arrow.It's a pity that this arrow was still in vain. Facing the bravest Sun Ce in Jiangdong, the threat he posed to Sun Ce was not even as good as a deer.

"That old thing has also raised a few obedient dead soldiers."

Sun Ce licked his lips, showing bloodthirsty excitement, but this excitement did not make him reckless.He rode his horse and wanted to capture the last survivor alive: Although the time and place of his hunting were not important secrets, it was absolutely impossible for these three thieves to know.Behind this assassination, there must be some deeper conspiracy.

However, for Sun Ce, these are not very important.The thrill of his pursuit is just the thrill of catching this thief alive.As for the capture, Gong Jin's subordinates will take care of the thief, and then he will learn from Gong Jin what happened.

Faced with Sun Ce's brave and tyrannical attack, the assassin seemed to be taken aback.Although the hand was placed on his waist reflexively, he didn't pull out the knife quickly.For this kind of person, Sun Ce has seen too much: rookies on the battlefield are like this, they have never really killed anyone, and it is impossible to confront someone like him who has come out of the mountain of corpses and blood.

However, just when Sun Ce had already stretched out his hand, ready to grab the assassin.He suddenly saw a sinister smile on the assassin's face, that kind of smile was definitely not something a rookie on the battlefield could show.At this moment, Sun Ce felt very ominous, but he couldn't tell what went wrong.

At this moment, Sun Ce's right ear suddenly caught a slight vibration of the bowstring. This sound did not come from the front, but from the dense forest beside him.Sun Ce dismounted without hesitation.However, that sharp sword possessed extremely strong strength and speed. Just as Sun Ce jumped off his horse, that sharp arrow flew in front of Sun Ce in an instant.

Moreover, it wasn't until Sun Ce waved his strong bow in the air again and tried to sway away the trajectory of the current sharp arrow that he realized that he had predicted wrongly from the beginning: the arrows that were shot were not one at all, but two!

At this moment, Sun Ce in the air couldn't dodge at all, and could only groan in pain.The second sharp sword passed through Sun Ce's right cheek, smashed a few molars into the air, and then pierced into the other side of the mouth, causing blood to splatter all over.Sun Ce immediately fell to the ground, but to his surprise, Sun Ce seemed to have fallen, but he was already half-squatting on the ground, ignoring his blood-splattered face, grasping the bow with his right hand and clasping the string with his left hand, trying to aim at the despicable monster deep in the dense forest. Ambush.

Such indomitable fighting spirit and soaring arrogance made the assassin look shocked.At this time, the ground trembled slightly, and there were countless hurried hoofbeats from a distance, as if a large group of people were approaching continuously, "General Sun!" and "My Lord!" shouted one after another.

The only Xu Gong disciple who was still alive looked at the woods in panic, the forest was still quiet, but a wordless murderous momentum emanated quietly, as if a pair of stern eyes were watching him from the forest.That kind of heavy pressure is even greater than the fear of death.

Xu Gong's doorman closed his eyes, took a deep breath, then pulled out the ring knife at his waist, and shouted at the knight: "Sun Ce, you thief, die!" and rushed over.Sun Ce turned around suddenly, and shot the last arrow with all his might...

At the beginning of June in the fifth year of Xingping, Xu Gong, the former prefect of Wu County, and three of his disciples assassinated Sun Ce in Dantu.Sun Ce killed the three men and was shot in the face by an arrow. He was seriously injured and died shortly after returning to the camp.Before he died, Sun Ce murmured two words all the time, and no one heard them clearly. Only when Zhou Yu bent down with tears, his face became solemn again.

Because those two words are not unconscious accents, but: Cao Cao...

(End of this chapter)