The two thousand people led by Bai Chun have already surrounded this place layer by layer, and are continuing to compress the siege area.
Under the protection of a group of people, Li Hong slowly walked to the outside of the encirclement. He did not see Bai Chun here, but a personal guard general, Fang Zhan and Heng Qiao were waiting for him here.
"Where's Bai Chunren?" Li Hong asked coldly with a not pretty face.
"When I get back to you, Miss Bai is at the innermost part of the encirclement. She said she will try her best..."
"Pah!" Li Hong's temper became very violent, and he slapped Fang Zhan, who replied: "What do you do for food? The leader of the 'Jingwei' rushed to the front, leaving you wastes here waiting for me. ? Can you take responsibility for Bai Chun’s mistake?”
"Yes, that's what I taught you." Fang Zhan didn't feel aggrieved on his face, he looked very calm, as if Li Hong was right to hit him in front of everyone.
"How long have you been in there?" Li Hong walked forward on his own, and the circle surrounding him also moved slowly.
His Highness the Crown Prince almost lost his life a few days ago, but now that he is running into this deserted mountain and a dangerous place, if he gets hurt again, they can just take the initiative to wipe their necks.
"If you go back to me, it will take about one stick of incense."
"How many people are protecting her?" Li Hong asked with a frown.
"six people."
"Call her out immediately. Even if you drag her out, drag her out! Xiaoxue will follow." Li Hong said coldly.
After saying that, he began to slowly look at the mountain. The terrain here is high and densely forested, but the terrain is relatively flat, and it is not a place suitable for defense. It looks like they were forced here by Bai Chun and the others.
These people should have gone down from behind the entire Zhongnan Mountain, climbed over the mountains and ridges, and then fled here.
"How many are there?" Li Hong asked helplessly.
At first, he said he would leave a few alive, but when he passed out crying next to Bai Lu and Xiao Han, the others panicked and gave these people a chance to escape. Except for the dead bodies on the ground, there was no one alive.
"There are probably more than a hundred people there. They don't look like ordinary rangers, but they look like they have been trained..." Heng Qiao took over and said.
"That's natural. Knights wouldn't do this. Anyone who has some ability either works as a guard for an official or works in a government office. Even if he has no intention of pursuing an official career, he won't do such a thing. What's more, At first glance, those people were well-trained and no match for the stragglers," Li Hong said calmly as he paced back and forth in a small open space.
At this time, the world of martial arts has not yet been formed, and martial arts styles such as sect disputes are still in their infancy.
There are still very few existences with high status and prestige like the Three Fengchen Heroes. At this time, most of the chivalrous people who regard chivalry as their ideal basically have a chivalrous spirit that combines chivalrous Confucianism and chivalrous Taoism.
They advocate serving the country and the people, worrying about the country and the people, either being quiet and doing nothing, or living in seclusion, there are also chivalrous people who have entered the market and played in the streets, and those who committed crimes and then became chivalrous people, all kinds of people. In this era, knights slowly began to form a large group of forces.
With the emergence of these people, various styles of behavior and words and deeds gradually conflicted, and their respective groups were formed, followed by group interests, and in the end it became a sect dispute.
At this time, the Yi Jin Jing, which has been famous throughout the ages, had not yet been written. There was only a Taoist article on health preservation called Yi Jin.
This was all Li Hong learned about when he met Huineng and Shenxiu, including when they were playing chess with Sun Simiao a few days ago.
Bai Chunzhen was dragged over, and Xiaoxue held her hand. Both of them staggered. Under the protection of a group of guards, they hurriedly came to Li Hong.
Bai Chun seemed to have lost weight. Although his eyes were listless, they showed helplessness and pain. He was much more haggard than before, his face was pale and stained, and his pure white cotton shirt and skirt were too early. It was already dirty and scratched in some places by branches and other things.
Her hair, which was originally spread down to her buttocks, was randomly tied on top of her head by a branch. The whole person looked both miserable and helpless.
Li Hong sighed helplessly, waved his hand, and asked everyone to retreat. Then he first said to Wenfa, Wutian, Fang Zhan, and Heng Qiao: "Go ahead and attack them. Their leaders will surrender."
Welfare, Wutian, Fang Zhan, Heng Qiao, Hua Meng and others all felt that chasing the assassin was very strange. They always felt that there seemed to be a tacit understanding between His Highness the Crown Prince and Bai Chun.
Bai Chun stood helplessly opposite Li Hong, watching Xia Zhi tighten the white bandage that had just been fixed on Li Hong's shoulder, and tears flowed down involuntarily again.
Suddenly, the whole person looked even more miserable and helpless, which made people feel heartbroken.
"Why are you crying? I'm not dead! This matter has nothing to do with you. Why are you blaming yourself? How many years have passed? I don't know who you are? You're crying. Do you know what you just did? How reckless? Do you think you can clear up the suspicion like this? Hurry up and put away your tears." Li Hong threw a piece of brocade handkerchief Xiaoxue handed over to Bai Chun.
Bai Chun didn't speak, but cried harder. Li Hong was angry and helpless, so he could only continue: "Do you want me to cry to death and you will be satisfied? Is that what you want? If not, immediately Put away your tears, I have something else to ask you!"
Bai Chun sobbed and wiped her tears with a handkerchief. Xia Zhi also handed her a wet towel. Her beautiful face, stained with stains, returned to its intoxicating look after a simple wash.
Li Hong glanced at it angrily and asked: "Have you spoken to them? Who else is there? I don't believe that there is only the Jinyang Wang family. Are there any remnants of the Eastern Turks among these people?"
Bai Chun nodded, his eyes red from crying made people look pitiful, and said in a low voice: "I don't know who is currently leading the charge, but judging from the scene that day and the investigation in the past few days, I think it looks like Jinyang The Wang family collaborated with people from the Eastern Turks, and Wang Kang, Wang Jing and other Turks should be among them."
"Did Weiying die that year?" Li Hong suddenly remembered that monk. His relationship with Bai Chun was not simple.
"Not dead." Bai Chun lowered his head and said.
"Do you still have contact with him?" Li Hong asked in confusion.
"No contact. I haven't had any contact with those people since I followed you." Bai Chun said quietly.
Li Hong looked at her, stretched out his hand to wipe away the tears on his face, and said lightly: "Let's go, come up and have a look."
Li Hong took the lead and walked forward. The people around him hurriedly followed, protecting him in the middle. A group of more than ten or twenty people climbed onto a high slope with a wider view.
Through the slightly sparse woods, it can be clearly seen that at this moment, Qingdao Shu and the two thousand people who initially surrounded the assassin have begun to slowly surround the assassin.
On the left and right, Qing Dao and two thousand other soldiers, half holding crossbows, slowly surrounded the encirclement. The crossbows in their hands made a sound of breaking through the air from time to time, and then screams could be heard echoing in the woods.
These assassins were obviously fighting in a trapped state, and they lacked the determination they had when they assassinated them. The gradually shrinking encirclement made them more confused and disorderly.
The soldiers holding horizontal knives and horse spears behind the crossbow soldiers would be careful when passing each corpse. On the premise of protecting the crossbow soldiers from harm, indiscriminately, the horse spears more than three feet long would be first He quickly handed it out and stabbed the assassin lying on the ground like a silver snake.
Suddenly, there were several bloody holes in the body of the assassin who had not yet completely expired. His body twitched a few times and then lay on the ground motionless.
Li Hong looked around and saw the few people surrounded by black-clothed assassins. Although they couldn't see their faces, some of them did look like Wang Kang and Wang Jing.
As the encirclement continued to shrink, those few people began to feel uneasy. This time they were well prepared, but Wu Mei's unplanned trip from Taiyi City still disrupted their plans and prevented them from being able to do so. Make the most thorough deployment in the shortest time.
As the men in black who protected them were killed one by one by powerful crossbows, those people obviously knew that the situation was over, and looked around helplessly. Then several people discussed in a low voice, and then one person suddenly shouted: " Surrender, we surrender.”
The sound echoed in the empty mountain forest, but what answered him was soundless silence. The surrounding people seemed to be deaf. They continued to move forward slowly, and the crossbow in their hands shot out arrows from time to time, either directly killing people or causing people to lose their lives. Mobility.
Unable to run to Li Hong's side, he waited to hear Li Hong's final decision. Although the encirclement was still shrinking, the people shot and killed were all those who did not seem to be important.
"Just keep the five people who look like the leaders, and kill the rest." Li Hong watched Hua Meng dragging over a corpse, and after tearing open the mask, he found something. sudden. Jue people.
The wound on Bu Bu's forehead that was smashed by Li Hong was casually bandaged with a piece of rag. It looked funny. After hearing Li Hong's words, he nodded and said, "Yes, Master."
His tone was calm, not like he was going to kill someone, but like he was doing something ordinary. But Li Hong knew that the helplessness at this time was probably the most ruthless time.
Immediately after Li Hong finished the order, screams began to sound one after another in the distant encirclement. The speed and accuracy of the bows and arrows, including the strength, obviously exceeded the assassin's expectations. As long as they were attacked If the arrow hits it, it basically loses its combat effectiveness.
As the men in black who seemed to be next to the leader all fell to the ground, the entire encirclement shrank to an area of about ten or twenty feet.
Several men in black looked around and happened to see the circle of soldiers holding crossbows. The soldiers who had been bending down and sneaking all straightened up, holding black and cold crossbows, and stared at them mercilessly.
(End of chapter)