To be honest, Liu Shizi was stunned by the assassination.
The person who did it was a man named Deng De, who was very brave. He only wore a leather jacket and dared to assassinate at a heavily guarded banquet.
But besides being brave, Liu Shizi felt that this man had probably trained his muscles in his head - he was wearing armor.
It was impossible for him not to be on the lookout for a banquet hosted by a surrendered general. The generals were not even allowed to drink wine, and everyone wore clothes, not even the leather belts used to carry bows, knives, and guns.
On the contrary, all the surrendered officers took off their armor and weapons, and only one Qianhu was allowed to carry a saber.
But this was really unexpected.
Sun Tzu said in the Art of War: If you prepare for a week, you will be careless; if you are familiar with it, you will not doubt it.
Liu Chengzong was no exception. Since he had made all preparations, it was obvious to others.
What he was thinking was that no fool could assassinate him... He never thought that anyone would assassinate him.
Assassination?
The success rate of this matter is too low, and few people in the Marshal's Army would think of such a thing.
Everyone knows that the Generalissimo is not a peasant soldier, and his martial arts skills are not just about fighting on the battlefield. He has learned too many unique tricks. No matter how powerful a person is in person, it will be difficult to get an advantage from him.
When fighting on the battlefield as a soldier, you develop skills, and there is a standardized way to measure your level.
The bow is accurate at long range, the spear tip is flat and straight, and the knife is used to chop and stab. As long as it is practical when facing the enemy, it does not require drills or lists of moves. Practice makes perfect. Practice day after day, and you will be fast in battle.
Point carefully and cut wherever you want.
Carrying a five-foot-five-foot-six-foot spear, as long as it can be leveled and stabbed forward accurately, it is not a matter for the spearman to consider whether there is anyone squatting in front of the formation, nor is it his job.
The Blade and Shield Bearer gave him a mark.
The techniques of folk martial arts training are different. Cheng Chongdou's two-way sword technique and Qi Jiguang's thirty-two posture boxing technique. In addition to practicing professional skills, they also consider the one-to-many isolated environment, which is more comprehensive and has some skills.
For example, some martial arts teachers who teach Tibetan weapons and specialize in Zimu swords may look like they have a Yanling sword, but they can actually pull out two swords, one long and one short.
Or some folk boxing techniques specialize in three ways, stomping the feet, kicking the crotch and inserting eyes, in order to make the enemy lose combat effectiveness at once.
These techniques are specific means developed for specific environments and specific purposes based on skills.
For example, Gao Xian of the Marshal's Mansion raised a group of servants to serve as envoys, and developed a martial art. There was a flint hair pipe in the iron arm guard, and Liu Chengzong named him to point out who would die.
That thing is very laborious to load and prime, and requires daily maintenance. The trigger is connected to the bow sling worn on the thumb, and can only fire one round. The distance for accurate shooting is only seven or eight steps, and the flint on the arm guard must be moved in advance.
Turn on the engine and work hard.
But be prepared in advance, just give the target a thumbs up, praise him, and point forward, and you can fire and send him to the west.
But that martial art is not easy to practice. It's like a damn iron palm. The gunfire sprayed from the pipe can easily burn your hands, so you have to wear clothes with arrow sleeves.
When Gao Xian was sent to Monan to divide pasture land, he just came up with a new trick, which was to fix the tube on the goggles in his robe, so as to kill the person by turning sideways and akimbo.
Liu Chengzong's martial arts is different from these two. Not only is he excellent in his own martial arts skills, he can use all kinds of weapons proficiently, but he has also learned a lot of heretical techniques. If he takes any one of them, he will be his opponent in the battle.
Something I've never seen before.
Life and death fighting is not martial arts. If you haven't seen a move before, you will die if you don't react.
He was a ruthless character who could kill a county government officer even under a long-term state of hunger. Three or five Yulin cavalry could not defeat a general. Chu Huer, who had led the cavalry in conflicts all year round, was on the Xi'an campus.
He was also beaten like a dog.
As long as you don't have a musket and a powerful bow or crossbow doesn't hit you in the face, how can you kill someone wearing armor?
No one would think of it as a single-soldier assassination.
People's defenses are all about bigger situations.
For example, someone organized an organized attack and disturbance, letting go of the war horses to cause chaos, and cooperating with the enemy troops outside. Or they pretended to surrender anyway, got them drunk with wine and then chopped them into pieces.
In the end, Deng De was alone. The most outrageous thing was that the first target of the assassination was not Liu Chengzong.
He took a meat-cutting knife used as a cutlery and slit the neck of Du Qianhu, who was surrendering to him, from behind. Then he threw the wrist-breaking knife at Liu Chengzong and at the same time pulled out Qianhu's saber.
Until this time, Liu Chengzong, like most of the people in the hall, had been brain-burned by the scene of Deng De killing the officer.
Even Liu Shishi reacts a little slower than others.
Others were surprised and then reacted.
Liu Shizi went through a process of surprise, confidence, confusion, and understanding.
'That man is going to commit murder with a knife. I want to see who can kill him... No, Qianhu's neck is spewing blood, oh, he's here, he's here, he's here to kill me.'
So much so that Liu Shishi, the flying knife, really didn't react, because Zhao Jifang, who was roasting mutton next to him, waved his arm with an iron fork and blocked it.
Deng De raised his sword and ran towards Liu Chengzong who was sitting on the throne. On the way, he also chopped down another hundred households who had surrendered, scaring the unarmed generals so much that they didn't know what to do.
But during this process, Liu Shizi reacted.
He is faster than Dunder.
Holding the lamb leg bone stick in his hand, he stepped on the food table and rushed out.
He passed over Zhao Jifang, who was stunned by the flying knife as if by divine help, smashed Deng De's knife away with a stick, and hit it with his shoulder.
This scene happened so fast that Zhang Yong, the man holding the sword behind Liu Chengzong, was stunned.
Yulin is a team of one old and one young, one old and one new, and today it happens to be Yue Wenkui and Zhang Yong's turn to be on duty.
He was originally standing behind Liu Chengzong. When he saw Deng De holding the knife and wiping Qianhu's neck, he used his left thumb to push the knife out of the sheath an inch. He held the knife in his right hand and stepped forward to protect Liu Chengzong's side.
From this position, Yue Wenkui and Yue Wenkui were stuck on both sides of the food table. If he took a step forward and drew his sword, he could stop the assassin who was attacking Liu Chengzong.
But just as he drew his sword, Liu Chengzong, armed with more than 200 kilograms of armor, unexpectedly took the unconventional route and stepped on the table and flew out like a cannonball, smashing the assassin's sword away and causing the assassin to rush towards him.
It flew backwards at a faster speed and hit the ground, causing more air in and less air out.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Zhang Yong was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly stepped forward and passed Liu Chengzong, scanning the crowd with the tip of his knife forward.
He didn't pay much attention to Dende who was lying on the ground, because when the two collided just now, he not only heard the sound of metal and stone as the mutton leg bone smashed into the sword, but also a series of sounds made by the armor hitting the armor leaves.
I also heard a few crisp sounds like wood breaking.
That was the sound of broken ribs.
The assassin will not survive.
Then, there was no one in the hall who was behaving strangely. The generals looked at each other and sat there in fear, waiting to be controlled by Yu Linlang, who was wearing bright armor. Facing Liu Chengzong, who dropped the leg bone and frowned, no one dared
speech.
Only Deng De, who was coughing up bloody foam, cursed with loud and soft yells, hitting each general's heart like a hammer.
"The military academies all want to sell the city to protect themselves. No one cares about the country or the family. Even if they become ghosts after death, they will not let go..."
Suddenly there was a muffled groan, as if the words were causing his chest to hurt so much that he could not speak.
Liu Chengzong frowned and lowered his eyes.
Deng De was seen curled up in a ball on the ground. Even though he could not speak, he still dipped his fingers in the blood foam he coughed up and wrote on the ground.
‘The man who sold the city’
Liu Shizi could tell that Deng De originally wanted to write about the man who betrayed the city, but he was already exhausted and could only scribble out one stroke and one stroke.
Deng De was still glaring at the people in the hall with his eyes, and the pain in his body made his eyes even more fierce.
The surrendered generals he saw quickly turned their faces and looked away.
This seems to have a shocking spiritual power, attacking every surrendered general who surrendered to the Marshal's Mansion.
He even attacked Liu Chengzong.
But this had no effect on Liu Chengzong.
Seen too much.
Just like his ferocious body, it was broken into pieces by Liu Chengzong.
He pushed aside Zhang Yong and Yue Wenkui who were protecting him on his left and right, and stepped forward.
Not only did he use his body to block Deng De's fierce eyes that were tearing open his eyes, and looked down at Deng De, he also raised his foot to step on the blood stains he wrote. The military boots embedded with armor plates made a sound, and the soles of the boots easily peeled off the writing.
"You have fulfilled your duty of loyalty, and you deserved to die."
After saying that, Liu Chengzong raised his head, glanced at the people in the hall, and announced: "Deng De from one hundred households, the following offenders, kill my general and hang him."
"The assassinated Du Qianhu was given to the commanding officer, and the stabbed Chen Baihu was promoted to Deputy Qianhu to recover from his injuries and receive proper treatment."
Then with a look, Yue Wenkui nodded and accepted the order but did not move. Zhang Yong took out a strong bow and dragged Deng De out.
Yue Wenkui was always slow to respond, and Liu Chengzong didn't take it seriously.
This man was born in Zhuanglangwei, a descendant of Yue Fei, and a military officer for generations.
When Longzhou was attacked, his brother Yue Wenyuan was the first to gallop onto the city, and later the first to rush into the prefectural government office. Yue Wenyuan was awarded the title of magistrate of Longzhou.
Liu Chengzong asked Yue Wenkui what he wanted, but he was slow to respond. Yue Wenyuan said it for him and followed Liu Chengzong into Yulin Camp.
However, people who react slowly think and act more thoughtfully.
Yue Wenkui was not in a hurry. He had served as a grassroots officer in the five towns of Hehuang as early as the Hehuang period. He had worked with Liu Chengzong for a long time. In this Eastern Expedition, he was accompanying him as a Yulin guard.
He understands the generalissimo's stubborn mentality, and he also knows that the generalissimo may not have much hatred for the assassin who was crushed in one move.
Of course, as an officer, you must obey orders, but there are some dirty jobs. It is difficult to say whether you will do them or not, whether it is good or bad.
So it is better not to grab it, but someone else will do it.
Zhang Yong is from Xi'an Prefecture. He has just joined the Marshal's Army. He is young and eager to express himself, so it is good for him to do it.
But in fact, Liu Chengzong was not that stubborn about this matter.
If Deng De's life was longer and he was just beaten with a bone stick or subdued, then he might have to consider whether to spare his life and throw him to Tai Meng Guard.
But now that people have been knocked to death by him, there is no need to think about more things.
It's just a simple matter of getting what you ask for, and your wishes will come true.
If he wants to conquer the world, he deserves to be assassinated; others, as Ming officers, also deserve to assassinate him.
This is how this world should exist.
Each of the surrendered generals still had lingering fears. Liu Chengzong could see from their expressions that Deng De's curse was very lethal to them.
He took a deep breath, turned around and scolded Zhao Jifang, who was still staring at the barbecue fork: "You're not wearing any armor, why are you throwing yourself forward? If he does this, ten more of them won't be able to kill me.
What if I stab you to death?"
Zhao Jifang felt extremely wronged.
Before I met you, I was studying in the county school. After I met you, I also worked as a clerical official. Not to mention fighting, I never had a fight.
This is the first time in my life that I have encountered such an exciting thing.
How the hell did I know it was a knife? If something flew towards me, I would block it without even thinking about it.
He was so understanding that he was still jumping, so he blocked me and even scolded me!
But the target of people's anger is often themselves, and releasing it outwards is just a means of venting.
Liu Chengzong looked up and down and saw that Zhao Jifang was not injured, so he said: "Don't just wear a robe all day long. You are not any smarter than him."
He thought to himself that Deng Deyong was brave, but he was too stupid. I was wearing such thick armor, and he wanted to assassinate me with a small broken knife?
At this time, the garrison troops outside the camp were wearing armors and rushing into the official office of Guangwu Camp. Gao Ying, who was in charge of peripheral security, climbed to the top and ran in with his armor on. Seeing that Liu Chengzong was fine, he was relieved and looked at him with evil intentions.
The surrendered generals in the hall asked: "Commander, what should we do?"
Liu Chengzong raised his hand to stop Gao Yingdeng who was about to make a big fight, and said to Liu Fangming and Ma Xiantu: "This incident is an accident. Everyone is frightened tonight. There is no need to be afraid. The two generals will comfort everyone for me."
, take the general back to camp to rest."
"Deng De's purpose is to kill his commander as a lesson. For the sake of your lives, I hope you will be under strict control in the future to prevent such incidents from happening again."
Liu Fangming and Ma Xiantu were also worried. They wanted to say something, but they didn't dare to speak at this time.
Everyone can see that Liu Chengzong deliberately suppressed his emotions after his assassination.
The second general had no choice but to accept the order and leave with a group of surrendered generals and officers.
After they left, Gao Yingdeng wondered: "Why is this man? There is no need to choose today to assassinate his commander."
"Shit, he just wants to kill me!"
Liu Chengzong glanced at him sideways: "That's just a way to appease the surrendered general."
"Tonight, you must guard against the two Ningxia camps to avoid further trouble. In addition, we will set off tomorrow morning to march eastward to cross the Yellow River. The first brigade will make all necessary preparations tonight."
"East, east to cross the Yellow River?"
Gao Yingdeng asked doubtfully: "Isn't it necessary to capture the town of Ningxia?"
Liu Chengzong shook his head and said: "Don't worry about the city, just go to Fang."
"Here, Commander."
Although Zhao Jifang had just been scolded, his face was still a little embarrassed, but he adjusted quickly.
Before the banquet, Liu Chengzong requested that everyone wear armor. However, Zhao Jifang worked as a clerical official and did not include himself among "everyone", not to mention that he did not have armor.
Liu Chengzong didn't say anything more.
If something happens now and you get a fight, then let's make a fight.
He made up his mind to find a way to get some light chain mail to wear when he went down.
"Draft a document and pass it to Wang Wenxiu of the Longxi Brigade, ordering him to use the standard camp Li Wanqing to occupy the central guard and take over the Mongolian cattle, sheep, mules and horses behind the mountains. The rest of the army immediately led the army northward tonight, headed for the town of Ningxia with the general camp, and sent Yang Chengzu to the camp.
Yang Yanchang, the reinforcement camp, was sent to me."
"Another message is sent to the seventh battalion of our headquarters to be prepared to pull out the camp tomorrow and cross the Yellow River eastward."
In fact, this assassination had a great impact on Liu Chengzong.
He gritted his teeth and said: "Watching the wind all the way makes me too optimistic. Everyone wants to kill me. That's how it should be. We can't stop... Cross the Yellow River eastward and chase Hong Chengchou to death. He can't run anywhere!"