Erye Zanliang was the eldest princess of the Japanese state, and the person who assassinated Li Qinzai was the Japanese envoy sent to the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, after seeing the group of monks, Kono Zenliang had a look of panic and panic on his face, and it was difficult for Li Qinzai not to associate her with the assassins.
He had doubts about that group of monks, but Kono Sanliang looked frightened again, and his suspicions were basically confirmed.
Facing Li Qinzai's smiling eyes, Kono Sanliang became more and more panicked.
She knew very well that the smile in Li Qinzai's eyes did not actually mean that he was smiling.
It was more like the expression of a ferocious beast about to capture its prey.
Seeing the panicked look of Kono Sanliang, Li Qinzai's smile deepened.
Leaning close to her ear, Li Qinzai asked quietly: "Tell me, are you an insider or an accomplice?"
Kono Zanliang was shocked and said in panic: "I, I don't know, I didn't want to harm you..."
"Is there an assassin among those monks?" Li Qinzai pressed forward step by step.
Kono Sanliang finally couldn't bear it any longer, and choked up with tears in his eyes: "...Yes."
Li Qinzai sighed leisurely and said: "It's really bloody. I'm a little disappointed. That's it?"
Shaking his head and smiling, Li Qinzai suddenly shouted: "Ah Si, take down all those monks!"
Liu Asi was very close to Li Qinzai. He heard every word of the conversation between him and Zanye Zanliang. He couldn't help but was ready to make a move. Hearing the words, he immediately drew his sword out of its sheath and shouted: "Take them all!"
The Li family members rushed forward and suddenly rushed into the mourning hall, surrounding the monks who were chanting sutras.
The sudden change shocked the villagers and the children of veterans who were worshiping in the mourning hall, and the crowd was in an uproar.
Li Qinzai smiled apologetically at the children of the veterans and said: "There are assassins among the monks. I'm sorry. I will apologize to you all after the assassins are taken down."
After hearing that an assassin had sneaked in, the bankers were shocked and immediately showed a fierce look.
"You bastards, how dare you come here! Chop them up!"
The bankers are all Guanzhong men, they are upright and violent, with a strong sense of fighting.
Enemies have sneaked into our territory and want to murder the young master. We will never tolerate it.
Many farmers picked up convenient farm tools and consciously formed an array on the outside of the surrounding circle. Although the clothes and farm tools looked like a ragtag group, once the array was formed, it was perfectly integrated, and there was a faint sense of murder in the army.
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The monks were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and shivered.
Not all of them are assassins, there are also real monks. Of course, real monks are not necessarily innocent. There are assassins in their own ranks. It is impossible for them to be unaware, and they are probably bribed.
The matter had been exposed, and when the leading monk was about to beg for mercy, four men in monk's robes suddenly flew up among the monks, and the daggers they had hidden in their arms for a long time were instantly released, pointing directly at the left wing of the encirclement.
The assassin was obviously a veteran, and realized that the left wing was the weakest part of the encirclement, so he chose to break out from here.
The crowd suddenly dispersed outside the bustling mourning hall.
The old men, women and children in the village retreated one after another, leaving a wide open space for the tribesmen to kill the thieves.
Li Qinzai grabbed Kouno Sanliang's arm slightly roughly, followed the crowd and retreated into the mourning hall, stood in front of the coffin, and quietly watched the tribesmen outside the hall fighting with the assassins.
The gongs and bamboo whistles were blown at the same time, and the various powerful clans and imperial guards guarding Zhuangzi also came one after another.
There were four confirmed assassins. Li Qinzai watched the assassins fighting for their lives with his tribe, but he still felt a little uneasy in his heart.
Everything seemed reasonable and reasonable, as if they had seen through the enemy's trick, and the assassins had to fight against the enemy, and everything was under control.
But Li Qinzai still felt uneasy.
Maybe it's just because it's so logical.
He had never underestimated the wisdom of the ancients, so when everything that happened before him was too simple, Li Qinzai was a little uneasy.
They carefully dressed up as monks and sneaked into Zhuangzi, and then they were discovered and surrounded. If nothing else happened, they couldn't even touch Li Qinzai's hair.
That's it?
In the open space outside the mourning hall, the imperial troops and tribesmen who came over surrounded the four assassins three levels inside and three levels outside. One of them could drown the assassins just by urinating.
The four assassins were still resisting desperately. They were breathing heavily, swinging their swords with all their strength, and looking around with red eyes, like four trapped animals trapped in a hunter's trap. They were still ferocious before death, and they were still planning to bite them.
Give the enemy a piece of flesh and blood.
The tribesmen, however, would not show mercy to the assassins. They formed the formation calmly and calmly, and based on their fighting experience on the battlefield, they moved, attacked, and stabbed in an orderly manner.
In their eyes, the four assassins are just four pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and they are a group of calm butchers.
The swords struck the assassins, and the assassins groaned in pain, but they continued to attack and stab without mercy.
Li Qinzai's eyes were solemn. After carefully observing the battle situation for a long time, he found that the four assassins had basically no hope of survival.
Suddenly remembering something, Li Qinzai said loudly: "Separate two teams and go to the other courtyard and the east of the village to protect Qiao'er and Cui Jie. Don't fall into the enemy's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain."
Liu Asi was holding the line outside the mourning hall. Hearing the words, he said from a distance: "Don't worry, Fifth Young Master, we won't make such a stupid mistake. Young Master and Miss Cui have already left their robes to guard the surroundings."
Li Qinzai was relieved, but still a little uneasy.
Outside the mourning hall, an assassin suddenly screamed and was stabbed in the chest by Bu Qu's halberd. He fell to the ground and died helplessly.
The remaining three assassins were also scarred and shaky, and it was only a matter of time before they were killed.
Just as the battle was about to come to an end, with the assassin falling and everyone's nerves unknowingly relaxing, something unexpected happened again.
Li Qinzai and Kono Sanliang originally stood in the mourning hall and watched the battle from a distance. This place was relatively far away from the open space outside the hall, so it was considered a very safe place.
Unexpectedly, just when everyone was relaxing their vigilance, a strange noise suddenly came from underneath the coffin parked behind Li Qinzai.
A knife stretched out from under the coffin without anyone noticing, stabbed out silently but like lightning, and went straight to Li Qinzai's back.
Li Qinzai's attention was all on the open space outside the mourning hall, and he was unaware that a knife suddenly stabbed him from behind.
When the coffin made an inexplicable noise, Sanliang Kono seemed to have noticed something, and inadvertently glanced back. This glance made her scared.
There was no time to think about why there was a knife thrust out from under the coffin. In that moment, there was only one thing that Sanliang thought of.
Nothing can happen to Li Qinzai, his life and death are tied to the life and death of her people and subjects!
In the flash of lightning, the knife that suddenly thrust out was less than half a foot away from Li Qinzai's back.
Konono Sanliang gave Li Qinzai a hard hit almost as a reflex, and at the same time, the sword arrived as expected.
There was a painful groan, blood spattered, and the knife stabbed into the shoulder of Sanliang Kono.
The blade was two inches into his shoulder. At this moment, Sanliang Tono could clearly see the face of the assassin holding the knife.
The assassin has no face, is dressed in black, and has a black cloth mask. Compared with the four Assassins at the End of the Crossbow, this assassin is more mysterious, his attacks are more severe, and the timing of his attacks is even more unexpected.
Seeing that the fatal blow failed, the assassin was obviously a little surprised. His eyes outside the black cloth showed surprise, and then his eyes darkened, and he drew out the blade and continued to strike at Li Qinzai.
In a sudden accident, Li Qinzai, who was knocked away by Kono Sanliang, was also stunned. He turned around and saw that she had been hit by a knife, and the knife had been slashed towards him.
Li Qinzai had no martial arts skills. As an ordinary person, he could only subconsciously raise his arm to block it. The light of the sword passed by. Li Qinzai felt his arm go numb. Without thinking, he suddenly hugged Kono Sanliang's waist, and the two of them hugged each other.
Together they rolled on the spot outside the mourning hall.
While rolling, Li Qinzai shouted: "Come here, there are assassins here!"
Liu Asi, who was holding the battle in the open space outside the hall, glanced around and was shocked. He saw the assassin's knife coming up to him and slashing at Li Qinzai. Liu Asi did not hesitate to use the knife in his hand as a javelin and hit the assassin fiercely.
Throw it hard.
The sword flashed past and went straight to the assassin's face.
The assassin had no choice but to give up slashing at Li Qinzai. The path of the knife changed and he blocked the knife that went straight to his face.
It was this short moment that bought precious time for the life and death of Li Qinzai and Kono Sanliang.
Liu Asi and his subordinates rushed towards Li Qinzai. Seeing that the assassin was still going to assassinate Li Qinzai, several of his subordinates followed Liu Asi's example and used their knives as javelins to throw at the assassin.
Li Qinzai rolled around in his arms with Kono Zanliang, turning a blind eye to the fierce fighting outside.
He has always been very focused on saving his life.
He couldn't remember how many times he rolled over, until Li Qinzai was helped up by the people outside the hall and protected by everyone. He finally felt safe and he breathed a sigh of relief.
The uneasy feeling in my heart completely disappeared at this moment.
Yes, the assassin behind the coffin is the real killer move and the real trump card of this carefully planned assassination!
This trump card may have been laid down as early as yesterday.
A seriously ill veteran went to the city to see a doctor and ate Guokui on the street. Why did he suddenly fall ill when he returned to Zhuangzi? The bullock cart he was riding in when entering Zhuangzi would not have been strictly inspected by the patrolling imperial army, because the veteran was a native farmer.
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The four assassins whose traces were exposed were basically cannon fodder for sacrifice. Their role was to attract everyone's attention.
At this moment, Li Qinzai, who was thinking clearly, suddenly had an idea in his mind.
Could such a thorough assassination plan be thought up by just a few envoys to the Tang Dynasty working together?
Even if you can figure it out, what is the reason for the extraordinary skills of these assassins? Have the Japanese ever had such skills?
Li Qinzai calmed down and suddenly shouted to Liu Asi: "That masked assassin will live!"
Liu Asi responded from a distance, and as soon as he finished speaking, the assassins were surrounded by his troops.
At the same time, the four assassins in the open space outside the hall were knocked to the ground by the Imperial Army.
Li Qinzai lowered his head and looked at Kouno Sanliang, who was frowning in pain in his arms, and said: "You only injured your shoulder, you will definitely not die, why are you still holding me? You can't stop taking advantage, right?"