Chapter five hundred and forty-four extermination of assassins
Xu Xiling glanced at Xiaomei who was asking the question and said, "If I help her, I'm not helping myself!"
On the matter of Yin Lihua, her and Guo Shengtong's interests were completely aligned, and she was unable to stand out against Yin Lihua, nor did she have the ability to stand out. In this matter, Guo Shengtong had to be pushed to the front.
When two tigers fight, one of them will be injured, but it is also possible that if two tigers fight, one will die and the other will be injured. If this is the case, she will reap the greatest benefits.
Xu Xiling saw clearly that Guo Shengtong appeared to be gentle and kind, but in fact he was quite scheming, good at seeking the best interests for himself, and his behavior was very decisive and courageous.
She has pointed out in words that only if Yin Lihua is not in Luoyang can Guo Shengtong win the second position. She believes that Guo Shengtong will definitely take action next.
In fact, just as Xu Xiling expected, Guo Shengtong did set his sights on Yin Lihua after meeting Xu Xiling.
Yin Lihua and Guo Shengtong were both Liu Xiu's wives, but they had never met before.
Yin Lihua has not been with Liu Xiu all this time. Even though he knew that Liu Xiu had deep feelings for Yin Lihua, Guo Shengtong did not regard Yin Lihua as a real threat.
But things are different now. She has not been named a queen, and Yin Lihua has not been named a nobleman. This queen position is obviously reserved for Yin Lihua. This has obviously threatened Guo Shengtong's status, which Guo Shengtong cannot tolerate.
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Yin Lihua wrote a secret letter and gave it to her most trusted maid, asking her to take it out of the palace and deliver it to Zhending. She must hand it over to her uncle, Zhending King Liu Yang.
To get rid of Yin Lihua, Guo Shengtong didn't have that much ability, but her uncle Liu Yang did.
As the true earth emperor, Liu Yang maintained countless disciples, many of whom were swordsmen with high martial arts skills. If Liu Yang could send these swordsmen to assassinate Yin Lihua, in Guo Shengtong's opinion, Yin Lihua would not be able to escape this disaster.
Liu Xiu probably never dreamed that his canonization of Guo Shengtong as a nobleman would lead to so many things and even bring Yin Lihua's death.
Now, Liu Xiu's main focus is on the court. Of course, he has not forgotten the Si'a killer lurking in Luoyang.
After several days of investigation, Hua Feiyan provided detailed information to Liu Xiu. Si'a had at least five contact points in Luoyang. As for how many Si'a assassins were hidden among them, Yunxi Pavilion's spies could not find it so accurately.
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After careful consideration, Liu Xiu ordered Zhijinwu Jiafu to be the main one, and Weiwei Li Tong and Long Yuan to be the assistants, to carry out a comprehensive encirclement and suppression of Si'a's five strongholds in Luoyang.
Si'a's five contact points in Luoyang were all investigated by Yunxi Pavilion, but Yunxi Pavilion did not participate at all in the encirclement and suppression operation and continued to hide in secret.
Jia Fu, Li Tong, and Long Yuan discussed it for a while, and finally decided to launch a five-arrow attack to attack five strongholds at the same time, without giving the other side a chance to agree with each other.
In the evening, late at night, when Luoyang City was under curfew, a large number of soldiers began to gather in the city, and with lightning speed, they surrounded all five strongholds in Si'a.
The Asi stronghold that Jia Fu was responsible for was located in Nanshi, Luoyang, less than three miles away from the imperial palace.
At the third watch of the day, which was also midnight, Jia Fu waved his hand to his subordinates who were preparing to attack and shouted: "Come on!"
Following his order, several men in tights hurried out of a dark alley.
Si'a's stronghold is a large-scale teahouse with its own courtyard. Judging from the appearance alone, it is large and majestic. But who would have thought that this teahouse would be one of the assassins' strongholds.
Two men were the first to run under the courtyard wall, leaning against the wall with their legs bent. Then, two more men ran over quickly. They first stepped on their companion's thigh, and then stepped on his companion's shoulder.
, then jumped up, and both of them clawed at the wall of the courtyard. Then, like civet cats, the two of them jumped into the courtyard silently.
Not long after, with a creaking sound, the courtyard door was opened from the inside.
The soldiers who were lying in ambush all around ran out of the darkness and ran in with a rumble along the open courtyard door. Several soldiers crossed the courtyard and ran straight to the main house opposite.
But before they reached the door of the main room, suddenly, crossbow arrows were fired continuously from the door and window edges of the main room.
Bang, bang, bang! The crossbow arrows penetrated the linen on the edge of the door and window, and nailed the soldiers hard. The soldiers screamed, rolled and fell to the ground.
"There is an assassin in the house!" Upon seeing this, the soldiers behind him hurriedly raised their shields and formed a shield array. Ding, clang, clang! The subsequent crossbow arrows fired from the house were all blocked by the shield array.
Just as the soldiers in the front yard formed a shield formation, there was movement in the back yard.
It turned out that five or six black figures jumped out from the back window of the main house and came face to face with the soldiers who were ambushing outside the backyard. The two sides immediately fought together.
These six black figures in black were all holding long swords and were highly skilled in martial arts. As soon as the two sides came into contact, a dozen soldiers were knocked to the ground by their long swords.
Just as many officers and soldiers were retreating after being killed by six men in black, another group of soldiers came forward. The uniforms and armor of these soldiers were the same as those of ordinary soldiers, but the weapons they used were not spears or shields.
Instead, they are all long and narrow horse-killing swords.
A man in black rushed towards the group of officers and soldiers, thrusting forward with his sword.
Unexpectedly, the soldier on the opposite side did not dodge, but turned back and slashed his sword at the neck of the man in black. This was a desperate attempt to kill me. You can stab me to the core with one sword, but my
A sword can also make you lose your head and body.
The man in black hurriedly retracted the half-struck sword and thrust it outward with all his strength. With a clang, the sword that was slashing horizontally was bounced away. The man in black pierced the soldier's forehead with his sword, and at the same time
The next kick was a cross kick to the soldier's ankle.
This soldier didn't care at all how the man in black used his attacks. He only had one way of fighting. You hit yours and I'll hit mine. If you can kill me, I can kill you too.
He turned a blind eye to the attack of the man in black and struck Huashan with his sword, hitting the head of the man in black.
In desperation, the man in black could only retreat, and his attack was neutralized.
These soldiers holding horse-cutting swords and using life-for-life tactics were none other than Jia Fu's Ben Ming Lang.
The arrival of a large number of benefactors immediately stabilized the situation on the soldiers' side. They held back the men in black who rushed out of the tea house, preventing them from completely breaking out.
At the same time, the soldiers in the main courtyard formed a shield formation and advanced step by step, gradually approaching the front of the main house. When the people who were shooting crossbows outside the house saw this, they abandoned their crossbows and took the initiative to attack from inside the house, fighting with those outside.
The soldiers fought together.
I have to admit that everyone in the tea house is an elite, both in terms of martial arts and battle experience, and they are all outstanding. However, there are too many soldiers besieging them. They kill one, rush towards a group, and kill them back.
One group, then several groups came one after another.wavv
The fighting is endless and the killing is endless, as if there is no end.
No matter how strong the people in the tea house are, no matter how powerful their martial arts are, they are still humans and not gods. They cannot defeat four hands with one fist, and a good tiger cannot fight against a pack of wolves. Gradually, casualties began to appear on their side.
Seeing that the opponent was gradually showing signs of failure, Jia Fu's Ben Ming Army went into battle and began to harvest everyone in the tea house.
Jia Fu was seen holding a painting pole and a square halberd, and shouted: "Get out of the way!" As the soldiers in front retreated to both sides, he rushed out of the crowd, came to a man in black, and fired a halberd.
Split it over.
Jia Fu's halberd came so fast and hard that he didn't give the opponent a chance to dodge. The man in black hurriedly fought, raising his sword and parrying upwards.
Bang! There was a collision of iron tools. Although the man in black barely managed to catch Jia Fu's heavy blow, his feet stuck to the ground and he slid back more than two meters.
The man in black felt his chest felt tight, and a mouthful of old blood welled up.
Without giving the man in black a chance to breathe, Jia Fu's second halberd swept towards the waist of the man in black. This time the man in black was unable to block, so he could only bend down and dodge with all his strength.
Unexpectedly, Jia Fu immediately used a different move. The square halberd that originally swept the painting pole struck downwards instead. The man in black rolled to the side and dodged awkwardly, narrowly avoiding Jia Fu's halberd, but he failed.
Dodge the kick from Jia Fu.
The latter kicked the man in black on the chest, causing the man in black to groan and roll backwards.
Jia Fu thrust the halberd in his hand into the ground and shouted: "Take them all, don't let anyone escape, no matter life or death!" Jia Fu personally participated in the battle, which greatly increased the morale of the soldiers.
People were shouting and shouting, and the siege on the man in black became more and more fierce.
The men in black finally couldn't resist, and some people were constantly injured. The injured black man's physical skills were greatly restricted. Facing the sea of soldiers around him, facing the spears and swords that were constantly attacking from all around, he was injured.
The men in black were the first to fall to the ground. After that, they had no chance to get up and were stabbed into a hornet's nest by the swarming soldiers with their swords.
The stronghold that Jia Fu was responsible for encircling and suppressing had the largest number of opponents. Even so, no one in the tea house escaped. Thirteen of them died in the battle, and only two were seriously injured and captured. They fell to the soldiers.
When they were in their hands, both of them were already dying.
When the battle on Jia Fu's side ended, the battles at the other four strongholds also came to an end. In this encirclement and suppression of the Si'a stronghold, the army and soldiers achieved a complete victory. They killed more than 30 people from the opponent's side and captured alive.
Five people.
However, two of them died shortly after being captured, and the other two also had too much air coming out and too little air coming in. They could not even speak, let alone extract a confession.
Strictly speaking, Jia Fu and the others only caught one person alive who could be interrogated.
But what made Jia Fu frustrated was that the only one left alive died of poison less than half an hour after being captured. Obviously, he had already taken the poison before breaking out and being captured.
After a night of hard work, although the officers and soldiers led by Jia Fu destroyed all the strongholds in Si'a at once, they were unable to get a single survivor. They still knew very little about the internal intelligence of Si'a.