"Oh? So my mission goal as an assassin is to assassinate Wanyan Sheng?
"That's right, it's reasonable."
After hearing the plans of these green forest people, Li Hongyun instantly realized that this seemed to be his mission goal!
What is the mission of the Assassin Trial? Kill the Emperor!
So this time another assassin appears, isn't it obvious what the main target should be?
In fact, since the launch of the "Dark Sands" server, the position of assassin players has been somewhat awkward.
Martial arts players can make great achievements on the battlefield, and one horse can equal a thousand;
Scribes players can make impassioned speeches in the court;
Ranger players, although their presence is slightly weaker, can harass, make detours, and lure enemies in small-scale battles. In short, there are no particularly large and famous scenes, but there are still many small scenes.
Assassin players alone are in a somewhat awkward position.
This is not to say that assassin players are completely useless. After all, their combat capabilities are not weak, especially in street fighting when defending the city, they can play a very important role.
Previously, Xia Ruoling had played an important role in the defense of the two dungeons "The matter must be closed before the coffin is closed" and "The title of prince is not my intention".
Moreover, after assassin players complete the upgrade trial, their talents and skills also give them certain positive combat effects.
But many Assassin players are still a little upset.
Because in their opinion, the professional characteristics of this profession do not seem to be fully utilized!
After clearing the trial dungeon of Assassinating Emperor Yan Ling, many players who obtained the identity of an assassin have the illusion that they are now very powerful, and assassinating an emperor is as easy as holding one's finger in hand.
Some players even think that maybe while other players are trying their best to pass the level, if they just assassinate the final boss, won't the dungeon be self-defeating?
What a perfect career for skipping classes!
But when they actually entered the formal trial illusion, they realized that this was not the case.
Not to mention assassinating the real emperor, it is even more difficult to assassinate some key figures in the dungeon.
For example, in the previous copy of Sheng Taizu, when he was playing the role of "Commander", he had a decisive battle with the Northern Barbarian cavalry in the Woodlands Tulas Mountain. At that time, could an assassin player rush into the tens of thousands of troops and directly assassinate the Northern Barbarian generals?
?
That's simply impossible!
Therefore, many assassin players feel a little frustrated. It's not that they play a small role in the dungeon, but that there seems to be some gap with the positioning of this profession.
Many players have also complained about this online.
Again, no official reply has been given.
However, the game "Dark Sand" has been in operation for such a long time, and everyone has become accustomed to the tone of the game. Players have learned to answer their own questions.
So many players figured out the answer on their own.
"Maybe it's because the closer you get to the later dynasties, the tighter the guards around the truly high-ranking officials and commanders, and the harder it is to assassinate them, right?"
"It makes sense. In fact, looking at historical records, those assassins were famous before the Great Chu Dynasty. Especially before the Great Yan Dynasty, rangers and assassins were very active. But later, only the 'Ranger Spirit' and '
Assassin's spirit'."
"This is because after two consecutive unified dynasties, in order to maintain their rule, they severely cracked down on local powerful forces. There are very few people who keep retainers, and naturally there are fewer rangers and assassins."
"Later dynasties also attached great importance to this, so as time went by, there were fewer and fewer famous assassins, and they have basically disappeared."
"But does this mean that assassin is actually a late-stage profession? Maybe when we get to the dungeon of Da Chu or Da Yan, assassin can play a decisive role in it?"
In short, after some analysis, the players finally reluctantly gave themselves an acceptable answer, which temporarily appeased the anger of the assassin players.
As for Li Hongyun, he is not as entangled as other assassin players.
After all, he is not a serious assassin.
However, he was quite excited when he saw that the assassin seemed to have his own mission target.
"Assassinating Wan Yansheng, well, just thinking about it makes people's blood boil!
"So, what should I do?
"First make a simple plan: the first step is to stay and hide, and try to survive before the first round of Jin soldiers attack; the second step is to wait for Wan Yansheng, the supreme commander of the Jin soldiers, to appear in my sight
In the third step, shoot him to death with one arrow.
"Well, a very complete plan!"
Compared with other assassins, Li Hongyun's biggest advantage is that he can use bows, arrows, muskets, and long-range snipers to kill targets.
Don't modern assassins all use guns? As long as the target person is killed, it is considered an assassination, and there is nothing wrong with it.
Once you have a goal, the next thing will fall into place.
Li Hongyun inspected Cenqiao Station and found several suitable hiding places, thinking that once the Jin soldiers broke through the city, they would hide in these places.
Several of them are in high places, such as the roofs of various buildings.
After all, simply hiding is not enough. He must always pay attention to the surrounding situation, see Wanyan Sheng as soon as he enters the city, and find a way to get close and shoot him.
As for what happens next, he is prepared to adapt to circumstances.
In short, in Li Hongyun's view, everything is almost ready, just waiting for the war to begin.
…
The sky was filled with wind and flying clouds, and the time of the entire trial illusion passed quickly.
The city gate of Cenqiaoyi has long been closed, and the Qi army defenders on the city are looking into the distance nervously and uneasily.
In recent days, a large number of refugees have fled south and arrived around Cenqiaoyi. In the early days, the city gate of Cenqiaoyi was not completely closed, and some refugees were also absorbed.
Naturally, the defenders at Cenqiaoyi also asked about the situation of the Jin people, but these refugees knew nothing about it.
Because they all ran over after hearing the news about the Jin's move south, and had never seen the Jin's face at all.
This is normal when you think about it. It is unlikely that refugees can travel faster than the army. What's more, if they really see the Jin people, the probability of being killed or robbed is far greater than the probability of them escaping.
In this panic, the Jin people were portrayed as demons that knocked bones and sucked marrow, and people in the city were panicked.
Naturally, many people feel that this seems to be a bit exaggerated. Jin people are also human beings, how can they knock their bones and suck out their marrow?
However, the people in Cenqiao Station soon met those "refugees who had seen the Jin people" and understood that the description of these demonized Jin people was not an exaggeration, but a ruthless prediction of the facts.
Finally, a soldier on the wall of Cenqiaoyi saw a touch of gray appear on the horizon in the distance.
At first people didn't know what it was, but soon, these grays gradually became clear in their vision.
There were many refugees who were half-clothed, covered in mud and dust, and tied together with ropes!
Behind these refugees are golden soldiers holding whips and sharp knives.
The cavalry on both wings patrolled back and forth. If any individual refugee tried to escape, he would be immediately overtaken and killed.
Under such driving, many refugees could only show confused expressions on their faces. They had no sense of pain and no souls. They could only walk towards the city wall in front of them, driven by whips and pulled by ropes.
Sometimes, a wounded and hungry refugee would lie in a pit on the roadside, but others would move forward without realizing it, dragging his body along the ground until it was unrecognizable.
The closer we get to the city wall, the more realistic this scene becomes.
Even when these refugees reached the bottom of the city wall and were whipped by the Jin men's whips, and the screams made when they were stabbed to death with sharp knives pierced everyone's eardrums, many of the soldiers on the city froze completely.
Either they lost the courage to fight after seeing this tragic scene, or their minds went blank for a while and they didn't know how to deal with these refugees.
These defenders had bows and arrows and rolling logs in their hands, but if they were thrown down at this time, they would only kill Qi Chao's own people.
These refugees may have been farmers who worked at sunrise and rested at sunset in a small village around Cenqiaoyi a few days ago, or they were women weaving and making clothes at home. But now, they are all captured by Jin Bing.
Driven away, they turned into sandbags for siege.
And there are many more refugees who have already been killed in the first wave of Jin people's swords moving south, or died after being wantonly tortured with various unimaginable cruel methods.
The only remaining "survivors" were connected by ropes and driven south.
The defenders of Cenqiaoyi were not elite in the first place. Perhaps some soldiers reacted and attacked mercilessly, but after all, there were still some loopholes in the entire town's defense line.
The Jin people were obviously prepared for this.
As soon as the refugees were driven to the city, the Jin soldiers had already started trying to board the city!
They set up ladders or threw hooks one after another, and began to climb up desperately.
The Jin people's siege ability is not very strong. During the entire process of the Jingping Incident, they never really broke through the capital. As for the strong city of Taiyuan that the West Route Army attacked, it took nearly a year to attack.
It was only captured because the city ran out of food and no foreign aid arrived.
Therefore, every time they attacked a city, the Jin people would always set up camp outside the city and build siege equipment before launching a fierce attack.
But the shortcomings of this siege capability mainly lie in the equipment.
It's not about the will to fight.
The Jin people at this time were all the elites of the founding of the country, and every soldier was killed from the mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
Their fighting will and fighting skills have reached an incredible level. They are definitely not comparable to the golden soldiers who have been pampered for decades and whose combat effectiveness has declined in their eyes.
And this characteristic was fully displayed when attacking a small town like Cenqiaoyi.
One of the defenders drew his bow and arrow and shot at the climbing Jin Bing. The shot caused him to fall straight down from the ladder and fall on the Jin Bing behind him.
Immediately afterwards, the defender turned his attention elsewhere again, looking for other targets.
However, when he came to his senses the next second, the golden soldier with an arrow in his body had already climbed onto the city wall!
In the view of this Qi army defender, once the arrow is hit, it will inevitably fall and even knock down everyone else on the ladder, so he subconsciously turned elsewhere.
But this golden soldier was different. Although he fell down after being hit by an arrow, the golden soldier behind him actually held him up.
The golden soldier who was hit by an arrow quickly recovered from the severe pain. He endured the pain and continued to climb, getting on the city wall first!
Cenqiaoyi is just a small county town, and the height and thickness of the city walls are far from comparable to those of fortified cities like the capital and Taiyuan.
And this height means that if an oversight occurs, the chain reaction will be catastrophic.
"Block! Block the gap!"
The officers on the city shouted loudly, and many Qi troops also noticed that Jin soldiers had climbed onto the city, and hurriedly rushed forward with their swords in hand, trying to block the gap.
However, as soon as they fought, they were defeated by the golden man who had already been hit by an arrow.
One of the defenders even pierced the golden soldier's abdomen with his long sword. He thought he had won, but the golden soldier still desperately grabbed the long sword in the defender's hand with his left hand and used all his strength to kill him.
He pushed back and crashed into the crowd, clearing the way for the golden soldiers who followed.
Cries of killing and screams soon came from the city walls.
It was obvious that the city wall of Cenqiaoyi could not stop the Jin people for too long. The entire siege lasted for less than half an hour and basically came to an end.
As more and more Jin soldiers were on the city wall, the number of Qi troops became smaller and smaller, and the remaining Qi troops had no choice but to flee for their lives in a hurry.
Then, the city gate was opened, and the golden soldiers from outside the city swarmed in.
In a house near the city gate, civilians were trembling with their doors closed.
But soon, there were noises and crashes outside the door. The golden soldiers burst in with murderous intent and excitement on their faces, dragged the screaming hostess out of the room, and killed all the men and children.
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Looting gold and silver, killing people and setting fires.
Barbarism and cruelty that modern people cannot imagine began to be staged in every corner of Cenqiaoyi with the invasion of the Jin soldiers.
And this kind of barbarism and cruelty has been staged countless times on the land of the north before.
What those refugees under the city experienced, the Qi people in Cenqiao Station will also experience at this time, and after this, they will all become skeletons burned by wildfires and gnawed by wild dogs, with few exceptions.
These Jin people are indeed not monsters, but at this time, their behavior is no different from monsters, because they have never regarded Qi people as human beings like themselves, but more like some kind of domestic animals that can be slaughtered at will.
…
At the same time, Li Hongyun was on the roof, anxiously checking the crossbow in his hand.
For a modern man, these things happening in front of him obviously stung his nerves seriously, making him want to rush down and kill a few golden soldiers right now.
Of course, his inner reason told him that this was meaningless, and that this was not what really happened, but just a replay of a certain memory in history.
But even so, when this scene appeared in front of him so realistically, it still took a lot of perseverance to endure it.
Soon, Li Hongyun saw the green forest people he had seen before.
Like Li Hongyun, they originally chose to hide in high places, but after seeing the many atrocities committed by the Jin people, they finally couldn't bear it anymore.
"Kill the golden dog!!"
"Golden dog, accept your fate!"
Each of these green forest men waved their swords and rushed towards the golden soldiers, but soon they were overwhelmed by countless golden soldiers.
The martial arts of these green forest men are quite good, and they seem to be stronger than the Qi army defending the city. Their martial arts only allows them to fight and retreat for a while longer.
In the cruel military formation, individual martial arts actually cannot play much role.
Li Hongyun was about to get excited by these green forest people and wanted to go up to help. However, in the next second, he found that these green forest people had been killed by the golden soldiers and scattered. They were picked to death by spears and pierced by sharp knives. Then,
Their bodies were hung on the city gate.
"Something's wrong... This seems a little different from the assassination I imagined..."
Li Hongyun suddenly realized that the assassination plan he had made before was a bit too simple.
A very crucial step in this was that he had to see Wan Yansheng first before he could assassinate him.
But the question is, how can he see Wanyan Sheng?
At this time, Cenqiaoyi has become a hell on earth. A large number of Jin soldiers broke in and burned, killed and looted wantonly. However, the defenders here or the Green Forest people were unable to resist at all. Maybe a few of them were willing to follow.
The Jin people tried their best, but most of the people could only flee like headless flies.
But in the final analysis, in this chaotic situation, whether you fight hard or flee, there will be no difference in the final outcome.
Under such circumstances, perhaps Li Hongyun could meet a lower-ranking officer leading the team.
And what about Wan Yansheng?
He seems to have no motive for entering Cenqiaoyi...
Perhaps as the supreme commander, he would come to this small town to rest temporarily, but that would only come after the Jin soldiers plowed the entire town three feet and slaughtered all the resistance forces.
And at that time, there must have been many personal guards around him.
Li Hongyun was thinking, in this case, should he sneak away first? Only by preserving himself can he figure it out slowly...
"Who!"
Just when Li Hongyun was extremely confused, he heard someone shout.
When he turned around, he saw that a Jin soldier had climbed onto the roof without knowing when and saw Li Hongyun from a distance.
"What the hell...
"You're sick, right? Why are you climbing on the roof when you have nothing to do?"
At this moment, Li Hongyun had ten thousand grass and mud horses galloping past in his mind, just like playing the usual hide-and-seek game. He thought he had found a perfect location, but not long after hiding, there was a player who looked like a psychopath and didn't know it.
Why did you come here?
Why would a normal person come to see a place like this?
But at this time Li Hongyun had no choice but to raise his crossbow and shoot an arrow at the Jin soldiers.
With a "pop" sound, the arrow feathers sank into the golden soldier's throat.
He screamed twice, holding the arrow cluster at his throat with his back hand, but he still fell from the roof.
But in this way, Li Hongyun's position was exposed.
The Jin soldiers who were burning, killing and looting wantonly below discovered that there was still resistance hidden in the city, and immediately surrounded Li Hongyun.
In desperation, Li Hongyun could only barely kill the two Jin soldiers who climbed up to the roof with a simple sword. However, not long after, they were shot into pieces by the bows and arrows of the Jin soldiers below.
…
Back to the beginning.
"I'm not convinced, come again!"
Li Hongyun was very angry. It seemed that bad luck was not on his side this time.
Wan Yan Sheng was discovered by Jin Bing before he even saw his face.
Although Li Hongyun also began to feel that this assassination plan was a little unreliable and the probability of success was very low, he still felt that he could try it a few times.
What if you get lucky once?
Just like the assassination of Emperor Yan Ling, although he felt that there was little hope, he succeeded in the end.
Li Hongyun thought that he should search the small town again to find some more suitable hiding places. At the same time, he could also observe the movements of the Jin soldiers and choose a more suitable opportunity for an ambush.
After refreshing his talent skills, Li Hongyun started the trial again.
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A small village somewhere northwest of the capital.
Dozens of murderous golden soldiers, armed with long knives or spears, rushed in.
Behind them, a general who looked like a leader was riding a war horse, looking at everything that was about to happen with an expressionless face, even full of impatience.
"Hurry up, kill all the men, kidnap all the women, and take away food and valuables. We don't have much time!"
He waved his hand as if to shoo away the flies flying around on the food.
"What are you doing!"
A villager who came out to look out was stunned for a moment, and the next second, the golden man's long knife had already been stabbed into his stomach, and then he was twisted.
The body fell to the ground, intestines flowing out, but Jin Bing continued walking towards the village without even looking at it.
Kick open the door, kill the men, tie up the women and take them away. If you have enough time, you can vent your animal desires. If you don't have enough time, it doesn't matter, because for these golden soldiers, there are many such opportunities.
Find the grain and money hidden by the villagers in barns and cellars, or whip the villagers and ask them where they hide their things.
When Zhao Haiping discussed this matter with Wang Fang in the military camp, he only guessed half of it right.
He thought that Wanyan Sheng had strictly ordered the Jin soldiers to march to the capital day and night, so even though the Jin soldiers were brutal, under such a heavy military order, they might not plunder the villages along the way too much.
But what he didn't expect was that perhaps for the Jin people, plundering was also part of the march.
Barbarians like the Jin people certainly understand the principle of "fighting the enemy because of food." For them, robbing people, food, and property in the enemy's territory is part of the battle plan.
Therefore, although the main force of the Jin soldiers had been heading south at this time, small groups of Jin soldiers continued to separate on the road and began to burn, kill and loot nearby.
It was like a big net spread out, covering the entire north of Qi Dynasty, waving the butcher's knife at these common people and throwing away the noose.
However, when a golden soldier kicked open the door of a room again, what he saw was not a panicked woman or child, but a chain thrown towards him!
"Golden dog! Accept your fate!"
The thick iron rope hit Jin Bing's body, sending him flying backwards.
A green forest man broke out of the room. It was Cui Zhiyong, the "iron rope that controls mountains and rivers" that he had met with Huo Yunying in the ruined temple before.
Seeing this scene, many frightened villagers had a glimmer of hope in their eyes: "Hero!"
Huo Yunying, who was hiding on the roof, slapped his forehead helplessly.
Cheating!
Just say that this weapon of yours does not seem to be used by serious people!
If a sword had been used, then the golden soldier could have been ambushed in the room and killed with one blow. But this iron chain was drawn on the golden soldier. Although the visual effect was good, the final result was indeed poor.
Traveled thousands of miles.
Seeing that Jin Bing was still alive, the surrounding green forest people also roared and swarmed forward!
Huo Yunying was completely speechless.
This group of green forest people really cannot be counted on...
He originally made a very detailed plan: this is a large house built by a wealthy family in the village. The Jin soldiers will definitely think that there are many valuable things here and come to plunder it.
So Huo Yunying arranged for these Green Foresters to ambush around them in advance.
When the golden soldiers broke through the door, the green forest people who were ambushing him killed him, thus attracting other golden soldiers.
When more golden soldiers arrive, the Green Foresters who had ambushed them before can swarm up and attack them suddenly, killing them all in one fell swoop.
With a combination of mental arithmetic and Huo Yunying's own archery skills, it should be no problem to kill seven or eight golden soldiers at once.
By then, if we take advantage of the situation and mobilize the villagers, there may be hope of saving this small village.
It turned out that the plan was very good, but it fell apart instantly when it was executed.
Huo Yunying felt a little regretful. If he had known that next time, no matter how guaranteed this "iron rope controlled mountains and rivers" was, he would never be allowed to ambush in the house.
But it was no longer possible to deal with it at this time. The appearance of the Green Forest Man had attracted the attention of the golden soldiers, and dozens of golden soldiers all gathered here!
"Forget it, let's fight!"
Now that the trouble has reached this point, Huo Yunying has no choice but to hope that these green forest heroes can really have some strength and rely on their superior martial arts to repel these golden soldiers.
Even if you can't kill all these golden soldiers, as long as you drive them away, you can buy some time for the people in the village to escape.
"Kill the golden dog!!"
These green forest men could not help but rush over. Among them, the "Poison Hand Judge" Zhu Tuo was the fastest. The judge in his hand rushed straight towards a tall golden soldier holding a spear in front of him!
The role of the spear in the military formation is indeed far better than other weapons, but this is a small-scale battle after all. There are only less than ten people on both sides, and their positions are very scattered. In addition, Zhu Tuo used such
After many years of judging pens, I have a lot of experience with this kind of weapon, so the final result should be...
Huo Yunying still had some fantasies about the outcome in a few seconds, but soon, the cold reality ruthlessly shattered his fantasies.
Seeing Zhu Tuo rushing towards him, Jin Bing fired his first shot.
As expected, Zhu Tuo also had some skills. He swayed suddenly, dodged the tip of the spear, and continued to move forward.
Other green forest people couldn't help but praise: "Good! What a shot!"
In the eyes of these people, as long as you can reach the range behind the tip of the spear when using a short weapon, you are basically halfway to success.
However, what no one expected was that the golden soldier took a step back at an extremely fast speed, and at the same time, he also drew his right hand back, causing the tip of the spear to retreat several feet in an instant.
Then, with a slight move of his right hand, the tip of the gun pointed downwards and was instantly aimed at Zhu Tuo's thigh.
With a "pop" sound, the tip of the spear penetrated!
Before Zhu Tuo could get close to the golden soldier, he was already stabbed through the thigh by a gunshot and let out a desperate scream.
Everyone clearly saw a disdainful smile on the golden soldier's face.
