The members of the Qinglong Gang who sneaked into the inner city during the day and stayed in inns and restaurants took advantage of the darkness to quietly take to the streets.
They formed a group of three and skillfully used shadows, alleys, stalls and other buildings to avoid the patrols of the city defense troops and ran towards Guangping Street, Xiaguang Street, and Chengle Street.
Approaching this area where dignitaries gathered, the patrols of the city defense army became more intense.
However, the members of the Qinglong Gang had already learned from the gang leader the patrol patterns of the city defense army, and cleverly avoided them while looking for their targets.
Wang Beiwang was in one of the teams, and he was the captain, leading two strong young men from the Qinglong Gang. Each of the three of them was carrying a heavy package.
Soon, Wang Beiwang led his two brothers outside the house of Yun Lan, the minister of punishment.
The three of them skillfully climbed over the high wall and fell into the courtyard. They also skillfully hid behind the flower garden to avoid the inspection of the palace guards.
"Let's set fire to the outer courtyard. There will be experts in the inner courtyard and it will be easy to be discovered." Wang Beiwang took out three and a half finger-thick bamboo tubes from his arms and distributed them to his teammates.
The bamboo tube is filled with red fire sand, which is produced from the Duan Mansion cellar where Gang Leader Duan practices.
The sand in the cellar has absorbed the power of fire spirits over the years and evolved into red and crystal fire sand. This stuff contains powerful fire spirits. Once ignited, it can continue to burn for several hours and cannot be extinguished by water.
The three of them took advantage of the darkness to pour red fire sand on window frames, thresholds, pillars and other places that were prone to catching fire.
Then, each took out the fire sticks and lit the red fire sand.
The fire and sand instantly burst into dazzling sparks, melting the window frames, thresholds, and columns red, and then burned fiercely.
The three of them then went to the next building.
Soon, a blazing fire came out of the Yun Mansion, reflecting the red night, and the panicked sound of "water flowing" could be heard endlessly.
Wang Beiwang did not leave immediately. He took his two brothers and took advantage of the chaos to kill several family members and men. He climbed over the wall and escaped from Yun Mansion while being chased by the guards.
As Jianghu people who are willing to take revenge, they have always been decisive in killing. The families of corrupt officials are also sucking up the people's fat, and no one is innocent.
After escaping from Yun Mansion, the three of them carried their packages and ran quickly towards Zheng Mansion along the shadows on the street.
They have two tasks tonight, and causing chaos is only one of them.
Outer city.
In the women's building located on the city wall, a dozen defenders gathered around the table, shaking the dice, their faces both tired and excited.
The defenders outside were hunched in the cold night wind and yawned lazily. They wanted to sleep, but they were also waiting to go into the watchtower to gamble after their shift was over.
"The weather is getting colder and colder, and the wind is like a knife." A defender looked down at the refugees under the city and said:
"I don't know if these refugees can survive the winter. It would be better if Your Majesty could continue to give out porridge for disaster relief, but now the porridge has stopped."
The companion next to him spat:
"No matter what happens to these pigs, we ourselves are in danger. If Linxia falls, we have to face the Northern Dynasty army directly. While there are still a few days of peace, playing more games and sleeping with more women is the right way.
"
Just as he was talking, the roar of refugees suddenly came from under the city wall: "The Northern Dynasty army is coming, the Northern Dynasty army is coming!"
Immediately, a large fire appeared in the darkness in the distance and rushed toward the city gate.
The defenders at the top of the city were so frightened that they lost their sleepiness and shouted: "The enemy is attacking, the enemy is attacking!"
For a while, the sound of heavy drums echoed in the night.
In the inner city, at a restaurant two hundred meters away from Zheng's mansion, Zheng Wenshi, wearing armor, stood at the window and vaguely heard the sound of drums and horns coming from the outer city.
I saw the flames igniting in many places on Guangping Street, Xiaguang Street, and Chengle Street.
He turned a blind eye and stared intently at the Zheng Mansion in the distance in the night.
The sound of footsteps came quickly. The adjutant pushed open the door of the private room, came to Zheng Wenshi's side, and whispered:
"General, there is an urgent report from the outer city that the Northern Dynasty army is attacking."
Zheng Wenshi said calmly: "The soldiers and horses of the other two battalions have passed?"
The adjutant nodded.
Zheng Wenshi's tone was cold: "Notify our people to stand still and wait for my order."
The adjutant hesitated to speak and did not mention it again. Instead, he said:
"The thieves are setting fire to the inner city, why are we still waiting and watching?"
Zheng Wenshi said coldly: "You only need to obey orders instead of questioning your superiors."
The adjutant retreated silently.
Zheng Wenshi looked at the peaceful Zheng Mansion and snorted coldly:
"Little tricks."
If the inner city is set on fire, the patrolling city defense troops will inevitably be drawn over. When the "enemy troops" approach the city, the capital's defense forces will also be mobilized urgently to prepare for the battle.
These are all the schemes of the foolish emperor and envoys.
But so what?
As long as his elite troops stand still, no matter how many conspiracies and plots the foolish emperor has, there is no way he can be lured away.
In the night sky, a red fireball fell towards the Zheng Mansion, dragging a bright tail flame.
A fireball exploded over the Zheng Mansion, illuminating the entire mansion. In the expanding firelight, Gang Leader Duan appeared with dark red hair and a green robe.
He looked down with tiger eyes, opened his arms without hesitation, and condensed a group of high-temperature fireballs with red outer flames and bright white inner flames. Thirty-six balls fell towards the backyard of the Zheng Mansion.
Directly burn the Zheng Mansion.
In the east room in the backyard of the Zheng Mansion, a ghost in white clothes invisible to the naked eye came out of the eaves and blew gently.
"Woo."
The dark wind suddenly picked up and blew into the sky. The entire Zheng Mansion seemed to have fallen into the middle of winter, and the eaves were covered with white frost.
The red fireball was blown by the cold wind and quickly lost heat. Some of it was extinguished directly, and some of it dimmed and shrank. It fell into the eaves, courtyards, and flower beds, but failed to cause the expected explosion.
The evil spirit that was invisible, but caused drastic changes in the climate as soon as it appeared, suddenly opened its arms.
Suddenly, the gloomy air in the backyard of Zheng Mansion rolled up, rolling up frost, dead leaves, and rubble, and gathered towards the resentful spirit.
The resentful spirit "lifted up" the Yin Qi wrapped around many debris, and pushed it towards Duan Huoshen in the air. The majestic Yin Qi was like a sea tide, going up against the air and crashing into the enemy.
The flames on Duan Gang's main body ignited with a "boom", his hair turned into flames, and the flames converged on his fists.
As he punched out, the red fire carried high temperature and hit the tide of Yin Qi.
The two forces, one cold and one hot, collided and formed an exaggerated tornado, lifting the dust, dead branches and roof tiles in the courtyard into the air.
In the strong wind, the door of the east room opened wide, and Zheng Wenhan, dressed in brocade clothes, stepped out, his beard flying in the wind. He stared at Gang Leader Duan in mid-air and said lightly:
"Duan Huoshen of the Suwen Qinglong Gang is a well-known hero in the world. I didn't expect that a thief's nature is hard to change, and he uses force to break the law. Tonight, I will be the common people of the Southern Dynasty, except for you, who is a scourge."
Seeing the target figure appear, Gang Leader Duan's eyes were blazing with fire, turning into a red stream of light and swooping down, directly attacking the enemy's head.
Suddenly, the master-level resentful spirit on the roof appeared behind Gang Leader Duan, gently pressed against his back, and completed the possession. The dive was immediately interrupted.
Under the eaves, Zheng Wenhan stood motionless, confident, stroking his beard and smiling:
"Leader Duan, although you are one of the best masters in the world, you are far behind the National Master. The two 'slaves' of the National Master are enough to make you a mortal enemy."
After the words fell, the roof of the east room shattered with a crash, and a figure in black shorts with a pale face and green eyes rushed out.
He has a Yin energy that is not inferior to that of a spiritual servant, but it has form and quality and can be seen by mortal eyes.
This is a master-level Inferi.
After breaking through the roof, the Inferi dressed in black short-sleeved clothes were like a black lightning, and instantly rushed to Gang Leader Duan, preparing to kill the strong man possessed by the spirit servant.
The combination of spirit servants and inferi is good, and they can easily kill practitioners of the same level, as long as the other party does not have the means to restrain themselves.
But at this moment, a golden flame ignited in Gang Leader Duan's chest, and the flames spread quickly, covering his whole body and the spiritual servant behind him.
The spirit servant's body was ignited with golden flames, and he let out a sharp scream that could not be heard by mortals.
It tried its best to stimulate the Yin Qi in an attempt to extinguish the golden flame. However, the golden flame seemed to specifically restrain the Yin Qi and continued to burn steadily.
Duan Huoshen's face is also distorted, and the power of the Golden Crow is extremely domineering. It does not distinguish between friend and foe, burning the enemy and himself.
Before taking action, Hunjun gave him a talisman - the Yang Fire Talisman.
The talisman contains the power of the Golden Crow, which can destroy resentful spirits and yin corpses, but Hunjun said that there is only one Yang Fire Talisman and can only be used once.
Duan Huoshen chose to burn the resentful spirits because he lacked the means to deal with them. On the other hand, the Inferi, no matter how powerful they are, are still physical and qualitative enemies.
Melee combat has always been the strength of fire masters.
When the spiritual servant was wrapped in golden flames, Gang Leader Duan endured the severe pain caused by the divine power of the sun and stretched out his palm to block the punch of the Inferi towards the face.
The next second, red flames spurted out and swallowed up the Inferi.
"boom!"
Bathed in flames, the Inferi flew forward and struck with its knees, hitting Duan Huoshen in the chest.
The latter transformed into a stream of golden fire, flew out of the Zheng Mansion, and crashed into a large mansion in the distance.
The Inferi immediately chased and killed him.
The short battle woke up the people in the Zheng Mansion, from the wife, young lady, young master, to the maids, servants, and grandmothers. They woke up one after another and rushed out to check the situation.
At this time, two ethereal, melodious, soft and melodious songs echoed in the night sky, like a mother's whisper, making people feel extremely peaceful and drowsy.
Plop, plop. People who had just rushed out of the door fell down one after another and fell into a deep sleep.
Two beauties in colorful clothes used Qinggong to leap between the roof ridges and arrived at the backyard of the Zheng Mansion.
Hypnotizing ordinary people was to prevent Zheng Wenhan from hiding in the chaotic crowd and escaping. It was also to clear the scene and get rid of those soldiers who were not qualified to intervene in the battle but were in the way.
Just when Zheng Wenhan was attracted by the two women on the roof, a dagger with cold light protruded behind him, and the woman holding the dagger appeared.
Wearing a black and white monk's robe, his face is round and somewhat sweet.
"Ding!"
The dagger pierced a layer of earthy yellow light.
The attack failed.
The stones under Zheng Wenhan's feet cracked, and the broken stones quickly reorganized into a huge hand, lifting him up high, with his fingers clasped together, protecting Zheng Wenhan inside.
A ball of fire roared over and hit the large hand made of gravel.
The fire expanded with a "boom" and turned into a beautiful girl of thirteen or fourteen years old. Every pore of her was spraying flames, and every hair was wrapped in red light.
The young girl came with fire and punched the giant hand.
As soon as the fire exploded, it made a deafening explosion, the rubble flew everywhere, a huge gap opened, and smoke came out.
Immediately afterwards, in the exploding fire, another figure walked out of the flames, also spraying flames all over its body, and punched the gap like a relay.
"Wow!"
Under the concentrated attack of the two fire demons, the giant hand composed of gravel fell apart, and fragments emitting high temperatures were scattered in all directions.
Zheng Wenhan's embarrassed figure emerged.
Before Jiang Jingwei, Red Chicken Brother and Sun Miaomiao could finish their attacks, a black shadow swooped down from the sky, clamped Zheng Wenhan's shoulders with sharp claws, and led him into the sky.
It was a giant eagle with a wingspan of two meters.
"Boom!"
The sound of strings was like a thunderbolt, and an arrow shot out, hitting Zheng Wenhan. The arrow made a shrill whistle in the air.
At the same time, two flying swords, one long and one short, were like silver swords, attacking Zheng Wenhan and the black-feathered giant eagle.
In several courtyards of the Zheng Mansion, flying swords rushed at the same time to intercept arrows and attacks from long and short flying swords.
There was a sharp "ding-ding" sound in the night sky, several flying swords collided with each other, and sparks flew everywhere.
Zheng Wenhan narrowly avoided being assassinated by a flying sword. Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard a "buzzing" sound of flapping wings coming from his ears.
Looking around, he saw a black shadow passing by at an incredible speed, reaching his eyes in the blink of an eye.
"Woo."
More flying swords rushed up from below the Zheng Mansion, trying to intercept the black shadow.
However, the black shadow relied on its lightning speed to avoid the attacks of the flying swords. One of the flying swords was clearly about to pierce the opponent, but it strangely changed its trajectory and took the initiative to get out of the way.
This is the effect of praying.
"puff!"
Black shadows and giant eagles passed each other, Zheng Wenhan's body was torn apart from the waist, his lower body was filled with blood, and his organs fell.
Killed? Very easy!
Brother Hongji and Jiang Jingwei had this thought flashing through their minds at the same time, with triumphant smiles on their faces.
"Papa pa pa"
Applause suddenly sounded, and the door of the west room opened, and another man in brocade clothes, Zheng Wenhan, came out and applauded gently.
"What a big show." Zheng Wenhan stepped out of the threshold, stood under the eaves, looked around, and said with a smile: "Are these people who have extraordinary skills and a tacit understanding of cooperation, just want the life of the real person? It's a pity, the real person is
The first rank of the dynasty protects the country's destiny and is easily immune to disasters. Now that they have shown up, what are you waiting for?"
As soon as these words came out, many figures jumped up from all directions and stood on the roof, surrounding Jiang Jingwei, Brother Hongji, Sun Miaomiao, the palace master, Xiao Yuan, as well as Guan Ya, Elder Xu, Yang Mansion Zhou Keqing and others who took action in secret.
A total of twenty-two people.
Jiang Jingwei looked around, and even though she was not good at math, she noticed something was wrong.
Are there too many saints in Zheng Mansion?
Moreover, there were eight saints who gave her a sense of extreme danger.
Eight pinnacle saints.
This is inconsistent with the number of five peak saints and nine ordinary saints previously speculated.
This is not an assassination, they obviously threw themselves into a trap.
"Xiong'er!" A middle-aged man with a burly figure and a beard glared at Jiang Jingwei: "My father arranged for you to enter the palace to kill the faint king and avenge his blood, but you were so obsessed with it that you took refuge in Zhao Shun. My father arranged for you to enter the palace."
Tonight, I will kill my relatives and kill you, little beast."
A restaurant and private room two hundred meters away.
Zheng Wenshi finally withdrew his eyes from looking at the Zheng Mansion, summoned his adjutant, and gave the order:
"The time has come, notify the entire army to support the Zheng family."
With the adjutant's loud promise, he strode out of the private room with his sword on his waist and his armor clanging.
Tianji Tower.
The Imperial Master stood on the observation deck with his hands behind his hands and said with emotion: "Your Majesty, won't you personally participate in such an interesting drama? It's not too late to get there now."
Six or seven meters away, Zhang Yuanqing was sitting in front of the desk, slowly making tea.
"Lure me out of the Tianji Tower and use the Zheng family's help to kill me?" He lowered his head and chuckled: "The imperial master's plan has been heard by the Northern Dynasty."
The Imperial Master did not look back, and remained silent for a few seconds before saying slowly: "Your Majesty, you are still able to remain calm despite the great calamity. You were underestimated before."
"It's hard to say who will be in trouble, Imperial Master, let's wait and see." Zhang Yuanqing said.