Under the protection of the personal guard army, the distance between Prime Minister Li and the Acropolis was less than two kilometers. The prosperity of the siege can already be felt here, because a large number of villages have begun to appear in the surrounding area.
These villages surround the Acropolis, and you can vaguely see the city not far away. After arriving at the Acropolis, you will not be far from Jiuyuan City.
The soldiers who had been in a state of tension began to relax their vigilance, but this vigilance was relaxed on the outside and tight on the inside, because they knew very well that the more they relaxed their vigilance, the easier it would be for something to happen. As long as Li Xiang was not sent to the ninth
In the original city.
They will never let down their vigilance. On the contrary, their vigilance will become more serious. At this time, the enemy's attacks will become more and more fierce, especially the city of Acropolis.
This city has never been a safe city in the eyes of Xiliang soldiers, because in this city there are merchants from major chambers of commerce from all over the world.
Another consequence of developed commerce is that the number of spies in this city is much higher than that in other places. It is impossible for you to strictly inspect these caravans and chambers of commerce one by one.
As a result, it is easy for spies from major cities to infiltrate among the businessmen here. Because they are engaged in commercial activities, it is difficult to convict them or find them.
This is the first problem that the Xiliang soldiers have encountered, and some of these businessmen have an attitude towards Xiliang that they are reluctant to change or even disgusted with. Just because of their superiors, they have to stay in Xiliang.
Commercial activities are carried out here.
This makes it more difficult for Xiliang soldiers to determine their identities. In this city, they cannot arbitrarily accuse those businessmen. This city is also an important pillar of Xiliang's major commercial cities.
If we arbitrarily convict those merchants who come to the Acropolis to do business, it is likely to cause great turmoil and even cause the commercial development of the city to stagnate.
Nowadays, commercial development is one of the important sources of tax revenue in Xiliang, so Xiliang soldiers and spy agencies have always turned a blind eye to this city.
They will not transmit important information to this city, nor will they allow businessmen in this city to enter and exit Jiuyuan City at will. After all, Jiuyuan City is too important, and those businessmen will not do so at will.
Close to Jiuyuan City.
There were great masters and masters in that city who were personally in charge. The few men, horses and power they had in their hands were just like a piece of dust being wiped out at will.
But now they want to rush to Jiuyuan City and must pass through that city, and the danger of this city is uncertain. The Xiliang soldiers seem to be relaxed outside, but in fact they are very vigilant inside.
Everyone is prepared to be attacked by surprise, and they are all preparing to deal with the enemy's attack.
"We are about to arrive at Jiuyuan City!" Li Xian's eyes seemed not to see the Acropolis, but to the city behind the Acropolis, where his family, his wife, her mother and children were.
Thinking that it had been nearly half a year since he led the army out, Li Xiang missed his relatives more and more intensely, especially his children.
My son and daughter should be able to run now. At that time, I promised to bring them gifts, but now I think about it, but there are no gifts around me.
"Are there any newborn horses in the army?" Now that we are very close to home, it is too late to prepare any gifts, so Li Xiang focused on the horses of the Xiliang soldiers. Those from the Xiliang headquarters
Every one of the war horses is very good. If they were placed outside, countless people would be willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars to buy them.
The major forces are even more eyeing on Xiliang's war horses. They really want to obtain the breed of Xiliang's war horses, so that they can obtain such powerful and terrifying horses.
In the future, they can also build heavy cavalry like the Xiliang cavalry. They have the same speed and endurance as the light cavalry, but like the heavy cavalry, they can run long distances and raid in heavy armor.
The Xiliang heavy cavalry has become famous among the major forces in the world. Many forces originally wanted to pay tens of thousands of gold to buy a pair of war horses, but unfortunately they have always been expensive and have no market. They cannot even buy or steal a batch of Xiliang war horses.
Because those Xiliang war horses belong to Li Xiang, once they leave Xiang Li's control, they will die on their own.
This is also the reason why Xiliang War Horse has not been rumored or acquired by other forces.
"Not yet, but I heard that at the auction in the Acropolis, there was a pair of small ferocious beast horses captured from the northwest."
The Xiliang soldiers who followed Li Xiang were somewhat well-informed, but who made the auction on the Acropolis side publicize it too well? Although the two ponies are not as famous as the Xiliang war horses, if they grow up, they will be better than the Xiliang war horses.
Xiliang war horses are much stronger.
After all, they are fierce beasts, and the Xiliang war horses are just some special war horses. How can there be any comparison between the two?
This caused many powerful men with rich wealth in Xiliang to rush to the Acropolis, wanting to take the two ponies back.
"Two little ferocious beasts, isn't this just right?" Li Xiang heard that his heart was filled with suspense, and his heart instantly relaxed. Just now he was worried about not being able to find gifts for his daughter and son, but he didn't expect that there were two ferocious horses in the city.
Beast horse.
It seems that I don't have to spend too much energy looking for those gifts.
"Have those two ferocious beasts and horses been sold?" Li Xiang asked.
The Xiliang soldier who was following Prime Minister Li said softly: "Not yet, today is the time for the auction of those two ferocious beasts and horses."
"That's good!" Li Xiang smiled and touched his big belt. There was a large amount of gold and silver stored in it. These gold and silver were his own private money, not Xiliang's money!
It should be enough to use the gold and silver inside to buy two ferocious beasts and horses.
He hasn't gone shopping for a long time, and now he doesn't know what the prices are in Xiliang, nor what the prices of those ferocious beasts are.
But the gold stored in his belt is about 30,000, and the silver is 20,000 or 300,000. Such a huge number should be enough.
While Li Xiang was chatting with the soldiers, the army quickly approached the Acropolis. The defenders of the city were ready, and 5,000 Xiliang soldiers were guarding the city wall.
They did not trust the soldiers of the Eighth and Seventh Legions, so they allowed those soldiers to be stationed in other very important areas of the city wall and guarded by them personally.
Soldiers from the Xiliang headquarters are also guarding the city gate. If someone wants to do harm to the lord in this place, the lord can easily be injured.
Therefore, these more important areas are all guarded by Xiliang headquarters soldiers. Except for the restricted access on the main roads, other places in the city remain as before.
Everyone is trading, as usual.
However, there were still many original residents in the city who took to the streets one after another. They wanted to see the ruler of Xiliang and the person who made them live such a good life now.
Among the crowd were civilians who were respectful to Mr. Li, as well as assassins with fierce eyes who were ready to attack them at any time.
On some higher buildings, groups of people dressed in black gathered together. They looked at the soldiers of the Eighth Legion stationed on both sides of the street. They did not take these people seriously.
These soldiers are very strong to the civilians, but very weak to them. These people are at best cannon fodder in the Xiliang army.
What they are doing now is what cannon fodder does, which is to maintain public order and block the civilians on both sides to prevent them from walking to the main road.
They all held very huge bed crossbows in their hands. These bed crossbows were purchased from the Xiliang army at a great cost.
Perhaps Li Xiang, the king of Xiliang, never thought that one day he would be attacked by the weapons he made. These bed crossbows of Xiliang are extremely powerful, and the internal structure is even more exquisite.
No one can imitate these bed crossbows because no one can clearly observe the conditions inside the bed crossbow. Once opened by force, the bed crossbow will destroy itself.
It will never leave any traces on others, just to prevent anyone from opening it and imitating it!
They can't imitate it, but they can buy it from the Xiliang army. Just buy it, right?
These were the first test and the first gift they gave Li Xiang.
After this came the top assassins from all forces, and their goal was to find out whether Li Xiang was really seriously injured.
Grandmasters will generally not be injured. Even if two grandmasters fight together, under normal circumstances, as long as it is not a life-and-death fight, it will be difficult for the other person to be injured.
Once another person is injured, the injury will definitely not be an ordinary minor injury, but an extremely serious injury.
Even if they are seriously injured, it will take several years to recover. Their bodies are extremely powerful, and it is naturally very difficult to get injured. Once injured, it takes much longer to recover than ordinary people.
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Especially the attacks between great masters. Their attacks are no longer ordinary attacks, but attacks with various powers. When another person is injured, the wound is not just an ordinary wound, but also comes with various powers.
Such power makes it difficult to recover!
This is why they really want to know whether Li Xiang is really seriously injured. If Li Xiang is really seriously injured, then their next actions will not be as fearful as before!
Xiliang is very powerful, but there are also many enemies in Xiliang!
Total, total, total!
The sound of uniform steps came from outside the city, and everyone's eyes immediately turned to the city gate. They saw a group of black heavy infantry walking in from the outside.
Each of these soldiers was extremely tall, wearing black armor, with only a pair of cold eyes exposed. They glanced around from time to time, exuding cold murderous intent.
Ordinary people didn't dare to look at them because those eyes were so terrifying, as if they were from the God of Death. When they looked at those civilians, they were like looking at corpses.
Therefore, ordinary civilians did not dare to look at these Xiliang headquarters soldiers. They just took one look and lowered their eyes, and then quietly waited for Xiliang King Li Xiang.
The horse's hooves stepped on the bluestone in the city, making a clearer sound than those of the footsteps. Hearing this sound, everyone knew that Li Xiang was back.
Li Xiang did not wear the armor inherited from Marquis Wen. The armor had been stored in a large belt. The damage suffered in the last war was too serious and it would take a long time to recover.
So Li Xiang wore a black robe with two long swords on his waist. Everyone's eyes immediately fell on Li Xiang.
Buzz buzz~
The system vibrated. Li Xiang had not heard this vibration for a long time. This was a dangerous alarm.
He opened the mini-map immediately and saw that the surrounding area on the mini-map was red. These red dots were very close to him, which meant that the assassins were very close to him.
Li Xiang looked at the red dot closest to him, which was on the left side of a tall restaurant.
At the window of the restaurant facing the street, a man with a terrifying scar on his face met Li Xiang's eyes, and the man panicked instantly.
Li Xiang's eyes were smiling but not smiling, as if he was mocking them.
"Attack!" The man immediately gave the order. He could see something in Xiang Li's eyes. The other party seemed to already know their purpose!
boom!
A dull sound spread, and five 2m-long crossbow arrows were fired from the restaurant. The Templar knights beside Prime Minister Li reacted instantly, and they immediately moved around Prime Minister Li.
Click!
The crossbow arrows hit the Templars. The Templar knights wearing heavy armor could not block these crossbow arrows from the Xiliang Military Factory. They were shot into their bodies by the crossbow arrows. The moment the crossbow arrows entered their bodies, they used their strength to lock these crossbow arrows.
Crossbow arrows.
Therefore, these crossbow arrows did not penetrate their bodies, but stayed in their bodies, and they blocked these attacks with their lives.
The assassins further away were unable to react. This was different from their plan!
Their plan was to wait for Li Xiang to reach the middle of the street before attacking. What does it mean to attack suddenly now?
They wished they could cut the person who first attacked into pieces, but now they had no choice but to strike.
Bang bang bang!
Crossbow arrows were fired at the Xiliang headquarters soldiers. The civilians in the surrounding area were stunned for the first time. When they saw the fallen Xiliang headquarters soldiers, they immediately became confused.
"There's an assassin!"
嘡嘡嘡!
The soldiers on the left and right sides beat the shrill gongs to warn other places.
"defense!"
After the soldiers from the Xiliang headquarters reacted, the soldiers holding huge shields immediately rushed inward and over there. Along the way, they had built a solid shield defense line.
The soldiers of the Eighth Legion rushed towards the restaurants, and the assassins in the restaurants also rushed out to fight with the soldiers!
