Xiaoyu Niang went back to get her clothes, but when she returned to the secret house, she unexpectedly found that there was one more person in the house, a girl in black samurai uniform, about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a pretty face, sitting in the inner hall talking to her wife.
Very happy.
Xiaoyu Niang almost went crazy. This is a secret house, how could there be guests?
Seeing that the lady was chatting happily with the visitors, but she didn't want to disturb her, she had to pull Aqiu aside and ask, "Which woman is from where?"
"She came from Bashu and lived in Jianzhou. Madam is telling her about the situation in Jianzhou!"
The little fish lady stamped her feet angrily, "I asked her how she found this place? No one here knows."
Ah Qiu blinked her big eyes and said with an innocent face: "I don't know, she just knocked on the door and said she came to visit Madam, she seems to have a lot of status."
Xiaoyu Niang suddenly found a pair of bows and arrows lying at the door of the inner hall. She was stunned for a moment, thought of something, pulled out her sword and rushed in with a gust of wind. Aqiu didn't hold her back and complained secretly.
Xiaoyu Niang rushed into the inner hall, pointed her sword at the woman in black and said, "Who are you?"
Xue Tao's face sank, "Little Fish Lady, don't be rude, put your sword down quickly!"
"Madam, she was the one who shot and killed the man from Xinfeng Sheepskin Store last night!"
The girl in black smiled and said, "You only told half of what you said. I also shot an arrow letter. Otherwise, why would you move here?"
"Sure enough, it's you!" Xiaoyu Niang said bitterly, as the arrow almost hit herself.
Xue Tao was angry and funny and said: "Don't be so suspicious. Miss Dugu is here to help us. If she wanted to kill me, she would have done it long ago."
Xiaoyu Niang thought it was right, so she put down her sword angrily and asked unwillingly: "Have you been spying on us?"
"Why should I spy on you?"
The girl in black smiled and shook her head, "It's just you... Hey! How can anyone move like you? You come out in a carriage with great fanfare and come directly to the secret house. If the people from Hidden Sword Pavilion keep an eye on you, you won't be able to move at all.
It makes no sense."
"Then how do you want to move?"
"Five identical carriages come out and drive in different directions, and then you hunt the stalkers behind."
Xiaoyu Niang was stunned for a long time and was immediately discouraged. She really didn't think of this solution.
The girl in black smiled again and said: "Actually, it's not bad! The people from Hidden Sword Pavilion are still in Liangzhou. I have checked for you. There is no one under surveillance."
"Are you the Flying Fox Guard of the Dugu family?" Xiaoyu Niang asked again.
"I'm from the Dugu family, but I'm not a Flying Fox Guard. I just run errands for them."
Xue Tao introduced Xiaoyu Niang: "This girl is Dugu Youlan. After discovering the movements of the Cangjian Pavilion, she rushed to Ganzhou to help us."
"Why does Hidden Sword Pavilion keep staring at us?" Xiaoyu Niang asked doubtfully.
The girl in black smiled slightly and said: "It should be said that Li Man is keeping an eye on you. Zhu Si has stopped allocating money to the Hidden Sword Pavilion. The Hidden Sword Pavilion cannot survive and will be disbanded soon. Before it is disbanded, Li Man has to do something
If it's a big deal, she's keeping an eye on you. I heard from my grandfather that she should have a personal grudge against your young master."
After a pause, the girl in black said again: "The timing she chose is very precise. Your son led a large army to the Guanzhong expedition. The rear area is empty and the precautions are relatively lax. If a large-scale assassination occurs overnight, the Hexi Army may not
She is about to collapse, which shows how vicious she is."
"What should we do?" Xue Tao next to him asked worriedly.
"Sister Xue, don't worry. I still have a few companions. They are from the Flying Fox Guard. They are monitoring Li Man and the others in Liangzhou. If there is any movement from the other side, they will immediately contact General Wang Yue."
Xue Tao nodded and told Aqiu: "Go and clean up a room so that Miss Dugu can live there."
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In the night, a team of hundreds of people was galloping northward along the official road. They were riding war horses. All of them were dressed as cavalry and wore armor and helmets. However, they lacked the temperament of the army and each one was full of personality.
, together they give people a nondescript feeling.
The leader was none other than Li Man. She did not wear armor, but wore a black warrior uniform, a large cloak, and carried an extremely sharp Zhanlu sword behind her back.
After all, Li Man is the daughter of the Yuan family. At the last moment, she chose the Yuan family instead of Zhu Si and sent the prince to Taiyuan. This meant that her cooperation with Zhu Si broke down and the two completely fell out. Not only did Zhu Si break up
In order to steal the financial resources of Cangjian Pavilion, they also launched a large-scale purge of Cangjian Pavilion members in Chang'an. Thousands of people have been killed.
Originally, most of the members of the Hidden Sword Pavilion were desperadoes collected from all over the world. When they had no money to make and were faced with the threat of their lives, they all fled away. The Hidden Sword Pavilion fell into disarray, and intelligence halls in various places also began to flee.
closure.
Li Man also knew that it was difficult to reverse the decline, but she was unwilling to do so. She wanted to do a major thing before the Cangjian Pavilion was completely disbanded, which was to destroy her father-killing enemy Guo Song. Although Yuan Zai did not die in the hands of Guo Song, Yuan Zai did not die in the hands of Guo Song.
The incident involving Lu Sigong, who was overthrown by Zai, was caused by Guo Song. Naturally, Li Man blamed Guo Song for this incident, and she also wanted to resolve the hatred of the Yuan family.
Killing Guo Song's wife and children, killing his friends, subordinates and generals, making him suffer the pain of losing his family, and then finding a way to assassinate him himself. Li Man's current madness even scares her subordinates.
These three hundred warriors are all old members of the Hidden Sword Pavilion and are the last elites of the Hidden Sword Pavilion.
They galloped all night and entered the boundary of Ganzhou at the third watch. At dawn, they were less than fifty miles away from Zhangye.
At this time, a large roadside tea shed appeared ahead. Smoke was already coming from the house next to it. The tea shed was very large and could accommodate two to three hundred people, but there were no guests yet.
Li Man was overjoyed and ordered: "Go to the tea shed to rest and have breakfast!"
Everyone was tired and hungry, so they rushed their horses towards the tea shed. When they got close to the tea shed, they got off their horses and a waiter came out to greet them, "Military lords, welcome! Welcome!"
He spoke Mandarin with a Hexi accent, which was understandable. Immediately afterwards, the shopkeeper ran out. He turned around and shouted: "Thirteenth Master, a guest is here. Hurry up and fry the pancakes!"
Someone in the room agreed and started getting busy.
The warriors sat down in a hurry. There were not enough seats, so the waiters tried to get more than a dozen benches before they could all sit down. The two waiters brought several large stacks of bowls and poured hot milk tea for everyone.
Li Man called the shopkeeper over and asked, "How far is it from Zhangye City?"
The shopkeeper grinned and said, "Are you guys coming from other places?"
Li Man's face sank, "I'm asking you!"
The shopkeeper was startled and said quickly: "This place is about forty miles away from Zhangye City."
"Is martial law in Zhangye City now?"
Li Man further explained: "What I mean is, if we are going to Anxi, if we want to enter Zhangye City and stay for a few days, will we not be allowed in?"
"Of course not! Zhangye City is full of large caravans all year round, with hundreds of people at every turn. We have long been used to it, and the soldiers guarding the city never bother us."
Li Man felt relieved a little, and then asked: "Is there a big inn outside the city that can accommodate hundreds of people?"
"Of course there are. The inns outside Zhangye are all large inns, and they can accommodate thousands of people. This is a characteristic of Ganzhou. All the inns and pubs are very large, and the tea shed like ours can only be considered medium-sized."
"I understand! Hurry up and bring the food, we'll pay double."
"Okay! I'll go and urge you." The shopkeeper turned around and ran back to the house.
At this time, a few miles away, a group of cavalry had been waiting for a long time. Wang Yue stepped forward and said to Liang Wu: "They have already sat down in the tea shed. The information from the Flying Fox Guard is very accurate."
Liang Wu nodded and immediately ordered: "Close the net!"
The battle flag was waved, and the cavalry began to shrink in the direction of the tea shed from all directions.
At this time, all the shopkeepers went into the house to help. The warriors waited for a quarter of an hour, but no food was delivered and the milk tea had been drunk. One warrior couldn't bear it and walked towards the house carrying a milk tea pot. He pushed
Opening the door, I was stunned.
Li Man was observing his actions and found him stunned. Li Man immediately asked: "Wang Shun, what happened?"
The warrior scratched his head and said to Li Man: "There is no one in the house. Where did they go?"
"not good!"
Li Man drew his sword and kicked the table over, shouting: "We have been tricked!"
At this moment, countless crossbowmen suddenly appeared on both sides of the room, raising their crossbows to shoot at them. The crossbow bolts shot like a storm towards the chatting warriors.
The warriors were caught off guard and suddenly let out a shrill scream, and countless people fell to the ground after being hit by arrows.
Li Man reacted very quickly, raised the table with one hand, used the table as a shield, and quickly rushed toward the horses. Suddenly, she felt a sharp pain in her abdomen, which made her unable to straighten her waist.
Only then did she realize that the milk tea was drugged.
Hundreds of arrows whizzed at Li Man. Li Man's limbs were so weak that he was unable to dodge. He was shot all over his body like a hedgehog. He slowly fell down and breathed his last breath.
Half of their horses were also shot down, and the remaining horses were terrified and kept leaping and neighing. At this time, a low sound of horns was heard in the distance, and countless cavalry came from all directions.
This was a Hongmen Banquet carefully arranged by the Ganzhou Army, and it was also an encirclement and annihilation battle without any suspense. Six thousand cavalry and two thousand crossbowmen set up a dragnet. Li Man and his companions killed them all without leaving a trace. Aunt Dugu
The Cangjian Pavilion, founded forty years ago, finally came to an end on the Hexi Corridor.
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[Li Man must die, leaving her is too dangerous and impossible to guard against.]