"Miss, if you keep holding on like this, your body will collapse." The maid said worriedly.
Liu Yanru pushed the maid away stubbornly: "Don't worry! If I get to Dongdu one day earlier, I can become the queen one day earlier, and I won't have to look at the faces of those two bitches!"
The carriage suddenly bumped against a stone on the road and swayed violently. Liu Yanru was unsteady and fell directly into the car, her face pale.
The maid asked the coachman outside to be careful, and at the same time she quickly stretched out her hand to support the young lady, tears welling up in her eyes.
The convoy left Dengzhou this morning.
Originally, Murong Xue thought that Liu Yanru's condition had just improved and she could stay for two more days before leaving. Anyway, he had already sent someone to deliver a letter to Luoyi, so there was no need to worry there. But unexpectedly, Liu Yanru was extremely anxious and urged Murong Xue to leave quickly, saying that she must not delay the auspicious day of the wedding.
That was a good day chosen by Qin Tianjian and could not be changed.
Of course, Murong Xue knew in her heart that this was just an excuse. What Liu Yanru really wanted was the identity of the queen.
During the few days they stayed in Dengzhou, Ma Yunfang and Murong Ling went out together every day, shopping, shopping, and sightseeing, and they were very happy. On the other hand, Liu Yanru could only sit on the hospital bed with only a maid taking care of her. She was really depressed.
Therefore, as soon as the doctor said that the noble man was fine, Liu Yanru immediately decided to set off.
In the afternoon, Murong Xue came over specifically to say hello and suggested that he could rest at the inn in Qinghua Town and stay one night before going to Nanyang.
But Liu Yanru rejected his kindness and insisted on rushing to reach Nanyang City before dark.
Murong Xue was worried that it would not be good for her to go against Liu Guiren's ideas and make her angry and bad for her health, so she had no choice but to agree and ordered the troops to continue marching.
Yuan Bin was worried that it was getting late and Nanyang City would close the city gates, so he proposed to lead a small group of light cavalry first, rush to the front, and notify the city defenders to wait.
Murong Xue agreed with this, so he assigned 20 people from the 300 cavalry to follow Yuan Bin first.
Things turned out just as Yuan Bin expected. The carriage couldn't move too fast at all. Seeing that the sun was about to set, the team was still twenty or thirty miles away from Nanyang.
In this wilderness, nothing could be seen once it got dark, and Murong Xue couldn't help but worry secretly.
"Hurry! Hurry up and hurry up! We have missed the station. We must go to Nanyang today!"
Following his order, the cavalrymen speeded up one after another, and the carriage drivers also raised their whips vigorously to try to make the carriage go faster.
But just when the team had just turned into a mountain col, a sharp and piercing call of a night owl suddenly came from the dense forest on both sides of the road.
Immediately afterwards, countless crossbow arrows shot out from the darkness and rushed towards the guards.
In the blink of an eye, twenty or thirty light cavalry fell off their horses, and the entire team was in chaos.
Murong Xue was currently in the middle of the queue, chatting with his sister Murong Ling. When he noticed a sudden change, he quickly drew out his sword and guarded it beside Murong Ling's carriage.
Before Murong Xue could make a further reaction, two more rounds of arrow rain were released from the forest, followed by a large number of black-clad assassins jumping down from the tree canopy above their heads to attack the light cavalry.
The screams suddenly became endless.
In the darkness, Murong Xue could not tell the number of enemies for a while, so she could only order her surrounding subordinates to protect the three carriages to prevent the killer from approaching.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the soldiers took action, more than a dozen assassins suddenly appeared in a large bush nearest to them. Those assassins have very high martial arts skills and are no match for ordinary soldiers. Within a few moments of meeting each other, all the guards beside Liu Yanru's carriage were knocked down.
Seeing the other party surrounding the car, Murong Xue, who was not far away, suddenly became anxious. He waved the sword in his hand and charged forward desperately, hoping to get to the carriage earlier.
Unfortunately, when Murong Xue was only a dozen steps away from Liu Yanru, an assassin suddenly appeared from beside him. His sword flashed and the sharp blade struck him like lightning and flint.
Murong Xue blocked with a horizontal sword, deflected the assassin's blade with a clang, and then kicked out, right on the opponent's chest, and kicked the person away. However, when he turned around again, he found that the door of the carriage next to him was open, and Liu Yanru was no longer inside!
Bad!
Murong Xue was startled, and was about to rush over to look for her, when a scream suddenly sounded from behind her: "Brother! Help!"
This is Murong Ling's voice.
Murong Xue looked back and saw seven or eight assassins besieging her cousin's vehicle. Ma Yunfang ran there from nowhere and led a dozen guards to fight fiercely with the assassins, desperately protecting Murong Ling.
Depending on the situation, they can't defeat the assassin. If they delay for a while, both Ma Yunfang and Murong Ling will die.
Murong Xue hesitated for a moment, then decided to save them both first, so she called to the nearby soldiers and pounced on them.
Since there were new troops joining and Murong Xue's martial arts was relatively strong, the assassins who besieged Murong Ling and the others did not dare to fight. They resisted for a few times and then quickly slipped away and got into the dense forest next to them.
At this time, the numerically superior light cavalry had gradually recovered from their panic and began to take the initiative and launch a counterattack. Seeing that the advantage of the surprise attack was gone, the assassins quickly changed their strategies, fighting and retreating, and retreated into the forest.
Apparently, there were still their men in the woods, using crossbows to provide cover and blocking the pursuit of the light cavalry.
The fierce battle lasted for nearly half an hour, and the assassins finally escaped under the cover of night, leaving only more than thirty bodies whose identities were difficult to identify.
Murong Ling turned pale with fright and almost fainted several times. Thanks to Ma Yunfang's gentle words of comfort, she did not collapse on the spot. However, I couldn't hold back the nausea and vomiting after all.
Murong Xue's situation was even worse than hers, because Liu Yanru was really lost.
That's the queen! The emperor's fiancée! Shengtang’s future mother of the country!
Murong Xue went crazy and ordered the light cavalry to pursue them quickly, spreading out in all directions to look for people.
However, where should we look for it in the middle of the night and in the wilderness?
Besides, there were only more than 200 of them, and they had lost dozens of brothers just now. Don't they need to protect Murong Ling and Ma Yunfang now? Aren't you afraid that those assassins will turn around and come back to kill you?
No one dared to ask Murong Xue these questions, but Murong Xue knew it in her heart.
He was stunned for a long time, and then suddenly said urgently: "Quick, go to Nanyang to bring reinforcements! Let Yuan Bin come with the army and blockade the entire ten-mile radius!"
At dawn, the soldiers and horses from Nanyang City finally arrived.
Yuan Bin jumped off the horse, rushed to Murong Xue quickly, and said in shock: "How could it be like this? Where are the nobles?"
"Liu Guiren was kidnapped by assassins," Murong Xue said with a somewhat ugly expression, "The other two are fine and are resting in the carriage behind."
Yuan Bin's expression dimmed and he comforted him: "General, don't worry. As soon as the Nanyang soldiers and horses received the news, they immediately followed your order and began to search the nearby ten miles. I believe there will be news soon. Alas, if I had known earlier, I won’t go to the front station anymore.”
Murong Xue shook her head: "It's not your fault. No one could have imagined that the enemy would pursue us here."
Yuan Bin asked: "Can you confirm the origin of the other party?"
Murong Xue pointed to the rows of corpses next to her: "I've checked them, but it's difficult to confirm their identities. Why don't you help take a look too."
Yuan Bin nodded slightly, took a few steps to the corpses, squatted down and looked through them carefully. After a while, he stood up and said, "It should be Li Kuang's person."
"Why do you see them?" Murong Xue couldn't help but asked curiously: "There are no marks on them."
Yuan Bin clapped his hands: "There is no sign, which is the most obvious sign. I just saw the underwear they wore, they are all silk fabrics from Xianwenfang, Hangzhou. This detail is not easy to detect if you are not an expert. But here is the problem. Yes, even Lao Jianhua’s men may not all wear uniform underwear. Such an arrangement is obviously suspected of setting up the blame."
"One more thing. Mr. Shen had previously investigated the news, saying that some of the killers sent by Lao Jianhua were Japanese who came back with the navy. There are thirty-six corpses lying here. It can't be such a coincidence. Not even one You haven’t killed any Japanese, right?”
Murong Xue asked curiously: "Can you recognize the Japanese?"
"The same can be seen from the underwear, hair style and toes." Yuan Bin said: "Some living habits are difficult to change. The Japanese like to wear crotch pants and clogs, which can easily leave very obvious marks on the body. .”
Murong Xue nodded and was about to say something when suddenly an officer ran over in a panic: "Sir, I've discovered it!"
"What did you find?"
"There are two women's bodies in total!" the officer replied, "just over there at the foot of the mountain."
After hearing this, Murong Xue suddenly felt that the blood in her body had gone cold, her head was buzzing, and she almost fainted.
Yuan Bin supported him: "Let's go and have a look."
The two got on their horses, led by the officer, and headed straight to the foot of the mountain in the distance. As soon as they arrived at the place, Murong Xue saw two naked female corpses, it was Liu Yanru and her maid.
Damn it!
He couldn't hold on any longer and fell off the horse.
When Murong Xue woke up again, she was already on the swaying carriage, with Murong Ling and Ma Yunfang accompanying her. Both of them had tears on their faces, obviously they had just cried.
"Brother, you finally woke up." Murong Ling choked and said, "Liu Guiren..."
Murong Xue groaned in pain and forced herself to sit up: "Where is this?"
Ma Yunfang responded: "Yuan Bin saw you fainted, so he took over your command. He said that those beasts must be cut into pieces, so he led his soldiers and horses to chase them, while we went to Nanyang City first and waited there. His news.”
Murong Ling couldn't help but cry: "Brother, Yuan Bin said, Liu Guiren... was she really ruined by those evil people?"
Murong Xue frowned and said in a deep voice: "Don't mention this matter again. It concerns the emperor's face. You... must pretend that nothing happened."
