This was the second time Li Bing was assassinated by poisonous soldiers. The last time was the visit of the Prince of Youzhou in the year 823 of the Holy Tang Calendar.
At that time, he was surrounded by Shen Lie, Master Xiahou Ninghan and Hui Dian, as well as the Liaodong Protector Yang Xingtai and other military generals. The battle was so tragic that it still remains fresh in his memory and often causes nightmares.
But this time, he was already the emperor, but there wasn't even a decent master around him.
The usually bull-skinned Imperial Guards were as weak as children in front of the poisonous soldier assassin. Dozens of them died in the blink of an eye, and were of no use at all. Xu Youchang was considered the most skilled martial artist here, but he was knocked to the ground by his opponent, and his life or death was uncertain.
Ruined!
Li Bing was frightened and repeatedly asked Murong Xue what to do. Murong Xue was also extremely anxious, but unfortunately he was the groom's official today and had neither an iron bow nor a sword on his body.
Seeing that many guests were brutally murdered, he was helpless.
In desperation, he had no choice but to say to Li Bing: "Go to a corner and pretend to be dead!"
"Pretending to be dead?!" Li Bing was almost frightened and said in a daze: "How to pretend?"
Murong Xue pointed at Tian Mu who was not far away: "Learn like him!"
Dong Tianxing realized what he was doing, and while A Shi was killing Prince Chu, he didn't bother to look here, and quickly dipped some blood from the ground with his hands, and smeared it on Li Bing's face without any explanation.
Li Bingwu said to himself: "Won't you protect me and escape?"
"You can't escape!" Dong Tianxing said anxiously while busy: "Your Majesty, that monster's reaction is extremely fast. Anyone who wants to run out will be intercepted and killed by him. Don't you see? Hurry, get down quickly. , stop moving!"
After handling the embarrassed emperor, Old Dong also wiped a lot of blood on himself, then lay upright next to Li Bing, pretending to be dead together.
At the same time, Murong Xue picked up a short knife and ran to the other side yelling in order to draw Ashina away.
Sure enough, his deliberately noisy movements successfully attracted the other party's attention. Ashina let out a manic roar and rushed forward in a few steps.
The five fingers spread out, and the sharp iron claws directly grabbed Murong Xue's chest.
Murong Xue knew that her martial arts skills were far inferior to hers, so if she really wanted to fight him, there would be no other meaning than to die. Rather than losing their lives in vain, it is better to try to die together, so that maybe a few more people can be saved.
Thinking of this, he didn't even want to hide anymore, and allowed Ashi's deadly move to get closer and closer. At the same time, he raised his wrist, preparing to pierce the opponent's eyes with the short knife.
At the critical moment when the sharp claws were about to tear Murong Xue's chest apart, a figure suddenly rushed over from the side and threw him to the ground, barely able to avoid Ashina's powerful attack.
Murong Xue was knocked dizzy, and when she looked closely, she saw that it was Xu Youchang.
Xu Youchang turned over and jumped up, charging at Ashina again, shouting at the same time: "Don't give up! Hold him back, reinforcements are coming soon!"
Murong Xue was infected by the bravery of her good brother, and quickly stood up, wielding a short knife and went forward to fight, and cooperated with Xu Youchang to attack Ashina Zhijin.
At this time, there were faint footsteps coming from the front yard.
"Can you still hold on?" Murong Xue blocked the opponent's heavy punch with a horizontal sword and shouted to Xu Youchang, who was turning blue: "Are you poisoned?"
Xu Youchang spat out a mouthful of black blood and replied with a ferocious smile: "I can't die! Damn it, fortunately Xiahou Ninghan gave me an antidote pill before, otherwise I would have been dead by now! Where is the emperor? He escaped. ?"
Murong Xue didn't bother to answer, she just hummed and tried her best to avoid A Shi's poisonous claws. However, the poisonous claws were avoided, but the kick that followed was not spared.
Ash's powerful and heavy kick hit Murong Xue in the lower abdomen without any bias, sending him flying back more than two feet, and then he fell heavily on the table, knocking the nan wood The tables were smashed to pieces.
Xu Youchang was furious and rushed forward desperately, slashing three times at the opponent's head.
However, Ashina didn't care at all. With a ghostly move, he not only successfully avoided Xu Youchang's offensive, but also punched him with his backhand and knocked him down again.
"Protect His Majesty! Kill!"
The Tiger Leopard Cavalry finally arrived at this time. A captain of the Forbidden Army appeared at the gate, brandishing his sword and shouting angrily. Hundreds of soldiers killed with loud noises. They stepped on the corpses on the ground, as well as those lying on the ground pretending to be dead, and surrounded Ashina.
Murong Xue was worried that Li Bing would be accidentally injured in the fierce fighting, so she endured the pain and stood up from the broken wood, staggering to Dong Tianxing's side. While reaching out to pull the emperor, she shouted: "Old Dong, stop pretending to be dead. The Imperial Guard has entangled the assassin, let’s leave quickly!”
Upon hearing this, Dong Tianxing immediately opened his eyes and stood up. Even though the old man was over sixty years old, his movements were more nimble than Li Bing's. He helped Murong Xue drag the emperor up and ran outside while crawling on the ground.
Following their actions, many princes and ministers who were pretending to be dead also came to life. While avoiding the charge of the imperial army, they slipped along the wall and fled out of the hall.
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As the sun sets in the west, a gorgeous red cloud hangs in the sky, which is particularly eye-catching.
After two whole hours of tossing, the Prince Consort's Mansion finally returned to peace.
There were mutilated limbs, flesh and blood everywhere, and the eyes were bright red; there was a pungent fishy smell everywhere, which made people sick to smell it.
Murong Xue sat blankly on the stone next to the rockery, her whole body motionless, as if she was wandering away.
Xu Youchang limped forward with a bandage on his left shoulder, sat down next to him, and sighed softly: "I told you a long time ago, this shabby house used to be the home of old thief Xie Guang, it's too Bad luck."
Murong Xue smiled bitterly and turned to look at Xu Youchang: "How is it? Is it seriously injured?"
"To tell you the truth, brother," Xu Youchang grinned: "Jiang Yao and I have been fighting in Western Xinjiang for so many years, and we have never been injured as seriously as today. Damn it, I almost lost my life."
Murong Xue shook her head, looked up to the sky and sighed: "Maybe I did something wrong? God wants to punish me like this..."
Xu Youchang suddenly remembered something and quickly comforted him: "It's over now, don't be sad. How is uncle? Is he injured?"
Murong Xue's eyes were slightly red: "My father is fine. He was a little frightened, but his body was unscathed. It's just that my two brothers...were all killed. And my uncle was brutally disemboweled."
Xu Youchang was silent for a moment and said sadly: "It's not just Murong Shengshi. I just asked the imperial guards specifically. In the banquet hall, a total of fifty-two corpses were collected. Excluding those guards, the rest were all important officials of the imperial court. Including two The old prince and Zhongshu Ling Liu Shiming, Shangshu Ling Zhang Jian, as well as the Shangshu of the Ministry of Hu, Ministry of War and Ministry of Rites."
Murong Xue nodded silently, then closed her eyes in pain.
His mood at this time had reached an extremely low level. Although those people did not die because of him, they all came to attend his wedding celebration after all. After suffering such a tragedy, how will Murong Xue face the families of those who died in the future?
Xu Youchang didn't know how to persuade his brother.
A wedding banquet that was just fine ended up with mountains of corpses and rivers of blood, which would make anyone else collapse. What's more, the Shengtang court was brutally slaughtered in one day, and countless humerus ministers had their heads missing. This was a unique tragedy in the 800-year history of the dynasty.
It is no exaggeration to say that when the Turkic army attacked the imperial capital, they failed to cause such heavy casualties to the imperial court. Today's disaster is simply a shame and a great humiliation.
Good brother Murong Xue is destined to be recorded in history books. However, this record is not very glorious.
Xu Youchang sighed and patted Murong Xue's shoulder gently. He was thinking about what to say to help the other party solve the problem. Unexpectedly, at this moment, a forbidden soldier led Shi Feng over.
"General Xu, this brother said he is your personal soldier and has important military information to report. We have been ordered to guard the Prince Consort's Mansion and cannot let anyone in easily, so I would like to ask you to confirm it."
Xu Youchang nodded: "Yes, he is my subordinate, please let him stay."
The Imperial Guards agreed upon hearing this and resigned.
Shi Feng walked up quickly and said nervously: "Xu Shuai, what happened? How could it happen like this? Are you seriously injured?"
"Don't be nervous, it's okay." Xu Youchang endured the pain in his shoulders and chest and said with a smile: "The situation here is very complicated. I will talk to you slowly when I get the chance later. By the way, things are done. Yet?"
Shi Feng looked around and lowered his voice: "Reporting to Xu Shuai and General Murong, the mission has been successfully completed. Shopkeeper Liu has been sent to the warehouse to rest. However, in the afternoon, the entire city was under emergency martial law. We were worried that the situation had changed, so The new brothers have all been arranged to stay near Shopkeeper Liu for easy care."
Xu Youchang was overjoyed when he heard this, and Murong Xue finally regained some energy. The two of them praised Shi Feng and the others for their prudent work and great achievements.
However, there was no look of joy on Shi Feng's face: "Two generals, Shopkeeper Liu's condition is not good. He was seriously injured and is still in a coma."
Upon hearing this, Xu Youchang suddenly became anxious.
Shen Lie is one of the best masters, and his martial arts skills are quite strong. He can be injured to the point of unconsciousness, which is enough to imagine how vicious Tian Mu and others are.
"Sooner or later, those beasts will have to pay back their capital and profits!" Xu Youchang turned to Murong Xue and asked, "Do you have any holy healing medicine here?"
Murong Xue nodded: "Yes, my father specially sent me two boxes of Zhu Jing Ice Toad last time, which are most effective for trauma. Shi Feng, now go to my butler and ask him to give them to you."
Shi Feng quickly agreed, asked for the butler's name, turned around and hurried away.
Xu You took a long breath and sighed: "It's good news that we can get the person out smoothly. Otherwise, I would be really upset to death."
Murong Xue thought for a while and suddenly shook her head: "No, I think the big trouble has just begun."
"What trouble?" Xu Youchang was a little surprised.
Murong Xue stared at him and said word by word: "Jiang Yao reported to the court before that the Turkic Khan had set himself on fire and died. Today, a poisonous soldier with strong martial arts and claiming to be Ashina Zhijin suddenly appeared. This should How to explain it? His Majesty was assassinated and an important minister died. At the same time, Shen Lie happened to be rescued and escaped from prison. Will the court consider the two things together? "
